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The 5 stages of Trumpism:
1. It's a total lie, never happened, fake news.
2. Ok, so it happened, but it's not a big deal.
3. Ok, so it might be a big deal, but it isn't illegal.
4. Ok, so it's illegal, but but but Hillary and Obama, something unintelligible, so it's okay.
5. WHATEVER LIBBY!! YOU'RE JUST A SORE LOSER. MAGA!!!!
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Rudy was right about one thing, This has nothing to do with collusion, but it has everything to do with a criminal conspiracy. And remember, Manafort was in that Trump Tower meeting along with Don Jr, Kushner, and Russian agents. This trial is simply about putting pressure on Manafort. Once he's faced with the full weight of the amount of years he's facing, he'll cut a deal and reveal everything he knows about the treasonous Trump traitor family. And make no mistake, Mueller has Manafort dead to rights. Because the case against Manafort is all on paper and in black and white. It's called a paper trail of evidence.
It's all financial crimes that aren't much different than the evidence used against Bernie Madoff. Money laundering, mail fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, fake LLCs,, tax evasion, bank deposits, bank withdrawals.....and it all leaves a paper trail leading right back to Manafort. He's skrewed.
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Trump: "You've got Guatemalans, Mexicans, ISIS, the Menendez Brothers, the 1990 Detroit Pistons, decepticons, those flyingMonkeys from the Wizard of Oz, Hannibal Lecter, Thanos, and severalBabadooks, all crossing the border illegally. Its scary stuff."đđ
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Several wealthy Russians were âgranted unusual accessâ to Trump inauguration parties back in January 2017 â and Mueller is seeking to find out why. The tycoons were given âunprecedented access to Trumpâs inner circleââand investigators in special council Robert Muellerâs probe are interested in their attendance at the parties.
Rick Gates was heavily involved in planning the inauguration, with a Yahoo News report in 2016calling him the âshadow chairâ of the event. There have long been serious questions about the money behind Trumpâs inauguration â and where, exactly, it all went. Trumpâs inaugural committee raised an astonishing $106.7 million, double the previous record set by Obamaâs 2009 inaugural. But what they did with it isnât so clear. The chair of GW Bushâs 2nd inauguration, Greg Jenkins, said he was baffled. âTrump had a third of the staff and a quarter of the events that we had, and yet they raise at least twice as much as we did,â he said. âSo thereâs the obvious question: Where did it go? I donât know.â
The inauguration caught law enforcementâs attention back while it was happening. Counterintelligence officials at the FBI were concerned by an unusual presence of politically connected Russians in DC during the event â including some of the exact people who âhad surfaced in the agencyâs investigation of the Trump campaignâs ties to Russia.â
Back in June ABC News reported that Muellerâs investigators wanted to know why several billionaires with âdeep ties to Russiaâ got access to âexclusive, invitation-only receptionsâ during the inauguration. These Russians had invites to events that were so exclusive, that even members of Congress had a hard time getting into.
It is against the law for foreign nationals to donate to a presidential inaugural committee. Mueller is exploring whether wealthy Russians used âstraw donorsâ with American citizenship to steer money into the inauguration. Sometime around March of this year, Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg flew in to a NY on a private plane â and was met there by Muellerâs investigators, who questioned him and searched his electronic devices.
Vekselberg is the owner of the Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate with aluminum and oil interests, and is one of the richest people in Russia. His cousin, Andrew Intrater, an American citizen who runs a US company tied to Vekselbergâs company, donated $250,000. Intrater had also kicked in $35,000 to the Trump Victory Committee.
Vekselberg and Intrater attended Trumpâs inauguration together, and at the January 19 candlelight dinner, they were seated with Trumpâs lawyer, Cohen.. Later that year, that company run by Intrater paid Cohenâs shell company, Essential Consultants LLC, $500,000 â for, they claimed, real estate advice. A 1million inaugural donation came from Leonard Blavatnik, who runs a company called Access Industries. Blavatnik was on the guest list for the January 19 candlelight dinner too.
Blavatnik is a Soviet-born, UK-based billionaire who is a US citizen. He is also partnered with Vekselberg, in Russiaâs aluminum industry. Together, they built the largest aluminum company in Russia by merging with Oleg Deripaskaâs Rusal. Deripaska is also a player in Mueller's investigation â he employed Manafort, and Manafort tried to get in touch with him during 2016.
Alexander Mashkevitch, a Kazakh mining billionaire, was on the guest list for the âcandlelight dinner,â and happens to have been in the Seychelles around the same time as Erik Prince, a Trump adviser.
And Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin, who attended Don Jrâs infamous Trump Tower meeting, were in town too â they attended an inauguration night party thrown by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), whoâs widely viewed as the biggest supporter of Putinâs regime in Congress.
Several people involved in previous inaugurations were quoted expressing puzzlement over how Trumpâs team could have possibly spent over $100 million for what they got. But if there is anyone who might know where much of the money went, it is Rick Gates, who is now working with Mueller's investigation. So whatever Rick Gates knows, Robert Mueller now knows too.
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In an interview, Tony Schwartz, the journalist who wrote Trumpâs âThe Art of the Deal,â said of Trump âLying is second nature to him, more than anyone else I have ever met. Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true."
Schwartz:, âHe lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it.â Since most people are âconstrained by the truth,â Trumpâs indifference to it âgave him a strange advantage.â
Schwartz: " When challenged about the facts, Trump would often double down, repeat himself, and grow belligerent."
Schwartz described a man constitutionally incapable of logic, moral reasoning or self-reflection.
"There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul."
--JosĂŠ N. Harris
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I would definitely call 170k American lives lost in 5 months a season of darkness.
Since Trump refuses to take responsibility, the American people will replace him with someone that will.
Jan. 22: âWe have it totally under control. Itâs one person coming in from China. We have it under control. Itâs going to be just fine.â âCNBC interview..
Jan. 30: âWe think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this momentâ 5 â and those people are all recuperating successfully.
âTrump speech in Michigan.
Feb. 10: âNow, the virus that weâre talking about having to doâyou know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat â as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April. Weâre in great shape though. We have 12 cases, 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.â âTrump at the White House.
Feb. 24: âThe Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!â â Trump in a tweet.
Feb. 26: âSo weâre at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that weâre going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So weâve had very good luck.â â Trump White House briefing.
Feb. 26:Â âAnd again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, thatâs a pretty good job weâve done.â â Trump press conference.
Feb. 27: âItâs going to disappear. One day â itâs like a miracle â it will disappear.â â Trump at a White House meeting.
March 4:Â âWe have a very small number of people in this country infected. We have a big country. The biggest impact we had was when we took the 40-plus people from a cruise ship. We brought them back. We immediately quarantined them. But you add that to the numbers. But if you donât add that to the numbers, weâre talking about very small numbers in the United States.â â Trump White House meeting..
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In President Bidenâs first year in office, his administration has implemented an industrial strategy to revitalize domestic manufacturing, create good-paying American jobs, strengthen American supply chains, and accelerate the industries of the future.
These policies have spurred an historic recovery in manufacturing, adding 642,000 manufacturing jobs since 2021. Companies are investing in America again, bringing good-paying manufacturing jobs back home. The construction of new manufacturing facilities has increased 116 percent over last year.
President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which will build on this progress, making historic investments that will poise U.S. workers, communities, and businesses to win the race for the 21st century. It will strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security, and invest in research and development, science and technology, and the workforce of the future to keep the US the leader in the industries of tomorrow, including nanotechnology, clean energy, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence. The CHIPS and Science Act makes the smart investments so that Americans can compete in and win the future.
UnderBiden, US oil production is poised to break Trump-era records. On Biden's watch, US oil production is poised to ShatterAll-time records set during the Trump administration.
US oil output is now projected to rise to an average of 12.8 million barrels per day this year for the first time ever.
For context, thatâs about half a million barrels per day more than the prior annual record set in 2019. Itâs also more oil than any other country on the planet produces.
Today's jobs report shows that our economy continues to lead the world, With the numbers from March in, we have officially crossed 15 million jobs created under President Biden. That is more jobs created in a single term than any president in history. Thanks to the investments passed by Democrats in Congress and signed into law by President Biden, the American economy has comeback from thePandemic stronger than ever..
Let us not forget how the jobs record of PresidentBiden compares to that of his predecessor. Trump lost 2.7 million jobs over the course of his presidency â more than any President since Herbert Hoover at the outset of the GreatDepression. While Trump wasted time tweeting ConspiracyTheories and playing political games, President Biden took action to rescue our economy and protect American families. Our economy has made a miraculous comeback.
The PACT Act, which President Biden signed into law in August 2022, is the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxin-exposed veterans in over three decades. The the PACT Act aims to deliver timely benefits and services to veterans across all generations who have been impacted by toxic exposures during their military service.
Despite its overwhelming support amongst the American people, getting the PACT Act passed in Congress proved to be an uphill battle. Republicans in CongressLied repeatedly about the law and voted against it, before the pressure ramped up against them.
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Trump told Stormy that she reminded him of his daughter. That's right. Trump told the woman he had an affair with, that she reminds him of his daughter. Evangelicals love this stuff!!! đđ¤Ł
In September 1994, a little less than a year after Tiffany was born to Trump and his second wife, Marla, the couple appeared on an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. âDonald, what does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marlaâs?â asked host Robin Leach.
âSheâs a very beautiful baby,â Trump replied. âSheâs got Marlaâs legs. We donât know whether or notââhe put his hands to his chest to indicate her bra sizeââsheâs got this part yet, but time will tell.â
While Trump was on The View in March 2006, he was asked what he would do if Ivanka was on the cover of P-boy magazine, Trump said it depended on what was inside the magazine and added, âAlthough she does have a very nice figure. Iâve said that if Ivanka werenât my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.â
In a February 2013 appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, during a question and answer game, Williams asked Trump and Ivanka, "What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?" Ivanka answered, "Either real estate or golf" while Trump added, "Well, I was going to say 5ex."
All true stories.
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Everyone has that person in their life who "always plays the victim." When something goes wrong it's "never their fault."
They're the type of person who does something wrong then tries to paint you as being the real problem for calling them out. Because their bad deed was just them making things even.
These people can be impossible to deal with because they're never wrong. This mentality also stunts their developmental growth, because when you're never wrong, you don't have to change a thing.
According to research, the VictimMentality or, as they call it, "Tendency for InterpersonalVictimhood," or TIV, is a stable construct that people can carry with them throughout their lives.
It's defined as "an ongoing feeling that the self is a victim, which is generalized across many kinds of relationships." That's why your friend with the VictimMentality always plays theVictim and everything that happens in the world is an affront to them.
"HI, my name is DJT, but you can call me Victim. Many big strong men with tears in their eyes are saying this." đ¤Ł
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"There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul."
--JosĂŠ N. Harris
Trump is a successful liar because he refuses to remember. Not only that: He refuses to anticipate that he will remember the current moment in the future. If you live mainly in the current moment, then the future consequences of your lies will not matter to you. And if you have lived your entire life this way, and to great acclaim and success, why would you ever want to change?
Trump was annoyed when Dr. Fauci stole the spotlight by throwing out the first pitch for Major League Baseballâs opening game. In response, he falsely claimed that the Yankees invited him to throw out the first pitch. His lie was roundly refuted a short time later. The incident recalls Trumpâs false boast that the crowd attending his 2017 inaugural address was the largest in history. Objective photographic evidence decisively refuted that lie.
And yet Trump never pulls back on blatantly false statements â lies that are so obvious that they often defy the laws of physics, chemistry and common sense.
The key to Trumpâs psychology is that he moves through life as âthe episodic man.â For Trump, each day is a temporary moment of time. Psychological research shows that nearly all adults develop stories in their minds about their own lives.
These stories â what psychologists call ânarrative identitiesâ â reconstruct the past and imagine the future. As you make daily decisions, you implicitly remember how you have come to be who you are, and you anticipate where your life may be going. You live within narrative time.
But the episodic man does not live that way. Instead, he immerses himself in the angry, combative moment, striving desperately to win the moment. But the episodes do not add up. They do not form a narrative arc. In Trumpâs case, it is as if he wakes up each morning nearly oblivious to what happened the day before. What he said and did yesterday, in order to win yesterday, no longer matters to him. And what he will do today, in order to win today, will not matter for tomorrow.
What is truth for the episodic man? Truth is whatever works to win the moment.
For most people, and every other president in the history of the US, an episodic life would be unsustainable in the long run. There is a primal authenticity in Trump. He tells you exactly what he feels in the moment. He lies straight to your face, without shame, without any concern for future consequences. It is the stark audacity of untruth.
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An ode to DJT
And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, I need a man to test the will and goodness of a free people. So God made a dictator. God said I need a man who failed at everything but theft and broken promises, to live in a golden palace, and convince the poor he serves their needs. So God made a dictator. God said I need a wicked man to lead the common folk with h8tred and fear. So God made a dictator. God said I need a corrupt man who is above the law and immune from justice. So God made a dictator. God said I need a man who will useViolence to seize power. So God made a dictator. God said I need a man whose followers will call black white, call evil good, and call criminals hostages. So God made a dictator. God said I need his political party to obey without question, and the press to fear his wrath. So God made a dictator. God said I need a cruel man who uses his power and position to punish and harm his opposition. So God made a dictator. God said I need a man who breaks the faith of even his most godly followers, and leads them to idol-atry, and place him above me. So God made a dictator. And then God said, I sent this man to test you, and until you cast him down, you have failed. So God made a dictator.
âTake the guns first, go through due process second.'
--Trump, Feb, 2018
That's exactly what anyDictator would do.
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The dawn of American democracy didnât come in 1776, with the Declaration of Independence. It didnât come in 1788, when the Constitution was ratified by the states, or in 1789, when George Washington took office. According to Harry Rubenstein, chair and curator of the Division of Political History at the American History Museum, the symbolic birth of our system of government didnât come until its noble ideals were actually put to the test. On September 19, 215 years ago, Washington published his farewell address, marking the first peaceful transfers of power in American history and cementing the countryâs status as a stable, democratic state..
This moment, Rubenstein says, âis crucial for creating the in-and-out system of government that we have. And this is unique. In that time and era, politicians would gain power, or kings would stay in office until theyDie.â At that nascent stage in American history, before precedents such as the two-term limit were even set, many were uncertain about what would happen after a galvanizing figure like Washington resigned office. But at this critical juncture, the leadership of Washington and others proved more than adequate to preserve the democracy. âStepping down is unique,â says Rubenstein. âItâs a powerful statement about Washington and American democracy.â
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This MLK quote should be read by every republican in public office every morning whenever they wake up.
"Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."
--Charles Dickens
This quote aptly describes Mike Johnson.
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General John Kelly voted for Trump, and eventually became his White House Chief of Staff. And THEN, he got to know him.
âThe depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though itâs more pathet0ic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life,â
--- Marine General Kelly, Trumpâs former White House Chief of Staff.
In 1996, the Association to Benefit Children, a charity, held a ribbon-cutting at a nursery school serving children with AIDS in Manhattan. Bigwigs who had donated a lot of money, like then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former mayor David Dinkins, and Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford were in attendance. But there was another dude who showed upâdespite not being a donor at all. Guess who?7
"Nobody knew he was coming," another donor in attendance told the Washington Post. "There's this kind of ruckus at the door, and I don't know what was going on, and in comes Donald Trump. He just gets up on the podium and sits down."Â
According to the charity's executive director, Trump had never given a single dollar to the charity or the nursery school. But you know who did? The dude whose seat was stolen by Trump.
Steven Fisher, a developer, had given a lot to the charity to build the nursery school. While the people sitting around Trump were concerned about him just showing up and jacking the Fisher's seat, the ceremony had already started and there wasn't much they could do by that point.
As photographers took pictures, a children's choir sang "This Little Light of Mine," all while Trump sat nearby, looking like he was actually an honored donor. Trump even did the Macarena with some of the children and stars onstage.Â
After the event though, Trump left without explaining his uninvited attendanceâand he exited without even donating anything either.Â
The next day, the charity's executive director had to email Fisher to apologize. "I immediately said 'no,' but Rudy Giuliani said 'yes' and I felt I had to accede to him," the executive director explained. "I am just heartsick. I hope you can forgive me," the executive director pleaded.
Trump never apologized.
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In an interview, Tony Schwartz, the journalist who wrote Trumpâs âThe Art of the Deal,â said of Trump âLying is second nature to him, more than anyone else I have ever met. Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true."
Schwartz:, âHe lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it.â Since most people are âconstrained by the truth,â Trumpâs indifference to it âgave him a strange advantage.â
Schwartz: " When challenged about the facts, Trump would often double down, repeat himself, and grow belligerent."
Schwartz described a man constitutionally incapable of logic, moral reasoning or self-reflection.
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Conservatives today rely on political institutions that brazenly undercut majority rule. The Senate, the courts, the Electoral College â all provide conservatives with structural advantages at the expense of the many. But the Right isnât content to sit back and cash in on the tilted playing field. It actively labors to restrict voting rights, skew the census, gerrymander districts, and generally increase the sway of the countryâs most anti-majoritarian institutions. When confronted with criticism, they resort to the nonsensical argument that âweâre a republic, not a democracy.â
Free speech rights, civil rights, and other protections are essential to a flourishing democracy. But conservativesâ contempt for majority rule does not spring from a concern for a beleaguered minority (unless you think big business qualifies as an oppressed group). The truth is, the Right doesnât expect a majority of Americans to support their policies, nor do they particularly care..
To defeat conservatism today, the main thing we have to do is to explain what it is, and what is wrong with it.Â
Q: What is conservatism?
A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.
Q: What is wrong with conservatism?
A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception, and has no place in the modern world..
The origins of the term Liberal traces back to the Latin word liber (meaning âfreeâ), which is also the root of the word "liberty "("the quality or state of being free").
Conservative:
tending to preserve or protect, preservative, having the power to keep whole or safe," from Old French conservatif, from Medieval Latin conservativus, from Latin conservatus, past participle of conservare "to keep, preserve, keep intact, guard.
In other words, to maintain and protect the status quo, and the establishment.
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As White House counsel under Nixon from 1970 to 1973, John Dean was a key figure in the Watergate sagaâparticipating in, and then helping to expose, the most iconic political scandal in modern U.S. history.
âThe American presidency has never been at the whims of an authoritarian personality like Donald Trump. He is going to test our democracy as it has never been tested.â
--John Dean
He was not only convinced that Trump will be worse than Nixon in virtually every wayâhe thought Trump would probably get away with it.
âI donât think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.â
--John Dean
âI used to have one-on-one conversations with Nixon where Iâd see him checking his more authoritarian tendencies,â Dean recalled. âHeâd say, âThis is something I canât say out loud...â or, âThat is something the president canât do.ââ To Dean, these moments suggested a functioning sense of shame in Nixon, something he was forced to wrestle with in his quest for power. Trump, by contrast, appears to Dean, unmolested by any such struggle."
--John Dean
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In President Bidenâs first year in office, his administration has implemented an industrial strategy to revitalize domestic manufacturing, create good-paying American jobs, strengthen American supply chains, and accelerate the industries of the future.
These policies have spurred an historic recovery in manufacturing, adding 642,000 manufacturing jobs since 2021. Companies are investing in America again, bringing good-paying manufacturing jobs back home. The construction of new manufacturing facilities has increased 116 percent over last year.
President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which will build on this progress, making historic investments that will poise U.S. workers, communities, and businesses to win the race for the 21st century. It will strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security, and invest in research and development, science and technology, and the workforce of the future to keep the US the leader in the industries of tomorrow, including nanotechnology, clean energy, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence. The CHIPS and Science Act makes the smart investments so that Americans can compete in and win the future.
UnderBiden, US oil production is poised to break Trump-era records. On Biden's watch, US oil production is poised to ShatterAll-time records set during the Trump administration.
US oil output is now projected to rise to an average of 12.8 million barrels per day this year for the first time ever.
For context, thatâs about half a million barrels per day more than the prior annual record set in 2019. Itâs also more oil than any other country on the planet produces.
Today's jobs report shows that our economy continues to lead the world, With the numbers from March in, we have officially crossed 15 million jobs created under President Biden. That is more jobs created in a single term than any president in history. Thanks to the investments passed by Democrats in Congress and signed into law by President Biden, the American economy has comeback from thePandemic stronger than ever..
Let us not forget how the jobs record of PresidentBiden compares to that of his predecessor. Trump lost 2.7 million jobs over the course of his presidency â more than any President since Herbert Hoover at the outset of the GreatDepression. While Trump wasted time tweeting ConspiracyTheories and playing political games, President Biden took action to rescue our economy and protect American families. Our economy has made a miraculous comeback.
The PACT Act, which President Biden signed into law in August 2022, is the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxin-exposed veterans in over three decades. The the PACT Act aims to deliver timely benefits and services to veterans across all generations who have been impacted by toxic exposures during their military service.
Despite its overwhelming support amongst the American people, getting the PACT Act passed in Congress proved to be an uphill battle. Republicans in CongressLied repeatedly about the law and voted against it, before the pressure ramped up against them.
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Trump told Stormy that she reminded him of his daughter. That's right. Trump told the woman he had an affair with, that she reminds him of his daughter. Evangelicals love this stuff!!! đđ¤Ł
In September 1994, a little less than a year after Tiffany was born to Trump and his second wife, Marla, the couple appeared on an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. âDonald, what does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marlaâs?â asked host Robin Leach.
âSheâs a very beautiful baby,â Trump replied. âSheâs got Marlaâs legs. We donât know whether or notââhe put his hands to his chest to indicate her bra sizeââsheâs got this part yet, but time will tell.â
While Trump was on The View in March 2006, he was asked what he would do if Ivanka was on the cover of P-boy magazine, Trump said it depended on what was inside the magazine and added, âAlthough she does have a very nice figure. Iâve said that if Ivanka werenât my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.â
In a February 2013 appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, during a question and answer game, Williams asked Trump and Ivanka, "What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?" Ivanka answered, "Either real estate or golf" while Trump added, "Well, I was going to say 5ex."
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"There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul."
--JosĂŠ N. Harris
Trump is a successful liar because he refuses to remember. Not only that: He refuses to anticipate that he will remember the current moment in the future. If you live mainly in the current moment, then the future consequences of your lies will not matter to you. And if you have lived your entire life this way, and to great acclaim and success, why would you ever want to change?
Trump was annoyed when Dr. Fauci stole the spotlight by throwing out the first pitch for Major League Baseballâs opening game. In response, he falsely claimed that the Yankees invited him to throw out the first pitch. His lie was roundly refuted a short time later. The incident recalls Trumpâs false boast that the crowd attending his 2017 inaugural address was the largest in history. Objective photographic evidence decisively refuted that lie.
And yet Trump never pulls back on blatantly false statements â lies that are so obvious that they often defy the laws of physics, chemistry and common sense.
The key to Trumpâs psychology is that he moves through life as âthe episodic man.â For Trump, each day is a temporary moment of time. Psychological research shows that nearly all adults develop stories in their minds about their own lives.
These stories â what psychologists call ânarrative identitiesâ â reconstruct the past and imagine the future. As you make daily decisions, you implicitly remember how you have come to be who you are, and you anticipate where your life may be going. You live within narrative time.
But the episodic man does not live that way. Instead, he immerses himself in the angry, combative moment, striving desperately to win the moment. But the episodes do not add up. They do not form a narrative arc. In Trumpâs case, it is as if he wakes up each morning nearly oblivious to what happened the day before. What he said and did yesterday, in order to win yesterday, no longer matters to him. And what he will do today, in order to win today, will not matter for tomorrow.
What is truth for the episodic man? Truth is whatever works to win the moment.
For most people, and every other president in the history of the US, an episodic life would be unsustainable in the long run. There is a primal authenticity in Trump. He tells you exactly what he feels in the moment. He lies straight to your face, without shame, without any concern for future consequences. It is the stark audacity of untruth.
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In President Bidenâs first year in office, his administration has implemented an industrial strategy to revitalize domestic manufacturing, create good-paying American jobs, strengthen American supply chains, and accelerate the industries of the future.
These policies have spurred an historic recovery in manufacturing, adding 642,000 manufacturing jobs since 2021. Companies are investing in America again, bringing good-paying manufacturing jobs back home. The construction of new manufacturing facilities has increased 116 percent over last year.
President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which will build on this progress, making historic investments that will poise U.S. workers, communities, and businesses to win the race for the 21st century. It will strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security, and invest in research and development, science and technology, and the workforce of the future to keep the US the leader in the industries of tomorrow, including nanotechnology, clean energy, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence. The CHIPS and Science Act makes the smart investments so that Americans can compete in and win the future.
UnderBiden, US oil production is poised to break Trump-era records. On Biden's watch, US oil production is poised to ShatterAll-time records set during the Trump administration.
US oil output is now projected to rise to an average of 12.8 million barrels per day this year for the first time ever.
For context, thatâs about half a million barrels per day more than the prior annual record set in 2019. Itâs also more oil than any other country on the planet produces.
Today's jobs report shows that our economy continues to lead the world, With the numbers from March in, we have officially crossed 15 million jobs created under President Biden. That is more jobs created in a single term than any president in history. Thanks to the investments passed by Democrats in Congress and signed into law by President Biden, the American economy has comeback from thePandemic stronger than ever..
Let us not forget how the jobs record of PresidentBiden compares to that of his predecessor. Trump lost 2.7 million jobs over the course of his presidency â more than any President since Herbert Hoover at the outset of the GreatDepression. While Trump wasted time tweeting ConspiracyTheories and playing political games, President Biden took action to rescue our economy and protect American families. Our economy has made a miraculous comeback.
The PACT Act, which President Biden signed into law in August 2022, is the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxin-exposed veterans in over three decades. The the PACT Act aims to deliver timely benefits and services to veterans across all generations who have been impacted by toxic exposures during their military service.
Despite its overwhelming support amongst the American people, getting the PACT Act passed in Congress proved to be an uphill battle. Republicans in CongressLied repeatedly about the law and voted against it, before the pressure ramped up against them.
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In an interview, Tony Schwartz, the journalist who wrote Trumpâs âThe Art of the Deal,â said of Trump âLying is second nature to him, more than anyone else I have ever met. Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true."
Schwartz:, âHe lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it.â Since most people are âconstrained by the truth,â Trumpâs indifference to it âgave him a strange advantage.â
Schwartz: " When challenged about the facts, Trump would often double down, repeat himself, and grow belligerent."
Schwartz described a man constitutionally incapable of logic, moral reasoning or self-reflection.
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â @John-sk9nhÂ
I think you just used whataboutism as a defense. đ
Deflecting or changing the subject is called "what-aboutism" â a simple rhetorical tactic heavily used by the Soviet Union and, later, Russia. It's an attractive tactic for Putin, Trump, and Russian trolls. Whataboutism allows them to be vague, but appear straight-talking at the same time. What-aboutism is essentially a schoolyard taunt, brought to a national and global level.
The idea behind what-aboutism is simple: Party A accuses Party B of doing something bad. Party B responds by changing the subject and pointing out one of Party A's faults â "Yeah? Well WHAT ABOUT that bad thing you did?"
It's not a complicated tactic â any grade-schooler can master it. But it came to be associated with the USSR because of the Soviet Union's heavy reliance upon whataboutism throughout the Cold War and afterward, as Russia.
One big reason whataboutism is so attractive: it's a simple way to shrug off criticism or even responsibility for any wrongdoings..
Whataboutism flattens moral nuances into a black-and-white worldview. But in this worldview, it's very difficult to be the good guy; idealism is the ultimate naĂŻvetĂŠ, and anyone who dares to criticize another can be "unmasked" as a hypocrite. This creates a useful moral equivalency. If nobody is perfect, then it means that Trump and Putin should get a pass for any wrongdoings.
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As White House counsel under Nixon from 1970 to 1973, John Dean was a key figure in the Watergate sagaâparticipating in, and then helping to expose, the most iconic political scandal in modern U.S. history.
âThe American presidency has never been at the whims of an authoritarian personality like Donald Trump. He is going to test our democracy as it has never been tested.â
--John Dean
He was not only convinced that Trump will be worse than Nixon in virtually every wayâhe thought Trump would probably get away with it.
âI donât think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.â
--John Dean
âI used to have one-on-one conversations with Nixon where Iâd see him checking his more authoritarian tendencies,â Dean recalled. âHeâd say, âThis is something I canât say out loud...â or, âThat is something the president canât do.ââ To Dean, these moments suggested a functioning sense of shame in Nixon, something he was forced to wrestle with in his quest for power. Trump, by contrast, appears to Dean, unmolested by any such struggle."
--John Dean
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Researchers say there are four main components to TIV:
Need for recognition â whereby individuals have a high level of need for theirVictimization to be seen and recognized by others
Moral elitism â seeing oneself as morally pure or "immaculate," and seeing those who oppose, criticize or victimizeOneself as completely and totally immoral and unjust
Lack of empathy â having little empathy or concern for the suffering of others, because your ownVictimhood is so much greater than the suffering of others. Also includes an entitlement to act selfishly or harmfully towards others, without recognizing their pain or experience
Rumination â a strong tendency to brood and remain extremely fixated on times, ways, and relationships where they experiencedVictimization and being taken advantage of.
A person who has TIV may be very vocal about theirVictim status whether it's caused by societal issues, a personal problem, or something they've fabricated. They believe their status affords them moral superiority to others and allows them to behave in ways that are unassailable.
People with TIV are also more likely to try to SeekRevenge on those who've aggrieved them.
This type of person is defined by, and clings to, their perceived trauma andWeaponizes it against others. Some people can even develop TIV without even experiencing severe trauma orVictimization."
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The true character of a person will always be revealed when they are faced with a crisis or adversity. And the eternal question will always be, when it truly mattered, did they do the right thing? So far, Trump has failed. And Trump has never failed to fail, because failing has always been the easiest thing for him to do.
When Ebola broke out in West Africa in 2014, President Obama recognized that responding to the outbreak overseas, while also protecting Americans at home, involved multiple U.S. government departments and agencies, none of which were speaking to one another.
So to bring order and harmony to the chaos, he create a coherent multiagency response overseas and on the homefront. Building on the Ebola experience, President Obama set up a permanent epidemic monitoring and command group inside the White House National Security Council, and another in the Department of Homeland Securityâboth of which followed the scientific and public health leads of the National Institutes of Health, and the CDC, and the diplomatic advice of the State Department.
But thatâs all gone now. In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSCâs entire global health security unit shut down. This was the directorate charged with preparing for when, not if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics. Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of shock. Because experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years.
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
In the spring of 2018, Trump pushed Congress to cut funding for Obama-era disease security programs, reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the governmentâs $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated..
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Dr. Fiona Hill testimony before the House Intel committee.
"Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our countryâand that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.
The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. This is the public conclusion of our intelligence agencies, confirmed in bipartisan Congressional reports. It is beyond dispute, even if some of the underlying details must remain classified.
The impact of the successful 2016 Russian campaign remains evident today. Our nation is being torn apart. Truth is questioned. Our highly professional and expert career foreign service is being undermined.
Right now, Russiaâs security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them. In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests.
Ukraine is a valued partner of the United States, and it plays an important role in our national security. And as I told this Committee last month, I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraineânot Russiaâattacked us in 2016.
These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes. President Putin and the Russian security services operate like a Super PAC. They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives.Â
If the President, or anyone else, impedes or subverts the national security of the United States in order to further domestic political or personal interests, that is more than worthy of your attention. But we must not let domestic politics stop us from defending ourselves against the foreign powers who truly wish us harm."
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In President Bidenâs first year in office, his administration has implemented an industrial strategy to revitalize domestic manufacturing, create good-paying American jobs, strengthen American supply chains, and accelerate the industries of the future. These policies have spurred an historic recovery in manufacturing, adding 642,000 manufacturing jobs since 2021. Companies are investing in America again, bringing good-paying manufacturing jobs back home. The construction of new manufacturing facilities has increased 116 percent over last year.
President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which will build on this progress, making historic investments that will poise U.S. workers, communities, and businesses to win the race for the 21st century. It will strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security, and invest in research and development, science and technology, and the workforce of the future to keep the US the leader in the industries of tomorrow, including nanotechnology, clean energy, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence. The CHIPS and Science Act makes the smart investments so that Americans can compete in and win the future.
Fun fact: The PACT Act, which President Biden signed into law in August 2022, is the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxin-exposed veterans in over three decades. The the PACT Act aims to deliver timely benefits and services to veterans across all generations who have been impacted by toxic exposures during their military service.
Despite its overwhelming support amongst the American people, getting the PACT Act passed in Congress proved to be an uphill battle. Republicans in CongressLied repeatedly about the law and voted against it, before the pressure ramped up against them.
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By attacking the FBI, and America's other intelligence agencies, Trump is doing Putin's dirty work for him. And make no mistake, it constitutes a threat to America's national security.
The FBI has always been the biggest threat to Russian agents attempting to operate on American soil.
Semper Fi...
The FBI's "Operation Ghost Stories" was a counter-espoinoge operation against Andrey Bezrukov and Yelena Vavilova, a Russian spy couple who were part of the Illegals Program, a network of Russian sleeper agents who were arrested in 2010.. By July 2015,
Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley had been living for two decadesÂ
in Canada and then in Europe before they ever set foot in the United StatesÂ
to start spying for Russia here. We now know that the FBI was on to themÂ
as spies as soon as they got here.
The FBI's "Operation Ghost Stories" was against Andrey Bezrukov and Yelena Vavilova, a Russian spy couple who were part of the Illegals Program, a network of Russian sleeper agents who were arrested in 2010. Andrey Bezrukov, and Yelena Vavilova, were highly trained in terms of espionage, but also in terms of language and accent and mannerisms, which would allow them to blend in.
In the 80s, they arrived in Canada as a couple. They had false identifies that had been stolen from real Canadians. The identities were stolen from a little boy in Montreal in the 1960s,
whose name had been Donald Heathfield and sometime in the 1960s, that
little child had died in infancy. There had also been a little girl named
Tracy Lee Ann Foley who had also died in Montreal in the 1960s in
childhood.
Decades later in the 1980s, these two Russian agents, with their stolen identities, started a fake life in Toronto. They lived in Toronto through the â80s and into the â90s. In the â90s,
Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley, had two sons.
After their sons were born in Canada in the â90s, the family moved sometime
in the mid to late â90s to France where the father, Donald Heathfield, went
to grad school. They were both fluent in French and English.
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Let's be clear, Flynn didn't lie to Pence or Trump about his contacts with the Russians, it was Trump and Pence who lied to the American people, because they knew all along about his contacts with the Russians. He was literally acting on their behalf.
When Trump fired Michael Flynn, in Feb 2017, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official and then lied to Pence and others about the interactions. But emails among top transition officials, show that Flynn was far from a rogue actor. In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents showed that Flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.
After learning that Obama would expel 35 Russian diplomats, the Trump team quickly strategized about how to reassure Russia.
On Dec. 29 2016, transition adviser K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by Obama in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Trumpâs victory. The sanctions,,she wrote, could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, âwhich has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,â she wrote in the emails.đ˛
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Meanwhile, Trump is protecting Saudi Arabia after their leader had an American resident murdered in an Embassy in Turkey.
Keep in mind, the Saudis have put a ton of money into Trump and Jared's pockets. Trump is a man of no beliefs, ideals, or convictions, and he has the moral compass of a weather vane, and Saudis bought Trump a long time ago. Can't really blame the Saudis though, especially when Trump put himself on sale, with a 2 for 1 special ( Trump &Jared) Who could pass up a deal like that?
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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It's clear that Trump sees himself as a dictator like Putin and Kim Jung Un. During the shutdown, he said that thousands of Americans are okay with going without pay for months, or even years, just for him, because apparently they love him so much. And suffering for him would be an honor. The same way the people of NK are honored to suffer for their dear leader, Trump believes Americans are willing to do the same for him.
June 15 2018, Trump praises Kim Jung Un ' control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
Sept 30 2018, Trump confesses the love he has for his muse, Kim Jung Un, during a rally.
"I like him, he likes me. I guess thatâs okay. Am I allowed to say that?â Trump said.
 âAnd then we fell in love, okayâ he said. âNo really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyâre great letters. We fell in love.â
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Conservatism, by its very core nature, is an absolutist, black-and-white way of thinking. Conservatism is rooted in the past; it is hidebound, dogmatic, intellectually incurious, unwilling to explore and examine differing viewpoints, and completely, often rabidly dismissive of evidence to the contrary of its beliefs and core principles. "Conservative" people tend to be adamantly, willfully, often venomously ignorant of the truth, because the truth offends them. They seem to be hard-wired into this obstinacy, to the point of pathological obsession. This is why repubicans are simply incapable of governing, because Republicans aren't interested in governing, they want to rule, and there's a big difference between the two. Ruling, and authoritarianism, lies at the heart of what conservatism has always been about...
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And Trump has sent thousands of our troops to Saudi Arabia to protect their oil and HIS own personal business interests.
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
Congress was furious over Trumpâs secret efforts to secure a nuclear energy deal with Saudi Arabia. Congress was rightfully furious when they discovered that the Saudis refused to accept limits preventing them from developing a nuclear weapon.
It was revealed that Trump gave approval for companies to share certain nuclear energy technology with the kingdom without a broader nuclear deal in place.
House Dems began investigating Trump's nuclear talks with Saudi after the Oversight and Reform Committee announced in February it was launching a probe to âdetermine whether the actions being pursued by the Trump administration are in the national security interests of the US or, rather, serve those who stand to gain financially as a result of this potential change in U.S. foreign policy.â
Energy Secretary Rick Perry approved seven authorizations that let U.S. companies share certain nuclear energy technology with Saudi Arabia.Â
lawmakers were outraged when they found out they were not told about the approvals, saying the secrecy violates the Atomic Energy Act, which requires that Congress be kept âfully and currently informedâ of 123 agreement negotiations.
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
The Saudis have invested a lot of money into Trump's criminal organization, and they expect a return on their investment..... protection being one of the things the Saudis expect in return.
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels.
A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Attorneys general for Maryland and the District of Columbia cited the payments by the Saudi lobbying firm as an example of foreign gifts to Trump that could violate the Constitutionâs ban on such âemolumentsâ from foreign interests.
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In her new book, Trump's niece Mary describes Donald as a âtoxicâ bully who practices âcheating as a way of life,â and someone who values money above anything.
In the forward to his new book entitled âDisloyal, A Memoir,â Michael Cohen writes: âTrump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything â and I mean anything â to âwinâ has always been his business model and way of life,â he added.Â
Trump will definitely try to cheat in order to win reelection. Trump is a natural born loser, therefore he has to cheat. He's never achieved anything in his life without lying and cheating.
Trump's failure as a president was inevitable. Trump was never equipped to do his job. He doesn't have the necessary tools or the wherewithal to do his job. Trump is grossly incapacitated intellectually, mentally, emotionally, temperamentally, socially, and psychologically. He couldn't properly do his job as president even if he wanted to. (Which he doesn't)Â Trump was always going to fail, and he was always going to blame his failures on someone or something. Lying, cheating, and bullying are his only tools for survival. They are the tools of his trade, which is being an agent of chaos, misery, and destruction. It's all he knows. He is a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being. In fact, he is less of a human being, and more of a collection of every human flaw known to mankind, all rolled into one man.
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Trump sat in the White House, and watched the vio.lence that unfolded on our nation's Capitol for at least two whole hours, without doing anything, and without saying a word, other than to blast his own Vice President, who eventually had to flee for his life from the Capitol.
Watching his followers storm the Capitol while wearing his hats and waving flags emblazoned with his name, was the greatest day of Trump's presidency. He has never felt more like the dictator he's always wanted to be than he did on that day.
The truth of the matter is, if Trump had not filled his followers heads with lies for months, and if he had not held that rally, where he instructed his followers to march to the Capitol and fight like he// in order to "stop the steal" the insurrection never would have happened. Because without the use of vio.lence, how else were they going to stop the so called steal?
The problem with Trump's lawyer's argument, is that there was literally nothing left to fight for, because the election was over. The only thing that remained was for Pence to count and certify the electoral votes. So the only thing they could've been fighting for, was to bring a stop to the counting of the electoral votes, which would officially certify Biden as the next democratically elected president.
And vio.lence was the only option they had left. Trump had already exhausted every other legal and illegal option. So on January 6, the vio.lence card was the only card Trump had left, and he played it.
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Trump quote from 2004, a response to a Larry King Live caller asking how he handles stress. Trump: âI try and tell myself it doesnât matter. Nothing matters. If you tell yourself it doesnât matter, like you do shows, you do this, you do that and then you have earthquakes in India where 400,000 people get killed. Honestly, it doesnât matter."
Spoken like the true sociopath that he is. Trump meets pretty much every diagnostic criterion of a sociopath.
⢠Manipulative and ConningÂ
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.Â
⢠Grandiose Sense of SelfÂ
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."Â
⢠Pathological LyingÂ
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities.
⢠Lack of Remorse, Shame or GuiltÂ
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around him as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, he has victims and accomplices, who will end up as victims. ( Cohen, Manafort, Flynn, Gates, etc) The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.Â
⢠Shallow EmotionsÂ
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.Â
⢠Callousness/Lack of EmpathyÂ
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.Â
â Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive NatureÂ
Rage and abuse. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.Â
⢠Irresponsibility/UnreliabilityÂ
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed. Trump blames Dems for his government shutdown, after he said he would take full responsibility for the shutdown.
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June 3, 2016, Don Jr receives this email at 10:36 AM, from Rob Goldstone.
"Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting."
"The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father."
"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and Emin" Goldstone wrote.
Don Jr. agrees to hold the meeting at Trump Tower, and sets the date for June 9.
On June 7, 2016, just days before the Trump Tower meeting, Trump announced a âmajor speechâ he claimed would reveal damaging information about Hillary. "I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week and weâre going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons,â Trump said. âI think youâre going to find it very informative and very, very interesting."
On June 9, 2016, a meeting was held in Trump Tower between three senior members of the Donald Trump presidential campaign â Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort â and at least five other people, including Russian Russian agents.
On July 27 2016, on national tv, Trump invites Russia to meddle in our elections.
âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,â Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clintonâs deleted emails. âI think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.â
Later that same day, the 12 Russian operatives indicted in the special counsel investigation, launched the 1st cyber attack against the DNC.
Translation: Trump is guilty of treason.
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âI think, importantly, what Obama did leave Trump is a global health infrastructure that we had set up informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak,â Ben Rhodes said before pointing to a National Security Council (NSC) pandemic directorate that was dismantled by the Trump administration in 2018.
And what we did is set up, in the White House, ... an office that was responsible for managing pandemics, managing global health threats that was shut down two years ago by President Trump.
And when you donât have an office like that, you donât have dedicated people inside the White House who are ensuring that information is acted upon. When you see an outbreak in a place like Wuhan, China, you want people in the White House who are thinking about what needs to be done right away so that you donât get behind the curve, which is what happened in this White House.
You need a president whoâs willing to hear bad news, willing to understand that theyâre going to have to focus on something that they may have not intended to focus on. President trump clearly did not want to hear that bad news when he heard about the outbreak in coronavirus,â
--Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama
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While the coronavirus highlighted Trumpâs indifference, criminal negligence and incompetence, we may look back at his response to the current protests as the moment when his longtime flirtation with authoritarianism hardened into something more sinister. Thereâs no limit to what Trump will inflict to get reelected. His own sister called him a cruel human being.
He called protesters âter.rorists,â and suggested they should be locked up for at least a decade to silence them, encouraged the use of force against American citizens and the free press, and promised to unleash the military on American citizens. These are the actions of authoritarian regimes in countries the world over.
In many countries around the world, it would be distressing, but not surprising to see the government use the fear of ter.rorism to demonize and encourage the use of force to squash these protest movements. Playing up violent acts committed by a small minority is right out of the authoritarian playbook.
It shifts focus away from Trump's many failures, and assigns blame to a bo.ogeyman. This step alone is critical for Trump. Trump is not to blame for the systemic racism and injustice, but addressing it is the LAST thing he would ever want to do. Why? Well for starters, he himself is a ra.cist.
Trump's actions have already caused immense pain to everyday Americans and the American way of life. They set a dangerous precedent. We are on a perilous path. We are now seeing how Trump and those around him who share is authoritarian impulses respond protests that resulted from genuine grievances. Consider how they will handle the protests that almost certainly will erupt if Trump tries to postpone the election, steal the election, suppress the vote in Democratic areas, or refuses to accept its result if he loses.
In a 2016 replay, Trump recently refused to say whether he would accept the election results if he loses. That was a clear threat, and a warning. Trump has identified his true enemies. and it is America's constitution, and us.
Trump doesn't even need Pence as a running mate. Trump's running mate is tyranny.
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Let's be clear, Flynn didn't lie to Pence or Trump about his contacts with the Russians, it was Trump and Pence who lied to the American people, because they knew all along about his contacts with the Russians. He was literally acting on their behalf.
When Trump fired Michael Flynn, in Feb 2017, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official and then lied to Pence and others about the interactions. But emails among top transition officials, show that Flynn was far from a rogue actor. In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents showed that Flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.
After learning that Obama would expel 35 Russian diplomats, the Trump team quickly strategized about how to reassure Russia.
On Dec. 29 2016, transition adviser K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by Obama in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Trumpâs victory. The sanctions,,she wrote, could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, âwhich has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,â she wrote in the emails.đ˛
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Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said the plan by chief White House adviser Jared Kushner who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
What Kushner tried to do is exactly what American traitors have done in the past when they've decided to start working for the Russian government. It's basically what Aldrich Ames did in 1985, when he walked into the Soviet Union Embassy in DC, and turned over highly classified information to the Russians.
Trump and his people were warned by Obama, Sally Yates, and the FBI, that Russia was actively trying to infiltrate Trump's inner circle. And what does Trump do? He fired Comey, and Sally Yates, the very people who had warned him about what the Russians were up to. Even after Trump had been warned, his people were still holding secret meetings with the Russians, and they all lied about it......every single person lied about their meetings with the Russians. And then on the day after Trump fired Comey, the guy who was in charge of the FBI, the agency charged with catching Russian spies, Trump invites the Russian foreign minister, and Russia's Ambassador to the Oval Office, and brags about firing the head of the FBI.  Let all of that sink in for a minute.
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Trumpâs history of creepy comments about the looks of his daughter Ivanka are well known. But his younger daughter, Tiffany, is a recent college graduate who has largely stayed out of the spotlightâmuch like her fatherâs equally creepy comments about her anatomy..
In September 1994, a little less than a year after Tiffany was born to Trump and his second wife, Marla, the couple appeared on an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. âDonald, what does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marlaâs?â asked host Robin Leach.
âSheâs a very beautiful baby,â Trump replied. âSheâs got Marlaâs legs. We donât know whether or notââhe put his hands to his chest to indicate her bra sizeââsheâs got this part yet, but time will tell.â
While Trump was on The View in March 2006, he was asked what he would do if Ivanka was on the cover of P-boy magazine, Trump said it depended on what was inside the magazine and added, âAlthough she does have a very nice figure. Iâve said that if Ivanka werenât my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.â
In a February 2013 appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, during a question and answer game, Williams asked Trump and Ivanka, "What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?" Ivanka answered, "Either real estate or golf" while Trump added, "Well, I was going to say 5ex."
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Trump is playing a dangerous game with our oceans and coastal communities. By massively expanding offshore oil drilling while simultaneously rolling back drilling-safety standards put in place after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Trump is making more major oil spills inevitable.
If a spill happens in the Arctic Ocean â where Trump is trying to invite oil companies into federal waters that were protected by President Obama â treacherous conditions would make cleanup impossible. And wherever the next big oil spill happens, wildlife will die and coastal communities will suffer.
The Gulf of Mexico and its coastline still havenât recovered from 2010âs Deepwater Horizon blowout, which killed 11 workers, and thousands of marine animals as it gushed more than 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf for almost three months. The countryâs worst environmental disaster clearly called for new regulations to prevent it from happening again. Trump is currently rolling back those safety regulations in his reckless pursuit of so-called âenergy dominance.â Just as he pretends climate change isnât real.
After well-blowout prevention devices suffered catastrophic failures on Deepwater Horizon, Obama called for 3rd party inspections of safety equipment. It was a measured, reasonable response to such an epic industry failure. In April Trump signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to âreconsiderâ several oil rig safety regulations. Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary, and the same Zinke that is currently under multiple investigations of ethics violations, is in charge of rolling back the safety regulations.
Calls for reversing the Obama-era regulations is part of Trumpâs efforts to ease restrictions on fossil fuel companies and generate more domestic energy production. (GREED)
Doing so, the agency asserted, will reduce âunnecessary burdensâ on the energy industry and save the industry $228 million over 10 years.(GREED)
The Obama-era rules, written in 2016, tightened controls on blowout preventers, devices that are intended to stop explosions in undersea oil and gas wells, and called for rig operators to have third parties certify that the safety devices worked under extreme conditions. In the Deepwater Horizon spill, a supposedly fail-safe blowout preventer failed after a section of drill pipe buckled.
Environmental groups warned that reversing the safety measures would make the United States vulnerable to another such disaster.
âRolling back drilling safety standards while expanding offshore leasing is a recipe for disaster,â Miyoko Sakashita, director of the oceans program at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. âBy tossing aside the lessons from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Trump is putting our coasts and wildlife at risk of more deadly oil spills. Reversing offshore safety rules isnât just deregulation, itâs willful ignorance.â
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The January 27 transcript of Trump's phone call with Mexican President, PeĂąa Nieto, came seven days after Trump entered office. PeĂąa Nieto had insisted publicly his country would not pay for the wall's construction, but Trump begged him to stop making that claim.đ
Trump: "You cannot say that to the press," Trump said on the phone call. "The press is going to go with that and I cannot live with that. You cannot say that to the press because I cannot negotiate under those circumstances."
Trump said he was willing to say publicly that he and Mexican authorities would continue to negotiate over the wall's payment, which he said "means it will come out in the wash and that is OK."
But Trump continued to plead with PeĂąa Nieto to stop saying to the media that Mexico would never pay for any wall.
Trump" "You cannot say anymore that the United States is going to pay for the wall," he said. "I am just going to say that we are working it out. Believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important talk about."
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Trump told many lies during the campaign, but the wall was one of his biggest lies. Now he is desperately looking for someone to come and bail him out, and lead him out of the corn maze of lies he created. He first tried to get the President of Mexico to bail him out. Now he's trying to get the American taxpayers to bail him out. Well that's a negative Ghost Rider.....the pattern is full..
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Dr. Anthony Fauci was appointed Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.
Dr. Fauci has advised six Presidents on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. He was one of the principal architects of the Presidentâs Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.
Dr. Fauci also is the longtime chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. He has made many contributions to basic and clinical research on the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated and infectious diseases. He helped pioneer the field of human immunoregulation by making important basic scientific observations that underpin the current understanding of the regulation of the human immune response.
Dr. Fauci is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science, the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been awarded 38 honorary doctoral degrees and is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than 1,200 scientific publications, including several major textbooks.
In a 2019 analysis of Google Scholar citations, Dr. Fauci ranked as the 41st most highly cited researcher of ALL TIME. According to the Web of Science, he ranked 8th out of more than 2.2 million authors in the field of immunology by total citation count between 1980 and January 2019.
Countless people around the world owe their very lives to Dr. Fauci, and work he has done.
And Trump thinks he knows more about viruses and infectious diseases than this guy, simply because he had an Uncle who attended MIT. Let that sink in for a moment.
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In 2015, Western European intelligence agencies began picking up evidence of communications between the Russian government and people in Donald Trumpâs orbit. In April 2016, one of the Baltic states shared with thenâCIA director John Brennan an audio recording of Russians discussing funneling money to the Trump campaign. In the summer of 2016, Robert Hannigan, head of the U.K. intelligence agency GCHQ, flew to Washington to brief Brennan on intercepted communications between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The contents of these communications have not been disclosed, but what Brennan learned obviously unsettled him profoundly. In congressional testimony on Russian election interference last year, Brennan hinted that some Americans might have betrayed their country. âIndividuals who go along a treasonous path,â he warned, âdo not even realize theyâre along that path until it gets to be a bit too late.â In an interview this year, he put it more bluntly: âI think [Trump] is afraid of the president of Russia. The Russians may have something on him personally that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult.â
In July 2016, a loose-knit community of computer scientists and cybersecurity experts discovered a strange pattern of online traffic between two computer servers. One of those servers belonged to Alfa Bank in Moscow and the other to the Trump Organization. Alfa Bankâs owners had âassumed an unforeseen level of prominence and influence in the economic and political affairs of their nation,â as a federal court once put it.
The analysts noted that the traffic between the two servers occurred during office hours in New York and Moscow and spiked in correspondence with major campaign events, suggesting it entailed human communication rather than bots. More suspiciously, after New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau asked Alfa Bank about it but before he brought it up with the Trump campaign, the server in Trump Tower shut down. The timing strongly implied Alfa Bank was communicating with Trump..
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Trump accused John McCain of handing over the Steele dossier to the FBI âfor very evil purposes.â
Fun facts: On March 25, 2019, Lindsey Graham admitted that he himself told John McCain to give the FBI the Steele dossier on the Trump campaignâs ties to Russia, a revelation that comes after Trump repeatedly assailed the late Arizona Republican over the issue.
Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters that McCain showed him the dossier when he received it in late 2016.
"And I told him the only thing I knew to do with it, it could be a bunch of garbage, it could be true, who knows? Turn it over to somebody whose job it is to find these things out, and John McCain acted appropriately,â Graham said.
McCain was not made aware of the Steele dossier until Nov 18, 2016 â after Trump had won the election.
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Trump: "I'm not taking responsibility for any of this. People are acting like I'm a REAL president and a real leader. I'm the same guy who betrayed America in front of the entire world in Helsinki. I'm nothing more than a fraud, who with the help of Putin, managed to con my way into the Oval Office. Plus most people knew I was fundamentally unfit intellectually, morally, temperamentally, emotionally, and psychologically to be president. Someone as mentally unstable and divorced from reality as I clearly am, should have NEVER been allowed anywhere near the White House.
So again, don't blame me, blame the people who were dumb enough to vote for me. Blame republicans in Congress who aided, abetted, and pardoned my crimes. Blame people like Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch. They both know exactly who and what I am, but yet they continue to defend me. For crying out loud, Lindsey Graham even stated on fox, that I was in fact, a Krazy, race-baiting bigot. So you see, I'm the same person that I've always been, an irredeemable con-man and a sociopath, but you already knew that."
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Trump Jan. 24, Twitter:.
âChina has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!â
Trump Feb. 7, Twitter:
âJust had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days ⌠Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!
Trump Feb. 7, Remarks before Marine One departure:
"Late last night, I had a very good talk with President Xi, and we talked about â mostly about the coronavirus. They're working really hard, and I think they are doing a very professional job. They're in touch with World â the World â World Organization. CDC also. We're working together. But World Health is working with them. CDC is working with them. I had a great conversation last night with President Xi. It's a tough situation. I think they're doing a very good job.â
Trump Feb. 10, Fox interview:.
"I think China is very, you know, professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control," Trump said. "I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon. You know in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that's a beautiful date to look forward to. But China I can tell you is working very hard."
Trump Feb. 10, rally in Manchester, N.H.:
âI spoke with President Xi, and theyâre working very, very hard. And I think itâs all going to work out fine.â
Trump Feb. 23, before boarding Marine One:
"I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He's working very hard. I think he's doing a very good job. It's a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He's working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem. OK?"
Trump Feb. 27, press conference:
âI spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. Heâs working very hard, I have to say. Heâs working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, itâs actually gotten smaller.â
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If Trump did nothing wrong as he claims, then why is he blocking people from testifying in the Senate trial, like Mulvaney, Bolton, and his White House counsel John Eisenberg? If he did nothing wrong, then surely these people should be able to testify and prove that he did nothing wrong.
When Lt.Col Vindman twice told a superior of his concerns about Trumpâs efforts to force Ukraine for the investigation in exchange for military aid, the White House lawyer John Eisenberg had the full transcript of Trump's phone call moved to the highly classified White House server, which is usually reserved for code-word level intelligence but not transcripts of diplomatic discussions. Why would the full transcript of Trump's so called "perfect" phone call be hidden? If he did nothing wrong, releasing the full transcript should exonerate him of any wrong doing.
The only logical conclusion is that Trump is guilty, and he knows that releasing the full transcript, and allowing Mulvaney, Bolton and others to testify under oath would be his undoing. Trump knows that after seeing what happened to Manafort, Cohen and Stone, that no one else is going to risk going to prison for his crimes.
Trump's own National Security Adviser, John Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
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At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Mr. Zelensky, asks Mr. Volker to connect him to Giuliani. The two men later meet in Madrid.
At a White House meeting later that day in Boltonâs office, two Ukrainian officials press for an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mr. Zelensky. Sondland blurts out that Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, promised that Mr. Zelensky would be invited if Ukraine announces âinvestigations.â
Bolton immediately halts the meeting. At a follow-up meeting, Sondland again presses the Ukrainians to announce investigations, this time specifying Burisma and the 2016 election as targets. Fiona Hill, one of Boltonâs top deputies, calls that session to a halt.
She and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, her subordinate, report the meetings to John Eisenberg, the chief legal adviser to the National Security Council. Bolton tells Ms. Hill to deliver a message from him: âI am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.â
The fact that Trump refuses to allow these people to testify is an admission of guilt.
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Trumpâs business interest in communist China is long-standing. He began applying for trademarks there in 2005, and in 2012, the Trump Hotel Collection opened an office in Shanghai, its first in Asia.
Two of the Trump Organizationâs foreign partners â developers in Dubai and Indonesia, each building residential complexes that include a Trump golf course â have announced new partnerships with state-run Chinese companies. On June 10 2018, Dubaiâs Damac Properties announced that the state-run China State Construction Engineering Corp. had been awarded a contract to build roads and infrastructure at the new Akoya Oxygen. Trump will be paid to operate a golf course there, his second in the area, and paid for the use of his name.
In May 2018, Trumpâs partner in Indonesia â MNC Corp. â announced that it had signed a construction contract with another state-run Chinese company, the Metallurgical Corporation of China, for its planned Lido City development. Plans for that project, in a mountainous area of West Java, include a Trump-branded golf resort.
The communist Chinese government granted a total of 41 trademarks to Ivanka by April of 2019. These are trademarks she applied for after her father became president, and the got approved for about 40% faster than those she requested before Trumpâs victory in the 2016 election according to Forbes.
On March 29, 2017, Ivanka became an official government employee, joining Jared as an adviser to her father in the White House. The day before that appointment, Ivanka applied for 17 new trademarks with the communist Chinese government.
Over a span of two months in late 2018, the communist Chinese government granted 18 trademarks to companies linked to Trump and his daughter. In October alone, Chinaâs Trademark Office granted provisional approval for 16 trademarks to Ivanka Trump Marks LLC. The new approvals covered Ivanka-branded fashion gear, including sunglasses, handbags, shoes and jewelry, as well as beauty services and voting machines. In January of 2019, China granted Ivankaâs company preliminary approval for another five trademarks covering wedding dresses, and art valuation services. The applications were filed in 2016 and 2017.
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Trump has repeatedly lied when he claims that nobody could have predicted something like the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. But as usual, Trump's lies are basic, and easily debunked. Government records shows that repeated warnings were issued to the White House and went unheeded.
U.S. intelligence officials with the National Center for Medical Intelligence issued a report in late November warning that a virus was taking root in China. Analysts concluded it could be a "cataclysmic event,â and the report was shared with the White House, the Pentagonâs Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency. There were multiple briefings about the report throughout December for policymakers, National Security Council, and the White House.
On Dec. 31, China publicly confirmed that dozens of people in Wuhan were being treated for pneumonia-like symptoms. Three days later, on Jan. 3, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he first learned of the spread of the virus in China at a White House briefing attended by CDC and Prevention director Robert Redfield.
Days after the Jan. 3 briefing in the White House, U.S. intelligence warnings about the threat posed by the virus began appearing in Trump's daily brief. Whether Trump read those is anyone's guess. Either way, his indifference and inaction constitutes a criminal dereliction of duty, and a violation of his oath, to protect and defend this country. Amercan lives have been needlessly lost as a direct consequence of his moral ineptitude and sociopathic behavior, and for that, he must be held accountable.
Meanwhile, Trump's is continuing his mission of gaslighting to oblivion, the feeble and atrophied minds of his cultists, with lies about how great of a job he's doing. While in the real world, America now has more than 400k confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections, and more than 15k deaths. Because of Trump, America has the absolute WORST failed national response to the coronavirus in the world. I sh¥t thee nay.
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Several wealthy Russians were âgranted unusual accessâ to Trump inauguration parties back in January 2017 â and Mueller is seeking to find out why. The tycoons were given âunprecedented access to Trumpâs inner circleââand investigators in special council Robert Muellerâs probe are interested in their attendance at the parties.
Rick Gates was heavily involved in planning the inauguration, with a Yahoo News report in 2016calling him the âshadow chairâ of the event. There have long been serious questions about the money behind Trumpâs inauguration â and where, exactly, it all went. Trumpâs inaugural committee raised an astonishing $106.7 million, double the previous record set by Obamaâs 2009 inaugural. But what they did with it isnât so clear. The chair of GW Bushâs 2nd inauguration, Greg Jenkins, said he was baffled. âTrump had a third of the staff and a quarter of the events that we had, and yet they raise at least twice as much as we did,â he said. âSo thereâs the obvious question: Where did it go? I donât know.â
The inauguration caught law enforcementâs attention back while it was happening. Counterintelligence officials at the FBI were concerned by an unusual presence of politically connected Russians in DC during the event â including some of the exact people who âhad surfaced in the agencyâs investigation of the Trump campaignâs ties to Russia.â
Back in June ABC News reported that Muellerâs investigators wanted to know why several billionaires with âdeep ties to Russiaâ got access to âexclusive, invitation-only receptionsâ during the inauguration.
It is against the law for foreign nationals to donate to a presidential inaugural committee. Mueller is exploring whether wealthy Russians used âstraw donorsâ with American citizenship to steer money into the inauguration. Sometime around March of this year, Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg flew in to a NY on a private plane â and was met there by Muellerâs investigators, who questioned him and searched his electronic devices.
Vekselberg is the owner of the Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate with aluminum and oil interests, and is one of the richest people in Russia. His cousin, Andrew Intrater, an American citizen who runs a US company tied to Vekselbergâs company, donated $250,000. Intrater had also kicked in $35,000 to the Trump Victory Committee.
Vekselberg and Intrater attended Trumpâs inauguration together, and at the January 19 candlelight dinner, they were seated with Trumpâs lawyer, Cohen.. Later that year, that company run by Intrater paid Cohenâs shell company, Essential Consultants LLC, $500,000 â for, they claimed, real estate advice. A 1million inaugural donation came from Leonard Blavatnik, who runs a company called Access Industries. Blavatnik was on the guest list for the January 19 candlelight dinner too.
Blavatnik is a Soviet-born, UK-based billionaire who is a US citizen. He is also partnered with Vekselberg, in Russiaâs aluminum industry. Together, they built the largest aluminum company in Russia by merging with Oleg Deripaskaâs Rusal. Deripaska is also a player in Mueller's investigation â he employed Manafort, and Manafort tried to get in touch with him during 2016.
Alexander Mashkevitch, a Kazakh mining billionaire, was on the guest list for the âcandlelight dinner,â and happens to have been in the Seychelles around the same time as Erik Prince.
And Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin, who attended Don Jrâs infamous Trump Tower meeting, were in town too â they attended an inauguration night party thrown by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), whoâs widely viewed as the biggest supporter of Putinâs regime in Congress.
Several people involved in previous inaugurations were quoted expressing puzzlement over how Trumpâs team could have possibly spent over $100 million for what they got. But if there is anyone who might know where much of the money went, it is Rick Gates, who is now working with Mueller's investigation. So whatever Rick Gates knows, Robert Mueller now knows too.
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Trump and his grifter family are running their criminal enterprise out of the white. That's what the entire Trump administration has been about since the very beginning. It's why Jared and Ivanka were brought into the white house. They aren't working for the country, or the American people, they are working for themselves. They are working to enrich themselves even more. Every move they make is a calculated business move for their own financial gains.
It's not an accident that Trump has been hostile towards America's longtime traditional allies, like Canada, Australia, The UK, and France. It's because financially, those countries don't really have anything to offer Trump and his criminal organization. And it's not an accident that Trump has been so cozy with Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. Even before he became president, he benefited financially from Saudi, China, and Russia. Many of Trump's products are manufactured in China, and Ivanka has received more than 20 new trademark deals in China since Trump became president.Â
Saudi Arabia bought an entire floor in Trump's Tower, and Saudis have been spending a fortune at Trump's new Hotel in DC. And we already know that Russians and Saudis, both bailed out Trump when he was going bankrupt in the 90s. If it were not for the Saudis and Russians, Trump would not have survived the 90s. What Trump and his family are doing, amounts to nothing more than a smash & grab. All anyone has to do is take a step back and open your eyes, and you'll see that what Trump and his family are doing is happening right in front of our faces.
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Trump: "You've got Guatemalans, Mexicans, ISIS, the Menendez Brothers, the 1990 Detroit Pistons, decepticons, those flyingMonkeys from the Wizard of Oz, Hannibal Lecter, Thanos, and severalBabadooks, all crossing the border illegally. Its scary stuff."đđ
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Removing a duly elected president from office through impeachment is not a coup, and it's certainly not a crime. It is the only legal and Constitution way to remove a president from office.
On Aug. 7, 1974, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., made it clear to Nixon that he faced all-but-certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office in connection with the Watergate scandal.
Nixon announced his resignation the next day, effective at noon on Aug 9, 1974.
In his 2006 book "Conservatives Without Conscience," former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean wrote that the Capitol Hill trio "traveled to the White House to tell Nixon it was time to resign."
In his 1988 autobiography, Goldwater wrote that after hearing their grim assessment, Nixon "knew beyond any doubt that one way or another his presidency was finished."
The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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On Dec 16th 2019, Rudy admitted in an interview with Laura Ingraham, that as Trump's personal lawyer, he became a central figure in US foreign policy in Ukraine, promoting Trump's desire for an investigation into nonexistent Ukrainian election meddling; taking trips to advance a bogus investigation into the Bidens; and, by his own admission, exerting control over US diplomatic staffing in that country to serve the interests of his client.
Rudy admitted he played a leading role in the removal of Marie Yovanovitch, which set the stage for Trump efforts over the summer to bribe Ukraine into investigations of the Bidens for Trumpâs own political gain.
Rudy: âI forced her out because sheâs corrupt,â Giuliani said. I came back with a document that will show unequivocally that she committed perjury when she said that she turned down the visa for Viktor Shokin because of corruption .... thereâs no question that she was acting corruptly in that position, and had to be removed. She should have been fired, if the State Department werenât part of the deep state. I believed that I needed Yovanovitch out of the way,â he said. âShe was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody."
Keep in mind, Rudy is NOT, I repeat NOT, a State Department employee. He has not been appointed by Trump for some sort of special diplomatic role. He has no official title, and he has no security clearance. He is simply serving as Trumpâs personal goon, I mean attorney.
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"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels.
A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
A review of the public record reveals a clear and disturbing pattern: Trump owes much of his business success, and by extension his presidency, to a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia. Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties.
Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Towerâin a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part.
Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics. Trump was 4 billion dollars in debt, and American banks had stopped loaning him money after multiple bankruptcies. Trump was financially ruined until the Russians bailed him out. "They saved his bacon,â says Kenneth McCallion, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Reagan administration who investigated ties between organized crime and Trumpâs developments in the 1980s....
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Trump actually believes he can set a deadline for a pandemic to end. And if that doesn't work, he'll probably take a map and a sharpie, and draw a diagram of the coronavirus heading out to sea. There is no end to this man's pathological ignorance. I swear, ignorance is like a religion to him. I've never seen a human being so confident and devoted in his own stupidity.
Trump should just stop talking all together, because he has never solved a single problem in his entire life. He doesn't solve problems, he only creates problems, or he exacerbates them. Trump himself is a systemic problem for the country, on multiple levels. He portrayed the pandemic as a hoax, and believes he knows more than medical experts in their own fields. To put it mildly, he is a walking talking, living breathing phuck up.
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Trump:
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels.
A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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The wheels have fallen off Republican claims (LIES) that Trumpâs massive corporate tax cuts would pay for themselves by generating increased growth and government revenues over the next decade. Reminds me of Cheney's claim that the Iraq war would pay for itself. Republican voters fell for that one too.
âNot only will this tax plan pay for itself but it will pay down debt,â Treasury Sec Steven Mnuchin famously boasted (LIED) in September 2017.
The national debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time last year, a milestone that experts warned is further proof the country is on an unsustainable financial path that could jeopardize the economic security of every American.
The Treasury Department reported the debt hit $22.012 trillion, a jump of more than $30 billion in just this month.
The national debt has been rising at a faster rate following the passage of Trumpâs $1.5 trillion tax-cut package after a little more than a year. The nation has added more than $1 trillion in debt in the last 11 months alone.
Trump has quickened the rate at which the debt is growing by widening the deficit to finance his $1.5 trillion package of sweeping tax cuts for himself, his wealthy friends, big banks, and corporations.
Trump promised these tax cuts would pay for themselves by spurring on economic activity, but revenues have since stalled. Federal spending by the Trump administration is around 6.6 percent higher than it was before. In 2017, the national debt grew by 4 percent, according to CBO data, which excludes intragovernmental holdings. By the following year, Trump's second in charge, this had accelerated to 7 percent.
It's a similar story with the deficit. When Trump was elected in 2016, the size of the deficit measured as a portion of GDP was 3.2 percent. By the end of 2018 this had increased to 3.9 percent. The deficit is expected to hit 4.2 percent in 2019. It is on course to reach a nominal value of $1 trillion by the end of the year.
That increase comes despite the economy doing well, so yes, it can be attributed directly to his tax cuts for the wealthy, which clearly aren't paying for themselves, as most professional economists warned. Trump's tax cuts was nothing more than corporate welfare, OR, a tax cut for the swamp.
Trump thinks about the national debt as he does his own personal debt. A 2016 Fortune magazine analysis revealed Trump's business is $1.11 billion in debt. That includes $846 million owed on five properties. This is not surprising considering that Trump famously bragged about being the "King of Debt" along with the fact that Trump has filed for bankruptcy 6 times, and has relied on Saudi Royals, and Russian Oligarchs to come to his rescue and bail him out numerous times over the years.
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The Founders understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Traitor Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
The Ukraine scandal began in the spring of 2019, with a series of contacts between Trumpâs personal lawyer, Rudy, and Ukrainian officials. In mid-July, Trump decided to withhold nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine that had already been appropriated by Congress. The White House offered no explanation, except to blame âinteragency delay.â A week later, Trump spoke by phone to the recently elected Ukrainian president, Zelensky. The memorandum released by the White House describing that callâwhich is consistent with the accounts of the whistleblower complaint that first brought this scandal to lightâreads like a classic shakedown.
According to the memo, after exchanges of flattery, Trump states that âwe do a lot for Ukraineâ and that âwe spend a lot of effort and a lot of time,â before he complains that the relationship is not always âreciprocal.â Zelensky then raises the question of military aid to Ukraine, to which Trump immediately responds, âI would like you to do us a favor though,â and proceeds to ask Zelensky to investigate two unfounded conspiracy theories: one involving the server containing emails stolen from the DNC during the 2016 election, and the other involving the thoroughly debunked claim about then-VP Biden, his potential reelection opponent. Trump asks Zelensky to work with Giuliani and AG Barr to investigate his potential opponent and so aid his own reelection campaign. There can be no misunderstanding that Traitor Trump was abusing his official power in the conduct of foreign policy to get a foreign government to investigate his political rival.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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A perfect example of what happens when Don the Con is under oath.
In 2007, Trump sued reporter, Tim O'Brien and Warner Books for 5 billion dollars. In 2009, a judge dismissed Trumpâs case against OâBrien. Trump appealed, but in 2011 that was denied, too. Trump accused O'Brien of being reckless and dishonest in a book that raised questions about Trumpâs net worth. The reporterâs attorneys turned the tables on Trump, and brought Trump in for a deposition. During the deposition on Dec.19 and 20, 2007, Trump was caught lying at least 30 times.
Trump had to acknowledge 30 times during that deposition that he had lied over the years about a wide range of issues: his ownership stake in a large Manhattan real estate development, the cost of a membership to one of his golf clubs, the size of the Trump Organization, his wealth, the rate for his speaking appearances, how many condos he had sold, the debt he owed, and whether he borrowed money from his family to stave off personal bankruptcy."
The lies Trump told were unstrategic, needless, highly specific, and easy to disprove. When he was caught lying, Trump sometimes blamed others for the error or explained that the untrue thing really was true, at least in his mind. Trump's lying deposition is now a part of the public record.
This is a perfect example of why Trump's lawyers never permitted Trump to be interviewed by Mueller. They know that Trump is morally and pathologically incapable of telling the truth, about anything.
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General Mattis is a man of core beliefs, integrity, loyalty to the country, and commitment to our Troops. Trump on the other hand, is a Traitor, a coward, and a man who believes in nothing. Trump is despised by our military, and rightfully so. He has insulted our PoWs, and Gold Star family members, he refused to honor our WW1 fallen in France, and he refused to visit Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day. Trump has been in office for 2 years, and has yet to visit our troops serving overseas.
As a Marine veteran, I despise everything he represents. I was going to say that I also despise everything he stands for, but then I remembered that Trump doesn't stand for anything, because he doesn't believe in anything.
Semper Fidelis, Always Faithful
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From the very beginning, Trump's presidency has always been about using the office to enrich himself, ingratiating himself to authoritarian rulers who had something to offer him personally (Saudi Arabia, China, Russia) And at the same time, insulting America's longtime allies, because they had nothing to offer him personally. ( The UK, Australia, Canada, France)
Trump and his grifter family are running their criminal enterprise out of the white house . That's what the entire Trump administration has been about since the very beginning. It's why Jared and Ivanka were brought into the white house. They aren't working for the country, or the American people, they are working for themselves. They are working to enrich themselves even more. Every move they make is a calculated business move for their own financial gains.
It's not an accident that Trump has been hostile towards America's longtime traditional allies, like Canada, Australia, UK, and France. It's because financially, those countries don't really have anything to offer Trump and his criminal organization. And it's not an accident that Trump has been so cozy with Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. Even before he became president, he benefited financially from Saudi, China, and Russia. Many of Trump's products are manufactured in China, and Ivanka has received more than 20 new trademark deals in China since Trump became president.Â
Saudi Arabia bought an entire floor in Trump's Tower, and Saudis have been spending a fortune at Trump's new Hotel in DC. And we already know that Russians and Saudis, both bailed out Trump when he was going bankrupt in the 90s. If it were not for the Saudis and Russians, Trump would not have survived the 90s. What Trump and his family are doing, amounts to nothing more than a smash & grab. All anyone has to do is take a step back and open your eyes, and you'll see that what Trump and his family are doing is happening right in front of our faces.
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President Obama created the NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense, and he passed it on to Trump in 2017. And then Trump dismantled it, because he doesn't believe in science or facts, so he didn't understand it..
âI think, importantly, what Obama did leave Trump is a global health infrastructure that we had set up informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak,â Ben Rhodes said before pointing to a National Security Council (NSC) pandemic directorate that was dismantled by the Trump administration in 2018..
And what we did is set up, in the White House, ... an office that was responsible for managing pandemics, managing global health threats that was shut down two years ago by President Trump..
And when you donât have an office like that, you donât have dedicated people inside the White House who are ensuring that information is acted upon. When you see an outbreak in a place like Wuhan, China, you want people in the White House who are thinking about what needs to be done right away so that you donât get behind the curve, which is what happened in this White House.
You need a president whoâs willing to hear bad news, willing to understand that theyâre going to have to focus on something that they may have not intended to focus on. President trump clearly did not want to hear that bad news when he heard about the outbreak in coronavirus,â
--Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama.
Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics.
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
Recently President Obama held a virtual meeting with mayors and local leaders across America. In that meeting, Obama advised them on the BIGGEST MISTAKE any leader could make during a crisis such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Â
âThe biggest mistake any of us can make in these situations is to misinform, particularly when weâre requiring people to make sacrifices and take actions that might not be their natural inclination. leaders in a crisis have to give the people the truth. Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it with empathy for what folks are going through. The more smart people you have around you, and the less embarrassed you are to ask questions, the better your response is going to be."
-- President Barack Obama
But that's not what we got at all during this national health crisis. What we got instead, was Trump, who makes it his mission, to go on TV and lie to the American people every single day. And that's exactly what he's been doing, since day one.
According to Trump, he doesn't have to be intellectually curious, or informed, he just has to be loud, boisterous, and assertive. It also helps if you can lie with confidence. You have to be able to overwhelm the masses with so many lies, that by the time they've debunked just one of your lies, you've already told 20 more new lies.
No amount of lies, spin, or deflections will wash away the facts of Trump's historic failure as president, and as a human being..
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Trump is more than happy to make 800 thousand Americans suffer until he gets what he wants, even if what he wants has been rejected by the majority of Americans.
Trump: " My immature and petulant needs, far outweighs the needs of 800 thousand Americans who will go without a pay check."
If we have so many terrorists coming across the border, why haven't we seen massive terrorist attacks across the country from these terrorists? The answer is simple...terrorists are not crossing into America at our southern border. The only terrorist attacks in America, are coming from Americans. American right-wing extremists who are plowing cars into crowds of people, and shooting up concerts, schools, clubs, bars, grocery stores, pizza parlors, movie theaters, churches, and Synagogues.Â
Right now, you or your child, are far more likely to be gunned down by an American in a mass shooting, than being the victim of a terrorist attack at the hands of some foreigners who snuck across the southern border. REALITY MATTERS.
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It's no secret that Trump has absolutely no respect for our men and women in uniform. Trump waited two whole years after being sworn in before he ever visited our Troops in Iraq. President Obama visited our troops in Iraq just 3 months after taking office. Trump did however find time to make Saudi Arabia his first overseas trip as president. But of course, that was for personal and financial business reasons.
An immoral man like Trump, who clearly has no honor, is naturally drawn to other men like Eddie Gallagher, who has no honor.
On the flip side, Trump has nothing but contempt for men and women of honor, like General Mattis, John McCain, Lt.Col. Vindman, Ambassador Bill Taylor, Ambassador Yovanovitch, and Dr. Fiona Hill.
Trump wants people around him who will throw their morals, principles, and integrity out the window whenever he demands it. Ultimately, Trump wants people around him who will always choose him, over the oaths that they have taken.
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Recently Captain Sully, the pilot who saved all 155 lives on board his flight, when he landed his plane on the Hudson River, announced that he would be voting BLUE đ, for the 1st time this election.
Capt,Sully: âFor the first 85 percent of my adult life, I was a registered Republican. But I have always voted as an American. And this critical Election Day, I will do so by voting for leaders committed to rebuilding out common values and not pandering to our basest impulses.â
Capt Sully said that he feels the current administration has fostered a culture of âfear, anger and hatred," He stated that âleaders must take responsibility and have a moral compass grounded in competence, integrity and concern for the greater good.â
âMany are cowardly, complicit enablers, acting against the interests of the United States, our allies and democracy; encouraging extremists at home and emboldening our adversaries abroad; and threatening the livability of our planet.â
The result, according to Capt Sully, is a âstruggle for who and what we are as a people.â The former pilot feels that the country has lost âunit cohesion,â and that the very fabric of American society is being threatened by the current leaders of the country.
Well, if voting BLUEđ is good enough for Captain Sully, a man who singlehandedly saved 155 lives, then it's certainly good enough for this Marine veteran. So BLUE it is!!!đđđ
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How do you know when America's democracy is under siege? It's when our president believes he is above the law, and brags about falling in love with the most despotic dictator in modern history.
Semper Fi...
June 15 2018
Trump praises Kim Jung Un ' control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
Sept 30 2018
Trump confesses the love he has for his muse, Kim Jung Un, during a rally.
"I like him, he likes me. I guess thatâs okay. Am I allowed to say that?â Trump said.
 âAnd then we fell in love, okayâ he said. âNo really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyâre great letters. We fell in love.â
âIf there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic.. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.âÂ
â G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
âThereâs no English equivalent for silovik. It doesnât translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism, followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism.âÂ
â Tanya Thompson, Red Russia
âThe actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb.âÂ
â Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
âThe liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.âÂ
â Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Founders understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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Abraham Lincoln once said, âNo man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.â To be a good liar you have to keep track of all the lies youâve told, and to whom, in order to keep the truth hidden. But Honest Abe never knew Trump, or perhaps anybody like him.
Trump is a successful liar because he refuses to remember. Not only that: He refuses to anticipate that he will remember the current moment in the future. If you live mainly in the current moment, then the future consequences of your lies will not matter to you. And if you have lived your entire life this way, and to great acclaim and success, why would you ever want to change?
Trump never pulls back on blatantly false statements â lies that are so obvious that they often defy the laws of physics, chemistry and common sense.
The key to Trumpâs psychology is that he moves through life as âthe episodic man.â For Trump, each day is a temporary moment of time. Psychological research shows that nearly all adults develop stories in their minds about their own lives.
These stories â what psychologists call ânarrative identitiesâ â reconstruct the past and imagine the future. As you make daily decisions, you implicitly remember how you have come to be who you are, and you anticipate where your life may be going. You live within narrative time.
But the episodic man does not live that way. Instead, he immerses himself in the angry, combative moment, striving desperately to win the moment. But the episodes do not add up. They do not form a narrative arc. In Trumpâs case, it is as if he wakes up each morning nearly oblivious to what happened the day before. What he said and did yesterday, in order to win yesterday, no longer matters to him. And what he will do today, in order to win today, will not matter for tomorrow.
What is truth for the episodic man? Truth is whatever works to win the moment.
For most people, and every other president in the history of the US, an episodic life would be unsustainable in the long run. There is a primal authenticity in Trump. He tells you exactly what he feels in the moment. He lies straight to your face, without shame, without any concern for future consequences. It is the stark audacity of untruth.
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âYou donât even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. Because if this body [Congress] determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role . . . because impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.â
-- Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham Jan 23, 1999
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
-- Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham, May 3, 2016
âI think heâs a kook, I think heâs crazy. I think heâs unfit for office."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Feb, 2016
"Hereâs what youâre buying: Heâs a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesnât represent my party. He doesnât represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for. And you know how you make America great again, by telling Donald Trump to go to he//."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Dec 8, 2015
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In December 2015, Russian spy, Maria Butinaâs Russian gun-rights organization sponsored an NRA delegation to Moscow where attendees met with influential Russian officials ( aka, Russian spies) including former deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin who had been under U.S. sanctions since 2014.
The convoy to Moscow included David Keene, Trump campaign surrogate Sheriff David Clarke, president and CEO of the Outdoor Channel Jim Liberatore, soon-to-be NRA president Peter Brownell and NRA donors Jim Gregory, Arnold Goldschlager and Hilary Goldschlager.
Alexander Torshin â a Russian politician and longtime associate of Butina who has since come under U.S. sanctions â played a key role in the trip, and Russiaâs decade-long operation of infiltrating American conservative groups. A conservative Nashville lawyer named G. Kline Preston IV who has done business in Russia claims that he first introduced David Keene to Torshin in 2011 while Keene was NRA president. Keene and Torshin quickly forged an alliance based on mutual interests.
In 2013, Keene was introduced as an honored guest at the Right to Bear Arms conference in Moscow. Paul Erickson, who became Butinaâs asset, accompanied Keene to the 2013 conference, where he reportedly first crossed paths with Butina.
Senate intelligence and finance committees have requested documents on the NRAâs connections to Russia, including documents related to whether the NRA took Russian money and the 2015 delegation. After spending a record $54.4 million to put Trump in the White House and support Republicans in Congress, the NRAâs membership dues dropped precipitously the following year.
The NRAâs lawyers initially lied about the Russian money, they eventually admitted to receiving âa total of approximately $2,512.85 from people associated Russian addressesâ and âabout $525â from two Russian nationals living in the United States in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). The NRA also acknowledged âmembership duesâ from Alexander Torshin, who has been a non-voting life member of the NRA since 2012 â the year after he first connected with Keene. Butina's partner, GOP operative Paul Erickson, has lawyered up in light of reports that he too may be targeted by federal prosecutors as a covert Russian agent. Signs that Butina has reached a plea deal follows a September filing by federal prosecutors indicating that Butina offered to provide information to the the feds about Ericksonâs illegal activities.
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This is no secret. Trump had already been warned, by the DoJ, President Obama, and others that the FBI was investigating Flynn.
KT McFarland corrected a claim she made to the FBI about what she knew during the presidential transition about Russia sanctions after Flynn's guilty plea in the Russia investigation contradicted her lie.
In court papers accompanying his plea agreement, federal investigators disclosed that Flynn had coĂśrdinated his contacts with Kislyak with an unnamed senior transition official, who was later identified as McFarland.
McFarland, who served as Flynn's deputy on the NSC, was first interviewed by the FBI in summer 2017. She said at that time she didn't have a precise memory of whether Flynn had spoken to the then-Russian ambassador or what they may have discussed.
But shortly after Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to investigators about his conversation with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions, McFarland spoke to the special counsel's office. She had reviewed her notes and documents by then and walked back what she previously said â this time saying that she did remember from a conversation with Flynn that he had discussed sanctions with Kislyak. đ Well no sh-.t.
On Dec 29 2016, McFarland wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours earlier by President Obama in retaliation for Russian meddling were aimed at discrediting Trump's victory, and would make it hard for Trump to ease tensions with Russia.
âIf there is a tit-for-tat escalation Trump will have difficulty improving relations with Russia, which has just thrown U.S.A. election to him,â she wrote.
Trump was at Mar-a-Lago on December 29 when McFarland â who was also at Mar-a-Lago â and Flynn spoke by phone about Kislyak.
Trump picked Flynn for the fact that he had close ties to Putin. Flynn's crimes and betrayal have been well reported and documented. In a now infamous video, Flynn is seen applauding and toasting Putin, Trump's benefactor, and America's adversary. The video shows that the Dec. 10, 2015 Moscow dinner Flynn attended was swarming with ex-russian spies, Putin's cronies and oligarchs. In the video, Flynn is seated next to Putin at the head table.
Flynnâs lies to the FBI even prompted the DoJ to warn Trump about Flynn. On January 26, 2017, acting AG Sally Yates, personally informed the White House that Flynn lied to the FBI about his calls with Kislyak, and therefore was at risk of being blackmailed by Russia. But instead of immediately taking action against Flynn, Trump decided to reward Sally Yates for doing her job, and for her due diligence in warning him about Flynn, by firing her 3 days later. Let that sink in for a moment..
On Nov 10, 2016, during a White House meeting 2 days after Trumpâs election, President Obama ONCE AGAIN tried to help dumb Donald by warning him about Flynn, but Trump proceeded with hiring Flynn anyway. Longtime Trump confidant Chris Christie also directly advised Trump against hiring Flynn. âIf I were president-elect of the United States, I wouldnât let General Flynn into the White House, let alone give him a job,â Christie said in 2017..
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As we've seen time and time again, Trump, Rudy, Graham, Nunes, Gaetz and others, are wilfully aiding and abetting Putin and his Russian security services in propagating their false narratives and propaganda here in America. What's worse is that they are attacking America's democratic institutions and our intelligence agencies, the very same institutions and agencies that exists to protect America from foreign adversaries like Russia. This constitutes an immediate threat to America's national security. This is something that should concern every American, regardless of party affiliation...
Trump and his republican sycophants had a choice between serving America and it's Constitution, or serving Putin. They have clearly chosen Putin. So in 2020, it will be time for the American people to make a choice. Will we bow our heads in silent defeat, and surrender to the unconstitutional phuckery that Trump and his republican sycophants have been trying to normalize and force upon us? Or will we stand-up and vote for ourselves, for America's future, for our kid's future, and for the future of their kids, and for the democratic ideals that this country and our Constitution were built on. The stakes could not be higher.
Semper Fi...
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A letter of intent forwarded by Russian-born businessman Felix Sater to the Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, outlines the terms of a licensing agreement to purchase property to build a "Trump World Tower Moscow."
 Sater sent the letter of intent - dated October 13, 2015, and signed by a Russian investor named Andrey Rozov - to Cohen for then-candidate Donald Trump's signature.
 Emails exchanged between Cohen and Sater - who have known each other since they were teenagers - weeks later indicated that they were preparing to celebrate not only Trump's election victory, but also the potential Russia deal.
 Sater boasted of his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the emails, which were obtained by The New York Times, telling Cohen that he would "get all of Putins team to buy in" on the Moscow deal.
 Slater email to Cohen: "Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it," Sater wrote. "I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected."
 Two months later, Cohen emailed Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, asking for his "assistance" in pushing the deal through, according to emails submitted to congressional investigators..
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The biggest threat to America is not Iran. The biggest threat to America is the very desperate, panicked, deranged, cornered, and currently impeached man-baby in the Oval Office.
Only someone as criminally incompetent as Trump would believe that going back to having NO inspectors, cameras, check marks, and inspections, is better than the Iran deal. Pulling out of the Iran deal put us back to where we were before, which is exactly where we are today, which is totally blind to what's going on in Iran and NK.
President Obama was able to bring 5 countries together, and secure a deal with Iran. It was something we had never had before, and the deal was working.
In July 2015, Iran had almost 20,000 centrifuges. Under the Iran deal--JCPOA, it was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026. Iran's uranium stockpile was reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.
Under the deal, the Atomic Energy Agency would have cameras installed to provide 24-hour monitoring at the Natanz facility, and inspectors will have daily access to the facility for 15 years. Within a year, there would be 130 to 150 inspectors in Iran.
By January 2016, Iran had drastically reduced the number of centrifuges installed at Natanz and Fordo. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, continuously monitored Iran's declared nuclear sites and also verified that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb. Iran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allowed inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.
But the best part about it was that President Obama didn't have to praise the Ayatollahs or the Iranian leadership. He didnât demean himself, or the office of the presidency, by meeting with them, which would have only given them the perception of being on the same footing as a US President. Trump on the other hand, disgraced himself, and the office of the presidency, by meeting with the most despotic and maniacal dictator on the planet....not once, but twice.
He then proceeded to compliment him, and wax poetically about how he and Kim Jung Un fell in love after exchanging letters. And what does Trump have to show for disgracing himself and the office of the presidency? NOTHING....other than love letters, a photo-op, and heightened tensions with Iran and NK. Trump is simply an agent of chaos, mind blowing ineptitude, and corruption. Trump doesn't solve problems, he only creates them..
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Trump's entire campaign was practically being controlled by the Russians. And Trump, Jared, Flynn, Manafort, Don Jr, and Roger Stone were all in on it..
Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency, said Kushner, who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
On December 13th, 2016, at Russian Ambassador Kislyakâs urging, Kushner met with Sergey Gorkov, a Russian banker who is close to Putin. Again, what jumps out from Kushnerâs account of the meeting is the easy access that the Russians had to Trump's people ââI agreed to meet Mr. Gorkov because the Russian Ambassador has been so insistent,â and âsaid he had a direct relationship withâ Putin, Kushner notedâand the obvious attempts to soften up Trumpâs closest aides and family members. Gorkov, whose bank, Vnesheconombank, was affected by the Obama Administrationâs sanctions against Russia..
Hayden was also convinced Don Jr's Trump Tower meeting, and Kushnerâs secret meetings with the Russian Ambassador was a classic âsoft approachâ by Russian intelligence. Hayden argued that the meeting âis in line with what intelligence analysts would expect an overture in a Russian influence operation to look like,â and that it may have been the âgreen light Russia was looking for to launch a more aggressive phase of intervention in the U.S. election.â
Hayden explained that the Russians would have learned several things from the approach.
No. 1 âWould they take the meeting? So, then you get the willingness.. No. 2, would they report the meeting?â Hayden suggested that Russian intelligence was sophisticated enough to know whether the Trump campaign reported the meeting to the F.B.I., which it didnât. Not only did they not report the meeting, they lied about the meeting when asked. Kushner even lied about the meetings on his security clearance application. So, while Kushner and Don. Jr claimed that the meetings were irrelevant, from a Russian intelligence perspective it would have been seen as a clear signal. âAt the end, they have established that these guys are willing,â Hayden said, pausing. âHow do I put this? They did not reject a relationship.â
When the full extent of Trump's treachery, crimes, and betrayal of this country are revealed, it will be far worse than most people ever imagined...
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
And ye shall know the TRUTH, and the truth shall make you free...
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Last year during an interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump was asked about his opinion on Article 5, NATOâs joint defense agreement, in relation to NATOâs newest member, Montenegro.
Trump: âMontenegro is a tiny country with very strong people. They have very aggressive people. They may get aggressive and congratulations, youâre in World War III, now I understand that. But thatâs the way it was set up.â
Trump's comments about Montenegro were perplexing at best, and at worst, they were dangerous and provocative. Montenegro has a population of only 630k, with practically no military to speak of. Naturally Trump's comments drew criticism.
Fabrice Pothier, formerly NATOâs director of policy planning stated: âOnce more I think President Trump is doing Putinâs job.â
John McCain had a similar reaction. âBy attacking Montenegro and questioning our obligations under NATO, the President is playing right into Putinâs hands,â McCain wrote on Twitter the next morning.
Andrew Weiss, the vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the President was âparroting Kremlin talking points.â
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In 2015, Western European intelligence agencies began picking up evidence of communications between the Russian government and people in Donald Trumpâs orbit. In April 2016, one of the Baltic states shared with thenâCIA director John Brennan an audio recording of Russians discussing funneling money to the Trump campaign. In the summer of 2016, Robert Hannigan, head of the U.K. intelligence agency GCHQ, flew to Washington to brief Brennan on intercepted communications between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The contents of these communications have not been disclosed, but what Brennan learned obviously unsettled him profoundly. In congressional testimony on Russian election interference last year, Brennan hinted that some Americans might have betrayed their country. âIndividuals who go along a treasonous path,â he warned, âdo not even realize theyâre along that path until it gets to be a bit too late.â In an interview this year, he put it more bluntly: âI think [Trump] is afraid of the president of Russia. The Russians may have something on him personally that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult.â
In July 2016, a loose-knit community of computer scientists and cybersecurity experts discovered a strange pattern of online traffic between two computer servers. One of those servers belonged to Alfa Bank in Moscow and the other to the Trump Organization. Alfa Bankâs owners had âassumed an unforeseen level of prominence and influence in the economic and political affairs of their nation,â as a federal court once put it.
The analysts noted that the traffic between the two servers occurred during office hours in New York and Moscow and spiked in correspondence with major campaign events, suggesting it entailed human communication rather than bots. More suspiciously, after New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau asked Alfa Bank about it but before he brought it up with the Trump campaign, the server in Trump Tower shut down. The timing strongly implied Alfa Bank was communicating with Trump..
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Russian propaganda and disinformation is bad enough as it is, but it's even worse when it's coming from fox, the current president, and his defenders like Graham, Nunes, Jordan, and Rudy. It should be reported that these traitors are all willing partners in Russia's disinformation campaign on America. And they should be treated as a threat to America, because that's exactly they are. They are all carrying water for Putin. By spreading Russian GRU lies, conspiracies, and propaganda, they have all become Putin's proxies here in America.
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For decades, raitor Trump has laundered billions of dollars for Russian organized crime figures and other oligarchs. Ultimately Trump's involvement with Russia's criminal underworld created an opening for Putin and his agents to manipulate and control him.
Trump has had contacts with the Russian mafia for 35 years. His properties have laundered money for them. The Russian mafia are connected to Russian intelligence. They were and still are, living and working in Trump's buildings. Trump has even partnered with them. There are many ways in which heâs compromised..
After the fall of the Soviet Union, you suddenly had trillions of dollars that have to be laundered. It opened the floodgates for the Russian mafia and for the oligarchs. A good way to launder that money is through real estate. Trump made it clear he was ready, willing and able to do that without asking any questions. Trump was $4 billion in debt after his casinos failed in Atlantic City. He came back thanks to the Russians.
The Republicans are also implicated. The Russians didn't just go after Trump: They went after the entire Republican Party. There is Russian money going into the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, the NRA, and then to Republican officials and candidates directly.
When Trump first visited Russia in 1987, he immediately came back and took out full page ads in the New York Times, the Boston Globe and Washington Post. These ads were very anti-NATO, anti-Western alliance, and that was exactly what the Russians want, even today.
Back in 1984, Trump had started laundering money for the Russian mafia. In â92, the Russian mafia had people like Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, who was one of the key figures under the mob boss Mogilevich. The FBI was looking all over for him but he was actually in Trump Tower. A lot of the Russian mobsters were going to Trump Tower to launder money as well. Trump was completely overextended in Atlantic City. He ended up $4 billion in debt. He had no future at all until the Russians came to his aid.
Russian Oligarchs made Trump an offer that he could not refuse. Suddenly Trump started dealing with cash, because he couldnât loans from American banks, except some from Deutsche Bank. He was so bankrupt that almost no Western bank could loan him a dime.
There were ways of laundering money that Trump had. The financing of building projects that involved $400 million or $500 million to build a skyscraper. Once the building was built, they could sell the condos through the shell companies, and limited liability corporations. This was done anonymously in all cash transactions with the Russian oligarchs and other people affiliated with the Russian mafia. They owned Trump before he ever met Putin. Trump became close with the oligarchs who were in turn close to Putin.
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David Bogatin:
In 1984, Soviet Army veteran David Bogatin purchased five luxury condos in Trump Tower for $6 million. The purchase was so substantial that Trump himself attended the closing. Three years later, he absconded to Austria and Poland after the discovery of his gasoline-bootlegging scheme, and his five apartments were seized by the government because he bought them to hide and launder money. In 1992, he became the first criminal returned to the US from Poland since the extradition treaty signed in 1927. A Senate investigation indicated he was a major figure in the NY Russian mafia..
Anatoly Golubchik, Vadim Trincher and Michael Sall:
These three individuals were convicted of taking part in an enormous illicit betting and money-laundering syndicate that ran out of Trump Tower. Each of them was a Trump condo owner, and operated out of Vadim Trincherâs Trump Tower apartment just three floors down from Trumpâs penthouse. The Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization was a ânationwide criminal enterprise with strong ties to Russia and Ukraineâ run by Anatoly Golubchik and Trincher, according to the Justice Department. They ran a sportsbook catering to Russian oligarchs and laundered tens of millions in proceeds through shell companies in Cyprus. Michael Sall helped them make domestic investments with the laundered capital.
Tevfik Arif:
Tevfik Arif was a former Soviet economist that built a chain of luxury hotels in Turkey and Kazakhstan, and a Bayrock partner involved in the Trump SoHo deal, which operated out of the 24th floor of Trump Tower NY In 2010, Arif was arrested by Turkish prosecutors and charged with setting up a prostitution ring.
Vyacheslav Ivankov:
Vyacheslav Ivankov implemented a money laundering scheme set up by the âboss of bossesâ in the Russian mafia, Semion Mogilevich. Mogilevich arranged Ivankovâs release from a Siberian gulag, and soon afterward he went to NY where he presided over the Russian mobâs expansion in the States. He was known for torturing victims, and bragging about the murders he arranged. Ivankov was notoriously difficult to track, compared to a ghost by one FBI agent. The FBI discovered he made regular visits to the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, and was living in a luxury condo at Trump Tower. After being convicted of extortion in 1997, he was jailed for nine years and seven months. He died in 2009 at the age of 69 after being shot several times leaving a restaurant in Moscow..
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In her new book, Trump's niece says Trump was scarred by his father and developed habits of lying and self-deception that shadowed him into the White House.
"This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism," Mary Trump writes in her book. "Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be," she writes.
"In Donald's mind, even acknowledging an inevitable threat would indicate weakness. Taking responsibility would open him up to blame. Being a hero â being good â is impossible for him," she writes in the book.
Mary Trump, a 55-year-old psychologist, blames Trump's father for giving Donald his bad habits. Fred Trump Sr was a cold and forbidding patriarch who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps â demanding Trump to follow less-than-scrupulous real estate practices and eventually propping him up if his own initiatives failed.
"When things turned south in the late 1980s, Fred could no longer separate himself from his son's brutal ineptitude; the father had no choice but to stay invested," Mary Trump writes.
"His monster had been set free."
In the book she says that after Trump announced his White House run in 2015, Trump's sister, retired appeals court judge Maryanne Trump Barry, mocked him.Â
âHeâs a clown â this will never happen,â Judge Barry said.
She also writes that In order to get into the prestigious University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, the future president paid someone to take his SAT.
"To hedge his bets he enlisted Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker, to take his SATs for him," Mary Trump wrote. "That was much easier to pull off in the days before photo IDs and computerized records."
"The people with access to him are weaker than Donald is, more craven, but just as desperate. Their futures are directly dependent on his success and favor," she said. "Although more powerful people put Donald into the institutions that have shielded him since the very beginning, it's people weaker than he is who are keeping him there."
Putin, Kim Jong Un and Mitch McConnell, "all whom bear more than a passing psychological resemblance to Fred," recognized after the election that Donald Trump's personal history and personality flaws made him vulnerable to manipulation, Mary Trump writes.
"His pathologies have rendered him so simple-minded that it takes nothing more than repeating to him the things he says to and about himself dozens of times a day â he's the smartest, the greatest, the best â to get him to do whatever they want, whether it's imprisoning children in concentration camps, betraying allies, implementing economy-crushing tax cuts, or degrading every institution that's contributed to the United States' rise and the flourishing of liberal democracy."
Trump's initial response to the coronavirus "underscores his need to minimize negativity at all costs," Mary Trump writes.
"Fear â the equivalent of weakness in our family â is as unacceptable to him now as it was when he was three years old," she said.
She points to Gov. Cuomo's response to his state's outbreak of COVID-19 cases as an example of "real leadership," further revealing the president as a "petty, pathetic little man â ignorant, incapable, out of his depth, and lost to his own delusional spin."
At the end, Mary Trump writes "Donald isn't really the problem after all" â it is his enablers, from his father to the celebrity media to the congressional Republicans who acquitted him of impeachment.
"This is the end result of Donald's having continually been given a pass and rewarded not just for his failures but for his transgressions â against tradition, against decency, against the law, and against fellow human beings," she writes.
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Trumpâs failure to respond to the coronavirus pandemic didnât begin with the administrationâs inability to send out the millions of test kits and the protective medical gear for health care workers. It didnât start with Trumpâs reckless and irresponsible messaging downplaying the crisis even as itâs worsened, nor with his mid-March insistence that social distancing measures could be lifted by Easter.
It began in April 2018 â more than a year and a half before the SARS virus. The Trump administration began dismantling the team in charge of pandemic response, firing its leadership and disbanding the team in spring 2018.
The cuts, along with Trumpâs repeated calls to cut the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other public health agencies, made it clear that the Trump wasnât prioritizing the federal governmentâs ability to respond to disease outbreaks.
Trump is now doing everything that he can to try and deflect blame and rewrite history.
Testing is one of the most crucial steps in battling epidemics. It lets health officials identify the infected and isolate them. They can then trace that sick personâs recent contacts to make sure those people arenât sick and to get them into quarantine as well.
March 30, Trump said, "We have done more tests, by far, than any country in the world, by far."
He complained that his administration wasn't getting enough credit for overcoming what he claimed was a broken test system that he inherited. Both of those claims were blatant lies.
South Korea, which has been widely praised for its response to coronavirus, tested more than 66,000 people within a week of the first community transmission within its borders. By comparison, the US took roughly three weeks to complete that many tests.
And it was impossible for Trump to have inherited a broken testing system for COVID-19, when the coronavirus did not exist until late last year.
"What President Obama did leave Trump, was a global health infrastructure that we had set up, informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak,â Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under Obama said, referring to the NSC pandemic directorate that was dismantled by the Trump in 2018.
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
Trump has defended his record, arguing, âIâm a "businessperson." I donât like having thousands of people around when you donât need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly.â
But experts argue thatâs not how pandemic preparedness works, and that's definitely not how a virus works. âYou build a fire department ahead of time,â Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security stated. âYou donât wait for a fire.â
Trump, being the stable genius that he is, believed it was smarter to wait and put together a fire department, AFTER a five alarm fire starts.
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On April 18, 2019, a redacted copy of Muellerâs report was released to the public. The Mueller report builds on the U.S. intelligence conclusion that there were two campaigns to elect Trumpâ one run by Trump and one run by the Russian government. The Mueller report clearly identified connections between the Trump campaign and Russia...
A total of 272 contacts between Trumpâs team and Russia-linked operatives were identified, including at least 38 meetings. We now know that at least 33 high-ranking campaign officials and Trump advisers had or were at least aware of contacts with Russia-linked operatives during the campaign and transition, including Trump himself, Don Jr, Manafort, Flynn, Jared, Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, and Roger Stone, just to name a few. But what's worse, is the fact that they all lied about these contacts. None of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities. Instead, the Trump team tried to cover them up, every single one of them.
The question every American should be asking is why were there so many contacts(272) between Trumpâs people and Russian officials and operatives, and why did Trump and his people lie about those contacts?
Helsinki July 16, 2018.
Trump: "My people came to me, Dan Coates came to me, and some others, they said they think it's Russia, I have President Putin, he just said it's not Russia . I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."
Make no mistake, Putin is America's enemy, and not because we want him to be, he's America's enemy because that's what he has chosen to be. Trump is a Russian asset, and not because that's what we want him to be, he's a Russian asset because that's what he has chosen to be. We should treat them both accordingly with the choices that they have made..
Semper Fi...
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Trump looks, acts, and sounds like a mad man, and he's turned his white house into Barter Town from Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome.. It's nonstop chaos, pandemonium, betrayal, back-stabbing, buffoonery, thievery, treason, upheaval, nepotism, cronyism, bedlam, and sanctioned lawlessness.
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Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency, said Kushner, who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
On December 13th, 2016, at Russian Ambassador Kislyakâs urging, Kushner met with Sergey Gorkov, a Russian banker who is close to Putin. Again, what jumps out from Kushnerâs account of the meeting is the easy access that the Russians had to Trump's people ââI agreed to meet Mr. Gorkov because the Russian Ambassador has been so insistent,â and âsaid he had a direct relationship withâ Putin, Kushner notedâand the obvious attempts to soften up Trumpâs closest aides and family members. Gorkov, whose bank, Vnesheconombank, was affected by the Obama Administrationâs sanctions against Russia..
Hayden was also convinced the Trump Tower meeting and Kushnerâs secret meetings with the Russian Ambassador was a classic âsoft approachâ by Russian intelligence. Hayden argued that the meeting âis in line with what intelligence analysts would expect an overture in a Russian influence operation to look like,â and that it may have been the âgreen light Russia was looking for to launch a more aggressive phase of intervention in the U.S. election.â
Hayden explained that the Russians would have learned several things from the approach.
No. 1 âWould they take the meeting? So, then you get the willingness.. No. 2, would they report the meeting?â Hayden suggested that Russian intelligence was sophisticated enough to know whether the Trump campaign reported the meeting to the F.B.I., which it didnât. Not only did they not report the meeting, they lied about the meeting when asked. Kushner even lied about the meetings on his security clearance application. So, while Kushner and Don. Jr claimed that the meetings were irrelevant, from a Russian intelligence perspective it would have been seen as a clear signal. âAt the end, they have established that these guys are willing,â Hayden said, pausing. âHow do I put this? They did not reject a relationship.â
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On May 17, 2017, during a White House meeting days after Trumpâs election, Obama warned Trump about Flynn, but Trump proceeded with hiring Flynn anyway. Longtime Trump confidant Chris Christie also directly advised Trump against hiring Flynn.
âIf I were president-elect of the United States, I wouldnât let General Flynn into the White House, let alone give him a job,â Christie said in 2017.
A number of red flags were raised about Flynn, beginning with his unusual paid trip to Moscow for an RT gala in December 2015 â an event in which he infamously sat directly next to Putin.
Both US and British intelligence officers were troubled about Flynnâs role in the Trump administration, given his dealings with Russia. But Trump being a traitor, and the very "stable genius" that he is, ignored all the red flags and decided to make Flynn his national security adviser anyway.
During the transition period, Flynn had phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in which he advised Kislyak not to respond to new sanctions Obama had placed on Russia for interfering (on Trumpâs behalf) in the presidential election. Not only did Flynn undermine Obamaâs (a sitting President) foreign policy, he then lied about it, telling FBI investigators during an interview conducted days after Trumpâs inauguration that he and Kislyak did not discuss sanctions.
Flynnâs lies to the FBI prompted the DoJ to warn Trump ONCE AGAIN about Flynn. On January 26, 2017, acting AG Sally Yates, personally informed the White House that Flynn lied to the FBI about his calls with Kislyak, and therefore was at risk of being blackmailed by Russia. But instead of immediately taking action against Flynn, Trump instead rewarded Sally Yates for doing her job, and for her due diligence in warning him about Flynn, by firing her 3 days later. Let that sink in for a moment....take your time.
And now Trump the traitor has the unmitigated gall to try and blame Obama, and everyone else under the sun, for not warning him about Flynn.
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Today, Trump claimed that his authority is total. He finally admitted to seeing himself as a dictator.
At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâs delegates to the Convention,  a lady asked Dr. Franklin: âWell Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Benjamin Franklin replied:Â âA republic....if you can keep it.â
Today, Trump and Republicans are telling the American people that we can no longer keep it.
What say you my fellow Americans?
"The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you, would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked, but only that they be spineless.âÂ
â James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
âThe actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb.âÂ
â Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
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Public-health experts have stated that Trump's early efforts to downplay the threat of the virus robbed the US of valuable time needed to prepare for what is now a pandemic â potentially costing thousands of lives...
You need a president whoâs willing to hear bad news, willing to understand that theyâre going to have to focus on something that they may have not intended to focus on. President trump clearly did not want to hear that bad news when he heard about the outbreak in coronavirus,â
--Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama..
Trump spent "two months of completely ignoring every bit of scientific advice," Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute stated in mid-March. "We've wasted two months. And this is not a disease where you're allowed to waste two months."
Jha, who received his doctorate in medicine from Harvard Medical school, criticized Trump for telling Americans that everything was "under control" when it was very clear to anybody paying attention that it was not under control."
"I don't use these words lightly, and it's incredibly painful for me to say it," he said, adding: "The cost of all of this is that tens of thousands of Americans are going to die unnecessarily." He went on to say: "It was wholly preventable, and not just preventable in hindsight â it was preventable in foresight. Everybody said this is how it was going to play out if they didn't act."
Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics.
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
Being held accountable is something that Trump has avoided his entire fraudulent life. But when this is finally over, there will be an independent commission tasked with investigating and producing a full and complete accounting of the nationâs preparedness and response to the coronavirus. Trump will be held accountable for his indifference, criminal ineptitude, and his failure as president to properly protect and defend this country from a pandemic that has already cost more than 57 thousand American lives..
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The January 27 transcript of Trump's phone call with Mexican President, PeĂąa Nieto, came seven days after Trump entered office. PeĂąa Nieto had insisted publicly his country would not pay for the wall's construction, but Trump begged him to stop making that claim.đ
Trump: "You cannot say that to the press," Trump said on the phone call. "The press is going to go with that and I cannot live with that. You cannot say that to the press because I cannot negotiate under those circumstances."
Trump said he was willing to say publicly that he and Mexican authorities would continue to negotiate over the wall's payment, which he said "means it will come out in the wash and that is OK."
But Trump continued to plead with PeĂąa Nieto to stop saying to the media that Mexico would never pay for any wall.
Trump" "You cannot say anymore that the United States is going to pay for the wall," he said. "I am just going to say that we are working it out. Believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important talk about."
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Trump told many lies during the campaign, but the wall was one of his biggest lies. Now he is desperately looking for someone to come and bail him out, and lead him out of the corn maze of lies he created. He first tried to get the President of Mexico to bail him out. Now he's trying to get the American taxpayers to bail him out. Well that's a negative Ghost Rider.....the pattern is full..
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The multiple times Trump praised China and his idol President Xi, the leader of the Communist party, on his handling of the coronavirus:
Jan. 24, Twitter:
âChina has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!â
Feb. 7, Twitter:
âJust had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days ⌠Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!
Feb. 10, Fox Business interview:
"I think China is very, you know, professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control," Trump said. "I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon. You know in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that's a beautiful date to look forward to. But China I can tell you is working very hard."
Feb. 10, campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.:
âI spoke with President Xi, and theyâre working very, very hard. And I think itâs all going to work out fine.â
Feb. 13, Fox News interview:
âI think they've handled it professionally and I think they're extremely capable and I think President Xi is extremely capable and I hope that it's going to be resolved."
Feb. 18, remarks before Air Force One departure:
âI think President Xi is working very hard. As you know, I spoke with him recently. Heâs working really hard. Itâs a tough problem. I think heâs going to do â look, Iâve seen them build hospitals in a short period of time. I really believe he wants to get that done, and he wants to get it done fast. Yes, I think heâs doing it very professionally.â
Feb. 23, remarks before Marine One departure:
"I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He's working very hard. I think he's doing a very good job. It's a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He's working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem. OK?"
Feb. 27, Coronavirus Task Force press conference:
âI spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. Heâs working very hard, I have to say. Heâs working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, itâs actually gotten smaller.â
Feb. 29, Coronavirus Task Force press conference:
âChina seems to be making tremendous progress. Their numbers are way down. ⌠I think our relationship with China is very good.
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At a Trump rally held by Steve Bannon in March of 2018. an angry and hostile woman took the mic and said, âNever in my life did I think I would like to see a dictator, but if thereâs gonna be one, I want it to be Trump!!!â which was met with loud cheers and applause from Bannon and the crowd of cultists. It goes without saying that any American who would cheer for that, doesn't believe in liberty, freedom, or the Constitution. Any American that would cheer for that, clearly supports despotism and dictatorships.
When Chinese President Xi Jinping changed the countryâs constitution to allow him to stay in power indefinitely. Trump said it was a good idea, and dreams of doing the same thing.
In remarks at Mar-a-Lago, delivered inside the ballroom during a lunch and fundraiser, Trump praised the Chinese presidentâs power grab, and said he wouldnât mind trying it himself.
Trump: âHeâs now president for life. President for life. No, heâs great,â Trump said. âAnd look, he was able to do that. I think itâs great. Maybe weâll have to give that a shot someday.â
NEVER FORGET...
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President Obama said that when making a decision, it's helpful not to watch TV or read social media.That's because that "creates a lot of noise and clouds your judgment," He also said it's important to "have a team with a diversity of opinion" to help with making decisions and providing context.
President Obama had two important tips for any president to help make good decisions.
First, Obama said, you should "make sure you have a team with a diversity of opinion sitting around you."
"The other thing that's helpful is not watching TV or reading social media," he said. "Those are two things I would advise, if you're our president, not to do. It creates a lot of noise and clouds your judgment."
Obama spoke about entering office during the Great Recession, and he said that the presidency is like "drinking out of a fire hose."
"That's doubly true when you're in the middle of a crisis," Obama said.
A president can't absorb all the information on their own when making a decision, so it's important to have teams to provide information and context about the problem, he said.
"Then what you have to do is create a process where you have confidence that whatever data is out there has been sifted and sorted," Obama said.
Obama said that because there's so much information out there now, including "opinion wrapped up as fact" and clickbait, it's important to filter through the noise.
"What it does mean is that if you are susceptible to worrying about what are the polls saying or what might this person say about this topic, or you start mistaking the intensity of the passion of a very small subset of people with a broader sense about your country or people who know something about the topic, that will sway your decision-making in an unhealthy way,"
"I am asking you to hold fast to that faith that is written into our founding documents...that ideal whisper...by slaves and abolitionist, that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders, and those who marched for justice. That creed...reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battle fields, to the surface of the moon. A creed at the core of every American, who's story is not yet written....YES WE CAN!!"
--President Barack Obama
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A big question is why did Kushner ignore the intelligence communityâs warnings about Russia. Once it became public that they were interfering in our election, which was in June, why did you continue to have contacts with them?
White house whistle-blower Tricia Newbold, who reported that Trump and his white house endangered national security by breaking security procedures in issuing security clearances to Jared, Ivanka and more than 20 white house aides and officials, who were deemed untrustworthy by intelligence agencies.
Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said the plan by Jared Kushner, who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
In fact, Kushner never raised Russiaâs meddling during his two post-election meetings with Russians, according to his own accounts. Kislyak contacted Kushner on November 16th, and they met on December 1st. Once again, the Russians seemed to have a level of access to the Trump campaign that other countries, including Western allies, could only dream of. In his testimony, Kushner confirmed that at this meeting, which took place in Trump Tower, he and Kislyak and Michael Flynn, the incoming national-security adviser, who also attended, discussed using communications equipment at the Russian Embassy.
Gen.Hayden explained that the Russians would have learned several things from the approach. âWould they take the meeting?â he said. âSo, then you get the willingness. No. 2, would they report the meeting?â Hayden suggested that Russian intelligence was sophisticated enough to know whether the Trump campaign reported the meeting to the F.B.I., which it didnât. So, while Kushner claimed that the meeting was irrelevant, from a Russian intelligence perspective it would have been seen as a clear signal. âAt the end, they have established that these guys are willing,â Hayden said, pausing. âHow do I put this? They did not reject a relationship.â
The Kushner-Kislyak relationship continued. On December 13th, at Kislyakâs urging, Kushner met with Sergey Gorkov, a Russian banker who is close to Putin. Again, what jumps out from Kushnerâs account of the meeting is the easy access that the Russians hadââI agreed to meet Mr. Gorkov because the Ambassador has been so insistent,â and âsaid he had a direct relationship withâ Putin, Kushner notedâand the obvious attempts to soften up Trumpâs closest aides and family members. Gorkov, whose bank, Vnesheconombank, was affected by the Obama Administrationâs sanctions against Russia..
 The reason why Trump never went through with the Moscow hotel was because Obama placed economic sanctions on the Russian bank that Trump needed to finance the hotel. Once that happened, the deal was officially dead. The sanctions were placed on the bank after the Russian hacking was discovered. Trump never had enough money to finance the building of such a massive hotel. The sanctions Obama placed on the Russian bank prevented any Americans from doing business with it. True story. Trump conveniently left all of that out. The Russian VTB bank is partially owned by the Kremlin, and remains under US sanctions.
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According to Trump, he doesn't have to be intellectually curious, or informed, he just has to be loud, boisterous, and assertive. It also helps if you can lie with confidence. You have to be able to overwhelm the masses with so many lies, that by the time they've debunked just one of your lies, you've already told 20 more new lies.
Meanwhile, Trump's is continuing his mission of gaslighting to oblivion, the feeble and atrophied minds of his cultists, with lies about how great of a job he's doing.
Every American should be outraged and horrified by the fact that we have a president with the cognitive capacity of a toddler, and the intellectual curiosity of a dungbeetle.
Trump has repeatedly lied when he claims that nobody could have predicted something like the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. But as usual, Trump's lies are basic, and easily debunked. Government records shows that repeated warnings were issued to the White House and went unheeded.
U.S. intelligence officials with the National Center for Medical Intelligence issued a report in late November warning that a virus was taking root in China. Analysts concluded it could be a "cataclysmic event,â and the report was shared with the White House, the Pentagonâs Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency. There were multiple briefings about the report throughout December for policymakers, National Security Council, and the White House.
On Dec. 31, China publicly confirmed that dozens of people in Wuhan were being treated for pneumonia-like symptoms. Three days later, on Jan. 3, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he first learned of the spread of the virus in China at a White House briefing attended by CDC and Prevention director Robert Redfield.
Days after the Jan. 3 briefing in the White House, U.S. intelligence warnings about the threat posed by the virus began appearing in Trump's daily brief. Whether Trump read those is anyone's guess. Either way, his indifference and inaction, constitutes criminal negligence, and a violation of his oath of office, to protect and defend this country. Amercan lives have been needlessly lost as a direct consequence of his moral ineptitude and sociopathic behavior, and for that, he must be held accountable.
Public-health experts have stated that Trump's early efforts to downplay the threat of the virus robbed the US of valuable time needed to prepare for what is now a pandemic â potentially costing thousands of lives..
Trump spent "two months of completely ignoring every bit of scientific advice," Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute stated in mid-March. "We've wasted two months. And this is not a disease where you're allowed to waste two months."
Jha, who received his doctorate in medicine from Harvard Medical school, criticized Trump for telling Americans that everything was "under control" when it was very clear to anybody paying attention that it was not under control."
"I don't use these words lightly, and it's incredibly painful for me to say it," he said, adding: "The cost of all of this is that tens of thousands of Americans are going to die unnecessarily." He went on to say: "It was wholly preventable, and not just preventable in hindsight â it was preventable in foresight. Everybody said this is how it was going to play out if they didn't act."
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The motivating factors that drives a person to betray their own country, and become a willing agent of another hostile country are broken down into the acronym MICE.
M oney
I deology
C ompromise/Coercion
E go
Trump clearly has no ideology, because he believes in nothing. But he is clearly susceptible to the other 3. Money, Ego and being Compromised. There's no doubt that Putin, being a KGB agent, recognized those weaknesses in Trump from a mile away. People like Manafort, Kushner, Don Jr, Moscow Mitch, and many other Trump associates fell prey to at least 3 of those factors as well. Trump and his inner circle presented a target rich environment for Russan agents. I have no doubt that Putin was both dumbfounded, and elated at how many of Trump's people were so eager to betray America..
On April 18, 2019, a redacted copy of Muellerâs report was released to the public. The Mueller report builds on the U.S. intelligence conclusion that there were two campaigns to elect Trumpâ one run by Trump and one run by the Russian government. The Mueller report clearly identified connections between the Trump campaign and Russia...
A total of 272 contacts between Trumpâs team and Russia-linked operatives were identified, including at least 38 meetings..
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So while Trump is responsible for the 800 thousand Americans that won't be getting paid, he is also busy providing economic relief to billionaire Russian Oligarchs by lifting sanctions on them. If that doesn't make your blood boil, then nothing will.
Trump has announced he is removing sanctions on Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaskaâs aluminum company, United Co. Rusal. Oleg Deripaska, who has deep connections to Paul Manafort. Deripaska invested $18.9 million into a Ukrainian telecom venture ran by Manafort, but was never paid back. Mueller has investigated the links between the two men.
Deripaska, who is close to Vladimir Putin, was âaccused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeeringâ when the Treasury hit him with sanctions in April. In 2005, Manafort started working for Oleg Deripaska. Manafort had hired himself out to Deripaska, promising he would âinfluence politics, business dealings, and news coverage inside the United States, Europe, and former Soviet Republics to benefit Putinâs government.
Russiaâs oligarchs put their wealth and power at Putinâs disposal, or they donât remain oligarchs for long. This requirement is not lost on Deripaska. âI donât separate myself from the state,â Deripaska told the Financial Times in 2007. âI have no other interests.â A 2006 U.S. diplomatic cable described him as âamong the 2-3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis.â Working for Deripaska, meant Manafort was working for Putin. Deripaska hired Manafort for $10 million a year, and Manafort worked to advance Russian interests in Ukraine, Georgia, and Montenegro.
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On Aug. 7, 1974, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., made it clear to Nixon that he faced all-but-certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office in connection with the Watergate scandal.
Nixon announced his resignation the next day, effective at noon on Aug 9, 1974.
In his 2006 book "Conservatives Without Conscience," former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean wrote that the Capitol Hill trio "traveled to the White House to tell Nixon it was time to resign."
In his 1988 autobiography, Goldwater wrote that after hearing their grim assessment, Nixon "knew beyond any doubt that one way or another his presidency was finished."
Nixon was all but certain to be removed from office for far less than what Trump has done.
Earlier on Capitol Hill, McCarthy said that Trump's impeachment was the weakest and thinnest impeachment in the history of America. Well that is just patently absurd. The weakest and thinnest impeachment in the history of America was when republicans impeached a sitting President for lying about a BJ. If lying about a B-J was the worst thing a president ever did, America would have no problems at all.
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In her new book, Trump's niece Mary describes Donald as a âtoxicâ bully who practices âcheating as a way of life,â and someone who values money above anything.
In the forward to his new book entitled âDisloyal, A Memoir,â Michael Cohen writes: âTrump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything â and I mean anything â to âwinâ has always been his business model and way of life,â he added.Â
Trump will definitely try to cheat in order to win reelection. Trump is a natural born loser, therefore he has to cheat. He's never achieved anything in his life without lying and cheating.
Trump failure as a president was inevitable. Trump was never equipped to do his job. He doesn't have the necessary tools or the wherewithal to do his job. Trump is grossly incapacitated intellectually, mentally, emotionally, temperamentally, socially, and psychologically. He couldn't properly do his job as president even if he wanted to. (Which he doesn't)Â Trump was always going to fail, and he was always going to blame his failures on someone or something. Cheating and lying are his only tools for survival. It's all he knows. He is a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being. In fact, he is less of a human being, and more of a collection of every human flaw known to mankind, all rolled into one man.
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So after Republicans broke their own rules and went back on their word about picking a Supreme Court Justice during an election year, when millions of Americans have already voted, Dems have every right to pack the court, and Republicans have absolutely no room to talk. Republicans made a promise to the American people, and they broke that promise without even blinking an eye or giving it a 2nd thought. So If Dems decide to pack the court, republicans have no one to blame but themselves. Because it didn't have to be this way. All republicans had to do, was honor the promise they made.Â
Because let's face it, if the situation were reversed, and Dems broke their promise, and went back on their word, what would republicans do? We all know the answer to that question.
So, by breaking their own rules and going back on their word, Republicans are giving Dems a green light to pack the Supreme Court. I love it!!!!đ đđđ
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What do you call a trial without witnesses and evidence? It's called a farce and a cover-up.
What do you call a country that would allow something like this to happen? You would call it a banana republic, and a failed State.
If this is allowed to happen, It will be yet another example of Trump and republicans giving a middle-finger to the American people, and the Constitution. 70% of Americans want to hear from the witnesses themselves. Republicans are essentially saying that what the American people want doesn't matter. The American people have spoken, and we will be watching.
The travesty that's taking place before our very eyes will go down as one of the biggest cover-ups in American history, second only to the JFK assassination. Just imagine if republicans had blocked witnesses like John Dean, Nixon's White House Counsel, from testifying against Nixon. Just imagine if Republicans had blocked the Nixon tapes from being released. Nixon would have never been held accountable for his crimes, and in all likelihood, he would have gone on to commit even more crimes. That same exact scenario of injustice, is what we are facing today. But this time, it's with a president who is far more corrupt and immoral, than Nixon ever dared to be.
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Marine Sgt, Maj. Dan Daly is known for being one of the most decorated service members of all time. He was awarded not one, but TWO medals of honor.
He coined an expression that will forever live on in books, movies, and among troops He almost earned a third for his part in a counter-attack against the enemy in the famous Battle of Belleau Wood. Instead, Daly was given the Distinguished Service Cross and, later, the Navy Cross.
In June 1918 at the battle of Belleau Wood in WW1, the Marines were pinned down under heavy artillery barrage. At one point in the battle, the now 44 year old Daly, led his Marines in a counter-attack against machine gun emplacements with a battle cry that has become Marines lore âCome on, you sons of Bââ, do you want to live forever?!â In the course of that battle he was wounded three times. 1,800 Marines died in the battle of Belleau Wood.
These are the types of Americans that our current sitting president refers to as "losers."
And Putin's asset in the Oval Office STILL hasn't uttered one word about the bounties that Putin has placed on the heads of our troops in Afghanistan.
Since then we learned that a violent collision took place in Syria between US and Russian troops that left American troops with concussions, two U.S. officials said. Two Russian helicopters flew above the Americans, and one of the aircraft was within about 70 feet the vehicle.
The injuries occurred when one of the Russian vehicles deliberately sideswiped an American vehicle in a convoy, causing the crew to suffer "concussion-like injuries." Initial reports indicate as many as four Americans may have been injured.
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
âPresident Theodore Roosevelt
Trump has made it abundantly clear that he believes in nothing, honors nothing, and respects nothing. As a veteran, the oath I took would never allow me to vote for a domestic threat to my country like Trump. Trump has repeatedly betrayed America, it's people, as well as his oath of office. And as a Marine veteran, his betrayals to this country are unforgettable, and unforgivable.
Semper Fi.
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June 3, 2016, Don Jr receives this email at 10:36 AM, from Rob Goldstone.
"Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting."
"The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father."
"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and Emin" Goldstone wrote.
Don Jr. agrees to hold the meeting at Trump Tower, and sets the date for June 9.
On June 7, 2016, just days before the Trump Tower meeting, Trump announced a âmajor speechâ he claimed would reveal damaging information about Hillary. "I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week and weâre going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons,â Trump said. âI think youâre going to find it very informative and very, very interesting."
On June 9, 2016, a meeting was held in Trump Tower between three senior members of the Donald Trump presidential campaign â Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort â and at least five other people, including Russian Russian agents.
On July 27 2016, on national tv, Trump invites Russia to meddle in our elections.
âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,â Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clintonâs deleted emails. âI think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.â
Later that same day, the 12 Russian operatives indicted in the special counsel investigation, launched the 1st cyber attack against the DNC.
Translation: Trump is guilty of treason.
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For decades, Trump has laundered billions of dollars for Russian organized crime figures and other oligarchs. Ultimately Trump's involvement with Russia's criminal underworld created an opening for Putin and his agents to manipulate and control him.
Trump has had contacts with the Russian mafia for 35 years. His properties have laundered money for them. The Russian mafia is connected to Russian intelligence. They were and still are, living and working in Trump's buildings. Trump has even partnered with them. There are many ways in which Trump has been compromised.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, you suddenly had Russians who became wealthy Oligarchs overnight, with billions of dollars that have to be laundered out of Russia. It opened the floodgates for the Russian mafia and for the oligarchs. A good way to launder that money is through real estate. Trump made it clear he was ready, willing and able to do that without asking any questions. Trump was $4 billion in debt after his casinos failed in Atlantic City. He came back thanks to the Russians.
The Republicans are also implicated. The Russians didn't just go after Trump: They went after the entire Republican Party. There is Russian money going into the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, the NRA, and then to Republican officials and candidates directly.
When Trump first visited Russia in 1987, he immediately came back and took outt full page ads in the New York Times, the Boston Globe and Washington Post. These ads were very anti-NATO, anti-Western alliance, and that was exactly what the Russians wanted, even today.
Back in 1984, Trump had started laundering money for the Russian mafia. In â92, the Russian mafia had people like Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, who was one of the key figures under the mob boss Mogilevich. The FBI was looking all over for him but he was actually in Trump Tower. A lot of the Russian mobsters were going to Trump Tower to launder money as well. Trump was completely overextended in Atlantic City. He ended up $4 billion in debt. He had no future at all until the Russians came to his aid.
Russian Oligarchs made Trump an offer that he could not refuse. Suddenly Trump started dealing with cash, because he couldnât get loans from American banks anymore. The only bank that would loan him money was Deutsche Bank, which is the preferred bank for Russian Oligarchs and the Russian mafia..
There were ways of laundering money that Trump had. The financing of building projects that involved $400 million or $500 million to build a skyscraper. Once the building was constructed, they could sell the condos through the shell companies, and limited liability corporations. This was done anonymously in all cash transactions with Russian oligarchs and other people affiliated with the Russian mafia. They owned Trump before he ever met Putin. Trump became close with the oligarchs who were in turn close to Putin.
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Trump is currently going through the 5 stages of grief and loss.
1. Denial:
Avoidance, confusion, shock, and fear.
2. Anger:
Frustration, irritation, anxiety. Currently Trump is stuck between this stage and stage 1 of grief.
3. Bargaining:
Struggling to find meaning, reaching out to others. Itâs not uncommon to look for ways to regain control, or to feel like you can affect the outcome of an event.
4. Depression:
Feeling overwhelmed, helplessness, hostility, flight.
5. Acceptance:
Moving on...
This is the stage that a malignant narcissist like Trump will never reach, because he will NEVER allow himself to truly admit that he lost the election. In fact, Trump may spend the rest of his life waking up every morning at stage 1, and slowly working his way down to stage 4 by the end of the day, and starting the process over again the next morning. đ
Trump reminds me of Gollum when he lost his precious. Poor Gollum never made it to stage 5 of acceptance either. đ
"He stole it from us!!!! Trixie Bidenses!!!!!"đđ
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June 15 2018
Trump praises Kim Jung Un ' control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
Sept 30 2018
Trump confesses the love he has for his muse, Kim Jung Un, during a rally.
"I like him, he likes me. I guess thatâs okay. Am I allowed to say that?â Trump said.
 âAnd then we fell in love, okayâ he said. âNo really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyâre great letters. We fell in love.â
âIf there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic.. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.âÂ
â G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
âThereâs no English equivalent for silovik. It doesnât translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism, followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism.âÂ
â Tanya Thompson, Red Russia
âThe actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb.âÂ
â Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
âThe liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.âÂ
â Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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âI think, importantly, what Obama did leave Trump is a global health infrastructure that we had set up informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak,â Ben Rhodes said before pointing to a National Security Council (NSC) pandemic directorate that was dismantled by the Trump administration in 2018.
And what we did is set up, in the White House, ... an office that was responsible for managing pandemics, managing global health threats that was shut down two years ago by President Trump.
And when you donât have an office like that, you donât have dedicated people inside the White House who are ensuring that information is acted upon. When you see an outbreak in a place like Wuhan, China, you want people in the White House who are thinking about what needs to be done right away so that you donât get behind the curve, which is what happened in this White House.
You need a president whoâs willing to hear bad news, willing to understand that theyâre going to have to focus on something that they may have not intended to focus on. President trump clearly did not want to hear that bad news when he heard about the outbreak in coronavirus,â
--Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama
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The multiple times Trump praised China and his idol President Xi, the leader of the Communist party, on his handling of the coronavirus:
Jan. 24, Twitter:
âChina has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!â
Feb. 7, Twitter:
âJust had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days ⌠Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!
Feb. 10, Fox Business interview:
"I think China is very, you know, professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control," Trump said. "I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon. You know in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that's a beautiful date to look forward to. But China I can tell you is working very hard."
Feb. 10, campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.:
âI spoke with President Xi, and theyâre working very, very hard. And I think itâs all going to work out fine.â
Feb. 13, Fox News interview:
âI think they've handled it professionally and I think they're extremely capable and I think President Xi is extremely capable and I hope that it's going to be resolved."
Feb. 18, remarks before Air Force One departure:
âI think President Xi is working very hard. As you know, I spoke with him recently. Heâs working really hard. Itâs a tough problem. I think heâs going to do â look, Iâve seen them build hospitals in a short period of time. I really believe he wants to get that done, and he wants to get it done fast. Yes, I think heâs doing it very professionally.â
Feb. 23, remarks before Marine One departure:
"I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He's working very hard. I think he's doing a very good job. It's a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He's working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem. OK?"
Feb. 27, Coronavirus Task Force press conference:
âI spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. Heâs working very hard, I have to say. Heâs working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, itâs actually gotten smaller.â
Feb. 29, Coronavirus Task Force press conference:
âChina seems to be making tremendous progress. Their numbers are way down. ⌠I think our relationship with China is very good."
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Sen Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and other republicans on Capitol Hill,
have been unmasked as Russian operatives for disseminating Russian conspiracy theories, and for aiding and abetting Putin's efforts to interfere in the 2020 election..
Last month, four lawmakers who make up the Democratic half of the Gang of Eight, the group of congressional and intelligence committee leaders who are privy to top-secret intelligence, demanded a briefing for all members of Congress focused on foreign interference in the 2020 election, based on their assertions that lawmakers are being targeted by those meddling efforts. They also have urged Trump to publicly reveal additional information about the nature of the foreign-influence campaign. Intelligence officials told House lawmakers last week that the Russians are seeking to boost Trump in the 2020 campaign.
The public version of the letter was vague about those threats, but the classified addendum to the letter specifically names Sen Ron Johnsonâs investigation as a vehicle for âlaunderingâ Russian propaganda for the foreign influence campaign aimed at denigrating Biden.
The addendum states that the Ukrainian lawmaker linked to the Kremlin, Andrii Derkach, sent information packets about Biden to Johnson, Grassley and other Trump stooges who have pushed similar Russian conspiracy theories, as part of Putin's disinformation campaign on America.
NCSC Director William Evanina, along with other senior national security officials, briefed lawmakers in multiple classified sessions in late July and August. His statement explicitly accused the Ukrainian politician, Derkach, of undermining Biden through weaponized leaks. Derkach is known to have met late last year with Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
The packets were sent by Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Trumpâs personal lawyer Giuliani in Ukraine last December. Andrii Derkach, who was formerly aligned with Ukraineâs pro-Russia Party of Regions, is also an alumnus of Moscowâs FSB academy, formerly known as the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB. Andrii Derkachâs father Leonid was a KGB operative who later became the head of Ukrainian intelligence, and who was fired in 2004 shortly before Ukraineâs Orange Revolution.
The packets were sent late last year to Devin Nunes, Lindsey Graham, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and then-White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, declined to answer a colleague's question about whether he had received derogatory information about Joe Biden from Andrii Derkach.
During that closed-door meeting in late July â a transcript of which was made publicly available â Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) pressed Nunes about reports indicating that he was one of several GOP lawmakers to whom packets of Russian propaganda were delivered from Derkach in December 2019 that contained allegations about Joe Biden. Derkach has confirmed he sent the packages to Nunes, as well as GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham. Nunes refused to answer the question.
Maloney responded by suggesting that Nunes's refusal to answer "speaks volumes" and indicated that committee staffers are "in possession of evidence that a package was received" by Nunes. đ˛
That evidence, according to committee officials, is in the form of a DHL shipping receipt that was sent to the Intelligence Committeeâs majority office shortly after the package was sent to Nunes..
"If any public official or member of any campaign is contacted by any nation-state, or anybody acting on behalf of a nation-state, about influencing or interfering with an election then that's something the FBI would want to know about,â FBI Director Christopher Wray said on June 12, 2019 â a day before Trump rebuked him and said he would probably accept such help.
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June 3, 2016, Don Jr receives this email at 10:36 AM, from Rob Goldstone.
"Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting."
"The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father."
"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and Emin" Goldstone wrote.
Don Jr. agrees to hold the meeting at Trump Tower, and sets the date for June 9.
On June 7, 2016, just days before the Trump Tower meeting, Trump announced a âmajor speechâ he claimed would reveal damaging information about Hillary. "I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week and weâre going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons,â Trump said. âI think youâre going to find it very informative and very, very interesting."
On June 9, 2016, a meeting was held in Trump Tower between three senior members of the Donald Trump presidential campaign â Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort â and at least five other people, including Russian Russian agents.
On July 27 2016, on national tv, Trump invites Russia to meddle in our elections.
âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,â Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clintonâs deleted emails. âI think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.â
Later that same day, the 12 Russian operatives indicted in the special counsel investigation, launched the 1st cyber attack against the DNC.
Translation: Trump is guilty of treason.
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Let's be clear, Flynn didn't lie to Pence or Trump about his contacts with the Russians, it was Trump and Pence who lied to the American people, because they knew all along about his contacts with the Russians. He was literally acting on their behalf.
When Trump fired Michael Flynn, in Feb 2017, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official and then lied to Pence and others about the interactions. But emails among top transition officials, show that Flynn was far from a rogue actor. In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents showed that Flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.
After learning that Obama would expel 35 Russian diplomats, the Trump team quickly strategized about how to reassure Russia.
On Dec. 29 2016, transition adviser K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by Obama in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Trumpâs victory. The sanctions,,she wrote, could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, âwhich has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,â she wrote in the emails.đ˛
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Let's be honest, deep down, we all know he said it. They'll never admit it to themselves, but even his supporters know he said it.
Obama visited our Troops overseas 7 times. That's not even counting the multiple times he visited our troops at military bases here in America during the holidays. Obama visited our troops in Iraq just 3 months after taking office. Traitor Trump waited TWO WHOLE YEARS before he visited our troops for the first time in Iraq. And that was only after he was pushed to do so by advisers.Â
I have no doubt that Trump complained about having to make that trip to visit our troops the same way he complained about attending the memorial ceremony for our fallen in France.
Trump: "Why do I have to fly all the way to Iraq just to visit troops. They're a bunch of losers anyway."
And then when he finally made the trip, he turned that visit into a campaign rally for himself and used our troops as political props. Trump continues to show his contempt for our men and women in uniform with his silence concerning the Russian bounties placed on the heads of our troops in Afghanistan. To this day, he has not uttered one word about it. NOT.....ONE.
I knew back in 2016 before the election that Trump had no respect for our military the moment he said he knew more about fighting wars than our Generals do. He basically claimed to know more about fighting wars than Generals like Grant, Patton, Washington, MacArthur, Eisenhower, as well as our current living Generals like Mattis. This preposterous claim came from a draft dodger who has NEVER served one day in the military.
It goes without saying, that ONLY a vindictive draft dodging traitor, who has nothing but contempt for the men and women in our military, would utter something as outrageous and insulting as that. That was all I needed to hear.
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Yes, Traitor Trump would be open to colluding with the Russians again. This is exactly how a criminal behaves when he feels like he's already gotten away with a crime. Trump feels emboldened now.
July 27 2016, on national tv, Trump invites Russia to meddle in our elections..
âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,â Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Clintonâs emails. âI think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.â
5 hours later that same day, the 12 Russian operatives indicted in the special counsel investigation, launched the 1st cyber attack against the DNC.
7/16/2018
Trump in Helsinki: "I don't see any reason why it would be Russia." What???đ˛đ˛
October 10, 2016 in Wilkes-Barre, PA: "This just came out," Trump said. "WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks."
October 12, 2016 in Ocala, FL: "This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable," Trump said. "It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it."
October 13, 2016 in Cincinnati, OH: "It's been amazing what's coming out on WikiLeaks."
October 31, 2016 in Warren, MI: "Another one came in today," Trump said. "This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove."
November 4, 2016 in Wilmington, OH: "Getting off the plane, they were just announcing new WikiLeaks, and I wanted to stay there, but I didn't want to keep you waiting," said Trump. "Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks."
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Trump's entire campaign was practically being controlled by the Russians. And Trump, Jared, Flynn, Manafort, Don Jr, and Roger Stone were all in on it..
Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency, said Kushner, who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
On December 13th, 2016, at Russian Ambassador Kislyakâs urging, Kushner met with Sergey Gorkov, a Russian banker who is close to Putin. Again, what jumps out from Kushnerâs account of the meeting is the easy access that the Russians had to Trump's people ââI agreed to meet Mr. Gorkov because the Russian Ambassador has been so insistent,â and âsaid he had a direct relationship withâ Putin, Kushner notedâand the obvious attempts to soften up Trumpâs closest aides and family members. Gorkov, whose bank, Vnesheconombank, was affected by the Obama Administrationâs sanctions against Russia..
Hayden was also convinced Don Jr's Trump Tower meeting, and Kushnerâs secret meetings with the Russian Ambassador was a classic âsoft approachâ by Russian intelligence. Hayden argued that the meeting âis in line with what intelligence analysts would expect an overture in a Russian influence operation to look like,â and that it may have been the âgreen light Russia was looking for to launch a more aggressive phase of intervention in the U.S. election.â
Hayden explained that the Russians would have learned several things from the approach.
No. 1 âWould they take the meeting? So, then you get the willingness.. No. 2, would they report the meeting?â Hayden suggested that Russian intelligence was sophisticated enough to know whether the Trump campaign reported the meeting to the F.B.I., which it didnât. Not only did they not report the meeting, they lied about the meeting when asked. Kushner even lied about the meetings on his security clearance application. So, while Kushner and Don. Jr claimed that the meetings were irrelevant, from a Russian intelligence perspective it would have been seen as a clear signal. âAt the end, they have established that these guys are willing,â Hayden said, pausing. âHow do I put this? They did not reject a relationship.â
When the full extent of Trump's treachery, crimes, and betrayal of this country are revealed, it will be far worse than most people ever imagined.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
And ye shall know the TRUTH, and the truth shall make you free...
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July 23, 2019, Trump said this:Â "I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President."
June 15 2018
Trump praises Kim Jung Un ' control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
âWhatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it mayâÂ
â Daniel Webste
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
â Theodore Roosevelt
If what Trump has done isn't wrong, then that means that nothing is wrong. if Trump isn't impeachable, then that means that no president will ever be impeachable, no matter what they do. And that will spell the end of our democracy, our Constitution, and our republic. It will be as if we never fought and won a war of independence against a King.
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A person as profoundly ignorant and divorced from reality as Trump, should never be placed into a position of power or leadership. Especially when the safety, health, and lives of others are at stake..
It's no secret that Trump hates it whenever anyone tries to tell him the truth. And over the last 3 years, he fired all of the most qualified and experienced people within his cabinet and administration. He's now left with an unqualified staff of C and D list sycophants, grifters, nincompoops, scallywags, and the most unprincipled neophytes ever assembled. These yes men will say and do anything in order to avoid the wrath of the orange bully's ire. Not only will they avoid telling him the truth, they will refrain from correcting him whenever he makes false and dangerous declarations about the coronavirus.
President Obama left Trump with a global health infrastructure within White House national security council, and in typical Trump fashion, he got rid of it simply because he didn't understand it, and didn't care enough to even try to understand it.
They will instead focus on telling him what he wants to hear. And what he wants to hear are lies and false narratives that match the alternative facts in his head. Whenever Trump says "the square peg goes into the round hole" he wants them to agree with him. And if you tell him that he's wrong, and that the square peg doesn't go into the round hole, he will accuse you of being a never Trumper, and of plotting against him
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Trump is far worse than Nixon was ever capable of being. Nixon was corrupt for sure, but even still, there were limits to how far he would go. Trump on the other hand, is a complete sociopath, without limits or boundaries. Trump has proven that he will cross any line, and violate any and all ethical standards..
John Dean served as White House counsel to Nixon from 1970 to 73, he was a key figure in the Watergate sagaâparticipating in, and then helping to expose, the most iconic political scandal in modern U.S. history at the time. Just days before Trump was sworn in, Dean stated that he believed Trump could be one of the most corrupt presidents everâand get away with it.
âThe American presidency has never been at the whims of an authoritarian personality like Donald Trump,â Dean stated. âHe is going to test our democracy as it has never been tested."
Dean stated that he is not only convinced that Trump will be worse than Nixon in virtually every wayâhe thinks heâll probably get away with it.
âI used to have one-on-one conversations with Nixon, where Iâd see him checking his more authoritarian tendencies,â Dean recalled. âHeâd say, âThis is something I canât say out loud...â or, âThat is something the president canât do.ââ To Dean, these moments suggested a functioning sense of shame in Nixon, something he was forced to wrestle with in his quest for power. Trump, by contrast, appears to Dean unmolested by any such struggle."Â Dean went even further in his assessment, stating: âI donât think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.â
John Dean's words could not have been more prophetic.
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âYou donât even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. Because if this body [Congress] determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role . . . because impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.â
-- Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham Jan 23, 1999
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
-- Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham, May 3, 2016
âI think heâs a kook, I think heâs crazy. I think heâs unfit for office."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Feb, 2016
"Hereâs what youâre buying: Heâs a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesnât represent my party. He doesnât represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for. And you know how you make America great again, by telling Donald Trump to go to he//."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Dec 8, 2015
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Every American should be concerned over Moscow Mitch admitting that he will not honor the oath that every Senator will have to take as impartial participants in the Senate trial. Moscow Mitch openly declared that he will NOT be impartial. He's violating his oath even before he takes it.
It will not be a legitimate trial without witnesses and evidence. Republicans refusal to allow witnesses and evidence is what's known as a COVER-UP.
Trump and republicans in the Senate wouldn't have a problem with Bolton, Rudy, Mulvaney, or John Eisenberg testifying if Trump was actually innocent. The problem is he's not innocent. He's guilty as charged, and they know it.
When Lt.Col Vindman twice told a superior of his concerns about Trumpâs efforts to force Ukraine for the investigation in exchange for military aid, the White House lawyer John Eisenberg had the full transcript of Trump's phone call moved to the highly classified White House server, which is usually reserved for code-word level intelligence but not transcripts of diplomatic discussions. Why would the full transcript of Trump's so called "perfect" phone call be hidden? If he did nothing wrong, releasing the full transcript should exonerate him of any wrong doing.
The only logical conclusion is that Trump is guilty, and he knows that releasing the full transcript, and allowing Mulvaney, Bolton and others to testify under oath would be his undoing. Trump knows that after seeing what happened to Manafort, Cohen and Stone, that no one else is going to risk going to prison for his crimes.
Trump's own National Security Adviser, John Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
JULY 10
At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Mr. Zelensky, asks Mr. Volker to connect him to Giuliani. The two men later meet in Madrid.
At a White House meeting later that day in Boltonâs office, two Ukrainian officials press for an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mr. Zelensky. Sondland blurts out that Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, promised that Mr. Zelensky would be invited if Ukraine announces âinvestigations.â
Bolton immediately halts the meeting. At a follow-up meeting, Sondland again presses the Ukrainians to announce investigations, this time specifying Burisma and the 2016 election as targets. Fiona Hill, one of Boltonâs top deputies, calls that session to a halt.
She and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, her subordinate, report the meetings to John Eisenberg, the chief legal adviser to the National Security Council. Bolton tells Ms. Hill to deliver a message from him: âI am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.â
The fact that Trump refuses to allow these people to testify is an admission of guilt.
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At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked a question as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâs delegates to the Convention, a lady asked Dr. Franklin: âWell Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Benjamin Franklin replied:Â âA republic....if you can keep it.â
Trump is now telling us that we can no longer keep it..
This election will determine whether or not we keep our 244 year old democratic republic, or see it replaced with a tyrant and his despotic monarchy. Make no mistake, America is in a fight for it's very survival, and Trump has made it abundantly clear that this country isn't big enough for him and our democratic republic, so therefore one of them MUST GO!!!
On Nov 3rd, make a decision. Who's side are you on?
Biden/Harris 2020đ
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July 23, 2019, Trump said this:Â "I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President."
June 15 2018
Trump praises Kim Jung Un ' control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
âWhatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it mayâÂ
â Daniel Webste
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
â Theodore Roosevelt
If what Trump has done isn't wrong, then that means that nothing is wrong. if Trump isn't impeachable, then that means that no president will ever be impeachable, no matter what they do. And that will spell the end of our democracy, our Constitution, and our republic. It will be as if we never fought and won a war of independence against a King.
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Trumpâs business interest in communist China is long-standing. He began applying for trademarks there in 2005, and in 2012, the Trump Hotel Collection opened an office in Shanghai, its first in Asia.
Two of the Trump Organizationâs foreign partners â developers in Dubai and Indonesia, each building residential complexes that include a Trump golf course â have announced new partnerships with state-run Chinese companies. On June 10 2018, Dubaiâs Damac Properties announced that the state-run China State Construction Engineering Corp. had been awarded a contract to build roads and infrastructure at the new Akoya Oxygen. Trump will be paid to operate a golf course there, his second in the area, and paid for the use of his name.
In May 2018, Trumpâs partner in Indonesia â MNC Corp. â announced that it had signed a construction contract with another state-run Chinese company, the Metallurgical Corporation of China, for its planned Lido City development. Plans for that project, in a mountainous area of West Java, include a Trump-branded golf resort.
The communist Chinese government granted a total of 41 trademarks to Ivanka by April of 2019. These are trademarks she applied for after her father became president, and the got approved for about 40% faster than those she requested before Trumpâs victory in the 2016 election according to Forbes.
On March 29, 2017, Ivanka became an official government employee, joining Jared as an adviser to her father in the White House. The day before that appointment, Ivanka applied for 17 new trademarks with the communist Chinese government.
Over a span of two months in late 2018, the communist Chinese government granted 18 trademarks to companies linked to Trump and his daughter. In October alone, Chinaâs Trademark Office granted provisional approval for 16 trademarks to Ivanka Trump Marks LLC. The new approvals covered Ivanka-branded fashion gear, including sunglasses, handbags, shoes and jewelry, as well as beauty services and voting machines. In January of 2019, China granted Ivankaâs company preliminary approval for another five trademarks covering wedding dresses, and art valuation services. The applications were filed in 2016 and 2017.
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Trump has the criminal mind of a dictator. He has tarnished the office of the presidency, and his supporters are flirting with authoritarianism.
"Donald Trumpâs presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought weâd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bangâin a revolution or military coupâbut with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one."
John Dean served as White House counsel to Nixon from 1970 to 73, he was a key figure in the Watergate sagaâparticipating in, and then helping to expose, the most iconic political scandal in modern U.S. history at the time. Today Dean believes Trump could be one of the most corrupt presidents everâand get away with it.
âThe American presidency has never been at the whims of an authoritarian personality like Donald Trump,â Dean stated. âHe is going to test our democracy as it has never been tested."
Dean stated that he is not only convinced that Trump will be worse than Nixon in virtually every wayâhe thinks heâll probably get away with it.
âI used to have one-on-one conversations with Nixon, where Iâd see him checking his more authoritarian tendencies,â Dean recalled. âHeâd say, âThis is something I canât say out loud...â or, âThat is something the president canât do.ââ To Dean, these moments suggested a functioning sense of shame in Nixon, something he was forced to wrestle with in his quest for power. Trump, by contrast, appears to Dean unmolested by any such struggle."Â Dean went even further in his assessment, stating: âI donât think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.â
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President Obama created the NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense, and he passed it on to Trump in 2017. And then Trump dismantled it, because he doesn't believe in science or facts, so he didn't understand it..
âI think, importantly, what Obama did leave Trump is a global health infrastructure that we had set up informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak,â Ben Rhodes said before pointing to a National Security Council (NSC) pandemic directorate that was dismantled by the Trump administration in 2018..
And what we did is set up, in the White House, ... an office that was responsible for managing pandemics, managing global health threats that was shut down two years ago by President Trump..
And when you donât have an office like that, you donât have dedicated people inside the White House who are ensuring that information is acted upon. When you see an outbreak in a place like Wuhan, China, you want people in the White House who are thinking about what needs to be done right away so that you donât get behind the curve, which is what happened in this White House.
You need a president whoâs willing to hear bad news, willing to understand that theyâre going to have to focus on something that they may have not intended to focus on. President trump clearly did not want to hear that bad news when he heard about the outbreak in coronavirus,â
--Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama.
Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics.
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
Recently President Obama held a virtual meeting with mayors and local leaders across America. In that meeting, Obama advised them on the BIGGEST MISTAKE any leader could make during a crisis such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Â
âThe biggest mistake any of us can make in these situations is to misinform, particularly when weâre requiring people to make sacrifices and take actions that might not be their natural inclination. leaders in a crisis have to give the people the truth. Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it with empathy for what folks are going through. The more smart people you have around you, and the less embarrassed you are to ask questions, the better your response is going to be."
-- President Barack Obama
But that's not what we got at all during this national health crisis. What we got instead, was Trump, who makes it his mission, to go on TV and lie to the American people every single day. And that's exactly what he's been doing, since day one.
According to Trump, he doesn't have to be intellectually curious, or informed, he just has to be loud, boisterous, and assertive. It also helps if you can lie with confidence. You have to be able to overwhelm the masses with so many lies, that by the time they've debunked just one of your lies, you've already told 20 more new lies.
No amount of lies or deflections will wash away the facts of Trump's historic failure as president, and as a human being..
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Trump is a professional con-man, It's all he knows.
Trump is doing the same thing to his cult followers that he did to American banks and Deutsche Bank, and the same thing he did to everyone who donated money to his fake charity foundation, and the same thing he did to the people who spent thousands to enroll in Trump University. This is the same man who would pose as his own spokesmen, using the fake names of John Miller, and John Barron. Trump used the name John Barron when he called into Forbes magazine, and lied about how much " his boss" was worth, just so he could get on the Forbes list as one of the richest people in the country.
Trump has been running a con with no limits his entire life. American banks are fully aware of who and what Trump is, it's the reason they won't touch him with a 10 ft pole. Deutsche Bank is now learning the same lesson about Trump that American banks learned in the 80s and 90s. Trump's crimes will catch of up with him one way or another. The multiple SDNY's charges of money laundering, tax fraud, bank fraud, insurance fraud, wire fraud, campaign finance violations, illegal donations to his inauguration, and running a fake charity foundation, will all be front and center during the 2020 presidential debates. I can't wait.đ
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Ryan Zinke, another one of Trump's " very best people" who is facing an ethics probe over land dealings, insisted a month ago that he still has Trumpâs full support.
While Zinke was in CA touring the deadly Camp Fire damage in Paradise with Gov. Brown, He told The Sacramento Bee he has no recollection of meeting in 2017 with wealthy Sacramento land baron Angelo Tsakopoulos, as first reported by the Washington Post.
Zinke is being investigated on multiple fronts. In what is considered the most serious matter, the Interior Departmentâs acting inspector general has referred to the DoJ, an investigation into whether Zinke acted improperly in connection with a land deal in Whitefish, Mont., with the head of oil-services conglomerate HALLIBURTON. As secretary, Zinke oversees oil and gas drilling operations on federal lands.
In the interview with The Sacramento Bee, Zinke said: "I talk to the president, he understands. These are vicious attacks.â Zinke said the president backs him â100 percent.â
The main probe, centers on Zinkeâs involvement with a Montana land deal backed by David Lesar, the chair of Halliburton, an oil field services company. A foundation established by Zinke and run by his wife, Lolita Zinke, owns land in Zinkeâs hometown of Whitefish, Montana. Lesarâs developer is planning to build on some of the land, Politico reported this summer. The proposed hotel and retail stores that the developer wants to build in Whitefish also stand to boost property values in a nearby parcel of land owned by the Zinkes.
As an oil field service firm, Halliburton has direct and indirect business involving the Interior Department, which manages mining and drilling rights on federal lands.
Zinke remained involved with his foundation even after he took office as secretary of the interior, violating an ethics pledge he signed in Jan 2017. Emails showed that he was still coordinating the land deal as late as August 2017. The investigation, now in the hands of the DoJ, could result in criminal charges.
BUT WAIT...THERE'S MORE!!! The IG is also investigating whether Zinke improperly used agency funds to pay for travel for his wife. There are several other probes into Zinkeâs conduct by other government oversight groups, including the US Office of Special Counsel and the House Oversight Committee. In total, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington tallied 17 federal investigations around Zinke. It puts him on par with Scott Pruitt, who was forced to resign after a tsunami of scandals caught up with him.
Even Zinkeâs aboveboard actions are just as alarming. Zinke has presided over the largest rollback of federal land protections in US history, approved new development in wilderness areas, and opened up NEARLY ALL, US coastal waters to offshore drilling.
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Part of me is glad that this is happening, because Trump and his inner circle's connections to Russia needs to be revisited. One big unanswered question is why were Trump and his people having so many interactions with Russian officials and Russian operatives during the campaign? They were having more interactions with Russians than Americans.
On April 18, 2019, a redacted copy of Muellerâs report was released to the public. The Mueller report builds on the U.S. intelligence conclusion that there were two campaigns to elect Trumpâ one run by Trump and one run by the Russian government. The Mueller report clearly identified connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.
A total of 272 contacts between Trumpâs team and Russia-linked operatives were identified, including at least 38 meetings. We now know that at least 33 high-ranking campaign officials and Trump advisers had or were at least aware of contacts with Russia-linked operatives during the campaign and transition, including Trump himself, Don Jr, Manafort, Flynn, Jared, Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, and Roger Stone, just to name a few. But what's worse, is the fact that they all lied about these contacts. None of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities. Instead, the Trump team tried to cover up, every single one of them.
The question every American should be asking is why were there so many contacts(272) between Trumpâs people and Russian officials and operatives, and why did Trump and his people lie about those contacts?
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U.S. intelligence officials with the National Center for Medical Intelligence issued a report in late November warning that a virus was taking root in China. Analysts concluded it could be a "cataclysmic event,â and the report was shared with the White House, the Pentagonâs Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency. There were multiple briefings about the report throughout Dec, Jan, and Feb for the National Security Council, and the White House..
On Dec. 31, China publicly confirmed that dozens of people in Wuhan were being treated for pneumonia-like symptoms. Three days later, on Jan. 3, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he first learned of the spread of the virus in China at a White House briefing attended by CDC and Prevention director Robert Redfield. Trump fired Alex Azar shortly there after because he knew too much.
Public-health experts have stated that Trump's early efforts to downplay the threat of the virus robbed the US of valuable time needed to prepare for what is now a pandemic â potentially costing thousands of lives...
You need a president whoâs willing to hear bad news, willing to understand that theyâre going to have to focus on something that they may have not intended to focus on. President trump clearly did not want to hear that bad news when he heard about the outbreak in coronavirus,â
--Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama..
Trump spent "two months of completely ignoring every bit of scientific advice," Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute stated in mid-March. "We've wasted two months. And this is not a disease where you're allowed to waste two months."
Jha criticized Trump for telling Americans that everything was "under control" when it was very clear to anybody paying attention that it was not under control."
"I don't use these words lightly, and it's incredibly painful for me to say it," he said, adding: "The cost of all of this is that tens of thousands of Americans are going to die unnecessarily. It was wholly preventable, and not just preventable in hindsight â it was preventable in foresight. Everybody said this is how it was going to play out if they didn't act."
Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, that was created by President Obama, and was charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics. Trump has defended his record, arguing, âIâm a "businessperson." I donât like having thousands of people around when you donât need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly.â
But experts argue thatâs not how pandemic preparedness works, and that's definitely not how a virus works. âYou build a fire department ahead of time,â Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security stated. âYou donât wait for a fire.â
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
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There is no republican party anymore. What you have now is a slavish and insidious cult known as Trumpism. It's a cult that worships lawlessness, corruption, indifference, cowardice, buffoonery, self-righteousness, skullduggery, ignorance, dictators, and immorality,
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On his show on May 19, Howard Stern asked the same question I've been asking myself since the 2016 campaign. Howard Stern, who has personally known Trunp for decades, questioned why people would vote for Trump, when in reality, Trump is disgusted by his biggest supporters. According to Stern, like himself, Trump isnât cut out for running a government, and the Trump supporters are to blame for the countryâs troubles. Stern went on to say that Trump would be âdisgustedâ by the MAGA crew..
Howard Stern: âThe oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most, love him the most,â Stern said. âThe people who are voting for Trump for the most part... he wouldnât even let them in a f---ing hotel. Heâd be disgusted by them. Go to Mar-a-Lago, see if thereâs any people who look like you. Iâm talking to you in the audience - the Trump voter who, you know, idolizes the guy. He despises you."
âI donât hate Donald,â he continued. âI hate you for voting for him, for not having intelligence. For not being able to see whatâs going on with the coronavirus, for not being able to see what the Justice Department is doing. I hate you, I donât want you here.â
The people Trump despises the most, love him the most. Hmmmm... Now that's a trick that only the devil himself could pull off..
The people Trump despises the most, love him the most. Hmmmm... Now that's a trick that only the devil himself could pull off..
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In May of 2018, When China's President Xi Jinping, the leader of the COMMUNIST PARTYÂ of China, changed the countryâs constitution to allow him to stay in power indefinitely, Trump praised him for it. Just let that sink in for a moment.
In remarks at Mar-a-Lago, Trump praised the Chinese presidentâs power grab and said he wouldnât mind trying it himself.
Trump: âHeâs now president for life. President for life. No, heâs great,â Trump said. âAnd look, he was able to do that. I think itâs great. Maybe weâll have to give that a shot someday.â
June 15 2018
Trump praises Kim Jung Un, the dictator who continues to threaten America with nuclear war, for his authoritarian control over his people.
Trump: "He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
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For decades, Trump has laundered billions of dollars for Russian organized crime figures and other oligarchs. Ultimately Trump's involvement with Russia's criminal underworld created an opening for Putin and his agents to manipulate and control him.
Trump has had contacts with the Russian mafia for 35 years. His properties have laundered money for them. The Russian mafia is connected to Russian intelligence. They were and still are, living and working in Trump's buildings. Trump has even partnered with them. There are many ways in which Trump has been compromised.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, you suddenly had Russians who became wealthy Oligarchs overnight, with billions of dollars that have to be laundered out of Russia. It opened the floodgates for the Russian mafia and for the oligarchs. A good way to launder that money is through real estate. Trump made it clear he was ready, willing and able to do that without asking any questions. Trump was $4 billion in debt after his casinos failed in Atlantic City. He came back thanks to the Russians.
The Republicans are also implicated. The Russians didn't just go after Trump: They went after the entire Republican Party. There is Russian money going into the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, the NRA, and then to Republican officials and candidates directly.
When Trump first visited Russia in 1987, he immediately came back and took outt full page ads in the New York Times, the Boston Globe and Washington Post. These ads were very anti-NATO, anti-Western alliance, and that was exactly what the Russians wanted, even today.
Back in 1984, Trump had started laundering money for the Russian mafia. In â92, the Russian mafia had people like Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, who was one of the key figures under the mob boss Mogilevich. The FBI was looking all over for him, and then they discovered that he was actually living in Trump Tower. A lot of the Russian mobsters were going to Trump Tower to launder money as well. Trump was completely overextended in Atlantic City. He ended up $4 billion in debt. He had no future at all until the Russians came to his aid..
Russian Oligarchs made Trump an offer that he could not refuse. Suddenly Trump started dealing with cash, because he couldnât get loans from American banks anymore. The only bank that would loan him money was Deutsche Bank, which is the preferred bank for Russian Oligarchs and the Russian mafia..
There were ways of laundering money that Trump had. The financing of building projects that involved $400 million or $500 million to build a skyscraper. Once the building was constructed, they could sell the condos through the shell companies, and limited liability corporations. This was done anonymously in all cash transactions with Russian oligarchs and other people affiliated with the Russian mafia. They owned Trump before he ever met Putin. Trump became close with the oligarchs who were in turn close to Putin..
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The biggest threat to America is not Iran. The biggest threat to America is the very desperate, panicked, deranged, cornered, and currently impeached man-baby in the Oval Office.
Only someone as criminally incompetent as Trump would believe that going back to having NO inspectors, cameras, check marks, and inspections, is better than the Iran deal. Pulling out of the Iran deal put us back to where we were before, which is exactly where we are today, which is totally blind to what's going on in Iran and NK.
President Obama was able to bring 5 countries together, and secure a deal with Iran. It was something we had never had before, and the deal was working.
In July 2015, Iran had almost 20,000 centrifuges. Under the Iran deal--JCPOA, it was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026. Iran's uranium stockpile was reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.
Under the deal, the Atomic Energy Agency would have cameras installed to provide 24-hour monitoring at the Natanz facility, and inspectors will have daily access to the facility for 15 years. Within a year, there would be 130 to 150 inspectors in Iran.
By January 2016, Iran had drastically reduced the number of centrifuges installed at Natanz and Fordo. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, continuously monitored Iran's declared nuclear sites and also verified that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb. Iran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allowed inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.
But the best part about it was that President Obama didn't have to praise the Ayatollahs or the Iranian leadership. He didnât demean himself, or the office of the presidency, by meeting with them, which would have only given them the perception of being on the same footing as a US President. Trump on the other hand, disgraced himself, and the office of the presidency, by meeting with the most despotic and maniacal dictator on the planet....not once, but twice.
He then proceeded to compliment him, and wax poetically about how he and Kim Jung Un fell in love after exchanging letters. And what does Trump have to show for disgracing himself and the office of the presidency? NOTHING....other than love letters, a photo-op, and heightened tensions with Iran and NK. Trump is simply an agent of chaos, mind blowing ineptitude, and corruption. Trump doesn't solve problems, he only creates them..
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Why isn't Trump, the draft dodging champion, here in America on Memorial Day weekend honoring our fallen? Oh that's right, Trump has no respect for our veterans, PoWs, our fallen, or their gold star family members. Trump didn't even bother to visit Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day last year.
Trump didn't even bother to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which is a presidential tradition. Just imagine if Obama and skipped Arlington or laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.đ˛ And just the day before, Trump didn't bother to attend the commemoration ceremony at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France while he was there. He said the rain prevented him from paying his respects to the American soldiers who died in WW1, however, the rain didn't prevent other world leaders from attending the ceremony.
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On Aug. 7, 1974, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., made it clear to Nixon that he faced all-but-certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office in connection with the Watergate scandal.
Nixon announced his resignation the next day, effective at noon on Aug 9, 1974.
In his 2006 book "Conservatives Without Conscience," former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean wrote that the Capitol Hill trio "traveled to the White House to tell Nixon it was time to resign."
In his 1988 autobiography, Goldwater wrote that after hearing their grim assessment, Nixon "knew beyond any doubt that one way or another his presidency was finished."
Nixon was all but certain to be removed from office for far less than what Trump has done. So was Nixon's impeachment a coup as well?
John Dean served as White House counsel to Nixon from 1970 to 73, he was a key figure in the Watergate sagaâparticipating in, and then helping to expose, the most iconic political scandal in modern U.S. history at the time. Today Dean believes Trump could be one of the most corrupt presidents everâand get away with it...
âThe American presidency has never been at the whims of an authoritarian personality like Donald Trump,â Dean stated. âHe is going to test our democracy as it has never been tested."
Dean stated that he is not only convinced that Trump will be worse than Nixon in virtually every wayâhe thinks heâll probably get away with it.
âI used to have one-on-one conversations with Nixon, where Iâd see him checking his more authoritarian tendencies,â Dean recalled. âHeâd say, âThis is something I canât say out loud...â or, âThat is something the president canât do.ââ To Dean, these moments suggested a functioning sense of shame in Nixon, something he was forced to wrestle with in his quest for power.. Trump, by contrast, appears to Dean unmolested by any such struggle."Â Dean went even further in his assessment, stating: âI donât think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.â
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
So shall it be written, so shall it be done..
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"The privilege of being the only American in our history to serve as the director of both the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. gives me a unique perspective and a responsibility to speak out about a dire threat to the rule of law in the country I love. Order protects liberty, and liberty protects order. Today, the integrity of the institutions that protect our civil order is, tragically, under assault from too many people whose job it should be to protect them.
The rule of law is the bedrock of American democracy, the principle that protects every American from the abuse of monarchs, despots and tyrants. Every American should demand that our leaders put the rule of law above politics.
As F.B.I. director, I served two presidents, one a Democrat, Jimmy Carter, who selected me in part because I was a Republican, and one a Republican, Ronald Reagan, whom I revered. Both of these presidents so respected the bureauâs independence that they went out of their way not to interfere with or sway our activities. I never once felt political pressure.
I know firsthand the professionalism of the men and women of the F.B.I. The aspersions cast upon them by the president and my longtime friend, Attorney General William P. Barr, are troubling in the extreme. Calling F.B.I. professionals âscum,â as the president did, is a slur against people who risk their lives to keep us safe. Mr. Barrâs charges of bias within the F.B.I., made without providing any evidence and in direct dispute of the findings of the nonpartisan inspector general, risk inflicting enduring damage on this critically important institution."
--William Webster, a former federal judge, and director of the F.B.I. from 1978 to 1987, and director of the C.I.A. from 1987 to 1991.
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Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Devin Nunes in 2018, Parnasâ lawyer Ed MacMahon has stated.Â
Congressional records show Nunes traveled to Europe from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, 2018. Three of his aidesâHarvey, Scott Glabe, and George Pappasâtraveled with him, per the records. U.S. government funds paid for the groupâs four-day trip, which cost just over $63,000.Â
Nunes, Trump's top Republican sycophant presiding over the impeachment hearings â in which Parnas has repeatedly been referenced â was central to Trumpâs efforts to discredit the Mueller probe. Nunes infamously made a late-night trip to the White House after Congress launched a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and then announced he had magically discovered evidence of wrongdoing by officials inside the Intelligence Community. Because of his shameless skulduggery, Nunes was forced to step down from the Intelligence Committeeâs investigation.
While Parnas helped Nunes arrange meetings, he also assisted Rudy in smearing Ukraine Ambassador Yovanovitch, who was fired by Trump because he believed she was interfering with his criminal scheme. Last month, the SDNY charged Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman with illegally moving money from foreign donors to American political campaigns, all of which were republican campaigns. Hmmmmđ
Parnas and Fruman both pleaded not guilty. Both men retained former Trump attorney John Dowd after their arrest, but Parnas later fired Dowd after the Trump claimed not to know him â even though they have met several times.
Since firing Trump's lawyers Dowd, Parnas told associates that Trump tasked him with a âsecret missionâ at a 2018 White House Hanukkah party to pressure Ukraine into investigating the Bidens.
Parnas also met Trump at a small fundraising dinner at his Washington, D.C. hotel in April 2018 where he says he convinced Trump to fire Yovanovitch.
After Zelensky won the Ukrainian presidential election, Parnas told the new administration that aid would be withheld and VP Pence would not attend Zelensky's inauguration without a public announcement of the investigations, according to his attorney. Fruman acknowledges the meeting happened. And in fact, Pence did pulled out of the inauguration.
Lev Parnas' lawyer MacMahon said that Parnas is willing to tell Congress everything he knows because he is upset that Trump claimed not to know him.đ
( Don't feel bad Lev, Trump does that to everyone whenever he's in trouble.đ)
âPresident Trumpâs recent and regrettable disavowal of Mr. Parnas has caused him to rethink his involvement and the true reasons for his having been recruited to participate in the Presidentâs activities,â MacMahon said. âMr. Parnas is prepared to testify completely and accurately about his involvement in the President and Rudy Giulianiâs quid pro quo demands of Ukraine.â
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July 27 2016, on national tv, Trump invites Russia to meddle in our elections.
âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,â Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Clintonâs emails. âI think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.â
5 hours later that same day, the 12 Russian operatives indicted in the special counsel investigation, launched the 1st cyber attack against the DNC.
7/16/2018
Trump in Helsinki: "I don't see any reason why it would be Russia." What???đ˛đ˛
October 10, 2016 in Wilkes-Barre, PA: "This just came out," Trump said. "WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks."
October 12, 2016 in Ocala, FL: "This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable," Trump said. "It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it."
October 13, 2016 in Cincinnati, OH: "It's been amazing what's coming out on WikiLeaks."
October 31, 2016 in Warren, MI: "Another one came in today," Trump said. "This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove."
November 4, 2016 in Wilmington, OH: "Getting off the plane, they were just announcing new WikiLeaks, and I wanted to stay there, but I didn't want to keep you waiting," said Trump. "Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks."
Trump today: "I don't know anything about Wikileaks, that's not my deal in life."đ˛
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Trump admitted to being a Russian asset in Helsinki as he stood next to Putin. And now we've learned from the report, that Trump and his people were not only fully aware that Russia was meddling in the 2016 election, but Trump and his people actually encouraged it.
The day after Trump fired Comey, he invited the Russian Ambassador and the Russian foreign minister to the Oval Office, and bragged to them how he had just fired the head of the FBI, and they all got a big laugh out of it, at America's expense.
On July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Trump threw America and it's intelligence agencies under the bus once again when he sided with Putin.
Trump: "My people came to me, Dan Coates came to me, and some others, they said they think it's Russia, I have President Putin, he just said it's not Russia . I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."
I'll stop calling Trump a Russian asset when he finally stands-up for America, and condemns Putin for engaging in cyber-espionage against America during the election. In other words, I'll be calling Trump a Russian asset for the rest of my life.
Trump, Kushner, Don Jr, and his other cohorts are Russian assets, willingly or unwillingly. They are all compromised. And they became compromised the moment they starting having secret meetings with Russian officials/agents, and not reporting it. They then lied about those meetings when asked, which only confirmed to the Russians that Trump and his cohorts were willing to protect them by lying to FBI and to the American people. To any Russian spy, that's a victory.
The Russians were able to infiltrate and compromise Trump and his inner circle, by exploiting their hubris, their insatiable greed, naivety, lack of patriotism, and by exploiting Trump's malignant narcissism. Trump and his people presented themselves as easy targets.
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Trump and his grifter family are running their criminal enterprise out of the white. That's what the entire Trump administration has been about since the very beginning. It's why Jared and Ivanka were brought into the white house. They aren't working for the country, or the American people, they are working for themselves. They are working to enrich themselves even more. Every move they make is a calculated business move for their own financial gains.
It's not an accident that Trump has been hostile towards America's longtime traditional allies, like Canada, Australia, The UK, and France. It's because financially, those countries don't really have anything to offer Trump and his criminal organization. And it's not an accident that Trump has been so cozy with Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. Even before he became president, he benefited financially from Saudi, China, and Russia. Many of Trump's products are manufactured in China, and Ivanka has received more than 20 new trademark deals in China since Trump became president.Â
Saudi Arabia bought an entire floor in Trump's Tower, and Saudis have been spending a fortune at Trump's new Hotel in DC. And we already know that Russians and Saudis, both bailed out Trump when he was going bankrupt in the 90s. If it were not for the Saudis and Russians, Trump would not have survived the 90s. What Trump and his family are doing, amounts to nothing more than a smash & grab. All anyone has to do is take a step back and open your eyes, and you'll see that what Trump and his family are doing is happening right in front of our faces.
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Sen Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and other republicans on Capitol Hill,
have been unmasked as Russian operatives for disseminating Russian conspiracy theories, and for aiding and abetting Putin's efforts to interfere in the 2020 election..
Last month, four lawmakers who make up the Democratic half of the Gang of Eight, the group of congressional and intelligence committee leaders who are privy to top-secret intelligence, demanded a briefing for all members of Congress focused on foreign interference in the 2020 election, based on their assertions that lawmakers are being targeted by those meddling efforts. They also have urged Trump to publicly reveal additional information about the nature of the foreign-influence campaign. Intelligence officials told House lawmakers last week that the Russians are seeking to boost Trump in the 2020 campaign.
The public version of the letter was vague about those threats, but the classified addendum to the letter specifically names Sen Ron Johnsonâs investigation as a vehicle for âlaunderingâ Russian propaganda for the foreign influence campaign aimed at denigrating Biden.
The addendum states that the Ukrainian lawmaker linked to the Kremlin, Andrii Derkach, sent information packets about Biden to Johnson, Grassley and other Trump stooges who have pushed similar Russian conspiracy theories, as part of Putin's disinformation campaign on America.
NCSC Director William Evanina, along with other senior national security officials, briefed lawmakers in multiple classified sessions in late July and August. His statement explicitly accused the Ukrainian politician, Derkach, of undermining Biden through weaponized leaks. Derkach is known to have met late last year with Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
The packets were sent by Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Trumpâs personal lawyer Giuliani in Ukraine last December. Andrii Derkach, who was formerly aligned with Ukraineâs pro-Russia Party of Regions, is also an alumnus of Moscowâs FSB academy, formerly known as the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB. Andrii Derkachâs father Leonid was a KGB operative who later became the head of Ukrainian intelligence, and who was fired in 2004 shortly before Ukraineâs Orange Revolution.
The packets were sent late last year to Devin Nunes, Lindsey Graham, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and then-White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, declined to answer a colleague's question about whether he had received derogatory information about Joe Biden from Andrii Derkach.
During that closed-door meeting in late July â a transcript of which was made publicly available â Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) pressed Nunes about reports indicating that he was one of several GOP lawmakers to whom packets of Russian propaganda were delivered from Derkach in December 2019 that contained allegations about Joe Biden. Derkach has confirmed he sent the packages to Nunes, as well as GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham. Nunes refused to answer the question.
Maloney responded by suggesting that Nunes's refusal to answer "speaks volumes" and indicated that committee staffers are "in possession of evidence that a package was received" by Nunes. đ˛
That evidence, according to committee officials, is in the form of a DHL shipping receipt that was sent to the Intelligence Committeeâs majority office shortly after the package was sent to Nunes..
"If any public official or member of any campaign is contacted by any nation-state, or anybody acting on behalf of a nation-state, about influencing or interfering with an election then that's something the FBI would want to know about,â FBI Director Christopher Wray said on June 12, 2019 â a day before Trump rebuked him and said he would probably accept such help.
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Let's be clear, Flynn didn't lie to Pence or Trump about his contacts with the Russians, it was Trump and Pence who lied to the American people, because they knew all along about his contacts with the Russians. He was literally acting on their behalf.
When Trump fired Michael Flynn, in Feb 2017, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official and then lied to Pence and others about the interactions. But emails among top transition officials, show that Flynn was far from a rogue actor. In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents showed that Flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.
After learning that Obama would expel 35 Russian diplomats, the Trump team quickly strategized about how to reassure Russia.
On Dec. 29 2016, transition adviser K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by Obama in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Trumpâs victory. The sanctions,,she wrote, could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, âwhich has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,â she wrote in the emails.đ˛
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Lauri Pfeifer
You are clearly confused. The Saudis bought Trump years ago.
Trump:
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels.
A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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I'll stop calling Trump a Russian asset when he finally stands-up for America, and condemns Putin for engaging in cyber-espionage against America during the election. In other words, I'll be calling Trump a Russian asset for the rest of my life.
Trump, Kushner, Don Jr, and his other cohorts are Russian assets, willingly or unwillingly. They are all compromised. And they became compromised the moment they starting having secret meetings with Russian officials/agents, and not reporting it. They then lied about those meetings when asked, which only confirmed to the Russians that Trump and his cohorts were willing to protect them by lying to FBI and to the American people. To any Russian spy, that's a victory. The Russians were able to infiltrate and compromise Trump and his inner circle, by exploiting their hubris, their insatiable greed, naivety, lack of patriotism, and by exploiting Trump's malignant narcissism. Trump and his people presented themselves as easy targets.
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Meanwhile, Trump is holding another cult /klan rally.
Trump said heâd clean the Washington swamp. His cultists bought it. Then he brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses.
 He said heâd use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. His cultists bought it. Then he created the most chaotic, dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, in which no one is in charge.
 He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said. His cultists bought it. Then he put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.
Trump said he would be working so much that he wouldn't have time to play golf. His cultists bought it. Trump has now played golf more than any other president before him. Trump has played golf 68 times to date, at a cost of at least 79 million dollars to the taxpayers. compared to Obama's 37 times during the same period. Trump actually golfs more now, than he did before he became president.
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More proof that republicans still have no new ideas, or vision for the future. Every election it's always the same with them: fear mongering, scapegoating poor people, war on Christians, abortion, and oh god they're coming for our guns. And while their base is preoccupied with chewing on that same same old red meat, republicans are busy creating even more welfare for corporations, banks and the most wealthy, like giving them a 2 trillion dollar tax cut, a tax cut that the middle and lower class will have to pay for.
Republicans have demonized anyone who wants to actually work for the people by labeling them as socialists, or radical left extremists. If you try do anything that will directly improve the lives of middle and lower class Americans, then you're labeled as an evil socialist, but if you're interested in providing welfare to billion dollar industries, corporations and the most wealthy, like giving them massive tax cuts, well then you're a god fearing, red blooded American capitalist. It is easily the most sinister and diabolical trick in the Republican playbook, and they've been using it for decades now. Republican voters really need to wake up, and stop voting against themselves.
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On March 25, 2019
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday he had told Sen. John McCain to give the FBI the dossier on the Trump campaignâs alleged ties to Russia, a revelation that comes after Trump repeatedly assailed the late Arizona Republican over the issue.
Last week, Trump accused McCain of handing over the document âfor very evil purposes.â
Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters Monday McCain showed him the dossier when he received it in late 2016
And I told him the only thing I knew to do with it, it could be a bunch of garbage, it could be true, who knows? Turn it over to somebody whose job it is to find these things out, and John McCain acted appropriately,â Graham said.
McCain was not made aware of the Steele dossier until Nov. 18, 2016 â after Trump had won the election.
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Trump and his people were warned by Obama, Sally Yates, and the FBI, that Russia was actively trying to infiltrate Trump's inner circle. And what does Trump do? He fired Comey, and Sally Yates, the very people who had warned him about what the Russians were up to. Even after Trump had been warned, his people were still holding secret meetings with the Russians, and they all lied about it......every single person lied about their meetings with the Russians. And then on the day after Trump fired Comey, the guy who was in charge of the FBI, the agency charged with catching Russian spies, Trump invites the Russian foreign minister, and Russia's Ambassador to the Oval Office, and brags about firing the head of the FBI. And they all got a big laugh out of it, at America's expense. Let that sink in for a moment.
On July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Trump threw America and the men and women in our intelligence agencies under the bus once again when he sided with Putin.
Trump: "My people came to me, Dan Coates came to me, and some others, they said they think it's Russia, I have President Putin, he just said it's not Russia . I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."
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We already know that Trump bribed the President of Ukraine with taxpayer money. This fact has been corroborated by the whistleblower, by official documents, texts messages, by the under oath testimony of multiple witnesses, by Trump's own senior white house aides and staff, by Mulvaney, and by State Department officials, and by Trump's own words. Trump's own National Security Adviser Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
Article II, Section 4, of the Constitution clearly states, that the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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Trump's demagoguery is associated with past and present dictators, and it appeals to the worst nature in people. Demagoguery isn't based on reason, issues, and doing the right thing; it's based on stirring up fear and hatred to control people. Scapegoating is one of the most fundamental demagogic techniques. Blaming all of his troubles, crimes, or bad optics on other groups, usually the media, or people of different ethnicity, this is done by projection. Projection is absolutely necessary for Trump's scapegoating to be effective..
Demagogues have found that ridiculing or insulting others is a simple way to shut down reasonable and rational debate, especially with an unsophisticated audience, like what we've seen at Trump's rallies. A common demagogic technique is to pin an insulting epithet on an opponent, by saying it repeatedly, in speech after speech, when saying the opponent's name or in place of it. This is easily one of Trump's favorite demagogic tools.
Demagogues like Trump will choose his words for their effect on their audience's emotions, usually without regard for factual truth or the real severity of the danger. Some demagogues are opportunistic, monitoring the people and saying whatever currently will generate the most "heat". Other demagogues may themselves be so ignorant or prejudiced that they sincerely believe the falsehoods they tell. Trump falls under both categories. And When one lie doesn't work, the demagogue quickly moves on to more lies..
Since information from the press can undermine a Trump's spell over his cultists, modern demagogues like Trump will often attack and demonized the free press. They will usually claim that the media can't be trusted. They have even called out for violence against newspapers who opposed them, claiming that the press was secretly in the service of moneyed interests, or a deep state conspiracy against them, or claiming that leading newspapers were simply personally out to get him. No dictator can survive in a country that has a free press.
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Trump admitted to being a Russian asset in Helsinki as he stood next to Putin. And now we've learned from the report, that Trump and his people were not only fully aware that Russia was meddling in the 2016 election, but Trump and his people actually encouraged it.
Trump, Kushner, Don Jr, and his other cohorts are Russian assets, willingly or unwillingly. They are all compromised. And they became compromised the moment they starting having secret meetings with Russian officials/agents, and not reporting it. They then lied about those meetings when asked, which only confirmed to the Russians that Trump and his cohorts were willing to protect them by lying to FBI and to the American people. To any Russian spy, that's a victory.
The Russians were able to infiltrate and compromise Trump and his inner circle, by exploiting their hubris, their insatiable greed, naivety, lack of patriotism, and by exploiting Trump's malignant narcissism. Trump and his people presented themselves as easy targets.
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Trump and his grifter family have been on a 3 year long crime spree since Trump took office.
Jan, 2016
Trump: "My whole life Iâve been greedy, greedy, greedy. Iâve grabbed all the money I could get. Iâm so greedy."
Jan 9, 2016
"Now, Iâll tell you, Iâm good at that â so, you know, Iâve always taken in money,â he said at a rally in Iowa. âI like money. Iâm very greedy. Iâm a greedy person. I shouldnât tell you that, Iâm a greedy â Iâve always been greedy. I love money, right?
Trump has grotesquely violated the Emolument Clause. He has clearly not divested from his businesses, and he has been caught red-handed using the Presidency to boost his own personal financial gains.
Not only have the U.S. and foreign governments spent money at properties owned by Trump, but Trump's own political campaign and affiliated political committees have also spent about $16.8 million at his businesses since he launched his 2016 bid, according to an analysis of federal election spending records. Trump is literally using his own campaignâs money to line his pockets with millions. It's basically the same crime he committed with his fake charity foundation.
Trump campaign events create a âtwo-ferâ benefiting Trump. When he holds a fundraiser at one of his properties, not only do donors contribute to his campaign, his business collects funds from his campaign for space rental and catering, some of which ultimately ends up in his pocket.Â
48 Republican members of Congress also spent campaign money at Trump businesses through their campaign and affiliated committees, according to the center. Some of the top spenders for the 2020 cycle included campaigns for former Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin ($21,000), who resigned last month, Mike Penceâs brother, Indiana Rep. Greg Pence ($14,000), Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio ($12,000) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California ($8,000).
The most recent example of Trump's emoluments clause violations came last year in August when a visit from Saudi officials to Trump's Trump International Hotel in NYC helped boost the hotel's quarterly revenue by 13% in 2018's first quarter. The bump came after two straight years of booking declines for the property.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels. A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks..
Attorneys general for Maryland and the District of Columbia cited the payments by the Saudi lobbying firm as an example of foreign gifts to Trump that could violate the Constitutionâs ban on such âemolumentsâ from foreign interests.
Fun fact:Â The emoluments clauses, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, and Article II, Section 1, Clause 7, are our countryâs original anti-corruption laws. They are written into the document that created our government and defined our system of laws.
At a Cabinet meeting, Trump blamed the backlash and outrage over his attempt to profit from holding the G7 Summit at his Doral resort on âyou people with this phony emoluments clause."đ˛đ˛
A perfect example of the utter contempt that Trump has for our Constitution, and the rule of law.
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Republican campaign finance reports, which are, available to the public, show connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. Bottom line, our campaign finance laws are now a threat to our country.
Len Blavatnik, is a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen and one of the largest donors to GOP political action committees in the 2015-16 election cycle. Blavatnik's family emigrated to the U.S. in the late '70s from the the Soviet Union and he returned to Russia when the Soviet Union began to collapse in the late '80s.
In 2015-16, Blavatnik's political contributions soared as he pumped $6.35 million into GOP political action committees, with millions of dollars going to top Republican leaders including Moscow Mitch, Rubio and Lindsey "Two-faced" Graham.
Oleg Deripaska is said to be one of Putin's favorite oligarchs, and he is founder and majority shareholder of Russia's Rusal, the second-largest aluminum company in the world. Blavatnik holds a stake in Rusal with a business partner.
Nearly 4% of Deripaska's stake in Rusal is owned by Putin's state-controlled bank, VTB, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. VTB was exposed in the Panama Papers in 2016 for facilitating the flow of billions of dollars to offshore companies linked to Putin.
We already know that Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, began collecting $10 million a year in 2006 from Deripaska to advance Putin's interests with Western governments. Deripaska's name turned up again in an email handed over to Mueller's team by Manafort's attorneys. In the email dated July 7, 2016, just two weeks before Trump accepted the Republican nomination, Manafort asked an overseas intermediary to pass a message on to Deripaska: "If he Deripaska needs private briefings, tell him we can accommodate."
Viktor Vekselberg is one of the 10 richest men in Russia. He and long-time business partner Blavatnik hold a 20.5 percent stake in Rusal. Vekselberg has connections to at least two Americans who made significant GOP campaign contributions during the last cycle.Â
Andrew Intrater, is Vekselberg's cousin. He is also chief executive of Columbus Nova, Renova's U.S. investment arm located in NY. in January 2017 he contributed $250,000 to Trump's Inaugural Committee. His six-figure gift bought him special access to a dinner billed as "an intimate policy discussion with select cabinet appointees,"Â
Simon Kukes is an oil magnate who has something in common with Intrater. From 1998 to 2003, he worked for Vekselberg and Blavatnik as chief executive of TNK. In 2016, Kukes contributed a total of $283,000, much of it to the Trump Victory Fund.Â
In total, Blavatnik, Intrater, and Kukes made $10.4 million in political contributions from the start of the 2015-16 election cycle through September 2017, and 99 percent of their contributions went to Republicans. The common denominator that connects the men is their association with Vekselberg.
Moscow Mitch knew from receiving intelligence briefings in 2016 that our electoral process was under attack by the Russians. Two weeks after the Dept of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement in October 2016 that the Russian government had directed the effort to interfere in our electoral process, Moscow Mitch's PAC accepted a $1 million donation from Blavatnik's AI-Altep Holdings. The PAC took another $1 million from Blavatnik's AI-Altep Holdings on March 30, 2017, just 10 days after Comey publicly testified before the House Intelligence Committee about Russia's interference in the election.
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Trump's own senior white house aides and staff, by Mulvaney, and by State Department officials, and by Trump's own words. Trump's own National Security Adviser Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
JULY 10
At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Mr. Zelensky, asks Mr. Volker to connect him to Giuliani. The two men later meet in Madrid.
At a White House meeting later that day in Boltonâs office, two Ukrainian officials press for an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mr. Zelensky. Sondland blurts out that Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, promised that Mr. Zelensky would be invited if Ukraine announces âinvestigations.â
Bolton immediately halts the meeting. At a follow-up meeting, Sondland again presses the Ukrainians to announce investigations, this time specifying Burisma and the 2016 election as targets. Fiona Hill, one of Boltonâs top deputies, calls that session to a halt.
She and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, her subordinate, report the meetings to John Eisenberg, the chief legal adviser to the National Security Council. Bolton tells Ms. Hill to deliver a message from him: âI am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.â
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We already know that Trump bribed the President of Ukraine with taxpayer money. This fact has been corroborated by the whistleblower, by official documents, texts messages, by the under oath testimony of multiple witnesses, by Trump's own senior white house aides and staff, by Mulvaney, and by State Department officials, and by Trump's own words. Trump's own National Security Adviser Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
Article II, Section 4, of the Constitution clearly states, that the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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On Dec 23, at turning point USA, Trump gave what could be considered his most stupefying soliloquy to date.
âI never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. (Don Quixote disagrees) I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous â if you are into this â tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right spewing, whether it is China or Germany, is going into the air. Itâs our air, their air, everything â right?"
--Trump
Just let all of that sink in for a moment. Trump really enjoys giving the world peeks inside of his diseased riddled mind. I dare any Trump cultist to try and explain to me exactly what it was Trump was trying to say, or what salient point he was trying make.
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The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
âYou donât even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. Because if this body [Congress] determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role . . . because impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.â
-- Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham Jan 23, 1999
âI think heâs a kook, I think heâs crazy. I think heâs unfit for office."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Feb, 2016
"Hereâs what youâre buying: Heâs a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesnât represent my party. He doesnât represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for. And you know how you make America great again, by telling Donald Trump to go to he//."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Dec 8, 2015
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Trump has repeatedly lied when he claims that nobody could have predicted something like the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. But as usual, Trump's lies are basic, and easily debunked. Government records shows that repeated warnings were issued to the White House and they went unheeded..
U.S. intelligence officials with the National Center for Medical Intelligence issued a report in late November warning that a virus was taking root in China. Analysts concluded it could be a "cataclysmic event,â and the report was shared with the White House, the Pentagonâs Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency. There were multiple briefings about the report throughout Dec, Jan, and Feb for the National Security Council, and the White House..
On Dec. 31, China publicly confirmed that dozens of people in Wuhan were being treated for pneumonia-like symptoms. Three days later, on Jan. 3, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he first learned of the spread of the virus in China at a White House briefing attended by CDC and Prevention director Robert Redfield.
Days after the Jan. 3 briefing in the White House, U.S. intelligence warnings about the threat posed by the virus began appearing in Trump's daily brief. Whether Trump read those briefings is anyone's guess. But the safe bet would be that he did not bother to read them at all. Which makes his failure even more unconscionable..
It's clear that Trump's indifference and inaction, constitutes a criminal dereliction of duty, and a violation of his oath, to protect and defend this country. Amercan lives have been needlessly lost as a direct consequence of his moral ineptitude and sociopathic behavior, and for that, he must be held accountable...
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Thousands of Americans have needlessly died because of Trump's selfishness, criminal negligence, and his commitment to willful ignorance. And no amount of lies, deflections, spin, or gaslighting will ever change that.
After the Ebola virus outbreak, President Obama created the NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense, and he passed the directorate on to Trump in 2017 when he left office. So what happened to it?
President Obama left Trump with a global health infrastructure that was set up and informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak. President Obama left Trump an office set up in the White House that was responsible for managing pandemics, and managing global health threats. The directorate was staffed with dedicated people who were responsible for ensuring that information was acted upon. When you see an outbreak in a place like Wuhan, China, you would have had people in the White House who are thinking about what needs to be done right away so that you donât get behind the curve.
The directorate that President Obama left Trump with was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of a fire â all with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire. So....what happened to NSC directorate that President Obama left Trump with?
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Hillary's campaign did NOT give the Steele Dossier to the FBI.
On March 25, 2019
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday he had told Sen. John McCain to give the FBI the dossier on the Trump campaignâs alleged ties to Russia, a revelation that comes after Trump repeatedly assailed the late Arizona Republican over the issue.
Last week, Trump accused McCain of handing over the document âfor very evil purposes.â
Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters Monday McCain showed him the dossier when he received it in late 2016
And I told him the only thing I knew to do with it, it could be a bunch of garbage, it could be true, who knows? Turn it over to somebody whose job it is to find these things out, and John McCain acted appropriately,â Graham said.
McCain was not made aware of the Steele dossier until Nov. 18, 2016 â after Trump had won the election.
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On Aug. 7, 1974, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., made it clear to Nixon that he faced all-but-certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office in connection with the Watergate scandal...
Nixon announced his resignation the next day, effective at noon on Aug 9, 1974.
In his 2006 book "Conservatives Without Conscience," former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean wrote that the Capitol Hill trio "traveled to the White House to tell Nixon it was time to resign."
In his 1988 autobiography, Goldwater wrote that after hearing their grim assessment, Nixon "knew beyond any doubt that one way or another his presidency was finished."
This was back when the Republican party still had at least a modicum of dignity, decency, integrity, and a sense of right and wrong. Today, thanks to Trump, Moscow Mitch, Graham,
Nunes, Jordan, Barr, Meadows, and others, the wholesale corruption of the GOP is now complete.
The Republican Party is now led by a kleptocratic crime boss who rules over the most scandal-ridden administration in history. Many of his closest advisers and associates have
either been imprisoned or are facing prison time. Trump himself is trying to cheat in this election in order to stay in office and avoid prosecution. Nixonâs administration may have been riddled with criminalityâbut in 1973, the Republican Party was still a somewhat normal party, that still played by the rules, so Nixon was forced to resign. But not anymore. Those days are long gone.
The corruption we see in the Republican party today can be defined as institutional depravity. It isnât an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isnât about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of powerâpower as an end in itself, justifying almost any means.
Todayâs Republican Party has cornered itself in with a base of ever older, more male, more rural, more radical conservative voters. They could have tried to expand; instead, theyâve hardened and walled themselves off. This is why the Republican Party lies about the risks of voter fraud, so that it can pass laws to suppress voter turnout.
Taking away democratic rightsâextreme gerrymandering; blocking an elected president from nominating a Supreme Court justice; selectively paring voting rolls and polling places; creating spurious anti-fraud commissions; misusing the census to undercount the opposition; calling lame-duck legislative sessions to pass laws against the will of the votersâis the Republican Partyâs main political strategy.
Republicans have chosen suppression and authoritarianism, because unlike the Dems, their party isnât a coalition of interests in search of a majority. The Republican party isn't interested in what the majority of Americans want.
Trump is now the grotesque face of the rot within the party itself, and it reeks of corruption,
paranoia, fascism, wild conspiracy theories, racism and other types of hostility toward entire groups. Trump is no different than his authoritarian counterparts abroad: immoral, demagogic, hostile to institutional checks, demanding and receiving demagogic obedience and protection from the party, and knee-deep in the financial corruption that is integral to the political corruption of authoritarian regimes..
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A review of the public record reveals a clear and disturbing pattern: Trump owes much of his business success, and by extension his presidency, to a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia. Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties.
Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Towerâin a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part.
Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics. âThey saved his bacon,â says Kenneth McCallion, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Reagan administration who investigated ties between organized crime and Trumpâs developments in the 1980s.
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The Russian who created Putin's troll farm, and has boasted online that he helped get Trump elected, is named Konstantin Rykov. His claims of involvement with the Trump team can't be dismissed for 2 reasons: first, he is very close to Putin, and had a long history of involvement with top levels of the Russian government; and, second, his description of how Trumpâs campaign put together an effective internet strategy for information warfare is very close to the evidence revealed in the Mueller Report..
Rewind back to November 6th, 2012, enough states were called for President Obama that he was declared the winner of the election. At 11:29pm, Trump sent out the following defiant tweet: "We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!"
Konstantin Rykov saw Trumpâs tweet pop up in his Twitter feed.
Almost exactly four years later, on November 12th, 2016, Rykov explained what happened next in a pair of Facebook posts. Rykov explained how he first made contact with Trump:.
Without a momentâs thought, I wrote him (Trump) a reply, âIâm ready. What should I do?â
Trump replied with a picture. In the picture, Trump was sitting in the armchair of his jet, smiling cheerfully giving the thumbs-up sign. Rykov would later explained how things went from there.
Konstantin Rykov is the founder of a number of lurid websites where he made a fortune posting pictures of scantily-clad women, telling dirty jokes and posting clickbait stories designed to titillate easily impressionable readers. In other words, a trashy online tabloid. Rykov is also a member of United Russia, the pro-Kremlin party, a former member of the Duma, Russiaâs parliament, and a close confidante of Putin.
Hereâs how Rykov described his involvement in a Facebook post he made on November 12, 2016, just after the election:
"For four years and two days .. it was necessary to get to everyone in the brain and grab all possible means of mass perception of reality. Ensure the victory of Donald in the election of the US President. Then create a political alliance between the United States, France, Russia (and a number of other states) and establish a new world order. Our idea was insane, but realizable.  In order to understand everything for the beginning, it was necessary to âdigitizeâ all possible types of modern man. Donald decided to invite for this taskâââthe special scientific department of the âCambridge University.â British scientists from Cambridge Analytica suggested making 5,000 existing human psychotypesâââthe âideal imageâ of a possible Trump supporter. Then .. put this image back on all psychotypes and thus pick up a universal key to anyone and everyone.Then it was only necessary to upload this data to information flows and social networks. And we began to look for those who would have coped with this task better than others. At the very beginning of the brave and romantic [story] was not very much. A pair of hacker groups, civil journalists from WikiLeaks and political strategist Mikhail Kovalev.The next step was to develop a system for transferring tasks and information, so that no intelligence and NSA could burn it."
Rykovâs comments were made only four days after the election, months before anyone was talking about Russian collusion in the 2016 election, months before the world knew about the company Cambridge Analytica, and months before Rykov would have known it wasnât wise to discuss his alleged involvement in the campaign. his comments were also made well before details of Russian meddling in the presidential election were reported in the mainstream media. If Rykov wasnât involved, how would he know as much as he confessed??
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Jim Jones convinced his cultists that they should give their kids cyanide laced punch, and then they should drink the same poisoned punch themselves, and they did. I am 100% certain that Trump could convince his cultists to do the exact same thing.
Trumpism is a dystopian slavish cult that worships at the alters of hypocrisy, alternative facts,
pathological ignorance, self-righteous bigotry, gaslighting, authoritarianism, doublespeak, and blind dogmatic obedience.
At a Trump rally held by Steve Bannon this past March 17th, an angry hostile woman took to the mic and said, âNever in my life did I think I would like to see a dictator, but if thereâs gonna be one, I want it to be Trump!!!â which was met with loud cheers and applause from Bannon and the crowd of cultists. It goes without saying that any American who would cheer for that, doesn't believe in liberty, freedom, or the Constitution. Any American that would cheer for that, clearly supports despotism and dictatorships. Trump's cultists don't want an elected official who will govern by the Constitution, on behalf of the people, they want an authoritarian dictator who will force his will on the nation, and punish anyone who doesn't submit to dogmatic obedience.
This is what happens when for the first time in American history, we have a president who openly admires dictators, and brags about how he has fallen in love with Kim Jung Un, the most despotic dictator in modern history.
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Trump: "So here's the good news: The virus is a hoax, this will all disappear like magic, this virus is no different than the flu, I'm doing a great job, my uncle went to MIT, and we're not going to let the cure be worse than the problem. My authority is total."
COVID-19: "So here's the bad news. I am immune to Trump's lies and gaslighting, I can't read a calendar, so I don't know when May 1 is, I can't be defeated with magic, because I am real, and magic is not. I can only be defeated with science, facts, and common sense, and your so called president is a criminally incompetent sociopath who doesn't believe in science, facts, or common sense. I am not religious, but that won't stop me from going to places of worship.
I'm nothing like the flu, but the flu is a fan of mine, and it wants to be like me when it grows up. There is no cure for me, and that's the problem. I don't recognize anyone's authority."
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Helsinki July 16, 2018
Trump: "My people came to me, Dan Coates came to me, and some others, they said they think it's Russia, I have President Putin, he just said it's not Russia . I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."
On May 17, 2017, during a White House meeting days after Trumpâs election, President Obama warned Trump about Flynn, but Trump proceeded with hiring Flynn anyway. Longtime Trump confidant Chris Christie also directly advised Trump against hiring Flynn.
âIf I were president-elect of the United States, I wouldnât let General Flynn into the White House, let alone give him a job,â Christie said in 2017..
The reason why Trump ignored the warnings about Flynn and his Russian ties are because Trump is a Russian asset too. And he admitted to it in Helsinki.
Flynnâs lies to the FBI prompted the DoJ to warn Trump ONCE AGAIN about Flynn. On January 26, 2017, acting AG Sally Yates, personally informed the White House that Flynn lied to the FBI about his calls with Kislyak, and therefore was at risk of being blackmailed by Russia. But instead of immediately taking action against Flynn, Trump decided to reward Sally Yates for doing her job, and for her due diligence in warning him about Flynn, by firing her 3 days later. Let that sink in for a moment..
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The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
âYou donât even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. Because if this body [Congress] determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role . . . because impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.â
-- Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham Jan 23, 1999
âI think heâs a kook, I think heâs crazy. I think heâs unfit for office."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Feb, 2016
"Hereâs what youâre buying: Heâs a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesnât represent my party. He doesnât represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for. And you know how you make America great again, by telling Donald Trump to go to he//."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Dec 8, 2015
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Trump's own National Security Adviser John Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
JULY 10
At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Mr. Zelensky, asks Mr. Volker to connect him to Giuliani. The two men later meet in Madrid.
At a White House meeting later that day in Boltonâs office, two Ukrainian officials press for an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mr. Zelensky. Sondland blurts out that Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, promised that Mr. Zelensky would be invited if Ukraine announces âinvestigations.â
Bolton immediately halts the meeting. At a follow-up meeting, Sondland again presses the Ukrainians to announce investigations, this time specifying Burisma and the 2016 election as targets. Fiona Hill, one of Boltonâs top deputies, calls that session to a halt.
She and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, her subordinate, report the meetings to John Eisenberg, the chief legal adviser to the National Security Council. Bolton tells Ms. Hill to deliver a message from him: âI am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.â
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As it stands now, practically anyone, and anything connected to Trump is now under investigation. His inauguration, his transition team, his Trump crime organization, his fake charity foundation, his fraudulent taxes, his tainted campaign, and his illegitimate presidency, are all under investigation. Most Americans already knew that Trump was totally unfit, and unqualified to be president, but I don't think anything prepared us for an unmitigated disaster of this magnitude. Trump's presidency has been such an unprecedented, and unimaginable debacle, that it can only be defined as a miracle. Because it cannot be explained with logic, reasoning or science.
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The privilege of being the only American in our history to serve as the director of both the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. gives me a unique perspective and a responsibility to speak out about a dire threat to the rule of law in the country I love. Order protects liberty, and liberty protects order. Today, the integrity of the institutions that protect our civil order is, tragically, under assault from too many people whose job it should be to protect them.
The rule of law is the bedrock of American democracy, the principle that protects every American from the abuse of monarchs, despots and tyrants. Every American should demand that our leaders put the rule of law above politics.
As F.B.I. director, I served two presidents, one a Democrat, Jimmy Carter, who selected me in part because I was a Republican, and one a Republican, Ronald Reagan, whom I revered. Both of these presidents so respected the bureauâs independence that they went out of their way not to interfere with or sway our activities. I never once felt political pressure.
I know firsthand the professionalism of the men and women of the F.B.I. The aspersions cast upon them by the president and my longtime friend, Attorney General William P. Barr, are troubling in the extreme. Calling F.B.I. professionals âscum,â as the president did, is a slur against people who risk their lives to keep us safe. Mr. Barrâs charges of bias within the F.B.I., made without providing any evidence and in direct dispute of the findings of the nonpartisan inspector general, risk inflicting enduring damage on this critically important institution.
--William Webster, a former federal judge, and director of the F.B.I. from 1978 to 1987, and director of the C.I.A. from 1987 to 1991.
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If Trump did nothing wrong as he claims, then why is he blocking people from testifying, like Mulvaney, Bolton, and his White House counsel John Eisenberg? If he did nothing wrong, then these people should be able to testify and prove that he did nothing wrong.
When Lt.Col Vindman twice told a superior of his concerns about Trumpâs efforts to force Ukraine for the investigation in exchange for military aid, the White House lawyer John Eisenberg had the full transcript of Trump's phone call moved to the highly classified White House server, which is usually reserved for code-word level intelligence but not transcripts of diplomatic discussions. Why would the full transcript of Trump's so called "perfect" phone call be hidden? If he did nothing wrong, releasing the full transcript should exonerate him of any wrong doing.
The only logical conclusion is that Trump is guilty, and he knows that releasing the full transcript, and allowing Mulvaney, Bolton and others to testify under oath would be his undoing. Trump knows that after seeing what happened to Manafort, Cohen and Stone, that no one else is going to risk going to prison for his crimes.
Trump's own National Security Adviser, John Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
JULY 10
At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Mr. Zelensky, asks Mr. Volker to connect him to Giuliani. The two men later meet in Madrid.
At a White House meeting later that day in Boltonâs office, two Ukrainian officials press for an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mr. Zelensky. Sondland blurts out that Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, promised that Mr. Zelensky would be invited if Ukraine announces âinvestigations.â
Bolton immediately halts the meeting. At a follow-up meeting, Sondland again presses the Ukrainians to announce investigations, this time specifying Burisma and the 2016 election as targets. Fiona Hill, one of Boltonâs top deputies, calls that session to a halt.
She and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, her subordinate, report the meetings to John Eisenberg, the chief legal adviser to the National Security Council. Bolton tells Ms. Hill to deliver a message from him: âI am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.â
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Republicans were more than ready to impeach Clinton over lying about a bj, something that did not involve 400 million in taxpayer money, something that was not a threat to our national security, and it did not involve illegally using campaign money for hush money payments to two different women, and did not involve another foreign country. But they see nothing wrong with Trump taking money that did not belong to him, taxpayer money, that was appropriated by Congress, our legislative branch of government, and using it to bribe another country into interfering in our elections for his own personal benefit.
So far, Trump and his sycophantic supporters have no legitimate defense. His absurd defense so far has been to tell his followers that they shouldn't believe what they hear or see with their own eyes and ears, and they should only believe what he tells them. His other defense has been trying to convince the American people that the Constitution is a hoax, and that there is no such thing as the rule of law. So if there's no Constitution or rule of law, that means he could not have done anything wrong.....because nothing is wrong anymore.
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That letter was a plea for mercy. Unfortunately for Trump, it's much too late for that now. He has betrayed America, the Constitution, and his oath of office, and for that, he will be held accountable.
If Trump did nothing wrong as he claims, then why is he blocking people from testifying, like Mulvaney, Bolton, and his White House counsel John Eisenberg? If he did nothing wrong, then these people should be able to testify and prove that he did nothing wrong.
When Lt.Col Vindman twice told a superior of his concerns about Trumpâs efforts to force Ukraine for the investigation in exchange for military aid, the White House lawyer John Eisenberg had the full transcript of Trump's phone call moved to the highly classified White House server, which is usually reserved for code-word level intelligence but not transcripts of diplomatic discussions. Why would the full transcript of Trump's so called "perfect" phone call be hidden? If he did nothing wrong, releasing the full transcript should exonerate him of any wrong doing.
The only logical conclusion is that Trump is guilty, and he knows that releasing the full transcript, and allowing Mulvaney, Bolton and others to testify under oath would be his undoing. Trump knows that after seeing what happened to Manafort, Cohen and Stone, that no one else is going to risk going to prison for his crimes.
Trump's own National Security Adviser, John Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
JULY 10
At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Mr. Zelensky, asks Mr. Volker to connect him to Giuliani. The two men later meet in Madrid.
At a White House meeting later that day in Boltonâs office, two Ukrainian officials press for an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mr. Zelensky. Sondland blurts out that Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, promised that Mr. Zelensky would be invited if Ukraine announces âinvestigations.â
Bolton immediately halts the meeting. At a follow-up meeting, Sondland again presses the Ukrainians to announce investigations, this time specifying Burisma and the 2016 election as targets. Fiona Hill, one of Boltonâs top deputies, calls that session to a halt.
She and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, her subordinate, report the meetings to John Eisenberg, the chief legal adviser to the National Security Council. Bolton tells Ms. Hill to deliver a message from him: âI am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.â
The fact that Trump refuses to allow these people to testify is an admission of guilt.
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July 16, 2018. That was the day Traitor Trump betrayed America. That was the day that every deceased American president, from Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Bush, sat straight up in their graves.
Trump: "My people came to me, Dan Coates came to me, and some others, they said they think it's Russia, I have President Putin, he just said it's not Russia . I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."
Putin was extremely strong and powerful by the way he resisted the urge to burst out laughing when Trump uttered those words.
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Since Trump refuses to take responsibility, the American people will replace him with someone that will.
Jan. 22: âWe have it totally under control. Itâs one person coming in from China. We have it under control. Itâs going to be just fine.â âCNBC interview..
Jan. 30: âWe think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this momentâ 5 â and those people are all recuperating successfully.
âTrump speech in Michigan.
Feb. 10: âNow, the virus that weâre talking about having to doâyou know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat â as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April. Weâre in great shape though. We have 12 cases, 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.â âTrump at the White House.
Feb. 24: âThe Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!â â Trump in a tweet.
Feb. 26: âSo weâre at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that weâre going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So weâve had very good luck.â â Trump White House briefing.
Feb. 26:Â âAnd again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, thatâs a pretty good job weâve done.â â Trump press conference.
Feb. 27: âItâs going to disappear. One day â itâs like a miracle â it will disappear.â â Trump at a White House meeting.
March 4:Â âWe have a very small number of people in this country infected. We have a big country. The biggest impact we had was when we took the 40-plus people from a cruise ship. We brought them back. We immediately quarantined them. But you add that to the numbers. But if you donât add that to the numbers, weâre talking about very small numbers in the United States.â â Trump White House meeting..
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On Aug. 7, 1974, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., made it clear to Nixon that he faced all-but-certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office in connection with the Watergate scandal...
Nixon announced his resignation the next day, effective at noon on Aug 9, 1974.
In his 2006 book "Conservatives Without Conscience," former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean wrote that the Capitol Hill trio "traveled to the White House to tell Nixon it was time to resign."
In his 1988 autobiography, Goldwater wrote that after hearing their grim assessment, Nixon "knew beyond any doubt that one way or another his presidency was finished."
This was back when the Republican party still had at least a modicum of dignity, decency, integrity, and a sense of right and wrong. Today, thanks to Trump, Moscow Mitch, Graham,
Nunes, Jordan, Barr, Meadows, and others, the wholesale corruption of the GOP is now complete.
The Republican Party is now led by a kleptocratic crime boss who rules over the most scandal-ridden administration in history. Many of his closest advisers and associates have
either been imprisoned or are facing prison time. Trump himself is trying to cheat in this election in order to stay in office and avoid prosecution. Nixonâs administration may have been riddled with criminalityâbut in 1973, the Republican Party was still a somewhat normal party, that still played by the rules, so Nixon was forced to resign. But not anymore. Those days are long gone.
The corruption we see in the Republican party today can be defined as institutional depravity. It isnât an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isnât about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of powerâpower as an end in itself, justifying almost any means.
Todayâs Republican Party has cornered itself in with a base of ever older, more male, more rural, more radical conservative voters. They could have tried to expand; instead, theyâve hardened and walled themselves off. This is why the Republican Party lies about the risks of voter fraud, so that it can pass laws to suppress voter turnout.
Taking away democratic rightsâextreme gerrymandering; blocking an elected president from nominating a Supreme Court justice; selectively paring voting rolls and polling places; creating spurious anti-fraud commissions; misusing the census to undercount the opposition; calling lame-duck legislative sessions to pass laws against the will of the votersâis the Republican Partyâs main political strategy.
Republicans have chosen suppression and authoritarianism, because unlike the Dems, their party isnât a coalition of interests in search of a majority. The Republican party isn't interested in what the majority of Americans want.
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It doesnât matter to Trump cultists that he chooses to side with Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia over America, because all Trump has to do is hold a rally, hug the American flag, while telling the crowd to shout, âU-S-A!â And then all of a sudden, that warm and fuzzy feeling of counterfeit patriotism washes over them.
At a rally held by Steve Bannon this past March, an angry and hostile woman took the mic and said, âNever in my life did I think I would like to see a dictator, but if thereâs gonna be one, I want it to be Trump!â which was met with loud cheers and applause from Bannon and the crowd of cultists. It goes without saying that any American who would cheer for that, doesn't believe in liberty, freedom, or the Constitution. Anyone American that cheers for that clearly supports fascism and dictatorships. Trump's cultists don't want an elected official to govern on behalf of the people, they want an authoritarian dictator who will force his will on the nation, and punish anyone who doesn't submit to dogmatic obedience.
Trump cultists like to talk about how much they love and support our troops and veterans, then continue to worship a man who steps on the military every chance he gets. Trump promised he would donate to military charities, then didnât, then lied about it. He attacked John McCain during the campaign for no reason, attacked him throughout his term, and continues to attack McCain after his passing. He even made the Navy cover-up the name of the USS John McCain during his trip to Pearl Harbor. That was pretty low even for Trump..
When Republican Congressman and war veteran Dan Crenshaw, who lost his eye in combat serving this country, tweeted to Trump, âSeriously stop talking about Senator John McCain,â Trump supporters turned on veteran Crenshaw and harassed, threatened and insulted him on twitter. They defended a known coward and draft dodger, and attacked Crenshaw, a wounded war veteran who served this country honorably. Let that sink in for a moment.
At a rally in August 2016, a war veteran presented his Purple Heart medal to Trump, and he took it and said, âI always wanted one of these, this way is much easier.â Utterly disgusting.
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In May of 2018, when China's President Xi Jinping, leader of the COMMUNIST PARTY of China, changed the countryâs constitution to allow him to stay in power indefinitely, Trump, who admires dictators, said he thought the Chinese presidentâs power grab was a good idea, and he had dreams of doing the same thing.
Trump: âHeâs now president for life. President for life. No, heâs great,â Trump said. âAnd look, he was able to do that. I think itâs great. Maybe weâll have to give that a shot someday.â
On January 6, Trump tried to do exactly that. He failed.
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Only an illiterate imbecilic like Trump would believe that going back to having NO inspectors, cameras, check marks, and inspections, is better than the Iran deal. Pulling out of the Iran deal put us back to where we were before, which is exactly where we are today, which is totally blind to what's going on in Iran and NK.
President Obama was able to bring 5 countries together, and secure a deal with Iran. It was something we had never had before, and the deal was working.
In July 2015, Iran had almost 20,000 centrifuges. Under the Iran deal--JCPOA, it was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026. Iran's uranium stockpile was reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.
By January 2016, Iran had drastically reduced the number of centrifuges installed at Natanz and Fordo. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, continuously monitored Iran's declared nuclear sites and also verified that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb. Iran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allowed inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.
But the best part about it was that President Obama didn't have to praise the Ayatollahs or the Iranian leadership. He didnât demean himself, or the office of the presidency, by meeting with them, which would have only given them the perception of being on the same footing as a US President. Trump on the other hand, disgraced himself, and the office of the presidency, by meeting with the most despotic and maniacal dictator on the planet....not once, but twice. He then proceeded to compliment him, and wax poetically about how he and Kim Jung Un fell in love after exchanging letters. And what does Trump have to show for disgracing himself and the office of the presidency? NOTHING....other than love letters, a photo-op, and heightened tensions with Iran and NK. Trump is simply an agent of chaos, mind blowing ineptitude, and corruption. Trump doesn't solve problems, he only creates them..
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Trump and republicans know that there's no witness that can exonerate Trump. Not even Trump's closest aides, staff, and cabinet members would be able to save Trump. As Sondland stated during the Congressional hearings "everyone was in the loop."
Trump's own National Security Adviser, John Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
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At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Mr. Zelensky, asks Mr. Volker to connect him to Giuliani. The two men later meet in Madrid.
At a White House meeting later that day in Boltonâs office, two Ukrainian officials press for an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mr. Zelensky. Sondland blurts out that Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, promised that Mr. Zelensky would be invited if Ukraine announces âinvestigations.â
Bolton immediately halts the meeting. At a follow-up meeting, Sondland again presses the Ukrainians to announce investigations, this time specifying Burisma and the 2016 election as targets. Fiona Hill, one of Boltonâs top deputies, calls that session to a halt.
She and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, her subordinate, report the meetings to John Eisenberg, the chief legal adviser to the National Security Council. Bolton tells Ms. Hill to deliver a message from him: âI am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.â
The fact that Trump and republicans refuse to allow Bolton or Eisenberg to testify is an admission of Trump's guilt. Because if their testimony could clear Trump of any wrong doing, they wouldn't hesitate to let them testify.
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Trump is a national security threat, as well as a national disgrace.
Trumpâs business interest in communist China is long-standing. He began applying for trademarks there in 2005, and in 2012, the Trump Hotel Collection opened an office in Shanghai, its first in Asia.
Two of the Trump Organizationâs foreign partners â developers in Dubai and Indonesia, each building residential complexes that include a Trump golf course â have announced new partnerships with state-run Chinese companies. On June 10 2018, Dubaiâs Damac Properties announced that the state-run China State Construction Engineering Corp. had been awarded a contract to build roads and infrastructure at the new Akoya Oxygen. Trump will be paid to operate a golf course there, his second in the area, and paid for the use of his name.
In May 2018, Trumpâs partner in Indonesia â MNC Corp. â announced that it had signed a construction contract with another state-run Chinese company, the Metallurgical Corporation of China, for its planned Lido City development. Plans for that project, in a mountainous area of West Java, include a Trump-branded golf resort.
The communist Chinese government granted a total of 41 trademarks to Ivanka by April of 2019. These are trademarks she applied for after her father became president, and the got approved for about 40% faster than those she requested before Trumpâs victory in the 2016 election according to Forbes.
On March 29, 2017, Ivanka became an official government employee, joining Jared as an adviser to her father in the White House. The day before that appointment, Ivanka applied for 17 new trademarks with the communist Chinese government.
Over a span of two months in late 2018, the communist Chinese government granted 18 trademarks to companies linked to Trump and his daughter. In October alone, Chinaâs Trademark Office granted provisional approval for 16 trademarks to Ivanka Trump Marks LLC. The new approvals covered Ivanka-branded fashion gear, including sunglasses, handbags, shoes and jewelry, as well as beauty services and voting machines. In January of 2019, China granted Ivankaâs company preliminary approval for another five trademarks covering wedding dresses, and art valuation services. The applications were filed in 2016 and 2017.
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The crisis is here in America, and Mexico is not the source. A wall will not stop gun violence, because the problem is here in America. Guns don't come from Mexico, they are manufactured and sold here, and those same guns are flowing into Mexico. And those guns aren't being walked across the border, they are being shipped across at border crossings. The problem is here in America.
Mass shootings in schools, churches, synagogues, clubs, grocery stores, and concerts, aren't being committed by illegal immigrants, they are being committed by Americans, again, the problem is here in America. So no wall will fix that.
Drugs aren't being walked across the border, it's being shipped into America by air, sea, border crossing, and tunnels. So again, no wall will fix that. We could lock up 5 El Chapos today, and tomorrow, there will be at least 10 new Chapos fighting each other to take the old Chapo's place...WHY? Because the problem with drugs isn't in Mexico, it's here in America. The demand is what drives the drug trade.  So PLEASE, republicans, stop blaming immigrants, Mexico, the lack of a wall, drug cartels, El Chapos, Don Quixote, or whomever, for America's problems, because the problem is right here in America, and ignoring that fundamental truth, is part of the problem.
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The true character of a person will always be revealed when they are faced with a crisis or adversity. And the eternal question will always be, when it truly mattered, did they do the right thing? So far, Trump has failed. And Trump has never failed to fail, because failing has always been the easiest thing for him to do..
âI think, importantly, what Obama did leave Trump is a global health infrastructure that we had set up informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak,â Ben Rhodes said before pointing to a National Security Council (NSC) pandemic directorate that was dismantled by the Trump administration in 2018.
And what we did is set up, in the White House, ... an office that was responsible for managing pandemics, managing global health threats that was shut down two years ago by President Trump.
And when you donât have an office like that, you donât have dedicated people inside the White House who are ensuring that information is acted upon. When you see an outbreak in a place like Wuhan, China, you want people in the White House who are thinking about what needs to be done right away so that you donât get behind the curve, which is what happened in this White House.
You need a president whoâs willing to hear bad news, willing to understand that theyâre going to have to focus on something that they may have not intended to focus on. President trump clearly did not want to hear that bad news when he heard about the outbreak in coronavirus,â
--Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama.
Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
The NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense survived the transition from President Obama to Trump in 2017.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics.
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed.
She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
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Trump is a wartime president. And he's at war with the facts, the truth, morality, human decency, democracy, the rule of law, and the Constitution."
Trump: "I'm not taking responsibility for any of this. People are acting like I'm a REAL president and a real leader. I'm just a fraud, who with the help of Putin, managed to con my way into the Oval Office. Most people knew I was fundamentally unfit intellectually, morally, temperamentally, emotionally, and psychologically to be president. Someone as mentally unstable and divorced from reality as I clearly am, should have NEVER been allowed anywhere near the White House.
So again, don't blame me for this, blame the people who were dumb enough to vote for me. Blame republicans in Congress who aided, abetted, and pardoned my crimes. Blame people like Lindsey Graham, who knows exactly what I am, but yet continues to defend me. I'm the same person that I've always been, an unscrupulous con-man and a sociopath, but you already knew that."
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Trump admitted to being a Russian asset in Helsinki as he stood next to Putin. And now we've learned from the report, that Trump and his people were not only fully aware that Russia was meddling in the 2016 election, but Trump and his people actually encouraged it.
Trump, Kushner, Don Jr, and his other cohorts are Russian assets, willingly or unwillingly. They are all compromised. And they became compromised the moment they starting having secret meetings with Russian officials/agents, and not reporting it. They then lied about those meetings when asked, which only confirmed to the Russians that Trump and his cohorts were willing to protect them by lying to FBI and to the American people. To any Russian spy, that's a victory.
The Russians were able to infiltrate and compromise Trump and his inner circle, by exploiting their hubris, their insatiable greed, naivety, lack of patriotism, and by exploiting Trump's malignant narcissism. Trump and his people presented themselves as easy targets.
LINDSEY GRAHAM HAS ADMITTED THAT HE WAS THE ONE WHO TOLD MCCAIN THE HE SHOULD PASS ON THE STEELE DOSSIER TO THE FBI.
Trump in Helsinki: "My people came to me, Dan Coates came to me, and some others, they said they think it's Russia, I have President Putin, he just said it's not Russia . I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."
Putin was extremely strong and powerful by the way he resisted the urge to burst out laughing when Trump uttered those words..
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Trump's defense team looks like a rogues gallery of hypocrites, rambunctious ambulance chasers, scallywags, and moral deviants.
The most important question that should be put to Republicans in the Senate is a simple one, Do they believe that the American people want, and deserve to know the truth? And if the answer to that question is YES, then the next question should be, how do we get there? Well the only way we get to the truth, is through witnesses and evidence..
A president should NOT be able to use executive privilege in an impeachment trial to cover-up his crimes. It doesn't get more unconstitutional than that. If this is allowed, it means that instead of a president, we have a King and or dictator. It would mean that Trump could literally get away with anything he wants to do by simply claiming executive privilege, and blocking all evidence and witnesses to his crimes.
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In her new book, Trump's niece says Trump was scarred by his father and developed habits of lying and self-deception that shadowed him into the White House.
Trump's niece Mary describes Donald as a âtoxicâ bully who practices âcheating as a way of life,â and someone who values money above anything.
"This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism," Mary Trump writes. "Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be," she writes.
"In Donald's mind, even acknowledging an inevitable threat would indicate weakness. Taking responsibility would open him up to blame. Being a hero â being good â is impossible for him," she writes.
When it comes to Trump, I'll take the word of Trump's own sister, who has known him his entire life? She knows him better, and longer than anyone alive today. And if she wouldn't support him as president, why on earth should anyone else?
In the released audio of Trumpâs sister Maryanne Trump Barry, she describes Trump as being among other things, unprepared, a brat, and cruel.Â
âItâs the phoniness of it all. Itâs the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel,â Barry told her niece.
âAll he wants to do is appeal to his base,â Barry said. âHe has no principles. None."
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So after Republicans broke their own rules and went back on their word about picking a Supreme Court Justice during an election year, when millions of Americans have already voted, Dems have every right to pack the court, and Republicans have absolutely no room to talk. Republicans made a promise to the American people, and they broke that promise without even blinking an eye or giving it a 2nd thought. So If Dems decide to pack the court, republicans have no one to blame but themselves. Because it didn't have to be this way. All republicans had to do, was honor the promise they made.Â
Because let's face it, if the situation were reversed, and Dems broke their promise, and went back on their word, what would republicans do? We all know the answer to that question.
So, by breaking their own rules and going back on their word, Republicans are giving Dems a green light to pack the Supreme Court. I love it!!!!đ đđđ
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But he promised Mexico would pay for the wall.
The January 27, 2017Â transcript of Trump's phone call with Mexican President, PeĂąa Nieto, came seven days after Trump entered office. PeĂąa Nieto had insisted publicly his country would not pay for the wall's construction, but Trump begged him to stop making that claim.đ
Trump: "You cannot say that to the press," Trump said on the phone call. "The press is going to go with that and I cannot live with that. You cannot say that to the press because I cannot negotiate under those circumstances."
Trump said he was willing to say publicly that he and Mexican authorities would continue to negotiate over the wall's payment, which he said "means it will come out in the wash and that is OK."
But Trump continued to plead with PeĂąa Nieto to stop saying to the media that Mexico would never pay for any wall.
Trump" "You cannot say anymore that the United States is going to pay for the wall," he said. "I am just going to say that we are working it out. Believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important talk about."
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Trump told many lies during the campaign, but the wall was one of his biggest lies. Now he is desperately looking for someone to come and bail him out, and lead him out of the corn maze of lies he created. He first tried to get the President of Mexico to bail him out. Now he's trying to get the American taxpayers to bail him out. Well that's a negative Ghost Rider.....the pattern is full..
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Republican campaign finance reports, which are, available to the public, show connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. Bottom line, our campaign finance laws are now a threat to our country.
Len Blavatnik, is a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen and one of the largest donors to GOP political action committees in the 2015-16 election cycle. Blavatnik's family emigrated to the U.S. in the late '70s from the the Soviet Union and he returned to Russia when the Soviet Union began to collapse in the late '80s.
In 2015-16, Blavatnik's political contributions soared as he pumped $6.35 million into GOP political action committees, with millions of dollars going to top Republican leaders including Moscow Mitch, Rubio and Lindsey "Two-faced" Graham.
Oleg Deripaska is said to be one of Putin's favorite oligarchs, and he is founder and majority shareholder of Russia's Rusal, the second-largest aluminum company in the world. Blavatnik holds a stake in Rusal with a business partner.
Nearly 4% of Deripaska's stake in Rusal is owned by Putin's state-controlled bank, VTB, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. VTB was exposed in the Panama Papers in 2016 for facilitating the flow of billions of dollars to offshore companies linked to Putin.
We already know that Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, began collecting $10 million a year in 2006 from Deripaska to advance Putin's interests with Western governments. Deripaska's name turned up again in an email handed over to Mueller's team by Manafort's attorneys. In the email dated July 7, 2016, just two weeks before Trump accepted the Republican nomination, Manafort asked an overseas intermediary to pass a message on to Deripaska: "If he Deripaska needs private briefings, tell him we can accommodate."
Viktor Vekselberg is one of the 10 richest men in Russia. He and long-time business partner Blavatnik hold a 20.5 percent stake in Rusal. Vekselberg has connections to at least two Americans who made significant GOP campaign contributions during the last cycle.Â
Andrew Intrater, is Vekselberg's cousin. He is also chief executive of Columbus Nova, Renova's U.S. investment arm located in NY. in January 2017 he contributed $250,000 to Trump's Inaugural Committee. His six-figure gift bought him special access to a dinner billed as "an intimate policy discussion with select cabinet appointees,"Â
Simon Kukes is an oil magnate who has something in common with Intrater. From 1998 to 2003, he worked for Vekselberg and Blavatnik as chief executive of TNK. In 2016, Kukes contributed a total of $283,000, much of it to the Trump Victory Fund.Â
In total, Blavatnik, Intrater, and Kukes made $10.4 million in political contributions from the start of the 2015-16 election cycle through September 2017, and 99 percent of their contributions went to Republicans. The common denominator that connects the men is their association with Vekselberg.
Moscow Mitch knew from receiving intelligence briefings in 2016 that our electoral process was under attack by the Russians. Two weeks after the Dept of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement in October 2016 that the Russian government had directed the effort to interfere in our electoral process, Moscow Mitch's PAC accepted a $1 million donation from Blavatnik's AI-Altep Holdings. The PAC took another $1 million from Blavatnik's AI-Altep Holdings on March 30, 2017, just 10 days after Comey publicly testified before the House Intelligence Committee about Russia's interference in the election.
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General Mattis is a man of core beliefs, integrity, loyalty to the country, and commitment to our Troops. Trump on the other hand, is a Traitor, a coward and a man who believes in nothing. Trump is despised by our military, and rightfully so. He has insulted our PoWs, and Gold Star family members, he refused to honor are fallen in France, and he refused to visit Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day. Trump has been in office for 2 years, and has yet to visit our troops serving overseas.
As a Marine veteran, I despise everything he represents.
Semper Fidelis, Always Faithful
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Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said the plan by chief White House adviser Jared Kushner who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
What Kushner tried to do is exactly what American traitors have done in the past when they've decided to start working for the Russian government. It's basically what Aldrich Ames did in 1985, when he walked into the Soviet Union Embassy in DC, and turned over highly classified information to the Russians.
Trump and his people were warned by Obama, Sally Yates, and the FBI, that Russia was actively trying to infiltrate Trump's inner circle. And what does Trump do? He fired Comey, and Sally Yates, the very people who had warned him about what the Russians were up to. Even after Trump had been warned, his people were still holding secret meetings with the Russians, and they all lied about it......every single person lied about their meetings with the Russians. And then on the day after Trump fired Comey, the guy who was in charge of the FBI, the agency charged with catching Russian spies, Trump invites the Russian foreign minister, and Russia's Ambassador to the Oval Office, and brags about firing the head of the FBI.  Let all of that sink in for a minute.
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"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Trump is far worse than Nixon was ever capable of being. Nixon was corrupt for sure, but even still, there were limits to how far he would go. Trump on the other hand, is a complete sociopath, without limits or boundaries. Trump has proven that he will cross any line, and violate any and all ethical standards..
John Dean served as White House counsel to Nixon from 1970 to 73, he was a key figure in the Watergate sagaâparticipating in, and then helping to expose, the most iconic political scandal in modern U.S. history at the time. Just days before Trump was sworn in, Dean stated that he believed Trump could be one of the most corrupt presidents everâand get away with it.
âThe American presidency has never been at the whims of an authoritarian personality like Donald Trump,â Dean stated. âHe is going to test our democracy as it has never been tested."
Dean stated that he is not only convinced that Trump will be worse than Nixon in virtually every wayâhe thinks heâll probably get away with it.
âI used to have one-on-one conversations with Nixon, where Iâd see him checking his more authoritarian tendencies,â Dean recalled. âHeâd say, âThis is something I canât say out loud...â or, âThat is something the president canât do.ââ To Dean, these moments suggested a functioning sense of shame in Nixon, something he was forced to wrestle with in his quest for power. Trump, by contrast, appears to Dean unmolested by any such struggle."Â Dean went even further in his assessment, stating: âI donât think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.â
John Dean's words could not have been more prophetic.
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KUZIN V KNEE ! !
In August 1989, just two months after Trump launched his Trump Shuttle Airline, one of his Boeing 727s made a crash landing at Bostonâs Logan International Airport. The shuttle was to fly white-collar passengers between New York, Washington and Boston. The passenger jet had malfunctioning nose gear that failed to deploy. The nose and underbelly of the plane scraped and dragged along the runaway upon landing, with sparks flying. The pilots had to perform an emergency dumping of fuel to avoid a greater catastrophe. It's all on video.
Trump purchased the airline for 365 million, and in 3 years, it never turned a profit.đ
And when Trump was asked by reporters about the crash landing in Boston, he said, and I quote: âIt was the most beautiful landing youâve ever seen." đ˛đ¨
Back in 1986 and likely for many years before, Trump colluded in tax evasion with Bulgari Jewelry Store in NY, a high-end posh location with tony clientele right out of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Here's how the scam worked:
Trump would go into the store with his wife, his girlfriend, his...whatever (to use his vernacular). He would then buy her an expensive necklace or wristwatch. Normally, such a transaction would face the NY and state sales tax, which would be pretty high on luxury jewelry.
In an illegal attempt to evade the tax, Trump "asked" the store to instead ship the jewelry to an out of state location, where no NY sales tax could be collected. In fact, the store would merely send an empty jewelry box to the location, while Trump and his lady friends walked out the door with the jewelry that very day.
The state and city tax collectors eventually caught onto this scheme, and Trump promptly testified against his erstwhile tax evasion colluding partners at the jewelry store in order to save his own skin.đ˛ Anyone who gets close to a disease like Trump will end up getting pushed off a curb by him, and into an oncoming bus.
The empty box scam is just one example of Trump's history of illegal tax evasion. Another story can be told about his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida by local reporter Frank Cerabino.
Trump bought the property from the estate of breakfast cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. He got it for a relative bargain at $7.5 million, something he bragged about in The Art of the Deal. Yet he refused for years to pay local property taxes on the actual value of the property, $11.5 million at the time he bought it. He tried to have it both ways--buy the property for a steep discount and also pay property taxes at that same under-valued level.
Try that with your town's property tax assessor sometime and see what he says.đ˛
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Back when Trump was still pretending that he knew how to run a casino in Atlantic City, he became friends with Joseph Weichselbaum, an embezzler, mob associate, cocaine trafficker, and a thrice-convicted felon.
Trump hired Weichselbaum, who was a pilot, to use his helicopters to bring casino high-rollers in and out of town through a company formed by Weichselbaum, to whom he also entrusted maintenance of the Ivana, Trumpâs personal helicopter. Weichselbaumâat that point a twice-convicted felonâpersonally piloted the Trumps in that copter.
Weichselbaum also had another business: importing drugs from Colombia and shipping them from Bradford Motors, a Miami-area car dealership he partly owned, to Cincinnati. Because Weichselbaum was then a twice-convicted felon, NJ gambling regulators insisted to Trump that he not be involved with providing helicopter services to the Trump casinos. Yet Weichselbaum continued collecting a $100,000 salary from the helicopter company, and Trump kept using the company that paid Weichselbaum.
In his indictment and confession, Weichselbaumâs more lucrative business was having drugs delivered to Bradford Motors, the Miami-area car dealership he had an ownership stake in. In his testimony, Weichselbaum admitted to helping to load up to 1,500 pounds of drugs at the time into cars, that mules then drove to the Cincinnati area for distribution in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Trump learned of the indictment in October 1985, NJ Casino Control Commission records show. At that point, any decent person would have cut off all ties to Weichselbaum, because failing to do so could cost him his casino license. But of course, Trump is anything but a decent person. Instead, Trump became even closer to the drug trafficker.
Two months after the indictment, Trump rented apartment 32C in the Trump Plaza Apartments on E. 61st St. in Manhattan to the Weichselbaum brothers, according to NJ Casino Control Commission records. Trump personally owned the unit. Then Trump wrote a letter to the District Court on Trump Organization stationery pleading for mercy for his drug trafficking friend. He called him âa credit to the community.â Trump also described the drug trafficker as âconscientious, forthright and diligent,â đ˛
When NJ gaming regulators first asked Trump about this letter, he denied writing it.đ When they came back with a copy of the letter, Trump said under oath that his signature was on the page.đ However Trumpâs letter must have worked. Weichselbaum served just 18 months, while the mules who merely drove the drugs got sentences of up to 20 years.
During his parole, Weichselbaum was required to inform authorities that he had a job and a place to live. He told authorities he would be working for Trump again as Trump's helicopter guy once released. Weichselbaum then moved into Trump Tower.
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Keep in mind, the Saudis have put a ton of money into Trump and Jared's pockets. Trump is a man of no beliefs, ideals, or convictions, and he has the moral compass of a weather vane, and Saudis bought Trump a long time ago. Can't really blame the Saudis though, especially when Trump put himself on sale, with a 2 for 1 special ( Trump &Jared) Who could pass up a deal like that?
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Trumpâs campaign chairman Manafort, shared polling data on the 2016 election with a Russian man linked to Moscowâs intelligence agencies. Manafort was also accused of covering up other meetings and contacts with the Russian, an elusive man named Konstantin Kilimnik who worked for Manafort on election campaigns for pro-Kremlin politicians in eastern Europe.
Kilimnik, 48, trained at a university connected to Russiaâs military intelligence agency, formerly known as the GRU, which spearheaded the Kremlinâs effort to disrupt the the election. US Intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian operation was ordered by Putin to help Trumpâs campaign.
Mueller has also said that Rick Gates, Manafortâs deputy on the Trump campaign, described Kilimnik as âa former Russian intelligence officer with the GRUâ
Manafortâs attorneys did not deny that Manafort gave Kilimnik the data, instead stating that he had not lied about it but was merely âunable to recall specific details prior to having his recollection refreshedâ. The attorneys also confirmed that Manafort had met Kilimnik in Madrid, claiming he âhad not initially rememberedâ the meeting but recalled it when confronted with records showing the two were in the Spanish capital at the same time. LOL!!!đ So Manafort tried to pretend that he didn't remember taking a flight across the Atlantic Ocean to meet up with a Russian agent in Spain in order to pass polling data on to him.đđ
It was previously known that Kilimnik and Manafort had met twice during 2016 in the US. The date of the Madrid meeting was not stated, but a source familiar with Manafortâs team said it was in early 2017 after Trump had entered office.
Trump said he knew ânothingâ about his then-campaign chief Paul Manafort sharing polling data with a Russian spy during the 2016 presidential campaign. đ Sure Donnie....we believe you.đ
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America is willing to fight for Estonia, Macedonia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and NATO countries, the same way NATO countries fought for us in Afghanistan. The only problem we have in America, is that now, we have a coward and a traitor for a president. Trump failed to defend America in Helsinki. He had a clear choice between defending America or Putin, and the world watched as he chose Putin. But NATO and our allies can rest assure, that America will get rid of the "stranger" in our white house in 2020, if not sooner.
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Trump's lies and his conspiring with Russia is a national security emergency.
So while Trump is responsible for the 800 thousand Americans that won't be getting paid, he is also busy providing economic relief to billionaire Russian Oligarchs by lifting sanctions on them. If that doesn't make your blood boil, then nothing will.
Trump has announced he is removing sanctions on Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaskaâs aluminum company, United Co. Rusal. Oleg Deripaska, who has deep connections to Paul Manafort. Deripaska invested $18.9 million into a Ukrainian telecom venture ran by Manafort, but was never paid back. Mueller has investigated the links between the two men.
Deripaska, who is close to Vladimir Putin, was âaccused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeeringâ when the Treasury hit him with sanctions in April. In 2005, Manafort started working for Oleg Deripaska. Manafort had hired himself out to Deripaska, promising he would âinfluence politics, business dealings, and news coverage inside the United States, Europe, and former Soviet Republics to benefit Putinâs government.
Russiaâs oligarchs put their wealth and power at Putinâs disposal, or they donât remain oligarchs for long. This requirement is not lost on Deripaska. âI donât separate myself from the state,â Deripaska told the Financial Times in 2007. âI have no other interests.â A 2006 U.S. diplomatic cable described him as âamong the 2-3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis.â Working for Deripaska, meant Manafort was working for Putin. Deripaska hired Manafort for $10 million a year, and Manafort worked to advance Russian interests in Ukraine, Georgia, and Montenegro.
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There's a reason why some Americans are perplexed and aghast over Trump's behavior.
The mistake that many people are making, is in looking at Trump as if he's a "President". Trump is not a President in any sense of the word. Trump is only a president on paper. Trump IS, what he's always been. He is a sociopath, and a narcissist, who is the head of a family criminal organization, that specializes in fraud, ponzi schemes, tax evasion, money laundering, and real estate scams, and It's about time that everyone realizes that. Once you accept the realization of who and what Trump really is, his actions and behavior starts to make perfect sense.
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The Russian who created Putin's troll farm, and has boasted online that he helped get Trump elected, is named Konstantin Rykov. His claims of involvement with the Trump team can't be dismissed for 2 reasons: first, he is very close to Putin, and had a long history of involvement with top levels of the Russian government; and, second, his description of how Trumpâs campaign put together an effective internet strategy for information warfare is very close to the evidence revealed in the Mueller Report..
Rewind back to November 6th, 2012, enough states were called for President Obama that he was declared the winner of the election. At 11:29pm, Trump sent out the following defiant tweet: "We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!"
Konstantin Rykov saw Trumpâs tweet pop up in his Twitter feed.
Almost exactly four years later, on November 12th, 2016, Rykov explained what happened next in a pair of Facebook posts. Rykov explained how he first made contact with Trump:.
Without a momentâs thought, I wrote him (Trump) a reply, âIâm ready. What should I do?â
Trump replied with a picture. In the picture, Trump was sitting in the armchair of his jet, smiling cheerfully giving the thumbs-up sign. Rykov would later explained how things went from there.
Konstantin Rykov is the founder of a number of lurid websites where he made a fortune posting pictures of scantily-clad women, telling dirty jokes and posting clickbait stories designed to titillate easily impressionable readers. In other words, a trashy online tabloid. Rykov is also a member of United Russia, the pro-Kremlin party, a former member of the Duma, Russiaâs parliament, and a close confidante of Putin.
Hereâs how Rykov described his involvement in a Facebook post he made on November 12, 2016, just after the election:
"For four years and two days .. it was necessary to get to everyone in the brain and grab all possible means of mass perception of reality. Ensure the victory of Donald in the election of the US President. Then create a political alliance between the United States, France, Russia (and a number of other states) and establish a new world order. Our idea was insane, but realizable.  In order to understand everything for the beginning, it was necessary to âdigitizeâ all possible types of modern man.
Donald decided to invite for this taskâââthe special scientific department of the âCambridge University.â British scientists from Cambridge Analytica suggested making 5,000 existing human psychotypesâââthe âideal imageâ of a possible Trump supporter. Then .. put this image back on all psychotypes and thus pick up a universal key to anyone and everyone.Then it was only necessary to upload this data to information flows and social networks. And we began to look for those who would have coped with this task better than others. At the very beginning of the brave and romantic [story] was not very much. A pair of hacker groups, civil journalists from WikiLeaks and political strategist Mikhail Kovalev.The next step was to develop a system for transferring tasks and information, so that no intelligence and NSA could burn it."
Rykovâs comments were made only four days after the election, months before anyone was talking about Russian collusion in the 2016 election, months before the world knew about the company Cambridge Analytica, and months before Rykov would have known it wasnât wise to discuss his alleged involvement in the campaign. his comments were also made well before details of Russian meddling in the presidential election were reported in the mainstream media. If Rykov wasnât involved, how would he know as much as he confessed?
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Trump dreams of being a dictator like Putin and Kim Jung Un. And if were not for that stubborn constitution, the rule of law, and the free press, he would be living the dictator's dream right now.
June 15 2018, Trump praises Kim Jung Un ' control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim Friday during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
Sept 30 2018, Trump confesses the love he has for his muse, Kim Jung Un, during a rally.
"I like him, he likes me. I guess thatâs okay. Am I allowed to say that?â Trump said.
 âAnd then we fell in love, okayâ he said. âNo really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyâre great letters. We fell in love.â
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â@Mike-lt6sj
WRONG!! Both fa scism and
Comm unism are conservative ideologies.
The origins of the term Liberal traces back to the Latin word liber (meaning âfreeâ), which is also the root of the word "liberty "("the quality or state of being free").
Conservative:
tending to preserve or protect, preservative, having the power to keep whole or safe," from Old French conservatif, from Medieval Latin conservativus, from Latin conservatus, past participle of conservare "to keep, preserve, keep intact, guard..
In other words, to maintain and protect the status quo, and the establishment.
To defeat conservatism today, the main thing we have to do is to explain what it is, and what is wrong with it.
Q: What is conservatism?
A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.
Q: What is wrong with conservatism?
A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, liberty, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception, and has no place in the modern world.
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Hundreds of former federal prosecutors have signed onto an open online letter that says Trump's behavior toward the Russia investigation more than justified an indictmentâfor obstruction of justice. The open letter organized by the nonprofit group PROTECT DEMOCRACY, had roughly 400 signatures when it was initially posted. The letter now has almost a thousand signatures.
The letter's second paragraph states, âEach of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice.â
In making the case that Trump obstructed justice, the letter singles out three of his alleged actions that are detailed in the Mueller report: his effort to get Don McGahn, the White House counsel, to fire the special counsel; his attempt to limit the scope of the inquiry by instructing his former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, to carry a message to then Attorney General Sessions; and his repeated efforts to tamper with witnesses, including Cohen and Paul Manafort, by, among other things, raising the prospect of pardons.
The letter says Trumpâs actions âsatisfy all of the elements for an obstruction chargeâ and asserts that the evidence of âcorrupt intentââa key element of any obstruction caseâis overwhelming.
The full list of names shows that more than three hundred of the signatories served at the Department of Justice for at least a decade. A hundred and sixty of them racked up twenty years or more. More than sixty did at least thirty years. And two of them did forty years: John Kolar, a former senior trial counsel, and E. Thomas Roberts, who headed the narcotics division in the District of Maryland.
Many of the signatories worked for different parts of the DoJ, in many parts of the country, at many different levels. There are former heads of major divisions, such as the financial-crimes and civil-fraud units, and former U.S. Attorneys. But there are also countless trial attorneys, appellate attorneys, and assistant U.S. Attorneysâthe anonymous figures who prosecute cases on a day-to-day basis. And all of them are agreed that if Trump were sitting anywhere except the Oval Office, he would be facing a lengthy rap sheet.
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In President Bidenâs first year in office, his administration has implemented an industrial strategy to revitalize domestic manufacturing, create good-paying American jobs, strengthen American supply chains, and accelerate the industries of the future.
These policies have spurred an historic recovery in manufacturing, adding 642,000 manufacturing jobs since 2021. Companies are investing in America again, bringing good-paying manufacturing jobs back home. The construction of new manufacturing facilities has increased 116 percent over last year.
President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which will build on this progress, making historic investments that will poise U.S. workers, communities, and businesses to win the race for the 21st century. It will strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security, and invest in research and development, science and technology, and the workforce of the future to keep the US the leader in the industries of tomorrow, including nanotechnology, clean energy, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence. The CHIPS and Science Act makes the smart investments so that Americans can compete in and win the future.
UnderBiden, US oil production is poised to break Trump-era records. On Biden's watch, US oil production is poised to ShatterAll-time records set during the Trump administration.
US oil output is now projected to rise to an average of 12.8 million barrels per day this year for the first time ever.
For context, thatâs about half a million barrels per day more than the prior annual record set in 2019. Itâs also more oil than any other country on the planet produces.
Today's jobs report shows that our economy continues to lead the world, With the numbers from March in, we have officially crossed 15 million jobs created under President Biden. That is more jobs created in a single term than any president in history. Thanks to the investments passed by Democrats in Congress and signed into law by President Biden, the American economy has comeback from thePandemic stronger than ever..
Let us not forget how the jobs record of PresidentBiden compares to that of his predecessor. Trump lost 2.7 million jobs over the course of his presidency â more than any President since Herbert Hoover at the outset of the GreatDepression. While Trump wasted time tweeting ConspiracyTheories and playing political games, President Biden took action to rescue our economy and protect American families. Our economy has made a miraculous comeback.
The PACT Act, which President Biden signed into law in August 2022, is the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxin-exposed veterans in over three decades. The the PACT Act aims to deliver timely benefits and services to veterans across all generations who have been impacted by toxic exposures during their military service.
Despite its overwhelming support amongst the American people, getting the PACT Act passed in Congress proved to be an uphill battle. Republicans in CongressLied repeatedly about the law and voted against it, before the pressure ramped up against them.
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Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said the plan by chief White House adviser Jared Kushner who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
What Kushner tried to do is exactly what American traitors have done in the past when they've decided to start working for the Russian government. It's basically what Aldrich Ames did in 1985, when he walked into the Soviet Union Embassy in DC, and turned over highly classified information to the Russians.
Trump and his people were warned by Obama, Sally Yates, and the FBI, that Russia was actively trying to infiltrate Trump's inner circle. And what does Trump do? He fired Comey, and Sally Yates, the very people who had warned him about what the Russians were up to. Even after Trump had been warned, his people were still holding secret meetings with the Russians, and they all lied about it......every single person lied about their meetings with the Russians. And then on the day after Trump fired Comey, the guy who was in charge of the FBI, the agency charged with catching Russian spies, Trump invites the Russian foreign minister, and Russia's Ambassador to the Oval Office, and brags about firing the head of the FBI.  Let all of that sink in for a minute.
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"If you can get people to believe in absurdities, then you can get them to commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire
Trump has ushered in an era of alt-right hatred, fear mongering, and hysteria. What's happening with these packages, is no different than what happened with Pizzagate.
The fantastical claim that Hillary was a pedophile started in a Facebook post, spread to Twitter and then went viral with the help of alt-right platforms like Breitbart and Info-Wars. After following the digital trail, it was revealed that ordinary people, online activists, bots, foreign agents and domestic political operatives were responsible. Many of them were associates of the Trump campaign. Others had ties with Russia. Working together â though often unwittingly â they flourished in a new âpost-truthâ information ecosystem, a space where false claims are defended as absolute facts.
It all led to a man named Edgar Maddison Welch, who on December 1st, 2016, tried to persuade two friends to join a rescue mission. Alex Jones, the Info-Wars host, was reporting that Hillary was sexually abusing children in satanic rituals a few hundred miles north, in the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant. Welch told his friends the âraidâ on a âpedo ringâ might require them to âsacrifice the lives of a few for the lives of many.â A friend texted, âSounds like we r freeing some oppressed pizza from the hands of an evil pizza joint.â Welch was undeterred. Three days later, armed with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, a .38 handgun and a folding knife, he strolled into the restaurant and headed toward the back, where children were playing ping-pong. As waitstaff went table to table, whispering to customers to get out, Welch maneuvered into the restaurantâs kitchen. He shot open a lock and found cooking supplies. He whipped open another door and found an employee bringing in fresh pizza dough. Welch did not find any captive children â Comet Ping Pong does not even have a basement â but he did prove, if there were any lingering doubts after the election, that ACTUAL fake news has real consequences.
"If you can get people to believe in absurdities, then you can get them to commit atrocities."
--Voltaire
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Trump and his grifter family are running their criminal enterprise out of the white. That's what the entire Trump administration has been about since the very beginning. It's why Jared and Ivanka were brought into the white house. They aren't working for the country, or the American people, they are working for themselves. They are working to enrich themselves even more. Every move they make is a calculated business move for their own financial gains.
It's not an accident that Trump has been hostile towards America's longtime traditional allies, like Canada, Australia, The UK, and France. It's because financially, those countries don't really have anything to offer Trump and his criminal organization. And it's not an accident that Trump has been so cozy with Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. Even before he became president, he benefited financially from Saudi, China, and Russia. Many of Trump's products are manufactured in China, and Ivanka has received more than 20 new trademark deals in China since Trump became president.Â
Saudi Arabia bought an entire floor in Trump's Tower, and Saudis have been spending a fortune at Trump's new Hotel in DC. And we already know that Russians and Saudis, both bailed out Trump when he was going bankrupt in the 90s. If it were not for the Saudis and Russians, Trump would not have survived the 90s. What Trump and his family are doing, amounts to nothing more than a smash & grab. All anyone has to do is take a step back and open your eyes, and you'll see that what Trump and his family are doing is happening right in front of our faces.
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Trump is more than happy to make 800 thousand Americans suffer until he gets what he wants, even if what he wants has been rejected by the majority of Americans.
Trump: " My immature and petulant needs, far outweighs the needs of 800 thousand Americans who will go without a pay check."
If we have so many terrorists coming across the border, why haven't we seen massive terrorist attacks across the country from these terrorists? The answer is simple...terrorists are not crossing into America at our southern border. The only terrorist attacks in America, are coming from Americans. American right-wing extremists who are plowing cars into crowds of people, and shooting up concerts, schools, clubs, bars, grocery stores, pizza parlors, movie theaters, churches, and Synagogues.
Right now, you or your child, are far more likely to be gunned down by an American in a mass shooting, than being the victim of a terrorist attack at the hands of some foreigners who snuck across the southern border. REALITY MATTERS.
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Trumpâs campaign chairman Manafort, shared polling data on the 2016 election with a Russian man linked to Moscowâs intelligence agencies. Manafort was also accused of covering up other meetings and contacts with the Russian, an elusive man named Konstantin Kilimnik who worked for Manafort on election campaigns for pro-Kremlin politicians in eastern Europe.
Kilimnik, 48, trained at a university connected to Russiaâs military intelligence agency, formerly known as the GRU, which spearheaded the Kremlinâs effort to disrupt the the election. US Intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian operation was ordered by Putin to help Trumpâs campaign.
Mueller has also said that Rick Gates, Manafortâs deputy on the Trump campaign, described Kilimnik as âa former Russian intelligence officer with the GRUâ
Manafortâs attorneys did not deny that Manafort gave Kilimnik the data, instead stating that he had not lied about it but was merely âunable to recall specific details prior to having his recollection refreshedâ. The attorneys also confirmed that Manafort had met Kilimnik in Madrid, claiming he âhad not initially rememberedâ the meeting but recalled it when confronted with records showing the two were in the Spanish capital at the same time. LOL!!!đ So Manafort tried to pretend that he didn't remember taking a flight across the Atlantic Ocean to meet up with a Russian agent in Spain in order to pass polling data on to him.đđ
It was previously known that Kilimnik and Manafort had met twice during 2016 in the US. The date of the Madrid meeting was not stated, but a source familiar with Manafortâs team said it was in early 2017 after Trump had entered office.
Trump said he knew ânothingâ about his then-campaign chief Paul Manafort sharing polling data with a Russian spy during the 2016 presidential campaign. đ Sure Donnie....we believe
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Trump: "I take no responsibility at all. Taking responsibility is not my deal in life. I admit that I take many things, but responsibility isnt one of them. I'm not in charge of the coronavirus task force, I placed Mike Pence in charge of that. So if you want to point your fingers at someone, don't look at me, point them at Mike Pence. And for the record, I was never a big fan of testing, because I like the numbers where they are right now. So when the number of infection cases goes up because of more testing, don't blame me. I take no responsibility for any of this, and the reason why is because everyone knew I was fundamentally unfit intellectually, morally, temperamentally, emotionally, and psychologically to be president. Someone as mentally unstable and divorced from reality as I clearly am, should have NEVER been allowed anywhere near the White House. So again, don't blame me, blame the people who voted for me. Blame republicans in Congress who aided, abetted, and pardoned my crimes. Blame people like Lindsey Graham who continues to defend me. I'm the same person that I've always been, an unethical con-man and a sociopath, but you already knew that.".
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Let's be clear, Flynn didn't lie to Pence or Trump about his contacts with the Russians, it was Trump and Pence who lied to the American people, because they knew all along about his contacts with the Russians. He was literally acting on their behalf.
When Trump fired Michael Flynn, in Feb 2017, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official and then lied to Pence and others about the interactions. But emails among top transition officials, show that Flynn was far from a rogue actor. In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents showed that Flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.
After learning that Obama would expel 35 Russian diplomats, the Trump team quickly strategized about how to reassure Russia.
On Dec. 29 2016, transition adviser K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by Obama in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Trumpâs victory. The sanctions,,she wrote, could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, âwhich has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,â she wrote in the emails.đ˛
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Misty Violet, Republican.
It was Obama who created the improved healthcare for veterans. Look it up. Trump tried to take credit for it.
NOV 5, 2018
Trump lie: âAnd we gave our great warriors their largest pay raise in more than a decade.â
in fact: The military pay increase in the 2019 defense bill, 2.6 per cent, is lower than the 3.4 per cent increase under Obama in 2010. More than a decade" is simply incorrect.
Trump lie: âAnd there's more coming. We passed Veterans Choice, giving our veterans the right to see a private doctor rather than waiting on line for weeks and months to see a doctor. Forty-four years, they tried to pass that. And I came up with that idea,(LIE) and I thought it was brilliant. (It was brilliant. It just wasn't his idea) I went back to my people and I said, you know what we'll do? There's no way there are so many people in line, takes months and months. I said, you know what we're going to do? We're going to have those people get off line, go outside, see a doctor. And we'll pay for the doctor. I said, âI'm so smart. I am the most brilliant human being that has ever lived.â đđđ
FACT: The Veterans Choice health program was passed and created in 2014 under Obama. The law Trump signed in 2018, the VA MISSION Act, simply modified the program. Thanks President Obama!!!!đ
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For two years, ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of Trump Tower. In April 2013, a little more than two years before Trump rode the escalator to the ground floor of Trump Tower to kick off his presidential campaign, police burst into Unit 63A of the high-rise and rounded up 29 suspects in two gambling rings. The operation, which prosecutors called âthe worldâs largest sports book,â was run out of condos in Trump Towerâincluding the entire fifty-first floor of the building. In addition, unit 63Aâa condo directly below one owned by Trumpâserved as the headquarters for a âsophisticated money-laundering schemeâ that moved an estimated $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies in Cyprus, and into investments in the United States.
The FBI investigation led to a federal grand jury indictment and arrest of at least 29 people, including one of the worldâs most notorious Russian mafia bosses, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov. Known as the âLittle Taiwanese,â he was the only target to slip away. Tokhtakhounov, who had been indicted a decade earlier for conspiring to fix the ice-skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics, was the only suspect to elude arrest during the FBI raid on Trump Tower. Today, he remains a fugitive from American justice.
Tokhtakhounov's whereabouts remained unknown for the next seven months after the raid on Trump Tower. The Russian crime boss fell off the radar of Interpol, which had issued a red alert. Then, in November 2013, he suddenly appeared live on international televisionâsitting in the audience at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Tokhtakhounov was in the VIP section, just a few seats away from the pageant owner, Donald Trump...
âHe is a major player,â said Mike Gaeta, the agent who led the 2013 FBI investigation of Tokhtakhounov and his alleged mafia money-laundering and gambling ring, in a 2014 interview with ABC News..
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In Trump's diseased mind, he actually believes that thousands of Americans are willing, EVEN HAPPY, to go without pay for months, or even years, JUST FOR HIM. Trump's Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney was right when he said that Trump is a terrible human being.
Trump quote from 2004, a response to a Larry King Live caller asking how he handles stress. Trump: âI try and tell myself it doesnât matter. Nothing matters. If you tell yourself it doesnât matter, like you do shows, you do this, you do that and then you have earthquakes in India where 400,000 people get killed. Honestly, it doesnât matter."
Spoken like a true sociopath. Trump meets pretty much every diagnostic criterion of a sociopath.
⢠Manipulative and ConningÂ
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as  permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.Â
⢠Pathological LyingÂ
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities.
⢠Lack of Remorse, Shame or GuiltÂ
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
⢠Callousness/Lack of EmpathyÂ
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.Â
â Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive NatureÂ
Rage and abuse. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.Â
⢠Irresponsibility/UnreliabilityÂ
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
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In 2015, Western European intelligence agencies began picking up evidence of communications between the Russian government and people in Donald Trumpâs orbit. In April 2016, one of the Baltic states shared with thenâCIA director John Brennan an audio recording of Russians discussing funneling money to the Trump campaign. In the summer of 2016, Robert Hannigan, head of the U.K. intelligence agency GCHQ, flew to Washington to brief Brennan on intercepted communications between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The contents of these communications have not been disclosed, but what Brennan learned obviously unsettled him profoundly. In congressional testimony on Russian election interference last year, Brennan hinted that some Americans might have betrayed their country. âIndividuals who go along a treasonous path,â he warned, âdo not even realize theyâre along that path until it gets to be a bit too late.â In an interview this year, he put it more bluntly: âI think [Trump] is afraid of the president of Russia. The Russians may have something on him personally that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult.â
In July 2016, a loose-knit community of computer scientists and cybersecurity experts discovered a strange pattern of online traffic between two computer servers. One of those servers belonged to Alfa Bank in Moscow and the other to the Trump Organization. Alfa Bankâs owners had âassumed an unforeseen level of prominence and influence in the economic and political affairs of their nation,â as a federal court once put it.
The analysts noted that the traffic between the two servers occurred during office hours in New York and Moscow and spiked in correspondence with major campaign events, suggesting it entailed human communication rather than bots. More suspiciously, after New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau asked Alfa Bank about it but before he brought it up with the Trump campaign, the server in Trump Tower shut down. The timing strongly implied Alfa Bank was communicating with Trump..
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It's clear that Trump sees himself as a dictator like Putin and Kim Jung Un. During the shutdown, he said that thousands of Americans are okay with going without pay for months, or even years, just for him, because apparently they love him so much. And suffering for him would be an honor. The same way the people of NK are honored to suffer for their dear leader, Trump believes Americans are willing to do the same for him.
June 15 2018, Trump praises Kim Jung Un ' control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
Sept 30 2018, Trump confesses the love he has for his muse, Kim Jung Un, during a rally.
"I like him, he likes me. I guess thatâs okay. Am I allowed to say that?â Trump said.
 âAnd then we fell in love, okayâ he said. âNo really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyâre great letters. We fell in love.â
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Remember all the times that Trump falsely accused President Obama of doing exactly what he's doing now?
âOur president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. So the only way he figures that he's going to get reelected â and as sure as you're sitting there â is to start a war with Iran. I believe that he will attack Iran sometime prior to the election because he thinks thatâs the only way he can get elected. Isnât it pathetic?â
--Trump, Nov 16, 2011
"Don't let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected--be careful Republicans!"
--Trump, Oct 22, 2012
"I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!"
--Trump, Sep 16, 2013
"Remember what I previously said--Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is."
--Trump, Sep 25, 2013
"Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!"
--Trump, Nov 10, 2013
We now know that as usual, Trump was only fantasizing about what he would do if he were president.
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Trump's interest in doing business in Russia was first piqued in 1986, when he met the Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin and they began discussing building a "large luxury hotel across the street from the Kremlin in partnership with the Soviet government," as Trump recounted in his 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal."
Trump traveled to Russia in 1987 to survey potential locations for his hotel as landmark policies like perestroika and glasnost made the Soviet Union more open to foreign investments. Trump went back to Russia in 1996 and announced a plan to invest $250 million in Russian real estate and slap his name on two luxury residential buildings.Trump boasted about his plan when he met the Russian politician Aleksandr Lebed in New York in 1997, telling Lebed, "We are actually looking at something in Moscow right now ... Only quality stuff. And we're working with the local government, the mayor of Moscow, and the mayor's people. So far, they've been very responsive
Trump began seeing significant returns from Russian investments in US properties bearing the Trump name in the 2000s. A Reuters investigation last in 2017 found that at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses have bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in seven Trump-branded luxury towers in southern Florida, for instance.Reuters noted that its tally of Russian investors may be conservative. At least 703 â or about one-third â of the owners of the 2,044 units in the seven Trump buildings are limited liability companies, or LLCs, which have the ability to hide the identity of a property's true owner.
In the mid-2000s, the Trump Organization partnered with a company called the Bayrock Group, contracting it to pursue a development deal in Moscow. This effort was led by the Russian-born businessman Felix Sater, a man Trump lied about even knowing, and who's become a key figure in Mueller's investigation and Cohen's plea deal. At a 2008 conference, Trump Jr. also said, "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets." In the 18 months prior to the conference, Trump Jr. made six trips to Russia.
In 2013, Trump traveled to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant. During the visit, he said, "I have plans for the establishment of business in Russia. Now, I am in talks with several Russian companies to establish this skyscraper."In 2015 and 2016, Cohen and Sater teamed up in an attempt to put up a Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen said discussions on the plan lasted until June 2016, which was after Trump had clinched the GOP nomination for president.Cohen was in touch with the office of Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary over the matter, which reportedly included a plan to offer Putin a $50 million penthouse in the tower.
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All the times Trump falsely accused President Obama of doing, what he is now doing:
âOur president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. So the only way he figures that he's going to get reelected â and as sure as you're sitting there â is to start a war with Iran. I believe that he will attack Iran sometime prior to the election because he thinks thatâs the only way he can get elected. Isnât it pathetic?â
--Trump, Nov 16, 2011
"Don't let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected--be careful Republicans!"
--Trump, Oct 22, 2012
"I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!"
--Trump, Sep 16, 2013
"Remember what I previously said--Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is."
--Trump, Sep 25, 2013
"Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!"
--Trump, Nov 10, 2013
We now know that as usual, Trump was only fantasizing about what he would do if he were president. Isn't he pathetic?
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In the month of October alone, Trump has told at least 1100 lies. That's an average of 30 lies a day. I couldnât lie that much even if I tried. I couldn't lie that much on a dare, not even on a triple dog dare could I lie that much. Because at some point, I would slip up and tell the truth about something. That many lies makes Trump an illegitimate president. In no way should an elected official get away with lying to the American people on such a massive scale. I don't know of any profession, that would tolerate someone who is that untrustworthy.
If you are lower to middle-class, and you're voting Republican, you are basically cutting your own throat. Mitch McConnell announced a few weeks ago, that republicans are planning to cut social security, Medicaid and Medicare, in order to pay for the massive tax cut that they gave to the most wealthiest corporations and people in the country. If that's not enough for you to realize that you shouldn't vote republican, then you deserve to lose your social security. You deserve to lose everything you have.
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Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said the plan by chief White House adviser Jared Kushner who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
What Kushner tried to do is exactly what American traitors have done in the past when they've decided to start working for the Russian government. It's basically what Aldrich Ames did in 1985, when he walked into the Soviet Union Embassy in DC, and turned over highly classified information to the Russians.
Trump and his people were warned by Obama, Sally Yates, and the FBI, that Russia was actively trying to infiltrate Trump's inner circle. And what does Trump do? He fired Comey, and Sally Yates, the very people who had warned him about what the Russians were up to. Even after Trump had been warned, his people were still holding secret meetings with the Russians, and they all lied about it......every single person lied about their meetings with the Russians. And then on the day after Trump fired Comey, the guy who was in charge of the FBI, the agency charged with catching Russian spies, Trump invites the Russian foreign minister, and Russia's Ambassador to the Oval Office, and brags about firing the head of the FBI.  Let all of that sink in for a minute.
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As it stands now, practically anyone, and anything connected to Trump is now under investigation. His inauguration, his transition team, his Trump crime organization, his fake charity foundation, his fraudulent taxes, his tainted campaign, and his illegitimate presidency, are all under investigation. Most Americans already knew that Trump was totally unfit, and unqualified to be president, but I don't think anything prepared us for an unmitigated disaster of this magnitude. Trump's presidency has been such an unprecedented, and unimaginable debacle, that it can only be defined as a miracle. Because it cannot be explained with logic, reasoning or science.
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Conservatism, by its very core nature, is an absolutist, black-and-white way of thinking. Conservatism is rooted in the past; it is hidebound, dogmatic, intellectually incurious, unwilling to explore and examine differing viewpoints, and completely, often rabidly dismissive of evidence to the contrary of its beliefs and core principles. "Conservative" people tend to be adamantly, willfully, often venomously ignorant of the truth, because the truth offends them. They seem to be hard-wired into this obstinacy, to the point of pathological obsession. This is why repubicans are simply incapable of governing. Because Republicans don't want to govern, they want to rule, and there's a big difference between the two. Ruling, and authoritarianism, lies at the heart of what conservatism has always been about...
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A review of the public record reveals a clear and disturbing pattern: Trump owes much of his business success, and by extension his presidency, to a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia. Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties.
Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Towerâin a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part.
Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics. âThey saved his bacon,â says Kenneth McCallion, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Reagan administration who investigated ties between organized crime and Trumpâs developments in the 1980s.
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The FBI obtained secret wiretaps collected by Spanish police of conversations involving Alexander Torshin, a deputy governor of Russiaâs Central Bank who has forged close ties with the NRA, that led to a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. during the gun lobbyâs annual convention in Louisville, in 2016.
JosĂŠ Grinda, who has spearheaded investigations into Spanish organized crime, said the FBI requested and were provided transcripts of wiretapped conversations between Torshin and Alexander Romanov, a convicted Russian money launderer. On the wiretaps, Romanov refers to Torshin as âEl Padrino,â the godfather.
âJust a few months ago, the wiretaps of these telephone conversations were given to the FBI,â Grinda said in response to a question from Yahoo News during a talk he gave at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. Asked if he was concerned about Torshinâs meetings with Donald Trump Jr. and other American political figures, Grinda replied: âMr. Trumpâs son should be concerned.â đđđđ
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"If you can get people to believe in absurdities, then you can get them to commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire
Trump has ushered in an era of alt-right hatred, fear mongering, and hysteria. What's happening with these packages, is no different than what happened with Pizzagate.
The fantastical claim that Hillary was a pedophile started in a Facebook post, spread to Twitter and then went viral with the help of alt-right platforms like Breitbart and Info-Wars. After following the digital trail, it was revealed that ordinary people, online activists, bots, foreign agents and domestic political operatives were responsible. Many of them were associates of the Trump campaign. Others had ties with Russia. Working together â though often unwittingly â they flourished in a new âpost-truthâ information ecosystem, a space where false claims are defended as absolute facts.
It all led to a man named Edgar Maddison Welch, who on December 1st, 2016, tried to persuade two friends to join a rescue mission. Alex Jones, the Info-Wars host, was reporting that Hillary was sexually abusing children in satanic rituals a few hundred miles north, in the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant. Welch told his friends the âraidâ on a âpedo ringâ might require them to âsacrifice the lives of a few for the lives of many.â A friend texted, âSounds like we are freeing some oppressed pizza from the hands of an evil pizza joint.â Welch was undeterred. Three days later, armed with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, a .38 handgun and a folding knife, he strolled into the restaurant and headed toward the back, where children were playing ping-pong. As waitstaff went table to table, whispering to customers to get out, Welch maneuvered into the restaurantâs kitchen. He shot open a lock and found cooking supplies. He whipped open another door and found an employee bringing in fresh pizza dough. Welch did not find any captive children â Comet Ping Pong does not even have a basement â but he did prove, if there were any lingering doubts after the election, that ACTUAL fake news has real consequences.
"If you can get people to believe in absurdities, then you can get them to commit atrocities."
--Voltaire
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Gary Miller
July 27 2016, on national tv, Trump invites Russia to meddle in our elections..
âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,â Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Clintonâs emails. âI think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.â
5 hours later that same day, the 12 Russian operatives indicted in the special counsel investigation, launched the 1st cyber attack against the DNC.
7/16/2018
Trump in Helsinki: "I don't see any reason why it would be Russia." What???đ˛đ˛
October 10, 2016 in Wilkes-Barre, PA: "This just came out," Trump said. "WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks."
October 12, 2016 in Ocala, FL: "This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable," Trump said. "It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it."
October 13, 2016 in Cincinnati, OH: "It's been amazing what's coming out on WikpiLeaks."
October 31, 2016 in Warren, MI: "Another one came in today," Trump said. "This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove."
November 4, 2016 in Wilmington, OH: "Getting off the plane, they were just announcing new WikiLeaks, and I wanted to stay there, but I didn't want to keep you waiting," said Trump. "Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks."
Trump today: "I don't know anything about Wikileaks, that's not my deal in life."đ˛
Anyone who's been paying attention can see why it would have been Russia. It might have something to do with the fact that Trump invited Russia to meddle in our election on national tv
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Gary Miller
June 3, 2016, Don Jr receives this email at 10:36 AM, from Rob Goldstone.
"Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting."
"The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father."
"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and Emin" Goldstone wrote.
Don Jr. agrees to hold the meeting at Trump Tower, and sets the date for June 9.
On June 7, 2016, just days before the Trump Tower meeting, Trump announced a âmajor speechâ he claimed would reveal damaging information about Hillary. "I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week and weâre going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons,â Trump said. âI think youâre going to find it very informative and very, very interesting."
On June 9, 2016, a meeting was held in Trump Tower between three senior members of the Donald Trump presidential campaign â Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort â and at least five other people, including Russian Russian agents.
On July 27 2016, on national tv, Trump invites Russia to meddle in our elections.
âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,â Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clintonâs deleted emails. âI think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.â
Later that same day, the 12 Russian operatives indicted in the special counsel investigation, launched the 1st cyber attack against the DNC.
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Gary Miller
A big question that should be asked is why did Kushner ignored the intelligence communityâs warnings about Russia. Once it became public that they were interfering in our election, which was in June, why did you continue to have contacts with them?
White house whistle-blower Tricia Newbold, who reported that Trump and his white house endangered national security by breaking security procedures in issuing security clearances to Jared, Ivanka and more than 20 white house aides and officials, who were deemed untrustworthy by intelligence agencies.
In fact, Kushner never raised Russiaâs meddling during his two post-election meetings with Russians, according to his own accounts. Kislyak contacted Kushner on November 16th, and they met on December 1st. Once again, the Russians seemed to have a level of access to the Trump campaign that other countries, including Western allies, could only dream of. In his testimony, Kushner confirmed that at this meeting, which took place in Trump Tower, he and Kislyak and Michael Flynn, the incoming national-security adviser, who also attended, discussed using communications equipment at the Russian Embassy.
Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said the plan by Jared Kushner, who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
Gen.Hayden explained that the Russians would have learned several things from the approach. âWould they take the meeting?â he said. âSo, then you get the willingness. No. 2, would they report the meeting?â Hayden suggested that Russian intelligence was sophisticated enough to know whether the Trump campaign reported the meeting to the F.B.I., which it didnât. So, while Kushner claimed that the meeting was irrelevant, from a Russian intelligence perspective it would have been seen as a clear signal. âAt the end, they have established that these guys are willing,â Hayden said, pausing. âHow do I put this? They did not reject a relationship.â
The Kushner-Kislyak relationship continued. On December 13th, at Kislyakâs urging, Kushner met with Sergey Gorkov, a Russian banker who is close to Putin. Again, what jumps out from Kushnerâs account of the meeting is the easy access that the Russians hadââI agreed to meet Mr. Gorkov because the Ambassador has been so insistent,â and âsaid he had a direct relationship withâ Putin, Kushner notedâand the obvious attempts to soften up Trumpâs closest aides and family members. Gorkov, whose bank, Vnesheconombank, was affected by the Obama Administrationâs sanctions against Russia..
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Hundreds of former federal prosecutors have signed onto an open online letter that says Trump's behavior toward the Russia investigation more than justified an indictmentâfor obstruction of justice. The open letter organized by the nonprofit group PROTECT DEMOCRACY, had roughly 400 signatures when it was initially posted. The letter now has almost a thousand signatures.
The letter's second paragraph states, âEach of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice.â
In making the case that Trump obstructed justice, the letter singles out three of his alleged actions that are detailed in the Mueller report: his effort to get Don McGahn, the White House counsel, to fire the special counsel; his attempt to limit the scope of the inquiry by instructing his former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, to carry a message to then Attorney General Sessions; and his repeated efforts to tamper with witnesses, including Cohen and Paul Manafort, by, among other things, raising the prospect of pardons.
The letter says Trumpâs actions âsatisfy all of the elements for an obstruction chargeâ and asserts that the evidence of âcorrupt intentââa key element of any obstruction caseâis overwhelming.
The full list of names shows that more than three hundred of the signatories served at the Department of Justice for at least a decade. A hundred and sixty of them racked up twenty years or more. More than sixty did at least thirty years. And two of them did forty years: John Kolar, a former senior trial counsel, and E. Thomas Roberts, who headed the narcotics division in the District of Maryland.
Many of the signatories worked for different parts of the DoJ, in many parts of the country, at many different levels. There are former heads of major divisions, such as the financial-crimes and civil-fraud units, and former U.S. Attorneys. But there are also countless trial attorneys, appellate attorneys, and assistant U.S. Attorneysâthe anonymous figures who prosecute cases on a day-to-day basis. And all of them are agreed that if Trump were sitting anywhere except the Oval Office, he would be facing a lengthy rap sheet.
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"I have a chapter in the book on malignant narcissism as a characteristic of destructive cult leaders. These are people who have a deep need for grandiosity, to be the center of attention, who need to control others, and who lack empathy and lie without hesitation. These are psychological traits perfectly attuned to manipulation and projection.
But the malignant part is about sociopathic tendencies. Almost every cult leader thinks heâs above the law, which is why heâs allowed to persecute and harass or harm anyone he wants. When someone really believes this, they can rationalize all kinds of destructive behavior."
--Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump
Narcissistic cult leaders like Trump thrive on chaos. They'll create crisis situations. When they walk in the room, you never know if they're going to be good and kind-hearted or be mean and call someone out or create some kind of dangerous situation.
A cult leader is also a master of manipulating information, so that his followers will only trust details that come from him. This is what Trump accomplishes every time he cries "fake news" or discredits a reporter as "terrible" or "nasty." He knows that Americans have access to all sorts of information, so he has to make his followers distrust other sources.
A cult environment like "Q" and Trumpism discourages critical thinking, making it hard to voice doubts, when everyone around you is displaying dogmatic faith and obedience to their leader. A process of indoctrination is in use that can be seen as coercive persuasion, or thought reform, commonly called "brainwashing". The resulting internal conflict, known as cognitive dissonance, keeps them trapped, as each compromise makes it more painful to admit that you've been deceived..
During a press conference back on March 20, Trump said to reporters: "Really, we should probably get rid of about another 75, 80 percent of you. I'll have just two or three that I like in this room." That's a textbook tactic of every demagogic dictator and cult leader throughout history.
Steven Hassan, is an expert in cults and an ex-Moonie cult member (as in the Unification Church, founded by a Korean businessman, Sun Myung Moon), published âThe Cult of Trumpâ last spring. When polled, Trump cultists come across as having abandoned their commitment to libertarianism, family values or simple logic in favor of Trump worship. Theyâre lost to paranoia and farcical talking points, just the way Hassan was lost to Sun Myung Moon.
Hassan remembers, during his Moonie days, shouting, âI donât care if Moon is like Adolf-H. Iâve chosen to follow him, and Iâll follow him to the end." Hassan finally broke free, and became an expert on cults and how to leave them. He has spent his career proving itâs possible.
When they are finally confronted with truth and reality, many cults and their leaders â as we remember from the likes of Jim Jones, David Koresh and the Branch Davidians â come to a catastrophic end.?
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Trump: "My whole life Iâve been greedy, greedy, greedy. Iâve grabbed all the money I could get. Iâm so greedy."
Jan 9, 2016
"Now, Iâll tell you, Iâm good at that â so, you know, Iâve always taken in money,â he said at a rally in Iowa. âI like money. Iâm very greedy. Iâm a greedy person. I shouldnât tell you that, Iâm a greedy â Iâve always been greedy. I love money, right?
Almost everything Trump does violates the Constitution. He overreaches his power by bypassing the proper legal process to get security clearances for people like his son-in-law Jared, who have already been denied them. Trump has grotesquely violated the Emolument Clause, has clearly not divested from his businesses, has been caught red-handed using the Presidency to boost his own personal financial gains. He has used our military to help prop up his failing resort in Scotland.
Not only have the U.S. and foreign governments spent money at properties owned by Trump, but Trump's own political campaign and affiliated political committees have also spent about $16.8 million at his businesses since he launched his 2016 bid, according to an analysis of federal election spending records. Trump is literally using his own campaignâs money to line his pockets with millions. It's basically the same crime he committed with his fake charity foundation.
He has openly admitted to obstructing justice, and the list goes on and on. Trump's so called "freedom lovers" are nothing more than counterfeit patriots who pretend to cherish something that they have never even read. If they truly cared about the Constitution, they would have turned on Trump after his 1st year in office.
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â@Jedimack7
In an interview, Tony Schwartz, the journalist who wrote Trumpâs âThe Art of the Deal,â said of Trump âLying is second nature to him, more than anyone else I have ever met. Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true."
Schwartz:, âHe lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it.â Since most people are âconstrained by the truth,â Trumpâs indifference to it âgave him a strange advantage.â
Schwartz: " When challenged about the facts, Trump would often double down, repeat himself, and grow belligerent."
Schwartz described a man constitutionally incapable of logic, moral reasoning or self-reflection.
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A review of the public record reveals a clear and disturbing pattern: Trump owes much of his business success, and by extension his presidency, to a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia. Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties.
Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Towerâin a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part.
Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics. Trump was 4 billion dollars in debt, and American banks had stopped loaning him money after multiple bankruptcies. Trump was financially ruined until the Russians bailed him out. "They saved his bacon,â says Kenneth McCallion, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Reagan administration who investigated ties between organized crime and Trumpâs developments in the 1980s....
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Trump lies a little bit more than waaaay too much.
Trump's 2015 interview with host Michael Savage, Trump was asked again point-blank whether he'd ever met Putin.
"Yes," Trump said. "One time, yes. Long time ago."
"Got along with him great, by the way," Trump added.
"I got to know so many of the Russian leaders and the top, top people in Russia," he said.
At a July, 2016 press conference, at the height of the general election campaign, Trump denied ever having met the Russian leader.
"I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is," he told reporters in Florida. "He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said, 'Thank you very much' to the newspaper, and that was the end of it. I never met Putin. Never spoken to him. I don't know anything about him other than he will respect me."
David Letterman asked Trump in 2013 interview if had ever met Putin.
Trump: "Well I've done a lot of business with the Russians," Trump said. "He's a tough guy. I met him once," said Trump.
Feb. 17, 2016: At rally, Trump insists he has no relationship with Putin. âI have no relationship with him other than he called me a genius,â Trump says. âHe said, âDonald Trump is a genius, and he is going to be the leader of the party, and heâs going to be the leader of the world or something.ââ
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For two years ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower.
The FBI investigation led to a federal grand jury indictment and arrest more than 30 people, including one of the worldâs most notorious Russian mafia bosses, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov. Known as the âLittle Taiwanese,â he was the only target to slip away, and he remains a fugitive from American justice.
Tokhtakhounov's whereabouts were unknown for seven months, even after Interpol issued a red notice for Tokhtakhounov. And then, in April 2013, this fugitive from American justice, appeared seated near Trump in the VIP section of the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.
âHe is a major player,â said Mike Gaeta, the agent who led the 2013 FBI investigation of Tokhtakhounov and his alleged mafia money-laundering and gambling ring, in a 2014 interview with ABC News.
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The media is NOT the enemy of the people. The media is the enemy of Trump's lies, and his attempts to hide his crimes, and his fraudulent life.
A free press is the enemy of any dictator or demagogue like Trump. Trump says that the free press is the enemy of the people, but what he really means, is that the free press is the enemy of his demagoguery. A free press is the natural enemy of his lies. And he wants to be able to lie with impunity. Trump desperately needs to be able to lie without anyone checking him on his lies.
Demagoguery is an appeal to people that plays on their emotions and prejudices rather than on their rational side. Demagoguery is a manipulative approach â often associated with dictators and amoral politicians â that appeals to the worst nature of people. Demagoguery isn't based on reason, issues, and doing the right thing; it's based on stirring up fear and hatred to control people.. Trump's demagoguery has been on full display since day one
Since information from the press can undermine a demagogue's spell over his or her followers, modern demagogues have often attacked and demonized the free the press. They will usually claim that the media can't be trusted. They have even called out for violence against newspapers who opposed them, claiming that the press was secretly in the service of moneyed interests, or a deep state conspiracy against them , or claiming that leading newspapers were simply personally out to get them. This is dictatorship 101.
Ladies and gentlemen...I give you demagogue, Don the con...
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June 3, 2016, Don Jr receives this email at 10:36 AM, from Rob Goldstone.
"Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting."
"The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father."
"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and Emin" Goldstone wrote.
Don Jr. agrees to hold the meeting at Trump Tower, and sets the date for June 9.
On June 7, 2016, just days before the Trump Tower meeting, Trump announced a âmajor speechâ he claimed would reveal damaging information about Hillary. "I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week and weâre going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons,â Trump said. âI think youâre going to find it very informative and very, very interesting."
On June 9, 2016, a meeting was held in Trump Tower between three senior members of the Donald Trump presidential campaign â Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort â and at least five other people, including Russian Russian agents.
On July 27 2016, on national tv, Trump invites Russia to meddle in our elections.
âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,â Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clintonâs deleted emails. âI think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.â
Later that same day, the 12 Russian operatives indicted in the special counsel investigation, launched the 1st cyber attack against the DNC.
Translation: Trump is guilty of treason.
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Let's be clear, Flynn didn't lie to Pence or Trump about his contacts with the Russians, it was Trump and Pence who lied to the American people, because they knew all along about his contacts with the Russians. He was literally acting on their behalf.
When Trump fired Michael Flynn, in Feb 2017, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official and then lied to Pence and others about the interactions. But emails among top transition officials, show that Flynn was far from a rogue actor. In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents showed that Flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.
After learning that Obama would expel 35 Russian diplomats, the Trump team quickly strategized about how to reassure Russia.
On Dec. 29 2016, transition adviser K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by Obama in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Trumpâs victory. The sanctions,,she wrote, could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, âwhich has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,â she wrote in the emails.đ˛
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Trump has modeled his white house and administration on Barter Town, the post apocalyptic wasteland from Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome. Trump's white house and administration has degenerated into nonstop chaos, pandemonium, betrayal, back-stabbing, thievery, treason, upheaval, nepotism, cronyism, bedlam, and sanctioned lawlessness.
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By spreading Russian propaganda, attacking the FBI and America's other intelligence agencies, Trump is doing Putin's dirty work for him. And make no mistake, it constitutes a threat to America's national security.
The FBI has always been the biggest threat to Russian agents attempting to operate on American soil..
Trump and his people were warned by Obama, Sally Yates, and the FBI, that Russia was actively trying to infiltrate Trump's inner circle. And what does Trump do? He fired Comey, and Sally Yates, the very people who had warned him about what the Russians were up to. Even after Trump had been warned, his people were still holding secret meetings with the Russians, and they all lied about it......every single person lied about their meetings with the Russians. And then on the day after Trump fired Comey, the guy who was in charge of the FBI, the agency charged with catching Russian spies, Trump invites the Russian foreign minister, and Russia's Ambassador to the Oval Office, and brags about firing the head of the FBI. And they all got a big laugh out of it, at America's expense. Let that sink in for a moment.
On July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Trump threw America and the men and women in our intelligence agencies under the bus once again when he sided with Putin.
Trump: "My people came to me, Dan Coates came to me, and some others, they said they think it's Russia, I have President Putin, he just said it's not Russia . I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."
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Sorry Pence, but you and Trump won't be able to lie your way out if this.
We already know that Trump bribed the President of Ukraine with taxpayer money. This fact has been corroborated by the whistleblower, by official documents, texts messages, by the under oath testimony of multiple witnesses, by Trump's own senior white house aides and staff, by Mulvaney, and by State Department officials, and by Trump's own words. Trump's own National Security Adviser Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
Article II, Section 4, of the Constitution clearly states, that the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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Trump is either totally compromised by the Russians or he is a towering fool, or both, but either way he has shown himself unwilling or unable to defend America against a Russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy.
But whatever it is, Trump is either trying so hard to hide it or is so naĂŻve about Russia that he is ready to not only resist mounting a proper defense of our democracy, heâs actually ready to undermine some of our most important institutions, the F.B.I. and Justice Department, to keep his compromised status hidden.
Trump is either hiding something so threatening to himself, or heâs too criminally incompetent to be commander in chief. It explains Trumpâs refusal to respond to Russiaâs direct attack on our system â a quiescence that is simply unprecedented for any U.S. president in history. Russia is not our friend. It has acted in a hostile manner. And Trump keeps ignoring it all.
Trumpâs behavior amounts to a refusal to carry out his oath of office â to protect and defend the Constitution, for which he should be impeached. An oath is an oath.
Putin used cyberwarfare to poison American politics, to spread fake news, to help elect a chaos candidate, all in order to weaken our democracy. We should be using our cyber-capabilities to spread the truth about Putin â just how much money he has stolen, just how many lies he has spread, just how many rivals he has jailed or made disappear â all to weaken his autocracy. That is what a real president would be doing right now.
The biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the Oval Office...
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Not only have the U.S. and foreign governments spent money at properties owned by Trump, but the Trump's own political campaign and affiliated political committees have also spent about $16.8 million at his businesses since he launched his 2016 bid, according to an analysis of federal election spending records. Trump is literally using his own campaignâs money to line his pockets with millions. It's basically the same crime he committed with his fake charity foundation.
Republican political campaigns and PACs have spent just under $1.8 million at Trump-owned businesses so far this year in the 2020 election cycle, according to the latest examination of spending by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, based on spending reports to the Federal Election Commission.
Most of that has been spent by the Trump campaign ($1.3 million), the Republican National Committee ($123,000) and the Great America political action committee ($104,000), records show, the center reported.
The Washington Post explained in a story in July how such Trump campaign events create a âtwo-ferâ benefiting Trump. When he holds a fundraiser at one of his properties, not only do donors contribute to his campaign, his business collects funds from his campaign for space rental and catering, some of which ultimately ends up in his pocket.Â
But 48 Republican members of Congress also spent campaign money at Trump businesses through their campaign and affiliated committees, according to the center. Some of the top spenders for the 2020 cycle included campaigns for former Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin ($21,000), who resigned last month, Mike Penceâs brother, Indiana Rep. Greg Pence ($14,000), Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio ($12,000) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California ($8,000).
Spending will continue to grow as the election nears. Senate Republicans are hosting a two-day âSave the Senateâ retreat at Trumpâs Washington, D.C., hotel early next month, according to The Intercept. Room rates during that time will be nearly triple the average, according to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The top preferred businesses by spenders were Trumpâs Washington hotel, followed by his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago, according to the center. Trumpâs Doral golf resort in Miami was in fifth place for the amount of incoming campaign expenditures.
Traitor Trump is making a fortune while fleecing America and violating the Constitution. And his supporters defend this by saying he donates his presidential salary of 400k a year, so that makes it okay for him to fleece the American people out of tens of millions of dollars since he's been in office. His presidential salary amounts to slave wages compared to what he's actually making illegally by using the office of the presidency. If this doesn't make your blood boil, then you're probably a Trump cultist.
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CPAC or, Conservative People Acting Cultish.
CPAC is an annual pilgrimage for Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, mongerers of fear and hatred, xenophobes, wealthy welfare queens, tax cheats, hypocrites, fake Christians, fake patriots, and real traitors. It's truly a diabolical and unholy mix of deplorables. So much so that I bet that room will still smell like sulfur and rotting flesh for weeks.
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â@JohnDoe-ew3xt
In an interview, Tony Schwartz, the journalist who wrote Trumpâs âThe Art of the Deal,â said of Trump âLying is second nature to him, more than anyone else I have ever met. Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true."
Schwartz:, âHe lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it.â Since most people are âconstrained by the truth,â Trumpâs indifference to it âgave him a strange advantage.â
Schwartz: " When challenged about the facts, Trump would often double down, repeat himself, and grow belligerent."
Schwartz described a man constitutionally incapable of logic, moral reasoning or self-reflection.
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Trump is more than happy to make 800 thousand Americans suffer until he gets what he wants, even if what he wants has been rejected by the majority of Americans.
Trump: " My immature and petulant needs, far outweighs the needs of 800 thousand Americans who will go without a pay check."
If we have so many terrorists coming across the border, why haven't we seen massive terrorist attacks across the country from these terrorists? The answer is simple...terrorists are not crossing into America at our southern border. The only terrorist attacks in America, are coming from Americans. American right-wing extremists who are plowing cars into crowds of people, and shooting up concerts, schools, clubs, bars, grocery stores, pizza parlors, movie theaters, churches, and Synagogues. Right now, you or your child, are far more likely to be gunned down by an American in a mass shooting, than being the victim of a terrorist attack at the hands of some foreigners who snuck across the southern border. REALITY MATTERS.
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"If you can get people to believe in absurdities, then you can get them to commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire
Trump has ushered in an era of alt-right hatred, fear mongering, and hysteria. What's happening with these packages, is no different than what happened with Pizzagate.
The fantastical claim that Hillary was a pedophile started in a Facebook post, spread to Twitter and then went viral with the help of alt-right platforms like Breitbart and Info-Wars. After following the digital trail, it was revealed that ordinary people, online activists, bots, foreign agents and domestic political operatives were responsible. Many of them were associates of the Trump campaign. Others had ties with Russia. Working together â though often unwittingly â they flourished in a new âpost-truthâ information ecosystem, a space where false claims are defended as absolute facts.
It all led to a man named Edgar Maddison Welch, who on December 1st, 2016, tried to persuade two friends to join a rescue mission. Alex Jones, the Info-Wars host, was reporting that Hillary was sexually abusing children in satanic rituals a few hundred miles north, in the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant. Welch told his friends the âraidâ on a âpedo ringâ might require them to âsacrifice the lives of a few for the lives of many.â A friend texted, âSounds like we r freeing some oppressed pizza from the hands of an evil pizza joint.â Welch was undeterred. Three days later, armed with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, a .38 handgun and a folding knife, he strolled into the restaurant and headed toward the back, where children were playing ping-pong. As waitstaff went table to table, whispering to customers to get out, Welch maneuvered into the restaurantâs kitchen. He shot open a lock and found cooking supplies. He whipped open another door and found an employee bringing in fresh pizza dough. Welch did not find any captive children â Comet Ping Pong does not even have a basement â but he did prove, if there were any lingering doubts after the election, that ACTUAL fake news has real consequences.
"If you can get people to believe in absurdities, then you can get them to commit atrocities."
--Voltaire
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July 27 2016, on national tv, Trump invites Russia to meddle in our elections..
âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,â Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Clintonâs emails. âI think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.â
5 hours later that same day, the 12 Russian operatives indicted in the special counsel investigation, launched the 1st cyber attack against the DNC.
7/16/2018
Trump in Helsinki: "I don't see any reason why it would be Russia." What???đ˛đ˛
October 10, 2016 in Wilkes-Barre, PA: "This just came out," Trump said. "WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks."
October 12, 2016 in Ocala, FL: "This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable," Trump said. "It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it."
October 13, 2016 in Cincinnati, OH: "It's been amazing what's coming out on WikiLeaks."
October 31, 2016 in Warren, MI: "Another one came in today," Trump said. "This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove."
November 4, 2016 in Wilmington, OH: "Getting off the plane, they were just announcing new WikiLeaks, and I wanted to stay there, but I didn't want to keep you waiting," said Trump. "Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks."
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LMAO!!!đđđ
Trump and his family operate a criminal organization. Ask anyone in NY and Atlantic City.
For decades, Trump has laundered billions of dollars for Russian organized crime figures and other oligarchs. Ultimately Trump's involvement with Russia's criminal underworld created an opening for Putin and his agents to manipulate and control him.
Trump has had contacts with the Russian mafia for 35 years. His properties have laundered money for them. The Russian mafia is connected to Russian intelligence. They were and still are, living and working in Trump's buildings. Trump has even partnered with them. There are many ways in which Trump has been compromised.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, you suddenly had Russians who became wealthy Oligarchs overnight, with billions of dollars that have to be laundered out of Russia. It opened the floodgates for the Russian mafia and for the oligarchs. A good way to launder that money is through real estate. Trump made it clear he was ready, willing and able to do that without asking any questions. Trump was $4 billion in debt after his casinos failed in Atlantic City. He came back thanks to the Russians.
The Republicans are also implicated. The Russians didn't just go after Trump: They went after the entire Republican Party. There is Russian money going into the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, the NRA, and then to Republican officials and candidates directly.
When Trump first visited Russia in 1987, he immediately came back and took outt full page ads in the New York Times, the Boston Globe and Washington Post. These ads were very anti-NATO, anti-Western alliance, and that was exactly what the Russians wanted, even today.
Back in 1984, Trump had started laundering money for the Russian mafia. In â92, the Russian mafia had people like Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, who was one of the key figures under the mob boss Mogilevich. The FBI was looking all over for him, and then they discovered that he was actually living in Trump Tower. A lot of the Russian mobsters were going to Trump Tower to launder money as well. Trump was completely overextended in Atlantic City. He ended up $4 billion in debt. He had no future at all until the Russians came to his aid.
Russian Oligarchs made Trump an offer that he could not refuse. Suddenly Trump started dealing with cash, because he couldnât get loans from American banks anymore. The only bank that would loan him money was Deutsche Bank, which is the preferred bank for Russian Oligarchs and the Russian mafia..
There were ways of laundering money that Trump had. The financing of building projects that involved $400 million or $500 million to build a skyscraper. Once the building was constructed, they could sell the condos through the shell companies, and limited liability corporations. This was done anonymously in all cash transactions with Russian oligarchs and other people affiliated with the Russian mafia. They owned Trump before he ever met Putin. Trump became close with the oligarchs who were in turn close to Putin..
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David Bogatin:
In 1984, Soviet Army veteran David Bogatin purchased five luxury condos in Trump Tower for $6 million. The purchase was so substantial that Trump himself attended the closing. Three years later, he absconded to Austria and Poland after the discovery of his gasoline-bootlegging scheme, and his five apartments were seized by the government because he bought them to hide and launder money. In 1992, he became the first criminal returned to the US from Poland since the extradition treaty signed in 1927. A Senate investigation indicated he was a major figure in the NY Russian mafia.
Anatoly Golubchik, Vadim Trincher and Michael Sall:
These three individuals were convicted of taking part in an enormous illicit betting and money-laundering syndicate that ran out of Trump Tower. Each of them was a Trump condo owner, and operated out of Vadim Trincherâs Trump Tower apartment just three floors down from Trumpâs penthouse. The Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization was a ânationwide criminal enterprise with strong ties to Russia and Ukraineâ run by Anatoly Golubchik and Trincher, according to the Justice Department. They ran a sportsbook catering to Russian oligarchs and laundered tens of millions in proceeds through shell companies in Cyprus. Michael Sall helped them make domestic investments with the laundered capital.
Tevfik Arif:
Tevfik Arif was a former Soviet economist that built a chain of luxury hotels in Turkey and Kazakhstan, and a Bayrock partner involved in the Trump SoHo deal, which operated out of the 24th floor of Trump Tower NY In 2010, Arif was arrested by Turkish prosecutors and charged with setting up a prostitution ring.
Vyacheslav Ivankov:
Vyacheslav Ivankov implemented a money laundering scheme set up by the âboss of bossesâ in the Russian mafia, Semion Mogilevich. Mogilevich arranged Ivankovâs release from a Siberian gulag, and soon afterward he went to NY where he presided over the Russian mobâs expansion in the States. He was known for torturing victims, and bragging about the murders he arranged. Ivankov was notoriously difficult to track, compared to a ghost by one FBI agent. The FBI discovered he made regular visits to the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, and was living in a luxury condo at Trump Tower. After being convicted of extortion in 1997, he was jailed for nine years and seven months. He died in 2009 at the age of 69 after being shot several times leaving a restaurant in Moscow..
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For two years, ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of Trump Tower. In April 2013, a little more than two years before Trump rode the escalator to the ground floor of Trump Tower to kick off his presidential campaign, police burst into Unit 63A of the high-rise and rounded up 29 suspects in two gambling rings. The operation, which prosecutors called âthe worldâs largest sports book,â was run out of condos in Trump Towerâincluding the entire fifty-first floor of the building. In addition, unit 63Aâa condo directly below one owned by Trumpâserved as the headquarters for a âsophisticated money-laundering schemeâ that moved an estimated $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies in Cyprus, and into investments in the United States.
The FBI investigation led to a federal grand jury indictment and arrest of at least 29 people, including one of the worldâs most notorious Russian mafia bosses, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov. Known as the âLittle Taiwanese,â he was the only target to slip away. Tokhtakhounov, who had been indicted a decade earlier for conspiring to fix the ice-skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics, was the only suspect to elude arrest during the FBI raid on Trump Tower. Today, he remains a fugitive from American justice.
Tokhtakhounov's whereabouts remained unknown for the next seven months after the raid on Trump Tower. The Russian crime boss fell off the radar of Interpol, which had issued a red alert. Then, in November 2013, he suddenly appeared live on international televisionâsitting in the audience at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Tokhtakhounov was in the VIP section, just a few seats away from the pageant owner, Donald Trump.
âHe is a major player,â said Mike Gaeta, the agent who led the 2013 FBI investigation of Tokhtakhounov and his alleged mafia money-laundering and gambling ring, in a 2014 interview with ABC News...
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BarbaraL Lowell
Trump tried to rewrite his father's will in 1990 to strengthen his position as the only person to inherit his father's estate. But Fred Trump foiled the attempt, as he feared his son could strip his estate and use it to rescue his own failing businesses, The Times reported, citing depositions and other documents it obtained.
Trump had sent his father a document that would make him the sole executor of the estate and protect his portion of his inheritance from creditors and his impending divorce settlement.
Despite his father's will having already been written by a top real estate lawyer, Trump had his own lawyers draft a new copy and sent it to his father in December 1990. Trump sent his father the 12-page document and asked him to sign it immediately. Fred Trump, then 85, and in the hospital, had not seen the document before, and saw the move as an attempt to go behind his back.
He showed the document to his daughter Maryanne Trump Barry, a federal judge at the time. She recalled in her deposition that he told her, "This doesn't pass the smell test," The Times reported.
Then Fred Trump had lawyers draft new documents stripping his son of sole control of the estate. Notes from those lawyers cited by The Times show that Fred Trump's instructions were to "protect assets from DJT, Donald's creditors."
Sworn depositions made by unnamed members of the Trump family during a dispute over Donald Trump's nieces' and nephews' inheritance were obtained by The Times. Those depositions showed that Fred Trump believed the document his son wanted him to sign would put his vast business empire at risk.
Had his father signed the document, which he did not, it also would have given Donald Trump sole control over his dying father's estate.
Fred Trump was, according to the sworn Trump family testimonies obtained by The Times, angered by his son's attempt to rewrite his own will without his prior knowledge or consent.
If Trump would do this to his own father and siblings, what do you think he would do to the country and the American people?
If Trump's own father and siblings couldn't trust him, why on earth should the American people trust him?
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BarbaraL Lowell
In July 2018, Trump told another blatant lie about his father being born in Germany.
Trump gave an interview in which he threatened to impose tariffs on European countries that did business with Iran.
âI was there many, many years ago,â he said. âMeaning, my parents were born in the European Union. I love these countries; Germany, Scotland, they are still in there right?â
As Trump was traveling across Europe, he repeated that same blatant lie In an interview recorded in Scotland, he said: âDonât forget both of my parents were born in EU sectors â my mother was Scotland, my father was Germany.â
Trumpâs mother, Mary MacLeod, was indeed born in Scotland, on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. But his father, Fred Trump, was born in NY. This is well known by everyone.Â
So if Trump would repeatedly lie about something so irrelevant, and inconsequential, like where his father was born, something that can easily be disproved, it means that he will lie about AN - Y- THING.
This is not normal. And it's something that should concern every American.
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BarbaraL Lowell
Just imagine if President Obama had done half of the things that Trump has done. Would you had given President Obama a pass?
Jan, 2016
Trump: "My whole life Iâve been greedy, greedy, greedy. Iâve grabbed all the money I could get. Iâm so greedy."
Jan 9, 2016
"Now, Iâll tell you, Iâm good at that â so, you know, Iâve always taken in money,â he said at a rally in Iowa. âI like money. Iâm very greedy. Iâm a greedy person. I shouldnât tell you that, Iâm a greedy â Iâve always been greedy. I love money, right?
Not only have the U.S. and foreign governments spent money at properties owned by Trump, but Trump's own political campaign and affiliated political committees have also spent about $16.8 million at his businesses since he launched his 2016 bid, according to an analysis of federal election spending records. Trump is literally using his own campaignâs money to line his pockets with millions. It's basically the same crime he committed with his fake charity foundation.
Republican political campaigns and PACs have spent just under $1.8 million at Trump-owned businesses so far this year in the 2020 election cycle, according to the latest examination of spending by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, based on spending reports to the Federal Election Commission.
Most of that has been spent by the Trump campaign ($1.3 million), the Republican National Committee ($123,000) and the Great America political action committee ($104,000), records show, the center reported.
The Washington Post explained in a story in July how such Trump campaign events create a âtwo-ferâ benefiting Trump. When he holds a fundraiser at one of his properties, not only do donors contribute to his campaign, his business collects funds from his campaign for space rental and catering, some of which ultimately ends up in his pocket.Â
But 48 Republican members of Congress also spent campaign money at Trump businesses through their campaign and affiliated committees, according to the center. Some of the top spenders for the 2020 cycle included campaigns for former Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin ($21,000), who resigned last month, Mike Penceâs brother, Indiana Rep. Greg Pence ($14,000), Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio ($12,000) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California ($8,000).
Spending will continue to grow as the election nears. Senate Republicans are hosting a two-day âSave the Senateâ retreat at Trumpâs Washington, D.C., hotel early next month, according to The Intercept. Room rates during that time will be nearly triple the average, according to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The top preferred businesses by spenders were Trumpâs Washington hotel, followed by his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago, according to the center. Trumpâs Doral golf resort in Miami was in fifth place for the amount of incoming campaign expenditures.
Traitor Trump is making a fortune while fleecing America and violating the Constitution. And his supporters defend this by saying he donates his presidential salary of 400k a year, so that makes it okay for him to fleece the American people out of tens of millions of dollars since he's been in office. His presidential salary amounts to slave wages compared to what he's actually making illegally by using the office of the presidency. If this doesn't make your blood boil, then you're probably a Trump cultist.
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BarbaraL Lowell
In September 1994, a little less than a year after Tiffany was born to Trump and his second wife, Marla Maples, the couple appeared on an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. âDonald, what does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marlaâs?â asked host Robin Leach.
âSheâs a very beautiful baby,â Trump replied. âSheâs got Marlaâs legs. We donât know whether or notââhe put his hands to his chest to indicate breastsââsheâs got this part yet, but time will tell.â
While Trump was on The View in March 2006, he was asked what he would do if Ivanka was on the cover of P-boy magazine, Trump said it depended on what was inside the magazine and added, âAlthough she does have a very nice figure. Iâve said that if Ivanka werenât my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.â
In a February 2013 appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, during a question and answer game, Williams asked Trump and Ivanka, "What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?" Ivanka answered, "Either real estate or golf" while Trump added, "Well, I was going to say 5ex."
This is who you're defending. This is not a teenager. This is a 73 year old man who most people believe should know better.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then according to Trump supporters, it's an extremely talented cat.
It is perfectly okay to call something what it is. Trump is essentially a 73 year old man who has never matured mentally, intellectually, emotionally, and socially past the age of a prepubescent child. It's this lack of growth, cognitive capacity, and impulse control that has come to define him and his presidency. He is basically an indecent human being, who seems to possess every character flaw known to mankind.
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BarbaraL Lowell
Trump quote from 2004, a response to a Larry King Live caller asking how he handles stress. Trump: âI try and tell myself it doesnât matter. Nothing matters. If you tell yourself it doesnât matter, like you do shows, you do this, you do that and then you have earthquakes in India where 400,000 people get killed. Honestly, it doesnât matter."
Trump is a sociopath in every sense of the word. He meets pretty much every diagnostic criterion of a sociopath..
⢠Manipulative and Conning - check
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as     permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.Â
⢠Grandiose Sense of Self - check
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."Â
⢠Pathological Lying - check
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in a complex belief about their own powers and abilities.
⢠Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt - check
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, he has victims and accomplices, who end up as victims. ( Cohen, Stone, Sessions, Manafort, Flynn, etc) The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.Â
⢠Shallow Emotions - check
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion, it is more feigned than experienced, and serves an ulterior motive. Trump is outraged by insignificant matters, yet remains unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.Â
⢠Callousness/Lack of Empathy - check
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.Â
â Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature - check
Rage and abuse. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.Â
⢠Irresponsibility/Unreliability - check
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed. Trump blamed Dems for his government shutdown, even after he said he would take full responsibility for the shutdown. Trump threw the crowd at his rally under the bus for chanting "send her back" even though they were only repeating his own words and beliefs.
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In February when William Barr became the new AG, his son in law, Tyler McGaughey, left his job at the DoJ, to begin working as an attorney in the white house counsel's office. He'll be advising Trump, the executive office, and the white house staff on legal issues concerning the presidency. Coincidence? I think not. Basically he'll be coordinating with Trump and his father in law, on the best way to obstruct justice, undermine the rule of law and our democracy, for the sole purpose of protecting the con-man and demagogue in the Oval Office.
Barr and Trump are in the process of orchestrating the biggest cover-up in American history.
America has never seen a president as compromised, crooked and unethical as Trump before. This is without a doubt new territory.
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What do Putin, Kim Jong Un, Saudi Royal MBS, and Xi Jinping all have in common? They are all brutal strongmen and dictators who demand respect, obedience, loyalty, and want their followers to willingly believe and do anything they tell them. This is exactly why Trump has a sick and demented admiration for these tyrants. He sees himself as one of them.
Trump: â Kim Jong Un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.â Trump later said anyone who doesnât cheer for anything he says is a traitor committing treason.
It doesnât matter to Trump cultists that he chooses to side with Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia over America, because all Trump has to do is hold a rally, hug the American flag, while telling the crowd to shout, âU-S-A!â And then all of a sudden, that warm and fuzzy feeling of counterfeit patriotism washes over them.
At a rally held by Steve Bannon this past March, an angry and hostile woman took the mic and said, âNever in my life did I think I would like to see a dictator, but if thereâs gonna be one, I want it to be Trump!â which was met with loud cheers and applause from Bannon and the crowd of cultists. It goes without saying that any American who would cheer for that, doesn't believe in liberty, freedom, or the Constitution. Anyone American that cheers for that clearly supports fascism and dictatorships. Trump's cultists don't want an elected official to govern on behalf of the people, they want an authoritarian dictator who will force his will on the nation, and punish anyone who doesn't submit to dogmatic obedience.
Trump cultists like to talk about how much theylove and support our troops and veterans, then continue to worship a man who steps on the military every chance he gets. Trump promised he would donate to military charities, then didnât, then lied about it. He attacked John McCain during the campaign for no reason, attacked him throughout his term, and continues to attack McCain after his passing. He even made the Navy cover-up the name of the USS John McCain during his trip to Pearl Harbor. That was pretty low even for Trump.
When Republican Congressman and war veteran Dan Crenshaw, who lost his eye in combat serving this country, tweeted to Trump, âSeriously stop talking about Senator John McCain,â Trump supporters turned on veteran Crenshaw and harassed, threatened and insulted him on twitter. They defended a known coward and draft dodger, and attacked Crenshaw, a wounded war veteran who served this country honorably. Let that sink in for a moment.
At a rally in August 2016, a war veteran presented his Purple Heart medal to Trump, and he took it and said, âI always wanted one of these, this way is much easier.â Utterly disgusting.
No other politician, Republican or Democrat, would have EVER accepted that from a veteran.
Semper Fi..
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Chris Christie volunteered himself for the job as head of Trump's presidential transition team. But when he went to see Trump about it, Trump said he didnât want a presidential transition team. Why did anyone need to plan anything before he actually became president? Itâs legally required, said Christie. Trump asked where the money was going to come from to pay for the transition team. Christie explained that Trump could either pay for it himself or take it out of campaign funds. Trump didnât want to pay for it himself. He didnât want to take it out of campaign funds, either, but he agreed, grudgingly, that Christie should go ahead and raise a separate fund to pay for his transition team. âBut not too much!â he said.
And so Christie set out to prepare for the unlikely event that Trump would one day be elected president of the United States. At the end of each week, Christie handed over binders, with lists of names of people who might do the jobs well, The first time Trump paid attention to any of this was when he read about it in the newspaper. The story revealed that Trumpâs very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon, the chief executive of his campaign, from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling: Youâre stealing my money! Youâre stealing my effing money! What the eff is this?
Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed: Why are you letting him steal my effing money? Bannon and Christie together set out to explain to Trump federal law. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government. The government supplied them with office space in downtown DC, along with computers and rubbish bins and so on, but the campaigns paid their people. To which Trump replied: Phuck the law. I donât give a phuck about the law. I want my phucking money. Bannon and Christie tried to explain that Trump couldnât have both his money and a transition. Shut it down, said Trump. Shut down the transition. Bannon however finally convinced Trump that he needed to have a transition team.
With that, Christie went back to preparing for a Trump administration. He tried to stay out of the news, but that proved difficult. From time to time, Trump would see something in the paper about Christieâs fundraising and become upset all over again. The money that people donated to his campaign Trump considered, effectively, his own. He thought the planning and forethought pointless. At one point he turned to Christie and said: âChris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves.â
From The Guardian: The Long Read, âThis guy doesnât know anythingâ: the inside story of Trumpâs shambolic transition team
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It's almost as if the Founders were clairvoyant when they placed articles of impeachment into the Constitution. They clearly had envisioned someone like Trump in America's future. Someone who would say that as president, he can do whatever he wants..
âWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.âÂ
â Abraham Lincoln
âEthics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.âÂ
â DaShanne Stokes
âWhatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it mayâÂ
â Daniel Webste
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
â Theodore Roosevelt
If what Trump has done isn't wrong, then that means that nothing is wrong. if Trump isn't impeachable, then that means that no president will ever be impeachable, no matter what they do. And that will spell the end of our democracy, our Constitution, and our republic. It will be as if we never fought and won a war of independence against a King.
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The Saudis have invested a lot of money into Trump's criminal organization, and they expect a return on their investment..... protection being one of the things the Saudis expect in return.
Trump has sent thousands of our troops to Saudi Arabia to protect their oil and HIS own personal business interests.
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
Congress was furious over Trumpâs secret efforts to secure a nuclear energy deal with Saudi Arabia. Congress was rightfully furious when they discovered that the Saudis refused to accept limits preventing them from developing a nuclear weapon.
It was revealed that Trump gave approval for companies to share certain nuclear energy technology with the kingdom without a broader nuclear deal in place.
House Dems began investigating Trump's nuclear talks with Saudi after the Oversight and Reform Committee announced in February it was launching a probe to âdetermine whether the actions being pursued by the Trump administration are in the national security interests of the US or, rather, serve those who stand to gain financially as a result of this potential change in U.S. foreign policy.â
Energy Secretary Rick Perry approved seven authorizations that let U.S. companies share certain nuclear energy technology with Saudi Arabia.Â
lawmakers were outraged when they found out they were not told about the approvals, saying the secrecy violates the Atomic Energy Act, which requires that Congress be kept âfully and currently informedâ of 123 agreement negotiations.
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels.
A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Attorneys general for Maryland and the District of Columbia cited the payments by the Saudi lobbying firm as an example of foreign gifts to Trump that could violate the Constitutionâs ban on such âemolumentsâ from foreign interests.
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Trump, Fox, and other republicans, have all become proxies for Putin and his propaganda and disinformation campaign on America. By continuing to peddle Putin's long debunked conspiracies, they are wilfully volunteering themselves to become cogs in Putin's campaign to weaken America.
Putin's plot against America, which was to help his puppet Trump get elected began in 2014. Thousands of miles away, in a drab office building in St Petersburg, Russia, a fake newsroom was under construction with its own graphics, data analysis, search engine optimisation, IT and finance departments. Its mission: âinformation warfare against the US..
We now know from the Mueller report, that what followed was a successful attack on the most powerful democracy in the world. It involved stolen identities, fake social media accounts, rallies organised from afar, US citizens (Trump cultists) duped into doing Moscowâs bidding..
In his first criminal charges related to election meddling, Mueller indicted 13 Russians and 3 Russian companies of an elaborate effort to disrupt the 2016 elections with a covert trolling campaign, aimed at helping Trump get elected.
The Russian offensive began in 2014 with an aim to âsow discordâ and evolved into a concerted attempt to help Trump. Some of it relied on old-fashioned boots on the ground. Two operatives, Aleksandra Krylova and Anna Bogacheva, travelled as tourists through at least nine states over about two weeks in June 2014 to collect intelligence for their operations. They prepared âevacuation scenariosâ in case their cover was blown.
This was combined with exploiting the anonymous, borderless world of social media, where agents of chaos thrive. Â The Internet Research Agency, a âtroll farmâ based in nondescript offices at 55 Savushkina Street St Petersburg, was operating through Russian shell companies, the agency employed hundreds of people, ranging from creators of fictitious personae to technical and administrative support.
Its specialists were divided into day shifts and night shifts to fit with the appropriate US time zones. The agency also circulated lists of US holidays so that specialists could be active accordingly.
Russians posed as political and social active Americans. They created social media pages and groups, and bought political adverts such as âDonald wants to defeat terrorism ... Hillary wants to sponsor itâ. They relied on identity theft, using the social security numbers, home addresses and birth dates of Americans without their knowledge. They set up fake bank accounts linked to PayPal accounts.
They engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Clinton, and to denigrate other candidates such as Cruz and Rubio. In June 2016, after Trump clinched the Republican nomination, the Russians began to organise pro-Trump rallies, recruiting and paying unwitting (Trump cultists) Americans. At a time when Trump supporters were chanting âLock her up!â, one was asked to wear a costume portraying Clinton in a prison uniform at a rally in Florida, while another was asked to build a cage on a flatbed truck. On 22 September, Russians created and bought Facebook ads for a series of âMiners for Trump" rallies in Pennsylvania.
Today Trump still refuses to criticize Putin, or even acknowledge that Moscow meddled in our elections. His refusal to do so is either motivated by fear, or a conscientious and wilful betrayal of his oath of office, and the betrayal of America.
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