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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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