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| 12-06-19 05:27am - 1750 days | #1501 | |
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REAL NEWS: Nancy Pelosit prays for Donald Trump. But she also wants him impeached. ----- ----- Nancy Pelosi takes Donald Trump's insult, fires it right back at him HuffPost US Lee Moran Dec 6th 2019 5:36AM House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday night hit back at Donald Trump’s claim on Twitter that she’d “had a nervous fit” reportedly after she rebuked a journalist for asking if she “hated” the president. Pelosi, who earlier in the day called on House Democratic leaders to begin drafting articles of impeachment against Trump, told a televised CNN town hall hosted by Jake Tapper that “the president is a master of projecting.” “When he calls somebody else nervous, he’s the nervous one,” she said. Pelosi also rejected Trump’s belief that she didn’t actually pray for him, despite what she had earlier stated. “When he suspects that somebody is not praying, he’s probably not praying,” she said. “But I do pray for him because he is the president of the United States and I pray that God will open his heart to meeting the needs of people in our country.” Pelosi said she also prayed for Trump’s health, safety and family. “It doesn’t bother me what he thinks about that,” she concluded. “All the more reason to pray for him.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 12-06-19 05:32am - 1750 days | #1502 | |
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REAL NEWS: Donald's Trump's women? ------ ------ Karen McDougal sues Fox News for defamation over alleged Trump affair NBC News Corky Siemaszko Dec 6th 2019 7:51AM Former Playboy model Karen McDougal sued Fox News on Thursday claiming that host Tucker Carlson defamed her on his show by falsely claiming that she tried to blackmail Donald Trump about the affair she says they had before he was elected president. McDougal said she is seeking damages from Fox for harming her reputation and said the cable channel is responsible for the comments made last year by Carlson, who is not named as a defendant in this suit. “Carlson’s statements were intentionally false and made with reckless disregard for the truth,” McDougal’s lawyer stated in her suit filed in the Supreme Court of the state of New York. “McDougal never approached Trump and threatened to ruin his career or humiliate his family if he did not give her money.” In response to a request for comment, Fox News released this statement: “Fox News will vigorously defend Tucker Carlson against these meritless claims.” There was no immediate response from the White House to the lawsuit, but the White House and a lawyer for Trump have previously denied he had a relationship with McDougal. Slideshow preview image 7 PHOTOS What Stormy Daniels has said about her affair with Trump See Gallery Carlson claimed on his Fox News show in December 2018 that McDougal and adult actress Stormy Daniels "approached Donald Trump and threatened to ruin his career and humiliate his family if he doesn’t give them money.” Daniels has also claimed she had an affair with Trump, a claim the president has also denied. “Now that sounds like a classic case of extortion,” Carlson said on the show, the lawsuit states. “Yet for whatever reason, Trump caves to it and he directs Michael Cohen to pay the ransom. Now, more than two years later, Trump is a felon for doing this. It doesn’t seem to make any sense.” Monique El-Faizy, co-author of the new book “All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator,” said that “in allegedly defaming McDougal, Carlson took a page out the Trump playbook, who is facing his own defamation lawsuit.” AdChoices “If you can’t address the accusations say, because they are true, try to discredit the person making them,” said El-Faizy, whose book with Barry Levine chronicles the claims of 26 women who have accused Trump of unwanted sexual contact. Trump has denied the claims. Trump was sued for defamation by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice” who accused him of unwanted sexual advances, three days before his inauguration. In November, a judge denied the president's request to dismiss the case. El-Faizy also said this isn’t the first time Carlson has gone after a Trump accuser. On June 25, 2019, Carlson was dismissive of columnist E. Jean Carroll after she accused Trump of sexually assaulting her 20 years ago in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, calling her charges “absurd.” Trump denied Carroll’s allegations. “These aren’t serious statements from a rape victim,” he said. “They are wacky soundbites from someone trying to sell a book.” McDougal says she met Trump in 2006 at the Playboy Mansion and embarked on a 10-month affair. “It was a romantic relationship,” her lawyer, Peter Stris, told NBC News in March 2018. Five months later, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to a host of crimes and admitted paying hush money to McDougal and Daniels “at the direction of a candidate,” meaning Trump, to keep them quiet ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Cohen told the court that he and an executive from a media company, at the direction of a federal candidate, arranged to keep McDougal’s affairs from the public with a payment of $150,000. McDougal and her lawyers have said that the National Enquirer, run by Trump associate David Pecker, paid her $150,000 in August 2016 as part of a "catch-and-kill" strategy to keep the story from circulating publicly. AMI admitted to the payoff and entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the government. | |
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| 12-07-19 05:00am - 1749 days | #1503 | |
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Fake News: The White House tells Democrats it will not participate in Trump impeachment hearing. The Dems have wasted too much time and money. The Dems, stunned by the lack of respect from our glorious president, orders his arrest for trial for treason against the United States. Lynch mobs form outside the White House, chanting, "Lock him up, the fucker!" This is not right. The president must be respected. Even if he is a cunt-fooking hound. ------- ------- White House tells Democrats it will not participate in Trump impeachment hearing Thomson Reuters By Steve Holland and David Morgan Dec 6th 2019 7:56PM WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The White House said on Friday it would refuse to take part in hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives set for next week that will consider what articles of impeachment to bring against President Donald Trump. In a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, White House counsel Pat Cipollone called the Democrats' impeachment inquiry "completely baseless" and said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had ordered Democrats to proceed with articles of impeachment "before your committee has heard a single shred of evidence." "We don't see any reason to participate because the process is unfair," said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We haven't been given any fair opportunity to participate. The speaker has already announced the predetermined result and they will not give us the ability to call any witnesses." Nadler rejected that criticism and expressed disappointment, saying in a statement: "The American people deserve answers from President Trump." Pelosi on Thursday asked the Judiciary Committee to draw up articles of impeachment - formal charges - against the Republican president. The committee could draft and recommend the articles by next Thursday and the full Democratic-led House could vote on them by Christmas, imperiling Trump's presidency as his 2020 re-election campaign looms. Pelosi in September launched the impeachment inquiry into Trump's request that Ukraine investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading contender for the Democratic nomination to face the president in the 2020 U.S. election. "House Democrats have wasted enough of America's time with this charade," Cipollone's letter said. "You should end this inquiry now and not waste even more time with additional hearings." He quoted Trump as saying, "If you are going to impeach me, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate, and so that our country can get back to business." Trump has made clear his lawyers will present a defense in the Republican-controlled Senate, where he believes he will receive fair treatment. Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee, who had also faced a Friday deadline to identify witnesses they want to call before the panel, submitted a list of eight, including Biden's son, Hunter, the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who led the Ukraine probe. House Republicans had already sought testimony before the Intelligence Committee from three people on the list - the whistleblower, Hunter Biden and Biden's former business associate Devon Archer. But they were turned down by Schiff and will likely receive the same response from Nadler, a Democrat. Though Nadler did not immediately respond to the Republican witness requests, he said of Trump's refusal to participate: "Having declined this opportunity, he cannot claim that the process is unfair. The President’s failure will not prevent us from carrying out our solemn constitutional duty.” TRUMP MEETS FRIDAY DEADLINE Nadler had given Trump until 5 p.m. (2200 GMT) on Friday to decide whether he or his legal counsel would participate in upcoming committee proceedings. Trump, who denied any wrongdoing, thus far has refused to cooperate with the inquiry and ordered current and former administration officials not to testify or provide documents. Nadler has scheduled a committee hearing for Monday. His committee is responsible for drafting articles of impeachment and would have to approve them before sending them to the full House for a vote. Passage of formal charges would lead to a trial in the Republican-led Senate on whether to remove Trump from office. Senate Republicans have given little indication they would support Trump's removal. Pelosi accused Trump of abusing his power by asking a foreign government to interfere in an American election for his own political benefit at the expense of U.S. national security. The articles of impeachment could include abuse of power, bribery, obstruction of Congress and obstruction of justice. Republicans accuse Democrats of conducting a politically motivated witch hunt aimed at ousting Trump using an unfair impeachment process. The probe is focusing on a July 25 telephone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter, and into a discredited theory promoted by Trump and his allies that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election. Hunter Biden joined the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma while his father was vice president. Trump has accused the Bidens of corruption. They have denied wrongdoing and the allegations have not been substantiated. Democrats also have accused Trump of abusing his power by withholding $391 million in congressionally approved security aid to Ukraine - a vulnerable U.S. ally facing Russian aggression - and holding back a coveted White House meeting with Zelenskiy as leverage to pressure Kiev into investigating the Bidens. Trump is the fourth U.S. president to face impeachment proceedings. None were removed from office, although Richard Nixon resigned as he faced almost certain impeachment in 1974 over the Watergate scandal. (Reporting by Steve Holland, Susan Cornwell and David Morgan, Additional reporting by Doina Chicu and Patricia Zengerle; Writing by Will Dunham, Steve Holland and Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Jonathan Oatis, Bill Berkrot and Cynthia Osterman) | |
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| 12-07-19 07:02am - 1748 days | #1504 | |
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Fake news: California congressman announces he will resign from Congress after he pleads guilty in corruption case. But this man is a Republican. And a supporter of Trump. And a veteran. So, Trump has looked long and hard at his case, and come to a momentous conclusion: The Dems, scum-suckers from Hell, are dragging down the Republican party. Smearing my loyal friends. I will issue a presidential pardon, for this brave soul. And he can stay in Congress, and fight to protect me from the scummy Dems. God is just. I, Donald Trump, am God's right hand. -------- -------- California congressman Duncan Hunter announces resignation after corruption plea Thomson Reuters By Dan Whitcomb and Jill Serjeant Dec 6th 2019 7:05PM Dec 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter will resign from Congress following his guilty plea to a federal charge of conspiring to misuse campaign funds, he said on Friday. Hunter's announcement that he would step down came days after the leading California lawmaker, a former U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran, entered his guilty plea in federal court in San Diego. "Shortly after the Holidays I will resign from Congress," Hunter, 42, said in a written statement released by his communications director. "It has been an honor to serve the people of California's 50th District, and I greatly appreciate the trust they have put in me over these last 11 years," Hunter, a Republican, said in the statement. Hunter faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison, but his attorney has said prosecutors have agreed to recommend significantly less time. The Ethics Committee of the House of Representatives on Thursday told Hunter he should not vote on any matter before Congress while still in office and could face disciplinary action if he ignored that warning. "This provision of House Rules was promulgated to preserve public confidence in the legislative process when a sitting member of Congress has been convicted of a serious crime," the committee said in a letter to Hunter. The lawmaker and his wife, Margaret, were indicted in 2018 on charges of misappropriating $250,000 in campaign donations to pay for personal expenses, including their children's private school, lavish travel, expensive meals, groceries and clothing. Hunter, an early supporter of President Donald Trump, had originally pleaded not guilty in the case and insisted he was the victim of a politically motivated prosecution. He changed his plea to guilty on Tuesday, saying he wanted to spare his family the stress of a trial. Sentencing has been set for March 17 in the high-profile case. Margaret Hunter pleaded guilty in June to conspiring to misuse campaign funds, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the case. She has yet to be sentenced. The corruption scandal has been seen as giving a boost to Democrats' bid to seize California's traditionally Republican 50th Congressional District. Hunter's 2018 Democratic challenger, former Obama administration aide Ammar Campa-Najjar, was defeated in last year's race despite the incumbent's indictment. But the guilty plea could play more to Democrats' favor in 2020, where the party already holds a heavy majority of California's 53 U.S. House of Representatives seats. (Reporting by Makini Brice in Washington and Jill Serjeant, Steve Gorman and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles Editing by Chris Reese, Bill Berkrot and Richard Chang) | |
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| 12-08-19 05:14am - 1748 days | #1505 | |
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Fake news: No wonder Trump is having affairs with different women. His wife sleeps in her own room. So if Trump is not getting any nookie from his wife, she is driving him into the arms of other women. And these other women are sometimes trying to make a profit from the president. Horrors. That a man and wife can sleep in separate bedrooms. ---------- ---------- Melania Trump sleeps in her own room away from the president, new book says Gabrielle Sorto, AOL.com Dec 3rd 2019 1:00PM Long-standing rumors surrounding first lady Melania Trump and President Trump's living arrangements were reaffirmed in a new book. The first lady not only sleeps in a separate room from the president, but her room is on a completely different floor of the White House, CNN correspondent Kate Bennett's book Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography says. The first lady's private room is on the third floor in a two-room space. The second space in the room is used as a "glam room" and a private gym with a Pilates machine. The president sleeps in the master bedroom on the second level of the White House residence. The Trumps aren't the first presidential couple to have separate bedrooms. President John F. Kennedy had a separate bedroom from his wife, Jacqueline. The Kennedys however, were still very different than the Trumps, first lady expert Kate Andersen Brower told PEOPLE. "Even when the Kennedys stayed in separate bedrooms, there were great stories about Jackie Kennedy running into her husband’s bedroom or him back to her bedroom," she told the outlet in 2018. . Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography $27.99 Buy it The president and first lady are no strangers to breaking tradition. The couple's living arrangement first raised questions right after Trump's inauguration when Melania chose not to immediately move into the White House. The first lady stayed behind in New York until June 2017 while their son, Barron, finished the school year. You can purchase the reporter's book here. | |
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| 12-08-19 11:16am - 1747 days | #1506 | |
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This is not acceptable. SNL spoofs Nancy Pelosi who is praying for Donald Trump. Everyone deserves our prayers. Even Donald Trump. Let us bow our heads, and pray for the president. May he rot in hell. | |
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| 12-08-19 02:02pm - 1747 days | #1507 | |
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Real + Fake News: A terror attack killed 3 US sailors. That is true. But the fake news is that Trump, the most heroic president we've ever had, has volunteered to stand guard over all US soldiers. Trump has previously said that in a school shooting, he would have taken down the shooter, even if Trump was unarmed. So this is just another example of how our president, the most heroic president we've ever had, is going to keep our soldiers safe: he will guard them personally. Go, Trump, you got draft deferments during the Vietnam War. But now that you are president, you have found the strength and courage to fight any and all terrorists, and take them down. --------- --------- Pentagon to vet screening for foreign officers training Yahoo News Kadia Tubman Dec 8th 2019 3:22PM In the aftermath of a suspected terror attack at the Navy base in Pensacola, Florida, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Sunday said the Pentagon will review the vetting process for an exchange program for foreign nationals while defending the programs as “very important to our national security.” “More than 5,000 foreign nationals are in Pentagon training programs,” Chris Wallace asked Esper on "Fox News Sunday. "Are you going to review that entire program and are you going to try to find some better way to vet — I understand hindsight's 20/20 — some better way to vet people, foreigners who come into this country for this kind of training for any links to extremism?” Esper said one of the first things he did after the shooting, which killed three sailors and injured eight others on Friday, was “immediately make sure we put out an advisory to all of our bases, installations, and facilities.” The shooter, who was also killed, was identified as a Saudi officer who was training at the base. Secondly, Esper said he asked for “a review of what our screening procedures are with regard to foreign nationals coming to the United States.” “My understanding is currently, of course, they're reviewed by Department of State,” he said. “They're reviewed by Department of Homeland Security, and they're reviewed by us and I want to make sure that those procedures are full and sufficient.” But Esper defended the exchange program, which has trained foreign military personnel for decades. “These types of programs, exchanges are very important to our national security,” he said. “We have something that our potential adversaries such as Russia and China don't have, which is an elaborate system of alliances and partnerships and the ability to bring foreign students here to train with us, to understand American culture is very important to us in building those long-term relationships that keep us safer.” “So what you seem to be saying is, yes, if we need to vet better, we're going to do it, but we're not going to throw out those programs,” Wallace pressed. “That's right,” replied Esper. The shooter, 21-year-old Saudi military officer Mohammed Alshamrani, legally purchased the gun used in the attack, which the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism. The Navy has identified the victims of the classroom shooting as Mohammed Sameh Haitham, 19, from Florida; Cameron Scott Walters, 21, from Georgia; and Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, from Alabama. Esper confirmed that the victims were Americans but could not confirm if Americans were specifically targeted. He said friends of the shooter were detained and was told one or two of them filmed the shooting. “What's unclear is, were they filming it before it began or was it something where they picked up their phones and filmed it once they saw it unfolding?” Esper said. “That may be a distinction with or without a difference. But again, that's why I think we need to let the investigation play out.” “But I mean, that would not be a normal response to film one of your colleagues who's shooting Americans,” Wallace said. “I don't know. I'm not trying to pass a judgment on this at this point in time,” Esper responded. “Today, people pull out their phones and film everything and anything that happens.” | |
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| 12-09-19 01:20am - 1747 days | #1508 | |
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Real News: A Republican congressman is speaking the truth: Trump never asked the Ukraine about Biden. Trump has never met Biden, does not even know who that guy is. Why would Trump ask the Ukraine about someone Trump has never met, does not know? Republicans rally to Trump's defense, saying the Dems are full of hooey. Not only is Trump innocent, but many Republicans are now stating it was the Ukraine and not Russia that interferred in the US election. Can we stop wasting money and stop investigating Trump? Let's focus on making America great again. We have our leader, duly elected. Stand behind our glorious leader. And if Trump did ask the Ukraine to investigate Biden, that was perfectly legal. It's okay to have someone investigated. Trump has been investigated many times. And he has been found to be innocent. So there... ------- ------- Politics Rep. Mark Meadows Denies Trump Asked Ukraine About Biden: ‘He Didn’t Do That’ [The Daily Beast] The Daily Beast•December 8, 2019 Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) denied on Sunday morning that President Donald Trump ever asked the Ukrainian president to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, contradicting President Donald Trump’s own words. During an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, host Dana Bash immediately noted that the central charge of the impeachment inquiry against Trump is that “the president asked a leader of a foreign country to investigate his political rival.” “So, one simple question to start, is that appropriate?” Bashed wondered aloud. “Well, one, he didn't do that,” the North Carolina lawmaker replied. “I don't agree with your premise. He talked about investigations. If you look at the—the transcript, I think he said, will you do us a favor, based on the United States going through a lot, talking about 2016 elections.” Bash, however, reminded Meadows that per the rough transcript of the now-infamous July 25 phone between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump specifically mentioned Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, saying “a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great.” “He did ask,” Bash added. “You admit that, right?” Meadows answered the CNN host with a question of his own, asking her if she was “suggesting that someone who runs for president shouldn’t be investigated,” adding that the Democrats “have been investigating President Trump before he was elected.” “I mean, listen, it’s appropriate to make sure that nothing was done wrong in Ukraine,” the congressman continued. “And, indeed, that’s what he was talking about.” Later in the segment, after Meadows continued to insist this was really about rooting out Hunter Biden’s corrupt activities in Ukraine, Bash pressed him on Republicans’ lack of interest in that issue when they controlled Congress. “Well, one, I didn't—I didn't know about it at the particular time,” Meadows answered. “And when—when you look at things, as things come up, you would.” “But it was public information,” Bash countered. Following the interview and after he received some ridicule over his denial of Trump’s actual words, Meadows took to Twitter to push back and defend the president. “Questions like this make the false assumption that @realDonaldTrump had political motives. That’s not accurate. It’s not supported by the evidence,” he tweeted. “This was about making sure we weren’t sending taxpayer funded aid to a corrupt nation. Exactly what POTUS promised to do.” Read more at The Daily Beast. | |
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| 12-09-19 03:51am - 1747 days | #1509 | |
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Fake news: Russia banned from Olympics for 4 years over doping scandal. President Trump says it's all a witch-hunt and a misunderstanding. Says he will issue a presidential pardon, and will allow Russia to enter the Olympics, where he will meet and greet his best buddy Putin. "No one is going to bully my bestie," Trump tweets to the United Nations. "I stand firm with our allies." "Enemies, beware of the power of the Shadow Government!!!!!" ----- ----- Reuters Russia banned from Olympics for four years over doping scandal: TASS 57 mins ago MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia was banned from the Olympics and world championships in a range of sports for four years on Monday after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ruled to punish it for manipulating laboratory data, a WADA spokesman said. WADA's executive committee took the decision after it concluded that Moscow had tampered with laboratory data by planting fake evidence and deleting files linked to positive doping tests that could have helped identify drug cheats. The WADA committee's decision to punish Russia with a ban was unanimous, the spokesman said. Russia, which has tried to showcase itself as a global sports power, has been embroiled in doping scandals since a 2015 report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence of mass doping in Russian athletics. Its doping woes have grown since, with many of its athletes sidelined from the past two Olympics and the country stripped of its flag altogether at last year's Pyeongchang Winter Games as punishment for state-sponsored doping cover-ups at the 2014 Sochi Games. Monday's sanctions had been recommended by WADA's compliance review committee in response to the doctored laboratory data provided by Moscow earlier this year. One of the conditions for the reinstatement of Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA, which was suspended in 2015 in the wake of the athletics doping scandal but reinstated last year, had been that Moscow provide an authentic copy of the laboratory data. The sanctions effectively strip the agency of its accreditation. Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov last month attributed the discrepancies in the laboratory data to technical issues. The punishment, however, leaves the door open for clean Russian athletes to compete at major international sporting events without their flag or anthem for four years, as was the case during the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. Some Russian officials, meanwhile, have branded the call for sanctions unfair and likened it to broader Western attempts to hold back the country. If RUSADA appeals the sanctions endorsed by WADA's executive committee, the case will be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), WADA has said. (Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Editing by Andrew Osborn) | |
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| 12-09-19 03:01pm - 1746 days | #1510 | |
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Real news: Trump explains that Obama, the fake president of the US, had Trump investigated while Trump was a political candidate. This was not only immoral, but unethical. A black man having a God-fearing white man investigated? Shame on Obama. Obama will carry that shame to his grave. And Trump will pray to God for God's forgiveness to Obama, a black man who was born outside of the US and was never a true president. ------- ------- Trump: IG report documents 'attempted overthrow' of government NBC News Shannon Pettypiece Dec 9th 2019 3:59PM WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that a new Justice Department report that found a solid legal basis for the original FBI investigation of his 2016 campaign had actually documented an "attempted overthrow" of the government that was "far worse than I ever thought possible." "We're lucky we caught 'em," he said at the White House, following the release of the long-awaited report by the Justice Department's watchdog that rebutted his regular depiction of a politically biased plot against him. The report by the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that the FBI and the Justice Department launched their investigation into the 2016 campaign not for political reasons, but due to evidence the Russian government was using go-betweens to reach out to the Trump campaign as part of its efforts to influence the election. The finding undercut repeated claims by Trump has his allies that the Russia investigation was a politically-motivated "witch hunt" designed to prevent him from becoming president and that his campaign was spied on by the Obama administration. Trump sought to shift focus to the report's finding that the FBI mishandled parts of its application to monitor a former Trump campaign aide as it probed possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, rather than focusing on the conclusion that the overall investigation was justified and not politically motivated. Just months into his presidency. Trump claimed that President Barack Obama had his phones lines tapped in Trump Tower, a claim he said earlier this year "turned out to be true," despite no evidence of any such action. Today's report said that was not the case. Before the report was released, Trump had looked to promote it over the impeachment hearings taking place the same day. "I.G. report out tomorrow. That will be the big story!" he tweeted Sunday. Trump has also been seeking to shift the focus to another report being carried out by U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, who was appointed by the attorney general to look into the origins of the investigation. In an unusual move for an investigator who has yet to conclude his work, Durham said in a Monday statement that he had "advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.” | |
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| 12-11-19 07:03pm - 1744 days | #1511 | |
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Real news: Break out the Presidential pardons. An ally of Trump has been arrested for allegedly stalking an ex-girlfriend. If the woman used to be a girlfriend of the guy, he has the moral and natural right to keep track of her whereabouts. He's only trying to protect her from danger. And it doesn't matter what the woman says: just because she says something, does not mean it's true. Republicans are the only people on God's earth who speak the truth. Democrats are known to be liars. Dems are known to be scum. God praise Donald Trump, God's voice on earth. ------------ ------------ GOP candidate challenging Maxine Waters arrested for allegedly stalking ex-girlfriend HuffPost US Marina Fang Dec 11th 2019 2:45PM Omar Navarro, a Republican who has run several long-shot campaigns against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and has support from allies of President Donald Trump, was arrested early Sunday for allegedly stalking his ex-girlfriend and violating a restraining order. San Francisco police arrested Navarro after his ex-girlfriend, DeAnna Lorraine Tesoriero, reported he had been threatening her that night, according to the Daily Beast, which was the first to report on the arrest. Navarro challenged Waters in 2016 and 2018, and he is again running in 2020. Several othernews outlets later confirmed the arrest, which included charges of stalking, extortion and criminal threats. Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost. Tesoriero, a conservative commentator who is in the GOP primary in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California district, told the Daily Beast she saw Navarro wandering around near her apartment Saturday night. She then received a text message from an unknown number that read: “Bitch, I came to see you.” “Men in this country get treated unjustly, too, you have to acknowledge that,” Navarro told the Daily Beast in response to his arrest. “Just because a woman says something doesn’t mean it’s true.” Navarro appears to have a history of threatening and stalking women. In August, a judge granted Tesoriero’s request for a five-year restraining order against Navarro, citing his pattern of “harassing and stalking” her, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Tesoriero said that after they broke up, Navarro had subjected her to “endless threats” through text messages and in person. “I have not had any sleep. I’ve lost 8 pounds,” she said in court. “I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t feeling scared.” Navarro pleaded guilty in 2016 for placing an illegal tracking device on his estranged wife’s car. The judge sentenced him to a day in jail and 18 months probation. Navarro has touted support from Trump allies and right-wing figures, including InfoWars founder Alex Jones, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone, and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. In 2017, he hosted a fundraiser at one of Trump’s golf clubs in southern California. Need help? In the U.S., call 1-866-331-9474 or text “loveis” to 22522 for the National Dating Abuse Helpline. Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) for the National Domestic Violence Hotline. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 12-14-19 07:24pm - 1741 days | #1512 | |
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Real news: Can a Democrat save his soul by turning into a Republican? Can this Democrat vote against impeachment and follow his conscience? Will he then join Republicans who will go to heaven along with Donald Trump, God's messenger on Earth, who hates Democrats because they are pure evil. ----------- ----------- Rep. Jeff Van Drew, opposed to impeachment, expected to leave Democratic Party NBC News Heidi Przybyla and David K. Li and Alex Moe Dec 14th 2019 7:49PM A Democratic congressman from a swing district in southern New Jersey — who has been outspoken in his opposition to President Donald Trump's impeachment — is likely to leave the party, sources told NBC News on Saturday. Two Democratic leadership sources said they expect Rep. Jeff Van Drew to change his registration to Republican in the wake of his stance against the House Democratic-led efforts to impeach Trump. Van Drew did not immediately return a request for comment from NBC News. An internal poll conducted earlier this month for Van Drew showed he would be unlikely to win re-election to his seat in the 2nd Congressional District, which encompasses the southern tip of Jersey and includes Atlantic City. Only 28 percent of Democratic respondents said Van Drew "deserves to be re-nominated," while 58 percent said that "another Democrat" should represent the party in the district's 2020 election, according to the poll obtained by NBC News. AdChoices Van Drew was among a handful of Democrats to vote against going forward with the impeachment inquiry back in October. Since then, testimony presented at House hearings over the last few weeks that Trump asked Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate the former vice president and his son Hunter as the administration placed a hold on military funding to the country, failedto change Van Drew's mind. "My district is red — a good chunk of it — and they're definitely anti-impeachment. And then I have the part that is purple, and they are more pro-impeachment. So whatever you do, you're going to aggravate people," he told NBC News. In 2018, Van Drew won the seat with 52.9 percent of the vote. In 2016, Trump took the district after it had voted for former President Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012. In the last week, some the state's leading Democrats, including Gov. Phil Murphy, have opted not to endorse Van Drew's re-election bid. | |
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| 12-16-19 05:22am - 1740 days | #1513 | |
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Trump's allies in the House and Senate are the smartest people in Washington. They don't need to hear any evidence. Their minds are already made up. Don't try to confuse us with evidence or the truth. We know what to do, which is support Trump, no matter what. Trump is above the law. He is the president. Do or die: Do you support Trump? If not, you are a traitor and will go straight to Hell. ----------- ----------- Lindsey Graham says he's 'made up' his mind before Trump’s senate trial even starts HuffPost US Nick Visser Dec 16th 2019 5:39AM Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday he had already made up his mind about President Donald Trump’s culpability in the ongoing impeachment inquiry even though the House has yet to vote on the charges and the Senate has not yet begun any trial into his behavior. “I think what’s best for the country is to get this thing over with,” Graham, speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” said Sunday. “I am clearly made up my mind. I’m not trying to hide the fact that I have disdain for the accusations in the process.” He continued to say he didn’t “need any witnesses” during a potential trial in the Senate, even though the White House has largely blocked many officials with direct knowledge of Trump’s behavior from speaking to lawmakers. The House is set to vote on two articles of impeachment against the president in the coming days related to his behavior surrounding a call with the leader of Ukraine: One for abuse of power and the other on obstruction of Congress. Trump has been accused of pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation into a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son in exchange for the release of nearly $400 million in military aid and a prestigious visit to the White House. If the impeachment articles are passed, Trump would become just the third president in American history to be impeached. The Senate would hold a trial early next year to determine if he should be removed from office, but two-thirds of the chamber would have to vote to do so, which is unlikely as Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority. Graham is one of the president’s most vocal defenders in Congress and has long accused Democrats of attempting to overturn the results of the 2016 election. He echoed that criticism on Sunday, saying the party had begun “weaponizing impeachment.” “What you’re doing in the House is bad for the presidency. You’re impeaching the president of the United States in a matter of weeks, not months,” Graham told host Margaret Brennan, saying Trump had been “shut out” of the impeachment process. “I want to end it. I don’t want to legitimize it. I hate what they’re doing.” Contrary to Graham’s claims, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) invited Trump to participate in hearings, saying the president had the right to review any evidence leveled against him or call witnesses. The White House refused the offer, saying the effort was “highly partisan” and violated “all past historical precedent” in a scathing letter. Republican leaders have continued to defend the president throughout the impeachment process and many in the Senate have already begun to come to his defense. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he didn’t believe any member of the party in the chamber planned to vote to remove Trump from office, saying there was “no chance” the president would be ousted. McConnell also said Senate Republicans would be coordinating their positions with White House attorneys throughout the process. “We have no choice but to take it up. But we’ll be working through this process, hopefully in a short period of time, in total coordination with the White House counsel’s office and the people representing the president in the well of the Senate,” McConnell said at the time. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 12-19-19 03:06am - 1737 days | #1514 | |
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Real news: The White House is handing out Christmas cards as the House debates impeachment Gabrielle Sorto, AOL.com Dec 18th 2019 4:00PM It seems nothing is going to stop the White House from handing out Christmas cards — not even the looming impeachment of the president. As the House of Representatives began debating two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress —against President Trump on Wednesday morning, White House staffers began handing out Christmas cards to members of the Senate. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, tweeted a photo and description of the "package" he received today. Not only did senators get a White House Christmas card, but they also got a copy of Trump's scathing letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi protesting his impeachment. | |
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| 12-19-19 07:49am - 1736 days | #1515 | |
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Real news: Although Trump has been harder on Russia than any US president, Putin admires Trump. And has come to Trump's defense. Putin says that Trump will be acquitted. -------- -------- Putin: Trump impeachment 'far-fetched,' Senate will acquit The Associated Press VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and HARRIET MORRIS Dec 19th 2019 8:15AM MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin called the U.S. impeachment process “far-fetched” Thursday, making a seemingly obvious prediction that Donald Trump will be acquitted in the Senate. Putin said Thursday at his annual news conference in Moscow that the move is a continuation of the Democrats' fight against Trump. “The party that lost the (2016) election, the Democratic Party, is trying to achieve results by other means," Putin said. He likened Trump's impeachment to the earlier U.S. probe into collusion with Russia, which Putin downplayed as being groundless. Putin noted that the impeachment motion "is yet to pass the Senate where the Republicans have a majority." He added that “they will be unlikely to remove a representative of their own party from office on what seems to me an absolutely far-fetched reason.” Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors. The historic vote split along party lines Wednesday night in the U.S., much the way it has divided the nation, over a charge that the 45th president abused the power of his office by enlisting a foreign government to investigate a political rival ahead of the 2020 election. The House then approved a second charge, that he obstructed Congress in its investigation. The articles of impeachment, the political equivalent of an indictment, now go to the Senate for trial. Turning to a spat with Germany over the killing of a Georgian citizen in Berlin in August, which German prosecutors alleged had been ordered by Moscow or authorities in the Russian province of Chechnya, Putin described the victim as a “bloodthirsty killer.” He said the man, an ethnic Chechen who was accused of being responsible for the killing of 98 people in just one raid in Russia's North Caucasus and masterminding bombings on the Moscow subway system. Russian officials have denied that Moscow had any relation to the killing, Putin said that Russian law enforcement agencies had spoken to their German counterparts to demand the man's extradition, but were given the cold shoulder and never sent a formal extradition request. He likened the victim to Islamic State group militants in custody in Turkey, some of whom come from Germany, France and other European nations. “If those people come your way, will you like it?” Putin said. “Will you let them freely roam the streets like that?” He argued that law enforcement agencies in Russia and Europe need to cooperate more closely to fend off terror threats. Putin spoke on a variety of issues during the marathon news conference that was dominated by local issues, such as Russia's ailing health care system and federal subsidies for the regions. He opened it by warning about new challenges posed by global climate change, saying that global warming could threaten Russian Arctic cities and towns built on permafrost. The Russian leader added that climate changes could trigger fires, devastating floods and other negative consequences. Putin emphasized that Russia has abided by the Paris agreement intended to slow down global warming. At the same time, he noted that factors behind global climate change have remained unknown and hard to predict. Putin, who has been in power for two decades, also hailed the economic achievements of his rule. He emphasized that Russia has become the world's largest grain exporter, surpassing the U.S. and Canada — a dramatic change compared to the Soviet Union that heavily depended on grain imports. The Russian leader also pointed at industry modernization, saying that three quarters of industrial equipment is no older than 12 years. He said that the country has built three new airports, 12 new railway stations and the number of major highways has doubled. The Russian economy had suffered a double blow of a drop in global oil prices and Western sanctions that followed Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea. It has seen a slow recovery since 2017 after a two-year stagnation. | |
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| 12-19-19 08:52am - 1736 days | #1516 | |
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Fake news: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell admits he is a liar and is proud of supporting Trump. Says he will back Trump no matter what. Says the Republican party is going to fight Democrats with lies and slurs. Go, Trump, man of the people. McConnell admires Trump for his affairs with Playboy Playmates. Says he wishes he had the money and stamina Trump has, so Mitch could fuck those beauties too. ------- ------- McConnell calls Pelosi 'too afraid' to give impeachment articles to Senate NBC News Allan Smith and Frank Thorp V Dec 19th 2019 10:24AM Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., "may be too afraid" to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate after the speaker suggested she won't submit them until she believes a fair trial will take place. McConnell lambasted the impeachment from the Senate floor as "the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair ... in modern history." He said Pelosi "gave in to a temptation" and that the House impeached Trump "simply because they disagree with a presidential act." The two articles of impeachment approved by the House on Wednesday charge Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. McConnell said those articles are "fundamentally unlike any articles that any prior House of Representatives has ever passed" and the idea Democrats will withhold the articles suggests "House Democrats may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate." "Looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country and second-guessing whether they even want to go to trial," McConnell said, trashing the "comical" idea that Democrats will now "sit on their hands." Such actions "concede that their own allegations are unproven," McConnell said, suggesting that "every future president" could now face impeachment, "free to swamp the Senate with trial after trial, no matter how baseless." "The framers built the Senate to provide stability," McConnell said, adding, "To keep partisan passions from boiling over. The Senate exists for moments like this." The first article charges Trump for pushing Ukraine to announce probes into former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and Democrats at the same time he was withholding nearly $400 million in military aid and an official White House visit for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The second article charges Trump with obstructing the House's investigation into that conduct. "If the Senate blesses this slapdash impeachment, if we say from now on this is enough, then we invite an endless parade of impeachment trials," he said. Trump also expressed disdain over the idea that Democrats may not immediately submit the articles, tweeting on Thursday: "Now the Do Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles & not deliver them to the Senate, but it's Senate’s call!" "The Senate shall set the time and place of the trial," he said. "If the Do Nothing Democrats decide, in their great wisdom, not to show up, they would lose by Default!" The articles must be transmitted to the Senate before such a trial could begin. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke on the Senate floor moments after McConnell, excoriating the top Republican for "proudly" saying he had "no intention to be impartial" in the trial. He said of his Senate counterpart's earlier evisceration of Democrats' impeachment push: "What hypocrisy." "This from the man who proudly declared his number one goal was to make President Obama a one-term president," Schumer said, adding that McConnell proudly called himself the "grim-reaper" of legislation passed by the House. Earlier this week, Schumer proposed calling four Trump administration witnesses, including former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney at the Senate trial. House Democrats previously subpoenaed all four officials, who did not testify. Pointing to those witnesses, Schumer asked, "Is the president's case so weak that none of the president's men can defend him under oath?" "If the House case is so weak, why is Leader McConnell so afraid of witnesses and documents?" he added. Pelosi on Wednesday excoriated McConnell for pledging "total coordination" with the White House for the coming Senate trial, which she compared to the foreman of a jury being in "cahoots" with the defendant's attorney. "We're not sending (the articles) tonight because it's difficult to determine who the managers would be until we see the arena in which we will be participating," Pelosi said, adding, "So far, we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us, so hopefully it will be fairer, and when we see what that is, we'll send our managers." Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., tweeted that such withholding of the articles of impeachment "would be a breathtaking violation of the Constitution, an act of political cowardice, and fundamentally unfair to" Trump. "Not allowing the Senate to act on approved Articles of Impeachment becomes Constitutional extortion and creates chaos for the presidency," he continued. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., told reporters Thursday that McConnell "has a problem" because he "said that he's going to work hand in glove with the White House." Nadler added he believes McConnell "disqualified himself" as a result. | |
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| 12-24-19 08:02am - 1731 days | #1517 | |
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Republicans, like Trump and ex-Kentucky governor Matt Bevin, are men with hearts of gold. They love to issue pardons to criminals who have been wrongly imprisoned. ----- ----- FBI probing ex-Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's controversial flood of pardons: Report HuffPost US Mary Papenfuss Dec 24th 2019 9:03AM The FBI is asking questions about an avalanche of pardons granted by former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin that included those for a child rapist and the relative of a political donor, The Louisville Courier Journal reported. In the weeks before the Republican governor left office after his failed reelection bid, Bevin pardoned or reduced the sentences of at least 650 people. He pardoned a child rapist who was sentenced to 23 years in prison just last year. He also pardoned Patrick Baker, who served just two years of a 19-year sentence for reckless homicide and robbery in the slaying of a victim as his family watched. Baker’s brother hosted an event last year that raised $21,500 for Bevin. Democratic State Rep. Chris Harris told Courier Journal reporters for an article published Monday that a criminal investigator contacted him last week and asked what he knew about Bevin’s pardons. The newspaper, citing sources, reported the investigator was an FBI agent. Harris said he doesn’t know if the investigation is formal or informal. “I can tell you, at least, there are questions being asked.” he said. Bevin has said he welcomes an investigation, and denied that campaign contributions affected his decisions. Politicians in both parties have expressed outrage at Bevin’s actions. The Democratic leader in the state Senate has called for an investigation. “It’s clear there was political favoritism involved in these pardons,” Sen. Morgan McGarvey said Monday. “We have got to find out if the pardon power was abused and possibly sold to restore the public’s trust in the system.” Baker has claimed he was framed. As for the child rapist, Bevin has apparently determined on his own that the rapist was innocent because the ex-governor said the 9-year-old victim’s hymen was intact — which does not prove rape did not occur, according to experts. President Donald Trump traveled to Kentucky to campaign for Bevin in the days leading up to the November election. He suggested that votes for Bevin — as well as in the Mississippi and Louisiana gubernatorial races — would be an indication of how America was feeling about impeachment, The Wall Street Journal reported. A Republican narrowly won in Mississippi, Louisiana stuck with its Democratic governor, and the Kentucky statehouse flipped to Democratic. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 12-29-19 08:09am - 1726 days | #1518 | |
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Donald Trump, the finest, most Christ-like President of the United States. Trump preaches respect and understanding. I admire Trump. He is the hero for the entire world. ----- ----- HuffPost Trump Blasts 'Crazy' Pelosi After Calling For 'Respect' In His Christmas Message POLITICS 12/25/2019 11:52 pm ET Updated 1 day ago Trump Blasts ‘Crazy’ Pelosi After Calling For ‘Respect’ In His Christmas Message We must “foster a culture of deeper understanding and respect, traits that exemplify the teachings of Christ,” Trump said before going off the rails again. President Donald Trump in his Christmas message Wednesday urged Americans to strive to “foster a culture of deeper understanding and respect, traits that exemplify the teachings of Christ.” Hours later he bashed “crazy” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over the “scam” impeachment. “Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi ... be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States?” he angrily tweeted. Trump’s lightning-fast turnaround was not that surprising. Despite his call for Christ-like “respect,” Trump has likely set the record for the number of insulting nicknames he has hurled at foes, including “Sleazebag” former FBI Director James Comey, “Shifty” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), “Low IQ” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, “Little Rocket Man” Kim Jong Un, “Lyin’” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), “Dumbo” Randolph Alles (former head of the Secret Service), “Fat Jerry” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), “Head Clown” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), “Mr. Magoo” former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and “Dummy” former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) — to name just a fraction. Twitter critics couldn’t help pointing out the contrast between his holiday message and insulting Pelosi — and pointing out some flaws in his impeachment argument. | |
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| 12-31-19 05:23pm - 1724 days | #1519 | |
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Real News: North Korea admits that Trump is a gangster. Says it's fed up with Trump's criminal behavior. Says it will show the world that North Korea is a true superpower, with new super power weapons. Trump, talk to your best buddy Kim Jong Un. Tell him to make nice, and not threaten South Korea or Japan. Tell Kim to slip a cash payment under the table to the Trump charities, and the US and North Korea can be friends again. ---------- ---------- North Korean leader promises look at new weapon soon The Associated Press Tong-hyung Kim Dec 31st 2019 6:51PM SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the Trump administration of dragging its feet in nuclear negotiations and warned that his country will soon show a new strategic weapon to the world as its bolsters its nuclear deterrent in face of “gangster-like” U.S. sanctions and pressure. The North’s state media said Wednesday that Kim made the comments during a four-day ruling party conference held through Tuesday in the capital Pyongyang, where he declared that the North will never give up its security for economic benefits in the face of what he described as increasing U.S. hostility and nuclear threats. Kim’s comments came after a monthslong standoff between Washington and Pyongyang over disagreements involving disarmament steps and the removal of sanctions imposed on the North. “He said that we will never allow the impudent U.S. to abuse the DPRK-U.S. dialogue for meeting its sordid aim but will shift to a shocking actual action to make it pay for the pains sustained by our people so far and for the development so far restrained,” the Korean Central News Agency said, referring to the North by its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Kim added that “if the U.S. persists in its hostile policy toward the DPRK, there will never be the denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and the DPRK will steadily develop necessary and prerequisite strategic weapons for the security of the state until the U.S. rolls back its hostile policy,” according to the agency. However, Kim showed no clear indication of abandoning negotiations with the United States entirely or restarting tests of nuclear bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles he had suspended under a self-imposed moratorium in 2018. He did issue a warning that there would be no grounds for the North to get “unilaterally bound” to the moratorium any longer, criticizing the United States for continuing its joint military exercises with rival South Korea and also providing the South with advanced weaponry. “In the past two years alone when the DPRK took preemptive and crucial measures of halting its nuclear test and ICBM test-fire and shutting down the nuclear-test ground for building confidence between the DPRK and the U.S., the U.S., far from responding to the former with appropriate measures, conducted tens of big and small joint military drills which its president personally promised to stop and threatened the former militarily through the shipment of ultra-modern warfare equipment into (South Korea),” the KCNA quoted Kim as saying. Some experts say North Korea, which has always been sensitive about electoral changes in U.S. government, will avoid engaging in serious negotiations for a deal with Washington in coming months as it watches how Trump’s impending impeachment trial over his dealings with Ukraine affects U.S. presidential elections in November. Kim and President Donald Trump have met three times since June 2018, but negotiations have faltered since the collapse of their second summit last February in Vietnam, where the Americans rejected North Korean demands for broad sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities. Kim’s speech followed months of intensified testing activity and belligerent statements issued by various North Korean officials, raising concerns that he was reverting to confrontation and preparing to do something provocative if Washington doesn’t back down and relieve sanctions. The North announced in December that it performed two “crucial” tests at its long-range rocket launch site that would further strengthen its nuclear deterrent, prompting speculation that it was developing an ICBM or planning a satellite launch that would provide an opportunity to advance its missile technologies. North Korea also last year ended a 17-month pause in ballistic activity by testing a slew of solid-fuel weapons that potentially expanded its capabilities to strike targets in South Korea and Japan, including U.S. military bases there. It also threatened to lift a self-imposed moratorium on the testing of nuclear bombs and ICBMs. | |
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| 01-01-20 09:00am - 1723 days | #1520 | |
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Real news: Trump is not afraid of Kim Jong Un. He is best buddies with Kim. Kim won't send nuclear missile to land in America. Kim might nuke Japan and South Korea, to teach them a lesson in manners. But America is safe, since Trump and Kim are best buddies. Trump is a man of his word. Kim is a man of his word. So America is safe. --------- --------- Trump shrugs off Kim Jong Un's nuclear testing threat: 'He likes me' HuffPost US Dominique Mosbergen Jan 1st 2020 9:51AM Hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signaled that his country is developing a “new strategic weapon” and could soon resume testing nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles, President Donald Trump appeared to shrug off the potential threat — saying at a New Year’s Eve party that Kim “likes me” and is a “man of his word.” Kim — as reported by Korean Central News Agency, the state mouthpiece — said on Wednesday local time that he no longer felt obliged to stick to a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile testing, which he said Pyongyang has abided by for the past two years. The North Korean leader accused the U.S. of engaging in “gangster-like acts,” such as continuing to hold joint military drills with South Korea. Under such conditions, Kim said, there is no reason for Pyongyang to remain “unilaterally bound to the commitment any longer.” Kim did not go so far as to say that he was ditching nuclear negotiations with the U.S., which have stalled since 2018 when Trump and Kim made vague promises to work toward denuclearization in the Korean Peninsula during a summit in Singapore. But Kim “confirmed that the world will witness a new strategic weapon to be possessed by [North Korea] in the near future,” KCNA reported, without elaborating on the type of weapon it would be. Asked about Kim’s strong rhetoric at a New Year’s Eve bash held at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach resort, on Tuesday night, the president said only that he and Kim “get along” and had come to certain agreements in Singapore. “He likes me, I like him, we get along,” Trump said when asked about Kim’s remarks from earlier in the day. Pyongyang is 14 hours ahead of Palm Beach. “He did sign a contract, he did sign an agreement talking about denuclearization. ... That was done in Singapore, and I think he’s a man of his word, so we’re going to find out, but I think he’s a man of his word,” Trump continued. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CBS News earlier in the day that it would be “deeply disappointing” if Kim “reneged on the commitments he made to President Trump.” “He made those commitments to President Trump in exchange for President Trump agreeing not to conduct large-scale military exercises,” Pompeo said. “We’ve lived up to our commitments. We continue to hold out hope that he will live up to his as well.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-02-20 09:11pm - 1722 days | #1521 | |
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Real News: Ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich, now in prison for trying to sell Barack Obama's vacated seat in the Senate, says "We criminals need to stick together. Donald Trump was wrongly impeached. I was wrongly impeached by my enemies. I was put in prison. Donald, have a heart, and give me a pardon. Together, we will fight the Democrats and make America great again." Trump himself has said it was unfair that Rod was sent to prison. After all, all Rod did was say a few words over the phone. He did nothing wrong. It is totally unfair that Rod should be in prison over saying a few words, that were misunderstood. The man was bragging about his powers, not trying to do anything illegal." (Trump has a heart of gold, who understands that people can make mistakes. And it was a mistake to send send Rod to prison for trying to make a little extra money by selling Obama's seat in Congress. We live in the land of the Free, White, and Freedom, and Rod was only being a capitalist, like Trump is a capitalist, so let's all get along. Stop the impeachment. It's a phony witch hunt.) -------- -------- Imprisoned ex-Gov. Blagojevich says Dems would have impeached Lincoln in apparent appeal to Trump NBC News Allan Smith Jan 2nd 2020 12:58PM Rod Blagojevich, the imprisoned former Democratic governor of Illinois, authored a New Year's Day column arguing that Democrats would have impeached President Abraham Lincoln in what appeared to be an appeal to President Donald Trump for clemency. In the column, published by the conservative news outlet Newsmax, Blagojevich, said he himself "had the unhappy experience of being impeached and removed from office," which provided him with an "interesting and unique perspective about impeachment as I sit here in prison." Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was infamously caught on tape trying to sell Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat in 2008. "I've got this thing and it's f------ golden," Blagojevich was caught saying in a wiretapped phone call. "I'm just not giving it up for f-----' nothing." Blagojevich was arrested in late 2008 for trying to profit from Obama's seat but refused to resign from office. The Illinois House of Representatives impeached him in early January of the following year and state Senate unanimously voted to remove Blagojevich, who was a state representative and three-term congressman before being elected to two terms as governor, and ban him from ever holding public office in the state again. Last month, the House adopted two articles of impeachment against Trump. The first charged the president with abusing his power by pressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy — including on a July 25 phone call — to announce probes into former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and Democrats while withholding military aid to the country and an official White House visit for Zelenskiy. The second article charged Trump with obstructing Congress' investigation into his efforts. In his column, Blagojevich decried what he called Democrats' "flimsy impeachment standard" and claimed they would have impeached Lincoln for his actions during the Civil War. Blagojevich was convicted in 2010 in Chicago federal court on one of the 24 felony charges he faced — lying to the FBI — as jurors deadlocked on the other charges. During a 2011 retrial, he was convicted on corruption charges stemming attempted shakedowns involving Obama's former seat, a racetrack and a children's hospital. He accepted responsibility for his actions at his sentencing hearing and received a lighter sentence than the 15-20 years prosecutors had sought. Blagojevich has filed appeals of his conviction and had some charges vacated. He has served about half of his sentence so far. The former governor has maintained that his conviction was unfair and his wife, Patti Blagojevich, has made multiple appearances on Fox News to plead for Trump's help. Trump has expressed openness to commuting the rest of Blagojevich's sentence, which he has said for years was unfair. Blagojevich was a contestant on Trump's reality show "The Celebrity Apprentice" in 2010. Trump said last year said that the White House was "continuing the review" of whether to commute his sentence. The president also called one of Patti's 2018 Fox News interviews "required television watching." "I am thinking about commuting his sentence," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One in August. "He’s been in jail for seven years, over a phone call where nothing happens. But over a phone — where nothing happened. Over a phone call where — which, you know, he shouldn’t have said what he said, but it was braggadocio, you would say." | |
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| 01-03-20 09:23am - 1721 days | #1522 | |
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Commander in Chief Donald Trump unleashes air strike that kills Iranian general. Trump, the bravest leader of US forces the nation has ever had. Although Trump was prevented from serving in the Armed Forces due to legal and medical and other reasons, Trump relished the power to send fear into the hearts of US enemies. And as President and Commander in Chief, Trump is using the Armed Forces to strike at our enemies everywhere. Take care, Canada, because Trump knows that Canada has evil people hidden in the vast wastelands north of us. Rearadmiral, perhaps you should consider moving south, to a state in the United States, where you will be less likely to be attacked by nuclear missiles? Trump uber alles. Trump, the heir to our glorious leader. Adolf Hitler, who taught Trump bitter lessons in power management through his books, that Trump keeps by his bedside. --------- --------- Trump tweets after U.S. strike: 'Iran never won a war' NBC News Dartunorro Clark Jan 3rd 2020 10:16AM President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted his first remarks since the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, one of that country's most powerful military and political figures. "Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!" Trump tweeted Friday morning. It was not immediately clear what Trump meant by the statement. The president's first tweet, minutes after the news, was an image of the American flag. In more comments on Twitter later Friday morning, Trump said Soleimani was responsible for numerous deaths, including of thousands of Americans, and that he "was both hated and feared within the country." "General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more ... but got caught! He was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people, including the recent large number .... of PROTESTERS killed in Iran itself," Trump tweeted. "While Iran will never be able to properly admit it, Soleimani was both hated and feared within the country. They are not nearly as saddened as the leaders will let the outside world believe. He should have been taken out many years ago!" Recent polling showed that Soleimani was the most popular Iranian public figure, with eight in 10 Iranians having favorable views of him, according to a public opinion study published by the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland in October. Trump ordered the U.S. strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the high-profile commander of Iran's elite Quds Force and sometimes described as the country's second most influential person, at Baghdad International Airport on Thursday, according to the Pentagon. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed revenge in a statement on Friday after the news was confirmed, tweeting, "The great nation of Iran will take revenge for this heinous crime." Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also said a "harsh retaliation is waiting for the criminals whose filthy hands spilled his blood." Democratic leaders Congress criticized Trump's decision. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said late Thursday night that the bombing was carried out without "authorization for use of military force" or consultation with Congress and called on the administration to immediately brief lawmakers on the next steps under consideration. Republicans praised the president's action. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement late Thursday that Soleimani "had American blood on his hands" and welcomed what he called Trump’s "bold action against Iranian aggression." Graham followed up his statement in a tweet on Friday, saying the strike was "a preemptive, defensive strike" to prevent potential future attacks on Americans in the region. "He effectively signed his own death warrant by planning massive attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and throughout the Middle East," he wrote in another tweet. The strike came amid heightened tensions between the Trump administration and Tehran over rocket attacks aimed at coalition forces in Iraq. U.S. officials have said those attacks were likely carried out by Iranian-backed militias with links to the Quds Force. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Fox News interview Friday morning that the decision to kill the commander was “necessary” in the midst of what he called an “imminent attack” Soleimani had orchestrated. Pompeo said the purpose of the strike was to disrupt the attack and set “conditions for de-escalation.” Pompeo also said that growing tensions over the past two weeks necessitated the strike, adding “the restraint that President Trump had shown was important. And it's now the time we needed to take action to restore deterrence.” | |
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| 01-03-20 10:40pm - 1721 days | #1523 | |
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President Trump confesses: "God is on our side." God will strike down all sinners, including the scummy Dems who are trying to bring down our great nation. God will make America great again: Free, white, and the land of free men who can molest women without guilt. No Me Too Movement can succeed against the Will of God. Amen. ------ ------ Trump tells evangelicals that God is 'on our side' Yahoo News David Knowles Jan 3rd 2020 8:27PM Launching a political coalition called Evangelicals for Trump at a Florida megachurch on Friday, President Trump declared his belief that God supports his agenda. “I really do believe we have God on our side. I believe that. I believe that,” Trump said at King Jesus International Ministry in Kendall, Fla., adding, “or there would have been no way we could have won, right? People say how do you win, you don’t have the media, you have so many things against you, and we win. So, there has to be something.” Speaking before a crowd of roughly 7,000 people that included noted pastors such as James and Shirley Dobson, Robert Jeffress, Cissie Graham Lynch, Alveda King, Jack Graham and Alberto Delgado, Trump portrayed himself as a dream president for evangelicals. “Evangelicals, Christians of every denomination and believers of every faith have never had a greater champion, not even close, in the White House than you have right now. I think you know that.” Trump declared. “And I’m not saying that in any other way other than just look at the record.” Trump touted his pro-life agenda and his attempts to overturn the Johnson Amendment forbidding nonprofit organizations — such as churches like the one hosting his rally — from endorsing political candidates. Faith leaders pray with President Trump “Our opponents want to shut out God from the public square,” Trump said, later shifting his focus to specific critics within the Democratic Party. “These people hate Israel. They hate Jewish people. I won’t name them. I won’t bring up the name of Omar, Tlaib, AOC — I won’t bring that name up. Won’t bring it up,” Trump said. Before he left for his rally in Kendall, Trump made his first public comments on the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, casting the decision as in the interest of peace. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort. At the rally, Trump said that he had “ensured that his [Soleimani’s] atrocities have been stopped for good.” “So let this be a warning to terrorists, if you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our own citizens,” Trump said. Trump’s courtship of the religious vote comes just weeks after a leading evangelical magazine, Christianity Today, published an editorial calling for Trump’s removal from office, calling him “morally lost and confused.” Exit polls showed that upwards of 80 percent of white evangelical Christians voted for Trump in 2016. While acknowledging that support, Trump told his crowd he hoped it would be even bigger come November. “We’re going to blow those numbers away in 2020,” Trump said. | |
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| 01-04-20 03:51am - 1721 days | #1524 | |
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Terrible news. Horrible. An attractive woman who used to be a reporter at Fox news says that Donald Trump propositioned her while running for president. This is like a rat deserting a sinking ship: except the woman is very attractive, and does not look like a rat. If she jumped into my bed, I would have a hard time kicking her out. Maybe it was the woman's fault: Trump might have been feeling lonely, and wanted a little companionship. And the woman is really attractive. So it's her fault. Unless she's lying about our president, and he was only joking. Or trying to be friendly. Enquring minds want to know: are all the women who accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct liars? Or does the president lie, as he has admitted time and again? And no one believes he is telling the truth when he boasts that he lies? --------- --------- Ex-Fox News reporter Courtney Friel says Donald Trump asked her over 'to kiss' HuffPost US Ron Dicker Jan 3rd 2020 9:46PM Former Fox News reporter Courtney Friel says that Donald Trump propositioned her before he was elected president while both were married, and that the come-on compromised her reporting on his presidential campaign. Friel wrote in her new memoir “Tonight At 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News” that Trump called her “the hottest one at Fox News,” according to the New York Daily News, which reported it viewed an excerpt. Trump, in a phone call, complimented Friel’s work and asked about career goals before getting more personal, she wrote. “Out of nowhere, he said: ‘You should come up to my office sometime, so we can kiss.’” Friel said she pointed out that both were married and “quickly ended the call.” AdChoices “This proposition made it difficult for me to report with a straight face on Trump running for president,” she wrote, per the Daily News. “It infuriated me that he would call all the women who shared stories of his bold advances liars. I totally believe them.” Courtney Friel says she quickly rejected Donald Trump's advances when she was working at Fox News. “At least now I can joke that I could have banged the President — but I passed,” she added. The White House did not immediately reply to HuffPost’s request for comment. Friel worked six years at Fox News as a New York correspondent, headline anchor and fill-in host for Trump favorite “Fox & Friends” before joining Los Angeles station KTLA in 2013, according to her station bio. Dozens of women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct from the early 1980s to 2016. He denies all of the claims. In 2017, then-press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the White House believed all of the Trump accusers who came forward during the 2016 campaign were lying. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-06-20 08:24pm - 1718 days | #1525 | |
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The Republican party, defenders of truth, justice, and the American way of life. Republican congressman tweeted a picture of President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Except the picture is fake: it was a photo shopped picture of Obama shaking hands with someone else, and the Iranian president was photo shopped into the picture. The Republican congressman defended himself by saying: "No one said the photo was real." ---------- ---------- Congressman defends posting fake Obama photo: 'No one said this wasn't photoshopped' Yahoo News David Knowles Jan 6th 2020 6:41PM A Republican congressman who tweeted a picture of former President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Monday defended it as making a valid point after commenters pointed out that the two never met in person. In his original post, Gosar proclaimed that “the world is a better place without these guys in power.” Rouhani is still Iran’s president. Gosar, a former dentist who now represents Arizona’s rural Fourth District, defended posting the doctored image, writing, “no one said this wasn’t photoshopped.” But his original post did not indicate that it was faked. CNN's Andrew Kaczynski reported that the original photo showed Obama shaking hands with India's prime minister, Narenda Modi. The doctored image appears to have first been used in 2015 by a super-PAC supporting Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Gosar accused Obama of having “coddled, appeased, nurtured and protected the worlds [sic] No. 1 sponsor of terror.” That has been a Republican talking point ever since the Obama administration — together with United Kingdom, Russia, France and Germany — signed a pact with Iran that lifted economic sanctions in return for a pledge that Iran halt sensitive nuclear development and allow international inspections. “If the goal is to avoid a war, it would be wise to reject this fundamentally flawed agreement that all but guarantees a nuclear Iran,” Gosar wrote in an op-ed for the Prescott Daily Courier. Gosar became briefly notorious in 2018 when his own family made an ad urging people to vote for his opponent. In 2018, Trump pulled the U.S. out of the nuclear deal with Iran, though Tehran indicated it would abide by the terms as long as the other world powers honored it. Following the American drone strike last week that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, however, Iran reversed that decision, saying it would no longer abide by the agreement. | |
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| 01-08-20 03:36am - 1717 days | #1526 | |
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Real news: Iran claims its missile strike against US troops was self-defense against the coward President Donald Trump, the Bone Spur Commander in Chief of US troops. Please, Mr. President, we don't want another war. But maybe you need a war to get your approval ratings higher? Like you accused Obama about years ago, with a phony war to distract the US public from a poor performance. Trump, the Bone Spur commander in chief, hero of fighting men everywhere. Trump does not need a gun to fight crime. He has his bare hands, which are weapons of mass destruction. Iran is taking to twitter to defend itself against the coward Donald Trump. After Iran's missile strikes, President Donald Trump said in a tweet that "all is well!" Trump is planning further twitter strikes against Iran, if needed. ---------- ---------- Iran claims its missile strike against U.S. troops was made in 'self-defense' after Trump's 'cowardly' attack Business Insider David Choi Jan 8th 2020 5:47AM Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif claimed his country's missile attacks against Iraqi military bases housing US troops were merely "proportionate measures in self-defense." "Iran took [and] concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched," Zarif said on Twitter. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif claimed his country's missile attacks against Iraqi military bases housing US troops were merely "proportionate measures in self-defense." His statement comes as US officials estimated that around 15 missiles were launched from Iran against two Iraqi bases. There were no US service member casualties reported immediately after the attack, but futher assessments were ongoing, according to a US official who spoke to Business Insider. "Iran took [and] concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched," Zarif said on Twitter. "We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression," he added. Article 51 of the United Nations' charter says that a member has "the inherent right" to defend itself "if an armed attack occurs ... until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security." Experts on Article 51 described its terms as "sufficiently vague" and that it is difficult to prove whether military actions between its members would be justified under the article's current definition. Jared Zimmerman, writing last year as a MA candidate at American University's School of International Service, assessed that Article 51 did not answer several questions. "It does not define what constitutes an armed attack," Zimmerman previously wrote in RealClearDefense. "For example, is a cyber attack an armed attack?" The missile strike follows a series of moves that have raised tensions between Iran and the US: on Friday local time in Iraq, a US airstrike near Baghdad International Airport killed Iran's elite Quds Force commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The US claimed the attack was in response to an "imminent threat" that was perceived from Soleimani. US officials have yet to submit evidence of their claim against the Iranian general, who is widely accepted to have provided material aid to proxy forces fighting against the US. Following the killing of Soleimani, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed "harsh revenge" against the US. After Iran's missile strikes, President Donald Trump said in a tweet that "all is well!" "So far, so good," Trump tweeted, adding that US officials were still assessing the situation. "We have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far! I will be making a statement tomorrow morning." | |
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| 01-09-20 12:21pm - 1715 days | #1527 | |
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Oh For crying out loud!!!! Why does TBP continue to print this stuff. This is so off topic and it's GETTING REALLY OLD!!!. Why did Custer send the 7th to their death! Why does POTUS overuse a sunlamp! Why did the Chicken cross the road? Was General Tso really Chicken? Why IK2 DON'T YOU GET A LIFE..... Pornpundit Edited on Jan 09, 2020, 12:38pm | |
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| 01-09-20 11:06pm - 1715 days | #1528 | |
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pornpundit You could just ignore it like everyone else does. Warning Will Robinson | |
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| 01-18-20 04:15am - 1707 days | #1529 | |
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Terrible news: Trump's allies are being persecuted for their political beliefs. Chris Collins, who made hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally due to his position as a Congressman, is sentenced to 26 months in prison. Collins' lawyers argued that Collins should get a lenient sentence because he had suffered enough, by losing his Congressional seat, and the shame of being convicted of a crime. Enquiring minds want to know: is it worth going to prison for 26 months after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars? If you are charged with mail theft, you could face up to five years in federal prison and fines of up to $250,000. So maybe Collins got off easy. If the max sentence for stealing a single letter is 5 years in prison plus a fine of $250,000. ======= ======= Chris Collins, first U.S. lawmaker to endorse Trump, gets 26-month jail sentence HuffPost US Paul Blumenthal Jan 17th 2020 8:45PM A judge on Friday sentenced former Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), an early and staunch ally of President Donald Trump, to 26 months in prison after he pleaded guilty last September to conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, used his position as the largest shareholder in the Australian biotechnology company Innate Immunotherapeutics to illegally give other stockholders an inside tip that a test of the company’s main product had failed. “You were a member of the board, that has legal significance. You owed a duty to Innate and you betrayed that duty,” U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick said during the sentencing. “It makes people believe the market is rigged.” Federal prosecutors earlier this week urged a sentence of close to five years. Before falling under criminal investigation, Collins had used his Trump endorsement to raise his profile in Washington. He bragged about the clout he gained from his early backing of Trump, claiming it made him “significantly more visible.” And he was an early adopter of Trump’s bullying and blustering style, a copycat routine that has become popular throughout the GOP. Collins, who represented a district that covers much of western New York, committed the crime that sent him to prison while he was visiting the White House for a June 22, 2017, congressional picnic. He received an email from the CEO of Innate Immuno announcing that the company’s main drug the company’s future hinged on had failed a key test. Collins then called his son, another shareholder, from the South Lawn of the White House to tell him about the news and to plan for them to dump the stock. The next morning Collins, his son and the father of his son’s fiancée sold their stock in the company before the drug test failure was announced and while a freeze on trading was in place for the company’s shares in Australian stock markets. They each saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling early. The company stock plunged 92% after it publicly announced the drug’s failed test. Well before Collins broke the law, his odd position as the largest shareholder of Innate Immuno attracted attention. The Wall Street Journal and The Buffalo News both reported in January 2017 on suspicious trades Collins and other House Republican lawmakers made as Congress passed a bill that included provisions beneficial to Innate Immuno and other biotechnology firms. He also reportedly bragged to colleagues about how many “millionaires I’ve made in Buffalo.” After seeing his political profile soar as an early backer of President Donald Trump, former Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) is headed to prison. AdChoices An investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics in 2017 found that Collins violated House ethics rules by providing nonpublic information to investors and visiting the National Institutes of Health in his official capacity to discuss Innate Immuno drug trials. Collins, 69, was indicted and arrested for wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and lying to the FBI on Aug. 8, 2018. After his arrest Collins initially said he would not run for reelection in 2018. But he reversed course, ran for his seat and won by less than one percentage point. He had won reelection in 2016 with 67% of the vote. His resignation from office became official last Oct. 1. Collins was first elected to his House seat in 2012. A former mechanical engineer and business owner, he served as Erie County executive from 2007-11. Throughout the investigation into his illegal conduct, Collins struck a Trumpian pose as an innocent targeted as part of a “partisan witch hunt.” He attacked The Buffalo News for “making up fake news on folks [the paper] can’t beat at the ballot box.” He called his then-colleague Rep. Louise Slaughter, a Buffalo-area Democrat who has since died, a “despicable human being” for filing an ethics complaint against him. And he attacked investigations into his activities as a “partisan witch hunt.” In the wake of his guilty plea, his lawyers argued in court for a lenient sentence, saying his actions were impulsive and that he has suffered enough by losing his political career. Collins’ son and the father of his fiancée also pleaded guilty in the case and await sentencing Quickly joining Collins in early 1026 as Trump’s second official backer on Capitol Hill was then-Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) ― who also now faces prison time. Huner pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws in December, gave up his House seat earlier this week and awaits sentencing. Like Collins, Hunter initially characterized the charges facing him as a “witch hunt.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-18-20 09:34am - 1706 days | #1530 | |
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Donald Trump, the man who criticized Obama for taking time off to play golf while president, the man who said he would never take time off to play golf if elected, because the job of president was too important to waste time playing golf. Strange how reality works. Trump has spent three times the total number of days as Obama did at golf resorts at comparable times in their administrations. In addition, Obama’s far fewer trips were cheaper for the public because he often played at military bases within a short drive from the White House. Trump's golf trips have cost about $132 million for US taxpayers. Some of that money has gone into Trump's pockets, since he has refused to divest his businesses. So he is violating the Constitution's domestic emoluments clause, which prohibits presidents from accepting benefits beyond salary from the federal or any state government. ------- ------- Trump's golf trips to Mar-a-Lago cost county $13.8 million for local security HuffPost US Mary Papenfuss Jan 17th 2020 7:52PM President Donald Trump’s 27 trips to play golf at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida have cost Palm Beach County $13.8 million for local security as of spring 2019, according to county documents. U.S. taxpayers have already reimbursed the county $10 million for expenditures through September 2018, according to The Palm Beach Post. The county is still awaiting an additional $3.8 million for expenses racked up through October 2019. The local figure is on top of $118 million in travel and federal security costs Trump has saddled U.S. taxpayers with for the 227-plus days he has spent during his presidency at his various golf resorts, according to a HuffPost analysis as of his winter vacation in December. That’s the equivalent of a 296 years of a presidential salary. A chunk of those costs flows into Trump’s own pockets, as Secret Service agents and presidential support staff pay to stay and eat at his resorts while accompanying the president. The White House refuses to disclose records that would reveal how much the president is profiting from his own trips. Local governments rack up their own separate costs when Trump travels to his golf resorts. He often spends warm-weather weekends and his summer vacation at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Most of the Palm Beach County money has paid for overtime for sheriff’s deputies. Local law enforcement officers escort Trump’s motorcade, man checkpoints, direct traffic, guard Mar-a-Lago and handle bomb-sniffing dogs. From the time of Trump’s election in November 2016 to his inauguration in January 2017, local agencies spent nearly $1 million on his Mar-a-Lago visits, according to the newspaper. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is attempting to hide total Secret Service costs for Trump’s frequent getaways until after the presidential election, The Washington Post reported. Trump often complained before and during his 2016 campaign about the time former President Barack Obama spent golfing. But Trump has spent three times the total number of days as Obama did at golf resorts at comparable times in their administrations. In addition, Obama’s far fewer trips were cheaper for the public because he often played at military bases within a short drive from the White House. Unlike previous presidents, Trump has refused to divest from his businesses. He continues to promote and profit from his golf resorts on the taxpayer’s dime. Critics complain he is violating the Constitution’s domestic emoluments clause, which prohibits presidents from accepting benefits beyond salary from the federal or any state government. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-19-20 06:22am - 1705 days | #1531 | |
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Trump, the greatest President the US has ever had. He will make all Americans millionaires. Every penny you have saved will turn into a hundred million dollars. Trump will turn the memory of Hitler into God's angel on earth. The heavenly angels will sing Trump's praises. Just listen to Trump, and we will live the land of the Free, White, God-fearing America. ------ ------ Trump claims he ‘saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare.’ How? Yahoo News Christopher Wilson Jan 13th 2020 11:20AM President Trump misrepresented his administration’s health care record while disputing the premise of a campaign ad by Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg. “Mini Mike Bloomberg is spending a lot of money on False Advertising,” wrote Trump in a series of tweets Monday morning.” I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now, while at the same time winning the fight to rid you of the expensive, unfair and very unpopular Individual Mandate and, if Republicans win in court and take back the House of Represenatives [sic], your healthcare, that I have now brought to the best place in many years, will become the best ever, by far. I will always protect your Pre-Existing Conditions, the Dems will not!” Trump’s “win in court” reference is about a lawsuit, backed by the Justice Department, that if successful would result in the overturning of the Affordable Care Act (the ACA, or Obamacare). If that happens, many Americans with pre-existing conditions could lose their coverage entirely or face significantly higher premiums, unless and until an alternative is passed. Without protections for pre-existing conditions provided by Obamacare, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated in 2015 that up to 52 million people could be denied coverage. Others would lose insurance if the Medicaid expansion that was adopted by dozens of states and D.C. was killed. A full repeal with no immediate replacement plan could also hurt the fight against opioid addiction and HIV. Republicans insist they want to pass a plan that requires insurers to offer coverage for pre-existing conditions, but analysts consider that meaningless without a mechanism to control or subsidize premiums. Insurers will not, on their own, cover people with predictable medical expenses at a price that guarantees they will lose money. That was the problem the ACA sought to address with its controversial individual mandate, which was meant to spread the cost of insurance over a broader base that would include healthy people. That mandate was repealed in the 2017 Republican tax bill. Bloomberg’s campaign has been running an ad that characterizes Trump's plan as "repealing Obamacare, threatening coverage for millions of Americans." Trump promised “the best [health care] ever by far” if Republicans retake the House, but in the first two years of his term, the GOP did have control of the House of Representatives and made a sustained effort to replace Obamacare with a new plan. The Congressional Budget Office found in March 2017 that the American Health Care Act (AHCA), their proposed replacement, would have knocked 14 million people off of insurance in one year and 24 million more by 2026, while the AARP estimated it would raise health care costs for older Americans by thousands of dollars. The Republican House passed an amended version of the AHCA in May 2017, leading to a Rose Garden celebration with Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, but it died in the Senate. The legislation would have slashed Medicaid for low-income Americans, despite Trump’s repeated promises to the contrary. The July 2017 “skinny repeal” vote that barely failed in the Senate following “no” votes from Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain was estimated by the CBO to result in 16 million more uninsured Americans by 2026 and a 20 percent rise in premiums. Actuaries calculated that thousands more Americans would have died sooner if the Obamacare replacements had passed. Trump has promised the best health care plan with no real details since the early days of his campaign. Trump began making the promises in a September 2015 interview with “60 Minutes,” making vague promises when pressed by Scott Pelley on how he would fix it. “There’s many different ways, by the way,” said Trump. “Everybody’s got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, ‘No, no, the lower 25 percent that can’t afford private.’ But— “Universal health care?” interjected Pelley. “I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not,” said Trump. “Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.” AdChoices “The uninsured person is going to be taken care of how?” asked Pelley. “They’re going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably—” “Make a deal?” asked Pelley. “Who pays for it?” “The government’s gonna pay for it,” promised Trump. “But we’re going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it’s going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.” “We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” he reiterated in a January 2016 interview with the Washington Post. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.” Upon taking office, Trump continued to make promises of a hypothetical ideal health care plan. “We have a plan that I think is going to be fantastic. It’s going to be released fairly soon,” Trump said after a February 2017 meeting with health insurers. “I think it’s going to be something special … I think you're going to like what you hear.” The following day, he pointed out something that those who have worked on health care policy have known for decades: It’s extremely complicated. “We have come up with a solution that’s really, really I think very good,” Trump said. “Now, I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” In an April interview with Fox News, Trump again promised, “incredible health care that the Democrats, frankly, wouldn’t know how to do.” The former New York City mayor’s campaign account retweeted Trump’s Monday morning rebuttal with “@ us next time.” The billionaire has spent tens of millions of his personal fortune on television advertising targeting Trump and has promised to continue spending through the general even if he is not the Democratic nominee. _____ | |
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| 01-20-20 12:47am - 1705 days | #1532 | |
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Republicans are finally telling the truth. Things happen. If President Trump wants to lie and steal, even murder someone, he is only human. People are not perfect. Trump is not perfect. So we can forgive Trump for not being perfect. Remember, we are a nation, and Trump is our leader. And God Himself selected Trump to be our leader. Don't follow Satan. Follow Trump. Or else God will strike you down for being a sinner. Donald Trump was impeached. That was a mistake. Trump did not commit an impeachable offense. There are no impeachable offenses, when you are the President of the United States. The Constitution is only a piece of paper, written by old men who died a long time ago. We are a nation of lawyers. The law says that Trump is innocent until proven guilty. And Republicans will never admit that Trump is guilty. He's the President, you dummies. -------- -------- Republican senator on Trump soliciting foreign interference: 'Things happen' Yahoo News Kadia Tubman Jan 20th 2020 12:25AM Republican Sen. Richard Shelby defended an argument from President Trump’s legal team that soliciting foreign interference in an election is not an impeachable offense, saying, “things happen.” When asked if Trump’s months-long campaign to pressure Ukraine into investigating his political rival was improper, the Alabama senator told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” “Well, I don't know that has been actually proven.” “That's all in dispute, of what happened, whether the Russians were involved in it, whether Ukrainians involved in it, who was involved in it and to what extent,” Shelby continued. “But I've never seen anything where Trump actually was involved in.” Stephanopoulos pushed back on Shelby, pointing to Trump publicly calling for China and Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential frontrunner. “Well, those are just statements, political,” Shelby responded. “They make them all the time.” “So it's OK?” Stephanopoulos asked. Sen. Richard Spencer “I didn't say it was OK,” Shelby said. “I said people make them — people do things. Things happen.” “Well, this is the president of the United States,” Stephanopoulos countered. “Well, still the president of the United States is human. And he's going to make mistakes of judgment and everything else. They have historically, both parties, both from the beginning of our republic,” Shelby asserted. Trump, who has held onto GOP support through his impeachment, lauded his party for its steadfastness days ahead of his Senate trial, tweeting on Sunday, “I have never seen the Republican Party as Strong and as Unified as it is right now. Thank you!” Shelby, citing Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard professor and recent addition to Trump’s defense team, said he didn’t believe such “mistakes” rise “to the standard of an impeachable offense.” Dershowitz, who also appeared on “This Week” Sunday to make the constitutional case against impeachment, argued that the president should not be impeached for even if evidence and arguments from the House impeachment managers prove Trump abused the powers of his office. “When you have somebody who, for example, is indicted for a crime — let's assume you have a lot of evidence — but the grand jury simply indicts for something that’s not a crime, and that’s what happened here,” Dershowitz said. “You have a lot of evidence, disputed evidence, that could go both ways, but the vote was to impeach on abuse of power, which is not within the constitutional criteria for impeachment, and obstruction of Congress.” Stephanopoulos went on to ask Dershowitz, “As a citizen, do you think it's OK for a president to solicit foreign interference in our election?” Dershowitz said, “There's a big difference between what's OK — what's OK determines ... what you vote for, who you vote for.” “I’m a liberal Democrat who’s been critical of many of the policies of the president,” he continued. “I’m here as a constitutional lawyer, a lawyer who’s taught for 50 years constitutional criminal procedure at Harvard, taught a course on impeachment, taught a course on constitutional litigation.” “So you don’t think it’s OK?” Stephanopoulos pressed. “If the allegations are not impeachable, then this trial should result in an acquittal, regardless of whether the conduct is regarded as OK by you or by me or by voters,” Dershowitz said. “That’s an issue for the voters.” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment manager, called the argument against impeachment by Trump’s legal team an “absurdist position.” "You had to go so far out of the mainstream to find someone to make that argument," Schiff said, referring to Dershowitz who defended convicted wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “You had to leave the realm of constitutional law scholars and go to criminal defense lawyers.” Schiff continued: “The logic of that absurdist position that’s being now adopted by the president is he could give away the state of Alaska, he could withhold execution of sanctions on Russia for interfering in the last election, to induce or coerce Russia to interfere in the next one.” “The mere idea of this would have appalled the founders, who were worried about exactly that kind of solicitation of foreign interference in an election for a personal benefit, the danger it poses to national security,” he added. “That goes to the very heart of what the framers intended to be impeachable.” | |
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| 01-21-20 08:08am - 1703 days | #1533 | |
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President Trump should be fired from his job for allowing the country to spend millions of dollars on a hoax. The impeachment trial is a hoax, President Trump states. Yet he has allowed Congress and the Democrats to spend millions of dollars on this hoax. Do we need a president that allows Democrats to spend our taxpayer dollars in such a wasteful way? We don't. Fire Trump, and replace him with someone who can lead the country better. As a side note: throw all Republicans in prison. Take away their salaries and bonuses and retirement accounts. Then burn them at the stake, to save on our heating bills. Republicans are the "Say Nothing Party, the Do Nothing Party." So they deserve to be burned at the stake. God bless America. God bless the Democratic party. Kill a Republican. Make America great again. And lock Trump up. He deserves to be put in prison. ------- ------- Trump calls impeachment trial a long-running 'hoax' at summit for world elite NBC News Shannon Pettypiece Jan 21st 2020 7:32AM DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump called the impeachment trial set to start in Washington later on Tuesday a long-running "hoax" after landing in Davos. "It's been going on for years," the president said at Swiss mountain summit of the world's elite hours before senators in Washington kick-off proceedings. "Look forward to being here, meeting with biggest companies in the world, for the benefit of the United States," he added in a speech to some of the world's richest and most influential people. Trump is using the moment on the world stage to divert attention from the drama playing out back home and give the appearance of a president hard at work. It’s a strategy used by former President Bill Clinton, who scheduled events across the country during his impeachment though didn’t travel abroad. “It’s an opportunity to speak about the recent trade deals he’s made, as well as our booming economy,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said earlier. The conference is “also a good chance to speak with world leaders on a variety of other topics. He’s the president of the United States, his work doesn’t stop because of the silliness going on in D.C.” Trump spoke to a crowd of mostly business elites, many of whom have benefited from the surge in the stock market under his term as well as his corporate tax cuts. Despite Trump's populist, anti-globalist rhetoric that helped get him elected, Trump has sought to bolster his relationship with Wall Street and the business community, often inviting executives to the White House and touting how his administration has enriched them. Trump has meetings throughout the day with business executives, the prime minister of Pakistan, president of the European Commission, and president of the Swiss Confederation. He is expected to travel back to Washington on Wednesday. Those meetings could also give Trump the opportunity to take questions from reporters during photo ops. The Senate will resume their impeachment trial Tuesday afternoon where a number of procedural items are expected to be raised. Arguments by Democrats will begin Wednesday at 1 p.m. when Trump is scheduled to be traveling back from Davos. Trump signed the first phase of a hard-hard-fought trade deal last week with China, capping a bitter 18-month battle between the world's two largest economies that has roiled markets and slowed economic growth worldwide. The U.S. unemployment rate held steady at 3.5 percent in December, but the months payroll and wage growth missed expectation. | |
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| 01-21-20 08:43am - 1703 days | #1534 | |
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President Trump has decided the US Constitution is no longer valid. He will submit a new Constitution, that is easier to read, and more useful. Since Trump will be the guiding light for the new Constitution, everyone will be happy, and be allowed to read the Constitution, even while at home or at work or on holiday. The entire nation will thank our President, Donald Trump. And the impeachment process will go away, since that's one of the first things Trump will write about in the new Constitution. Donald Trump, President for Life. And Ivanka Trump, First Daughter, second President for Life after Donald Trump. The House of Trump will reign in America for the next 1,000 years. Heil Trump, the bestest leader since we lost Adolf Hitler. ------- ------- The White House “It’s Like a Foreign Language”: Donald Trump’s Encounter With the Constitution Did Not Go Well While being filmed for a documentary, the president stumbled through his chosen passage, taking his frustration out on everyone around him, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig write in A Very Stable Genius. By Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig January 20, 2020 Image may contain Coat Clothing Suit Overcoat Apparel Human Person Tie Accessories Accessory Audience and Crowd Donald Trump in the Blue Room.From AP/Shutterstock. On March 1, 2017, nearly six weeks after President Trump had raised his right hand and swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, he struggled to read aloud the words of the founding document. A film crew had come to the White House to record the new president reading a section of the Constitution. Trump chose to participate in the HBO production because he did not want to forgo the chance to be filmed for history, and he knew that as the sitting president he would be the documentary’s most important character. The documentary, titled The Words That Built America, was directed by Alexandra Pelosi, a daughter of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Her conceit was that the country was starkly divided after the ugliness of the 2016 campaign, but the founding documents remained a unifying force for the nation’s factions. Pelosi and her team had a novel and distinctly bipartisan hook: All six living presidents, as well as six vice presidents, would join in reading the Constitution on camera, and other political figures and actors would read portions of the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. Each performance would be edited to create a lively, unabridged reading of the treasured documents that have united the nation for more than two centuries. On March 1, Pelosi and her crew arrived at the White House, and as they were getting ready in the Blue Room, Trump entered the opulent parlor, which sits at the center of the residence’s first floor and opens onto the South Portico. The Blue Room, distinguished by its French blue draperies and gold wallpaper, is steeped in history. It was where President Grover Cleveland and his wife exchanged wedding vows in 1886, and every December the White House’s primary Christmas tree is erected at the center of the oval-shaped room. On this day Trump seemed stiff and uncomfortable. Though he was technically in his own home, he did not greet his guests. Rather, he stood waiting for someone to approach him. Pelosi moved in to thank Trump for participating in this special history project, but he appeared to have no idea who she was, apparently not briefed on her political lineage or her role as the director. The president asked for some water, and with no staff bringing any to him, Pelosi handed him a bottle of Aquafina from her purse. “I’ve been into the White House,” Pelosi later said of visits to see previous presidents. “There are always protocols. Here there were no rules, no protocol.” She added, “There’s so much wrong with the whole thing. I’m thinking, Isn’t there someone who’s supposed to guard what he’s eating and drinking?” A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. Meanwhile, a White House staffer gave the other crew members instructions about what they could and could not do with the president. The very first rule was for the makeup artist: Do not touch the president’s hair. On his face, light powder only. The next instruction was for the technical crew: Could they make the lighting a little more orange? The president preferred a warm glow on camera. The mention of “orange” struck some in the room as an odd choice. Outside the bubble of the White House, late-night TV show hosts and cartoonists had been mocking the perpetually orange hue of Trump’s skin. Pelosi had let presidents and vice presidents choose the portion of the Constitution they wanted to read. Many were wary of reading the section on the rules for impeachment or foreign emoluments. Trump had selected the opening of Article II, the part of the Constitution that addresses a president’s election and the scope of his or her power. It would normally have been the perfect selection for a president—but was an ironic one for Trump, who had spoken of his desire to exercise his executive power as much as possible, including by threatening Congress and challenging the judiciary. With LED lights on stilts in front of him, Trump took his seat. “You’re lucky you got the easy part,” Pelosi told him cheerfully. “It gets complicated after this.” But the president stumbled, trying to get out the words in the arcane, stilted form the founding fathers had written. Trump grew irritated. “It’s very hard to do because of the language here,” Trump told the crew. “It’s very hard to get through that whole thing without a stumble.” He added, “It’s like a different language, right?” The cameraman tried to calm Trump, telling him it was no big deal, to take a moment and start over. Trump tried again, but again remarked, “It’s like a foreign language.” The section, like many parts of the Constitution, was slightly awkward—an anachronistic arrangement of words that don’t naturally trip off the tongue. Members of the crew exchanged looks, trying not to be obvious. Some believed Trump would eventually get it, but others were more concerned. The president, already bristling about his missteps, was getting angry. He chided the crew, accusing them of distracting him. “You know, your paper was making a lot of noise. It’s tough enough,” Trump said. “Every time he stumbled, he manufactured something to blame people,” another person in the room recalled. “He never said, ‘Sorry, I’m messing this up.’ [Other] people would screw up and say, ‘Ohhhh, I’m sorry.’ They would be self-effacing. He was making up excuses and saying there were distracting sounds.… He was definitely blaming everyone for his inability to get through it. That was prickly, or childish.” Though stiff, he eventually made it through without any errors. Trump presented a stark contrast to many other readers, including the Supreme Court associate justice Stephen Breyer, who read as if he knew the full text by heart, and Senator Ted Cruz, who “knew it from beginning to end” as a result of performing dramatic readings of the Constitution as a high school student, according to Pelosi. “Donald Trump is a celebrity and he came to perform,” she said. “He had not practiced it beforehand. I don’t think anyone would show up to read the Constitution without practicing it first.” Whatever the reason for Trump’s discomfort with the reading, several watching agreed on this much: He behaved like a brooding child, short-tempered, brittle, and quick to blame mystery distractions for the mistakes. “I didn’t expect this, but I felt sorry for him,” another witness said. “When [Vice President] Pence is reading it, when [former vice president [Dick] Cheney is reading it, I knew they knew the Constitution. And I thought, Before he got this job, he really should have read it.” From A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, to be published on January 21, 2020, by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright  2020 by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. | |
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| 01-26-20 07:33am - 1698 days | #1535 | |
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True facts: Alan Dershowitz is a lawyer. How can you tell when he lies? When his mouth moves. When Bill Clinton was president, Dershowitz argued that there "doesn't have to be a crime" to impeach a president who is "somebody who completely corrupts the office." Now that Trump is president, Dershowitz argues that “criminal-type behavior is required" for impeachment. Also, before Trump became president, Dershowitz called Trump a “destabilizing and unpredictable candidate,” warning that the then-presidential candidate “openly embraces fringe conspiracy theories peddled by extremists.” Now that Trump is president, Dershowitz says his words were just typical campaign rhetoric. Dershowitz says he is defending Trump on “principle.” Dershowitz's principles seem as firm as quicksand. Or maybe loose bowel movements. ----------- ----------- Alan Dershowitz labeled Trump 'destabilizing and unpredictable' in 2016 book NBC News Heidi Przybyla and Peter Alexander and Hallie Jackson Jan 26th 2020 9:43AM WASHINGTON — As part of President Donald Trump's impeachment defense team, Alan Dershowitz is expected to argue on behalf of the president at the Senate trial early next week. But in a 2016 book he authored, the famed defense attorney called Trump a “destabilizing and unpredictable candidate,” warning that the then-presidential candidate “openly embraces fringe conspiracy theories peddled by extremists.” Dershowitz wrote those statements in his book titled “Electile Dysfunction: A Guide for Unaroused Voters.” As part of Trump’s defense team, Dershowitz will outline the “foundations of what it means to rise to the level of what is impeachable and what is not,” Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s lead impeachment lawyers, said this week on Fox News. In a phone call with NBC about his comments in the 2016 book, Dershowitz clarified his views about the president. “I was campaigning for Hillary Clinton at the time. I hadn’t really ever met President Trump and it was just typical campaign rhetoric," he said. "I would not repeat that characterization today having met him.” The controversial defense attorney has recently come under criticism for advancing a constitutional theory that contradicts the stance he took during the 1999 impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton, an argument that 500 of the nation’s top constitutional scholars dispute. In that instance, Dershowitz said there "doesn't have to be a crime" to impeach a president who is "somebody who completely corrupts the office." Now, he is arguing that “criminal-type behavior is required." In a recent opinion letter to the New York Times, Dershowitz said he is defending Trump on “principle.” “I have stood on principle, representing people with whom I disagree as well those with whom I agree. I have never made a distinction based on partisanship,” wrote Dershowitz. In the Sept. 6, 2016 book, published just before the election, Dershowitz argued that “the American electorate is plagued by a widespread feeling of impotence.” He framed the choice in the 2016 election as between “a destabilizing candidate who shoots from the hip and engages in personal vendettas (Trump) against a force for stability, who carefully measures her words and bases her actions (at least most of the time) on tested policies (Clinton).” AdChoices The longtime Democrat included his views of how Trump had violated the norms of business, political and personal decorum. “It may seem strange that the most successful populist candidate in modern history is a New York City multimillionaire who started his career as a landlord and who made his fortune on upscale real estate; has become famous for firing people; has exploited bankruptcy laws to hurt small-business owners, workers, and other creditors; has insulted large groups of people comprising a majority of voters (women, Latinos, the physically challenged, Muslims); has used vulgar words on TV that offend Christians, parents of young children, and family-oriented people of all backgrounds.” Dershowitz also warned of Trump’s approach to foreign policy: “What is clear is that Trump is prepared to violate existing international and domestic laws, as well as widely accepted principles of human rights, in his effort to stop terrorism.” “Even more disturbingly, Trump has sometimes lurched into the realm of dog-whistle anti-Semitism by half-heartedly courting the support of white-nationalist bigots,” he wrote. The onetime celebrity defense attorney and retired Harvard professor who often appears on cable news is the latest Trump defender to have at one time disparaged the president in harsh terms. Other examples include Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who during the 2016 race called Trump a “jackass” and a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” | |
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| 01-26-20 11:45am - 1698 days | #1536 | |
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Fake news: Donald Trump is God's emissary on earth. He will bring peace and harmony and good will to men everywhere. But until that happens, beware: watching the impeachment trial can make people upset. A man watching the impeachment trial allegedly grew so upset he choked and punched his girlfriend. However, as with most people in the world, the man himself has a different story: he says he got into an argument with his girlfriend, she turned aggressive, and that's why he pushed her away. Smooth talk for the man. The woman reportedly had red marks on her neck and right cheek. No signs of aggression on the man's body were reported. But the man was arrested and released on $5,000 unsecured bail. So I guess it's a man's world: being released on $5,000 unsecured bail, after allegedly choking and hitting a woman. What is unsecured bail? In an unsecured bail bond the defendant signs a contract and agrees to appear before the court. If s/he fails to do so, s/he promises to pay later the agreed bail bond amount before the court. -------- -------- Man chokes girlfriend after watching Trump impeachment trial makes him 'upset' Gabrielle Sorto, AOL.com Jan 23rd 2020 11:26AM A Pennsylvania man grew so "upset" while watching the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, he allegedly choked and punched his girlfriend when she suggested they watch something else. Lonnie D. Clark, 53, faces charges of strangulation, simple assault and harassment, USA Today reported. Police responded to the Scottish Inn, where Clark lives, Tuesday evening after his girlfriend called 911. The woman reported that Clark had assaulted her, documents obtained by USA Today said. The woman reportedly had red marks on her neck and right cheek. She told police her boyfriend had been drinking and watching the impeachment trial all day and began to get "upset." When the woman told Clark she "would like to watch something else," he began to curse at her and called her "dumb" and "stupid," USA Today reported. She was on Clark's lap when she attempted to calm him down, but he began choking her with both hands to the point that she could barely breathe, documents state. When she broke away and tried to leave, Clark punched her twice and pushed her several times. AdChoices "She advised that she was scared to come back to the room until police arrived," documents said Clark told police the couple had gotten into an argument and it was the woman who turned aggressive, which is why he claims he pushed her away, police said. The 53-year-old man was arraigned on the charges and released on $5,000 unsecured bail. He has a preliminary hearing before scheduled for Feb. 24, according to USA Today. The Senate impeachment trial enters its third day Thursday, which is Democratic managers' second of three days to present their case, CNN reported. | |
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| 01-27-20 07:30am - 1697 days | #1537 | |
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Trump suggests that his critics are enemies who should be bullied, scorned, and lied to. Business as usual, with Trump. The man is a corrupt piece of ca-ca. The president of the US who acts more like a dictator than a man who tries to serve the public. -------- -------- Trump suggests NPR shouldn’t exist after heated Mike Pompeo interview HuffPost US Nina Golgowski Jan 26th 2020 3:57PM President Donald Trump has once again questioned why National Public Radio exists after it reported on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s foul-mouthed interview with one of its reporters who asked him about Ukraine. Trump on Sunday agreed with comments posted on Twitter that labeled the nonprofit media organization a “big-government, Democrat Party propaganda operation” and asked why it receives government funding. “A very good question!” Trump responded. Trump has repeatedly called to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which contributes to funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). According to NPR’s website, fees paid by NPR’s member stations make up the largest portion of its revenue. Less than 1% of NPR’s annual operating budget is covered by grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments. AdChoices Trump pushed his latest attack on NPR after reporter Mary Louise Kelly, who co-hosts the news program “All Things Considered,” revealed on Friday that Pompeo yelled at her while using the “F-word and many others” after she questioned him about the war-torn country in an interview that she was asked not to audio-record. “I was taken to the Secretary’s private living room where he was waiting and where he shouted at me for about the same amount of time as the interview itself,” she said. “He was not happy to have been questioned about Ukraine.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly went off on an NPR reporter for asking him questions about Ukraine during an interview. Pompeo has defended his behavior and accused Kelly in a statement of breaking an agreement that his comments to her would be off the record. He also accused her of not being able to find Ukraine on a map when directed. Kelly had previously reported that she correctly identified Ukraine, which is Europe’s second-largest country after Russia, when Pompeo demanded she point it out. Kelly, who has a master’s degree in European studies from Cambridge University, has said that Pompeo never asked for their conversation to be off the record. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-29-20 03:17pm - 1695 days | #1538 | |
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Fake news: Bill Clinton breaks down in tears. Confesses that he should have had Donald Trump as his chief advisor during the impeachment process. Bill says: "If only I would have been smart enough to hire Donald Trump as my chief advisor. I would never have let the scurvy Democrats and even more vile Republicans drag me down into the swamp of Washington's sewer. I would have unleashed the full fury and might of my office, to reveal the treasonous attacks on the office of the president. Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr, and other traitors would have been charged with high crimes and misdemeanors, and put before a firing squad to clean the swamp of evil in Washington. May God forgive me for letting our nation down, for letting the evil scum attack me without fighting back. Trump would have led the charge against these evil men. Trump is my hero. --------- --------- White House issues formal threat to Bolton to keep him from publishing book HuffPost US Ja'han Jones Jan 29th 2020 2:06PM The White House has issued a formal threat to former national security adviser John Bolton warning him against publishing an upcoming book that alleges Trump abused the power of the presidency, according to a CNN report. The warning ― which CNN says came in the form of a letter ― follows a New York Times report outlining key allegations of Trump’s misconduct believed to have been included in Bolton’s soon-to-be-released book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” See the letter, via Associated Press reporter Zeke Miller, below: The letter shared by Miller claims the manuscript of Bolton’s book contains “significant amounts of classified information,” including information classified as “top secret.” Trump posted multiple derisive tweets about Bolton on Wednesday morning, criticizing Bolton’s time working for the administration and, without evidence, claiming the former national security adviser’s book is “untrue.” Bolton is widely seen as a possible key witness in Trump’s ongoing impeachment trial, which centers on allegations Trump withheld aid from Ukraine to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate pro-Russia conspiracy theories and former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump’s political rival. Several White House officials testified that Bolton disagreed with Trump’s conduct at the time and actively worked to stop it. On Jan. 6, Bolton announced he was willing to testify if called during the impeachment trial currently happening in the Senate. Trump and some of his allies in Congress have argued against Bolton’s testimony, but on Monday, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said it seems “increasingly likely” GOP senators will vote to have Bolton testify. “I think it’s important for us to hear from John Bolton,” Romney said. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 02-02-20 01:34pm - 1691 days | #1539 | |
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Real news: Now that the presidential campaigns are out, the real truth is being revealed: Trump says that Bloomberg is a little man. Bloomberg needs a box to stand on, when he talks. But Bloomberg's aides say that Trump, our glorious commander in chief, "is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan." Stay tuned to find out the real truth about Trump: (I always wondered about Trump's hair and his tan. And I thought he might be fat. But to hear from an expert, just confirms my beliefs.) ----------- ----------- Bloomberg campaign replies to Trump insults with a few of their own Yahoo News Colin Campbell Feb 2nd 2020 1:55PM President Trump seems to have former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on his mind at the moment. In three tweets early Sunday morning, Trump repeatedly mocked the Democratic presidential candidate’s height. And in a Fox News interview set to be released ahead of the Super Bowl, Trump continued that train of thought. “Uh, very little,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity, an informal adviser of the president, when asked about Bloomberg. “I just think of little. You know, now he wants a box for the debates to stand on. OK, it’s OK. There’s nothing wrong. You can be short.” Bloomberg campaign spokesperson Julie Wood issued a scathing response. "The president is lying," she said in a statement. "He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan." Bloomberg campaign spokesperson Julie Wood didn't hold back in response to Trump's attack. "The president is lying," she said in a statement. "He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan." Trump went on to criticize the Democratic National Committee for its new rules for the Feb. 19 primary debate, which will no longer require candidates to meet a donor threshold to participate. Past Democratic debates have required participants to have hundreds of thousands of donors, and some candidates have not made the debate stage as a result. Bloomberg, one of the wealthiest people on the planet, is funding his own late-entry campaign and is not seeking donors. “The other thing that’s very interesting,” Trump told Hannity, “Cory Booker and all these people couldn’t get any of the things that Bloomberg is getting now. I think it’s very unfair for the Democrats. But I would love to run against Bloomberg. I would love it.” Both Trump and Bloomberg are running expensive ads in Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, and Yahoo Sports reported that former Vice President Joe Biden will do so as well in the Iowa market ahead of Monday’s caucuses. Trump has repeatedly commented on Bloomberg’s ad campaign. “Many of the ads you are watching were paid for by Mini Mike Bloomberg. He is going nowhere, just wasting his money,” he tweeted early Sunday morning. Bloomberg responded later in the day: | |
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| 02-02-20 08:33pm - 1691 days | #1540 | |
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Emails to Sec. Pompeo from Ms Kelly show he agreed to an interview where they would discuss Afghanistan then pivot to discuss Ukraine. They prove he's lying. Maybe he's been working with POTUS too much and he cannot tell fact from fiction anymore. Sec. Pompeo also claimed that Ms Kelly incorrectly identified the wrong country when asked to point out Ukraine on a blank map of the world. She has a master's degree in European studies. She got it right. Pompeo said she didn't, and some comment about "Bangladesh isn't Ukraine" but he never directly SAID she pointed out Bangladesh, just implied it. SO maybe Pompeo has some qualifications for Secretary of State. He definitely knows Bangladesh isn't Ukraine. Good job Mike!!! "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 02-04-20 02:45am - 1690 days | #1541 | |
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Fake news: President Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted Monday evening that the results of the Iowa vote are rigged. If the vote is rigged, President Trump will declare a national emergency, calling out the National Guard and the Armed Forces of the United States, while Trump declares martial law, to keep the law and peace that he stands for. Until the results have been certified by President Trump personally, he will be forced to remain President for Life, until his daughter Ivanka can take over running the office of the President. Hail Trump, the first elected President for Life of the United States. The bestest President for Life of the United States. However, once Ivanka takes over, she will become the next bestest President of the United States. Trump uber alles. ------ ------ Democratic caucus results delayed by mobile app issues The Associated Press ALEXANDRA JAFFE and DAVID PITT Feb 4th 2020 12:20AM DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Problems with a mobile app appeared to force a delay in reporting the results of the Iowa caucuses Monday, as the campaigns, voters and the media pressed party officials for an explanation and got few answers. An Iowa Democratic Party official pointed to “quality control” as the source of the delays — but noted that about a quarter of the state's nearly 1,700 precincts have reported their data already. The party also said the delay was not caused by a “hack or an intrusion.” But other officials blamed technology. Des Moines County Democratic Chair Tom Courtney said he heard that in precincts across his county, including his own, a mobile app created for caucus organizers to report results to the party was "a mess." Precinct leaders were instead calling in their results to the Democratic Party headquarters, and "they weren't answering the phones in Des Moines" because, Courtney speculated, they were mobbed with calls. The apps were barely working, forcing party aides to record results from the precincts via phone and enter them manually into a database, according to a person involved in processing the data who requested anonymity to discuss the party's internal process. The slowdown came as the party attempted to report more data about the caucus than in years past — promising to release both a headcount of each candidates' supporters and the delegate winners from each site. “The integrity of the results is paramount,” Iowa Democratic Party spokeswoman Mandy McClure said in a statement. “We have experienced a delay in the results due to quality checks and the fact that the IDP is reporting out three data sets for the first time. What we know right now is that around 25% of precincts have reported, and early data indicates turnout is on pace for 2016.” The problems were an embarrassment for a state party that has long sought to protect its prized status as the first contest in the primary race. The delay was certain to become fodder for caucus critics who call the process antiquated and exclusionary. President Donald Trump's campaign quickly seized on the issue to sow doubt about the validity of the results. “Quality control = rigged?” Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted Monday evening, adding a emoji with furrowed brows. Linn County Auditor Joel Miller, who ran a precinct in the Cedar Rapids suburb of Robins, said some app users may not have gotten the instructions on how to log into the system. “If people didn’t know where to look for the PIN numbers or the precinct numbers, that could slow them down,” said Miller, who said he had no problem using the system to report his precinct’s figures and it worked fine. Helen Grunewald, a precinct caucus chairwoman in Benton County, said she had been on hold with the party trying to report her results for a significant amount of time. Earlier in the night, however, Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price said while there were some reports from precinct officials that they couldn’t log into the mobile app, a team of trouble-shooters was working to address any technical issues. “We’ve had an app before but we’ve also had a hotline before, and folks have had the option to do that, and so we expect that we’ll be able to report the results in a timely manner this evening,” he said. | |
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| 02-04-20 02:57am - 1690 days | #1542 | |
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Fake news: Republican Senator Murkowski criticizes Trump, House Democrats, and fellow Republicans for shameful behavior. But she will vote to acquit Donald Trump, because she must follow her moral compass. It's wonderful how Republicans can ponder the shameful facts of their fellow men, and then vote to confirm their appointment or deny that there is any reason to believe that a Republican can be held morally accountable. Hail Republicans, the party of hypocrisy and denial and lies. Keeping America great, white, and focused on the great guidelines of greed. -------- -------- Republican U.S. Senator Murkowski spares few in fiery impeachment speech Thomson Reuters By Richard Cowan Feb 3rd 2020 10:30PM WASHINGTON -- Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, an unpredictable moderate in a polarized Washington, on Monday declared she will vote to acquit Donald Trump, but not before leveling an attack against the president and fellow lawmakers of both parties during a partisan impeachment ordeal. "The president's behavior was shameful and wrong. His personal interests do not take precedent over those of this great nation," Murkowski declared in a speech to a near-empty Senate chamber. On Wednesday the Senate is scheduled to wrap up a two-week impeachment trial and vote to either acquit or convict Trump on charges leveled by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives that the Republican president abused his powers and obstructed Congress' investigation of his dealings with Ukraine. It was no surprise that the 62-year-old senator attacked House Democrats, accusing them of a slapdash investigation of Trump's actions toward Ukraine and his alleged withholding of U.S. aid in order to pressure Kiev to investigate one of his political rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. But Murkowski, with her fellow senator from Alaska presiding over the chamber after other senators had left for the night, took on not only Trump, but also fellow Republicans, Senate Democrats and the media. Alluding to a "demon" burning its way through Washington during the impeachment process that began late last September, Murkowski blamed "a careless media" that she said "cheerfully tried to put out the fires with gasoline." Long one of the few moderate voices in the Senate, Murkowski shocked the political establishment in 2010 when she became the first senator in more than 50 years to win re-election with a write-in campaign after the Republican Party tried to dump her in favor of a more conservative challenger. In the summer of 2017, Murkowski again was in the spotlight when she and two other moderate Republican senators -- Susan Collins and the late John McCain -- ruined Trump's push for a partial repeal of the "Obamacare" healthcare law. On Monday she said, "I cannot vote to convict" Trump, and indicated a preference for a much softer penalty than the removal from office that Democrats have been clamoring for -- a "censure" by Congress. She went on to list transgressions on both sides of the political divide that she saw unfolding during this impeachment process, only the third in U.S. history: She cited Trump supporters' eagerness to "have just dismissed the case as soon as it reached" the Senate and Trump's detractors' acting as if "the only way the trial could have been considered fair was if it resulted in the president's removal from office." With a broad-brush criticism of both political parties, Murkowski spoke of their "apparent willingness...to destroy not just each other, but all of the institutions of our government. And for what? Because it may help win an election?" Having castigated the House, the Senate, Trump and the media, Murkowski wrapped up her approximately 11-minute diatribe on a note of faint optimism: "It's my hope that we finally found bottom here." (Reporting by Richard Cowan Additional reporting by Susan Cornwell; Editing by Leslie Adler) | |
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| 02-04-20 06:46pm - 1689 days | #1543 | |
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Real + fake news: Trump has a massive problem: 2 freshman congresswomen will skip Donald Trump's State of the Union address. This is giving Trump nightmares. Trump's message is that he is uniting the country, bringing truth and justice to Americans everywhere. But if 2 congresswomen are going to miss his State of the Union address, his address will fail to reach all voters in the United States. This is unfair. Can Trump have these women arrested, and brought in handcuffs and chains to be part of his audience? Enquiring minds want to know: Does Trump have the legal authority to arrest people who do not bow down and show him the respect that he demands? Trump uber alles. Trump, the firstest and bestest President for Life the United States has ever had. Note: once Ivanka is sworn in as President for Life, she will become the bestest President for Life. Although Trump will always remain in our hearts and minds as the guiding father of our country. --------- --------- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley will boycott Trump's 'sham' State of the Union address Business Insider Eliza Relman (feedback@businessinsider.com) Feb 4th 2020 6:57PM Freshman Democratic congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez both announced on Tuesday that they won't attend President Donald Trump's Tuesday night State of the Union address. "After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump's lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution," Ocasio-Cortez of New York tweeted. "None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it." Ocasio-Cortez called it a "deeply personal decision" that she "did not take lightly" and said she'd answer questions in an Instagram Live session on Tuesday evening. Pressley called Trump's address a "sham" and said she "cannot in good conscience" attend the event. "The State of the Union is hurting because of the occupant of the White House, who consistently demonstrates contempt for the American people, contempt for Congress & contempt for our constitution," Pressley said in a statement. The national address, which will draw one of Trump's largest audiences of the year, comes just a day before the Senate is set to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial. The two progressive lawmakers are one half of the so-called "Squad," which also includes Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, and often stick together on controversial votes and decisions. Tweet Embed: //twitter.com/mims/statuses/1224794340272242689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump's lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution. None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it. Consequently, I will not be attending the State of the Union. | |
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| 02-05-20 04:33am - 1689 days | #1544 | |
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Fake news: Donald Trump follows in Christ's footsteps, preaching a message of love and forgiveness. In this time of hope, Trump says we can forgive our enemies their sins, and make us brothers together. And in the words of George Washington, our founding father, President Trump concluded with these famous words: "Give me liberty, or give me death." A reference to the impeachment process, where Trump says it will take Death Himself to pry his .357 Magnum Peacemaker from his hands before he will surrender to the scummy Democrats from Hell. ----- ----- Trump's State of the Union address: the top takeaways Yahoo News Alexander Nazaryan Feb 5th 2020 4:39AM WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, President Trump delivered what could be his last State of the Union address—or merely the last of his first term. That will depend, of course, on whether Trump is reelected in November. Accordingly, Trump used the address to celebrate his record. Republicans were happy to comply, heartily cheering Trump at every turn. Democrats, for the most part sat silently. Here are the key takeaways from Trump’s address. President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. February 4, 2020. (Leah Millis/POOL via Reuters) 1. An era of bipartisanship is not in Washington’s future As divided as Washington has been in recent years, it has perhaps never been as divided as it is today. The president has just been impeached, and he is entering a reelection contest that could be the most divisive in American history. Neither side made meaningful efforts at the famed practice of aisle-crossing, which is more frequently invoked than practiced in Washington, at least these days. Political divisions were apparent from the very start. Most of the female Democrats in the House wore all-white outfits that have come to serve as a rebuke of Trump. A few progressives, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, did not rise when Trump entered the chamber. A few others, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, stayed away from the speech altogether. As Trump took his place at the podium, he pointedly refused to shake hands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had just presided over his impeachment in the House. President Donald Trump hands copies of his speech to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Vice President Mike Pence as he delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/AP) She returned the favor about an hour and a half later. As Trump finished his address, Pelosi tore up a printed version of his speech, providing what is bound to be the night’s most viral moment. She had similarly provided the most viral moment from the previous year’s address with her theatrically condescending clap. As for the speech itself, it was met by a Democratic Party that for the most part sat glumly, only rarely joining the frequent standing ovations by Republicans. The only policy-related line that received truly bipartisan applause was a promise to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure. Trump made similar promises when he first started running for president almost five years ago. But despite a number of Infrastructure Weeks, the nation’s infrastructure remains well short of greatness. 2. America is great again President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) As Democrats were still processing the late returns from the Iowa caucuses, Trump opened the speech with a recitation of his own accomplishments, particularly those related to the economy. “Three years ago,” he began, “we launched the great American comeback.” He continued by saying that “jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again.” In other words, mission accomplished, according to Trump. His argument has been—and will almost surely continue to be—that it would be folly to place the nation into the hands of Democrats, whom he has depicted as radical leftists. Overall, the speech was celebratory and retrospective: on the economy, national security, immigration and much else. No major new policies were introduced, in seeming recognition that an election year in a divided country was not going to be a time of significant accomplishment. 3. Socialism is not great Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido (C) waves as he is acknowledged by US President Donald Trump during his the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) Among Trump’s guests was Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who a year ago declared himself the true leader of the South American nation, even as Nicolás Maduro, the head of the Socialist Party there, has continued to cling to power in Caracas. Calling attention to Guaidó’s presence was also a way to call attention to the supposed threat from socialists, which has become a rhetorical weapon deployed against opponents like Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leading contender for the Democratic nomination for president and a self-described democratic socialist. “Socialism destroys nations,” Trump said. Later, he returned to the same theme, warning that Democrats were planning “a socialist takeover of our health care system, wiping out the private health insurance plans of 180 million Americans,” in what appeared to be a reference to the Medicare-for-all plan first introduced by Sanders and now endorsed by many other Democrats. “I want you to know,” Trump went on, that “we will never let socialism destroy American health care.” He also combined his critique of progressive health care proposals with his restrictive view of immigration, taking shots at state-level policies and proposals to provide some measure of health care coverage to undocumented immigrants. “If forcing American taxpayers to provide unlimited free health care to illegal aliens sounds fair to you, then stand with the radical left,” he said. That portion of the speech received the strongest negative response from Democrats, including from many who are not supporters of the most left-leaning health care plans. 4. What impeachment? Impeachment was not mentioned in the full text of Trump’s remarks, but the president is known to treat prepared remarks with disdain. Ahead of the address, Republicans were desperately hoping that he would stick to the script this time around, in particular by not mentioning impeachment. If he didn’t talk about it, after all, they might also avoid having to do so on Tuesday night. Trump complied. Impeachment was neither explicitly mentioned nor implicitly referenced. To be sure, there will be plenty of time for that in the days to come, for both the president and his detractors. But in managing to avoid the topic in his State of the Union address, Trump gave himself—and his party—a reprieve from months of grinding debate over Ukraine, obstructing Congress and budgetary holds. 5. The return of Rush Back when the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 1994, the conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh was made an honorary member of the incoming GOP conference, a recognition of the growing power of conservative media, In the years since, Limbaugh has continued to be one of the most divisive figures in American media, attacking virtually every concept sacred to the political left, from feminism to climate science. On Tuesday, he sat next to first lady Melania Trump as a guest of the president. The occasion was not an entirely happy one because Limbaugh had only a day before announced that he was battling advanced lung cancer. The revelation apparently prompted the last-minute invitation from Trump. Trump called him “the greatest fighter and winner you will ever meet.” The line was met with a standing ovation from Republicans. Democrats remained seated, with impeachment manager Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas covering a yawn. Trump then had the first lady present the ailing radio host with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which she draped over his neck. It was a notable departure from the normal method of awarding the honor, which is normally done in a White House ceremony. The usually gruff Limbaugh was visibly moved. Democrats were not. 6. And now back to your scheduled programming; i.e., impeachment President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington DC, United States on February 04, 2020. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) On Tuesday night, Trump basked in the glow of Republican adulation as he enumerated his own accomplishments. Wednesday, however, will see the Senate vote on the two articles of impeachment that have been exhibited in the chamber by House Democrats. Trump is expected to be acquitted, and he will almost certainly celebrate that acquittal on Twitter and at political rallies. 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| 02-05-20 06:31pm - 1688 days | #1545 | |
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Real fake news: Mitt Romney announces he will vote to convict President Trump for abuse of power. This is the real test of a loving relationship. Romney loves our country. He loves Trump (they are both Republicans, and Republicans must love each other). But Romney says he must vote to convict President Trump for abuse of power: Romney's love of country is above his love of Trump. ------- ------- Romney, Trump have a long running love-hate relationship Yahoo News David Knowles Feb 5th 2020 5:25PM Sen. Mitt Romney’s dramatic speech on Wednesday announcing he would vote to convict President Trump for abuse of power is the latest salvo in a contentious relationship between the two Republican politicians, and will certainly not be the last. “Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine,” Romney, the junior senator from Utah, said in reference to Trump’s attempts to secure a Ukrainian investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden. Romney’s decision extinguished Trump’s argument that his impeachment for a “perfect call” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was merely a partisan political exercise. But it also followed a years-long pattern of animosity, alternating with awkward episodes of reconciliation, between the two men. “Mitt is tough, he’s sharp, he’s smart,” Trump said of Romney in 2012, when he shook his hand at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas, Nev., and endorsed him for president. In response, Romney warmly praised the reality television star and real estate developer as having “an extraordinary ability to understand how the economy works.” “It means a great deal to me to have the endorsement of Mr. Trump,” Romney added. But the day after Romney’s defeat in the general election to President Obama, Trump turned on Romney, saying “he just never connected with people.” Two years later, Trump began what became a mantra of criticizing Romney for that defeat, tweeting, “He had his chance and blew it in the last weeks of the race.” FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 file photo, Donald Trump greets Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, after announcing his endorsement of Romney during a news conference in Las Vegas. Mitt Romney and President Donald Trump exchanged harsh criticisms of one another during the 2016 presidential campaign but also have a history of being willing to sit down with each other when mutually beneficial. Romney's announcement that he's running for the U.S. Senate seat in Utah creates the potential for future battles, or even deal-making. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) When Trump declared himself a candidate for president in 2015, Romney began voicing his disagreement with the billionaire over his criticism of Sen. John McCain’s military service as well as his description of Mexican immigrants as “rapists.” That led trump to fire back on Twitter. Two months later, Romney gave a speech at Georgetown University in which he again blasted Trump and made a prediction shared by numerous other establishment Republicans at the time: “Donald Trump will not be the nominee. Ultimately our nominee will come from the mainstream conservative bracket,” Romney said. In response, Trump tweeted that in losing to Obama, Romney “choked.” As the 2016 campaign progressed, Romney called on Trump to release his tax returns, a request Trump refused and said made Romney “look like a fool.” Romney then had his own Shakespearean retort. As Trump’s march to the Republican nomination progressed, Romney in March attacked Trump as a “con man and a fake” in an impassioned speech at the University of Utah. “Let me put it very plainly,” Romney said, “if we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospect for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.” Trump responded that Romney had accepted his endorsement in 2012. Then, a month before the election, the “Access Hollywood” tape surfaced of Trump boasting about sexually assaulting women, provoking outrage from Romney, a devout Mormon. “Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America's face to the world,” Romney tweeted, a view echoed by many mainstream Republicans. FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2016, file photo, shows President-elect Donald Trump, center, eating dinner with Mitt Romney, right, and Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus at Jean-Georges restaurant, in New York. Mitt Romney and President Donald Trump exchanged harsh criticisms of one another during the 2016 presidential campaign but also have a history of being willing to sit down with each other when mutually beneficial. Romney's announcement that he's running for the U.S. Senate seat in Utah creates the potential for future battles, or even deal-making. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) But after Trump’s surprise victory, Romney wished him luck in his new job, tweeting, “Best wishes to our duly elected president.” Trump noted that Romney had also contacted him personally. The president-elect then seemed be considering Romney for one of the most sought-after jobs in his administration, secretary of state. The two men shared a dinner at New York’s Jean-George restaurant at which they reportedly discussed the position. “I had a wonderful evening with President-elect Trump,” Romney said after the meal. “We had another discussion about affairs throughout the world, and these discussions I’ve had with him have been enlightening and interesting and engaging. I’ve enjoyed them very, very much.” Whether Trump ever really seriously appointing Romney is unclear. The post went to former Exxon-Mobile chief executive Rex Tillerson instead. On August 18, 2017, Romney rebuked Trump over the president’s response to the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that left a counter-protester dead. Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” of the clash. “Whether he intended to or not, what [Trump] communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn,” Romney said in a Facebook post in which he called on the president to apologize. FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney shake hands as Romney leaves the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, N.J. A nationwide survey of midterm voters found that about two-thirds of Mormon voters nationwide favored Republicans in the midterm elections, but approval for President Donald Trump lags behind. And as new U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney prepares to join the new Congress in January, most voters in the predominantly Mormon state of Utah 64 percent would like to see the senator confront the president, AP VoteCast found. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) But six months later, after Romney had announced his bid to run for U.S. Senate in Utah, Trump again endorsed the man he had repeatedly called a “choke-artist.” Romney, Trump said in his endorsement, would make a “great Senator.” In response, Romney seemed, once again, to let bygones be bygones. “Thank you Mr. President for the support,” Romney said. “I hope that over the course of the campaign I also earn the support and endorsement of the people of Utah." Romney won easily, setting the stage for the next reversal in their relationship. He wrote a scathing denunciation of in the form of an op-ed in the Washington Post. Citing Trump’s foreign policy blunders, Romney said “his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions last month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.” Trump offered a somewhat muted response to the op-ed, telling Romney to “be a team player.” “Would much prefer that Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful,” Trump said in a tweet. “I won big, and he didn’t. He should be happy for all Republicans. Be a TEAM player & WIN!” Romney mostly kept his thoughts to himself during the impeachment process, but broke with the president and his party to vote in favor of calling witnesses in the Senate trial, one of only two Republicans to take that position, along with Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. His dramatic announcement that he would vote for one of the two articles of impeachment, while not affecting the outcome of the vote, was certain to enrage Trump, who had boasted of the unanimous Republican support he had enjoyed in the House of Representatives and obviously wanted the same from his party in the Senate. It almost certainly was the last straw in their relationship. At least for now. | |
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| 02-06-20 07:11am - 1687 days | #1546 | |
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Real news: President Trump reveals that Romney is a Democrat secret asset. Asks his Chief of Staff to summon the secret service to eliminate this threat to Trump's power: This is a day in infamy, Trump tweets. My dear friend, Mitt, has decided to vote to convict me for abuse of power. Everyone knows that my phone call was perfectly legal, where I asked the Ukraine government to investigate Joe Biden, a scum-sucking Democrat who wants to run against me in the next presidential election. All's fair in love and war, and I can abuse not only the nation, but also myself, if Melania gives me the cold shoulder at night. Trump uber alles. Hitler, Putin, and little rocket-man Kim Jong-un are my heroes: they became dictators, even though they were all shorter than I am. There is a conference among Trump's top advisors, debating whether Romney should be taken off Trump's Christmas card list. ---------- ---------- Trump ripped into Romney as a 'Democrat secret asset' after he voted to convict him for abuse of power in the impeachment trial Business Insider John Haltiwanger Feb 6th 2020 5:45AM President Donald Trump posted a video attacking Sen. Mitt Romney after his decision to vote in favor of convicting Trump for abuse of power on Wednesday. Romney was the only GOP senator to go against Trump. He was the 2012 Republican nominee for president who has been critical of Trump on some occasions. A video posted by Trump included footage of Romney praising Trump, and failing to win the 2012 election himself. "Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine," Romney said. President Donald Trump posted a video attacking Republican Sen. Mitt Romney after his stunning vote to convict the president for abuse of power in his Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday. Romney was the only Republican to vote in favor of convicting Trump for abuse of power, though he joined the rest of the GOP in voting to acquit Trump for obstruction of Congress. The Utah Republican was the first senator in US history to support convicting a president from his own party. The video shows a brief history of Trump and Romney. It is a spliced-together collection of news clips, which at one point described Romney as "a Democrat secret asset." It juxtaposes footage of Romney publicly praising Trump shortly after the 2016 election with narration describing how Romney later turned on the president. It also includes news footage of Romney failing to beat Barack Obama to the presidency in 2012, followed by footage of Trump beating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016, a moment Trump has returned to often in his social media output. Romney in an impassioned speech on the Senate floor before the vote said that he was compelled to vote for his conviction despite agreeing with many of his actions as president. Romney said he could not ignore the oath of impartiality he took at the start of the trial. He said his faith compelled him to make an extraordinary break with his own party. Romney condemned Trump for his effort to urge Ukraine into launching investigations into political rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden, who is a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination. "Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine," Romney said. Romney was promptly praised by Democrats while facing swift criticism from fellow Republicans after announcing his decision. "I sat silently across the chamber, listening to my friend give one of the most important speeches I have ever had the good fortune to hear in person," Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut tweeted. "At a time when many wonder what honor is left in public life, there stands Mitt Romney." Comparatively, Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee and Romney's niece, in a statement said: "This is not the first time I've disagreed with Mitt, and I imagine it will not be the last. The bottom line is President Trump did nothing wrong, and the Republican Party is more united than ever behind him." Meanwhile, Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, called for Romney to be "expelled" from the Republican party. Tweet Embed: //twitter.com/mims/statuses/1225140190920019968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Mitt Romney is forever bitter that he will never be POTUS. He was too weak to beat the Democrats then so he's joining them now. He's now officially a member of the resistance & should be expelled from the @GOP. The House passed two articles of impeachment against Trump on December 18, 2019, one for abuse of power over his dealings of Ukraine, and a second for obstruction of Congress over the president's efforts to stonewall the impeachment inquiry. Trump froze almost $400 million in crucial military aid to Ukraine, which is at war with pro-Russian separatists, as he sought to pressure Kiev into helping him dig up dirt on his political opponents. Democrats essentially accused Trump of blackmailing Ukraine with congressionally-approved security assistance, and using it to solicit foreign election interference. The impeachment proceedings spiraled out of a whistleblower complaint centered around a July 25 phone call in which Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, as well as a debunked conspiracy theory linked to the 2016 election. The president wanted Zelensky to announce investigations into the Bidens in relation to Hunter's work for Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company, despite no evidence of wrongdoing or illegal activity on the part of the former vice president or his son with regard to Ukraine. Documents and witness testimony gathered in the impeachment inquiry revealed a broad effort to pressure Ukraine that was engineered by Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and went well beyond the July 25 phone call. Meanwhile, Trump has maintained he did nothing wrong and has continued to call his July 25 conversation with Zelensky a "perfect" call. | |
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| 02-06-20 02:24pm - 1687 days | #1547 | |
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President Trump reveals the real news: Our nation is filled with crooked cops. You can't trust the men in blue. They are out to fuck you over. Grab your trusty .357 Magnum Force revolver and start the revolution: Give me freedom or give me death. Your soul will rise to heaven in this fight to save American democracy. I fail to understand why Trump, as Bonespur Commander in Chief, does not call out the Armed Forces to round up all these corrupt traitors and have them executed under martial law: America must be kept free, white and clean of the scum-sucking Democrats who infest our nation. Trump also bemoans the fact that time and energy have been wasted during this power struggle. "Our land could have been made great again. Think of the America filled with shining Trump hotels and golf courses scattered throughout the land. We could have had hotels where you could stay for years, if only our tax-payer dollars had been spent building a glorious infrastructure of hotel-golf courses within our borders. Making America great for now and into the future...." ------- ------- Trump lashes out in post-impeachment address Yahoo News Alexander Nazaryan Feb 6th 2020 2:18PM WASHINGTON — Shunning contrition or reflection, eager to settle scores, President Trump spoke from the White House about the previous day’s Senate vote, which saw him acquitted on two articles of impeachment. "It was all bullshit,” Trump said of Democratic efforts to remove him from office, which culminated in impeachment but began more or less at the moment he entered the Oval Office. “This should never, ever happen to another president,” he said, though some have predicted the very opposite, with impeachment potentially becoming a norm of presidential politics. Speaking to a packed audience of White House staffers and congressional supporters, Trump lashed out at the “evil” and “corrupt” inquiry, which he said was led by “crooked cops.” “We went through hell,” he said. “Unfairly.” As he has from the start of the impeachment inquiry, Trump maintained that his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was “perfect” and, in his view, preposterously insufficient grounds for impeachment. “A very good phone call,” Trump said in his Thursday remarks. “I know bad phone calls." The somewhat rambling address—which included an extended allusion to former New York Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson—saw Trump congratulate the “warriors” who fought on his behalf. Foremost among them was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who presided over the Senate trial that concluded yesterday. Trump continued by also praising other senators and representatives in attendance, from Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who is one of the chamber’s most senior members, to Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, who was only sworn in last month. Dogged supporters in the House came in for praise as well, especially since the Republican conference in that chamber has some avid pro-Trump members. “He's the most legitimate human being,” the president said of Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. “He is obviously very proud of his body,” the president said of Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, another close supporter of the president, famous for never wearing a suit jacket unless absolutely required to do so. "Honestly, I think you're better looking now,” the president said of House minority whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., an apparent reference to the weight Scalise lost after surviving a 2017 shooting. In addition, he predicted that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Ca., would soon become Speaker of the House, surmising that in November, the Democrats would lose their majority in that chamber, having squandered their political capital—in the president’s view—on impeachment. He also criticized a wide array of political enemies, from lead impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (“a vicious, horrible person”) to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., a frequent critic of the president. He called former FBI director James Comey, whom he fired early in 2017, a “sleazebag” and reprised a conspiracy theory regarding Hillary Clinton’s emails from her time as Secretary of State. “They’re vicious as hell,” he said of his political opponents, “and they’ll probably come back for more,” he mused, a reference to ongoing Democratic investigations of the Trump administration. “They wanna destroy our country,” he later said of Democratic leaders. Neither the tone nor the contents of the address was exactly a surprise. Shortly after the Senate voted to acquit him, Trump branded the verdict “our Country’s VICTORY” in a tweet that called the impeachment inquiry a “Hoax,” a term he had previously used to describe special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into electoral interference. Wednesday also saw White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham release a statement that called the impeachment inquiry “yet another witch-hunt that deprived the President of his due process rights and was based on a series of lies.” Grisham’s statement also wondered whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Schiff would pay a price for attempting to remove from office. “Will there be no retribution?” she wrote. So far, the White House response has been marked by its combative tone, a departure from the last time a president avoided removal from office via impeachment. In 1999, a just-acquitted Bill Clinton used a White House address to apologize for the actions and statements that led to his impeachment. Richard Nixon took three years to apologize for Watergate, which led him to step down from the presidency in 1974. “Yep, I let the American people down, and have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life.,” he told the British journalist David Frost in 1977. Trump’s response thus far has been closest to that of Andrew Johnson, who was impeached in 1868 and, like both Trump and Clinton, survived the effort. “I have nothing to regret,” Johnson said as he left office in 1869. For the most part, Trump has reserved his ire since Wednesday’s acquittal for Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the sole Republican to vote in favor of conviction. In doing so, he became the only senator in American history to vote in favor of convicting a president from his own party in an impeachment trial. By joining Democrats, he kept Trump from claiming that impeachment was a fully partisan affair. That has plainly been irritating Trump, who called Romney a “failed presidential candidate” during Thursday’s remarks from the White House, in reference to the senator’s unsuccessful 2012 White House bid. He added that Romney “can’t stand the fact he ran one of the worst races in presidential history.” Trump had been significantly less tempered in the preceding hours. On Wednesday evening, he shared a video on Twitter that branded Romney a turncoat, while also reminding of Romney’s loss to President Obama nearly eight years ago. “Had failed presidential candidate @MittRomney devoted the same energy and anger to defeating a faltering Barack Obama as he sanctimoniously does to me, he could have won the election,” he said in a subsequent message. Speaking on Thursday morning ahead of his White House address at the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump continued his attacks on the Utah senator, though without naming him. “I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,” Trump said. The reference was to Romney’s Mormon faith, which Romney had referenced in remarks on the Senate floor ahead of his historic vote. “As a senator-juror, I swore an oath before God to exercise impartial justice,” Romney said in those widely-watched remarks. “I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential.” The notion of a former Republican candidate for president becoming a Democratic hero was, indeed, a surprising development. Speaking at her weekly press conference on Wednesday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised a man with whom he has almost nothing in common politically or culturally. “God bless him for his courage,” Pelosi said of Romney. She branded Trump’s attacks on the lone Republican dissenter as “without class.” Virtually nothing that Trump said on Thursday suggested that a reconciliation with the party that impeached him was in the works, though the president did briefly muse about what the two political parties could accomplish if partisan fight could have been put aside. He listed infrastructure and prescription drug pricing as potential areas of cooperation while lamenting the three contentious years that have been squandered. “Think,” he said, “what we could’ve done.” _____ | |
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| 02-12-20 06:12am - 1681 days | #1548 | |
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Real fake news: President Trump appoints Putin as head of his US campaign. Says that Putin is America's friend, that Putin is a force in American politics, and Trump and Putin will coordinate their campaign to re-elect Trump as President of the US. And if the snivelling, scumbag Democrats are unhappy, they can move to Canada or Mexico. Also, Putin has signed a contract with Trump, allowing Trump sanctuary in Russia, if Trump loses any criminal trials, putting Trump out of the reach of the US judicial system. This is a backup plan, since Trump has won over the impeachment process. But individual states can still pursue Trump for criminal acivity. Putin has also promised Trump that Putin will consider putting Trump's older sons at the head of newly formed army commands, in recognition of their extensive hunting experience. ---------- ---------- Russia will try to meddle in 2020 U.S. election, intel report says NBC News Courtney Kube Feb 12th 2020 8:21AM WASHINGTON — Russia interfered in Western elections in 2019 and is likely to do so again in 2020, according to the latest annual threat assessment by the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service. NBC News obtained an exclusive preview of the annual report from the Baltic nation's intelligence agency, which warns that Russia will continue to pursue cyber operations that threaten other nations. "Russia's cyber operations have been successful and, to date, have not been sanctioned enough by the West to force Russia to abandon them," the report says. Russia will try to interfere in the U.S. presidential election in November and in parliamentary elections in the nation of Georgia in October, it warns, saying, "The main goal is to ensure a more beneficial election result for Russia by favoring Russian-friendly candidates or those who have the most divisive influence in the West." Another motivation, according to the report, is to show that Western nations cannot hold fair elections, thereby making questionable elections in Russia seem less significant. The report also warns that Russia continues to strengthen its military posture against Europe and NATO. According to the report, in 2019, Russia established three army commands, five new division headquarters and 15 new mechanized regiments in the Russian Western Military District, which borders five NATO nations, as well as Finland and Ukraine. Russia has slowly built up its military power against Europe for the past decade. Russia's influence in the Middle East has been growing since it became involved in the war in Syria in 2015, but the report finds that Russia's influence in the region "has essentially reached a ceiling" unless it invests significantly more military or economic resources. That is "unlikely in the short term," the report says. | |
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| 02-21-20 06:02am - 1672 days | #1549 | |
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Real fake news: God save the Republic. Have faith in the honesty and moral courage of our Senators. They have a direct line to God, and speak with honesty, courage, and clarity. I have heard Senator Lindsey Graham of the Great State of South Carolina. I believe in the Lord. I believe in Senator Linsey Graham. Next to Donald Trump, probably the most honest and God-fearing man in the US Government. Republicans have long used God and religion as a justification for their decisions. Rick Perry, then the secretary of energy, said last year that Trump was God's "chosen one" to lead the United States, while Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas regularly mentions God in his political decisions. Trump is God's chosen leader on Earth. He knows that Romney and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are lying when they say they are praying for Trump. Trump talks with God about God's enemies, and God has informed Trump that He's heard no prayers from Romney and Pelosi. --------------- Lindsey Graham says God won't ask him about Trump's acquittal when he dies Kelly McLaughlin Feb 7, 2020, 8:28 AM Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox News Radio's "Brian Kilmeade Show" that he didn't think he would be judged by God for voting to acquit President Donald Trump. "When I go to meet God at the pearly gates, I don't think he's going to ask me, 'Why didn't you convict Trump?'" he said. "I may be wrong, but I don't think that's going to be at the top of the list." Graham called in to Fox News Radio's "Brian Kilmeade Show" to discuss the Senate vote that acquitted Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in his impeachment trial, and he discussed Sen. Mitt Romney's decision to break from the Republican Party to vote that Trump was guilty. The senator from South Carolina said voting to acquit Trump was the "easiest decision I've ever had to make." "All I can tell you is that God gave us free will and common sense — I used the common sense God gave me to understand this was a bunch of BS," he said, adding that Democrats "hate Trump, they were going to impeach him the day he got elected, and if you can't see through this, your religion is clouding your thinking here." Romney, who has faced backlash from the GOP over his impeachment vote, mentioned God in his decision to vote the president guilty of abuse of power. "I am a profoundly religious person," he said in a speech announcing his decision. "I take an oath before God as enormously consequential. I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the president, the leader of my own party, would be the most difficult decision I have ever faced." Graham criticized Romney's statement and his comment that an "oath before God" led him to his decision. "When I go to meet God at the pearly gates, I don't think he's going to ask me, 'Why didn't you convict Trump?'" Graham said. "I may be wrong, but I don't think that's going to be at the top of the list." Republicans have long used God and religion as a justification for their decisions. Rick Perry, then the secretary of energy, said last year that Trump was God's "chosen one" to lead the United States, while Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas regularly mentions God in his political decisions. Trump also directly addressed the issue of faith during a rambling speech Thursday on his acquittal. "I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong, nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you,' when they know that that's not so," he said of Romney and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | |
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| 02-22-20 08:11am - 1671 days | #1550 | |
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Real news, not fake: President Trump is a prisoner. The Secret Service tells Trump what to do, and he follows their orders. Which is costing taxpayers millions of extra dollars, because the Secret Service is forcing to Trump to stay at properties Trump owns, and forcing Trump to accept millions of dollars from the US government. Trump is a wonderful man. A good man. And a good business man. So if a few extra millions of dollars are forced into Trump's businesses, that benefits Trump and the US, because a happy Trump is good for the US. ----------- ----------- Trump costing taxpayers and putting money in his pocket with stay at his own hotel HuffPost US S.V. Date Feb 21st 2020 12:32PM LAS VEGAS ― President Donald Trump’s choice to stay at his own Las Vegas hotel each night during the western states swing that wraps up Friday likely cost taxpayers a million extra dollars as well as diverted thousands of them into his own cash registers. Previous presidents on extended trips away from the White House typically stayed in the city of each day’s final event, or traveled to the city of the following day’s first event. Trump, instead, traveled back to Las Vegas each night from California, Arizona and Colorado to overnight at his Trump International Hotel ― requiring several extra hours’ flying time on Air Force One, a plane that costs taxpayers about a quarter-million dollars per hour in the air. “At this point in his presidency, there’s no way to look at it other than Donald Trump is using his position and taxpayer dollars to make money for his businesses,” said Jordan Libowitz with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “This is beyond a conflict of interest. This is corruption, plain and simple.” When Trump was asked about his decision to return to Las Vegas each night just before he left for California, he claimed he had nothing to do with it. “Largely, the schedule is set by the Secret Service. We do what they want us to,” he told reporters at Joint Base Andrews just before the plane’s departure. “I don’t set the schedule. I have nothing to do with it.” It’s unclear, however, what Trump meant. Previous presidents visited the same western states numerous times, for example, and never once stayed in a Trump property. A Secret Service spokesperson told HuffPost: “The U.S. Secret Service works in conjunction with the administration on all presidential and First Family visits as our primary concern is the safety and security of those that we protect.” Trump’s White House did not try to defend the accuracy of Trump’s claim, and instead argued that the decision to use Trump International Hotel Las Vegas as a base actually saved taxpayers’ money. President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives at McCarran International Airport on Feb. 18 in Las Vegas. “If the president had stayed in three different cities over three different nights that would mean three different advance teams traveling out ahead, three different USSS teams traveling ahead, it would mean impacting traffic with road closures in three different cities, taking rooms for security and communications at three different hotels, and various other necessities for presidential travel in three different cities,” said a senior White House official on condition of anonymity. “The hotel the president is in is well known to USSS in terms of security and the footprint needed. In short, doing it the way we’re doing it saved money for the government and Las Vegas is most central to all the stops. Only a small contingent of required staff with specific roles stay at the hotel with the president. The majority of staff stay at a different hotel. All hotel stays are at the government rate.” That analysis, though, ignores the single biggest driver of presidential costs: the use of Air Force One. According to a report by the Government Accountability Office last year, the Air Force unit that operates the modified Boeing 747 normally used as the presidential aircraft spent $4.4 million for four round trips from Andrews to Palm Beach in early 2017 ― which works out to $273,063 for each hour of flight time. Had Trump held the same events but done so in a geographically logical order ― starting in Beverly Hills and finishing in Colorado Springs, but overnighting each day in the city where he would begin the following morning ― Trump would have spent four fewer hours aboard Air Force One, thereby saving taxpayers about $1.1 million. The anonymous White House official’s claim that more motorcades would have been required also does not tell the whole story. A full motorcade ― including the presidential limousine, staff vans and various specialized trucks ― is needed in any city where Trump is traveling, regardless of whether it will be used to move him from an airport to an event site and back, or to an overnight hotel and then to the event site the next day. What’s more, advance teams scout out a city and motorcade routes are closed to traffic on any presidential visit, regardless of whether it is for a brief visit or an overnight stay. Indeed, the repeated overnight trips to Las Vegas may have forced the Secret Service and other support personnel to keep a motorcade there for a full four days, rather than move it to the site of an upcoming presidential trip. This week is not the first time Trump used presidential trips to spend time at his own properties, even though it added considerable travel and security costs for taxpayers. In 2018, for example, he spent two days between official meetings in London and a Helsinki summit with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin at his own resort in Scotland, rather than waiting in London. And last summer, he insisted on staying at his resort on the west coast of Ireland on the days surrounding his visit to Normandy, France, even though it required several additional hours on Air Force One. Precisely how many taxpayer dollars wind up in Trump’s pocket from these stays cannot be determined. The White House, despite numerous queries from HuffPost over a period of months, refuses to disclose how many executive branch employees stay with Trump when he visits his own properties and how much it is costing taxpayers. And how much of that revenue winds up as profit flowing to Trump also is not known because Trump reneged on a campaign promise ― and decades of precedent ― by refusing to disclose his tax returns. According to The Washington Post, Trump’s business charged Secret Service agents as much as $650 a night for rooms at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and $17,000 a month for a cottage at Trump’s golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey. Based on these and other invoices obtained by various groups using lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act, Trump has likely funneled at least several million dollars of taxpayer dollars into his own cash registers in his first three years in office. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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