45th President of the United States, Donald Trump (Vol. 10)
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This was asking 3 undecided women in Atlanta post the debate their thoughts.
https://youtu.be/W233ZFTfqAM
Bidon has a large amount of historical bagage, I'm still amazed he is the best they could produce.
One of the issues with the African American comunity is the laws passed that locked up huge numbers of young black men on small drug possession charges. That hate runs deap, which is why an old white politician who was part of that policy establishment is toxic. Thats why the comments made by Bidon about making a mistake in the debate mattered.
https://youtu.be/W233ZFTfqAM
Bidon has a large amount of historical bagage, I'm still amazed he is the best they could produce.
One of the issues with the African American comunity is the laws passed that locked up huge numbers of young black men on small drug possession charges. That hate runs deap, which is why an old white politician who was part of that policy establishment is toxic. Thats why the comments made by Bidon about making a mistake in the debate mattered.
NYT now reports that at least four Pence aides have tested positive for COVID and Mark Meadows was trying to keep the news quiet
Just like when trump, Hope Hicks etc all got it...
Several members of Vice President Mike Pence’s inner circle, including at least four members of his staff, have tested positive for the coronavirus in the past few days, people briefed on the matter said, raising new questions about the safety protocols at the White House, where masks are not routinely worn.
Devin O’Malley, a spokesman for Mr. Pence, said that the vice president’s chief of staff, Marc Short, had tested positive. A person briefed on the diagnosis said he received it on Saturday.
“Vice President Pence and Mrs. Pence both tested negative for Covid-19 today, and remain in good health,” Mr. O’Malley said, adding, “While Vice President Pence is considered a close contact with Mr. Short, in consultation with the White House Medical Unit, the vice president will maintain his schedule in accordance with the C.D.C. guidelines for essential personnel.”
The statement did not come from the White House medical unit, but instead from a press aide. Two people briefed on the matter said that the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had sought to keep news of the outbreak from becoming public.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/politics/pen...
Remember, Americans are told to isolate if they are exposed to others who test positive for COVID, but like others in the WH, Mike Pence is going to continue his schedule as previously planned even after witnessing how COVID ripped through Trump and his inner circle.
It's stunning how irresponsible they've been and continue to be
Just like when trump, Hope Hicks etc all got it...
Several members of Vice President Mike Pence’s inner circle, including at least four members of his staff, have tested positive for the coronavirus in the past few days, people briefed on the matter said, raising new questions about the safety protocols at the White House, where masks are not routinely worn.
Devin O’Malley, a spokesman for Mr. Pence, said that the vice president’s chief of staff, Marc Short, had tested positive. A person briefed on the diagnosis said he received it on Saturday.
“Vice President Pence and Mrs. Pence both tested negative for Covid-19 today, and remain in good health,” Mr. O’Malley said, adding, “While Vice President Pence is considered a close contact with Mr. Short, in consultation with the White House Medical Unit, the vice president will maintain his schedule in accordance with the C.D.C. guidelines for essential personnel.”
The statement did not come from the White House medical unit, but instead from a press aide. Two people briefed on the matter said that the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had sought to keep news of the outbreak from becoming public.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/politics/pen...
Remember, Americans are told to isolate if they are exposed to others who test positive for COVID, but like others in the WH, Mike Pence is going to continue his schedule as previously planned even after witnessing how COVID ripped through Trump and his inner circle.
It's stunning how irresponsible they've been and continue to be
Edited by Byker28i on Sunday 25th October 07:39
A strong Washington Post opinion piece from the Lincoln Project founders, a call to arms almost, stand up to trump, vote and be counted
This is for the many men and women in Washington with whom we have worked over the past 30-plus years. Some of you hold elected office. Some are officials in the Trump administration. Many of you are members of the consultant and lobbyist class.
In two weeks, the most consequential election of our generation will come, and your time for choosing will arrive. As Republicans, will you stand with President Trump, or will you stand with, and stand up for, America? Will you protect democracy or protect a single person and his family?
We’re not merely talking about your vote.
We’re talking about what comes next.
Never before in U.S. history has an incumbent president refused in advance to accept the outcome of an election. In the days ahead, your party may call upon you to support efforts by a White House that refuses to transfer power after a loss at the polls. The weapons won’t be tanks but thousands of lawyers backed by an attorney general who works for the president, not the people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/20...
In war and peace, Americans have displayed unparalleled courage in the face of evil and injustice. It doesn’t take courage to stand up to Trump; it takes courage to stand up for your country. That is the legacy we inherited and are called to defend.
That is the choice. America or Trump? Now is the time to stand with the country you love.
This is for the many men and women in Washington with whom we have worked over the past 30-plus years. Some of you hold elected office. Some are officials in the Trump administration. Many of you are members of the consultant and lobbyist class.
In two weeks, the most consequential election of our generation will come, and your time for choosing will arrive. As Republicans, will you stand with President Trump, or will you stand with, and stand up for, America? Will you protect democracy or protect a single person and his family?
We’re not merely talking about your vote.
We’re talking about what comes next.
Never before in U.S. history has an incumbent president refused in advance to accept the outcome of an election. In the days ahead, your party may call upon you to support efforts by a White House that refuses to transfer power after a loss at the polls. The weapons won’t be tanks but thousands of lawyers backed by an attorney general who works for the president, not the people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/20...
In war and peace, Americans have displayed unparalleled courage in the face of evil and injustice. It doesn’t take courage to stand up to Trump; it takes courage to stand up for your country. That is the legacy we inherited and are called to defend.
That is the choice. America or Trump? Now is the time to stand with the country you love.
Six former Commerce Secretaries from Democratic and Republican administrations have endorsed Joe Biden.
"We believe that a Biden presidency will mark the return to the certainty and security that our economy needs to thrive."
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/22/six-former-secreta...
"We believe that a Biden presidency will mark the return to the certainty and security that our economy needs to thrive."
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/22/six-former-secreta...
This is the state of the US now, where a court has to stop voting obstruction.
A state appeals court in Texas has blocked Gov. Greg Abbott from limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/24/us/trump-b...
Where the former President says:
Obama: "We shouldn't be making it harder for people to vote. We shouldn't ask people to wait 10 hours to vote standing in line. We should be making it easier for everybody to cast their ballot."
In fact a great speech by Obama yesterday, talking alot of sense
https://eu.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2...
Obama: "8 months into this pandemic, new cases are breaking records. Donald Trump isn't going to suddenly protect all of us. He can't even take the basic steps to protect himself. There's no sense that he's coming up with a new approach, with a new plan." "The idea that somehow this White House has done anything but completely screw this thing up is nonsense."
Obama on Biden: "He's not going to screw up testing. He's not going to call scientists idiots. He's not going to host a super-spreader event at the White House the way this current president did."
on trump: "He won't even extend relief to the millions of families who can't pay the rent ... And the fact that he can't make that happen, that he won't make that happen, it's hard to understand, because it's not like it's his money. He barely pays income taxes." "I pay more than 40 cents on every dollar I earn [in taxes]. So does Michelle. And we do it proudly because what I know is is that this country has blessed me ... I'm proud to contribute and give back."
"And when a hurricane devastates Puerto Rico, a president's supposed to help it rebuild, not toss paper towels, withhold billions of dollars in aid until just before an election."
"There might be a whole day where they don't tweet some craziness. ... It won't be so exhausting. Just having a normal president. You'll be able to go about your lives knowing that the president's not going to suggest injecting bleach."
A state appeals court in Texas has blocked Gov. Greg Abbott from limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/24/us/trump-b...
Where the former President says:
Obama: "We shouldn't be making it harder for people to vote. We shouldn't ask people to wait 10 hours to vote standing in line. We should be making it easier for everybody to cast their ballot."
In fact a great speech by Obama yesterday, talking alot of sense
https://eu.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2...
Obama: "8 months into this pandemic, new cases are breaking records. Donald Trump isn't going to suddenly protect all of us. He can't even take the basic steps to protect himself. There's no sense that he's coming up with a new approach, with a new plan." "The idea that somehow this White House has done anything but completely screw this thing up is nonsense."
Obama on Biden: "He's not going to screw up testing. He's not going to call scientists idiots. He's not going to host a super-spreader event at the White House the way this current president did."
on trump: "He won't even extend relief to the millions of families who can't pay the rent ... And the fact that he can't make that happen, that he won't make that happen, it's hard to understand, because it's not like it's his money. He barely pays income taxes." "I pay more than 40 cents on every dollar I earn [in taxes]. So does Michelle. And we do it proudly because what I know is is that this country has blessed me ... I'm proud to contribute and give back."
"And when a hurricane devastates Puerto Rico, a president's supposed to help it rebuild, not toss paper towels, withhold billions of dollars in aid until just before an election."
"There might be a whole day where they don't tweet some craziness. ... It won't be so exhausting. Just having a normal president. You'll be able to go about your lives knowing that the president's not going to suggest injecting bleach."
remember that $10m loan trump gave his ca,paign in 2016 at the last minute, that was reported coming through the egyptian bank...
Questions surround a last-minute $10 million lifeline Trump gave his 2016 campaign.
Nothing is known about whether the loan was repaid, who might have repaid it, and whether it would be legal to do so. The loan's existence was a secret until this month.
As the 2020 presidential campaign hurtles toward a close, questions remain about a last-minute $10 million lifeline Trump threw to his previous campaign, the one that catapulted him into the presidency.
Speculation has swirled around the source of that money, with one report suggesting Trump might have gotten the funds from a casino magnate looking for help building a bullet train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Another report pointed to the possibility of a shadowy foreign donation funneled through an Egyptian bank.
But nothing is known about whether the $10 million loan — which the campaign however appears to have reported as a contribution — was ever repaid, who might have repaid it, and whether it would even be legal to do so. The very existence of the loan was a closely guarded secret until this month, when a newly unsealed document indicated that Trump’s closest advisers convinced him to let the campaign borrow the money from him after he refused to just write a check.
While the Trump campaign didn’t respond to requests for comment on this story, the president and his advisers have always maintained his finances are above board. But now, with his 2020 run under fire for a lack of financial transparency, and once again short on cash, significant questions remain about the mysterious 4-year-old loan and what it might say about the frothy final days of the 2016 election.
“If this was a loan, it should have been reported as a loan,” said Brendan Fischer, director of federal reform at the Campaign Legal Center, which monitors money in politics. If it were a loan, he said, the transaction should also have been recorded on financial disclosures Trump was required to file, along with details of how the money was repaid. “If there is some off-the-books mechanism that Trump is using to get repaid for his loans, that should be disclosed,” Fischer added.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/...
Questions surround a last-minute $10 million lifeline Trump gave his 2016 campaign.
Nothing is known about whether the loan was repaid, who might have repaid it, and whether it would be legal to do so. The loan's existence was a secret until this month.
As the 2020 presidential campaign hurtles toward a close, questions remain about a last-minute $10 million lifeline Trump threw to his previous campaign, the one that catapulted him into the presidency.
Speculation has swirled around the source of that money, with one report suggesting Trump might have gotten the funds from a casino magnate looking for help building a bullet train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Another report pointed to the possibility of a shadowy foreign donation funneled through an Egyptian bank.
But nothing is known about whether the $10 million loan — which the campaign however appears to have reported as a contribution — was ever repaid, who might have repaid it, and whether it would even be legal to do so. The very existence of the loan was a closely guarded secret until this month, when a newly unsealed document indicated that Trump’s closest advisers convinced him to let the campaign borrow the money from him after he refused to just write a check.
While the Trump campaign didn’t respond to requests for comment on this story, the president and his advisers have always maintained his finances are above board. But now, with his 2020 run under fire for a lack of financial transparency, and once again short on cash, significant questions remain about the mysterious 4-year-old loan and what it might say about the frothy final days of the 2016 election.
“If this was a loan, it should have been reported as a loan,” said Brendan Fischer, director of federal reform at the Campaign Legal Center, which monitors money in politics. If it were a loan, he said, the transaction should also have been recorded on financial disclosures Trump was required to file, along with details of how the money was repaid. “If there is some off-the-books mechanism that Trump is using to get repaid for his loans, that should be disclosed,” Fischer added.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/...
Swamp news, another donor gets rewarded and the dark money behing the Federalist society pushing judge nominations. Remember they pushed Kavanaughs...
Leonard Leo, Trump's top outside Supreme Court advisor, is the sole trustee of a mysterious dark money group that brought in more than $80 million in 2018, according to a previously unreported tax return uncovered by CREW.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investig...
Leonard Leo, Trump's top outside Supreme Court advisor, is the sole trustee of a mysterious dark money group that brought in more than $80 million in 2018, according to a previously unreported tax return uncovered by CREW.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investig...
More GOP fights over voter restrictions
Some new twists in the fight over how far past Election Day absentee ballots can be counted in Pennsylvania
Remember that just a few days ago SCOTUS voted 4-4 not to disturb a PA Supreme Court decision that extended the deadline to Nov. 6.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/su...
The PA Republican Party has now asked the PA Supreme Court to stay its decision re: the Nov. 6 deadline while it pursues a cert petition at SCOTUS
Remember McConnell is rapidly pushingthe Senate to vote on Monday to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the ninth justice, which will give them the extra vote to reinstate PA's Election Day deadline for absentee ballots
The GOP is asking the Supreme Court to rerun Bush v. Gore: just look at the table of authorities.
And why are they pushing ACB as a new Scotus. It's all about voting obstruction
How Amy Coney Barrett played a role in Bush v. Gore — and helped the Republican Party defend mail ballots
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amy-coney-...
There's nothing subtle about the GOP voting obstruction anymore, they are fulling going for it in the open, which makes you wonder what they are doing thats hidden
Some new twists in the fight over how far past Election Day absentee ballots can be counted in Pennsylvania
Remember that just a few days ago SCOTUS voted 4-4 not to disturb a PA Supreme Court decision that extended the deadline to Nov. 6.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/su...
The PA Republican Party has now asked the PA Supreme Court to stay its decision re: the Nov. 6 deadline while it pursues a cert petition at SCOTUS
Remember McConnell is rapidly pushingthe Senate to vote on Monday to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the ninth justice, which will give them the extra vote to reinstate PA's Election Day deadline for absentee ballots
The GOP is asking the Supreme Court to rerun Bush v. Gore: just look at the table of authorities.
And why are they pushing ACB as a new Scotus. It's all about voting obstruction
How Amy Coney Barrett played a role in Bush v. Gore — and helped the Republican Party defend mail ballots
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amy-coney-...
There's nothing subtle about the GOP voting obstruction anymore, they are fulling going for it in the open, which makes you wonder what they are doing thats hidden
Edited by Byker28i on Sunday 25th October 07:40
and here's more proof of the manufactured evidence against Hunter Biden, we already know Giuliani had them for months, waited until three weeks before election, hoping for the 'comey effect'
Politico’s @NatashaBertrand with Lev Parnas confirming @shustry’s reporting in TIME that Biden emails were for sale in Ukraine in May 2019, & my reporting in @salon that Giuliani himself was offered them in late May, and declined.
Remember TIME Magazine reported earlier this week that at least two people were approached with offers to buy salacious Biden material in the spring and fall of 2019, raising similar questions about the original source of the photos and emails Giuliani gave to the New York Post.
https://time.com/5902557/hunter-biden-rudy-giulian...
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was offered salacious photos and other documents belonging to Joe Biden’s son Hunter in the spring of 2019, earlier than previously known, according to one of Giuliani's closest former associates.
And the alleged offer came from an intriguing source: a Ukrainian oligarch looking for help with a potential legal jam.
The claim made by Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-born businessman who was indicted last year on campaign finance charges, raises new questions about the provenance of the materials Giuliani has said he obtained recently from a computer repair shop in Delaware — and that he is now touting to accuse the Democratic nominee of corruption.
Parnas, who collaborated with Giuliani on the former New York mayor’s quest to find damaging information on the Bidens beginning in late 2018, now says that similar materials were being offered to Giuliani just weeks after Joe Biden launched his presidential run.
“It was May 30, 2019 when we first heard about this stuff,” Parnas said in an interview this week.
Democrats and former intelligence officials have raised questions about the Biden documents, alleging the leak of the materials could be part of a wide-ranging Russian effort to interfere in American politics on Trump’s behalf. Neither Hunter Biden nor his lawyer have confirmed the materials are real, though the FBI has indicated it now has custody of the younger Biden’s laptop hard drive.
But Parnas’ narrative suggests Giuliani might have first learned about at least some of the content on the so-called “the hard drive from hell” through other means — from a Ukrainian contact searching for help in fending off any legal issues with the Justice Department. And as Giuliani embarked on a mission to get his hands on the materials, other actors in Ukraine were trying to profit from them, according to a person who was approached by someone trying to sell the explicit photos and emails for millions of dollars.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/24/hunter-bi...
Politico’s @NatashaBertrand with Lev Parnas confirming @shustry’s reporting in TIME that Biden emails were for sale in Ukraine in May 2019, & my reporting in @salon that Giuliani himself was offered them in late May, and declined.
Remember TIME Magazine reported earlier this week that at least two people were approached with offers to buy salacious Biden material in the spring and fall of 2019, raising similar questions about the original source of the photos and emails Giuliani gave to the New York Post.
https://time.com/5902557/hunter-biden-rudy-giulian...
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was offered salacious photos and other documents belonging to Joe Biden’s son Hunter in the spring of 2019, earlier than previously known, according to one of Giuliani's closest former associates.
And the alleged offer came from an intriguing source: a Ukrainian oligarch looking for help with a potential legal jam.
The claim made by Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-born businessman who was indicted last year on campaign finance charges, raises new questions about the provenance of the materials Giuliani has said he obtained recently from a computer repair shop in Delaware — and that he is now touting to accuse the Democratic nominee of corruption.
Parnas, who collaborated with Giuliani on the former New York mayor’s quest to find damaging information on the Bidens beginning in late 2018, now says that similar materials were being offered to Giuliani just weeks after Joe Biden launched his presidential run.
“It was May 30, 2019 when we first heard about this stuff,” Parnas said in an interview this week.
Democrats and former intelligence officials have raised questions about the Biden documents, alleging the leak of the materials could be part of a wide-ranging Russian effort to interfere in American politics on Trump’s behalf. Neither Hunter Biden nor his lawyer have confirmed the materials are real, though the FBI has indicated it now has custody of the younger Biden’s laptop hard drive.
But Parnas’ narrative suggests Giuliani might have first learned about at least some of the content on the so-called “the hard drive from hell” through other means — from a Ukrainian contact searching for help in fending off any legal issues with the Justice Department. And as Giuliani embarked on a mission to get his hands on the materials, other actors in Ukraine were trying to profit from them, according to a person who was approached by someone trying to sell the explicit photos and emails for millions of dollars.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/24/hunter-bi...
inonthis said:
For the record, Trump will win and he'll get more of the black & hispanic vote than in 2016 (lol at the poster going off on one about Nazis).
Wouldn't be surprised if he wins the popular vote too.
See you in a few weeks x
You've already said this. Yet you still come back and repeat yourself. Take some Adderall.Wouldn't be surprised if he wins the popular vote too.
See you in a few weeks x
When both sides start hurling insults and threats at each other - both sides are diminished. Now, in my opinion, one particular side is already starting in a pretty diminished state - but joining in with their style and tactics is not really the best way of showing them up for what they are.
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