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Post by karma4u on Aug 16, 2020 18:56:11 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force — and this time there's no daylight between them.
Trump last week announced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases.
But he has long been a critic of coronavirus lockdowns and has campaigned for kids to return to the classroom and for the return of college sports, just like Trump.
“Scott is a very famous man who’s also very highly respected," Trump told reporters as he introduced the addition. “He has many great ideas and he thinks what we’ve done is really good.”
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Post by cliffs on Aug 20, 2020 11:33:13 GMT
“For close to four years now, he has shown no interest in putting in the work,” Obama said. “No interest in finding common ground, no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends. No interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves. Donald Trump hasn’t grown into the job, because he can’t.
“And the consequences of that failure are severe,” he continued. “170,000 Americans dead. Millions of jobs gone, while those at the top take in more than ever. Our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before.”
Trump was apparently watching Obama's speech, which was carried live on all major and cable networks. As he spoke, Trump lashed out on Twitter, reiterating the false claim that Obama "spied" on his campaign.
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Post by cliffs on Aug 20, 2020 11:41:34 GMT
Trump was obsessed with which way Hurricane Florence was spinning ‘like a 3rd grader’, says official
Mr Taylor said initially he thought the president was intently studying the storm, and described him studying a foam board where pictures of the hurricane and its projected path were hanging.
"Then he turned to me and said 'I've got a question' ... 'do the hurricanes always spin this direction?'" Mr Taylor said. "He meant counter clockwise, that's called the Coriolis effect."
He claimed the president then followed up asking if that was why water in Australian toilets flow opposite of those in the US.
"This is what the president was focused on. Americans were on the path of a deadly hurricane, he needed to get out there and tell them to evacuate, and he was just marvelled at the way that hurricanes spin, in a way that a third grader might learning about earth science," Mr Taylor said. "This is the president that we're talking about to keep us safe."
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Post by cliffs on Aug 20, 2020 17:18:14 GMT
Steve Bannon, former top Trump aide, arrested, charged with fraud in fundraising for private border wall
Bannon was charged, along with We Build the Wall founder Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Contrary to repeated public assurances by Kolfage, a disabled Air Force veteran, that he would “not take a penny in salary or compensation” and that “100% of the funds raised ... will be used in the execution of our mission and purpose” to build a border wall, prosecutors charge that all four of the men “received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor funds from We Build the Wall, which they each used in a manner inconsistent with the organization’s public representations.”
Specifically, the indictment alleges that “Kolfage covertly took for his personal use more than $350,000 in funds that donors had given to We Build the Wall,” while Bannon received over $1 million dollars through another unnamed nonprofit under his control, “at least some of which” was used to pay for hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bannon’s personal expenses.
“As alleged, the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction,” Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss stated in a press release announcing the indictments Thursday. “While repeatedly assuring donors that Brian Kolfage, the founder and public face of We Build the Wall, would not be paid a cent, the defendants secretly schemed to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage, which he used to fund his lavish lifestyle.”
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Post by karma4u on Aug 20, 2020 19:57:55 GMT
Yup, the corruption within the Trump administration is mind boggling. Aided and abetted by his current fixer AG Barr.
Two months ago, Attorney General William P. Barr launched a hasty, questionable and haphazard effort to get rid of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman at the Southern District of New York and install a new acting head of his office. Critics suggested it was a thinly veiled effort to get rid of the man whose office investigated allies of President Trump, including Rudolph W. Giuliani — the latest in heavy-handed and seemingly political actions by Barr to protect Trump.
It turns out the office was about to indict another Trump ally: Stephen K. Bannon. And the person responsible for charging the former top Trump aide is the acting U.S. attorney whom Barr tried and failed to bypass.
Acting U.S. attorney Audrey Strauss on Thursday indicted Bannon alongside three others for an alleged fundraising scheme involving Trump’s border wall. He becomes merely the latest former top Trump aide to run into legal trouble — a list which includes the campaign chief that Bannon effectively replaced, Paul Manafort, Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone and Trump’s first national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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Post by cliffs on Aug 24, 2020 11:35:22 GMT
Michael Steele, former chair of the Republican National Committee, had some blunt words for members of the GOP who voted for and continue to support President Donald Trump.
Trump, he said, “is not now nor has he ever been a Republican.”
Speaking on MSNBC a day before the Republican National Convention, Steele warned:
“All y’all want to play this little game that Donald Trump is like you, you’re stupid. You’re being played. You’re getting punked. But what’s so bad about it is you’re complicit in your own punking.”
Steele also laughed at the idea that Trump intended to speak on each night of the event rather than just on the final night as was traditional.
“Can we stop pretending that this is going to be a Republican National Convention?” he asked. “This is Donald Trump’s reality TV moment.”
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Post by karma4u on Aug 29, 2020 23:33:48 GMT
President Donald Trump on Saturday elevated his attacks on his niece while hitting those who have written intimate — and often unflattering — portrayals of his family life and the inner workings of his presidency.
“About the only way a person is able to write a book on me is if they agree that it will contain as much bad ‘stuff’ as possible, much of which is lies,” the president wrote aboard Air Force One. “Even whether it’s … an unstable niece, who was now rightfully shunned, scorned and mocked her entire life, and never even liked by her own very kind & caring grandfather!"
Mary Trump has spoken out against her uncle in a series of interviews after releasing a tell-all book in July that characterized the president as a racist, serial liar suffering from numerous personality disorders.
In an interview with POLITICO shortly after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention, Mary Trump said she considered the four-day event “disturbing” and “law-breaking” and marked by a “breathtaking” torrent of lies.
“The extent to which every, almost every single participant in this convention was willing to lie, and knew they were lying, and didn’t care that pretty much everything they said was a lie, was breathtaking,” she said.
Last week, Mary Trump released secret recordings to the Washington Post that reportedly captured the president’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, disparaging her brother.
Mary Trump described her rationale behind sharing the recordings as a need to stop her uncle from being re-elected in November.
“Because we’re at this extraordinarily crucial point in this country’s history, and we need to do everything,” she said. “Everything has to be put on the table. Everything. And if I take a hit personally, so be it.”
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Post by cliffs on Aug 30, 2020 0:38:31 GMT
I had a very heated exchange with my son in law when I said this exact same thing today. He told me to tell him what were lies......I tried and then just had to leave it alone.
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Post by cliffs on Sept 1, 2020 14:08:46 GMT
President Trump appeared on the The Ingraham Angle Monday night, where he discussed the recent police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Trump attempted to defend the shooting by saying the police simply choked.
“[The police] can do 10,000 great acts, which is what they do,” said Trump, “And one bad apple or a choker -- you know a choker, they choke -- shooting the guy in the back many times.”
The president admitted that, in hindsight, the police could have acted differently. He also floated out the theory that Blake may have been armed.“Couldn't you have done something different, couldn't you have wrestled him?” pondered Trump. “You know, I mean, in the meantime he might've been going for a weapon.”
Even if Blake was unarmed, Trump believes the shooting was simply a mistake, like the kind a golfer might make in a tournament.
“They choke, just like in a golf tournament they miss a 3-foot putt,” said Trump.
Host Laura Ingraham immediately cut him off, saying “You're not comparing it to golf, because that’s what the media will say.” To which Trump replied, “I'm saying people choke.”
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Post by cliffs on Sept 1, 2020 14:10:18 GMT
President Donald Trump alleged unnamed people in “dark shadows” are controlling Democratic nominee Joe Biden in an interview with Laura Ingraham that aired Monday night on Fox News.
In discussing what he characterized as anarchists and thugs terrorizing American cities, Trump said, “People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows” are pulling the strings of the Democratic nominee.
Ingraham asked the president to elaborate, saying, “That sounds like a conspiracy theory.“
Trump specified: “There are people that are on the streets, there are people that are controlling the streets.”
The president then offered further description of what he characterized as secret plotters, without providing specifics that could allow for the verification of the story.
“We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend. And in the plane, it was almost completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that,“ Trump told the Fox News host on “The Ingraham Angle.“
He added: “A lot of the people were on the plane to do big damage.”
Ingraham asked him for further detail. Saying it was under investigation, Trump replied, “I’ll tell you sometime.”
Trump also offered theories about unrest in some American cities, alleging, for instance, that “Portland has been burning for many years, for decades it's been burning" and repeatedly asserting that protesters there wanted to kill Mayor Ted Wheeler.
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Post by karma4u on Sept 1, 2020 22:15:11 GMT
He has the best words, best brain.  |
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Post by cliffs on Sept 1, 2020 23:22:27 GMT
In a bigly sort of way.
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Post by cliffs on Sept 4, 2020 11:08:14 GMT
LOL
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — President Donald Trump has urged Iran not to execute a popular wrestler who authorities say killed a man during 2018 anti-government rallies.
Citing reports on the death sentence for 27-year-old Navid Afkari, Trump said in a Thursday tweet: “... To the leaders of Iran, I would greatly appreciate if you would spare this young man’s life, and not execute him. Thank you!”
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Post by cliffs on Sept 4, 2020 11:10:25 GMT
The host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC updated her viewers on the latest reporting on President Donald Trump’s attacks on the American military.
“Now tonight the yuck factor has come to pretty gross focus with a just jaw-dropping new piece reporter by Jeffery Goldberg that was published by The Atlantic. It does put the focus on something odd and wrong at the center of this,” she explained. “You see the headline here, ‘Trump says Americans who died in war are losers and suckers.'”
The host read extensively from the story.
“When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true,” Maddow read from the report. “Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day.”
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Post by karma4u on Sept 4, 2020 16:11:56 GMT
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