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Post by karma4u on Dec 4, 2020 21:59:27 GMT
I live in B.C. but thought I'd share this.
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Post by karma4u on Dec 16, 2020 23:56:27 GMT
Kicked out of the WH. no longer wanted in the 'hood.  Several wealthy residents of Palm Beach, Fla., have put outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump in a bit of a bind after they called for the city to bar him from living at his Mar-a-Lago resort when he leaves office next month. A coalition of neighbours sent a letter to the City of Palm Beach on Tuesday, in which they called for the city to prevent Trump from making Mar-a-Lago his permanent residence. The letter was penned by an attorney and addressed to the U.S. Secret Service, according to a copy obtained by the Washington Post. Read more: New York judge orders Trump Organization to give documents to state investigators The letter argues that Trump signed away his right to live at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s, when he converted the property from a private residence to a private club in a contentious deal with the city. The letter urges Palm Beach to inform Trump that he must find a new permanent residence for his post-presidency, and calls for him to do it now to "avoid an embarrassing situation" later on. |
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Post by cliffs on Dec 17, 2020 1:42:46 GMT
I read that he can't live more than a week straight at Mar A Lago or some such timeframe.
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Post by cliffs on Dec 19, 2020 20:24:27 GMT
Cannot believe this shit ... people voted her (and those like her) into office. WOW
Incoming Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has expressed support for the far-right QAnon conspiracy, told a crowd outside a gun store in Georgia that she will not vote to confirm the results of the 2020 election for president-elect Joe Biden.
The congresswoman-elect told a campaign rally crowd on Friday that she will join Alabama congressman Mo Brooks “and many of my other colleagues” to dispute the Electoral College votes, which will be certified during a joint session of Congress on 6 January.
“I’ve seen a lot of evidence of voter fraud and these absentee ballots are out of control,” she said. “I’ve got President Trump’s back. You wanna know why? He has our back.”
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Post by karma4u on Dec 21, 2020 21:54:00 GMT
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Post by karma4u on Dec 24, 2020 4:19:48 GMT
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising the taxpayer-funded travel and security total for his hobby to $151.5 million, according to a HuffPost analysis.
Trump has already played golf on his own properties 289 times since taking office in January 2017, although he claimed during his 2016 campaign that he would not have time for a vacation at all. “I just want to stay in the White House and work my ass off,” he said in February 2016.
Trump’s insistence on playing at his own properties ― rather than courses on military bases close to the White House, as former President Barack Obama mainly did — has made his outings enormously expensive for American taxpayers. Each trip to Mar-a-Lago costs $3.4 million flying Trump, his staff and the vehicles needed for his motorcade on Air Force One and a number of cargo planes, as well as the expenses incurred by the Coast Guard to patrol both the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to his for-profit resort.
Trump has also made 23 trips to his course in Bedminster, New Jersey, at a cost of $1.1 million each as well as trips to his courses in Palos Verdes, California; Doral, Florida; Turnberry, Scotland; and Doonbeg, Ireland.
The trip to Scotland cost taxpayers an extra $3 million over what it would have cost for Trump to remain in London an extra two days before flying to Helsinki, Finland, for his meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. A Mar-a-Lago visit over Thanksgiving 2019 cost taxpayers an additional $5.3 million because of all the extra expenses of flying both modified Boeing 747s across the Atlantic and back necessitated by Trump’s decision to visit Afghanistan from Florida, rather than leaving from Washington, D.C.
The $151.5 million total means that Trump has now spent the equivalent of 379 years of presidential salary — which he and his supporters frequently boast that he does not take — playing golf.
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Post by cliffs on Dec 24, 2020 11:52:44 GMT
Exclusive: As Trump leaves office, 50% of Americans see him as a 'failed' president
President Donald Trump leaves the White House next month with the country more sharply divided than when he moved in and amid caustic assessments of his record in office, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds.
Fifty percent of Americans now predict history will judge him as a "failed" president.
The survey, taken in the waning weeks of his administration, shows the risks of actions he is contemplating on his way out the door. Americans overwhelmingly say issuing a preemptive pardon for himself would be an abuse of presidential power, and an even bigger majority, including most Republicans, say he should attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration to demonstrate the peaceful transfer of power.
Trump hasn't announced whether he will attend the inauguration Jan. 20, and White House officials say he has been weighing pardons for himself and family members. On Tuesday, he issued 20 politically charged pardons and commutations, with more expected to follow. Much of his energy since the Nov. 3 election has been spent seeking ways to overturn the results, making allegations of widespread fraud.
"The last four years have been lacking in compassion and empathy, lacking in anything other than advancing the personal interests of President Trump and his friends and allies and family," said Babette Salus, 60, a retired attorney and Biden voter from Springfield, Illinois, who was among those surveyed. "There have probably been worse presidents, (but) I'm not sure there has been a worse one in my lifetime."
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Post by cliffs on Dec 24, 2020 11:56:17 GMT
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called it “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he ever prosecuted as U.S. attorney.
After Charles Kushner discovered his brother-in-law was cooperating with federal authorities, the wealthy real estate executive and father of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared, hatched a scheme for revenge and intimidation.
Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man’s wife.
The scheme didn't work. Kushner later pleaded guilty to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations in a case tailor-made for tabloid headlines.
On Wednesday Trump pardoned Kushner as part of a late-hour clemency spree during the final days of his presidency that has included a slew of campaign aides and allies, among them four of the six Trump associates convicted in the Mueller investigation. He has granted clemency to nearly 50 people in the last week.
4 more weeks and it is over....thinking of just going to bed for 4 weeks and waking up in a totally different world.
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Post by cliffs on Dec 31, 2020 12:20:56 GMT
Donald Trump is returning early to Washington on Thursday, cutting short his Christmas break and missing out on the annual New Year’s Eve party at his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago despite charging attendees $1,000 per ticket.
Back in DC, the president will continue his protest against the certification of November’s election results in the Senate on 6 January, at which Republican senator Josh Hawley will voice Republican objections to Democrat Joe Biden’s win even though the Trump campaign has still failed to turn up any evidence of the mass voter fraud it alleges.
The US Secret Service is meanwhile reportedly making changes to its presidential detail tasked with protecting Mr Biden in order to root out alleged Trump loyalists from its ranks.
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Post by karma4u on Jan 2, 2021 21:10:03 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Jan 2, 2021 22:25:16 GMT
So glad Donald will be gone soon. The world needs to wake the f up and hit the reset button. We are going to start killing our neighbors for no reason at all.
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Post by karma4u on Jan 4, 2021 21:47:10 GMT
Senators that Americans should remember.
The Dirty Dozen.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK)
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT)
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN)
Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS)
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
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Post by cliffs on Jan 5, 2021 18:30:19 GMT
Even other countries are going to have a field day come Jan 21st. How corrupt is this family?
The latest Trump Organization filings reporting a $4.6 million annual loss at the president’s two Scottish golf resorts boost the total red ink for the courses over eight years to an eye-popping $75 million.
The filings covering 2019 don’t reflect the tumult of 2020. Eric Trump, the director of the Scottish courses, warned that the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit — which the president has always supported — may take a further bite out of revenues.
The unprofitable properties have been hemorrhaging money for years. Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd., which operates Donald Trump’s course in Aberdeenshire, reported a net loss of $1.5 million for 2019 after losing $1.4 million the previous year, according to a filing with Britain’s Companies House registry. The total debt for the club, which opened in 2012, is more than $16 million, the London Times has reported.
Trump Turnberry in Ayrshire reported a $3.1 million loss in 2019 — despite hundreds of thousands of dollars paid by the U.S. government for lodging Secret Service agents and other costs, the Scotsman noted. Turnberry owes debt of more than $61 million.
Despite the losses, the Trump Organization has reported massive outlays at the properties over the years. It also has won approval to build a 500-unit housing development at a cost of $185 million next to the club in Aberdeenshire, which it intends to persue, according to the latest filing.
Accounting for the president’s Scottish resorts is unusual because Trump is the creditor for his own businesses, which means payment for many of the resorts’ costs flow to the Trump Organization.
The resort losses are so astronomical that some Scottish officials are suspicious about financing and taxes. Trump hasn’t paid a penny in tax on the properties.
Trump bought the Scotland properties with huge amounts of cash at a time when he was heavily indebted and having a difficult time finding a bank to loan him funds. Scottish Green Party co-leader and member of Parliament Patrick Harvie called on the government in November to file an “Unexplained Wealth Order” against Trump to compel him to reveal the source of that cash.
The circular flow of money in the Trump companies provides an opportunity for money laundering, The New Yorker business writer Adam Davidson has suggested. He called the resorts “money disappearing” operations.
Trump “owns the asset, lends the money, owes the money, is owed the money,” Davidson explained. “The overall picture is crystal clear: Every year, Trump lends millions to himself, spends all that money on something, and claims the asset is worth all the money he spent.”
But Trump couldn’t possibly have spent all the outlays he claims on his properties, Davidson said. “We have the planning docs. We know how much he spent — it’s far less than what he claims. The money truly disappears. It goes from one pocket to another pocket and then the pocket is opened to reveal nothing is there.”
The leader of the Scottish government, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, told Harvie late last year that Trump will face “due accountability” if evidence is found linking the resorts to money laundering or any other financial fraud.
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Post by karma4u on Jan 5, 2021 20:35:23 GMT
They are an extremely corrupt family, keep the faith.
Another premise of the First Amendment is, "the truth will out." If you keep battling back and forth for information, the truth will survive. And you can fight falsity with truth.
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Post by cliffs on Jan 6, 2021 12:23:58 GMT
Scotland’s leader doesn’t want President Donald Trump rocking up for a round of golf during the coronavirus pandemic.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon — who sent Scotland into a full-scale lockdown on Monday — made it crystal clear Tuesday that the outgoing president would not be welcome into the country to play at one of his loss-making courses.
Sturgeon was asked during a televised press conference to comment on reports, which the White House have denied, that Trump was planning to visit Scotland to avoid the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
“I’ve no idea what Donald Trump’s travel plans are, you’ll be glad to know,” Sturgeon responded. “I hope and expect that, as everybody expects, not everybody necessarily will hope, that the travel plan immediately he has it to exit the White House. But beyond that, I don’t know.”
Sturgeon then clarified Scotland’s position with regards to Trump flying over during the public health crisis and lockdown:
“We are not allowing people to come into Scotland without any central purpose right now, and that would apply to him just as it applies to anybody else and coming to play golf is not what I would consider to be an essential purpose.”
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