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[Dump Trump 2021]

But as long as the middle and working class trump supporters FEEL like their heroes are anti elite, they're happy 🙄

"An anti-tax group funded primarily by billionaires has emerged as one of the biggest backers of the Republican lawmakers who sought to overturn the US election results, according to an analysis by the Guardian.

The Club for Growth has supported the campaigns of 42 of the rightwing Republicans senators and members of the House of Representatives who voted last week to challenge US election results, doling out an estimated $20m to directly and indirectly support their campaigns in 2018 and 2020, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

About 30 of the Republican hardliners received more than $100,000 in indirect and direct support from the group.

The Club for Growth’s biggest beneficiaries include Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, the two Republican senators who led the effort to invalidate Joe Biden’s electoral victory, and the newly elected far-right gun-rights activist Lauren Boebert, a QAnon conspiracy theorist. Boebert was criticised last week for tweeting about the House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s location during the attack on the Capitol, even after lawmakers were told not to do so by police."

Unfortunately, they'll even feel fine when reading this. They'll ignore who the contributors are, and how they're benefiting, and just see "anti tax" and "pro gun" and "Qanon" and feel like their interests are being served.

(When, in reality, tax breaks do NOT actually help the poor, Americans are shooting each other every week, and Qanon is beyond bullshit.)

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WASHINGTON — As he prepares to leave office, President Donald Trump's job approval marks are on a downward spiral, led by sinking support among his Republican base, following last week's riot at the Capitol and subsequent impeachment.
In a new poll from the Pew Research Center, only 29% of Americans said they approve of how Trump is handling his job – the lowest of his tumultuous presidency and down 9 percentage points from August. Sixty-eight percent said they disapprove of his job performance.
Driving the decline, only 60% of Republicans and voters who lean Republican approve of Trump's job performance, the poll found, a drop from 77% in August. Trump's positive marks from Democrats – already near rock bottom – dropped one percentage point to 4% from 5%.

[ErixonStone]

Who are these 4% of Democrats who think Trump is doing a good job?

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Online misinformation about the presidential election plunged an astonishing 73% after Twitter and other social media networks either banned or suspended Donald Trump and key supporters, according to new data analysis.

Baseless claims of election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 mentions across several social media sites in the week after Trump was banned by Twitter, according to research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm Zignal Labs, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

The use of hashtags linked to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack also plunged, with “Fight for Trump,” “Hold The Line,” and “March for Trump” all falling 95%, Zignal found.

The findings, covering social media comments from Jan. 9 through Friday, underscores the synergistic effect of falsehoods on social media as misinformation is repeated and amplified if it’s not quickly checked, the Post noted.

“De-platforming, especially at the scale that occurred last week, rapidly curbs momentum and ability to reach new audiences,” Graham Brookie, director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which tracks misinformation, told the newspaper.




Plunged 73% -  I guess he did nothing but tweet and golf for 4 years. He must be bored out of his mind (what little there is)

[Dump Trump 2021]

"Nearly a month after the presidential election, former attorney general Bill Barr told Donald Trump that his repeated claims of a stolen election were “bullshit,” according to a new report in Axios.

Per Axios, the exchange unfolded in the Oval Office, where Trump summoned Barr for a meeting after seeing a story by the Associated Press in which his attorney general told the agency there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone and a few other aides were there to witness the back-and-forth, in which Barr told the president that the legal team he had brought on to validate his baseless claims was “clownish.”

For much of his tenure, Barr was one of Trump’s most loyal cabinet officials. But it wasn’t enough for Trump, writes Jonathan Swan, and their relationship slowly disintegrated. Barr stepped down shortly after Christmas."

[Dump Trump 2021]

Apparently trump plans to process up to 100 pardons in the few days he has remaining.

(I also saw a report claiming trump had indicated it was 2mill for a pardon.)

Fucking shameless, morally bankrupt and hypocritical to the end, isn't he...

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'Rudy wants $2m to get you a pardon.' Ex-CIA leaker reveals he went to FBI after offer from Giuliani associate during booze-fueled meeting at Trump hotel – as lobbyists cash in on possible pardon spree
Former CIA officerJohn Kirakou revealed Rudy Giuliani offered to sell him a pardon from President Donald Trump for $2 million
He said the price tag was given by Giuliani's associate after Trump's personal attorney offered using his pull with the president to secure clemency
't's going to cost $2 million — he's going to want two million bucks'
Kirikou said the proposal was made during a booze-filled meeting at Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. last year
A New York Times report reveals several others close to the president have been cashing in on promising pardons

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With A Song In Her Heart, Melania Trump Returns To New York






Skip ahead to the 3:30 mark of the video for her return. Should watch it all ... 

[Dump Trump 2021]

Haha. Ridiculous.

[karma4u]

Kimball Pugmire, who supported the outgoing president and voted for him in 2016 and 2020, told the Tampa Bay Times that he was forced to question Trump's honesty after learning that the president had granted clemency Wednesday to "lifetime crook" Fred Davis Clark Jr., who was sentenced to decades behind bars in 2016 after defrauding nearly 1,400 investors out of a combined $300 million.



"I had been trying to forget all this, but it makes you wonder, even being a Trump supporter, about his honesty," Pugmire told the paper.



Clark was CEO of Cay Clubs Resorts and Marina, which offered investors the promise of steady returns by purportedly transforming old properties into luxury resorts in Florida, the Caribbean and Las Vegas. In reality, the projects were never completed and the money taken in from new investors was being used to pay off outstanding debts to old investors and to fund Clark's lavish lifestyle.

[ErixonStone]

Jan 20, 2021 5:19:20 GMT karma4u said:

Kimball Pugmire, who supported the outgoing president and voted for him in 2016 and 2020, told the Tampa Bay Times that he was forced to question Trump's honesty after learning that the president had granted clemency Wednesday to "lifetime crook" Fred Davis Clark Jr., who was sentenced to decades behind bars in 2016 after defrauding nearly 1,400 investors out of a combined $300 million.



"I had been trying to forget all this, but it makes you wonder, even being a Trump supporter, about his honesty," Pugmire told the paper.



Clark was CEO of Cay Clubs Resorts and Marina, which offered investors the promise of steady returns by purportedly transforming old properties into luxury resorts in Florida, the Caribbean and Las Vegas. In reality, the projects were never completed and the money taken in from new investors was being used to pay off outstanding debts to old investors and to fund Clark's lavish lifestyle.

These people always have to have it happen directly to them before they ever question anything. It's as if other people do not exist. Trump has defrauded a countless number of other people from contractors, to students, to charities - there are no bounds. Somehow, these people ignore all of that and claim that they didn't know Trump is dishonest, even in spite of all of the video evidence clearly showing him willing to lie about anything.

Then they act so surprised when it happens to them.

[Dump Trump 2021]

The presidential pardon thing America has is absolutely fucking ridiculous. And corrupt. How is that allowed in a "developed" country??

I'll say it again, like my point about America not being able to call other countries "tinpot dictatorships" when they have democratic elections being challenged by millions of people, conspiracy theory craziness and a president actively encouraging violence and misinformation; the presidential pardon system, certainly in its current form, is straight out of Stalinist Russia.

A guy imprisoned for many years, only a few years ago, for clear and terrible law breaking, given freedom after only a few years.

Fucking disgraceful corruptness.

[Dump Trump 2021]

Historians have railed against the 1776 Commission following the Monday release of its report of what it called “a definitive chronicle of the American founding”.

The report, commissioned by the Donald Trump administration, urged America to return to an era of “patriotic education” amid what it called “reckless ‘re-education’ attempts that seek to reframe American history around the idea that the United States is not an exceptional country but an evil one”.

But historians saw it differently.

“The 1776 report is a puerile, politically reactionary document,” stated David Blight, author of the biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. He tweeted: “It doesn’t really use evidence except to employ founding documents and too many quotations out of context.”

Blight wrote that the report’s use of the abolitionist’s historic quote from a 4 July speech on the complications of its celebration for Black people was “so mis-used [he couldn’t] stop laughing.

“Trumpians will eat it up as may Fox News,” he wrote to the Guardian. “No legitimately trained historian or teacher will even be able to read through it all without nausea.”

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This is BS


www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-extended-secret-service-protection-for-13-members-of-his-family-as-he-left-office/2021/01/20/31ef3e9e-5b3c-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

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Republicans elected this POS:

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's office said in a statement to Axios Tuesday night that he was aware of "disturbing" comments Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had made and/or endorsed before being elected to Congress in 2020.

A review of hundreds of posts and comments on Greene's Facebook page revealed her past support of and engagement with a number of far-right, QAnon conspiracy theories.

Greene repeatedly expressed support for assassinating leading Democrats on social media prior to her time in office, liking a Facebook comment in 2019 that said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should get a "bullet to the head."

CNN reported that in February 2019, Greene broadcast a Facebook Live video from inside Pelosi's office saying the Speaker will "suffer death or she'll be in prison" for treason.

The freshman lawmaker also reportedly endorsed conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook shooting, which killed 26 people, including 20 elementary school children, and the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 dead were both staged.

In 2018, Greene agreed with a Facebook commentator who suggested 9/11 was an inside job, according to the progressive group Media Matters for America.
"These comments are deeply disturbing and Leader McCarthy plans to have a conversation with the Congresswoman about them," Mark Bednar, a spokesperson for McCarthy, told Axios.




Like talking to this person is going to change her mind.