Trump Disgraces America Every Day

[donquixote99]

Very worthwhile piece in New Yorker: how Trump uses myth of human trafficking by Southern Border as wall justification, while meanwhile gutting actual protections for actual trafficking victims: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...m=TNY_Borowitz

[Chicks]

TRUMP EXPLODES AS DEMOCRATS CLOSE IN ON HIS BUSINESS
Democrats are calling it an “M.R.I.” of the president’s finances. It may be more like a colonoscopy.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019...usiness-schiff

Donald Trump on Thursday whined again that Democrats are engaging in unprecedented “presidential harassment,” his term for the congressional scrutiny the new House majority is beginning to intensify. “The Dems and their committees are going ‘nuts,’” he wrote in one tweet of a three-part rant Thursday morning. “The Republicans never did this to President Obama.”

It’s a particularly rich complaint coming from the guy who spent years falsely claiming Barack Obama was not born in the United States, but it reflects Trump’s growing unease as Democrats revive and launch new probes into his administration and his business empire. Trump has taken out his angst on House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff in particular, as Schiff and other Democrats on the panel prepare to launch a broad inquiry into the president’s family business. “After having found zero Russian Collusion,” Trump tweeted Thursday, “he is going to be looking at every aspect of my life, both financial and personal, even though there is no reason to be doing so.”

Awwww. Poor widdle Donny.

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'NYT' Reporter Covering Trump: We've Almost 'Lost The Ability To Be Shocked'

Any other candidate would have been thrown out of the party for what Donny has done over the years, yet because of mindless enablers and voters like Whell, he continues to abuse the office of the presidency daily, hourly. Will we ever recover from this incompetent, vengeful fool? How have GOP members allowed it, and why to they continue to enable this criminal?

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/07/69212...-to-be-shocked

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Chicks

'NYT' Reporter Covering Trump: We've Almost 'Lost The Ability To Be Shocked'

Any other candidate would have been thrown out of the party for what Donny has done over the years, yet because of mindless enablers and voters like Whell, he continues to abuse the office of the presidency daily, hourly. Will we ever recover from this incompetent, vengeful fool? How have GOP members allowed it, and why to they continue to enable this criminal?

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/07/69212...-to-be-shocked

The only upside of the Trump presidency is that he may kill today's GOP. Hopefully what comes up from their ashes is a reasonable center-right alternative.

[Chicks]

Ronan Farrow Says Jeff Bezos Isn’t The Only One AMI Tried To Blackmail

These things are just too close to TrumpWorld for him not to be involved. This Pecker sleazeball is one of his partners in crime. This is going to get very interesting. You really don't want to mess with one of the best investigative reporters, and the richest man, whose wealth makes Donny's look like a joke. I really look forward to the fallout from this, and its implications for TrumPutin.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0a502ca347c0c

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Ronan Farrow Says Jeff Bezos Isn’t The Only One AMI Tried To Blackmail

These things are just too close to TrumpWorld for him not to be involved. This Pecker sleazeball is one of his partners in crime. This is going to get very interesting. You really don't want to mess with one of the best investigative reports, and the richest man, whose wealth makes Donny's look like a joke. I really look forward to the fallout from this, and its implications for TrumPutin.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0a502ca347c0c

They poked the biggest bear in the forest, can Trump and his Pecker outrun the bear?

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Rosenstein said Trump ordered him to write the memo justifying James Comey's firing

Sounds like obstruction of justice to me. Time to get Rosenstein under oath...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/trum...book-says.html

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From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...960_story.html

Donny must really, really hate good reporting like this. No doubt why he had Pecker go after Bezos.

[Chicks]

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Trump inaugural committee spent $175k per day for event space at Trump hotel

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...space-at-trump

President Trump's inauguration committee was reportedly charged a rate of $175,000 per day to use event space at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., despite internal objections at the Trump Organization that the rates were too high.

A WNYC/ProPublica investigation published Friday reports that a spokesman confirmed the rate paid by the nonprofit inaugural committee, headed by Tom Barrack, which also reportedly spent $1.5 million at a hotel in which Barrack owns a small stake.

The report found that the rate was set despite serious objections from those involved in the planning of the event.

“Please take into consideration that when this is audited it will become public knowledge,” wrote Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a New York City-based event planner who suggested that an appropriate rate be closer to $85,000 per day according to the report.

Ari Krupkin, a Washington-based event planner, called the fee "more than egregious."

Grifters gotta grift.