No, it’s a Flight 77 election, like all of their 21st century elections have been. The GOP would rather crash into a building than land safely where the people need to go.
I heard it before the current resident of the White House. You know – back when you might not like the President’s policies but at least he still acted presidential instead of a petulant toddler.
“I am not responsible.” Donald J. Trump
Some Secret Service agents are not happy at being put in danger of infection for a brief drive-by photo op.
The Pouter-in-Chief stamps his little infectious foot.
That’s kinda disappointing. I was hoping Joe’s technology crew would get a chance to sneak this into his feed a few times during the debate:
That would certainly bring out the yute vote.
Vinny’s observation is both concise and irrefutable.
Did you say “yute”?
And come back in a suit made of… some kind of cloth.
Poor widdle Donny. Apparently chickenTrump is trending on Twitter. The Lincoln Project is going to have a field day with this.
President Trump required personnel at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to agree to non-disclosure agreements in 2019 before he’d agree to be treated at the facility, per NBC News.
Why it matters: Trump sought coronavirus treatment at Walter Reed this weekend after his positive test on Thursday evening. But officials in the Trump administration and within Walter Reed offered conflicting information on the president’s health, fluctuating between calling his symptoms “mild” and “very concerning.”
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I guess HIPAA isn’t good enough for him.
HIPAA doesn’t cover “damn, he acted like a jerk.”
Or “That damn Hippocratic Oath is keeping me from doing one really good thing to help my country.”
Why’s that?
The Hippocratic Oath is “do no harm.” A case could be made…
Kind of a Asimov’s Zeroth law thing - the physician concentrates on do no harm to the particular patient, but what if that causes great harm to everyone else?
More today on what was uncovered from Trump’s tax records, from the NYTimes. I didn’t see this posted yet, but I might have missed it. Bolding is from the article. There’s lots more at the link than what’s pasted here. Sorry about the paywall; clear your cookies.
A businessman-president transplanted favor-seeking in Washington to his family’s hotels and resorts — and earned millions as a gatekeeper to his own administration.
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Campaigning for president as a Washington outsider, Mr. Trump electrified rallies with his vows to “drain the swamp.”
But Mr. Trump did not merely fail to end Washington’s insider culture of lobbying and favor-seeking.
He reinvented it, turning his own hotels and resorts into the Beltway’s new back rooms, where public and private business mix and special interests reign.
As president-elect, he had pledged to step back from the Trump Organization and recuse himself from his private company’s operation. As president, he built a system of direct presidential influence-peddling unrivaled in modern American politics.
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[O]nce Mr. Trump was in the White House, his family business discovered a lucrative new revenue stream: people who wanted something from the president. An investigation by The Times found over 200 companies, special-interest groups and foreign governments that patronized Mr. Trump’s properties while reaping benefits from him and his administration. Nearly a quarter of those patrons have not been previously reported.
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Just 60 customers with interests at stake before the Trump administration brought his family business nearly $12 million during the first two years of his presidency, The Times found. Almost all saw their interests advanced, in some fashion, by Mr. Trump or his government…
And let’s be clear, DumpsterFire and his kin see nothing wrong in selling access. That’s part of their business model.
Go ahead, show me in the Constitution or federal law where the President and family aren’t allowed sell favoritism and profit themselves. And don’t go waving that whole, “emoluments” fiction in my face.
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An embarrassment to every Orange American: