Another bow to Putin and dictators elsewhere - unless it’s dreaded Mooooselems.
I’d be more worried by adding, “…to suppress domestic protest.”:eek::mad::mad::mad:
Replacing it with “… and to sustain American influence abroad.”
The Trump Foundation is being sued by New York’s attorney general, Barbara Underwood, for using the charity to enrich and benefit the Trump family. Lawyers for the Trump Foundation, which is run by Trump and his oldest children, Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka made a ridiculous request during court proceedings on Tuesday. They asked that the execution of justice be rescheduled to accommodate the midterm elections. New Yorker:
The Inconvenient Legal Troubles That Lie Ahead for the Trump Foundation
During Tuesday’s hearing, the Trump Foundation’s lawyer, Alan Futerfas, asked that the trial not commence in October, because it was so close to the midterms. Judge Scarpulla laughed in response, did not change the trial date, and hinted that she is likely to require the President to testify.
The case against the Trumps appears damning. …
In recent years, the only “contributions” to the charity seem to have been payments from business partners, not from the Trumps or the Trump Organization. The charity’s spending appears to have benefitted the Trumps themselves, not the public welfare. The organization had been operating this way for years, but, according to Underwood, in 2016 the Trump Foundation became an arm of the Trump political campaign, cutting checks to Trump’s political allies in key states just before the election. If true, this would mean that the Trump Foundation evolved from a mere tax-avoidance scheme into an instrument for carrying out potential acts of campaign-finance fraud. …
During Tuesday’s hearing, the Trump Foundation’s lawyer, Alan Futerfas, asked that the trial not commence in October, because it was so close to the midterms. Judge Scarpulla laughed in response, did not change the trial date, and hinted that she is likely to require the President to testify. It is not clear, however, that such a trial would dramatically change how people vote; it was clear during the 2016 Presidential election, that the Trump Foundation was almost certainly engaged in systematic fraud.
Trump claims he called the King of Saudi Arabia to ask him to increase oil production to make up for lower production in Iran and Venezuela, and he claims the King promised to increase production by 2,000,000 barrels.
Saudi Arabia agrees that there was a phone call, but not that they agreed to increase production.
One of the names on Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees is Amy Coney Barrett. Barrett is a member of a religious organization called “People of Praise”.
The group’s members “swear a lifelong oath of loyalty, called a covenant, to one another, and are assigned and are accountable to a personal adviser, called a ‘head’ for men and a ‘handmaid’ for women. The group teaches that husbands are the heads of their wives and should take authority over the family.” The group now calls handmaids women leaders instead, the newspaper reported.
The Times reports that members of the group take direction from the heads and handmaids (or woman leader) on major decisions, even down to whom they marry, employment choices, child raising, and where to live.
The Pentagon has considered protests to be “low-level terrorism” since at least Bush the Younger.
Rudy Giuliani calls for Iran regime change at rally linked to extreme group.
The Trump administration position is to not call specifically for regime change - just hint really strongly:rolleyes:
The MEK does this every year and invites a bunch of right-wing speakers - Gingrich, Bolton… see story.
To beef-up attendance for the rally;
"Around half of the attendees were Iranian. The other half consisted of an assortment of bored-looking Poles, Czechs, Slovakians, Germans and Syrians who responded to a Facebook campaign promising travel, food and accommodation to Paris for a mere €25. Hundreds of Syrian refugees settled in Germany also attended. Many snoozed under trees during speeches.
“We saw the deal on Facebook and we agreed to come on a holiday,” said a young Syrian mother as she sat on the conference floor, fanning her two young children. “I have never seen Paris. I don’t know anything about the MeK.”
Days after the Janus ruling, a political organization funded by the Kochs and the DeVoses is sending emails to Michigan teachers urging them to quit the union.
An ICE whistleblower who claimed ICE and the DOJ were lying about the Oakland mayor’s notifications of ICE raids gets a visit from Homeland Security.
[del]Lying[/del]Winning!
Don’t forget about MacArthur under Hoover.
The President can’t be sued or even investigated.
Brett M. Kavanaugh, who wrote that in 2009, is one of the frontrunners for Trump’s new Supreme Court justice.
And thereby hangs a tale.
If Trump could do it, he WOULD do it.
It’s a ploy, and a transparent one.
- He gets to lie again about what a great deal maker he is and only he can handle things
- He THINKS they will feel they have to comply because he “said something”.
Item 2 happens at work sometimes… some clown wants to “look good” so he promises that someone ELSE is going to do something - usually something not part of that other person’s job and without checking first. It’s happened to me.
When I refused, he said “but I promised…”
My answer was “I don’t give a fuck what you promised to who”.
Freedom. :rolleyes:
The handmaiden reference reminding me of Micheal Moore’s recent observation on Maher about the flashbacks in the Handmaiden’s Tail, recounting all the pivotal moments that insidiously, incrementally led to where that dystopic society had become. Hopefully these “women leaders”:rolleyes::dubious::mad::smack: will be too busy churning butter or something to have any sort of profile or impact this November.
Gee, funny timing - HS just so happens to show up the same time Schwab has his first interview - three months after the fact.
Trump claims every person who ever bought a Harley Davidson voted for him
Anecdotally, in my spot on this Earth, He’s right about that.
People just assume that anyone on a “Hog” with leathers is a right-winger. They probably make the same assumption about anyone in hunting gear. But 'taint raht…
What about the “Hogs for Hillary” motorcycle groups back in '16?
Mentioned in a news report on a southern campaign stop:
From the transcript:
People need to publicize the “Hogs for Hillary” movement, just to show how our *Conniver-in-Chief *just makes stuff up as he goes along.
Hundreds of them - hundreds!
Oh no, how will he ever claim the poopular vote without those hundreds!