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Conservative writer Matt Lewis on Monday dropped the hammer on Republicans who have been excusing President Donald Trump’s behavior by claiming that he was just “joking” about asking the Chinese government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
“I don’t think China or Ukraine thinks it’s a joke when the president asks them to do something,” he said. “Let’s assume for a minute that he’s just trolling us all and he is joking about things that are serious. I think that makes him unfit for the presidency!
Lewis went on to say that a president’s words matter and that the person in charge of the world’s most powerful military should be held to higher standards than internet trolls.
Trump's abandonment of the Kurds makes absolute sense once you accept that he is an asset of the Russians.
Powell added that the country's foreign policy is "in shambles right now."
"I see things happening that are hard to understand," he said.
Powell, who describes himself as a "moderate Republican," referenced the controversy surrounding the President Trump's reported Sharpie extension of the path of Hurricane Dorian to reach Alabama and the administration's efforts to back up the president.
"This is not the way the country is supposed to run," he said. "And Congress is one of the institutions that should be doing something about this."
"We've got to remember what the Constitution started with: 'we the People,' not 'me the President,'" he added.
The federal budget deficit for 2019 is estimated at $984 billion, a hefty 4.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and the highest since 2012, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on Monday.
The difference between federal spending and revenue has only ever exceeded $1 trillion four times, in the period immediately following the global financial crisis.
The deficit, which has grown every year since 2015, is $205 billion higher than it was in 2018, a jump of 26 percent.
The CBO has warned that the nation's debt is on an unsustainable path. Higher levels of debt increase borrowing costs, make it harder for the government to battle economic downturns and increase the share of future spending devoted to paying off interest costs.
President Trump's reelection campaign slammed the mayor of Minneapolis and the Target Center for "attempting to extort" the campaign with security fees for a rally scheduled this week.
Campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted a press release Monday that accused Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey of charging the Target Center $530,000 in security fees with the intention of stopping the rally scheduled for Thursday.
"The radical leftist mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is abusing the power of his office and attempting to extort President Trump’s re-election campaign by conjuring a phony and outlandish bill for security in an effort to block a scheduled Keep America Great rally," the release states.
Get out the wallet, or no quid pro quo.Trump campaign slams Minneapolis mayor, Target Center for 'attempting to extort' them with rally security fees
What making the Trumpster pay up front for security? I guess since he stiffed El Paso his reputation doesn't promote much trust.
A new Washington Post-Schar School poll shows Americans support the House impeachment inquiry, by a 58-38 percent margin, and 49 percent say the House should impeach Trump and call for his removal, compared to just 6 percent who back the inquiry but do not want to see the president removed from office.
“Half of Americans support Donald Trump’s removal from office,” Scarborough said, “and I think part of it is, you could read through the Mueller report — and so many Republicans on the Hill didn’t read through it or a lot of Americans didn’t read through it, there’s a lot there to digest. But if you read it, it’s obvious this president is not acting in America’s best interest.”
President Donald Trump on Tuesday blocked European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland from testifying before Congress — and the president then took to Twitter to say that Sondland would have simply testified that he was completely innocent of any wrongdoing.
“I would love to send Ambassador Sondland, a really good man and great American, to testify, but unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republican’s rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public to see,” the president wrote on Twitter. “Importantly, Ambassador Sondland’s tweet, which few report, stated, ‘I believe you are incorrect about President Trump’s intentions. The President has been crystal clear: no quid pro quo’s of any kind.’ That says it ALL!”
According to Wisconsin Farmers Union President Darin Von Ruden, President Trump’s boast that U.S. farms are getting billions of dollars in subsidies is “absolutely ludicrous.”
Speaking to Newsweek, Von Ruden said the “majority of farmers want to get our income coming in from the marketplace, from the consumers. We don’t want government handouts.”
Responding to a CBS 60 Minutes report from this Sunday that highlighted how trade disputes are affecting U.S. farmers, Trump complained in a tweet that the show failed to mention the $28 billion bailout he’s given to farmers over the last two years. But Von Ruden said that all Trump is doing is “bragging about socialism.”
“That’s what 28 billion dollars really is—it is taxpayers dollars that are coming back to the farmer,” Van Ruden said. “For [Trump] to say that he’s helping farmers is really B.S. too, because the amount of money we get back is between 20 and 23 percent of what we are losing.”
Washington, D.C. lawyer George Conway is among the legal minds taking to twitter to call the letter from President Donald Trump’s White House to Congress, nothing but nonsense.
Trump’s lawyers sent Congress a letter saying that the impeachment inquiry violates “due process” of the president. In fact, impeachment is not a criminal or judicial inquiry, it’s legislative. Trump could be removed from office, but he would not be thrown in jail or convicted of a crime as a result of the impeachment findings. If Trump is kicked out of office, he could be tried in a court of law, where he would be entitled to the “due process” he is citing.
“And that makes it an interesting gambit, if they are trying to get Mike Pence impeached as an insurance policy for Donald Trump,” Maddow noted.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he wanted the expected ethnic cleansing of Kurds by Turkey to be done in a “humane way.”
And he was mocked on Twitter and on MSNBC after arguing that Kurds aren’t that strong of allies because they did not storm the beaches of Normandy during World War II.
With worries that Trump had green-lighted ethnic cleansing, he was accused of genocide on Twitter with the hashtag #TrumpGenocide.