KeithD
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How come orange guy never talks about the threat from the Russian mafia?
Fifth Amendment.
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How come orange guy never talks about the threat from the Russian mafia?
Are they worse than Antifa?Good question. I wish he would talk about all the organized crime animals. He has mentioned MS13, who may be a more clear and present danger for the USA.
Are they worse than Antifa?
Are they worse than Antifa?
Five local religious leaders and two retired judges are challenging the liquor license Trump holds for his hotel in the District of Columbia, arguing that he doesn’t have the “good character” required by law to hold such a license.
By law, if the “true and actual owner of the establishment” serving alcohol is not “of good character,” the liquor license can be suspended or revoked by the local Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
“The president is not above the law,” attorney Joshua Levy told HuffPost. “There’s no excuse or exception, even for the president of the United States.”
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board will hold a hearing on the challenge Wednesday, and a decision will be announced the following day, said Levy.
The board will decide whether to recommend a hearing to show cause to the attorney general of the District of Columbia, who will then decide what action to take.
The biggest, most extensive network of murderous criminals are not aligned with a particular country, belief system, or ethnicity. They are the so-called "Intelligence services", often referred to as Secret Police.
So, with Trump destroying America’s reputation overseas, destroying our relationship with NATO, destroying our schools, destroying our economy, destroying our farms, killing American jobs and treating a foreign enemy as his new best friend, I quite simply do not understand how I am supposed to treat his childish, foul-mouthed, irresponsible supporters with respect and civility.
Maybe he plans to recycle it.
You're full of shit.
What kind of person is so unhinged that even though he won a presidential election, he goes nuts when he's reminded that he lost the popular vote and
(a) demands that all his minions start writing sycophantic tweets about his historic landslide victory
(b) continues stewing about it anyway and fabricates an allegation of massive voter fraud perpetrated by the Democratic Party
(c) flips out at an anodyne segment from a CNN reporter about his lies
(d) spends his evening hunched over his smartphone rounding up a motley crew of racists, nutbags, and teenagers to assure him that he's right?
What kind of person does this? And how easy is it to manipulate someone like this? We have a helluva scary four years ahead of us.
Kevin Drum
November 29, 2016
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dr...-we-all-deserve-truth-about-russian-el?page=1
Trump is a fraud, and a very insecure fraud at that.
Donald Trump is famous for referring to people he doesn’t like as “fake”. When journalists publish stories that he doesn’t like, he refers to their entire newspaper or broadcast station as “fake news”. When a judge rules that one of his executive orders is unconstitutional, he refers to that judge as a “fake judge”.
But, who’s really the fake here?
The journalists and judges that he’s attacked as “fake” are actually people will long and distinguished careers. They are recognized in their fields as very accomplished professionals, but what about Trump? Is he as accomplished and respectable as the people that he labels as “fake”?
No, not really.
In point of fact, Trump is the one that comes off as fake. He’s more fake than a used-car salesman that tampers with the odometer on a car with 200,000 miles on it, and lies to prospective buyers, telling them that it only has 12,000 miles on it.
Let’s take a look at some of Donald Trump’s fakeness.
TRUMP’S FAKE PLAN TO DEFEAT ISIS: For years, Trump told the American people that he knew more about ISIS than America’s generals do, and that he had a secret and foolproof plan to defeat them “very, very quickly”. His was a great plan, and far superior to anything America’s generals could ever come up with. However, after Trump was inaugurated, it turned out that Trump actually knew FAR LESS about ISIS than America’s generals do, and he ordered America’s generals to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS!
TRUMP’S FAKE UNIVERSITY: Attorney General Eric Schneiderman brought a suit against Trump University for fraud. Trump “university” was never actually a university. It never met the qualifications to be called a university. The fraud started with the name of the organization. It really was a fraud from beginning to end. Schneiderman said Trump “bilked people out of millions of dollars. Thousands of people paid millions of dollars believing that he would tell them his real estate secrets. And we know from his own sworn testimony … that he didn’t write the curriculum – none of them were his secrets.”
Former Trump University workers described the university as “a facade, a total lie” and a “fraudulent scheme” that “preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money”.
Trump eventually paid $25 Million to settle the lawsuit against Trump University…or about HALF of the money that he stole from his victims.
TRUMP’S FAKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: The Trump Foundation is supposed to be a charity. That’s the way Donald Trump set up his foundation. However, Trump rarely donates money from the Trump foundation to charitable causes. And he never contributes any of his own money.
And in at least two cases, he has used money from his charity to buy himself a gift. In one of those cases he spent $20,000 of money earmarked for charitable purposes to buy a six-foot-tall painting of himself.
Money from the Trump Foundation has also been used for political purposes, which is against the law. Back when Attorney General Pam Bondi was looking into investigating fraud at Trump University, Trump wrote a $25,000 check to Pam Bondi in an attempt to convince her stop the investigation. He paid her with funds from the Trump Foundation. So, he paid Pam Bondi a bribe, with funds that were supposed to be donated to charitable causes. This is extraordinarily illegal.
FAKE SUPPORTERS: When Trump spoke at the CIA headquarters, multiple people in the audience clapped and cheered enthusiastically. What nobody knew at the time, was that the first three rows of the audience were NOT employees of the CIA, but rather people invited by Trump to clap and cheer, and make him appear to be far more popular at the CIA than he truly is.
And that wasn’t the first time that Trump has engineered applause. When he first announced his candidacy, he got wild cheers — from actors who had been PAID to applaud him (Trump then stiffed the company that hired them for four months). When he gave his first news conference as president, he filled the back of the room with aides to cheer for him, and jeer at the journalists he was attacking.
FAKE TRUMP FANS ON TWITTER: Anyone can amass an exorbitant number of Twitter followers. You don't even have to be famous. All you have to do is pay for them. For $400, you can buy for yourself over one million followers. Because Donald Trump is the president of the United States and the most famous person on the planet, one wouldn't think he would need to employ a bot to boost his Twitter following. Nevertheless, it seems that he has done just that. As screenwriter John Niven pointed out, Trump's Twitter account saw an unusual spike in followers, many of which appear to have been created artificially.
Trump currently has 31 million followers and, sure enough, if you browse through them you will find an unusual number of tweet-less, picture-less accounts that joined the service in May 2017. If you're still curious, you can enter Trump's handle, @realDonaldTrump, into Twitter Audit, a service that assesses the authenticity of one's followers, and find that only 51 percent of Trump's are real.
FAKE PHONE CALLS: Trump bragged about a phone call he had received from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful. However, Trump never got any such call. His childish, offensive and highly political speech to the boys at their national jamboree later prompted Boy Scouts President Randall Stephenson and Chief Scout Executive Mike Surbaugh to apologize to members of the scouting community who were offended by Trump’s rhetoric.
Trump also bragged about a phone call that he claimed he had received from the president of Mexico. He claims that the Mexican president praised Trump for Trump’s tough and belligerent talk about keeping Mexicans from crossing the border into the United States. Once again, Trump was lying. The president of Mexico never called Trump. Trump is just making stuff up again.
And in the years before he ran for president, Trump would make phone calls to people in the media, where he would pretend to be a media spokesman named John Miller (or sometimes John Barron), where he would act as a vigorous advocate for Donald Trump, heaping himself with huge amounts of praise, while pretending to be an impartial party.
So, when Donald Trump accuses somebody else of being “fake”, it's a Freudian slip, because deep down he knows that HE is truly the fake one!