He’s been in hospitals without a mask up close and personal (ODT)
Category: Trump
How many Holes can a President have in his foot?(ODT)
On why the United States should not pull out of the World Health Organization: WHO is not a perfect organization, but it is the only international infrastructure that we currently have that creates the platform on top of which sovereign nations can collaborate, and share data and technical expertise. There is nothing else like that out there. And so, for us to pull out of that basically means that we need to depend on bilateral relationships with countries you know, or regional organizations. It’s just shooting ourselves in the foot.
via The Selfish and Unselfish Case for Sending Scientists and Doctors Abroad – Mother Jones
You know he’s desperate when he starts calling a real threat to the lives of our soldiers fighting on foreign soil a “hoax.” Trump is a threat to our national security. He’s not a president. He’s a co-conspirator with dictators who are enemies of this country. He’s a traitor, and he needs to go.
Trump has revealed his 2020 campaign strategy: He will do everything to exploit cultural tensions to overcome the fact that so many Americans would answer Reagan’s famous question, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” with a resounding “no.”
via Trump has revealed his 2020 campaign strategy (opinion) – CNN
“Voters are understandably upset about the direction of the country,” Rubin emphasizes. “They do not put their hope in the virus simply ‘disappearing.’ They want the government to actually do something about the surging pandemic and mass unemployment, not to mention systemic racism. Like it or not, the buck stops with Trump, whose base seems to be crumbling.”
via ‘Down in the Dumps’: There’s a Dark Cloud Hanging over Trump and the GOP | The Smirking Chimp
Republicans that have spoken with Trump in recent days describe him as depressed and “down in the dumps.” “People around him think his heart’s not in it,” a Republican close to the White House said. Torn between the imperative to win suburban voters and his instincts to play to his base, Trump has complained to people that he’s in a political box with no obvious way out. According to the Republican, Trump called Tucker Carlson late last week and said, “what do I do? What do I do?”
Nothing left but to be the leader that DIVIDES the nation; (ODT)
“Instead of living up to the most basic responsibilities of his office this Independence Day, Donald Trump is still downplaying the virus, calling for a slowdown of testing, bucking social distancing guidelines, and showing Americans why we can’t afford four more years of him in the White House,” the DNC said ahead of the trip on Thursday.
Trump will hold another celebration for the July Fourth holiday on Saturday in Washington.
via Trump Visits Mount Rushmore Amid Controversy, Coronavirus Concerns | HuffPost
Tommy Fisher has received $1.7 billion in federal contracts for his Fisher Sand & Gravel construction company to build sections of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border by appealing directly to Trump in appearances on his favorite network, Fox News. But the privately funded “showcase piece” of wall that his firm constructed along the Rio Grande earlier this year is already at risk of falling down, according to a new report from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.
Trump “look what I’ve started mum” He’s Your President America!
Already, Fox News is spinning for Trump on this point, with Fox & Friends co-hosts claiming, “All presidents don’t read all of their briefings,” and adding, “It might have been printed in it, it doesn’t mean that he actually heard about it.”
Why would Republicans, supposedly “America first” adherents, want to prevent Americans from knowing about foreign interference in our presidential election – unless they have something to hide?
via Senate Republicans Make Sure Trump Can Hide Offers Of Foreign Election Help | Crooks and Liars
Trump’s Disposables…poor and black (ODT)
The male version of Sarah Palin has arrived (ODT)
John Bolton’s absurd, self-aggrandizing new book reveals a shocking secret: Donald Trump knows next to nothing about Africa. The continent is better off without his ignorant meddling.
Trumpism and the drag on a nation(ODT
According to commander of US Naval Forces in Europe, Africa, and NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command Admiral James Foggo:
“NATO can no longer ignore China’s activities in Europe.” Citing no credible evidence, he falsely claimed Beijing aims to undermine the international rules-based order.
Claiming as well that it maintained peace throughout the post-WW II era ignored endless US preemptive wars against invented enemies.
Is US conflict with China inevitable — given the country’s growing prominence on the world stage while the US declines?
China pursues cooperative relations with other countries. So do Russia, Iran, and other nations the US is hostile toward.
Washington’s drive for unchallenged dominance risks unthinkable nuclear war if it pushes things too far against nations able to hit back hard in self-defense if attacked.
via Delisting Chinese Firms From US Exchanges – Stephen Lendman
![US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, wears a mask as he leaves following a press conference in Washington, DC, the United States [File: Saul Loeb, AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/6/29/727e9f7fe1e14cb9b3aa974f30197d53_18.jpg "US Republicans begin to break ranks with Trump on face mask issue")
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Despite having months to right-foot the White House’s initial, lackadaisical response to the looming disaster, the country is in many ways in a more dire position than it was in March.
via Kooks, Never-Maskers and our Pandemic Death Toll: The High Cost of Republican Malevolence
Ransacking workers pensions funds (ODT)
Robbing workers’ pension funds has long been central to Wall Street’s business model. In last week’s Supreme Court ruling, Brett Kavanaugh and his conservative cadre of justices opened the door for financial managers to take their looting of those pension funds even further.
via The Supreme Court Has Given the Green Light to Bosses and Financial Managers to Steal From Workers
Taking over the judiciary is the GOP’s neverending exercise (ODT)
Voter suppression, Trump’s all over it;
The US president seems to be preparing to contest a defeat in November by railing against ‘rigged’ mail-in ballots – but his party is the one attempting to suppress voters
Trump’s suing his niece soon it will be the rest of his family he’s been running a Sue-a-thon all of his life. (ODT)
Donald Trump’s family has gone to court to try to block publication of a tell-all book by the US president’s niece, Mary Trump, the New York Times reported.
According to her publisher, New York-based Simon & Schuster, Mary Trump’s book will describe “a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse” within the Trump clan.
Americans Not Welcome
The European Union is preparing to allow travelers from dozens of countries into the 27-member nation bloc starting July 1—but Americans are unlikely to be welcome for the foreseeable future due to the Trump administration’s failure to control the coronavirus pandemic.
Either way, focusing on these efforts glosses over the actual likely takeaways from the event.
When Truth is a slower process than spin (ODT)
via Now We Know of Two More Impeachable Offenses by Trump and Barr | The Smirking Chimp
Empty seats and Social Distancing at Trump’s 1 Million are coming rally, (ODT)
via After Weeks Of Anticipation, Trump Rally Crowd Underwhelms | HuffPost Australia
Trump is a Gift according to the American Left that keeps on giving (LNP)
via Donald Trump Is a Menace to American Democracy. But He Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere.
Trump’s biggest creditor is Deutsche Bank, which in the late 1990s took a gamble on the real estate developer whose history of corporate bankruptcies made him untouchable by most other lenders. Although Trump and the Frankfurt-based bank pulled off several profitable deals, eventually Deutsche’s commercial lending division learned the hard way one reason why other banks considered him persona non grata: If pushed by his creditors on payments, Trump shoves back. In 2008, after he defaulted on a loan for his Chicago hotel and condo development, he filed a multibillion-dollar suit accusing Deutsche Bank and others of contributing to the recent financial meltdown, which he blamed for his inability to repay the loan.
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