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			<title><![CDATA[Stop Calling Them Hostages or Peaceful Protesters They are Traitors, Insurrectionist, Seditionist and Criminals.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000003C"><div><div><b class="fs14lh1-5">Stop Calling Them Hostages or Peaceful Protesters They are Traitors, Insurrectionist, Seditionist and Criminals.</b></div><div>The people, who attacked our capitol, attacked police officers and wanted to harm and kill people, they are neither hostages nor peaceful protesters; they are traitors, insurrectionist, seditionist and criminals.</div></div> &nbsp;<div>A. B. Man III<br> 01/06/2024</div><div><br></div> &nbsp;&nbsp;<div><div>Republicans and right wing media are lying to you when they call the insurrectionist and seditionist hostages or peaceful protesters. They are neither hostages nor peaceful protesters, call them what they are traitors, insurrectionist, seditionist, criminals. They are criminals who should be in jail for attacking our capitol, attacking police officers and wanting to harm or kill people they do not like or disagree with to help Trump stay in office.</div><div><br></div> &nbsp;<div>Maybe Republicans and right wing media think you are stupid, if you do believe the January 6 attackers are hostages or peaceful protesters you are as stupid as Republicans and right wing media think you are. &nbsp;Peaceful protesters do not attack police officers. &nbsp;Peaceful protesters do not attack the capitol. Peaceful protesters do not build gallows. Peaceful protesters do not harm people nor do not want to hang people.</div><div><br></div> &nbsp;<div><div>The people who attacked the capitol on January 6 attacked police officers, injured over 140 police officers, sacked the capitol and built a gallows to hang Mike Pence and maybe others, are criminals. If the people who attacked the capitol were BLM or Antifa and not Trump supporters Republicans and right wing media would call them what they are traitors, insurrectionist, seditionist, &nbsp;and criminals who should be in jail.</div></div></div><div><hr><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/trump-insurrection-videos.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump Insurrection Videos</a><br><div>The Trump Insurrection Videos show it was not a peaceful protest.</div></div></div><div><br></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republican States are violating the 4th Amendment and HIPAA laws by requesting medical information from other states.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000003B"><div><b><span class="fs14lh1-5">Republican States are violating the 4th Amendment and HIPAA laws by requesting medical information from other states.</span></b><br> One state cannot control what you do in another state and requesting medical information from other state is a violation of the 4<sup>th</sup> Amendment and HIPPA laws.</div><div><br></div> &nbsp;<div>A. B. Man III<br> 07/18/2023</div> &nbsp;<div> </div><div><br></div> &nbsp;<div>Republican states who are requesting medical information from other states on people from their state who went to another state are violating both the 4th Amendment and HIPAA laws. States that give the information to Republican states are also violating the 4th Amendment and HIPAA laws. Republicans states are trying to regulate not only what you do in their state but any state you may wish to visit. What you do in one state legal or illegal is only legal or illegal in the state the act or acts where committed.</div><div><br></div> &nbsp;<div>Seeking a person’s medical information from other states because someone went to another state is illegal and violation of the 4<sup>th</sup> Amendment and HIPPA laws. What you do in one state is regulated by the laws of that state not the state you came from. Unless you bring something illegal into a state they have not control on what you do in another state.</div> &nbsp;<div>Republicans claim they want small government but it is not small government when you want to control what people from your state do in another state. Republicans are using it for abortion now but you need to ask yourself what comes next?</div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[They Gutted Roe V. Wade Social Security Is the Next Target of the Rabid Right]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000003A"><div class="imHeading1">They Gutted Roe V. Wade Social Security Is the Next Target of the Rabid Right</div><div>The GOP wants to take away your money, the money you have put in after all your years of hard work. </div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>10/13/2022</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The destruction of Social Security is the next target of the Republican Party. They do not want you to get your money the money you put from your years of labor. The do not have a problem giving the money you pay in taxes to farmers and the rich, but they do have a problem with you getting your own money, the money you have been paying into the system for years. You had better pay attention because they are coming after your Social Security just as they came after Roe. Instead of trying to fix Social Security, they want to take it away from the very people who need it the most and give it to the rich. </div><div><br></div><div>You may believe they will not come after your Social Security but people believed Roe would not fall it did and Social Security is next if Republican get their way. Republicans are telling you they plan to go after Social Security. Once they take away your Social Security, they will use the money you paid in and give it to farmers and the rich. If you plan to get Social Security and you vote for Republicans, you are voting to lose your Social Security and all the money you paid into Social Security.</div><div><br></div><div>Republicans want you to work until the day die, they do not want you to enjoy your golden years. If you plan to rely on Social Security, you had better rethink that plan if Republicans get their way you will not get your money because they do not want you to have the money you paid into Social Security.</div><div><hr><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/threatening-to-crash-the-economy-on-purpose-gop-to-gut-social-security-and-medicare-if-it-wins-house/ar-AA136Mgc?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3a1db7ba523e41b5afd9d5585c0a1751" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">‘Threatening to crash the economy on purpose': GOP to gut Social Security and Medicare if it wins House</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By David Badash,The New Civil Rights Movement | AlterNet</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">66 million Americans get their income from Social Security. 64 million Americans use Medicare for their primary health insurance, and 76 million Americans use Medicaid for healthcare. Since last week Republicans have been talking about gutting these three critical programs, which they falsely call “entitlements,” despite them being funded through every employed person’s paycheck. Last week the four Republicans vying to become the next Chair of the House Budget Committee all said they would use a vote on the debt ceiling – which is simply voting to raise the country’s credit limit on everything we have already purchased (that’s a critical point, it’s to pay our bills, not to buy more) – basically as a sword to get Democrats to support massive reductions in critical programs that literally help keep millions of Americans alive.</span></div><div></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-plan-to-use-debt-limit-leverage-to-reduce-social-security-medicare-report/ar-AA12TwhQ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=31ae46e395de42bbd9ed3610a865bf4e" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Republicans Plan to Use Debt Limit Leverage to Reduce Social Security, Medicare: Report</a></b><br></div><div>Michael Rainey</div><div><br></div><div>Republicans in the House are planning to use a potential showdown next year over raising the federal debt limit to make changes in Social Security and Medicare, Bloomberg’s Jack Fitzpatrick reports. The developing plan hinges on Republicans winning control of the House in the midterm elections, an outcome that is looking likely. Four GOP lawmakers who are vying for leadership of the House Budget Committee in the event of a Republican victory told Fitzpatrick that the need to raise the debt ceiling could give them the leverage they need to force Democrats to make concessions. </div><div><br></div><div>“The debt limit is clearly one of those tools that Republicans — that a Republican-controlled Congress — will use to make sure that we do everything we can to make this economy strong,” Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), the senior Republican on the current Budget Committee, said. Republicans are still discussing exactly what changes they might try to enact. “What would we consider a win?” said Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), who is interested in the top spot on the Budget Committee. “What would we consider to be a fiscally responsible budget?”</div><div><hr></div><div></div></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/03/ron-johnson-medicare-social-security/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Sen. Johnson suggests ending Medicare, Social Security as mandatory spending programs</a></b><br></div><div>Image without a caption</div><div>By Amy B Wang</div><div><br></div><div>Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has suggested that Social Security and Medicare be eliminated as federal entitlement programs, and that they should instead become programs approved by Congress on an annual basis as discretionary spending. Those who work in the United States pay Social Security and Medicare taxes that go into federal trust funds. Upon retirement, based on a person’s lifetime earnings and other factors, a retiree is eligible to receive monthly Social Security payments. Similarly, Medicare is the federal health insurance program that kicks in for people 65 and older, or for others who have disabilities.</div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/politics/rick-scotts-social-security-plan-sets-firestorm-within-gop-201734" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Rick Scott's Social Security Plan Sets off a Firestorm Within the GOP</a></b><br></div><div>The plan calls for “no government assistance unless you are disabled or aggressively seeking work,” and for all legislation to sunset after five years.</div><div>by Stephen Silver</div><div><br></div><div>Despite that a 2021 government report warned that Social Security would lose the ability to pay out full benefits a year earlier than previously projected, it hasn’t made front-page news so far this year. One exception, however, has been the &nbsp;reaction to a plan put out this spring by the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (RSCC), titled the "11-Point Plan to Rescue America." The plan, which has largely been pushed by RSCC chairman Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), is seen as an overarching campaign document for the midterms elections similar to Newt Gingrich’s 1994 “Contract With America.” </div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/social-security-in-grave-danger-if-gop-retakes-congress-advocates-warn/?utm_source=123456&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11611" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Social Security 'in grave danger' If GOP retakes Congress: advocates</a></b><br></div><div>Jake Johnson, Common Dreams</div><div><br></div><div>"It's clear what their intentions are: reaching into the American people's pockets and stealing their hard-earned benefits." Citing interviews with four House Republicans hoping to serve as chair of the chamber's budget committee, Bloomberg Government reported that "Social Security and Medicare eligibility changes, spending caps, and safety-net work requirements are among the top priorities" for the GOP if it retakes the House in next month's elections. </div></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Abbott is a Human Trafficker, DeSantis is a Dictator and Human Trafficker, Trump a Coup Plotter and Danger to Our Democracy and National Security.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000039"><div class="imHeading1">Abbott is a Human Trafficker, DeSantis is a Dictator and Human Trafficker, Trump a Coup Plotter and Danger to Our Democracy and National Security.</div><div>Republicans are showing us who they are when they get in power we should vote them out and save our democracy.</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III</span><br></div><div>09/1/2022</div><div>09/16/2022</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Governor Greg Abbott is a human trafficker</b></span>, he is trafficking undocumented emigrants across state lines. Abbott is helping them complete their journey in to the United States. Like other human traffickers he is help them completing the final part of their journey. To Abbott it may be a political stunt but it is costing Texas taxpayers millions of dollars and human trafficking is illegal, but Abbott is doing it anyway and getting away with it. I call it like a see it if anyone else did what he is doing they would be called a human trafficker and would be arrested and go to jail.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Governor Ron DeSantis is a Dictator and </b></span><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5">human trafficker </span></b><span class="fs11lh1-5">who attacks anyone or anything he does not like or disagrees. He has passed laws that attack our very democracy and takes away the rights of some Americans. He fires any anyone who he disagrees with. His passes laws against people or companies who disagree him. His attack on Disney will cost Florida taxpayers billions, because he was mad that Disney spoke up. Last time I checked freedom of speech was the law of the land, maybe not in Florida under DeSantis. DeSantis is attacking the woke because he wants you to be asleep so he can get away with crap he is pulling on the people of Florida. If you are asleep he can piss and shit on you and tell you it is raining and snowing, which what he is doing. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">DeSantis is now following Abbott and is engaging in human trafficking of illegal migrants. DeSantis wants to be president can you image what he would do as president, like Trump, it would be another nightmare for the American people.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Donald J. Trump is a coup plotter a danger to our national security, a danger to our democracy and our country.</b></span> Trump lied about the election and tried to steal in court when that did not work he attempted a coup with help of some Republicans in congress. Trump took Top security documents to his home after he lost the election, documents that could put our nation and our assets at risk. Why would anyone who did not care about the documents when he was in office take the home? One has to wonder what he was up to and whom he showed the documents to, did he make copies, does he have more documents. Trump refused to give the documents back when asked, lied and said he did not have any more then got mad when they came and got the documents, the claimed he did not have. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Republicans are hypocrites, liars, deniers, conspiracy nuts, insurrectionist, seditious and anti-American.</b></span> Republicans deny facts but promote alternative facts, conspiracies and lies. They have lied about the election and denied the fact that Trump lost. They promote all conspiracies no matter how far out there they may be. Some Republicans in congress were part of the Trump coup attempt. Republicans attacked Clinton for her 33,000 emails, but not Bush even though Bush administration loss 22,000,000 emails. They attacked Clinton’s handling of less than 7 classified emails but she did not take hundreds of Top-secret documents, nor did she refuse to turn them over when asked for them. Trump took home Top-secret documents and refused to return them when asked. Republicans protected Trump from two impeachments, the sacking of the capitol, a coup attempt and now from him mishandling Top-secret documents.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Republicans call themselves patriots while calling for attacks on police, judges, DOJ the FBI other federal officials.</b></span> Republicans have attacked school board members, election workers and anyone who disagrees with them or they do not like. &nbsp;Some are even calling for a civil war. They claim to support law enforcement but only when law enforcement is attacking black, brown, antifa, lgbtq. Republicans do not respect our laws or our democracy they want to destroy it. They defend the second amendment while trying to take away the first amendment right along with other rights. On January 6 Republicans committed insurrection and sedition and attacked and sacked our capitol they wanted to kill some of our congressional representatives, they wanted to hang Mike Pence to help Trump stay in office. Republicans, Fox News and right ring media called the attack on our capitol it a peaceful protest, it was not peaceful in anyway. &nbsp;Republicans show us who they are on daily basis and we should be very afraid of what they have become.</div></div><div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-marthas-vineyard-desantis-flights-illegal-immigrants-sanctuary-destinations/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Florida's DeSantis flies dozens of "illegal immigrants" to Martha's Vineyard, escalating tactic against "sanctuary destinations"</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">CBS News</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Tallahassee, Florida — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration's failed border policies. Flights to the upscale island enclave in Massachusetts were part of an effort to "transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," said Taryn Fenske, DeSantis' communications director.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">While DeSantis' office didn't elaborate on their legal status, many migrants who cross the border illegally from Mexico are temporarily shielded from deportation after being freed by U.S. authorities to pursue asylum in immigration courts — as allowed under U.S law and international treaty — or released on humanitarian parole. Terry MacCormack, press secretary for Massachusetts' Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, said in a statement that the state's executive was "in touch with local officials regarding the arrival of migrants in Martha's Vineyard." "At this time, short-term shelter services are being provided by local officials, and the Administration will continue to support those efforts," MacCormack said.</span></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.wcvb.com/article/class-action-lawsuit-for-migrants-in-massachusetts/41300374" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Class action lawsuit filed against DeSantis on behalf of migrants brought to Massachusetts</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">WCVB</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">BOSTON — A group says it is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others over what it is calling a "fraudulent and discriminatory scheme" to transport nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants from San Antonio, Texas to the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard without shelter or resources in place. The organization Lawyers for Civil Rights announced Tuesday that a federal civil rights class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of a class of affected immigrants, including the dozens flown to Martha's Vineyard, and Alianza Americas, a network of migrant-led organizations supporting immigrants across the United States.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">According to Lawyers for Civil Rights, the group of migrants in San Antonio were targeted and induced to board airplanes and cross state lines under false pretenses. In addition to DeSantis, Lawyers for Civil Rights said it is suing Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Jared Perdue, the state of Florida, and their accomplices. "No human being should be used as a political pawn in the nation’s highly polarized debate over immigration,” Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, said in a statement. “It is opportunistic that activists would use illegal immigrants for political theater,” said Taryn Fenske, DeSantis' communication director, in a statement late Tuesday.</span></div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/19/desantis-immigrants-marthas-vineyard-00057639" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Texas sheriff investigating DeSantis’ role in flying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The sheriff’s move follows requests from Democrats for the Justice Department to investigate DeSantis over the flights.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Andrew Atterbury</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Texas sheriff on Monday opened an investigation into the legality of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recent move to fly dozens of mostly Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, an elected Democrat, said that while he could not cite specific laws that may have been broken by relocating the migrants, his office will be investigating what he called an “abuse of human rights.” The threat of criminal charges is an escalation against DeSantis amid widespread criticism from Democrats as the Republican governor promises to continue diverting migrants in Texas as a statement against Biden administration immigration policies.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">“Somebody saw fit to come from another state, hunt them down, prey upon them, and then take advantage of their desperate situation just for the sake of political theater, just for the sake of making a statement,” Salazar told reporters Monday. “I believe people need to be held accountable for it to the extent possible.” The DeSantis administration last week paid an aviation company $615,000 to transport some 48 migrants from San Antonio — located in Bexar County — to the elite vacation enclave in Massachusetts. The Republican-led Florida Legislature had approved $12 million this spring for moving migrants out of Florida to other states, something DeSantis is now capitalizing on as he seeks reelection this fall.</span></div><hr></div></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans did not have a problem with when Trump gave billions of your tax dollars to farmers.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000038"><div class="imHeading1">Republicans did not have a problem with when Trump gave billions of your tax dollars to farmers.</div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>08/30/2022</div><div><br></div><div>Every time Republicans, Fox News and right wing media point out what Democrats are doing, they are pointing three fingers at themselves. Republicans are upset that Biden reduced the debt for some students; he did not give them any money but did remove some of their debt. Some Republicans are bashing Biden for what he did even though they took out PPP loans that they do not have to pay back, Republicans, Fox News and right wing media are hypocrites. Some Republicans, Fox News and right wing media are acting as if he gave them money he did not. Trump gave away so much taxpayer dollars farmers called it “Trump money” and not one Republican or Fox News or right wing media called him out for it, but they may have praised him for it. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Find out more about Trump your tax dollars and farmers</b></span></div><div><br></div><div class="imHeading2"><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/31/790261705/farmers-got-billions-from-taxpayers-in-2019-and-hardly-anyone-objected" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Farmers Got Billions From Taxpayers In 2019, And Hardly Anyone Objected</a></div><div>Dan Charles</div><div><br></div><div>In 2019, the federal government delivered an extraordinary financial aid package to America's farmers. Farm subsidies jumped to their highest level in 14 years, most of them paid out without any action by Congress. The money flowed to farmers like Robert Henry. When I visited in early July, many of his fields near New Madrid, Mo., had been flooded for months, preventing him from working in them. The soybeans that he did manage to grow had fallen in value; China wasn't buying them, in retaliation for the Trump administration's tariffs. That's when the government stepped in. Some of the aid came from long-familiar programs. Government-subsidized crop insurance covered some of the losses from flooding. Other payments were unprecedented. The U.S. Department of Agriculture simply sent him a check to compensate him for the low prices resulting from the trade war. " 'Trump money' is what we call it," Henry said. "It helped a lot. And it's my understanding, they're going to do it again." Indeed, a few weeks later, the USDA announced another $16 billion in trade-related aid to farmers. It came on top of the previous year's $12 billion package, for a grand total of $28 billion in two years. About $19 billion of that money had been paid out by the end of 2019, and the rest will be paid in 2020.</div><div><hr></div><div class="imHeading2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_farmer_bailouts" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump administration farmer bailouts</a></div><div><br></div><div>Trump administration farmer bailouts are a series of United States bailout programs introduced in 2016 during the presidency of Donald Trump as a consequence of his "America First" economic policy to help US farmers suffering due to the US-China trade war and trade disputes with European Union, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and others. China and respectively European reconcilable tariffs imposed on peanut butter, soybeans, orange juice, and other agriculture products had hit hard, especially swing states, such as Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin. </div><div><hr></div><div class="imHeading2"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/donald-trump-coronavirus-farmer-bailouts-359932" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">‘Here’s your check’: Trump’s massive payouts to farmers will be hard to pull back</a></div><div>The president was already spending double his predecessor to spare farmers the cost of his trade war. Now the price is reaching unsustainable levels.</div><div>By Ryan McCrimmon</div><div><br></div><div>Government payments to farmers have surged to historic levels under President Donald Trump as the Agriculture Department floods the industry with cash to stem the financial losses from Trump’s tariff fights and the coronavirus pandemic. But as agriculture grows more reliant on unprecedented taxpayer support, farm policy experts and watchdog groups warn the subsidies are growing too big and too fast, with no strings attached and little oversight from Congress — and that Washington could have a difficult time shutting off the spigot. </div><div><br></div><div>Direct farm aid has climbed each year of Trump’s presidency, from $11.5 billion in 2017 to more than $32 billion this year — an all-time high, with potentially far more funding still to come in 2020, amounting to about two-thirds of the cost of the entire Department of Housing and Urban Development and more than the Agriculture Department’s $24 billion discretionary budget, according to a POLITICO analysis. But lawmakers have taken a largely hands-off approach, letting the department decide who gets the money and how much.</div><div><hr></div><div class="imHeading2"><a href="https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2021-farm-subsidies-ballooned-under-trump/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Under Trump, Farm Subsidies Soared and the Rich Got Richer</a></div><div>Biden and Congress Must Reform a Wasteful and Unfair System</div><div>By Anne Schechinger, Senior Analyst of Economics</div><div><br></div><div>Taxpayer-funded farm subsidies have long been skewed in favor of the richest farmers and landowners. But under the Trump administration, even more money went to the largest and wealthiest farms, further shortchanging smaller, struggling family farms. EWG’s analysis of records from the Department of Agriculture finds that subsidy payments to farmers ballooned from just over $4 billion in 2017 to more than $20 billion in 2020 – driven largely by ad hoc programs meant to offset the effects of President Trump’s failed trade war. Not only did the amount of subsidies skyrocket, but the richest farms also increased their share: In 2016, about 17 percent of total subsidies went to the top 1 percent of farms and about 60 percent to the top 10th. In 2019, the richest 1 percent received almost one-fourth of the total, and the top 10th received almost two-thirds.</div><div><hr></div><div class="imHeading2"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/01/21/trump-tariff-aid-to-farmers-cost-more-than-us-nuclear-forces/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump Tariff Aid To Farmers Cost More Than U.S. Nuclear Forces</a></div><div>Stuart Anderson</div><div><br></div><div>The Trump administration gave more taxpayer dollars to farmers harmed by the administration’s trade policies than the federal government spends each year building ships for the Navy or maintaining America’s nuclear arsenal, according to a new report. A National Foundation for American Policy analysis concluded the spending on farmers was also higher than the annual budgets of several government agencies. “The amount of money raises questions about the strategy of imposing tariffs and permitting the use of taxpayer money to shield policymakers from the consequences of their actions,” according to the analysis.</div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans wanted to lock up Clinton but want to give Don the Con a pass for his crimes and his Coup attempt.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000037"><div class="imHeading1">Republicans wanted to lock up Clinton but want to give Don the Con a pass for his crimes and his Coup attempt.</div><div>Republicans are defending Trump and threating America and Americans in order to protect criminal Don.</div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>08/29/2022</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It is both funny and sad Republicans accuse Democrats of being soft on crimes but when they commit crimes; they want us to take it easy on them or give them a pass. Republicans are threating Americans who are only doing their jobs. They have threatened elections workers, teacher school boards, people who work at the National Archives, the FBI and others. </div><div><br></div><div>Republicans are threating civil war if Don the Con is prosecuted. Trump committed crimes if he is found guilty he should go to jail like anyone else who has committed crimes. Republicans wanted Clinton to go jail for far less than what Trump has done but they want to give Don the Con a pass. No man is above law, but Republican believe Trump is, he is not. It Trump is given a pass it will make the next one even worse that Trump, if that is possible.</div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans warn about the radical left but it is the radical right that you should worry about]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000036"><div class="imHeading1">Republicans warn about the radical left but it is the radical right that you should worry about</div><div>It is the right who sacked the capitol and attempted a coup. It is the right who attempted to steal the election. It is the right who wants a civil war. It is the right who is taking away your rights.</div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>08/29/2022</div><div><br></div><div><div>Republicans have shown us who they are we should be worried. They attacked our capitol and called it peaceful protest it was not. They attempted a coup but have been given a pass, so far. They tried to steal the election while blaming the democrats for what they were doing. They have changed voter laws in an attempt to stay in power. They are banning laws, books and people they not like. They have in some cases even burned books they do not like. </div><div><br></div><div>They protect the second amendment, but are trying to take away other rights. What Republicans are doing should scare all Americans, or should I say all real Americans, because Republicans are not acting like Americans, they are acting more like Putin and Russia. Republicans are attacking anyone who disagrees with them and anyone they dislike. Real Americans can agree to disagree but do not attack someone or threaten to kill someone simply because they disagree with them, Putin may do that, but most American would not unless they are Republicans.</div><div><br></div><div>It is Republicans who are calling for a civil war not the left. It is Republicans who want to destroy America not the left. It is Republicans who are attacking American for doing their jobs not the left. It is Republicans who you need to worry about not the left.</div></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans, Fox News and Right Wing Media are Helping America’s Enemies, Foreign and Domestic.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000035"><div class="imHeading1">Republicans, Fox News and Right Wing Media are Helping America’s enemies, Foreign and Domestic.</div><div>They are weaponizing lies, fear, conspiracies and propaganda against the American people in an attempt to create a civil war. Republicans, Fox News and right wing media are Russia’s best weapon to destroy America.</div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>08/17/2022</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Republicans, Fox News and right wing media lies, conspiracies and propaganda are used as propaganda by are enemies both foreign and domestic. Foreign and domestic enemies use the lies from Republicans, Fox News and right wing media as propaganda to promote their agenda and attack our way of life. Republicans, Fox News and right wing media claimed to be Americans while they attack everything America stand for. </div><div><br></div><div>When Republicans attacked our capitol and wanted to kill Americans who they disagreed with, Republicans, Fox News and right wing media called them peaceful protesters and tourists. Most of us have been tourists, some of us have been peaceful protesters who did not attack anyone or nor did they want to kill anyone, that not what tourists or peaceful protesters do.</div><div><br></div><div>Republicans, Fox News and right wing media are helping Russia destroy America from within. The lies, conspiracies and propaganda from the right will get people killed. It may start a civil war that is what some on the right want. Bullets and bombs do not care about what you stand for or if you are a democrat or republican. Any American who wants to destroy America is our enemy. America will not win a civil only our enemies will. How many American will die because of the lies of Republicans, Fox News and right wing media?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?86,561" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party Stands For Nothing, Falls For Anything Except The Truth.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000034"><div class="imHeading1">The Republican Party Stands For Nothing, Falls For Anything Except The Truth.</div><div>The Republican Party does not believe in facts or the truth, but does believe in alternative facts, lies, conspiracies and party before country.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>08/17/2022</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>The Republican Party is not the Republican Party of old. It is not the party of Lincoln or Reagan. The Republican Party is the party of alternative facts, liars, deniers, conspiracy nuts, white supremacist, insurrection, seduction, coup plotters, con men, crooks and domestic terrorist. Lie to me once shame on you, lie to me twice shame on me. Republicans, Fox News and right media lie to the American people daily. Fox News used the Trucker <span class="fs11lh1-5">Carlson </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">lies as a defense in a court case. Trump has lied or mislead the American people over 33,000 times and yet most Republicans still believe what he says and support him. What does that say about the Republican Party? The Republican Party is now a cult that puts party or a person above the country. They call themselves patriots they are not patriots.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Democrats cancel people for doing the wrong things, Republicans cancels people for doing the right thing their jobs and upholding their oath of office or they disagree with the party line. There was a time when people who did the right thing were respected now the Republican Party attacks people for doing what is right. Real patriots put country before party or a person; Republicans who put party or a person above the country are not real patriots. Republicans, Fox News and right wing media lie to the American people daily, one day they will support something the next day they will attack it. Republicans, Fox News and right wing media attack democrats for the very things that Republicans are doing. Republicans, Fox News and right wing media attacked BLM for their protest, however when Republicans attacked our capitol first they claimed it was BLM and Antifa even though they knew it was Trump supporters. When that did not work, they claimed they were tourist and it was a peaceful protest. No Jan. 6 was not a peaceful protest nor was they tourist, they attacked the capitol, they attacked the capitol police, they broke into the capitol and wanted to kill people and hang Mike Pence. Tourist and peaceful protesters do attacked the police nor do they break into the capitol and they do not plan on killing people.</div><div><br></div><div>People who put people who put party or a person above country will not do what is best for the country only what they think is best for their party or the person they worship. The questions all Americans need to ask themselves are; do I really want people who put party or a person above country in change? Do I really want people who do not believe in facts in change? Do I really want people who ban books including the bible from schools? Do I really want a party that attempted a coup in change? Do I really want party that yells stop steal while try to steal election in charge? &nbsp;Do I really want a party of liars, deniers, conspiracy nuts, white supremacist, insurrection, seduction, coup plotters, conmen, crooks and domestic terrorist in charge? Real patriots would say no fake patriots would say yes. What are you?</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?86,560" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000032"><div class="imHeading1">Republicans are fake patriots real patriots put country first not party.</div><div>Real patriots put country first; fake patriots put party or a person above country.</div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>08/09/2022</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Republicans claim to be patriots they are not. Anyone can claim to be a patriot; however, you are not a real patriot if you put party or a person before your country. Real patriots put country above party. Real patriots put country above a person. Loyalty to a person or to a party is not loyalty to your country. Anyone who puts loyalty to a party or a person before their country is a fake patriot.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?86,559" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">comments</a></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans want to investigate the investigators but refuse to investigate the criminals.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000031"><div class="imHeading1">Republicans want to investigate the investigators but refuse to investigate the criminals.</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Republicans, Fox News and right wing media support and </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">defend </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">those on the right who commit crimes.</span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>08/09/2022</div><div><br></div><div><div>Republicans, Fox News and right wing media support and <span class="fs11lh1-5">defend </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">those on the right who commit crimes and break our laws. Republicans, Fox News and right wing media want to investigate the investigators but refuse to investigate the criminals on the right. Remember when Republicans, Fox News and right wing media wanted to investigate Clinton. Remember when Republicans, Fox News and right wing media investigated Benghazi.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Republicans, Fox News and right wing media do not want investigation in to Trump’s coup attempt, Trump’s mishandling of classified documents, the Jan. 6 insurrection, sedition or sacking of the capitol. They do want to investigate the investigators, but not the ones who committed the crimes. Republicans, Fox News and right wing media claim to be for law and order but you cannot be for law and order if you only investigate the other side or the investigators while refusing to investigate or allow investigation in to those on your side who break the law. The law must be applied to everyone equally.</div><div><br></div><div>Republicans, Fox News and right wing media believe those on the right are above our laws, they do not believe they should be investigated when they commit crimes against our country or break our laws. They do believe it is ok to investigate the investigators but not those on the right who commit crimes and <span class="fs11lh1-5">break our laws.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">. Republicans, Fox News and right wing media are anti-American they do not believe our laws apply to them, they do believe they are above the law, they are not.</span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?86,558" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">comments</a></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fox News, Republicans and right wing media are hypocrites who believe our laws do not apply to them.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000030"><div class="imHeading1">Fox News, Republicans and right wing media are hypocrites who believe our laws do not apply to them.</div><div>Fox News, Republicans and right wing media only believe in the rule of law when the law is going after black, brown and democrats.</div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>08/09/2022</div><div><br></div><div>We have seen time after time Fox News, Republicans and right wing media defend law enforcement when the law is going after black, brown and democrats. However when the law comes for someone on the right, they have a meltdown, jump up and down and scream about how unfair it is. Fox News, Republicans and right wing media do not believe our laws apply to them, they believe they are above our laws.</div><div><br></div><div>Fox News, Republicans and right wing media claim that the people who attacked the capitol on Jan. 6 were tourist and peaceful protesters. &nbsp;They were not peaceful nor were they tourist they were insurrectionist who broke the law, committed sedition and attempted a coup. Tourist do not break in to the capitol. Tourist do not attack the capitol police. Tourist do not want to kill or harm our representatives. Tourist do not want to hang Mike Pence. &nbsp;Tourist do not attempt coups.</div><div><br></div><div>Fox News, Republicans and right wing media claim it is unfair that the people who sacked the capitol as part of a coup were treated unfair. Fox News, Republicans and right wing media called BLM protesters terrorist. BLM protesters did not commit insurrectionist, sedition and did not want to kill or harm our representatives. BLM protesters did not want hang Mike Pence nor did they attempt a coup. </div><div><br></div><div>Fox News, Republicans and right wing media hyped up Benghazi e but have down played and have attempted to whitewash the sacking of our capitol and the Trump coup attempt. Republicans investigated Benghazi for two years but refuse to investigate the attack on out capitol and the Trump coup attempt. Fox News, Republicans and right wing media do want to investigate those who are investigating the attack on the capitol and the coup attempt but refuse to investigate the ones who actually committed the attack on the capitol or the coup attempt.</div><div><br></div><div>Fox News, Republicans and right wing media attacked Clinton for mishandling 30,000 emails and classified information, but you did not hear a peep out them when the Bush White House lost 22,000,000 emails. It they really cared about law and order they would have called out the Bush administration for losing ten times the number of email that Clinton did but they did not.</div><div><br></div><div><div>When the FBI was investigating Clinton Fox News, Republicans and right wing media cheered it on and pressed for more. They wanted to lock up Clinton. They did not have issues when Trump tried to get DOJ to help him with his false claims of election fraud. &nbsp;Now that Trump and some on the right are under investigation Fox News, Republicans and right wing media are attacking the FBI and DOJ for doing their jobs. Trump has mishandled classified documents but Fox News, Republicans and right wing does not care. There are no call from the right to lock him up.</div><div><br></div><div>Fox News, Republicans and right wing media are hypocrites they are happy when the law is going after black, brown and democrats, but they do not like it when the law comes after someone on the right. If you commit a crime, the law should be applied to everyone equally not just black, brown and democrats as Fox News, Republicans and right wing media would like it be. </div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?86,557" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">comments</a></div><div><hr><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKe7eS5xXSg" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">‘The hypocrisy is jaw-dropping’: Honig on Trump taking the Fifth</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">CNN</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">CNN’s John King and legal analyst Elie Honig discuss former President Donald Trump’s past statements on the Fifth Amendment after news broke that he declined to answer questions in a scheduled deposition with New York Attorney General Letitia James.</span></div></div></div><div></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 14:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000002F"><div class="imHeading1">It is official Fox News is the propaganda wing of the Republican Party and Russia.</div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>03/19/2022</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Fox News is not real news it is Republican, alt right and Russian disinformation and propaganda. For years, Fox News has been pushing fake news, lies, disinformation, fear, hate, racism, propaganda, alternative facts, white supremacy, conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda for the Republican Party, the alt right and Russia. Fox News has been caught doctoring photos to promote lies, disinformation, alternative facts and the alt right agenda. Doctoring photos, lies, disinformation and alternative facts is not news it is propaganda. When Trump ran for president, Trump, Fox News, Republicans and others on the right started pushing Russian propaganda. Now Russia is using Fox News and Republican lies and propaganda on Russian TV. </div><div><br></div> &nbsp;<div>Some at Fox News and some in the Republican Party are promoting Putin and Russia over Zelenskiy and the Ukraine. Some claim Zelenskiy is a thug but give Putin the war criminal a pass. Zelenskiy is not the one bombing civilians, children, hospitals, schools Putin is. Putin is the thug his playbook is to bomb civilians, civilian infrastructure, homes, apartments, breadlines, hospitals and schools it does not get more thugist than that. Some at Fox News and some in the Republican Party are still supporting and promoting Putin the thug while downplaying his criminal acts against innocent civilians. Fox News is good at pushing lies, disinformation, alternative facts, white supremacy and propaganda, but they do not promote real news in any way shape or form.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/polls/fox-news-polls.html" class="imCssLink">Fox News Polls</a></div><div><br></div><div><hr><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/politics/fox-news-fake-news-lies-propaganda-and-alternative-facts.html" class="imCssLink">Fox News</a></div><div><div>How the Fox News uses fake news, racism, hate, fear, lies, propaganda, alternative facts and conspiracies to divide and promote the radical right's agenda.</div></div><div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-03-18/tucker-carlson-russia-ukraine-fox-news-journalists-killed" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Tucker Carlson shills for Putin while his colleagues are killed in Ukraine</a></span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Jackie Calmes</span></div><div>It’s a tragic irony that Fox News, purveyor of so much disinformation and pundit propaganda about Russia’s war on Ukraine, is the media outlet now grieving the deaths of courageous correspondents who lost their lives transmitting the truth from that devastated nation.</div></div><div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-state-tv-features-tucker-carlson-and-rep-madison-cawthorn-2022-3" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russian state TV is repeatedly airing clips of Tucker Carlson and Rep. Madison Cawthorn talking about the war in Ukraine</a></span><br></div><div>Brent D. Griffiths </div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Russian state media has seized on recent comments by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn as a way to further push their propaganda about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. NBC News Foreign Correspondent Raf Sanchez tweeted clips of Russian networks replaying footage of recent Carlson monologues. He also showed a clip of state hosts showing a video of Cawthorn calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "thug." more...</span><br></div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin (aka. Vlad the Destroyer)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000002E"><div><div class="imHeading1">Vladimir Putin (aka Vlad the Destroyer)</div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">03/18/2022</span></div><div>03/26/2022</div> &nbsp;<div><div>Vlad the Destroyer (Putin) is destroying Ukraine the same way he did in <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/03/02/putin-grozny-chechen-ukraine-russia-military-past" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Chechnya</a>, Syria. Putin is bombing civilians, civilian infrastructure, homes, apartments, breadlines, hospitals and schools far more than he is bombing actual military targets. Putin does not care about human life; he only cares about winning at all costs and does not care how many civilians he kills to accomplish that goal. The <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-troops-are-now-turning-on-each-other-its-a-shtshow-one-soldier-is-recorded-telling-another" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russian shit show</a> in Ukraine has shown the failures of the Russian army. The failures of his army to advance in Ukraine are showing cracks in Russia’s military power and have <a href="https://hindustannewshub.com/russia-ukraine-news/ukraine-has-destroyed-the-myth-of-invincibility-of-the-russian-army-zaluzhny/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">destroyed the myths of the Russian soldiers</a>. The war in Ukraine has shown Russia’s army to be incompetent and that may explain why they bomb the shit out pf everything, they cannot fight on the ground. Russia’s failed military strategy and botched logistics have also become known, which make you question what they can really do in a ground war against a foe that will fight back. Putin has destroyed countless cities around the world. We have seen what he has done in <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-ukraine-putin-assad-idlib-russia-b2044057.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Syria</a>, <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/03/02/putin-grozny-chechen-ukraine-russia-military-past" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Chechnya</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grozny_ballistic_missile_attack" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Grozny</a>, <a href="Aleppo" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'Aleppo', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Aleppo</a> and other places he has attack it is to bomb the shit out of the civilians and now he is doing in Ukraine; make no mistake about Vladimir Putin he is Vlad the Destroyer. In addition, Vlad the Destroyer (The Mad Russia) is a war criminal.</div><div><br></div><div>Vlad the Destroyer’s (Putin) unprovoked attack on Ukraine risks destroying Ukraine and possibly Russia as well. Putin’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine has made Russia a pariah around the world, few counties will trust him to deal in good faith. Putin war has made Russia a pariah around the world. The unprovoked attack on Ukraine has taken away all the gains Russia has made in the last 30-40 years and will take Russia off the world stage. The Russian economy is in shambles the people who can leave are leaving Russia. The educated are leaving Russia as fast as they can which will lead to a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-brain-drain-economy-ukraine-sanctions-immigration-putin-iran-isolation-2022-3" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">brain drain of Russia smartest</a> people. Now that the <a href="https://hindustannewshub.com/russia-ukraine-news/ukraine-has-destroyed-the-myth-of-invincibility-of-the-russian-army-zaluzhny/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">myths of the Russian army</a> are shattered, Putin will probably try to flatten Ukraine with bombs to show strength. Putin will likely threaten other counties with his nukes and other weapons to get his way. Putin has destroyed the Russian economy and Russian standing in the world for a decade or more. Putin has destroyed countless cities around the world. Putin is destroying Ukraine and will destroy Russia as well; make no mistake about Vladimir Putin he is Vlad the Destroyer. In addition, Vlad the Destroyer (The Mad Russia) is a war criminal.</div><div><br></div><div>Vlad the Destroyer’s (Putin) unprovoked attack on Ukraine could cause collateral damage and destruction in Belarus, Georgia, and <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/03/02/putin-grozny-chechen-ukraine-russia-military-past" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Chechnya</a> as he pulls resources from those areas to support Russia’s losses in Ukraine. People in Belarus, Georgia, Chechnya and other places Russian has destroyed may go to Ukraine to help fight against the Russians to get payback for the things Russia has done in their counties. The <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-troops-are-now-turning-on-each-other-its-a-shtshow-one-soldier-is-recorded-telling-another" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russian shit show</a> in Ukraine shows the Russian army is not as good as people once believed and may give hope to people in <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/video-belarusian-fighters-join-ukraine-s-military-to-take-on-russians-101648289887919.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Belarus</a>, Georgia, and <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/chechen-and-tatar-muslims-take-up-arms-to-fight-for-ukraine/a-61174375" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Chechnya</a> to rise up against Russia in Georgia, and <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/chechen-and-tatar-muslims-take-up-arms-to-fight-for-ukraine/a-61174375" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Chechnya</a>. In addition, it could cause the people in Belarus to rise up and overthrow the government in Belarus as well. Uprising in Belarus, Georgia, and <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/03/02/putin-grozny-chechen-ukraine-russia-military-past" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Chechnya </a>may not happen but the longer the war in Ukraine goes on it increases the changes of unrest that could grow in to full-blown uprising in those areas. Putin has destroyed countless cities around the world. Putin is destroying Ukraine and will destroy Russia as well; and could cause issues in Belarus, Georgia, and <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/03/02/putin-grozny-chechen-ukraine-russia-military-past" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Chechnya</a>. Make no mistake about Vladimir Putin he is Vlad the Destroyer. In addition, Vlad the Destroyer (The Mad Russia) is a war criminal.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/polls/putin-russia-polls.html" class="imCssLink">Putin Poll</a></div><div><br><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/russia/vladimir-vladimirovich-putin.html" class="imCssLink">Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (aka Vlad The Destroyer)</a></b></span></div><div><div>Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (aka Vlad The Destroyer) is a Russian politician, a former KGB agent and dictator who is the president of Russia.</div></div><div><hr><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/russia/russia.html" class="imCssLink">Russia</a></b></span></div><div><div>The Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.</div></div><div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/russia-ukraine-war.html" class="imCssLink">The Russia Ukraine War</a> </b></span></div></div><div><div><div><div>The Russia Ukraine War (aka Russo-Ukrainian War, aka Putin's War) started on 24 February 2022 when Russia launched a full-scale unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.</div></div><hr><div></div></div><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/26/politics/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-butcher/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Biden calls Putin 'a butcher' after meeting with refugees in Poland</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Kyle Blaine</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Warsaw, Poland (CNN) President Joe Biden on Saturday called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "butcher" after visiting with refugees in Warsaw, Poland, in an intense criticism of the Russian leader's actions in Ukraine that have seen millions of refugees flee to neighboring countries. During the visit, Biden was asked by reporters what seeing the Ukrainian refugees at Stadion Narodowy made him think of as he deals with Putin every day. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Biden responded: "He's a butcher." </span></div></div><hr><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://nationworldnews.com/absurd-putin-myth-finally-shattered/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Absurd Putin myth finally shattered</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Nation World News Desk</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">It is hard to find any positives amid the atrocities unfolding in Ukraine. But here’s one: the myth of Vladimir Putin, the strong and cunning leader, has been irrevocably shattered. Finally, belatedly, the world sees him clearly. One of the more strikingly honest things I’ve read about the invasion in these past few days was from Sergei Dobrynin, one of the leading investigative reporters in Russia. “I thought Putin’s cunning was undeniable.</span></div></div><hr><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/belarus-at-breaking-point-how-putin-s-war-threatens-lukashenko-s-fragile-grip-on-power/ar-AAVKxwX?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=65f00b23c59c41f69de31e064c758de2" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Belarus at breaking point: How Putin’s war threatens Lukashenko’s fragile grip on power</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Borzou Daragahi</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">As Belarusian rail lines break down and trains transporting Russian military equipment into Ukraine grind to a halt, the government of strongman Alexander Lukashenko is making a risky move. It is airing confessions of transport workers involved in the so-called “rail war”, who are admitting to damaging equipment and infrastructure and causing delays.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://hindustannewshub.com/russia-ukraine-news/ukraine-has-destroyed-the-myth-of-invincibility-of-the-russian-army-zaluzhny/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Ukraine has destroyed the myth of “invincibility” of the Russian army, – Zaluzhny</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Hindustan News Hub</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Ukraine has shattered the myth of the “invincibility” of the Russian army. The enemy suffers serious losses in personnel and equipment. This was announced on Facebook by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny. “We have shattered the myth of the ‘invincibility’ of the Russian army. They expected to conquer us in 48 hours. Stocks of food, fuel, and ammunition were calculated for a maximum of three days.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://m.rediff.com/news/report/russia-now-global-economic-pariah-us-after-sanctions/20220309.htm#:~:text=Russia%20has%20become%20a%20global%20economic%20pariah%20after,against%20Moscow%2C%20the%20Joe%20Biden%20administration%20has%20claimed." target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russia now global economic pariah: US after sanctions</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Lalit K Jha</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Russia has become a global economic pariah after it attacked Ukraine and the international community has joined the United States in imposing tough sanctions against Moscow, the Joe Biden administration has claimed. US President Biden termed the package of economic sanctions enforced against Russia "most significant in history" and claimed that it has caused consequential damage to the Russian economy. "It has caused the Russian economy to crater. The Ruble is now down 50 per cent and worth less than one American penny since Putin announced his war," he told reporters at the White House after announcing an immediate ban on import of Russian oil and gas. more...</span></div></div><hr><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-immigration-kazakhstan-technology-c041eb0b7472668087bb94207de2f71d" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">As Russia sees tech brain drain, other nations hope to gain</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By LIUDAS DAPKUS</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russia’s tech workers are looking for safer and more secure professional pastures. By one estimate, up to 70,000 computer specialists, spooked by a sudden frost in the business and political climate, have bolted the country since Russia invaded Ukraine five weeks ago. Many more are expected to follow. For some countries, Russia’s loss is being seen as their potential gain and an opportunity to bring fresh expertise to their own high-tech industries. Russian President Vladimir Putin has noticed the brain drain even in the throes of a war that, according to the U.N. refugee agency, has caused more than 4 million people to flee Ukraine and displaced millions more within the country. </span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-leave-country-1.6387892" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Tens of thousands of people are leaving Russia, even with few routes out of the country</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">From economic sanctions to disgust over Ukraine invasion, many vow never to return</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Briar Stewart · CBC News</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The day that Russia's military began launching strikes across Ukraine, Mikhail Grinberg and his wife, Polina, knew they had to leave. The only question was should they go immediately and just take their passports, or did they have time to pack clothes? They bought tickets for the next day, Feb. 25, filled some suitcases and flew from Moscow to Riga, the capital of Latvia. "I definitely want a better future for my family, definitely," said 35-year-old Mikhail, who works as a product manager for the Russian technology company Yandex. "But also, it's avoiding this feeling of disgust."</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/economy/russia-central-bank-economy.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">An economic decline is coming, Russia’s central bank chief says.</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Inflation and “large-scale structural transformation” are ahead, as the bank held interest rates at 20 percent.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Eshe Nelson</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Russia’s central bank governor, Elvira Nabiullina, said on Friday that the country’s economy would decline in the coming quarters and that inflation would jump further as sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine took their toll.</span></div></div><div><hr><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-who-says-there-have-been-attacks-43-medical-facilities-2022-3" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">At least 43 hospitals and medical facilities have been attacked since Russia invaded Ukraine, WHO says</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Charles R. Davis</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The World Health Organization has documented 43 attacks on hospitals and other medical facilities in Ukraine since the Russia invasion, at least 33 attacks have involved violence with heavy weapons, meaning armed forces attacked using firearms, tanks, missiles, bombs, or mortars. "The health system in Ukraine is teetering on the brink," Dr. Mike Ryan, director of WHO's health emergencies program, said at a press conference on Wednesday, the BBC reported. Ryan described attacks on medical facilities as an effort to achieve "the destruction of hope." more...</span></div></div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Was the Coup Attempt and Sacking of the United States Capital an Inside Job?]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000002D"><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">Was the Coup Attempt and Sacking of the United States Capital an Inside Job?</b></div><div>Every day brings more information that suggests the attack on our capital may have been an inside job.</div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>01/22/2021</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>I do not believe everyone who attacked the capital was involved in the planning to storm the capital in the coup attempt at least that is my hope. Incited by Trump some may have been caught up in the monument others appear to have been attempting a coup by overturning the election and killing some in congress and hanging Mike Pence to keep Donald J. Trump as president. &nbsp;Trump‘s coup attempt &nbsp;assisted by some Republicans in the House and Senate was to overturn the election so he could remain president that coup attempt may or may not be connected to the coup attempt that sacked the United States Capitol only time will tell. As more and more information comes out you have to wonder was it an inside job, who was involved, how far up it goes, were the two coup attempts connected and were any foreign governments involved. </div></div><div><br></div><div>For me I first started to wonder what really happened and who was involved was when one of the capital police officer who was involved in protecting the capital committed suicide the next day. Committing suicide the day after the attack does not mean he was involved but when you add that to one of attackers committed suicide after his arrest it does make you wonder if that police office was involved in the attack in some way and was the coup attempt bigger than we could imagine. If some capital police officers did have some involvement that does not take away from those who did their job to protect the capital, however anyone who was involved are traitors and should be treated as one. </div><div><br></div><div>As more and more videos come out you realize that some had plans to take over the capital, stop the votes count and overturn the votes, kill some of our congressional representatives and hang Mike Pence. When the videos came out showing that some of the insurrectionist seemed to have knowledge of the capital building and some members in the house may have given tours to the same people that attacked the United States capital. In addition, that there are reports that some of the panic buttons were ripped out, some capital police officers have been suspended and others are under investigation. In addition, capital police knew that some in congress were the targets of the attackers but failed to provide adequate protection for our congressional representatives and our capital makes you wonder was it an inside job, who was involved, how far up it goes, were the two coup attempts connected and were any foreign governments involved.</div><div><br></div><div><hr></div><div><div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/the-trump-insurrection-how-trump-incited-sedition-insurrection-and-a-coup-attempt.html#More_Trump_Insurrection_Receipts" class="imCssLink">Trump Insurrection Receipts</a></span></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">More on how Trump his allies and right media attempted to steal the election and overthrow the will of the people.</span></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/trump-insurrection-videos.html" class="imCssLink">Trump Insurrection Videos</a></span></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Videos of the riot and violent attack against the 117th United States Congress and the sacking of the United States Capitol. On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol was sacked in a riot and violent attack against the 117th United States Congress to overturn the 2020 election in an attempted coup d’état. Some of Donald J. Trump’s MAGA supporters carried out the coup attempt in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election and overthrow the government of the United State of America. Some of the insurrectionist came prepared to kidnap and kill some in congress, hang Mike Pence and stop the vote count to keep Trump in power and prevent Biden from becoming president.</span></div></div><div><hr><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-treasonous-january-6-crimes-proved-beyond-reasonable-doubt-glenn-kirschner-capitol-riot-1751971" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump's 'Treasonous' 1/6 Crimes Proved Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Kirschner</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">BY ZOE STROZEWSKI</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The public hearing held on Thursday by the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots provided "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" of Donald Trump's "treasonous crimes" in attempting to retain the presidency, legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said. Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, attended the hearing and later posted a video on his YouTube page breaking down the presentation, choosing to quote and paraphrase the words of committee members in laying out what he described as "devastating" evidence of Trump's guilt. He pointed to the opening statement from Republican Representative Liz Cheney, the committee's vice chair, in which she stated that the central cause of the events on January 6 was "one man, Donald Trump."</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-planned-and-directed-the-whole-damn-thing-why-is-anybody-still-defending-him/ar-AA12XxKb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=03c29150498b444c9cbfe232e7e1a263" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald Trump planned and directed the whole damn thing — why is anybody still defending him?</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Heather Digby Parton</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Jan. 6 committee's final public hearing before the midterm election ended with a bang, not a whimper. At the conclusion of the hearing the committee's nine members voted unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump to testify. After their two-and-a-half hour presentation, it's hard to imagine how they ever could have contemplated doing otherwise. They presented a meticulously documented case which showed that Trump had a premeditated plan of many months to deny losing the election, plotted a coup to overturn the results if he did, incited a violent insurrection when that was thwarted, and then refused for hours to respond to the violence as he watched it unfold on television. Whether he will respond to the subpoena remains to be seen, but either way it's another black mark on his uniquely corrupt and dishonest political career.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-coup-2658451027/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">'Truly damning': CNN analyst breaks down timeline of Trump plot to declare victory no matter what</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Brad Reed</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots on Thursday showed how former President Donald Trump and his allies plotted for months to simply declare victory on election night regardless of the actual results. CNN political analyst John Avlon broke down the committee's timeline on Friday and said it made a "truly damning" case against the former president. "This was laying out a fact pattern truly damning to the extent the president and his allies were telegraphing an intent to declare victory well before the election," he said.<br></span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2460490183749/donald-trump-admin-and-gop-members-conspired-to-overthrow-the-election-texts-reveal?_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MTM0MTkxNjMwLTE2Mzk1MjM0OTk1NTY=&pd=0953N8Ir&hl=en_US" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald Trump Admin and GOP Members Conspired to Overthrow the Election, Texts Reveal</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Darragh Roche</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Republican members of Congress appear to have conspired with former President Donald Trump 's administration in efforts to prevent the certification of President Joe Biden 's 2020 election victory, according to text messages revealed by the House Select Committee investigating January 6. more...</span></div></div><hr><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/the-trump-insurrection-how-trump-incited-sedition-insurrection-and-a-coup-attempt.html" class="imCssLink">The Trump Insurrection: How Donald J. Trump and the right incited insurrection and sedition in an attempted coup d'etat</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol was sacked in a riot and violent attack against the 117th United States Congress in an attempted coup d’état. With help from his allies, Fox News, right-wing media and some in the Republican Party; Donald J. Trump incited insurrection, sedition, attempted a coup d’etat and caused the sacking of the United States Capitol. Donald J. Trump’s coup attempt involved some House members, some Senate members, and Mike Pence overturning the election certification process with the hope that Trump could steal the election and steal the presidency.</span></div><div><hr></div><div></div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/23/trump-florida-white-house-washington-plot-report" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Chaos of Trump's last days in office reverberates with fresh 'plot' report</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Ex-president, whose Senate trial will start in two weeks, reportedly planned to oust acting attorney general in bid to overturn election.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Martin Pengelly</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald Trump was at his Florida resort on Saturday, beginning post-presidency life while Joe Biden settled into the White House. But in Washington and beyond, the chaos of the 45th president’s final days in office continued to throw out damaging aftershocks. In yet another earth-shaking report, the New York Times said Trump plotted with an official at the Department of Justice to fire the acting attorney general, then force Georgia Republicans to overturn his defeat in that state. more...</span></div></div><hr></div></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[If you claim, you are pro-life but are anti-mask you are a hypocrite, a liar or just a selfish prick.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000002C"><div><b><span class="fs14lh1-5">If you claim, you are pro-life but are anti-mask you are a hypocrite, a liar or just a selfish prick.</span></b></div> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<div><span class="ff1">A. B. Man III</span></div><div><span class="ff1">01/22/2020</span></div><div><span class="ff1"><br></span></div><div> </div><div> </div> &nbsp;<div><div>You cannot be pro-life and anti-mask; not wearing a mask may or may not kill you but may kill your kids, your parents, other family members, friends or somebody you do not even know. If you were pro-life, you would not selectively decide women cannot have abortions but you are willing to kill others because you refuse to wear a mask. Mask save lives wear a mask even if you do not give a shit about yourself, wearing a mask protects others. If you were truly pro-life, you would not put others at risk including yourself by not wearing a mask. If you refuse to wear mask because you do not care about saving the lives of others then you are just a selfish prick.</div></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Trump Insurrection: How Donald J. Trump and the right incited insurrection and sedition in and attempted a coup d'etat]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000002B"><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">The Trump Insurrection: How Donald J. Trump and the right incited insurrection and sedition and attempted coup d'etat</b></div></div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">01/12/2021</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">01/17/2021</span><br></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">03/19/2022</span></div></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol was sacked in a riot and violent attack against the 117th United States Congress in an attempted coup d’état. With help from his allies, Fox News, right-wing media and some in the Republican Party; Donald J. Trump incited insurrection, sedition, attempted a coup d’etat and caused the sacking of the United States Capitol. Donald J. Trump’s coup attempt involved some House members, some Senate members, and Mike Pence overturning the election certification process with the hope that Trump could steal the election and steal the presidency. If those on the right really wanted to stop the steal, they should have told Trump to stop lying about the election and stop trying to steal the election. Trump sent his supporters to the United States Capitol in hopes that maybe they could scare congress into helping him over turn the election so he could remain the president. We do not have all the facts yet but from what we know so far about the coup attempt is Trump tried to overturn the election and the insurrectionist came prepared to kidnap and kill some in congress, hang Mike Pence and stop the vote count to keep Trump in power and prevent Biden from becoming president. Some on the right including Trump, his family members, his allies, republicans including some in the House and Senate, Fox news and other right-wing media organizations defended and amplified Trump lies that there was massive voter fraud and the election was stolen and they needed to fight for Trump to overturn the election. The election was not stolen and there was no way to overturn the election but Trump, Fox news, right-wing media and others including some in congress convinced some people they could. The questions one has to ask was Trump’s attempt to overturn the election (steal the election) and the attempt to sack the United States Capitol and overthrow the government connected and if so by who?</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump is greatest threat America has ever faced his lies peddle by Fox news, right-wing media Republicans about the election caused millions of Americans to believe the election was stolen because there was mass voter fraud and election fraud. For some those beliefs lead to insurrection, sedition and the sacking of the United States Capitol. The next greatest threats are right-wing media and the Republican Party who promoted and defended his lies that lead to insurrection, sedition and the sacking of the United States Capitol. Trump, Fox News, right-wing media and the Republican Party used the Republican Standard Operating procedures (SOP); downplay, lie, defend the lie, deny, deflect, blame others, attack the facts, alternative facts, conspiracy theories, propaganda, divide, racism and when all else fails use apples to oranges whataboutism in an attempt to steal the election. Trump is the best at the lie, but he did have help from Fox News, right-wing media and the Republican Party to support and defend his lies using the Republican Standard Operating procedures (SOP). Trump has lied to the American over 30,000 times, some people still believe what he says because his allies, some family members, Fox News, right-wing media and the Republican Party supported and defended his lies, and in some case amplifying the lies using the Republican Standard Operating procedures (SOP). If Trump his allies, family members, Fox News, right-wing media and the Republican Party had told the truth and called him out when he told his lies about coronavirus over 300,000 people would still alive. Millions of Americans would not believe there was mass voter fraud and election fraud; millions of Americans would not believe the election was stolen and the insurrection and sacking of the United States Capitol would not have happened.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump lied to his supporters about the election he told his supporters there was mass voter fraud, election fraud and the election was stolen some on the right, Fox news, right-wing media, his allies, some of his family members and some in the Republican Party prompted and amplified the lies. Some of his supporters attacked the Capitol of the Untied State of America in belief that the election was stolen and they had to fight to overturn the election. Some people believing the lies planned to kidnap and kill some of the United States congress and Mike Pence. Before the election Donald J. Trump claimed the election would be rigged and he claimed if he lost, it was rigged. Because someone loses and election does not mean it is rigged, only someone attempting to steal an election would say that. Donald J. Trump is the one who tried to rig and steal the election. First he tried to slow down the mail so that democratic votes would not be counted when that failed he tried to get the courts to overthrow the election and give it to him. When the courts refused to help him with his coup attempt Trump tried to get state and local election officials and legislators to change the vote count and overturn the election and the will of the voters in his attempt at a coup d’etat.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">When the courts, state and local election officials and legislators refused to help in his coup attempt, he got his allies, Fox News, right-wing media, and House and Senate members to help in him in his coup attempt. Trump his children his allies, some House and Senate members and right-wing media pushed a lie about mass voter fraud, election fraud and a stolen election but only in states that Trump lost. The fact that they pushed lies about mass voter fraud and election fraud only in the states Trump lost, and only about the presidential election and not the other elections for other offices that took place at the same time and same place. Add to that the fact the courts did not find any voter fraud should tell anyone with common sense that it was all lies there was not mass fraud, no election fraud and the election was not stolen. Trump, his children, his allies, Rudy Giuliani, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Fox News, right-wing media and others on the right attempted the greatest suppression of minority votes ever in an attempt to steal an election and commit a coup d’teat.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Some in the House and the Senate tried to help Trump in his coup attempt when they delayed the certification process in a failed attempt to get it kicked back to the states so Republicans could help him steal the election and give the presidency to Trump. Part of that attempt was to get his supporters to force the House and Senate to overrule the votes of the people in the states Trump lost and give Trump the presidency. That attempt lead to the sedition, insurrection and the sacking of the United States Capitol in a failed attempt to overthrow our government and commit a coup d’etate. It was not antifa, BLM or the left the stormed the United States Capitol it was Trump’s supporters incited by, his children, his allies, Rudy Giuliani, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Fox News, right-wing media and others on the right who help in Trump’s attempt to steal the election, overthrow the government and the will of the people.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Americans need to wake up it is not the left we need to fear it is Donald J. Trump, Fox news, right-wing media, Republicans and the rabbit right. Americans need to realize that Trump and some of his supporters in the House and the Senate attempted to overthrow the government by overturning the election. While the House and the Senate delayed the certification other Trump supporters attempted to overthrow the government by force and some of Trump’s supporters wanted to kidnap and kill some House and the Senate members and hang Mike Pence and they came prepared with zip-cuffs, nooses and weapons. Make no mistake about it; it was a coup attempt on multiple levels. There is some evidence to suggest the sacking of the United States Capitol may have been and inside job, time will tell if some or all the actions were coordinated, how many people were involved, who all was involved and how far up is goes.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Make no mistake about it</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/white-supremacist-in-america.html" class="imCssLink" onclick="return x5engine.utils.location('http://www.aclickapick.com/white-supremacist-in-america.html', null, false)">the rabbit right are domestic terrorist and have killed more Americans than terrorist</a></span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55648011" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">White supremacists have overthrown a government before</a></span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">and just attempted to</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5">overthrow our federal government</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">. Trump, Fox news, right-wing media and white supremacists our a danger to America. Trump, his children, his allies, Rudy Giuliani, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Fox News, right-wing media and others on the right who lied about mass voter fraud, election fraud and a stolen election did it in an attempt to help Trump steal the election. If they really wanted to stop the steal then they would have told Trump and his allies to stop trying to steal the election. Trump, his children, his allies, Rudy Giuliani, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Fox News, right-wing media and others on the right lied to the American people about voter fraud and they lied that they could somehow change the outcome of the election if they went to United States Capitol. Now the big lie is it was antifa who sacked the United States Capitol no it was not antifa it was Trump supporters, so far only Trump supporters have been identified and arrested, that may change there could be a few, but the majority were Trump supporters and the rabbit right. The voter fraud claim was a lie and it is just plain wrong that Trump and the right convinced people that the election was stolen, it was not stolen no matter how many times they say was. We need to call out those who are attempting to divide and destroy our country with lies and alternative facts before it is too late and we will lose our democratic republic the next time they may succeed in the overthrow of our country.</span></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?66,342" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></b></div><div><hr></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/january-6-commission.html" class="imCssLink" onclick="return x5engine.utils.location('http://www.aclickapick.com/january-6-commission.html', null, false)">January 6 Commission</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Tracking the National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex, known colloquially as the January 6 commission.</span></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/the-trump-insurrection-how-trump-incited-sedition-insurrection-and-a-coup-attempt.html#More_Trump_Insurrection_Receipts" class="imCssLink">Trump Insurrection Receipts</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">More on how Trump his allies and right media attempted to steal the election and overthrow the will of the people.</span></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/trump-insurrection-videos.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump Insurrection Videos</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Videos of the riot and violent attack against the 117th United States Congress and the sacking of the United States Capitol. On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol was sacked in a riot and violent attack against the 117th United States Congress to overturn the 2020 election in an attempted coup d’état. Some of Donald J. Trump’s MAGA supporters carried out the coup attempt in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election and overthrow the government of the United State of America. Some of the insurrectionist came prepared to kidnap and kill some in congress, hang Mike Pence and stop the vote count to keep Trump in power and prevent Biden from becoming president.</span></div></div><hr><div><div><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/transcripts-reveal-link-between-trump-nevada-fake-electors/ar-AA15A8kQ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=779dc785775b4cfcdfd91ac01b5f84f0" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Transcripts reveal link between Trump, Nevada fake electors</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Story by By GABE STERN and RIO YAMAT, Associated Press/Report for America</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">LAS VEGAS (AP) — New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party’s scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power. The documents made public Wednesday evening included interviews with state party leader Michael McDonald and Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid in February. Both men served as fake electors in Carson City on Dec. 14, 2020.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cassidy-hutchinson-hearing/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">It Was a Coup, and Trump Fully Intended to Lead It</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">At a surprise January 6 hearing on Tuesday, a former White House aide linked Trump to the whole of the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By John Nichols</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Former President Donald Trump wanted to march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, at the head of an armed and dangerous crowd of insurrectionists that he had urged to “fight like hell” to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. When the Secret Service told the president that was impossible, for security reasons, Trump demanded that he be driven to the Capitol, which was already under attack by his violent supporters, and became “irate” when Secret Service personnel prevented him from doing so.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/how-loyal-servant-mark-meadows-played-a-pivotal-role-in-trumps-attempted-coup-report/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">How 'loyal servant' Mark Meadows played a 'pivotal' role in Trump’s attempted coup: report</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Alex Henderson</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The events that followed the 2020 presidential election were unprecedented in U.S. history. Never before had an incumbent president in the United States lost the popular vote by more than 7 million and watched his opponent win 306 electoral votes only to falsely claim that the election was stolen from him and make an unsuccessful coup attempt. And never before had an insurrectionist mob violently attacked and invaded the U.S. Capitol Building in the hope of stopping the peaceful transition of presidential power. But all of those things happened after now-President Joe Biden defeated then-President Donald Trump in 2020, and one of Trump’s closest allies during his unsuccessful coup attempt was then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Journalist Michael Kranish, in an article published by the Washington Post on May 9, takes an in-depth look at the prominent role Meadows played in that coup attempt. “Instead of echoing the (Trump) Administration’s own Justice Department to tell Trump that his claims of a stolen election were wrong,” Kranish explains, “Meadows went to extraordinary lengths to push Trump’s false assertions — particularly during a crucial three-week period starting with his trip to Atlanta and culminating in the violent insurrection on January 6, 2021.”</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/-potus-participated-trump-busted-by-evidence-tying-him-to-coup-plot-136813125729" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">‘POTUS participated’: Trump busted by evidence tying him to coup plot - MSNBC</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">New evidence reveals how Trump participated in directly demanding legislators help steal the 2020 election. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber explains how this evidence links Trump more directly to his aide Peter Navarro’s confession on “The Beat” detailing a plan to use the Vice President’s power to stop the transition of power.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/trump-admits-his-intention-to-overthrow-government-in-a-coup/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump admits his intention to overthrow government in a coup</a></span></b><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Mark Gruenberg</span><br><br><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">WASHINGTON—Seizing and impounding voting machines in key swing states. Strong-arming the Vice President to overturn the 2020 election by throwing out electoral votes. Sending false electoral vote certificates to Congress. Witness tampering. And now calling for nationwide repeats of Jan. 6 insurrections. And on top of all of that Donald Trump declares that if he wins the Oval Office again in 2024 he’ll pardon the invaders and insurrectionists who smashed into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. There appears to be no limit to the lengths Donald Trump would go to retain the presidency he lost in the November 2020 election. </span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/politics/trump-giuliani-january-6-2020/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald Trump's hands are all over the coup attempt</a></span></b><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large</span><br><br><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">(CNN) With each passing day, it seems, new revelations come to light that suggest how intimately involved then-President Donald Trump and his advisers were in the coup attempt leading up to the events of January 6, 2021. The latest bombshell came Thursday night when CNN reported that Trump lawyer and confidant Rudy Giuliani, as well as other Trump campaign aides, spearheaded the efforts to gather alternate electors in seven swing states in an attempt to overturn Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. "Giuliani and his allies coordinated the nuts-and-bolts of the process on a state-by-state level, the sources told CNN. One source said there were multiple planning calls between Trump campaign officials and GOP state operatives, and that Giuliani participated in at least one call. The source also said the Trump campaign lined up supporters to fill elector slots, secured meeting rooms in statehouses for the fake electors to meet on December 14, 2020, and circulated drafts of fake certificates that were ultimately sent to the National Archives."</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2022/2/3/22916189/donald-trump-january-6-insurrection-big-lie-vote-fraud-republicans-mona-charen-colum" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Trump coup attempt is ongoing</a></span></b><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump, we now know, paged through federal departments and agencies looking for willing insurrectionists. With every revelation about Trump’s extensive efforts to overturn the election, the flaccid response of Republicans makes the next coup more thinkable.</span><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Mona Charen</span><br><br><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Some look back on the events following Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss and think we dodged a bullet: There was a coup attempt, and thankfully it failed. Others believe that the whole thing has been overblown. Even as evidence piles up that the coup was far more extensive than siccing a mob on the Capitol, those two takes seem unshaken. There is another way to look at it: The coup is ongoing. With every new revelation about how extensive Trump’s efforts to overturn the election were — and they are arriving on an almost daily basis — the flaccid response of Republicans makes the next coup that much more thinkable.</span></div></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/riot-jan-dangerously-close-call-trumps-plot-succeeded/story?id=81858613" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Beyond the riot, Jan. 6 was a dangerously close call. How Trump's plot nearly succeeded</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl on the scenarios.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Jonathan Karl</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Two weeks after the Jan. 6 insurrection , Donald Trump walked out of the White House and Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States. Trump had attempted to use the full power of the presidency and his position as the leader of the Republican Party to stay in power, but he failed. Democracy succeeded. Joe Biden became president, on schedule and without incident, at noon on Jan. 20, 2021. But this was a close call. Attempts by Trump and his followers to overturn the results of the 2020 election -- multi-dimensional efforts of which the assault on the Capitol building was only one element -- came dangerously close to succeeding. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Consider, for example, Donald Trump’s demand that Vice President Mike Pence act to nullify Biden’s victory on Jan. 6. Trump wanted Pence to use his power as the presiding officer during the joint session of Congress that day to toss out Biden’s electoral votes in states Trump had contested. On its face, the idea of giving one person the power to overturn the votes of millions of Americans was absurd. And outside of a few fringe lawyers advising Trump, constitutional scholars agreed that Pence had no authority to do what Trump was demanding. </span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2460490183749/donald-trump-admin-and-gop-members-conspired-to-overthrow-the-election-texts-reveal?_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MTM0MTkxNjMwLTE2Mzk1MjM0OTk1NTY=&pd=0953N8Ir&hl=en_US" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald Trump Admin and GOP Members Conspired to Overthrow the Election, Texts Reveal</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Darragh Roche</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Republican members of Congress appear to have conspired with former President Donald Trump 's administration in efforts to prevent the certification of President Joe Biden 's 2020 election victory, according to text messages revealed by the House Select Committee investigating January 6. more...</span></div></div><hr><div></div></div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com//blog/index.php?was-the-coup-attempt-and-sacking-of-the-united-states-capital-an-inside-job-" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Was the Coup Attempt and Sacking of the United States Capital an Inside Job?</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Every day brings more information that suggests the attack on our capital may have been an inside job. Incited by Trump some may have been caught up in the monument others appear to have been attempting a coup by overturning the election and killing some in congress and hanging Mike Pence to keep Donald J. Trump as president. Trump‘s coup attempt assisted by some Republicans in the House and Senate was to overturn the election so he could remain president that coup attempt may or may not be connected to the coup attempt that sacked the United States Capitol only time will tell. As more and more information comes out you have to wonder was it an inside job, who was involved, how far up it goes, were the two coup attempts connected and were any foreign governments involved.</span></div></div><div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/23/trump-florida-white-house-washington-plot-report" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Chaos of Trump's last days in office reverberates with fresh 'plot' report</a></b><br></div><div>Ex-president, whose Senate trial will start in two weeks, reportedly planned to oust acting attorney general in bid to overturn election.</div><div>Martin Pengelly</div><div><br></div><div>Donald Trump was at his Florida resort on Saturday, beginning post-presidency life while Joe Biden settled into the White House. But in Washington and beyond, the chaos of the 45th president’s final days in office continued to throw out damaging aftershocks. In yet another earth-shaking report, the New York Times said Trump plotted with an official at the Department of Justice to fire the acting attorney general, then force Georgia Republicans to overturn his defeat in that state. Former acting US defense secretary Christopher Miller, meanwhile, made an extraordinary admission, telling Vanity Fair that when he took the job in November, he had three goals: “No military coup, no major war and no troops in the street.” The former special forces officer added: “The ‘no troops in the street’ thing changed dramatically about 14.30 [on 6 January]. So that one’s off [the list].” That was the day a mob incited by Trump smashed its way into the US Capitol, in some cases allegedly looking for lawmakers to kidnap or kill. More than 100 arrests have been made over the riot, which also saw Trump impeached a second time.</div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Russians have infiltrated the Republican Party.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000002A"><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">The Russians have infiltrated the Republican Party.</b></div><div>The Republican Party was once the party of strength and would protect us from our enemy at least that is what they told us. Now the Republican Party is using Russian propaganda against us.</div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>10/12/2020</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>The Republican Party was once a great party that is no longer the case. They once stood up to Russia, they told the American people how much stronger they were at protecting and defending America from the Russians and others threats to America than the Democratic Party. The Russians have infiltrated the Republican Party, the NRA, white evangelicals and white nationalist in attempt to sow division in America, and the Republican Party have welcome them with open arms. If the Republican Party cannot protect itself from being infiltrated by the Russians, how can they protect us from the Russian or other enemies?</div><div><br></div><div>Trump, the Republican Party, Fox News and right-wing media are using lies, alternative facts, propaganda and in some cases Russian propaganda against the American people to win elections to stay in power, in the process they are helping Putin and the Russian while destroying our institutions, our democracy and the trust of the American people in our institutions. Anyone who uses using lies, alternative facts and propaganda is a threat to our democracy.</div><div><br></div><div>Trump openly shows his support of Putin and Russia over America every time he supports Putin over America, our soldiers, our intelligent agencies and our allies. Add to that the fact that Fox News host Tucker Carlson admitted he 'roots for Russia against the west tells you all you need to know these people are not real Americans they are traitors. If you pay attention, you will notice at times, it will appear as coordinated attacks from Trump, Fox news and right-wing media and some they are working together using the same talking points at the same time. Make no mistake about it anyone who uses alternative facts and Russian propaganda against us, roots for or supports our enemies over our country is our enemies and are traitors to America they are not patriots.</div><div><br></div><div>When you have a sitting president, Republican senators, Republican congressional representatives, Fox News and right-wing using Russian propaganda and talking points to attack democrats and protect Trump you have to wonder how deep Russia has infiltrated the Republican Party and the right-wing establishment. If the place where you get your news uses alternative facts or Russian propaganda, you should find a news source for your news.</div><div><br></div><div>No one in America would have thought the day would come that Americans would need to worry about the Republican Party being <span class="fs11lh1-5">co-opted </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">by a hostile foreign power well that day has come and every American should worry about how deep the Russians have infiltrated the Republican Party. The Republican Party may cast the Democratic Party as a threat but the real threat to America is the Republican Party. If Americans wants to save our democracy and our institutions, we need to vote out Trump and his enablers, and anyone who uses alternative facts and Russian propaganda to sow division and chaos in our country if we do not vote these traitors, we will lose our democracy.</span><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?65,290" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/politics/the-russians-have-infiltrated-the-republican-party.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Russians have infiltrated the Republican Party</a></b></div><div><div>More on how the Russians have infiltrated Republican Party</div></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/some-republicans-using-russian-talking-points-on-ukraine-to-cover-for-trump-74082373835" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Some Republicans using Russian talking points on Ukraine to cover for Trump</a></b><br></div><div>The 11 Hour</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">U.S. intelligence officials say that it was Russia who hacked the DNC in the 2016 elections, but some Republicans are still using a favorite talking point of the Kremlin to suggest it could have been Ukraine. Philip Rucker reacts.</span><br></div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/republicans-peddle-russian-talking-points-but-why-74378309719" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Republicans peddle Russian talking points… but why?</a></b><br></div><div>Deadline White House</div><div>The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes on the lengths congressional Republicans are going to in order to protect Donald Trump</div><div><hr></div><div><div><div></div></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-13/how-putin-infiltrated-republican-party-and-fox-news/100902786" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russia was once enemy number one in the US. So how did Vladimir Putin infiltrate the Republican Party?</a></span></b><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Joanna Robin in Washington DC</span><br><br><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">On the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, conservative media commentator Tucker Carlson used his nightly Fox News platform to ask why the Democratic establishment was being hostile towards Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Since the day that Donald Trump became president, Democrats in Washington have told you it’s your patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin," Carlson said. "Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason." He mused that hating Putin had become "the central purpose of America’s foreign policy", which, he argued, could force the United States into a conflict in Eastern Europe — something no one from either side of politics has called for. Mr Carlson insisted his audience ask themselves: "Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a racist?" more...</span></div></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-putin-wing-emerges-cawthorn-calls-ukrainian-govt-evil-rcna19543" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">GOP’s ‘Putin wing’ emerges: Cawthorn calls Ukrainian gov’t ‘evil’</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">While most U.S. officials have expressed support for allies in Kyiv, Madison Cawthorn said Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “thug” leading an “evil” government.</span><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Steve Benen</span><br><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">As the crisis in Ukraine continues, most elected officials in the United States have expressed support for their allies in Kyiv. There are however, some notable exceptions. WRAL in North Carolina reported this morning on Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who told a group of supporters this past weekend that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “thug” leading an “evil” government. more...</span></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/11/25/20981661/john-kennedy-roger-wicker-ukrainian-interference-russia" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Republican senators respond to impeachment hearings by pushing Russian disinformation</a></b><br></div><div>John Kennedy and Roger Wicker’s comments are a taste of what’s to come during a Senate trial.</div><div>By Aaron Rupar</div><div><br></div><div>The consensus conclusion of the US intelligence community is that the Russian government was responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s campaign during the 2016 election. This finding was affirmed by a bipartisan Senate investigation and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who in painstaking detail laid out how Russian intelligence officers helped Trump not only through hacks, but also with the ensuing WikiLeaks anti-Clinton propaganda campaign featuring the emails stolen during those hacks.</div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/former-ethics-chief-says-fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-admitted-he-roots-russia-against-west-1474137" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Former Ethics Chief Says Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Admitted He 'Roots For Russia Against The West'</a></b><br></div><div>By Jenni Fink</div><div><br></div><div>Former Director of the United States Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub said that Fox News host Tucker Carlson's rooting for Russia in the Ukraine conflict shows a shift in contrasting opinions in America. "This clip is just one more exhibit supporting the case that it's no longer left vs. right but democracy vs. authoritarianism," Shaub tweeted on Tuesday. "I think many still underestimate the threat to the republic."</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday night, Carlson had Richard Goodstein, who served as an adviser to both President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on his show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, to discuss impeachment. During the segment, Carlson said he supported Russia and asked Goodstein why people should have to root for Ukraine.</div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Trump Flu: The corona virus may have come from China but the lack of action by Donald J. Trump caused it to grow out of control in America.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000029"><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">Trump Flu: The corona virus may have come from China but the lack of action by Donald J. Trump caused it to grow out of control in America.</b></div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>10/11/2020</div><div><div>Updated 10/14/2020</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Trump likes to brag about what a good job he has done about the coronavirus he likes to tell us how he stopped it from coming in from China with his travel ban but somehow manages to forget to tell you about the 40,000 who came from China during his travel ban. He also forgets to tell you about the cases that came in from Europe that infected New York and the east coast or how deadly the coronavirus is. Trump knew early on how deadly the coronavirus but has said he wanted to downplay it; you do not down play something that can kill people doing so puts people’s lives at risk. People cannot and will not take the appropriate safety precaution if they do not how deadly the coronavirus is.</div><div><br></div><div>The ideal that Trump wanted to down play the coronavirus because he did not want to start panic is almost laughable if it was not so said, when you consider daily he scares people with his talk about the protesters and how Antifa and the protesters are coming for you. Other counties around the world were honest with their people and it did not cause a panic in those counties. Trump could have saved a lot of lives if had told the America people the truth this is a bad one you need to wear mask and social distance from each other. How many people would be alive today if he had been honest with the American people? </div><div><br></div><div><div>Currently 8,146,377 Americans have the coronavirus and 221,801 have died in six months from the coronavirus, because of Trump’s inaction, maybe in America we should call the Trump Flu. Most of the Americans who have died may have lived if not for Trump’s inaction. We do not know how many more Americas will die from the Trump Flu but most of them would have lived if not for Trump’s inaction. Trump knew the dangers of the Trump Flu his inactions caused the needles deaths of most of the 221,801. We do not know full total number of people who have died from the Trump Flu or how many more Americans will die because of Trumps inaction. </div><div><br></div><div>Instead of being honest with the American people, he continues to be dishonest about how deadly it is by telling the American people that it is no deadly that the flu and that is not true. The flu killed 37,000 people in 2019; in 2020, the Trump Flu killed 221,801 in six months, nearly six times as many people died in half the time, which is not like the flu it is six times deadly than the flu. Trump and Republicans have been using alternative fact on us maybe they are using alternative math as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Trump should be charged with homicide because he knew how deadly the Trump Flu was and did not tell the America people and to this day, he has not come out and told the truth to the America people. In addition, Trump and his campaign went around the country infecting people including themselves at his campaign events, Herman Cain died shortly after attending a Trump event. We do not know how many people have gotten the Trump Flu or died from it by attending a Trump event, but it was reckless for Trump to put people at risk without telling them how high deadly the Trump Flu and not taking the appropriate precaution such as mask and social distancing to protect the people at his events. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump could have saved a lot of lives if had of told the American people the truth about how dangerous the Trump Flu was and to mask up and practice social distancing to save American lives, instead he did just the opposite. Now Trump is thinking we could use herd immunity to stop the Trump Flu the problem is herd immunity will not work because some can be re-infected and the second time around is worse than the first time and because some be re-infected each time could be worse and could cause more deaths. The other problem is a lot more Americans would die that did not need to reach herd immunity and because people can be re-infected, there is not guaranty that herd immunity would work. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Maybe Trump really </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">does not </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">care about the American people and has been using herd immunity all along and that is the reason he did not tell the American people about how bad it is and to mask up and practice social distancing.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe we were expecting too much of Trump to think he could or would protect us from the Trump Flu, considering Trump could not or rather would not protect himself, his family, his staff the White House, his supporters or the American people from the Trump Flu obviously he is not up to the job. &nbsp;The America people need to fire Donald J. Trump, we need to vote him out of office before he kills more Americans and does even more damage to our institutions and our democracy.</div></div></div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?66,289" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><br></a></div><div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?66,289" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><div><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><b class="fs12lh1-5">Currrent U.S.Coronavirus Cases</b></a></div></div><hr><div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/trump-has-failed-in-his-response-to-coronavirus-covid-19.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump Has Failed In His Response To Coronavirus (Covid-19)</a></span></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald Trump's failure to act quickly and reasonably to protect the American people from the Coronavirus has put America lives at risks. #TrumpFlu, #Coronavirus</span></div></div><hr><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/birx-recalls-very-difficult-call-trump-says-hundreds-thousands-covid-n1262283" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Birx recalls 'very difficult' call with Trump, says hundreds of thousands of Covid deaths were preventable</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">"I look at it this way: The first time, we have an excuse." Birx said about the initial surge of deaths. "All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially."</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Allan Smith</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Deborah Birx, who served as White House coronavirus response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, described an 'uncomfortable' call between the two after following an August interview with CNN in which she discussed the threat posed by Covid-19. "Well, I think you've heard other conversations that people have posted with the president," Birx said as part of a CNN documentary “Covid War: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out," which is airing in full Sunday evening. "I would say it was even more direct than what people have heard. It was very uncomfortable, very direct and very difficult to hear." In this segment, which CNN released Sunday, Birx was asked if she was threatened in the call. "I would say it was a very uncomfortable conversation," she said. more...</span></div></div><hr><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/24/politics/mac-short-coronavirus-positive-test/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">At least 5 people in Pence's orbit, including chief of staff Marc Short, are positive for coronavirus</a></span></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Diamond, Jim Acosta, Daniella Diaz and Betsy Klein, CNN</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">(CNN) At least five people in Vice President Mike Pence's orbit have tested positive for coronavirus in recent days, including chief of staff Marc Short and outside adviser Marty Obst, a source familiar with the situation told CNN. There are concerns that more people within Pence's inner circle will test positive in the coming days, the source said. "They're scared," the source said of staffers in the vice president's office.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Pence's office announced Saturday evening that Short had been diagnosed with Covid-19. Sources told CNN that Obst, who is a senior political adviser to Pence but is not a government employee, and at least three staffers in Pence's office have also tested positive for the virus. Despite the slew of coronavirus cases around him, Pence -- who is the head of the White House's coronavirus task force -- is not quarantining, as per US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. Instead, he plans to continue traveling and campaigning in the final stretch to Election Day. more...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/22/health/covid-response-deaths-columbia-report/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Faulty US Covid-19 response meant 130,000 to 210,000 avoidable deaths, report finds</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Maggie Fox, CNN</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">(CNN) The Trump Administration's faltering response to the coronavirus pandemic has led to anywhere between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths that could have been prevented, according to a report released Thursday by a team of disaster preparedness experts. Insufficient testing, a lack of national mask mandates or guidance, a delayed overall response and outright mocking of basic public health practices by the administration has put the United States at the top of the global coronavirus death toll, the report from Columbia University Earth Institute's National Center for Disaster Preparedness finds.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">"We estimate that at least 130,000 deaths and perhaps as many as 210,000 could have been avoided with earlier policy interventions and more robust federal coordination and leadership," the report reads. "Even with the dramatic recent appearance of new COVID-19 waves globally, the abject failures of U.S. government policies and crisis messaging persist, U.S. fatalities have remained disproportionately high throughout the pandemic when compared to even other high-mortality countries," it adds.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> more...</span></div></div><hr><div></div><div></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">More on Donald J. Trump</b><br></div><div><br></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/don-the-con-the-real-donald-j-trump.html" class="imCssLink">Don The Con The Real Donald J. Trump</a></b><br></div><div>Don the Con is a con man. Trump is a threat to the free press, free speech, free trade, the rule of law, our democracy and the American way of life.</div></div><div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html " class="imCssLink">Donald J. 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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000028"><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">Do not fall for the BS the Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln it is the party of corruption, alternative facts, voter suppression, voter intimidation, gerrymandering, hate, fear, racism and white supremacist.</b></div><div>If you are a person of color or call yourself an American, supporting the Republican Party is doing so against your own self-interest and against the best interest of our country.</div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>10/11/2020</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As a person of color, why would you support a party that is actively using alternative facts, voter suppression, voter intimidation, gerrymandering, hate, fear and racism against of people of color? As a person of color, why would you support a party of racist and white supremacist, some of which want to kill you? Racist and white supremacist want to kill people of color, law enforcement offers and those who disagree with them, as an American why would you support that. Black people have died for the right to vote, supporting a party that is using voter suppression, voter intimidation, hate, fear and racism against black people and people of color is disrespecting all the people of color who gave up their lives so you could vote. As a person of color, why would you support a party that uses people of color as the boogieman to scare white people into voting for them? As an American why would support that?</div><div><br></div><div>Make no mistake about it this not the age of Lincoln it is the age of Trump and in the age of Trump the Republican Party has become the party of corruption, alternative facts, voter suppression, voter intimidation, gerrymandering, hypocrites, hate, fear, racism and white supremacist. The Democratic Party is no longer the Party of racist and white supremacist, the Republican Party is. The Democratic Party is not using alternative facts, voter suppression and voter intimidation, hate, fear, racism against of people of color, the Republican Party is. The programs that democrats try to protect and enhance are programs that help people of color, the middle class and the poor while the Republicans are actively trying to destroy any programs that help people of color, the middle class and the poor. The system crashes from time to and we all need help when it does if Republicans have their way there will be no help for people of color, the middle class and the poor the next time the system crashes. </div><div><br></div><div>Americans once believed in truth, facts, fair play and science, the Republican party of today does not believe in truth, facts, fair play or science, why would any American support that. As an American, why would you support a party that has to cheat to win by using hate, fear, racism voter suppression, voter intimidation and gerrymandering? As an American, why would you support a party that vilifies other Americans and cheats to win elections then use gerrymandering to keep the seats they stole? As an American, why would you support a party of cheater, liars and hypocrites? Republicans called out Obama on almost everything he did and some things he did not do while they praise Trump for the same things and let him get away with far worse.</div><div><br></div><div>As an American, why would you support a party that parrots Russian propaganda? As an American, why would you support a party that has given us Watergate, Iran contra, fake WMD’S, the tea party and now Donald J. Trump? Trump has lied to or mislead the American people over 20,000 times in less than four years. Trump parrots Russian propaganda, has protected, and defended Putin while he has attacked our intelligence agencies, our institutions, our allies, our soldiers and our people. Trump has damaged or destroyed most if not all of our federal agencies. Trump has refused to protect our soldiers from Putin bounties. Trump America first policy has made us first in coronavirus cases and deaths, while making us last in everything else. Trump’s lies and failures have caused the deaths of over 210,000 people from the coronavirus so far and many more to come. Trump has put Americans lives in jeopardy at his rallies and his failures to combat the coronavirus and Republicans rarely call him out or tell him stop. If Obama handled the coronavirus the same way Trump did do, you think Republicans would give him a pass, hell no they would not. Why would any American vote for Trump or the Republicans who have protected him but have not protected our intelligence agencies, our institutions, our allies, our soldiers, our citizens and our allies from Donald J. Trump and the Trump Flu (coronavirus)?</div><div><br></div><div>Do not fall for the lies and the BS the Republican Party of today is not and has not been the party of Lincoln for a while. The Republican Party does not respect our constitution, our laws or the American people, why would any American support them. The Republican Party of today is the party of corruption, alternative facts, voter suppression, voter intimidation, gerrymandering, hypocrites, hate, fear, racism and white supremacist. That is not to say they are all racist and white supremacist, but they do not always call out racist in their party and have been known to defend them. Racist and white supremacists feel at home with Trump and the Republicans, and Trump and the Republican Party have welcomed them with open arms. If this were the age of Lincoln, I would be a Republican, however it is not. The Republican Party in the age of Trump is the party of corruption, alternative facts, voter suppression, voter intimidation, gerrymandering, hypocrites, hate, fear, racism and white supremacist and until that changes, I will be a democrat and if you are a real American you should be too.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?86,288" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></span><br></div><div><hr></div><div><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/politics/election-fraud.html" class="imCssLink">Election Fraud</a></b></div><div>How republicans use <span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><b>voter suppression</b></a></span> and <span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-engage-voter-intimidation-because-1982-consent-decree-ended-2020-9" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">voter intimidation</a></b></span> to steal you vote and <span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><b>gerrymandering</b></a></span> to stay in power. In the old days, bad people used threats, sticks, knives and guns to prevent people from voting. Now Republicans remove you from the voter rolls or use voter ID laws to make it harder for some to vote so they can steal the elections and stay in power.</div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/politics/gop-watch.html" class="imCssLink">GOP Watch</a></b></div><div>Welcome to GOP Watch keeping an eye on Republicans for you.</div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></b></div><div>The lastet news about Donald J. Trump the ups, the downs, the chaos, the destruction, the devastation created by Donald J. Trump.</div><div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://fortune.com/2016/07/20/republican-party-fear/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Why the GOP Is the Party of Fear</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By The Associated Press</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The United States depicted at the Republican National Convention is a scary place. It is wrenched by economic uncertainty, social upheaval, political dysfunction, runaway immigration, violent streets and existential threats from abroad. Republicans want voters to see the need for drastic change. The nation’s only choice, they say, is Donald Trump. Why Republicans would paint such a bleak portrait and whether things really are as they say: more...</span></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/sep/06/gop-fear-tactics/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">GOP fear tactics</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Bill Leong</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">You reported in “Republicans Paint Dark Picture,” (Aug. 25), that Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, on opening night of the GOP national convention, warned the faithful of the consequences of a democratic victory: “They’ll disarm you,” he declaimed, “empty the prisons, lock you in your home, and invite the MS-13 to live next door.” Is it possible that GOP politicians think so little of the intelligence of the average Republican voter that they feel they need no more than this level of political discourse? more...</span></div></div><div><div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/10/12/fake-official-ballot-drop-boxes-set-up-by-california-gop-may-be-in-violation-of-state-law-ag/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Fake “official” drop boxes set up by California GOP may be in “violation of state law”: official</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">GOP promoted fake "official" drop-off sites at churches and gun stores. Officials say they're illegal</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Igor Derysh</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The California Republican Party is operating unofficial ballot drop boxes that Secretary of State Alex Padilla said on Sunday were in "violation of state law." Jordan Tygh, a regional field director for the California Republican Party, promoted an "official ballot drop off box" on Twitter and urged followers to message him for "convenient locations" to drop their ballots last week, The Orange County Register first reported. One voter reported an "Official Ballot Drop Box" that was "approved and bought by the GOP" outside of a Los Angeles area church before it was removed after county officials warned on social media that it was "not an official vote by mail drop box and does not comply with [state] regulations for drop boxes," according to KCAL.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/trump-russia-afghanistan-military-bounty" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump views US troops as disposable – the Russian bounty scandal makes that clear</a></b><br></div><div>Time and again, the president has failed to protect military personnel. For Trump, he always comes first, no matter who dies</div><div>Simon Tisdall</div><div><br></div><div>Donald Trump likes to suggest he has got the back of US soldiers battling America’s foes around the world. It was a big theme of his 2016 campaign and his West Point speech earlier this month. So great was his boundless care for America’s fighting men and women, he said, that he would halt the endless, costly foreign wars prosecuted by his predecessors – and bring them home.</div><div><br></div><div>Recent reports that Trump ignored an official intelligence finding warning that a covert Russian GRU military unit had placed bounties on the heads of American and British soldiers in Afghanistan give the lie to that particularly cynical piece of bluster. Trump does not deny such an intelligence finding was presented in February, or possibly even earlier. When asked why he had not acted on it to save lives, the White House first claimed the intelligence was weak and inconclusive. When that was rebutted, Trump claimed he was not told about it. So which is it? more...</div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://ctmirror.org/category/ct-viewpoints/inconvenient-truths-about-republican-voter-suppression/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Inconvenient truths about Republican voter suppression</a></b></div><div>CT Viewpoints by Thirty-one Advocates	</div><div><br></div><div>Complaining about a last minute issue between the Secretary of the State and local town clerks, Senate Republican leader Len Fasano charged in a letter to Secretary Denise Merrill that, “Your party has portrayed itself as the protector of people’s right to vote and blamed Republicans for trying to deny people that right. Nothing could be further from the truth.” To the contrary, claims about Republican efforts to suppress the vote are fully supported by facts. </div><div><br></div><div>From the moment Secretary Merrill and Gov. Ned Lamont announced plans to expand access to absentee ballot voting for last week’s primary, the Connecticut GOP went on the offensive. It made unfounded claims about voter fraud (House Republican leader Themis Klarides asserted, without any evidence, that fraud is a “huge issue”), accused the governor of “eviscerating the constitution” and pursued litigation to block Secretary Merrill’s plan to mail absentee ballot applications to all eligible voters for the August primary. more...</div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-campaign-2020-voter-suppression-consent-decree-1028988/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Plot Against America: The GOP’s Plan to Suppress the Vote and Sabotage the Election</a></span></b></div><div>Blocking ballots, intimidating voters, spreading misinformation — undermining democracy is at the heart of Trump’s 2020 campaign</div><div>By Andy Kroll</div><div><br></div><div>In June, President Trump sat in the Oval Office for one of his periodic interviews-turned-airing-of-grievances. When the conversation turned to the 2020 election, Trump singled out what he called the “biggest risk” to his bid for a second term. It was not the mounting death toll from COVID-19, or further economic damage inflicted by the pandemic, or anything else a reality-dwelling president might fret about.</div><div><br></div><div>“My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits,” Trump told the Politico reporter he’d invited. He was referring to the series of lawsuits filed by his campaign and the Republican National Committee that fight the expansion of mail-in voting and seek to limit access to the ballot box in November. “We have many lawsuits going all over,” he said. “And if we don’t win those lawsuits, I think — I think it puts the election at risk.”</div><div><br></div><div>Going into 2020, Trump had the political winds at his back with a strong economy, roaring stock market, and historically low unemployment. Then came COVID-19. As of this writing, more than 135,000 Americans are dead from the virus, more than 3 million have gotten infected, and the economy has tipped into Great Depression territory. With Trump at the helm, the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has ranked as one of the worst anywhere in the world. more...</div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/racism-republican-party-stuart-stevens/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Republican Party Is Racist and Soulless. Just Ask This Veteran GOP Strategist.</a></b></div><div>Stuart Stevens says he now realizes the hatred and bigotry of Trumpism were always at the heart of the GOP.</div><div>David Corn</div><div><br></div><div>When Donald Trump decided to back-burner the coronavirus crisis and reboot his reelection campaign with superspreader events in June, he headed to an arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to present his case for four more years. In front of an audience of maskless fans standing side by side, Trump performed his usual routine. He threw out buzzwords (“law and order,” “left-wing radicals”). He boasted. (“I have done a phenomenal job” responding to the pandemic.) He denigrated his opponent as “Sleepy Joe.” He obsessed over personal grievances and slights, devoting much time to slamming news outlets that had recently shown video of him walking gingerly down a ramp after delivering a commencement address at West Point. What was mostly missing from Trump’s speech: ideas.</div><div><br></div><div>Although he referred to his tax cuts for the wealthy, his appointment of conservative judges, and his “beautiful” wall on the US-Mexico border, Trump had little to say about economic policy, national security, health care, education, housing, the environment, and other subjects. Moreover, he offered no agenda for a second term other than vague promises of making everything swell. Days later, during a friendly Fox News “town hall,” Sean Hannity asked Trump to spell out his plans for a second term. He replied by rambling on about his inauguration and attacking John Bolton. more...</div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/08/02/republicans-embrace-trump-racism-give-up-on-black-voters-column/5559249002/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump's Republican Party is defined by racism and those who tolerate it: GOP strategist</a></b></div><div>I’ve worked on winning Republican races across the South, and I’ve never seen a racist appeal like Trump's succeed. Why won't his party challenge him?</div><div>Stuart Stevens Opinion contributor</div><div><br></div><div>About a year ago, I finished writing a book in which I posited that race was the original sin of the modern Republican Party and that the rise of President Donald Trump is based more on white grievance than any other factor. It was a conviction I had come to after over 30 years of working in Republican politics, including five presidential campaigns. To me it seemed an inescapable if depressing reality. &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>My first campaign was for a congressional seat in Mississippi among a white Republican (my client), a white Democrat and a Black Independent. I quickly realized anything we could do to increase the profile of the African American would help divert votes from the Democrat to the Independent. It was our best play, since there was little we could do to attract African Americans to our own campaign. more...</div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.americanprogressaction.org/house-republican-profiles-corruption/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">House Republican Profiles in Corruption</a></b></div><div>Politicians in Washington are looking out for themselves and their donors instead of serving the people they represent. This kind of corruption has become the norm under President Donald Trump’s White House and the Republican-controlled Congress. Congressional Republicans passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which gave hundreds of billions of dollars to the lobbyists and corporations who contribute to their campaigns. Hard-working Americans pay the price for this kind of corruption because all the problems they are facing—from higher drug costs to lower wages—are ignored by their representatives in Congress. more...</div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/how-did-republican-party-get-so-corrupt/578095/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Corruption of the Republican Party</a></b></div><div>The GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start.</div><div>George Packer Staff writer for The Atlantic</div><div><br></div><div>Why has the Republican Party become so thoroughly corrupt? The reason is historical—it goes back many decades—and, in a way, philosophical. The party is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start.</div><div><br></div><div>I don’t mean the kind of corruption that regularly sends lowlifes like Rod Blagojevich, the Democratic former governor of Illinois, to prison. Those abuses are nonpartisan and always with us. So is vote theft of the kind we’ve just seen in North Carolina—after all, the alleged fraudster employed by the Republican candidate for Congress hired himself out to Democrats in 2010.</div><div><br></div><div>And I don’t just mean that the Republican Party is led by the boss of a kleptocratic family business who presides over a scandal-ridden administration, that many of his closest advisers are facing prison time, that Donald Trump himself might have to stay in office just to avoid prosecution, that he could be exposed by the special counsel and the incoming House majority as the most corrupt president in American history. Richard Nixon’s administration was also riddled with criminality—but in 1973, the Republican Party of Hugh Scott, the Senate minority leader, and John Rhodes, the House minority leader, was still a normal organization. It played by the rules. more...</div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/08/12/co-opt-corrupt-how-trump-bent-and-broke-the-gop/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Co-opt &amp; Corrupt: How Trump Bent and Broke the GOP</a></b></div><div>Ruth Ben-Ghiat	</div><div><br></div><div>“As time went on, it became clear that the sickness was a feature, that anyone who entered the building became a little sick themselves,” wrote the journalist Olivia Nuzzi in March 2018 of the Donald J. Trump White House and those who serve it. For a century, those who have worked closely with authoritarian rulers have shown the symptoms of this malady: a compulsion to praise the head of state and a willingness to sacrifice one’s own ideals, principles, and dignity to remain in his good graces, at the center of power.</div><div><br></div><div>In his relationship with Republican political elites, as in other areas of endeavor, President Trump has followed the model of “personalist rule” used by leaders like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Some of these rulers destroy democracy, and others, like the Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi, govern nominally open societies in undemocratic ways. Yet personalist rule always concentrates power in one individual whose own political and financial interests and private relationships with other despots often prevail over national interests in shaping domestic and foreign policy. Loyalty to this head of state and his allies, rather than expertise, is a primary qualification for serving him, whether as ministers or bureaucrats, as is participation in his corruption schemes. more...<br><hr></div><div></div></div></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Trump protects and defends Putin and confederate traitors while refusing to protect and defend our soldiers from Russian bounties and our citizens from the coronavirus.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000027"><div><span class="fs12lh1-5"><b>Trump protects and defends Putin and confederate traitors while refusing to protect and defend our soldiers from Russian bounties and our citizens from the coronavirus.</b></span></div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>10/11/2020</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Trump has protected and defended Putin and Russia from sanctions and has sided with Putin against our intelligent agencies, our country and our allies. Putin and Russia are not our friend and do not wish us well yet Trump has continued to side with Putin and Russia over our intelligent agencies, our country and our allies. Trump has protected and defended the monuments and statues of confederate traitors. Defending and protecting the monuments and statues of confederate traitors amounts to treason. </div><div><br></div><div>Defending and protecting the monuments and statues of confederate traitors gives oxygen to white supremacy and traitors. Defending and protecting the monuments and statues of confederate traitors is disrespecting all Americans especially those who have fought for and died for our country. No one should protect monuments and statues of those who attacked and tried to destroy our country. Confederates may have been Americans once but they lost the right call themselves Americans when they become traitors and attacked our country.</div><div><br></div><div>Trump has refused to protect our soldiers from Russian bounties and has refused to call out Putin for placing bounties on the heads of our soldiers. Trump’s refusal to protect our soldiers from Russian bounties amounts to treason. A president’s job is to protect and defend our soldiers, our country and our allies. Trump is the only president I know of who defends our enemies but will not defend our country, our solders and our allies. </div><div><br></div><div>We need a new and better president Trump has failed to protect himself, his campaign, the white house, our citizens and our country from coronavirus. A president’s job is to protect and defend our country and our citizens from all enemies foreign and domestic. Over 201,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus so far with more deaths to come yet Trump has refused to do what is best our citizens or our country. </div><div><br></div><div>A president job is to defend and protect our soldiers, our citizens, our country and our allies, Trump has done just the opposite he has protected and defended our enemies and confederate traitors, while refusing to protect and defend our soldiers and our citizens. Americans need to wake up we can save our country by voting out Trump and his enablers before Trump and his enablers do any more damage to our soldiers, our citizens and our country. </div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[After stealing 2 Supreme Court picks and packing over 200 judges Republicans are accusing the Democrats of court packing is hypocritical but that is the Republican way do what we say not what we do.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000026"><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">After stealing 2 Supreme Court picks and packing over 200 judges Republicans are accusing the Democrats of court packing is hypocritical but that is the Republican way do what we say not what we do.</b></div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>10/11/2020</div><div>Updated 10/17/2020</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Once again, McConnell and Republicans are showing they are the party of hypocrites and do not care what the Americans people care about or who they vote for. It is sad and hypocritical but standard operation practice of Republicans to accuse the Democrats of something that have done or will do. Republicans are accusing Democrats of court packing when they refused to allow Obama’s court picks then outright stole two Supreme Court picks from the American people to pack the Supreme Court while packing the court system with over 200 judges some of whom are not qualified to be on the bench. </div><div><br></div><div>First Moscow McConnell blocked Obama’s court picks then McConnell made up a lie 10 months before an election "leave it to the people" to steal Obama Supreme Court pick now less than 30 days from an election Moscow Mitch wants to fill a Supreme Court opening. What happen to "leave it to the people" can you say Moscow Mitch is a hypocrite, can you say coup d’état. After blocking Obama picks to the court system Moscow Mitch packs the court system with over 200 right-wing judges who are not qualified to be judges. Here is the thing the people had put Obama in place so they had already decided that the pick would be Obama’s. However, McConnell with 10 months to go outright stole that pick by refusing a hearing on Obama’s pick while saying it was up to the American people disregarding the fact that the American people put that out Obama in office to make that pick. Now less than 30 days from an election Moscow Mitch would fill a Supreme Court opening. What happen to "leave it to the people" can you say Moscow Mitch is a hypocrite.</div><div><br></div><div>Four years ago, McConnell and Republicans said it should be up the American people now with the election less than 30 days away McConnell and Republicans are refusing to wait on the vote of the American people just the opposite of what McConnell and the Republicans said 4 years ago. McConnell and Republicans after packing the court system with over 200 judges they are pushing a vote to pack the Supreme Court while accusing the Democrats of what they are doing and have done. McConnell and Republicans are accusing the Democrats of what they have been doing for the last years even though the Democrats have not done anything yet. Once again, Republicans are showing just how hypocritical they are and how little they care about what the American people want or who they vote for.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Instead of doing the business of the American people, McConnell and Republicans have been busy packing the courts. There are over 400 bills on McConnell desk that he has refused to address that would help the American people; instead, he is more interested in packing the court system. McConnell has blocked everything from legislation to help unemployed workers to a bipartisan background check bill for gun sales. Moscow Mitch is not helping the American by packing the court system while refusing to pass bill that actually help the American people.</div></div><div><br></div><div>McConnell and Republicans do not give a shit about everyday Americans or their vote they only care about the rich and business. McConnell and Republicans have packed the court to protect businesses and rich people not every day Americans. Republicans have passed laws and give out money that helps the rich and business but are refusing to pass laws that will help everyday Americans and states that need money because of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus. Here the thing businesses do not succeed without employees and consumers, if people do not have jobs or money they cannot support the businesses McConnell and Republicans have tried to prop up. Americans need to wake up and vote all hypocritical Republicans out of office before they destroy any more of our country.</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">History is a funny thing they say winners write the history, which may be true at the time it is written however, history is, always updated with the facts as they come out. As the facts come out and the history about Moscow Mitch is re-written about how he wanted to make Obama, a </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">one-term </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">president at the expense of the American people. In addition, how he deprived </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Obama </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">of his court picks and his Supreme Court pick the question will be answered was he trying to deprive a black man from his place in history?</span><br></div><div><hr><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/politics/mitch-mcconnell-aka-moscow-mitch-trump-enabler-helping-russia.html" class="imCssLink">Mitch McConnell (aka Moscow Mitch) Trump Enabler Helping Trump and Russia More Than America</a></b></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">First blocked Obama’s court picks then McConnell made up a lie 10 months before an election "leave it to the people" to steal Obama Supreme Court pick can you say coup d’état. Then he after blocking Obama picks to the court system Moscow Mitch packs the court system with 218 right-wing judges who are not qualified to be judges. Now less than 30 days from an election Moscow Mitch would fill a Supreme Court opening. What happen to "leave it to the people" can you say Moscow Mitch is a hypocrite. more...</span><br></div></div><hr><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-house-of-representatives-bills-senate/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">McConnell is blocking 400 bills Americans want — but he's rushing a Supreme Court pick</a></b><br></div><div>By Emily Singer</div><div><br></div><div>McConnell has blocked everything from legislation to help unemployed workers to a bipartisan background check bill for gun sales. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made pushing through Donald Trump's judicial nominees almost his singular focus of the past two years, confirming Trump's court picks at a rapid clip while blocking a slew of bills the Democratic-controlled House has passed. <span class="fs11lh1-5">Now, less than six weeks before the presidential election, McConnell has vowed to ram through a Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — prioritizing filling the seat over helping Americans struggling to find work in the midst of the coronavirus-fueled economic depression. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">more...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-reaches-milestone-judges-filling-final-circuit-court-vacancy-n1232011" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">McConnell reaches milestone on judges by filling final Circuit Court vacancy</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Republicans find success in remaking the federal judiciary as more conservative, white and male under the Trump presidency.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Leigh Ann Caldwell and Sahil Kapur</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday reached a significant milestone during the Trump presidency by filling the final vacancy on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an achievement that fulfills his goal of remaking the federal judiciary as more conservative for a generation but also one that is less diverse. McConnell, who has vowed to “leave no vacancy behind,” heralded the achievement on the Senate floor Wednesday, noting that there hasn’t been a fully appointed Circuit Court in decades. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">more...</span></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/09/24/mcconnells-fabricated-history-to-justify-a-2020-supreme-court-vote/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">McConnell’s fabricated history to justify a 2020 Supreme Court vote</a></b><br></div><div>Russell Wheeler </div><div><br></div><div>Senate Republicans’ decision to vote on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor reflects individual and collective cost-benefit calculations of seating a rock-ribbed conservative in what may be the Trump administration’s waning days. As a fig leaf to obscure the hypocrisy of voting on President Trump’s election-year nominee after refusing to vote on President Obama’s in early 2016, Republicans have claimed an historical norm that doesn’t exist. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>The GOP Senate’s initial claim</b></span></div><div>In March 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tried to justify denying a vote on Obama’s nomination of DC Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland to replace Justice Antonin Scalia: “All we are doing is following the long-standing tradition of not fulfilling a nomination in the middle of a presidential year.”</div><div><br></div><div>There is no such tradition. The table shows the nine Supreme Court vacancies in place during election years in the Court’s post-Civil War era—once Congress stabilized the Court’s membership at nine and the justices largely stopped serving as trial judges in the old circuit courts. Those nine election-year vacancies (out of over 70 in the period) were all filled in the election year—one by a 1956 uncontested recess appointment and eight by Senate confirmation.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>The GOP Senate’s revised claim</b></span></div><div>Last year, given the lack of any “long-standing tradition” but anticipating the possibility of an election-year vacancy, McConnell fabricated a different history to justify treating a Trump nominee differently from Obama’s. He argued that “[y]ou have to go back to … 1880s to find the last time … a Senate of a different party from the president filled a Supreme Court vacancy created in the middle of a presidential election. That was entirely the precedent.” When that anticipation became reality with the death of Justice Ginsburg, he offered a slightly different excuse: “Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year”. A National Review article claimed a norm: “when their party controls the Senate, presidents get to fill Supreme Court vacancies . . . [but] when the opposite party controls the Senate, the Senate gets to block Supreme Court nominees . . .”. more...</div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.rollcall.com/2020/06/11/mcconnells-push-to-confirm-judges-may-mean-another-tradition-is-dead/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">McConnell’s push to confirm judges may mean another tradition is dead</a></b><br></div><div>The Thurmond Rule that previously cut off confirmations likely a relic</div><div>By Chris Cioffi</div><div><br></div><div>A ghost from the old Senate that haunts the chamber’s judicial confirmation fights seems to be disappearing from the floor this year — and might be fading away for good. At about this time during presidential election years, senators have invoked the so-called Thurmond Rule, an unwritten agreement that calls for the chamber to stop approving circuit court nominations in the few months before Election Day. <span class="fs11lh1-5">Named after the late South Carolina Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond, senators from both sides have used it to block action on a president’s appeals court picks. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for instance, cited the rule on June 13, 2012, as reason to halt judicial nominations at the end of President Barack Obama’s first term. McConnell was minority leader at the time.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> more...</span></div></div><div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-and-mcconnells-overwhelmingly-white-male-judicial-appointments" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump and McConnell’s Overwhelmingly White Male Judicial Appointments</a></b></div><div>The president and Senate majority leader have pushed through a slate of judges and Justice Department leaders shockingly at odds with American demographics.</div><div>Andrew Cohen - Brennan Center</div><div><br></div><div>It is no coincidence or surprise that a president who would retweet “white power” messages and lace his administration with white nationalists would choose to relentlessly repopulate the federal courts with white men. Donald Trump has accomplished this, loudly and proudly, with the help of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, who has traded in his constitutional obligation to undertake robust legislative oversight over executive branch action for the chance to stack the judiciary with life-tenured ideologues loyal to conservative causes. It is a trade-off the American people will be suffering from for decades to come.<span class="fs11lh1-5"> more...</span></div></div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[If you claim, you are pro-life but are anti-mask you are hypocrite a liar and/or a selfish prick.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000025"><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">If you claim, you are pro-life but are anti-mask you are a hypocrite, a liar or just a selfish prick.</b></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div><span class="ff1">A. B. Man III</span></div><span class="fs11lh1-5">10/10/2020</span><br> &nbsp;<div> </div> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<div>You cannot be prolife and anti-mask; not wearing a mask may or may not kill you but may kill your kids, your parents, other family members, friends or somebody you do not even know. If you were pro-life, you would not selectively decide women cannot have abortions but you are willing to kill others because you refuse to wear a mask. Mask save lives wear a mask even if you do not give a shit about yourself, wearing a mask protects others. If you were truly pro-life, you would not put others at risk including yourself by not wearing a mask. <span class="fs11lh1-5">If you refuse to wear mask because you do not care about saving the lives of others then you are just a selfish prick.</span><br><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 18:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[First Republicans hit us with alternative facts now they hit us with alternative math.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000024"><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">First Republicans hit us with alternative facts now they hit us with alternative math.</b></div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>10/10/2020</div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure what kind of math republicans are using to justify their response to the coronavirus but it is not the math taught in schools. In 2019, 37,000 Americans died from the flu so far in six months over 210,000 people have died from the coronavirus. So far, more than five times as many Americans have died in six months than were killed in all of 2019. That does not sound like it just like the flu at least not from the math I was taught in school. The lie that the coronavirus is just like the flu but it does not add up.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe Trump, republicans and right-wing media think you are dumb. If you believe what they say then maybe you are as dumb as they think you are. The lies of Trump, republicans and right-wing media put all Americans at risk. America under Trump and republicans has become the laughing stock of the world. American makes up only 4 percent of the world’s population but makes up more than 20 percent of the cases coronavirus and 20 percent of deaths.</div><div><br></div><div>Republicans who claim to <span class="fs11lh1-5">pro-life </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">but are anti-mask are hypocrites and liars. Mask save lives, you are not </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">pro-life </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">if you are anti-mask. N</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">ot </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">wearing a mask may or may not kill you but may kill your kids, your parents, other family members, a friend or somebody you do not even know. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Herman Cain died from coronavirus that he may have gotten at a Trump event. How many people have died or will die from a Trump event or an anti-masker?</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Not every American who gets the coronavirus will die but many will and many will suffer, some will suffer for months. Americans deserves better than alternative facts and alternative math. When Trump, republicans, right-wing media and anti-maskers downplay the coronavirus and lie about how dangerous it is they are knowingly putting American lives at risk and they should go to jail for homicide. </div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Trump is a traitor he protects and defends Putin and traitors but will not protect nor defend our soldiers and the American people.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000023"><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5">Trump is a traitor he protects and defends Putin and traitors but will not protect nor defend our soldiers and the American people.</span><br><span class="fs14lh1-5"> </span><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br><span class="fs14lh1-5"> </span><!--[endif]--></b></div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III</span><div><span class="ff1">10/10/2020</span></div><div><br></div> &nbsp;&nbsp;<div>Trump believes Putin over what our intelligent agencies say, that is not what and American president should ever do. He has refused to protect and defend our soldiers from the bounties Putin has placed on our soldiers. No American president should refuse to protect and defend our soldiers from bounties. Trump has not even called out Putin for the bounties on our America soldiers. </div><div><br></div><div>Trump supports and defends the monuments and statues of confederate traitors. Real Americans patriots do not defend traitors nor protect the monuments of traitors doing so disrespects the memories and action of real patriots who fight for, have fought for and have died for our country. People may call themselves real Americans or patriots however if they support the monuments and statues of traitors they are not real Americas nor are they patriots.</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div>Trump has not and will not protect the American people over 210,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus many of which would not have died had Trump had did done the right thing. He claims he did not want scare people but he has no problem scaring people about BLM, Antifa and the protest. Maybe it is asking too much of Trump he cannot or rather will protect himself, his staff or the white house from the virus, and is willing to put more people at risk to win reelection. </div><div><br></div><div>If Trump were a patriot he would not put up with Putin’s bounties on our soldiers, he would call Putin out but he has not. If Trump were not a patriot he would not disrespect our soldiers who have fought and have died for our country and he would not defend and protect the monuments and statues of traitors. If Trump were a patriot, he would not have let over 210,000 people die without attempting to prevent some of those deaths. <span class="fs11lh1-5">If Trump were a patriot, he would not defend white supremacists who want to destroy our country. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">If Trump were a patriot, he would not attack our allies and defend our enemies. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">If Trump were a patriot, he would not be destroying our democracy to help himself. Trump is definitely not an American patriot.</span></div><div><hr><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></b></div><div>The lastet news about Donald J. Trump the ups, the downs, the chaos, the destruction, the devastation created by Donald J. Trump.</div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-russia-bounties-taliban-putin-call-4a0f6110-ab58-41c0-96fc-57b507462af1.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Exclusive: Trump never raised Russia's Taliban bounties with Putin</a></b><br></div><div>Jonathan Swan, Dave Lawler</div><div><br></div><div>President Trump has never confronted Vladimir Putin with intelligence indicating Russia paid the Taliban to kill U.S. troops, he told “Axios on HBO” in an interview on Tuesday. &nbsp;Why it matters: Democrats have seized on the issue, and Trump's reluctance to discuss it, as evidence he’s unwilling to challenge Putin even when American lives are at stake. Trump spoke with Putin on Thursday, and subsequently deflected a question about whether he’d raised the alleged bounty scheme, saying on Monday: “We don't talk about what we discussed, but we had plenty of discussion.”In Tuesday’s interview, he was definitive: “I have never discussed it with him.” more...</div><div><hr></div><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/458455-here-are-the-us-allies-that-have-been-in-trumps-crosshairs" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Here are the US allies that have been caught in Trump's crosshairs</a></b></div><div>By Tal Axelrod</div><div><br></div><div>Denmark on Tuesday became the latest country to be caught in President Trump's crosshairs after he announced he was postponing a meeting with the country's leader over a dispute involving Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory. The move is the latest example of Trump shattering diplomatic norms by lashing out at traditional allies, a tendency that has stunned foreign policy experts. more...</div><hr></div></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Candace Owens is sellout; only a sellout would promote and support a racist president and a party of racist?]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000022"><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5">Candace Owens is sellout; only a sellout would promote and support a racist president and a party of racist?</span></b><br> Republicans have shown us they are racist and are suppressing the right to vote of people of color while using people of color as a boogieman to get white people to vote why would any person of color support that.</div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>10/10/2020</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div> </div> &nbsp;<div>Yes, Candace Owens is a sellout she tows the line of a party of racist and tries her best to defend racist and defend police when they kill black people. She attacks the victims when police kill black people, when you cannot defend the indefensible you attack the victim. The police are here to protect, serve and make arrest they are not judge, jury and executioner. According to the Supreme Court, police officers do not have the right to take a life when a person is not a threat. Candace Owens does not care about black people only the money she can make promoting the lies of the right, if she did care abut black people she would call out Trump and the racism of the right not defend it. Maybe I missed it but I have not heard Candace Owens call out Trump for his racism, call out white supremacists or call out racism in the Republican Party.</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div>Trump did not want to rent to black people when he was a landlord now as president he is trying to keep black people out of the suburbs. Trump calls BLM a terrorist group but does not call out white supremacists who are actual terrorist. White supremacists have killed more American than terrorist. White supremacists have killed police officers; they even tried to kidnap a sitting governor, and possibly planned to kill her. Trump did not call them out the white supremacists, but he did attack the governor the victim. </div> &nbsp;<div><span class="fs11lh1-5">There have been and always will be people like Candace Owens if they were being honest with you they would call out the racism of the Republican Party not defend it. If Candace Owens and people like her were being honest with you, they would not be telling you to leave the Democratic Party for the Republican Party. It is not the Democratic Party that is stealing the votes of people of color that is the Republican Party. It is not the Democratic Party that is promoting hate that is the Republican Party. It is not the Democratic Party that uses black people as the boogieman to get white people to vote that is the Republican Party. It is not the Democratic Party that destroying the security net for the poor and middle class that is the Republican Party.</span><br></div> &nbsp;<div>There was time when the Democratic Party was the party of racist and the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln but that is no longer the case. We do not live in the time of Lincoln we live in the time of Trump and right wing media. I am not sure what alternative world Candace Owens and people like her live in but the Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln it is the party of racist and white supremacist and there leader Donald J. Trump is a racist and anti-American president. </div> &nbsp;<div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Black Americans had better wake up people like Candace Owens are selling you out they are not trying to help you they are trying to help themselves by the money that can make promoting a party of racism and hate. Candace Owens and people like her want black people to leave the Democratic Party and go to the Republican Party, a party of racist that suppresses the vote of black people. Black people have died for the right to vote, black people should not support the Republican Party a party of racist that is actively suppressing the votes of black people and people of color. If the Republican Party changes it tune then maybe we could consider supporting them but until they do, black people and people of color should not support a party that shows its contempt for black people and people of color. Do not buy Candace Owens BLEXIT bullshit, Brexit has not workout to well for the British and BLEXIT will not work out well for black people and people of color it will dilute us as a voting block and give Republicans even more power and that is what Republican want.</span><br></div><div><hr><div><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com//blog/index.php?do-not-fall-for-the-bs-the-republican-party-is-not-the-party-of-lincoln-it-is-the-party-of-corruption,-alternative-facts,-voter-suppression,-voter-intimidation,-gerrymandering,-hate,-fear,-racism-and-white-supremacist-" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Do not fall for the BS the Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln it is the party of corruption, alternative facts, voter suppression, voter intimidation, gerrymandering, hate, fear, racism and white supremacist.</a></b><br></div><div>If you are a person of color or call yourself an American, supporting the Republican Party is doing so against your own self-interest and against the best interest of our country.</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>As a person of color, why would you support a party that is actively using alternative facts, voter suppression, voter intimidation, gerrymandering, hate, fear and racism against of people of color? As a person of color, why would you support a party of racist and white supremacist, some of which want to kill you? Racist and white supremacist want to kill people of color, law enforcement offers and those who disagree with them, as an American why would you support that. Black people have died for the right to vote, supporting a party that is using voter suppression, voter intimidation, hate, fear and racism against black people and people of color is disrespecting all the people of color who gave up their lives so you could vote. As a person of color, why would you support a party that uses people of color as the boogieman to scare white people into voting for them? As an American why would support that?<span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">more...</span></div></div><hr><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGVdD_QxuEc&list=PLpPCJAoKTWxXhLP_5lqGQZGkHLxKob8ZT&index=47&t=0s" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Candace Owens: Democrats want black people to fail</a></span></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Fox News</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Candace Owens takes on House Judiciary Democrats; Turning Point U.S.A. communications director Candace Owens and civil rights attorney Leo Terrell debate. #Ingraham #FoxNews video....</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/candace-owens-is-a-willing-tool-of-republican-racists?ref=home" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Candace Owens Is a Willing Tool of Republican Racists</a></b><br></div><div>Owens rails against identity politics despite the fact that her Blackness is the only reason she’s become such an elevated figure within the GOP.</div><div>Kali Holloway</div><div><br></div><div>Candace Owens’ BLEXIT Foundation—founded to give people the false impression that Black voters are abandoning the Democratic party en masse for Republicanism—reportedly put together Saturday's campaign event thinly disguised as an official government function, where Donald Trump spoke to a pro-police Black and Latinx audience from the Truman Balcony during what was in effect his first in-person rally since his trip to Walter Reed. Two thousand people were reportedly invited to hear his “Remarks to Peaceful Protesters for Law &amp; Order,” but many of the few hundred who showed up had their travel and lodging costs paid by Owens’ group, which described the official White House event as a “HUGE outdoor rally,” ABC reported Saturday morning. <span class="fs11lh1-5">more...</span></div></div><hr><div></div></div><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/20/candace-owens-white-nationalism-homeland-security-congress-testimony/2391676001/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">DHS contradicts Candace Owens on same day she testifies before Congress about white nationalism</a></b><br></div><div>Savannah Behrmann USA TODAY</div><div><br></div><div>WASHINGTON-- On the same day that the Department of Homeland Security added violent white supremacist extremism to its list of terror threats for the first time since the agency's creation after the 9/11 attacks, a controversial African American conservative commentator told Congress that “white nationalism is not a problem that is harming” communities of color in America. <span class="fs11lh1-5">Candace Owens, who has previously dismissed white nationalism and has said Hitler was “OK” until he “had dreams outside of Germany”, downplayed the threat of white supremacy at Friday's hearing during her testimony before the House Oversight Joint Subcommittee. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Owens told lawmakers that "based on the hierarchy of what’s impacting minority Americans, if I had to make a list of 100 things, white nationalism would not make the list.”</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">more...</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://newsone.com/3848636/candace-owens-receipts-con-artist/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Every Receipt Proving Candace Owens Is A Con Artist Who Is Following The Money</a></b><br></div><div>We have the receipts.</div><div>NewsOne Staff Written By NewsOne Staff</div><div><br></div><div>Fresh off of being snubbed by Republicans — the party to which Candace Owens has pledged her unreciprocated allegiance — the woman who once sympathized with Adolf Hitler and has repeatedly blamed Black men for getting killed by police is now resorting to publicly attacking a Black woman in order to save her sunken career from completely tail spinning down the toilet bowl of self-hating, money-chasing con artistry. <span class="fs11lh1-5">As Democrats champion Black women, Owens on Sunday decided to mock Cardi B on Twitter as “illiterate” after the rapper’s recent and widely viewed interview with Joe Biden. Cardi clapped back in the realest of ways by part by mentioning how the Republican National Convention didn’t invite Owens to speak despite her devotion to all-things Donald Trump. more...</span></div><div><hr></div></div></div>]]></description>
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			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000021"><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5">Donald J. Trump an American Nightmare a Russian Wet Dream.</span><br> </b><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump is America’s first Russian backed President and the first American President to put Russian interest before American interest. Trump is Putin’s puppet in the White House.<b></b></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div> &nbsp;<div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III<br> 09/05/2020</span></div> &nbsp;<div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></div> &nbsp;<div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump is a wet dream for Putin and Russia while our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves Trump is their worst nightmare and our current nightmare. Trump has corrupted most if not all federal agencies. He attacks our democracy, our institutions, and our companies and fails to protect our soldiers from Russian bounties and our people from the coronavirus while promoting and protecting Putin and the monuments of confederate traitors. Trump does not care about America, Americans or our soldiers, he only cares about himself, Putin and the tax dollars he can pocket. Trump has done more for Putin than he has done for America. Trump is Putin’s puppet in the White House doing the business of Russia while screwing America and the America people repeatedly.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div> &nbsp;<div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump always sides with Putin over our intelligent agencies and our allies. Trump gave the Russians top-secret information in the White House. Trump has secret calls and conversations with Putin so we do not have a clue what other secrets Trump may have given the Russians. If the reports are true, Trump believes soldiers who died for this country are suckers and losers, are soldiers are not suckers and losers they are real patriots they are not traitors who monuments Trump try is trying to protect. Trump has failed to protect our solider from Russian bounties; instead, he calls it a hoax. When Trump calls something a hoax, you can believe it as fact. Trump calls something a hoax or he calls real news fake news in an attempt to distract and to protect himself from the truth. The Trump-Russia affair was not the hoax, the only hoax was Trump claim it was a hoax, just as his claims the Russian bounties are a hoax. The coronavirus was not a hoax. The bounties Russian are not a hoax. Trump claimed there was no Russian contact with his campaign a senate report said otherwise, “The Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a “grave” counterintelligence threat.” The Russian bounties on our soldiers are not a hoax. Trump is not protecting America from Russia but he is protecting Russia from America. The job of an American president is to defend and protect America and our citizens from our enemies both foreign and domestic it is not to protect our enemies, Trump is protecting our enemies.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div> &nbsp;<div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump’s attacks on our democracy, our institution, our companies, our soldiers and our people have destroyed faith in our democracy and our institutions. Trump is dividing our country daily. He has attacked the legitimacy of our elections. He failed to act quickly to protect American citizens from the coronavirus. He has corrupted and weaponized most if not all federal agencies. With Barr in place, Trump has destroyed the DOJ and uses it to attack what Trump considers enemies while protecting his friends. He has destroyed the post office to suppress the vote in an attempt to win the 2020 election. Trump will cheat; lie and steal (suppress) votes to win the election. The damage Trump has done to our democracy our institutions and his efforts to divide our country helps Putin and damages America and Americas standing in the world. None of what Trump has done is something an American president has ever done or should ever do, but it is something a Putin ally or an American enemy would do. Trump’s oath of office is to the constitution not to Putin, Russia or himself. As long as Trump is in office, Putin will have wet dreams and Americas will have nightmares. Four more years of Trump should scare the shit out of all Americans because it will be the end of America, as we know it.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com//blog/index.php?donald-j--trump-an-american-nightmare-a-russian-wet-dream-" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><hr><div><div><span class="fs12lh1-5"><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-is-the-greatest-threat-to-national-security.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump is the greatest threat to national security</a></b></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">America has never faced a greater threat to national security than Donald J. Trump. Republicans called out Hillary for her handling of classified material but Trump is far worse than Hillary when it comes to national security.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump disclosed classified information to the Russians</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">. We know what Trump has disclosed in public but we do not know what he has said in private. We do not know what classified secrets Trump may have given to the Russians or others in his private conversations and that should scare the hell out of you. Find out for yourself how great a threat to national security Donald J. Trump is.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/the-trump-russia-affair.html" class="imCssLink">Trump-Russia Affair</a></b><br><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Before the Trump-Ukraine Affair there was the Trump-Russia Affair, Donald J. Trump, his son and an unknown number of people from the Trump campaign may have</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5">conspired</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">(</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5">colluded</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">)</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">with the Russians to help elect Donald J. Trump. The</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump-Ukraine Affair should make you rethink the Trump-Russia Affair.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">The lie then was it was about adaptions the lie this time is it was about corruption.</span><br></div><div></div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/trump-ukraine-affair.html" class="imCssLink">Trump-Ukraine Affair</a></b></span></span></div></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Trump-Ukraine Affair shows Trump is more than willing to accept help from a foreign government, which is against the law. It also shows trump is willing do anything he has to get that help and anything he has to prevent the truth from coming out. It also shows he may have conspired with the Russians to help him win the 2016 election. Last time the lie was about adaptions this time it the lie is about corruption. Donald J. Trump is abusing the power of the presidency. Donald J. Trump has corrupted the white house, the DOJ, the state department and other government departments and agencies to protect and defend Donald J. Trump. Instead of putting America and the constitution first, they are putting Donald J. Trump first.<br></span></div><hr class="fs11lh1-5"></div></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000020"><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">Trump has not made America great; he has made it a third world country.</b><br></div><div>Under Trump, a thousand Americans a day are dying, chaos in the streets, corruption in the White House and most Federal agencies.</div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>08/30/2020</div><div><br></div><div>Trump is an American nightmare; he is the worst president America has ever had and the first Russian back president. Trump has corrupted the White House and most Federal agencies to do his bidding and not the bidding of the American people. The oath of office is to America not to Trump. America under Trump has become a third world country. If another country did the things Trump has done we would condemn them. America is no longer respected on the world stage thanks to Trump. America under Trump has become the laughing stock of the world.</div><div><br></div><div>Trump attacks on the rule of law are legendary. Trump has attacked any person or federal agency that questions his lies or his crimes, while he protects those who have committed crimes on his behalf. He fires those who question him or try to hold him accountable for his lies and his crimes. Trump installs people who will violate the law to protect him and to get what he wants. I do not know about you but I have never heard of a president who tells people to violate the law and he will pardon them that is anti-American and it is illegal.</div><div><br></div><div>Trump has used Barr to go after his foes while protecting those who committed crimes on his behalf on a scale never seen before. Trump is our first Russian back president and he is trying to casts doubt on fact that Russia helped him win the 2016 election and is using Barr to do it. Trump calls it the Russia hoax it was not a hoax, the senate has confirm that Russia did help Trump and that Trump and his campaign willing wanted that help. Trump has given Russia classified information, sided with Russia over our intelligence agencies and has refused to protect our soldiers from Russian bounties. The fact that Trump continues to side with Putin and Russia over America makes one wonder if this was part of the bargain he made with Russia for help in the 2016 election, with an eye on 2020 election. Whose side is Trump really on; so far, he has been more for Russia than America, Clinton was right Trump is Putin puppet.</div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?66,255" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></div></div><div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/senate-russia-report-proves-trump-was-wrong-mueller-was-right-ncna1237743" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Michael McFaul Senate Russia report proves Trump collusion was very real. But do voters care?</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump and Biden's contrasting positions on Russian interference in American elections are clear. Whether voters care about these differences, however, is not as obvious.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Senate Intelligence Committee should be applauded for releasing the fifth and final volume of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. With over 200 witness interviews and roughly 1 million documents reviewed, the nearly 1,000-page report documents in detail the comprehensive campaign conducted by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his proxies to seek influence within President Donald Trump's campaign, help Trump win the 2016 presidential election and amplify polarization and division within American society. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Far from a hoax, as the president so often claimed, the report reveals how the Trump campaign willingly engaged with Russian operatives implementing the influence effort. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">For instance, the report exposes interactions and information exchanged between Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. According to the report, campaign figures “presented attractive targets for foreign influence, creating notable counterintelligence vulnerabilities.” (Manafort was later convicted of tax and bank fraud.) </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Concluding one of the highest-profile congressional investigations in recent memory, the report also uncovers abuses within the U.S. government’s investigation of this operation. These methods require review and reform. The bipartisan tone of the majority of the report, released by a committee chaired by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, should be welcomed by all Americans who want our elected leaders to protect American sovereignty. National security should never be a partisan issue.</span></div></div><div><hr><div><span class="fs12lh1-5"><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/the-trump-russia-affair.html" class="imCssLink">Trump-Russia Affair</a></b></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Before the Trump-Ukraine Affair there was the Trump-Russia Affair, Donald J. Trump, his son and an unknown number of people from the Trump campaign may have</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5">conspired</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">(</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5">colluded</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">)</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">with the Russians to help elect Donald J. Trump. The</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump-Ukraine Affair should make you rethink the Trump-Russia Affair.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">The lie then was it was about adaptions the lie this time is it was about corruption.</span></div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 16:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[God did not give us Damien the antichrist (Donald J. Trump) the devil and Russia did.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000001F"><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">God did not give us Damien the antichrist (Donald J. Trump) the devil and Russia did. </b></div><div><div>Trump is curse not a blessing if your pastor told you god sent us Trump, you should reread Matthew 7:15-20 the part about false prophets and find a new pastor as fast as you can.</div></div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>08/30/2020</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Matthew 7:15-20: "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. </b></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump is a ravenous wolf that will destroy any and everything that gets in his way to get what he wants. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump is definitely not a man of god but more like a man of the devil. Trump has not done anything that could be considered godly or Christian like. The bible says man must follow the laws of the land Trump does not follow our laws but has in fact violated most of them and some on a daily basis. God would not have sent us someone who has lied or mislead us over 20,000 times in less than four year and violates our laws on a daily basis. God would not have sent us Trump who has corrupted our federal offices to benefit Trump.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div>A man of god would obey the laws of man Trump violates ours laws daily. <span class="fs11lh1-5">Below is a small sample of the laws Trump has violated:</span><br><br></div></div><blockquote><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>1)</b></span>	Trump violated our election laws when he and his campaign sought out help from the Russians to help win the 2016 election. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>2)</b></span>	Trump again violated our election and bribery laws in and attempt to win the 2020 election when he strong arm Ukraine to get dirt on Biden. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>3)</b></span>	Trump University and the Trump foundation were both frauds. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>4)</b></span>	Trump’s casino was hit with 10 million dollar fine for money laundering. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>5)</b></span>	Trump was fined for Housing Discrimination. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>6)</b></span>	Trump has violated the law to get loans and to avoid taxes. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>7)</b></span>	Trump’s corruption of federal offices has put American lives at risk. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>8)</b></span>	Under Trump, his administration has violated the Hatch Act on multiple occasions.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><div>No man of god would do the things Trump has done and will do if he is given another four years.</div></div><div><br></div><div>In the bible, Trump would be considered a money changer not a man of god. No man of god would violate our laws the way Trump has. No man of god would have done what Trump did for a photo op. Trump used the police, the park police, mounted police, secret service, the army, flash-bang grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets to violate the 1st amendment rights of peaceful unarmed protester so Trump AKA Bunker Boy could have a photo op in front of the church. Trump held up a bible but did not have a clue what to do with it. A man of god would have known how to hold it and would have read a passage from it. </div><div><br></div><div>Over a thousand Americans a day are dying, chaos in the streets, corruption in the White House and almost all Federal agencies under Trump. Trump is not a man of god Trump is the snake in the poem he likes to quote. God warned us about false prophets America had better wake up before Damien the antichrist (Donald J. Trump) destroys the American way of life. Trump’s corruption has made America a third world country. <span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump is willing to cheat to win the election this is not something a man of god would do. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">We cannot give Trump another four year we need to vote out Trump and his enablers before it is too late to save America from the corruption and chaos trump has caused. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump may not be Damien the Antichrist but the amount the damage he has done, will do and can do is just as scary.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?66,254" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></span></div><div><div><hr></div><div><div><div><span class="fs12lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/the-trump-insurrection-how-trump-incited-sedition-insurrection-and-a-coup-attempt.html" class="imCssLink">Insurrection how Trump incited insurrection and attempted a coup</a></b></span></div></div><div><div>Donald J. Trump tried to rig the election, then tried to steal it the in the courts and incited sedition and insurrection in an attempted coup d’état.</div></div><hr><div><span class="fs12lh1-5"><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/the-trump-russia-affair.html" class="imCssLink">Trump-Russia Affair</a></b></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Before the Trump-Ukraine Affair there was the Trump-Russia Affair, Donald J. Trump, his son and an unknown number of people from the Trump campaign may have</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5">conspired</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">(</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5">colluded</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">)</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">with the Russians to help elect Donald J. Trump. The</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump-Ukraine Affair should make you rethink the Trump-Russia Affair.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">The lie then was it was about adaptions the lie this time is it was about corruption.</span></div></div><hr><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-29/trumps-dire-warnings-are-not-about-biden-theyre-about-trumps-american" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Column: Trump’s dire warnings are not about Biden’s America. They’re about his America</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Robin Abcarian Columnist</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Over the past two weeks, the competing visions of President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have been laid out — starkly — and the narrow slice of undecided voters will have to settle on what kind of country they want. Do they want an America that strives toward racial justice and equality, that values its place in the community of nations, that will work to reverse the catastrophic effects of climate change? Or do they want four more years of chaos ?</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump’s performance over the past 3½ years has made it clear that his greatest passion is himself, which means he is loyal only to those who are loyal to him, a group that includes his white base and selected international despots. His tax cuts have benefited the very richest, his wall on the Southern border remains unfinished, an entirely foreseeable pandemic caught him unawares, the economy has tanked, millions of Americans are unemployed and schools, most of them anyway, are shuttered.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">He does not even pretend to be the president of all of us, and his best argument against Biden is downright nonsensical. (I want to say “craven,” but I am in danger of overusing that word when I write about Trump.) If Biden is elected, Trump predicts, the country will explode with the kind of racial unrest and protests against police brutality that we saw this summer after a white police officer choked the life out of a Black man, George Floyd. It’s a neat and cynical trick: Vote for me because what’s happening on my watch is unacceptable. Cities run by Democratic mayors and states run by Democratic governors are not going to magically turn into Republican strongholds if Trump is reelected. If they were, they would have done so by now. If Trump is returned to office, expect more of what we’ve seen this summer, not less.</span></div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 14:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Donald J. Trump is not a law an order president, you cannot claim to be law and order if you violate the law.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000001E"><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">Donald J. Trump is not a law an order president, you cannot claim to be law and order if you violate the law.</b><br> Trump has violated American citizen’s first and fourth amendment rights in addition to other laws he has violated.</div><div><br></div> &nbsp;<div>A.B. Man III<br> 06/14/2020</div> &nbsp;<div> </div> &nbsp;<div>Before Donald J. Trump was elected president, Trump violated election laws, Trump has violated housing laws, Trump has violated money-laundering laws and Trump has violated charitable foundation laws. Donald J. Trump cannot claim to be for law and order if he breaks to law. Donald J. Trump claims that he is a law and order president is bullshit. Donald J. Trump and William Barr have violated American citizen’s first and fourth amendment rights to peaceful protest. Donald J. Trump has used William Barr and the DOJ to protect Trump’s friends from the law by dropping cases and lowering sentencing recommendation for Trump’s friends. Donald J. Trump has used William Barr and the DOJ to go after Trump perceived enemies and people who disagree with Trump.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Donald J. Trump violated election laws to be elected and has continued to violate our laws as president. Donald J. Trump violated election laws to be elected in 2016 and would have gone to jail with Michael Cohen if he had not been elected president. Donald J. Trump violated election law again when he pressed the Ukraine, the Chinese and Turkey to help him in his reelection bid for 2020. Donald J. Trump has violated the emolument clause from the day he was elected president. Donald J. Trump is using William Barr and the DOJ to subvert justice and violate our laws. Donald J. Trump is not a law an order president.</div></div><div><hr><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/trump-doj-barr/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump intensifies assault on rule of law as he fights for reelection</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">(CNN) President Donald Trump on Tuesday went further than ever before in putting the degradation of the rule of law at the center of his reelection campaign. Trump called on his supporters in North Carolina to act as poll watchers, to watch out for "thieving, and stealing and robbing" that he is warning without evidence will taint Election Day. He made his call at a packed rally in Winston-Salem where he and many of his fans made a mockery of the state's mask mandate -- as well as the advice of his own government amid a pandemic that has killed nearly 190,000 Americans and was exacerbated by his prioritizing politics over science. But most shockingly, and in one of the most stunning maneuvers in the modern history of the Department of Justice, government lawyers Tuesday applied to take over the defense of Trump in a defamation lawsuit filed against him by a woman who accused him of rape in the 1990s.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The move will inflame claims that Attorney General William Barr, who misrepresented the Mueller report and has intervened in other highly political cases that are inconvenient to the President, is acting as Trump's personal lawyer and desecrating his department's traditional role. The latest development came nearly four years into a presidency marked by Trump's constant efforts to test the limits of his power and to weaponize the legal and institutional functions of the government to further his political ends. That process is accelerating now as a President impeached for abuse of power seeks to use all the tools of his office to secure a second term and is undermining the integrity of the vote with flagrantly false claims of election corruption. But while Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, used their convention to warn Trump is tearing at the foundations of the republic itself, there is little sign that Trump's fervent base -- or the Republicans who saved his presidency in a Senate trial -- are concerned at his broadening power grabs.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/trump-doj-barr/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">More...</a></span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html " target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></b></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump you can find it here from Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more. Donald J. Trump has corrupted the white house, the DOJ, the state department and other government departments and agencies to protect and defend Donald J. Trump. Instead of putting America first, they are putting Donald J. Trump first. Any government employee who puts Donald J. Trump before America and the constitution is not patriot. The oaths they have taking are to America and the constitution not to any individual. Any government employee who puts Donald J. Trump above America and the constitution is neither protecting nor defending America and the constitution. Moreover, they have broken the oath they have sworn to America and the constitution. The Donald J. Trump Administration will go down as the worse, most corrupt, comprised and dishonest administration in American history. This page is dedicated to tracking that corruption. Find out all you can about Donald J. Trump, for some you may find out he is not the man you thought he was, for others you may be proven right Trump is as bad as you thought he was. More...</span><br></div></div><div><hr><div><div></div></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEcoI8pQUi4" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump commutes Roger Stone's sentence. Here's why he did it</a></b><br></div><div>CNN</div><div><br></div><div>President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the prison sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, who was convicted of crimes that included lying to Congress in part, prosecutors said, to protect the President. The announcement came just days before Stone was set to report to a federal prison in Georgia. Stone was convicted in November of seven charges -- including lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing a congressional committee proceeding -- as part of former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Among the things he misled Congress about were his communications with Trump campaign officials -- communications that prosecutors said Stone hid out of his desire to protect Trump. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEcoI8pQUi4" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">More...</a></div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stop Lying To The American People Confederates Were Not Heroes They Were Traitors.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000001D"><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">Stop Lying To The American People Confederates Were Not Heroes They Were Traitors.</b></div><div>The greatest lie ever told is that confederates were heroes, confederates <span class="fs11lh1-5">committed treason they </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">were not heroes they were traitors.</span></div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>06/14/2020<br>07/12/2020</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Confederates committed treason when they went to war with our government and attempted to divide our country so they could keep their slaves that is not noble and nothing to celebrate or honor. No other place in the world treats traitors, as heroes, only in America are confederate traitors treated as heroes. We do not celebrate the traitor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Benedick Arnold</a> why would we celebrate the traitors of confederacy who committed treason when they went to war with our government so they could keep their slaves. </div><div><br></div><div>The American Civil war was fought over the right to own slaves and not State rights. The State rights ruse was merely an attempt to justify slavery. There is nothing noble or honorable about committing treason or enslaving ones fellow man. The American Civil war is the only war that the loser’s monuments and beliefs are proudly on display. Only in America can traitors be treated as heroes, confederates are not heroes they were traitors who committed treason plain and simply. We do not honor Benedict Arnold <span class="fs11lh1-5">who committed treason and we should not honor confederates or the confederacy who committed treason against our nation.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Confederates were American traitors who should not be honored for attacking America so they could keep slaves. Protecting the monuments of traitor’s means in some way you support what the people who committed treason against America did. We should not honor traitors; honoring traitors gives the impression that you can commit treason against America and be honored. Confederates were American traitors, treason is nothing to celebrate or honor. Confederate symbols are symbols of hate and traitors and continues to divide America. White supremacists use confederate symbols to promote hate and fear. As long as America celebrates and honors the traitors of the confederacy, we will be a divided country and never be a truly great country. Celebrating the confederacy is to dishonor true American heroes. We should not honor the traitors who fought against our country that dishonors all the great Americans who have fought and died for our country. The confederacy was a group of traitors who lost get over it so we can get past it and make an America a truly great nation.</div></div><div><br><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?101,136" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><hr><div></div><div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.kialo.com/the-confederates-committed-treason-against-the-united-states-the-united-states-should-not-continue-to-honor-or-2408.3?path=2408.0~2408.1_2408.3" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Confederates committed treason against the United States. United States should not honor or memorialize them.</a></span></b><br></div></div><div><hr><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://medium.com/our-human-family/confederates-werent-patriots-they-were-traitors-85862182f1b5" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Confederates Weren’t Patriots, They Were Traitors</a></span></b><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">And every Confederate soldier, by definition, committed treason</span><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Glenn Rocess</span><br><br><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">There are over one thousand seven hundred monuments to the Confederacy in America today, from the four corners of the continental United States to most of the states in between, and including several of the former Union states. The Confederate flag is commonly found almost exclusively in many white homes and businesses, as stickers on cars and trucks, and even as part of the Mississippi state flag. This is notable because America is the only nation today where those who fought a civil war against that nation are memorialized and even glorified with government approval and at the taxpayers’ expense. Those who support keeping Confederate monuments on public lands commonly make the argument that Confederates were Americans. Below is one such example of the argument:</span></div></div></div><div><hr><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/american-civil-war.html" class="imCssLink" onclick="return x5engine.utils.location('http://www.aclickapick.com/american-civil-war.html', null, false)">American Civil War</a></span></span></b></div><div><blockquote><div class="imTACenter"><br></div><div></div></blockquote><span class="fs11lh1-5">The American Civil war was fought over the right to own slaves and not State rights. The State rights ruse was merely an attempt to justify slavery. There is nothing noble or honorable about committing treason or enslaving ones fellow man. The American Civil war is the only war that the loser’s monuments and beliefs are proudly on display. Only in America can traitors be treated as heroes, confederates are not heroes they were traitors who committed treason plain and simply.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">We do not honor</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Benedict Arnold</a></span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">who committed treason and we should not honor confederates or the confederacy who committed treason against our nation.</span></div></div><div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/20/opinions/confederate-generals-not-the-same-as-jefferson-and-lincoln-avlon/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">There is a difference between statues of Abraham Lincoln and Confederate generals</a></b><br></div><div>Opinion by John Avlon</div><div><br></div><div>(CNN) More than 155 years after the end of the Civil War, America is finally having a more complete moral reckoning with the Confederacy. <span class="fs11lh1-5">The issue is the legacy of white supremacy. Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens spelled it out in a March 1861 speech: "Our new government is founded upon ... the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition." </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">This is a matter of hate, not heritage. And today we're seeing Confederate statutes toppled across the country and Confederate flags banned from NASCAR races. Leading military figures say the time has come to rename military bases that were named after Confederate generals — even as President Donald Trump makes plain his opposition. But as the nation confronts the ugliest aspects of its history, we need to recognize that there is a fundamental difference between statues of American presidents like Abraham Lincoln and statues of American traitors like Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Progress is being made. In Charleston, South Carolina, Mayor John Tecklenburg announced Wednesday that the city would take down the statue of slavery and secession defender John C. Calhoun and put it in a museum. This is overdue and all to the good. Some of these statues were put up by the sons and daughters of Confederates, perhaps trying to find a measure of dignity in defeat while also aiming to literally recast history. Others were erected in the years after the Supreme Court ordered desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 to send a message of Southern defiance. </span></div></div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Candace Owens you are a sellout and a disgrace to black people you protect your white masters while you attack black victims.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000001C"><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">Candace Owens you are a sellout and a disgrace to black people you protect your white masters while you attack black victims.</b><br></div><div>Candace Owens you should be ashamed of yourself you are using the same tactics that lawyers use to get rapist and police off attack the victim.</div><div><br></div><div>A.B. Man III</div><div>06/07/2020<br>06/13/2020</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Your victim-blaming attacks are shameful they remind one of how lawyers get rapist and police off by blaming the victims. Blaming the victims does not excuse or justify what was done to the victims <span class="fs11lh1-5">no matter how you spin it</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">. No one is judge and jury and no one has the right to take someone’s life for something they may or may not have done that is up to the courts not the police nor citizens. Police are not judge and jury and do not have a right to kill black people that is not their job, their job is to protect and serve. White people cannot take the law into their own hands and kill black people that is against the law. There are times that killing someone may be justified, to protect your life or the life of someone else, but killing unarmed people who do not pose a threat is murder plain and simple.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Police did arrested George Floyd 9 times, mostly on minor drug and theft charges. At least one of </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">of crimes the</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-prosecutor-says-officer-who-arrested-george-floyd-likely-lied-in-2004-case-11592011070" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><span class="fs11lh1-5">police officer likely lied</span></a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">when he arrested George Floyd on a minor drug offense.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/931741/did-george-floyd-have-criminal-past/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">George Floyd committed his last crime 13 years ago</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">; he served his time in jail for what he did and was trying to turn his life around. George Floyd made some mistakes and he paid for it when he went to jail. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Derek Chauvin had 18 complaints against him before he killed George Floyd. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Derek Chauvin had twice the number of complaints against him as George Floyd had arrest. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">A police officers job is to protect and serve </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">citizens</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">not threaten them, not beat them and not kill them. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">If a police officer has more than five complaints against him or her that should be a warning sign that maybe they should not be a police officer. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">The fact is</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/derek-chauvin-minneapolis-police-background-life-2020-6" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Derek Chauvin had 18 <span class="fs11lh1-5">complaints</span></a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">against him </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">it was only a matter of time before he harmed someone. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Any police office with 18 complaints is a ticking time bomb Derek Chauvin should have been fired before he killed George Floyd. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Most jobs you are fired after 3-5 complaints police officers are the only job you could have 18 complaints and still have a job. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">We should not have to fear police officers, police officers are supposed to protect and serve citizens not </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">threaten,</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">beat and kill them. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">How many times have police claimed in the police report one thing only for a video to come out that contradicts everything in the police report. You have to wonder how many police reports are lies to protect bad police </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">officers</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">They like to say that only a small number of police officers are bad but when you talking about 800,000 police officers around the country that is a lot of bad police officers. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">The percentage of bad police officers is said to be around 3.5 percent out of 800,000 police officers that is 28,000 <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/04/24/usa-today-revealing-misconduct-records-police-cops/3223984002/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">bad police officers</a>. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Personally, I believe the number to higher but that just me.</span></div><div><br></div><div>You called Ahmaud Arbery a trespasser, trespassing does not give anyone the right to take a life. No one should be killed simply for trespassing. What about the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXkhNybqZ0" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">white people who also went into the building</a> you did not call them out for trespassing and they were not killed or attacked for trespassing. The fact that George Floyd has been held up as a martyr may sicken you shows you are hard at work for your white masters<span class="fs11lh1-5">, it is not about what he did in his life but how his life was ended</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">I am sure George Floyd would rather be alive than a martyr but he was not given that choice. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">It is not about whom Ahmaud Arbery or George Floyd was or what they may have done, it is about how and why another Black man was killed simply because of the color of his skin.</span></div><div><br></div><div>You are right you are not slave to Democratic Party but you are a slave to Republican Party. You do your masters in the Republican Party proud when you attack and blame the black victims for their own deaths. Maybe you believe what you say; maybe you are doing it for the money only you know your reasons. You trying to convince black people that Republican Party is better for them is far from true. </div><div><br></div><div>I for one understand what Biden meant about black people voting for Republicans. A black person voting for Republicans goes against ones self-interest. The Democratic Party is not the party that is suppressing black people’s right to vote that would be your party the Republican Party. The Democratic Party is not the party that is promoting racism and hate that would be your party the Republican Party. The Republican Party, your party is the party that is suppressing black people right to vote and destroying the social safety net that helps many black people.</div><div><br></div><div>Why would any black person be in a party that is trying to take away the right of black people to vote? Denying black people’s right to vote is voter fraud plain and simply. Black people have died for the right to vote and your party the Republican Party is trying to suppress that right. Why would any black person be in a party that is destroying the social safety net that helps many black people? Why would any black person be in a party that continually shows it is the party of racism and hate? Members of the Republican Party are constantly prompting racism and hate while defending people who are racist and promote hate. The Republican Party is the party of closet racist. I have lost count of the number of times that members of your party the Republican Party have been caught sharing racist information to one another. The bolder Republicans promote and protect racism and hate on public platforms while claiming not to be racist. You cannot claim you are not racist if you promote or defend prompting racism and hate. If you promote or defend prompting racism and hate, then you are a racist or a racist enabler.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A person </span>who defends or promotes racism and hate is racist or a racist enabler. <span class="fs11lh1-5">A person </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">who defends the killing of unarmed black people is racist or a racist enabler. Black people expect some white people to promote racism and hate against black people that is a given in America. When Black people support racism and hate against black people it reminds one of Uncle Tom. I would call Candace Owens an Uncle Tom but that would be unfair to Uncle Tom as he may have done it to stay alive and not be beaten, he did not do it to make a buck. Intended or not people who promote or defend racism and hate against black people enable more racism and hate against black people. You may or may agree but this is my opinion of Candace Owens.</span><br></div><div><hr><div><div><div><div></div><div><div><div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-protect-our-police-george-floyd-district-attorney-larry-krasner-carlos-vega-20210402.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Retired Philly police officers apologize for fund-raising effort blaming George Floyd for his own death</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Protect Our Police PAC said it fired a national marketing firm that sent the plea for donations, calling it “tactless messaging” that “does not reflect the values or views” of the group.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Chris Brennan</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A group of retired Philadelphia police officers apologized Friday for a Thursday fund-raising email that blamed George Floyd for his own death and claimed former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is on “trial for a murder he did not commit.” Protect Our Police PAC said it fired a national marketing firm that sent the plea for donations, calling it “tactless messaging” that “does not reflect the values or views” of the group. “Chauvin’s actions were examples of bad policing and poor training that directly caused George Floyd’s death, in my opinion,” Protect Our Police president Nick Gerace said in an email. “The kind of messaging and innuendo included in that single email is not in line with our mission, and I vehemently denounce it.” more...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com//blog/index.php?do-not-fall-for-the-bs-the-republican-party-is-not-the-party-of-lincoln-it-is-the-party-of-corruption,-alternative-facts,-voter-suppression,-voter-intimidation,-gerrymandering,-hate,-fear,-racism-and-white-supremacist-" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Do not fall for the BS the Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln it is the party of corruption, alternative facts, voter suppression, voter intimidation, gerrymandering, hate, fear, racism and white supremacist.</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">If you are a person of color or call yourself an American, supporting the Republican Party is doing so against your own self-interest and against the best interest of our country.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">As a person of color, why would you support a party that is actively using alternative facts, voter suppression, voter intimidation, gerrymandering, hate, fear and racism against of people of color? As a person of color, why would you support a party of racist and white supremacist, some of which want to kill you? Racist and white supremacist want to kill people of color, law enforcement offers and those who disagree with them, as an American why would you support that. Black people have died for the right to vote, supporting a party that is using voter suppression, voter intimidation, hate, fear and racism against black people and people of color is disrespecting all the people of color who gave up their lives so you could vote. As a person of color, why would you support a party that uses people of color as the boogieman to scare white people into voting for them? As an American why would support that? </span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Make no mistake about it this not the age of Lincoln it is the age of Trump and in the age of Trump the Republican Party has become the party of corruption, alternative facts, voter suppression, voter intimidation, gerrymandering, hypocrites, hate, fear, racism and white supremacist. The Democratic Party is no longer the Party of racist and white supremacist, the Republican Party is. The Democratic Party is not using alternative facts, voter suppression and voter intimidation, hate, fear, racism against of people of color, the Republican Party is. The programs that democrats try to protect and enhance are programs that help people of color, the middle class and the poor while the Republicans are actively trying to destroy any programs that help people of color, the middle class and the poor. The system crashes from time to and we all need help when it does if Republicans have their way there will be no help for people of color, the middle class and the poor the next time the system crashes. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">more...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/candace-owens-is-a-willing-tool-of-republican-racists?ref=home" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Candace Owens Is a Willing Tool of Republican Racists</a></span></b><br></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Owens rails against identity politics despite the fact that her Blackness is the only reason she’s become such an elevated figure within the GOP.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Kali Holloway</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Candace Owens’ BLEXIT Foundation—founded to give people the false impression that Black voters are abandoning the Democratic party en masse for Republicanism—reportedly put together Saturday's campaign event thinly disguised as an official government function, where Donald Trump spoke to a pro-police Black and Latinx audience from the Truman Balcony during what was in effect his first in-person rally since his trip to Walter Reed. Two thousand people were reportedly invited to hear his “Remarks to Peaceful Protesters for Law &amp; Order,” but many of the few hundred who showed up had their travel and lodging costs paid by Owens’ group, which described the official White House event as a “HUGE outdoor rally,” ABC reported Saturday morning.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The problem is, every time they align with Candace Owens, white Republicans prove just how uninterested they truly are in making inroads with Black folks. It’s tempting to chalk up their use of Owens—a conservative Black woman who carries no water with the vast majority of Black voters—as a consequence of white conservatives’ ignorance about Black folks’ most pressing concerns. But that’s far too generous an assessment of a ploy that’s as tired as it is sinister. Owens isn’t actually there to be white conservatives’ emissary to the Black community. Rather, she’s a tool of racist propaganda and deflection—a Black mouthpiece who propagates and validates anti-Black talking points, while exploiting her own race to shield white racists, like Trump, from charges of racism. more...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-glanton-candace-owens-0615-20200615-kmtsvdix2ravvmsxwh6eryebb4-story.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Don’t let right-wingers like Candace Owens dictate how we feel about George Floyd</a></b><br></div><div>By Dahleen Glanton Tribune News Service</div><div><br></div><div>Minutes before he encountered police on a Minneapolis street, George Floyd was just another flawed human being. To some, he was even less than that because he was black.</div><div><br></div><div>Nothing about him — not the way he looked or the way he carried himself — offered a clue that he could become one of the biggest social justice symbols of our time. Few would have noticed this large black man, wearing a black sleeveless T-shirt and sweatpants, walking toward them and decided that he was worthy of knowing.</div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3r4999Z4a8" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">A lying undercover agent arrested 46 people, most of them black, on drug charges</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">60 Minutes</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A small Texas town saw 13% of its black population arrested and charged with dealing cocaine. But a state judge in 2003 said the investigator behind the arrests was "the most devious, non-responsive law enforcement witness this court has witnessed in 25 years on the bench in Texas."</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/09/george-floyd-body-cam-cant-breathe-30-times-transcript/5404026002/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">George Floyd told officers he 'can't breathe' nearly 30 times, newly released body cam transcripts show</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Joshua Bote USA TODAY</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Transcripts released of body camera footage reveal an extended account of the moments leading up to George Floyd's death, an abridged clip of which set into motion months of ongoing protests against anti-Black racism and police violence. In the exchange, Floyd appears to be deferential to officers as he pleads to not be put in a squad car and instead be restrained on the ground, repeatedly telling them that he has claustrophobia and anxiety and is not carrying a weapon. He told officers he couldn't breathe nearly 30 times. "I'll do anything, I'll do anything y’all tell me to, man," he tells officers early into the transcript. "I'm not resisting, man. I'm not!" Footage from police body cameras used by Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng — as well as transcripts from both cameras — was released Wednesday as part of former officer Thomas Lane's plea to dismiss charges of aiding and abetting Derek Chauvin, who is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter after pinning Floyd's neck down and asphyxiating him with his knee for more than eight minutes.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://factcheck.afp.com/posts-falsely-claim-photo-assault-survivor-shows-woman-robbed-george-floyd" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Posts falsely claim photo of assault survivor shows woman robbed by George Floyd</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Louis Baudoin-Laarman, AFP USA</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Facebook posts show a photo of an injured woman alongside the claim that she was kidnapped and beaten by George Floyd and several accomplices. This is false; the image shows an American student who posted online about being sexually assaulted in Spain. “Let’s make the real George Floyed famous,” one Facebook user wrote in a June 11, 2020 post featuring a photo of a young woman whose face is covered in bruises and blood. The post claims that the woman’s name is Aracely Henriquez, and that she was attacked by Floyd and five accomplices who were looking for drugs and money in her home.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/police-corruption" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Demand Justice Now</a></b><br></div><div><br></div><div>Black people are being murdered and brutalized by police with near impunity. Act with us to end police brutality, demand racial justice, and defend our right to protest. Your donation will fuel our legal battles and urgent advocacy efforts. </div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/police-misconduct-peer-effects/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Study finds misconduct spreads among police officers like contagion</a></b></span><br></div><div>According to new research, reassigning police officers with a history of misconduct makes it more likely that their new peers will also misbehave.</div><div>ByKatherine J. Wu</div><div><br></div><div>Nearly five years after fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in October 2014, former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is now serving a seven-year prison sentence on a conviction of second-degree murder. But firing 16 bullets at a black teenager holding a knife was likely far from Van Dyke’s first offense. Since he began policing in 2001, at least 25 separate complaints have been filed against Van Dyke by civilians and fellow officers, most involving excessive force. Prior to the most recent charges, none of these allegations resulted in disciplinary action, leaving Van Dyke in the employ of the Chicago Police Department until he was stripped of the position during indictments. Van Dyke’s case is extreme. But his trajectory wasn’t anomalous. Rather than being fired, officers accused of stealing, lying, mistreating civilians, or otherwise abusing their power are often allowed to retain their roles as public servants, with some rerouted into new positions in the force as a reprimand for bad behavior. Now, new research published today in the journal Nature Human Behavior suggests that retaining misbehaving officers in police organizations may have far worse consequences than leaving accusations unaddressed: It could actually propagate misconduct itself.</div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/04/24/usa-today-revealing-misconduct-records-police-cops/3223984002/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">We found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct. Now you can read their records.</a></b><br></div><div>In 2019, USA TODAY led a national effort to publish disciplinary records for police officers. George Floyd's death has renewed calls for transparency</div><div>By John Kelly, and Mark Nichols, USA TODAY</div><div><br></div><div>At least 85,000 law enforcement officers across the USA have been investigated or disciplined for misconduct over the past decade, an investigation by USA TODAY Network found. Officers have beaten members of the public, planted evidence and used their badges to harass women. They have lied, stolen, dealt drugs, driven drunk and abused their spouses. Despite their role as public servants, the men and women who swear an oath to keep communities safe can generally avoid public scrutiny for their misdeeds. The records of their misconduct are filed away, rarely seen by anyone outside their departments. Police unions and their political allies have worked to put special protections in place ensuring some records are shielded from public view, or even destroyed. Reporters from USA TODAY, its affiliated newsrooms across the country and the nonprofit Invisible Institute in Chicago spent more than a year creating the biggest collection of police misconduct records. Obtained from thousands of state agencies, prosecutors, police departments and sheriffs, the records detail at least 200,000 incidents of alleged misconduct, much of it previously unreported. The records obtained include more than 110,000 internal affairs investigations by hundreds of individual departments and more than 30,000 officers who were decertified by 44 state oversight agencies. </div></div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Among the findings:</b></span></div><div><br></div><div>Most misconduct involves routine infractions, but the records reveal tens of thousands of cases of serious misconduct and abuse. They include 22,924 investigations of officers using excessive force, 3,145 allegations of rape, child molestation and other sexual misconduct and 2,307 cases of domestic violence by officers. <span class="fs11lh1-5">Dishonesty is a frequent problem. The records document at least 2,227 instances of perjury, tampering with evidence or witnesses or falsifying reports. There were 418 reports of officers obstructing investigations, most often when they or someone they knew were targets. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Less than 10% of officers in most police forces get investigated for misconduct. Yet some officers are consistently under investigation. Nearly 2,500 have been investigated on 10 or more charges. Twenty faced 100 or more allegations yet kept their badge for years. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">The level of oversight varies widely from state to state. Georgia and Florida decertified thousands of police officers for everything from crimes to questions about their fitness to serve; other states banned almost none.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/06/22/study-finds-1100-police-officers-per-year-or-3-per-day-are-arrested-nationwide/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Study finds police officers arrested 1,100 times per year, or 3 per day, nationwide</a></b><br></div><div>By Tom Jackman </div><div><br></div><div>So far this month, two New York City police commanders have been arrested on corruption allegations, an officer in Killeen, Tex., has been accused of sexually assaulting a female driver, a Philadelphia police officer has been charged with extortion of a drug dealer, and an officer in Hono­lulu has been accused of raping a 14-year-old girl. Such sporadic news accounts of police officers being arrested led one group of researchers to a question: How much crime do police officers commit? &nbsp;No one was keeping track, much as no one was tracking how often police officers shoot and kill civilians, although both may involve use of police power and abuse of public trust. Now there is an answer: Police officers are arrested about 1,100 times a year, or roughly three officers charged every day, according to a new national study. The most common crimes were simple assault, drunken driving and aggravated assault, and significant numbers of sex crimes were also found. About 72 percent of officers charged in cases with known outcomes are convicted, more than 40 percent of the crimes are committed on duty, and nearly 95 percent of the officers charged are men. The study is thought to be the first-ever nationwide look at police crime, and was conducted by researchers at Bowling Green State University through a grant from the Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice. The research covered seven years, 2005 to 2011, and sought to quantify not only the prevalence of police officers arrested across the country, but also how law enforcement agencies discipline officers who are arrested and how officer arrests might correlate with other forms of misconduct.</div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/gerald-goines-the-monster-cop-who-encountered-george-floyd-in-houston" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Monster Cop Who Encountered George Floyd in Houston</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">‘RELIEVED OF DUTY’</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Years before a monster cop in Minneapolis cut George Floyd’s life tragically short, Gerald Goines carried out an insidiously routine bit of police misconduct in Houston on Floyd.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Michael Daly</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Among the mourners at George Floyd’s funeral was Harris County Attorney Kim Ogg, whose office sent Floyd a letter last year saying he may have been a victim of a police injustice, long before the one that killed him. The letter is dated March 8, 2019, and was sent to 3512 Nalle St. in Houston, the last address listed in court records. His mother, Larcenia Floyd, resided there until her death on May 30, 2018. Floyd had not lived here since 2014, when he moved to Minneapolis. He may have never received the notification that addressed him not as Mr. Floyd or as George Floyd, but as he is listed in the case cited at the top of the page. Goines’ veracity in general was called into question after he was arrested last year. He was alleged to have cited a fictitious informant in securing a search warrant for a house where there was supposed drug dealing. The ensuing raid resulted in Dennis Tuttle and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, being shot to death by police, who also killed their dog. No drugs were found. The couple seems to have been wholly innocent.</span></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-prosecutor-says-officer-who-arrested-george-floyd-likely-lied-in-2004-case-11592011070" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Texas Prosecutor Says Officer Who Arrested George Floyd Likely Lied in 2004 Case</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Minor drug offenses like Mr. Floyd’s aren’t cases ‘that we would accept for charges under my administration,’ Harris County district attorney says</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Erin Ailworth</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Houston’s top prosecutor has concluded that a scandal-ridden former Houston police officer likely lied when he arrested George Floyd on a minor drug offense for which Mr. Floyd served time in state jail. The Harris County District Attorney, Kim Ogg, also said that due to her office’s examination of Mr. Floyd’s case it could expand a continuing investigation to examine more arrests made by Gerald Goines, who was charged with murder after a botched drug raid in 2019 in which two people were killed.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2020/05/10/candace-owens-downplays-ahmaud-arberys-murder-on-twitter/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Candace Owens downplays Ahmaud Arbery’s murder on Twitter</a></span></b><br></div><div>BWSTimes Social Media</div><div><br></div><div>By Nehemiah D. Frank, founder and editor in chief </div><div><br></div><div>Will somebody somewhere loosen-up Candace Owens’ extensions so her scalp can breathe and brain can ￼think clearly? Sister-girl has lost her entire mind. Recently, the seemingly confused talking right-wing conservative stuck her bobbling head out the window, fiddled her thumbs and tweeted her political objections to the Twitter universe. Owens horrifyingly downplayed the modern-day lynching and murder of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery, sending Black America’s Ancestral Queen Mother, Ida B. Wells, into a full ￼seizure in the grave. The last words Arbery heard were “f-cking n-gger“. What’s worse? Candace did it on Mother’s Day weekend; it would be the first Mother’s Day Wanda Cooper, mother of Ahuamd, would spend mourning the death of her late son who died at the hands of racists. Here’s what the racially confused talking head said on Twitter:</div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/is-black-lives-matter-a-shell-company" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Is Black Lives Matter a ‘Shell Company’ for a Liberal Super PAC?</a></span></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">No.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Factcheck</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">In viral tweets Wednesday, political provocateurs Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk suggested that donations to the Black Lives Matter Foundation are being sent instead to ActBlue, a Democratic political committee: Daily Beast reporter Lachlan Markay pointed out that Owens’s tweets, and Kirk’s by extension, are inaccurate—while ActBlue is organized as a political committee, it acts as a nonprofit fundraising tool that serves as a conduit, rather than a collector, for donations. ActBlue’s website explains that the platform is available to “Democratic candidates and committees, progressive organizations, and nonprofits that share our values.” Such groups can incorporate an ActBlue contribution form into their websites for free—although there is a 3.95 percent processing fee on donations—allowing groups and candidates to raise funds without having to create and maintain their own secure method of receiving donations. While donations go to ActBlue initially, the group delivers the funds to the organization or candidate intended by the donor. It’s only possible for ActBlue to redirect funds if the recipient refuses a donation or doesn’t cash a check from ActBlue for 60 days. In such an instance, a donation is re-designated as a contribution to ActBlue (if earmarked for a campaign or committee), to support social welfare activities (if earmarked for social welfare organizations), or to ActBlue Charities (if earmarked for a charitable organization). In other words, even if Black Lives Matter were to refuse donations the funds would be given to another similar cause, not the Democratic Party or any political candidates. Donations can be made directly to ActBlue as well to support the organization.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQvaCTUtQ3Y" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Black Conservatives Clash With &amp; Denounce Candace Owens Over Comments About Ahmaud Arbery Case</a></b><br></div><div>Roland S. Martin</div><div><br></div><div>Candace Owens fresh from her release from Twitter jail posted:</div><div><br></div><div>"Ahmaud Arbery was caught on camera breaking into an unfinished property that was owned by Larry English. </div><div>His mother has confirmed it is him in the video. </div><div>Please stop with the “just a jogger” bullshit narrative. </div><div>Avid joggers don’t wear khaki shorts &amp; stop to break into homes."</div><div><br></div><div>Social media was quick to respond to Owens' remarks and Black Conservatives joined in the condemnation of her remarks with a visceral backlash. </div></div><div><hr><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-lieu-plays-candace-owens-hitler-comments-2019-4" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Ted Lieu plays a clip of Candace Owens' comments on Hitler to ridicule Republicans for inviting her to a hearing on white nationalism</a></b><br></div><div>John Haltiwanger </div><div><br></div><div>Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California on Tuesday played a video of Candace Owens' controversial comments on Adolf Hitler and nationalism as the rising conservative star testified on white nationalism at the invitation of GOP lawmakers. The hearing was held by the House Judiciary Committee, and Owens was among eight witnesses on the panel. During his remarks, Lieu noted that the minority party is allowed to choose its own witnesses for such hearings. "Of all the people that Republicans could have selected, they picked Candace Owens," Lieu said. "I don't know Ms. Owens. I'm not going to characterize her. I'm going to let her own words do the talking." The California lawmaker played 30 seconds of remarks Owens made at a conference in London late last year. She said at the time that she thought the definition of "nationalism" "gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism — globalism is what I don't want." "Whenever we say 'nationalism,' the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler," she said. "You know, he was a national socialist, but if Hitler had just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine."</div></div><div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.insider.com/jackee-harry-candace-owens-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-2020-4" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Conservative commentator Candace Owens is using stunts and controversy to boost coronavirus conspiracy theories</a></b><br></div><div>Rachel E. Greenspan </div><div><br></div><div>Conservative political commentator Candace Owens faced backlash on Twitter for propagating numerous conspiracy theories and controversial opinions related to coronavirus, ideas that appear to be giving her more attention. One of the most contentious has been her insistence that "the virus was never as fatal" as experts said, noting death projections that have been adjusted as the pandemic has spread, and that the public response has been overblown. While the main model used to predict US COVID-19 deaths did reduce its death toll prediction, Dr. Gregory Roth of the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation told CNN that the model is frequently updated based on new data, which can be an indication that social distancing measures have been successful in mitigating the spread of the virus. Owens has argued that social distancing measures have been overblown and that people should be allowed to reenter public spaces.<br><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/06/furor-texas-gop-after-leaders-post-racist-memes-that-suggest-floyds-death-is-hoax/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Furor in Texas GOP after leaders post racist memes that suggest Floyd’s death is a hoax</a></b><br></div><div>By Teo Armus, Meryl Kornfield and Annie Gowen </div><div><br></div><div>One Facebook post falsely claimed that the killing of George Floyd in police custody last month was a “staged event,” meant to rile up opposition to President Trump. Another showed a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. next to a banana — an established racist trope. And a third claimed that George Soros, the liberal billionaire, paid “white cops to murder black people” and “black people to riot because race wars keep the sheep in line.” All of these posts were shared in recent days by Republican county leaders in Texas, some of whom are now facing calls to resign from top officials within their own party, including Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn and Gov. Greg Abbott, who called the posts “disgusting,” the Texas Tribune reported. The posts have unleashed a firestorm of controversy in the state of 29 million where Republicans are struggling to beat back Democratic advances in the rapidly diversifying electorate.</div><div></div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/politics/keith-nielsen-harris-county-texas-gop-chair-resigns/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Texas county GOP chair-elect won't assume office amid backlash for posting MLK quote with a banana</a></b></div><div>By Veronica Stracqualursi and Kelly Mena, CNN</div><div><br></div><div>Washington, DC (CNN)A Texas Republican county chairman-elect said Saturday he won't assume office amid backlash over posting a controversial image of a Martin Luther King Jr. quote with a banana in the picture. Keith Nielsen, the GOP chairman-elect in Harris County, announced in a Facebook post that he would be stepping aside and would not be taking office in August. Harris County encompasses Houston and the surrounding area. "I have spent my entire adult life supporting conservative candidates and causes and I am grateful for the thousands of supporters who have reached out to me over the last several days," Nielsen's post began. "I regret that I must step aside as Chairman-elect of the Harris County Republican Party and will not be taking office on Aug. 3rd. I will continue to stand up for the values that have made our country great...'Faith, family and freedom.' Dr. King's quote is as relevant today as when it was delivered. 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,'" he added. Earlier this week, Nielsen had posted to Facebook an image of a King quote -- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" -- featured with a banana, according to The Texas Tribune.</div><div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://apnews.com/1bc421a2eab84869b974ef47cbf75d2e" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">GOP senator from Nebraska: Party is enabling white supremacy</a></b><br></div><div>By GRANT SCHULT</div><div><br></div><div>LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker from Nebraska is blasting his party for “enabling white supremacy in our country” and calling on the state’s all-GOP congressional delegation to speak out against President Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments about minorities. Sen. John McCollister, a moderate Republican from Omaha, made the comments on Twitter late Sunday in response to weekend mass shootings in Ohio and Texas that left more than 30 dead. Officials have said the suspect in the El Paso, Texas shooting posted an online diatribe against immigrants before that shooting. In an interview Monday, McCollister said the shooting was a “tipping point” for him to call out his party, although he doesn’t plan to change his affiliation.</div></div><div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-racist-tweets-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-ayanna-pressley-rashida-tlaib-858813/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">If Republicans Don’t Share Trump’s Racism, They Should Probably Let Us Know</a></b><br></div><div>The party has gone from keeping Trump’s white nationalism at arm’s length to embracing it</div><div>By Ryan Bort</div><div><br></div><div>It’s now been more than 24 hours since President Trump told a group of congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” GOP lawmakers are still silent. As Republicans and their staffs continue to sort out the calculus of whether it’s politically expedient to issue some sort of statement distancing themselves from the president’s racism, Trump has doubled and tripled down on his attacks. “So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country,” he wrote Sunday night, presumably, again, in reference to how Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) have criticized the conditions of border facilities housing migrants. “Such disgraceful behavior,” he added. On Monday morning, he tweeted that the congresswomen should “apologize” for their “foul language” and their “horrible &amp; disgusting actions.” A few minutes later, he called them racist.</div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div>]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000001B"><div><b><span class="fs14lh1-5">Christians were persecuted for their religion black people are persecuted for the color of their skin.</span><br><span class="fs14lh1-5"> </span><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br><span class="fs14lh1-5"> </span><!--[endif]--></b></div><div>A.B. Man III<br> 06/02/2020</div><div> </div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Black Americans are persecuted simply for being black. How is it that Black Americans make up only 13% of the population but are stopped, beaten, arrested, jailed and killed by police at higher rates than white people who make up 75% of the population? Too many times, we have seen Black Americans beaten or killed for petty crimes. Black Americans cannot drive a car or walk the streets without worrying they may be stopped, beaten or killed by the police or an overzealous white person for no other reason than the color of their skin. </div><div><br></div><div>If you are a true Christian, you know god created man and we all came from Adam and Eve so we are all brothers and sisters no matter the color of our skin. Anyone who considers himself or herself a true Christian should be able to understand what it is to be persecuted. Anyone who considers himself or herself a true Christian knows the bible is not a prop to be used for a phot op. Anyone who considers himself or herself a true Christian and saw what Trump did with the bible knows he is not Christian. In this time of chaos, if Trump were a true Christian he would have opened the bible and read from it in an attempt to claim the nation. Anyone who considers himself or herself a true Christian would support the peaceful protest. Do not blame the peaceful protesters for the ones who riot, steal and vandalize property. Anyone who considers himself or herself a true Christian and says or believes Trump was sent by god should reread the bible because you missed or misunderstood the part about false prophets. </div><div><br></div><div>Anyone who considers himself or herself a true American knows you have a right to peaceful protest it is your 1st amendment right to protest when you see injustice. Trump violated the 1st amendment rights of the protesters in the park so he could have a phot op. You are not a law an order president if violate peoples 1st amendment right for a photo op. If you support what Trump did to peaceful protester for a photo op you are neither a Christian nor a true American who believes in the constitution.</div></div><div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_prophet" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">False prophet</a></b></div><div>In religion, a false prophet is a person who falsely claims the gift of prophecy or divine inspiration, or to speak for God, or who makes such claims for evil ends. Often, someone who is considered a "true prophet" by some people is simultaneously considered a "false prophet" by others, even within the same religion as the "prophet" in question. In a wider sense, it is anyone who, without having it, claims a special connection to the Deity and sets him or herself up as a source of spirituality, as an authority, preacher, or teacher. Analogously, the term is sometimes applied outside religion to describe someone who fervently promotes a theory that the speaker thinks is false. </div></div></div>]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000001A"><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">Don the Con AKA Bunker boy wants to protect your 2nd </b><b class="fs12lh1-5">amendment rights while he tramples on your 1st amendment rights using the army tear gas and rubber bullets.</b><br></div><div>Donald J. Trump is lying to you; you cannot break the law and claim to be a law and order president.</div><div><br></div><div>A.B Man III</div><div>06/02/2020</div><div>06/06/2020</div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump AKA Bunker Boy was so embarrassed that we found out he was hiding in the bunker that he had to show he is a strong man. He used the police, the park police, mounted police, secret service, the army, flash-bang grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets to violate the 1st amendment rights of peaceful unarmed protester so Trump AKA Bunker Boy could have a photo op. To make thing worse Donald J. Trump AKA Bunker Boy look like he did not know what to do with the bible. Maybe it was his first time. Donald J. Trump AKA Bunker Boy cannot break the law and then claim to be for law and order.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div> <div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Real men do not need to prove how strong or how smart they are. If Donald J. Trump AKA Bunker Boy was a real man, he would not have stooped so low to prove how strong he is. Smart people do not need to tell you how smart they are you know; only people who are not smart have to tell you how smart they are. Sometimes you have to wonder if rocks are smarter than Donald J. Trump AKA Bunker Boy.</span></div> <div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump AKA Bunker boy wanted people know he would protect your 2<sup>nd</sup> amendment rights while he trampled on our 1<sup>st</sup> amendment rights. Donald J. Trump AKA Bunker thinks he can bully all Americans to his will as he has done with the Republican Party; America is not a dictatorship and the rest of America will not fall in line with a wannabe dictator.</span></div><br><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">*** 06/06/2020 Note: The Trump administration has claimed it was fake news that tear gas was used on unarmed protesters and has requested news reports of the incident be corrected to no gas used, however they have since backtracked and admitted that tear gas was used on unarmed protesters exercising their 1st amendment right to peaceably assemble.</span></div></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?66,135" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/national-guard-protests-309932" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">‘What I saw was just absolutely wrong’: National Guardsmen struggle with their role in controlling protests</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">POLITICO spoke to 10 National Guardsmen who have taken part in the protest response across the country since the killing of George Floyd while in police custody.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By DANIEL LIPPMAN</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Pvt. Si’Kenya Lynch, a member of the D.C. National Guard, was on duty at Lafayette Square near the White House last Monday when U.S. Park Police cleared the area of protesters ahead of President Donald Trump’s now-infamous photo op. Lynch said she supports the protests, and that her brother was among the demonstrators on the other side of the line, adding that “he coughed a lot” due to the tear gas fired into the crowd. “I was happy to see him out there ... to walk for me when I couldn’t,” she said, adding that if she hadn’t been activated as a citizen-soldier, she would have been among the protesters “to support the people, and I wanted to support what was right.” POLITICO spoke to 10 National Guardsmen who have taken part in the protest response across the country since the killing of George Floyd while in police custody. Many Guardsmen said they felt uncomfortable with the way they were used to handle the unrest because demonstrators lumped them in with the police. They felt that while they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, their presence at times intimidated Americans from expressing their opinions and even escalated the tension. And in the case of Guardsmen involved in the Lafayette incident, some felt used. “As a military officer, what I saw was more or less really f---ed up,” said one D.C. Guardsman who was deployed to Lafayette Square last Monday and who, like some others, spoke on condition of anonymity to speak freely. The official line from the White House that the protesters had turned violent, he said, is false. “The crowd was loud but peaceful, and at no point did I feel in danger, and I was standing right there in the front of the line,” he said. “A lot of us are still struggling to process this, but in a lot of ways, I believe I saw civil rights being violated in order for a photo op.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSxMa_2nSfU" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump wanted to deploy 10,000 troops to D.C. to deal with protests</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">CBS Evening News</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">President Trump initially wanted to deploy 10,000 troops to Washington D.C. following last week's protests over the death of George Floyd. High-ranking members of Mr. Trump's cabinet managed to dissuade him of the idea. Ben Tracy reports.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/the-semantics-of-tear-gas-versus-pepper-spray/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Semantics of ‘Tear Gas’ Versus ‘Pepper Spray’</a></b><br></div><div>By Lori Robertson</div><div><br></div><div>Democratic politicians have criticized President Donald Trump for the use of “tear gas” to disperse protesters near the White House on June 1 before Trump walked to St. John’s Episcopal Church to pose for photos with a Bible. The president countered, “They didn’t use tear gas.” U.S. Park Police says officers used “pepper balls,” not “tear gas.” It’s true pepper balls, which contain a pepper spray-like irritant, have a different makeup than another chemical typical referred to as “tear gas” (and which USPP specifically says it didn’t use). But some sources consider pepper spray a type of tear gas, while others say both chemicals have the same effect on people. According to the Scientific American and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pepper spray is a type of “tear gas” or “riot control agent.” Dr. Ranit Mishori, senior medical adviser for Physicians for Human Rights and a Georgetown University professor of family medicine, told us in an email: “Tear gas and pepper spray both belong to a class of crowd-control weapons known as chemical irritants.” The chemical makeup is different, but the impact on people is similar. “During a protest, it is impossible to tell what chemical is being used as the clinical manifestations are the same.” Trump’s reelection campaign has claimed the media was “falsely reporting” that U.S. Park Police used “tear gas,” and in a Fox News Radio interview on June 3, Trump said the stories about clearing out the protesters with “tear gas” were “fake. They didn’t use tear gas. They didn’t use. They moved them out.” Trump didn’t mention the “pepper balls.” Both chemical irritants cause, according to Mishori, “sometimes severe irritation to mucous membranes (e.g eyes, mouth, nasal passages, lungs), causing people to experience burning sensations on the skin and in the eyes, tearing, coughing, sneezing, difficulty breathing, nausea, vomiting, disorientation.”</div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/501246-lawsuit-says-trump-admin-violated-protestors-free-speech-in-white" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Black Lives Matter, protestors sue Trump admin over aggressive crowd clearing</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By John Kruzel</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Washington, D.C., chapter of Black Lives Matter and several protestors sued the Trump administration Thursday over its use of chemical agents and rubber bullets earlier this week to scatter crowds gathered near the White House. The plaintiffs accused the administration and more than 100 law enforcement personnel of carrying out a conspiracy to violate their free speech and other constitutional rights while they peacefully protested the death of George Floyd, who was killed in Minneapolis police custody when a white police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes. “The President’s shameless, unconstitutional, unprovoked, and frankly criminal attack on protesters because he disagreed with their views shakes the foundation of our nation’s constitutional order,” said Scott Michelman, the legal director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia, one of the groups backing the legal challenge. The administration sparked a bipartisan backlash Monday when law enforcement used aggressive measures, including chemical agents, flash bombs and rubber bullets, to scatter a largely peaceful protest around Lafayette Square. Moments later, President Trump walked across the vacated street flanked by Cabinet members, a heavy security detail and senior staff to stand in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, where he hoisted a Bible and posed for photographs, in what critics viewed as a surreal political stunt.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/trump-st-johns-church-bible.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church</a></b><br></div><div>By Katie Rogers</div><div><br></div><div>“He did not pray,” said Mariann E. Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington. “He did not mention George Floyd, he did not mention the agony of people who have been subjected to this kind of horrific expression of racism and white supremacy for hundreds of years.” WASHINGTON — People who gathered outside the White House to protest police brutality spent Monday waving signs and screaming for justice. They watched as police officers and National Guard units flooded Lafayette Square, delivering on a threat made by President Trump. And just before the city’s 7 p.m. curfew went into effect, they were hit with flash-bang explosions and doused with tear gas. It was because the president, who spent part of the weekend in a secure bunker as protests roiled, wanted to have his picture taken holding a Bible at a battered church just beyond the gates. That church, St. John’s — the so-called Church of the Presidents because every one since James Madison has attended — had been briefly set ablaze as the protests devolved on Sunday evening. After Mr. Trump’s aides spent much of Monday expressing outrage over the burning of a place of worship, Hope Hicks, a presidential adviser, eventually hatched a plan with others at the White House to have the president walk over to the building, according to an official familiar with the events. - Don the con AKA Bunker boy wants to protect your 2nd amendment rights while he tramples on your 1st amendment rights using the army tear gas and rubber bullets.</div><div><hr></div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/bishop-budde-trump-church/2020/06/01/20ca70f8-a466-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Episcopal bishop on President Trump: ‘Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence’</a></b></div><div>By Michelle Boorstein and Sarah Pulliam Bailey</div><div><br></div><div>The Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, was seething. President Trump had just visited St. John’s Episcopal Church, which sits across from the White House. It was a day after a fire was set in the basement of the historic building amid protests over the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police. Before heading to the church, where presidents have worshiped since the days of James Madison, Trump gave a speech at the White House emphasizing the importance of law and order. Federal officers then used force to clear a large crowd of peaceful demonstrators from the street between the White House and the church, apparently so Trump could make the visit. “I am outraged,” Budde said in a telephone interview a short time later, pausing between words to emphasize her anger as her voice slightly trembled.</div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/02/outrageous-christian-leaders-reject-trump-use-of-church-as-prop-during-george-floyd-protests" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Bishop 'outraged' over Trump's church photo op during George Floyd protests</a></b></span></div><div>The Rev Mariann Budde says the institution aligns itself with those seeking justice for Floyd’s death</div><div>By Mario Koran and Helen Sullivan</div><div><br></div><div>The Episcopal bishop of Washington DC has said she is “outraged” after officers used teargas to clear a crowd of peaceful protesters from near the White House to make way for Donald Trump. Minutes after speaking in the Rose Garden about the importance of “law and order” to quell the unrest over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Trump walked across the street to St John’s Episcopal church, where every American president since James Madison has worshipped. But not before police used teargas and force to clear the streets for Trump’s photo opportunity. Once he arrived at St John’s, Trump held up a Bible that read “God is love”, while posing in front of the church’s sign. The Right Rev Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, told the Washington Post: “I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call, that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.” Trump’s message is at odds with the values of love and tolerance espoused by the church, Budde said, before describing the president’s visit as an opportunity to use the church, and a Bible, as a “backdrop”.</div></div><div><hr><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/06/02/867705160/he-did-not-pray-fallout-grows-from-trump-s-photo-op-at-st-john-s-church" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">'He Did Not Pray': Fallout Grows From Trump's Photo-Op At St. John's Church</a></b><br></div><div>By Bill Chappell </div><div><br></div><div>President Trump's controversial foray to St. John's Church on Monday is generating widespread criticism, after police and National Guard troops physically cleared out demonstrators, using tear gas, to allow a photo opportunity outside the church. The bishop who oversees St. John's is among the critics. "He used violent means to ask to be escorted across the park into the courtyard of the church," Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington tells NPR's Morning Edition. "He held up his Bible after speaking [an] inflammatory militarized approach to the wounds of our nation." "He did not pray," the bishop continued. "He did not offer a word of balm or condolence to those who are grieving. He did not seek to unify the country, but rather he used our symbols and our sacred space as a way to reinforce a message that is antithetical to everything that the person of Jesus, whom we follow, and the gospel texts that we strive to emulate ... represent." Every president since James Madison has visited St. John's Church, which opened in 1816 and sits across the park from the White House. Despite that longstanding relationship, Budde says her diocese had no warning of Monday's visit. "There was no reaching out, no sense that it would require some sort of authorization before using the church as a backdrop in that way," Budde told NPR's Tom Gjelten hours after the incident. The president had used the Bible, and her church, as a prop, she said.</div></div><hr><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/politics/gini-gerbasi-trump-church-cnntv/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Former minister at church used for Trump's photo-op: 'It was a sacrilege for all people of all faiths'</a></b><br></div><div>By Paul LeBlanc, CNN</div><div><br></div><div>(CNN) A former minister at the church President Donald Trump used as the backdrop for a photo Monday evening slammed the move as "a sacrilege for all people of all faiths." Following a speech from the White House Rose Garden, the President walked to St. John's Episcopal Church, a house of worship used by American presidents for more than a century. Peaceful protesters just outside the White House gates were dispersed with tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets. It was all, apparently, so Trump could visit the church. "I couldn't believe it," the Rev. Gini Gerbasi, who was among the people cleared away from St. John's Church, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead" Tuesday. "When I realized that people had been hurt and terrified for a political stunt, I -- like, offended hardly begins to describe how I feel. I feel -- it was a sacrilege for all people of all faiths -- faiths that are grounded in peacefulness and loving, compassion, reconciliation, wholeness, healing, forgiveness, peace, love, compassion." The move, she continued, "was a sacrilege. An absolute sacrilege." The photo-op followed nearly a week of protests across the country that at times have turned violent over the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis. Trump had been angered by news coverage depicting him holed up in an underground bunker amid protests in Washington. He told aides on Monday he wanted to be seen outside the White House gates, according to a person familiar with the matter, which is part of what drove the decision to stage the photo-op at St. John's Church. Recounting how authorities began charging the crowd in lockstep, Gerbasi said she was "helping wipe away tears in people's eyes and try to tend to them and help them on the grounds and suddenly the police were pushing us back." "And the people were dropping to the ground, afraid. And they were -- when they'd hear those flash sounds, they thought they were being shot, and people were running at us. And literally at some point, when I looked up and the police were so close, I had to just grab some things and run."</div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/dc-national-guard-investigation-helicopters-floyd-protests/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">DC National Guard investigating actions by its low-flying helicopters during Monday night protests</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Washington (CNN) The District of Columbia National Guard is investigating the actions of its helicopters Monday night that were observed doing slow, low-level passes and hovering over crowds in an apparent attempt to disperse those who were out past the city's curfew, protesting over the death of George Floyd. The DC National Guard first announced the investigation on Tuesday, saying in a statement provided to CNN that its commanding general, Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, "directed an investigation into a June 1 low-flying maneuver conducted by one of our rotary aviation assets." In a longer statement Wednesday, the Guard said that it is investigating the use of a "medical evacuation helicopter as part of the Joint Task Force DC operation." The investigation is to ensure all the helicopters involved Monday "complied with applicable procedures and safety regulations," the Guard said. "I hold all members of the District of Columbia National Guard to the highest of standards. We live and work in the District, and we are dedicated to the service of our nation," Walker said in a statement. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">On Monday, crowds protested outside the White House over the death of Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis. As the city curfew was about to go into effect at 7 p.m. ET., law enforcement began pushing back the crowd using tear gas, smoke canisters and rubber bullets. A spokesman for the Pentagon claimed to CNN Tuesday the National Guard did not fire tear gas or rubber bullets. Well after the curfew, protesters were still out on the streets, and video captured by CNN showed a military helicopter hovering over a group of them, using its propellers to kick up strong wind and debris. The tactic is a show of force and commonly used by the military in overseas combat zones to drive away targets from a specific area.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/trump-campaign-demands-story-retractions-tear-gas-200603110259366.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump campaign demands story retractions on tear gas use</a></b><br></div><div>Emails sent to news organisations admonish reporting that tear gas was fired at protesters to clear Trump's way.</div><div><br></div><div>Donald Trump's 2020 campaign for the United States presidency sent emails to news organisations, including Al Jazeera, demanding corrections to articles describing security forces' use of tear gas on protesters to make room for the president so he could pose for photographs. Police dispersed hundreds of demonstrators on Monday using gas and rubber-coated bullets in Lafayette Park, outside the White House, so Trump could walk to a nearby church and take pictures with a Bible. As video and photos of the scene circulated on social media and caused outrage, the US Park Police sent a statement defending the action, saying officers used "smoke canisters" and "pepper balls" after "protesters became more combative". It also said no tear gas was used in the incident. "We now know through the US Park Police that neither they, nor any of their law enforcement partners, used tear gas to quell rising violence," Tim Murtaugh, the Trump 2020 campaign's communications director, said in a statement on Tuesday night. "Every news organisation which reported the tear gas lie should immediately correct or retract its erroneous reporting." Despite the claim that no tear gas was fired, photographs taken by news organisations show clouds surrounding demonstrators. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, riot control agents often referred to as tear gas are "chemical compounds that temporarily make people unable to function by causing irritation to the eyes, mouth, throat, lungs, and skin". Compounds from smoke canisters and pepper spray fall under this definition and have similar effects as tear gas, according to the CDC. The most common symptoms of exposure to these chemical agents are burning eyes, blurred vision, a running nose, burning and irritation in the mouth, and chest tightness.</div></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The mayors are not the weak ones; Donald J. Trump is the weak one. Only the weak hid when times get tough and Donald J. Trump is the only one who hid in a bunker.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000019"><div><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">The mayors are not the weak ones; Donald J. Trump is the weak one. Only the weak hid when times get tough and Donald J. Trump is the only one who hid in a bunker.</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>By A.B Mann III</div><div>06/01/2020</div><div><br></div><div><div>Donald J. Trump may talk tough but he is not tough nor is he smart. If he were tough, he would not have hid in the bunker when the protest got close to the Whitehouse. If Trump were smart, he would realize why people are protesting and make an attempt to address the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Tough is not smart, tough is what started the protest in the first place if the police officer had not tried to be tough we would not be in this siltation in the first place. Trump wants the police to get tough on American citizens protesting police killing black people that will not work and may make things worse. Fighting fire with fire does not work; if Trump were smart, he would realize that and try to resolve the underline issues. The smart police officers who marched with the protesters had fewer issues than the police officers who fought the protesters. The strong take from the weak and the smart take from the strong. America needs a smart president not a weak one that hides in a bunker when he gets sacred of American protesters getting to close to the Whitehouse.</div></div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23bunker+boy&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">#Bunker boy</a></div><div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7010462/donald-trump-bunker-white-house-george-floyd/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">'Bunker Boy’: Trump mocked for ‘hiding’ from protesters at White House</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Josh K. Elliott Global News</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">U.S. President Donald Trump bragged over the weekend that he watched “every move” the Secret Service made to protect him on Friday night while hundreds of Americans rallied outside the White House to protest his response to the death of George Floyd. Trump described the Secret Service as “very cool” on Twitter and pushed the conspiracy theory that the protests were not legitimate. He failed to mention that he spent nearly an hour of his Friday night in the White House’s fortified bunker in a rare security response that typically only occurs in the face of a terrorist threat. The Secret Service made the decision to whisk Trump, his wife Melania and his son, Barron, off to the bunker, the New York Times reports. Trump’s critics responded to news of his bunker visit with outrage and mockery, particularly after Trump boasted about his defenders and ridiculed the protesters in several tweets on Saturday. Many Twitter users accused Trump of “hiding” from the American citizens whom he’s supposed to lead through a time of crisis. They also accused him of refusing to acknowledge the anger that has spurred sweeping protests across the United States in recent days after the death of Floyd, the latest unarmed Black man to be killed in an encounter with police. Floyd died in Minneapolis, Minn., last week after a police officer pinned him down with a knee on his neck for several minutes.</span></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/tough-guy-donald-trump-taking-shelter-in-white-house-bunker-during-protests-has-twitter-in-disbelief-2646941.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">'Tough Guy?': Donald Trump Taking Shelter in White House Bunker During Protests Has Twitter in Disbelief</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The US President Donald Trump on Friday took shelter in a bunker as anti-racism protesters gathered outside the White House in Washington, DC.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">News18.com</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">"Biden went to a protest site. Trump went to his bunker. That says everything." Following the death of 46-year-old George Floyd, the United States has been experiencing a series of violent clashes amid protesting demonstrators and police across cities. Several cities in the United States looked like a war zone after rioters torched several police clubs. The US President Donald Trump on Friday took shelter in a bunker as anti-racism protesters gathered outside the White House in Washington, DC. The President was there for a little under an hour before being brought upstairs. On Saturday, only hours after the protests outside the White House had ended, Trump declared himself safe as he lashed out at the city's Democratic mayor and raised the prospect of his supporters gathering in a place that night in what would amount to a counter-protest. The news of Trump "hiding" in the presidential bunker was broken by The New York Times and once Twitter got the whiff of it, they came down hard on the US President. "Donald Trump is hiding in a WH bunker. Most cowardly "tough guy" in history," tweeted one user. </span></div></div><div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/500422-some-police-officers-support-george-floyd-protesters-by-taking-a-knee" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Some police officers support George Floyd protesters by taking a knee, marching</a></b><br></div><div>By Justin Wise</div><div><br></div><div>As tensions escalated between police and protesters throughout the nation, some members of law enforcement showed solidarity with demonstrators by kneeling alongside them and participating in marches over the weekend. The acts came as tensions boiled over in dozens of U.S. cities following the death of George Floyd, an African American man who died in police custody. Several demonstrations have devolved into chaos, with police firing tear gas on protesters and some individuals smashing storefronts and setting buildings ablaze. Amid this backdrop, officers in states such as New York, Oregon, Iowa and Kentucky took knees while policing ongoing demonstrations, in acts that replicated the protest started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Law enforcement leaders in Michigan and Virginia also participated in marches alongside protesters. On Sunday, officers in Queens, N.Y., took a knee with a band of protesters who marched near their precinct. Video of the scene showed dozens of demonstrators cheering as a line of officers knelt alongside many of them. Aleeia Abraham, the leader of The BlaQue Resource Network and the individual who shot the video, told CNN that she'd never seen such a tribute from police. The move to take a knee was replicated in Portland, Ore., and Lexington, Ky. In Portland, video shared by The Oregonian showed a protester urging a Portland police officer to show support for their cause by taking a knee. A subsequent clip showed a dozens of officers clad in riot gear kneeling as a crowd of protestors in front of them chanted, “George Floyd.”</div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[It is time to scrap the Electoral College; it no longer resent the will of the people.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000015"><div class="imHeading1">It is time to scrap the Electoral College; it no longer resent the will of the people.</div><div><span class="fs16lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A.B. Man</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">08/22/2019</span></div><div></div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></div> &nbsp;&nbsp;<div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Electoral College does not resent the will of the people; its usage deprives the people of their vote. If they electors are free to vote as they choose then they do not represent the will of the people. A federal appeals court ruled that presidential electors who cast the actual ballots for president and vice president are free to vote as they wish and cannot be required to follow the results of the popular vote in their states. What is the point of voting when the presidential electors can arbitrarily overrule your vote and vote for the person they want? State can put people in place that can and will override the will of the people. How many times has a president won the Electoral College to win the presidency without winning the popular vote? It is time to scrap the Electoral College.</span></div><div><hr><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/faithless-elector-court-ruling-just-changed-how-we-pick-our-n1044961" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Faithless elector: A court ruling just changed how we pick our president</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The decision could give a single elector the power to decide the outcome of a presidential election — if the popular vote results in an apparent Electoral College tie.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Pete Williams</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that presidential electors who cast the actual ballots for president and vice president are free to vote as they wish and cannot be required to follow the results of the popular vote in their states. The decision could give a single elector the power to decide the outcome of a presidential election — if the popular vote results in an apparent Electoral College tie. "This issue could be a ticking time bomb in our divided politics. It's not hard to imagine how a single faithless elector, voting differently than his or her state did, could swing a close presidential election," said Mark Murray, NBC News senior political editor. It hasn't been much of an issue in American political history because when an elector refuses to follow the results of a state's popular vote, the state simply throws the ballot away. But Tuesday's ruling says states cannot do that. The decision, from a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, is a victory for Micheal Baca, a Colorado Democratic elector in 2016. Under state law, he was required to cast his ballot for Hillary Clinton, who won the state's popular vote. Instead, he crossed out her name and wrote in John Kasich, a Republican and then the governor of Ohio. The secretary of state removed Baca as an elector, discarded his vote and brought in another elector who voted for Clinton. In a 2-1 decision, the appeals court said the nullification of Baca's vote was unconstitutional. When voters go to the polls in presidential races, they actually cast their votes for a slate of electors chosen by the political parties of the nominees. States are free to choose their electors however they want, Tuesday's ruling said, and can even require electors to pledge their loyalty to their political parties. But once the electors are chosen and report in December to cast their votes as members of the Electoral College, they are fulfilling a federal function, and a state's authority has ended. "The states' power to appoint electors does not include the power to remove them or nullify their votes," the court said. Because the Constitution contains no requirement for electors to follow the wishes of a political party, "the electors, once appointed, are free to vote as they choose," assuming that they cast their vote for a legally qualified candidate. - It is time to scrap the Electoral College; it no longer resent the will of the people.</span></div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stealing the Black Vote]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000014"><div class="imHeading1">Stealing the Black Vote</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">How Russia depressed the black vote and sowed racial divisions to help elect Donald J. Trump.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A.B. Man</span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">08/18/2019</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">08/19/2019</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Russia is using racial divisions to depress the black vote and divide America.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/19/opinions/senate-reports-russia-facebook-2016-election-and-race-david-love/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Vladimir Putin focused on depressing the black voter by sowing racial divisions</a> in the 2016 election to make Donald J. Trump the president of America. The disinformation operation was the work of the Russian state-supported Internet Research Agency (IRA), whose work included 10 million tweets, 116,000 Instagram posts, 61,000 Facebook posts and 1,000 videos. Over 30 million users, between 2015 and 2017, shared the IRA’s Facebook and Instagram posts with their friends and family, liking, reacting to, and commenting on them along the way. The IRA went about instigating mistrust in law enforcement and political institutions, while cultivating seemingly authentic narratives of black pride.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">In late 2017, <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/28/media/blacktivist-russia-facebook-twitter/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">it was</a></span><a href="https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/28/media/blacktivist-russia-facebook-twitter/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">first reported by CNN</span></a><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">that the pro-Kremlin enterprise masterminded a plot to infiltrate online communities of the Black Lives Matter movement. <a href="https://disinformationreport.blob.core.windows.net/disinformation-report/NewKnowledge-Disinformation-Report-Whitepaper.pdf" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">New Knowledge’s report</a>, shows a much more sustained and purposeful focus on black Americans—as the IRA went about instigating mistrust in law enforcement and political institutions, while cultivating seemingly authentic narratives of black pride.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">CNN reported Wednesday that at least one of the Facebook ads bought by Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign referenced Black Lives Matter and was specifically targeted to reach audiences in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, two cities that had gained widespread attention for the large and violent protests over police shootings of black men.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ira-target-black-americans/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Black Americans were among the most exploited online communities by the IRA</a>. The IRA went about instigating mistrust in law enforcement and political institutions, while cultivating seemingly authentic narratives of black pride. The IRA specifically targeted black people by leveraging popular social media sites. The campaign was “designed to exploit societal fractures” and “erode our trust in media entities and the information environment, in government, in each other, and in democracy itself,” the report states. “This campaign pursued all of those objectives with innovative skill, scope, and precision.” Of the 1,107 videos linked to the IRA, the majority of the content—96 percent, according to researchers—centered on Black Lives Matter and police brutality.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/russia-favored-trump-targeted-african-americans-election-meddling-reports-say-n948731" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Russians set up 30 Facebook pages targeting black Americans</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">, researchers found, and 10 YouTube channels that posted 571 videos related to police violence against African-Americans. Russian agents who favored Donald Trump's presidential candidacy harnessed the major players of America's tech industry in a sophisticated propaganda effort that was far more extensive than originally understood, according to a detailed analysis prepared for the Senate intelligence committee. The Russian efforts included an attempt to suppress the votes of African-Americans. Researchers combed through millions of posts from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube created by the Internet Research Agency, the St. Petersburg-based firm run by a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin whose key executives have been indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller on charges of defrauding the United States.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-enduring-russian-propaganda-interests-in-targeting-african-americans" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The I.R.A., which is owned by an ally of Vladimir Putin</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">, posted more than a thousand YouTube videos relating to Black Lives Matter and police violence. It created thirty Facebook pages directed at African-Americans that attracted more than a million followers. It created knockoff accounts, such as Black Matters, and outright false ones, such as Blacktivist, to amplify content that was primarily intended to sow dissension. Communist ideology, of course, was no longer part of the equation, but attempting to undermine American authority was: one objective appeared to be planting concerns about Hillary Clinton and racism as a means of depressing the black vote. Alicia Garza, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, told me that activists had noted an uptick in fake content on social media but assumed that it was just standard Internet nuisance. “My suspicion was spamming, and not ‘Holy shit, another government is trying to influence the results of the elections in the United States.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/12/17/18145075/russia-facebook-twitter-internet-research-agency-race" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><span class="fs11lh1-5">Messaging to African Americans sought to divert</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></a><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/12/17/18145075/russia-facebook-twitter-internet-research-agency-race" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">their political energy</a> away from established political institutions by preying on anger with structural inequalities faced by African Americans,” the Oxford report states.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">The reports focus on the Internet Research Agency, a St. Petersburg-based “troll farm” that used several social media</span><strong><b><span style="text-decoration: inherit;" class="fs11lh1-5 ff1"> </span></b></strong><span class="fs11lh1-5">accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram — including ones called “Woke Blacks” and “Blacktivists” — to urge Americans to vote for third-party candidates or sit out the election entirely. Several operatives working for the group were listed</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span style="text-decoration: inherit;" class="fs11lh1-5 ff1">in a February 2018</span><span style="text-decoration: inherit;" class="fs11lh1-5 ff1"> </span><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/2/16/17021420/russia-indictments-mueller-elections-race-voter-fraud-police-violence" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><span style="text-decoration: inherit;" class="fs11lh1-5 ff1">indictment</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> from special counsel Robert Muller</span></a><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">detailing how Russian nationals interfered in the 2016 election.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">The website, BlackMattersUS also sought to build legitimacy by connecting with racial justice activists and by promoting already scheduled protests and events, as well as operating a podcast and creating a Tumblr account that included “descriptions of Hillary Clinton as ‘Satan’s daughter,’ ‘The root of all evil,’ and ‘Himmlery aka (‘Death for Dollars’) – ‘The Benghazi Bullshitter.’”</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/russia-2016-influence-campaign.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Russian influence campaign on social media</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">in the 2016 election made an extraordinary effort to target African-Americans, used an array of tactics to try to suppress turnout among Democratic voters and unleashed a blizzard of activity on Instagram that rivaled or exceeded its posts on Facebook, according to a report produced for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The report adds new details to the portrait that has emerged over the last two years of the energy and imagination of the Russian effort to sway American opinion and divide the country, which the authors said continues to this day. “Active and ongoing interference operations remain on several platforms,” says the report, produced by New Knowledge, a cybersecurity company based in Austin, Tex., along with researchers at Columbia University and Canfield Research LLC. One continuing Russian campaign, for instance, seeks to influence opinion on Syria by promoting Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president and a Russian ally in the brutal conflict there.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/12/17/daily-202-russian-efforts-to-manipulate-african-americans-show-sophistication-of-disinformation-campaign/5c1739291b326b2d6629d4c6/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><span class="fs11lh1-5">The influence operation — run out of St. Petersburg</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></a><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/12/17/daily-202-russian-efforts-to-manipulate-african-americans-show-sophistication-of-disinformation-campaign/5c1739291b326b2d6629d4c6/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">— was sophisticated</a>, relentless and became more effective with time. Its goal was to manipulate identity politics to tear America apart. The Soviet Union had also tried to heighten racial divisions during the Cold War, but their operatives lacked access to the technology platforms that now make it so easy.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">“Messaging to African Americans sought to divert their political energy away from established political institutions by preying on anger with structural inequalities … including police violence, poverty, and disproportionate levels of incarceration,” the report says. “These campaigns pushed a message that the best way to advance the cause of the African American community was to boycott the election and focus on other issues instead.”</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Some black Americans believed the Russian propaganda and did not vote.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Some black Americans</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">bought into the</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_of_two_evils_principle" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Lesser of two evils principle</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">and did not vote</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_of_two_evils_principle" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">That</a></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_of_two_evils_principle" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Lesser of two evils</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></a><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_of_two_evils_principle" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">mantra delivered us to Richard Nixon</a> in 1972 until Watergate did him in. It delivered us to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in 2000 until they were termed out in 2009" and</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">delivered us to</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump in 2016. </span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Republicans have made compromise a bad word, it is not; if no one compromised nothing would get done wars would never end until everyone was dead. We make compromises every day with family members, coworkers and others; without compromising our core values. It is rare that you will agree with everything a person says or does including the person you vote. Your vote should be based on who will provide the best protections for you, your family, your children and your grandchildren.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">If you are one of the 1 percenters or/and don’t care about regulations that save lives, poorer Americans, the land you use, the air you breath or the water you drink then you should vote for a republican, they will help you keep your money and protect your business(s). However you, your family, your children and your grandchildren, may not have access to some government services, may not be able to drink the water or breathe the air in the years ahead thanks to Republicans. Of course, 1 percenters do not need government services; can buy all the water they need when water sources become contaminated. 1 percenters can also buy breathing equipment when the air becomes too unhealthy to breathe. As a 1 percenter you may not care about the public school system since your children attend private schools. As a 1 percenter you may not care about our crumbling infrastructure while you’re flying in your private jet or helicopter. If you are willing to put your greed above your country then you should vote for a republican. If you believe a woman should not have control over her body and her own life and that the government should have control over a woman’s body and life, you should vote for a republican. The Republican Party is no longer the party of Lincoln, <a href="https://www.history.com/news/how-the-party-of-lincoln-won-over-the-once-democratic-south" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">in 1964, the racist started taken over the Republican Party</a>, with election of Trump the takeover is complete. <a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/republicans-define-us-by-racist-policies-not-racist-chants.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">If you support racism or dislike people of color</a>, you should vote for a republican. If you believe lies, and alternative facts over truth and facts, you should vote for a republican.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">If you are not one of the 1 percenters or/and care about regulations that save lives, poorer Americans, the land you use, the air you breath or the water you drink then you should vote for a democrat. Regulations save lives, the lives, it saves could be yours, a family, one of your children or one of your grandchildren. If you think, you, someone in your family, one of your children or your grandchildren care about the air you breathe and the water you drink, may need government services you should vote for a democrat. If you, someone in your family, one of your children or your grandchildren cannot buy all the water they need when water sources become contaminated, cannot afford to buy breathing equipment when the air becomes too unhealthy to breathe you should vote for a democrat. If you care about care about America, our schools or crumbling infrastructure you should vote for a democrat. If you believe, a woman should have control over her body and her own life you should vote for a democrat. If you are a person of color or do not support racism you should vote for a democrat. Who you vote for is up to you black Americans died so black Americans could vote; do not dishonor them by not voting.</span></div></div></div></div><div></div></div><div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">This article was sourced from the following sources:</span></div><div><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/534-oxford-russia-internet-research-agency/c6588b4a7b940c551c38/optimized/full.pdf#page=1" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Executive Summary: Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) launched an extended attack on the United States by using computational propaganda to misinform and polarize US voters. This report provides the first major analysis of this attack based on data provided by social media firms to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). This analysis answers several key questions about the activities of the known IRA accounts. In this analysis, we investigate how the IRA exploited the tools and platform of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube to impact US users. We identify which aspects of the IRA’s campaign strategy got the most traction on social media and the means of microtargeting US voters with particular messages.</span></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/19/opinions/senate-reports-russia-facebook-2016-election-and-race-david-love/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russia's targeting of black voters is a very American thing to do</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By David A. Love</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">(CNN) When Vladimir Putin focused on black voter depression and sowing racial divisions in the 2016 election to help propel Donald Trump into the White House, he engaged in what is, unfortunately, a longstanding and time-tested American practice. Two reports commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee found that a Russian disinformation campaign interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump by exploiting all major social media platforms and sowing racial and political divisions. Specifically, the Russian influence campaign on social media targeted African-American voters to depress Democratic turnout. The first report, produced by Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity company New Knowledge, found that Russian interference in the 2016 election involved hacking attempts on online voting systems, a cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee, and a "sweeping and sustained social influence operation consisting of various coordinated disinformation tactics aimed directly at US citizens, designed to exert political influence and exacerbate social divisions in US culture." The disinformation operation was the work of the Russian state-supported Internet Research Agency (IRA), whose work included 10 million tweets, 116,000 Instagram posts, 61,000 Facebook posts and 1,000 videos.</span></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ira-target-black-americans/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">TARGETING BLACK AMERICANS, RUSSIA'S IRA EXPLOITED RACIAL WOUNDS</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By ASON PARHAM - SECURITY</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">TWO DAYS BEFORE the 2016 presidential election, @woke_blacks posted an anti-voting polemic to its Instagram account. “The excuse that a lost Black vote for Hillary is a Trump win is bs. Should you decide to sit-out the election, well done for the boycott,” the caption read. “I remind us all one more time, anyone who wins can literally change less about the state of Black people, we are on our own, esp. after Obama. Wise up my people!” Another user, @afrokingdom_, shared a comparable sentiment: “Black people are smart enough to understand that Hillary doesn’t deserve our votes! DON’T VOTE!” According to a new report commissioned for the Senate Intelligence Committee by cybersecurity firm New Knowledge, those accounts, along with dozens more, were part of an extensive and complex campaign to suppress the black American vote by the Russian firm Internet Research Agency. In late 2017, it was first reported by CNN that the pro-Kremlin enterprise masterminded a plot to infiltrate online communities of the Black Lives Matter movement. But New Knowledge’s report, released Monday, shows a much more sustained and purposeful focus on black Americans—as the IRA went about instigating mistrust in law enforcement and political institutions, while cultivating seemingly authentic narratives of black pride.</span></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/28/media/blacktivist-russia-facebook-twitter/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Exclusive: Fake black activist accounts linked to Russian government</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">by Donie O'Sullivan and Dylan Byers &nbsp;&nbsp;@CNNMoney</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A social media campaign calling itself "Blacktivist" and linked to the Russian government used both Facebook and Twitter in an apparent attempt to amplify racial tensions during the U.S. presidential election, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN. The Twitter account has been handed over to Congress; the Facebook account is expected to be handed over in the coming days. Both Blacktivist accounts, each of which used the handle Blacktivists, regularly shared content intended to stoke outrage. "Black people should wake up as soon as possible," one post on the Twitter account read. "Black families are divided and destroyed by mass incarceration and death of black men," another read. The accounts also posted videos of police violence against African Americans. The Blacktivist accounts provide further evidence that Russian-linked social media accounts saw racial tensions as something to be exploited in order to achieve the broader Russian goal of dividing Americans and creating chaos in U.S. politics during a campaign in which race repeatedly became an issue.</span></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/how-russian-operatives-targeted-black-americans/578437/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">When Is a Meme a Foreign-Influence Operation?</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">It’s disturbing how easily Internet Research Agency accounts blended into America’s online life. In their efforts to influence the 2016 election, Russian operatives targeted every major social platform, but one demographic group, black Americans, got special treatment, according to two reports made public by the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday. The reports—one</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">published by New Knowledge</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">, a new disinformation-monitoring group, and the other by the</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Computational Propaganda Project</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">at the University of Oxford—both tally large numbers of posts across social media that generated millions of interactions with unsuspecting Americans. New Knowledge counted up 77 million engagements on Facebook, 187 million on Instagram, and 73 million on Twitter. The think tank divvied up the activity into three buckets: content that targeted the left, the right, and … African Americans.</span></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/17/russian-propagandists-targeted-african-americans-2016-election" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russian propagandists targeted African Americans to influence 2016 US election</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Operatives used social media to suppress votes for Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump, new research finds. Russian online propagandists aggressively targeted African Americans during the 2016 US election campaign to suppress votes for Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump, according to new research. Analysts found that Russian operatives used social media to “confuse, distract, and ultimately discourage” black people and other pro-Clinton blocs from voting, using bogus claims such as Clinton receiving money from the Ku Klux Klan. Black turnout declined in 2016 for the first presidential election in 20 years, according to the US census bureau, falling to less than 60% from a record high of 66.6% in 2012. Exit polls indicated that black voters strongly</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">favored</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Clinton over Trump.</span><br></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/russia-favored-trump-targeted-african-americans-election-meddling-reports-say-n948731" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russia favored Trump, targeted African-Americans with election meddling, reports say</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Ken Dilanian and Ben Popken</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Russians set up 30 Facebook pages targeting black Americans, researchers found, and 10 YouTube channels that posted 571 videos related to police violence against African-Americans. WASHINGTON — Russian agents who favored Donald Trump's presidential candidacy harnessed the major players of America's tech industry in a sophisticated propaganda effort that was far more extensive than originally understood, according to a detailed analysis prepared for the Senate intelligence committee. The Russian efforts included an attempt to suppress the votes of African-Americans. Researchers combed through millions of posts from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube created by the Internet Research Agency, the St. Petersburg-based firm run by a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin whose key executives have been indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller on charges of defrauding the United States.</span></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/12/17/18145075/russia-facebook-twitter-internet-research-agency-race" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">How Russia exploited racial tensions in America during the 2016 elections</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By P.R. Lockhart</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">New reports detail how Russian internet trolls manipulated outrage over racial injustice in America. More than two years after the 2016 elections, media outlets and academics are still discovering the extent of Russian disinformation campaigns aimed at American voters. Now, a pair of independent reports prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee add to a wealth of evidence that targeting African Americans and suppressing black turnout was a crucial aspect of this effort. According to the reports, one from Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and Graphika and others from a team of researchers from cybersecurity firm New Knowledge, Columbia University, and Canfield Research, a group of Russian agents utilized not only Facebook and Twitter, but also sites including Instagram, Tumblr, and YouTube in an effort to amplify racial divisions ahead of the 2016 elections. “[M]essaging to African Americans sought to divert their political energy away from established political institutions by preying on anger with structural inequalities faced by African Americans,” the Oxford report states. The reports focus on the Internet Research Agency, a St. Petersburg-based “troll farm” that used several social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram — including ones called “Woke Blacks” and “Blacktivists” — to urge Americans to vote for third-party candidates or sit out the election entirely. Several operatives working for the group were listed in a February 2018 indictment from special counsel Robert Muller detailing how Russian nationals interfered in the 2016 election.</span></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/russia-2016-influence-campaign.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Scott Shane and Sheera Frenkel</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Russian influence campaign on social media in the 2016 election made an extraordinary effort to target African-Americans, used an array of tactics to try to suppress turnout among Democratic voters and unleashed a blizzard of activity on Instagram that rivaled or exceeded its posts on Facebook, according to a report produced for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The report adds new details to the portrait that has emerged over the last two years of the energy and imagination of the Russian effort to sway American opinion and divide the country, which the authors said continues to this day. “Active and ongoing interference operations remain on several platforms,” says the report, produced by New Knowledge, a cybersecurity company based in Austin, Tex., along with researchers at Columbia University and Canfield Research LLC. One continuing Russian campaign, for instance, seeks to influence opinion on Syria by promoting Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president and a Russian ally in the brutal conflict there.</span></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.theroot.com/report-russians-targeted-black-americans-in-social-med-1831159678" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Report: Russians Targeted Black Americans in Social Media Campaigns to Disrupt 2016 Election</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Monique Judge</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">When most people hear the word “propaganda,” it probably sounds like a far-off concept or idea or something that only happens in other countries and never here in the United States. The fact is that the U.S. launched full propaganda campaigns as part of the war effort during both WWI and WWII. Propaganda is a part of our everyday lives here in the United States, and it comes in many forms, including radio and television commercials, print advertisements and the kinds of “news” reports that come out of outlets like InfoWars and Breitbart. “What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party—and specifically Donald Trump,” the Oxford report says. “Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting.”</span></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/12/17/daily-202-russian-efforts-to-manipulate-african-americans-show-sophistication-of-disinformation-campaign/5c1739291b326b2d6629d4c6/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Daily 202: Russian efforts to manipulate African Americans show sophistication of disinformation campaign</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By James Hohmann With Joanie Greve</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">THE BIG IDEA: A new report prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee reveals that the Russians, in their bid to boost President Trump, have been more fixated than previously understood on trying to dampen African American political engagement. Researchers at Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and Graphika, a network analysis firm, spent seven months analyzing millions of social media posts that major technology firms turned over to congressional investigators. Their goal was to understand the inner workings of the Internet Research Agency, which the U.S. government has charged with criminal offenses for interfering in the 2016 election. It turns out that African Americans were targeted with more Facebook ads than any other group, including conservatives. Three of the four most-liked Facebook posts put up by the Russian influence effort came from an account called Blacktivist that urged the community to be more cynical about politics. African Americans were urged to vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein throughout the month before the 2016 election. A post on Oct. 29 that year declared: “NO LIVES MATTER TO HILLARY CLINTON. ONLY VOTES MATTER TO HILLARY CLINTON.” A message on Nov. 3 added: “NOT VOTING is a way to exercise our rights.” On Twitter, four of the Russian agency’s five most‐retweeted accounts catered exclusively to African Americans. On Instagram, all five of the most-liked posts created by the Russians were aimed at African American women. They included the hashtags #blackpower, #blackpride, #unapologeticallyblack, #blacklivesmatter, #icantbreathe, #riot and #blackgirlskillingit.</span></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_of_two_evils_principle" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Lesser of two evils principle</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">That mantra delivered us to Richard Nixon in 1972 until Watergate did him in. And it delivered us to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in 2000 until they were termed out in 2009"</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><b><span class="fs11lh1-5">- And Trump on 2016</span></b></div><div><hr><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-enduring-russian-propaganda-interests-in-targeting-african-americans" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Jelani Cobb</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">”The I.R.A., which is owned by an ally of Vladimir Putin, posted more than a thousand YouTube videos relating to Black Lives Matter and police violence. It created thirty Facebook pages directed at African-Americans that attracted more than a million followers. It created knockoff accounts, such as Black Matters, and outright false ones, such as Blacktivist, to amplify content that was primarily intended to sow dissension. Communist ideology, of course, was no longer part of the equation, but attempting to undermine American authority was: one objective appeared to be planting concerns about Hillary Clinton and racism as a means of depressing the black vote. Alicia Garza, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, told me that activists had noted an uptick in fake content on social media but assumed that it was just standard Internet nuisance. “My suspicion was spamming, and not ‘Holy shit, another government is trying to influence the results of the elections in the United States,’”<br></span><hr></div></div></div>]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000013"><div class="imHeading1">What is Donald J. Trump hiding? Why does he not show us his taxes if he has nothing to hide?</div><div>Trump wanted to see Obama’s birth certificate we want to see Trump’s taxes.</div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div><br></div><div><div>Why does Donald J. Trump not want to show us his taxes? Trump said he would show us his taxes now is suing to prevent access to his taxes. What is Trump hiding no one is under audit for over three years no one except crooks and tax cheats. Granted Trump could be both his casino was fined 10 million dollars and his foundation was determined to be a fraud. However if he is under audit he would have a letter from the IRS that he could show the American people to prove that he is under audit. If he is not under audit then he would not have a letter to prove he was under audit and maybe that is why he has not provided us the letter, he does not have one. If Trump was really under audit he would have showed us a letter from the IRS stating so, he has not. Trump is a known liar how can anyone believe him when he lies about his lies and has not provided any proof he is under audit. Trump is suing to prevent access to his taxes; if there were nothing to hide, he would not be suing. What is Trump hiding from the American people?</div></div><div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html " class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></b></span></div></div><div><div>If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more. <br><hr></div></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 20:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000012"><div class="imHeading1">Maybe Trump is the one who should leave our country, he complains about our country and attacks our intuitions</div><div><div>If they should leave then Trump has to go he complains about our country more than all of them combined.</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div>A. B. Man III<br> 07/16/2019</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"></span> </div> &nbsp;<div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/18/fareed_zakaria_its_okay_for_white_men_to_criticize_america_trump_did_it_constantly_in_2016.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump has constantly criticized American where is the outcry for him to leave?</a> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump complains about and attacks our intelligent agencies, our justice department, our court system, the FBI and more. Trump has put Putin above our country, he believes Putin over our intelligent agencies. How many times has Trump sided with the Russians over our intelligent agencies? Trump is the only American president who is willing to side with an American adversary over intelligent agencies. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiJqRFozPQY" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">US anger as Trump sides with Putin over FBI on Russia 'meddling' | ITV News.</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></div> &nbsp;<div><b>Some of Trump’s attacks on our intuitions:<br> </b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rBzHCvV8ys" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump attacks FBI and its investigations</a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXKGSanvsEg" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"> FBI, Mueller credibility attacks propaganda coming from Trump administration?</a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSjBLTFyOq8" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"> The Trump Presidency: Trump attacks FBI, James Comey on Twitter</a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_14hO1gmu6E" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"> President-elect Trump disputes U.S. intelligence agencies</a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEUyLw6ZoJc" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"> Trump denies Russia leverage claims, attacks intelligence agencies</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Some of Trump’s tweets on how much he dislikes our country: <br> </b>Donald J. Trump - Our country and our "leaders" are getting dumber all the time. Now they are about to release full documentation on torture. Will destroy CIA 3:35 PM - 8 Dec 2014. </div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div>Donald J. Trump - Why are we letting the three girls, who left the U.S. to join ISIS, back into the country? How stupid has our once respected country become! 4:40 AM - 22 Oct 2014. </div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div>Donald J. Trump - Did you ever think our country would &nbsp;become an economic basket case? So much for Hope &amp; Change. 1:34 PM - 8 Oct 2013. </div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div>Donald J. Trump - Have you ever seen our country look weaker or more pathetic: Snowden, ObamaCare, VA, Russia, jobs, decimated military, debt and so much more 5:28 AM - 29 May 2014. </div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div>Donald J. Trump Our country is looking very bad right now! 6:11 PM - 2 Sep 2013. </div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div>Donald J. Trump - Do you really believe our once great country can continue to survive with incompetent leadership. The answer is no and we better move fast! 1:43 PM - 26 Jan 2014.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Donald J. Trump has complained more about our country than anyone including some of our enemies. Donald J. Trump has done more harm to our democracy, our country than many of our enemies. Donald J. Trump if you don’t like it here maybe you are the one who needs to leave our country and go back to Germany or maybe to &nbsp;Russia they helped you win the election maybe they will take you.</div></div></div><div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html " class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></b></span></div></div><div><div>If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more. </div></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is Donald J. Trump the next Benedict Arnold or Kim Philby?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000010"><div><div class="imHeading1">Is Donald J. Trump the next <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Benedict Arnold</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Kim Philby</a>?</div><div>Repeatedly Trump has praised Putin and put Russian interest above American interest. Trump has been more of a Russian asset than he is an American president.</div><div><br></div><div>A. B. Man III</div><div>01/14/2019 </div><div><br></div></div><div><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump has attacked our people, our democracy, our institutions and our allies while <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/mueller-report-trump-helped-putin-destabilize-us-watergate-journalist-1289541" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">prompting Russian interests above American interests</a> and our allies’ interests. Trump has done the bidding of Russia he has eroded trust in our institutions. Trump has also eroded our allies trust in America. On a daily basis, Trump is destroying America standing at home and abroad. No American presidential candidate except</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump has asked a hostile foreign government to hack their opponent email</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">s. Trump must be working with them because the Russians began to hacking the democrats the day he called on them to</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">find Clinton's emails</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">. No American president has attacked our institutions as recklessly or on the scale that Trump has. No American president except trump has backed a foreign president over our intelligent agencies. No American president except Trump has backed a foreign government over America, let alone one that is hostel to America. No American president except Trump has given classified information to a foreign adversary. How many classified secrets has Trump given the Russians that do not know about?</span><br><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump likes to claim he is harder on Russia than any other president no he has not congress has been but Trump has not. Trump has made a lot of claims but none of them true remember</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">no Russian contact</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">,</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">biggest crowd ever</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">, did not have a</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">relationship with Stormy Daniels</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">, did not know about the</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">payment to Stormy Daniels</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">,</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Mexico will pay for the wall</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">to name a few of the lies told by Trump. It makes you wonder about that no collusion claim more likely than not, that will be proving false as well. If Trump is not a Russian asset then why does he not allow others in the room when he speaks to Putin? If Trump is not a Russian asset then why would he</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">take the notes of interpreter and tell, the interpreter not to speak to anyone</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">about what was discussed. The only reason one would take steps to hide what was discussed is if they had something to hide. What does Donald J. trump have to hide? Did Trump give away more classified secrets? Americans should be very worried about what Trump and Putin discussed in their secrets meetings. All Americans should be very worried that Trump is a Russian asset.</span><br><br><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">case that Trump is a Russian asset</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">is strong and one has to wonder what Russia has on Trump or is he a willing Russian asset.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">If Trump is not a Russian asset then why does</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump and Russia parrot the same talking points</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">? If Trump is not a Russian asset then why does Trump put Putin and Russia above America and our allies? If Trump is not a Russian asset then why does Trump need to conceal his discussions with Putin?</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump’s attacks on our institutions is dividing our country and harming our democracy something that makes Russia very happy, that is something that a mole or spy would do. If Trump was a Democrat Republicans would be calling for his head and talking impeachment or the 25th amendment, instead Republicans are defending Trump and attacking our institutions. By defending Trump and attacking our institutions, Republicans are dividing our country and helping Putin and Russia.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Republicans need to stop protecting Trump and start protecting America and the American people from what be a Russian asset.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Republicans put party above country; Republicans will believe alternative facts and conspiracy theories before they will believe the truth. Real Americans put country above party and truth above alternative facts. The fact is Trump maybe compromised, Americans deserve to know the truth about Trump, and if Trump is compromised, he needs to be impeached and sent to jail, lock him up. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump maybe a</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Benedict Arnold</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">or</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Kim Philby</a> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">if he is there is no telling how much damage he has done and much more damage he could do.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> The only question is will </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump go to Russia if it comes out that he is working with or for the Russians as </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Kim Philby</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">did?</span></div></div><div><hr><div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html " class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></b></span><br></div><div>If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more.</div></div><hr><div><b><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/the-trump-russia-affair.html" class="imCssLink">Trump-Russia Affair</a></span></b></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump, his son and an unknown number of people from the Trump campaign conspired (colluded) with the Russians to help elect Donald J. Trump.</span><br><hr><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/pastnews/the-mueller-investigation.html" class="imCssLink">The Mueller Investigation</a></span></b><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">The investigation in to how the Russians infiltrated the Trump campaign and the Republican Party to help get Donald J. Trump elected president.</span><br><hr><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/ trump-a-russian-mole.html" class="imCssLink">Is Donald J. Trump a Russian mole or Russian spy?</a></span></b><br><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The evidence shows Trump has been compromised and may be a Russian mole spying on America for Putin and Russia for how long nobody knows. Trump could be a mole or spy Russia turned long ago.</span></div></div></div><div><hr><div><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-media-cheers-trump-moves-in-syria-putin-won-the-lottery" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russian Media Cheers Trump’s Moves in Syria: ‘Putin Won the Lottery!’</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">For Russia, Trump’s presidency is a gift that keeps on giving. The Kremlin’s propagandists see no acceptable alternative among any viable presidential candidates in 2020.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Julia Davis</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">President Trump has boasted he’s “getting a lot of praise” for his abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops out of northern Syria, abandoning the Kurds—America’s longstanding allies—to Turkey’s incursion. On the home front, the controversial move has been met with criticism on both sides of the political aisle, but the reaction in Moscow was far from mixed. As Trump uncorked chaos in the Middle East, champagne tops were likely popping at the Kremlin. “Putin won the lottery! Russia’s unexpected triumph in the Middle East,” raved Mikhail Rostovsky in his article for the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. “Those who were convinced of Trump’s uselessness for Russia ought to think again...What Washington got out of this strange move is completely unclear. To the contrary, what Moscow gained from this is self-evident...Trump’s mistake in Syria is the unexpected ‘lottery win’ that further strengthened Moscow’s position in the Middle East and undermined America’s prestige as a rational political player and a reliable partner.” Maksim Yusin, the editor of international politics at the leading Russian business daily Kommersant, was amazed by the ongoing stream of inexplicable actions by the American president that benefit the Kremlin. “All of this benefits the Russian Federation,” Yusin marveled. “You know, I’ve been watching Trump’s behavior lately and get seditious thoughts: maybe he really is a Russian agent? He is laboring so hard to strengthen the international image of Russia in general—and Putin in particular...In this situation, Americans—to their chagrin and our enjoyment—are the only losers in this situation.” “This is such a pleasure,” grinned Olga Skabeeva, the host of Russia’s state television program 60 Minutes. more...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/fusion-gps-founders-publish-book-trump-ties-russia-steele-dossier.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Fusion GPS Founders to Publish Book on Trump’s Ties With Russia</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Daniel Politi</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The co-founders of a political research firm who found themselves embroiled in a national scandal and intrigue due to their claims about President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia will be publishing a book next month that promises to be explosive. Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump will be published Nov. 26 co-written by Fusion GPS founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch. Penguin Random House is billing the book as a “An All the President’s Men for the Trump era,” saying it will tell the “inside story of the Steele Dossier and the Trump-Russia investigation.” Simpson and Fritsch, both of whom are former journalists, hired a British former intelligence officer, Christopher Steele, to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump. They were first hired by a rival Republican and then Democrats took over the contract. As part of the investigation, Steele claimed that Kremlin had compromising material on Trump and had even spied on him with prostitutes in a Moscow motel. Steele also said Moscow had launched an effort to get Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. Trump vehemently denied the claims outlined in what became known as the Steele dossier but the book will argue that its findings were largely accurate. In the book, the authors chronicle “their high-stakes investigation and their desperate efforts to warn both the American and British governments, the FBI and the media, to little avail,” notes Penguin Random House. “After four years on his trail, the authors’ inescapable conclusion is that Trump is an asset of the Russian government, whether he knows it or not.”</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/fusion-gps-founders-publish-book-trump-ties-russia-steele-dossier.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/russia-is-common-thread-between-trumps-ukraine-and-syria-problems.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Common thread for Mueller, Ukraine and Syria: Russia Helps Trump, Trump Helps Russia</a></span></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">by John Harwood</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Just as the furor over Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation subsided over the summer, two new international storms engulfed the White House. On Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s use of diplomatic pressure to damage a 2020 election rival have House Democrats poised to impeach him. On Syria, his green light for Turkey to attack American-aligned Kurdish forces has roiled Republicans, too. The simultaneous spectacles may confuse average Americans who pay scant attention to foreign affairs. In fact, they contain a common thread. In each case, the president has helped Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which has helped him for years with money and political support. They represent different chapters of the same story. The Republican president’s alignment with Moscow — unthinkable to an earlier generation’s GOP — is familiar enough to blend into the 2019 background. Yet it represents a rare consistent theme of Trump’s late-life turn to politics. Before Trump sought the presidency, his children publicly identified Russians as key financing sources for the family real estate business. A Russian oligarch paid Trump $95 million for a Florida mansion he’d bought for less than half that price; another Russian linked to organized crime became a partner in the Trump Soho project. As a 2016 candidate, Trump hired a campaign chairman who had advised a Putin-allied Ukrainian leader, and a national security advisor who later lied to federal investigators about conversations with the Kremlin’s ambassador. Both men, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, have plead guilty to felonies. U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia, which attacked Ukraine after the leader Manafort advised was ousted from power in 2014, interfered in the 2016 campaign to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/russia-is-common-thread-between-trumps-ukraine-and-syria-problems.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-fingerprints-are-all-over-trumps-ukraine-whistleblower-scandal" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russia’s Fingerprints Are All Over Trump’s Ukraine Whistleblower Scandal</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Prominent figures on Russian TV have been openly putting out the same ideas that we now know the American president was privately pursuing.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Julia Davis - the daily beast</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Elements of the bombshell whistleblower report outlining various aims pursued by the Trump administration with respect to Ukraine keep connecting back to Russia. Several of the reported objectives of President Donald Trump, his administration officials, and his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, would benefit the Kremlin and not the United States or its national security. Namely, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was urged to make a deal with Putin, pressured “to play ball” with respect to providing or manufacturing compromising materials about Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden, and essentially tasked with concocting “the evidence” to disprove the well-established fact that the Democratic National Committee server was hacked by Russian intelligence agents in 2016. The unconscionable demand for Ukraine to make “a deal” with an invader— which has annexed and occupied its territory and continues to fuel an armed conflict that has claimed more than 13,000 lives—would mean a surrender of Ukraine’s national interests for the benefit of the Kremlin. It would also lead to the lifting of sanctions against Russia for its aggression in Ukraine. Casting doubt on Russia’s involvement in the hack of the DNC server would potentially lead to the lifting of sanctions against Russia for its election-meddling and other malign activities. Attacking the credibility of Biden, frequently described by Kremlin-controlled state television as “Trump’s most dangerous rival,” would also benefit Putin, who openly admitted that he wanted President Trump to be elected in 2016. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-fingerprints-are-all-over-trumps-ukraine-whistleblower-scandal" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><b><span class="fs11lh1-5">- Once again, Trump is caught doing what Putin wants over the interest of America.<br></span></b><hr></div></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2019 23:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Trump’s billion dollar boondoggle wall would not stop a 9/11 event, prevent people who overstay their visas or stop domestic terrorist.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000000E"><div class="imHeading1">Trump’s billion dollar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boondoggle" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boondoggle', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">boondoggle</a> wall would not stop a 9/11 event, stop drugs, stop smugglers, prevent people who overstay their visas or stop domestic terrorist.</div><div><span class="ff1">Why do the American people have pay for a wall that Donald J. Trump promised Mexico would pay for?</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><br></div><div><span class="ff1">A. B. Man III</span></div><div><span class="ff1">01/11/2019 </span></div><div><span class="ff1"> </span></div><div><span class="ff1"> </span></div><div><span class="ff1"><br></span></div><div><span class="ff1"><br></span></div><div><span class="ff1">Most illegal immigrants do not come across the Mexican border they fly in on airplanes and overstay their visas; Trump’s wall would not stop that. The 9/11 terrorist did not come across the Mexican border they flew in on airplanes; Trump’s wall would not stop someone from doing it again. Americans have killed far more Americans than people who have come across the Mexican border; Trump’s wall will not stop Americans from killing more Americans. Right wing domestic terrorist have killed and terrorized far more Americans than people who have come across the Mexican border; Trump’s wall will not stop right wing domestic terrorist from killing terrorizing more Americans. Where is the outcry for Americans who have been killed or terrorized by right wing domestic terrorist?</span></div> &nbsp;<div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump’s wall will not stop someone with a rope, a ladder or a shovel. Trump’s wall will not stop drugs or smugglers who use underground tunnels, cars, trucks, drones, airplanes or legal ports of entry. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="cf1">M</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="cf1">ost drugs come in from legal ports of entry</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> Trump wall will stop that. Donald J. Trump is blackmailing congress and the American people he shut down the federal government to make the American people pay for the wall Trump said Mexico would pay for. Donald J. Trump wants Americans taxpayer to pay </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="cf1">$60 billion dollars</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> or more for a </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-commencement-speech-wall/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-commencement-speech-wall/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">concrete wall</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> he promised Mexico would pay for. Why would Donald J. Trump and the right wing want to shut down the federal government to make the American people for a wall Trump said Mexico would pay for? Trump and the GOP are going to make the Americans pay for a wall that Trump promised Mexico would pay for. Should the American people pay for a wall that Donald J. Trump promised Mexico would pay for </span><b class="fs11lh1-5">HELL NO</b><span class="fs11lh1-5">. There are better ways to protect our border such as drones, cameras and electronic detection. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="cf1">Don the Con pulled has pulled a bait and switch on the American people</span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> Trump and the Republicans are playing the American people for suckers they are going to make the American people pay for the wall that Trump promised Mexico would pay for. Donald J. Trump if you are as rich as you claim to be, you put up the $5 billion and get your money back from Mexico.</span><br></div><div><hr><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></b></span><br></div><div>If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more. </div><div></div></div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/14/trump-pushes-wall-authorities-keep-finding-drug-tunnels-under-us-mexico-border/?utm_term=.780afd968bea" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">As Trump pushes for a wall, authorities keep finding drug tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border</a></b></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> - &nbsp;Kristine Phillips</span><br></div><div>One tunnel is about 50 feet long, unfinished, and stretches across two countries. It starts along the drainage channels that a U.S. border town shares with Mexico, and abruptly ends underneath a parking lot in Arizona. Another one runs about 80 feet, also unfinished. Its opening was found inside an abandoned store in the Mexican border city of Nogales. A third one is about 30 feet, also found somewhere in Nogales, though it’s unclear where it starts or ends. These tunnels, which authorities suspect were built to smuggle illegal contraband or people across the border, were found within the past month, as President Trump continues to demand $5.7 billion to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico. The stalemate over Trump’s signature campaign promise has resulted in what is now the longest government shutdown in the country’s history, leaving thousands of federal workers without pay. The president has argued that building physical barriers would stave off illegal immigration and drug trafficking into the United States. But experts say these tunnels reaffirm a reality at the southern border: Drugs are trafficked into the country through multiple channels, including underground. A physical barrier, whether it’s fencing, steel slats or a concrete wall, would keep out people who are willing to play by the rules. But for those who aren’t or can’t afford to, walls are mere temporary inconveniences, said David Shirk, an international relations professor at the University of San Diego.</div></div> &nbsp;<div> </div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2019 01:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Donald J. Trump (aka Don the Con) has pulled off the greatest bait and switch ever pulled.]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000000F"><div class="imHeading1">Donald J. Trump (aka Don the Con) has pulled off the greatest bait and switch ever pulled.</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Don the Con has done it so well his supporters do not realize they been had and the American taxpayer was always going to pay for the wall not Mexico.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">01/11/20019 </span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Trump baited the American people by saying Mexico would pay for a concrete wall. He convinced his supports that Mexico would pay for a wall. Mexico was never going to pay for the wall but at every campaign stop during the 2016 election campaign Trump, repeatedly promised Mexico would pay for the wall his supporters fell for it hook line and sinker. Mexico paying for the wall was one of trumps greatest hits. Trump is lying once again, now Trump is saying he never said that Mexico would pay for the wall. Trump can lie and lie about his lies all he wants there are videos to prove that he is a liar. Trump is lying when he says he never said Mexico would pay for the wall. Trump is also lying when he says it was not a concrete wall. Trump shut down the government to force the American people to pay for a steel slat wall that once was concrete that he promised Mexico would pay for. Getting the American people to pay for a steel slat wall that once was concrete that Trump promised repeatedly Mexico would pay for has to be the greatest bait and switch ever pulled.</div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Donald J. Trump News</b></span><br></div><div>If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more.</div></div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Don The Con The Real Donald J. Trump</b></span></div><div>Don the Con is a con man, a threat to the free press, free speech, free trade, the rule of law, our democracy and the American way of life.</div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Donald J. Trump (aka Don the Con)</b></span></div><div>Trump is a con man who with the help of Putin and Russia was able to steal the 2016 election. His next book should be called “The Art of the Con”.</div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Lawsuits Against Donald J. Trump</b></span></div><div>Some of the legal issues of Donald J. Trump (aka Don the Con). Here you will find a short list of the lawsuits against Donald J. Trump.</div></div><div></div><div><hr><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/03/757262799/trump-administration-diverts-3-6-billion-from-military-projects-to-border-wall" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump Administration Diverts $3.6 Billion From Military Projects To Border Wall</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Trump administration has started the arduous process of canceling $3.6 billion in military construction projects to fund its plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Defense Secretary Mark Esper began notifying lawmakers Tuesday which projects will be canceled in their districts. Top Democrats immediately blasted the plan. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was among the first lawmakers to say his district will be impacted by the funding cuts, for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. "This decision will harm already planned, important projects intended to support our service members at military installations in New York, across the United States, and around the world," Schumer said. "It is a slap in the face to the members of the Armed Forces who serve our country that President Trump is willing to cannibalize already allocated military funding to boost his own ego and for a wall he promised Mexico would pay to build."</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><b><span class="fs11lh1-5">- </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Taxpayer money diverted from military projects to pay for the border wall that Trump said Mexico would pay for.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></b></div></div><hr><div><b><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/01/10/commentary-trump-is/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Commentary: Trump is the world’s biggest con man</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Frank Fish | For The Tribune</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald Trump may be the greatest con man the world has ever seen. It’s a skill he developed in his real estate and merchandising career and has now brought to the world as president. You’ve probably read about his failures: his football team, airline, casinos, university, clothing line, steak and wine ventures, etc. Under Trump we risk a failure of the United States, both at home and on the world stage. In most of his failures, Trump failed to understand the workings of the market and overestimated the marketability of the Trump name. Apparently, he’s a sucker for ideas he thinks will boost his image, and just can’t be bothered with analysis highlighting the difficulties and/or negative public reaction. He has convinced himself — and is on record saying so — that he knows more than his advisors about building walls, trade, corporate finance, interest rates, technology, the military, negotiating and more.</span></div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Donald J. Trump (aka Don the Con, aka Don the Snake, aka Two face Donnie, aka The Don) is a con man]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000000D"><div><div><div><div class="imHeading1">Donald J. Trump (aka <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/140273/art-con-donald-trump-swindler" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Don the Con</a>, aka <a href="https://newrepublic.com/minutes/138103/donald-trump-fabled-snake" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Don the Snake</a>, aka <a href="http://time.com/4691425/donald-trump-russia-obama-fbi/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://time.com/4691425/donald-trump-russia-obama-fbi/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Two face Donnie</a>, aka <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-the-mob-boss-wants-protection/2018/08/23/55882f5a-a70c-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?utm_term=.1671ba627672" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-the-mob-boss-wants-protection/2018/08/23/55882f5a-a70c-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?utm_term=.1671ba627672', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">The Don</a>) is a con man who with the help of <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/putin-trump-win-election-2016-722486" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/putin-trump-win-election-2016-722486', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Putin</a> and Russia was able to steal the 2016 election.</div></div><div><b><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/19/2018<br></span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">09/01/2018</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump’s next book should be called “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/donald-trump-and-the-art-of-the-con/571528/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The Art of the Con</a>” because Trump has been running a long con on the America people. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump was referring to himself when he told the snake story, Trump is a serial liar and a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+con+man&oq=trump+con+man" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">con man</a> that will say or do anything to protect himself or to make money. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Trump University</a> was a con job that defrauded its students by using misleading marketing practices and engaging in aggressive sales tactics, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/03/31/judge-approves-25-million-settlement-in-trump-university-cases/?utm_term=.95e229be6ef9" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/03/31/judge-approves-25-million-settlement-in-trump-university-cases/?utm_term=.95e229be6ef9', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Trump had to pay $25 million to settle the case</a>. The Trump Foundation and its directors have been accused of self-dealing and committing various ethical and legal violations. <a href="https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-fines-trump-taj-mahal-casino-resort-10-million-significant-and-long" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-fines-trump-taj-mahal-casino-resort-10-million-significant-and-long', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Trump’s Taj Mahal Casino Resort was fined $10 Million for money laundering</a> and for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-lied-to-me-about-his-wealth-to-get-onto-the-forbes-400-here-are-the-tapes/2018/04/20/ac762b08-4287-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.bd423fa921c4" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-lied-to-me-about-his-wealth-to-get-onto-the-forbes-400-here-are-the-tapes/2018/04/20/ac762b08-4287-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.bd423fa921c4', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Trump has lied about his wealth</a> since his early days as a developer in New York. When he needs loan, he exaggerates his assets to secure the loan, when comes time to pay his taxes he low-balls the same assets so he does not pay all taxes due. Trump lied to the American people when he said he was worth 10 billion dollars he has never been worth that much. Trump wants or maybe he needs people to believe he is a wealthy. That may explain why he inflates his wealth from day to day sometimes daily. Did he lie about his wealth and do all those guest spots on radio, TV and in movies to get you to like him so he could pick your pockets later? If people think you are wealthy, they do not think you will pick their pockets. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Was it a long con all along if so that would make Donald J. Trump the greatest con man in history?<br></span></div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Read more about the real </span><b><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump</span></b><b><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></b><span class="fs11lh1-5">(</span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Don the Con) is a con man, a threat to the free press, free speech, free trade, the rule of law, our democracy and the American way of life.</span></div><div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Donald J. Trump News</b></span></div><div>If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more.</div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Don The Con Has Pulled Off The Greatest Bait and Switch Ever Pulled</b></span></div><div>Don the Con has done it so well his supporters do not realize they been had and the American taxpayer was always going to pay for the wall not Mexico.</div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Donald J. Trump (aka Don the Con)</b></span><br></div><div>Trump is a con man who with the help of Putin and Russia was able to steal the 2016 election. His next book should be called “The Art of the Con”.</div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Lawsuits Against Donald J. Trump</b></span></div><div>Some of the legal issues of Donald J. Trump (aka Don the Con). Here you will find a short list of the lawsuits against Donald J. Trump.</div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.corp-research.org/trump-organization" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.corp-research.org/trump-organization', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Trump Organization: Corporate Rap Sheet</a></span></b><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">For more than 30 years, Donald Trump has been almost continuously in the public eye, portraying himself as the epitome of business success and shrewd dealmaking. He took a business founded by his father to build modest middle-class housing in the outer boroughs of New York City and transformed it into a high-profile operation focused on glitzy luxury condominiums, hotels, casinos and golf courses around the world. Operating through the Trump Organization, his family holding company, Trump also capitalized on the name recognition gained through years of reality-television appearances in a wide range of licensing deals. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump's decision to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2015 brought a great deal of new attention to his wide range of business activities and the controversies associated with many of them. Those controversies -- involving issues such as alleged racial discrimination, lobbying violations, investor and consumer deception, tax abatements, workplace safety violations, union avoidance and environmental harm -- are summarized below. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump's upset victory in the election has made this track record all the more relevant as the relationship between his business activities and his political role has come under greater scrutiny.</span><br><hr><div><b><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/nyregion/ny-ag-underwood-trump-foundation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump Foundation to Close Amid Lawsuit Accusing It of ‘Willful Self-Dealing’</a></span></b></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Donald J. Trump Foundation will close and give away all its remaining funds in response to a lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general’s office, which had accused the Trump family of using the charity for self-dealing and political gain, the office announced on Tuesday. The attorney general, Barbara Underwood, accused the foundation of “a shocking pattern of illegality” that was “willful and repeated” and included unlawfully coordinating with Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. “This amounted to the Trump Foundation functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests,” Ms. Underwood said. The closure of the foundation is a milestone in the investigation. But the broader lawsuit, which also seeks millions in restitution and penalties and a bar on President Trump and his three oldest children from serving on the boards of other New York charities, is proceeding.</span><br><hr><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/taj-mahal-money-laundering-trump-rusia/8444/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal money laundering bust looms large in Trump-Russia scandal</a></span></b><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">If you think it’s a “wild coincidence” that Robert Mueller has charged thirteen Russians in absentia and is now shining a spotlight on potential money laundering by the NRA and questionable family loans in connection with the Trump-Russia probe, here’s a leftover nugget from Trump’s Taj Mahal to consider. While dredging the swamp looking for creatures from the black lagoon, Robert Mueller has been able to follow a trail of slimy footprints that Trump Inc and his sloppy swamp creatures left behind. On June 16, 2015 Trump announced his official bid for the Presidency.</span><br><hr><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-university-scam/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Yes, Trump University Was a Massive Scam</a></span></b><br><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Many people believe that higher education is a de facto scam. Trump University, Donald Trump’s real-estate institution, was a de jure one. First thing first, Trump University was never a university. When the “school” was established in 2005, the New York State Education Department warned that it was in violation of state law for operating without a NYSED license. Trump ignored the warnings. (The institution is now called, ahem, “Trump Entrepreneur Initiative.”) Cue lawsuits. Trump University is currently the defendant in three lawsuits — two class-action lawsuits filed in California, and one filed in New York by then-attorney general Eric Schneiderman, who told CNN’s New Day in 2013: “We started looking at Trump University and discovered that it was a classic bait-and-switch scheme. It was a scam, starting with the fact that it was not a university.” Trump U “students” say the same. In his affidavit, Richard Hewson reported that he and his wife “concluded that we had paid over $20,000 for nothing, based on our belief in Donald Trump and the promises made at the [organization’s] free seminar and three-day workshop.” But “the whole thing was a scam.” In fact, $20,000 is only a mid-range loss. The lead plaintiff in one of the California suits, yoga instructor Tarla Makaeff, says she was “scammed” out of $60,000 over the course of her time in Trump U.</span></div></div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Donald J. Trump drained the swamp and filled it with toxic septic tank water]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000000B"><div><div><div class="imHeading1">Donald J. Trump drained the swamp and filled it with toxic septic tank water.</div></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Washington in worse off now than it was before Trump became president. </span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/19/2018<br></span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div> </div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump and the Trump administration are the brown stuff floating in septic tank water and will go down as the worse, most corrupt, comprised and </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">dishonest </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">administration in American history. Trump is violating the emoluments clause by collecting foreign money at his hotels and properties. Trump’s trips to his properties are making him richer while draining taxpayer dollars from the public coffers. Our tax dollars pay for his trips to his properties. Trump has been given intelligent briefings on multiple times that the Russians interfered with the 2016 election, starting before he was elected. Trump still refuses to admit the Russians interfered with the 2016 election. Trump is a Russian mole who was compromised by the Russians and is doing Putin’s business. Trump the mole is attacking our democracy while Republicans protect him you cannot get any swampier than that. Some people give Trump the benefit of doubt that he does not want it to put a shadow on his election win the truth he does not want to go to jail, can you say lock him. Trump has not hired the best unless you mean the best at corruption and destruction. Trumps so called best people are carelessly spending taxpayer dollars as if they won the lottery. The rest are doing jobs they are not qualified for and are destroying the very departments they were assigned manage. Some are doing it willing others just do not have clue on what they are doing. When Trump said, drain the swap he meant, “We plan to drain the public coffers out of all the tax payers dollars we can get and destroy all departments that help the poor and the middle class”. Donald J. Trump</span><b><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span></b><span class="fs11lh1-5">and the Trump administration are the brown stuff floating in septic tank water and will go down as the worse, most corrupt, </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">dishonest </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">comprised administration in American history.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/eight-years-ago-trump-vowed-to-drain-the-swamp-now-he-swims-in-it/ar-AA1s5vEe?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=8197bd3cc0cc422fa904776171d1b98f&ei=8" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Eight years ago, Trump vowed to ‘drain the swamp.’ Now he swims in it.</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Story by Isaac Stanley-Becker, Josh Dawsey</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">When clients tell Mercury Public Affairs, a consulting and lobbying shop with 18 offices worldwide, that they’re concerned about Donald Trump’s possible return to office, the firm has just the person to ease their nerves: Bryan Lanza.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Lanza, a Mercury partner and longtime Republican strategist, is well-suited to the task. In between client breakfasts in far-flung parts of the world, he serves as a senior adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign. So he’s a natural person to help clients understand how Trump’s positions on tariffs and other hot-button issues might play out in a second term, according to two Mercury colleagues who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal business dealings.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">“He gives them assurances that there will be life after Nov. 5,” said one of the colleagues, referring to Election Day.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Lanza declined to comment through a Mercury spokesman. A Trump spokesman did not respond to questions.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Eight years after Trump entered politics promising to reduce the influence of Washington lobbyists — to “drain the swamp,” as he put it — advocates for corporate interests, including companies based in China and other foreign countries denounced by Trump, now sit at virtually every level of his campaign. Lobbyists are represented among high-level staff, informal advisers and party faithful who planned the summer convention in Milwaukee, as people with access to Trump or insight into his at-times erratic decision-making turn that knowledge into moneymaking opportunities.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEcoI8pQUi4" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump commutes Roger Stone's sentence. Here's why he did it</a></b><br></div><div>CNN</div><div><br></div><div>President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the prison sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, who was convicted of crimes that included lying to Congress in part, prosecutors said, to protect the President. The announcement came just days before Stone was set to report to a federal prison in Georgia. Stone was convicted in November of seven charges -- including lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing a congressional committee proceeding -- as part of former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Among the things he misled Congress about were his communications with Trump campaign officials -- communications that prosecutors said Stone hid out of his desire to protect Trump.</div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5">More on Trump not Draining the swap</b></div><div><div>Donald Trump and the Trump administration will go down as the worse, most corrupt, comprised and dishonest in American history.</div></div><hr><div><b class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/politics/trump-lobbyists-swamp-campaign.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump Vowed to ‘Drain the Swamp,’ but Lobbyists Are Helping Run His Campaign</a></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Lobbyists like David Urban, whose connections start at the very top, are thriving as they help the president’s re-election effort while aiding corporate clients.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Kenneth P. Vogel, Michael LaForgia and Hailey Fuchs</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">WASHINGTON — The chief executive of the arms maker Raytheon, under pressure to overcome a congressional hold on major sales in the fall of 2018, wanted to sit down with one of the few people who could solve the problem — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. But the State Department would not schedule the meeting. So Raytheon turned for help to David Urban, perhaps the best-connected lobbyist in President Trump’s Washington. Mr. Urban was a classmate at West Point of Mr. Pompeo and of Mark Esper, now the defense secretary, and was influential in recommending both men for administration posts. He has close ties to Mr. Trump, who credits him with having helped deliver a pivotal Election Day victory in Pennsylvania in 2016 and recently invited Mr. Urban to fly on Marine One with him to West Point. He has a long roster of blue-chip clients, including military contractors like Raytheon, whose chief executive got the meeting he wanted with Mr. Pompeo after Mr. Urban intervened on his behalf. It is not known precisely what Mr. Pompeo discussed with the Raytheon executive, but in a few months, the State Department had issued an emergency waiver that circumvented the congressional hold on the arms deals, allowing billions of dollars in Raytheon missiles and bombs to be sold to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The department did not deny that Mr. Urban arranged the meeting but said the emergency waiver — now the subject of congressional and inspector general investigations — was consistent with American national security objectives.</span></div></div><hr><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/06/14/larry-kudlow-business-loans-tapper-sotu-vpx.cnn" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Tapper to Kudlow: This is as swampy as I can imagine</a></span></b><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">State of the Union</span><br><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">CNN's Jake Tapper presses President Trump's top economic adviser Larry Kudlow over loans made to businesses in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Source: CNN</span></div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party is a cult masquerading as a political party]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000000A"><div class="imHeading1">The Republican Party is a cult masquerading as a political party</div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Like a cult, the Republican Party expects loyalty to party above truth and loyalty to the country. Republicans defend Trump and the Republican Party at the expense of our democracy, our judicial system, our intelligence agencies and our allies.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br>A. B. Man III</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/17/2018</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A cult would put the cult’s interest above America’s interest. The Republican Party’s game plan is simple defend, distort, deflect when all else fails attack the truth with <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">alternative-facts</a> (<a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiction" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiction', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">fiction</a>) and <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-origin-meaning" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-origin-meaning', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">whataboutism</a>. Every morning republicans across America receive the republican daily talking points for the day. Everyday republicans across America use the talking points to promote the story of the day facts or <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">alternative-facts</a> (<a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiction" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiction', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">fiction</a>) they do not care they just do what they are told to do. Using Fox News and other conservative media to promote republican propaganda using <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">alternative-facts</a> (<a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiction" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiction', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">fiction</a>) and <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-origin-meaning" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-origin-meaning', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">whataboutism</a> to deceive millions of Americans to promote and protect your party above the interest of America is un-patriotic and is a cult like practice. Day in day out Republicans promote <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">alternative-facts</a> (<a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiction" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiction', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">fiction</a>) and <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-origin-meaning" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-origin-meaning', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">whataboutism</a> to millions of Americans not out of loyalty to America but out of loyalty to the Republican Party. A cult will ostracizes cult members who do not go along with the cult’s game plan. Republicans ostracizes their own members when they do not go along with the current party line. If a congressional representative or a Senator does not tow the party line, they will be primaried. If a republican does not tow the party line, they may be accused of not being a republican or label a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_In_Name_Only" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_In_Name_Only', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">RINO</a> (Republican in Name Only). Republicans are destroying our democracy by attacking the integrity of the justice department, the FBI and our intelligence agencies to protect Trump. Republicans are putting party first protecting Trump, a traitor and mole for the Russians above protecting America. The Republican Party is not good for America we need to vote them out of office because they put party above country.</span><br></div><div><hr></div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/16/politics/joe-walsh-canceled-primaries-new-day/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Joe Walsh says Republican Party is a 'cult' and will go straight to the voters after canceled primaries</a></span></span></b><br><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Chandelis Duster, CNN</span><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br>Washington (CNN) Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh said Monday his campaign will go straight to Republican voters in states where Republican parties canceled 2020 presidential primaries, saying the party has become a "cult" that "is all about washing their leaders' feet every day." </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Walsh, along with Republican primary challengers former South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, criticized GOP leaders and President Donald Trump in a Washington Post op-ed on Friday on the heels of party leaders in Kansas, South Carolina and Nevada canceling their primaries in a show of support for Trump. When asked on CNN's "New Day" on Monday how he plans to challenge it, Walsh said he is going to take his campaign straight to voters. "We're going to take our campaign directly to Republican voters, and I'll add, in all 50 states, we're going to campaign in all 50 states," Walsh said. "We're going to campaign in South Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, and Kansas, because I believe if we let these Republican voters know that the President of the United States just took away their right to vote, they'll march on the headquarters of their state parties to get that right to vote back." Walsh, who voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election and is now outspoken against the Trump presidency, called Trump a "would-be dictator." "I always want to pinch myself and remind myself that this isn't Russia. I do not live in Russia. I refuse to live in Russia," </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/16/politics/joe-walsh-canceled-primaries-new-day/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more...</a></span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> &nbsp;</span><div><hr></div></div></div>]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000004"><div><div><div class="imHeading1">Is Donald J. Trump a Russian mole or spy?</div></div><div><div>The evidence shows Trump has been compromised and may be a Russian mole spying on America for Putin and Russia for how long nobody knows. Trump could be a mole or spy Russia turned long ago.</div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/10/2018</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/19/2018<br></span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The case against Donald J. Trump:<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Trump campaign <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspire" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspire', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">conspired</a> (<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/collusion-happened/560894/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/collusion-happened/560894/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">colluded</a>) with the Russians to help get Donald J. Trump elected President of the United States of America. The <a href="https://themoscowproject.org/explainers/trumps-russia-cover-up-by-the-numbers-70-contacts-with-russia-linked-operatives/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://themoscowproject.org/explainers/trumps-russia-cover-up-by-the-numbers-70-contacts-with-russia-linked-operatives/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">evidence shows numerous attempts</a> by members of the Trump campaign to get help from the Russians and other foreign governments to get Donald J. Trump elected President of the United States of America.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Russians helped Trump get elected so they would have a pro-Russian government in America as they have done in other places around the world. For Russia’s efforts to get Donald J. Trump elected president, they get an America president who is friendly to Russia and a mole or spy in the White House. A Russian mole or spy would change the Republican platform to be friendlier of Russia. A Russian mole or spy would remove current sanctions and slow walk new sanction, both Trump has done.</span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A Russian mole or spy would call or have a meetings with Putin without any Americans in the room so Americans would not know what secrets he his telling Putin. Trump has called and meet with Putin without any Americans in the room so Americans will never know what secrets he his has given to Putin. Trump has refused take any action to protect our elections from attack. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump refuses to admit Russia interfered with our elections he blames everyone but Russia even after all our</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">intelligence</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">agencies say it was Russia. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">A Russian mole or spy would not protect American elections from attack.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">He has to be forced to implement sanction that congress passes.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> A Russian mole or spy would refuse to impose new Russia sanctions. Trump refused to impose new Russia sanctions put in place by congress. Trump is protecting himself while doing Putin work when he attacks the FBI, the justice department and our other intelligence agencies in an attempt to destroy their credibly. A Russian mole or spy would attack American intelligence agencies. Trump has attacked American intelligence agencies. A Russian mole or spy would attack NATO to help Russia. Trump has attacked NATO. A Russian mole or spy would praise Putin while attacking our friends and allies. Trump kisses Putin’s ass while attacking our friends and allies. Because Trump does not allow Americans in the room when he speak to Putin or other Russians we have no ideal not know what secrets Trump has given Putin and the Russians we can only hope he has not given Putin the nuclear codes. When Trump claimed, there was a spy in his </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">campaign </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">you have to wonder if he was referring to himself, he does have a tendency to place his weakness and in securities on to others. The evidence shows at best, Trump may be a mole who was comprised by the Russians at worse he is long time Russian spy who was turned long ago <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/mueller-report-trump-helped-putin-destabilize-us-watergate-journalist-1289541" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">helping Russia while screwing America</a> and our allies.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">If Trump is a mole that explains the multiple efforts </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">to set up a</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/mueller-reported-probing-trump-efforts-set-up-back-channel-communication-kremlin-seychelles-meeting-prince-dmitriev/29086165.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">back channel with the Kremlin</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">If Donald J. Trump is a mole then he is the enemy of America and the enemy of the people.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Donald J. Trump News</b></span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more.</span></div></div><div><hr><div><b><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump Russia-Affair</span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump, his son and an unknown number of people from the Trump campaign conspired (colluded) with the Russians to help elect Donald J. Trump as the president of the United States of America. Many people are saying this is disgusting and far worse than Watergate.</span></div></div><div></div><div><div><div><div><div><hr><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-media-cheers-trump-moves-in-syria-putin-won-the-lottery" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russian Media Cheers Trump’s Moves in Syria: ‘Putin Won the Lottery!’</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">For Russia, Trump’s presidency is a gift that keeps on giving. The Kremlin’s propagandists see no acceptable alternative among any viable presidential candidates in 2020.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Julia Davis</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">President Trump has boasted he’s “getting a lot of praise” for his abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops out of northern Syria, abandoning the Kurds—America’s longstanding allies—to Turkey’s incursion. On the home front, the controversial move has been met with criticism on both sides of the political aisle, but the reaction in Moscow was far from mixed. As Trump uncorked chaos in the Middle East, champagne tops were likely popping at the Kremlin. “Putin won the lottery! Russia’s unexpected triumph in the Middle East,” raved Mikhail Rostovsky in his article for the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. “Those who were convinced of Trump’s uselessness for Russia ought to think again...What Washington got out of this strange move is completely unclear. To the contrary, what Moscow gained from this is self-evident...Trump’s mistake in Syria is the unexpected ‘lottery win’ that further strengthened Moscow’s position in the Middle East and undermined America’s prestige as a rational political player and a reliable partner.” Maksim Yusin, the editor of international politics at the leading Russian business daily Kommersant, was amazed by the ongoing stream of inexplicable actions by the American president that benefit the Kremlin. “All of this benefits the Russian Federation,” Yusin marveled. “You know, I’ve been watching Trump’s behavior lately and get seditious thoughts: maybe he really is a Russian agent? more...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/fusion-gps-founders-publish-book-trump-ties-russia-steele-dossier.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Fusion GPS Founders to Publish Book on Trump’s Ties With Russia</a></span></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Daniel Politi</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The co-founders of a political research firm who found themselves embroiled in a national scandal and intrigue due to their claims about President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia will be publishing a book next month that promises to be explosive. Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump will be published Nov. 26 co-written by Fusion GPS founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch. Penguin Random House is billing the book as a “An All the President’s Men for the Trump era,” saying it will tell the “inside story of the Steele Dossier and the Trump-Russia investigation.” Simpson and Fritsch, both of whom are former journalists, hired a British former intelligence officer, Christopher Steele, to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump. They were first hired by a rival Republican and then Democrats took over the contract. As part of the investigation, Steele claimed that Kremlin had compromising material on Trump and had even spied on him with prostitutes in a Moscow motel. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/fusion-gps-founders-publish-book-trump-ties-russia-steele-dossier.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/russia-is-common-thread-between-trumps-ukraine-and-syria-problems.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Common thread for Mueller, Ukraine and Syria: Russia Helps Trump, Trump Helps Russia</a></span></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">by John Harwood</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Just as the furor over Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation subsided over the summer, two new international storms engulfed the White House. On Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s use of diplomatic pressure to damage a 2020 election rival have House Democrats poised to impeach him. On Syria, his green light for Turkey to attack American-aligned Kurdish forces has roiled Republicans, too. The simultaneous spectacles may confuse average Americans who pay scant attention to foreign affairs. In fact, they contain a common thread. In each case, the president has helped Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which has helped him for years with money and political support. They represent different chapters of the same story. The Republican president’s alignment with Moscow — unthinkable to an earlier generation’s GOP — is familiar enough to blend into the 2019 background. Yet it represents a rare consistent theme of Trump’s late-life turn to politics. Before Trump sought the presidency, his children publicly identified Russians as key financing sources for the family real estate business. A Russian oligarch paid Trump $95 million for a Florida mansion he’d bought for less than half that price; another Russian linked to organized crime became a partner in the Trump Soho project. As a 2016 candidate, Trump hired a campaign chairman who had advised a Putin-allied Ukrainian leader, and a national security advisor who later lied to federal investigators about conversations with the Kremlin’s ambassador. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/russia-is-common-thread-between-trumps-ukraine-and-syria-problems.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-j-trumps-syria-fiasco-is-part-of-vladimir-putins-to-do-list" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump’s Syria Fiasco Is Part of Putin’s To-Do List</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump tried to keep his talks with Putin at Helsinki last year secret from his staff and the world, but Russia's president held up the checklist for the cameras. Syria was on it.</span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Julia Davis</span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">President Donald J. Trump’s surprise decision to abandon the Kurds and sign off on Turkey’s operation in Syria drew condemnation in the West, but was cheerfully welcomed in Russia, and, for those who follow Russia closely, the contrast revived the ghosts of Helsinki, where Trump’s surrender of American values was on full display. There in Finland last year, the leader of the most powerful country in the world demonstrated cringeworthy servility toward Vladimir Putin—president of a rogue government sanctioned by the West for a great number of malign activities, including Russia’s brazen interference in the U.S. elections. The world’s pariah looked triumphant next to the deflated American president. As Trump stood hunched over, with a blank expression, Putin was practically glowing—and he wanted the world to know just how great the meeting went for Russia. Putin held up a thick stack of his notes with both hands, showing them off for the world to see, in effect giving himself the thumbs-up. Discernible portions of the first page, purposely written in abnormally large script, included references to the election interference, Putin’s request that Russia be allowed to interrogate the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, and also the British businessman Bill Browder, pursuant to the 1999 Treaty with Russia on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. There was a reference to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-j-trumps-syria-fiasco-is-part-of-vladimir-putins-to-do-list" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><b><span class="fs11lh1-5">- Once again, Trump is caught doing what Putin wants over the interest of America.</span></b></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-fingerprints-are-all-over-trumps-ukraine-whistleblower-scandal" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Russia’s Fingerprints Are All Over Trump’s Ukraine Whistleblower Scandal</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Prominent figures on Russian TV have been openly putting out the same ideas that we now know the American president was privately pursuing.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Julia Davis - the daily beast</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Elements of the bombshell whistleblower report outlining various aims pursued by the Trump administration with respect to Ukraine keep connecting back to Russia. Several of the reported objectives of President Donald Trump, his administration officials, and his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, would benefit the Kremlin and not the United States or its national security. Namely, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was urged to make a deal with Putin, pressured “to play ball” with respect to providing or manufacturing compromising materials about Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden, and essentially tasked with concocting “the evidence” to disprove the well-established fact that the Democratic National Committee server was hacked by Russian intelligence agents in 2016. The unconscionable demand for Ukraine to make “a deal” with an invader— which has annexed and occupied its territory and continues to fuel an armed conflict that has claimed more than 13,000 lives—would mean a surrender of Ukraine’s national interests for the benefit of the Kremlin. It would also lead to the lifting of sanctions against Russia for its aggression in Ukraine. Casting doubt on Russia’s involvement in the hack of the DNC server would potentially lead to the lifting of sanctions against Russia for its election-meddling and other malign activities. Attacking the credibility of Biden, frequently described by Kremlin-controlled state television as “Trump’s most dangerous rival,” would also benefit Putin, who openly admitted that he wanted President Trump to be elected in 2016. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-fingerprints-are-all-over-trumps-ukraine-whistleblower-scandal" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><b><span class="fs11lh1-5">- Once again, Trump is caught doing what Putin wants over the interest of America.</span></b></div></div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/20/confession-of-a-no-longer-russiagate-skeptic-219022" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/20/confession-of-a-no-longer-russiagate-skeptic-219022', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Why I’m No Longer a Russiagate Skeptic Facts are piling up</a></b></span>, and it’s getting harder to deny what’s staring us in the face.</div></div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/31/the-president-is-compromised-and-everyone-knows-it/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/31/the-president-is-compromised-and-everyone-knows-it/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">The President Is Compromised and Everyone Knows It</a><a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/31/the-president-is-compromised-and-everyone-knows-it/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/31/the-president-is-compromised-and-everyone-knows-it/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">.</a> </b> Not once has the president criticized Vladimir Putin or taken any significant action against Russia, even as it murders dissidents in Europe in broad daylight and pursues foreign policy objectives directly against the interests of the United States.</span></div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?</a> </b>In 2015, Western European intelligence agencies began picking up evidence of communications between the Russian government and people in Donald Trump’s orbit. In April 2016, one of the Baltic states shared with then–CIA director John Brennan an audio recording of Russians discussing funneling money to the Trump campaign.</span></div><div><hr></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-putin-man-white-house-russia-investigation-scandal-moscow-kremlin-755321" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Putin’s Man in the White House? Real Trump Russia Scandal Is Not Mere Collusion, U.S. Counterspies Say</a></b></span><br></div><div>Last May, a top White House national security official met in Washington with senior Russian officials and handed over details of a secret operation Israel had shared with its U.S. counterparts. The meeting shocked veteran U.S. counterspies. The American official was not arrested, and he continues to work in the White House today, albeit under close scrutiny. That official, of course, was Donald Trump. The president’s Oval Office meeting with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, and its then-ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak—which only Russian photographers were permitted to record—sparked a media brushfire that was quickly overtaken by more revelations of secret contacts between Trump associates and Kremlin agents. But the incident was not forgotten by American and Israeli security officials, or by longtime foreign intelligence allies of the U.S., who now wonder if the president can be trusted to protect their most guarded secrets.</div></div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Read more about the real </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump</span><br></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000008"><div><div><div class="imHeading1">Should Donald J. Trump be impeached?</div></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Yes, Donald J. Trump should be impeached if Mueller finds Trump is compromised, conspired with the Russians to win the election, is a traitor or a Russian mole.</span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">02/09/2018</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/19/2018<br></span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump and his campaign conspired with the Russians to win the election. Donald J. Trump is a traitor and may be a Russian mole. Trump is doing Putin's work and not the work of the American people. Trump is destroying America alliances while promoting Putin and Russia. Trump is attempting to destroy the public's faith in the impartiality of the FBI, law-enforcement and intelligence communities. Trump has obstructed justice, violated the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, conspired with others to commit crimes against the United States. Trump is destroying America and harming America’s standing in the world daily. Yes Donald J. Trump should impeached.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></b></span></div><div>If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more.</div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="https://www.needtoimpeach.com/impeachable-offenses/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.needtoimpeach.com/impeachable-offenses/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Donald Trump's 8 Impeachable Offenses</a></b> - Obstructing Justice, Violating the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Conspiring with Others to Commit Crimes Against the United States, and Attempting to Conceal Those Violations, Advocating Violence and Undermining Equal Protection Under the Law, Abusing the Pardon Power, Engaging in Conduct that Grossly Endangers the Peace and Security of the United States, Directing Law Enforcement to Investigate and Prosecute Political Adversaries for Improper and Unjustifiable Purposes, Undermining the Freedom of the Press.</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/opinion/impeachment-donald-trump.html" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/opinion/impeachment-donald-trump.html', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">An Article of Impeachment Against Donald J. Trump</a></b><span class="fs11lh1-5"> - Is serious consideration of impeachment fair? I think the answer is yes. The evidence is now quite strong that Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice. Many legal scholars believe a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime. So the proper remedy for a president credibly accused of obstructing justice is impeachment.</span><br></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/russia-is-common-thread-between-trumps-ukraine-and-syria-problems.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Common thread for Mueller, Ukraine and Syria: Russia Helps Trump, Trump Helps Russia</a></span></b><br></div><div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">by John Harwood</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Just as the furor over Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation subsided over the summer, two new international storms engulfed the White House. On Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s use of diplomatic pressure to damage a 2020 election rival have House Democrats poised to impeach him. On Syria, his green light for Turkey to attack American-aligned Kurdish forces has roiled Republicans, too. The simultaneous spectacles may confuse average Americans who pay scant attention to foreign affairs. In fact, they contain a common thread. In each case, the president has helped Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which has helped him for years with money and political support. They represent different chapters of the same story. The Republican president’s alignment with Moscow — unthinkable to an earlier generation’s GOP — is familiar enough to blend into the 2019 background. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/russia-is-common-thread-between-trumps-ukraine-and-syria-problems.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span></div></div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b>Donald J. Trump News</b></span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more.</span></div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2018 15:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[No Drama Obama fixed it Drama Queen Don the Con broke it]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_00000000C"><div><div><div class="imHeading1">No Drama Obama fixed it Drama Queen Don the Con broke it</div></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">No Drama Obama worked to fix things, Drama Queen Don the con breaks everything he touches.</span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/06/2018</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/19/2018<br></span></div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Obama work to fixed things, he fixed the economy during the great recession, he created jobs, created DACA, worked to fix health care, worked with our trading partners, worked to save our environment. Drama Queen Don the Con on the other hand has broken everything he touches. Any good dealmaker knows you do not break a deal in place unless you have a better deal. If you break deals in place without out a deal, nobody will deal with you in good faith because they cannot trust you to stay with a deal. We all know or we all should know by now that Trump projects his bad qualities and insecurities onto others before he can be called out on it. It is as if when you were a kid if somebody said it first you could not use that against them. When Trump says something, bad about someone it can be applied to him. Drama Queen Don the Con must be as dumb as or dumber than a bag of rocks. He always saying someone has low IQ, we know he projects his bad qualities and insecurities onto other so his IQ must be low and sometimes you catch yourself wondering if it is on level with a bag a rocks but that would unfair to the rocks.<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con pulled out of the Paris climate accord. Obama entered the Paris climate accord to protect future generation of Americans. Trump called it a bad deal any person with IQ above a rock would know that a deal that has no requirements is a great deal, anyone except Trump and maybe a bag of rocks. In the Paris Agreement, each country determines plans and regularly reports its own contribution it should make in order to mitigate global warming. There is no mechanism to force a country to set a specific target by a specific date, but each target should go beyond previously set targets. Any deal that you can decide what you are willing to do and would help protect future generations of Americans is a good deal except maybe to Trump or a bag of rocks.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con has broken the health care system for millions of people. Obama created Obama care (ACA) to help millions of people. Trump claimed he would provide great health care he did not and millions of people are worst off now than before they got his help. Do you think the millions of people whose health care was cut or reduced have better health care now than before Trump’s help? Trump has not offered any plan or deal to fix the America health care system; his plan is to destroy Obama care (ACA) and prevent health care for millions of Americans. . A deal in place it better than no deal at all.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con broke DACA. Obama created DACA as a temporary fix until congress could get its act together. Trump killed DACA then when the heat turned up, he asked congress for a bill, saying he would sign it if they brought it to him. Congress did what he asked and created not one but two bills that he did not sign. Trump then blamed the democrats for his failure to sign. He did the something with his zero tolerance immigration policy he blamed the democrats for his failed policy when the heat turned up. Drama Queen Don the Con starts fires then blames others when the flames get to hot for him. A deal in place it better than no deal at all.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con pulled out of the Iran deal. Obama created the Iran nuclear deal to slow down Iran from becoming a nuclear state. Trump broke the deal with no deal or plans in place to replace it. That has sent a chill around the world that America’s word does not mean squat. Now that Iran no longer has to comply, they can enrich all the uranium they want does that make America safer, hell no it does not. A deal in place it better than no deal at all.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con does not understand trade. Americans like stuff we buy more stuff than any other country in the world so we will always have some trade deficit. Trump trade war with the world will cost some people their jobs, slow down the economy and possibly cause a recession or worse a depression that could expand to a worldwide recession or depression.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con pulled America out of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) giving China an opening to overtake America as a leader in trust and trade. Who can trust someone who pulls out of deals without a new deal or some type of plan for a deal? Obama created Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to provide a bulwark against China and lower import cost. Trump has no plans or deals in place to replace the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Pulling America out of trade agreements without a plan or deal in place only harms the American consumer and business across America.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con and his hatchet man Scott Pruitt have put out a hit on our environment and put America and the American people lives at risk. Scott Pruitt did a wonderful job in Oklahoma for the oil barons; he allowed fracking so they could get rich and he could get rewards. Oklahoma and the people of Oklahoma got earthquakes and polluted water and land. Oklahoma has more earthquakes than California thanks to Scott Pruitt. Scott Pruitt for Donald J. Trump has done the same for America and the American people they have relaxed or removed rules and regulations that were put in place to protect lives and save the environment. Relaxing and removing air, water and other environmental rules and regulations will harm America and all American citizens. Some American will get sick others will die because of bad air or water created by policies that Trump and Pruitt relaxed or removed. The Environmental Protection Agency was created to protect us not harm us.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con claims to be a great deal maker the only good deal he made was letting the GOP craft a bill for him and wealthy people like him while the rest of America was screwed. Trump would not know a good deal if it bit him in the butt and yelled I am a good deal. Trump has calmed Obama made bad deals Trump has broken all the Obama deals he could but has not made any deals to replace what he has broken. Trump has sawn mistrust and confusing in our friends and allies. Trump is the ugly America who is making people around the world hate and distrust America.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con said Hillary’s and the Clinton Foundation were crooked they were not however, it turns out Trump and the Trump Foundation are the crooked ones. Remember Trump University that was a fraud and now the New York Attorney General is suing the Trump Foundation and sent referral letters to the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission for possible further action. When Trumps says “Lock her Up” he knows it is only a matter of time before the chants change from “Lock Her Up” to “Lock Him Up”.</span></div><div></div><div><hr><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></b></span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">If you are looking for information on Donald J. Trump, you have come to the right place. Here you can find information on Trump’s time is the white house, Trump Administration scandals and corruption, before Trump got to the white, lawsuits against Trump, how Trump runs his properties, is Trump a bad businessman, is Trump is a crook, is Trump is a conman, does Trump lie and more.</span></div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 18:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Donald J. Trump is the World's Number One Liar]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000007"><div class="imHeading1">Donald J. Trump is the world’s number one liar</div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><br></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/18/2018</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">08/29/2019</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump is projecting himself on to others when he calls someone a liar. A Liar cannot call some else a liar and be believed. Trump is a known liar who lies about his lies. What is that saying if Trump’s mouth open he is probably lying? You cannot believe anything Trump says he is a proven liar. We know Trump has </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">has made 12,019 false or misleading claims over 928 days</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> in public at last count. If he lies in public without caring that he is lying, one has to wonder how many more lies he tells in private conversations. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Many people are saying Donald J. Trump (Don the Con) is the world’s number one liar and the world's number one prover of <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">alternative facts</a> (<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liar" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liar', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">lies</a>) bar none. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> is a serial liar who lies about his lies. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Rudy Giuliani, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sean Hannity and Fox News are tied for second place; the Republican Party comes in third as provers of alternative facts. Trump lied about the size of his inauguration crowd and continued to lie even after we all saw the pictures that his crowd was smaller than Obama’s inauguration crowd were. Trump lies about the size of his election win. Trump lied about his campaign’s contacts with Russians. Trump lies about everything, </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/12/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump has lied over 12,000 times </a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/12/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">and counting</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">That is only counting public lies no telling how many more lies he tells in private.</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> &nbsp;Donald J. Trump has a PHD in the art of the lie and a master's degree in </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">alternative facts</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> (</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liar" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liar', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">lies</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">) and B.S..</span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Many people are saying </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> uses lies and <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/alternative-facts/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">alternative facts</a> (<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liar" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liar', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">lies</a>) to defend himself and to attack others. We all know Trump lies so you know when Trump says its fake news (CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post) you know it is true, if he says it real news (Trump, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kellyanne Conway) you know its fake news. When Trump says there was no collusion, no collusion, no collusion you can bet the farm there was <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/collusion-happened/560894/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/collusion-happened/560894/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">collusion</a> (<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspire" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspire', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">conspired</a>) with the Russia and maybe a few other countries. Just because you repeat, something three times does make it true, if it did we would all do it.<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div class="imTALeft"><b><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?66,57" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></span></b></div><div class="imTALeft"><b><br></b></div><div class="imTALeft"><b><span class="fs11lh1-5">Polls:</span></b></div><div class="imTALeft"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/polls/poll-does-trump-lie.html" class="imCssLink">Does Trump lie?</a></span></div><div class="imTALeft"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/polls/poll-does-trump-lie-about-his-lies.html" class="imCssLink">Does Trump lie about his lies?</a></span></div><div class="imTALeft"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/polls/poll-do-you-think-trump-is-the-king-of-lies.html" class="imCssLink">Do you think Trump is the king of lies?</a></span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Read more about the real </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a>, <a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-is-the-worlds-number-one-liar-page-1.html" class="imCssLink">more on Trump's lies</a>.</b></span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/22/president-trump-is-averaging-more-than-50-false-or-misleading-claims-day/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump is averaging more than 50 false or misleading claims a day</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">As President Trump entered the final stretch of the election season, he began making more than 50 false or misleading claims a day. It’s only gotten worse — so much so that the Fact Checker team cannot keep up. As of Aug. 27, the tally in our database that tracks every errant claim by the president stood at 22,247 claims in 1,316 days. Note the date. That was when he gave his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination. We’ve been able to update the database only to that point as of today — so already we are eight weeks behind. (We maintain this database mostly in our spare time, in addition to our day jobs.)</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> more...</span></div></div><hr><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/oct/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-impeachment-coup-s-pants-fire/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald Trump says impeachment is a coup. That's Pants on Fire</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Louis Jacobson</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Amid the pressure of a House impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump has continued to stoke the idea that he’s the victim of a coup — shorthand for "coup d’etat," a French term that means the overthrow of the government. "As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the........People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!", Trump tweeted on Oct. 1. The following day, Trump’s campaign unveiled a new ad that said, "It’s nothing short of a coup, and it must be stopped." <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/oct/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-impeachment-coup-s-pants-fire/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a>...</span></div></div><hr><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/13/donald-trump-20000-false-or-misleading-claims" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">‘Tsunami of untruths’: Trump has made 20,000 false or misleading claims – report</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Lauren Aratani</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald Trump has made 20,000 false or misleading claims while in office, according to the Washington Post, which identified a “tsunami of untruths” emanating from the Oval Office. The paper’s Fact Checker column said Trump hit the milestone on 9 July, a day on which he delivered 62 such claims. About half of them came in an interview with the Fox News host Sean Hannity, among them a claim to have “tremendous support” in the African American community and the charge that Barack Obama and Joe Biden spied on Trump’s campaign in 2016. The Post created its database during Trump’s first 100 days in office. Staff have since gone through every statement the president has made at press conferences and rallies, in TV appearances and on social media. In those first 100 days, the Post’s factcheckers counted 492 false or misleading claims, at a rate of about five a day. Since then, the factcheckers note: “The tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger.” “The notion that Trump would exceed 20,000 claims before he finished his term appeared ludicrous when the Fact Checker started this project,” wrote Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer, and factcheckers Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.</span></div></div><hr><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/14/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">President Trump has made 13,435 false or misleading claims over 993 days</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">As President Trump approaches his 1,000th day in office Wednesday, he has significantly stepped up his pace of spouting exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasts and outright falsehoods. As of Oct. 9, his 993rd day in office, he had made 13,435 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement he has uttered. That’s an average of almost 22 claims a day since our last update 65 days ago. One big reason for the uptick: The uproar over Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president on July 25 — in which he urged an investigation of former vice president Joe Biden, a potential 2020 election rival — and the ensuing House impeachment inquiry. We’ve added a new category of claims, Ukraine probe, and in just a few weeks it has topped 250 entries. In fact, Trump earned his fastest Bottomless Pinocchio ever with his repeated false statement that the whistleblower compliant about the call was inaccurate. The report accurately captured the content of Trump’s call and many other details have been confirmed, yet Trump has repeated this Four Pinocchio claim 29 times. (It takes 20 repeats of a Three or Four Pinocchio claim to merit a Bottomless Pinocchio, and there are now 27 entries.) <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/14/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a>...</span></div></div><hr><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/14/politics/fact-check-trump-groceries-id-voter-fraud/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Fact check: Trump says again that Americans need ID to buy groceries. They still don't</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Daniel Dale</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Washington (CNN) - President Donald Trump said again on Friday that Americans need identification to buy groceries, which remains not true. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">"You know, if you want to go out and buy groceries, you need identification. If you want to do almost anything you need identification. The only thing you don't need identification for is to vote, the most important single thing you're doing -- to vote," Trump said at a campaign rally in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Trump added: "You know why? Because they cheat like hell, that's why." Voter fraud is exceedingly rare, and there is no evidence of mass cheating by Democrats. Friday wasn't the first time that Trump claimed Americans need identification for their grocery purchases. He said the same at a Florida rally in July 2018. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/14/politics/fact-check-trump-groceries-id-voter-fraud/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span></div></div><hr><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/politics/fact-check-trump-makes-at-least-26-false-claims-at-new-mexico-rally/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Fact check: Trump makes at least 27 false claims at New Mexico rally</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Daniel Dale, CNN</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">(CNN) - President Donald Trump spoke for 95 minutes at a campaign rally in New Mexico on Monday night, among the longest speeches he's given as President. We're still working through the long transcript, but we know he made at least 27 false claims -- most of them ones he's said before in recent months. Here's the list so far: Trump repeated his claim that a "Google executive," someone who "worked at Google," reported that Google bias may have cost Trump up to 10 million votes in the 2016 election. That flawed study (which we fact-checked last month) was conducted by a psychologist, not a Google employee or executive. Trump said Venezuela was "one of the wealthiest countries in the world" 15 years ago, when it wasn't. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/politics/fact-check-trump-makes-at-least-26-false-claims-at-new-mexico-rally/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more...</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lashed-out-at-the-media-for-reporting-he-would-meet-with-iran-with-no-conditions-hes-said-as-much-on-camera-twice/2019/09/16/f71a98e2-d86d-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html?noredirect=on" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump lashed out at the media for reporting he would meet with Iran with ‘no conditions.’ He’s said as much on camera twice.</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By John Wagner</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">President Trump lashed out Sunday night at the news media for reporting that he would meet with Iranian leaders with “no conditions” — something Trump has said on camera at least twice and that senior administration officials repeated to reporters just last week. “The Fake News is saying that I am willing to meet with Iran, ‘No Conditions.’ That is an incorrect statement (as usual!),” Trump wrote to his more than 64 million Twitter followers. In fact, Trump said as much during a June 23 appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” after host Chuck Todd asked if he had a message to deliver to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, about his country’s potential development of a nuclear weapon. “You can’t have a nuclear weapon. You want to talk? Good. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lashed-out-at-the-media-for-reporting-he-would-meet-with-iran-with-no-conditions-hes-said-as-much-on-camera-twice/2019/09/16/f71a98e2-d86d-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html?noredirect=on" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more...</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> &nbsp;</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONFGgSQb7Os" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Cuomo revisits Trump supporters lying about Trump lying</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">CNN's Chris Cuomo addresses the people within President Trump's inner circle who actively lie about the president lying.</span><br></div></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/12/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">President Trump has made 12,019 false or misleading claims over 928 days</a></span></b><br></div><div>By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly</div><div><br></div><div>President Trump’s proclivity for spouting exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasts and outright falsehoods has continued at a remarkable pace. As of Aug. 5, his 928th day in office, he had made 12,019 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement the president has uttered. Trump crossed the 10,000 mark on April 26, and he has been averaging about 20 fishy claims a day since then. From the start of his presidency, he has averaged about 13 such claims a day. About one-fifth of these claims are about immigration, his signature issue — a percentage that has grown since the government shut down over funding for his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In fact, his most repeated claim — 190 times — is that his border wall is being built. Congress balked at funding the concrete barrier he envisioned, so he has tried to pitch bollard fencing and repairs of existing barriers as “a wall.”</div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/media/mueller-hearing-trump-lies/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump's lies are getting bolder and the press is stuck in the middle</a></span></b><br></div><div>By Brian Stelter, CNN Business</div><div><br></div><div>New York (CNN Business)Either you reject the lies, or you accept the lies. <span class="fs11lh1-5">Of all the divides in American life today, this is the divide I keep thinking about. President Trump and his allies lie with reckless abandon. They make dishonest politicians from the past look like amateurs. When they get called out, they lie about the lying. Trump did this on Wednesday after Robert Mueller contradicted several of the president's fictions about the Mueller Report. When PBS "NewsHour" correspondent Yamiche Alcindor pointed this out to him, citing Mueller's own words, Trump denied it and insulted Alcindor. I'm often told that people are "numb" to Trump's noise and nonsense. </span></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/trump-financial-statements-full-of-lies" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump’s Financial Statements Are So Full Of Lies That His Accountants Put a Warning Label on Them</a></span></b><br></div><div>By Bess Levin</div><div><br></div><div>Newly obtained documents show the brazen methods with which the president inflated his assets to banks and insurance companies. During his 72 years on Earth, Donald Trump has told something like 2,936,880 lies, based on my back-of-the-envelope calculations. (According to The Washington Post, the president has told at least 9,179 whoppers just since taking the oath of office—so, you do the math.) Sometimes, the lies are big, like the one he told about seeing “thousands” of supposed terrorist sympathizers “cheering” from New Jersey as the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9/11. Other times, the lies are small and largely pointless, like his claim that he didn’t call Tim Cook “Tim Apple” when he 100 percent did, on-camera, in a room full of people. Frequently, the lies revolve around his net worth, including its origin (his father) and how big it is (a lot smaller than he claims). As we learned from Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony last month and a New York Times exposé last week, Trump’s lies about his wealth haven’t been confined to bragging about it on TV, but have also allegedly manifested in financial statements sent to banks and insurance companies, in which the ex-real-estate developer inflated his assets in order to obtain loans. And now, thanks to documents obtained by the Post, we have some fun examples of his most absurd financial claims, many of which are now under scrutiny. During his 72 years on Earth, Donald Trump has told something like 2,936,880 lies, based on my back-of-the-envelope calculations. </div></div><div><div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term=.c632cb68fda8" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">In 700 days, President Trump has made 7,546 false or misleading claims</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02/politics/donald-trump-lies/index.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald Trump didn't tell the truth 83 times in 1 day</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">As the 2018 midterm election nears, President Donald Trump is disseminating false and misleading statements at a pace that leaves even his own past prevarications in the dust. In the month of October, Trump said 1,104 things that were totally or partially untrue -- more than double his next most prodigious month (September), according to the tireless cataloging by The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog. Trump is averaging -- AVERAGING -- 30 false or misleading claims a day in the last seven weeks. And, per the Fact Checker, he often of late soars far above that average. As one example: On October 22, when he traveled to Houston to hold a rally for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), Trump, said 83 untrue things in a single day. 83!</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/fact-checker-most-repeated-disinformation/?utm_term=.525cc58cb0bf" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">The false claims that Trump keeps repeating</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The Fact Checker has evaluated false statements President Trump has made repeatedly and analyzed how often he reiterates them. The claims included here – which we're calling "Bottomless Pinocchios" – are limited to ones that he has repeated 20 times and were rated as Three or Four Pinocchios by the Fact Checker.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5">One of Donald J. Trump's BIGGEST Lies?</span></b><br></div></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">claims he does not know Matt Whitaker a man he has meet with several times in the White House and on Fox said he was a great guy that he knew.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-lying-crowd-sizes-rally-1183076" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald Trump Is Still Lying About His Crowd Sizes Almost 2 Years Into His Presidency</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Nearly two years into his presidency, Donald Trump is still lying about his crowd sizes at rallies and campaign events around the country. At a rally in Houston on Monday evening, the president boasted, without evidence, that there were 50,000 people were watching the event outside the arena. Contradicting Trump's account, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo tweeted that there were only 3,000 people watching outside the Toyota Center, where Trump rallied in support of his former foe Senator Ted Cruz in his re-election bid.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/opinion/editorials/transgender-trump-lies-midterm-election.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald Trump Is Lyin’ Up a Storm</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Is there an election coming up, or something? There he goes again. With Republicans struggling to keep their grip on Congress, President Trump is dialing up the demagogy. At campaign rallies and on social media, he’s spewing dark warnings about a Democratic mob clamoring to usher in an era of open borders, rampant crime, social chaos and economic radicalism. As is so often the case, Mr. Trump is not letting reality interfere with his performance.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5">Trump has been lying since childhood</span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio claims President Trump has been lying since he was a child, saying "he was named the ladies man at a high school that had no women at it ... he has been doing this forever."</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-leaders.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">A President Who Believes He Is Entitled to His Own Facts</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">He accepts less-than-credible denials from autocratic heads of state about nefarious acts. He disputes the existence of man-made climate change and insists that photographic evidence of the crowd at his inauguration is fake, part of a media plot to harm him. Over the course of 21 months, President Trump has loudly and repeatedly refused to accept a number of seemingly agreed-upon facts, while insisting on the veracity of a variety of demonstrably false claims that happen to suit his political needs. In the process, he has untethered the White House from the burden of objective proof, creating a rich trove for professional fact-checkers, and raising questions about the basis for many of his decisions. “If there’s no truth, how do we discuss and make decisions that are rooted in fact?”</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/10/29/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories-tapper-pkg-vpx-lead.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump's history of promoting false theories</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">CNN's Jake Tapper explores President Donald Trump's history of promoting conspiracy theories and how social media helps to spread them.</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><a href="https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/" target="_blank" class="imCssLink"><b class="fs12lh1-5">Trump Lies - False statements Donald Trump has made</b></a><br></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/08/01/president-trump-has-made-4229-false-or-misleading-claims-in-558-days/?utm_term=.eb79d19889a4" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Trump has made 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">It turns out that’s when the president decided to turn on the spigots of false and misleading claims. As of day 558, he’s made 4,229 Trumpian claims — an increase of 978 in just two months. In his first year as president, Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims. Now, just six months later, he has almost doubled that total.</span><br></div><div><hr></div><div><b><span class="fs12lh1-5"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-trump-wealth-illusion-20181003-story.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Rigged for Donny: Get to the bottom of tax-avoidance schemes his family profited from - Boom, collapses the biggest lie from the world's most accomplished liar</a></span></b></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Exploded by financial reports of funds funneled from his father that brought Donald Trump to wealth and fame and power. The New York Times decoded the truth from 100,000 documents: All told, Donald amassed $413 million in today's dollars by the feat of conception by Fred Trump, a genuinely successful developer who built vast stretches of Brooklyn and Queens. Not a "small loan of a million dollars," paid back with interest — the story Donald Trump told voters, selling himself as an accomplished businessman meriting the presidency. That was pure scammery, a skyline of cards, never before so definitively shown. And that's not half the scandal. Accounting acrobatics surrounding Fred's 1999 death suggest stratagems to evade gift and estate taxes by perhaps half a billion dollars. A key scheme ran payments for apartment supplies and improvements through a shell company at inflated prices, funneling funds to bank accounts for Donald and his siblings without crossing paths with the taxman. Under New York's rent regulations, the arrangement also enabled them to fatten rents for littler guys.</span><br></div></div><div><hr></div></div>]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000003"><div><div><div class="imHeading1">Trump is a Drama Queen, a Con Man and a Wannabe Dictator</div></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump’s America first policy is 'I'm The Only One That Matters' Trump first, Putin second, America third. Trump makes a drama out of everything big and small.</span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III<br></span></div></div><div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">02/06/2018</span></div></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/19/2018<br></span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump’s America first policy is 'I'm The Only One That Matters' Trump first, Putin second, America third. Trump makes a drama out of everything big and small. Many people are saying Trump is drama queen who makes a bad drama out of everything he touches. Many people are saying Trump lies the way other people breathe lying comes naturally to him. Trump is the biggest liar known to mankind a liar who lies daily and lies about his lies. Trump is the meanest, nastiest, ugliest bully ever known to mankind who plays the victim card to justify his abuse of others. Many people are saying Trump is a child who projects his weakness onto others.</span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Many any people are saying Trump is con man who conned the American people into believing he is wealthy than he is. Trump is con man who conned the American people into believing he is good businessman. Trump is not a good businessman he is in debt up to his eyeballs, he is the king of dept. Most of the businesses Trump created or purchased have failed. Trump makes his money by licensing the Trump name and possibly money laundering. Trump does have a new revenue stream the America taxpayer we pay for Trump trips to Trump properties while foreign governments give him at his hotels in hope of gaining favor with him. Many people are saying Trump is con man who conned the American people into believing he would drain the swamp and hire the best people. Trump did not drain the swamp he filled it with toxic septic water. Trump and his cabinet will go down as the most corrupt, dishonest, divisive, and most destructive American history. Trump did not hire the best people he hired the most corrupt, dishonest, divisive people he could find.<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Many people are saying Trump bullies everyone except white racist, white supremacist, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), the alt-right (all white), Nazis and Putin. Trump does not bully white racist, white supremacist, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), the alt-right (all white) or Nazis because Trump is legacy Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Trump dad was in the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). White supremacist and the alt-right (all white) are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in suits (lipstick on a pig) so they will always get a pass from trump. Trump likes white racist because he is one of them, Trump may be a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) grand wizard.<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The President’s duty is to put the country first not himself. Like a drama queen, Trump has a habit of playing the victim and turning calm in to chaos. Many people are saying Trump is spoiled brat who has to strike out when his feelings get hurt. Many people are saying Trump’s America first policy is Trump first America second. Many people are saying Trump is a wannabe dictator; dictators put themselves above country and expect loyalty to them above county. As President drama queen don the con cannot ask nor expect government employees to be loyally to him above our country, government employees have a reasonability to America first not the President. A drama queen or dictator would say I am the only one that matters. A dictator would say I could pardon myself. </span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A dictator or someone who feared the truth would make war on the truth, the free press, the F.B.I. and our intelligent agencies. Only a dictator or someone who feared the truth would expect the head of the justice department to protect him from the Mueller investigation (Trump-Russia Affair) in to collusion (conspiracy) with Russia to change the outcome of our elections. Trump and his allies are willing to destroy truth, the free press, the F.B.I. and our intelligent agencies to protect Trump. What does Trump fear what is Trump and his allies hiding? If Trump has nothing to hide, why are he and his cronies trying so hard to discredit the Mueller investigation (Trump-Russia Affair), the FBI, our intelligence agencies and the free press? Whatever he is worried might come out must be extremely bad to go to that extent. Real Americans are patriots who are loyal to the country they put the country first above all else including their party and the President. Just becuase you wrap yourself in the flag or claim to be a real American does not make you a patriot.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con made a drama out of football players not standing for the national anthem, there is no law stating that you must stand for the national anthem; it says you should stand but does not say you must stand. Sorry Drama Queen Don the Con Americans have that right to sit or take a knee if they chose to do so. In America, you cannot make people stand for the flag if they chose not to it is called the first amendment. Patriotism is not if you stand, sit or take a knee for the national anthem. Patriotism is what you are willing to do to protect our country and our freedoms from all enemies foreign and domestic. </span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con is a racist who hates immigrants and minorities. Yes Trump is a racist his father was in the KKK. Drama Queen Don the Con made a drama out of DACA it was working and would have continued to work until congress could come up with a better solution; he stopped DACA then blamed the democrats. He asked congress to come up with a solution he would sign it; they did and then he refused to sign it and blamed the democrats for his failure to sign a deal. Drama Queen Don the Con made a drama out of the immigration policy when he went to his zero tolerance border policy and had to reverse himself and again he blamed the democrats for his failed policy. Republicans control the House, the Senate and the Presidency if anyone is to blame it would be Republicans. Trump is discharging immigrant recruits people who are willing to die for our country simply because there are immigrants if that is not racist I do not know what is. Will his actions come back bite America?</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con inflates his assets when he needs a loan or to make his wealth greater than it is and deflates his assets when he pays his taxes. Drama Queen Don the Con is a con man and a dead·beat who has screwed people of out of millions of dollars. Trump has to use foreign banks because American banks refuse to do business with him after he screwed them out of and millions of dollars. Drama Queen Don the Con is a con man who has screwed New York, other States and the federal government out of millions of dollars in tax revenue. He pays less while you paid more. </span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Drama Queen Don the Con polices are a failure he has broken deals and created none and does not seem to have any plans to do so. He has pissed of our friends and allies and now he has started a trade war with the world. Whom will he blame when his trade war cost Americans money and jobs and becomes a recession or worst a depression?</span></div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><b><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. 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			<title><![CDATA[Trump and the GOP need to stop the BS Donald J. Trump donated to both Democrats and Republicans. ]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_000000001"><div><div><div><div class="imHeading1">Trump and the GOP need to stop the BS Donald J. Trump donated to both Democrats and Republicans. </div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump and the GOP are trying to take away our first amendment rights, whom a person donates to or how they may express themselves does not determine how a person does their job.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div> </div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III<br></span></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">12/24/2017</span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">07/19/2018</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump and the GOP are trying to take away your first amendment rights. Whom a person donates to or how they may express themselves does not determine how a person does their job. Whom their spouses, their siblings, their loved ones or their friends donates to or how they may express themselves does not determine how a person does their job. Whom a person , their spouses their siblings, their loved ones or their friends donates to or how they may express themselves does not determine a person’s politico believes. It is a person’s first amendment right to donate to anyone they chose and express themselves any legal way they may choose. It is also the first amendment right of their spouses, their siblings, their loved ones or their friends to donate to anyone they chose and express themselves any legal way they may choose</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Republicans are judging people based on whom they their spouses, their siblings, their loved ones or their friends donates to. Now Republicans want to take that away your first amendment if you are a Democrat. To protect Donald J. Trump the GOP has resorted to using who a person their spouses, their siblings, their loved ones or their friends donates to will determine how they do their job. They say that if a person, their spouses, their siblings, their loved ones or their friends donated to a Democrat cannot be part of Mueller investigation, as they will be biased against Trump. Going by that logic then Republicans should not be part of Mueller investigation as they will be biased for Trump and he will get away with all his crimes.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Donald J. Trump is trying to take away the first amendment rights of football players by trying to force them to stand for the national anthem. Sorry Donnie it is <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/what-the-supreme-court-says-about-sitting-out-the-national-anthem-w507503" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/what-the-supreme-court-says-about-sitting-out-the-national-anthem-w507503', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">unconstitutional </a>to force people to stand for the national anthem ask the Supreme Court if you don’t know.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">It is every Americans first amendment right to donate and support whomever to choose to and it is every Americans first amendment right to express themselves any legal way they may choose. Do you really want an America where you cannot get a job or lose your job if you did not donate to Democrat? We cannot allow the GOP to take this path it will mean the end of America as we know it. </span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div class="imTACenter"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?66,2" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></div><div class="imTACenter"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/polls/donald-j-trump-polls.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump Polls</a></div></div><div></div><div><hr></div><div><div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html " class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/the-trump-russia-affair.html" class="imCssLink">Trump-Russia Affair</a></span><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/trump-ukraine-affair.html" class="imCssLink">Trump-Ukraine Affair</a></div></div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/pastnews/the-mueller-investigation.html" class="imCssLink">The Mueller Investigation</a></div><div><hr></div><div></div></div></div></div><div></div></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2017 18:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Are Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Traitors?]]></title>
			<author><![CDATA[A. B. Man III]]></author>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div id="imBlogPost_a9gf1zbm"><div><div class="imHeading1">Are Donald J. Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Traitors?</div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">If Trump is spy or a mole for the Russian government or Trump, Trump Jr. and the Trump campaign <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conspire" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conspire', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">conspired</a> (<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/collusion-happened/560894/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/collusion-happened/560894/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">colluded</a>) with a hostile country (Russian) to change the outcome of our elections then yes they are traitors.<br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">A. B. Man III<br></span></div><div><div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">12/21/2017</span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">09/30/2019</span></div></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Russia is more enemy than friend and intends to do us more harm than good. We may not be in a declared war with Russia but they did use cyber-warfare against us in the election. Anyone who works with a foreign government to change the outcome of our elections, damage our democracy and destroy the integrity of the F.B.I. and our other Intelligence Agencies should be branded a traitor. Trump refuses to admit Russia interfered with our elections he blames everyone but Russia even after all our </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">Intelligence Agencies</span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> say it was Russia. He has to be forced to implement sanction that congress passes. Trump is destroying America from the inside and out. Trump is working to destroy credibility of the F.B.I. and our other Intelligence Agencies. Trump has removed regulations that protect people from bad and bad water. Trump has removed financial regulations put in place to protect us after the crash of 2008. Trump is destroying our relationship with NATO and our relationship with our allies. Trump is doing Putin’s business by destroying are relationships with NATO and our allies. Trump is harming America standing in the world. Trump is traitor.</span><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Did Donald J. Trump ask the Russians for help? Yes when trump called on the Russian to get him Clinton’s emails, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/07/13/russians-went-after-hillary-emails-same-day-trump-called-for-hack/" onclick="return x5engine.imShowBox({ media:[{type: 'iframe', url: 'https://nypost.com/2018/07/13/russians-went-after-hillary-emails-same-day-trump-called-for-hack/', width: 1920, height: 1080, description: ''}]}, 0, this);" class="imCssLink">Russians started trying to hack Clinton’s emails the same day</a>. Did Trump parrot the Russian’s during his campaign? Yes multiple times during the campaign Trump parroted the same lines as the Russian sometimes on the same day almost at the same time. Did Donald Trump Jr. claim there was no Russian contact when in fact there was? Yes, multiple times, he claimed there was no Russian contact but we know that is not true he meet the Russian lawyer to get dirt on Clinton. Did Donald Trump Jr. try to get help from the Russian so he could get dirt on Clinton? Yes Donald Jr. meet with a Russian lawyer to get help from the Russians Government to get dirt on Clinton and had email correspondences with Wikileaks. Did the Trump campaign try the hide the fact that they were in contact with the Russians? Yes they claimed there was none and every day we find there was more and more contacts with Russians. Did Trump fire Comey to stop the Russian investigation? Yes he said it himself that he fried Comey to stop the Russian thing. Does Trump side with Russians more than he does America? Yes he is always has something negative to say about everyone except Putin and Russia.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">If Trump and his campaign did not conspire with the Russians, then why would they try to hide that fact by lying when they said there were no Russian contacts? We know there was a lot of contact between the Trump campaign and the Russians but we may never know the true amount of contact between the Trump campaign and the Russians. In addition, we may never know everything they did to affect the outcome our election. If Trump has, nothing to hide then why is he and his surrogates trying so hard to stop Mueller from finding the truth, maybe he is a traitor who stole our election with the help of the Russians and possibly Jill Stein. Jill Stein was at the same dinner in Russia as Flynn and she may been used to siphon votes from Clinton to help Trump win. If Trump has, nothing to hide then he and his surrogates would let the investigation go on so it could prove he was innocent has nothing to hide. Maybe Trump is not traitor and just a crook but he could be both and we the American people need to know.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Trump and his surrogates like to play what about Clinton. If Clinton did any of the above, they would be calling her a traitor and for her head. Instead, the Republican Party is willing to protect a possible traitor and crook by discrediting Mueller, the F.BI. and other Intelligence Agencies. Trump and some members of the Republican Party are doing what Russian cannot do destroy the integrity of the FBI and our other Intelligence Agencies. Does that make some in the Republican Party a party of traitors? Yes. Destroying the integrity of the FBI and our other Intelligence Agencies for political gain and to protect the President will not make us safer it will make us less safe. Just say no to the GOP their lies and alternate facts may be good for Trump, the GOP and Russia however, it is bad for America. Patriots do what is best for the country not the party and not for one man. Trump and those in the Republican Party who protect Trump may wrap themselves in the flag but they are not Patriots. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">We know Trump projects himself on to others when he calls them names so we must consider that and the fact that Trump put himself before America Trump maybe a Traitor. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5">If Donald J. Trump is a traitor he should be impeached. If Donald J. Trump is a traitor then he is the enemy of America and the enemy of the people.</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><div class="imTACenter"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/ThePeanutGallery/read.php?66,1" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Comments</a></div></div><div class="imTACenter">Poll: <span class="imTALeft fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/polls/poll-do-you-think-trump-is-a-traitor.html" class="imCssLink">Do you think Trump is a Traitor?</a></span></div><div class="imTACenter"><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Poll: <a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/polls/poll-do-you-think-trump-is-a-russian-mole.html" class="imCssLink">Do you think Trump is a Russian mole?</a></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Poll: <a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/polls/poll-do-you-think-trump-is-a-russian-spy.html" class="imCssLink">Do you think Trump is a Russian spy?</a></span></div></div><div class="imTACenter"><div class="imTACenter"><span class="fs11lh1-5">More <a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/polls/donald-j-trump-polls.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump Polls</a></span></div></div><div><hr></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Read more about Donald J. Trump</span></div><div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/donald-j-trump-news.html" class="imCssLink">Donald J. Trump News</a></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/the-trump-russia-affair.html" class="imCssLink">Trump-Russia Affair</a></span><br></div></div><div><div><a href="http://www.aclickapick.com/trump/trump-ukraine-affair.html" class="imCssLink">Trump-Ukraine Affair</a></div></div><div>The Mueller Investigation</div><div><hr><div><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/fusion-gps-founders-publish-book-trump-ties-russia-steele-dossier.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Fusion GPS Founders to Publish Book on Trump’s Ties With Russia</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">By Daniel Politi</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">The co-founders of a political research firm who found themselves embroiled in a national scandal and intrigue due to their claims about President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia will be publishing a book next month that promises to be explosive. Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump will be published Nov. 26 co-written by Fusion GPS founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch. Penguin Random House is billing the book as a “An All the President’s Men for the Trump era,” saying it will tell the “inside story of the Steele Dossier and the Trump-Russia investigation.” </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/fusion-gps-founders-publish-book-trump-ties-russia-steele-dossier.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span></div></div><hr><div><b class="fs11lh1-5"><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/russia-is-common-thread-between-trumps-ukraine-and-syria-problems.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">Common thread for Mueller, Ukraine and Syria: Russia Helps Trump, Trump Helps Russia</a></span></b><br></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">by John Harwood</span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5"><br></span></div><div><span class="fs11lh1-5">Just as the furor over Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation subsided over the summer, two new international storms engulfed the White House. On Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s use of diplomatic pressure to damage a 2020 election rival have House Democrats poised to impeach him. On Syria, his green light for Turkey to attack American-aligned Kurdish forces has roiled Republicans, too. The simultaneous spectacles may confuse average Americans who pay scant attention to foreign affairs. In fact, they contain a common thread. In each case, the president has helped Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which has helped him for years with money and political support. </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"> </span><span class="fs11lh1-5"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/russia-is-common-thread-between-trumps-ukraine-and-syria-problems.html" target="_blank" class="imCssLink">more</a></span><span class="fs11lh1-5">...</span></div></div><div><hr></div><div></div></div></div>]]></description>
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