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That doesn't address the enormous difference between how the cages were used under Obama and under Trump's child separation policy.
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That doesn't address the enormous difference between how the cages were used under Obama and under Trump's child separation policy.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee report is a bad look for Paul Manafort, Konstantin Kilimnik, Russian intelligence, Wikileaks, Roger Stone, Don Jr, hell the whole Trump campaign really.
Hey! Did I mention it was the... Republican... Senate Intelligence Committee.
No?
Well...
Anyway, that five year statute of limitations must be looking a bit sporty to some folk right about now.
Also, too bad about all of that Ukrainian spin... It's a bust. Oh well, better luck with the spirit cooking and child sacrifice angles, Trumpists.
Hey! Did I mention it was the... Republican... Senate Intelligence Committee.
No?
Well...
Anyway, that five year statute of limitations must be looking a bit sporty to some folk right about now.
Also, too bad about all of that Ukrainian spin... It's a bust. Oh well, better luck with the spirit cooking and child sacrifice angles, Trumpists.
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The non-Bimbo's getting under the orange skin.
Donald Trump Lashes Out At Michelle Obama’s DNC Speech, Gets Near-Instant Fact-Check
The president’s Twitter rant at the former first lady backfired.
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Michelle Obama on Tuesday with a series of baseless claims after the former first lady described him as being “in over his head” and the “wrong president for this country” during her widely praised Democratic National Convention speech.
“Somebody please explain to @MichelleObama that Donald J. Trump would not be here, in the beautiful White House, if it weren’t for the job done by your husband, Barack Obama,” the president wrote on Twitter early Tuesday, hours after Obama slammed Trump’s “utter lack of empathy” in her speech. She also warned that “if you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can” and urged people to support presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the November election “like our lives depend on it.”
Trump raged in his tweets that the Obamas’ support of Biden was “merely an afterthought.”
“Thanks for your very kind words Michelle,” Trump concluded.
Donald Trump Lashes Out At Michelle Obama’s DNC Speech, Gets Near-Instant Fact-Check
The president’s Twitter rant at the former first lady backfired.
Trump Lashes Out At Michelle Obama's DNC Speech, Gets Near-Instant Fact-Check
The president's Twitter rant at the former first lady backfired.
President Donald Trump lashed out at Michelle Obama on Tuesday with a series of baseless claims after the former first lady described him as being “in over his head” and the “wrong president for this country” during her widely praised Democratic National Convention speech.
“Somebody please explain to @MichelleObama that Donald J. Trump would not be here, in the beautiful White House, if it weren’t for the job done by your husband, Barack Obama,” the president wrote on Twitter early Tuesday, hours after Obama slammed Trump’s “utter lack of empathy” in her speech. She also warned that “if you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can” and urged people to support presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the November election “like our lives depend on it.”
Trump raged in his tweets that the Obamas’ support of Biden was “merely an afterthought.”
He also tried to spin his administration’s catastrophic mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic and repeated his unfounded claim that the Obama White House spied on his 2016 campaign, which he called “Treason.”
“Thanks for your very kind words Michelle,” Trump concluded.
Critics were quick to fact-check the president:
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Trump To Pardon Women's Suffrage Leader Susan B. Anthony
Anthony was arrested for voting in 1872 in violation of laws permitting only men to vote.www.huffpost.com
"Quick people, we need to bolster public support, lets pardon a dead person."
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Good lawd if there ever was a case of desperate and useless and transparent virtue signalling and pandering. He must think American woman are the stupidest creatures on the planet.Trump To Pardon Women's Suffrage Leader Susan B. Anthony
Anthony was arrested for voting in 1872 in violation of laws permitting only men to vote.
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Read Mitt Romney's Full Message on Donald Trump's Response to Charlottesville
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has denounced President Donald Trump for his delay in condemning racism following the violence at white nationalists rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
In a passionate letter, which he posted on Facebook Friday morning, the former Massachusetts governor said it was a “defining moment” for Trump’s presidency and urged the President to “act now for the good of the country.” Read Romney’s post in full below:
By Mitt Romney - Aug 21, 2017
I will dispense for now from discussion of the moral character of the president’s Charlottesville statements. Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn. His apologists strain to explain that he didn’t mean what we heard. But what we heard is now the reality, and unless it is addressed by the president as such, with unprecedented candor and strength, there may commence an unraveling of our national fabric.
The leaders of our branches of military service have spoken immediately and forcefully, repudiating the implications of the president’s words. Why? In part because the morale and commitment of our forces–made up and sustained by men and women of all races–could be in the balance. Our allies around the world are stunned and our enemies celebrate; America’s ability to help secure a peaceful and prosperous world is diminished. And who would want to come to the aid of a country they perceive as racist if ever the need were to arise, as it did after 9/11?
In homes across the nation, children are asking their parents what this means. Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims are as much a part of America as whites and Protestants. But today they wonder. Where might this lead? To bitterness and tears, or perhaps to anger and violence?
The potential consequences are severe in the extreme. Accordingly, the president must take remedial action in the extreme. He should address the American people, acknowledge that he was wrong, apologize. State forcefully and unequivocally that racists are 100% to blame for the murder and violence in Charlottesville. Testify that there is no conceivable comparison or moral equivalency between the Nazis–who brutally murdered millions of Jews and who hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives to defeat–and the counter-protestors who were outraged to see fools parading the Nazi flag, Nazi armband and Nazi salute. And once and for all, he must definitively repudiate the support of David Duke and his ilk and call for every American to banish racists and haters from any and every association.
This is a defining moment for President Trump. But much more than that, it is a moment that will define America in the hearts of our children. They are watching, our soldiers are watching, the world is watching. Mr. President, act now for the good of the country.
Read Mitt Romney's plea to Trump: Apologize to the American people
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Read Mitt Romney's Full Message About Charlottesville
'This is a defining moment for President Trump'
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has denounced President Donald Trump for his delay in condemning racism following the violence at white nationalists rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
In a passionate letter, which he posted on Facebook Friday morning, the former Massachusetts governor said it was a “defining moment” for Trump’s presidency and urged the President to “act now for the good of the country.” Read Romney’s post in full below:
By Mitt Romney - Aug 21, 2017
I will dispense for now from discussion of the moral character of the president’s Charlottesville statements. Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn. His apologists strain to explain that he didn’t mean what we heard. But what we heard is now the reality, and unless it is addressed by the president as such, with unprecedented candor and strength, there may commence an unraveling of our national fabric.
The leaders of our branches of military service have spoken immediately and forcefully, repudiating the implications of the president’s words. Why? In part because the morale and commitment of our forces–made up and sustained by men and women of all races–could be in the balance. Our allies around the world are stunned and our enemies celebrate; America’s ability to help secure a peaceful and prosperous world is diminished. And who would want to come to the aid of a country they perceive as racist if ever the need were to arise, as it did after 9/11?
In homes across the nation, children are asking their parents what this means. Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims are as much a part of America as whites and Protestants. But today they wonder. Where might this lead? To bitterness and tears, or perhaps to anger and violence?
The potential consequences are severe in the extreme. Accordingly, the president must take remedial action in the extreme. He should address the American people, acknowledge that he was wrong, apologize. State forcefully and unequivocally that racists are 100% to blame for the murder and violence in Charlottesville. Testify that there is no conceivable comparison or moral equivalency between the Nazis–who brutally murdered millions of Jews and who hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives to defeat–and the counter-protestors who were outraged to see fools parading the Nazi flag, Nazi armband and Nazi salute. And once and for all, he must definitively repudiate the support of David Duke and his ilk and call for every American to banish racists and haters from any and every association.
This is a defining moment for President Trump. But much more than that, it is a moment that will define America in the hearts of our children. They are watching, our soldiers are watching, the world is watching. Mr. President, act now for the good of the country.
Read Mitt Romney's plea to Trump: Apologize to the American people
Read Mitt Romney's plea to Trump: Apologize to the American people
Mitt Romney is calling on President Donald Trump to apologize to the American people.
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It is a fantastic target considering people are pretty much going on pilgrimage and worshiping her grave.
I just think it is pretty anti-climactic considering the hype. Would have really been something if he had pardoned Assange or Snowden.
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CNN Fact check:
Joe Biden cannot phase in and out of reality as he pleases, we rate this video fake.
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Right, about the only people it could fool at this point is the DNC, as they actually seem to believe in this sort of thing. It's trolling perfection if Trump baits the DNC into leaning into the progressive virtue signalling agenda in a bid to out-do Trump's feminist overtures.
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Roger Stone Drops Appeal Of Felony Convictions After Sentence Commutation
Stone’s prison sentence for lying to Congress and witness tampering was commuted by President Donald Trump last month.
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Roger Stone, a political consultant and longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, has dropped his appeal of felony convictions for lying to Congress and witness tampering, a month after Trump commuted his prison sentence.
“My attorneys have convinced me that the odds of victory were slim and the risk of being subjected to both an unfair appeal and perhaps an unfair second trial before the same Judge was just too great a risk,” Stone said in a statement posted Tuesday on his website.
His lawyers filed a notice withdrawing the appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday night, less than an hour before a deadline for a brief outlining their appeal arguments, according to Politico.
Stone was sentenced in February to 40 months in prison and a $20,000 fine for charges that included lying to congressional investigators looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Prosecutors initially recommended imprisonment for seven to nine years, but the term was cut to a little more than three years by Attorney General William Barr.
Trump commuted Stone’s sentence in July, days before he was to have reported to a federal prison in Georgia.
“Roger Stone is a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at the time. “There was never any collusion between the Trump Campaign, or the Trump Administration, with Russia.”
Stone’s announcement on Tuesday came shortly before the Senate Intelligence Committee released a final report on its bipartisan investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The report mentions Stone extensively by name and details his efforts to secure information from WikiLeaks about its release of hacked Democratic Party emails and documents for Trump’s benefit.
According to the report, Trump’s then-campaign chief Paul Manafort directed Stone to contact WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange personally.
Trump, when questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller, said he was not aware of his campaign’s efforts to contact WikiLeaks. But the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report concluded that Trump not only knew of the efforts, but spoke with Stone about them.
“Despite Trump’s recollection, the Committee assesses that Trump did, in fact, speak with Stone about WikiLeaks and with members of his Campaign about Stone’s access to WikiLeaks on multiple occasions,” the report said.
Though the report said some Trump campaign advisers willingly embraced help from Russia, the Senate panel did not allege a conspiracy between the campaign and Moscow to help Trump win the election.
Stone’s prison sentence for lying to Congress and witness tampering was commuted by President Donald Trump last month.
Roger Stone Drops Appeal Of Felony Convictions After Sentence Commutation
Stone's prison sentence for lying to Congress and witness tampering was commuted by President Donald Trump last month.
Roger Stone, a political consultant and longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, has dropped his appeal of felony convictions for lying to Congress and witness tampering, a month after Trump commuted his prison sentence.
“My attorneys have convinced me that the odds of victory were slim and the risk of being subjected to both an unfair appeal and perhaps an unfair second trial before the same Judge was just too great a risk,” Stone said in a statement posted Tuesday on his website.
His lawyers filed a notice withdrawing the appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday night, less than an hour before a deadline for a brief outlining their appeal arguments, according to Politico.
Stone was sentenced in February to 40 months in prison and a $20,000 fine for charges that included lying to congressional investigators looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Prosecutors initially recommended imprisonment for seven to nine years, but the term was cut to a little more than three years by Attorney General William Barr.
Trump commuted Stone’s sentence in July, days before he was to have reported to a federal prison in Georgia.
“Roger Stone is a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at the time. “There was never any collusion between the Trump Campaign, or the Trump Administration, with Russia.”
Stone’s announcement on Tuesday came shortly before the Senate Intelligence Committee released a final report on its bipartisan investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The report mentions Stone extensively by name and details his efforts to secure information from WikiLeaks about its release of hacked Democratic Party emails and documents for Trump’s benefit.
According to the report, Trump’s then-campaign chief Paul Manafort directed Stone to contact WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange personally.
Trump, when questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller, said he was not aware of his campaign’s efforts to contact WikiLeaks. But the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report concluded that Trump not only knew of the efforts, but spoke with Stone about them.
“Despite Trump’s recollection, the Committee assesses that Trump did, in fact, speak with Stone about WikiLeaks and with members of his Campaign about Stone’s access to WikiLeaks on multiple occasions,” the report said.
Though the report said some Trump campaign advisers willingly embraced help from Russia, the Senate panel did not allege a conspiracy between the campaign and Moscow to help Trump win the election.
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Roger Stone must have threatened to spill the beans on the impeached Orange Dotard, or he'd also be in jail.
Senate report finds Manafort passed campaign data to Russian intelligence officer
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The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released the fifth and final volume of its report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, which details "counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities."
Why it matters: The bipartisan, 996-page report goes further than the Mueller report in showing the extent of Russia's connections to members of the Trump campaign, and how the Kremlin was able to take advantage of the transition team's inexperience to gain access to sensitive information.
Highlights
Paul Manafort: The report found that the former Trump campaign chairman began working on influence operations for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and other pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarchs in 2004.
Senate report finds Manafort passed campaign data to Russian intelligence officer
Senate report finds Manafort passed sensitive campaign data to Russian intelligence officer
It's the fifth and final volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation.
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released the fifth and final volume of its report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, which details "counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities."
Why it matters: The bipartisan, 996-page report goes further than the Mueller report in showing the extent of Russia's connections to members of the Trump campaign, and how the Kremlin was able to take advantage of the transition team's inexperience to gain access to sensitive information.
Highlights
Paul Manafort: The report found that the former Trump campaign chairman began working on influence operations for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and other pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarchs in 2004.
- Manafort hired and worked closely with Russian national Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the committee definitively calls a "Russian intelligence officer" that served as a liaison between him and Deripaska.
- On numerous occasions, Manafort sought to pass sensitive internal polling data and campaign strategy to Kilimnik. The committee was unable to determine why or what Kilimnik did with that information, in part due to the pair's use of encrypted messaging apps.
- The committee did, however, obtain "some information" suggesting Kilimnik "may have been connected" to Russia's hacking and leaking of Democratic emails. The section detailing these findings is largely redacted.
- The bottom line: "Taken as a whole, Manafort's high level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat," the committee wrote.
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If you drop your TDS glasses, you will see that this was such a compassionate statement from him. Beneath that rugged manly exterior lies heart tender like rose petals."Quick people, we need to bolster public support, lets pardon a dead person."
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Another Oblivious assssshol troll.
Mike Pence’s Oblivious Boast About The Stock Market Ticks People Off
“170,000 Dead Americans..oh I’m sorry. I don’t want to interrupt your celebration...go on,” one critic hit back at the vice president.
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Twitter users reminded Mike Pence about the human and economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic after the vice president bragged about the stock market on Monday.
Pence highlighted the rising NASDAQ index in a tweet claiming the U.S. economy is coming back under President Donald Trump and “will keep growing with #FOURMOREYEARS!”
Critics pointed out the stock market is not the economy.
They also noted the nationwide death toll from COVID-19, now upwards of 170,000, and the cratering economy, which has cost millions of people their jobs.
Pence faced similar backlash last week when he boasted about the number of jobs created during Trump’s presidency.
Mike Pence’s Oblivious Boast About The Stock Market Ticks People Off
“170,000 Dead Americans..oh I’m sorry. I don’t want to interrupt your celebration...go on,” one critic hit back at the vice president.
Pence’s Oblivious Boast About The Stock Market Ticks People Off
"170,000 Dead Americans..oh I'm sorry. I don't want to interrupt your celebration...go on," one critic hit back at the vice president.
Twitter users reminded Mike Pence about the human and economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic after the vice president bragged about the stock market on Monday.
Pence highlighted the rising NASDAQ index in a tweet claiming the U.S. economy is coming back under President Donald Trump and “will keep growing with #FOURMOREYEARS!”
Critics pointed out the stock market is not the economy.
They also noted the nationwide death toll from COVID-19, now upwards of 170,000, and the cratering economy, which has cost millions of people their jobs.
Pence faced similar backlash last week when he boasted about the number of jobs created during Trump’s presidency.
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BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA the impeached Orange Dotard's "time and a place for everything".
Trump disparages Michelle Obama at women's rights event
On the same day the President posthumously pardoned Susan B. Anthony to commemorate women's voting rights, he said the former first lady is 'over her head'
Trump celebrates women's rights -- and attacks Michelle Obama
At an event aimed at highlighting the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote, President Donald Trump disparaged the country's most admired woman, Michelle Obama as "over her head" after she delivered a scathing, direct-to-camera speech criticizing him at the Democratic National Convention Monday.
"Well she's in over her head, and frankly, she should've made the speech live, which she didn't do," he said Tuesday when asked his reaction to Obama's remarks, calling her speech "extremely divisive" before quickly pivoting to talk about drug pricing.
Obama has frequently topped the list of the nation's most admired women and left office with a 69% favorability rating.
Obama issued a strong rebuke of the Trump administration, and Trump personally, in her 19-minute taped remarks.
"He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us," she said, before invoking Trump's response when asked about lives lost from coronavirus in the country: "It is what it is."
Trump disparages Michelle Obama at women's rights event
On the same day the President posthumously pardoned Susan B. Anthony to commemorate women's voting rights, he said the former first lady is 'over her head'
Trump celebrates women's rights -- and attacks Michelle Obama
At an event aimed at highlighting the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote, President Donald Trump disparaged the country's most admired woman, Michelle Obama as "over her head" after she delivered a scathing, direct-to-camera speech criticizing him at the Democratic National Convention Monday.
"Well she's in over her head, and frankly, she should've made the speech live, which she didn't do," he said Tuesday when asked his reaction to Obama's remarks, calling her speech "extremely divisive" before quickly pivoting to talk about drug pricing.
Obama has frequently topped the list of the nation's most admired women and left office with a 69% favorability rating.
Obama issued a strong rebuke of the Trump administration, and Trump personally, in her 19-minute taped remarks.
"He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us," she said, before invoking Trump's response when asked about lives lost from coronavirus in the country: "It is what it is."
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The impeached Orange Dotard taking full advantage of his uneducated redneck Trumptards.
Trump is boosting one other miracle COVID-19 'treatment,' this one dropped at him by the My Pillow man
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Trump is boosting one other miracle COVID-19 'treatment,' this one dropped at him by the My Pillow man
Trump is boosting one other miracle COVID-19 'treatment,' this one dropped at him by the My Pillow man : Latest Broadcast
According to Axios’ Jonathan Swan, My Pillow Man Mike Lindell has been speaking up a brand new “dietary supplement” extracted from the poisonous plant oleander after shopping for a monetary stake within the firm that makes it. (Housing and City Growth Secretary Ben Carson can be boosting the...
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Trump eyes new unproven virus "cure" promoted by Ben Carson and the CEO of MyPillow
It's part of a pattern in which outside allies push unproven products to Trump.
Anderson Cooper clashes with MyPillow creator over unproven therapeutic - CNN Video
CNN's Anderson Cooper grills MyPillow creator Mike Lindell regarding his claims that oleandrin is a potential therapeutic for coronavirus.
The MyPillow Guy Wants To Bring Trump’s COVID Miracle Cure to Life
Move over hydroxychloroquine! The president is reportedly now interested in Oleandrin, an experimental botanical extract being promoted by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
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Trump reeeeaaaallly likes old Vlad.
He said so himself.
He said so himself.
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