US Election 2020

[AlmightyBender]

Didn't he warn Trump early on that a pandemic was coming? Is he not one of the good people trying to keep things together from within the Trump Administration, under difficult circumstances?

Anyway, now Trump will add 60 Minutes / CBS to his long, and growing, list of Fake News Media.

Navarro? No pal, never ever ever is he "good people". Just because he can do basic maths doesn't make him not garbage in a skin bag.

 

[RanzB]

The bigger issue is that the right (including those on MyBB), keep trying to equate media and national leadership responsibilities.

For all the glaring issues with the response that this administration has so shoddily trotted out, the response keeps seeming to point to media and those who aren't in power as if they are to blame for the woefully inept - frankly criminal - action taken by Trump's government.

 

[greg0205]

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[TysonRoux]

Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden for president

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president, pledging to help him defeat President Donald Trump in the general election as the two agreed to launch a series of task forces to work jointly on policy matters.

"We need you in the White House. I will do all that I can to see that that happens, Joe," Sanders said to Biden during a livestream broadcast by Biden's campaign on his website and on social media.

The endorsement of Biden by his leading Democratic rival marks a key moment for Democrats as the party seeks to unify and turn its focus toward a November match-up with President Donald Trump.

Sanders' quick endorsement of Biden in mid-April, just five days after he suspended his campaign, was a stark contrast to the 2016 Democratic race, when Sanders continued to battle Hillary Clinton into June and waited until July to endorse her.

This time, the former vice president and the Vermont senator sought to immediately address the distrust some of Sanders' supporters have for Biden after a primary campaign in which the two repeatedly clashed on issues like foreign policy and health care.

"I think that your endorsement means a great deal," Biden said. "It means a great deal to me. I think people are going to be surprised that we are apart on some issues but we're awfully close on a whole bunch of others. I'm going to need you -- not just to win the campaign, but to govern."

 

[greg0205]

Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden for president

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president, pledging to help him defeat President Donald Trump in the general election as the two agreed to launch a series of task forces to work jointly on policy matters.

"We need you in the White House. I will do all that I can to see that that happens, Joe," Sanders said to Biden during a livestream broadcast by Biden's campaign on his website and on social media.

The endorsement of Biden by his leading Democratic rival marks a key moment for Democrats as the party seeks to unify and turn its focus toward a November match-up with President Donald Trump.

Sanders' quick endorsement of Biden in mid-April, just five days after he suspended his campaign, was a stark contrast to the 2016 Democratic race, when Sanders continued to battle Hillary Clinton into June and waited until July to endorse her.

This time, the former vice president and the Vermont senator sought to immediately address the distrust some of Sanders' supporters have for Biden after a primary campaign in which the two repeatedly clashed on issues like foreign policy and health care.

"I think that your endorsement means a great deal," Biden said. "It means a great deal to me. I think people are going to be surprised that we are apart on some issues but we're awfully close on a whole bunch of others. I'm going to need you -- not just to win the campaign, but to govern."

Excellent.

Now Joe needs to name Kamala as his VP, as well as announcing a shadow cabinet that includes Bernie and Liz.

 

[greg0205]

Yes, I corrected my post, he donates it to charity. Same outcome. But he's still the devil of course, right

Just wanted to revisit this post real quick...

Trump Has Now Shifted $1.9 Million From Campaign Donors To His Business

Billionaire Donald Trump still has not donated a cent of his own to his 2020 campaign, opting to fund the effort with money from supporters around the country. At the same time, Trump’s private companies are continuing to charge the campaign for expenses like rent and consulting, according to the latest federal filings. That means that since January 20, 2017, the day Trump officially declared his intent to run for reelection, his campaign has put $1.9 million of donor money into the president’s private business.

“This is a man, who when he first said he was going to run for office, was saying that he was going to do this all out of his own pocket,” said Karl Sandstrom, a Democrat who served as a commissioner of the Federal Election Commission from 1998 to 2002. “And now he’s taking money from others and putting it in his pocket.”

Forbes first reported on this arrangement more than a year ago, when Trump had already shifted $1.1 million from his campaign to his business. The amount of money has continued to swell since then.

None of Trump’s businesses have accepted more cash from the campaign than Trump Tower Commercial LLC, an entity that holds office and retail space inside the president’s most famous New York City building. So far, the reelection effort has paid $1.3 million to Trump Tower Commercial, in which the president maintains a 100% interest. The Republican National Committee, working in coordination with the campaign, shelled out an additional $225,000 from September 2017 to January 2018. Of the $1.5 million that Trump Tower Commercial has received from the Trump campaign and the RNC, $113,000 came in the last three months of 2019, the most recent period on record.

An entity named the Trump Corp., which is also owned entirely by the president, has taken in $259,000 of campaign funds since January 2017. The president’s latest financial disclosure report, filed in May 2019, describes the Trump Corp. as a “management company.” FEC filings show it is charging the campaign for legal and IT consulting. It is not clear what specific services the Trump Corp. has provided. Nor is it clear why the president’s reelection campaign is apparently relying on a management company for help with legal and technology issues. The Trump Corp. collected $12,000 in the final quarter of 2019.

The next-biggest beneficiary is the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The president’s second home on Pennsylvania Avenue has taken in $126,000 of Trump campaign money, according to an analysis of FEC filings. Those payments, however, seem to be slowing down. From October to December of 2019, the campaign paid no money directly to the D.C. hotel.

The campaign did, however, hand about $60,000 to an entity called the Trump Hotel Collection in the final three months of 2019. Those funds covered the cost of facility rentals, according to FEC filings. It is not clear which facilities the campaign rented. Trump’s financial disclosure report shows that the Trump Hotel Collection is the operating name for an entity called Trump International Hotels Management LLC, which does business in New York and Hawaii. Through a series of companies, the president owns 100% of Trump International Hotels Management LLC, according to an analysis of his disclosure report.

More campaign contributions headed to Trump Plaza LLC, which leases a parking garage, retail space and two brownstones near Third Avenue and East 61st Street in Manhattan. So far, Trump Plaza LLC, which the president owns outright, has collected $84,000 from the campaign, according to FEC filings. The documents list those expenses as “rent,” though they do not specify exactly what the Trump campaign is renting. The reelection effort does not seem to be using Trump Plaza LLC’s retail or parking spaces. In November 2018, a Forbes reporter stood outside of the brownstones for 14 hours to ask residents whether they had seen any sign of the campaign inside those buildings. None of them said they had. A 2016 Trump staffer, however, said campaign officials sometimes crashed at a Trump Plaza apartment.

There’s also money flowing into a business called Trump Restaurants LLC. That entity, in which the president holds a 100% interest, appears to be charging the campaign to rent a small souvenir stand in the basement of Trump Tower. Every month, the campaign pays Trump Restaurants LLC $3,000, which suggests annual payments of roughly $600 per square foot. Gucci, which rents a bigger, better location inside Trump Tower, is paying $460 per square foot annually, according to an analysis of a debt prospectus obtained by Forbes. One New York City real estate expert previously said the campaign’s rates seemed high, but two others pointed out that small spaces often charge higher rents on a price-per-square-foot basis.

As long as the Trump campaign is paying fair-market rates, all of these transactions appear to be legal. When asked about the payments, a Trump campaign official ignored a detailed set of questions and issued a general statement. “The campaign pays fair-market value under negotiated rental agreements and other service agreements in compliance with the law,” the statement said. “The campaign works closely with campaign counsel to ensure strict compliance in this regard.”

 

[daveza]

What could possibly go wrong?

Yup, the lunatics are running the asylum.

 

[RanzB]

 

[AlmightyBender]

What could possibly go wrong?

.... ....

Hier kom n ding ...

 

[TysonRoux]

The Orange Fuhrer could have used the pandemic to improve his image, but the cnut is too self centered.

US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response

International relations expert warns policy failure could do lasting damage as president insults allies and undermines alliances

www.theguardian.com

Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, which he once dismissed as a hoax, has been fiercely criticised at home as woefully inadequate to the point of irresponsibility.

Yet also thanks largely to Trump, a parallel disaster is unfolding across the world: the ruination of America’s reputation as a safe, trustworthy, competent international leader and partner.


Call it the Trump double-whammy. Diplomatically speaking, the US is on life support.


“The Trump administration’s self-centred, haphazard, and tone-deaf response [to Covid-19] will end up costing Americans trillions of dollars and thousands of otherwise preventable deaths,” wrote Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard.

The President and the pandemic: two months of dithering, deceit and distortion

On January 22, 2020, President Donald Trump told the American public: “We have it totally under control.” No, we didn’t. We don’t. And no one can say how or when we will. I have compiled a roundup of Trump’s distortions, evasions, and lies on the coronavirus outbreak as documented by more than...

www.healthnewsreview.org

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Indeed, his polls are beginning to crater. -14 on Rasmussen, 50.8 disapprove on 538, it’s just downhill from here. This is his Katrina moment, except many many times worse than Katrina.

The sad thing is that the red flag was his egregious mishandling of the hurricane in Puerto Rico that led to 4k deaths.

Donald Trump's mishandling of Puerto Rico came with a human cost

Donald Trump failed to help Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Now that we know the hurricane caused more than 4,000 deaths, the extent of Trump's failure is becoming clear.

www.businessinsider.com

What could possibly go wrong?

A group of useless twits, but remember this? lol.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Excellent.

Now Joe needs to name Kamala as his VP, as well as announcing a shadow cabinet that includes Bernie and Liz.

Don't think Bernie would go for that, and don't think he should, either. He's better in the Senate, pushing the political argument rather than being in Cabinet.

I'd also be hesitant about vacating 2 Senate seats in states with Republican governors.

Also prefer Stacey Abrams to Harris, but either would probably be fine.

Gretchen Whitmer seems to be getting a strong look, too.

Good long profile here:

‘The Woman in Michigan’ Goes National

Governor Gretchen Whitmer is dealing with a historic pandemic, a bullying president and a big job tryout.

www.politico.com

 

[lumeer]

What could possibly go wrong?

But... Hunter Biden...

 

[TysonRoux]

But... Hunter Biden...

Rodeo Clown Rudy needs to step up to the plate now, and protect the head honcho.

Where's the evidence Rudy?

Trump: Giuliani to deliver report on Ukraine trip to Congress, Barr

President Trump said that Rudy Giuliani, his personal attorney, will deliver a report to Congress and Attorney General William Barr about information he uncovered during his latest trip to Ukraine.…

thehill.com

President Trump said that Rudy Giuliani, his personal attorney, will deliver a report to Congress and Attorney General William Barr about information he uncovered during his latest trip to Ukraine.

“He’s going to make a report, I think to the attorney general and to Congress. He says he has a lot of good information. I have not spoken to him about that information yet,” Trump told reporters Saturday.

“He has not told me what he found, but I think he wants to go before Congress ... and also to the attorney general and the Department of Justice,” he added. “I hear he has found plenty.”

Giuliani raised eyebrows this week when he traveled to Ukraine as the House conducts a whirlwind impeachment investigation into whether the president abused his power. Democrats say Trump overstepped his bounds by pressuring Kyiv to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden on unfounded corruption allegations and disproven claims that Ukraine was involved in 2016 election meddling.

During his trip, Giuliani met with multiple Ukrainian officials as he continued his campaign to convince American lawmakers Trump did nothing wrong.

Lindsey Graham: Rudy Giuliani is giving DoJ 'information from Ukraine'

Trump ally cautioned information from president’s personal lawyer ‘could be Russian propaganda’

www.theguardian.com

LOL


Trump ally cautioned information from president’s personal lawyer ‘could be Russian propaganda’

 

[Temujin]

Fauci gives finger to press followed by trump owning all the tdsers and msm right now... oh the outrage is going to be so beautiful in the coming hours

 

[greg0205]

Don't think Bernie would go for that, and don't think he should, either. He's better in the Senate, pushing the political argument rather than being in Cabinet.

I'd also be hesitant about vacating 2 Senate seats in states with Republican governors.

Also prefer Stacey Abrams to Harris, but either would probably be fine.

Gretchen Whitmer seems to be getting a strong look, too.

Good long profile here:

‘The Woman in Michigan’ Goes National

Governor Gretchen Whitmer is dealing with a historic pandemic, a bullying president and a big job tryout.

www.politico.com

True about vacating seats... 'tho I think Joe will eventually have to give more than lip service to the left of the party.

And yeah, Gretchen's awsome.

 

[greg0205]

But... Hunter Biden...

Hunter Biden was always Republican BS.

You've mentioned Mike Bloomberg's man, Tim O'Brien here before... If Donnie presses play on Hunter stories this election season, Tim will scorch the earth and salt it after with Ivanka branded matches and salt.

 

[TysonRoux]

 

[OrbitalDawn]

One of the most despicable applications of Trumpism. Using life saving equipment as corrupt avenues of crony patronage.

PPE and Ventilators Becomes Patronage in Trump’s Hands

As we work to find out the scope and goals of the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

As we work to find out the scope and goals of the White House’s seizure of medical goods across the United States, a simpler pattern is coming into view: the White House seizes goods from public officials and hospitals across the country while doling them out as favors to political allies and favorites, often to great fanfare to boost the popularity of those allies.

 

[TysonRoux]

Same old same old from the Orange Snollygoster.

Trump attacks media in combative briefing with few virus updates – as it happened

‘I don’t mind controversy,’ US president says in White House briefing on coronavirus crisis

www.theguardian.com

Trump said he was confident that states would follow his administration’s guidance on when to re-open businesses and ease back distancing measures. “They will cooperate perfectly. Watch,” he said.

But states have already made other ideas. Today, the governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut announced they had formed a regional advisory council. New York governor Andrew Cuomo said each state would name a public health official and an economic development official to serve on a working group alongside each governor’s chief of staff to design a “reopening plan” for their states. Shortly afterward, the states of California, Washington and Oregon announced a similar plan.