Jennifer Rubin was hired by the Washington Post to be its “conservative” columnist, to counterbalance its liberal tilt on national issues (on education, the Washington Post is far-right and pro-privatization, with the exception of Valerie Strauss).
But then Rubin encountered Trump, and she was horrified by the hash this man made of her fiscally responsible, conservative principles.
In this article, she says that Trump is unraveling before our eyes. His mental instability has become too glaring to ignore.
She writes:
“Far too much media time has been devoted to mulling whether former vice president Joe Biden, as svelte and vigorous as he has ever been and showing no sign of mental deterioration, is too old to run for president and not nearly enough considering whether President Trump is.
“In the past 24 hours, Trump — who will be 74 in November 2020 and is “tired,” according to aides — has:
- Falsely declared multiple times that his father was born in Germany. (Fred Trump was born in New York.)
- Declared that wind turbines cause cancer.
- Confused “origins” and “oranges” in asking reporters to look into the “oranges of the Mueller report.”
- Told Republicans to be more “paranoid” about vote-counting.
“He is increasingly incoherent. The Post quotes him at a Republican event on Tuesday: “We’re going into the war with some socialist. It looks like the only non, sort of, heavy socialist is being taken care of pretty well by the socialists, they got to him, our former vice president. I was going to call him, I don’t know him well, I was going to say ‘Welcome to the world Joe, you having a good time?’” Even when attempting to defend himself, he emits spurts of disconnected thoughts. “Now you look at that [presidential announcement] speech and you see what’s happening and that speech was so tame compared to what is happening now, that trek up is one of the great treacherous treks anywhere, and Mexico has now, because they don’t want the border closed.”
If you had a relative who spoke this way, you would gently encourage a mental evaluation. And this man holds the nuclear codes to blow up the world.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
A pond snail has about 11,000 neurons. Surely the number found in whatever species of lowlife Trump is can’t be much higher. So, doing a very detailed neurological workup shouldn’t be all that difficult.
Thank you, Dr. Shepard for that insightful diagnosis. Perhaps you can discuss this with the specialists at Walter Reed..
Leave the guy alone he knows what’s coming. You would be unraveling too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/mueller-findings-barr.html
You guys waiting for Mueller to get rid of Trump for you is like the xtians waiting for the Rapture. It’ll happen any day now!
Or, what might be more productive is figuring out why Trump was elected in the first place. Hint: America elected him, not Russia. Until Democrats come to terms with what happened in 2016, it’s going to keep happening.
Dienne77, wrong!
Russia did help Trump win enough Electoral College votes to become president.
“How Russia Helped Swing the Electoral College for Trump”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/how-russia-helped-to-swing-the-election-for-trump
“Without the Russians, Trump wouldn’t have won”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/without-the-russians-trump-wouldnt-have-won/2018/07/24/f4c87894-8f6b-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html?utm_term=.2f9a4c8d6280
“The ‘unique’ nature of the US voting system could help Russia tip the scales of future elections, experts say”
https://www.businessinsider.com/did-russia-swing-the-election-electoral-college-meddling-2017-10
And this morning, new life has been injected into the Mueller report.
“Some Mueller team members aren’t happy with Barr’s description of their findings
Three new reports describe behind-the-scenes dissent. Here’s what we know.
“Did Attorney General Bill Barr properly represent the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation?
“Some members of Mueller’s team don’t think he did — and they think the findings are worse for Trump than Barr let on, according to a new reports by the New York Times, Washington Post, and NBC News.” …
“Until Democrats come to terms with what happened in 2016, it’s going to keep happening.”
I agree.
In 2016, certain self-described progressives, along with a whole lot of internet trolls, kept posting that Trump was absolutely positively no worse than the evil, awful totally corrupt Democrat running and it was targeted at certain groups to convince them to stay home.
I see the same thing — the very same people who insisted that having Trump would be no different than the evil Democrat because they were perfectly fine with having far right lifetime Supreme Court Justices like Kavanaugh and Gorsuch and usually because they were white and weren’t really bothered by the election of a President spewing as much racist and xenophobic hatred as Trump did.
What might be more productive is those people demonstrating that they have an ounce of integrity and admitting they were wrong. I have not yet seen that. So I have to think that taking advice from anyone who insisted that Trump was no worse than the Democrat and has yet to acknowledge that they were wrong would be listening to people with no integrity.
https://bobshepherdonline.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/trump-rally/
Thank you, Bob.
45 loves “HATE” because, “He hates himself first and foremost.”
I can’t imagine spending even a second in the company of 45.
The only one in the Ds world that may be having a crisis is the grand poppah of the Ds socialist party – that anti-millionaire – millionaire – Bernie – has a major problem confronting him with his call to those who follow him- Socialism in Finland isn’t working – and guess what you – haven’t heard it from the lame stream media sources…
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s coalition government resigned on Friday a month ahead of a general election, saying it could not deliver on a healthcare reform package that is widely seen as crucial to securing long-term government finances.
Healthcare systems across much of the developed world have come under increasing stress in recent years as treatment costs soar and people live longer, meaning fewer workers are supporting more pensioners.
Nordic countries, where comprehensive welfare is the cornerstone of the social model, have been among the most affected. But reform has been controversial and, in Finland, plans to cut costs and boost efficiency have stalled for years.
“The picture I’ve got over the last few days from parliament forces me to draw conclusions. There is no way ahead. I am hugely disappointed,” Centre Party Prime Minister Juha Sipila told reporters at a news conference.
“We need reforms, there is no other way for Finland to succeed.”
Parliament’s constitutional committee said the reform package was unconstitutional and required significant changes the government did not have time to implement before the scheduled elections.
President Sauli Niinisto accepted Sipila’s resignation but asked his government of his Centre party and the National Coalition Party to continue in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet has been appointed.
“My government works on a ‘result or out’ principle… one has to carry responsibility in politics,” Sipila said, adding it was his personal decision to resign.
The government had aimed to dramatically slow the increase in healthcare spending over the next decade, reducing the budget to 18.3 billion euros in 2029 against an estimate of 21.3 billion.
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila announces his government’s resignation at a news conference at his official residence, Kesaranta, in Helsinki, Finland March 8, 2019. Lehtikuva/Seppo Samuli via REUTERS
NORDIC PROBLEM
The reforms expected to generate savings by creating 18 new regions to organize healthcare services instead of the 200 entities that are currently responsible. Critics said the scale of the projected savings was unrealistic.
Other Nordic countries have also grappled with the need to cut costs. Sweden is to gradually raise its retirement age and has opened up parts of the healthcare system to the private sector in a bid to boost efficiency.
Denmark will gradually increase the retirement age to 73 – the highest in the world – while cutting taxes and unemployment benefits to encourage people to work more.
The problem has been particularly acute in Finland where the financial crisis of 2008-9 magnified the effects of demographic changes such as a rapidly declining birth rate.
Several Finnish governments have tried to push through healthcare reform in different forms over the past 12 years — all have failed.
Finland has long been touted by American socialists as the socialist Nirvana, where everything is free and everyone is happy, happy, happy. Sadly, fiscal reality hit Finland’s government as it collapsed Friday due to the rising costs of its universal health care.
The warning signs were on the wall last spring when Finland, as Leslie noted, ended its experiment with “universal basic income.”
Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has been hanging his socialist mantle on the “success” of Finland’s socialist structure, may be the hardest hit.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
The government of Finland collapsed Friday due to the rising cost of universal health care and the prime minister’s failure to enact reforms to the system.
Prime Minister Juha Sipila and the rest of the cabinet resigned after the governing coalition failed to pass reforms in parliament to the country’s regional government and health services, the Wall Street Journal reports. Finland faces an aging population, with around 26 percent of its citizens expected to be over 65 by the year 2030, an increase of 5 percent from today.
It’s not just Finland experiencing such problems with its socialist policies. Other Nordic countries, also touted by American socialists and communists as the model America should follow, are suffering similar economic burdens directly related to their socialist policies.
The Washington Free Beacon continuesJust a few days before Finland’s government collapsed over its inability to foot the bill for its expansive socialist experiment, Sanders took to Twitter in an attempt to shame America.
Indeed, Finland has long been a Bernie go-to for the glories of socialism. Last year, he enthusiastically gushed over Finland being the “happiest place in the world” because of all its “free” stuff.
With the collapse of Finland’s government over its inability to financially support its massive socialist agenda, Bernie will undoubtedly do the same thing he always does when socialism (or communism) fails: ignore, obfuscate, and deflect.
After all, for all his big, shiny promises of “free” everything for everyone, he still refuses to address how this largess will be paid for.
The people of Finland are the happiest in the world. Guess they are too stupid to know how bad things are. Should we compare their ‘miserable’ lives to the GREAT US that stands at #19 when compared to 156 countries?
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Where does the United States fall? At No. 19, a slip from last year’s 18th spot (which was already down four places from 2017).
The world’s happiest countries REVEALED: Finland comes top while South Sudan is the bleakest as the UK climbs the table and the US falls to its lowest ranking EVER
The World Happiness Report, released today, ranked 156 countries by happiness levels, based on factors such as life expectancy, social support and corruption. The UK placed 15th on the index.
Finland has been crowned the happiest country in the world for the second year in a row, leading a top ten that is made up of five Nordic nations.
The World Happiness Report, released today, ranked 156 countries by happiness levels, based on factors such as life expectancy, social support and corruption.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6826655/The-worlds-happiest-countries-REVEALED-Finland-comes-South-Sudan-bleakest.html?ito=email_share_article-top
The US has been pushing it’s policies all over the world. We are bullies. Likely, the Nordic countries have adopted “parts” that really don’t work with their system. This is not news at all.
At what point can anyone distinguish Trump now from Trump a couple of years ago? He has been raving all this time.
Some years ago, a person ran for office in a large city whom I knew. The person was extraordinarily delusional, recalling stories of great wealth to total strangers, interceding on behalf of total strangers and speaking to the local media as a representative of a traumatized family, and stealing anything that was not nailed down. Thing was, when the person was interviewed on the TV, she sounded more sane than her opponents and almost won.
There is a reason for checks and balances. Still, without honest people who will police their own, the system will crumble. Honest Republicans laid the foundation for their eventual electoral success by opposing the excesses of the Nixon White House and legitimizing the party so that voters chose Reagan out of trust that the people in Washington would do the same if it ever happened again. Then came the CIA and Iran-Contra affair, and no one stepped up. Since that day, creeping corruption has grown to dominate the body politic. Neither party has been immune from the disease, but republican refusal to acknowledge the depravity of the Trump White House is digging a hole they will find resistant to climbing out of.
As is often the case, Roy, you go straight to most serious problem raised by all of this. Is there no low to which the Repugnicans are unwilling to follow Trump? Where is the outrage from them when he trashes our agreements with allies? When he kow-tows to dictators? When he denies scientific realities? When he makes racist comments? When he brags about groping women? When he makes unilateral decisions by tweet against the advice of his own military and intelligence experts? When he tells lie after lie after lie? When he speaks of clash between Nazi and anit-Nazi protestors as involving “good people on both sides”? When he lies about the fact that he was doing business in Russia at the same time that he was running for office? When he accepts emoluments? This party has a lot to answer for. But still they get in line behind the Trump limbo party. How low. How low. How low can you go.
I call my Republican senators once a week – and get a live voice often.
Imagine if 50, 50 people a day… called their GOP senator to ask about his lack of speaking up – their “legacy” of selling out constituents and the country – ….
Emails are wasted – real letters and live calls may only get tallied but they can’t be ignored
Better yet – call the local small town papers and press them to confront their GOP senators about their fear of speaking out …
Is that “live voice” always the senators or is it a staffer?
Damn the Trumpeedoes! Just got a blast email from the Bernie 2020 campaign manager.
“$18.2 million raised from 900,000 donations
525,000 donors powering our movement
$20 average donation
…The number one profession donating to our movement? Teachers (my emphasis)!”
Feel. the. Bern!
Feel it.
Teacher support must be because of broader policy positions because he doesn’t seem to have much to say about education beyond free college (tuition?). To be fair, I don’t think many people really put education as a top of their list concern; I am continually disappointed by how little people really know about it. DeVos has really helped spotlight our concerns with her extreme positions as Education Secretary. Her antics are a little hard to ignore although we need to hear more from candidates in response to her nonsense.
Bernie doesn’t have a spotless voting record on NCLB or the Charter School Expansion Act of 1998, for example, but he seems to be learning and his views seem to be changing for the better because he gave his endorsement to us teachers when we went on strike this year. The strikes educated many people.
Bernie’s views are evolving. He was first and foremost a Senator from Vermont with a population the size of a mid-sized city of a mostly rural persuasion. They have had a mixed bag of school solutions to meet the needs of their communities. Vermont is not a state where the charter crowd would see potential for big bucks, but people who choose to live in Vermont have sought different ways to educate their population that may not pass the smell test in different circumstances faced by other states. He has to be “educated” on the national picture to see the threats to public education posed by charters and other public-private partnership arrangements.
TEACHERS leading the conversation.
And Betsy has done her part to make charters and vouchers look bad too.
may we see those who have Sanders’ ear PUSHING him into a full recognition of what he can do for public education; perhaps at some point a nation-wide postcard flood or somesuch action will become necessary
Something like this happened with FDR near the end. I read that he’d fallen sick and into a coma and his administration pretended that he was just recovering from an illness. Each day, they’d send Eleanor into his bedroom where she pretended to talk to him about the issues and she came out and told his cabinet what her husband told her he wanted them to do.
FDR was not the acting president. During this brief period of time, Eleanor was — until FDR died and Truman was sworn in.
Who is making pretend decisions as Trump continues to unravel — Ivanka?
Ivanka is not an Eleanor Roosevelt.
Howard Baker wrote that before his first cabinet meeting as Chief of Staff, another member of the administration (I forget now who this was) pulled him aside and said, “Don’t be surprised if the old man is not entirely there.” He was starting to suffer from senile dementia. Some people never do. In some, it starts pretty early.
the old man–Ronald Reagan
There is a good and bad side to Trump’s dementia.
The bad is that he’s in a position to do a lot of damage to the world unless enough Republicans in the Senate will join with the Democrats to stop him.
The good is maybe we will get rid of him before 2020.
The other bad think is that after he’s gone, because of the dementia rot, he’ll never know what a horrible person he is. And if one or more of the court cases waiting to pounce once he is out of the White House finds him guilty, he’ll end up in some expensive hospital for rich people with dementia and never suffer from the guilty verdicts because he won’t know what they mean.
He’ll end up being a slobbering, babbling fool running around in only a big, baggy bathrobe (naked underneath) grabbling old women by the “P” word, and he will get away with it because he has dementia.
It may not be that bad yet, but I am seeing some similarities to our late senator in Arizona, John McCain. It may not be a brain tumor, but there are plenty of age ailments of the brain that this man certainly could be suffering from. Here is hoping the rest of America agrees and votes for someone else in 2020.
Maybe DT is faking the dementia because he thinks that will get him out of all the court cases waiting to pounce once he leaves the White House.
Didn’t I see a plot like that on The Twilight Zone?
You sure it wasn’t on “The Apprentice”?
I don’t have a problem with anyone opining on vulgar, corruptive, behavior of Donald Trump. But I don’t feel comfortable with media writing staff taking swipes at anyone they don’t like and equalizing him/her as the other side of Donald Trump. T
Unfortunately, Jennifer Rubin is one of those in the camp.
Here’s an example. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/03/press-needs-stop-giving-sanders-free-ride/?utm_term=.2b79f8a665a6
This really shows how mainstream media staff writers and pundits judge a potential candidate depending on where s/he stands and how distant/close her/his agendas stand apart from political/ideological platform they like. That’s why these people love to attack Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jill Stein, and IIhan Omar. Never-mind that all of those are 100% against Trump.
Pundits in the mainstream media can disguise themselves as conscientious writers/journalists by publishing articles or opinion pieces critical of Trump administration and GOP, assuming that people won’t notice about their double-talk. Wrong. There’s no way these folks in the bubble can earn respect–certainly not from me, if they keep behaving exactly the same as conservative/ right-wing news media and talk hosts in the past and present.
Excellent points, Ken.
And while Individual-1 is certainly more than a problem, I am more concerned by the Republican Party, members of Congress, elected officials throughout the nation, and the millions of Americans, many of whom I encounter every day and even live near me. It bothers me that these neo-fascists not only allow this to happen, but actually cheer it on. The notion of internment and “reeducation” camps in the U.S. is no longer a far-fetched idea of novelists and movie producers. Your argument above only emphasizes this.
Count me in the club of not a fan of Jill Stein. Her one million votes gave us the Trump reign of malice and ignorance.
Even if we assume that those votes were owed to Hillary (which they were not – she failed to earn them), what about the 1.3 million votes that went to Gary Johnson? Didn’t that hurt Trump more than Stein hurt Hillary? How can you say Stein was the decisive factor?
Here’s one of the hard-hitting questions Rubin believes Sanders should be forced to answer:
Because I’m running for president!
That is a dumb question.
The Democratic Party nominated a woman for president in 2016.
It is not the responsibility of male candidates to drop out of the race.
Sigh. That shows most democrats in the center and mainstream media haven’t made any progress from tragic loss of election in 2016. I highly doubt that they would set exactly the same standard for Elizabeth Warren as they did to Hillary Clinton.
Bernie Sanders should be asked the same questions all the candidates are asked. The questions posed in Rubin’s article were perfectly legitimate and they are exactly the kind of questions HRC was asked and AOC is asked and Elizabeth Warren is asked and Kamala Harris is asked.
There is a double standard here. I don’t expect any candidate to be perfect and Bernie is far from perfect. Anyone who thinks that shady deal Bernie’s wife got was perfectly fine better not dare to ever criticize another Democrat on similar issues.
I like Bernie’s positions and I may support him in the primary. But you can’t insist that his missteps are nothing while insisting other Democrats are “no better than Trump”. Get it?
If you don’t think the mainstream media gave Trump a pass on discussing issues in 2016, then your perception is way different than mine. And Sanders received nowhere near the scrutiny HRC did.
I don’t think that the missteps and “here is my idea but I’m much too important to have to bother with any details” positions of Bernie eliminate him as a candidate. Even if I don’t support him in the primary, I would gladly vote for him in the general election if he wins the nomination.
But that doesn’t mean he should get a pass when his ideas are not well thought out — especially when other candidates are.
And I say this as someone who sees how his “free college tuition” idea played out when Andrew Cuomo adopted it and Bernie Sanders sat next to Cuomo to make sure Cuomo had all the progressive credibility he needed to win another term. And that “free college” is not exactly as advertised.
No hypocrisy in 2020, okay? Let’s agree that no candidate is going to be perfect and they are all going to be 1,000,000x better than Trump.
And anyone who isn’t starting from the premise that every single candidate for the Democratic nomination is 1,000,000x better than Trump should be viewed with suspicion.
Diane wrote, “If you had a relative who spoke this way, you would gently encourage a mental evaluation. And this man holds the nuclear codes to blow up the world.”
Exactly. Maybe someone in his inner circle noticed all these recent aberrant behaviors and said something about that, too, and perhaps it’s why Trump was compelled to claim yesterday that he’s “a very normal person”???
Trump is many things, but not “a very normal person.”
What’s the difference between “normal” and “very normal”? Is it possible to be more normal than normal?
Trump definitely is ‘not a very normal person”.
Wind turbines cause cancer was mentioned as one of the ways that Trump is declining. He totally makes up his own “facts”.
I’ve been saying for months that he is mentally degenerating and has dementia or Alzheimers. I’ve heard recordings of him speaking in his 40’s vs. the short repeated rambling words that he uses now. He used to be able to speak and make sense.
Melania certainly can’t cover for him. “Be Best”. She is a plastic trophy wife.
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We Checked President Trump’s Dubious Claims on the Perils of Wind Power
It’s no secret that Mr. Trump dislikes wind power. But he’s stepped up his attacks lately with new false claims.
…During a sometimes rambling digression about wind turbines at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual spring dinnerin Washington on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said: “They say the noise causes cancer.”…
Separately, some researchers have been investigating claims that noise from wind turbines might cause other health problems like nausea, headaches or sleeplessness. So far, experts haven’t found strong evidence of links to those conditions, although that debate is likely to persist.
When compared to the research around coal power, an energy source that Mr. Trump has long championed, the difference is stark.
There is ample evidence linking the particulate pollution from coal plants to heart disease, respiratory problems, and lung cancer. When Mr. Trump moved to relax restrictions on coal plant pollution last year, his own Environmental Protection Agency estimated that the change could lead to as many as 1,400 additional premature deaths each yearby 2030…
Much larger studies, including an analysis of more than 50,000 home sales across nine states conducted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2013, have found no evidence that home values are generally affected by nearby wind projects…
Last year, wind power accounted for nearly one-fifth of the electricity generated in the Texas grid, and people were still able to watch TV there…
We Checked President Trump’s Dubious Claims on the Perils of Wind Power
It’s no secret that Mr. Trump dislikes wind power. But he’s stepped up his attacks lately with new false claims.
This is weird. I sent this NYT article to myself and it worked just fine. Why is it a “Document not Found” on this site?
This link worked for me.
I must say that WordPress is a very strange host.
Sometimes I get letters from readers saying that WordPress refuses to post their comments, not even in moderation, as happened yesterday with a comment by Karen Wolfe, which I posted myself.
Worse, WordPress arbitrarily and capriciously drops readers. I have heard from scores of people who asked me why they no longer receive the blog. I contact WordPress and the “happiness engineer” says that the reader blocked the blog, and the reader says that’s wrong. My guess is that hundreds of readers have been eliminated this way.
I won’t speculate about why this happens.
Yeah, the first place to look is always your spam folder. My last episode of no blog happened after I changed the email address where I wanted to receive the blog. Everything got sent to Spam. My first experience had nothing to do with Spam. I never did discover the issue but changed my screen name and email address to restore some semblance of order.
WordPress is my “host” but it’s not my friend
Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?
STAT asked experts to compare Trump’s speech from decades ago to that in 2017. All noticed deterioration, which may signal changes in Trump’s brain health.
STAT reviewed decades of Trump’s on-air interviews and compared them to Q&A sessions since his inauguration. The differences are striking and unmistakable.
Research has shown that changes in speaking style can result from cognitive decline. STAT therefore asked experts in neurolinguistics and cognitive assessment, as well as psychologists and psychiatrists, to compare Trump’s speech from decades ago to that in 2017; they all agreed there had been a deterioration, and some said it could reflect changes in the health of Trump’s brain.
In interviews Trump gave in the 1980s and 1990s (with Tom Brokaw, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Rose, and others), he spoke articulately, used sophisticated vocabulary, inserted dependent clauses into his sentences without losing his train of thought, and strung together sentences into a polished paragraph, which — and this is no mean feat — would have scanned just fine in print. This was so even when reporters asked tough questions about, for instance, his divorce, his brush with bankruptcy, and why he doesn’t build housing for working-class Americans.
Trump fluently peppered his answers with words and phrases such as “subsided,” “inclination,” “discredited,” “sparring session,” and “a certain innate intelligence.” He tossed off well-turned sentences such as, “It could have been a contentious route,” and, “These are the only casinos in the United States that are so rated.” He even offered thoughtful, articulate aphorisms: “If you get into what’s missing, you don’t appreciate what you have,” and, “Adversity is a very funny thing.”
Now, Trump’s vocabulary is simpler. He repeats himself over and over, and lurches from one subject to an unrelated one,…
https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/
Trump likes to speak without notes. He doesn’t like the teleprompter. His spontaneous speaking style reveals his incoherence and his inability to frame a complete sentence or paragraph. His train of thought weaves and bobs and goes in circles and runs off the track repeatedly.
He doesn’t like the teleprompter because he can’t read well. He is likely functionally illiterate. He has had people “do” for him his whole life…so he doesn’t read anything himself. We will never know his SAT scores or his grades while he was in school and they were likely buried somewhere with a large “donation” attached to that burial.
LisaM: Here is an indication of the ‘brilliance’ of Donald Trump. He ‘already knew everything’ when he went to Wharton School of Business.
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Late Professor William T. Kelley taught Marketing at Wharton School of Business and Finance, University of Pennsylvania, for 31 years, ending with his retirement in 1982. Dr. Kelley, who also had vast experience as a business consultant, was the author of a then-widely used textbook called Marketing Intelligence — The Management of Marketing Information (originally published by P. Staples, London, 1968). Dr. Kelley taught marketing management to both undergraduate and graduate students at Wharton. http://www.upenn.edu/… Dr. Bill was one of my closest friends for 47 years when we lost him at 94 about six years ago. Bill would have been 100 this year.
Donald J. Trump was an undergraduate student at Wharton for the latter two of his college years, having been graduated in 1968. http://www.thedp.com/…
Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.
To jschiedell up there: I found, of course, that The Washington Free Beacon is a conservative website (of course), so I’m naturally skepitical (i.e., do not believe) what they’d reported about Finland & other Nordic countries. My curiosity as to this “news” source is piqued–I will look up further, later, & write more, but have to go to a special ed. event.
And, jschiedell, just HOW is it that Finland has been named–for many years–the happiest country on earth?! (& Denmark, Norway follow).
I’ve asked this before and I know it will go nowhere now, but please, please can the amateur psychology nonsense. No one on this board is qualified to diagnose Trump, nor is Jennifer Rubin. Even if any of us had the proper credentials and experience, it’s unethical to diagnose anyone without properly interviewing and examining them, which no one has. There are plenty of reasons to dislike Trump, but mental health shouldn’t be the issue. All you’re doing is further stigmatizing mental illness. Trump is repulsive, yes, but that’s not a mental illness.
In any case, you folks have been ranting from the beginning that Trump is unhinged and unbalanced and whatnot, so I find it laughable that you think now he’s really unhinged and unbalanced. As Roy mentioned above, Trump now is pretty much Trump all along. You seem to think he’s declining, but, in fact, it seems more like he’s reveling. He loves the negative attention and y’all keep on giving it to him!
dienne77: “There are plenty of reasons to dislike Trump, but mental health shouldn’t be the issue. ”
I totally disagree with you. Trump is unhinged and he should be evaluated. Why is his degenerating speeches and talks he makes not proof of some type of mental problem? May experts in psychology have said that he is a narcissist. There is definitely a mental health issue.
Are you suggesting that we all refrain from commenting on any topic on which we are not authorities?
Dienne77
I don’t understand your meaning of “no one is qualified to ‘diagnose’ Trump or anyone.”
Sounds like you are echoing exactly what media pundits on both sides are saying numerous times. That’s rather arrogant, since you are no more qualified to do so than the folks on this board which you are vehemently criticizing.
OMG is someone really attacking people for giving “negative attention” to the President if the United States??!!! As if we are supposed to IGNORE the guy whose every demand the Senate enables?
This isn’t Rush Limbaugh ranting. It is the President of the United States. Not some crazy uncle. The President of the United States. Not Alex Jones. The President of the United States and arguably the most powerful man in the world.
It is especially offensive being ordered not to give Trump “negative attention” by the person who has yet to acknowledge her error in believing that Trump was absolutely positively no worse than the evil, horrible Democrat so there was no reason to vote for that evil horrible Democrat to prevent the “no worse” Trump from taking office.
Are we better off that Trump is President instead of the “evil corrupt” Democrat who ran against him?
Those people will never answer that question.
Is this country no worse than it would have been if HRC had won the election instead of Trump?
If you can’t acknowledge that this country is much worse off after 2 1/2 years of Trump than if the Democrat had won, then why should anyone take anything you say seriously? It’s no different than taking advice from a rabid right wing Republican.
D77: I also pointed out that his supporters, now the majority of the Republican Party, have a duty to part company with his excesses, even if that means dooming him to defeat. The party they save may be their own.
Here is some good news. There is more going on than is talked openly about.
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Dozens’ of Whistle-Blowers Are Secretly Cooperating With House Democrats
The number of anonymous tipsters reporting wrongdoing from inside the federal government has spiked during the Trump presidency, the House Oversight Committee says.
…Of the dozens of whistle-blowers Democrats say they are working with, they have publicly confirmed that a handful work in the White House. All but Newbold, however, have come forward on the condition that they remain anonymous. Newbold spoke to the committee as part of its investigation of White House security clearances, and she’s not the only whistle-blower involved in that matter, the panel confirmed in a memo describing her testimony. “Committee staff have spoken with other whistle-blowers who corroborated Ms. Newbold’s account, but they were too afraid about the risk to their careers to come forward publicly,” the memo reads. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on this story….
Read More:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/trump-administration-whistleblowers-democrats-congress/586459/?utm_source=atl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share
The forces are closing in on Trump. I love good news.
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Trump melts down over ‘totally illegal’ New York Times as Mueller leaks blow apart his ‘exoneration’
The New York Times had no legitimate sources, which would be totally illegal, concerning the Mueller Report. In fact, they probably had no sources at all! They are a Fake News paper who have already been forced to apologize for their incorrect and very bad reporting on me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2019
The Times described their sources as government officials and others familiar with the investigators’ frustration.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/trump-melts-down-over-totally-illegal-new-york-times-in-as-mueller-leaks-blow-apart-his-exoneration/#.XKZlVHE8cCU.gmail
Here’s another good bit of news. We can guess why Barr didn’t release the summary produced by Bob Mueller but shaped it in his own words.
The New York Times had no legitimate sources, which would be totally illegal, concerning the Mueller Report. In fact, they probably had no sources at all! They are a Fake News paper who have already been forced to apologize for their incorrect and very bad reporting on me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2019
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Mueller Gathered ‘Alarming’ Trump Obstruction Evidence: WaPo
The Washington Post has backed up the New York Times report from late Wednesday that some members of Robert Mueller’s team have said the special counsel report is much worse for the president than was suggested by Attorney General William Barr. In its report, the Post goes a step further, claiming some members of Mueller’s team have complained to close associates that they gathered “alarming and significant” evidence of obstruction by President Trump. “It was much more acute than Barr suggested,” one source is reported to have said. In his summary, Barr said that the special counsel did not establish evidence for a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, and said that Mueller didn’t conclude “one way or the other” as to whether Trump’s conduct in office constituted obstruction of justice. Barr also said that he concluded the evidence was not sufficient to prove obstruction. “There was immediate displeasure from the team when they saw how the attorney general had characterized their work,” said one official. Summaries were reportedly prepared for different sections of the report, which Mueller’s team thought could be released immediately without redaction.
Read it at Washington Post
Here is one more reason for the Orange Moron to become more unhinged. What is he hiding? Can’t be anything good or he wouldn’t continue to claim that he is under audit and can’t show them.
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GOP Senator: ‘Yeah, I Would Like To’ See Trump’s Taxes
House Ways and Means chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) on Wednesday formally asked the Treasury Department to disclose Trump’s taxes, which the president has long tried to avoid disclosing by falsely claiming that being under IRS audit means that he cannot release them.
The IRS has said that “nothing prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information.” It also automatically audits both the president and vice president’s tax returns each year.
“I’ve been under audit for many years because the numbers are big, and I guess when you have a name, you’re audited,” Trump said. “But until such time as I’m not under audit, I would not be inclined to do it.”
During his 2016 campaign, Trump became the first major-party presidential nominee in 40 years to refuse to release his taxes.
The Treasury Department has said that it would evaluate the “legality” of Democrats’ request, potentially setting up a court battle.
Under an IRS provision, the House Ways and Means Committee and several other congressional committees are allowed to obtain anyone’s tax returns and release them to the full House or Senate. During the Watergate scandal in 1974, the Joint Committee on Taxation obtained President Richard Nixon’s tax returns and released them to the House…
Article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-kennedy-trump-taxes_n_5ca60d78e4b0409b0ec4cea4
This is off topic but one that Americans should be aware of. Extreme monitoring is now happening in China. This is truly frightening for the future. How many other dictatorial countries are going to start doing the same thing? If it can happen in China, it can happen anywhere.
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How China Turned a City Into a Prison
Children are interrogated. Neighbors become informants. Mosques are monitored. Cameras are everywhere.
Have you ever read China’s Constitution? If you did, you would know what is behind this “extreme” monitoring.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the recognized father of today’s China and today’s Taiwan (both governments accept him as the father of modern China) said he wanted a republic similar to the United States but different because it would have to fit China’s culture. When he said this, it was the late 19th century and the U.S. then is not the U.S. of today.
China’s culture is influenced by Confucianism, Buddism, and Taoism — not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam. That influence focuses on overall harmony not the rights of individuals.
China is a collective culture vs the United States that is an individualistic culture.
I refer you to this section of China’s Constitution to learn what I mean:
Specifically Articles 51 through 55:
Article 51 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China, in exercising their freedoms and rights, may not infringe upon the interests of the State, of society or of the collective, or upon the lawful freedoms and rights of other citizens.
Article 52 It is the duty of citizens of the People’s Republic of China to safeguard the unification of the country and the unity of all its nationalities.
Article 53 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China must abide by the Constitution and other laws, keep State secrets, protect public property, observe labour discipline and public order and respect social ethics.
Article 54 It is the duty of citizens of the People’s Republic of China to safeguard the security, honour and interests of the motherland; they must not commit acts detrimental to the security, honour and interests of the motherland.
Article 55 It is the sacred duty of every citizen of the People’s Republic of China to defend the motherland and resist aggression.
http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/Constitution/2007-11/15/content_1372964.htm
Lloyd Lofthouse: This is terrorism on a Muslim population.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. Sound familiar?
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Every 100 yards or so, the police stand at checkpoints with guns, shield and clubs. Many are Uighurs. The surveillance couldn’t work without them.
Muslims minorities line up, stone-faced, to swipe their official identity cards. At big checkpoints, they lift their chins while a machine takes their photos, and wait to be notified if they can go on.
The police sometimes take Uighurs’ phones and check to make sure they have installed compulsory software that monitors calls and messages.
XinJiang is in China’s far west, but it feels more part of central Asia. Ethnic minorities – including Uighurs, Kaszkhs and Tajiks – outnumber the Han Chinese majority here. They are mostly Sunni Muslims with their own cultures and languages.
For Uighurs, the surveillance is even more pervasive. Neighborhood monitors are assigned to watch over groups of families. An army of millions of police and official monitors can question Uighurs and search their homes. They grade residents for reliability. A low grade brings more visits, maybe detention.
One woman, who had fled to Turkey, said, “They don’t care if it’s morning or night, They would come in every time they want”.
Orphanages have been taking away the children of detainees. We don’t know how many, but the government says that orphanages [like this one…photo] held 7,000 children across Kasher alone last year.
Surveillance cameras are everywhere. In streets, doorways, shops, mosques. One street had 20 cameras.
Cameras are also in shops monitoring people. The police track people with laser precision.
One mosque had thousands of worshipers, now only a few dozen come. At the mosque, worshipers register and go through a security check. Surveillance cameras monitor people praying.
Children are interrogated. “In the kindergarten, they would ask little children, “Do your parents read the Quran?” Dinner told us. “My daughter had a classmate who said, “My mom reaches me the Quran.’ The next day, they are gone.”
I suspect you do NOT know much of anything about China’s LONG history with the Uyghurs and China’s history of intolerance for religions that become political (with an emphasis on “become political”)
I want to make this as clear as I can: China is not the United States and never will be.
“In Xinjiang, the conflict between Islamic terrorists and China has been going on since 1960, for 58 years. The Islamic terrorists China’s fighting claim the area where they live was invaded by China and they want to be free but history tells another story.
“The area known as Xinjiang was a protectorate of China as early as 60 BC (during the Han dynasty, when it was part of the Protectorate of the Western Regions) and during the Tang dynasty (when it was part of the Protectorate General to Pacify the West), although there were a number of periods of independence from China.”
https://ilookchina.com/2018/08/29/who-should-be-doing-the-brainwashing-them-or-us/
Lloyd Lofthouse:I’ve traveled through China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. I can see why Taiwan wants independence and Hong Kong residents are fearful of China taking over.
I’ve read books about the horrors that happened during the reign of Mao Zedong. I do not accept that this is a way to live. Terrorism is still terrorism. People living in fear is not acceptable to me.
I’m sure there are many Chinese who would agree but can’t speak out. One tour guide was actually complaining to us travelers about the Chinese government and difference between what they say and what actually happens. [I was the only American in a Malaysian tour group.] He was an engineer and didn’t make enough money to purchase a jacket that he wanted. He spoke excellent English.
Have you also read or heard about the horrors caused by the Nationalist’s Chiang Kai-shek who was a brutal dictator up to his death in 1976, the same year Mao died.
The Chinese Communist Party did not start the Civil Wr that roared from 1927 to 1950. Soon after Sun Yat-Sen’s early death from cancer, Chiang Kai-shek started the civil war when he recruited brutal gangs in Shanghai to round up and execute all Communists and labor union members.
Any brutality attributed (and some of it has been exaggerated — but not what happened during the Cultural Revolution) to Mao was also dished out by Chiang in a brutal attempt to crush any resistance to him becoming the next Emperor of China.
I have been to China nine times between 1999 – 2008 when I was still married to Anchee Min who grew up in China and left in the 1980s on a student VISA to attend the Chicago Art Institute.
Lloyd Lofthouse: The book, “Challenging China..Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change” is about Independent Chinese voices on life in contemporary China.
“Challenging China” brings together the words of reporters, intellectuals, activists and poets. Their personal stories, memoirs, analyses, and reportage address the myriad issues China still faces as it nears the twentieth anniversary of the Tianamen Square protests.
From across the economic, social, generational, an geographic spectrums, these brave citizens give voice to the struggle of people in China to speak out, to witness, to demand an accounting from those in power, and, above all else, to look deeply and honestly at their country’s problems. By turns moving, illuminating, and imbued with both anger and hope, “Challenging China” provides a revealing look at real life in one of the most complex countries in today’s world.
It tells what lies beneath the superficial veneer of unity
If you read propaganda, you will think propaganda.
Since 1999, when I first visited China with Anchee, I have studied China and its history for about twenty years. By the way, all of Anchee books are banned in China but China does not block her ability to visit her friends and family in China any time she wants to. She’s there now with our daughter, her recent born grandchild, her son-in-law, and his family.
This is what I have learned about China in twenty years. Life in China today is better for more people than at any time in China’s history. They have more freedom too.
What happened in China since 1950 with Mao is not when the atrocities started. The Qing Dynasty was brutal. The Ming Dynasty was brutal. The Yuan dynasty was brutal.
But the real horror story for China started in the 19th century when the colonial powers invaded China and started two Opium Wars to force China to allow the west to sell illegal drugs in that country. America played its role in that too and many of Ameica’s wealthiest and oldest families made their fortunes in that drug trade.
What’s different about China today?
Well, for the first time in China’s history, there hasn’t been an annual famine since 1960. The only famine that took place in China that most people outside of China know about is Mao’s Great Famine. That was only one of the thousands of annual famines. Empirical record going back more than 2,000 years listed annual families killing people due to starvation every year.
The Chinese Communist Party for all of its alleged sins has done more to lift the quality of life for more Chinese than any dynasty in China’s long history.
Today more Chinese are living a middle-class American lifestyle than the entire population of the United States and the CCP’s goal is to double that number in the next decade or so. When Mao died, almost 90-percent of the country still lived in poverty. Today, less than 7-percent do.
More than 110 million Chinese are free (if they have the money and hundreds of millions do) visit any country in the world that lets them visit as tourists and they all go home after their vacations.
More Chinese foreign students (hundreds of thousands every year) attend American high schools and colleges than any other country and most if not all of them fly home after they earn their university degrees. They also go home during longer school vacations.
There is more to lifestyle freedom than the total freedom of expression and total freedom of religion most Americans think they have.
Lloyd Lofthouse: I agree with the economic progress that China has made. However, I still say that treating the Muslims with extreme monitoring is not something that should be happening.
You are more of an expert on China than I will ever be. My belief is that all people are equal and all should be treated with respect. That is a far-reaching goal and might never be achieved. Immigrants everywhere are suffering due to wars or famines. Wealthy countries like the US spend ever more money on the military instead of helping to erase poverty.
I would hope that some day, if the world isn’t destroyed by climate change, pollution or nuclear destruction, that people will learn to care for each other. Those who are different should be respected and they aren’t. One saying that I believe is to “Love yourself as much as possible and then love others a wee bit more.” That is the path to a better life on the planet.
I am saddened when I see people suffering. I also believe that there is a universal human want for respect. I don’t see that as just an American dream.
Take into consideration that Afganistan shares a border with that Chinese province and the U.S. is fighting Islamic extremist next door.
I don’t know if there is a connection between the same insurgents China is fighting and the ones the US is still dealing with in Afganistan.
I’m not thrilled with what the US has done in Afghanistan. The US military has killed more people than any other country. This isn’t something to be proud of. Virtually all parts of the world have been the target of U.S. intervention. The overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world.
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U.S. Revokes Visa of I.C.C. Prosecutor Pursuing Afghan War Crimes
Fatou Bensouda, I.C.C. chief prosecutor, is seeking an investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan, including possible U.S. involvement.
PARIS — The United States has revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor because of her attempts to investigate allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, including any that may have been committed by American forces.
The visa revocation — confirmed on Friday by the office of the chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, and the State Department in Washington — was assailed by rights advocates as unprecedented interference by the United States into the workings of the court, established nearly two decades ago to prosecute war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
Ms. Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer for the court, which is based in The Hague, formally requested an investigation more than a year ago into war crimes in Afghanistan. The inquiry would mostly focus on large-scale crimes against civilians attributed to the Taliban and Afghan government forces.
But it would also examine alleged C.I.A. and American military abuse in detention centers in Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004, and at sites in Poland, Lithuania and Romania, putting the court directly at odds with the United States…
The CIA’s history of abuse and meddling in the politics of other countries reaches back to its foundation and includes assassinations.
In fact, I’ve read that the CIA is involved in supporting the Uyghurs in Northwest China and most if not all of the stories published outside of China about the alleged horrors taking place in Xinjiang are supported by the CIA.
For instance, “But the media’s recent attention to the matter should be seen in light of a larger geo-political strategy, involving Turkey and the CIA, in ongoing furtherance of The Bernard Lewis Plan. Originally implemented under the supervision of Zbigniew Brzezinski during the Carter administration, the plan was based on Lewis’ idea of an “Arc of Crisis”, created around the southern borders of Soviet Union, by empowering Muslim radicals to rebel against the communists, to bring about the fall of the Soviet Empire. The key aspect of this strategy, over the last 30 years, as revealed in the book and movie, Charlie Wilson’s War, began with support for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, which became the CIA’s largest covert operation ever.”
https://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/uighur-nationalism-turkey-and-cia
So, anything one reads about what is happening in Xinjiang must be taken with a large double dose of salt and that includes anything China reports too — but China isn’t reporting what’s going on.
Lloyd Lofthouse: PS. I live an hour and 15 minutes from the Art Institute of Chicago. Love visiting it but don’t get there nearly often enough.
Trump wastes his time criticizing McCain and now Barbara Bush. He is possessed of a very tiny mind. I can’t imagine the horror of having to be around someone as dim and ugly as Trump.
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Trump Slams Late Barbara Bush: ‘Look What I Did to Her Sons’
Donald Trump can’t stop picking fights with dead people. First came his attacks on Republican war hero John McCain, now he’s offered up some derisive comments about another giant of the party, Barbara Bush. The former first lady delivered some damning comments on Trump before her death almost a year ago. In the new book The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of a Dynasty, she’s quoted as calling Trump “a symbol of greed” and saying she no longer considered herself to be a Republican because of his presidency. In a Washington Times interview, Trump hit back at those comments. “I have heard that she was nasty to me, but she should be. Look what I did to her sons,” said the president. He went on to lay into her son Jeb Bush, saying: “Look, she’s the mother of somebody that I competed against. Most people thought he [Jeb Bush] was going to win and he was quickly out. I hit him very hard in South Carolina.”
Read it at Washington Times
I want to know why Trump is totally unwilling to let Congress see his tax returns. It smells of something totally rotten. Don’t let the public see the Mueller report and don’t let Congress see Trump’s tax returns.
If there was nothing rotten, Trump would be Twittering away demanding that both be scrutinized.
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The Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness
News Alert Apr 5, 4:11 PM
Trump lawyer contends Treasury must not release president’s tax returns until the Justice Department weighs in
An attorney hired by President Trump on Friday told the Treasury Department that it should not turn over the president’s tax returns until it receives a legal opinion from the Justice Department.
William S. Consovoy, the attorney, attacked the request from Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, as a “gross abuse of power.”
Trump has a lot to hide.
If the Mueller report exonerates him, as he says, he would demand its immediate release.
I don’t believe his lies about his tax returns, forever under audit. He’s hiding something. Either he’s not as rich as he claims or he never pays taxes or the source of his income is embarrassing—or all of the above.
This is part of the letter that Trump’s lawyer wrote. Why is Trump, and his lawyer, so afraid of letting information out? Trump is hiding something and that is the dangerous precedent. There has never been a request for tax returns because other presidents were honest. This man is a crook.
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…Inshort,Chairman Neal promised to draft a request that concealed his party’s motive: unconstitutional retaliation against the President.
If the IRS acquiesces to Chairman Neal’s request, 1t would set a dangerous precedent.As Secretary Mnuchin recently told Congress, he is “not aware that there has ever been arequest for an elected official’s tax returns.” For good reason. It would be a gross abuse of power for the majority party to use tax returns as a weapon to attack, harass, and intimidate their political opponents…
Finally, given the unprecedented nature of Chairman Neal’s request, the IRS should refrain from divulging the requested information until it receives a formal legal opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel…
Facing questions about his own tax obligations, Nixon asked Congress to investigate whether he had taken improper tax positions as president. Using materials he handed over and referencing Section 6103, Congress found that despite being audited by the I.R.S., Nixon had significantly underpaid.
After Nixon and his immediate successor, Gerald R. Ford, all American presidents until Mr. Trump voluntarily released their taxes.
This comes from the WH:
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REAL NEWS PRESIDENT TRUMP DOESN’T WANT YOU TO MISS
NY Times, Washington Post are Still Disgracefully Enabling ‘Collusion Delusion’
-New York Post
“Proving themselves happy to pander to folks who can’t let go of the Collusion Delusion, The New York Times and Washington Post are both suggesting that Attorney General William Barr spun special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to make President Trump look good. But neither account amounts to more than clickbait,” the New York Post editorial board writes. “It’s astounding that [the media is] trying to recover by digging the hole deeper.”
This is why people come to our border. Work should be done to help these countries. Trump’s plan to cut aid is just plain stupid.
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A Child Dies Violently in Honduras Every Day: UNICEF
Published 5 April 2019
…Thousands of Honduran children and their families continue to be forced to escape from increased violence, poverty and few to no opportunities to attend school or work. UNICEF warned that the journey of migrants along very dangerous routes will continue until a solution for the problems that have led to the exodus is achieved.
One of the testimonies received by Fore asserted that “we do not migrate to have a better life, we migrate to survive.”…
Link: https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/A-Child-Dies-Violently-in-Honduras-Every-Day-UNICEF-20190405-0010.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email
My guess is that the more he threatens to build a wall and close the border, the more people respond by hurrying to cross the border before it is too late.
Trump lies, cheats on his wives, cheats on contractors, pays no taxes [small people do that], and cheats on this country. Now we learn that he cheats on his golf games. “He has to win.”
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Sportswriter: Trump cheats like a mafia accountant at golf
CNN
Published on Apr 2, 2019
In an interview with CNN’s John Berman, longtime sportswriter and author of “Commander in Cheat” Rick Reilly details how President Donald Trump allegedly cheats his opponents at golf.