Politico revealed today that the Gerald R. Ford Foundation decided not to offer its annual award to Liz Cheney because its board was afraid that Trump would retaliate against them. He could, if elected, cancel its tax-exempt status or take other actions. I do not recall any time when independent organizations self-censored because they were afraid of a presidential candidate’s wrath. Meanwhile Congress continues to refuse to consider arming Ukraine because Trump told Republicans not to. Zelensky called Trump personally and invited him to Ukraine, but Trump didn’t say yes or no. He avoided the draft during the Vietnam War with five deferments (bone spurs). It’s unlikely he would visit Ukraine. Putin wouldn’t like it. And he doesn’t like to be in danger.
Politico wrote:
Former Indiana Gov. MITCH DANIELS will receive the 2024 Gerald R. Ford Medal for Distinguished Public Service after Trump critic LIZ CHENEY was rejected for the award because the board of the Ford Presidential Foundation was worried that Trump would retaliate against the organization if he’s reelected, Daniel Lippman reports.
The foundation has not publicly announcedthat Daniels will be getting the award, but Lippman obtained an email from foundation executive director GLEAVES WHITNEY to the trustees announcing that the organization “will be conferring our foundation’s highest award on Governor Daniels following our board meeting in Washington D.C. on Monday, June 3, 2024, at the Willard Hotel.”
The award comes after two other peopleturned down the prize, and there was an extended back and forth about whether giving Cheney the award would jeopardize the foundation’s tax-exempt status, according to a resignation letter that photographer and foundation trustee DAVID HUME KENNERLYwrote yesterday that Playbook broke this morning. Daniels and the foundation did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Adam Wren contributed reporting for this item
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Horrific.
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Gerald R, Ford Foundation —
Continuing the Grand Tradition of Kowtowing to Crooks inaugurated by Gerald R. Ford in 1974
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I wonder of they also might have been afraid she would have turned them down. Giving Daniels such an award is little better than giving it to trump himself.
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Too many Republicans that don’t approve of Traitor Trump fear him. That fear only increases the Traitor’s perception of his false sense of power.
I think we are seeing how Hitler came to power in Germany back in the 1930s.
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Lloyd, You are exactly right. This is how Hitler and others just like him came to power and led their countries to total destruction. It is totally beyond me how people who supposed to have a reasonable amount of intelligence continue to bend a knee to Trump, a bully, traitor and terrorist who is against all this country stays for over all these years. All Trump wants is to be just like Dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un.
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I would comment but I want to keep my Global Entry status. As of now they can’t scan my thoughts. Also I would like to keep my blood pressure under 190.
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I would comment but I want to keep my Global Entry status. As of now they can’t scan my thoughts. Also I would like to keep my blood pressure under 190.
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Mitch Daniels, who on his first day as governor decertified all government employee unions and rescinded the requirement that state union members pay dues. Then, after two terms he engineered his own appointment to Purdue University, though he was utterly lacking in qualifications.
A true profile in courage!
I wish I were surprised that so many are afraid of Trump’s mobster proclivities. He’s a loser and should hold no sway over anyone.
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He is literally a mobster. This is not figurative language.
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”Engineered” I get it. I see what you are doing there. Purdue. Engineered.
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David Hume Kennerly/Pulitzer Prize-winning political photographer resigned 4/9 from the board of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, blasting the group for cowardice.
Kennerly, who served as Ford’s White House photographer and is longtime foundation trustee, attacked that argument in his letter: “The historical irony was completely lost on you. Gerald Ford became president, in part, because Richard Nixon had ordered the development of an enemies list and demanded his underlings use the IRS against those listed.”
“If the foundation that bears the name of Gerald R. Ford won’t stand up to this real threat to our democracy,” he added, “who will?”
Kennerly 1st nominated Cheney for the award back in October 2023.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/04/10/cowards-2/
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Profiles in 🐔💩
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Just let me make a small prediction here, if I may: President Joe Biden, after being inaugurated for his second term, will bestow the Medal of Freedom upon Liz Cheney. For helping the cause.
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And democracy dies a little more because of cowards like these.
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What has disabled this generation of people???? They not only need to grow a spine, they need to stop this “not normal” behavior!
Women unite!
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Hey, I’m still trying to fathom how anyone could have voted for Trump.
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JSRTHETA, me too.
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This is not the country I grew up in.
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These cowards. Sickening.
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I remember the Nixon impeachment. I remember Republican officeholders, senators and congressmen, who were decent, serious people. I didn’t agree with their politics, but they were good people. They were heartbroken, but they knew what had to be done, party be damned.
The current bunch are like an unruly class of high school wiseasses. They care only about making trouble and getting reelected by lying to their voters. It’s little wonder that Republicans of integrity, like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, have had it.
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Totally with you. I would never have imagined the depths to which this party has sunk.
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Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee led the charge for Nixon’s impeachment. His like doesn’t exist anymore. I thought Lamar Alexander was cut from Baker’s cloth but he chickened out when it came time to impeach Trump.
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