trump (convicted felon, defamer, insurrectionist, contemnor, and rapist - $537M)

[pipistrelle]

It's your own dang fault for standing four hours in line for baloney when there's steak available.

[RTH10260]

It's the definition of a cult!

[Suranis]

Did they pay the stupid amount of money for a ticket?

[Dr. Ken]

Can't wait to hear the maga rationalize this.


He's saying he would send more aid to Ukraine than biden has

[Kendra]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... e903&ei=15

Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo confronted former President Donald Trump about his track record of hiring staffers who later turned on him.

In an interview which aired on Sunday Morning Futures, the Fox News anchor asked Trump about things he would do differently than his first term, should he win a second next fall.

“The mistake would be people,” Trump said — referring to some of his personnel moves. ” I mean, I wouldn’t have put a guy like [former Attorney General] Bill Barr, and he was weak and pathetic. I wouldn’t have put [former Attorney General] Jeff Sessions. And there are some people that I wouldn’t have put in. You know, most people were good, but I had some people… we had [former Secretary of Defense] Mark Esper. I didn’t like him. He was incompetent. I thought we had other people I didn’t like.”

“Why did you put them in the job then?” Bartiromo asked.

Trump blamed his hiring choices on a lack of familiarity with the candidates.

Video at the link.

[tek]

Can't wait to hear the maga rationalize this.

He's saying he would send more aid to Ukraine than biden has

Someone new must have gotten his ear.

[Volkonski]

Trump must have realized that he was being called Putin's Poodle.

[pipistrelle]

He says stuff.

[raison de arizona]

Do you want an autocracy? Because this isi how you get an autocracy.

Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025
The former president and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies.

Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.

Their plans to centralize more power in the Oval Office stretch far beyond the former president’s recent remarks that he would order a criminal investigation into his political rival, President Biden, signaling his intent to end the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence from White House political control.

Mr. Trump and his associates have a broader goal: to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House, according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and interviews with people close to him.

Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control.

He wants to revive the practice of “impounding” funds, refusing to spend money Congress has appropriated for programs a president doesn’t like — a tactic that lawmakers banned under President Richard Nixon.

He intends to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of career civil servants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to his agenda. And he plans to scour the intelligence agencies, the State Department and the defense bureaucracies to remove officials he has vilified as “the sick political class that hates our country.”

“The president’s plan should be to fundamentally reorient the federal government in a way that hasn’t been done since F.D.R.’s New Deal,” said John McEntee, a former White House personnel chief who began Mr. Trump’s systematic attempt to sweep out officials deemed to be disloyal in 2020 and who is now involved in mapping out the new approach.

“Our current executive branch,” Mr. McEntee added, “was conceived of by liberals for the purpose of promulgating liberal policies. There is no way to make the existing structure function in a conservative manner. It’s not enough to get the personnel right. What’s necessary is a complete system overhaul.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/p ... -2025.html

[Slim Cognito]

I'd rather have ants.

[raison de arizona]

It might have been nice if John Kelly had spoken out a lot sooner.

I don't know how he's not in an institution somewhere, whether it's a jail or a nuthouse. But he's a seriously sick guy. I never heard him saying anything that wasn't a lie.

[Suranis]

“The president’s plan should be

"Should be." Ding Ding This is people trying to influence FATUS via the New York times. This is not anything of what he intends to do, this is being the last guy to talk to him.

There is little in Trump's brain other than constant shame, a voice yelling loser, desperation to be the center of attention again, a desperation to prove he wasn't a totally incompetent president who felt totally out of his depth for every second, and a desperation to hide from the cops via the Presidency. He wants to be a big man.

This is a bunch of guys telling Him what he needs to be a big man, because they know he will read it and feel chuffed the times is talking about him for once.

[raison de arizona]

She may be bleeding for her wherever, or whatever is was tfg said about her, but she sure has her lips firmly planted on his rump now.

Megyn Kelly says she and Trump had a private conversation this weekend at TPUSA and that all that “nonsense between us is under the bridge”

“It was frankly great to see him”

[Slim Cognito]

Both are a couple of has-beens, so there's that.

[chancery]

https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/ ... 624013824

Arieh Kovler
@ariehkovler
Israel lent some ancient archaeological artifacts to the White House in 2019. They went missing and are now apparently in Mar-a-Lago, with Israeli authorities unable to get them back from Trump

[neonzx]

https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/ ... 624013824

Arieh Kovler
@ariehkovler
Israel lent some ancient archaeological artifacts to the White House in 2019. They went missing and are now apparently in Mar-a-Lago, with Israeli authorities unable to get them back from Trump

He took them as "mementos" and "keepsakes" ... it's his right to do.

[raison de arizona]

[neonzx]

Apparently, TFG also stole on his way out a bust of Abe Lincoln, which is part of the WH's permanent collection gifted by the sculptor long before TFG arrived.

He'll probably claim PRA on both the Lincoln bust and the Israeli antiquities. "They are MINE!! MINE! They were gifts!"

[raison de arizona]

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[p0rtia]

Happy Birthday to Me.

[RTH10260]

as above

Trump Loses It Over Letter Saying He’s a Target of Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 Probe

Jose Pagliery, Dan Ladden-Hall
Tue, July 18, 2023 at 3:52 PM GMT+2

Former President Donald Trump is bracing yet another indictment, this time over his failed attempts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election and his loyalists’ violent attack on Congress.

Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors on Sunday alerted Trump’s lawyers that the former president is the target of the second phase of his criminal investigation, Trump announced.

In a Tuesday morning post on his Truth Social network, Trump revealed what he called “HORRIFYING NEWS for our Country.” He said the DOJ’s special prosecutor had “effectively issued a third indictment and arrest,” calling Smith “deranged.”

“I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation,” he declared, noting that the Justice Department has given him “a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury.”



https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-loses- ... 12829.html

[Kendra]

[RTH10260]

Trump Roasted For Making Up A Law 'Out Of Thin Air' About Classified Documents

Josephine Harvey
Updated Mon, July 17, 2023 at 8:41 PM GMT+2

Legal experts and critics lashed Donald Trump over the weekend after he fabricated a law he claimed gives presidents the “absolute and unquestioned right” to take any documents when they leave office.

The former president made the claim during a speech at the conservative Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday.

While railing against last month’s federal Espionage Act indictment over his handling of classified documents taken from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump claimed: “Whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has the absolute and unquestioned right to do so.”

“This was a law that was passed and signed,” he insisted. “And it couldn’t be more clear.”

Legal experts did not agree. Laurence Tribe, a legal scholar and Harvard University professor emeritus, said “no such law exists.”



https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-roaste ... 25382.html
(original: HuffPost)

[jemcanada2]

3 2 1… to tfg claiming that the DOJ and Jack Smith are illegally leaking again.

And also too

[RTH10260]

free ladders for immigrants

New Book Details Trump Idea ‘So Incandescently Stupid’ That Official ‘Couldn't Laugh'

Lee Moran
Updated Tue, July 18, 2023 at 1:14 PM GMT+2

Donald Trump once came up with a proposal for the U.S.-Mexico border wall ― involving ranchers, their cattle and ladders ― that was “so incandescently stupid I couldn’t laugh,” a former Homeland Security official who was present in the meeting claims in a new book.

Trump was in March 2019 undeterred when he was informed that reports of ranchers in Texas using doors in the wall to take their cattle grazing near the Rio Grande were false, Miles Taylor wrote in “Blowback: A Warning To Save Democracy From the Next Trump,” which Newsweek shared excerpts from on Monday.

Instead, Taylor said the then-president just ordered officials to buy the land, boasting he knew “more about land than any other human on Earth.”

“Give the ranchers ladders. They can use ladders to get to the other side, but not doors. You could use small fire trucks. Call the local fire stations, and use the ladders on their trucks to help them get over,” Trump reportedly continued, apparently not thinking through how the cattle would follow the ranchers.

With Trump “the truth is always vastly more idiotic than the fiction,” Taylor told Newsweek in promoting his upcoming book.

Trump “spent more time coming up with imbecilic ideas at the border than he did focusing on his job. Sometimes the ideas were stupid. Sometimes they were illegal. Often they were both,” added Taylor, who served as the agency’s chief of staff from 2017 to 2019.

Taylor in 2020 revealed he’d been the author of an anonymous 2018 opinion piece for The New York Times titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” He is now a vocal critic of the former president and backed President Joe Biden in 2020.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/book-details ... 23656.html