Trump Administration - Festering Skidmarks

[goldenvalley]

Feb 22, 2022 15:36:33 GMT LFC said:

Trump's PAC is taking in big money and handing out peanuts? Say it ain't so!

Trump’s PAC Didn’t Give Any Money To Endorsees Last Month

It may shock you to hear that in January, the ex-president’s generosity toward the GOP candidates who worked oh so hard for his blessing apparently stopped at his Save America PAC’s press releases, according to the PAC’s filings with the Federal Election Commission.

• His PAC didn’t give a cent to those candidates last month despite raking in $4.1 million (and ending January with $108 million in its coffers).

• In fact, the PAC’s only donated $350,500 to candidates since July.

They don't need cash. Trump's endorsement is worth millions of dollars and thousands of votes!  

[pnwguy]

Feb 22, 2022 17:05:58 GMT goldenvalley said:

They don't need cash. Trump's endorsement is worth millions of dollars and thousands of votes!  

And he'll insist that some grift will run uphill to his embezzlement funds in some fashion.

[AnBr]

[goldenvalley]

William Barr's book is coming out next week.  I guess he needs money but I'm not sure who his audience is.  It certainly does not include me.  He begged to be in the Trump Administration after Sessions left and then left a couple of weeks early because he didn't want to look as crazy as Guiliani and company were.

[LFC]

Feb 28, 2022 17:14:42 GMT goldenvalley said:

William Barr's book is coming out next week.  I guess he needs money but I'm not sure who his audience is.  It certainly does not include me. 

Bill Barr's Book (Condensed Version): "Nothing was my fault and everything I did was appropriate and patriotic."

[jackd]

"It's all the fault of left wing radical Democrats."

[pnwguy]

Feb 28, 2022 22:05:24 GMT jackd said:

"It's all the fault of left wing radical Democrats."

Democrats = Left wing radical.  Redundant.  If you want things to fit on a bumper sticker or Fox News chyron, you need to reduce your word count. 

The way the right wing entertainment media ecosystem works is to keep everything down to simple sentences, that an audience of IQ 75 can regurgitate.  

Democrats = Liberals = Progressives = Radicals = Satanists = Pedophiles = Globalists = Perverts = Enemies = Evil

Use them interchangeably and often.  

[LFC]

Feb 28, 2022 22:56:02 GMT pnwguy said:

Democrats = Liberals = Progressives = Radicals = Satanists = Pedophiles = Globalists = Perverts = Enemies = Evil

Use them interchangeably and often.  

And feel free to add new ones!

[pnwguy]

Feb 28, 2022 23:14:42 GMT LFC said:

Feb 28, 2022 22:56:02 GMT pnwguy said:

Democrats = Liberals = Progressives = Radicals = Satanists = Pedophiles = Globalists = Perverts = Enemies = Evil

Use them interchangeably and often.  

And feel free to add new ones!

I did overlook Socialist, Muslim, Foreigner, Multiculturalist, and Elitist

[goldenvalley]

Feb 28, 2022 21:58:56 GMT LFC said:

Feb 28, 2022 17:14:42 GMT goldenvalley said:

William Barr's book is coming out next week.  I guess he needs money but I'm not sure who his audience is.  It certainly does not include me. 

Bill Barr's Book (Condensed Version): "Nothing was my fault and everything I did was appropriate and patriotic."

I noticed a comment in empty wheel that said there should be a shelf in libraries devoted to books in which the authors "Knew Trump was Threat to Democracy But Enabled and Supported Him Trying to Whitewash History and Launder Own Reputation”

[AnBr]

Feb 28, 2022 23:24:47 GMT pnwguy said:

I did overlook Socialist, Muslim, Foreigner, Multiculturalist, and Elitist

Satanist?

[pnwguy]

Mar 1, 2022 1:09:07 GMT AnBr said:

Feb 28, 2022 23:24:47 GMT pnwguy said:

I did overlook Socialist, Muslim, Foreigner, Multiculturalist, and Elitist

Satanist?

That was on my original list, a few posts earlier.  Of COURSE Satanist is going to be on any Fox News list of descriptors.  But not Governor DeSatanist.  LFC (peace be upon him) gets credit for that one. 

[LFC]

Feb 28, 2022 23:48:57 GMT goldenvalley said:

I noticed a comment in empty wheel that said there should be a shelf in libraries devoted to books in which the authors "Knew Trump was Threat to Democracy But Enabled and Supported Him Trying to Whitewash History and Launder Own Reputation”

This. Sooooo many times this.

[LFC]

If this man had any shame he'd be living in a cave and never speaking again. SHUT UP!

In a book set to drop in the thick of Russia’s devastating invasion of Ukraine, William Barr writes that “demonizing [Vladimir] Putin is not a foreign policy,” nor “the way grown-ups should think.”

In a copy of the forthcoming book by Trump’s ex-attorney general, One Damn Thing After Another, viewed by The Daily Beast, the hatchet man writes that an imminent conflict with China means America should try to find “a more constructive relationship” with Russia. But: “Unfortunately, with the media ready to pounce on President Trump as a Russian stooge—if not a Manchurian candidate—at the slightest sign of détente, the President’s hands were severely tied, particularly during an election year.”

“This is not the way grown-ups should think,” Barr continues, before inveighing on a dynamic that has changed rapidly in the time between drafting and the book hitting the shelves.

A man who defended the most childish president the U.S. has ever seen has some nerve talking about "grown-ups." He needs to grow up first and then he can speak with the adults.

[goldenvalley]

Barr makes me spit.  He auditions for the job of AG probably because he thinks he can get his unitary executive ideas into practice. He gives Trump what he wants for a couple of years, but then when he sees Trump heading into seditious territory he leaves. Now he will still support Trump because Democrats are worse.  What a waste of oxygen he is.

[andydp]

I swear anything that touches or comes close to Trump turns into a festering pile of rotting offal. I have highlighted how this dirtbag was not above scamming his own sponsors.

Indictment Of Rand Paul In-Law May Lead To Even Bigger Fish


...] Mr. Benton received a $100,000 wire transfer from an unnamed Russian national in October of 2016, according to the indictment. He was allegedly promised that he would get to "meet a celebrity" at a Philadelphia fundraiser a month earlier.

Though prosecutors did not name the candidate involved in the memo, Insider confirmed that Mr. Trump was hosting a fundraiser in Philadelphia the night of the fundraiser mentioned by the Russian national.

Here's the kicker: Benton used the $100K to make a $25,000 donation -- and kept the $75,000! I guess the conspirators split it!

Dude also managed Moscow Mitch's 2014 campaign and was convicted in 2016 of criminal charges related to paying $73,000 to Kent Sorenson, a former Iowa state representative, to get his endorsement for then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul. That's the crime for which he received the Trump pardon. At the time, Sorenson was the state chair for Michelle Bachmann's presidential campaign, but switched to Paul after he got the bucks.

crooksandliars.com/2022/03/indictment-rand-paul-law-may-lead-even?fbclid=IwAR32PjTIE81YZfN1LeU9xu1uOdYg27m0_ywuLHe1_RynhNrS2W3uuAePp8M

[pnwguy]

Mar 8, 2022 20:27:07 GMT andydp said:

I swear anything that touches or comes close to Trump turns into a festering pile of rotting offal. 

The GOP brought the alien into their ship...

[LFC]

Why was ICE so out of control under Trump? Gee, I don't know. [/snark]

“I asked, you know, ‘Does it give you pause, or does it inspire any self-reflection, that someone like Nick Fuentes would want you at their conference?”

That’s the question Christopher Mathias, HuffPost’s senior reporter who specializes in covering right-wing extremism in America, had for Thomas Homan, who was a director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) back when Donald Trump was president.

Late last month, the HuffPost reporter had learned that the former senior Trump official was scheduled to speak at the Fuentes-hosted and hyper-racist America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC, or simply the “Nazi conference,” as it’s called by detractors) in Florida. But Homan, who showed up for the event, ended up bailing before his scheduled speech..

When Mathias—who ventured down to the Sunshine State to investigate the latest ongoings of the youthful white-supremacist confab—finally got Homan on the phone, Trump’s former immigration-crackdown chief confirmed that yes, he was a confirmed speaker at the openly and obviously racist event.

It’s just that he backed out last-minute after, according to Homan, serendipitously seeing something online about Fuentes’s kind words for Vladimir Putin and the ongoing, brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mathias told Fever Dreams co-hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Kelly Weill on this week’s episode of the Daily Beast podcast.

[LFC]

"Show me your love! Give me a plane!" --Donald Trump (well, pretty much)

Donald Trump wants his fans to foot the bill for a new plane that would let him pretend he’s still the president. Shortly after news broke that a private jet Trump was traveling in was forced to land this weekend after suffering an engine failure, the Trump Save America PAC sent out a fundraising email demanding cash to help bankroll a new jet that the famously humble former president has named “Trump Force One” after himself and the presidential air traffic control call sign. In the email, a message signed by Trump read: “My team is building a BRAND NEW Trump Force One... The construction of this plane has been under wraps—not even the fake news media knows about it—and I can’t wait to unveil it for everyone to see.” According to Insider, the email included a link to a site that let MAGA die-hards donate as much as $2,500 a month to the Trump PAC.

[goldenvalley]

Mar 10, 2022 22:10:05 GMT LFC said:

"Show me your love! Give me a plane!" --Donald Trump (well, pretty much)

Donald Trump wants his fans to foot the bill for a new plane that would let him pretend he’s still the president. Shortly after news broke that a private jet Trump was traveling in was forced to land this weekend after suffering an engine failure, the Trump Save America PAC sent out a fundraising email demanding cash to help bankroll a new jet that the famously humble former president has named “Trump Force One” after himself and the presidential air traffic control call sign. In the email, a message signed by Trump read: “My team is building a BRAND NEW Trump Force One... The construction of this plane has been under wraps—not even the fake news media knows about it—and I can’t wait to unveil it for everyone to see.” According to Insider, the email included a link to a site that let MAGA die-hards donate as much as $2,500 a month to the Trump PAC.

A Go Fund Me for a private jet...  What an insult to the families that doing Go Fund Me's to cover cancer treatment!

[Bact PhD]

Mar 11, 2022 3:31:25 GMT goldenvalley said:

Mar 10, 2022 22:10:05 GMT LFC said:

"Show me your love! Give me a plane!" --Donald Trump (well, pretty much)

A Go Fund Me for a private jet...  What an insult to the families that doing Go Fund Me's to cover cancer treatment!

Hey, begging for moolah to pay for luxuries is a time-honored tradition—just ask the likes of Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, and Jim Bakker.

[LFC]

Trump is every bit as incoherent as ever, perhaps even worse.

The podcast host Kyle Forgeard then asked Trump what he thought about the future of Russia’s war on the country: “How does this all end? Is this going to be, like, a long-term thing? How do you see it unfolding?” Forgeard asked.

“Well, and I said this a long time ago, if this happens, we are playing right into their hands,” Trump said in his characteristically cryptic fashion. It was not immediately clear who “we” are or what “this” is or whose hands someone is “playing right into.”

He then started talking about “green energy” and the monologue quickly zeroed in on a particular pet peeve.

“Green energy. The windmills,” he said, skipping literally not one beat. “They don’t work. They’re too expensive. They kill all the birds. They ruin your landscapes. And yet the environmentalists love the windmills. And I’ve been preaching this for years. The windmills. And I had them way down. But the windmills are the most expensive energy you can have. And they don’t work. And by the way, they last a period of 10 years and by the time they start rusting and rotting all over the place, nobody ever takes them down. They just go on to the next piece of prairie or land and destroy that.”

Let me try to cobble that together into some sort of logical thought pattern.

The author thinks that this kind of thing might have helped fuel Trump's odd ramblings.

[LFC]

Mar 11, 2022 17:24:33 GMT LFC said:

Trump is every bit as incoherent as ever, perhaps even worse.

Now he's whining that YouTube won't allow the podcast.

Donald Trump said in a statement Friday that YouTube banning his NELK Boys interview meant the country was “going to hell!” The former president and complainer-in-chief said the move by the platform, which demonetized the NELK Boys in 2020 after they threw massive parties during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, came because the media “don’t want to talk about the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election” he lost. He also compared the removal to Russia’s misinformation campaign surrounding its invasion of Ukraine, brazenly arguing the U.S. was following suit. “Are we going to allow this to happen? Our County is going to hell!” YouTube removed the interview Thursday over violations of its “misinformation policy,” according to Insider, after Trump repeated his false claims about the 2020 election.

[LFC]

From TPM: Bill Barr Is Trying To Memory Hole His Own Campaign To Sow Doubt About The 2020 Election

Not sure why they didn't just title it Bill Barr is a Big, Fat, Quivering, Reeking, Fly-Covered, Lying Sack of Shit, or some variant of that.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr has a book out detailing his time in the Trump administration, and with it, he’s launched a full on historical revisionism campaign, telling Americans to believe him, now, rather than their lying ears in 2020.

It amounts to a whiplash-inducing turn for one of the most prominent voices to sow doubt about the security of the 2020 election — behind the former president himself.

Barr spent months making misleading and outright false statements about voting by mail during the 2020 presidential campaign, well before Donald Trump’s attempt to seize a second term after his loss to Joe Biden. And Barr was following the lead of the President, who relentlessly attacked and lied about mail-in voting as early as March and April of 2020 (right after Trump requested his own mail-in ballot, of course), after it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic would change the way Americans vote.

As states across the country expanded their mail voting rules to accommodate the danger of in-person virus transmission at polling places — and as Trump’s campaign fought against the trend in court — Barr was instrumental in pushing the administration’s false line that widespread mail-in voting would lead to widespread fraud and should make Americans skeptical of the 2020 election. (Experts would ultimately describe the 2020 election as among the most secure in U.S. history.)

Now, estranged from the former president, Barr is trying to rewrite history.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, for example, Barr said of his position in 2020: “I also was not generally attacking mail-in, but universal mail-in ballots, where they send out the ballots to the people on the voting rolls.”

“With these practices in place, whether or not fraud occurs, people are going to think there was fraud,” he added later, referring to mail-in voting and so-called “ballot harvesting.” “One of the problems we have persuading people that this was a fair election is their concern about those kinds of practices.”

The statements couldn’t be further from the truth: Barr attacked mail-in voting unconditionally, and he was responsible for persuading people that the election would not been fair.

The piece goes on to catalog some of his former lies that he's now trying to cover up with new lies.

[andydp]

Let's see: last week he was outed for fraudulent voting.  This week he can't leave the country.  Sucks to be Manafort right now.....

AP: Trump aide Manafort removed from plane for revoked passport


MIAMI (AP) — Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport, officials said Wednesday.

<SNIP>

A Republican-led Senate group found that Manafort was a “grave counterintelligence threat,” according to USA Today. He had longstanding ties to people affiliated with Russian intelligence and had a willingness to share information with them during the 2016 presidential race.

The panel found that Manafort’s presence on the campaign created opportunities for Russian intelligence to have influence over and inquire information about the Trump campaign.

www.newsandguts.com/link/ap-trump-aide-manafort-removed-from-plane-for-revoked-passport/?fbclid=IwAR3dmREnx1_iIcnKpzkvEqCnxN1BBblloaRXNpEoCYMYDyjMHtqt5T95lqM

From a comment on my FB thread:

Manafort worked to improve the image of Yanukovych, the previous Ukrainian President, who was a Russian puppet. When Yanukovych fled Ukraine for Russia, Manafort returned to the US to work on Trump’s campaign.