"Trump’s worldview forged by neglect and trauma at home, niece says in book" by Shane Harris and Michael Kranish Washington Post, July 7, 2020
WASHINGTON — A tell-all book by President Trump’s niece describes a family riven by a series of traumas, exacerbated by a daunting patriarch who ‘‘destroyed’’ Donald Trump by short-circuiting his ‘‘ability to develop and experience the entire spectrum of human emotion.’’
President Trump’s view of the world was shaped by his desire during childhood to avoid his father’s disapproval, according to the niece, Mary L. Trump, whose book is by turns a family history and a psychological analysis of her uncle, but she writes that as Trump matured, his father came to envy his son’s ‘‘confidence and brazenness,’’ as well as his seemingly insatiable desire to flout rules and conventions, traits that brought them closer together as Trump became the right-hand man to the family real estate business, according to a copy of the forthcoming memoir obtained by The Washington Post.
Donald Trump escaped his father’s contempt, Mary Trump writes, because ‘‘his personality served his father’s purpose. That’s what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends — ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance.’’
Then a lot of people out there are if overbearing fathers is the threshold.
The problem here is Trump hasn't really exhibited those traits so far, and if this is the worst of the book then it humanizes him and gains sympathy.
The book, ‘‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,’’ became an instant bestseller based on advance orders. Mary Trump, 55, has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology.
Kellyanne Conway, White House counselor, told reporters Tuesday that President Trump loved his late brother and always speaks favorably of him. Of the president and his niece, Conway said, ‘‘He’s not her patient, he’s her uncle . . . As for books generally, obviously they’re not fact-checked, nobody’s under oath.’’
The president, Mary Trump says, is a product of his domineering father and was acutely aware of avoiding the scorn that Fred Sr. heaped on the older brother, called Freddy. From an early age, Mary Trump writes, the future president demonstrated a willingness to cheat and a penchant for ridicule.
Donald Trump delighted in tormenting his younger brother, Robert, whom he perceived as weaker. Donald repeatedly hid his brother’s favorite toys, a set of Tonka trucks he received for Christmas, and pretended he didn’t know where they were. When Robert threw a tantrum, ‘‘Donald threatened to dismantle the trucks in front of him if he didn’t stop crying.’’
I don't want to downplay it, but is that they call sibling rivalry?
He didn't torture animals, did he?
I mean, those types seem to be in charge.
After graduating from military school and living at home with his parents and commuting to Fordham University, Donald decided to apply to the University of Pennsylvania, which he perceived as a more prestigious school, but worried his grades alone wouldn’t win him entry.
Mary Trump says that Donald’s sister, Maryanne, ‘‘had been doing his homework for him,’’ but that she couldn’t take standardized tests in his place. To hedge his bets, Mary Trump writes, Donald ‘‘enlisted a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker, to take his SATs for him. Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well.’’
I'm so sure he is not the only one with the Varsity Blues!
For years, Donald Trump said that his admittance to what was then called the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania was proof that he was a ‘‘super genius.’’ The Post reported last year that the admissions officer who interviewed Trump was a close friend of Fred Jr., that the majority of applicants to the school were admitted at that time, and that he did not see any evidence that Trump was a ‘‘super genius.’’
Mary Trump writes that her grandfather’s children routinely lied to him but for different reasons. For her father, ‘‘lying was defensive — not simply a way to circumvent his father’s disapproval or to avoid punishment, as it was for the others, but a way to survive.’’
For her uncle Donald, however, ‘‘lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was,’’ Trump writes.
Oh, I see!
There are JUSTIFIABLE LIES and there are OTHER LIES!
That's what the $hrink says!
I know she loved her father so this is not surprising, but c'mon!
She wrote that she became a key source for the newspaper’s 2018 investigation of the family finances, which won a Pulitzer Prize.
She said she loaded 19 boxes of Trump family financial material into a truck and shared the boxes with several Times reporters. She said she had a new mission: ‘‘I had to take down Donald Trump.’’
So she hates her uncle!
Maybe someone should psychoanalyze her!
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That's odd; the web version told a completely different story:
"Trump’s worldview forged by neglect and trauma at home, niece Mary Trump says in new book" by Shane Harris and Michael Kranish The Washington Post, July 7, 2020
President Trump, who rarely admits mistakes, told The Post in an interview last year that he regrets the way he way he and his father pressured his brother to go into the family business instead of encouraging to continue with the dream of becoming a commercial airline pilot.
"I do regret having put pressure on him," Trump said. Running the family business "was just something he was never going to want" to do. "It was just not his thing. . . . I think the mistake that we made was we assumed that everybody would like it. That would be the biggest mistake. . . . There was sort of a double pressure put on him" by his brother and his father.
Trump pressured his alcoholic brother about his career. Now he says he has regrets.
Which is more than W. Bush ever did.
After her father died, the Trump family agreed to help support Mary and her brother Fred III, but when Mary's grandfather Fred Sr. died in 1999, she and her brother did not get the inheritance they expected, a sum that might have equaled the amount that would have gone to their father, if he had lived. Mary and Fred contested Fred Sr.'s will, contending that one or more people connected to the Trump family coerced him to change it and give them less money.
This book is telling us more about her motivations as it savages the President while turning him into a sympathetic figure!
Fred and Mary eventually reached a settlement with Donald and his siblings, receiving an undisclosed amount and signing a confidentiality agreement. President Trump's younger brother, Robert, filed a petition in New York Supreme Court seeking to stop publication on grounds that she had agreed not to publish an account of the family, but the court's appellate division ruled last week that the publisher, Simon & Schuster, was not a party to that agreement and lifted a temporary restraining order against it.
As Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, Mary Trump does not appear to have said anything publicly about him, but when it became clear that her uncle had won the presidency, she took to Twitter. "Worst night of my life," she wrote at least 12 times in tweets that have been deleted recently. She wrote that "We should be judged harshly. . . . I grieve for our country."
The publisher said it had already shipped thousands of copies, and it moved the publication to July 14, two weeks ahead of the original schedule. Mary Trump has sought to lift the temporary restraining against her, and a decision on that could come within days.....
If you like hatchet jobs, by all means read the book.
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I wonder when they will write a book about this:
"The residents of this 1,700-person town disagree over the last major event that had everyone talking, but everyone can agree that the drama accompanying the recent arrest of longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell by a swarm of FBI special agents on a remote road at the edge of town surpassed all that. Residents couldn’t quite believe it. Bradford? The town where the police brought hand sanitizer to the pet supply store when the coronavirus hit? Maxwell, a citizen of three countries, apparently bought the home in an all-cash purchase at the end of December through an anonymous LLC, a prosecutor’s memo said. The LLC has a Boston-based mailing address, according to public records. Some residents are curious about how exactly one might live a lavish life in Bradford, especially on East Washington Road, which becomes unpaved halfway down, is freezing six months of the year, and is a 25-minute drive from the nearest supermarket....."
Once resident wonder why, with all her money and her three passports, “why wouldn’t she leave the country?”
My take on the above is as follows: She didn't try to leave because she was hiding out in Bo$ton under the protective pre$$ nose of the Bo$ton Globe. That's the corporation she used, and I'm sure she was avoiding electronic media. I don't believe the "no one knew she was there" argument from the townsfolk, either. You can't tell me red flags were not raised at the all-ca$h deal.
The arrest has the stench of the Whitey Bulger arrest where the FBI office was a half-mile away. They knew where the asset was, they were just waiting for the right time to make the bust. Pre$$ diversion most likely, as no incisive investigations or follow-ups are being done, as well as being a signal to whatever blackmail they had on Trump since he was in those circles in what surely must have been the role of a lifetime.
Deutsche Bank fined $150 million for relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, other lapses
The money-laundering funnel that was Deutsche Bank should have known Epstein’s transactions were suspicious.
I'm sure it would fill some people with glee where she to be found dead.
Ghislaine Maxwell seeks jail release in Epstein abuse case
So she can flee the country?
Even if the president knows what’s best for your kids, the Globe says keep his hands off our kids (if only they felt that way about the victims of Epstein, Weinstein, Rose, Lauer, et al) as they sit at the front of the cla$$ and block you.
Also see:
Trump threatens to pull tax exemption for schools, colleges
High-stakes hearing set for Tuesday in Harvard, MIT lawsuit challenging ICE rules on international students
That leaves Black YouTubers asking why they’re left out of YouTube Kids as Boston schools map their reopening with 6 feet of social distancing built in and no AC.
In the meantime, this tortuous summer that continues with a virtual summer camp with concerts in the courtyard on YouTube. Then there is the pillow talk between teenage sisters regarding the confessions of a reluctant sleepaway camper. Our governor has faced history and the calls to meet the moment as the Globe praises New England’s Republican governors if you had not heard. It will be nice to drive away from there after a week and return home with honors and join the Army.
You kids realize they are treating you like animals, right?
You kids realize they are treating you like animals, right?
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Maybe you should move South of the border:
"‘A colossal error’: Mexican leader under fire for plan to visit Trump" by Natalie Kitroeff New York Times, July 7, 2020
MEXICO CITY — The risks could be enormous, but they haven’t swayed Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Mexican diplomats and opposition figures have warned López Obrador against traveling to Washington this week to thank President Trump and celebrate the beginning of a new trade deal between the two countries and Canada.
The visit, they have said, was an incomprehensible choice in the middle of a pandemic and global economic crisis, coming with the risk of public humiliation at the hands of Trump, who has called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “animals,” and has said that Mexico is “not our friend.”
Still, López Obrador said he would move ahead with plans to fly to Washington and greet Trump on Wednesday.
“President Trump’s discourse regarding Mexico has been more respectful than it was previously, for which we are very grateful,” López Obrador said in a recent news conference. “I am also going to give thanks for the US government’s respectful treatment of us.”
Both leaders are also over heat regarding their recalcitrance to fully embrace the COVID-19 $camdemic.
Bernardo Sepúlveda, a former foreign minister, wrote in an open letter to the government that the trip would “negatively affect national interests” in the long term, noting that Trump has been “stigmatizing, offending, and humiliating Mexican immigrants.”
The visit could also alienate the Democratic Party in the runup to the November elections. López Obrador does not plan to meet with Joe Biden, the former vice president and the presumptive Democratic nominee. Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, declined the invitation to attend the summit, citing scheduling conflicts.
So what?
Biden is not the official representative of the government. If the Mexican leaders met with him, it could be called Mexican interference in our election, right?
Foreign leaders should go nowhere near the opposition's presidential candidate!
Some Mexican politicians and pundits view the trip as a capitulation to a leader who has routinely disparaged the country and undermined its interests, but the roasting has not deterred López Obrador, long a divisive figure in Mexican politics. He has insisted that there is more to gain from the visit than his critics will admit. “Mexico needs to have a solid relationship with the United States, no matter who is the president,” said Erick Ordoñez, 29, a supporter of López Obrador.
Nor do you want to disrespect the Gringo to the North, who can bring down many hammers upon you.
Ordoñez said the visit could help bring more foreign investment into Mexico.
López Obrador has touted the importance of celebrating the revised North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect last week, at a moment when Mexico is in dire need of an economic revival. Trump has also done Mexico a few favors of late, sending hundreds of ventilators across the border and agreeing to help the country meet an obligation to cut oil production under a recent international agreement.
“It’s a big gamble,” said Luis Rubio, the president of the Mexican Council of International Affairs. “If it doesn’t go well, if Trump talks about ‘the wall’ or something in that vein, López Obrador will be embarrassed and will return with his tail between his legs.”
When I first read that my comment was that won't happen. Trump won't want to undercut the visit when he came and Trudeau (glad to see he got the blackface washed off) did not. I noted that Trump will praise López Obrador for the trade deal, partnership in the drug war, and for cooperation on immigration and the economy.
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Anyway, there wasn't any follow-up in the Globe.
Related:
President Bolsonaro of Brazil tests positive for coronavirus
Of course he does. He's a critic of the whole plannedemic.
"Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who said he is infected with the coronavirus, on Wednesday defended his government’s handling of the pandemic that has killed tens of thousands of Brazilians and touted his use of a contentious antimalaria drug. Bolsonaro posted a photo of himself eating breakfast on Facebook, and a message that said his government provided payouts to informal sector laborers, thereby saving jobs and lives without spreading panic about the pandemic. The nation’s confirmed death toll from COVID-19 is the second-highest in the world after the United States. “No country in the world did it like Brazil,” Bolsonaro said. ‘‘For those who root against hydroxychloroquine, but don’t present alternatives, I regret to inform you that I’m very well with its use and, with God’s grace, I will live for a long time still.” Bolsonaro said Tuesday that he tested positive for the virus, after months of downplaying its severity while deaths mounted rapidly inside the country. He repeatedly touted chloroquine, a more toxic version of the anti-malarial drug."
Oddly enough, he came down ill after a visit to the U.S. ambassador's residence!
That's the price you pay, I gue$$.
Tried to buy them off:
"President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil plans to put a four-month ban on fires in the Amazon and Pantanal regions in response to criticism from international investors and Brazilian companies about a surge in deforestation. The far-right government has faced mounting pressure from investors and entrepreneurs to do more to protect the environment amid surging deforestation in the Amazon. On Tuesday, a group of companies including Suzano SA, Marfrig Global Foods SA, and agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. sent a letter to authorities stating that the negative perceptions are potentially damaging to both reputation and business prospects. According to the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, known as Ipam, smoke from fires may also inhibit Brazil’s efforts to contain COVID-19 infections. In a closed-door meeting in May, Environment Minister Ricardo Salles urged Bolsonaro to take advantage of global leaders’ COVID-19 blunders to simplify regulations, according to a video of the gathering released by the Supreme Court....."
Never let a crisis go to waste:
"The pandemic is sweeping through the leadership of Latin America, with two more presidents and powerful officials testing positive this week for the coronavirus, adding a destabilizing new element to the region’s public health and economic crises. In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro, 65, announced his illness Tuesday and is using it to publicly extol hydroxychloroquine, the unproven malaria drug that he’s been promoting as a treatment for COVID-19, and now takes himself. Bolivian interim President Jeanine Añez, 53, made her own diagnosis public Thursday, throwing her already troubled political prospects into further doubt, and in Venezuela, 57-year-old socialist party chief Diosdado Cabello said Thursday on Twitter that he, too, had tested positive, at least temporarily sidelining a larger-than-life figure considered the second-most-powerful person in the country. Another powerful figure, Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tarek El Aissami, announced Friday that he has the bug. An Associated Press review of official statements from public officials across Latin America found at least 42 confirmed cases of coronavirus in leaders ranging from presidents to mayors of major cities, along with dozens, likely hundreds, of officials from smaller cities and towns. In most cases, high-ranking officials recovered and are back at work, but several are still struggling with the disease. Many leaders have used their diagnoses to call on the public to heighten precautions like social distancing and mask wearing, but like Bolsonaro, some have drawn attention to unproven treatments with potentially harmful side effects."
HMMMM!
Maybe COVID-19 can succeed where CIA coup attempts have failed!
As for HCQ, it works. It's just plentiful and cheap. That's why the Pharma pre$$titutes and their authoritative masters don't like it.
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The verdicts are in:
Supreme Court rules Manhattan DA can obtain Trump’s tax returns
The Supreme Court delivered a 7-2 vote as the conservative court and Trump’s own appointees declared their fealty to the Deep $tate. Trump's angry reaction underscores the political risk as the pair of 7-to-2 decisions proves the triumph of the rule of law over Trump, who will soon be banished to a reservation in Oklahoma unless he can get out of the country first.
He was scheduled to be in New Hampshire this weekend, but that is now considered an ill-conceived idea:
"Some in Portsmouth fear Trump rally will bring the ‘Superspreader in Chief'" by Zoe Greenberg and Steve Annear Globe Staff, July 9, 2020
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Lucy Bloomfield was engaging in a particular kind of panic shopping on Thursday afternoon, preparing not for a natural disaster or an illness but instead for President Trump’s campaign rally here on Saturday. She planned to stay far from it, hunkered down at home with everything she might need to weather the weekend.
“I’ve been referring to it as ‘The Super-Spreader in Chief’ is coming,” Bloomfield, 57, said in the parking lot of the Market Basket, as she loaded groceries into her truck.
As the president’s rally looms, some residents, store owners, and elected officials fretted about the coronavirus pandemic and the divisiveness of the expected crowd, while a growing chorus of health care professionals and others asked Governor Chris Sununu to require masks at the event.
“We’ve been doing so well on so many levels here in New Hampshire,” Bloomfield said, adding that she lives near Trump supporters and gets along well with them. “I’m concerned . . . that he’s going to bring out that divisiveness, bring out more of those people that are not willing to have conversations.”
You are kidding, right?
She worried that Trump supporters from out of town would bring the virus with them, causing cases in New Hampshire to rise. At the same time, she fears the president will sow discord among neighbors at the worst possible time.
How prejudiced and nativist!
As for the discord, she doesn't mind the paper showing up on her doorstep everyday?
“My biggest fear is every time Trump goes into some city or whatever to do his campaign, everyone gets sick again,” said Ellie Bliss, assistant store manager at the beauty boutique JaneGee downtown. Like Bloomfield, she also worried about the other ailments the community might contract.
“He’s bringing in a lot of unhappy people, and he’s bringing in white supremacists and things of that nature,” Bliss said.....
The BLM thugs that burn and sack cities are okay, though.
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Related:
Trump rally ‘likely’ source of virus surge
That is what some discredited health official said as clock winds down:
Another Trump rally is being targeted by fake signups driven by Twitter and TikTok ― this time in New Hampshire
The Nixonian dirty tricks are okay when they are being carried out by the unholy trinity of Biden, Clinton, and Obama!
Never kind that it is Chinese interference in the election as Trump delays the event, citing weather, and virus raises questions about the future of his rallies which may be too little and too late anyway:
"In ‘Buy American’ speech, Biden challenges Trump on the economy" by Shane Goldmacher and Jim Tankersley New York Times, July 9, 2020
Joe Biden laid out a populist economic vision to revive and reinvest in American manufacturing Thursday, calling for major new spending and stricter new rules to “Buy American” as part of an effort to more aggressively challenge President Trump on two of his signature issues: the economy and nationalism.
In a speech in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Biden lacerated Trump for a bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic that has deepened the economic crisis and a misplaced focus on the stock market, while framing his own economic agenda around a new campaign tagline: “Build Back Better.”
Biden said his plans would leverage trade, tax, and investment policy to spur domestic innovation, reduce the reliance on foreign manufacturing, and create 5 million additional American manufacturing and innovation jobs.
Biden’s campaign is riding high in the polls, but his advisers, as well as Republican strategists, still see the economy as perhaps his area of greatest vulnerability against Trump. The president’s campaign — and the president himself when on message — has tried to argue that he oversaw a booming economy until the coronavirus pandemic brought about an “artificial” slowdown.
How can this economy be to Trump's advantage, especially with states shutting back down?
Biden has long cast himself as a champion of the American worker, particularly as vice president, when he led the Obama administration’s Middle Class Task Force and oversaw implementation of the 2009 economic stimulus bill.
PFFFFFFT!
He's been a $ervant to the banks most of his career!
The Pennsylvania speech was the first of several steps Biden is taking in the coming weeks to detail an expanded economic agenda, beyond what he proposed in the primaries. On Thursday, Biden specifically proposed a $300 billion increase in government spending on research and development of technologies like electric vehicles and 5G cellular networks as well as an additional $400 billion in federal procurement spending on products that are manufactured in the United States.
Biden described it as a level of investment “not seen since the Great Depression and World War II” and emphasized that a top priority was to expand prosperity to all corners of the country, both racial and geographic. “This money will be used purposefully to ensure all of America is in on the deal, including communities that historically have been left out: Black, brown, and Native American entrepreneurs, cities and towns everywhere,” he said.
White, too?
Biden’s campaign is rallying top surrogates in key battleground states to amplify his economic themes Friday: Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota will hold a round-table discussion aimed at Arizona voters; Senators Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin will do one for Wisconsin; Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan will headline one for her state; and Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio will hold one for his state.
Duckworth was allegedly targeted with nativist smears by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, although it didn't seem that way to me.
Related:
"Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has toughened a requirement to wear masks during the pandemic, mandating businesses open to the public deny service or entry to customers who refuse to wear one. The governor also expanded where people must have a face covering beyond indoor public spaces. Starting immediately, they must wear one outdoors if they cannot consistently keep 6 feet from non-household members. A mask is needed while using public transportation, a taxi, or a ride-sharing vehicle, with some exceptions. “No shirts, no shoes, no mask — no service,” Whitmer wrote in an order. Violators will be subject to a misdemeanor fine. Whitmer cited “stalled” progress in suppressing the virus. Cases have risen in Michigan and she said spotty compliance with her monthslong mask requirement is a “big part of the reason.”
I've come about as close to typing a forbidden word as I ever have when it comes to her.
While Biden has said in speeches since he began his campaign more than a year ago that Wall Street is not the true economic engine of America, he sharpened his populist tone Thursday, declaring it was “way past time to put an end to shareholder capitalism.”
He didn't always feel that way, and what is he trying to do, blow the election?
He lashed Trump, in particular, for his focus on the stock market as a metric of success as tens of millions of Americans have been driven to file jobless claims during the pandemic. “Throughout this crisis, Donald Trump has been almost singularly focused on the stock market, the Dow, Nasdaq,” Biden said. “Not you. Not your families.”
So are your donors, Joe.
Biden is planning four economic rollouts ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August, with Thursday’s speech the first in the series. The next three, according to campaign aides, will be on modern infrastructure and clean energy, then building “a 21st-century caregiving and education workforce” followed by a plan “to advance racial equity in America.”
Thus far, Biden has proposed to offset the entirety of his spending plans with nearly $4 trillion in tax increases, largely by reversing some of Trump’s signature tax cuts for high earners and otherwise raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Aides said he would do the same to pay for his procurement and research plans announced Thursday, but campaign aides also said that Biden would propose additional deficit spending next year to help the economy recover from the recession caused by the pandemic, building on the more than $3 trillion in new borrowing that Congress and Trump have already approved amid the crisis.
Raising taxes isn't going to help working people, not in this economy. Getting rid of the onerous and odious shutdowns would.
More new Biden plans could be coming. A Biden-Sanders “unity task force” published 110 pages of platform recommendations Wednesday, with economic proposals that included a New Deal-style federal jobs program to use government money to put Americans to work on infrastructure and other projects. The task force also called for a so-called baby bonds plan that would seek to reduce wealth disparities between Black and white Americans by giving every child in the country a government-funded savings account.
Looks like CORPORATE COMMUNISM to ME!
Yeah, let the trillions-in-debt and tru$tworthy government guard the kids' futures!
Puh-leeeeze!
Advisers said Biden would place racial disparities at the forefront of his evolving platform recommendations, amid a recession that has disproportionately hurt Black workers.
“Race is not an issue in this,” Darrick Hamilton, an Ohio State University economist who served on the unity task force, said of developing a comprehensive economic agenda, “but a pillar in this.”
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While it is not quite time for Democrats to party, progressive Ady Barkan has endorsed Biden for president (she is a prominent liberal activist and advocate for “Medicare for All”).
Of course, it is all subject to the will of the voters and the enduring Electoral College that is a rust-bound relic, according to the Globe's resident Democrat.
Related:
Facebook’s decisions on free speech have set back civil rights
That's what auditors concluded in a 100-page prepublication report which was obtained by The New York Times after Russian police raid the homes and offices of opposition activists who had earlier thrown Stones at them.
Also see:
A Kennedy wins N.J. primary to take on Trump loyalist
She will take on Jeff Van Drew, a freshman congressman who left the Democrats with a pledge of loyalty to President Trump, while a Democratic congressman in New England could lose in November:
Khazei, latest Fourth District candidate to hit TV, pours $100,000 into ads
Leckey to launch $300K ad buy in packed 4th congressional primary
She is a 35-year-old former Wall Street regulator, and Warren will have to tiptoe around an endorsement.
Lobbyists tied to Trump represent more than a dozen companies working on Covid-19
That's the way the Wa$hington $wamp works, and why does Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, and the Center for Responsive Politics never go after Democrats? Even their names are a joke in this corporate fa$ci$t state under medical lockdown tyranny.
Time to topple the regime:
"Homeland security turns to defending statues amid questions over priorities" by Zolan Kanno-Youngs New York Times, July 10, 2020
WASHINGTON — The use of homeland security resources as firepower in President Trump’s culture wars has prompted former department officials to question the priorities of a federal agency still tasked with responding to national emergencies. Health workers are pleading for protective gear during a pandemic; hurricane season is in full swing; and hackers threaten an extraordinary US election unfolding during the worst public health crisis in a century, yet, at least rhetorically, the department is worried about statues, said Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary of homeland security in the Obama administration. “With a pandemic, police violence, hurricanes and an election susceptible to foreign influence,” she said, “their priorities seem exceptionally misplaced.”
Forget the Obama flak, we don't hear her, and how are they Trump's culture wars?
He didn't start this, the BLM destroyers did.
Early in the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security became the center of the anti-immigration agenda that Trump rode to victory in 2016, dedicating billions of dollars to construct his border wall and putting in place a web of policies to seal off US borders to refugees and asylum-seekers, but the pivot to monument protection and the policing of protesters has taken the agency far from any of its core functions, officials said. After Trump signed an executive order to prosecute people who damage federal monuments or statues, Chad Wolf, his acting homeland security secretary, readied 2,000 security personnel to guard statues and other federal property from what he described as the “lawlessness sweeping our nation.”
Is it?
The name of the department is Homeland Security, after all.
While the president delivered hot-button speeches last weekend at Mount Rushmore and in Washington, the Department of Homeland Security dispatched 200 of the 2,000 monument guardians — which included Border Patrol agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, Coast Guard personnel and air marshals — to back up the Federal Protective Service, an agency already responsible for protecting federal property.
The department is also tasked with protecting the United States from computer and terrorism threats. It oversees border and immigration enforcement agencies, and includes the legal immigration agency, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is preparing to furlough 70% of its workforce in response to a plummeting budget, but after so many secretaries, Wolf has proved adept at turning Trump’s divisive rhetoric into concrete actions.
“This is exactly what the president has wanted,” said David Lapan, a former spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration, “putting people in positions that will be completely beholden to him and do whatever he wants, whether or not it’s in the best interests of the agencies they’ve been tasked to lead,” and now Wolf has turned his attention to American citizens.
You mean Deep $tate bureaucracy?
“Any city that is having increases in violence, is burning, is having the rioting and looting, it’s by choice at this point,” Wolf said this week on “Fox & Friends.” “Those local elected officials are making a choice to keep their cities very unsafe and dangerous.”
His department is responsible for protecting critical infrastructure, usually considered to be power grids and river dams but also iconic national monuments like the Statue of Liberty. In 2010, the departments of Homeland Security and Interior jointly outlined protection plans for national heritage sites, not against protesters but against “the consequences of terrorist attacks and other natural and man-made hazards.”
They just undercut their entire thesis!
Suzanne Spaulding, an undersecretary for cybersecurity and critical infrastructure in the Obama administration, said she was concerned for the department’s reputation. “DHS operates on the basis of trust, and I’m worried,” Spaulding said. “Already many of us were very concerned about sustaining public support for DHS and its broad missions.”
Wolf’s task force to protect “historic monuments, memorials, statues and federal facilities” has already started an inquiry at the House Homeland Security Committee. “I would like to understand why Federal Protective Service (FPS) personnel are not adequate to carry out the task of protecting federal property,” wrote Representative Bennie Thompson, a MIssissippi Democrat, the committee’s chairman, in a letter to Wolf.
Because they weren't, Bennie?
How long has that corrupt pos been there?
John Cohen, who served as an acting undersecretary for intelligence in the Obama administration and as a senior adviser at the agency in the Bush administration, worried that the divisive language from the agency’s leadership would result in long-term harm to the agency’s relations with local politicians and law enforcement agencies. “If the department is viewed by the public as simply being a political tool, then the department will not have the support that’s critical to being effective at its mission,” Cohen said. “It has been a real challenge under this administration for those serving as secretary to maintain that balance.”
It always has been as another Deep $tate creature oozes out of the $wamp.
Before Wolf, some homeland security leaders struggled with that balance, even those who carried out Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy that separated thousands of migrant children from their families. Wolf has faithfully mirrored Trump. On Wednesday, he took aim at Trump’s domestic opponents. “Anarchists and violent opportunists thrive when misguided politicians put the interests of criminals ahead of our own citizens,” Wolf tweeted, referring to Democratic champions of defunding ICE and the Border Patrol. “It’s time to stop playing politics with law enforcement.”
The acting deputy secretary of homeland security, Ken Cuccinelli, seemed to be actively antagonizing New York leaders with recent posts on Twitter trying to lure New York City police officers to the department. “Think about it,” Cuccinelli said. “Given that your mayor and city council don’t appreciate you!”
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Did you see the flag they are flying at the Trump hotel in nostalgia?
