That's one thing a lot of MAGA apologists don't realize when they make fun of those polls leading up to the 2016 election .... is that they were (by and large) accurate in ascertaining what the popular vote was going to be.
ANOTHER WHISTLE BLOWER: CROOKED TRIED TO FIX HIS IRS AUDIT
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That's one thing a lot of MAGA apologists don't realize when they make fun of those polls leading up to the 2016 election .... is that they were (by and large) accurate in ascertaining what the popular vote was going to be.
TRUMP HIMSELF USED SHARPIE TO ALTER HURRICANE MAP
WHEN YOU FOLLOW BLINDLY THIS IS WHAT YOU GET HERDMAN
A White House official says it was President Trump himself who used the black Sharpie to doctor an official government map, which he then displayed during an Oval Office briefing, to falsely add Alabama into Hurricane Dorian’s potential pathway.
“No one else writes like that on a map with a black Sharpie,” the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, told my colleagues Toluse Olorunnipa and Josh Dawsey.
It was a botched attempt at saving face after the president mistakenly claimed over the weekend that the state was at risk long after it was in the clear. Rather than own the small mistake and move on – we all make mistakes – Trump has turned this into a five-day story. He’s tweeted nine times and posted five maps about the subject. Last night, he even directed the National Security Council to release a 225-word statement from a rear admiral defending him.
Forcing senior aides to contort themselves in defense of his false statements is a feature, not a bug, of the Trump administration. This dates to Sean Spicer’s monologue on crowd sizes after the inauguration, which set the tone for everything that’s followed. Aides have tried to substantiate Trump’s specious claims that he was wiretapped, that millions of votes were illegally cast by undocumented immigrants and that Middle Easterners had joined the caravans approaching the southern border. He said that right before the midterm elections during the same speeches in which he claimed that a plan was in the works to cut middle-class taxes by 10 percent. It hadn’t been, but then staff scrambled to make it seem like an idea that was actually under consideration. The list goes on and on.
“Even when Trump mistakenly tweeted the nonsensical word ‘covfefe’ late one night, the president, instead of owning up to a typo or errant message, later sent Spicer to declare, ‘I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant,’” recalls the AP’s Jonathan Lemire.
As Trump put it in 2016, “I think apologizing’s a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.”
Or, as George Orwell wrote in “1984,” 2+2=5.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2019/09/06/daily-202-trump-is-the-sharpie-president/5d71c446602ff171a5d7347c/
WHEN YOU FOLLOW BLINDLY THIS IS WHAT YOU GET HERDMAN
A White House official says it was President Trump himself who used the black Sharpie to doctor an official government map, which he then displayed during an Oval Office briefing, to falsely add Alabama into Hurricane Dorian’s potential pathway.
“No one else writes like that on a map with a black Sharpie,” the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, told my colleagues Toluse Olorunnipa and Josh Dawsey.
It was a botched attempt at saving face after the president mistakenly claimed over the weekend that the state was at risk long after it was in the clear. Rather than own the small mistake and move on – we all make mistakes – Trump has turned this into a five-day story. He’s tweeted nine times and posted five maps about the subject. Last night, he even directed the National Security Council to release a 225-word statement from a rear admiral defending him.
Forcing senior aides to contort themselves in defense of his false statements is a feature, not a bug, of the Trump administration. This dates to Sean Spicer’s monologue on crowd sizes after the inauguration, which set the tone for everything that’s followed. Aides have tried to substantiate Trump’s specious claims that he was wiretapped, that millions of votes were illegally cast by undocumented immigrants and that Middle Easterners had joined the caravans approaching the southern border. He said that right before the midterm elections during the same speeches in which he claimed that a plan was in the works to cut middle-class taxes by 10 percent. It hadn’t been, but then staff scrambled to make it seem like an idea that was actually under consideration. The list goes on and on.
“Even when Trump mistakenly tweeted the nonsensical word ‘covfefe’ late one night, the president, instead of owning up to a typo or errant message, later sent Spicer to declare, ‘I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant,’” recalls the AP’s Jonathan Lemire.
As Trump put it in 2016, “I think apologizing’s a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.”
Or, as George Orwell wrote in “1984,” 2+2=5.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2019/09/06/daily-202-trump-is-the-sharpie-president/5d71c446602ff171a5d7347c/
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Air Force crew made an odd stop on a routine trip: Trump’s Scottish resort
Now the layover is part of a broader House inquiry into military spending at and around the Trump property.
In early Spring of this year, an Air National Guard crew made a routine trip from the U.S. to Kuwait to deliver supplies.
What wasn’t routine was where the crew stopped along the way: President Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort, about 50 miles outside Glasgow, Scotland.
the C-17 military transport plane made the unusual stay — both en route to the Middle East and on the way back — at the luxury waterside resort, according to several people familiar with the incident. But they have yet to receive any answers from the Pentagon.
According to a letter the panel sent to the Pentagon in June, the military has spent $11 million on fuel at the Prestwick Airport — the closest airport to Trump Turnberry — since October 2017, fuel that would be cheaper if purchased at a U.S. military base.
he military has helped keep Trump’s Turnberry resort afloat — the property lost $4.5 million in 2017, but revenue went up $3 million in 2018.
On previous trips to the Middle East, the C-17 had landed at U.S. air bases such as Ramstein Air Base in Germany or Naval Station Rota in Spain to refuel
But on this particular trip, the plane landed in Glasgow — a pitstop the five-man crew had never experienced in their dozens of trips to the Middle East.
The revelation that an Air Force mission may have helped line the president’s pockets comes days after Vice President Mike Pence was pressed about his decision to stay at Trump’s property in Doonbeg, Ireland, despite its location hundreds of miles away from his meetings in Dublin.
the potential involvement of the military takes the issue to a different level.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/air-force-trump-scottish-retreat-1484337
Now the layover is part of a broader House inquiry into military spending at and around the Trump property.
In early Spring of this year, an Air National Guard crew made a routine trip from the U.S. to Kuwait to deliver supplies.
What wasn’t routine was where the crew stopped along the way: President Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort, about 50 miles outside Glasgow, Scotland.
the C-17 military transport plane made the unusual stay — both en route to the Middle East and on the way back — at the luxury waterside resort, according to several people familiar with the incident. But they have yet to receive any answers from the Pentagon.
According to a letter the panel sent to the Pentagon in June, the military has spent $11 million on fuel at the Prestwick Airport — the closest airport to Trump Turnberry — since October 2017, fuel that would be cheaper if purchased at a U.S. military base.
he military has helped keep Trump’s Turnberry resort afloat — the property lost $4.5 million in 2017, but revenue went up $3 million in 2018.
On previous trips to the Middle East, the C-17 had landed at U.S. air bases such as Ramstein Air Base in Germany or Naval Station Rota in Spain to refuel
But on this particular trip, the plane landed in Glasgow — a pitstop the five-man crew had never experienced in their dozens of trips to the Middle East.
The revelation that an Air Force mission may have helped line the president’s pockets comes days after Vice President Mike Pence was pressed about his decision to stay at Trump’s property in Doonbeg, Ireland, despite its location hundreds of miles away from his meetings in Dublin.
the potential involvement of the military takes the issue to a different level.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/air-force-trump-scottish-retreat-1484337
REPUBLICAN PARTY CORRUPTS EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES; NOW THE SUPREME COURT
I WARNED YOU ALL OF THIS 10 YEARS AGO - BIG MONEY HAS DONE TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S. WHAT IT DID TO THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT - BOUGHT IT!
Politics is a team sport. We battle, and our courts are supposed to referee our disputes.
But what if one team spent years and millions of dollars to capture the referees, so the refs could declare that team the winner whenever they fell short on the field?
We cried foul. That triggered a remarkable response.
Conservative media lit up in unison. Fox News and theWall Street Journal editorial page, for instance, attacked us for advocating “court packing,” something we did not advocate. The Journal used language so similar toa separate National Review op-edthat it issued an unusual editor’s note denying plagiarism. Then,all 53 Republicans in the Senatecranked out a letter to the court’s clerk decrying our brief. What hoopla.
So, what did we actually say?
We said this: From 2005 through the fall term of 2018, the Roberts court issued 73 5-to-4 partisan decisions benefiting big Republican donor interests: allowingcorporations to spend unlimited money in elections;hobbling pollution regulations;enabling attacks on minority voting rights; curtailinglabor’s right to organize;denying workers the ability to challenge employers in court; and, of course, expanding the NRA’s gun rights “project.” It’s a pattern.
in its run of 73 partisan 5-to-4 cases, the Republican majority routinely broke traditionally conservative legal principles, such as respect for precedent or “originalist” reading of the Constitution. They even went on remarkable fact-finding expeditions, violating traditions of appellate adjudication.
The big-donor takeover of the federal courts begins,as reportedby The Post, with a sprawling network of organizations funded by at least a quarter-billion dollars of largely anonymous money, and spearheaded by the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo. We saw this network’s hand in the confirmations of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh. One unnamed donorgave$17 million to the Leo-affiliated Judicial Crisis Network to block the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and to support Gorsuch; then a donor — perhaps the same one —gave another $17 million to prop up Kavanaugh.
With its judges in place, the network lobbies the court with anonymously funded amicus briefs, signaling how the judges should vote. Inone case,Janus v. AFSCME, one anonymously funded groupbacked 13 different amicus briefs fighting public-sector unions’ right to organize. The decision came as expected, 5 to 4, throwing out 40 years of settled labor law.
The right-wing eruption offered no defense of why a multimillion-dollar secret influence apparatus should be involved in selecting justices and campaigning for their confirmation and filing anonymous amicus briefs. There was no defense of the court systematically overturning precedents or inviting challenges to well-established doctrines or finding specious facts or discarding appellate norms; and there was no defense of the run of 73 partisan decisions.
Instead, we saw precisely the howl of coordinated, multiple-mouthpiece misdirection you would expect to hear from big donors whose scheme to capture the Supreme Court for one team was suddenly exposed and is now at risk.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-supreme-court-has-become-just-another-arm-of-the-gop/2019/09/06/8ad36642-d0e2-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html
I WARNED YOU ALL OF THIS 10 YEARS AGO - BIG MONEY HAS DONE TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S. WHAT IT DID TO THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT - BOUGHT IT!
Politics is a team sport. We battle, and our courts are supposed to referee our disputes.
But what if one team spent years and millions of dollars to capture the referees, so the refs could declare that team the winner whenever they fell short on the field?
We cried foul. That triggered a remarkable response.
Conservative media lit up in unison. Fox News and theWall Street Journal editorial page, for instance, attacked us for advocating “court packing,” something we did not advocate. The Journal used language so similar toa separate National Review op-edthat it issued an unusual editor’s note denying plagiarism. Then,all 53 Republicans in the Senatecranked out a letter to the court’s clerk decrying our brief. What hoopla.
So, what did we actually say?
We said this: From 2005 through the fall term of 2018, the Roberts court issued 73 5-to-4 partisan decisions benefiting big Republican donor interests: allowingcorporations to spend unlimited money in elections;hobbling pollution regulations;enabling attacks on minority voting rights; curtailinglabor’s right to organize;denying workers the ability to challenge employers in court; and, of course, expanding the NRA’s gun rights “project.” It’s a pattern.
in its run of 73 partisan 5-to-4 cases, the Republican majority routinely broke traditionally conservative legal principles, such as respect for precedent or “originalist” reading of the Constitution. They even went on remarkable fact-finding expeditions, violating traditions of appellate adjudication.
The big-donor takeover of the federal courts begins,as reportedby The Post, with a sprawling network of organizations funded by at least a quarter-billion dollars of largely anonymous money, and spearheaded by the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo. We saw this network’s hand in the confirmations of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh. One unnamed donorgave$17 million to the Leo-affiliated Judicial Crisis Network to block the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and to support Gorsuch; then a donor — perhaps the same one —gave another $17 million to prop up Kavanaugh.
With its judges in place, the network lobbies the court with anonymously funded amicus briefs, signaling how the judges should vote. Inone case,Janus v. AFSCME, one anonymously funded groupbacked 13 different amicus briefs fighting public-sector unions’ right to organize. The decision came as expected, 5 to 4, throwing out 40 years of settled labor law.
The right-wing eruption offered no defense of why a multimillion-dollar secret influence apparatus should be involved in selecting justices and campaigning for their confirmation and filing anonymous amicus briefs. There was no defense of the court systematically overturning precedents or inviting challenges to well-established doctrines or finding specious facts or discarding appellate norms; and there was no defense of the run of 73 partisan decisions.
Instead, we saw precisely the howl of coordinated, multiple-mouthpiece misdirection you would expect to hear from big donors whose scheme to capture the Supreme Court for one team was suddenly exposed and is now at risk.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-supreme-court-has-become-just-another-arm-of-the-gop/2019/09/06/8ad36642-d0e2-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html
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former campaign staffer for Michigan’s Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel allegedly said he used Ukrainian hackers to manipulate the election and help Nessel win the state’s closest race in 2018.
NICE TRY BORIS, BUT WE AMERICANS ARE ON TO YOU:
Executive Car Rental's Google account was compromised, allegedly with the help of Ukrainian hackers, according to the lawsuit.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...nessel-campaign-alleged-extortion/2211266001/
Executive Car Rental's Google account was compromised, allegedly with the help of Ukrainian hackers, according to the lawsuit.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...nessel-campaign-alleged-extortion/2211266001/
HERDMAN - FOLLOWING BLINDLY
NOAA staff warned in Sept. 1 directive against contradicting Trump
In an agencywide directive sent Sept. 1 to National Weather Service personnel,hoursafter Trump asserted, with no evidence, that Alabama “would most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated,” staff was told to “only stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts if questions arise from some national level social media posts which hit the news this afternoon.”
A NOAA meteorologist who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution (FOR TELLING THE TRUTH) said the note, understood internally to be referring to Trump, came after the National Weather Service office in Birmingham contradicted Trump by tweeting Alabama would “NOT see any impacts from the hurricane.”
They were also told not to “provide any opinion,” according to a copy of the email obtained by The Washington Post.
“This is the first time I’ve felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast,” the meteorologist said. “It’s hard for me to wrap my head around. One of the things we train on is to dispel inaccurate rumors and ultimately that is what was occurring — ultimately what the Alabama office did is provide a forecast with their tweet, that is what they get paid to do.”
Late Friday afternoon, NOAA officials further angered scientists within and beyond the agency by releasing a statement, attributed to an unnamed agency spokesperson, supporting Trump’s claims on Alabama and chastising the agency’s Birmingham meteorologists for speaking in absolutes.
That statement set off a firestorm among scientists, who attacked NOAA officials for bending to Trump’s will.
“This looks like classic politically motivated obfuscation to justify inaccurate statements made by the boss. It is truly sad to see political appointees undermining the superb, lifesaving work of NOAA’s talented and dedicated career servant,” said Jane Lubchenco, who served as NOAA administrator under President Barack Obama.
One of the strongest reactions to the NOAA statement came from David Titley, an atmospheric scientist who served as the chief operating officer of NOAA under Obama.
“Perhaps the darkest day ever for leadership. Don’t know how they will ever look their workforce in the eye again. Moral cowardice,” he tweeted.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/noaa-staff-warned-in-sept-1-directive-against-contradicting-trump/2019/09/07/12a52d1a-d18f-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html
NOAA staff warned in Sept. 1 directive against contradicting Trump
In an agencywide directive sent Sept. 1 to National Weather Service personnel,hoursafter Trump asserted, with no evidence, that Alabama “would most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated,” staff was told to “only stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts if questions arise from some national level social media posts which hit the news this afternoon.”
A NOAA meteorologist who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution (FOR TELLING THE TRUTH) said the note, understood internally to be referring to Trump, came after the National Weather Service office in Birmingham contradicted Trump by tweeting Alabama would “NOT see any impacts from the hurricane.”
They were also told not to “provide any opinion,” according to a copy of the email obtained by The Washington Post.
“This is the first time I’ve felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast,” the meteorologist said. “It’s hard for me to wrap my head around. One of the things we train on is to dispel inaccurate rumors and ultimately that is what was occurring — ultimately what the Alabama office did is provide a forecast with their tweet, that is what they get paid to do.”
Late Friday afternoon, NOAA officials further angered scientists within and beyond the agency by releasing a statement, attributed to an unnamed agency spokesperson, supporting Trump’s claims on Alabama and chastising the agency’s Birmingham meteorologists for speaking in absolutes.
That statement set off a firestorm among scientists, who attacked NOAA officials for bending to Trump’s will.
“This looks like classic politically motivated obfuscation to justify inaccurate statements made by the boss. It is truly sad to see political appointees undermining the superb, lifesaving work of NOAA’s talented and dedicated career servant,” said Jane Lubchenco, who served as NOAA administrator under President Barack Obama.
One of the strongest reactions to the NOAA statement came from David Titley, an atmospheric scientist who served as the chief operating officer of NOAA under Obama.
“Perhaps the darkest day ever for leadership. Don’t know how they will ever look their workforce in the eye again. Moral cowardice,” he tweeted.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/noaa-staff-warned-in-sept-1-directive-against-contradicting-trump/2019/09/07/12a52d1a-d18f-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html
THE REPUBLICANS ARE DROPPING LIKE FLIES
What do retiring members of Congress know that President Trump doesn’t?
He made their participation in political life joyless. He so thoroughly befouled their party’s image that they reek by association. And, thanks largely if not entirely to him, many of them faced or face punishment at the polls.
In the cause of figuring out whether, in November 2020, Trump will be rewarded with a second term Republicans in Congress, especially in the House. They’re making their predictions with their feet, and they’re heading for the exit.
The departures this time around speak volumes about looming threats to the Republican Party. Five of the House Republicans who aren’t running again, including Hurd, are from Texas, a red state whose demographic composition fills Democrats with more and more hope.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/...l?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
What do retiring members of Congress know that President Trump doesn’t?
He made their participation in political life joyless. He so thoroughly befouled their party’s image that they reek by association. And, thanks largely if not entirely to him, many of them faced or face punishment at the polls.
In the cause of figuring out whether, in November 2020, Trump will be rewarded with a second term Republicans in Congress, especially in the House. They’re making their predictions with their feet, and they’re heading for the exit.
The departures this time around speak volumes about looming threats to the Republican Party. Five of the House Republicans who aren’t running again, including Hurd, are from Texas, a red state whose demographic composition fills Democrats with more and more hope.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/...l?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
A shocking CNN scoop confirms: Officials are defending our country from CROOKED
What good is having a secret if you can’t tell people about it?
This is the dilemma President Trump has found himself in many times. Often he just blurts (or tweets) the secret out, as he did recently when he tweeted aprobably classifiedimage of an Iranian launch facility, enabling the Iranians (and everyone else) to learn more about American surveillance capabilities.
And according tothis extraordinary CNN story, from early in his presidency, the intelligence community felt it had no choice but to make decisions based on the likelihood that the person with almost unlimited access to American secrets probably couldn’t keep his mouth shut — especially when it came to Russia:
In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.
A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.
The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.
In all the ongoing horrors emanating from the White House, you may have forgottenthe story of that Oval Office meeting, but it was truly shocking. It concerned a spy Israel had succeeded in placing near the center of the Islamic State, a piece of information so sensitive that we hadn’t even shared it with many of our key allies. And then Trump, in an apparent attempt to impress the Russians, just told them all about it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/09/shocking-cnn-scoop-confirms-officials-are-defending-our-country-trump/
What good is having a secret if you can’t tell people about it?
This is the dilemma President Trump has found himself in many times. Often he just blurts (or tweets) the secret out, as he did recently when he tweeted aprobably classifiedimage of an Iranian launch facility, enabling the Iranians (and everyone else) to learn more about American surveillance capabilities.
And according tothis extraordinary CNN story, from early in his presidency, the intelligence community felt it had no choice but to make decisions based on the likelihood that the person with almost unlimited access to American secrets probably couldn’t keep his mouth shut — especially when it came to Russia:
In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.
A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.
The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.
In all the ongoing horrors emanating from the White House, you may have forgottenthe story of that Oval Office meeting, but it was truly shocking. It concerned a spy Israel had succeeded in placing near the center of the Islamic State, a piece of information so sensitive that we hadn’t even shared it with many of our key allies. And then Trump, in an apparent attempt to impress the Russians, just told them all about it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/09/shocking-cnn-scoop-confirms-officials-are-defending-our-country-trump/
Commerce Chief Threatened Firings at NOAA After Trump’s Hurricane Tweets,
WASHINGTON — The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discussion.
Officials at the White House and the Commerce Department declined to comment on administration involvement in the NOAA statement. {TRANSLATION - CROOKED WAS BEHIND IT}. HE HAS THE ENTIRE U.S. GOVT LYING FOR HIM AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE. IN OTHER WORDS WE ARE PAYING FOR OUR GOVT TO LIE TO US. HOW FASCIST OF HIM.
FORCING OUR EMPLOYEES TO LIE TO US ABOUT THE WEATHER - IT DOESNT GET MORE CORRUPT THAN THAT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/climate/hurrican-dorian-trump-tweet.html
WASHINGTON — The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discussion.
Officials at the White House and the Commerce Department declined to comment on administration involvement in the NOAA statement. {TRANSLATION - CROOKED WAS BEHIND IT}. HE HAS THE ENTIRE U.S. GOVT LYING FOR HIM AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE. IN OTHER WORDS WE ARE PAYING FOR OUR GOVT TO LIE TO US. HOW FASCIST OF HIM.
FORCING OUR EMPLOYEES TO LIE TO US ABOUT THE WEATHER - IT DOESNT GET MORE CORRUPT THAN THAT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/climate/hurrican-dorian-trump-tweet.html
Not just Sharpie-gate: 7 other times officials tried to fabricate Trump’s ‘truth’
By my count, this has happened at least seven times:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...times-officials-tried-fabricate-trumps-truth/
By my count, this has happened at least seven times:
- In January 2017, after the media reported on Trump’s paltry inaugural crowd size, resulting inenraged but preposterous pushbackfrom Trump, he dispatched then-press secretary Sean Spicerto tell multiple liesbuttressing his stance. AsGlenn Kessler crucially noted, some of these were part of apreparedWhite House statement. Trump alsoorderedhis then-acting National Park Service chief to hunt for helpful photographic evidence. The NPSdoes not estimate crowd sizes, and the official was shocked, but he carried outTrump’s request, finding nothing.
- After Trump repeatedly alleged widespread fictitious voter fraud in 2016, the White House set up an official commission to “study” the issue. When it flopped, a dissenting memberexplicitly declaredthe motive was to make Trump’s lies true. Remember that this was rooted in rage at losing the popular vote.
- When Trumpdeclaredbefore the midterm elections that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with migrant caravans, multiple officials tried to bolster this claim byofferingan official-seeming statistic about terrorism arrests that wasentirely spurious and proved nothing of the kind.
- When Trump vowed a surprise 10 percent middle class tax cut before the midterms, officialswere caught off guard, but nonetheless sprang into actionto try to create the impression this was a real promise by, for instance, discussing a nonbinding pledge. The tax cut never happened.
- To justify suspending the credentials of CNN’s Jim Acosta after he annoyed Trump, then-White House press secretary Sarah Sandersshared a video that experts determinedhad been deceptively edited to make Acosta look physically abusive toward a press aide.
- To fear-monger for his wall, Trump repeatedly told stories about traffickers tying up migrant women and silencing them with tape. After The Post flatlydebunked Trump’s assertion, a top border officialcirculated an internal requestfor “any information” that would support the claim.
- To buttress Trump’s distortions of the migrant threat, the Department of Homeland Securityproduced a slick official presentationabout the border that claimed nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists had been blocked from entering the United States. Butthis number had nothing whatsoever to dowith efforts tocross the border, a distinction multiple officials alsodishonestly fudged.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...times-officials-tried-fabricate-trumps-truth/
CIA INFORMANT EXTRACTED FROM RUSSIA HAD SENT SECRETS TO U.S. FOR DECADES
The decision to extract the informant was driven “in part” because of concerns that Mr. Trump and his administration had mishandled delicate intelligence
intelligence officials said the president’s closed-door meetings with Mr. Putin and other Russian officials, along with Twitter posts about delicate intelligence matters, have sown concern among overseas sources.
“We have a president who, unlike any other president in modern history, is willing to use sensitive, classified intelligence however he sees fit,” said Steven L. Hall, a former C.I.A. official who led the agency’s Russia operations. “He does it in front of our adversaries. He does it by tweet. We are in uncharted waters.”
WASHINGTON — Decades ago, the C.I.A. recruited and carefully cultivated a midlevel Russian official who began rapidly advancing through the governmental ranks. Eventually, American spies struck gold: The longtime source landed an influential position that came with access to the highest level of the Kremlin.
As American officials began to realize that Russia was trying to sabotage the 2016 presidential election, the informant became one of the C.I.A.’s most important — and highly protected — assets.
It also effectively blinded American intelligence officials to the view from inside Russia as they sought clues about Kremlin interference in the 2018 midterm elections and next year’s presidential contest.
The Moscow informant was instrumental to the C.I.A.’s most explosive conclusion about Russia’s interference campaign: that President Vladimir V. Putin ordered and orchestrated it himself. As the American government’s best insight into the thinking of and orders from Mr. Putin, the source was also key to the C.I.A.’s assessment that he affirmatively favored Donald J. Trump’s election and personally ordered the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
The informant, according to people familiar with the matter, was outside of Mr. Putin’s inner circle, but saw him regularly and had access to high-level Kremlin decision-making — easily making the source one of the agency’s most valuable assets.
The informant’s information was so delicate, and the need to protect the source’s identity so important, that the C.I.A. director at the time, John O. Brennan, kept information from the operative out of President Barack Obama’s daily brief in 2016. Instead, Mr. Brennan sent separate intelligence reports, many based on the source’s information, in special sealed envelopes to the Oval Office.
The decision to extract the informant was driven “in part” because of concerns that Mr. Trump and his administration had mishandled delicate intelligence
The decision to extract the informant was driven “in part” because of concerns that Mr. Trump and his administration had mishandled delicate intelligence
intelligence officials said the president’s closed-door meetings with Mr. Putin and other Russian officials, along with Twitter posts about delicate intelligence matters, have sown concern among overseas sources.
“We have a president who, unlike any other president in modern history, is willing to use sensitive, classified intelligence however he sees fit,” said Steven L. Hall, a former C.I.A. official who led the agency’s Russia operations. “He does it in front of our adversaries. He does it by tweet. We are in uncharted waters.”
WASHINGTON — Decades ago, the C.I.A. recruited and carefully cultivated a midlevel Russian official who began rapidly advancing through the governmental ranks. Eventually, American spies struck gold: The longtime source landed an influential position that came with access to the highest level of the Kremlin.
As American officials began to realize that Russia was trying to sabotage the 2016 presidential election, the informant became one of the C.I.A.’s most important — and highly protected — assets.
It also effectively blinded American intelligence officials to the view from inside Russia as they sought clues about Kremlin interference in the 2018 midterm elections and next year’s presidential contest.
The Moscow informant was instrumental to the C.I.A.’s most explosive conclusion about Russia’s interference campaign: that President Vladimir V. Putin ordered and orchestrated it himself. As the American government’s best insight into the thinking of and orders from Mr. Putin, the source was also key to the C.I.A.’s assessment that he affirmatively favored Donald J. Trump’s election and personally ordered the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
The informant, according to people familiar with the matter, was outside of Mr. Putin’s inner circle, but saw him regularly and had access to high-level Kremlin decision-making — easily making the source one of the agency’s most valuable assets.
The informant’s information was so delicate, and the need to protect the source’s identity so important, that the C.I.A. director at the time, John O. Brennan, kept information from the operative out of President Barack Obama’s daily brief in 2016. Instead, Mr. Brennan sent separate intelligence reports, many based on the source’s information, in special sealed envelopes to the Oval Office.
The decision to extract the informant was driven “in part” because of concerns that Mr. Trump and his administration had mishandled delicate intelligence
intelligence officials said the president’s closed-door meetings with Mr. Putin and other Russian officials, along with Twitter posts about delicate intelligence matters, have sown concern among overseas sources.
“We have a president who, unlike any other president in modern history, is willing to use sensitive, classified intelligence however he sees fit,” said Steven L. Hall, a former C.I.A. official who led the agency’s Russia operations. “He does it in front of our adversaries. He does it by tweet. We are in uncharted waters.”
when intelligence officials declassified parts of their assessment about the interference campaign for public release in January 2017. News agencies, including NBC, began reporting around that time that Mr. Putin’s involvement in the election sabotage and on the C.I.A.’s possible sources for the assessment.
The following month, The Washington Post reported that the C.I.A.’s conclusions relied on “sourcing deep inside the Russian government.” And The New York Times later published articles disclosing details about the source.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/cia-informant-russia.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
“We have a president who, unlike any other president in modern history, is willing to use sensitive, classified intelligence however he sees fit,” said Steven L. Hall, a former C.I.A. official who led the agency’s Russia operations. “He does it in front of our adversaries. He does it by tweet. We are in uncharted waters.”
when intelligence officials declassified parts of their assessment about the interference campaign for public release in January 2017. News agencies, including NBC, began reporting around that time that Mr. Putin’s involvement in the election sabotage and on the C.I.A.’s possible sources for the assessment.
The following month, The Washington Post reported that the C.I.A.’s conclusions relied on “sourcing deep inside the Russian government.” And The New York Times later published articles disclosing details about the source.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/cia-informant-russia.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Trump Had Deal With Scotland Airport That Sent Flight Crews to His Resort
Donald J. Trump entered a partnership with a struggling local airport there to increase air traffic and boost tourism in the region.
The next year, as Mr. Trump began running for president, the Pentagon decided to ramp up its use of that same airport to refuel Air Force flights and gave the local airport authority the job of helping to find accommodations for flight crews who had to remain overnight.
Those two separate arrangements have now intersected in ways that provide the latest evidence of how Mr. Trump’s continued ownership of his business produces regular ethical questions.
On Monday, President Trump sought to tamp down a growing controversy over a stay at the resort by United States military personnel:
“I know nothing about an Air Force plane landing at an airport (which I do not own and have nothing to do with) near Turnberry Resort (which I do own) in Scotland, and filling up with fuel, with the crew staying overnight at Turnberry (they have good taste!),” Mr. Trumpwrote on Twitter. “NOTHING TO DO WITH ME.”
But documents obtained from Scottish government agencies show that the Trump Organization, and Mr. Trump himself, played a direct role in setting up an arrangement between the Turnberry resort and officials at Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
the Trump organization, starting in 2014, entered a partnership with the airport to try to increase private and commercial air traffic to the region.
the Trump Organization worked to get Trump Turnberry added to a list of hotels that the airport would routinely send aircrews to, even though the Turnberry resort is 20 miles from the airport, farther away than many other hotels, and has higher advertised prices.
Trump Organization executives held meetings with the airport officials to negotiate terms that would lead to more referrals, the documents show.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/trump-hotel-turnberry.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
The CIA spent decades cultivating an informant who became so close to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the individual could photograph documents on his desk and send them back to U.S. intelligence officials, according to a series of shocking reports published by CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post on Monday.
The unnamed source quickly became one of the CIA’s most important assets as the informant rose through the ranks of Russian politics, providing essential information for decades, including intelligence about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. But the spy agency became worried about the informant’s safety shortly after Trump was elected and ultimately waged a secret mission in 2017 to extract the source from Russia, CNN’s Jim Sciutto first reported on Monday.
CNN noted that the extraction was carried out in part because of Trump’s fondness for Russian officials, including a meeting in May 2017 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. During that meeting, Trump shared highly classified information with the Russians, jeopardizing an intelligence source working on matters related to Islamic State.
The Times noted that since the person’s departure, U.S. intelligence inside the Kremlin has largely gone dark about any ongoing Russian efforts to influence U.S. politics. ISNT THAT CONVENIENT
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cia-russia-informant-putin-extracted_n_5d76f3b5e4b0fde50c2bbc9b
The unnamed source quickly became one of the CIA’s most important assets as the informant rose through the ranks of Russian politics, providing essential information for decades, including intelligence about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. But the spy agency became worried about the informant’s safety shortly after Trump was elected and ultimately waged a secret mission in 2017 to extract the source from Russia, CNN’s Jim Sciutto first reported on Monday.
CNN noted that the extraction was carried out in part because of Trump’s fondness for Russian officials, including a meeting in May 2017 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. During that meeting, Trump shared highly classified information with the Russians, jeopardizing an intelligence source working on matters related to Islamic State.
The Times noted that since the person’s departure, U.S. intelligence inside the Kremlin has largely gone dark about any ongoing Russian efforts to influence U.S. politics. ISNT THAT CONVENIENT
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cia-russia-informant-putin-extracted_n_5d76f3b5e4b0fde50c2bbc9b
REPUBLICANS BAN ELECTIONS
FOLLOWING BLINDLY
REPUBLICAN PARTY officials have decided not to hold presidential primaries or caucuses next year but instead simply to assign their delegates at the 2020 Republican National Convention directly to President Trump. Mr. Trump claimed the states made the decision themselves, but he explained how “having a primary election is very expensive” and they “don’t want to waste their money.”
No doubt democracy does require time, attention and some money. But unlike the president and the loyalists who do his bidding, we do not consider investments in democracy to be a “waste.”
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opi...1fba20-d406-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html
FOLLOWING BLINDLY
REPUBLICAN PARTY officials have decided not to hold presidential primaries or caucuses next year but instead simply to assign their delegates at the 2020 Republican National Convention directly to President Trump. Mr. Trump claimed the states made the decision themselves, but he explained how “having a primary election is very expensive” and they “don’t want to waste their money.”
No doubt democracy does require time, attention and some money. But unlike the president and the loyalists who do his bidding, we do not consider investments in democracy to be a “waste.”
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opi...1fba20-d406-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html
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So they misled the leftist morons that don’t understand the electoral college? Hell the morons suppressed their own vote by telling the useful idiots HRC had it in the bag
Trump pushed staff to deal with NOAA tweet that contradicted his inaccurate Alabama hurricane claim, officials say
Trump denies asking Mulvaney to pressure federal agency on hurricane claims
(TRANSLATION CROOKED ORDERED MULVANEY TO PRESSURE FEDERAL AGENCY ON HURRICANE CLAIMS)
“No, I never did that — I never did that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, dismissing the entire scandal as “a hoax by the fake news media.”
THE OL' DOUBLE I NEVER DID THAT FROM CROOKED IS ONE OF HIS BIGGEST TELLS.
“When they talk about the hurricane and when they talk about Florida and Alabama, that is just fake news,” the president went on. “Right from the beginning, it was a fake story.”
The so-called fake news emanated first from Trump’s own Twitter account, when on Sept. 1 he warned that Alabama was among the states that “will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated,” a claim that was misleading based on the forecasted path of the storm at that time.
The National Weather Service in Birmingham quickly countered his assertion on social media, writing that “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama.”
But recent reports in the press suggest the Trump administration took pains to minimize Trump’s inaccurate assertions, and Trump himself kept the spotlight on a gaffe that might have easily just blown over. And on Wednesday, House Democrats
“As this story unfolds in the press, a number of actions stand out as a troubling politicization of crucial weather information,” the lawmakers wrote, adding that they are “deeply disturbed by the politicization of NOAA’s weather forecast activities for the purpose of supporting incorrect statements by the president.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-denies-asking-mulvaney-to-pressure-federal-agency-on-hurricane-claims/ar-AAH9hbN?ocid=spartandhp
President Trump told his staff that the nation’s leading weather forecasting agency needed to correct a statement that contradicted a tweet the president had sent wrongly claiming that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama, senior administration officials said.
That led White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to call Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to tell him to fix the issue, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the issue. Trump had complained for several days that forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contradicted his Sept. 1 Alabama tweet, the officials said.
Mulvaney then called Ross, who was traveling in Greece, and told him that the agency needed to fix things immediately, the officials said. Mulvaney did not instruct Ross to threaten any firings or offer punitive actions. But Ross then called NOAA acting administrator Neil Jacobs, the officials said. That led to an unusual, unsigned statement from NOAA released on Sept. 6 that backed Trump’s false claim about Alabama and admonished the National Weather Service’s Birmingham, Ala., division for speaking “in absolute terms” that there would not be “any” impacts from Dorian in the state. The Weather Service is an arm of NOAA, which is an agency within the Commerce Department. The New York Times firstreportedsome elements of the White House involvement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...ision-back-presidents-trump-over-forecasters/
Trump denies asking Mulvaney to pressure federal agency on hurricane claims
(TRANSLATION CROOKED ORDERED MULVANEY TO PRESSURE FEDERAL AGENCY ON HURRICANE CLAIMS)
“No, I never did that — I never did that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, dismissing the entire scandal as “a hoax by the fake news media.”
THE OL' DOUBLE I NEVER DID THAT FROM CROOKED IS ONE OF HIS BIGGEST TELLS.
“When they talk about the hurricane and when they talk about Florida and Alabama, that is just fake news,” the president went on. “Right from the beginning, it was a fake story.”
The so-called fake news emanated first from Trump’s own Twitter account, when on Sept. 1 he warned that Alabama was among the states that “will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated,” a claim that was misleading based on the forecasted path of the storm at that time.
The National Weather Service in Birmingham quickly countered his assertion on social media, writing that “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama.”
But recent reports in the press suggest the Trump administration took pains to minimize Trump’s inaccurate assertions, and Trump himself kept the spotlight on a gaffe that might have easily just blown over. And on Wednesday, House Democrats
“As this story unfolds in the press, a number of actions stand out as a troubling politicization of crucial weather information,” the lawmakers wrote, adding that they are “deeply disturbed by the politicization of NOAA’s weather forecast activities for the purpose of supporting incorrect statements by the president.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-denies-asking-mulvaney-to-pressure-federal-agency-on-hurricane-claims/ar-AAH9hbN?ocid=spartandhp
President Trump told his staff that the nation’s leading weather forecasting agency needed to correct a statement that contradicted a tweet the president had sent wrongly claiming that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama, senior administration officials said.
That led White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to call Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to tell him to fix the issue, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the issue. Trump had complained for several days that forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contradicted his Sept. 1 Alabama tweet, the officials said.
Mulvaney then called Ross, who was traveling in Greece, and told him that the agency needed to fix things immediately, the officials said. Mulvaney did not instruct Ross to threaten any firings or offer punitive actions. But Ross then called NOAA acting administrator Neil Jacobs, the officials said. That led to an unusual, unsigned statement from NOAA released on Sept. 6 that backed Trump’s false claim about Alabama and admonished the National Weather Service’s Birmingham, Ala., division for speaking “in absolute terms” that there would not be “any” impacts from Dorian in the state. The Weather Service is an arm of NOAA, which is an agency within the Commerce Department. The New York Times firstreportedsome elements of the White House involvement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...ision-back-presidents-trump-over-forecasters/
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I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS. AMERICA WAS GREAT AND NOT JUST A COME-ON FOR A CHEAP CON ARTIST.
WHEN PUTIN FEARED AMERICA AND THE WORLD LOVED HER.
WHEN TERRORISTS WERE EITHER HIDING OR DEAD NOT INVITED TO CAMP DAVID.
OUR MILITARY WAS USED TO KEEP THE PEACE NOT AS A CHEAP CAMPAIGN STUNT.
THE ECONOMY WAS BOOMING, EVERY STORE FRONT HAD A HELP WANTED SIGN AND THE BUDGET WAS MOVING TOWARDS BALANCE.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AT LEAST GAVE LIP SERVICE TO ELECTIONS RATHER THAN BANNING THEM.
WHEN WE COULD TRUST AND BELIEVE OUR PRESIDENT OVER THE CHINESE PREMIER.
THOSE WERE GREAT DAYS FOR AMERICA, HER CITIZENS AND THE WORLD.
WHEN PUTIN FEARED AMERICA AND THE WORLD LOVED HER.
WHEN TERRORISTS WERE EITHER HIDING OR DEAD NOT INVITED TO CAMP DAVID.
OUR MILITARY WAS USED TO KEEP THE PEACE NOT AS A CHEAP CAMPAIGN STUNT.
THE ECONOMY WAS BOOMING, EVERY STORE FRONT HAD A HELP WANTED SIGN AND THE BUDGET WAS MOVING TOWARDS BALANCE.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AT LEAST GAVE LIP SERVICE TO ELECTIONS RATHER THAN BANNING THEM.
WHEN WE COULD TRUST AND BELIEVE OUR PRESIDENT OVER THE CHINESE PREMIER.
THOSE WERE GREAT DAYS FOR AMERICA, HER CITIZENS AND THE WORLD.
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RUNNING GOVT LIKE A BUSINESS
Then a bus pulled up to the Trump Turnberry hotel on Scotland’s west coast with a load of new guests, several staff members said. The doormen, dressed in kilts with long feathers protruding from their berets, ushered in more than 50 uniformed American military service members.
Throughout President CROOKED’s term, officials said this week, the American military has been paying his money-losing Scottish golf resort to provide five-star accommodations to United States military flight crews and other personnel during refueling stops on trips to and from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other locations.
the military bookings at Turnberry are the latest in aseries of episodesin which the president’s private businesses haveintersectedwith his public position in ways that he can profit from.
large number of American military personnel marching into the opulent halls of one of the president’s golf resorts at public expense.
Neither Mr. Trump’s company nor the United States military has disclosed how much government money has been spent at the Trump resort. But a dozen Trump Turnberry staff members, all speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said the military stays have been a regular occurrence and, often, encompass surprisingly large groups.
Buses like the one that arrived in July periodically turn up at midnight or 2 a.m. carrying dozens of soldiers or Marines, several hotel staff members said. Less expensive hotels, like a TraveLodge and a Premier Inn, are next to the airport — the Trump Turnberry resort is about a 40-minute drive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/us/politics/trump-turnberry-military.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Then a bus pulled up to the Trump Turnberry hotel on Scotland’s west coast with a load of new guests, several staff members said. The doormen, dressed in kilts with long feathers protruding from their berets, ushered in more than 50 uniformed American military service members.
Throughout President CROOKED’s term, officials said this week, the American military has been paying his money-losing Scottish golf resort to provide five-star accommodations to United States military flight crews and other personnel during refueling stops on trips to and from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other locations.
the military bookings at Turnberry are the latest in aseries of episodesin which the president’s private businesses haveintersectedwith his public position in ways that he can profit from.
large number of American military personnel marching into the opulent halls of one of the president’s golf resorts at public expense.
Neither Mr. Trump’s company nor the United States military has disclosed how much government money has been spent at the Trump resort. But a dozen Trump Turnberry staff members, all speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said the military stays have been a regular occurrence and, often, encompass surprisingly large groups.
Buses like the one that arrived in July periodically turn up at midnight or 2 a.m. carrying dozens of soldiers or Marines, several hotel staff members said. Less expensive hotels, like a TraveLodge and a Premier Inn, are next to the airport — the Trump Turnberry resort is about a 40-minute drive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/us/politics/trump-turnberry-military.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
CALIFORNIA MOVES TO END ABORTION CLINICS
At a time when conservative states are sharply limiting abortion access, California signaled a new frontier in abortion-rights on Friday with the passage of legislation that would require all public universities in the state to provide medication abortion on campus.
The bill, which would use money raised from private donors to equip and train campus health centers, grew out of a student-led movement at the University of California, Berkeley, and it has sparked the introduction of a similar bill in Massachusetts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
At a time when conservative states are sharply limiting abortion access, California signaled a new frontier in abortion-rights on Friday with the passage of legislation that would require all public universities in the state to provide medication abortion on campus.
The bill, which would use money raised from private donors to equip and train campus health centers, grew out of a student-led movement at the University of California, Berkeley, and it has sparked the introduction of a similar bill in Massachusetts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Its really understandable why dherd is off the rails. I haven't looked through this thread in a while, just notice when his thread title changes. I thought it was just his ranting, but looking at the actual "news articles" he relies on solely for his information, I can see why he would be affected.
CROOKED'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REFUSED TO INVESTIGATE KAVANAUGH
Two F.B.I. agents interviewed Ms. Ramirez, telling her that they found her “credible.” But the Republican-controlled Senate had imposed strict limits on the investigation. “‘We have to wait to get authorization to do anything else,’” Bill Pittard, one of Ms. Ramirez’s lawyers, recalled the agents saying. “It was almost a little apologetic.”
Ms. Ramirez’s legal team gave the F.B.I. a list of at least 25 individuals who may have had corroborating evidence. But the bureau — in its supplemental background investigation — interviewed none of them, though we learned many of these potential witnesses tried in vain to reach the F.B.I. on their own.
Mr. Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms. Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been “the talk of campus.” Our reporting suggests that it was.
At least seven people, including Ms. Ramirez’s mother, heard about the Yale incident long before Mr. Kavanaugh was a federal judge. Two of those people were classmates who learned of it just days after the party occurred, suggesting that it was discussed among students at the time.
We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez’s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly. (We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/sunday-review/brett-kavanaugh-deborah-ramirez-yale.html
I REMEMBER WHEN AMERICA WAS GREAT, AMERICA IS NOT GREAT TODAY, AMERICA IS ASHAMED.
Two F.B.I. agents interviewed Ms. Ramirez, telling her that they found her “credible.” But the Republican-controlled Senate had imposed strict limits on the investigation. “‘We have to wait to get authorization to do anything else,’” Bill Pittard, one of Ms. Ramirez’s lawyers, recalled the agents saying. “It was almost a little apologetic.”
Ms. Ramirez’s legal team gave the F.B.I. a list of at least 25 individuals who may have had corroborating evidence. But the bureau — in its supplemental background investigation — interviewed none of them, though we learned many of these potential witnesses tried in vain to reach the F.B.I. on their own.
Mr. Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms. Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been “the talk of campus.” Our reporting suggests that it was.
At least seven people, including Ms. Ramirez’s mother, heard about the Yale incident long before Mr. Kavanaugh was a federal judge. Two of those people were classmates who learned of it just days after the party occurred, suggesting that it was discussed among students at the time.
We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez’s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly. (We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/sunday-review/brett-kavanaugh-deborah-ramirez-yale.html
I REMEMBER WHEN AMERICA WAS GREAT, AMERICA IS NOT GREAT TODAY, AMERICA IS ASHAMED.
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VET WHO TRUMP KICKED OFF TRI CARE ASKS SANDERS HELP W/ $140K HOSPITAL BILL WANTS MEDICARE FOR ALL
So how are you going to pay off?” Sanders asked.
“I can’t, I can’t,” Weigel said. “I’m going to kill myself.”
“Some in Washington say I am too angry about our broken health care system. I hear stories like this every day in America. My question is: why aren’t they angry about it?” Sanders wrote on Twitter Friday night.
“John, I’m looking at a bill that says account balance $139,000. What is that about?” Sanders asked.
“It’s because somehow after the fact they claim that my Tricare, I chose to end it, which I didn’t,” Weigel said. “They’re saying that I didn’t re-sign it or something.”
Weigel, who served overseas in the first Gulf War and in Somalia, signed up for Tricare health insurance when he retired from the military at the end of 2002, expecting to have coverage for life. Less than four years later he was diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, a degenerative brain disorder.
In December 2018 he’d been experiencing chest pains and went to the emergency room and needed stents. He later received a bill in the mail for $139,701 and another for the ambulance for $1,555. When he called Tricare he said he was told that his insurance had been canceled because he hadn’t re-enrolled. In years past his coverage renewed automatically, he said.
{CHANGE THE RULES TO HURT HARD WORKING MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS, CHANGE THE RULES TO ENRICH THE FILTHY RICH REPUBLICAN DONOR CLASS, THE REPUBLICAN = A BACKDOOR SNEAKY
WAY OF CHEATING VETS OUT OF THE BENEFITS THEY HAVE EARNED.
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/im-going-to-kill-myself-a-veteran-tells-sanders-hes-drowning-in-medical-debt/2019/09/14/e9d7fe1e-d6fa-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html
So how are you going to pay off?” Sanders asked.
“I can’t, I can’t,” Weigel said. “I’m going to kill myself.”
“Some in Washington say I am too angry about our broken health care system. I hear stories like this every day in America. My question is: why aren’t they angry about it?” Sanders wrote on Twitter Friday night.
“John, I’m looking at a bill that says account balance $139,000. What is that about?” Sanders asked.
“It’s because somehow after the fact they claim that my Tricare, I chose to end it, which I didn’t,” Weigel said. “They’re saying that I didn’t re-sign it or something.”
Weigel, who served overseas in the first Gulf War and in Somalia, signed up for Tricare health insurance when he retired from the military at the end of 2002, expecting to have coverage for life. Less than four years later he was diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, a degenerative brain disorder.
In December 2018 he’d been experiencing chest pains and went to the emergency room and needed stents. He later received a bill in the mail for $139,701 and another for the ambulance for $1,555. When he called Tricare he said he was told that his insurance had been canceled because he hadn’t re-enrolled. In years past his coverage renewed automatically, he said.
{CHANGE THE RULES TO HURT HARD WORKING MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS, CHANGE THE RULES TO ENRICH THE FILTHY RICH REPUBLICAN DONOR CLASS, THE REPUBLICAN = A BACKDOOR SNEAKY
WAY OF CHEATING VETS OUT OF THE BENEFITS THEY HAVE EARNED.
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/im-going-to-kill-myself-a-veteran-tells-sanders-hes-drowning-in-medical-debt/2019/09/14/e9d7fe1e-d6fa-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html
That’s not a ringing endorsement for govt run health care
