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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 30, 2019 16:37:17 GMT
Nunes finally did something right............... ** Stone’s attorneys argued Thursday morning in federal court that lying charges should be thrown out because Congress did not make a formal criminal referral, reported Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News. Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who Stone’s attorneys have tried to get removed from the case, asked defense attorneys for a legal authority to back their claims, but attorney Robert Buschel admitted he couldn’t find a specific case to support his argument. Jackson told Stone’s attorney’s she didn’t understand their claims about separation of powers when Congress doesn’t require a criminal referral to prosecute someone for lying to lawmakers, and then the defense arguments fell apart.The judge pointed out that former House Intelligence Committee chairman and Trump ally Devin Nunes (R-CA) had given the special counsel the entire Stone transcript with “no restrictions,” but Buschel insisted that didn’t give Mueller the authority to indict on perjury before Congress.
But Jackson was unmoved by his argument: “They gave it to a prosecutor.”** www.rawstory.com/2019/05/roger-stones-defense-blows-up-in-court-thanks-to-devin-nunes/
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2019 16:50:05 GMT
trump..
”Just arrived in Colorado. Getting ready to deliver the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy graduation. Very exciting - probably will be broadcast live on TV. They want good ratings!”
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2019 16:53:50 GMT
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Post by hop2 on May 30, 2019 16:53:56 GMT
trump.. ”Just arrived in Colorado. Getting ready to deliver the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy graduation. Very exciting - probably will be broadcast live on TV. They want good ratings!”
if only this was just a TV presidency.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 30, 2019 17:36:53 GMT
Interesting............ New filings in a case challenging adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census allege that gaining a GOP redistricting advantage motivated the addition of the question. The documents, revealed Thursday, focus on the role of late Republican redistricting specialist Thomas Hofeller in orchestrating the addition of and offering an explanation for adding the citizenship question. In 2015, Hofeller conducted a study about a citizenship question which concluded that it would significantly harm the political power of Latino communities and be “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites.”
The documents, which were filed in the states' initial lawsuit in federal court in New York, allege that in 2017 Hofeller assisted the Justice Department in writing a letter to the Department of Commerce requesting the addition of the citizenship question to the 2020 Census.The Trump administration claims that asking the question is necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act. Common Cause, which obtained the documents during discovery in a North Carolina partisan gerrymandering lawsuit, said the allegations contradict the administration's justification for the census change. “The evidence reveals that the plan to add the citizenship question was hatched by the Republicans’ chief redistricting mastermind to create an electoral advantage for Republicans and non-Hispanic whites," organization president Karen Hobert Flynn said. "This contradicts testimony by Administration officials that they wanted to add the question to benefit Latino voters, when in fact the opposite was true.” ** thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/446113-new-filings-allege-gop-redistricting-motivation-behind-census** Letter to the Judge SDNY.. about the lied about info! Much much more at both links.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 30, 2019 18:04:46 GMT
Fortunately she quickly got her wings clipped! Including NATIONAL attention she surely didn't want!
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Post by crimsoncat05 on May 30, 2019 18:58:00 GMT
trump.. ”Just arrived in Colorado. Getting ready to deliver the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy graduation. Very exciting - probably will be broadcast live on TV. They want good ratings!”
blech. I feel kind of sorry for anyone who graduates during his presidency- it's typically such a great honor to be at an address by the US President, but to be stuck with this?!? yuck. Fortunately she quickly got her wings clipped! Including NATIONAL attention she surely didn't want! someone needs to send a copy of this letter to the White House, and make sure Sarah Hucka-Sans, Kellyanne Conway, and the rest of their cronies read it. These are the same things that have been happening to the WH Press Pool members, too, right?
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Post by sassyangel on May 30, 2019 19:04:56 GMT
trump.. ”Just arrived in Colorado. Getting ready to deliver the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy graduation. Very exciting - probably will be broadcast live on TV. They want good ratings!”
if only this was just a TV presidency. IDK, I wouldn’t mind a Josiah Bartlett type TV presidency.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2019 19:12:29 GMT
At least he's admitting Russia "helped him". In case it gets deleted: Russia, Russia, Russia! That’s all you heard at the beginning of this Witch Hunt Hoax...And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn’t exist. So now the Dems and their partner, the Fake News Media,..... — Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) May 30, 2019 Though, of course he later retracted it. He did it all by himself - cuz he's a big boy. www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/politics/trump-russia-help-elected.html
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Post by ellen on May 30, 2019 19:23:54 GMT
trump.. ”Just arrived in Colorado. Getting ready to deliver the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy graduation. Very exciting - probably will be broadcast live on TV. They want good ratings!”
blech. I feel kind of sorry for anyone who graduates during his presidency- it's typically such a great honor to be at an address by the US President, but to be stuck with this?!? yuck. Fortunately she quickly got her wings clipped! Including NATIONAL attention she surely didn't want! someone needs to send a copy of this letter to the White House, and make sure Sarah Hucka-Sans, Kellyanne Conway, and the rest of their cronies read it. These are the same things that have been happening to the WH Press Pool members, too, right? My daughter's boyfriend is at the Naval Academy. The president will not be the speaker when he graduates. He's pretty good about shrugging his shoulders about Trump. This is good since he has to be that way. His dad is a former Navy officer who belongs in the Never Trump category. He is very annoyed by the lack of respect Trump gives to John McCain.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 30, 2019 19:56:07 GMT
My daughter's boyfriend is at the Naval Academy. The president will not be the speaker when he graduates. He's pretty good about shrugging his shoulders about Trump. This is good since he has to be that way. His dad is a former Navy officer who belongs in the Never Trump category. He is very annoyed by the lack of respect Trump gives to John McCain. May your DD's boyfriend do very well in the Navy for however long he is in service! Well forever....
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2019 20:09:08 GMT
linkNewsweek... ”U.S. ECONOMY SLIPS FROM FIRST TO THIRD PLACE IN GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING AMID TRUMP'S TARIFFS” I wonder if trump is going to take credit for this or if will blame Obama, Bush, & Clinton?
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Post by ellen on May 30, 2019 20:09:45 GMT
My daughter's boyfriend is at the Naval Academy. The president will not be the speaker when he graduates. He's pretty good about shrugging his shoulders about Trump. This is good since he has to be that way. His dad is a former Navy officer who belongs in the Never Trump category. He is very annoyed by the lack of respect Trump gives to John McCain. May your DD's boyfriend do very well in the Navy for however long he is in service! Well forever.... He's really a nice young man. I would not mind if he stuck around. My daughter starts work as a Navy nurse later in the summer. Their lives will be very interesting.
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Post by lizacreates on May 30, 2019 20:29:18 GMT
Interesting............ New filings in a case challenging adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census allege that gaining a GOP redistricting advantage motivated the addition of the question. The documents, revealed Thursday, focus on the role of late Republican redistricting specialist Thomas Hofeller in orchestrating the addition of and offering an explanation for adding the citizenship question. In 2015, Hofeller conducted a study about a citizenship question which concluded that it would significantly harm the political power of Latino communities and be “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites.”
The documents, which were filed in the states' initial lawsuit in federal court in New York, allege that in 2017 Hofeller assisted the Justice Department in writing a letter to the Department of Commerce requesting the addition of the citizenship question to the 2020 Census.The Trump administration claims that asking the question is necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act. Common Cause, which obtained the documents during discovery in a North Carolina partisan gerrymandering lawsuit, said the allegations contradict the administration's justification for the census change. “The evidence reveals that the plan to add the citizenship question was hatched by the Republicans’ chief redistricting mastermind to create an electoral advantage for Republicans and non-Hispanic whites," organization president Karen Hobert Flynn said. "This contradicts testimony by Administration officials that they wanted to add the question to benefit Latino voters, when in fact the opposite was true.” ** thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/446113-new-filings-allege-gop-redistricting-motivation-behind-census** Letter to the Judge SDNY.. about the lied about info! Much much more at both links. Isn’t that something. An unrelated case on gerrymandering had unearthed evidence that the proposed citizenship question was based on election rigging to favor Republicans and non-Hispanic whites. In no uncertain terms, this means Ross lied to Congress. I think many Dems were already highly suspicious of the supposed goal of protecting voting rights. Such cock-and-bull. Since when did the Trump admin or Republicans concern themselves with protecting voting rights? Suppression of voting rights, more like it. I just read the ACLU’s notice they filed with the Supreme Court re this new evidence. Let’s see how the SC will decide now because it was looking like the Trump admin would prevail. This sure throws a spanner in the works, doesn’t it?. What an incredible discovery.
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Post by hop2 on May 30, 2019 20:36:27 GMT
linkNewsweek... ”U.S. ECONOMY SLIPS FROM FIRST TO THIRD PLACE IN GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING AMID TRUMP'S TARIFFS” I wonder if trump is going to take credit for this or if will blame Obama, Bush, & Clinton? well duh
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 30, 2019 21:10:40 GMT
Another payment toward the cost of Mueller!! Paul Manafort's Trump Tower condominium was formally forfeited to the U.S. government, according to Thursday court filings. The government also seized money in Manfort's Capitol One and Federal Savings Bank accounts, and his Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance policy, court filings show. President Trump's former campaign chairman pleaded guilty in September to one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice by witness tampering as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. The federal government moved on taking possession of Manafort's Manhattan condo last week. The 1,509 square foot condo at Trump's Fifth Avenue property is estimated at $2.5 million, according to the online real estate website Zillow. Manafort is incarcerated in a minimum security prison in Pennsylvania after being sentenced to 7 1/2 years earlier this year. ** thehill.com/homenews/administration/446227-manaforts-trump-tower-condo-formally-forfeited-to-government
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Post by dewryce on May 30, 2019 21:33:33 GMT
if only this was just a TV presidency. IDK, I wouldn’t mind a Josiah Bartlett type TV presidency. I would give up ever getting to watch WW again to not have this horrible person in office.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2019 22:00:57 GMT
The White House...
”You are ready to fly, fight, and win!” — President Donald J. Trump”
This is dumb.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2019 22:25:05 GMT
blech. I feel kind of sorry for anyone who graduates during his presidency- it's typically such a great honor to be at an address by the US President, but to be stuck with this?!? yuck. someone needs to send a copy of this letter to the White House, and make sure Sarah Hucka-Sans, Kellyanne Conway, and the rest of their cronies read it. These are the same things that have been happening to the WH Press Pool members, too, right? My daughter's boyfriend is at the Naval Academy. The president will not be the speaker when he graduates. He's pretty good about shrugging his shoulders about Trump. This is good since he has to be that way. His dad is a former Navy officer who belongs in the Never Trump category. He is very annoyed by the lack of respect Trump gives to John McCain.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 30, 2019 22:38:39 GMT
dt had agreed to sign this one, who knows now?!?!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 30, 2019 22:44:23 GMT
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to threaten Mexico with tariffs unless the country does more to limit the number of Central American migrants applying for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. According to The Washington Post, the administration will announce the tariffs Friday as part of a "big league" border policy announcement that President Trump teased on Thursday morning. The report by the Post follows an earlier report by Politico that the administration is planning to limit Central American immigration by banning asylum claims from people who had resided in any nation other than their home country.** The plan to impose tariffs comes as Trump starts the process of getting the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA), the administration's renegotiated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), approved by Congress. ** thehill.com/latino/446259-trump-administration-to-threaten-mexico-with-tariffs-over-immigration-reportLiving in other countries? What does he call making asylum seeks live in Mexico while they wait. Will then claim they are living in a different country on the way from home country?!?!? And he thinks Mexico will rush to sign USMCA? ? ?
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2019 22:53:36 GMT
Here in the upside down, AOC and Ted Cruz have struck a Twitter deal to try to pass a bill that prevents former members of congress from becoming lobbyists.
I'm totally on board with this plan, but I feel a little weird about the actors. 😂
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Post by lucyg on May 30, 2019 22:57:44 GMT
The White House... ”You are ready to fly, fight, and win!” — President Donald J. Trump” This is dumb. Well, you know he prefers winners.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2019 23:55:44 GMT
trump on his grand plan...
”On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP. The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied,..”
”....at which time the Tariffs will be removed. Details from the White House to follow.”
So that means the cost of goods is going to go up for the American Consumer. His tariffs on goods from China has already knocked our economy from first place to third as noted in an earlier post.
Remind me how this #MAGA? And why people want to support him?
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2019 0:12:22 GMT
From a man with no integrity
NPR..
”Contradicting special counsel Robert Mueller, attorney general William Barr said Mueller could have said whether or not President Trump broke the law if the special counsel had wanted to do so.”
From a man with integrity..
Transcript of Mueller’s statement
”Two years ago, the Acting Attorney General asked me to serve as Special Counsel, and he created the Special Counsel's Office. The appointment order directed the office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. This included investigating any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign.
I have not spoken publicly during our investigation. I am speaking today because our investigation is complete. The Attorney General has made the report on our investigation largely public. And we are formally closing the Special Counsel’s Office. As well, I am resigning from the Department of Justice and returning to private life.
I’ll make a few remarks about the results of our work. But beyond these few remarks, it is important that the office’s written work speak for itself. Let me begin where the appointment order begins: and that is interference in the 2016 presidential election.
As alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, Russian intelligence officers who were part of the Russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system.
The indictment alleges that they used sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the Clinton campaign. They stole private information, and then released that information through fake online identities and through the organization WikiLeaks. The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate. And at the same time, as the grand jury alleged in a separate indictment, a private Russian entity engaged in a social media operation where Russian citizens posed as Americans in order to interfere in the election.
These indictments contain allegations. And we are not commenting on the guilt or innocence of any specific defendant. Every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.
The indictments allege, and the other activities in our report describe, efforts to interfere in our political system. They needed to be investigated and understood. That is among the reasons why the Department of Justice established our office. That is also a reason we investigated efforts to obstruct the investigation. The matters we investigated were of paramount importance. It was critical for us to obtain full and accurate information from every person we questioned. When a subject of an investigation obstructs that investigation or lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s effort to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable.
Let me say a word about the report. The report has two parts addressing the two main issues we were asked to investigate.
The first volume of the report details numerous efforts emanating from Russia to influence the election. This volume includes a discussion of the Trump campaign’s response to this activity, as well as our conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy.
And in the second volume, the report describes the results and analysis of our obstruction of justice investigation involving the President.
The order appointing me Special Counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could obstruct the investigation. We conducted that investigation and we kept the office of the Acting Attorney General apprised of the progress of our work.
As set forth in our report, after that investigation, if we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that. We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the President did commit a crime. The introduction to volume two of our report explains that decision.
It explains that under long-standing Department policy, a President cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. That is unconstitutional. Even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view—that too is prohibited.
The Special Counsel’s Office is part of the Department of Justice and, by regulation, it was bound by that Department policy. Charging the President with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider.
The Department’s written opinion explaining the policy against charging a President makes several important points that further informed our handling of the obstruction investigation. Those points are summarized in our report. And I will describe two of them:
First, the opinion explicitly permits the investigation of a sitting President because it is important to preserve evidence while memories are fresh and documents are available. Among other things, that evidence could be used if there were co-conspirators who could now be charged. And second, the opinion says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting President of wrongdoing.
And beyond Department policy, we were guided by principles of fairness. It would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of an actual charge.
So that was the Justice Department policy and those were the principles under which we operated. From them we concluded that we would not reach a determination – one way or the other – about whether the President committed a crime. That is the office’s final position and we will not comment on any other conclusions or hypotheticals about the President. We conducted an independent criminal investigation and reported the results to the Attorney General—as required by Department regulations. The Attorney General then concluded that it was appropriate to provide our report to Congress and the American people.
At one point in time I requested that certain portions of the report be released. The Attorney General preferred to make the entire report public all at once. We appreciate that the Attorney General made the report largely public. I do not question the Attorney General’s good faith in that decision. I hope and expect this to be the only time that I will speak about this matter. I am making that decision myself—no one has told me whether I can or should testify or speak further about this matter.
There has been discussion about an appearance before Congress. Any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. It contains our findings and analysis, and the reasons for the decisions we made. We chose those words carefully, and the work speaks for itself. The report is my testimony. I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before Congress. In addition, access to our underlying work product is being decided in a process that does not involve our office. So beyond what I have said here today and what is contained in our written work, I do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak further about the investigation or to comment on the actions of the Justice Department or Congress. It is for that reason that I will not take questions here today.
Before I step away, I want to thank the attorneys, the FBI agents, the analysts, and the professional staff who helped us conduct this investigation in a fair and independent manner. These individuals, who spent nearly two years with the Special Counsel’s Office, were of the highest integrity.
I will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictments—that there were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election. That allegation deserves the attention of every American.
Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2019 0:21:21 GMT
From Reuters...
“North Korea's Kim Jong Un carrying out purge after Hanoi summit collapse: Chosun Ilbo”
“Reuters) - North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, its special envoy to the United States, and foreign ministry officials who carried out working-level negotiations for the second U.S.-North Korea summit in February, holding them responsible for its collapse, a South Korean newspaper reported on Friday.
Kim Yong Chol, a senior official who had been U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's counterpart in the run-up to the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, is also said to have been subjected to forced labor and ideological education, the Chosun Ilbo reported.
The North Korean leader is believed to be carrying out a massive purge to divert attention away from internal turmoil and discontent, the newspaper said.”
"Kim Hyok Chol was investigated and executed at Mirim Airport with four foreign ministry officials in March," an unnamed North Korea source said, according to the Chosun Ilbo, adding that they were charged with spying for the United States.
Kim Hyok Chol had been negotiations counterpart to U.S. special representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun before the summit.
Kim Yong Chol was forced to work in Jagang Province after his dismissal, the source said, adding that Kim Song Hye, who carried out working-level negotiations with Kim Hyok Chol, was sent to a political prison camp, Chosun reported.
Shin Hye Yong, the interpreter for Kim Jong Un at the Hanoi meeting, is also said to have been detained in a political prison camp, for undermining the authority of Kim Jong Un by making a critical interpretation mistake, Chosun reported.
Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong Un's sister who aided him in Hanoi, is also said to be lying low, the paper reported, citing an unnamed South Korean government official who said "We are not aware of Kim Yo Jong's track record since the Hanoi meeting ... We understand that Kim Jong Un has made her lie low."
North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary on Thursday that "Acting like one is revering the Leader in front (of others) but dreaming of something else when one turns around, is an anti-Party, anti-revolutionary act that has thrown away the moral fidelity toward the Leader, and such people will not avoid the stern judgment of the revolution."
"There are traitors and turncoats who only memorize words of loyalty toward the Leader and even change according to the trend of the time," the commentary said.
It is the first time since the December 2013 execution of Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Un's uncle, that expressions hinting at purging such as "anti-party, anti-revolutionary" and "stern judgment" appeared in Rodong Sinmun, Chosun Ilbo said.
An official at South Korea's Unification Ministry declined comment.
(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2019 0:49:27 GMT
trump on his grand plan... ”On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP. The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied,..” ”....at which time the Tariffs will be removed. Details from the White House to follow.” So that means the cost of goods is going to go up for the American Consumer. His tariffs on goods from China has already knocked our economy from first place to third as noted in an earlier post. Remind me how this #MAGA? And why people want to support him? Guess he doesn't care about Texas' 38 electoral votes. This is baaaaaad for our economy.
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