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Post by PLurker on Mar 5, 2019 15:33:33 GMT
He did it again. How rude. Press Democrat... “Fast food at White House for North Dakota football champions”“WASHINGTON — The smell of burgers and fries wafted through the State Dining Room as President Donald Trump celebrated the championship football players from North Dakota State on Monday with fast food, like he did when he honored the national champion Clemson Tigers. Trump told the football team he could have had White House chefs prepare a meal, but "I know you people very well." The players laughed with the president while eyeing stacks of Big Macs and Chick-fil-A sandwiches on a long table in the center of the room. A side table was piled with bags of french fries, kept warm under a light. Trump served a similar spread that included hundreds of hamburgers to Clemson's players in January. He said he personally paid for that meal because much of the staff in the White House residence had been furloughed by a government shutdown. The Bison, who have the most titles in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, ended the season on Jan. 5 with a 38-24 win over Eastern Washington University. Quarterback Easton Stick threw five touchdown passes, including two to Darrius Shepherd, who was named Most Outstanding Player with five catches and 125 yards. It was the Bison's seventh national title in eight years. "When you play with passion and love ... and relentlessly reach for excellence, nothing is impossible," Trump said.” He's just trying to "prove" that the first time feeding fast-food was such a success win! that he has to do it again because that's what the people want. **eyeroll** Why doesn't he prove it for real and the next time he hosts one of these things, send out those cards like you sometimes get for a wedding to chose your entree. Instead or "beef or fish" it can be "real or fast food". I'm sure that college kids that long for real food any chance they get would pick a readily available fast-food heat-lamp burger. Maybe I and those I know who have college kids who when come home for a visit that eat them out of house and home, raving about and devouring any homemade, real food are wrong.
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Post by hop2 on Mar 5, 2019 16:08:50 GMT
Well, that SHOULD speak volumes to the Democrats. He’s clearly NOT a democrat. Democrats would be disingenuous to choose him to represent them. Because he doesn’t. I think that Bernie is too polarizing, even among democrats. I think what would get tricky is if he decides to run as an independent. I agree that democrats should Be focusing on bringing a moderate candidate to the table, and I also don’t think that we should pander to people who have very different values. I get what you are saying as far as not voting for someone just because of the letter behind their name. But you also seem to be quite worked up and angry with democrats for the possibility that your governor will run and be the nominee—when he hasn’t even said he was running and I’m pretty sure not many people have heard of him. Murphy did say he was interested in being president. He just didn’t say when. I’m not so much angry as I am amazed that Democrats turned down actual qualified candidates in thier Primary for Murphy. And that makes me lack trust in the Democratic Party. Which means I can’t say if I will vote democrat without knowing who is running.
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Post by pierkiss on Mar 5, 2019 16:18:50 GMT
He did it again. How rude. Press Democrat... “Fast food at White House for North Dakota football champions”“WASHINGTON — The smell of burgers and fries wafted through the State Dining Room as President Donald Trump celebrated the championship football players from North Dakota State on Monday with fast food, like he did when he honored the national champion Clemson Tigers. Trump told the football team he could have had White House chefs prepare a meal, but "I know you people very well." The players laughed with the president while eyeing stacks of Big Macs and Chick-fil-A sandwiches on a long table in the center of the room. A side table was piled with bags of french fries, kept warm under a light. Trump served a similar spread that included hundreds of hamburgers to Clemson's players in January. He said he personally paid for that meal because much of the staff in the White House residence had been furloughed by a government shutdown. The Bison, who have the most titles in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, ended the season on Jan. 5 with a 38-24 win over Eastern Washington University. Quarterback Easton Stick threw five touchdown passes, including two to Darrius Shepherd, who was named Most Outstanding Player with five catches and 125 yards. It was the Bison's seventh national title in eight years. "When you play with passion and love ... and relentlessly reach for excellence, nothing is impossible," Trump said.” Maybe he’s trying to ensure that sports teams visiting the White House is no longer a thing he has to do. Because why bother going if this is he treatment you will get? Or, maybe he’s trying to bait a player or coach into saying something negative and then turning it around to use it against them and/or the Dems? Or maybe he really is just this stupid.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 17:49:40 GMT
Brian Tashman..
”Meanwhile, Fox killed the story about Donald Trump's hush money payments ostensibly because they were "unable to verify all of the facts"
Verifying facts? Fox News?? Really??? Well that would be a first if that is the story they are putting out there.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 5, 2019 18:13:16 GMT
And WHY are we in this position? Thanks GOP! Tax cuts sure helped! Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday urged congressional leaders to raise the federal debt limit “as soon as possible” as the department begins accounting maneuvers to prevent a default.
Mnuchin wrote in a March 4 letter to top lawmakers that the Treasury Department had begun a “debt issuance suspension period” to avoid missing a debt payment, and asked for swift action to raise the cap on federal debt. “I respectfully urge Congress to protect the full faith and credit of the United States by acting to increase the statutory debt limit as soon as possible,” Mnuchin wrote to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and seven other congressional leaders. The recipients include House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee. The legal limit on how much the federal government can owe creditors, known as the “debt ceiling,” was reimposed Saturday after a one-year suspension ran out on March 2. The Treasury Department has begun a series of financial and accounting moves called “extraordinary measures” to prevent the U.S. from breaching the debt ceiling.More at link: thehill.com/policy/finance/432657-mnuchin-asks-congress-to-raise-debt-ceiling-as-soon-as-possible
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 18:27:44 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 5, 2019 19:37:03 GMT
Yes he has!! Wonder if the DOJ is following through with the investigation of him from the company in Florida(?) that allegedly defrauded people?
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Post by imsirius on Mar 5, 2019 21:19:25 GMT
Do you see what Pete did here? Lmao....
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Post by femalebusiness on Mar 5, 2019 22:09:24 GMT
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Post by hop2 on Mar 5, 2019 22:29:42 GMT
I’ve been asking that since he won the primary. Imho he should have been in jail a couple of decades ago. But he pays people off & threatens witnesses so he isn’t. THATs why he needed a ‘fixer’ to begin with
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 22:35:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 23:13:02 GMT
Bloomberg...
“Special Counsel Robert Mueller told a Virginia judge that Paul Manafort, who is to be sentenced in two days, has failed to accept responsibility for his crimes”
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 23:43:14 GMT
linkYes this is from the Washington Examiner, having said that, look at the companies and how money is moved. It could be on the up & up, but it also raises questions. That probably could have been avoided “AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies” “Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday. The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics. Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used. The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group. Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication "there’s something amiss." They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations. PACs are required to disclose how and when funds are spent, including for expenditures such as advertisements, fundraising emails, donations to candidates, and payments for events and to vendors. The private companies to which Chakrabarti transferred the money from the PACs are not subject to these requirements. The complaint names Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti as respondents. It asks the FEC to investigate and audit the two PACs, saying they were engaged in an "an elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures." Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project, said: "It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws: transparency." Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard graduate and technology entrepreneur who became an organizer for Bernie Sanders during the socialist's 2016 presidential campaign. He founded a PAC called Brand New Congress in 2016 and another called Justice Democrats in 2017, with the stated goal of helping elect progressive candidates to Congress. One of those candidates was Ocasio-Cortez, who, last November, age 29, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. According to the Brand New Congress website, the PAC would build a "unified campaign" infrastructure including fundraising, organizing, rallies, and advertising progressive congressional candidates across the country could "plug into," saving the individual campaigns time and money. "Our idea is really to run a single unified presidential-style campaign that is going to look a lot like the Bernie Sanders campaign,” said Chakrabarti in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in May 2016. "The campaign infrastructure and fundraising is set aside from the campaigning." In 2016 and 2017, Chakrabarti’s PACs raised about $3.3 million for the project, primarily from small donors. During this time, the committees transferred over $1 million to two shell companies controlled by Chakrabarti with names similar to one of the PACs, Brand New Campaign LLC and Brand New Congress LLC, according to federal election filings. A few weeks after starting the Brand New Congress PAC, Chakrabarti formed one of the companies, Brand New Campaign LLC, in Delaware, using a registered agent service and mailbox-only address. Over the next seven months, as small-dollar political donations poured into the PAC from progressives across the country, the committee transferred over $200,000, 82 percent of the contributions, to the company Brand New Campaign LLC. The payments were for "strategic consulting," according to federal election filings. They were sent to an apartment address listed for Chakrabarti in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. In 2017, Brand New Congress PAC transferred another $240,000 to Brand New Congress LLC, also for "strategic consulting." Another PAC co-founded by Chakrabarti that year, Justice Democrats, transferred an additional $605,000 to Brand New Congress LLC in 2017. Brand New Congress LLC does not appear to be registered in any state, according to state government records available online. It is unclear where or when it was incorporated. Adav Noti, the senior director of the Campaign Legal Center and a former FEC lawyer, said the arrangement was highly unusual and seemed intended to obscure the destination of the funds. "None of that makes any sense," said Noti. "I can't even begin to disentangle that. They're either confused or they're trying to conceal something." Noti said it would be simpler to set up a consulting company and work directly with campaigns to provide services for a fee rather than creating a federal PAC and sending the money to a company controlled by the same person. "It does seem like there's something amiss. I can only think of really two likely possibilities for this sort of pattern of disbursements," said Noti. "One is the scam PAC possibility — they're really just paying themselves and they’re concealing it by using the LLC. The other is that there’s actually another recipient, that the money is going to the LLC and then being disbursed in some other way that they want to conceal." Bradley A. Smith, a former chairman of the FEC, said he has never seen such an arrangement. "It's a really weird situation," he said. "I see almost no way that you can do that without it being at least a reporting violation, quite likely a violation of the contribution limits. You might say from a campaign finance angle that the LLC was essentially operating as an unregistered committee." Chakrabarti declined to comment on the FEC complaint or provide details about his companies’ financial activities. Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, declined to comment. Zeynab Day, communications director for the Brand New Congress PAC, said Chakrabarti was not currently affiliated with the group and that it recently went through a "transition period." She referred questions about the LLC to Chakrabarti. “I’m unable to answer any questions about the LLC … I am not informed about them. We are not an affiliated group,” she said. spokesperson for Justice Democrats said he did not know why the PAC paid so much money to Chakrabarti’s LLCs. When asked what the Justice Democrats PAC does on a daily basis, he said, “It’s very clear what we do,” but declined to elaborate. Chakrabarti founded Brand New Congress PAC, in April 2016. According to a statement released by Justice Democrats PAC last May, Chakrabarti "was the only controlling member" of the company Brand New Congress LLC and "took no salary." The statement added: "Saikat is lucky to have a small side business that generates him enough income that he is able to do all of this work as a volunteer."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 0:11:19 GMT
And yet we still have "I don't know if I can vote for the Dem" chorus day in, day out.
I can and WILL vote for the Dem nominee. PERIOD!
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Post by flute4peace on Mar 6, 2019 1:29:51 GMT
And WHY are we in this position? Thanks GOP! Tax cuts sure helped! Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday urged congressional leaders to raise the federal debt limit “as soon as possible” as the department begins accounting maneuvers to prevent a default.
Mnuchin wrote in a March 4 letter to top lawmakers that the Treasury Department had begun a “debt issuance suspension period” to avoid missing a debt payment, and asked for swift action to raise the cap on federal debt. “I respectfully urge Congress to protect the full faith and credit of the United States by acting to increase the statutory debt limit as soon as possible,” Mnuchin wrote to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and seven other congressional leaders. The recipients include House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee. The legal limit on how much the federal government can owe creditors, known as the “debt ceiling,” was reimposed Saturday after a one-year suspension ran out on March 2. The Treasury Department has begun a series of financial and accounting moves called “extraordinary measures” to prevent the U.S. from breaching the debt ceiling.More at link: thehill.com/policy/finance/432657-mnuchin-asks-congress-to-raise-debt-ceiling-as-soon-as-possibleWait. I thought defaulting on the debt was just “good business “?
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Post by flute4peace on Mar 6, 2019 1:58:48 GMT
Wowie zowie. Quite a bit in there that hadn’t heard before. Lots of full circles.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 6, 2019 2:38:31 GMT
Wait. I thought defaulting on the debt was just “good business “? Trouble is it is our debt thanks to the wonderful tax cuts!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 6, 2019 3:02:10 GMT
Yes this is from the Washington Examiner, having said that, look at the companies and how money is moved. It could be on the up & up, but it also raises questions. That probably could have been avoided “AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies” If true, can we have any hope AOC was not involved. Although we know she is sharp with numbers! What a disaster!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 6, 2019 4:01:00 GMT
1994: Trump allegedly rapes and beats a 13-year-old girl at a party with Jeffrey Epstein, multiple times. In the filed complaint, the 13-year-old was threatened to be "disappeared" like another young girl had been if she told anyone. (source)Woman accusing Trump of raping her at 13 cancels her plan to go public The woman known as Jane Doe pulled out of a Los Angeles press conference where she was expected to reveal her identity, citing death threats Rory Carroll in Los Angeles @rorycarroll72 Thu 3 Nov 2016 05.08 EDT The federal lawsuit alleged Trump sexually assaulted Doe in 1994 at Epstein’s Manhattan home and at other parties Epstein hosted on the Upper East Side..... ** dt knew Epstein well and probably knew about the light charges given by Acosta in Florida! amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/02/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-13-year-old-cancels-public-event?__twitter_impression=true@bergdorfblonde
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 6, 2019 4:17:50 GMT
You did fine! That's a whole lot to read........... @bergdorfblonde
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 5:04:33 GMT
1994: Trump allegedly rapes and beats a 13-year-old girl at a party with Jeffrey Epstein, multiple times. In the filed complaint, the 13-year-old was threatened to be "disappeared" like another young girl had been if she told anyone. (source)Woman accusing Trump of raping her at 13 cancels her plan to go public The woman known as Jane Doe pulled out of a Los Angeles press conference where she was expected to reveal her identity, citing death threats Rory Carroll in Los Angeles @rorycarroll72 Thu 3 Nov 2016 05.08 EDT The federal lawsuit alleged Trump sexually assaulted Doe in 1994 at Epstein’s Manhattan home and at other parties Epstein hosted on the Upper East Side..... ** dt knew Epstein well and probably knew about the light charges given by Acosta in Florida! amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/02/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-13-year-old-cancels-public-event?__twitter_impression=true@bergdorfblonde
ONE MORE THING: The timing of when Melania dropped into Trump's life had many different versions. Again, the rumor in NYC was that he spotted her, helped her with her fraudulent Visa and was cheating on Marla Maples with her...... However, Trump & Melania decided to change the dates and go with their new lie. (I also wonder if she's Russian-planted, to keep an eye on him, but those are my own inklings).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 12:39:07 GMT
Newsweek..
”Trump attacks security clearance probe as "witch hunt" and "disgrace to our country" trib.al/PQdwuOQ”
But those emails...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 12:40:45 GMT
MSNBC...
”Photos taken just 2 days after the Trump-Kim Hanoi summit show rebuilding at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, North Korea's operational space launch facility.”
don got conned.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 12:47:37 GMT
NPR..
”Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders signed a loyalty pledge, promising to run and govern as a Democrat if he wins the presidency in 2020, a new requirement for candidates that largely grew out of his 2016 campaign.”
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 14:09:41 GMT
ABC News..
“U.S. trade deficit jumped nearly 19% in December, pushing the trade imbalance for 2018 to a decade-long high of $621 billion.
The gap with China on goods widened to an all-time record of $419.2 billion.”
I wonder if trump s going to brag about this “all-time record” on twitter?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 14:20:22 GMT
Oh no. Does Ivanka has teh sadz?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 14:35:03 GMT
"Several of the reimbursement checks sent to Michael Cohen have now been obtained by the New York Times, and they reveal a clear pattern. The checks were initially being cut by the Trump Organization, which was consistent with the phony cover story that they were mere employee paychecks to Cohen. These were the checks were signed by Trump Jr and Weisselberg. Then partway through, Cohen started receiving checks signed by Donald Trump, from what appear to be his personal bank account. This means that at some point during the repayment process, the Trump Organization decided to stop cutting these checks to Michael Cohen, forcing Donald Trump to start paying Cohen directly. Trump certainly wouldn’t have wanted to do it this way, as it was more work for him, and more legal exposure for him. This almost certainly means that someone in the Trump Organization refused to keep participating in the criminal payments.
The only known adult in the Trump Organization is Allen Weisselberg, so the most logical conclusion is that partway through the payments, Weisselberg concluded that they were all going to get busted for it, and he tried to put a stop to it. Considering that this occurred in late 2017, you have to wonder just how long Weisselberg has been cooperating with prosecutors. Looks like this whole thing went terribly wrong for Trump a long time ago." www.palmerreport.com/analysis/checks-exposed-trump-terribly-wrong/16486/
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 14:45:47 GMT
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Mar 6, 2019 15:26:56 GMT
1994: Trump allegedly rapes and beats a 13-year-old girl at a party with Jeffrey Epstein, multiple times. In the filed complaint, the 13-year-old was threatened to be "disappeared" like another young girl had been if she told anyone. (source)Woman accusing Trump of raping her at 13 cancels her plan to go public The woman known as Jane Doe pulled out of a Los Angeles press conference where she was expected to reveal her identity, citing death threats Rory Carroll in Los Angeles @rorycarroll72 Thu 3 Nov 2016 05.08 EDT The federal lawsuit alleged Trump sexually assaulted Doe in 1994 at Epstein’s Manhattan home and at other parties Epstein hosted on the Upper East Side..... ** dt knew Epstein well and probably knew about the light charges given by Acosta in Florida! amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/02/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-13-year-old-cancels-public-event?__twitter_impression=true@bergdorfblonde Wasn't this out before the election? I remember seeing it before, but I don't know that it was covered heavily by the news.
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