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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 2, 2019 18:55:56 GMT
Bribery? and trump? House investigators are looking into allegations that groups, including at least one foreign government, paid for rooms at President Donald Trump’s hotels but never actually stayed there.That probe is part of the House Oversight Committee’s broader investigation into whether Trump broke the law by accepting money from U.S. or foreign governments at his properties, reported Politico. The committee learned that a trade association and a foreign government booked a large number of rooms but used only a few of them, according to a person familiar with the allegation. “Now we’re looking at near raw bribery,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), an Oversight Committee member who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Trump’s hotel in Washington. “That was the risk from day one — foreign governments and others trying to seek favor because we know Trump pays attention to this.” “It’s an obvious attempt to curry favor with him,” the lawmaker added. ** www.rawstory.com/2019/10/raw-bribery-house-dems-investigating-mysterious-no-show-bookings-at-trumps-hotels/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1605
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 19:03:17 GMT
linkProPublica... “IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor”“Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.”
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 19:04:57 GMT
ABC...
”After Pres. Trump told Finnish Pres. Niinistö to "pick somebody nice from Finland" to ask a question, Finnish reporter says to Niinistö, "I have to ask: what kind of favors has Mr. Trump asked from you?"
"I think you mean the other way around," Trump says abcn.ws/2K0BLjq”
How rude.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 19:08:19 GMT
NPR... ”In 2016, OSHA issued new workplace limits on silica, which can produce a harmful dust when materials — like artificial stone — are cut, ground or polished. A year later, the Trump administration ended the safety agency's national silica program.” link
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Post by artgirl1 on Oct 2, 2019 19:09:06 GMT
Would like to apologize to the Finns for this. Please know we are very embarrassed by this imbecile. Ditto. I felt so bad for him sitting there while trump trashed European Countries. What I don't understand is why these foreign leaders keep coming over here while dump wines about how unfairly he is treated.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 19:10:43 GMT
Dan Pfeiffer...
”The biggest takeaway from Trump’s temper tantrums is the obvious weakness of his defense”
Yup.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Oct 2, 2019 19:14:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 19:15:48 GMT
CNN...
”The State Department's inspector general has arrived on Capitol Hill after requesting an urgent briefing with senior congressional staff cnn.it/2nKo1RN”
I think there are those who believe the information this guy wants to share is bad for trump. I’m just hoping it’s not bad for the American People instead.
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Post by lucyg on Oct 2, 2019 19:27:35 GMT
linkProPublica... “IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor”“Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.” Is there a Shaking My Damn Head emoji?!
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Post by Skellinton on Oct 2, 2019 19:28:56 GMT
And here is the response you get, even when you answer the complete opposite of what Trump wants you to answer. ”Thank you for standing up for the TRUTH. The Democrats have lost their minds. They're making Baseless Impeachment Lies because they KNOW they can't win in 2020. Ensure YOUR NAME is there when we show President Trump the list of Patriots who stood by his side during this Witch Hunt. Contribute $45 or your best amount by 11:59 PM EDT to get your name on the TOP of the list!”
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Post by lucyg on Oct 2, 2019 19:29:35 GMT
Can you give us an overview? I don’t want to click the link.
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Post by Skellinton on Oct 2, 2019 19:32:02 GMT
Can you give us an overview? I don’t want to click the link. Do you agree that President Trump has done nothing wrong? Yes No Do you believe the Democrats will make up LIES to try and impeach the President? Yes No Do you agree the Democrats are trying to silence your voice and take away your vote by impeaching President Trump? Yes No Do you agree the Democrats are trying to impeach President Trump because they know they can’t win in 2020? Yes No Are you against these baseless impeachment proceedings? Yes No Do you agree that Nancy Pelosi is controlled by the Squad and was pressured into calling for an impeachment inquiry? Yes No Do you believe Nancy Pelosi should publicly admit she was wrong? Yes No Do you believe that Democrats are working with the Fake News media to make up lies about President Trump? Yes No Do you believe that Democrats will continue with baseless impeachment proceedings as long as President Trump is in office? Yes No Is there anything else you’d like to share?
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Post by lucyg on Oct 2, 2019 19:38:01 GMT
Can you give us an overview? I don’t want to click the link. Do you agree that President Trump has done nothing wrong? Yes No Do you believe the Democrats will make up LIES to try and impeach the President? Yes No Do you agree the Democrats are trying to silence your voice and take away your vote by impeaching President Trump? Yes No Do you agree the Democrats are trying to impeach President Trump because they know they can’t win in 2020? Yes No Are you against these baseless impeachment proceedings? Yes No Do you agree that Nancy Pelosi is controlled by the Squad and was pressured into calling for an impeachment inquiry? Yes No Do you believe Nancy Pelosi should publicly admit she was wrong? Yes No Do you believe that Democrats are working with the Fake News media to make up lies about President Trump? Yes No Do you believe that Democrats will continue with baseless impeachment proceedings as long as President Trump is in office? Yes No Is there anything else you’d like to share? Oh. My. God. We really are doomed, aren’t we? They’re trying to create an irreparable rift in this country (if it isn’t there already).
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Oct 2, 2019 19:53:20 GMT
no, really?!?! who'dathunkit?!? insert <shocked face> here.
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Post by hop2 on Oct 2, 2019 19:58:29 GMT
no, really?!?! who'dathunkit?!? insert <shocked face> here. The people in Atlantic City...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 20:08:48 GMT
Kevin McCarthy..
”BREAKING --> Chairman Adam Schiff just got caught orchestrating with the whistleblower before the complaint was ever filed. Democrats have rigged this process from the start.”
Matthew Rosenberg...
“Nope. Not what the NYT reported. The whistleblower went to an intel committee staffer with a vague account of the complaint, and was told to file through proper channels. Schiff personally never knew the whistleblower’s identity. That’s hardly “orchestrating” the complaint”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 2, 2019 20:09:06 GMT
linkProPublica... “IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor”“Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.” And the poor pay the full amount due, including interest and penalties. I am not sure of the cut off amount, I do know that under $10,000, must be paid in full, not like the TV ads 'I owed $100,000 and only paid $19,000'.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 20:13:41 GMT
Independent.
”Donald Trump reportedly told aides and cabinet members they were making him look like an “idiot” in an expletive-laden rant over his failure to clamp down on the nation’s southern border.
In a March Oval Office meeting in which he called for entry to the US from Mexico to be completely shut down, the president is said to have berated officials including secretary of state Mike Pompeo, aide Stephen Miller and former homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
“You are making me look like an idiot,” he said, according to an excerpt of a new book featured in The New York Times, which said the statement also included an expletive.”
What dimwit donnie doesn’t get, he does such a great job making himself look like an idiot, he doesn’t anyone’s help.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 2, 2019 20:16:37 GMT
What dimwit donnie doesn’t get, he does such a great job making himself look like an idiot, he doesn’t anyone’s help. True enough!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 20:23:55 GMT
Reuters...
”Wall Street's main indexes suffer their sharpest one-day declines in nearly six weeks as U.S. employment and manufacturing data spark economic worries; Dow slides nearly 500 points”
Of course trump will blame this on the impeachment.
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Post by dewryce on Oct 2, 2019 20:31:44 GMT
This is a reporter (Reuters, I think) who (finally) doesn’t accept Trump’s BS answers and, surprising no one, Trump doesn’t react well.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 2, 2019 21:48:47 GMT
He IS in charge and don't you forget it!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 22:23:18 GMT
linkYet more examples of MAGA.. Reuters.. ” Slowing U.S. private hiring adds to gloom over economy”From the article... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hiring by U.S. private employers slowed further in September, suggesting that trade tensions, which have pressured manufacturing, could be spilling over to the labor market. The ADP National Employment Report on Wednesday also showed private payrolls growth in August was not as strong as previously estimated, and said "businesses have turned more cautious in their hiring," with small enterprises becoming "especially hesitant." It came on the heels of a survey on Tuesday showing manufacturing activity tumbled to a more than 10-year low in September. The reports added to cooling consumer spending in suggesting that the economy was losing momentum, though a recession is probably not on the horizon.The economy's darkening outlook was also underscored by another report on Wednesday showing a measure of current business conditions in New York City dropped to a 40-month low in September. The longest economic expansion on record, now in its 11th year, is losing ground with the blame largely put on a 15-month trade war between the United States and China, which has eroded business confidence.Slowing job growth is a concern as it could curb consumer spending, which has been the economy's main growth engine. Private employers added 135,000 jobs in September, the ADP National Employment report showed. Data for August was revised downward to show private payrolls increasing by 157,000 jobs instead of the previously reported 195,000 positions. "We continue to believe that the underlying trend in job growth has slowed lately but that it remains decent," said Daniel Silver, an economist at JPMorgan in New York. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast private employment rising by 140,000 jobs in September.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Oct 2, 2019 22:27:18 GMT
He IS in charge and don't you forget it! <snort!!> he really DOES think the entire world should listen to him and do as he says, doesn't he? It has GOT to be exhausting to deal with him on a regular basis. I don't think I'd even last a couple HOURS; how can KellyAnne Conway have done it for all these years?!? I'd be an alcoholic, for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 22:36:25 GMT
You know you reach a point with all this information flying at you, you just no longer know what to say or how you feel.
I may have reached that point with this little nugget..
Newsweek..
“SENATOR KING SUGGESTS AT LEAST 20 MINUTES ARE MISSING FROM TRUMP UKRAINE CALL TRANSCRIPT”
“Independent Senator Angus King has claimed that some 20 minutes of the phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are missing from the White House memo detailing the conversation.
King told CNN host Anderson Cooper Tuesday that he and his staff had reconstructed the call using the memo, determining that more than two thirds of the call time was unaccounted for.
The full transcript of the now-infamous call between the two leaders has not been released. Though the document makes clear that the read out has been edited, it is not clear exactly how much has been cut, and what those sections may contain.
King told Cooper he has a "hunch" about the edited transcript, the release of which pushed the Democratic Party to open an impeachment investigation into the president.
"I had two staff members from my office the other day read it aloud. And we timed it," King explained. "They read it in normal speaking pace. It took them 10 minutes and 40 seconds. The phone call was 30 minutes. Now, we don't know what is missing."
King admitted that some, or even all, of the missing time could have been taken up by translators facilitating the call. "It may be there was a translator involved and that made it go much longer," the senator acknowledged.
But the president of the Ukraine speaks English. If there was no translator that raises a question of what's in the other 20 minutes of that discussion."
Zelensky is not fluent in English, despite claims to the contrary by some observers. While his skills are increasing, RFERL Christopher Miller noted the president " would certainly need a translator to speak in the manner in which this memo suggests he did."
King noted that he has long been lukewarm on the prospect of impeaching the president. However, he cited the time gap on the phone call memo as the reason "why I think there has to be an inquiry to get to the facts surrounding this, what looks like at least an attempted transaction."
Since the release of the memo, Trump's characteristically pugnacious social media output has become even more aggressive. Among other allegations, Trump has accused the anonymous whistleblower who brought the conversation to the attention of Congress of committing treason and spying on the president.
King warned that any accusation of treason must not be made lightly. "To throw it around in this situation, the problem is the president feels that he is the state, you know, like Louis XIV."
King suggested Trump believes that "criticism of him is treason against the United States. That's not true. That's just not the way it works."
He continued, "And by the way, the whistleblower doesn't decide the case. He or she has brought forth a set of facts which are now in the hands of Congress. And they have the opportunity to investigate it to find out if the whistleblower is right or wrong."
The highly charged and partisan nature of the scandal has prompted calls for the anonymous whistleblower to receive additional protection.
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Post by dewryce on Oct 2, 2019 22:44:18 GMT
@fred It’s funny, I did the same thing, because my original read of the document went so quickly my first thought was “where is the rest of it?” And I did consider translation issues, and that they might have taken out even more of his inane rambling. If this was any other president, Republicans included, once I considered the translation issue I probably would have attributed it to that and never thought of it again. But this administration has proven to be dishonest and manipulative and have shown a willingness to tamper with official records, so they get no such leeway. It’ll be interesting to see if there actually was anything important cut out.
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Post by dewryce on Oct 2, 2019 22:58:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 23:04:31 GMT
linkProPublica... “IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor”“Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.” And the poor pay the full amount due, including interest and penalties. I am not sure of the cut off amount, I do know that under $10,000, must be paid in full, not like the TV ads 'I owed $100,000 and only paid $19,000'. The rich get eery advantage in the book - and STILL it's not enough!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 23:07:33 GMT
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Post by Just T on Oct 2, 2019 23:17:19 GMT
The stable genius chooses his words verrrry carefully. LMFAO.
I would hate to see what he would say if he didn't choose his words carefully.
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