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The fact remains that, one way or another, the man couldn't even get denouncing Nazis right and proves on a weekly, if not daily, basis that he is an incompetent boob with no business in the office he holds. note
More relevantly: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/04/22/day-823/
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/politics/donald-trump-organization-financial-records/index.html
2/ Rudy Giuliani defended the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton, saying "there's nothing wrong with taking information from Russians." When asked whether it's "okay" to use information stolen by a foreign adversary in service of a presidential candidacy, Giuliani said "it depends on the stolen material." He then added that Russia "shouldn't have stolen it, but the American people were just given more information." (Daily Beast / New York Times / CNN / Washington Post)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/21/politics/rudy-giuliani-trump-russia-cnntv/index.html
3/ The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former White House counsel Don Mc Gahn as part of its investigation into obstruction of justice. The subpoena demands that Mc Gahn testify before the committee on May 21st and provide documents on three-dozen topics by May 7th. The committee previously served the Justice Department with a subpoena for the full Mueller report and underlying evidence, demanding the documents by May 1st. (CNN / CNBC)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/politics/don-mcgahn-subpoena-trump-white-house/index.html
4/ The Trump campaign hired a new in-house attorney for 2020, shifting its business from Mc Gahn's law firm, Jones Day, that represented Trump since his run for president. Mc Gahn told Robert Mueller's investigators that Trump directed him to call Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and tell him to fire Mueller. Mc Gahn refused. "Why in the world would you want to put your enemy on the payroll?" one adviser close to the White House said. "They do not want to reward [Mc Gahn's] firm." (Politico / Washington Post)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/19/trump-campaign-mcgahn-1283545
5/ Trump claimed that "nobody disobeys my orders." Mueller's report, however, repeatedly depicts Trump's multiple "efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests." (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/politics/donald-trump-staff-mueller-report/index.html
6/ Trump also claimed that Democrats "can't impeach" him, because "only high crimes and misdemeanors can lead to impeachment" and that "there were no crimes by me." Mueller's investigators found insufficient evidence to bring obstruction of justice charges against Trump, despite several instances where Trump tried to have the probe ended. Mueller found that those attempts were unsuccessful, because Trump's subordinates refused to carry out his orders. (CNBC)
poll/ 37% of Americans approved of Trump's job performance – down 3 percentage points to the lowest level of the year following the release of Mueller's report detailing Russian interference in the presidential election. 50% agreed that "Trump or someone from his campaign worked with Russia to influence the 2016 election," and 58% agreed that Trump "tried to stop investigations into Russian influence on his administration." 40% said they thought Trump should be impeached, while 42% said he should not. (Reuters)
The State Department will end waivers for countries importing Iranian oil as part of an effort to cut off of Iranian oil exports. China, India and Turkey are among Iran's top customers. The Trump administration said it was working with top oil exporters Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to ensure the oil market was "adequately supplied." The United States decided to leave the Iran nuclear deal about a year ago. (Wall Street Journal / Washington Post / Reuters)
The FBI arrested the leader of a militia group accused of illegally stopping migrants after they crossed the southern U.S. border. Larry Hopkins is the leader of the United Constitutional Patriots. He was arrested in New Mexico on federal charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. (Reuters / Vox)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-militia-idUSKCN1RW0O5
Herman Cain withdrew himself from consideration for the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. Cain ended his campaign after allegations surfaced that he sexually harassed several women while he was running Godfather's Pizza in the 1990s, and that he had an extramarital affair. Cain denied the allegations, and Trump called them an "unfair witch hunt." Trump announced Cain's decision to withdraw, calling him "a truly wonderful man." (NBC News / Axios / Washington Post / CNBC)
https://www.axios.com/herman-cain-fed-board-withdrawal-e495088f-db7b-4eb0-a7bd-3a67a271c09e.html
Stephen Moore wrote in March 2002 that there should be "no more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything" at men's college basketball games. Moore is one of Trump's picks to serve on the Federal Reserve Board. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/politics/stephen-moore-federal-reserve-kfile/index.html
Sears named Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a lawsuit against the company's former CEO. The lawsuit alleges that Mnuchin assisted Edward Lampert in stripping the retailer of more than $2 billion in assets. (Politico)
Trump's tariffs raised the cost of washing machines by about $86 per unit last year and clothes dryers by $92, according to research from the University of Chicago and the Federal Reserve. The tariffs created roughly 1,800 new U.S. manufacturing jobs, but each new job cost about $817,000. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/business/trump-tariffs-washing-machines.html
Trump exaggerated that the Sri Lanka terror attacks "killed at least 138 million people and badly injured 600 more." The population of Sri Lanka is around 22 million. Trump later deleted the incorrect tweet. Explosions
at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka killed 290 people and injured more than 500. (Washington Post)
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We get it, you're salty that decent people take what Trump says and judges him for it.
No amount of apologism and disingenuous prattle will change the fact that Trump ran on racial resentment and said that "both sides had good people" when one side was fucking Nazis and other kinds of White Supremacists.
Trump is a sexist racist LGBT-phobic reactionary piece of trash who has no concept of knowledge or connection to reality, and he's the one you like. Congratulations.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Apr 22nd 2019 at 4:52:02 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangThere's some interesting points mixed in with the misleading nonsense up there, but I just want to have a look at this bit:
My understanding is that the detention of children was a Steven Miller innovation, and that Deporter-In-Chief Obama can't take credit for this one. The sex trafficking angle is something I've never heard of. What I did hear was that the current policy has left children lost away from their parents, and made them ripe for sexual abuse by the authorities imprisoning them. The child abusers have found one of those niches where they get authority over children with no accountability and an uncaring power structure happy to hush it.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-women.html
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/child-sex-abuse-us-border-patrol-physical-central-america-trump-a8365966.html
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-border-patrol-has-a-sex-abuse-problem-says-whistleblower/
- https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=698397631
Excuse me while I vomit.
You were saying something about preventing sex trafficking?
Edited by Oruka on Apr 22nd 2019 at 5:19:04 AM
>sources
You're a funny guy, Parable, you know that?
This is such obvious trolling that its almost sad.
i'm tired, my friendOne must always appreciate instances of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend
. You know, the guy who comes and says, "here's some sincere, totally unbiased advice, as a fellow American to another, on what you Liberals need to do to get things right".
That some people actually fall for this staggers me.
Granny always said I was a comedian. Also said I shouldn’t quit my day job.
For real though, my experiences with people using these talking points has been that they’re just repeating what Rush Limbaugh or Hannity said, who generally don’t cite sources themselves and distort whatever the actual point of discussion was.
For instance, dude up there went on about how Trump was right about African countries are objectively shitholes - which is insulting and generalizing, but not the point - while leaving out that the whole point of that comment was that Trump was angry that perfectly legal immigrants were coming from Africa and Latin America. And that the immigrants he wanted were from places like Norway. You know, white people.
So I want to know if we’re just seeing right wing radio screeching or something else.
I'm not sure if this helpful both because the above post has been thumped and because I'm not sure of the specifics myself, but my understanding of the reference to sex trafficking is that it's sort of true From a Certain Point of View, and is a bit of misleading (deliberatley or otherwise) rhetoric.
So basically (and I hope someone can fill in some more specifics) the provision (which may have been introduced during the Obama Administration) allowing for child separation was introduced to combat trafficking/sex trafficking, and used to be used pretty much exclusively for that purpose and was only used rarely.
Unfortunately, because it existed, there Ain't No Rule that it couldn't be misused to make separation the norm rather than an exception to the rule. Which is how the Trump Administration has used it.
So, it's technically true that the same policy existed under the Obama Administration and was treated with approval, but you're talking about a policy being used in very different ways in practice.
Incidentally, of course, the Obama Administrations deportation policies were criticized by most if not all of the same people who criticize Trump's. But besides partisanship, the difference in criticism has a lot to do with them being genuinely less evil.
Lastly, it's a rather odd, disengenous Trumpist argument to on one hand, argue that Trump is merely continuing Obama policies, but then on the other hand, to praise Trump for getting rid of "awful" Obama policies.
Edit- I think I was remembering this Snopes article
.
Edited by Hodor2 on Apr 22nd 2019 at 8:09:50 AM
The defense that Trump is just continuing Obama policies is a stupid defense in the first place. Trump has shown that he didn't have any problem opposing any policy that he didn't like. Those who use this defense somehow forget that Trump can oppose it. It's even worse if the defense also include Trump get rid of Obama's "awful" policies in it because (let's pretend that this child separation crap is Obama's policies for this instance) that defense basically states Trump don't consider child separation to be awful because he don't get rid of it.
This is one stupid defense.
I'm not as witty as I think I am. It's a scientifically-proven fact.You're a couple decades late to that conclusion. Whenever conservative justices do this kind of thing they call it "common sense judgement." Because it's not judicial overreach if they do it.
Never underestimate just how hypocritical some people can be.
^^They always have. A man - any man - has the right to inflict sex upon any woman he wants, in the Republican worldview. Remember how if "it's a legitimate rape" the female body has defenses against that, so any rape that results in pregnancy was actually just sex a woman decided to complain about?
Ugh. Monsters.
It's been fun.

Its more to warn people off going off topic as religion derails happen a lot
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