According to experts, Trump’s conduct has potential criminal exposure:At least 12 Republican senators plan to challenge Biden’s Electoral College win on Jan. 6, when Congress is set to officially count the votes. The effort is being led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and includes Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), as well as new Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.). Separately, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) is pursuing a similar plan.
A federal statute makes it a crime when one “knowingly and willfully … attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process, by … the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held.”
A Georgia statute similarly provides that a “person commits the offense of criminal solicitation to commit election fraud in the first degree when, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony under this article, he or she solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage in such conduct.”
…The hard part for prosecutors would be proving Trump’s state of mind, because the statutes require proof of knowledge and intent. Prosecutors would have to show that Trump knew that Biden fairly won the election, and Trump was asking for Georgia officials to commit election fraud. And it’s not clear prosecutors could make that case.
"Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed," the senators said in a joint statement. “Accordingly, we intend to vote on Jan. 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified’ (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed."Their plan is not going to succeed in preventing Biden from taking office, as majorities in both the House and the Senate would need to support a challenge against a state’s electoral votes. For an objection to be made, at least one member of both the House and Senate would need to submit it in writing. Then, the House and Senate separately convene to consider the issue. Debate is limited to two hours for each objection. After debate concludes, the House and Senate vote to uphold the objection and throw out the state’s votes. If the majority of the House AND the majority of the Senate does not uphold the objection, the state’s electoral votes are counted as cast.
Enrique Tarrio: "The ProudBoys will turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th but this time with a twist...We will not be wearing our traditional Black and Yellow. We will be incognito and we will spread across downtown DC in smaller teams."Rep. Louie Gohmert has more explicitly tried to incite violence, saying the failure of his legal challenge to the election means “you gotta go the streets and be as violent as Antifa and BLM.” (clip)
“OMB leadership’s refusal to fully cooperate impairs our ability to identify opportunities to maximize the relief going out to Americans during the pandemic, and it leaves us in the dark as it relates to Covid-related expenditures and critical gaps,” [Biden transition Exec. Dir. Yohannes] Abraham said.Earlier last week, Biden himself said Trump officials are not cooperating with his team, singling out the Defense Department for obstructing information on crucial national security issues. “Right now, we just aren’t getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. It’s nothing short, in my view, of irresponsibility,” Biden said. The Defense Dept. finally scheduled meetings with the incoming team this week, after not briefing the transition for weeks.
In other words, although President-elect Joe Biden has already signaled he intends to replace Pack as CEO of the parent agency soon after taking office in January, Pack would maintain a significant degree of control over the networks.The State Department is likely to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism “as an 11th hour effort to create hurdles for the incoming Biden administration.” The label, which requires the approval of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, would undo a major accomplishment of the Obama administration. To take Cuba back off the list, the Biden team would need to conduct a formal review, a process that might take several months.
Such a designation would impose restrictions on US foreign assistance, a ban on defense exports and sales, certain controls over exports and various financial restrictions. It would also result in penalization against any persons and countries engaging in certain trade activities with Cuba.The Trump administration has been rushing to finalize a myriad of rules before Biden’s inauguration. Since Election Day, the Trump administration has issued about three to four times as many new regulations as it did during other periods of Trump’s presidency. Rules that haven’t been finalized or taken effect can be suspended by an incoming president, which Biden has said he intends to do. By contrast, rules that are finalized can take months, or even years, to undo.
“As a general rule, it takes at least as much process to undo or modify a rule as it does to put the rule in place,” said Jonathan H. Adler, a professor and an administrative law expert at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. “The Trump administration is magnifying that challenge for the Biden administration.”Trump loyalists are urging the president to stymie Biden’s efforts to rejoin the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal. Sens. Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham are working to get the agreements submitted to the Senate for ratification, requiring a two-thirds vote, with the goal of failure. While such an outcome wouldn’t prevent Biden from rejoining the accords, Cruz and Graham hope it would make their resurrection more problematic.
A vote against them would signal GOP opposition to the world and, they hope, undermine any unilateral action by Biden to rejoin the agreements. One senior congressional aide told RCP that sending them to die in the Senate “would be the final nail in the coffin.”Further reading: “Biden To Be Saddled With Trump’s Payroll Tax Deferral Mess,” Forbes.
The analysts hired by Vance probably have already reviewed various bank and mortgage records obtained from Trump’s company as part of the ongoing grand jury investigation, and they could be called on to testify about their findings should the district attorney eventually bring criminal chargesIn yet another shady business deal connected to Trump, the United States sold the ambassador’s residence in Israel for more than $67 million. The person who bought the residence is none other than Trump mega-donor Sheldon Adelson. The property only became available due to Trump's controversial decision to relocate the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to contested Jerusalem. Furthermore, State Dept. representatives reportedly lied to Congress about the sale, perhaps to hide that Adelson purposefully overbid.
For now, there is no alternative residence for the ambassador, David Friedman, Trump’s former lawyer, who currently uses a suite at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel or rooms at the former Jerusalem Consulate General when he spends nights in Jerusalem… As a result, the United States appears likely to end up leasing the residence it has owned since 1964 from the GOP-affiliated casino mogul.Trump’s businesses have taken in $10.5 million of donor money over the course of his presidency. $8.5 million came from the Trump campaign and related entities that Trump controls directly; $2 million came from other Republican candidates and committees. The biggest beneficiary was Trump’s NYC hotel, taking in $3,039,979 over the four years of his presidency, with $891,003 of that in just the final four months of the campaign.
“It is very strange that we are now paying Sheldon Adelson,” a congressional aide told The Daily Beast. “It is not above board. We have a number of questions. Did they get two independent appraisals? Was it a sweetheart deal? Was Adelson the highest donor? Was there a reason to sell it now?”
The fact Turnberry remains in the red comes in spite of significant tranches of payments it has received from the US government during Mr Trump’s single term in office… the US Secret Service spent nearly £25,000 to accommodate its agents at the resort during business trips by Mr Trump’s son, Eric, an executive vice-president of the family firm. Since Mr Trump’s election, the property has received close to £300,000 from the Secret Service, US State Department, and US Defence DepartmentA Florida state lawmaker is calling for Mar-a-Lago to be penalized - and possibly shut down - for flouting coronavirus restrictions during a New Years Eve party. While Trump and the first lady did not attend, son Don Jr., attorney Rudy Giuliani, Rep. Matt Gaetz, and Fox News personality Jeanine Piro were captured on video among the maskless crowd. Guests paid as much as $1,000 for access to the ballroom to be entertained by Vanilla Ice.
State Rep. Omari Hardy: “My constituents are not snowbirds like @DonaldJTrumpJr & @kimguilfoyle. My constituents live here. This is their home, and they're going to have to deal w/ the consequences of a potential super-spreader party at Mar-a-Lago long after Junior & wife leave here on their private jet.”Are you ready for a Donald J. Trump Airport? According to the Daily Beast, Trump has been asking aides about the process of naming airports after former U.S. presidents.
The final timing of the 2020 census results' release could undermine President Trump's efforts to make an unprecedented change to who is counted in key census numbers before leaving office… If the first census results are not ready until after Trump's term ends on Jan. 20, it would be President-elect Joe Biden, not Trump, who would get control of the numbers, which are ultimately handed off to Congress for certification.
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Bond responding with “Do I look like I give a damn?” when asked if he wants his martini shaken or stirred feels less like a mythology gag and more of a dig against the tropes the franchise created. Shaking up the formula is fine, but changing too much runs the risk of losing what made the franchise what it was in the first place. I appreciated how Skyfall simultaneously deconstructed (an overused word today) and reconstructed the character. As jarring as it is to see Bond go from being a loose cannon novice to a veteran closer in characterization to the previous Bonds, Craig’s played out Bond addicted to alcohol is quite close to the novels, and nicely picks up where the Dalton films left off. Skyfall realized that Casino Royale was a one-time thing and returning to the formula while adding enough fresh elements was the right way to go. Licence To Kill and Skyfall proved that the films can still be fresh without stripping back almost every aspect of the films. The cast is great. Judi Dench gets an expanded role as M and it is nice to see her relationship with Bond become a strong focus. As sad as it was to see Dench go, I think her character had a fitting end. Skyfall repeats quite a few beats from previous films, but integrates them quite nicely. Javier Bardem’s Silva is similar to Christopher Walken’s Zorin due to both being major psychopaths. Bardem’s first scene was fantastic and I thought the concept of Bond facing off against a former MI6 agent was done much better than in GoldenEye, where Sean Bean’s Trevelyan was pretty much your typical Bond villain in the end. The mid-plot twist where Silva “wanted to get caught” was the worst aspect of the film for me though, and Q was quite idiotic for plugging in a known cyber-terrorist’s computer into MI6’s servers. Also, the train almost hitting Bond underground made no sense unless Silva had predicted that Bond would follow him. He definitely should have come up with a better plan for preventing Bond from stopping Silva’s assassination of M. Bond films are not the best written films, but they made up for their inconsistencies by not taking themselves seriously. A problem with the Craig films is that they take themselves seriously, but also fall prey to poor writing. This only makes their flaws more evident, which is why Spectre is a mess. Bérénice Marlohe has a small role as Severine. She is similar to Andrea Anders, another ill-fated Bond girl who wants to leave her life as mistress to the villain. The love scene with Bond is a bit off considering she was a child sex slave, but I would not go so as far as to call it rape. The late Albert Finney is nice as Kincade, though one can only imagine how it would have been if Sean Connery accepted the role as intended. After ten years, Q and Moneypenny return, portrayed by Ben Wishaw and Naomie Harris respectively. No one can ever beat Desmon Llewelyn, but Wishaw is a fine counterpart. Playing up Q’s computer skills to the point of having him design advanced security protocols was silly considering he then made the mistake of plugging Silva’s computer to the servers. Harris probably has the best chemistry of any young female in Craig’s era. I have heard some take issue with the implication of Moneypenny sleeping with Bond, but Lois Maxwell (forever the best Moneypenny) and Connery (tied with Dalton for my favorite) had conceived a backstory where Bond and Moneypenny had a romantic weekend and decided to stay apart, so it is not too far off from the originals. Ralph Fiennes makes his debut as the new M and I think he has done a fine job so far, playing one closer to Bernard Lee and Robert Brown while having a larger role. One area where Skyfall absolutely outclasses Casino Royale is in cinematography. Ignoring the subject of films of the past twenty years using color grading, this is the best-looking Bond film, superior to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, in my opinion. The Shanghai and Scotland scenes are breathtaking and it is nice to see some nice shots without a yellow palette. Skyfall is an artistic film, and Sam Mendes ran out of ideas quickly. Filmmaking has changed and using the same director for multiple films is not going to work like it used to. Martin Campbell had eleven years to refine his skills, but Mendes’s lack of originality between Skyfall and Spectre is very evident. The same can be said of Thomas Newman. I have a fond spot for Newman’s score, despite lacking the “Bond” feeling John Barry and David Arnold delivered. It is tied with The Spy Who Loved Me for my favorite non-Barry score. “Shanghai Drive” and “The Chimera” are two of my favorite tracks. The immersion when watching Spectre for the first time in theatres was broken when I kept hearing cues from Skyfall. Despite being a good film, Skyfall is a bit harder to watch again. It is slower than Craig’s first two films, but this also works to its advantage since this is the first time we have had a Bond film that does not throw constant or tacked-on action at your face since Licence To Kill. Pacing is subjective, but the middle does drag on with Silva’s nonsensical scheme. The opening and ending both provide great action scenes as a respite. Skyfall was the first Bond I saw in theatres and the pre-title sequence, which is a welcome return to the traditional style, still excites me. The climax at Skyfall is unparalleled by none but Licence To Kill. I felt that the Aston Martin DB5’s previous appearances in Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Casino Royale were blatant attempts at nostalgia, but there is some purpose to the DB5 here. Craig’s films were grounded in reality, but the return of the gadget-laden car brilliantly supported the film’s theme of returning to the old ways. The ending with the old MI6 crew back, and the wooden office with a leather door (a sight that brings tears to one’s eye) was a true return to where we left things off in 1989 and we could finally have Bond undertake traditional adventures while maintaining the originality Craig’s era brought (or so we thought). It may not surpass Casino Royale, but Skyfall deserves applause for respecting Bond’s past while moving forward. |
In October 2018, the same month that lawmakers voted in favor of a resolution to sanction the two stations, Telizhenko wrote to Davidzon, asking: "Have a question do you or your father have contacts with US Senators? I really need a favour for witch (sic) I can pay up to 5k."Ranking member on the committee, Sen. Gary Peters, opposed subpoenaing Telizhenko because he warned that the investigation could be tainted by Russian disinformation. The revelation that Telizhenko has indeed worked for Russian interests seems to substantiate his concerns.
...After expressing concerns about how the new Ukrainian proposals could shut the broadcasters down, Telizhenko then says: “My question is is it possible to get an official comment on a Senators (Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham for example) website next week about this situation of censorship in Ukraine? Really important for me and need fast.”
...Now, Russia is also trying to influence white supremacist groups, the officials said; they gave few details, but one official said federal investigators are examining how at least one neo-Nazi organization with ties to Russia is funded. Other Russian efforts, which American intelligence agencies have tracked, involve simply prodding white nationalists to more aggressively spread hate messages and amplifying their invective. Russian operatives are also trying to push black extremist groups toward violence...Last week, Facebook and Twitter announced they had discovered a Russian-led network of professional trolls outsourced to operatives in Ghana and Nigeria. The network’s 71 Twitter accounts, 49 Facebook accounts, and 85 Instagram accounts were removed.
“These 71 removed accounts, operating out of Ghana and Nigeria and which we can reliably associate with Russia, attempted to sow discord by engaging in conversations about social issues, like race and civil rights,” said Twitter’s safety team in a statement.Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, sent a letter requesting that the EU introduce additional sanctions against “Putin’s Chef” Yevgeny Prighozin to deter him and the Kremlin from interfering in elections this year.
“As the presidential election in the United States draws closer, our concerns about foreign interference have intensified...The U.S. and European Union should be unified in facing this common threat and take concrete measures to isolate this malign actor and his affiliated firms. This includes sanctions, but also a joint diplomatic approach to urge that countries avoid engaging with Mr. Prigozhin, Wagner and any other organization associated with him."
Some current and former officials said they saw the effort as an attempt to oust intelligence officers who disagreed politically with Mr. Trump. Those officials questioned why Mr. Grenell, in the job temporarily, would undertake a large-scale reorganization, particularly one that previous directors had considered but put aside…Kashyap Patel, an aide in the director’s office who was transferred last month from the White House [and former aide to Representative Devin Nunes], is involved in the review…The White House is also holding up the nomination of Kathryn Wheelbarger for one of the Pentagon’s top intelligence jobs because she is not considered sufficiently loyal to Trump. Wheelbarger, who has been serving as acting assistant secretary of Defense for international security affairs since November 2018, is nominated to become the deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence.
The post that Wheelbarger would fill is one of 21 senior positions at the Pentagon that are empty or filled on a temporary basis, a record high for the Trump administration.In the middle of a global pandemic, one of the lead response agencies is losing its chief: Mark Green is set to resign from the U.S. Agency for International Development at the end of the month. Green will be replaced by USAID Deputy Administrator Bonnie Glick, a Trump loyalist.
“He has worked closely with Thomas Hofeller, notorious for masterminding Republican gerrymandering schemes, to redraw maps that significantly disenfranchise minority voters at the local level. Mr. Trainor’s former law firm described him as being ‘intimately involved’ in Texas’s 2003 redistricting, which the Supreme Court deemed in violation of the Voting Rights Act. Mr. Trainor has argued the Voting Rights Act has become a political tool.”Schumer also quoted Trainor as saying in 2017 that political donations should be anonymous.
“The Republicans have nominated someone who wants to roll back Citizens United, which the overwhelming majority of the American people support, public disclosure of who’s giving,” Schumer said, adding: “It’s amazing.”Trainor faced pressure to recuse himself from overseeing any campaign finance matters involving Trump, because he served as a legal adviser on Trump’s 2016 campaign team. Ranking Senate Rules and Administration Committee Member Amy Klobuchar pressed Trainor:
“So you’re not going to just recuse yourself from the beginning on a Trump matter?” Klobuchar asked, visibly surprised.
“No, not as a blanket recusal, and I don’t think that there is anyone at the commission currently who has a blanket recusal,” Trainor said. “I think we should all follow the same rules and guidelines.”
He described Roberts' 2005 Senate confirmation testimony as "misleading" and declared that "the Roberts Court has contributed to insuring that the political system in the United States pays little attention to ordinary Americans and responds only to the wishes of a relatively small number of powerful corporations and individuals."Adelman also attacks President Trump for helping the Republican party continue policies that worsen wealth inequality:
Although he ran as a populist and promised to promote policies that benefited ordinary people, upon taking office Trump almost entirely reversed course. He appointed mostly wealthy far-right Republicans and their supporters to his cabinet and to key positions in his administration… Trump also supported a tax bill that provided big benefits to the country’s largest corporations and wealthiest individuals and virtually nothing to the majority of American taxpayers.Last week, another prominent member of the judicial community publicly blasted the Chief Justice: Former Hawaii District Judge for 27 years James Dannenberg submitted his resignation from the Supreme Court Bar to Roberts. In a public letter, Dannenberg criticized Roberts for “allowing the Court to become an ‘errand boy’ for an administration that has little respect for the rule of law.”
...Because Congressional Republicans depend on a relatively small number of wealthy donors to stay in power, their major public policy goal is to do whatever makes such donors happy.
The Court, under your leadership and with your votes, has wantonly flouted established precedent. Your “conservative” majority has cynically undermined basic freedoms by hypocritically weaponizing others… More than a score of decisions during your tenure have overturned established precedents—some more than forty years old– and you voted with the majority in most. There is nothing “conservative” about this trend. This is radical “legal activism” at its worst.
...The only constitutional freedoms ultimately recognized may soon be limited to those useful to wealthy, Republican, White, straight, Christian, and armed males— and the corporations they control. This is wrong. Period. This is not America.
...I no longer have respect for you or your majority, and I have little hope for change. I can’t vote you out of office because you have life tenure, but I can withdraw whatever insignificant support my Bar membership might seem to provide.
it’s hard not to see the trap Rao has built around Congress. Her Mazars opinion claims that Congress has only one path it can use to investigate President Trump. Then, when Congress traveled down the very same path that Rao identified in Mazars, Judge Rao invents a new limit — suggesting that Congress may only get one shot at an impeachment inquiry. Moreover, as Tatel suggests in the Mazars majority opinion, Rao appears to have invented the constitutional limit she placed on congressional investigations out of thin air.Food stamp cuts
The Atlantic’s David Frum wrote that Rao’s Mazars dissent was “wild talk that would shut down almost all congressional investigations.” Maybe that’s the point — at least as long as Trump is in the White House.
"Especially now, as a global pandemic poses widespread health risks, guaranteeing that government officials at both the federal and state levels have flexibility to address the nutritional needs of residents and ensure their well-being through programs like SNAP, is essential," Howell wrote.
Trump is being sued by four people who say they were duped into joining the multilevel marketing company ACN years ago because of his endorsement. The suit characterizes ACN as a pyramid scheme and accuses Trump of having made misleading claims as a paid pitchman prior to his presidency. All four say they suffered financially as a result.Atlantic City officials announced they will soon be filing an injunction in Superior Court to demolish the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino tower because it is an “imminent hazard.” The city’s mayor, Mary Small, told the press that chunks of the building’s concrete and stucco facade are actively raining onto nearby streets.
...In this case, unlike in others, he has not asserted presidential immunity as a defense, and his legal team has already turned over a number of documents.
“We could have had a fatality,” Small said. “Things will not be tolerated in the city of Atlantic City.”The crumbling building has been owned by billionaire and Trump-ally Carl Icahn since 2016, though it has been closed since 2014.
The ban on casinos, bowling and indoor events has been extended by two weeks. The British Prime Minister announced the first postponement of the quarantine measures in the pandemic. The government lifted the travel ban in China and several casinos operate in Macau. Land-based casinos were planned to open from August 1. But it was not a press conference that Boris Johnson said that from August 8, the mask regime will be strengthened, and establishments in which the risk of infection is higher will remain closed until mid-month. According to the National Statistics Service of Great Britain, at the beginning of July, the spread of the virus was recorded in the framework of one carrier per 2 thousand uninfected people. On July 15, the figure was one per 1.8 thousand inhabitants, on August 1, already one infected per 1.5 thousand healthy people. In this situation, the government reached the limit on easing quarantine measures, it is forced to shift the next stage until at least August 15, the Prime Minister said. The situation is similar in Scotland and Wales. Pubs and other food service establishments opened on July 6. The government announced that changes in the restrictive regime were possible on July 15, but has postponed the opening date. Casinos and bookmakers are preparing to receive visitors with social distancing and disinfection from August 24 . www.aussiecasino24.com submitted by Bianca_Rienheart to u/Bianca_Rienheart [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/scni421kx5f51.png?width=1034&format=png&auto=webp&s=61e9c736b4dd1b78747ee290ca81b7c22c070a77 |
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"You take this little beautiful baby and you pump ... " he said, referring to mandatory childhood vaccines. "We had so many instances, people that work for me, just the other day, 2 years old, a beautiful child, went to have the vaccine and came back and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic." | Washington Post |
"The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State." | Trump's Facebook Account |
"If we didn't remove incredibly powerful fire retardant asbestos & replace it with junk that doesn't work, the World Trade Center would have never burned down." | |
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” | |
Ted Cruz’s father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald" before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. | Politifact |
[Of Kim Jong Un] "And you've got to give him credit. How many young guys — he was like 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals…. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle. He wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy doesn't play games.” | Business Insider |
“I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me.” | Washington Post |
“We don't even really know who the leader [of ISIS] is.” | Fox News interview with Bret Baier |
"An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud." | |
“Don’t tell me it doesn’t work — torture works… Waterboarding is fine, but it’s not nearly tough enough, ok?” | YouTube |
“He’s [John McCain] not a war hero,” said Trump. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” | POLITICO |
Donald Trump spent 10's of thousands of dollars on an ad campaign in 1989, urging New Yorkers to bring back the death penalty and execute five minority youths who were suspects in a brutal rape case. Decades later, the youths were completely exonerated when DNA evidence proved they had nothing to do with it. Upon hearing about the settlement, Trump wrote a lengthy editorial in the New York Daily News calling it a "disgrace" and "the heist of the century". In this screed, he complained that the youths were still certainly guilty and that the city was "stupid". | The New Yorker |
Said that Judge Curiel should not preside over his case because of his "Mexican heritage" | Mediaite |
Blamed the Tiananmen Square massacre on the protesters for a "riot" while being impressed at China's brutal "show of strength" | The Guardian |
He withdrew medical support that he promised for his brother's grandson with cerebral palsy because he was angry at the boy's parents | New York Times |
Trump University targeted students who 'hurt' and 'had problems' | TIME |
“Look, he [Barack Obama] was born Barry Soetero, somewhere along the line he changed his name.” | Fox News |
Students at Trump University were coerced to give positive reviews | New York Times |
Censorship on the Internet: "We're losing a lot of people because of the internet," Trump said. "We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people." | ABC |
A former Trump University sales manager testified that he was reprimanded for not pushing a financially struggling couple hard enough to sign up for a $35,000 real estate class he knew they couldn’t afford. | New York Times |
Mr. Nicholas, a sales executive, recalled a deception used to lure students — that Donald J. Trump would be “actively involved” in their education. “This was not true,” he testified, saying Mr. Trump was hardly involved at all. | New York Times |
Ms. Sommer, an event manager, recounted how colleagues encouraged students to open up as many credit cards as possible to pay for classes that many of them could not afford. “It’s O.K., just max out your credit card,” she recalled their saying. | New York Times |
[Of Trump's tax plan] The plan would reduce federal revenues by $9.5 trillion over its first decade before accounting for added interest costs or considering macroeconomic feedback effects. | Tax Policy Center |
[Of Trump's tax plan] Unless it is accompanied by very large spending cuts, it could increase the national debt by nearly 80 percent of gross domestic product by 2036. | Tax Policy Center |
Tax cuts largely focused on the top 1% like Mr. Trump, both in dollars and as a percentage of income. The tax plan costs $11.2 trillion, more than any other candidate, and $4 trillion of that comes from tax breaks to the top 1% | Tax Policy Center |
Wants to bomb Iraq's oil fields | CNN |
When giving testimony before the Congressional Subcommittee on Native American Affairs, Trump spoke angrily about the Pequot Indians, whose new casino had just surpassed his Atlantic City casino as the most popular in America. ‘They don’t look like Indians to me and they don’t look like Indians to Indians,’ he complained. | Mediaite |
[About foreign policy] “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things...my primary consultant is myself” | POLITICO |
[About a protestor] 'I'd like to punch him in the face" | CNN |
"If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them," Trump said. "Just knock the hell — I promise you, I'll pay the legal fees." | Business Insider |
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” | Washington Post |
“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.” | Campaign Website |
Donald Trump's "trade wars" would lose around 4 million jobs, and another 3 million jobs would not be created that otherwise would have been, had the country not fallen into a trade-induced downturn | Washington Post |
Wanted his 1-year-old daughter to grow nice breasts | NY Daily News |
Doesn't think Muslim judges can do their jobs | POLITICO |
Called Geneva Conventions 'the problem' | POLITICO |
Gets his military advice from watching television | Politics USA |
Seemingly doesn't know what the term 'nuclear triad' means | Rolling Stone |
Flipped Flopped on Abortion (5 times in 3 days) | Washington Post |
Said that Bill Clinton had intimate knowledge of Vince Foster's suicide | Washington Post |
Anderson Cooper: Saudi Arabia, nuclear weapons? Trump: "Saudi Arabia, absolutely." | CNN |
Has never held public office | Britannica |
Has attacked/insulted people countless times on Twitter | New York Times |
Flip Flopped on the War in Afghanistan | CNN |
Has declared bankruptcy four times | Politifact |
Has refused release his tax returns, even though it is a tradition. When asked why not, he said "It's none of your business" after being pointed out that being audited doesn't prevent you from releasing them. | New York Times |
Has flip flopped on tax returns | Washington Post Video |
When he released his tax returns in the 80s, it showed he didn't pay anything in taxes | Washington Post |
“We don't really need NATO in its current form. NATO is obsolete… if we have to walk, we walk.” | MSNBC |
Flip Flopped on Japan nukes | CNN |
Wants to abolish the EPA and cut Education spending | Mother Jones |
Said he would eliminate the "Department of Environmental," which doesn't exist." | IBT |
“You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.” | 1991 interview with Esquire |
"Our great African American President hasn't exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore!" | |
"If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her" | YouTube |
Flip Flopped on Muslim ban | POLITICO |
“We have to be very strong with our military, with our security,” Trump said. “We have to be extremely strong, we have to be very strong in terms of looking at the mosques, which a lot of people say ‘oh, we don’t want to do that.’ We’re beyond that.” | Mediaite |
"I am being proven right about massive vaccinations—the doctors lied. Save our children & their future." | |
Flip Flopped on Torture | IBT |
“If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America.” | DailyMail |
“A person who is flat-chested is very hard to be a 10." | New York Times |
The unemployment rate may be as high as "42 percent." | FactCheck |
Flip Flopped on Hillary Clinton | The Hill |
"The Mexican government ... they send the bad ones over." | Politifact |
Flip Flopped on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | NBC |
Trump's “plan” to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants would shrink the economy by about 2 percent. The sudden subtraction of 7 million workers would cause an immediate shock to thousands of businesses, triggering a GDP collapse ranging from $400 billion to $600 billion in production | The Atlantic |
[To Californians] "There is no drought." | ABC |
Mocked a disabled reporter | CNN |
Flip Flopped on the Iraq War | Fortune |
[Of Megyn Kelly] "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes," Trump told CNN's Don Lemon on Friday night. "Blood coming out of her wherever." | CNN |
[About Carly Fiorina] "Look at that face!" | USA Today |
Was endorsed/praised by North Korean State Media | POLITICO |
[Of Vladimir Putin] "I will tell you, in terms of leadership, he's getting an 'A,' | Washington Post |
Flip Flopped on Banning Assault Weapons | Politifact |
[About his penis] "I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee." | CNN |
Says the families of terrorists should be killed | The Hill |
Is seemingly okay with Vladimir Putin killing journalists | Business Insider |
Flip Flopped on Libya | POLITICO |
Has banned The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Politico, BuzzFeed, the Daily Beast, the Des Moines Register, the New Hampshire Union Leader, Univision and others from campaign events | NPR |
Has exaggerated his net worth by at least 100% | Forbes |
Tried to bulldoze an old woman's house so he could build a limousine parking lot | The Guardian |
“She’s a brilliant judge,” he said during the Houston debate last month. Cruz has been “criticizing my sister for signing a certain bill. You know who else signed that bill? Justice Samuel Alito, a very conservative member of the Supreme Court, with my sister, signed that bill. So I think that maybe we should get a little bit of an apology from Ted. What do you think?” | Washington Post |
Debt strategy is: Print more money | CNN |
Partially helped put Atlantic City into turmoil while benefiting himself | New York Times |
Tried to connect President Obama in the recent Orlando carnage | Washington Post |
Lawyer: Donald Trump called me 'disgusting' for request to pump breast milk | CNN |
Said there should be "beyond databases" for Muslims. | Politifact |
Said women should be punished for abortions | YouTube |
Wants to 'open up libel laws' | POLITICO |
Has been endorsed by far right politicians including a war criminal (Vojislav Šešelj) who comitted genocide against Muslims in the 90s | Rolling Stone |
Several of his business products have failed | TIME |
While frequently criticizing illegal immigrants and saying they should be deported, he hired them to make way for Trump Tower then denied the accusation | New York Times |
"Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media." | |
Trade relations with Canada would be severed | The Guardian |
His anti-Muslim rhetoric is being using as ISIS propaganda | Politifact |
Had to be shamed into donating to veterans after promising to do so in January but was caught not giving anything | Think Progress |
"I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed. | Politifact |
Claimed the movement to remove asbestos—a known carcinogen—was actually the handiwork of the mafia. | Mother Jones |
He bulldozed pristine and ecologically sensitive Scottish beachfront for a golf course then later went on to complain to a committee of the government of Scotland that the wind turbines off its shores ruin the view for his course | The Guardian |
"When I come home and dinner's not ready, I go through the roof" | Vox |
Scotland has 12 casinos in which you'll find more than 397 slots and gaming machines. There are a total of 130 table games. The minimum bet we've found at casinos in Scotland is $0.01 and the maxium bet is $2,000. Click a casino on the left for more information on a particular property. There is poker in Scotland! You will find over 36 live by Scott Lawson, 5 August 2020 Casinos in Scotland have been told that they can finally reopen later this month, following months in lockdown. The Scottish government has also agreed to relax some of the strict rules put in place at betting shops. In Scotland, we count a dozen of gaming establishments ranging from small casinos to large gaming venues. The cities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dundee or Edinburg possess one or several gaming establishments. The most poplar of them remain the Genting Casino of Glasgow, the Gentlng York Place Casino of Edinburg, the Grosvenor casino of Dundee and the Rainbow casino for Aberdeen. Gambling fans won Casinos in Scotland and Wales Scotland is home to around a dozen casinos. The government allowed casinos to reopen on August 24. Many of them have opened for business as of September 2020, including at least four Grosvenor casinos. Out of Scotland’s 11 casinos, eight are in Glasgow and the capital Edinburgh. Glasgow’s four are Alea Casino Glasgow, Genting Casino Glasgow, Grosvenor Casino Merchant City, and Grosvenor Casino Riverboat. Edinburgh’s four casinos are Grosvenor Casino Maybury, Genting Club Fountainpark, Genting Casino York Place, and Genting Casino Leith. Casinos in Scotland confirmed to reopen on August 24 The Betting and Gaming Council has welcomed confirmation that Scottish casinos will reopen their doors next week, following several pleas for clarity for the approximately 800 employees across 11 establishments. Now, in light of the recent announcement, Dugher said: “We are delighted that casinos and bingo halls in Scotland have finally been given a date to re-open.” The BGC CEO continued by outlining that the venues have committed to ensuring the safety of employees and visitors. In addition, Dugher said that it is good news that the Scottish Government has seen the efforts of the casino industry. He did not miss to say that the Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, announced Thursday casinos and bingo halls in the country would be able to re-open as planned, August 24, as the government is sticking to its four-stage phase-in plan, currently being in phase 3.Scotland’s First Minister also outlined COVID-19 continued to be a significant threat to public health. In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Nicola There is no date set yet for when casinos will be able to open in Scotland and Wales. Casinos have stayed closed because of the amount of contact required (Photo: AP) What safety measures will be... When are nightclubs, music venues and casinos reopening? Date indoor entertainment venues could open again in Scotland Countries around the world have reopened their nightclubs to varying degrees
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