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On 3/13/2019 at 7:05 AM, GreyhoundFan said:

 

Oh Donnie, that is what happens when your daddy buys your way into an elite college, one that you never could have been admitted to on your own merits. So many things, including the principles of flight, are over your head. You should have gone to a college you were more suited for- like the local community college, that might have helped close some of the gaps, as the ones I have known about really work hard to make all of their students as successful as possible.

 

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2 hours ago, Audrey2 said:

Oh Donnie, that is what happens when your daddy buys your way into an elite college, one that you never could have been admitted to on your own merits. So many things, including the principles of flight, are over your head. You should have gone to a college you were more suited for- like the local community college, that might have helped close some of the gaps, as the ones I have known about really work hard to make all of their students as successful as possible.

 

I wonder if he could actually handle community college. The man is dumber than dirt,

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16 minutes ago, Penny said:

I wonder if he could actually handle community college. The man is dumber than dirt,

I think kindergarten is beyond his ability.

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Brilliant tweet from YS that pretty much sums up the true nature of actions at the border. 

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On 3/12/2019 at 10:19 AM, AmazonGrace said:

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Oh honey, your insecurities are showing again. Most people in their 70s are comfortable with the fact that there are people in the world who are smarter than them, and know about things that they don't. Also, Einstein was a theoretical physicist, and being a physicist or a computer scientist doesn't necessarily mean you have the knowledge to fly an airplane.  :pb_rollseyes:

 

 

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"Former spa owner and frequent Mar-a-Lago guest sparks concerns about ‘porous’ environment at president’s club"

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Li “Cindy” Yang, a business owner and Republican donor, was a frequent visitor to Mar-a-Lago, turning up at last year’s GOP Lincoln Day Dinner and snapping pictures there last month with actor Jon Voight. She recently attended the annual Super Bowl party at President Trump’s nearby golf club — posing for a selfie alongside the president.

Yang’s activities at Trump’s private clubs in Palm Beach, Fla., have attracted attention in recent days after a spa she once owned was the target of a widely publicized sex-trafficking sting involving the owner of the New England Patriots.

Scrutiny has also centered on a company Yang ran offering foreign visitors access to the president and other top Republican officials. According to an archived version of her company’s Chinese-language website, which became inactive after recent news reports, the company offered VIP access to the White House and Mar-a-Lago, and autographed photos of Trump.

At the same time, Yang identified herself on the website as holding a position with the Chinese Association for Science and Technology. Experts in Chinese influence say that it and another group to which Yang has been tied have links to China’s ruling Communist Party’s efforts to spread influence in the West, though they noted that her roles do not necessarily suggest that she acted on behalf of the Chinese government.

Yang has not been accused of any wrongdoing. She was not named in connection with the sting last month at the Orchids of Asia day spa in Jupiter, Fla., which her attorney said she sold six years ago. It is not clear whether she successfully arranged for any visitors to attend events with the president or if she charged for the service.

But that Yang attended so many events at Mar-a-Lago and had such ready access to high-ranking U.S. officials has renewed questions about security at the seaside resort that serves as Trump’s home away from Washington — and about who can gain the ear of the president and his allies for the price of a ticket to a Mar-a-Lago event.

“The fact that Mar-a-Lago is so porous is of concern,” said David Kris, an assistant attorney general for national security under President Barack Obama and founder of Culper Partners, a national-security consulting firm. “The president is a unique foreign intelligence target for adversaries, and those in close orbit around him are also important targets, and Mar-a-Lago appears to be a very wide aperture for possible penetration.”

In a statement, Yang’s attorney, Evan W. Turk, said Yang has been unfairly smeared because of her support for Trump.

“At this time, the evidence indicates that our client has been falsely accused in a manner that she may never recover from,” he said. “Her name, her reputation and her honor have been destroyed. Cindy Yang seems to be another casualty, as a supporter of our president.”

Another Yang attorney, Michelle Merson, told ABC News Wednesday that Yang has been involved in politics and philanthropy and was “living a very quiet life, doing good things for herself, her family and our community, and all of a sudden this just has exploded into national” news.

“Ms. Yang loves this country,” Merson said. That she is “a threat to our society” is “just so far from the truth,” she said.

The Secret Service declined to comment on its protective operations, citing security concerns.

Yang’s former ownership of the spa and her visits to Mar-a-Lago, and her connections to the Chinese government-linked groups, were first reported by the Miami Herald and Mother Jones.

Yang has been a fixture at black-tie galas at Mar-a-Lago, at Trump’s golf course in Jupiter, Fla., and at other GOP events in the state since Trump took office in 2017, local GOP activists said. That year, federal records show, Yang made her first political donation: $37,000 to Trump Victory, the committee that raises money for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee.

She is not a member of Mar-a-Lago but attended events there as a guest of a friend who is a longtime member, Merson told ABC News.

Yang posted photos of many of the events on her Facebook page, which were captured by other media outlets before the account was disabled. She was shown posing alongside top Republican officials, including Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott, and celebrities such as Voight, the guest of honor at last month’s “Country Comes to Mar-a-Lago” bash hosted by the Trumpettes, a Trump fan club.

Yang bought two tickets to the Trumpettes event, at a cost of at least $2,000, the organizer said.

“I don’t remember meeting her, but she was there. She was in the VIP section,” Trumpettes founder Toni Holt Kramer said. “She actually inquired about buying a table.”

Yang’s website claimed to offer access to events at Mar-a-Lago and elsewhere, including two fundraising dinners at the resort last May. One invitation circulating online that lists Yang’s name and cellphone number offered a “perfect experience” and VIP treatment at an upcoming event featuring one of Trump’s sisters, Elizabeth Trump Grau.

“President Trump’s private estate — ‘the White House of the South,’ ” the invitation said.

Grau did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Michael Barnett, chairman of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, said that Yang’s business of trying to sell access to Trump is hard to figure out, because anyone can buy a ticket to any of the fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago without having to know someone with connections.

And there is no way to guarantee that Trump will be at Mar-a-Lago when a gala such as the GOP’s annual Lincoln Dinner is held. Trump has not attended the dinner since 2016.

“You take your chances when you purchase your tickets and hope that he shows up,” Barnett said about Trump. “Nobody can promise that he will.”

Among the many photos previously posted on Yang’s Facebook was a selfie with Trump at this year’s Super Bowl viewing party at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach — where the president cheered on his friend, team owner Robert Kraft, on the night the Patriots won their sixth title.

Kraft was charged in connection with the sprawling anti-trafficking investigation involving a string of day spas. Kraft has denied the charges, and Yang has not been implicated.

Some experts on Chinese influence noted Yang’s apparent roles in two Florida-based organizations they say are linked to China’s ruling Communist Party’s efforts to promote its interests abroad and quash dissident views.

Yang identified herself on her company’s now-archived website as the vice president of the Miami chapter of the U.S. arm of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology. Xiao Ling, who runs the Florida chapter of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, did not respond to a request for comment. A representative from the group’s main office in China declined to comment.

In an article in a Chinese-language technology outlet, Chinese Voice of America, Yang is also identified as deputy director of the Florida branch of the Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China.

The council, which has chapters around the world, advocates for Taiwan to be absorbed into China. The chapters are overseen by a wing of the Chinese Communist Party.

A representative for the council’s office in China could not confirm whether it has any contacts or an office in Florida.

Both groups are a part of the Chinese Communist Party’s effort to exert influence outside of China, according to several experts.

Yang’s lawyers did not respond to questions about her positions with the groups.

Through the influence effort, known as the “united front,” China’s Communist Party seeks to “co-opt and control” diaspora communities to spread pro-China views, said Matt Schrader, a Washington-based China analyst for the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund.

“It’s potentially concerning. If the whole purpose of the united front is political mobilization abroad . . . you don’t really want people enmeshed in that network close to your own political system,” said Peter Mattis, research fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

This is not the first time that someone has been said to have been selling Chinese nationals access to Trump. Last year, invitations circulated among wealthy entrepreneurs in China purporting to offer “VVIP” trips to be photographed with Trump at a Republican Party fundraiser.

There is relatively light screening of guests at Mar-a-Lago, according to two former senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss security matters. Though it is private and available primarily to dues-paying members, it is also a social hub in Palm Beach and frequently a venue for GOP events.

Traditionally, for public events where the president appears, the Secret Service obtains the names of all guests and employees who might come into close contact with him.

The Secret Service’s protective intelligence division then runs those names through a national FBI database to determine whether anyone is wanted on a bench warrant or has any history of arrests or convictions for drugs or violent crimes. The service also can choose to check names in a CIA database to determine whether anyone has been flagged as being a concern to the intelligence community.

The Washington Post recently reported that some employees at Trump’s golf club in New Jersey asked not to have their names provided to the Secret Service in planning for a Trump visit because they feared being outed as undocumented immigrants. They said they think they were never screened by the service.

At Mar-a-Lago, guests must produce their IDs and pass through metal detectors to be checked for weapons. Their cars are inspected by the Secret Service upon entry to the club. Guests are told the entire screening process will take 10 minutes, according to security protocols sent to guests attending a March 2018 event there.

But any member can take guests for dinner or lunch at the club. No specific list is given to White House aides to describe who will be there or at the golf club. And Trump often dines in the main dining room — though there is sometimes a rope around his table — or strolls around the patio.

Trump always tries to be there for certain events — such as the Super Bowl party, Easter weekend, New Year’s Eve and Thanksgiving — so those seeking to corner him often home in on those weekends, former aides said.

The aides said certain members always try to be there when Trump is present and introduce their friends and guests to him. Often, guests would give Trump ideas that he would later raise with White House aides.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Steven Ledewitz, a member of the executive committee of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, said it would be a stretch for someone to guarantee access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago, given that the president’s schedule is not always known in advance and because there is no easy way to approach him at the club.

“I don’t see how anybody could promise access to the president,” Ledewitz said.

Trumpettes founder Kramer agreed. “You can’t just sell access to the president. When he’s at Mar-a-Lago, even his close friends, people he’s known for years and years, are kept away from him,” she said. “You can’t just go up to him the way we used to, no matter how long we’ve known him.”

Trump was not at her event, which attracted more than 700 guests from around the world, she said.

“He wasn’t there, but bless him, he did a beautiful video. He thanked me, he thanked Jon Voight, he was wonderful,” she said. “But that’s as close as anybody got to the president.”

 

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7 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

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Li “Cindy” Yang, a business owner and Republican donor, was a frequent visitor to Mar-a-Lago, turning up at last year’s GOP Lincoln Day Dinner and snapping pictures there last month with actor Jon Voight. She recently attended the annual Super Bowl party at President Trump’s nearby golf club — posing for a selfie alongside the president.

Yang’s activities at Trump’s private clubs in Palm Beach, Fla., have attracted attention in recent days after a spa she once owned was the target of a widely publicized sex-trafficking sting involving the owner of the New England Patriots.

Scrutiny has also centered on a company Yang ran offering foreign visitors access to the president and other top Republican officials. According to an archived version of her company’s Chinese-language website, which became inactive after recent news reports, the company offered VIP access to the White House and Mar-a-Lago, and autographed photos of Trump.

At the same time, Yang identified herself on the website as holding a position with the Chinese Association for Science and Technology. Experts in Chinese influence say that it and another group to which Yang has been tied have links to China’s ruling Communist Party’s efforts to spread influence in the West, though they noted that her roles do not necessarily suggest that she acted on behalf of the Chinese government.

Yang has not been accused of any wrongdoing. She was not named in connection with the sting last month at the Orchids of Asia day spa in Jupiter, Fla., which her attorney said she sold six years ago. It is not clear whether she successfully arranged for any visitors to attend events with the president or if she charged for the service.

But that Yang attended so many events at Mar-a-Lago and had such ready access to high-ranking U.S. officials has renewed questions about security at the seaside resort that serves as Trump’s home away from Washington — and about who can gain the ear of the president and his allies for the price of a ticket to a Mar-a-Lago event.

“The fact that Mar-a-Lago is so porous is of concern,” said David Kris, an assistant attorney general for national security under President Barack Obama and founder of Culper Partners, a national-security consulting firm. “The president is a unique foreign intelligence target for adversaries, and those in close orbit around him are also important targets, and Mar-a-Lago appears to be a very wide aperture for possible penetration.”

In a statement, Yang’s attorney, Evan W. Turk, said Yang has been unfairly smeared because of her support for Trump.

“At this time, the evidence indicates that our client has been falsely accused in a manner that she may never recover from,” he said. “Her name, her reputation and her honor have been destroyed. Cindy Yang seems to be another casualty, as a supporter of our president.”

Another Yang attorney, Michelle Merson, told ABC News Wednesday that Yang has been involved in politics and philanthropy and was “living a very quiet life, doing good things for herself, her family and our community, and all of a sudden this just has exploded into national” news.

“Ms. Yang loves this country,” Merson said. That she is “a threat to our society” is “just so far from the truth,” she said.

The Secret Service declined to comment on its protective operations, citing security concerns.

Yang’s former ownership of the spa and her visits to Mar-a-Lago, and her connections to the Chinese government-linked groups, were first reported by the Miami Herald and Mother Jones.

Yang has been a fixture at black-tie galas at Mar-a-Lago, at Trump’s golf course in Jupiter, Fla., and at other GOP events in the state since Trump took office in 2017, local GOP activists said. That year, federal records show, Yang made her first political donation: $37,000 to Trump Victory, the committee that raises money for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee.

She is not a member of Mar-a-Lago but attended events there as a guest of a friend who is a longtime member, Merson told ABC News.

Yang posted photos of many of the events on her Facebook page, which were captured by other media outlets before the account was disabled. She was shown posing alongside top Republican officials, including Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott, and celebrities such as Voight, the guest of honor at last month’s “Country Comes to Mar-a-Lago” bash hosted by the Trumpettes, a Trump fan club.

Yang bought two tickets to the Trumpettes event, at a cost of at least $2,000, the organizer said.

“I don’t remember meeting her, but she was there. She was in the VIP section,” Trumpettes founder Toni Holt Kramer said. “She actually inquired about buying a table.”

Yang’s website claimed to offer access to events at Mar-a-Lago and elsewhere, including two fundraising dinners at the resort last May. One invitation circulating online that lists Yang’s name and cellphone number offered a “perfect experience” and VIP treatment at an upcoming event featuring one of Trump’s sisters, Elizabeth Trump Grau.

“President Trump’s private estate — ‘the White House of the South,’ ” the invitation said.

Grau did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Michael Barnett, chairman of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, said that Yang’s business of trying to sell access to Trump is hard to figure out, because anyone can buy a ticket to any of the fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago without having to know someone with connections.

And there is no way to guarantee that Trump will be at Mar-a-Lago when a gala such as the GOP’s annual Lincoln Dinner is held. Trump has not attended the dinner since 2016.

“You take your chances when you purchase your tickets and hope that he shows up,” Barnett said about Trump. “Nobody can promise that he will.”

Among the many photos previously posted on Yang’s Facebook was a selfie with Trump at this year’s Super Bowl viewing party at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach — where the president cheered on his friend, team owner Robert Kraft, on the night the Patriots won their sixth title.

Kraft was charged in connection with the sprawling anti-trafficking investigation involving a string of day spas. Kraft has denied the charges, and Yang has not been implicated.

Some experts on Chinese influence noted Yang’s apparent roles in two Florida-based organizations they say are linked to China’s ruling Communist Party’s efforts to promote its interests abroad and quash dissident views.

Yang identified herself on her company’s now-archived website as the vice president of the Miami chapter of the U.S. arm of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology. Xiao Ling, who runs the Florida chapter of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, did not respond to a request for comment. A representative from the group’s main office in China declined to comment.

In an article in a Chinese-language technology outlet, Chinese Voice of America, Yang is also identified as deputy director of the Florida branch of the Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China.

The council, which has chapters around the world, advocates for Taiwan to be absorbed into China. The chapters are overseen by a wing of the Chinese Communist Party.

A representative for the council’s office in China could not confirm whether it has any contacts or an office in Florida.

Both groups are a part of the Chinese Communist Party’s effort to exert influence outside of China, according to several experts.

Yang’s lawyers did not respond to questions about her positions with the groups.

Through the influence effort, known as the “united front,” China’s Communist Party seeks to “co-opt and control” diaspora communities to spread pro-China views, said Matt Schrader, a Washington-based China analyst for the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund.

“It’s potentially concerning. If the whole purpose of the united front is political mobilization abroad . . . you don’t really want people enmeshed in that network close to your own political system,” said Peter Mattis, research fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

This is not the first time that someone has been said to have been selling Chinese nationals access to Trump. Last year, invitations circulated among wealthy entrepreneurs in China purporting to offer “VVIP” trips to be photographed with Trump at a Republican Party fundraiser.

There is relatively light screening of guests at Mar-a-Lago, according to two former senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss security matters. Though it is private and available primarily to dues-paying members, it is also a social hub in Palm Beach and frequently a venue for GOP events.

Traditionally, for public events where the president appears, the Secret Service obtains the names of all guests and employees who might come into close contact with him.

The Secret Service’s protective intelligence division then runs those names through a national FBI database to determine whether anyone is wanted on a bench warrant or has any history of arrests or convictions for drugs or violent crimes. The service also can choose to check names in a CIA database to determine whether anyone has been flagged as being a concern to the intelligence community.

The Washington Post recently reported that some employees at Trump’s golf club in New Jersey asked not to have their names provided to the Secret Service in planning for a Trump visit because they feared being outed as undocumented immigrants. They said they think they were never screened by the service.

At Mar-a-Lago, guests must produce their IDs and pass through metal detectors to be checked for weapons. Their cars are inspected by the Secret Service upon entry to the club. Guests are told the entire screening process will take 10 minutes, according to security protocols sent to guests attending a March 2018 event there.

But any member can take guests for dinner or lunch at the club. No specific list is given to White House aides to describe who will be there or at the golf club. And Trump often dines in the main dining room — though there is sometimes a rope around his table — or strolls around the patio.

Trump always tries to be there for certain events — such as the Super Bowl party, Easter weekend, New Year’s Eve and Thanksgiving — so those seeking to corner him often home in on those weekends, former aides said.

The aides said certain members always try to be there when Trump is present and introduce their friends and guests to him. Often, guests would give Trump ideas that he would later raise with White House aides.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Steven Ledewitz, a member of the executive committee of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, said it would be a stretch for someone to guarantee access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago, given that the president’s schedule is not always known in advance and because there is no easy way to approach him at the club.

“I don’t see how anybody could promise access to the president,” Ledewitz said.

Trumpettes founder Kramer agreed. “You can’t just sell access to the president. When he’s at Mar-a-Lago, even his close friends, people he’s known for years and years, are kept away from him,” she said. “You can’t just go up to him the way we used to, no matter how long we’ve known him.”

Trump was not at her event, which attracted more than 700 guests from around the world, she said.

“He wasn’t there, but bless him, he did a beautiful video. He thanked me, he thanked Jon Voight, he was wonderful,” she said. “But that’s as close as anybody got to the president.”

 

There are concerns? Concerns?

Why isn't there any outrage? Why has this corrupt behaviour become so normalized that nobody is up in arms about this blatant breach of national security and the emoluments clause?

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I think it's outrage fatigue. If it was just one terrible thing every once in a while people would get upset about it and might end up picketing on the streets but  they're all terrible all day every day

If it was  just the Mar-a-Lago corruption people might get upset  but when it's also the Trump hotel corruption, the lock political opponents up chants, the Mexicans are rapists rallies,  the Trump foundation corruption, Jared Kushner and the Saudis corruption, hiring Ivanka, Stormy Daniels hush money violations,  Scott Pruitt corruption,  Mexico will pay for the wall, Michael Cohen corruption,  the Trump Org corruption, Jared Kushner and the Qataris corruption, firing US attorneys,  Eric Trump stealing from cancer kids, covfefe,  incompetent judges, the lies about Stormy Daniels hush money violations, hiring Omarosa,   interfering with ongoing cases via NO COLLUSION tweets,  hiring and firing the domestic abuser, the Russian adoption meetings,  more racist rallies, hiring Bannon, more Scott Pruitt corruption, Gates getting indicted, threatening nuclear war with North Korea,  Wilbur Ross corruption, Andrew Wheeler corruption,  Congress will pay for the  wall, the pee tapes, Tim Apple, Manafort getting indicted,  Karen McDougal hush money, firing Priebus,  firing Preet Bhahara,  Charlottesville,  more Scott Pruitt corruption,  ruining national monuments, the Muslim ban, Kellyanne Conway lies.  hiding Trump's college transcripts, the Puerto Rico  hurricane aid disaster, obstructing justice via WITCH HUNT TWEETS,  children in cages,  praising dictators,  firing Bannon,  insulting Democratic congress people, threatening civil war if impeached, religious bigot judges, Cohen getting raided  , praising Cohen, Ivanka Trump corruption, the shutdown, USMCA will pay for the wall,  firing Comey, insulting McCain, secret meetings with Putin,  the NFL feud, stupid tweets, insulting Mueller, Stephen Miller,  the excuse-us-it's-not-a-Muslim-ban Muslim ban., presidential tantrums,  the military transgender ban, withdrawing from the Paris agreement, the lies about Russian adoption meetings, the  Javanka security clearances, illegitimate child rumors,  hiding Trump's  tax returns, the National Enquirer corruption, insulting journalists, Kavanaugh sexual assaults, firing Omarosa, Russian collusion,  more Kellyanne Conway lies, the Trump foundation shutdown, Betsy DeVos incompetence, thinly veiled dogwhistles, Mother's homophobic job,  the lies about  Trump's Charlottesville stance,  Fox lies,  Eric Prince,  racist dogwhistles after terrorist attacks, threatening Nato allies, Khashoggi, the lies about Javanka security clearances,  more stupid tweets. Insulting Cohen, insulting Mueller, threatening Amazon, more racist rallies, the anonymous op- ed, threatening journalists.  another shutdown, the lies about Russian collusion,  Russian sanctions corruption, lies about children in cages,  downplaying the significance of white supremacist terror attacks, hush money for ex employees from the 2020 campaign,  Manafort getting indicted again. getting out of Syria on a whim, the Scottish golf courses, the Wilbur Ross lies, the lies about the lies about Russian adoption meetings, , the Khashoggi coverup, the unsecured cell phone calls, firing Tillerson,  tariff wars,  even more stupider tweets, becoming besties with Kim Jong Un, firing McCabe, the lies about secret meetings with Putin,  the ostrich jacket, firing Kelly, the lies about Michael Cohen, serving black athletes cold hamberders, the lies about the lies about Michael Cohen,  more Fox lies, Manafort-Ukraine corruption, more incompetent religious bigot judges, Cohen pleading guilty, firing Mattis, complaining about Mueller, more Kellyanne Conway lies,  Betsy DeVos corruption, insulting Nato allies, Butina getting indicted,  arguing with intelligence experts, some more lies about Russians, demeaning free press, bailing out farmers suffering from tariff wars,  threatening the UN,  the military will pay for the wall,  obstructing justice via WITCH HUNT tweets. ,revoking the security clearances of outspoken intelligence professionals, 9500 false or misleading statements,  children dying in ICE custody, Kirstjen Nielsen lies about children dying in ICE custody, Betsy DeVos religious bigotry, Chinese madams selling access to Trump, not grounding dangerous planes, Trump selling access to Trump,  a bigger, better shutdown,  Russian spies getting indicted,  obstructing justice via WITCH HUNT tweets, lies about what the judges said about NO COLLUSION, more Ivanka Trump corruption, disaster victims in Puerto Rico will pay for the wall, more secret meetings with Putin, breaking up with Kim Jong Un, not getting out of Syria after all...  

That's all folks. Well i'm lying, that's not nearly all. But you get the picture.  It's an onslaught of one outrage after another and the new outrage breaks before everyone has heard about the previous outrage of the afternoon. 

Ain't nobody got time for dat. 

 

It figures that I  forgot hiring Mar-a-Lago members as ambassadors, the money laundering, the Trump inauguration corruption the Sean Spicer lies, the Sarah Sanders lies, the Hitler didn't gas his own people case, the hiring of Ben Carson, the fight for ACA, promising not to cut Medicare and social security, cutting Medicare and social security, the billionaire tax cuts... 

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JR and Eric promising to stay out of politics while they run the Trump org., JR and Eric not staying out of politics while they run the Trump org. Silly handshakes, pushing Nato heads of state out of the way, the skipping events because of rain, snubbing the Queen, the inauguration crowd lies, the slurring speech, the Adderall snorting, the Apprentice tapes, the Omarosa tapes, the Michael Wolff book , all the other books that were an outrage that we've forgotten about already, the inability to close an umbrella, the stable genius bragging... It just goes on and on. 

People get tired. 

The cost of the golf trips that he benefits from. The lies about his net worth. The mob ties. 

I don't get the mob ties. The mob ties should have brought him down a long time ago and it was known before the election. but now everybody is like,  the president of the United States of America is tied to organized crime *shrug*, 

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2 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

JR and Eric promising to stay out of politics while they run the Trump org., JR and Eric not staying out of politics while they run the Trump org. Silly handshakes, pushing Nato heads of state out of the way, the skipping events because of rain, snubbing the Queen, the inauguration crowd lies, the slurring speech, the Adderall snorting, the Apprentice tapes, the Omarosa tapes, the Michael Wolff book , all the other books that were an outrage that we've forgotten about already, the inability to close an umbrella, the stable genius bragging... It just goes on and on. 

People get tired. 

Yeah. Sad thing is, that's exactly what they're aiming for: that people get tired and stop caring. Stop protesting. Hear the next scandal and just roll their eyes and get on with whatever they were doing.

Until, suddenly, people realize they're living in an authoritarian state, a dictatorship. And then it's too late.

 

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Speaking of disgusting horrible things that deserve outrage:

 

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Speaking of disgusting things that deserve outrage part (I've lost count)

 

Of course it's not a threat to HIM, he likes them. 

He just sounded a bit annoyed that the terrorists were stealing his Mexican invasion thunder. 

I have noticed that he always tweets like he knows everything about terrorist attacks in the first two seconds if it's a Muslim attacker but if it's a white supremacist he feigns ignorance. 

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5 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Speaking of disgusting horrible things that deserve outrage:

 

Saw this last night. Yes - It poked through the outrage fatigue along with the feeling of being powerless - and, yes, I am outraged. It's like a huge, multiplied, government-officials-involved version of Hephzibah House (look it up if it doesn't ring a bell). After Maddow's report, I have many more questions and no answers. I don't understand why this didn't immediately blow up across the other major news organization, even given the outrage fatigue.

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Trump doesn't suffer from outrage fatigue. McCain has been dead for months and he's still griping about his ACA vote two years ago.

 

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5 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Trump doesn't suffer from outrage fatigue. McCain has been dead for months and he's still griping about his ACA vote two years ago.

 

Incredible (and not in a good way).

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I think Dumpy needs his meds adjusted again:

 

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On 3/15/2019 at 9:25 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

Traditionally, for public events where the president appears, the Secret Service obtains the names of all guests and employees who might come into close contact with him.

The Secret Service’s protective intelligence division then runs those names through a national FBI database to determine whether anyone is wanted on a bench warrant or has any history of arrests or convictions for drugs or violent crimes. The service also can choose to check names in a CIA database to determine whether anyone has been flagged as being a concern to the intelligence community.

Why don't we have the same screening for people running for president? Seems like people run stricter background checks on babysitters than on presidential candidates. I would think Trump's close financial ties to Russia might not have been a concern for the intelligence community while he was just a loud mouthed rich reality TV star, but should have been a red flag long before he got the Repub nomination, much less "won" the presidency. 

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Awaiting the rage tweets

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CNN anchor Ana Cabrera on Sunday called out President Trump for failing to go to Vietnam until he was equipped with "Secret Service protection" after the president renewed his attacks against late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). 

"The president did use his direct line to the American people to take more cheap shots at an American war hero who is not even alive to defend himself," Cabrera said on "CNN Newsroom." "Trump again slamming the late senator John McCain today, he says, for trying to derail his run for the presidency in 2016."

Cabrera noted that the attacks from Trump caused one of his allies, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), to defend McCain as "one of the most consequential senators" in U.S. history. 

"Clearly not a position held by the president, who did, to his credit, did go to Vietnam, although not until he was in his 70s and with Secret Service protection," Cabrera added, apparently referencing Trump's military record as well as the recent summit in Vietnam between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. 

 

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Yeah Fuck Head has no time to act like a decent human being

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President Donald Trump spent the weekend venting venom at a bewildering list of targets -- even as much of the rest of the world was still trying to come to terms with a true outrage -- the carnage wrought against Muslims in New Zealand.

In a stunning display of personal grievances aired on Twitter, Trump demanded the return of a supportive Fox News host who was missing from her usual spot on Saturday after verbally attacking an American Muslim lawmaker. He escalated his beyond-the-grave feud with late Sen. John McCain. He complained at being lampooned by NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Trump also fulminated against the Russia investigation, "Radical Left Democrats" and took shots at an Ohio union boss before demanding a now-closed GM plant in Ohio be reopened or sold

It isn't that it is unusual for this most unconventional of Presidents to hit out at his foes on Twitter. But this weekend's tirade came across as even more jarring given his tepid tone on Friday when he said that he didn't think white supremacy was a growing global problem after the attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 50.

And Trump did little to follow through on a request by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's prime minister, that he show love and sympathy to all Muslims.

 

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Ooopsie, the Trump Foundation has been fined big time by the State of New York's AG office. Was this the reason for Trumpy's weekend tweetkakke?  From HuffPo this morning: 

N.Y. Attorney General Calls For $5.6 Million Fine Against Trump’s ‘Self-Dealing’ Foundation  Charity was “little more than a checkbook” for Trump’s business and campaign, according to the AG’s office.

And they're done yet: 

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A week ago, [New York Attorney General] James issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank to seek records linked to four Trump Organization real estate projects and Trump’s failed bid to buy the Buffalo Bills five years ago, The New York Times reported.

 

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Fundraiser, Elliot Broidy, who, like Michael Cohen was the national deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee, turns out to be into money laundering, conspiracy and lobbying violations as well. So the feds treated him to the same as they did Cohen: they raided his house, took his phones and computers and seized evidence.

Federal Authorities Raided Trump Fundraiser’s Office in Money Laundering Probe

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Federal authorities raided the office of Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy last summer, seeking records related to his dealings with foreign officials and Trump administration associates, according to a sealed search warrant obtained by ProPublica.

Agents were authorized to use the megadonor’s hands and face to unlock any phones that required fingerprint or facial scans.

The Washington Post reported in August that the Justice Department was investigating Broidy. The sealed warrant offers new details of federal authorities’ investigation of allegations that Broidy had attempted to cash in on his Trump White House connections in dealings with foreign officials. It also shows that the government took a more aggressive approach with the Trump ally than was previously known, entering his office and removing records — just as it did with Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

Broidy served as a major Trump campaign fundraiser and was the national deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee until he resigned in April 2018, when it was revealed he had agreed to secretly pay off a former Playboy model in exchange for her silence about their affair.

The search warrant cites three potential crimes that authorities are investigating: conspiracy, money laundering and violations of the law barring covert lobbying on behalf of foreign officials. To obtain a search warrant, authorities have to convince a judge that there’s a probable cause they will find evidence of those specific crimes.

The search warrant also for the first time links Broidy to a globe-trotting Miami Beach party promoter.

The warrant, filed in July 2018, targeted Broidy’s office in Los Angeles. The scope of what authorities were seeking was broad. They planned to seize any evidence related to a list of dozens of people, countries and corporate entities, according to the warrant. Among the names on the list are Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign official who has pleaded guilty in the Mueller probe; Colfax Law Office, the firm founded by Robin Rosenzweig, Broidy’s wife; and several foreign countries.

Spokespeople for the Justice Department and the FBI declined to comment for this story.

Broidy’s attorney as well as a spokesman did not answer a list of detailed questions sent by ProPublica.

Broidy, an investor based in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty in 2009 to charges connected to his role in a major New York state public corruption and bribery case. But after backing Trump for president, he saw his star rise again. After the inauguration, he played a central role in filling administration vacancies, according to reports by ProPublica and others.

However, he once again quickly became mired in controversy, amid allegations of influence peddling and his dealings with the former Playboy model.

The search warrant shows that federal authorities are interested in Broidy’s alleged work for the Malaysian financier Jho Low, who is at the center of a sprawling international scandal known as 1MDB. In November, the Justice Department unveiled a bribery and money laundering case against Low.

In a separate filing in November, the Justice Department alleged that Broidy was paid by Low to lobby Trump administration officials to ease off on U.S. investigations into Low. Broidy is not identified by name in the filings, but he is widely reported to be the person referred to as “Individual No. 1.” Broidy has not been charged with a crime, and it’s unclear what the status of the investigation is.

Pras Michel, a member of the hip-hop group The Fugees and an associate of Low’s, funnelled the money to pay Broidy into the United States, the Justice Department alleged. Asked about the Broidy search warrant, a lawyer for Michel, Barry Pollack, said: “There has been news of this Broidy investigation for many months. Mr. Michel has not been charged with any wrongdoing whatsoever related to Mr. Broidy or anyone else.”

Federal authorities were also seeking records in Broidy’s office related to the United Arab Emirates, UAE adviser George Nader, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and any travel to the Middle East.

Preparing to restock the Department of Justice at the start of the Trump administration, Jeff Sessions sought out Elliott Broidy for recommendations. The Republican donor’s conviction in a political corruption case years earlier didn’t seem to be a problem.

The New York Times reported last year that Broidy worked with Nader to steer the White House toward decisions benefiting the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Documents reviewed by the Times showed that Nader tempted Broidy with the prospect of more than $1 billion in contracts for Broidy’s private security company. Hacked communications showed Nader praised Broidy for “how well you handle Chairman” — a reference to Trump.

Nader became a cooperating witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian influence in the 2016 election, according to multiple news reports.

Broidy’s attorney has in the past responded to the allegations with a statement saying Broidy “has never agreed to work for, been retained by nor been compensated by any foreign government for any interaction with the United States Government, ever. Any implication to the contrary is a lie.”

According to the warrant, federal authorities also sought to seize any records related to China and Guo Wengui, a Chinese businessman and dissident who fled to New York, where he publicly accused the Chinese government of corruption.

The Times reported that Broidy explored plans to use his influence with the White House to force Guo out of the United States, apparently as part of an effort to curry favor with the Chinese and other foreign officials, and ultimately earn a payoff.

The search warrant for Broidy’s office also lists a name and corporation not previously linked to Broidy: “Joel Rouseau” and “Intelligent Resources.” There is a company by that name incorporated in Miami Beach by a Joel Rousseau, who is a friend of Michel’s. The search warrant does not describe Rousseau or Intelligent Resources’ role in the case.

Rousseau’s Instagram account shows him bouncing from Rio to Paris to Ibiza, frequently surrounded by models. “If you want to be successful, you need the beautiful people,” he told Crain’s New York in 2007, which described him as a specialist “in bringing agency models to clubs.” In another series of pictures, he is at an oil site in Haiti with workers he describes as his drilling crew. Rousseau made a foray into politics in 2012 when he donated tens of thousands of dollars to several Democratic Party groups.

Filings in a court case over unpaid taxes describe Rousseau as an “entrepreneur” with income swinging from under $1,000 for 2009 to over $2 million in 2013. He paid a long-standing bill for back taxes and penalties of more than $700,000 in late 2017, the filings show.

The address for Intelligent Resources is a house on Miami Beach’s exclusive Hibiscus Island. The person answering the door at the house last week told a reporter he had rented the house on Airbnb. Rousseau didn’t respond to requests for comment.

 

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