Trump 41: Waiting For My Impeachment

[GreyhoundFan]

4 hours ago, Jana814 said:

I think if Trump doesn’t win the election in 2020 he’s going to have a major fit & demand a recount. 

I think if he doesn't win in 2020, the winner will have to get the secret service to take him out like this:

[GreyhoundFan]

More from the racist-in-chief: "Trump calls on minority congresswomen to apologize after he said they should ‘go back’ to their countries"

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President Trump on Monday called on a group of minority, liberal congresswomen to “apologize” to the United States, Israel and him and accused them of “racist hatred” a day after he said in inflammatory tweets that they should “go back” to their countries.

“When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said,” Trump said in new tweets Monday. “So many people are angry at them & their horrible & disgusting actions!”

He later criticized Democrats for coming to defense of the congresswomen, whom he claimed had showed “racist hatred” in their speech and are “very unpopular & unrepresentative.”

With his latest tweets, Trump dug in further on a line of attack that has drawn widespread condemnation from Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who on Sunday called the president’s comments “xenophobic.” Republicans have remained largely silent.

Trump’s tweets appeared to target four outspoken freshmen lawmakers who have been feuding with Pelosi: Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.).

Only one of them — Omar — was born outside the United States.

All four have called for Trump’s impeachment — Tlaib has done so using profane language — and have been highly critical of his administration,notably denouncing conditions at federal detention facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump’s comments regarding Israel appeared to target Omar and Tlaib.

Earlier this year, Omar apologized after she was widely accused of anti-Semitic speech for suggesting that supporters of Israel’s government have an “allegiance to a foreign country.”

Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, has advocated what has been dubbed a “one-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Arguing that the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu effectively opposes a two-state solution of neighboring Israeli and Palestinian states, she has supported the transformation of Israel into a single, jointly governed Arab-Jewish nation. But the idea has little support among either Israelis or Palestinians.

After Trump’s Monday morning tweets, Ocasio-Cortez went on Twitter to denounce Trump.

“It’s important to note that the President’s words yday, telling four American Congresswomen of color ‘go back to your own country,’ is hallmark language of white supremacists,” she wrote. “Trump feels comfortable leading the GOP into outright racism, and that should concern all Americans.”

Trump’s tweets on Sunday morning were sent before he headed to his golf club in Sterling, Va.

“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” Trump tweeted.

“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” Trump added. “Then come back and show us how it is done.”

Pressley was born in Cincinnati, Tlaib was born in Detroit and Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York. Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia; her family fled the country amid civil war when she was a child, and she became a U.S. citizen as a teenager.

Pelosi subsequently described Trump’s tweets as racist and divisive.

“When @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to ‘Make America Great Again’ has always been about making America white again,” she said in a tweet. “Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power.”

By Sunday evening, at least 90 House Democrats, plus Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.), had denounced Trump’s remarks, with more than half of them using the words “racist” or “racism” to describe his tweets.

The only Republican member of Congress to speak out against Trump on Sunday was Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.), who wrote on Twitter that “POTUS was wrong to say any American citizen, whether in Congress or not, has any ‘home’ besides the U.S.”

“But I just as strongly believe non-citizens who abuse our immigration laws should be sent home immediately, & Reps who refuse to defend America should be sent home” in the next election, he added.

During a television appearance on Monday morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) counseled Trump to focus on policy differences with the congresswomen.

“Aim higher. They are American citizens. They won an election. Take on their policies,” Graham said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.”

During the interview, Graham called the congresswomen’s ideas “anti-Semitic” and “socialist.”

Late Sunday, Trump tweeted that it was “sad” to see Democrats “sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion.”

He returned to that argument on Monday morning.

“If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out,” Trump wrote. “I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.”

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday morning, Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Pence, said that the “intent” of Trump’s tweets was not “in any way racist.”

Asked about the controversy during an earlier appearance on the Fox Business Channel, Short mentioned a recent naturalization ceremony at which Pence presided and that was attended by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who is Asian American.

“So when people write the president has racist motives here, look at the reality of who is actually serving in Donald Trump’s cabinet,” Short said. “He is making a point about a great frustration a lot of people feel that, I think it’s hard to find anything Ilhan Omar has actually said since elected to Congress that has been positive about the United States of America.”

 

[SilverBeach]

I can find little positive to say about this country in the Trump era. No 4th of July celebration for me. Blacks were here before the mayflower and all of the whites here now came from somewhere else. Isn't Trump himself just a second generation American? One again , he has demonstrated his desire to repress free speech and to have a North Korea type head-nodding agreement government only. He is a total and complete racist. I never though this nation would have an avowed racist as president, not in the 21st century. Elected representative are not elected to just spout complements about the country, they are elected to solve problems. Imma go back into my bubble, wake me when the nightmare is over. 

[HerNameIsBuffy]

1 hour ago, SilverBeach said:

Isn't Trump himself just a second generation American? 

First.  His mother was born in Scotland.   His father was born in the Bronx despite the fact that he gets confused and somehow thinks that’s Germany.

hos grandfather was kicked out of Baveria for eluding military service which is how we got this fizzy shit blizzard of a family on our shores.

[GreyhoundFan]

17 minutes ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

hos grandfather was kicked out of Baveria for eluding military service

The apple didn't fall far from that toxic tree, did it?

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[fraurosena]

So true.

 

[fraurosena]

Ok, so this is yet another example of Trump's abysmal spelling skillz. We know that already. But read the typed text too. They are utterly childish and unsophisticated talking points, that he clearly did not type up himself -- why else would he need to underline certain phrases in thick marker pen, and randomly add 'Alcaida some People' and 'Hollywood People'? Is Prissy Princess writing them for him?

 

[Alisamer]

1 hour ago, fraurosena said:

Ok, so this is yet another example of Trump's abysmal spelling skillz. We know that already. But read the typed text too. They are utterly childish and unsophisticated talking points, that he clearly did not type up himself -- why else would he need to underline certain phrases in thick marker pen, and randomly add 'Alcaida some People' and 'Hollywood People'? Is Prissy Princess writing them for him?

"Peopel"! 

Our president is a virulently racist pedophile misogynist conman with the reading and spelling skills of a second grader. I suspect this is why he took so well to Twitter - a limited number of words to have to read. He doesn't seem to have ever moved into reading chapter books. 

He claims to be great at spelling. He claims to be great at a lot of things. He's not. 

He is, however, really great at creating distractions. I'm sure many of them are unwitting, but some are likely calculated. No matter how crazy or bad today's headlines about him are, in a couple days it'll be knocked out of the news by his NEXT big episode of stupidity/treason/malice/crime. It never would have occurred to me that the way to avoid dealing with scandals was to simply have so many scandals one after another that it's impossible to even absorb them all!

It's like we're living in a terrible movie. I'm ready to move on to the "rebuilding after disaster" sequel.

[formergothardite]

On one had is racists tweets need to be addressed, on the other hand he got what he wanted by moving the discussion away from his parties with a pedophile 

[WiseGirl]

3 hours ago, Alisamer said:

I'm ready to move on to the "rebuilding after disaster" sequel.

Me too times at least 1,000,000!  Let's follow Sarah's advice.

[fraurosena]

Who ever wins the Dem candidacy, I fervently hope that in a debate they say this to his face. I'd love to see his reaction.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

More Pinocchios for the lying liar who lies: "President Trump accuses Rep. Omar of supporting al-Qaeda"

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“I look at Omar. I don’t know. I never met her. I hear the way she talks about al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda has killed many Americans. She said, ‘You can hold your chest out, you can — when I think of America, huh, when I think of al-Qaeda, I can hold my chest out.’ When she talked about the World Trade Center being knocked down, ‘Some people.’ You remember the famous ‘some people’?”

— President Trump, in remarks at the White House, July 15, 2019

“When I hear people speaking about how wonderful al-Qaeda is, when I hear people talking about ‘some people,’ ‘some people’ with the World Trade Center. Some people? No, not ‘some people.’ Much more than ‘some people'.”

— Trump

“A politician that hears somebody, where we’re at war with al-Qaeda, and sees somebody talking about how great al-Qaeda is. Pick out her statement. That was Omar. ‘How great al-Qaeda is.’ And we’re losing great soldiers to al-Qaeda.”

— Trump

The president accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) of supporting the terrorist group behind the 9/11 attacks.

Omar, a Somali American and practicing Muslim, was elected to Congress in 2018. She’s a member of “the Squad,” an informal group of liberal Democrats that also includes Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.).

Trump lashed out at the foursome in a Twitter statement Sunday, telling them to “go back” to their countries. Asked about those racist comments the next day, Trump alleged that Omar has voiced support for al-Qaeda. “When I think of al-Qaeda, I can hold my chest out,” Trump quoted Omar as saying.

He seemed to be referencing an interview Omar gave in 2013 to a local television show in Minnesota. But Trump completely twisted and falsely characterized Omar’s remarks.

The Facts

The four Democratic congresswomen are U.S. citizens. Pressley, who is African American, was born in Chicago. Tlaib, who is Palestinian American, was born in Detroit. Ocasio-Cortez’s family hails from Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, and she was born in New York.

Omar was born in Somalia. Fleeing war, her family went to a refugee camp in Kenya when she was 8 years old. In 1995, the Omars were cleared to immigrate to the United States. She was 12 years old on arrival.

In a comprehensive profile, The Washington Post’s Greg Jaffe and Souad Mekhennet traced Omar’s life story and ascent in politics. She is “one of the youngest members of Congress and the first lawmaker to wear a hijab in the legislative body’s long history,” they reported July 6.

She’s also an unabashed Trump critic who calls herself “the president’s nightmare,” one of the most liberal House members, and a controversial figure. Omar received widespread criticism in February for anti-Semitic remarks suggesting Jews were buying political support.

“For Omar, figuring out what it means to be the ‘president’s nightmare’ on a national stage has been a work in progress,” The Post reported. “In theory, she said, it means amplifying marginalized voices at home and overseas. In practice, it has been more complicated. First came the backlash this winter over her suggestion that the Israel lobby was using its resources to buy off supporters — ‘it’s all about the Benjamins,’ she tweeted. Omar apologized for the remark, but she also blamed her colleagues for overreacting.” Associating Jews with money in this way echoes long-standing anti-Semitic slurs and tropes.

Trump’s accusation, however, is that Omar sympathizes with al-Qaeda terrorists. It’s one thing to criticize U.S. policies and institutions, as Omar does. It’s entirely another thing to voice support for al-Qaeda. We found no evidence for that claim.

At one point, Trump quoted Omar as saying: “When I think of al-Qaeda, I can hold my chest out.”

As CNN noted, Trump appeared to be referring to “an Omar comment that has circulated this year in conservative media, including Fox News.” It comes from a 2013 interview. Omar was a guest on “BelAhdan,” a Twin Cities PBS show about Middle East issues. She did not voice approval for al-Qaeda and in fact condemned terrorist acts as “evil” and “heinous.”

Omar said the Muslim community at large should not be held accountable for the actions of Islamic terrorists. “I think the general population needs to understand that there is a difference between the people that are carrying on the evil acts — because it is an evil act, and we do have evil people in this world — and then the normal people who carry on, the normal people, regular citizens who carry on their life,” she said.

She said there’s a double standard in the way Western societies respond to mass murder. “When you have an individual … in a Western society that goes on and does commit like a mass murder — we have mass shootings that happen constantly here — we investigate that person and what has driven them to commit that act,” Omar said. “When an act is committed by these Muslim, you know, terrorists, what we investigate is that whole community, we investigate that whole faith, we investigate that whole society, and everyone is supposed to have some answer to why these people are doing this.”

Omar and the host, Ahmed Tharwat, suggested that radicalization and terrorist strikes are partly a reaction to the United States’ and other world powers’ “involvement in other countries’ affairs.”

After that, the discussion turned to the way some English speakers use or accentuate certain Arabic words for effect, whereas no one accentuates “America” or “England” or “the Army.”

Here’s what Omar said about that:

“I remember when I was in college I took a terrorism class. … We learned the ideology. The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘al-Qaeda,’ he sort of like, his shoulders went up, and you know — ‘al-Qaeda,’ ‘Hezbollah.’ …

“You don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity. You don’t say ‘England’ with an intensity. You don’t say ‘the Army’ with an intensity. But you say these names because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to leave something with the person that’s hearing. It’s said with a deeper voice.”

Trump twisted these words beyond recognition to make an incendiary claim that Omar supports terrorists. Instead of proudly proclaiming support for al-Qaeda, Omar was recounting how her college professor would arch his shoulders and accentuate the name of the terrorist group for effect.

The White House did not respond to our questions, and the Trump campaign declined to comment.

Trump also pointed to Omar’s remarks at a March event hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Omar arguably minimized the 9/11 terrorist attacks with the phrase “some people did something.”

She said, “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.” (CAIR was founded in 1994, not in response to 9/11, as Omar claimed.)

As we found in this fact check, a full look at her 20-minute speech adds necessary context. Her remarks were part of a larger point about anti-Muslim discrimination, and they came after she listed some specific examples.

A longer look at what she said: “For far too long, we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and, frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it. CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”

It’s not the first time Trump has launched an evidence-free accusation against Muslims in the United States. When he was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2015, Trump falsely claimed that television reports had shown “thousands” of Muslims cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center from rooftops in Jersey City.

“No one has been able to unearth any video of any such thing happening,” Chris Christie, who was then New Jersey’s governor, said at the time.

The Pinocchio Test

With no evidence, Trump accused a Muslim member of Congress of being an al-Qaeda supporter. He twisted Omar’s words beyond recognition to associate her with terrorists. He earns Four Pinocchios.

Four Pinocchios

In one of the comments, someone wrote that instead of a cute Italian puppet, in the case of the tangerine toddler, the Pinocchios should be little Klan figures.

[Smash!]

This is laughable and cynical! Trump, who supports Saudi Arabia who exports the dangerous and fundamentalist brand of Islam accuses someone else of exactly doing that [emoji35][emoji2959]

[fraurosena]

Shock video comes back to haunt Donald Trump as he insists he’s not racist

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Donald Trump insists his demand that four Democrats “go back” to where they “came from” wasn’t racist and he doesn’t have “a racist bone in my body”. Now, a video of the US President speaking to Congress in 1993 about Native American Indian reservations has emerged.

“Here he is, being who is, in 1993,” MSNBC show Deadline White House said introducing the clip of Mr Trump speaking on Capitol Hill.

“If you look at some of the reservations you’ve approved, you sir, in your great wisdom have approved, I will tell you right now, they don’t look like Indians to me,” Mr Trump says. “Now, maybe we say politically correct or not politically correct, they don’t look like Indians to me and they don’t look like Indians to Indians, and a lot of people are laughing at it. You talk about how tough it is, how rough it is to get approved. Well, you go up to Connecticut and you look, now, they don’t look like Indians to me.”

George Miller, who at the time was a Democratic congressman from California, appears momentarily dumbfounded before responding.

“Thank God that’s not the test of whether or not people have rights in this country, whether or nor they pass your look test,” he said. Mr Miller continued to attack Mr Trump’s remarks, saying they echo similar sentiments expressed in American history.

“You know where we’ve heard this discussion before? ‘They don’t look Jewish to me. They don’t look Indian to me. They don’t look Italian to me’. That was the test for whether people could go into business or not, whether they could get a bank loan. ‘You’re too black, you’re not black enough’.”

“Oh really?” Mr Trump interjects.

Chaos continues to swirl in Washington over Mr Trump’s racist tweets on Sunday in which he attacked four Democrats and told them to “go back” to where they “came from”.

The comments, targeting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, have been roundly condemned.

Mr Trump has defended his tweets, saying they aren’t racist and he doesn’t “have a racist bone in my body”.

Ms Ocasio-Cortez, Ms Pressley and Ms Tlaib were each born in the United States, while Ms Omar is an American citizen who arrived in the country as a Somali refugee when she was a child.

The three twitter posts read: “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.

“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!”

The House of Representatives today passed a resolution denouncing the President’s “racist comments”. The vote was 240 in favour and 187 against, with four Republicans supporting.

Speaking before today’s vote, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said those who didn’t support the resolution denouncing Mr Trump’s comments would be rejecting “our values” and showing a “shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people”.

But, you may think, that was way back in 1993. It's entirely possible he changed his views since then. Well...

If you think that is the worst he can be, think again.

 

I absolutely love Ilhan's response.

 

Edited July 18, 2019 by fraurosena

[formergothardite]

That rally was in NC. I'm so sorry IIhan Omar.  We aren't all like that, but there are entirely too many people filled with hate here. 

Edited July 18, 2019 by formergothardite

[WiseGirl]

I was appalled by the "Send her back" seems like 45 has found his catch phrase for 2020. I would like to apply that to Melania and her family though. 

@fraurosena Thanks for sharing IIhan Omar's  response. *scuttles off to follow Omar and the whole squad on Twitter*

[front hugs > duggs]

I am so sickened by this all. I, personally, as a Jew, am not super comfortable with everything Omar has said about Israel or Jews in the past. However, this is absolutely disturbing and disgusting. "Never Again" is a slogan among Jews to remember the Holocaust. However, this feels very much "again". 

[AmericanRose]

I feel like "send her back" could be preparation for making it okay to 'send back' 100%  legal immigrants that have been in the States for years... that he doesn't like.

Edited July 18, 2019 by AmericanRose

[GreyhoundFan]

"Queens clod" -- another good nickname.

[fraurosena]

Eyebrow paint notwithstanding, he couldn't cover-up his misogyny to save his life.

@GreyhoundFan, I think he was trying to look like his dad, but ran out of paint to also dye his hair.

[fraurosena]

He never seems to learn there is always video evidence. 

 

[fraurosena]

How very Christian of them!

 

[GreyhoundFan]

The mango moron doesn't understand government contracting. "Trump Expressed Concern About Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract"

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President Donald Trump recently demanded more information about how the Pentagon crafted a massive cloud-computing contract it’s poised to award to Amazon.com Inc. or Microsoft Corp., in order to decide whether he should intervene.

The Defense Department is set to give the contract, worth as much as $10 billion over ten years, to one of the two companies next month. Amazon, whose cloud-computing technology leads the market, is seen as the favorite.

But Trump recently was made aware of letters Republican members of Congress have written to the White House and military leaders complaining that the contract’s terms froze some companies -- including Oracle Corp. -- out of the competition, according to two people familiar with the matter. Trump expressed frustration he wasn’t aware of the concerns and asked aides to show him the correspondence, the people said.

Trump said he’s interested in looking into the circumstances of the bid but didn’t indicate he’ll try to block the contract from being awarded to one of the two finalists, they said.

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who recently wrote to the Pentagon to express concerns about the contract, said in an interview that he discussed it with the president aboard Air Force One last week.

“He wanted to understand what the issues were, what our concerns were,” Johnson said in an interview.

Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, sent a letter to National Security Adviser John Bolton on Thursday asking him to delay the contract award, saying the bid “suffers from a lack of competition.” Trump and Rubio spoke about the contract by phone the next day, a Rubio spokesman said.

A person familiar with the call said that it sounded as if Trump was thinking about canceling the contract.

All of the people asked not to be identified discussing a sensitive procurement issue. Spokesmen for the White House and Pentagon didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

While Trump has leaned on defense contractors to reduce costs on contracts they already hold -- and even to paint new Air Force One planes in his choice of colors -- it may be unprecedented for a president to intervene in a defense contract competition while it’s underway.

The cloud-computing program, known as Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or JEDI, has been contentious. Legacy tech companies including Oracle and International Business Machines Corp. waged a fierce lobbying and legal campaign against the Pentagon’s plan to award the contract to a single company.

“Nothing good can come from President Trump becoming personally involved in an individual procurement, particularly one of this complexity,” said Steven Schooner, a professor of government procurement law at George Washington University. “Historically, the system has operated best with limited -- to no -- high-level political involvement.”

Oracle lost a legal challenge last week contesting the terms of the bid and alleging the Pentagon had crafted unfair requirements and that there were conflicts of interest involving Amazon. Republican lawmakers have taken up Oracle’s cause, pressuring the White House to intervene in the Pentagon project.

Oracle at one point coordinated with at least seven other companies including Microsoft and SAP America to try to block Amazon from winning the entire contract, Bloomberg News has reported. Amazon has already won a contract with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Oracle declined to comment for the story.

In April 2018, Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Officer Safra Catz dined with Trump at the White House and complained that it seemed designed for Amazon to win, Bloomberg has reported. The final requirements for the contract were released in July of that year.

The White House raised concerns about the contract with senior Pentagon leaders while they were still drafting the final requirements for the deal, according to a person familiar with the matter.