Trump 47: The Covidiot's Traveling Circus Is Back On The Road

[Audrey2]

19 hours ago, Xan said:

Okay... Trump needs to either lose weight or buy bigger shirts.  The neck is disgusting.  Or is he just such a horrible person that his body is growing another ass right above his tie??

Well we could say that Trump really is showing his ass now, even if it's just his neck ass.

[thoughtful]

2 hours ago, Audrey2 said:

Well we could say that Trump really is showing his ass now, even if it's just his neck ass.

N. E. C. K. B. U. T. T. Neckbutt! Everybody sing! Trump's discarded weaves and toupees will lead us:

I really try hard not to be BEC or insult anyone's appearance, but damn, Trump brings out my mean side. I think it's because his inner self deserves it so much (well, that's my excuse, anyway).

[GreyhoundFan]

I thought it had been more than 275 times...

 

[Ozlsn]

12 hours ago, fraurosena said:

This is a good thread on rather remarkable financial transactions by Trump org. over the last decade that really need to be investigated.

Here's the unrolled version.

 

So this is money laundering right? How is this not being picked up on?

10 hours ago, Xan said:

This needs to get some traction.  Putin's puppet appears to be laundering money.  Why won't the reporters cover this instead of "Donny and his drama over masks" or "Donny and his constant resentments"??  I guess they think the average reader won't follow the story because it would take more than five minutes to consider and process.

I am so exasperated with how he's covered by the media.

Agreed. Also where are the regulatory agencies in all this??

[Xan]

Very conveniently, today word leaked that Trump is trying to build a very expensive high end retirement community in Scotland.  He feels that there's a need since the population is aging -- so he says.  It's going to cost a huge amount of money.

My opinion:  They saw that the financials had leaked and now they've created a backstory to explain all the money washing through.  I do hope some enterprising reporter keeps digging.

Spoiler

The Trump Organization is planning a massive real estate development, according to a new report by Martyn McLaughlin in The Scotsman.

“In what would be one of the most ambitious and expensive foreign projects undertaken by Donald Trump’s family business since he assumed the presidency, his company has commissioned a detailed masterplan to develop as many as 225 properties, as well as leisure facilities and shops, on an expanse of rolling farmland adjacent to Turnberry’s lauded Ailsa course, a four-time host of golf’s Open Championship,” the Scottish newspaper reported.

“Given the Trump Organisation has yet to formally submit a planning application, it has not announced the project or publicised its intentions. But Scotland on Sunday has obtained a series of documents prepared on its behalf by an architectural practice and one of the nation’s leading planning lawyers. Together, they spell out the company’s grand ambitions for the 114 year old resort, arguably the most prestigious of all Trump’s properties,” The Scotsman reported. “A key selling point put forward by the Trump Organisation’s architects is the creation of ‘high-end private residential homes for retirement living,’ which it says would offer ‘permanent tranquility and respite’ and help address a ‘social need’ amongst an ageing population.”

 

[fraurosena]

56 minutes ago, Xan said:

Very conveniently, today word leaked that Trump is trying to build a very expensive high end retirement community in Scotland.  He feels that there's a need since the population is aging -- so he says.  It's going to cost a huge amount of money.

My opinion:  They saw that the financials had leaked and now they've created a backstory to explain all the money washing through.  I do hope some enterprising reporter keeps digging.

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The Trump Organization is planning a massive real estate development, according to a new report by Martyn McLaughlin in The Scotsman.

“In what would be one of the most ambitious and expensive foreign projects undertaken by Donald Trump’s family business since he assumed the presidency, his company has commissioned a detailed masterplan to develop as many as 225 properties, as well as leisure facilities and shops, on an expanse of rolling farmland adjacent to Turnberry’s lauded Ailsa course, a four-time host of golf’s Open Championship,” the Scottish newspaper reported.

“Given the Trump Organisation has yet to formally submit a planning application, it has not announced the project or publicised its intentions. But Scotland on Sunday has obtained a series of documents prepared on its behalf by an architectural practice and one of the nation’s leading planning lawyers. Together, they spell out the company’s grand ambitions for the 114 year old resort, arguably the most prestigious of all Trump’s properties,” The Scotsman reported. “A key selling point put forward by the Trump Organisation’s architects is the creation of ‘high-end private residential homes for retirement living,’ which it says would offer ‘permanent tranquility and respite’ and help address a ‘social need’ amongst an ageing population.”

 

This still doesn't explain the financial shenanigans going on in the accounts at the Trump golf courses -- plural. It's not only happening at his golf course in Scotland, but at others too, like the one in Ireland, and also at Doral. Who knows what's in the books at his other courses?

So if you're right and they are attempting to explain things away, it's a very weak and not very convincing explanation -- and that's an understatement.

[Smash!]

Nick Sawyer connected the dots between Covid-19 and the George Floyd protests. Thread.

 

And here's the thread from ThreadReaderApp https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281179523808030720.html

[SassyPants]

5 hours ago, Smash! said:

Nick Sawyer connected the dots between Covid-19 and the George Floyd protests. Thread.

 

And here's the thread from ThreadReaderApp https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281179523808030720.html

I am a facilitator for a small group ministry co-hort at my church, and today’s meeting is centered on change and threshold moments. Yesterday, during prep I wrote down 3 words: Covid-19, Racial tension and Election 2020. I then listened to several interviews/discussions on the BLM website, watched the documentary The Hack and then today, read this posted piece. It really does all dovetail together, doesn’t it. 

[GreyhoundFan]

He's the bigliest ever: "President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims"

Spoiler

It took President Trump 827 days to top 10,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of 12 claims a day.

But on July 9, just 440 days later, the president crossed the 20,000 mark — an average of 23 claims a day over a 14-month period, which included the events leading up to Trump’s impeachment trial, the worldwide pandemic that crashed the economy and the eruption of protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody.

The coronavirus pandemic has spawned a whole new genre of Trump’s falsehoods. The category in just a few months has reached nearly 1,000 claims, more than his tax claims combined. Trump’s false or misleading claims about the impeachment investigation — and the events surrounding it — contributed almost 1,200 entries to the database.

The notion that Trump would exceed 20,000 claims before he finished his term appeared ludicrous when The Fact Checker started this project during the president’s first 100 days in office. In that time, Trump averaged fewer than five claims a day, which would have added up to about 7,000 claims in a four-year presidential term. But the tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger.

As of July 9, the tally in our database stands at 20,055 claims in 1,267 days.

Just as when Trump crossed the 10,000 threshold, an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News helped Trump breach the 20,000 mark. Trump racked up 62 claims on July 9, about half of which came during the Hannity interview: Trump’s statements cover a substantial range of his bogus attacks, conspiracy theories, boasts and inaccurate information:

— Former president Barack Obama “did not want” to give surplus military equipment to police. Obama scaled back the program but still allowed specialized firearms, manned and unmanned aircraft, explosives and riot gear.

— Trump has “tremendous support” in the African American community. No polling shows this.

— Trump “insisted” the National Guard be used in Minneapolis to quell disturbances and Seattle officials “knew” he was ready to act with force if the city did not shut down protests. Local officials say neither claim is true; they acted on their own.

— The United States has a “record” for coronavirus testing, and China has not tested as many people as the United States. The United States still lags several major countries in terms of tests per million people, the best metric for comparison. The United States has a higher per capita testing rate than China, but China in June said it had tested 90 million people — at the time, three times as many as the United States.

— Obama and former vice president Joe Biden “spied” on his campaign and “knew everything that was going on.” Trump has made allegations of Obama spying since 2017, based on little or no evidence.

— The jury forewoman in the Roger Stone trial was “disgraceful.” The judge in the case rejected claims of bias. Tomeka Hart’s political leanings and activities were clearly known during the jury selection process, and not even Stone’s legal team tried to strike her from the jury pool.

— Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, was placed in “solitary confinement,” while Al Capone “was never in solitary confinement.” Manafort was in a “private, self-contained living unit” that was larger than other units, which included a bathroom, shower, telephone and laptop access, according to court records. Capone was eventually sent to the infamous Alcatraz prison, where he was stabbed and got into fights and, according to some reports, ended up in solitary confinement as his brain deteriorated from untreated syphilis.

— “We’re doing record numbers on the border.” In 2020, no records have been set, and border apprehensions spiked sharply in June.

— “We’ve rebuilt the military, 2.5 trillion dollars.” Trump frequently suggests this money is all for new equipment, but he’s just adding together three years of budgets, none of which is a record.

So far during his presidency, Trump’s most repeated claim — 360 times — is that the U.S. economy today is the best in history. He began making this claim in June 2018, and it quickly became one of his favorites. He’s been forced to adapt for the tough economic times, and doing so has made it even more fantastic. Whereas he used to say it was the best economy in U.S. history, he now often recalls that he achieved “the best economy in the history of the world.”

That’s not true. The president once could brag about the state of the economy, but he ran into trouble when he made a play for the history books. By just about any important measure, the pre-coronavirus economy was not doing as well as it did under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson or Bill Clinton — or Ulysses S. Grant. Moreover, the economy was already beginning to hit the head winds caused by Trump’s trade wars, with the manufacturing sector in an apparent recession.

Trump has repeated this “best economy” claim more than 100 times just since the coronavirus emerged in China and sent the economy into a tailspin, robbing Trump of what he had expected would be his top sales pitch for reelection.

Trump’s second-most repeated claim — 261 times — is that his border wall is being built. Congress balked at funding the concrete barrier he envisioned, so the project evolved into the replacement of smaller, older barriers with steel bollard fencing. (Only three miles of the barrier is on land that previously did not have a barrier.) The Washington Post has reported that the bollard fencing is easily breached, with smugglers sawing through it, despite Trump’s claims that it is impossible to get past. Nevertheless, the project has diverted billions in military and counternarcotics funding to become one of the largest infrastructure projects in U.S. history, seizing private land, cutting off wildlife corridors and disrupting Native American cultural sites.

Trump has falsely said 210 times that he passed the biggest tax cut in history. Even before his tax cut was crafted, he promised it would be the biggest in U.S. history — bigger than President Ronald Reagan’s in 1981. Reagan’s tax cut amounted to 2.9 percent of the gross domestic product, and none of the proposals under consideration came close to that level. Yet Trump persisted in this fiction even when the tax cut was eventually crafted to be the equivalent of 0.9 percent of GDP, making it the eighth-largest tax cut in 100 years. This continues to be an all-purpose applause line at the president’s rallies.

Trump’s penchant for repeating false claims is demonstrated by the fact that the Fact Checker database has recorded nearly 500 instances in which he has repeated a variation of the same claim at least three times.

The Fact Checker also tracks Three- or Four-Pinocchio claims that Trump has said at least 20 times, earning him a Bottomless Pinocchio. There are now 39 entries.

The award-winning database website, created by graphics reporter Leslie Shapiro, has an extremely fast search engine that will quickly locate suspect statements the president has made. We encourage readers to explore it in detail.

Readers may also be interested in our new book, which was published June 2 by Scribner: “Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President’s Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies.” We drew on the database to compile a guide to Trump’s most frequently used misstatements, biggest whoppers and most dangerous deceptions. We examine in detail how Trump misleads about himself and his foes, the economy, immigration, the Ukraine controversy, foreign policy, the coronavirus crisis and many other issues. The book is a national bestseller and earned a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, which called it “an extremely valuable chronicle.”

 

[fraurosena]

All this to say he does not like the Faux News polling results...

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I miss the days when we had a president who could spell.

 

[HerNameIsBuffy]

10 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I miss the days when we had a president who could spell.

 

"has a brain the size of a pecan."

The pecan no one wants to glean.

[GreyhoundFan]

Ratings....I hurt my eyes rolling them:

 

I think many of us long for a "boring" presidency.

[HerNameIsBuffy]

1 minute ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I think many of us long for a "boring" presidency.

Desperately.

[Ozlsn]

2 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I miss the days when we had a president who could spell.

 

To be fair (I know) that's an obvious typo. It's not like covefe, which was indecipherable (but my auto correct picked coffee to change it to, so there's that. Then again it called my friend "Jailer" the other day, which was a new and random correction.)

[GreyhoundFan]

He "created" the oil industry in Texas? He's the king of delusionville.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

We all have words that annoy us. "Lamestream" is one that just grates on my nerves. Of course, it doesn't help that it's a twitler favorite.

 

[WiseGirl]

 

[Xan]

BREAKING: Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster WIN the lawsuit seeking to block publication of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” which hits bookshelves tomorrow.

The book is probably going to be available to Kindles and other e-readers after midnight tonight.  A judge also said that blocking her from speaking about it is an infringement on her right to participate in a democracy.

Another big loss for Trump.  

Good.

[GreyhoundFan]

How very true: "The one constant in Trump’s presidency: Tomorrow will be worse"

Spoiler

Whenever you are asked to name the lowest moment of the Trump presidency, one answer is almost always correct: Tomorrow.

As the nation ricochets between chaos and calamity, the one reliable constant is the near certainty that things will get worse.

On Friday night, President Trump commuted the sentence of longtime adviser Roger Stone, convicted by a jury of multiple felonies for lying to federal investigators to protect Trump in the Russia probe. Trump’s clemency came the same day Stone made the corrupt bargain explicit by saying he resisted “enormous pressure to turn on” Trump.

On Saturday, Trump’s White House launched a public broadside attempting to discredit its own chief infectious-disease expert, Anthony Fauci, because Fauci sounded renewed alarms about the coronavirus, which has killed at least 132,000 in the United States and is accelerating out of control. Then, on Sunday, as Florida reported a breathtaking 15,300 new cases of the virus in a single day, and other states reported overwhelmed hospitals and climbing death tolls, Trump tweeted a defense of his decision to play golf during his 276th visit to one of his golf clubs during his presidency.

On Monday, Trump retweeted a TV clip in which one of his allies, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), accused the left of “cultural genocide,” an echo of white nationalists’ claims of “white genocide,” and saying “the organizers of Black Lives Matter, who pledge allegiance to the destruction of America, have a lot more in common with the Confederate generals that they hate than they would like to admit.” This followed Trump’s “white power” retweet and another instance of his campaign allegedly appropriating Nazi symbols.

Abuse of power, flagrant disregard for American lives and racist provocations — all in 72 hours. I had long feared the country couldn’t survive another four years of Trump’s assaults. Now, I worry whether it can survive another 190 days.

Employers from United Airlines to Brooks Brothers are retrenching, while states confront a renewed threat of lockdowns — a direct result of Trump’s push to reopen the economy without adequate safeguards. While other countries are keeping the virus in check, this country now faces a protracted downturn. Incredibly, states still don’t have enough testing and protective equipment. This time, Trump can’t blame China.

Nearly 68 percent of Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. Even half of Republicans say so. Trump’s own niece has written a book about the president’s unfitness. Democratic opponent Joe Biden is now tied with or ahead of Trump in Florida, Texas and Arizona. And Trump, facing another potential attendance debacle at a rally in Portsmouth, N.H., on Saturday, called off the event. He blamed the postponement on a tropical storm, but the storm hadn’t been forecast to hit Portsmouth, and the weather was dry.

Trump is lashing out every which way: at allies who privately built a section of border wall in Texas (it’s in danger of toppling because of erosion), at “RINO” Republicans who condemned Trump’s Stone commutation, even at Fox News (“the Radical Left has scared Fox into submission”).

Meanwhile, he warns the media about a Biden presidency: “Is this what you want for your President??? With no ratings, media will go down along with our great USA!” Trump supposes journalists are driven by the same thing that motivates him: not the national interest, but ratings.

This motivation helps to explain a president who is so careless he doesn’t check for typos before tweeting to 83 million people about a “Federal Monumrnt”; so reckless that he’s pressing the Food and Drug Administration to bless hydroxychloroquine again even though the preponderance of evidence says it’s dangerous; so unfeeling that he would force schools to reopen without giving them adequate funds to protect teachers and children; so corrupt that, even as he frees Stone, his administration returns former lawyer Michael Cohen to prison because Cohen refused to stop working on a book critical of Trump; and so unpatriotic that his administration lifted a ban — designed to protect U.S. troops — on foreign sales of gun silencers after a lobbyist for the cause joined the White House staff, the New York Times reports.

All that, too, was in the past few days alone.

Some tell me they are weary of hearing about Trump’s abuses and they no longer are surprised by his outrages du jour. I share their weariness — I feel as though I’ve been a coroner working one car wreck after another for five years — but we can’t afford to look away until he is dispatched so overwhelmingly that his inevitable attempt to declare the election stolen won’t fly. Our very survival depends on it.

 

[Audrey2]

1 hour ago, Xan said:

BREAKING: Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster WIN the lawsuit seeking to block publication of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” which hits bookshelves tomorrow.

I just checked the library system I use to download books on my phone. They have 50 copies and they have 17 holds on each copy. I don't have an open hold slot so it's going to take me a little while to put one on hold.

[church_of_dog]

oops never mind me

Edited July 14, 2020 by church_of_dog

[Cartmann99]

 

[mamallama]

I'm guessing he's trying to imply he has dirt on Shumer.  Pretty much everyone in NY has been at a party with Epstein and we know Trump went to many.  So he probably saw Shumer there once upon a time.

[Dandruff]

I suspect Mary Trump isn't going to get a Christmas card from Uncle Donald this year.