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The Republican support for Trump dwindles as they slowly come around to impeachment
Yesterday in Vanity Fair;
In response to:
Trump Impeachment Poll Shows Even Republicans May Be Coming Around on Impeachment
According to a new poll, 58 percent of Americans support the impeachment probe into Trump—including 30 percent of Republicans.
By Eric Lutz
October 8, 2019
Donald Trump has weathered storm after storm throughout his presidency, emerging virtually unscathed from controversies and disasters thanks to a Republican firewall that has so far wholly insulated him from consequences.
But new polling suggests that his support may be cracking amid the Ukraine scandal that has engulfed his presidency and sent him on a path toward impeachment.
A Washington Post/Schar School poll released Tuesday found that public opinion is dramatically shifting in favor of the fast-moving impeachment inquiry Democrats launched in response to Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.
Fifty-eight percent of Americans surveyed said they support the probe, and close to half of respondents backed Trump’s removal from office. More troubling for Trump, nearly 30 percent of Republicans polled said they support the inquiry, and close to a fifth of registered GOP voters say he should be removed.
That’s an ominous sign for Trump, whose support among Republicans has already seemed more tenuous during this impeachment push than at perhaps any other point in his presidency. Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan, and other usual suspects have come to his aid, but their efforts to downplay the allegations at the heart of the impeachment inquiry have come up embarrassingly short. And while only a few in the GOP have outwardly criticized the president’s actions, the silence from the majority of Republican lawmakers has spoken volumes. Republicans who are normally enthusiastic in defending the president have kept their distance, lacking a coherent strategy and wary of getting involved when practically every day brings new disturbing reports.
Trump’s erratic conduct hasn’t helped matters, making some Republicans uneasy with things like threats of civil war. If his daily ranting about a deep state conspiracy hasn’t rankled Republicans, his stunning decision to allow Turkey to invade Northern Syria, leaving America’s Kurdish allies exposed, certainly has. That reckless move drew bipartisan backlash, including from Graham, who called the decision Monday a “disaster in the making.”
With a Democratic majority in the House, it’s likely that Trump will eventually be impeached. That’ll blemish his “resume”—something he’s reportedly told Republicans he doesn’t want—but until recently didn’t seem like something that could result in his removal from office, given the tight grip he’s held on the Republican-controlled Senate. Conviction remains a long shot, even though he’s admitted to, and publicly doubled down on, the very things he was accused of in the whistleblower complaint that set this whole impeachment push into motion, but it no longer necessarily seems impossible. Republican lawmakers have been reluctant to turn on Trump out of fear that doing so could put their own political futures in jeopardy. But if public opinion continues to go against the president, that could give them cover to hold him accountable.
Already an impeachment campaign appears to be brewing behind closed doors in the Senate, with Mitt Romney, who’s been sharply critical of the president since the Ukraine scandal broke, said to be reaching out to GOP colleagues about potentially pushing to oust Trump. “He could have tremendous influence in the impeachment process as the lone voice of conscience in the Republican caucus,” a Romney adviser told my colleague Gabriel Sherman on Monday, noting that the Utah Senator could potentially rally Trump-skeptics like Susan Collins, Ben Sasse, and Cory Gardner to the impeachment cause.....
Trump Impeachment Poll Shows Even Republicans May Be Coming Around on Impeachment
According to a new poll, 58 percent of Americans support the impeachment probe into Trump—including 30 percent of Republicans.
By Eric Lutz
October 8, 2019
Donald Trump has weathered storm after storm throughout his presidency, emerging virtually unscathed from controversies and disasters thanks to a Republican firewall that has so far wholly insulated him from consequences.
But new polling suggests that his support may be cracking amid the Ukraine scandal that has engulfed his presidency and sent him on a path toward impeachment.
A Washington Post/Schar School poll released Tuesday found that public opinion is dramatically shifting in favor of the fast-moving impeachment inquiry Democrats launched in response to Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.
Fifty-eight percent of Americans surveyed said they support the probe, and close to half of respondents backed Trump’s removal from office. More troubling for Trump, nearly 30 percent of Republicans polled said they support the inquiry, and close to a fifth of registered GOP voters say he should be removed.
That’s an ominous sign for Trump, whose support among Republicans has already seemed more tenuous during this impeachment push than at perhaps any other point in his presidency. Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan, and other usual suspects have come to his aid, but their efforts to downplay the allegations at the heart of the impeachment inquiry have come up embarrassingly short. And while only a few in the GOP have outwardly criticized the president’s actions, the silence from the majority of Republican lawmakers has spoken volumes. Republicans who are normally enthusiastic in defending the president have kept their distance, lacking a coherent strategy and wary of getting involved when practically every day brings new disturbing reports.
Trump’s erratic conduct hasn’t helped matters, making some Republicans uneasy with things like threats of civil war. If his daily ranting about a deep state conspiracy hasn’t rankled Republicans, his stunning decision to allow Turkey to invade Northern Syria, leaving America’s Kurdish allies exposed, certainly has. That reckless move drew bipartisan backlash, including from Graham, who called the decision Monday a “disaster in the making.”
With a Democratic majority in the House, it’s likely that Trump will eventually be impeached. That’ll blemish his “resume”—something he’s reportedly told Republicans he doesn’t want—but until recently didn’t seem like something that could result in his removal from office, given the tight grip he’s held on the Republican-controlled Senate. Conviction remains a long shot, even though he’s admitted to, and publicly doubled down on, the very things he was accused of in the whistleblower complaint that set this whole impeachment push into motion, but it no longer necessarily seems impossible. Republican lawmakers have been reluctant to turn on Trump out of fear that doing so could put their own political futures in jeopardy. But if public opinion continues to go against the president, that could give them cover to hold him accountable.
Already an impeachment campaign appears to be brewing behind closed doors in the Senate, with Mitt Romney, who’s been sharply critical of the president since the Ukraine scandal broke, said to be reaching out to GOP colleagues about potentially pushing to oust Trump. “He could have tremendous influence in the impeachment process as the lone voice of conscience in the Republican caucus,” a Romney adviser told my colleague Gabriel Sherman on Monday, noting that the Utah Senator could potentially rally Trump-skeptics like Susan Collins, Ben Sasse, and Cory Gardner to the impeachment cause.....
Appeals court hands Trump win, rules Dem lawmakers cannot sue over business payments
Another Trump win. And nope, we don't get tired of winning, and will continue to do so! 
A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously ruled that more than 200 Democratic congressional lawmakers do not have standing to sue President Trump over allegations he violated the Emoluments Clause over foreign payments to his businesses.
“Because we conclude that the Members lack standing, we reverse the district court and remand with instructions to dismiss their complaint,” the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said in its ruling.
“The Members can, and likely will, continue to use their weighty voices to make their case to the American people, their colleagues in the Congress and the President himself, all of whom are free to engage that argument as they see fit,” the court continued. “But we will not – indeed we cannot – participate in this debate.”
The court added that “the Constitution permits the Judiciary to speak only in the context of an Article III case or controversy and this lawsuit presents neither.”
Holding up a copy of the ruling as he departed Washington for a North Carolina event, Trump blasted the suit as a "phony" case.
“It was a total win,” he declared.
The ruling comes after the court ruled in August that Trump could challenge the lawsuit, saying the litigation raises the "unsettled" question of whether politicians have standing to sue a sitting president for running international businesses.
The Emoluments Clause is contained in Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution and states that “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title of any kind whatsoever, from any King, Prince, or foreign state.”
More than 200 congressional Democrats brought the lawsuit against the president in June 2017, alleging that Trump violated the clause. Democrats argued that they had standing to sue because the clause says only Congress may approve foreign gifts and payments.
“The framers gave Congress a unique role, a unique right, and responsibility,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who helped organize the suit, said at the time. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., was also involved.
Upon taking office, the president turned over control of his companies to his sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., but did not divest from them, meaning he still technically can benefit financially from the Trump Organization’s profits, including from foreign governments.
Since becoming president, the Trump Organization had secured dozens of valuable patents, including in China, and collected fees from lobbyists working for Saudi Arabia and other countries using his properties.
A federal appeals court, earlier this year, dismissed a similar Emoluments Clause lawsuit filed against Trump by the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
"I got sued on a thing called emoluments. Emoluments. You ever hear of the word? Nobody ever heard of it before," Trump said at an event in Pennsylvania last year.
Fox News’ Gregg Re and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously ruled that more than 200 Democratic congressional lawmakers do not have standing to sue President Trump over allegations he violated the Emoluments Clause over foreign payments to his businesses.
“Because we conclude that the Members lack standing, we reverse the district court and remand with instructions to dismiss their complaint,” the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said in its ruling.
“The Members can, and likely will, continue to use their weighty voices to make their case to the American people, their colleagues in the Congress and the President himself, all of whom are free to engage that argument as they see fit,” the court continued. “But we will not – indeed we cannot – participate in this debate.”
The court added that “the Constitution permits the Judiciary to speak only in the context of an Article III case or controversy and this lawsuit presents neither.”
Holding up a copy of the ruling as he departed Washington for a North Carolina event, Trump blasted the suit as a "phony" case.
“It was a total win,” he declared.
The ruling comes after the court ruled in August that Trump could challenge the lawsuit, saying the litigation raises the "unsettled" question of whether politicians have standing to sue a sitting president for running international businesses.
The Emoluments Clause is contained in Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution and states that “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title of any kind whatsoever, from any King, Prince, or foreign state.”
More than 200 congressional Democrats brought the lawsuit against the president in June 2017, alleging that Trump violated the clause. Democrats argued that they had standing to sue because the clause says only Congress may approve foreign gifts and payments.
“The framers gave Congress a unique role, a unique right, and responsibility,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who helped organize the suit, said at the time. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., was also involved.
Upon taking office, the president turned over control of his companies to his sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., but did not divest from them, meaning he still technically can benefit financially from the Trump Organization’s profits, including from foreign governments.
Since becoming president, the Trump Organization had secured dozens of valuable patents, including in China, and collected fees from lobbyists working for Saudi Arabia and other countries using his properties.
A federal appeals court, earlier this year, dismissed a similar Emoluments Clause lawsuit filed against Trump by the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
"I got sued on a thing called emoluments. Emoluments. You ever hear of the word? Nobody ever heard of it before," Trump said at an event in Pennsylvania last year.
Fox News’ Gregg Re and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
First Bill Maher, now Matt Taibbi - even Liberals are Waking Up
You might recall how that long-time Ultra Liberal Bill Maher was a bane against all things American, Conservative and Trump.
and then he comes up with this:
Bill Maher: The Media Needs To Stop With The Panic Porn & Fear Mongering
But, in some Liberals, or Progressives, or Leftists, whatever they might be called, there is still a sense of standards which apply across the board. When this happens, and they challenge their own, say for hypocrisy, they have strayed from the reservation, they have committed secular apostasy and are marked for punishment, or virtual un-personing, like Trotsky's fall from Communist grace and ensuing ice-picking in Mexico.
Now, another Liberal journalist, in the old style of "For the Little Guy" activism, realizes now that something is very wrong, and starts to turn his spotlight against Big Pharma:
When the Covid-19 crisis struck, the scolding utopia was no longer abstraction. The dream was reality! Pure communism had arrived! Failure to take elite advice was no longer just a deplorable faux pas. Not heeding experts was now murder. It could not be tolerated. Media coverage quickly became a single, floridly-written tirade against “expertise-deniers.”* For instance, the Atlantic headline on Kemp’s decision to end some shutdowns was, “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice.”
Indeed, he is writing on the subject which has largely dominated our lives over the past two years.
The Cult of the Vaccine
"The jab" is just the latest story to be reported as mantra
And, in keeping Party Discipline, Taibbi has been marked as a Reactionary, just another Trostkyite, who has violated the Party Line.
What the Hell Happened to Matt Taibbi?, Carl Peterson
I used to think if we had more journalists like Matt Taibbi we could make some headway against the prevailing currents of the corporate media. What an accomplishment that would have been! A 21st century outburst of the irreverent spirit of pragmatic, democratic American straight-talking.
I remember how clearly Taibbi explained the causes and mechanisms of the 2008 economic meltdown triggered by a greed-crazed and opportunistically criminal American financial “elite,” (who, as it turned out, escaped from their self-made catastrophe with scarcely a rebuke, but plenty of reward, while regular Americans, the ones who keep this country alive [and maintain the elite on their golden perches despite repeated depredations by and systemic failures of the ruling plutocracy]--trudged on, predictably battered again.)
...
But Matt Taibbi’s recent article, The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis Is Here *, published on RSN on about May 2, 2020, like a lot of his recent work, does not uphold the standard of excellence he set and maintained years ago. It seems that Taibbi is no longer attempting to speak truth to power, but is up to something else. What that is? Hard to say exactly.
* https://taibbi.substack.com/p/temporary-coronavirus-censorship
("As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet")
I would urge the Readership to read both of Taibbi's articles and see how they *do* speak truth to power, and how the Presstitute Luegenpresse has largely abandoned their job as the Watchdog of the public trust. Instead, they are covering for the unholy cabal of Big Media, Big Pharma, Big Social Media, the CCP, and others.
and then he comes up with this:
Bill Maher: The Media Needs To Stop With The Panic Porn & Fear Mongering
But, in some Liberals, or Progressives, or Leftists, whatever they might be called, there is still a sense of standards which apply across the board. When this happens, and they challenge their own, say for hypocrisy, they have strayed from the reservation, they have committed secular apostasy and are marked for punishment, or virtual un-personing, like Trotsky's fall from Communist grace and ensuing ice-picking in Mexico.
Now, another Liberal journalist, in the old style of "For the Little Guy" activism, realizes now that something is very wrong, and starts to turn his spotlight against Big Pharma:
When the Covid-19 crisis struck, the scolding utopia was no longer abstraction. The dream was reality! Pure communism had arrived! Failure to take elite advice was no longer just a deplorable faux pas. Not heeding experts was now murder. It could not be tolerated. Media coverage quickly became a single, floridly-written tirade against “expertise-deniers.”* For instance, the Atlantic headline on Kemp’s decision to end some shutdowns was, “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice.”
Indeed, he is writing on the subject which has largely dominated our lives over the past two years.
The Cult of the Vaccine
"The jab" is just the latest story to be reported as mantra
And, in keeping Party Discipline, Taibbi has been marked as a Reactionary, just another Trostkyite, who has violated the Party Line.
What the Hell Happened to Matt Taibbi?, Carl Peterson
I used to think if we had more journalists like Matt Taibbi we could make some headway against the prevailing currents of the corporate media. What an accomplishment that would have been! A 21st century outburst of the irreverent spirit of pragmatic, democratic American straight-talking.
I remember how clearly Taibbi explained the causes and mechanisms of the 2008 economic meltdown triggered by a greed-crazed and opportunistically criminal American financial “elite,” (who, as it turned out, escaped from their self-made catastrophe with scarcely a rebuke, but plenty of reward, while regular Americans, the ones who keep this country alive [and maintain the elite on their golden perches despite repeated depredations by and systemic failures of the ruling plutocracy]--trudged on, predictably battered again.)
...
But Matt Taibbi’s recent article, The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis Is Here *, published on RSN on about May 2, 2020, like a lot of his recent work, does not uphold the standard of excellence he set and maintained years ago. It seems that Taibbi is no longer attempting to speak truth to power, but is up to something else. What that is? Hard to say exactly.
https://migrate.readersupportednews.org/pm-section/78-78/62899-what-the-hell-happened-to-matt-taibbi
* https://taibbi.substack.com/p/temporary-coronavirus-censorship
("As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet")
I would urge the Readership to read both of Taibbi's articles and see how they *do* speak truth to power, and how the Presstitute Luegenpresse has largely abandoned their job as the Watchdog of the public trust. Instead, they are covering for the unholy cabal of Big Media, Big Pharma, Big Social Media, the CCP, and others.
Radoslaw Sikorski: Poland could be better
Radoslaw Sikorski was one of the founders of the Eastern Partnership, a joint policy initiative which aims to deepen and strengthen relations between the EU, its member states and its six eastern neighbours: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
“This was the first big political project that Poland persuaded the whole EU to adopt,” he says proudly.
*
Former Polish foreign and defence minister Radoslaw Sikorski speaks to Emerging Europe about his new book, the current state of Poland, Brexit and his potential return to politics.
...
Polish politics
...
“I mean they only won by fluke, by the incompetence of the left in particular who went into the last elections as four different groups, and not a single one passed the parliamentary threshold. I hope they have learned their lessons.”
Much of the support that PiS can count on comes partly from its tough anti-immigration stance, something which Mr Sikorski believes is hypocritical.
“We are a country of migrants, and have been for 300 years,” he says. “Just about every generation has produced a wave of people who were given asylum somewhere else, including me: I was a refugee in the UK. So for our leaders to be using this kind of anti-foreigner sentiment, particularly against people fleeing war in Syria, is unbecoming a Pole. It is un-Polish. In addition to that our church is no longer Catholic, it is a nationalist sect. We have senior clergymen praying for the Pope to die.”
Brexit
...
“It’s a national folly,” he says. “It’s the last gasp of English exceptionalism and of English arrogance, because it’s a product of misinformation and lack of understanding of how the EU actually works. I mean the leave campaign targeted the Indian community and the Commonwealth community, which have nothing to do with the EU.”
He does accept, however, that the huge numbers of Poles who went to live and work in the UK after Poland joined the EU did play a role in the outcome of the Brexit vote.
...
“I have been saying this for months, that the ruling party [in Poland] is in danger of repeating the British mistake, namely leaving the EU by accident. Attacking the EU to score internal politics comes at a huge cost, as the British government has found out.”
If there is to be any silver lining to Brexit at all it will be that lessons can be learned.
“You play with these nationalist feelings at your peril, for the public may just believe in your propaganda,” says Mr Sikorski.
Eastern Partnership and foreign policy
Sikorski was one of the founders of the Eastern Partnership, a joint policy initiative which aims to deepen and strengthen relations between the EU, its member states and its six eastern neighbours: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
“This was the first big political project that Poland persuaded the whole EU to adopt,” he says proudly.
“The EU has already spent billions of euros on the Eastern Partnership, managing borders, investing in infrastructure, providing aid for small businesses, preparing countries for visa-free travel and for the EU free tradezone as well as offering advice with legislation. Thanks to the success of the programme’s first decade, Ukraine will now be more closely integrated with the EU than Britain.”
...
"Poland needs to re-establish the EU credentials which have been destroyed by the current government.”
Mr Sikorski could be one of the key individuals driving that process. The main Polish opposition party, Civic Platform, has been discussing the possibility of his return to politics, as a candidate for election to the European Parliament next year. While Mr Sikorski is still toying with the idea, he nevertheless believes that change is certain, and that PiS is on the way out.
“We are going to win,” he says.
***
Full interview on Emerging Europe:
“This was the first big political project that Poland persuaded the whole EU to adopt,” he says proudly.
*
Former Polish foreign and defence minister Radoslaw Sikorski speaks to Emerging Europe about his new book, the current state of Poland, Brexit and his potential return to politics.
...
Polish politics
...
“I mean they only won by fluke, by the incompetence of the left in particular who went into the last elections as four different groups, and not a single one passed the parliamentary threshold. I hope they have learned their lessons.”
Much of the support that PiS can count on comes partly from its tough anti-immigration stance, something which Mr Sikorski believes is hypocritical.
“We are a country of migrants, and have been for 300 years,” he says. “Just about every generation has produced a wave of people who were given asylum somewhere else, including me: I was a refugee in the UK. So for our leaders to be using this kind of anti-foreigner sentiment, particularly against people fleeing war in Syria, is unbecoming a Pole. It is un-Polish. In addition to that our church is no longer Catholic, it is a nationalist sect. We have senior clergymen praying for the Pope to die.”
Brexit
...
“It’s a national folly,” he says. “It’s the last gasp of English exceptionalism and of English arrogance, because it’s a product of misinformation and lack of understanding of how the EU actually works. I mean the leave campaign targeted the Indian community and the Commonwealth community, which have nothing to do with the EU.”
He does accept, however, that the huge numbers of Poles who went to live and work in the UK after Poland joined the EU did play a role in the outcome of the Brexit vote.
...
“I have been saying this for months, that the ruling party [in Poland] is in danger of repeating the British mistake, namely leaving the EU by accident. Attacking the EU to score internal politics comes at a huge cost, as the British government has found out.”
If there is to be any silver lining to Brexit at all it will be that lessons can be learned.
“You play with these nationalist feelings at your peril, for the public may just believe in your propaganda,” says Mr Sikorski.
Eastern Partnership and foreign policy
Sikorski was one of the founders of the Eastern Partnership, a joint policy initiative which aims to deepen and strengthen relations between the EU, its member states and its six eastern neighbours: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
“This was the first big political project that Poland persuaded the whole EU to adopt,” he says proudly.
“The EU has already spent billions of euros on the Eastern Partnership, managing borders, investing in infrastructure, providing aid for small businesses, preparing countries for visa-free travel and for the EU free tradezone as well as offering advice with legislation. Thanks to the success of the programme’s first decade, Ukraine will now be more closely integrated with the EU than Britain.”
...
"Poland needs to re-establish the EU credentials which have been destroyed by the current government.”
Mr Sikorski could be one of the key individuals driving that process. The main Polish opposition party, Civic Platform, has been discussing the possibility of his return to politics, as a candidate for election to the European Parliament next year. While Mr Sikorski is still toying with the idea, he nevertheless believes that change is certain, and that PiS is on the way out.
“We are going to win,” he says.
***
Full interview on Emerging Europe:
online today!
Illinois "prosecutor" Ms. Fox....
....seems they are beginning to come after her for letting this racist s*xual deviant skate. Just to help his career/paycheck. Illinois Bar, State AG, US AG, and more, apparently are looking into penalties/disbarment. Good luck with ALL THAT. As with Hussein Obama, good chance she's there with lots of affirmative action help, wink wink-nod nod. Like trying to fire a government employee. Wait, she's also one of those, ---just a bit more special than most of us. Easy to see why.
Wow you all mised this TRUMP dig.
Melania Trump ‘quietly renegotiates prenup’ – media
The former US first lady is seeking to secure her financial future and that of her son Barron, reports claim
Melania Trump ‘quietly renegotiates prenup’ – media
Former US First Lady Melania Trump is believed to have “quietly” renegotiated her prenuptial agreement with her husband Donald Trump as the ex-president’s legal issues continue to mount, the New York Post has claimed.
The Slovenian born ex-model who has maintained a low profile since Joe Biden succeeded her husband as US president in January 2021, amended the terms in order to secure her own financial future, as well as that of their 17-year-old son Barron Trump, the newspaper reported earlier this week citing anonymous sources.
The report comes just days after a judge in New York ruled that Donald Trump had committed widespread and prolonged real-estate fraud – including while he was president - by artificially inflating the value of his holdings by billions of dollars.
“This is at least the third time Melania has renegotiated the terms of her marital agreement,” a source told the New York Post. “Melania is most concerned about maintaining and increasing a substantial trust for their son, Barron.”
The report adds that Melania Trump’s legal team began talks with Donald Trump’s representatives last year, at around the time that the former president began signaling that he was preparing to begin a bid to regain the White House in the 2024 presidential election.
Former Melania Trump lawyer wins presidential election
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Donald Trump has subsequently been faced with an array of legal issues, including four criminal indictments and possible imprisonment. He denies all claims of wrongdoing.
“It’s not that she threatened to leave him,” the New York Post’s source said. “I know that she wanted it to provide her with more money and also, from what I understand, there’s a specific amount at minimum that Barron is supposed to obtain.”
In addition to the real-estate fraud case in New York, Donald Trump also faces myriad legal issues. He is alleged to have made illegal ‘hush money’ payments to an adult film actress, and to have wilfully mishandled classified government documents at his Florida estate. He is also facing charges related to election meddling in the state of Georgia.
He has denied all allegations of illegality, and said this week that the New York real-estate case is “un-American” and a “scam” designed by his political opponents to impact his campaign to return to the White House.
On Friday, an ally of Donald Trump, Republican poll-watcher Scott Hall, pleaded guilty to conspiring to interfere with the process of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. He is expected to testify against Trump in upcoming court proceedings.
The former US first lady is seeking to secure her financial future and that of her son Barron, reports claim
Melania Trump ‘quietly renegotiates prenup’ – media
Former US First Lady Melania Trump is believed to have “quietly” renegotiated her prenuptial agreement with her husband Donald Trump as the ex-president’s legal issues continue to mount, the New York Post has claimed.
The Slovenian born ex-model who has maintained a low profile since Joe Biden succeeded her husband as US president in January 2021, amended the terms in order to secure her own financial future, as well as that of their 17-year-old son Barron Trump, the newspaper reported earlier this week citing anonymous sources.
The report comes just days after a judge in New York ruled that Donald Trump had committed widespread and prolonged real-estate fraud – including while he was president - by artificially inflating the value of his holdings by billions of dollars.
“This is at least the third time Melania has renegotiated the terms of her marital agreement,” a source told the New York Post. “Melania is most concerned about maintaining and increasing a substantial trust for their son, Barron.”
The report adds that Melania Trump’s legal team began talks with Donald Trump’s representatives last year, at around the time that the former president began signaling that he was preparing to begin a bid to regain the White House in the 2024 presidential election.
Former Melania Trump lawyer wins presidential election
Read more
Former Melania Trump lawyer wins presidential election
Donald Trump has subsequently been faced with an array of legal issues, including four criminal indictments and possible imprisonment. He denies all claims of wrongdoing.
“It’s not that she threatened to leave him,” the New York Post’s source said. “I know that she wanted it to provide her with more money and also, from what I understand, there’s a specific amount at minimum that Barron is supposed to obtain.”
In addition to the real-estate fraud case in New York, Donald Trump also faces myriad legal issues. He is alleged to have made illegal ‘hush money’ payments to an adult film actress, and to have wilfully mishandled classified government documents at his Florida estate. He is also facing charges related to election meddling in the state of Georgia.
He has denied all allegations of illegality, and said this week that the New York real-estate case is “un-American” and a “scam” designed by his political opponents to impact his campaign to return to the White House.
On Friday, an ally of Donald Trump, Republican poll-watcher Scott Hall, pleaded guilty to conspiring to interfere with the process of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. He is expected to testify against Trump in upcoming court proceedings.
TEFLON DON: Trump's Approval Ratings Soar Despite Russia Meeting
According to a brand new Rasmussen poll, President Trump’s approval numbers have now climbed back to 46%, near the highest of his presidency. And all the other polls have now reflected the bump: the NBC/WSJ poll over the weekend shows Trump at an all-time high of 45%. That poll also showed that just 53% of Republicans approved of Trump’s behavior at his meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Helsinki — but that didn’t matter much to their overall approval of him, which is nearly universal (88%).
What’s bolstering Trump’s high approval rating? The NBC/WSJ poll suggests that Trump’s economic record is his biggest asset: 50% of Americans like the way he’s handling the economy. 51% dislike the way he has handled Putin overall, 58% disapprove of his immigration policy, and 53% disapprove of his tariff policy.
But there’s something else that has happened, too: Trump’s approval rating has been remarkably stable since long before he was president. He began his presidency at nearly the same number he now occupies; during the election cycle, he hovered in the low-40s as well. News coverage simply doesn’t touch Trump, because everything is baked in. There’s nobody in America who doesn’t have a personal opinion or take on Trump. He’s become the political equivalent of the Super Bowl: the thing everybody watches and talks about.
And that means that new information doesn’t change the math.
What does change, however, is the impact Trump has on Congressional elections. Republicans aren’t nearly as priced-in as Trump. That means that when Trump does something unpopular, Congressional Republicans bear the brunt in the polls. So, for example, at the beginning of June, before the latest round of hubbub, Democrats led Republicans in the generic ballot by 3 points; now that number is 7.4%, according to RealClearPolitics.
That’s actually not unique to Trump. President Obama retained high approval ratings throughout his time in office, because everyone had an opinion about him. But his actions reflected far more on his Congressional Democrats than on Obama himself, which is why Democrats experienced heavy losses across the country. All of which suggests that some caution is in order before Republicans declare victory thanks to Trump’s solid approval ratings: the variability in our national polls no longer seems to apply to presidential approval ratings nearly as much as to Congressional approval ratings. That’s because we’ve now used the presidency as a proxy for all of our partisanship, and we seem to reserve our more nuanced political judgment for Congressional races, where the stakes of going out to vote are lower and seemingly less fraught.
What’s bolstering Trump’s high approval rating? The NBC/WSJ poll suggests that Trump’s economic record is his biggest asset: 50% of Americans like the way he’s handling the economy. 51% dislike the way he has handled Putin overall, 58% disapprove of his immigration policy, and 53% disapprove of his tariff policy.
But there’s something else that has happened, too: Trump’s approval rating has been remarkably stable since long before he was president. He began his presidency at nearly the same number he now occupies; during the election cycle, he hovered in the low-40s as well. News coverage simply doesn’t touch Trump, because everything is baked in. There’s nobody in America who doesn’t have a personal opinion or take on Trump. He’s become the political equivalent of the Super Bowl: the thing everybody watches and talks about.
And that means that new information doesn’t change the math.
What does change, however, is the impact Trump has on Congressional elections. Republicans aren’t nearly as priced-in as Trump. That means that when Trump does something unpopular, Congressional Republicans bear the brunt in the polls. So, for example, at the beginning of June, before the latest round of hubbub, Democrats led Republicans in the generic ballot by 3 points; now that number is 7.4%, according to RealClearPolitics.
That’s actually not unique to Trump. President Obama retained high approval ratings throughout his time in office, because everyone had an opinion about him. But his actions reflected far more on his Congressional Democrats than on Obama himself, which is why Democrats experienced heavy losses across the country. All of which suggests that some caution is in order before Republicans declare victory thanks to Trump’s solid approval ratings: the variability in our national polls no longer seems to apply to presidential approval ratings nearly as much as to Congressional approval ratings. That’s because we’ve now used the presidency as a proxy for all of our partisanship, and we seem to reserve our more nuanced political judgment for Congressional races, where the stakes of going out to vote are lower and seemingly less fraught.
Why Obama deserves a little credit for the Trump Boom, and why the Democrats will never admit it
It is actually pathetic that Barack Obama is trying to claim credit for the Trump Boom that began with the stock market jumping the moment Trump’s election was clear, and which has continued to generate jobs – especially the manufacturing jobs that Obama told us were not coming back. He is following the Big Lie approach, thinking that repetition of this baseless claim would eventually get people to believe it.
That said, the very reason his claim is false actually did help make the Trump Boom more pronounced. Obama shackled existing businesses and entrepreneurs contemplating new businesses with tax increases and years’ worth of red tape. That’s why his recovery from the 2008 financial shock was the slowest recovery from a recession on record.
But during this period, technological innovation did not stop, nor did opportunities for business projects stop developing in the minds of people who would carry them out, should the business environment (taxes + regulations) improve. There was, in other words, a substantial backlog of business opportunities that built up during the 8 years of Obama’s oppressive anti-business policies.
That backlog was available for investment, once President Trump cleared away the shackles. With 8 years of suppression, there would not have been as big a backlog of good projects waiting for realization.
If course, Dems will never admit that Obama suppressed economic growth, and that helped Trump look even better. It’s analogous to the relief the apocryphal man hitting his head with a hammer feels once he stops. The absence of harm makes what follows feel even better.
That said, the very reason his claim is false actually did help make the Trump Boom more pronounced. Obama shackled existing businesses and entrepreneurs contemplating new businesses with tax increases and years’ worth of red tape. That’s why his recovery from the 2008 financial shock was the slowest recovery from a recession on record.
But during this period, technological innovation did not stop, nor did opportunities for business projects stop developing in the minds of people who would carry them out, should the business environment (taxes + regulations) improve. There was, in other words, a substantial backlog of business opportunities that built up during the 8 years of Obama’s oppressive anti-business policies.
That backlog was available for investment, once President Trump cleared away the shackles. With 8 years of suppression, there would not have been as big a backlog of good projects waiting for realization.
If course, Dems will never admit that Obama suppressed economic growth, and that helped Trump look even better. It’s analogous to the relief the apocryphal man hitting his head with a hammer feels once he stops. The absence of harm makes what follows feel even better.
A tear for USA
In the midst of the worst ever global depression which has seen unprecedented worldwide job losses, with the US alone notching over 40 million, a murder takes place in Minneapolis, Minnesota which triggered nationwide demonstrations, some riots, the deployment of the National Guard and curfews all bracketed by a deadly pandemic which calls for social distancing, no crowds or mass gatherings in the first instance.
But in America, racial injustice is boiling over once again. Had it ever been quelled?
Anger, frustration and pain following the tragic death of George Floyd – an African American who suffocated while in custody from having a police officer’s knee pressing on his neck. Floyd died pleading “don’t kill me” and “I cannot breathe”. The officer Derek Chauvin has since been charged with third degree murder and manslaughter, even as his wife is reportedly filing for a divorce.
Then we see the contrast to this ugliness with the elation created by Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which successfully launched at 20.10h GMT yesterday, putting two NASA astronauts and best friends – Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley – on their way to the International Space Station. A first by a private spaceship owned by a private company, watched by the world and by Donald Trump, who made the specific trip to the Kennedy Space Centre.
The US President needs a positive boost in this crucial election year given his handling of, and the misguiding tweets on, the coronavirus. But he's not helping himself with such tweets
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
· 17h
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
....got too frisky or out of line, they would quickly come down on them, hard - didn’t know what hit them. The front line was replaced with fresh agents, like magic. Big crowd, professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching the fence. If they had they would....
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
....have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least. Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action. “We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and....
Not exactly a catalyst for unifying a USA looked upon as the leader of the free world. Political and commercial issues with several countries, the abandonment of the World Health Organisation during this unprecedented pandemic and the withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change are only some issues among others that has dropped Trump’s home and worldwide ratings to their lowest ever for a serving President.
The free world doesn’t need a narcissist for a leader, but one with empathy and extending a hand of friendship. Iron fists and power threats do not encourage anything but violence. Not for a 'united' States, not for a prosperous and peaceful people and certainly not for a global leadership’s role and an example. A pity.
Stay safe.
But in America, racial injustice is boiling over once again. Had it ever been quelled?
Anger, frustration and pain following the tragic death of George Floyd – an African American who suffocated while in custody from having a police officer’s knee pressing on his neck. Floyd died pleading “don’t kill me” and “I cannot breathe”. The officer Derek Chauvin has since been charged with third degree murder and manslaughter, even as his wife is reportedly filing for a divorce.
Then we see the contrast to this ugliness with the elation created by Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which successfully launched at 20.10h GMT yesterday, putting two NASA astronauts and best friends – Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley – on their way to the International Space Station. A first by a private spaceship owned by a private company, watched by the world and by Donald Trump, who made the specific trip to the Kennedy Space Centre.
The US President needs a positive boost in this crucial election year given his handling of, and the misguiding tweets on, the coronavirus. But he's not helping himself with such tweets
Donald J. Trump
?
@realDonaldTrump
· 17h
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
....got too frisky or out of line, they would quickly come down on them, hard - didn’t know what hit them. The front line was replaced with fresh agents, like magic. Big crowd, professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching the fence. If they had they would....
Donald J. Trump
?
@realDonaldTrump
....have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least. Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action. “We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and....
Not exactly a catalyst for unifying a USA looked upon as the leader of the free world. Political and commercial issues with several countries, the abandonment of the World Health Organisation during this unprecedented pandemic and the withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change are only some issues among others that has dropped Trump’s home and worldwide ratings to their lowest ever for a serving President.
The free world doesn’t need a narcissist for a leader, but one with empathy and extending a hand of friendship. Iron fists and power threats do not encourage anything but violence. Not for a 'united' States, not for a prosperous and peaceful people and certainly not for a global leadership’s role and an example. A pity.
Stay safe.
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