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From Snopes
Someone on here, who often misleads people is doing it again with an incomplete statement from Snopes. That person CONVENIENTLY leaves out the majority.
Here are some of those statements on Snopes left out of that blog, which I would put on that blog, but the wussy routinely deletes my comments, because that person can't handle the truth, and would rather live in a fantasy, where Trump is a good president.
If you are clueless and want to remain that way, I encourage you to NOT read the rest of this blog. That way, you can ensure that you remain clueless.
If you are more like me, and want to know the truth, so you can make a more informed
decision, then read on.
Here are some statements copied exactly from Snopes on this topic.
Here are some of those statements on Snopes left out of that blog, which I would put on that blog, but the wussy routinely deletes my comments, because that person can't handle the truth, and would rather live in a fantasy, where Trump is a good president.
If you are clueless and want to remain that way, I encourage you to NOT read the rest of this blog. That way, you can ensure that you remain clueless.
If you are more like me, and want to know the truth, so you can make a more informed
decision, then read on.
Here are some statements copied exactly from Snopes on this topic.
In response to:
Trump’s statements were both incorrect and potentially harmful to voters, as we will explain below.
Voting by mail will play a significant role in the Nov. 3, 2020, general election due to safety precautions amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Trump has been making comments suggesting mail-in ballots make elections less secure by causing widespread fraud — doubts that are not grounded in fact.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections issued a statement on Sept. 3, 2020, warning voters that voting twice “with intent to commit a fraud to register or vote at more than one precinct or more than one time” is a felony, and that going to a polling place after already casting a mail-in ballot will only increase risk of COVID-19 transmission.
“Attempting to vote twice in an election or soliciting someone to do so also is a violation of North Carolina law,” reads the statement issued by Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
Brinson Bell stated that North Carolina has numerous safeguards in place to prevent double voting and urged people to sign up for BallotTrax, set to launch soon, which will allow voters to track their vote through the mail and confirm that it was received by their county’s election officials.
“The State Board office strongly discourages people from showing up at the polls on Election Day to check whether their absentee ballot was counted,” Brinson Bell said in the statement. “That is not necessary, and it would lead to longer lines and the possibility of spreading COVID-19.”
We asked the state board of elections about Trump’s distinction between “solicited” and “unsolicited” mail-in ballots and were told that none of the state’s voters are receiving “unsolicited” mail-in ballots.
While some advocacy groups and political parties have sent absentee ballot request forms to voters, North Carolina State Board of Elections spokesman Patrick Gannon told us in an email, “No one is receiving an absentee by-mail ballot who did not request one through the proper process.”
Trump’s statements were both incorrect and potentially harmful to voters, as we will explain below.
Voting by mail will play a significant role in the Nov. 3, 2020, general election due to safety precautions amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Trump has been making comments suggesting mail-in ballots make elections less secure by causing widespread fraud — doubts that are not grounded in fact.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections issued a statement on Sept. 3, 2020, warning voters that voting twice “with intent to commit a fraud to register or vote at more than one precinct or more than one time” is a felony, and that going to a polling place after already casting a mail-in ballot will only increase risk of COVID-19 transmission.
“Attempting to vote twice in an election or soliciting someone to do so also is a violation of North Carolina law,” reads the statement issued by Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
Brinson Bell stated that North Carolina has numerous safeguards in place to prevent double voting and urged people to sign up for BallotTrax, set to launch soon, which will allow voters to track their vote through the mail and confirm that it was received by their county’s election officials.
“The State Board office strongly discourages people from showing up at the polls on Election Day to check whether their absentee ballot was counted,” Brinson Bell said in the statement. “That is not necessary, and it would lead to longer lines and the possibility of spreading COVID-19.”
We asked the state board of elections about Trump’s distinction between “solicited” and “unsolicited” mail-in ballots and were told that none of the state’s voters are receiving “unsolicited” mail-in ballots.
While some advocacy groups and political parties have sent absentee ballot request forms to voters, North Carolina State Board of Elections spokesman Patrick Gannon told us in an email, “No one is receiving an absentee by-mail ballot who did not request one through the proper process.”
If you want funny Joe Biden, here you go.
Joe is not perfect. Not even close. In my opinion he was not the best democratic candidate. I would have preferred Sanders or Warren.
But, he's WAY better than Trump. That's not even close. Trump is the worst in US history.
That's no joke. The country is far worse off on MANY levels, than when Trump took office.
Regardless, Joe has gotten some things wrong and he's said some things wrong. What Joe does have is an honest heart and a willingness to respect, understand and help others.
He's also grown while in office. Unlike some people, he's gotten better.
Nonetheless, I'm all for laughter in politics. I have no problem with laughing at Joe's mistakes. Indeed, here's a video about Joe to help everyone laugh.
After I'm done laughing, I'll be voting for Joe and sending the worst most corrupt president in
history out of office.
Enjoy !
But, he's WAY better than Trump. That's not even close. Trump is the worst in US history.
That's no joke. The country is far worse off on MANY levels, than when Trump took office.
Regardless, Joe has gotten some things wrong and he's said some things wrong. What Joe does have is an honest heart and a willingness to respect, understand and help others.
He's also grown while in office. Unlike some people, he's gotten better.
Nonetheless, I'm all for laughter in politics. I have no problem with laughing at Joe's mistakes. Indeed, here's a video about Joe to help everyone laugh.
After I'm done laughing, I'll be voting for Joe and sending the worst most corrupt president in
history out of office.
Enjoy !
online today!
The hairdresser made me do it!!!
Nancy Pelosi, venerable hypocrite extraordinaire - got caught violating the restrictions that restricted the riff-raff from getting their hair tended to. CCTV footage caught Nantoinette going in to the hair salon. Queen Nancy insists she was 'tricked'! placing the blame on the salon for her own personal decision.
Liberal privilege!
Liberal privilege!
Anonymous Democrat operative's account of how election fraud is allegedly committed was 'revealing'
An anonymous Democratic operative’s account of how election fraud is allegedly committed was “revealing” and “chilling,” the New York Post reporter who interviewed him told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday.
“Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots,” was published in The New York Post on Saturday and was written by Jon Levine, who interviewed the top Democratic operative and wrote “voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth.”
Levine added that the operative “knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.”
Mail-in ballots have become a point of contention between Republicans and Democrats in the 2020 elections.
Democrats contend President Trump and new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy are trying to sabotage the 2020 election by delaying service that could compromise mail-in ballots during the coronavirus pandemic.
Republicans dismissed the Democrats' election concerns as a conspiracy theory. President Trump has railed against mail-in voting over fraud concerns as more states seek to increase it during the pandemic.
Levine told “Fox & Friends” that the political insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears prosecution, came to The New York Post and presented evidence. Levine called him “a very serious guy in New Jersey” who “has a very long track record with some of the biggest politicians in that state.”
“Once he started talking and once it came from the horse's mouth, it was both … revealing, but also chilling,” Levine said.
The Democratic operative “said fraud is more the rule than the exception,” Levine wrote in the piece.
“His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State,” The Post article said. “Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed.”
Levine went on to write that “The whisteblower — whose identity, rap sheet and long history working as a consultant to various campaigns were confirmed by The Post — says he not only changed ballots himself over the years, but led teams of fraudsters and mentored at least 20 operatives in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — a critical 2020 swing state.”
Levine told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday that what the operative would say is the “voter is mailed the ballot and then once the ballots go out, they just fan out and they knock on doors and they convince people to hand over completed ballots.”
“He says a shocking number of people will just hand over completed ballots,” Levine added.
“This is a real thing,” the tipster said, according to the New York Post. “And there is going to be a f–king war coming November 3rd over this stuff … If they knew how the sausage was made, they could fix it.”
Host Brian Kilmeade pointed to another part of the article where the anonymous source explained that voter fraud is also connected to nursing homes, where the nurses are allegedly "paid operatives: and fill out absentee ballots for the seniors."
“This has been called ‘granny harvesting’ in the past,” Levine said. “They don't even have to steam it open because the nurse is on the payroll and then they just go and the nurse gives a stack of ballots, it’s like, ‘Hello, we’re going to do the ballot together’ and then it's both fraud and it's elder abuse frankly.”
The piece noted that according to the operative, “sometimes postal employees are in on the scam.”
The operative reportedly told The Post, “You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.”
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“Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots,” was published in The New York Post on Saturday and was written by Jon Levine, who interviewed the top Democratic operative and wrote “voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth.”
Levine added that the operative “knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.”
Mail-in ballots have become a point of contention between Republicans and Democrats in the 2020 elections.
Democrats contend President Trump and new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy are trying to sabotage the 2020 election by delaying service that could compromise mail-in ballots during the coronavirus pandemic.
Republicans dismissed the Democrats' election concerns as a conspiracy theory. President Trump has railed against mail-in voting over fraud concerns as more states seek to increase it during the pandemic.
Levine told “Fox & Friends” that the political insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears prosecution, came to The New York Post and presented evidence. Levine called him “a very serious guy in New Jersey” who “has a very long track record with some of the biggest politicians in that state.”
“Once he started talking and once it came from the horse's mouth, it was both … revealing, but also chilling,” Levine said.
The Democratic operative “said fraud is more the rule than the exception,” Levine wrote in the piece.
“His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State,” The Post article said. “Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed.”
Levine went on to write that “The whisteblower — whose identity, rap sheet and long history working as a consultant to various campaigns were confirmed by The Post — says he not only changed ballots himself over the years, but led teams of fraudsters and mentored at least 20 operatives in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — a critical 2020 swing state.”
Levine told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday that what the operative would say is the “voter is mailed the ballot and then once the ballots go out, they just fan out and they knock on doors and they convince people to hand over completed ballots.”
“He says a shocking number of people will just hand over completed ballots,” Levine added.
“This is a real thing,” the tipster said, according to the New York Post. “And there is going to be a f–king war coming November 3rd over this stuff … If they knew how the sausage was made, they could fix it.”
Host Brian Kilmeade pointed to another part of the article where the anonymous source explained that voter fraud is also connected to nursing homes, where the nurses are allegedly "paid operatives: and fill out absentee ballots for the seniors."
“This has been called ‘granny harvesting’ in the past,” Levine said. “They don't even have to steam it open because the nurse is on the payroll and then they just go and the nurse gives a stack of ballots, it’s like, ‘Hello, we’re going to do the ballot together’ and then it's both fraud and it's elder abuse frankly.”
The piece noted that according to the operative, “sometimes postal employees are in on the scam.”
The operative reportedly told The Post, “You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.”
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In case you missed it, here's Joe Biden's terrific speech yesterday live from Pittsburgh, PA
Joe chose to sit back and wait for the proper time to start campaigning and feels that with only 2 months before the election, the time is right to begin.
Joe chose to make his first speech from one of the many steel mills that Trump promised
to restore to productivity, but failed to do so. There's a LOT that Trump promised, but did not deliver. Instead, what Trump did deliver was not good at all.
Joe is a seasoned public servant, who has spent his life working towards bipartisan unity
in making progress towards improving America. He is exactly who is needed at this time of
severe division created in large part due to Trump's rhetoric and failed presidency resulting in over 180,000 deaths from a horrendous lack of proper response to a pandemic. This also contributed to a record loss of jobs. In addition we see a record national debt due in large part to Trump's decision to give the rich a big permanent tax break, while raising taxes on the lowest tax bracket. Now Trump looks to destroy ACA and Social Security, as well as destroy democracy. Violent crime is up and terrorist organizations have continually risen since Trump's election with a minority of the vote. Trump was impeached and if not for a corrupt republican controlled senate, he would have been removed from office.
In November the American voters should vote for Joe and those who run against those in congress who voted for Trump to remain in office.
In Joe's speech I see a small hint of retention of some stuttering, that used to be more present in Joe's past.
However, there is no cognitive issues, that were falsely suggested by Trump supporters.
With no further ado, here is that speech yesterday;
Joe chose to make his first speech from one of the many steel mills that Trump promised
to restore to productivity, but failed to do so. There's a LOT that Trump promised, but did not deliver. Instead, what Trump did deliver was not good at all.
Joe is a seasoned public servant, who has spent his life working towards bipartisan unity
in making progress towards improving America. He is exactly who is needed at this time of
severe division created in large part due to Trump's rhetoric and failed presidency resulting in over 180,000 deaths from a horrendous lack of proper response to a pandemic. This also contributed to a record loss of jobs. In addition we see a record national debt due in large part to Trump's decision to give the rich a big permanent tax break, while raising taxes on the lowest tax bracket. Now Trump looks to destroy ACA and Social Security, as well as destroy democracy. Violent crime is up and terrorist organizations have continually risen since Trump's election with a minority of the vote. Trump was impeached and if not for a corrupt republican controlled senate, he would have been removed from office.
In November the American voters should vote for Joe and those who run against those in congress who voted for Trump to remain in office.
In Joe's speech I see a small hint of retention of some stuttering, that used to be more present in Joe's past.
However, there is no cognitive issues, that were falsely suggested by Trump supporters.
With no further ado, here is that speech yesterday;
online today!
President Trump's Kenosha visit today....
...a city that was on anarchist-communist Antifa/BLM fire, due to the long refusal of Democrat mayors and governors to face reality and allow in the National Guard.These pols actually might have thought that the presence of armed soldiers made sense, but since the idea first came from Mr. Trump, well, can't have anything like THAT, no? Shades of H-Chloroquine.
With the Guard in town, our President will be as safe as a babe in mother's arms. And now that these army folks are there, the rioting has stopped. So why are these Democrat Politicians trying so hard to discourage the visit?
For one reason and one reason only, they fear that it will greatly benefit Mr. Trump. And it will.
Nice.
With the Guard in town, our President will be as safe as a babe in mother's arms. And now that these army folks are there, the rioting has stopped. So why are these Democrat Politicians trying so hard to discourage the visit?
For one reason and one reason only, they fear that it will greatly benefit Mr. Trump. And it will.
Nice.
online today!
Wrongfully-convicted man freed after 44 years in prison speaks out
A North Carolina man, sentenced to 80 years in prison for rape and burglary, was released last week after spending 44 years behind bars. A federal appeals court determined that Ronnie Long, who has always maintained his innocence, had been a victim of "extreme and continuous police misconduct."
Long, 64, was suddenly released late last week after the State of North Carolina admitted it could no longer defend the case, and asked a court to vacate his convictions.
The state's abrupt and unexpected reversal on this case came after a federal appeals court said last week that Long had been a victim of "extreme and continuous police misconduct."
With that, Long's four-decade battle for freedom was suddenly over.
"To be able to walk out of them gates without being supervised, it was breathtaking," Long said.
When his lawyer, Jamie Lau, with Duke University Law School's Wrongful Convictions Clinic, first called with the news, Long couldn't quite believe he was really going home.
"'You serious?'" Long recalled saying. "The state can't go back on their word? They gonna stick to what they say?"
In fact, the state kept its word, finally ending Long's 44-year quest to clear his name.
It began in May of 1976 when Long, a Black man, was accused of breaking into a home in Concord, North Carolina and raping a 54-year-old White woman, Sarah Bost.
Although there was no physical evidence tying Long to the crime, he was convicted by an all-White jury, and given an 80-year sentence.
"I feel as though the criminal justice system here in this state failed me," Long said.
He left a North Carolina prison last Thursday in sartorial style, thanks to friends and family waiting outside who'd never lost faith in his innocence.
When his lawyer, Jamie Lau, with Duke University Law School's Wrongful Convictions Clinic, first called with the news, Long couldn't quite believe he was really going home.
"'You serious?'" Long recalled saying. "The state can't go back on their word? They gonna stick to what they say?"
In fact, the state kept its word, finally ending Long's 44-year quest to clear his name.
It began in May of 1976 when Long, a Black man, was accused of breaking into a home in Concord, North Carolina and raping a 54-year-old White woman, Sarah Bost.
Although there was no physical evidence tying Long to the crime, he was convicted by an all-White jury, and given an 80-year sentence.
"I feel as though the criminal justice system here in this state failed me," Long said.
It was only after spending nearly 30 years in prison that Long learned that Concord police investigators had tested more than a dozen pieces of evidence, and had hidden the results. That evidence, as attorney Lau described in an interview last month, supported Long's innocence.
Moriarty asked, "Did the defense at trial know that there were 43 fingerprints found at the crime scene that didn't match Ronnie Long?"
"They did not," Lau replied.
"Did the defense know that there had actually been a rape kit taken and evidence taken from the victim?"
"They did not."
"Did the defense know that a hair that was found at the crime scene did not match Ronnie Long?"
"They did not," Lau said.
But attorneys for the state argued that none of this would have changed the original verdict, and Long remained in prison, despite growing protests and demands for his release.
Long said, "I'm 64, going on 65. They took my life away from me when I was 20 years old. I ain't got nothing but memories. But yet, and still, you say the evidence collected in the case was immaterial?"
Until last week, when the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals finally ruled that Long's rights had been violated by "a troubling and striking pattern of deliberate police suppression of material evidence."
The North Carolina Attorney General's office decided to no longer fight the case, and asked for Long's release.
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Long, 64, was suddenly released late last week after the State of North Carolina admitted it could no longer defend the case, and asked a court to vacate his convictions.
The state's abrupt and unexpected reversal on this case came after a federal appeals court said last week that Long had been a victim of "extreme and continuous police misconduct."
With that, Long's four-decade battle for freedom was suddenly over.
"To be able to walk out of them gates without being supervised, it was breathtaking," Long said.
When his lawyer, Jamie Lau, with Duke University Law School's Wrongful Convictions Clinic, first called with the news, Long couldn't quite believe he was really going home.
"'You serious?'" Long recalled saying. "The state can't go back on their word? They gonna stick to what they say?"
In fact, the state kept its word, finally ending Long's 44-year quest to clear his name.
It began in May of 1976 when Long, a Black man, was accused of breaking into a home in Concord, North Carolina and raping a 54-year-old White woman, Sarah Bost.
Although there was no physical evidence tying Long to the crime, he was convicted by an all-White jury, and given an 80-year sentence.
"I feel as though the criminal justice system here in this state failed me," Long said.
He left a North Carolina prison last Thursday in sartorial style, thanks to friends and family waiting outside who'd never lost faith in his innocence.
When his lawyer, Jamie Lau, with Duke University Law School's Wrongful Convictions Clinic, first called with the news, Long couldn't quite believe he was really going home.
"'You serious?'" Long recalled saying. "The state can't go back on their word? They gonna stick to what they say?"
In fact, the state kept its word, finally ending Long's 44-year quest to clear his name.
It began in May of 1976 when Long, a Black man, was accused of breaking into a home in Concord, North Carolina and raping a 54-year-old White woman, Sarah Bost.
Although there was no physical evidence tying Long to the crime, he was convicted by an all-White jury, and given an 80-year sentence.
"I feel as though the criminal justice system here in this state failed me," Long said.
It was only after spending nearly 30 years in prison that Long learned that Concord police investigators had tested more than a dozen pieces of evidence, and had hidden the results. That evidence, as attorney Lau described in an interview last month, supported Long's innocence.
Moriarty asked, "Did the defense at trial know that there were 43 fingerprints found at the crime scene that didn't match Ronnie Long?"
"They did not," Lau replied.
"Did the defense know that there had actually been a rape kit taken and evidence taken from the victim?"
"They did not."
"Did the defense know that a hair that was found at the crime scene did not match Ronnie Long?"
"They did not," Lau said.
But attorneys for the state argued that none of this would have changed the original verdict, and Long remained in prison, despite growing protests and demands for his release.
Long said, "I'm 64, going on 65. They took my life away from me when I was 20 years old. I ain't got nothing but memories. But yet, and still, you say the evidence collected in the case was immaterial?"
Until last week, when the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals finally ruled that Long's rights had been violated by "a troubling and striking pattern of deliberate police suppression of material evidence."
The North Carolina Attorney General's office decided to no longer fight the case, and asked for Long's release.
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Rand Paul and wife chased by crowd after leaving White House
The riff raff on the left. 
Trump wants to be re-elected to fix the problems that he 'helped' create, but is NOT doing so now.
Today from The New York Times;
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In response to:
On Politics
August 28, 2020
By Lisa Lerer and Nick Corasaniti
In 2016, Donald J. Trump accepted his party’s nomination at the Republican National Convention, painting a dark and angry vision of a nation under siege.
“Our convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life,” he said. “Beginning on Jan. 20, 2017, safety will be restored. The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens.”
At the end of the speech came a promise to voters: “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.”
Four years later, President Donald J. Trump described an America now under attack from “anarchists, agitators, rioters, looters and flag burners.” And once again, Mr. Trump argued that only he can stop the destruction.
“Always remember: They are coming after me, because I am fighting for you,” he said.
It’s a confusing argument, given the obvious question raised: If Mr. Trump can fix the chaos, why hasn’t he? After all, he is the president, and one who views his office as having expansive powers.
Though his speech had an uncharacteristically staid tone, Mr. Trump returned to his central political play: a Nixonian reliance on the dark politics of fear and lawlessness. There was also some political strategy in his tactics, though perhaps not the kind of 3-D chess that his opponents often believe Mr. Trump is playing.
We generally think of presidential elections through two different models: either a referendum on the incumbent or a choice between the policies, personalities and positions of two candidates.
Right now, this race is a referendum on Mr. Trump and his leadership. For months, Joe Biden has kept a lower profile, allowing the president’s inability to stay away from controversy to drive the race.
But given Mr. Trump’s low job-approval ratings, the president desperately needs this election to be a choice. He also needs voters not to focus on what polls say a majority believes to be true: that Mr. Trump responded inadequately to a pandemic that still rages across the country, upending American life.
So when violent protests break out in cities, which are largely led by Democratic politicians, Mr. Trump throws up his hands. The commander in chief proclaims himself to be powerless, in an effort to highlight what he sees as weakness on the part of his opponents. Even as he occupies the highest office in the land, Mr. Trump still considers himself “an outsider,” blaming a political establishment that he now leads for the nation’s problems.
“There is violence and danger in the streets of many Democrat-run cities throughout America. This problem could easily be fixed if they wanted to. Just call,” he said. “We have to wait for the call.”
This is not a tightly held strategy. The departing White House counselor, Kellyanne Conway, laid it out in fairly blunt terms on Thursday morning: “The more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the very clear choice on who’s best on public safety and law and order,” she said on “Fox and Friends.”
That’s why far more of the Republican convention was devoted to attacking Mr. Biden than laying out what, exactly, Mr. Trump would do if elected for a second term and why he isn't doing it now.
For months, Republicans toggled between attacking Mr. Biden as weak, corrupt and unfit for the role. In this speech, Mr. Trump seemed to settle on a clear line of attack: Mr. Biden is a secret socialist, lacking “the strength to stand up to wild-eyed Marxists like Bernie Sanders and his fellow radicals.” The fact that Mr. Biden ran against Mr. Sanders as an ideological moderate was left out of the narrative.
On Politics
August 28, 2020
By Lisa Lerer and Nick Corasaniti
In 2016, Donald J. Trump accepted his party’s nomination at the Republican National Convention, painting a dark and angry vision of a nation under siege.
“Our convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life,” he said. “Beginning on Jan. 20, 2017, safety will be restored. The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens.”
At the end of the speech came a promise to voters: “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.”
Four years later, President Donald J. Trump described an America now under attack from “anarchists, agitators, rioters, looters and flag burners.” And once again, Mr. Trump argued that only he can stop the destruction.
“Always remember: They are coming after me, because I am fighting for you,” he said.
It’s a confusing argument, given the obvious question raised: If Mr. Trump can fix the chaos, why hasn’t he? After all, he is the president, and one who views his office as having expansive powers.
Though his speech had an uncharacteristically staid tone, Mr. Trump returned to his central political play: a Nixonian reliance on the dark politics of fear and lawlessness. There was also some political strategy in his tactics, though perhaps not the kind of 3-D chess that his opponents often believe Mr. Trump is playing.
We generally think of presidential elections through two different models: either a referendum on the incumbent or a choice between the policies, personalities and positions of two candidates.
Right now, this race is a referendum on Mr. Trump and his leadership. For months, Joe Biden has kept a lower profile, allowing the president’s inability to stay away from controversy to drive the race.
But given Mr. Trump’s low job-approval ratings, the president desperately needs this election to be a choice. He also needs voters not to focus on what polls say a majority believes to be true: that Mr. Trump responded inadequately to a pandemic that still rages across the country, upending American life.
So when violent protests break out in cities, which are largely led by Democratic politicians, Mr. Trump throws up his hands. The commander in chief proclaims himself to be powerless, in an effort to highlight what he sees as weakness on the part of his opponents. Even as he occupies the highest office in the land, Mr. Trump still considers himself “an outsider,” blaming a political establishment that he now leads for the nation’s problems.
“There is violence and danger in the streets of many Democrat-run cities throughout America. This problem could easily be fixed if they wanted to. Just call,” he said. “We have to wait for the call.”
This is not a tightly held strategy. The departing White House counselor, Kellyanne Conway, laid it out in fairly blunt terms on Thursday morning: “The more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the very clear choice on who’s best on public safety and law and order,” she said on “Fox and Friends.”
That’s why far more of the Republican convention was devoted to attacking Mr. Biden than laying out what, exactly, Mr. Trump would do if elected for a second term and why he isn't doing it now.
For months, Republicans toggled between attacking Mr. Biden as weak, corrupt and unfit for the role. In this speech, Mr. Trump seemed to settle on a clear line of attack: Mr. Biden is a secret socialist, lacking “the strength to stand up to wild-eyed Marxists like Bernie Sanders and his fellow radicals.” The fact that Mr. Biden ran against Mr. Sanders as an ideological moderate was left out of the narrative.
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The most corrupt RNC in US history
Today from the Huffington Post;
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In response to:
Donald Trump’s Corruption Was On Full Display At The RNC
Eric Trump is running the president’s company and is under investigation in New York, but spoke at the convention Tuesday. That was only the beginning.
By George Zornick and Jesselyn Cook
Midway through the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, railed against the supposed corruption of the Biden family: “A corrupt Ukrainian oligarch put Hunter on the board of his gas company, even though he had no experience in the country ? or in the energy sector.” That may sound familiar, because that supposed malfeasance was at the heart of the scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment late last year.
Impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives showed that Trump threatened to withhold crucial military aid unless Volodymyr Zelensky, then Ukraine’s president-elect, opened an investigation into the Biden family and the discredited theory that Joe Biden intervened to end a criminal probe into the gas company where Hunter was on the board. The House voted to impeach Trump after several key actors in this scheme testified against him.
It’s a bold move to remind voters of the extensive scandal for which you were impeached less than a year ago. But Tuesday night’s RNC lineup amounted to an almost proud display of three and a half years of the Trump administration’s corruption ? from the mingling of the presidency and the Trump Organization, which the president did not divest from, to several flagrant displays of using federal resources to advance Trump’s re-election campaign. Four years after he campaigned on “draining the swamp,” Trump is showing off his graft.
Bondi was enmeshed in an entirely different Trump corruption scandal herself, although she claimed on Tuesday: “I fought corruption and I know what it looks like.”
As Florida’s attorney general in 2013, Bondi was considering joining the state of New York in a lawsuit against an affiliate of Trump University, Trump’s now-defunct for-profit education company, which was facing allegations of fraud. But after Trump donated $25,000 through his charity to a political action committee supporting Bondi’s re-election — violating federal tax laws in the process ? Bondi quietly decided not to join the case. (Trump’s campaign later claimed the donation was a “mistake,” and Trump himself paid a $2,500 IRS fine, because as a nonprofit, his charity is prohibited from making political gifts.)
Bondi is also a registered lobbyist for Qatar, which the U.S. Department of Justice has accused of bribing FIFA officials in exchange for hosting the 2022 World Cup, as The Daily Beast reported.
And then there was Eric Trump, who is still executive vice president of the Trump Organization but spoke during prime time at the RNC, urging people to vote for his father.
It was another bold move: Earlier in the day, the New York state attorney general asked a judge to force Eric Trump to answer subpoenas about whether the Trump Organization committed fraud by inflating its assets to get loans and tax breaks. To date, Eric has refused to comply with seven subpoenas about the matter......
Donald Trump’s Corruption Was On Full Display At The RNC
Eric Trump is running the president’s company and is under investigation in New York, but spoke at the convention Tuesday. That was only the beginning.
By George Zornick and Jesselyn Cook
Midway through the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, railed against the supposed corruption of the Biden family: “A corrupt Ukrainian oligarch put Hunter on the board of his gas company, even though he had no experience in the country ? or in the energy sector.” That may sound familiar, because that supposed malfeasance was at the heart of the scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment late last year.
Impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives showed that Trump threatened to withhold crucial military aid unless Volodymyr Zelensky, then Ukraine’s president-elect, opened an investigation into the Biden family and the discredited theory that Joe Biden intervened to end a criminal probe into the gas company where Hunter was on the board. The House voted to impeach Trump after several key actors in this scheme testified against him.
It’s a bold move to remind voters of the extensive scandal for which you were impeached less than a year ago. But Tuesday night’s RNC lineup amounted to an almost proud display of three and a half years of the Trump administration’s corruption ? from the mingling of the presidency and the Trump Organization, which the president did not divest from, to several flagrant displays of using federal resources to advance Trump’s re-election campaign. Four years after he campaigned on “draining the swamp,” Trump is showing off his graft.
Bondi was enmeshed in an entirely different Trump corruption scandal herself, although she claimed on Tuesday: “I fought corruption and I know what it looks like.”
As Florida’s attorney general in 2013, Bondi was considering joining the state of New York in a lawsuit against an affiliate of Trump University, Trump’s now-defunct for-profit education company, which was facing allegations of fraud. But after Trump donated $25,000 through his charity to a political action committee supporting Bondi’s re-election — violating federal tax laws in the process ? Bondi quietly decided not to join the case. (Trump’s campaign later claimed the donation was a “mistake,” and Trump himself paid a $2,500 IRS fine, because as a nonprofit, his charity is prohibited from making political gifts.)
Bondi is also a registered lobbyist for Qatar, which the U.S. Department of Justice has accused of bribing FIFA officials in exchange for hosting the 2022 World Cup, as The Daily Beast reported.
And then there was Eric Trump, who is still executive vice president of the Trump Organization but spoke during prime time at the RNC, urging people to vote for his father.
It was another bold move: Earlier in the day, the New York state attorney general asked a judge to force Eric Trump to answer subpoenas about whether the Trump Organization committed fraud by inflating its assets to get loans and tax breaks. To date, Eric has refused to comply with seven subpoenas about the matter......
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