Still think a PTAPE doesn’t exist? How is it that Putin on the ritz pulls this off and not a word, not a peep, nothing, zilch, nada from Tricky Team Trump TREASON Tax Cheat?
I don’t think the tape exists but he’s clearly working for Russia. I think he was broke and Vlad bailed him out. Quid pro quo? Da.
You know, I've gone back and forth on this in my mind. It's not inconceivable that he just can't admit failure. And this hack is yet another failure.
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brianlux
Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 40,905
Although the genesis of the border wall was entirely political,
its effects upon the land, wildlife, groundwater, biodiversity and
connectivity are not political. The effects are real and measurable,
with its ramifications cascading generations into the future,
potentially altering the evolutionary history of North America.
No single action has done more to destroy connectivity and
functioning wildlife corridors in the Southwestern U.S.-Mexico
borderlands as have the border walls constructed during last two years.
... the wall is inflicting irreparable damage upon the flora and fauna of our protected lands.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Although the genesis of the border wall was entirely political,
its effects upon the land, wildlife, groundwater, biodiversity and
connectivity are not political. The effects are real and measurable,
with its ramifications cascading generations into the future,
potentially altering the evolutionary history of North America.
No single action has done more to destroy connectivity and
functioning wildlife corridors in the Southwestern U.S.-Mexico
borderlands as have the border walls constructed during last two years.
... the wall is inflicting irreparable damage upon the flora and fauna of our protected lands.
My mother in law lives in Ajo Arizona and is losing her poop over construction of the wall destroying a bunch of the saguaro cactus that populate the area. They can live up to 150 years and are protected by Arizona law. I grew up near, and loving the redwood forests in Northern California. The people of Arizona have that same connection to those cactus. Destroying them to put up his wall is disgusting.
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The Juggler
Behind that bush over there. Posts: 47,442
Although the genesis of the border wall was entirely political,
its effects upon the land, wildlife, groundwater, biodiversity and
connectivity are not political. The effects are real and measurable,
with its ramifications cascading generations into the future,
potentially altering the evolutionary history of North America.
No single action has done more to destroy connectivity and
functioning wildlife corridors in the Southwestern U.S.-Mexico
borderlands as have the border walls constructed during last two years.
... the wall is inflicting irreparable damage upon the flora and fauna of our protected lands.
Thanks sweetheart!
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Kat
There's a lot to be said for nowhere. Posts: 4,777
Democrats in Georgia: ‘Trump is helping our case.’
“It’s the craziest thing I’ve seen. If he keeps it up, it’s good for us.”
President Donald Trump has been waging war on Georgia Republicans the past month, spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories about the Senate runoffs — and Democrats are praying he keeps on talking.
That’s because Republican voters who believe Trump’s claims are growing skeptical of the election. They’re flocking to Facebook, Parler and Gab and they’re threatening to sit this one out — putting Republican’s grasp on the Senate at risk if they follow through on Jan. 5.
Democrats are delighting in the GOP dissension, seeing it as the perfect opportunity to gin up their base. Yes, Trump told voters to elect incumbent Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. But the president is more worked up over a pair of top Georgia Republicans he thinks wronged him in the November election, calling Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “clowns” and amplifying a supporter who said the two “will soon be going to jail.”
“I think Trump wants Loeffler and Perdue to lose so he can blame Kemp. It’s the craziest thing I’ve seen,” said James Carville, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton. “If he keeps it up, it’s good for us.”
High-profile Democrats, from Julián Castro to Barack Obama to Joe Biden, are converging on Georgia ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff election. The Democratic campaigns and liberal groups alike are pouring millions of dollars into television and radio ads and billboards in hopes of securing a Democratic Senate majority with the same heavy voter turnout that delivered a win for President-elect Joe Biden.
But as they see it, some of the best advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts are coming directly from Trump himself. This week, they plastered Trump's tweets on billboards throughout Georgia, even pulling Arizona into the fray. One Georgia billboard quotes a Trump tweet dissing the Republican governors of both states: "Why vote for Republicans if what you get is Ducey and Kemp?"
“Trump is helping our case,” said Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of the voting rights group Black Voters Matter. “If he had just taken the loss and just gone into a corner and just been quiet, then people would still just be celebrating the general election.
“But because he's still out there actively trying to steal the election — trying to steal Black votes or discount Black votes — it has basically allowed it to still be a referendum on Trump. Because he hasn’t shut up.”
In the aftermath of the November election, the president and his allies have become chief spreaders of disinformation and wild conspiracy theories. Some of it targets the two Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, but really, they just can’t get over Trump losing the election.
So they are unfurling electoral fraud claims, all of them false and many of them absurd: Kemp and Raffensperger are agents of the Chinese Communist Party. Or the state’s voting machines have automatic “vote flipping” features and are tied to Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan leader who died more than seven years ago.
The pressure has grown so intense that Kemp lashed out Thursday at pro-Trump conspiracy theorists for attacking his family, including his daughter who is mourning the death of her boyfriend, a former Loeffler staffer, in a recent car accident. “It has gotten ridiculous — from death threats, [claims of] bribes from China, the social media posts that my children are getting,” Kemp told reporters, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We have the ‘no crying in politics rule’ in the Kemp house. But this is stuff that, if I said it, I would be taken to the woodshed and would never see the light of day.”
Mainstream Republicans in Georgia have been urging voters to disregard the disinformation being spread by Trump allies, like Georgia-based attorney Lin Wood and former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell. Beyond spreading baseless claims, Wood has been at the center of a push to get Trump supporters to boycott the election.
Even Trump in a recent Georgia visit — after much criticism and concern from his own party — urged supporters to put aside their grievances and vote. “Don't listen to my friends,” he said. But the problem is: Trump himself has only further amplified the false messaging — the opposite of what Republicans want him to do.
On Tuesday, Trump retweeted a tweet from Wood that claimed Kemp and Raffensperger would soon be in jail for not interfering in the presidential election. The tweet included a photo of the two Republican leaders sporting photoshopped masks emblazoned with the Chinese flag.
Trump “gave @BrianKempGA & @GaSecofState every chance to get it right. They refused. They will soon be going to jail,” Wood wrote. Similar posts can be seen across right-wing social media platforms like Parler and Gab, where conspiracy theories alleging Kemp’s involvement with the Chinese Communist Party have spread since the election.
Republicans are growing increasingly concerned that Trump’s decision to turn on his own — like Kemp and Raffensperger — for not aiding him in his crusade to reverse the election results will cost them the Senate. And it looks like Trump could be fine with that. The president has been aggressively fundraising for the Georgia runoffs, but most of the proceeds are going toward his newly launched PAC — not the candidates.
So far, both Democrats and Republicans are focused on whether Trump’s false fraud claims will impact GOP turnout. But analysts say it will be hard to gauge the impact of Trump’s disinformation campaign, even after the results of the Jan. 5 election. That’s because there are so many reasons why voters show up — or don’t show up — at the polls. But a number of GOP strategists across the state say they’re worried that Trump’s insistence on disputing the presidential election results will only help Democrats keep voters energized.
“We know that the concept of suppression or voting issues actually motivates Democratic voters,” said Heath Garrett, a Republican strategist and former campaign manager to Sen. Johnny Isakson. “It’s absolutely — in the medium term and long term — going to be a problem because we now have Republicans using the same legal and political arguments that the Democrats have been using.”
Democrats are taking advantage of Republican talking points, spinning them for their own benefit. One group, the ReallyAmerican PAC, has aimed to raise $100,000 for billboards across the state slamming Loeffler and Perdue for their underperformance during the general election. The group has put up a dozen billboards in rural Georgia towns with the message: “Perdue and Loeffler didn’t deliver for Trump. Don’t deliver for them.”
“It just goes to show you how insane some of this rhetoric is about this that the Democrats are just licking their chops — spending money — to repeat the message,” said Brian Robinson, a Georgia GOP strategist and former spokesman for former Gov. Nathan Deal.
Still, Republicans like Robinson say they still expect the GOP-leaning state to elect Perdue and Loeffler, pointing out that more Georgians voted for the Republican candidates in both the Senate races that led to the Jan. 5 runoffs.
In a recent statement, Justin Horwitz, Really American PAC’s executive director, acknowledged it was a “rare twist of fate” to see Trump supporters and those backing Warnock and Ossoff finding consensus: "seeing the two Republicans who failed to deliver a victory for Trump [Loeffler & Perdue], lose.”
Trump lost Georgia by more than 11,000 votes, while Perdue secured about 88,000 more votes in the November election than Ossoff. Loeffler, for her part, got fewer votes than Warnock in the November special election. But theirs was a crowded race with one of Trump’s staunchest allies, Rep. Doug Collins, also on the ballot. Collins came in third.
While they’re taking advantage of Trump’s spin, Democrats also are battling misinformation among their voters. On a call with reporters on Thursday, Ashley Bryant, co-founder of the group Win Black, which targets disinformation among Black voters, said falsehoods about the election suppress Black votes. During the general election, misinformation tactics around the country typically included pamphlets with incorrect election dates and fake polling locations.
"There are an incredible amount of resources going into the state to deter Black voters from showing up and making their voices heard from now through January 5," she said.
A new pro-Warnock radio advertisement from BlackPAC on the airwaves in Georgia this week argues conservatives are "spreading misinformation, trying to suppress our vote and disrespecting the name of Reverend Raphael Warnock."
Nsé Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project, which is leading the effort to turn out key voting groups in January, said “stop the steal” rallies and smaller, pop-up election protests around the state are sowing fear and confusion among Democratic voters in the state, too. It’s why her team is making extensive efforts not just to disprove these claims but “amplify the facts.”
“To be posting disinformation saying, ‘This is not true’ is actually not helping,” Ufot said. “We want to round that out with information that people can actually rely on.”
Democrats in Georgia: ‘Trump is helping our case.’
“It’s the craziest thing I’ve seen. If he keeps it up, it’s good for us.”
President Donald Trump has been waging war on Georgia Republicans the past month, spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories about the Senate runoffs — and Democrats are praying he keeps on talking.
That’s because Republican voters who believe Trump’s claims are growing skeptical of the election. They’re flocking to Facebook, Parler and Gab and they’re threatening to sit this one out — putting Republican’s grasp on the Senate at risk if they follow through on Jan. 5.
Democrats are delighting in the GOP dissension, seeing it as the perfect opportunity to gin up their base. Yes, Trump told voters to elect incumbent Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. But the president is more worked up over a pair of top Georgia Republicans he thinks wronged him in the November election, calling Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “clowns” and amplifying a supporter who said the two “will soon be going to jail.”
“I think Trump wants Loeffler and Perdue to lose so he can blame Kemp. It’s the craziest thing I’ve seen,” said James Carville, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton. “If he keeps it up, it’s good for us.”
High-profile Democrats, from Julián Castro to Barack Obama to Joe Biden, are converging on Georgia ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff election. The Democratic campaigns and liberal groups alike are pouring millions of dollars into television and radio ads and billboards in hopes of securing a Democratic Senate majority with the same heavy voter turnout that delivered a win for President-elect Joe Biden.
But as they see it, some of the best advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts are coming directly from Trump himself. This week, they plastered Trump's tweets on billboards throughout Georgia, even pulling Arizona into the fray. One Georgia billboard quotes a Trump tweet dissing the Republican governors of both states: "Why vote for Republicans if what you get is Ducey and Kemp?"
“Trump is helping our case,” said Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of the voting rights group Black Voters Matter. “If he had just taken the loss and just gone into a corner and just been quiet, then people would still just be celebrating the general election.
“But because he's still out there actively trying to steal the election — trying to steal Black votes or discount Black votes — it has basically allowed it to still be a referendum on Trump. Because he hasn’t shut up.”
In the aftermath of the November election, the president and his allies have become chief spreaders of disinformation and wild conspiracy theories. Some of it targets the two Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, but really, they just can’t get over Trump losing the election.
So they are unfurling electoral fraud claims, all of them false and many of them absurd: Kemp and Raffensperger are agents of the Chinese Communist Party. Or the state’s voting machines have automatic “vote flipping” features and are tied to Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan leader who died more than seven years ago.
The pressure has grown so intense that Kemp lashed out Thursday at pro-Trump conspiracy theorists for attacking his family, including his daughter who is mourning the death of her boyfriend, a former Loeffler staffer, in a recent car accident. “It has gotten ridiculous — from death threats, [claims of] bribes from China, the social media posts that my children are getting,” Kemp told reporters, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We have the ‘no crying in politics rule’ in the Kemp house. But this is stuff that, if I said it, I would be taken to the woodshed and would never see the light of day.”
Mainstream Republicans in Georgia have been urging voters to disregard the disinformation being spread by Trump allies, like Georgia-based attorney Lin Wood and former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell. Beyond spreading baseless claims, Wood has been at the center of a push to get Trump supporters to boycott the election.
Even Trump in a recent Georgia visit — after much criticism and concern from his own party — urged supporters to put aside their grievances and vote. “Don't listen to my friends,” he said. But the problem is: Trump himself has only further amplified the false messaging — the opposite of what Republicans want him to do.
On Tuesday, Trump retweeted a tweet from Wood that claimed Kemp and Raffensperger would soon be in jail for not interfering in the presidential election. The tweet included a photo of the two Republican leaders sporting photoshopped masks emblazoned with the Chinese flag.
Trump “gave @BrianKempGA & @GaSecofState every chance to get it right. They refused. They will soon be going to jail,” Wood wrote. Similar posts can be seen across right-wing social media platforms like Parler and Gab, where conspiracy theories alleging Kemp’s involvement with the Chinese Communist Party have spread since the election.
Republicans are growing increasingly concerned that Trump’s decision to turn on his own — like Kemp and Raffensperger — for not aiding him in his crusade to reverse the election results will cost them the Senate. And it looks like Trump could be fine with that. The president has been aggressively fundraising for the Georgia runoffs, but most of the proceeds are going toward his newly launched PAC — not the candidates.
So far, both Democrats and Republicans are focused on whether Trump’s false fraud claims will impact GOP turnout. But analysts say it will be hard to gauge the impact of Trump’s disinformation campaign, even after the results of the Jan. 5 election. That’s because there are so many reasons why voters show up — or don’t show up — at the polls. But a number of GOP strategists across the state say they’re worried that Trump’s insistence on disputing the presidential election results will only help Democrats keep voters energized.
“We know that the concept of suppression or voting issues actually motivates Democratic voters,” said Heath Garrett, a Republican strategist and former campaign manager to Sen. Johnny Isakson. “It’s absolutely — in the medium term and long term — going to be a problem because we now have Republicans using the same legal and political arguments that the Democrats have been using.”
Democrats are taking advantage of Republican talking points, spinning them for their own benefit. One group, the ReallyAmerican PAC, has aimed to raise $100,000 for billboards across the state slamming Loeffler and Perdue for their underperformance during the general election. The group has put up a dozen billboards in rural Georgia towns with the message: “Perdue and Loeffler didn’t deliver for Trump. Don’t deliver for them.”
“It just goes to show you how insane some of this rhetoric is about this that the Democrats are just licking their chops — spending money — to repeat the message,” said Brian Robinson, a Georgia GOP strategist and former spokesman for former Gov. Nathan Deal.
Still, Republicans like Robinson say they still expect the GOP-leaning state to elect Perdue and Loeffler, pointing out that more Georgians voted for the Republican candidates in both the Senate races that led to the Jan. 5 runoffs.
In a recent statement, Justin Horwitz, Really American PAC’s executive director, acknowledged it was a “rare twist of fate” to see Trump supporters and those backing Warnock and Ossoff finding consensus: "seeing the two Republicans who failed to deliver a victory for Trump [Loeffler & Perdue], lose.”
Trump lost Georgia by more than 11,000 votes, while Perdue secured about 88,000 more votes in the November election than Ossoff. Loeffler, for her part, got fewer votes than Warnock in the November special election. But theirs was a crowded race with one of Trump’s staunchest allies, Rep. Doug Collins, also on the ballot. Collins came in third.
While they’re taking advantage of Trump’s spin, Democrats also are battling misinformation among their voters. On a call with reporters on Thursday, Ashley Bryant, co-founder of the group Win Black, which targets disinformation among Black voters, said falsehoods about the election suppress Black votes. During the general election, misinformation tactics around the country typically included pamphlets with incorrect election dates and fake polling locations.
"There are an incredible amount of resources going into the state to deter Black voters from showing up and making their voices heard from now through January 5," she said.
A new pro-Warnock radio advertisement from BlackPAC on the airwaves in Georgia this week argues conservatives are "spreading misinformation, trying to suppress our vote and disrespecting the name of Reverend Raphael Warnock."
Nsé Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project, which is leading the effort to turn out key voting groups in January, said “stop the steal” rallies and smaller, pop-up election protests around the state are sowing fear and confusion among Democratic voters in the state, too. It’s why her team is making extensive efforts not just to disprove these claims but “amplify the facts.”
“To be posting disinformation saying, ‘This is not true’ is actually not helping,” Ufot said. “We want to round that out with information that people can actually rely on.”
Looking though a local auction house's internet liquidation of dead peoples shit whilst trying to score a set of floor standing Infinity speakers I ran into this.
Jared set up a shell company that Lara sat on the board and so did Mike Pence's nephew that funnelled $700 million in campaign cash directly to the pockets of the trump family.
lock each and every one of those criminals up.
doubt tucker or hannity will be talking about this.
Jared set up a shell company that Lara sat on the board and so did Mike Pence's nephew that funnelled $700 million in campaign cash directly to the pockets of the trump family.
lock each and every one of those criminals up.
doubt tucker or hannity will be talking about this.
Tucker is too busy spreading misinformation and doubt about the COVID vaccine - & I believe Rupert Murdoch got the vaccine yesterday...
The funnies thing about this scandal du jour is that the money comes from the supporters that, despite being ripped off, are still going to love the Trumps.
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The funnies thing about this scandal du jour is that the money comes from the supporters that, despite being ripped off, are still going to love the Trumps.
The idiots don't seem to care that they've been conned by a con artist
The funnies thing about this scandal du jour is that the money comes from the supporters that, despite being ripped off, are still going to love the Trumps.
The idiots don't seem to care that they've been conned by a con artist
“I love the uneducated.” The crazier thing is that it’s so obvious, in their face. Maybe they just like being owned and laughed at behind their backs?
Even as Trump vows to keep fighting, his aides are quietly starting to move on
Trump
speaks after signing an Executive Order for "Ensuring Access to United
States Government COVID-19 Vaccines" during an Operation Warp Speed
Vaccine Summit at the White House. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Vice
President Pence has begun looking for a new home in the Washington
suburbs, and he’s planning a valedictory foreign trip to begin the day
Congress counts the electoral college votes.
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has discussed opening a consulting firm with other White House aides and allies.
Top economic adviser Larry Kudlow has told friends he is planning to return to broadcasting, and he has his next gigs lined up.
As
President Trump remains defiant, refusing to publicly acknowledge that
he lost the Nov. 3 election, all signs around the White House point to a
four-year whirlwind coming to an end. Aides are quietly lining up next
jobs, friends are wrangling last-minute favors and Cabinet secretaries
are giving exit interviews.
Advisers
have begun reviewing pitches for post-presidency books, deciding which
deserve cooperation and which should be shunned, according to a person
familiar with the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to
discuss internal deliberations. Jason Miller, a campaign aide, is at the
center of that process, the person said, though Trump will have final
approval.
Requests for favors — final lunches in the White House mess, photos in the West Wing — are flowing to senior officials daily.
“People
are asking for everything. West Wing tours, visits to the gift shop,
meals, final photos in the White House for their Christmas cards — they
are all trying to get their last lick of the ice cream cone,” said one
senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity
to speak candidly. “Everyone wants a final Christmas tour. Everyone
wants something.”
Members
of Congress are flooding the White House with pardon requests, hoping
for last-minute dispensations from a president inclined to wield that
power liberally before he leaves. Several advisers said they were
surprised by the onslaught. “There are hundreds of them,” the person
said.
The administration held another meeting on pardons Friday afternoon.
Cabinet secretaries are giving final media interviews and gifts to staff. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos recently granted an interview
to the American Enterprise Institute, where she offered advice to her
successor. “There’s one simple guiding principle I’d urge not just the
next education secretary to embrace, but any educator and education
leader: Put students first,” she said.
There
is no serious planning for a second term, and four officials say the
West Wing is far more dormant than it once was, with aides spending
their days on job interviews or working from home. The outer Oval
Office, once a constant hubbub of traffic angling to see the president,
no longer thrums with the same energy.
Aides
are frantically looking for jobs outside the West Wing, according to
headhunters and consultants, but they’re fearful of getting fired if
they are caught before Jan. 20. Some are just leaving. Staff secretary
Derek Lyons and communications director Alyssa Farah are among the high-profile departures.
A
number of the campaign’s top officials — including campaign manager
Bill Stepien — have all but disappeared from the orbit, aides say. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
have purchased a $30 million property on a secluded island near Miami,
according to the New York Post. Ivanka Trump has begun posting daily
pictures looking back on the president’s term, or shots of her children
at Washington destinations, such as the Lincoln Memorial.
The
White House is spending its days installing loyalists on boards, such
as super-lobbyist and fundraiser Brian Ballard to the Kennedy Center,
longtime adviser Kellyanne Conway to the U.S. Air Force Board, Corey
Lewandowski and David Bossie to a Pentagon advisory board
and White House aides Nicholas Luna and Andrew Giuliani — son to
Rudolph W. Giuliani — to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, among
others.
One
person familiar with the process, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss internal conversations, said the White House had
forgotten about these slots but now sees them as final gifts to the
faithful. In many cases, the members will serve for four or six years,
burrowing into the Biden administration.
“They
didn’t do a lot of appointments for years,” said the Trump ally, who
received an appointment. “They are saying, ‘If we’re ever going to do
it, now is the time.’ They just call, ask if you want the slot, and you
have to fill out some minimal paperwork.”
In
many ways, the activity is not unusual. “You’d always see the last
tours, the effort to obtain pardons, the effort to obtain jobs,” said
Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University. “You
usually see a push to get whatever you can do through executive power in
the final days.”
“What’s
not normal is having this all-out attack on the legitimacy of the
election and trying to overturn it. That’s the unusual part,” Zelizer
added.
In
public, Trump’s press office says the president is still focused on
governing. “President Trump and this White House remain focused on
securing much-needed economic stimulus for the American people, funding
the government, and ensuring states and communities have what they need
to respond to COVID-19 as well as vaccine distribution to front-line
workers and long-term care facilities,” White House spokesman Judd Deere
said.
But
those close to him paint a different picture. These days, Trump is
spending most of his time in the residence, phoning allies, according to
four people who have been in touch with him, and falsely tweeting that he won the election.
He has called state lawmakers to encourage them to promote his claims,
startling legislators unaccustomed to having the president of the United
States on the other end of the line.
After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) congratulated Biden on his win Tuesday,
Trump called to say that the Senate should not declare Biden the
president-elect because the election was illegitimate, officials
familiar with the call said.
McConnell
and Trump spokespeople declined to comment, though sources close to
McConnell, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, observed that the
majority leader did not change his message.
Trump
has complained to advisers that Republican officials, such as Brian
Hagedorn, a justice on Wisconsin Supreme Court that he backed, are not
sticking with him. He has plotted how to take on Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in 2022.
He
is dialing allies looking for good news, relying on information from
supporters such as Rep. Andy Biggs, an Arizona Republican. He is
constantly asking advisers what options are left — from flipping
electors to pressuring House members and senators, officials say.
Four advisers said they do not expect Trump to attend Biden’s inauguration
or meet with him in the West Wing. Trump has already begun polling
people on how to create counterprogramming for the days around Biden’s
swearing-in, these people said.
Most evenings, the president does not speak at the White House holiday parties,
disappointing those who flew across the country to attend. Guests at a
recent party were told after 8:00 that he would not be coming down, two
attendees said.
One
adviser, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations,
said Trump is “low-key pissed off all the time” and truly believes the
race was stolen from him.
Some
of the president’s top aides are urging him to stop litigating 2020.
Advisers such as Bossie have begun proposing scorched-earth tactics to
cripple the Biden administration, so that Trump can better position
himself ahead of 2024.
Trump is expected to speak next month at the RNC’s annual meeting in Florida, in a bid to freeze the field.
The
campaign continues to rake in money. At least $66 million of the more
than $200 million raised since Election Day is going to Trump’s Save
America PAC, to be used for post-presidential political activities,
according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Less than
half a million has gone to the campaign’s recount fund, the person said,
while other small amounts have gone to legal committees. The New York
Times first reported the PAC had more than $60 million.
But
Trump is also gearing up for a fight in Florida, a tacit acknowledgment
that this chapter is ending — even if he won’t admit it.
In Florida, Trump owns the Mar-a-Lago Club, which includes both a for-profit social club and private quarters for him. Some of his neighbors
have insisted that Trump is not legally allowed to live at the club
long-term, citing a 1993 agreement he signed with the Town of Palm
Beach.
Trump’s
business has disputed that, and the town has not taken any action so
far. “There is no document or agreement in place that prohibits
President Trump from using Mar-a-Lago as his residence,” Trump
spokeswoman Kimberly Benza said.
If
Trump is ever barred from living at Mar-a-Lago, he might not have to
move far: the president owns three other houses near the club, which he
has used as rental properties and extra guest suites.
This
is shaping up to be an unusually quiet winter at Mar-a-Lago, which used
to host dozens of charity galas and luncheons during the Palm Beach
winter social season. That lucrative business dropped off sharply
in 2017, when major charities moved their events after Trump said there
were “very fine people” among the white-supremacist protesters at a
march in Charlottesville
This year, a review of town permits and the Palm Beach Daily News’ social calendar shows it has fallen even further, as coronavirus fears have caused many events to be postponed or converted into virtual gatherings.
Mar-a-Lago
hosted 49 galas and charity events in the winter of 2014 and 2015,
according to an accounting compiled by The Washington Post. The Post
identified just nine events on the schedule for this year.
Even
the Trumpettes USA — a group of Trump superfans who have held huge
galas to celebrate him at Mar-a-Lago — say they are waiting to schedule
another.
“We
are planning another Event, but not until COVID is under control and
when The President gives us his direction,” Toni Holt Kramer, one of the
group’s leaders, wrote in an email message.
Carol D. Leonnig and Ashley Parker contributed to this report.
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Jared set up a shell company that Lara sat on the board and so did Mike Pence's nephew that funnelled $700 million in campaign cash directly to the pockets of the trump family.
lock each and every one of those criminals up.
doubt tucker or hannity will be talking about this.
Tucker is too busy spreading misinformation and doubt about the COVID vaccine - & I believe Rupert Murdoch got the vaccine yesterday...
Now THAT'S some irony right there.
I usually watch about the first half of Tucker. He’s the only show on Fox I watch and I take it with a grain of salt, its more for entertainment. But this last week has been the lowest point for his show. His comments about the vaccine and “Dr “ Jill Biden have been unbearable.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/18/democrats-georgia-trump-disinformation-447991
Democrats in Georgia: ‘Trump is helping our case.’
“It’s the craziest thing I’ve seen. If he keeps it up, it’s good for us.”
President Donald Trump has been waging war on Georgia Republicans the past month, spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories about the Senate runoffs — and Democrats are praying he keeps on talking.
That’s because Republican voters who believe Trump’s claims are growing skeptical of the election. They’re flocking to Facebook, Parler and Gab and they’re threatening to sit this one out — putting Republican’s grasp on the Senate at risk if they follow through on Jan. 5.
Democrats are delighting in the GOP dissension, seeing it as the perfect opportunity to gin up their base. Yes, Trump told voters to elect incumbent Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. But the president is more worked up over a pair of top Georgia Republicans he thinks wronged him in the November election, calling Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “clowns” and amplifying a supporter who said the two “will soon be going to jail.”
“I think Trump wants Loeffler and Perdue to lose so he can blame Kemp. It’s the craziest thing I’ve seen,” said James Carville, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton. “If he keeps it up, it’s good for us.”
High-profile Democrats, from Julián Castro to Barack Obama to Joe Biden, are converging on Georgia ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff election. The Democratic campaigns and liberal groups alike are pouring millions of dollars into television and radio ads and billboards in hopes of securing a Democratic Senate majority with the same heavy voter turnout that delivered a win for President-elect Joe Biden.
But as they see it, some of the best advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts are coming directly from Trump himself. This week, they plastered Trump's tweets on billboards throughout Georgia, even pulling Arizona into the fray. One Georgia billboard quotes a Trump tweet dissing the Republican governors of both states: "Why vote for Republicans if what you get is Ducey and Kemp?"
“Trump is helping our case,” said Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of the voting rights group Black Voters Matter. “If he had just taken the loss and just gone into a corner and just been quiet, then people would still just be celebrating the general election.
“But because he's still out there actively trying to steal the election — trying to steal Black votes or discount Black votes — it has basically allowed it to still be a referendum on Trump. Because he hasn’t shut up.”
In the aftermath of the November election, the president and his allies have become chief spreaders of disinformation and wild conspiracy theories. Some of it targets the two Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, but really, they just can’t get over Trump losing the election.
So they are unfurling electoral fraud claims, all of them false and many of them absurd: Kemp and Raffensperger are agents of the Chinese Communist Party. Or the state’s voting machines have automatic “vote flipping” features and are tied to Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan leader who died more than seven years ago.
The pressure has grown so intense that Kemp lashed out Thursday at pro-Trump conspiracy theorists for attacking his family, including his daughter who is mourning the death of her boyfriend, a former Loeffler staffer, in a recent car accident. “It has gotten ridiculous — from death threats, [claims of] bribes from China, the social media posts that my children are getting,” Kemp told reporters, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We have the ‘no crying in politics rule’ in the Kemp house. But this is stuff that, if I said it, I would be taken to the woodshed and would never see the light of day.”
Mainstream Republicans in Georgia have been urging voters to disregard the disinformation being spread by Trump allies, like Georgia-based attorney Lin Wood and former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell. Beyond spreading baseless claims, Wood has been at the center of a push to get Trump supporters to boycott the election.
Even Trump in a recent Georgia visit — after much criticism and concern from his own party — urged supporters to put aside their grievances and vote. “Don't listen to my friends,” he said. But the problem is: Trump himself has only further amplified the false messaging — the opposite of what Republicans want him to do.
On Tuesday, Trump retweeted a tweet from Wood that claimed Kemp and Raffensperger would soon be in jail for not interfering in the presidential election. The tweet included a photo of the two Republican leaders sporting photoshopped masks emblazoned with the Chinese flag.
Trump “gave @BrianKempGA & @GaSecofState every chance to get it right. They refused. They will soon be going to jail,” Wood wrote. Similar posts can be seen across right-wing social media platforms like Parler and Gab, where conspiracy theories alleging Kemp’s involvement with the Chinese Communist Party have spread since the election.
Republicans are growing increasingly concerned that Trump’s decision to turn on his own — like Kemp and Raffensperger — for not aiding him in his crusade to reverse the election results will cost them the Senate. And it looks like Trump could be fine with that. The president has been aggressively fundraising for the Georgia runoffs, but most of the proceeds are going toward his newly launched PAC — not the candidates.
So far, both Democrats and Republicans are focused on whether Trump’s false fraud claims will impact GOP turnout. But analysts say it will be hard to gauge the impact of Trump’s disinformation campaign, even after the results of the Jan. 5 election. That’s because there are so many reasons why voters show up — or don’t show up — at the polls. But a number of GOP strategists across the state say they’re worried that Trump’s insistence on disputing the presidential election results will only help Democrats keep voters energized.
MAGA
Democrats are taking advantage of Republican talking points, spinning them for their own benefit. One group, the ReallyAmerican PAC, has aimed to raise $100,000 for billboards across the state slamming Loeffler and Perdue for their underperformance during the general election. The group has put up a dozen billboards in rural Georgia towns with the message: “Perdue and Loeffler didn’t deliver for Trump. Don’t deliver for them.”
“It just goes to show you how insane some of this rhetoric is about this that the Democrats are just licking their chops — spending money — to repeat the message,” said Brian Robinson, a Georgia GOP strategist and former spokesman for former Gov. Nathan Deal.
Still, Republicans like Robinson say they still expect the GOP-leaning state to elect Perdue and Loeffler, pointing out that more Georgians voted for the Republican candidates in both the Senate races that led to the Jan. 5 runoffs.
In a recent statement, Justin Horwitz, Really American PAC’s executive director, acknowledged it was a “rare twist of fate” to see Trump supporters and those backing Warnock and Ossoff finding consensus: "seeing the two Republicans who failed to deliver a victory for Trump [Loeffler & Perdue], lose.”
Trump lost Georgia by more than 11,000 votes, while Perdue secured about 88,000 more votes in the November election than Ossoff. Loeffler, for her part, got fewer votes than Warnock in the November special election. But theirs was a crowded race with one of Trump’s staunchest allies, Rep. Doug Collins, also on the ballot. Collins came in third.
While they’re taking advantage of Trump’s spin, Democrats also are battling misinformation among their voters. On a call with reporters on Thursday, Ashley Bryant, co-founder of the group Win Black, which targets disinformation among Black voters, said falsehoods about the election suppress Black votes. During the general election, misinformation tactics around the country typically included pamphlets with incorrect election dates and fake polling locations.
"There are an incredible amount of resources going into the state to deter Black voters from showing up and making their voices heard from now through January 5," she said.
A new pro-Warnock radio advertisement from BlackPAC on the airwaves in Georgia this week argues conservatives are "spreading misinformation, trying to suppress our vote and disrespecting the name of Reverend Raphael Warnock."
Nsé Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project, which is leading the effort to turn out key voting groups in January, said “stop the steal” rallies and smaller, pop-up election protests around the state are sowing fear and confusion among Democratic voters in the state, too. It’s why her team is making extensive efforts not just to disprove these claims but “amplify the facts.”
“To be posting disinformation saying, ‘This is not true’ is actually not helping,” Ufot said. “We want to round that out with information that people can actually rely on.”
Marc Caputo contributed to this report.
538 has it very close: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/georgia-senate-polls/
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well played...
lock each and every one of those criminals up.
doubt tucker or hannity will be talking about this.
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Now THAT'S some irony right there.
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Trump is fundraising off Georgia runoffs, but his PAC is spending none of it on the candidates
Fucking idiots
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
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By Josh Dawsey and David A. Fahrenthold
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-aides-new-jobs/2020/12/18/157a02e6-3fd8-11eb-a402-fba110db3b42_story.html
Even as Trump vows to keep fighting, his aides are quietly starting to move on
Vice President Pence has begun looking for a new home in the Washington suburbs, and he’s planning a valedictory foreign trip to begin the day Congress counts the electoral college votes.
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has discussed opening a consulting firm with other White House aides and allies.
Top economic adviser Larry Kudlow has told friends he is planning to return to broadcasting, and he has his next gigs lined up.
As President Trump remains defiant, refusing to publicly acknowledge that he lost the Nov. 3 election, all signs around the White House point to a four-year whirlwind coming to an end. Aides are quietly lining up next jobs, friends are wrangling last-minute favors and Cabinet secretaries are giving exit interviews.
These behind-the-scenes preparations underscore the reality that while Trump may continue to tilt at the windmills, his tenure as the president of the United States is ending.
Advisers have begun reviewing pitches for post-presidency books, deciding which deserve cooperation and which should be shunned, according to a person familiar with the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Jason Miller, a campaign aide, is at the center of that process, the person said, though Trump will have final approval.
Requests for favors — final lunches in the White House mess, photos in the West Wing — are flowing to senior officials daily.
Election results under attack: Here are the facts
“People are asking for everything. West Wing tours, visits to the gift shop, meals, final photos in the White House for their Christmas cards — they are all trying to get their last lick of the ice cream cone,” said one senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly. “Everyone wants a final Christmas tour. Everyone wants something.”
Members of Congress are flooding the White House with pardon requests, hoping for last-minute dispensations from a president inclined to wield that power liberally before he leaves. Several advisers said they were surprised by the onslaught. “There are hundreds of them,” the person said.
The administration held another meeting on pardons Friday afternoon.
Cabinet secretaries are giving final media interviews and gifts to staff. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos recently granted an interview to the American Enterprise Institute, where she offered advice to her successor. “There’s one simple guiding principle I’d urge not just the next education secretary to embrace, but any educator and education leader: Put students first,” she said.
There is no serious planning for a second term, and four officials say the West Wing is far more dormant than it once was, with aides spending their days on job interviews or working from home. The outer Oval Office, once a constant hubbub of traffic angling to see the president, no longer thrums with the same energy.
Aides are frantically looking for jobs outside the West Wing, according to headhunters and consultants, but they’re fearful of getting fired if they are caught before Jan. 20. Some are just leaving. Staff secretary Derek Lyons and communications director Alyssa Farah are among the high-profile departures.
A number of the campaign’s top officials — including campaign manager Bill Stepien — have all but disappeared from the orbit, aides say. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have purchased a $30 million property on a secluded island near Miami, according to the New York Post. Ivanka Trump has begun posting daily pictures looking back on the president’s term, or shots of her children at Washington destinations, such as the Lincoln Memorial.
The White House is spending its days installing loyalists on boards, such as super-lobbyist and fundraiser Brian Ballard to the Kennedy Center, longtime adviser Kellyanne Conway to the U.S. Air Force Board, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie to a Pentagon advisory board and White House aides Nicholas Luna and Andrew Giuliani — son to Rudolph W. Giuliani — to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, among others.
One person familiar with the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal conversations, said the White House had forgotten about these slots but now sees them as final gifts to the faithful. In many cases, the members will serve for four or six years, burrowing into the Biden administration.
“They didn’t do a lot of appointments for years,” said the Trump ally, who received an appointment. “They are saying, ‘If we’re ever going to do it, now is the time.’ They just call, ask if you want the slot, and you have to fill out some minimal paperwork.”
In many ways, the activity is not unusual. “You’d always see the last tours, the effort to obtain pardons, the effort to obtain jobs,” said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University. “You usually see a push to get whatever you can do through executive power in the final days.”
“What’s not normal is having this all-out attack on the legitimacy of the election and trying to overturn it. That’s the unusual part,” Zelizer added.
In public, Trump’s press office says the president is still focused on governing. “President Trump and this White House remain focused on securing much-needed economic stimulus for the American people, funding the government, and ensuring states and communities have what they need to respond to COVID-19 as well as vaccine distribution to front-line workers and long-term care facilities,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said.
But those close to him paint a different picture. These days, Trump is spending most of his time in the residence, phoning allies, according to four people who have been in touch with him, and falsely tweeting that he won the election. He has called state lawmakers to encourage them to promote his claims, startling legislators unaccustomed to having the president of the United States on the other end of the line.
After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) congratulated Biden on his win Tuesday, Trump called to say that the Senate should not declare Biden the president-elect because the election was illegitimate, officials familiar with the call said.
McConnell and Trump spokespeople declined to comment, though sources close to McConnell, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, observed that the majority leader did not change his message.
Trump has complained to advisers that Republican officials, such as Brian Hagedorn, a justice on Wisconsin Supreme Court that he backed, are not sticking with him. He has plotted how to take on Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in 2022.
He is dialing allies looking for good news, relying on information from supporters such as Rep. Andy Biggs, an Arizona Republican. He is constantly asking advisers what options are left — from flipping electors to pressuring House members and senators, officials say.
Four advisers said they do not expect Trump to attend Biden’s inauguration or meet with him in the West Wing. Trump has already begun polling people on how to create counterprogramming for the days around Biden’s swearing-in, these people said.
Most evenings, the president does not speak at the White House holiday parties, disappointing those who flew across the country to attend. Guests at a recent party were told after 8:00 that he would not be coming down, two attendees said.
He has not been communicating with the public on key issues, such as a widespread Russian hack of the country’s Internet systems or the worsening coronavirus pandemic, which is killing more than 3,000 Americans a day.
One adviser, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said Trump is “low-key pissed off all the time” and truly believes the race was stolen from him.
Some of the president’s top aides are urging him to stop litigating 2020. Advisers such as Bossie have begun proposing scorched-earth tactics to cripple the Biden administration, so that Trump can better position himself ahead of 2024.
Trump is expected to speak next month at the RNC’s annual meeting in Florida, in a bid to freeze the field.
The campaign continues to rake in money. At least $66 million of the more than $200 million raised since Election Day is going to Trump’s Save America PAC, to be used for post-presidential political activities, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Less than half a million has gone to the campaign’s recount fund, the person said, while other small amounts have gone to legal committees. The New York Times first reported the PAC had more than $60 million.
But Trump is also gearing up for a fight in Florida, a tacit acknowledgment that this chapter is ending — even if he won’t admit it.
In Florida, Trump owns the Mar-a-Lago Club, which includes both a for-profit social club and private quarters for him. Some of his neighbors have insisted that Trump is not legally allowed to live at the club long-term, citing a 1993 agreement he signed with the Town of Palm Beach.
Trump’s business has disputed that, and the town has not taken any action so far. “There is no document or agreement in place that prohibits President Trump from using Mar-a-Lago as his residence,” Trump spokeswoman Kimberly Benza said.
If Trump is ever barred from living at Mar-a-Lago, he might not have to move far: the president owns three other houses near the club, which he has used as rental properties and extra guest suites.
This is shaping up to be an unusually quiet winter at Mar-a-Lago, which used to host dozens of charity galas and luncheons during the Palm Beach winter social season. That lucrative business dropped off sharply in 2017, when major charities moved their events after Trump said there were “very fine people” among the white-supremacist protesters at a march in Charlottesville
This year, a review of town permits and the Palm Beach Daily News’ social calendar shows it has fallen even further, as coronavirus fears have caused many events to be postponed or converted into virtual gatherings.
Mar-a-Lago hosted 49 galas and charity events in the winter of 2014 and 2015, according to an accounting compiled by The Washington Post. The Post identified just nine events on the schedule for this year.
Even the Trumpettes USA — a group of Trump superfans who have held huge galas to celebrate him at Mar-a-Lago — say they are waiting to schedule another.
“We are planning another Event, but not until COVID is under control and when The President gives us his direction,” Toni Holt Kramer, one of the group’s leaders, wrote in an email message.
Carol D. Leonnig and Ashley Parker contributed to this report.
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He def would do it in shocked that he hasn’t yet I’m sure Putin would sign off on it!
But this last week has been the lowest point for his show. His comments about the vaccine and “Dr “ Jill Biden have been unbearable.