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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:27:08 GMT
Did you give your pencil the credit for the paper you wrote in college?Trump Blames Everything But Guns And Himself For El Paso And Dayton Mass ShootingsHuffPost Marina Fang,HuffPost Mon, Aug 5 7:11 AM MST www.yahoo.com/news/trump-response-mass-shootings-el-paso-dayton-141121780.html
President Donald Trump spoke Monday in response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend, calling them a “crime against all of humanity.”
The president blamed white supremacy, the internet, video games and mental illness for the massacres. He did not blame guns or himself.
Trump called the attacks “evil” and “barbaric” and denounced the shooters as “wicked.”
“We vow to act with urgent resolve,” he said.
Trump mentioned the alleged El Paso’s shooter’s reported manifesto, which the president said was “consumed by racist hate.” He then called on the nation to condemn racism and white supremacy, while not acknowledging his role in promoting those ideas.
Trump directed social media companies “to develop tools to identify mass shooters before they strike.”
“The perils of the internet and social media cannot be ignored, and will not be ignored,” said Trump, who regularly promotes hate speech on his Twitter feed.
He also blamed the shootings on “a culture that glorifies violence,” and on mental health. “Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger ― not the gun,” he said.
Reading his remarks from a teleprompter, Trump mistakenly named Toledo instead of Dayton as the location of Saturday night’s shooting.
Lawmakers criticized President Donald Trump over the weekend for not responding forcefully enough to the two mass shootings. (Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS) The president’s remarks followed a barrage of criticism by lawmakers, celebrities and others who lambasted the president over the weekend for his tepid response to the two attacks. Trump was also roundly censured for promoting racism and violence with his inflammatory rhetoric.
When asked point-blank if Trump bore responsibility for the El Paso massacre, former Texas congressman and 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was unequivocal in his response on Saturday: “Yes,” the El Paso native said.
The suspected assailant in that shooting is believed to have posted a white supremacist manifesto on the extremist forum 8chan shortly before opening fire at a busy Walmart.
In the document, the suspect referred to Hispanic people as “invaders” and used the phrase “send them back” ― reminiscent of a sentiment promoted by Trump last month in his attacks against four congresswomen of color, one of whom was an asylum seeker from Somalia.
On Sunday, the president condemned the violence in Texas and Ohio, saying “hate has no place in our country.” However, he did not explicitly mention white supremacy ― and instead spoke vaguely of a “mental illness problem” in the country.
“This is also a mental illness problem if you look at both of these cases, this is mental illness,” Trump told reporters. “These are people that are very, very seriously mentally ill. So a lot of things are happening. A lot of things are happening right now.”
Trump was criticized by several Democrats, including presidential candidates O’Rourke and Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), for fueling violence and bigotry in the U.S. with his xenophobic rhetoric.
“I think at the end of the day, especially because this was the white supremacist manifesto ... that Donald Trump is responsible for this,” Booker told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, speaking about the El Paso shooting. “He is responsible because he is stoking fears and hatred and bigotry. He is responsible because he’s failing to condemn white supremacy and see it as it is, which is responsible for such a significant amount of the terrorist attacks.”
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:27:39 GMT
Trump accused of acting like a 'king' as Republicans cancel two primariesYahoo News Video Sat, Sep 7 12:18 PM PDT www.yahoo.com/news/trump-accused-acting-king-republicans-191838830.html Republicans in two states have canceled plans to hold presidential preference selections ahead of the 2020 election. On Saturday, Republican parties in South Carolina and Kansas canceled their presidential nomination contests. Nevada is still considering the change.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:28:10 GMT
U.S. Orders 2 Universities to Recast Tone on IsraelThe New York Times Erica L. Green,The New York Times 13 hours ago www.yahoo.com/news/u-orders-2-universities-recast-122858336.html
The chapel at Duke University in Durham, N.C., March 10, 2019. (Madeline Gray/The New York Times)
WASHINGTON — The Education Department has ordered Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to remake the Middle East studies program run jointly by the two schools after concluding that it was offering students a biased curriculum that, among other complaints, did not present enough “positive” imagery of Judaism and Christianity in the region.
In a rare instance of federal intervention in college course content, the department asserted that the universities’ Middle East program violated the standards of a federal program that awards funding to international studies and foreign language programs. The inquiry was part of a far-reaching investigation into the program by the department, which under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has become increasingly aggressive in going after perceived anti-Israel bias in higher education.
That focus appears to reflect the views of an agency leadership that includes a civil rights chief, Kenneth L. Marcus, who has made a career of pro-Israel advocacy and has waged a yearslong campaign to delegitimize and defund Middle East studies programs that he has criticized as rife with anti-Israel bias.
In this case, the department homed in on what officials saw as a program that focused on the region’s Muslim population at the expense of its religious minorities. In the North Carolina program’s outreach to elementary and secondary school students, the department said, there was “a considerable emphasis placed on the understanding the positive aspects of Islam, while there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity, Judaism or any other religion or belief system in the Middle East.”
Too few of the Duke-UNC programs focused on “the historic discrimination faced by, and current circumstances of, religious minorities in the Middle East, including Christians, Jews, Baha’is, Yazidis, Kurds, Druze and others,” the department said.
With its actions, the department entered the debate over Israel and Palestinians that has roiled campuses around the country.
The department’s action “should be a wake-up call,” said Miriam Elman, an associate professor at Syracuse University and executive director of the Academic Engagement Network, which opposes the boycott-Israel movement that has animated campus activism across the country. She added, “What they’re saying is, ‘If you want to be biased and show an unbalanced view of the Middle East, you can do that, but you’re not going to get federal and taxpayer money.’ ”
Palestinian rights groups accused the Education Department of intimidation and infringing on academic freedom.
“They really want to send the message that if you want to criticize Israel, then the federal government is going to look very closely at your entire program and micromanage it to death,” said Zoha Khalili, a staff lawyer at Palestine Legal, one such group. The department’s intervention, she added, “sends a message to Middle Eastern studies programs that their continued existence depends on their willingness to toe the government line on Israel.”
In a letter to university officials, the assistant secretary for postsecondary education, Robert King, wrote that programs run by the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies appeared to be misaligned with the federal grant they had received. Title VI of the Higher Education Act awards funding to colleges “establishing, strengthening and operating a diverse network of undergraduate foreign language and area or international studies centers and programs.”
The Education Department “believes” the Middle Eastern studies consortium “has failed to carefully distinguish between activities lawfully funded under Title VI and other activities” that are “plainly unqualified for taxpayer support,” King wrote.
The letter, published this week in the Federal Register, said that the consortium’s records on the number of students it had enrolled in foreign language studies — a cornerstone of the federal grant program — were unclear and that “it seems clear foreign language instruction and area studies advancing the security and economic stability of the United States have taken ‘a back seat’ to other priorities.”
King wrote that the department believed other offerings, such as a conference focused on “love and desire in modern Iran” and another focused on Middle East film criticism, “have little or no relevance to Title VI.” The department wrote the consortium’s programming also “appears to lack balance.”
The department also criticized the consortium’s teacher training programs for focusing on issues like “unconscious bias, serving LGBTIQ youth in schools, culture and the media, diverse books for the classroom and more.” They said that it had a “startling lack of focus on geography, geopolitical issues, history, and language.”
The administration ordered the consortium to submit a revised schedule of events it planned to support and a full list of the courses it offers and the professors working in its Middle East studies program. The department also directed the consortium to demonstrate that it had “effective institutional controls” to stay compliant with the administration’s interpretation of the Higher Education Act. The universities were given until Sept. 22, only days before the department is scheduled to approve funding Sept. 30.
A spokesman for Duke declined to comment, referring questions to the University of North Carolina. A spokeswoman for UNC acknowledged receipt of the letter.
“The consortium deeply values its partnership with the Department of Education and has always been strongly committed to complying with the purposes and requirements of the Title VI program,” the university said in a statement. “In keeping with the spirit of this partnership, the consortium is committed to working with the department to provide more information about its programs.”
To advocacy groups enmeshed in academic battles over Israel, the new investigation was not surprising.
Last year, the department reopened a case into anti-Jewish bias at Rutgers University that the Obama administration had closed with no finding of wrongdoing. In reconsidering the case, Marcus said the Education Department would be using a State Department definition of anti-Semitism that, among other things, labels “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination” anti-Jewish bigotry, suggesting that it had been adopted by his office. The Education Department has not adopted that definition.
In June, DeVos said she had ordered an investigation into whether the Duke-UNC consortium had misused any of the $235,000 it received in Title VI grants, including to sponsor an event in March called “Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics, and Possibilities.” Rep. George Holding, R-N.C., had requested that DeVos investigate whether federal funding was used to host the conference, which constituents had said was rife with “radical anti-Israel bias.”
Holding said the conference featured active members of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel — known as BDS — and featured panelists who “distorted facts and misrepresented the complex situation in Gaza.” He said a video shown at the conference featured a performer who sang a “brazenly anti-Semitic song.”
But some groups came to the defense of the Middle East studies consortium. Tallie Ben Daniel, research and education manager at Jewish Voice for Peace, a liberal group that advocates Palestinian rights, said the investigation was the latest attempt by the Trump administration “to enforce a neoconservative agenda onto spaces of academic inquiry and exploration.” She called the consortium’s curriculum “ rich and diverse.”
To critics like Daniel, the targeting of the UNC-Duke program appeared to be a continuation of efforts that predated the Trump administration. A group founded by Marcus, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, has pressed Education Department and Congress for years to crack down on Middle East studies programs that the center claimed promoted an anti-Israel bias.
Elman, the professor at Syracuse, said the department’s scrutiny of the programs was long overdue.
“To get Title VI, you really have to strive for viewpoint diversity,” she said. “This is what our students want. They don’t want to be indoctrinated. They want both sides. It’s possible to do that and still make people uncomfortable.”
Before joining the Education Department, Marcus had aggressively lobbied for the Higher Education Act to crack down on Middle East studies programs and criticized both the Education Department and Congress for failing to hold institutions accountable for violating the law’s “diverse perspectives” requirement.
In 2014, he wrote an opinion article that assailed the Title VI program for “being used to support biased and academically worthless programming on college campuses,” leaving students and faculty with opposing views “ostracized and threatened.”
“Aside from their intellectual vapidity,” Marcus wrote, “many of these programs poison the atmosphere on campus.”
He called on the department to establish a complaint process that would prompt extensive reviews of entire programs like the one being undertaken into UNC and Duke.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
© 2019 The New York Times Company
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:28:38 GMT
Trump demands to meet whistleblower, warns of 'big consequences' Brandon Conradis 9 hrs ago www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-demands-to-meet-whistleblower-warns-of-big-consequences/ar-AAI1Qgy
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y. holds up a copy of a White House-released rough transcript of a phone call between President Donald Trump and the President of Ukraine as Schumer speaks to the media about an impeachment inquiry on President Trump, on Sept. 25, on Capitol Hill.
President Trump on Sunday evening called for the outing of a whistleblower and railed against other individuals, including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), at the center of a growing scandal involving his phone call with Ukraine's president, warning there could be "Big Consequences."
"Like every American, I deserve to meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the so-called 'Whistleblower,' represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way. Then Schiff made up what I actually said by lying to Congress," Trump said in a series of tweets.
"His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber," he continued before adding that he wants Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, "questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason."
"In addition," he added, "I want to meet not only my accuser, who presented SECOND & THIRD HAND INFORMATION, but also the person who illegally gave this information, which was largely incorrect, to the 'Whistleblower.' Was this person SPYING on the U.S. President? Big Consequences!"
The tweets come after revelations regarding a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky led to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) initiating a formal impeachment inquiry last week.
Details of the phone call first emerged after reports that a whistleblower had raised concerns about it to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. A readout of the call, which was released last week, showed Trump asking Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
The fallout from those reports led to a flood of new calls on Capitol Hill for an impeachment inquiry. Following Pelosi's announcement to formally launch impeachment proceedings, the White House released not only the readout of the call but also the whistleblower's complaint and the intelligence community's inspector general's report.
Little is still known about the whistleblower, who, according to the complaint, was not a direct witness to the conversation but was told about it by White House colleagues. The New York Times reported the person is a CIA officer who is currently working at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Va.
Schiff, who as the House Intelligence Committee chairman is helping oversee the probe into the phone call, has said the whistleblower is likely to testify behind closed doors on Capitol Hill. Mark S. Zaid, one of the lawyers representing the whistleblower, confirmed on Sunday evening that they were continuing to coordinate with lawmakers but that no time or date had yet been set for testimony.
The impeachment inquiry marks a significant turning point in the Trump era, with the vast majority of House Democrats now backing the proceedings. Even if the lower chamber does decide to impeach Trump, the GOP-controlled Senate is likely not to convict Trump of any wrongdoing.
The president and his allies have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and insist impeachment will be a winning development for them as they head into the 2020 election. Democrats, meanwhile, are taking their case to the voters, who, according to opinion polls in recent months, have been largely opposed to impeaching the president. A flurry of recent polls over the past week have suggested the tide is turning, however, with Americans now split on the topic.
The Hill has reached out to both Schiff and Zaid.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:29:07 GMT
Whistleblower attorney expresses 'serious concerns' over client safety to acting DNIUSA TODAY Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, USA TODAY•September 30, 2019 www.yahoo.com/now/whistleblower-attorney-expresses-serious-concerns-124851190.html
WASHINGTON – The lead attorney for the whistleblower that set off an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump expressed "serious concerns" for his client's safety to the acting Director of National Intelligence over the weekend.
Andrew P. Bakaj, the attorney, in a letter to acting DNI Joseph Maguire, said that he has appreciated the National Intelligence office's "support thus far to activate appropriate resources to ensure their safety," but also wanted to alert him of concerns over the whistleblower's safety.
"The purpose of this letter is to formally notify you of serious concerns we have regarding our client’s personal safety," Bakaj wrote. "The events of the past week have heightened our concerns that our client’s identity will be disclosed publicly and that, as a result, our client will be put in harm’s way."
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Bakaj cited comments Trump made last week during a private event in New York, where he said: "I want to know who’s the person that gave the Whistleblower, who’s the person that gave the Whistleblower the information, because that’s close to a spy."
"You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? With spies and treason, right? We used to handle them a little differently than we do now," Trump continued.
The whistleblower's complaint, which was made public last week, expresses concern that Trump "used the power of his office" to solicit foreign help to discredit Joe Biden during his call with the Ukrainian president.
Bakaj wrote that he expects the situation to escalate as Congress continues to investigate the whistleblower's accusations.
"Unfortunately, we expect this situation to worsen, and to become even more dangerous for our client and any other whistleblowers, as Congress seeks to investigate this matter," the letter continued.
'Treason,' 'spying,' 'civil war': Donald Trump lashes out at impeachment accusers
A letter was also sent to the top Democrats and Republicans of the House Intelligence Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee alerting them of the concerns expressed to Maguire.
"We call upon the political leadership of both parties to speak out in favor of whistleblower protection and reiterate that this is a protected system where retaliation is not permitted, whether direct or implied," the letter said, which was signed by Bakaj.
We further expect that political leaders from both parties condemn any intimidation against our client and others.
Maguire said last week that he believed the whistleblower "did the right thing." His remarks came before the House Intelligence Committee, where he told them he delayed sending the whistleblower's complaint to Congress due to it involving conversations from the president, which are subject to executive privilege.
During his remarks, Maguire said he doesn't "know who the whistleblower is, to be honest with you," but he's "done my utmost to make sure I protect his identity."
The president has repeatedly denounced the whistleblower's claims. He has also lashed out against Democrats for opening an impeachment inquiry.
In late Sunday tweets, Trump continued to criticize lawmakers, some staff members for "spying" and said he deserves to meet his accuser.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Impeachment: Whistleblower attorney concerned over client's safetyMORE THREATSTrump suggests intel chairman should be arrested for 'treason'Reuters Reuters•September 30, 2019 WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump www.yahoo.com/now/1-trump-suggests-intel-chairman-125848828.html
on Monday escalated his attacks against the lawmaker leading the impeachment inquiry against him, suggesting that Representative Adam Schiff be arrested for "treason."
The comment is likely to inflame criticism of Trump's handling of the scandal engulfing his presidency, stemming from a telephone call in which Trump asked Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son.
The telephone call was included in an intelligence officer's whistleblower complaint that raised concerns about whether the president sought to leverage U.S. aid to Ukraine for a political favor.
"Rep. Adam Schiff illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people. It bore NO relationship to what I said on the call. Arrest for Treason?" Trump wrote in a post on Twitter.
Trump appeared to reference statements made by Schiff during a hearing held by the House Intelligence Committee, of which Schiff is the chairman. Schiff said his remarks parodied Trump's comments on the call with Zelenskiy.
The Republican president has increasingly lashed out at political opponents since House Democrats announced on Tuesday they would pursue an impeachment inquiry.
He likened the whistleblower and White House officials who gave information to the whistleblower to spies and suggested they committed treason.
The inspector general for the director of national intelligence deemed the whistleblower complaint credible and urgent, while the top U.S. intelligence officer said the whistleblower acted in good faith. (Reporting by Makini Brice and Doina Chiacu; Editing by
Catherine Evans and Chizu Nomiyama)
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:29:34 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:30:54 GMT
Trump Launches 'Stop The Coup' Impeachment Hashtag But Twitter Users Aren't Having ItHuffPost Mary Papenfuss,HuffPost 9 hours ago www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-stop-the-coup-hashtag-impeachment.html
President Donald Trump struggled mightily Saturday to kick off a sympathetic “Stop The Coup” hashtag — but the strategy blew up in his face.
Trump was attempting to equate the House impeachment inquiry with an illegal coup d’etat.
Impeachment is sanctioned by the Constitution for presidents who Congress determines should be removed from office for “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors” — a fact pointed out by his opponents on Twitter, who deployed “#Stop the Coup,” and a related hashtag, “#ThePresidentIsACrybaby,” against him.
(“Stop the Coup” also became the slogan and hashtag for Brits opposed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s suspension of Parliament in August amid his battle to get the U.K. out of the European Union.)
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:31:22 GMT
Monologue: Mad King Trump | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:31:51 GMT
The madness of King Donald: is Trump really losing his mind?
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:32:22 GMT
Both Trump and those in receipt of these funds are in violation bribery by Trump and theft by receiving. He should be removed for this alone! The Founding Fathers of this Nation never intended for it to be for sale! I wonder who will be the first one to bend chump over when he goes to prison?HELP ME OR ELSE:Trump lures GOP senators on impeachment with cold cashPolitico By Alex Isenstadt, Politico•October 31, 2019 news.yahoo.com/trump-lures-gop-senators-impeachment-090036960.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews
President Donald Trump is rewarding senators who have his back on impeachment — and sending a message to those who don't to get on board.
Trump is tapping his vast fundraising network for a handful of loyal senators facing tough reelection bids in 2020. Each of them has signed onto a Republican-backed resolution condemning the inquiry as “unprecedented and undemocratic.”
Conspicuously absent from the group is Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a politically vulnerable Republican who’s refused to support the resolution and avoided taking a stance on impeachment. With his new push, Trump is exerting leverage over a group he badly needs in his corner with an impeachment trial likely coming soon to the Senate — but that also needs him.
Republican senators on the ballot next year are lagging in fundraising, stoking uncertainty about the GOP’s hold on the chamber, and could use the fundraising might of the president. Trump’s political operation has raked in over $300 million this year.
On Wednesday, the Trump reelection campaign sent a fundraising appeal to its massive email list urging donors to provide a contribution that would be divided between the president and Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, and North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis. Each of the senators are supporting the anti-impeachment resolution despite being endangered in 2020.
“If we don’t post strong fundraising numbers,” the message warned, “we won't be able to defend the President from this baseless Impeachment WITCH HUNT.”
Next week, Trump will lend a hand to Georgia Sen. David Perdue, a staunch ally who has also spoken out against impeachment. On Nov. 8, the president will host an Atlanta fundraising lunch that will jointly benefit his campaign, the Republican National Committee, and Perdue’s reelection effort. Attendees are being asked to give up to $100,000, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO.
Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., attends a markup of the federal spending blueprint for fiscal year 2020 with other members of the Senate Budget Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 28, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Trump is also set to appear next week at a reception for Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC closely aligned with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and party leadership.
The offensive comes as Trump presses Republicans to remain united behind him. During a cabinet meeting last week, the president implored Republicans to “get tougher and fight” while lamenting that Democrats “stick together. You never see them break off.”
The president is looking to buck up senators coming under mounting pressure on impeachment. Gardner, who is widely seen as the most jeopardized Republican incumbent up for reelection, faced criticism earlier this month after he dodged questions about Trump’s conduct. Ernst was confronted at a town hall over her support for the president. This week, a liberal group began a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign pushing both Republican senators to support impeachment.
The new online fundraising drive bypassed Collins, an occasional Trump critic who called on the president to retract his tweet comparing the impeachment investigation to a “lynching.” Collins also said Trump made a “big mistake” in asking China to investigate the Biden family.
Arizona Sen. Martha McSally, another vulnerable Republican facing reelection, was also omitted, though apparently for a different reason. While McSally signed onto the anti-impeachment resolution, she has frustrated Republican officials over her reluctance to exclusively use WinRed, a Trump-endorsed online fundraising tool. Party officials are trying to turn WinRed into a centralized hub of small-donor giving ahead of the 2020 election and used the platform to send out Trump’s appeal for the three senators.
Collins and McSally are missing out on a potential windfall after they were both outraised by their Democratic rivals during the third quarter of the year. McSally's Democratic opponent, former astronaut Mark Kelly, has raked in $5 million more than her over the course of the year.
McSally's campaign declined to comment, and a spokesperson for Collins did not respond.
Mike Reed, a Republican National Committee spokesman, said Wednesday’s appeal from the Trump campaign brought in "six figures" over the course of the day. "Our supporters stand totally behind President Trump and are eager to support down-ballot candidates who do the same," he said.
Party officials said there are likely to be additional Trump-led digital fundraising efforts for senators and that those who weren't included in this wave could be in a later one.
The president has been a fundraising boon for Republican senators. Earlier this month, Texas Sen. John Cornyn sent out an appeal to donors that prominently featured an image of Trump flashing a thumbs-up. The plea asked givers to “Show President Trump you have his back!” and invited them to split their donations between the president and Cornyn’s reelection campaigns.
The Texas senator tweeted afterward that his campaign “had its biggest online fundraising day ever."
“The donors listen to the president, and he has the most capacity to energize small-dollar contributions by making the case that he needs a Senate majority to be successful,” said Scott Jennings, a former political aide in the George W. Bush White House.
Trump’s interest in assisting down-ballot candidates has heartened Republican strategists who worry that the 2020 election is turning out to be a re-run of the disastrous 2018 midterms, when GOP candidates were vastly out-raised. The hope is that Trump can harness his massive small-donor network to help Republican senators, who are trying to protect a narrow majority.
“The hard lessons from 2018 were that elections have consequences and it is the president’s party now,” said Scott Reed, the senior political strategist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Trump, Reed added, “has the ability to turn on the money spigot like no one else.”Bush Ethics Lawyer Calls Trump Money Steered To Impeachment Foes 'Felony Bribery'HuffPost Mary Papenfuss,HuffPost 2 hours 21 minutes ago www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-richard-painter-impeachment-felony-bribery.html
Former George W. Bush ethics lawyer Richard Painter compared President Donald Trump’s attempt to steer campaign donations to Republican incumbents who oppose his impeachment to “felony bribery.”
Politico reported Thursday that the Trump campaign is mobilizing the president’s “vast fundraising network” for GOP senators facing tough reelection bids. Each has signed onto a Republican-backed resolution condemning the inquiry as “unprecedented and undemocratic.”
“This is bribery,” Painter declared flatly in a tweet after the story appeared. He compared such payments to bribing jurors. If Trump is impeached, senators will decide his fate in a trial.
“Any other American who offered cash to the jury before a trial would go to prison for felony bribery .... Criminal,” he added. Painter also indicated those who accept the campaign cash before a Senate trial are “guilty of accepting a bribe.”
The Trump reelection campaign on Wednesday sent out a fundraising appeal via email asking donors to contribute money to be divided among Trump and Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Thom Tillis. (R-N.C.). Each faces a tight race — and each supported an anti-impeachment resolution.
“If we don’t post strong fundraising numbers, we won’t be able to defend the President from this baseless Impeachment WITCH HUNT,” the email declared.
Next week, Trump is hosting an Atlanta fundraising lunch to benefit his campaign, the Republican National Committee and Sen. David Perdue’s reelection campaign, Politico reported. Perdue (R-Ga.) also backed the anti-impeachment resolution.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:33:04 GMT
Trump news – live: Furious president demands whistleblower testifies in impeachment probe, as poll suggests heavy 2020 defeatThe Independent Joe Sommerlad,The Independent 23 minutes ago www.yahoo.com/news/trump-news-live-poll-suggests-081900399.html
Donald Trump: Oliver Contreras/EPA
Donald Trump has continued to rage about the House impeachment inquiry, demanding that the CIA whistleblower who first sounded the alarm over his “quid pro quo” call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky testify to Congress, calling on the media to expose their identity while refusing to rule out a government shutdown as a consequence of the investigation.
The president is meanwhile facing a heavy defeat at the ballot box in 2020 according to the latest polling, one survey showing him losing by a 10-point margin to Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden, with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders both projected to beat him comfortably.
With the Democratic-led probe unable to resume on Capitol Hill on Monday after all four of its scheduled interviewees declined to appear before the panel - in accordance with White House advice - the president is due in Lexington, Kentucky, for his latest “Keep America Great” rally this evening.
Opinion: The chickens are coming home to roost for Trump's chaotic White House www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-impeachment-hearings-latest-democrats-vote-white-house-twitter-a9183651.html Don Jr is trying to claim his dad wasn't booed by the UFC crowd in NYC on Saturday night. This clip - and many others like it - would suggest otherwise.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:33:33 GMT
Trump's dictatorial impulses have now reached the point where he is ORDERING people to vote for him!Trump Uses ‘Pocahontas’ Slur While Telling Jewish Voters That Warren Will Take ‘Your Wealth Away’Rolling StoneDecember 8, 2019, 10:37 AM MST
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President Donald Trump once again used a racist term when going after Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
“You have to vote for me. You have no choice. You’re not going to vote for Pocahontas I can tell you that,” Trump told Jewish voters during an event for the Israeli American Council on Saturday night.
The president panned Warren’s economic plan, saying, “You’re not going to vote for the wealth tax. Yeah, let’s take 100 percent of your wealth away.” Trump continued, “Even if you don’t like me, some of you don’t. Some of you I don’t like at all, actually, and you’re going to be my biggest supporters because you’ll be out of business in about fifteen minutes if they get it.”
Trump also told the audience that some Jewish people in America don’t love Israel enough, “We have to get the people of our country, of this country, to love Israel more, I have to tell you that. We have to do it. We have to get them to love Israel more.” Trump added, “Because you have Jewish people that are great people—they don’t love Israel enough. You know that. You know that.”
Trump then excused his administration’s lack of progress on a Middle East peace plan, saying, “If Jared Kushner can’t do it, it can’t be done.” The president’s son-in-law and senior adviser was put in charge of the region, a move that has been long criticized because of his lack of experience.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:34:01 GMT
More lies upon lies from The Mango One. But he may be right about one thing regarding the lack of progress on the Mideast peace plan: " If Jared Kushner can’t do it, it can’t be done.You're right, mein Fuhrer. It can't be done with that clown you've got for a son-in-law.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:34:29 GMT
In less than three years, Trump has turned the Republican Party into “Trumplicans” like William Bagdad Barr, Trump Tony Soprano, Moscow Mitch, Leningrad Lindsey, Hurricane Hand-Grenade Rudy, Deep State Dmitry Devin Nunes, Kremlin McCarthy, DUI Mugshot Matt Gaetz, Ted Cruz-chev, Pompous Mike Pompeo, Adderall Jim Jordan, and Mike “the elf on the shelf” Pence. Trumplicans now believe in supporting serial adulterers, tariffs, five-time drafter dodgers, people that make fun of our war heroes, the spreading of Russian conspiracy theories, working with Putin and they will do and say anything to get elected by pretend they care about values, national security, the law, healthcare, hardworking Americans, fiscal responsibility, education, and seniors and then turn around and do everything for rich. Trump Rages At 'Pathetic' Fox News For Putting Democrats On AirHuffPost Josephine Harvey,HuffPost•December 8, 2019 www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fox-news-democrats-swalwell-234703225.html
President Donald Trump is again slamming his preferred network, claiming that Fox News is pandering to the left by having Democratic lawmakers on air.
The president tweeted Sunday to express his displeasure that Fox News allowed Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) ― whom he described as “losers” and “radical left haters” ― to appear on the network’s airwaves.
Cicilline was a guest on “Fox News Sunday,” where he discussed Democrats’ forthcoming articles of impeachment with host Chris Wallace. Cicilline sits on the House Judiciary Committee, which held impeachment hearings last week.
The president criticized the network following the broadcast, tweeting, “Don’t get why @foxnews puts losers on like @repswalwell (who got ZERO as presidential candidate before quitting), Pramila Jayapal, David Cicilline and others who are Radical Left Haters?”
The three representatives responded almost simultaneously about 15 minutes later, all tweeting the same selfie of the three of them, alongside Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), saying that they were busy working to protect and uphold the Constitution while he was tweeting insults.
Despite his preference for the network, the president has repeatedly gone after Fox News in recent months over unfavorable coverage during the impeachment inquiry. Late last month, he attacked the network for its decision to “waste airtime” by hosting Swalwell, a member of both the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, who spoke about the inquiry following a day of testimony from three government officials.
“Fox should stay with the people that got them there, not losers!” Trump said at the time.
Fox News host Neil Cavuto reminded the president how journalism works in November, telling Trump that reporters have an obligation to question him, even if that invites his “wrath.”
“You are free to rage. All we are free to do is report and let the viewers decide,” he said, after Trump had attacked Wallace, a veteran journalist, for a “Fox News Sunday” segment during which he called out Rep. Steven Scalise (R-La.) for “very badly” mischaracterizing some of the impeachment witness testimonies.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 15, 2020 8:35:25 GMT
Back in August of last year, tRump threatened the stock market would crash should he be impeached... Well, here we are... tRump has been impeached and the market is doing just fine... Imagine how much better it will be when tRump is gone!
BTW - the Stock Market is NOT the economy. Look at Median Household Income That number hasn't moved all that much in the last decade. Median household income has actually lost ground to the cost of living, even with only 2% inflation. Ask anyone trying to rent or buy a house. Even with the cheapest borrowing ever, the average person is losing ground in trying to get ahead. And don't tell someone to save, with banks offering 0%. Savers are being forced to put $ in the overvalued stock market.Trump impeachment sends stock market soaring, despite president's warning it would crashThe IndependentDecember 19, 2019, 2:07 PM UTC www.yahoo.com/news/trump-impeachment-sends-stock-market-140342343.html
US stocks have soared after the House voted to impeach Donald Trump, in spite of the president’s warnings of a market crash should he be censured.
The S&P 500 was up nearly 7 per cent compared to when Nancy Pelosi first announced the impeachment inquiry in September, and all signs point towards stocks headed higher on Thursday, according to CNBC.
So far, investors and markets have seemingly ignored the political firestorm that has consumed Mr Trump’s presidency and Washington, rallying higher and higher in spite of the grave accusations facing the American commander-in-chief.
REUTERS
The strength of the markets shows that the impeachment of Mr Trump may, economically, end up looking more like the event surrounding Bill Clinton’s impeachment in the 1990s, when the stock market continued to climb in spite of the sordid details that emerged surrounding the president’s affair and subsequent lies about that affair.
Mr Clinton is the only modern president aside from Mr Trump to be impeached, so it is difficult to assess whether impeachment proceeds have a major impact on the stock market. But, during the march towards impeaching Richard Nixon, stocks faltered. Nixon ultimately resigned before the censure.
But Mr Trump has warned repeatedly that an impeachment vote would backfire on Democrats, and force the stock market to dip.
In September, for instance, Mr Trump said: “If they actually did this the markets would crash. Do you think it was luck that got us to be the best Stock Market and Economy in our history. It wasn’t.”
Before that, Mr Trump had warned that “everybody would be very poor” if he were impeached and removed from office. Mr Trump is unlikely to be removed from office once the Senate takes up the articles of impeachment passed by the House on Wednesday.
That trial is expected to begin in early 2020.
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