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The Trump Presidency: Part 17

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Do you really think he's going to be quiet, even if he's impeached or voted out in the next election?

This is the same thought I had earlier.

"He's gonna go away" is not a viable end to this in any possible scenario.

Removal through impeachment, indictment, voted out, he goes to prison... regardless of how he leaves office Trump is not going retire to a life of quiet solitude.

Trumps not ever going to do the "Quiet life outside of the public eye, maybe write a book, do the occasional speaking tour, show up in public in an official capacity once in a blue moon" kind of thing.

For all our "bad" Presidents (however you wish to put into that category) we as a country generally have pretty good "ex-Presidents" who generally don't bash the sitting President or inject themselves too hard into politics.

I don't see Trump maintaining that trend.
 
They won't allow news channels at the VA waiting rooms any more. Apparently it was generating too much stress and arguments among the waiting patients. And for that, I'm thankful. I recently saw my first ever complete episode of Matlock while I was waiting for my appointment. Mostly harmless.

So news is just like access to members of congress, things that can't be allowed in the VA.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/763996045/veterans-affairs-secretary-boots-members-of-congress-from-offices-in-va-hospital
 
Trump Tweets

Schiff is a lowlife who should resign (at least!).

Schiff is a lying disaster for our Country. He should resign!

The Republican Party has never had such support!
 
Trump Retweeted

Rich Lowry
@RichLowry
Excited to share that my new book, “The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free” will be out November 5. It’s available for pre-order now https://amazon.com/Case-Nationali

Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
NBC News reports that Hunter Biden met with a Chinese banker while joining then-VP Joe Biden’s official 2013 trip to China.
Hunter Biden was attempting to form a Chinese privet equity fund.
Just 10 days after the trip Chinese authorities issued the funds business license.

Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Good times with @seanhannity last night talking Adam #FullOfSchiff

“Schiff is basically the Jussie Smollett of Congress on steroids. I’ve never seen anything so ridiculous.”
 
Trump Retweeted

Rich Lowry
@RichLowry
Excited to share that my new book, “The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free” will be out November 5. It’s available for pre-order now https://amazon.com/Case-Nationali

Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
NBC News reports that Hunter Biden met with a Chinese banker while joining then-VP Joe Biden’s official 2013 trip to China.
Hunter Biden was attempting to form a Chinese privet equity fund.
Just 10 days after the trip Chinese authorities issued the funds business license.

Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Good times with @seanhannity last night talking Adam #FullOfSchiff

“Schiff is basically the Jussie Smollett of Congress on steroids. I’ve never seen anything so ridiculous.”

Was that "hedge fund" pun on purpose ? If so, chapeau
 
Very interesting.

But stupid.

I have to wonder if many other people get that 50-year-old reference.
But I'm sure the character who said it was a "very fine person". :p

Was that "hedge fund" pun on purpose ? If so, chapeau

I had to look up "privet" to see if it was some financial term I was unfamiliar with. I didn't even know it was a real word. After seeing the definition, I wondered the same thing myself. It's too clever to have come from The PDJT, but since it's a retweet it may have been intentional.
 
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I can't imagine Ivanka Trump will be happy for Chinese business dealings with American politicians' children to be the new rock flipped over!
 
Donald Trump’s plans for major expansion of Turnberry resort rejected

The Trump Organisation’s plans for a major expansion of its flagship Scottish resort by building swaths of housing and luxury villas have been thwarted, further jeopardising efforts by the US president’s company to stem multimillion pound losses at its most prestigious overseas property.

Donald Trump’s firm wanted to significantly increase the footprint of its Trump Turnberry resort, with his son, Eric, personally overseeing blueprints for a new housing development on landholdings surrounding the historic golf venue.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/donal...nsion-of-turnberry-resort-rejected-1-5016324/

Puts the new tariff on Whisky in to perspective
 
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Trump's Twitter account got hit with a copyright violation complaint from Warner Music. Adding to the humor, it was for posting an edited clip from a Nickelback video, used to attack Joe Biden.

Twitter removed a video meme President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday after getting a copyright complaint about the video, which contained an altered music clip from the rock band Nickelback.
Trump's tweet has not been removed, but the video can no longer be played. The edited clip was from the music video for Nickleback's 2005 song "Photograph" and it targeted former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.


In the past, it's usually been Trump and other Republicans using music at rallies without permission. I still remember the Dropkick Murphys telling Scott Walker "Please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you !!!" I found an article from last year about the various songs that Trump had been asked not to play at rallies.
 
...and which does't invalidate the claim that President Trump sought a quid pro quo from Ukraine.

To be clear, of course, any quid pro quo, however obvious, is something additional and distracting from the simple and clear heart of the matter.

Trump used his political power to try to extort a foreign country to attack his political competitors for personal gain. That, itself, is illegal and impeachment worthy.
 
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Made me LOL
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Trump publicly urges Chinese to investigate Bidens amid impeachment inquiry

Hey, look, it's "Russia, if you're listening..." all over again!

Anyone going to try to argue that it's just a joke this time, despite how utterly ridiculous it was to try to pass that off as a joke even at the time?

In other random news...

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger sentenced to 10 years for murder of Botham Jean

That was the officer that literally just walked into someone else's house and shot them.

Of some relevance to that...

Response to the Amber Guyger verdict offers painful glimpse into white supremacy's widespread impact

Summation of the response? In a word - Shock.

Of note from that -

Amber Guyger's murder conviction is a rarity for police killings of unarmed Black people.

According to Mapping Police Violence:
- Black people 3X more likely to be killed than white people
- Of 1,147 people killed in 2017, 25% were Black
- 99% of cases result in no conviction
 
Trump Tweets

Leader McCarthy, we look forward to you soon becoming Speaker of the House. The Do Nothing Dems don’t have a chance!
 
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