The Trump Presidency: Part 20

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The US says it is sending warships to the Caribbean to stop illegal drugs.

"We must not let the drug cartels exploit the [coronavirus] pandemic to threaten American lives," President Donald Trump said.
The move comes a week after the US charged Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior officials in the country with "narco-terrorism".
It accused them of flooding the US with cocaine and using drugs as a weapon to undermine the health of Americans.
A $15m (£12.5m) reward was offered for information leading to Mr Maduro's arrest.
The Venezuelan government called the US deployment a "diversion" from the current pandemic spreading around the US - and the world at large.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52133500
 
Captain_Swoop said:
The US says it is sending warships to the Caribbean to stop illegal drugs.
BBC said:
The move comes a week after the US charged Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior officials in the country with "narco-terrorism".
It accused them of flooding the US with cocaine and using drugs as a weapon to undermine the health of Americans.
A $15m (£12.5m) reward was offered for information leading to Mr Maduro's arrest.
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I have no evidence here, I am merely musing.

Do you think it is possible
(1) that President Trump says things like “let’s send the SEAL team down there and take him out”
(2) that the staff knows he’ll be unhappy enough to fire folks if they just say “that’s illegal, Mr. President,” so they just say, “we’ll look into it.” And then they come back and say, “the micro polling shows that we will lose a lot of votes from the military if we do that.”
 
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Good morning. Classic Trump distraction yesterday. Presidential Shell Game. Yesterday we saw President Trump trying to sell himself as a "War President" just like he is from "Central Casting". He used the daily Covid-19 Task Force Press Briefing to portray himself as powerful War Time President, creating a backdrop of military personnel in uniform and other top officials, including Barr. Nice image but when you listen to what he says and actually does he comes across incredibly weak. From his own lips, he takes no responsibility for anything. He won't even request things to be done on a national level but makes some recommendations. This gives him the ability to take credit for things that look good on paper, and to blame others when the numbers don't look so good.
He has gone from saying that there are only 15 people with it and they are all getting better and soon it will be zero, to setting up himself to claim victory should only 200k people die. That happening only after he was shown that we may loose 2 million people if he continues to do nothing. So if we loose 200k he will claim to have saved millions of lives. That 200k number is if we do everything right and that isn't happening and mainly because he has been so soft on his pushing states on taking this seriously. Don't worry, he will be blaming all of the governors for not acting stronger. If we actually got into a serious war. A shooting war, that would require a draft. I'm guessing he would act the same way as he is doing with this virus. Letting individual states make the decision on drafting people because there is no indication that President Trump would be willing to take on that responsibility. Take credit for whatever his spin team can paint as a victory by setting an incredibly low bar and then blame others for the actual damage being done.
Yet he has his followers.
 
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Trump "inherits" bad coronavirus tests from....Obama?..in 2020.

“We really inherited bad tests, these are horrible tests,” Trump added, disavowing tests which were, in fact, created in January by the Centers for Disease Control under the leadership of a director he appointed.

That led Roberts to observe that officials from the previous administration have blamed the federal government’s slow response to the Covid-19 outbreak on the fact that Trump’s White House dissolved the National Security Council directorate for global health security and biodefense, which was dedicated to preparing for pandemics, in 2018.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/04/01...se-pandemic-team-dodge-checks-notes-fox-news/
 
Tero said:
That led Roberts to observe that officials from the previous administration have blamed the federal government’s slow response to the Covid-19 outbreak on the fact that Trump’s White House dissolved the National Security Council directorate for global health security and biodefense, which was dedicated to preparing for pandemics, in 2018.
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Trump's 'answer' was to accuse John Roberts of Fox News of repeating a story "you know is false." Only Trump didn't explain what was false. The fact that the Trump administration had shut down the directorate for global health, is that false? Or was it false to say that officials from the previous administration were citing that action as making responding to the Covid-19 pandemic more difficult? Or was the whole premise false, that disbanding the directorate had an effect? Of course, Trump is not going to be specific. His answer, "You're repeating a story you know is false," then saying, "“I thought you were with Fox," are answers that will play well with his supporters and are easily tweeted and quotable on Facebook.

TRUMP: "Did you know I was number one on Facebook? I just found out I'm number one on Facebook." Link (He's not.)
 
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Trump just tweeted, bragging about how he's gonna get the price of oil & gas up again, and how great it will be for the US Oil companies....
 
kookbreaker said:
Trump just tweeted, bragging about how he's gonna get the price of oil & gas up again, and how great it will be for the US Oil companies....
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B...b....b....but I thought high gas and oil prices were bad. Indeed Obama was going to drive them up (though actually they fell).

I suppose it's good for Oil company employees and very good for oil company executives, but for the 99% of people in the US who are in neither of those two categories this would make things worse at a time where there are 10 million newly unemployed people.
 
kookbreaker said:
Trump just tweeted, bragging about how he's gonna get the price of oil & gas up again, and how great it will be for the US Oil companies....
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Once again incompetrumptynumpty says the quiet part out loud. The *usual* spiel from pols on consumer costs has prices going *down*. He just can't abstain from blurting out what the lobbyists and his donors want to hear. Because he couldn't give a flying fart about the 99%.
 
The long and winding road or, When we practice to deceive... Something like that.

Trump's 'answer' was to accuse John Roberts of Fox News of repeating a story "you know is false."
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"Remember this, we inherited — the word is we inherited — bad tests," Trump falsely insisted during Wednesday's White House briefing. "We really inherited bad tests, these are horrible tests." In fact, the tests were created earlier this year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is headed by Trump-appointed director Robert Redfield. The New York Times recently detailed how the administration "lost" an entire month in the fight against the virus by repeatedly fumbling the testing rollout.
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PBS NewsHour reporter Yamiche Alcindor..."You said that you don't take responsibility, but you did disband the White House pandemic office, and the officials that were working in that office left this administration abruptly. So what responsibility do you take to that?" she asked.
Trump replied: "I just think it's a nasty question. And when you say 'me,' I didn't do it...I don't know anything about it." Link
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But Trump has made it clear he not only knew about it, he boasted about it. Before that is, not now.
But when Trump was asked a similar question about whether he regretted his administration's proposals calling to gut the budgets of the CDC, National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization ahead of the pandemic in February, the president said he had no regrets, "I'm a business person, I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them — when we need them, we can get them back very quickly."
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Rishi Desai, the chief medical officer of the company Osmosis, isn't buying it. He told Fox News:
"They should've been working on it for months," he said. "We knew coronavirus was coming. We knew that it was a respiratory disease. We knew it was person-to-person...We had a very weak response."
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Desai said it was "exactly this attitude that led to the U.S. quickly eclipsing any other country in the number of reported coronavirus cases."
 
Even IF anyone was stupid enough to believe that the Obama administration had a testing kit for a non-existent virus in stock, it would still have been Trump's job to make sure they work.
As usual, logic need not apply.
 
Lurch said:
Once again incompetrumptynumpty says the quiet part out loud. The *usual* spiel from pols on consumer costs has prices going *down*. He just can't abstain from blurting out what the lobbyists and his donors want to hear. Because he couldn't give a flying fart about the 99%.
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Oh come on, you know it is nothing more than Jeff Amoco called him this morning (or alternatively was on Fox News) and complained that gas and oil prices are too low for them to make the billions they are used to getting. Therefore, we obviously need to get those gas and oil prices up.

If someone were to show up tomorrow and say something different, he'd change his tune.
 
Hmm, one really does wonder: will there be enough of bovine excrement in this world to cover up all this incompetence and get enough people to believe that it was Hillary's emails that done it?
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Even IF anyone was stupid enough to believe that the Obama administration had a testing kit for a non-existent virus in stock, it would still have been Trump's job to make sure they work.
As usual, logic need not apply.
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Well.. there are those in Trump's cult that believe Obama's presidential response to 9/11 attacks was inadequate....
 
thaiboxerken said:
Well.. there are those in Trump's cult that believe Obama's presidential response to 9/11 attacks was inadequate....
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Well to be honest, he did nothing as President to prevent the attacks and it was eight years after the attacks until he even said anything about them as President. ;)
 
SezMe said:
No. I'm a subscriber and I've got my ad blocker set to 11 and I can read all the articles with no problem.

I think Cain had a bit of tongue-in-cheek when (s)he wrote that post. They once had a offer for a year subscription at $40 but I never saw an offer for $1 for half a year.
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No, I'm being serious, one dollar. I was going to succumb and pay $29 for a year(?), but decided to subscribe on my Kindle, and received the offer there (I think I got six months free when I bought my Kindle).
 
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