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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

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SezMe said:
I have a guess. The House has 435 members so even those in relatively senior positions have considerable limits on what they can accomplish. Plus, they have to do painful fund raising 365 days a year. Now compare that to having A LOT of unfettered power to make things happen with no fund raising to boot. It must be a very powerful lure.

Consider Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (:)). He had a guaranteed-safe seat and had been in the Senate for 20 years so had a lot of sway. He gave it up to be the AG.
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If Mark Meadows has learned one thing from Sessions it is to always, always, always kiss Trump's ass and never, ever go against him if he wants to keep his job. But then again, he sold his soul to Trump long before he became his C of Staff
 
Captain_Swoop said:
"Monkey!" someone shouted after Donald Trump mentioned Obama.

Trump says "Let's be nice."

The crowd laughs.

"This could only happen in North Carolina," says Trump, laughing.
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!!!!

Was this broadcast? Could you actually hear someone shout that? Was that person identified? Is there a link?

!!!!
 
If Hurricane Laura hits Charlotte, NC during the RNC convention on Thursday could that be God telling Donnie something? :D
 
Trebuchet said:
You need to catch up on the Falwell thread. He sat in a corner watching while the pool boy screwed his wife. And there are apparently pictures....
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Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party".
 
JoeMorgue said:
Do the Republicans not do that thing that caused the (minor and overblown by the media/Social Networking) hubbub thing where someone symbolically nominates another candidate ...
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Dr. Keith said:
I'm assuming there was no republican challenger, since he is the incumbent. And if there was a challenger, they did not get any delegates.
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There were 4 other Republicans who challenged Trump in the primaries. Or, at least, they did in the states where the GOP allowed Trump to be challenged in the primaries. In a number of states the GOP decided to cancel their primaries or caucuses and simply declare Trump the winner of their delegates. I believe the number of states where Republicans held presidential primaries this year was less than 20.

In addition to many states deciding not to have a Republican presidential primary, the RNC decided there was no need to hold any debates among the candidates, as that would have helped Republican primary voters be aware they had other choices besides Donald Trump they could vote for, so they didn't hold any.

The other candidates for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination were former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld (who received close to 450,000 votes in the primaries he was able to compete in); former Illinois representative Joe Walsh (who received close to 175,000 votes); real estate developer Rocky De La Fuente (who received a little more than 100,000 votes); and former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford (who received a little over 4,000 votes).

While Democratic primaries generally apportion delegates based on what percentage of the vote different candidates receive, for 2020 the national party leaders urged states to go with winner-takes-all for their primaries. I'm not sure which states went that way, but Trump won by large enough majorities in all the states which held GOP presidential primaries to receive all their delegates, and he was awarded all the delegates in the states which didn't hold primaries. That's why none of the other candidates will be placed into nomination or receive any votes at the convention. But there were indeed other Republican candidates, even though relatively few people seem to be aware of that fact.
 
So, some more problems for Trump.

First, another Trump loss:

From: The Mother Corp (a.k.a. the CBC)
The WTO dispute-resolution panel declared that the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission were wrong in 2017 when they imposed countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports...

Admittedly, not sure where this will go form here. Trump is someone who doesn't really respect international agreements, and the U.S. has already labeled the ruling "unfair".

And more developments in one of the investigations into Trump's finances:

The New York state attorney general is asking for a court to compel Eric Trump to be deposed in an investigation of the Trump Organization.

From: CNN
In court filings Monday, Letitia James' office said Eric Trump initially agreed to sit for a deposition on July 22, only to refuse, "balking less than two days before he was scheduled by agreement to give testimony."
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The attorney general's office has been investigating President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization since 2019, when Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen testified before Congress that Trump's annual financial statements inflated the values of his assets in order to secure favorable loans and insurance coverage, but deflated the value of other assets in order to reduce real estate taxes....Eric Trump's attorney sent a letter to the attorney general saying he would invoke "those rights afforded to every individual under the Constitution" as justification not to testify.

So, Eric Trump is taking the fifth amendment.

A wise man once said:

"If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment...The mob takes the Fifth."
- Donald Trump
 
I caught a few minutes of speeches on the radio. The point was made that Biden is being cast in the "incumbent" role. That takes quite a bit of doing.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

Joe Biden has said he would lock down the Country again. That’s crazy! We’re having record job growth and a booming stock market, but Joe would end it all and close it all down. Ridiculous!

Exclusive: Eyewitness Says as Many as 20,000 Unverified Absentee Ballots Counted in Detroit Primary https://breitbart.com/politics/2020...ied-absentee-ballots-counted-detroit-primary/ via @BreitbartNews
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The evidence is a notarized affidavit not submitted to any court that I can see.

Affidavit of Bob Cushman

The heading is, "State of Michigan; In the Circuit Court in the County of Maine".

Gee, looks so official with that notary and all.

I see nothing about it being related to any court case. It's clearly not recorded. For anyone who isn't familiar with recording documents, anyone can have anything notarized. They are asserting you are the one who signed it, that's all.

As for the heading, it's bogus. What does it mean? It wasn't submitted for any court case, nor is there any evidence it was recorded for any purpose.

This is so typical of the post-truth GOP and especially Trump supporters.

If anyone can contradict my post, please do.
 
Something occurred to me walking through the neighborhood today. We live in a liberal suburb. High Jewish population. Upper middle class (mostly). Votes heavily Democratic. We have lived there for about 20 years.

Most elections, I see a reasonable number of yard signs, mostly for the Democrat.
In 2016, I saw very few yard signs. Most were for Clinton. Occasionally a Trump sign.
This year I see lots and lots and lots of yard signs, and I have yet to see one for Trump.

That's a good sign. (No pun intended.)

The only signs I have seen that mention Trump at all are two identical ones I have seen on neighbors' lawns that feature three Trump-style babies. (i.e. Trump caricature as babies in diapers) and the caption "Not voting is the number 1 cause of unwanted presidencies."

It's not exactly a scientific poll, but it suggests that the anti-Trump sentiment is far, far, stronger than in 2016.
 
Both Trump Jr and his girlfriend sounded & looked like they were blitzed on coke... Coincidence or did they blast some rails backstage.
 
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