🤦🏻♀️😫Via Kyle Griffin:
NBC News confirms: Mike Johnson just put #Trump loyalists Ronny Jackson — demoted by the U.S. Navy in 2022 — and Scott Perry — central to House GOP efforts to overturn the 2020 election — on the House Intel Committee.
🤦🏻♀️😫Via Kyle Griffin:
NBC News confirms: Mike Johnson just put #Trump loyalists Ronny Jackson — demoted by the U.S. Navy in 2022 — and Scott Perry — central to House GOP efforts to overturn the 2020 election — on the House Intel Committee.
FINALLY! ! Belated #WompWomp
Judge rules #Bannon must go to prison by July 1 while appealing contempt case
The former #Trump adviser is challenging a four-month prison term for contempt of Congress after failing to appear before a House panel investigating #Jan6
#legal
Gift: https://wapo.st/3X9kc6M
'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024
Team #Trump sees #Georgia as 'a road map' for putting Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into practice
The Peach State is unique—it's the sole battleground state in which the #Republican Party has total #control over the levers of #power: a trifecta in state #House, #Senate, & governorship
#ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #law #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-georgia-laboratory-rig-2024-1235034510/
Via Dan Alexander:
When Trump left the White House, his aircraft fleet was in rough shape. Now it’s hauling in millions of dollars in revenue, thanks to a bit of self-dealing.
“#Trump Shifts Nearly $5 Million Of Campaign Money Into His Private Business"
Trump visited a Black megachurch in Detroit.
There were no Blacks in the audience.
#trump #blackmastodon #uspolitics #Election2024 #detroit https://apnews.com/article/trump-michigan-black-voters-far-right-activists-2ddab35eceecb42ee8899f0720715b32
“…tweets liked by #Vance said #Trump committed “serial sexual assault,” called him “one of USA’s most hated, villainous, douchey celebs,” and, in a since-removed set of tweets, harshly criticized Trump’s response to the deadly 2017 White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia – something Vance now defends Trump over”
#OpenAI adds #Trump-appointed fmr #NSA director to its board
OpenAI has tapped fmr US Army general & #NationalSecurity Agency dir Paul M. Nakasone to join its board of directors, the continuation of a reshuffling spurred by CEO #SamAltman’s temp ousting in Nov.
#Nakasone, a Trump appointee who took over the NSA in 2018, will join the board’s #Safety & #Security Cmte, which OpenAI began in late May to evaluate & improve policies to test models & curb #abuse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/13/openai-board-paul-nakasone-nsa/
“Bullets designed for an INNER CITY or COURTHOUSE. A perfectly chilling encapsulation of the general theme emerging from the National Rifle Association’s ‘14 acres of guns & gear.’”
The ammosexuals who are frothing at the mouth in anticipation of a Trump are preparing for literal war.
Bullshit.
He's claiming that Black men and gangbangers love Trump because he "got charges" like they do.
Fuck you,50.
#blackmastodon #trump #uspolitics https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/50-cent-says-black-men-identifying-with-trump-over-legal-woes-theyve-got-rico-charges-too/
“One of two Black contestants chosen for that season in 2010, Folkes was insulted that #Trump had called him inarticulate and accused him of illiteracy in a lengthy boardroom tirade minutes earlier.
As the crew member, a Black woman who worked as a contestant manager, consoled him, Trump suddenly appeared at the bar.
“He came up and he asked me: ‘Is this your woman? Because you two would make a really great couple. You both have the same background’” https://apnews.com/article/d962dfce1220920681ede63b90058f5d
#WompWomp Gag order remains.
New York’s highest court has declined to hear Donald #Trump’s appeal on the #GagOrder in his hush money case, according to a decision list posted Tuesday. #legal
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/politics/trump-gag-order-new-york-appeal?cid=ios_app
More #Trump allies, including #MarkMeadows, plead not guilty in #Arizona
The fmr White House chief of staff — along w/ #MikeRoman, who worked on Trump’s 2020 campaign — pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from their alleged efforts to try to subvert Joe Biden’s win.
#law #democracy #TrumpCoupAttempt #insurrection #BidenHarris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/07/arizona-mark-meadows-mike-roman/
With Donald Trump’s long record of racist and xenophobic comments, why is support for him among voters of color increasing?
Two political scientists went to America Fest to look at how Republicans are appealing to voters of color by invoking law and order, conservative social values and mistrust of government.
https://theconversation.com/what-early-2024-polls-are-revealing-about-voters-of-color-and-the-gop-and-its-not-all-about-donald-trump-227534
#Election2024 #Trump
“The Republican Senate candidate #KariLake addressed supporters with a Confederate flag displayed behind her during a campaign event at a #Trump merchandise store in Arizona last week, where she repeated false claims about election fraud.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/07/kari-lake-confederate-flag?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#Trump told the approximately 80 #CEOs in attendance, including #Apple’s Tim Cook, #JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon, #Citigroup’s Jane Fraser & #BankOfAmerica’s Brian Moynihan, that he would cut the #CorporateTax rate, currently at 21%, to 20%, because “it’s a round number.”
#Xerox CEO Steven Bandrowczak, #Gap Inc. President Richard Dixon & #Truist CEO Bill Rogers were also spotted.
#Trump plans to claim sweeping #authority over #federal #spending
In a 2nd term, Trump will look at unilateral funding cuts for the #WHO & #green #energy initiatives.
He is vowing to wrest key spending powers from #Congress & to assert more control over the federal #budget than any president in #US #history.
#law #Constitution #SCOTUS #power #government #extortion #EconomicPolicy #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://wapo.st/3XekhX4
Via Angry Staffer:
#Biden-Harris HQ calling #Trump out on his hypocrisy and his glitches every day is driving him *insane*
I’m here for it
Biden-Harris HQ:
Trump: “At the end of this speech, I'll be taking some questions. This is different than Joe Biden. He doesn't take any questions”
Trump at the end of his speech: *Quickly shuffles off stage, refusing to answer any questions*
#Doonesbury does it again. #comics #Trump
Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/06/16
Via Kyle Griffin:
Donald #Trump is in breach of a British High Court order to pay £300,000 in legal costs to Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who compiled the Steele document.
Steele tells Sky News that Trump has been in breach of the judge's order "for two months now." https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-in-breach-of-300-000-legal-costs-ruling-after-losing-uk-dossier-case-against-former-mi6-spy-13148972