Sunday, August 28, 2022

Message to Trump: This is why you lost the election

 https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/557723-message-to-trump-this-is-why-you-lost-the-election/

A number of Republicans with whom I’ve spoken believe that Trump’s bombastic, bullying, unpresidential antics probably cost him as much as 10 percent of the vote. Let’s give Trump the benefit of the doubt and say it was only 1 percent. That still equals about 1.5 million votes. And, again, he lost Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona by a total of just more than 42,000 votes.

Nobody likes a bully, and few people like an insult comic as a president. It’s quite logical to imagine that Trump’s churlish, unpresidential demeanor caused at least 1 percent of the electorate to flip its votes. 

2020 Election Analysis: How Donald Trump Lost America

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-11-07/2020-election-analysis-how-donald-trump-lost-america

Trump never had the support of most Americans. He lost the popular vote in 2016. His approval rating never topped 50%. On his signature issues of trade and immigration, public opinion moved firmly against him. Although he inspired undying passion among a vocal minority of fierce supporters, the election showed that feelings about Trump ran deepest in those who despised him.

Therein lies the GOP’s existential dilemma. To move ahead, Republicans leaders will ultimately have to decide whether to remain true to Trump and his supporters, or try to do what voters just did -- send him packing.

Trump lost, and he lost for so many reasons

 https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2021/07/trump-lost-and-he-lost-for-so-many-reasons-opinion.html

In the end, a majority of Americans voted against Donald Trump because they were sick of this toxic man and his dysfunctional presidency.

COVID-19 is not a hoax to eliminate Trump

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-hoax-eliminate-trump-idUSKBN27S31E 

A video falsely claiming that COVID-19 was planned to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office has been circulating online.

False. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic was not planned to overthrow Trump. Some experts agree the virus originated in nature, not in a laboratory, and there is no evidence of mass electoral fraud in the US election.

21 House Republicans Wave the Pink and Blue Flag

 https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/21-house-republicans-wave-the-pink-and-blue-flag/

The Fairness For All Act (FFAA), an all-Republican bill that would make SOGI a federally protected class in return for certain “right to discriminate” carve-outs for dissenting religious institutions, was originally introduced in 2019 by Representative Chris Stewart of Utah. Stewart, whose district went for Donald Trump by 16 points in 2020 — up two from 14 points in 2016 — reintroduced the bill at the outset of the 2021 congressional session with the backing of such well-known Republicans as Elise Stefanik, Nancy Mace, and Burgess Owens. This is the full list of the FFAA’s co-sponsors:


Republicans Go Radio Silent After Affidavit Release

 https://www.politicususa.com/2022/08/27/republicans-silent-affidavit.html

But even more to the point, Trump is now the guy who loses elections for Republicans. Trump helps Republican candidates win primaries, but in any purple state or district, Trump is now an anchor. Every minute that the Republicans spend defending Trump and his files is a minute that they’re not spending talking about inflation or Biden.

Implications Of Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant Affidavit Quiet Trump Cheering Section

Saturday, August 27, 2022

Watch The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell Highlights: Aug. 26

Far-Right Trump Supporters Call For Mar-a-Lago Tapes After Redacted Affidavit Released

'Terrifying' That Imposter, Secret Files Both at Mar-a-Lago: Ex-CIA Agent

 https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-l-hall-cia-agent-mar-largo-classified-secret-files-comment-1737503

Numerous commentators have highlighted the apparent lack of security at Mar-a-Lago following the release of a heavily redacted affidavit describing a swath of classified material that was improperly secured within the Trump estate. Some of those documents were designated "NOFORN," meaning they were explicitly not to be accessed by any foreign nationals.

Five takeaways from the Mar-a-Lago search affidavit

 https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3617301-five-takeaways-from-the-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/

Despite numerous redactions necessary to protect “a broad range of civilian witnesses,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the document does shed some light on the search.

In particular, it indicates Trump had a much larger collection of classified documents than previously known, including some of the most sensitive secrets careful storage of records is designed to protect.

Trump’s narrative takes big hit with affidavit’s release

 https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3617635-the-memo-trumps-narrative-takes-big-hit-with-affidavits-release/

Trump has pushed the narrative that he and his lawyers were cooperating with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) inquiries about documents from his time in the White House. This, he claims, means that the Aug. 8 raid on his Florida estate was gratuitous.

But the affidavit that persuaded a judge to grant the search warrant tells a different story.

Even in heavily redacted form, the affidavit points out that there was a prolonged process lasting around seven months in 2021 before Trump’s team coughed up any documents at all.

Trump affidavit drops clues on scale of FBI investigation

 Trump affidavit drops clues on scale of FBI investigation

This is a serious criminal investigation. It's not just about who gets to keep some presidential mementoes and souvenirs, it concerns the security of closely guarded US government secrets - ones involving human intelligence gathering, foreign surveillance and perhaps even court-authorised surveillance of US citizens.

Friday, August 26, 2022

Palestinian brutality funded by Britain

 https://www.thejc.com/news/world/palestinian-brutality-funded-by-britain-4wfpYD7gPZcu3RdmjubQSf

Palestinian thugs who beat a leading critic of Mahmoud Abbas’s regime to death were members of a security force trained by the British Army at taxpayer’s expense, a JC investigation has revealed.