Monday, July 13, 2020
President Trump has now spent 100 days at his golf clubs since he took office
https://www.fox4now.com/news/national/president-trump-has-now-spent-100-days-at-one-of-his-golf-clubs-since-he-took-office
But the primary criticism has stemmed from how Trump, as a private
citizen, slammed Barack Obama for hitting the links while president.
"Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties
facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf," Trump
tweeted in 2014. "Worse than Carter."
Norm Eisen, the chief White House ethics lawyer under Obama, called
Trump's 100th day at a golf property as president "an ignominious
anniversary."
Trump Insists Obama Played More Golf as President. The Numbers Say Otherwise.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/trump-falsely-claims-obama-played-more-golf-president.html
President
Donald Trump is apparently none too happy that people are criticizing
him for playing golf as a pandemic is raging in the United States. The
commander in chief took to Twitter Sunday to defend his frequent trips
to the golf course saying that it is the only exercise he gets and that
his predecessor “played more and much longer rounds.” And that was “no problem” but when he decides to play, “Fake News, CNN, and others”
go to great lengths to get a picture and show people how the president
is playing golf. “Actually, I play VERY fast, get a lot of work done on
the golf course, and also get a ‘tiny’ bit of exercise,” Trump wrote.
That
Trump doesn’t gets any other exercise beyond the golf course may very
well be true. But his claim to play less frequently than his predecessor
just isn’t. Trump went to his golf club in Sterling, Virginia, for the
second time this weekend on Sunday, marking the 276th time he’s visited a golf course as president.
Numbers vary slightly. Mark Knoller of CBS News, for example, specifies
that Trump has made 193 visits to golf courses over at least part of
258 days during his presidency. NBC News, meanwhile, says Trump has spent 269 days at one of his golf properties.
Regardless
of which number you use, though, the conclusion is still the same:
Barack Obama was nowhere near Trump’s levels during the same point of
his presidency. According to Knoller, Obama had played 102 rounds of
golf. CNN says that Trump “has played more than twice as many rounds of golf than former President Barack Obama had at the same point in his presidency.” In his whole first term in office, Obama played 113 rounds of golf, according to Golf Digest. The website Trumpgolfcount.com even has a handy chart
that makes crystal clear that Trump has played more golf than Obama.
It’s difficult to know exactly how many times Trump has actually played
golf at his properties because it’s something the administration doesn’t
usually confirm unless the president is playing with a dignitary or
celebrity. “However, if he’s going to the golf club for about 4-5 hours,
you can be pretty sure he’s playing golf,” notes Golf News Net.
Mary Trump is releasing a book. Michael Cohen is finishing a book. Both are being restricted
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/12/media/mary-trump-michael-cohen-books-reliable-sources/
Michael Cohen's sudden return to prison
is under scrutiny because his lawyers say the dispute
centered on
"restrictions in paperwork designed to prevent him from finishing a book
about the president."
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"No standard probation forms include language related to media contacts," CNN's David Shortell and Mark Morales report. But the form presented to Cohen seemed to be tailored specifically to him. CNN has obtained a copy. This has all the appearances of an attempt to stifle Cohen's right to speak freely about his work for President Trump.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Criteria for imposing lockdowns on cities to be published in advance
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/283404
PM agrees to demand by Aryeh
Deri to publish guidelines for declaring restricted areas amid reports
of discrimination against haredim.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri demanded at the weekly Cabinet meeting
Sunday that the criteria for the declaration of a neighborhood as a
restricted area be published before areas are closed off so that the
haredi community will not feel that it is being targeted by the
government.
Prime Minister Netanyahu accepted Deri's request and ordered that the
criteria for the closure imposed on each locality be published on the
prime minister's website.
Historians will likely rank Trump as one of the worst presidents
Historians will likely rank Trump as one of the worst presidents
A new Gallup poll puts President Donald Trump's approval rating at 38%. His disapproval rating stands at 57%.
The average poll similarly shows Trump's approval rating hovering around 40%, while his disapproval rating is above 55%.
What's the point: Trump's approval rating isn't getting any better. In the polls, he is continuing to lose to former Vice President Joe Biden by double-digits. Trump could win a second term, but there is no clear path to doing so.
If gedolim dont follow halacha better to have them become idolators
Berachos 63a-b)
R. Safra said: R. Abbahu used to relate that when Hananiah the son of R. Joshua's brother went down to the Diaspora,38 he began to intercalate the years and fix new moons outside Palestine. So they [the Beth din] sent after him two scholars, R. Jose b. Kippar and the grandson of R. Zechariah b. Kebutal. When he saw them, he said to them: Why have you come? — They replied: We have come to learn Torah [from you]. He thereupon proclaimed: These men are among the most eminent of the generation. They and their ancestors have ministered in the Sanctuary (as we have learnt: Zechariah b. Kebutal said: Several times I read to him39 out of the book of Daniel). Soon they began to declare clean what he declared unclean and to permit what he forbade. Thereupon he proclaimed: These men are worthless, they are good for nothing. They said to him: You have already built and you cannot overthrow, you have made a fence and you cannot break it down.40 He said to them: Why do you declare clean when I declare unclean, why do you permit when I forbid? — They replied: Because you intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine. He said to them: Did not Akiba son of Joseph intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine?41 — They replied: Don't cite R. Akiba, who left not his equal in the Land of Israel. He said to them: I also left not my equal in the Land of Israel. They said to him: The kids which you left behind have become goats with horns, and they have sent us to you, bidding us, ‘Go and tell him in our name. If he listens, well and good; if not, he will be excommunicated. R. Safra said: R. Abbahu used to relate that when Hananiah the son of R. Joshua's brother went down to the Diaspora,38 he began to intercalate the years and fix new moons outside Palestine. So they [the Beth din] sent after him two scholars, R. Jose b. Kippar and the grandson of R. Zechariah b. Kebutal. When he saw them, he said to them: Why have you come? — They replied: We have come to learn Torah [from you]. He thereupon proclaimed: These men are among the most eminent of the generation. They and their ancestors have ministered in the Sanctuary (as we have learnt: Zechariah b. Kebutal said: Several times I read to him39 out of the book of Daniel). Soon they began to declare clean what he declared unclean and to permit what he forbade. Thereupon he proclaimed: These men are worthless, they are good for nothing. They said to him: You have already built and you cannot overthrow, you have made a fence and you cannot break it down.40 He said to them: Why do you declare clean when I declare unclean, why do you permit when I forbid? — They replied: Because you intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine. He said to them: Did not Akiba son of Joseph intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine?41 — They replied: Don't cite R. Akiba, who left not his equal in the Land of Israel. He said to them: I also left not my equal in the Land of Israel. They said to him: The kids which you left behind have become goats with horns, and they have sent us to you, bidding us, ‘Go and tell him in our name. If he listens, well and good; if not, he will be excommunicated.
Berachos (63b)Tell also our brethren in the Diaspora [not to listen to him]. If they listen to you, well and good; if not, let them go up to the mountain, let Ahia1 build an altar and let Hananiah play the harp,2 and let them all become renegades and say that they have no portion in the God of Israel’. Straightway all the people broke out into weeping and cried, Heaven forbid, we have a portion in the God of Israel. Why all this to-do? — Because it says, For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.3 We can understand that if he declared clean they should declare unclean, because this would be more stringent. But how was it possible that they should declare clean what he declared unclean, seeing that it has been taught: If a Sage has declared unclean, his colleague is not permitted to declare clean? — They thought proper to act thus so that the people should not be drawn after him.
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