The Donald Trump Score Card

Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh hearing rocked by 'mob rule'
BBC
September 4, 2018

'Mob rule' rocks Senate hearing for judge

 

True. The Republican mob is ruling. So what else is new?

 

Surely you know that's not what the report is saying. It appears the mob was a collection of various people who are against this nomination. So far, it's not the republicans doing all this mob shit. Really man, republicans do enough real shit to grouse about, why try to pin someone else's shit onto them? It's disingenuous at best, but otherwise dishonest.

 

Republicans are chickenshit, lying, unfair pricks that stopped Obamas nomination --"Turtle boy: Let's wait until after the election.Now = "let's let's get ér done now." ---Before the mid terms. Man, I detest republicans!

 

MeAgain : Much more gentlemanly than I, that's for sure. My ire is commensurate with my age and watching them for DECADES.

 

Yes, I understand full well what the report is saying, but it's the Republican mod that's running the show, starting with their capo's decision to withhold hundreds of thousands of pages of relevant background documents, marking others arbitrarily as classified and not to be shared with the public, providing much of it at the last minute so that even Senators who are speed readers would have been unable to get through it, and dismissing any backtalk as "mob rule". It deserved to be called out, and it was. The "mob rule" reference was by a Republican Senator to Democrat Senators who incurred the Republicans ire for challenging what they were doing. At least that was my take from watching the proceedings. The BBC report was a little confusing, because it focused on the demonstrators in the galleries, but I think the reference was to the Democrat Senators. How typically hypocritical!

 

Does anybody else find it disturbing that Trump is threatening to revoke NBCs for what he says is their "probably highly unethical" "FAKE NEWS" for not airing a story about Harvey Weinstein. In a normal modern society, such matters are handled by independent regulatory commissions, specifically the FCC, which are set up to keep Presidents out of making such decisions for political purposes. Trump is breaking the rules of civilized society. Trumps seems not to know that national networks, as opposed to individual stations, don't need license. The president is not authorized to direct the FCC to revoke a broadcast license. This is just another indication of the President thinking he's king or dictator. Trump Threatens NBC’s License Over ‘Highly Unethical Conduct’ on Spiked Harvey Weinstein Story
Trump's real gripe with NBC is that it tends to be critical of him, and that, he thinks, is not allowed. If we have Presidents trying to silence their critics by pulling licenses, or abusing the powers of their office to go after private companies and citizens who incur the ire of the President, we're on the way to dictatorship.

 

Republican Sen. John Cornyn is the person who referred to the protest incidents at the hearing as 'mob rule'. The term didn't originate from the authors of the BBC news article that was posted.

Corryn essentially said that the lack of transparency about Kavanaugh didn't matter because the Democrats had already made up their minds about him. Similarly, the White House said that the concealment of Trump's tax returns doesn't matter because he won the election which means that the public doesn't care about it, in spite of various polls which show that it does care (which Trump probably considers to be fake polls).

The frustration about the hearings stems in part from Trump's refusal to release about 100,000 pages of documents regarding Kavanaugh, claiming White House privilege, and the release of 42,000 pages the day before the hearings began which left little time to review them.

When a hearing is conducted in such a manner about a nominee as important as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, people are going to become frustrated.

 

Trump is trying to mold the three branches of government in his image, dismantle a free press, and make independent agencies subject to his whims.

He is strong evidence for why the framers of the U.S. Constitution were so adamant about the concept of separation of powers and a free press. He is also proving to be a good test agent for determining how well the U.S. Constitution can withstand the actions of someone of his mindset and behavior. Nixon tried it and lost.

The reaction of the public to someone like Trump should include a sense of reverence to the people who wrote the Constitution and their foresight to protect the country from such corrupt intent and behavior.

 

The issue of concealment surfaces repeatedly with Trump.

Hush money for his unsavory affairs with women funneled through his personal attorney who pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts (that Trump considers not criminal)..

The National Enquirer's 'catch and kill' tactic by Trump's longtime friend Pecker to bury unfavorable information about him including those related to his 2016 campaign..

The effective hiding of information by Trump's associates about potential election interference by Russian officials with some of Trump's people pleading guilty to lying to investigators in their attempt to conceal. Trump thinks it's not criminal to lie to investigators because he thinks the alleged crimes are not crimes.

Trump's concealment of his tax returns and visitor logs of Trump properties that are being used for government purposes.

Witholding of documents about Kavanaugh.

 

Ha, Ha, ha...great

 

In Bob Woodward’s new book ‘Fear” John F. Kelly, Trump’s chief of staff, describes the Trump white house as ‘Crazytown’


Crazytown sung to the tune of Funkytown

Won't you take me to
Crazyytown?
Won't you take me to
Crazyytown?

lol...

 

Trump takes an unusually soft stance on Nike which happens to be a major tenant of his.


Donald Trump says Nike sent 'terrible message' with Kaepernick deal while softening stance for his tenant
Jason Owens
Yahoo Sports
Sep 4, 2018, 7:35 PM

Donald Trump says Nike sent 'terrible message' with Kaepernick deal while softening stance for his tenant

excerpt:

"Trump: Nike pays ‘a lot of rent’

His explanation about his relationship with Nike might explain why.

“I think it’s a terrible message,” Trump reiterated. “Nike is a tenant of mine. They pay a lot of rent.”

Nike has a five-story, 65,000 square foot flagship store along New York’s famed Fifth Avenue shopping district housed in a property run by the Trump Organization.

Forbes reported in December that Nike plans to leave the estimated $253 million property the publication describes as the largest space in Trump’s portfolio occupied by a a single tenant. Whether Nike had the Kaepernick deal in mind when it decided to relocate is not known.

Trump’s comments do beg the question of what his stance toward Kaepernick would be if he was one of his organization’s most lucrative tenants."

 

5 topics likely to come up as Kavanaugh hearing begins
By Lydia Wheeler
09/04/18 06:00 AM EDT

5 topics likely to come up as Kavanaugh hearing begins

 

I have a fair memory of Republican behavior when Obama named Garland for a Supra job. The Republican response was … unique?