The Donald Trump Score Card

Conservatives are such a sophisticated audience. They hold their middle fingers up when they boo you.

 

Trump allies received hundreds of thousands of dollars under federal health contract
Campaign, White House veterans were among 40 PR consultants on a $2.25 million contract.
By DAN DIAMOND and ADAM CANCRYN
11/12/2019 05:00 AM EST

Trump allies received hundreds of thousands of dollars under federal health contract

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"The arrangement allowed the Trump allies to cycle through the federal government's opaque contracting system, charging hefty fees with little public oversight or accountability.

Over a four-and-a-half month stretch from September 2018 to January, the contractors collectively billed at least $744,000. The Department of Health and Human Services halted the contract in April in the face of widespread criticism after POLITICO reported on Verma's extensive use of communications consultants.

But under the terms hammered out last year, revealed for the first time, CMS agreed to allow at least four consultants to bill up to $204,000 over the length of the contract. That included one longtime Verma ally — Marcus Barlow, her spokesperson while she was an Indiana-based consultant to then-Gov. Mike Pence — who was greenlighted to bill as much as $425,000 for about a year’s worth of work."

 

Interesting, I know there were liberal activists protesting outside the hall.

 

A whistleblower blows the whistle on the whistleblower.

A whistleblower is alleging that the whisteblower who reported Trump's Ukraine phone call may have been illegally soliticiting money from a foreign government.



ICIG complaint alleges Trump-Ukraine whistleblower may be soliciting illicit donations
By Gregg Re | Fox News
November 12, 2019

ICIG complaint alleges Trump-Ukraine whistleblower may be soliciting illicit donations

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"[M]y client believes ... that the federal employee you are protecting and their attorneys apparently have strategically weaponized their alleged whistleblowing activities into a very lucrative money-making enterprise using a charity incorporated under a different name than the trade name it is using for fund-raising purposes, which would appear to my client to be a clear abuse of the federal employee's authority and access to classified information," Gallo wrote in the letter to ICIG Michael Atkinson, the same government watchdog who originally received the Ukraine complaint from the whistleblower

 

Supreme Court appears inclined to let Trump end DACA program
The justices heard nearly an hour and a half of oral arguments as hundreds of DACA supporters rallied outside.
by Pete Williams
November 12, 2019

Supreme Court appears inclined to let Trump end DACA program

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"While Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh appeared likely to say DACA was properly shut down, Chief Justice John Roberts did not seem to be as strongly convinced. Roberts may be the deciding vote, just as it was last term when the court blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census form. He concluded in that case that the government did not give an adequate explanation for its proposed action.

Lower court rulings have kept DACA going, allowing young people in the program to reapply every two years to remain under its protection. Children of undocumented immigrants can remain here if they were under 16 when their parents brought them to the U.S. and if they arrived by 2007.

Arguing for DACA's defenders, Washington, D.C., lawyer Ted Olson said federal law requires the government to give a detailed explanation before taking an action that affects hundreds of thousands of people and the businesses that employ them."

 

The complaint:

Read: Complaint to ICIG regarding Ukraine whistleblower

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I knew about Mike and Verma back in 2015. She wants to deny government services to poor people - from the agency she was appointed to. Mike Pence hates poor people on Medicare.

 

I smell a rat … one paid by Trump.

 

Pretty much, this...

 

Senior Trump official embellished résumé, had face on fake Time cover
State Dept. official Mina Chang claimed to be a Harvard Business School "alumna" who ran a nonprofit that worked in 40 countries.
By Dan De Luce, Laura Strickler and Ari Sen
Nov. 12, 2019, 11:58 AM EST / Updated Nov. 12, 2019, 2:45 PM EST

Senior Trump official embellished résumé, had face on fake Time cover

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"WASHINGTON — A senior Trump administration official has embellished her résumé with misleading claims about her professional background — even creating a fake Time magazine cover with her face on it — raising questions about her qualifications to hold a top position at the State Department.

An NBC News investigation found that Mina Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, has inflated her educational achievements — like claiming, falsely, to be a Harvard grad — and exaggerated the scope of her nonprofit's work."

 

Just like Trump...

 

I have heard that his own relatives say that they can't understand his thinking.
Leaked Emails Show Stephen Miller Is Exactly Who You Think He Is | HuffPost

 

Early voting starts in 10 months and 18 days.

 

Speaking of ICIG, information is circulating that Trump wants to fire its chief, Atkinson.

Atkinson may be finished if he doesn't fully investigate the whistleblower.



Trump Has Considered Firing Intelligence Community Inspector General
The president blames Michael Atkinson, whom he appointed, for finding the anonymous whistle-blower’s complaint on his interactions with Ukraine to be credible.
By Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt
Nov. 12, 2019, 3:55 p.m. ET

Trump Has Considered Firing Intelligence Community Inspector General

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"Mr. Trump first expressed his dismay about Mr. Atkinson around the time the whistle-blower’s complaint became public in September. In recent weeks, he has continued to raise with aides the possibility of firing him, one of the people said.

The president has said he does not understand why Mr. Atkinson shared the complaint, which outlined how Mr. Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate Mr. Trump’s political rivals at the same time he was withholding military aid from the country. He has said he believes Mr. Atkinson, whom he appointed in 2017, has been disloyal, one of the people said.

Mr. Trump’s private complaints about Mr. Atkinson have come as he has publicly questioned his integrity and accused him of working with the Democrats to sabotage his presidency."

 

Trump rails on Fed, notes other countries have negative rates: ‘Give me some of that money’
Thomas Franck
Published Tue, Nov 12 201912:23 PM EST Updated 3 hours ago

Trump rails on Fed, notes other countries have negative rates: 'Give me some of that money'

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"President Donald Trump used his pulpit before the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday to bash the Federal Reserve, a marked diversion from what many on Wall Street had hoped would be a positive speech on the progress of trade relations between the U.S. and China.

Instead of highlighting warmer relations with Beijing, Trump criticized the Fed for what he sees as its hesitation to lower interest rates and blamed the central bank for capping gains in the U.S. economy and stock market."

 

She inflated her resume and peddled a fake Time cover. Trump appointed her to the State Department.
Reis Thebault
November 12, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...e-cover-trump-appointed-her-state-department/

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"Last year, The Washington Post reported the story of a 24-year-old former Trump campaign worker who was quickly promoted to a leading role in the White House’s drug policy office. Taylor Weyeneth was quietly fired after The Post story cast doubt on his qualifications

In August, Trump withdrew his nominee for director of national intelligence, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex.), saying the embattled pick had been treated “very unfairly” by the media. Ratcliffe had bragged that as a federal prosecutor he “arrested over 300 illegal immigrants on a single day." But, The Post reported then, that wasn’t true.

“I give out a name to the press and they vet for me," Trump said. "We save a lot of money that way.”

The latest round of media vetting, then, turned up several more problematic claims, this time from Chang, who began working at the State Department in April. At one point, she was up for a more senior post at the United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Asia, but in September, her nomination was withdrawn without explanation.

Officials at the White House and the State Department did not respond to requests for comment, or to questions about Chang’s purported qualifications. It’s unclear whether Chang has the top secret security clearance typical for an official of her level."

 

The entire Trump administration is based on fake … fake everything. The populist image is fake, the love for the American people is fake, the support for American farmers is fake, Mexican payment for his wall is fake, upholding the law is fake, and George Poopydopolus never served coffee.