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Acquitted but still impeached ... Trump thread 99

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TheClaws · 12/02/2020 03:00

I’ll tell you a funny story. I’m a member of a very right-wing US politics online discussion group for kicks. The moderator of the group controls - and gets involved in - every discussion. (I should say the membership of this group is over 50K and the number of posts a day is generally 30 or so.) She’s also a typical Trumpian in that she reels off the standard “lamestream mass media” etc lines” and she mutes anyone who disagrees with her.

Anyway, I took her on eventually. She said that the Democratic candidates wanted to get rid of the Constitution. To this, I replied Trump flouts the Constitution on a regular basis. “What? Provide examples!” she replies. “Emoluments clause,” I replied. “That’s just one.”

GUYS. SHE HAD NOT HEARD OF THE EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE.

She then just spat something about she doesn’t read mass media lies and that’s why she didn’t know and muted me.

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AcrossthePond55 · 14/03/2020 17:08

UK and Ireland now added to travel ban

www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-us-adds-uk-ireland-european-travel-ban-1492340

Trump may have been tested, but if he's positive he'll lie about the results anyway.

lionheart · 14/03/2020 17:19

Vice President Pence: “Mr President, this day should be an inspiration for every American. Your leadership has been extraordinary. We owe this all to you.”

Hmm
PerkingFaintly · 14/03/2020 17:41

Trump may have been tested, but if he's positive he'll lie about the results anyway.

This.

I mean, even his height was wrong on his medical report after he'd become president. It's not even like hiding a coke habit or affair with a porn star to get elected.

Can't see him telling letting the truth out if he tests positive.

AcrossthePond55 · 14/03/2020 18:23

lion Ok, now I'm feeling nauseous!

PS that's not a covid19 symptom.

Roussette · 14/03/2020 20:33

But if the test is negative for him, he'll be all... look I shook hands with people that had it, and I'm fine! Gotta protect the DOW after all...

Lweji · 14/03/2020 23:08

Not just me worried about how Trump will exploit the crisis to erode democracy.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/14/trump-may-exploit-coronavirus-crisis

lionheart · 15/03/2020 02:10

[[https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/jared-kushner-combat-coronavirus-facebook-127941]

'Just before midnight Wednesday, a doctor asked a group of fellow emergency room physicians on Facebook how they would combat the escalating coronavirus outbreak.

“I have direct channel to person now in charge at White House,” Kurt Kloss wrote in his post.

The next morning, after hundreds of doctors responded, Kloss explained why he sought the suggestions: Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, had asked him for recommendations.'

Lweji · 15/03/2020 07:31

Reality checks at Fox.

Presenter who dismissed coronavirus as another attempt at impeaching the president is taken off the air.

www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/business/media/trish-regan-fox-hiatus.html

Sleipnirthewonderhorse · 15/03/2020 09:58

amp.dw.com/en/germany-and-us-wrestle-over-coronavirus-vaccine-report/a-52777990?__twitter_impression=true

LIVE TV
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Germany and US wrestle over coronavirus vaccine: report
4 hours ago

US President Donald Trump is attempting to entice a German lab to develop a vaccine exclusively for the US, a German newspaper reported. Berlin health authorities are in intensive talks with the company.
The governments of Germany and the United States are wrestling over the German-based company CureVac which is working on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, reported German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. The prominent German media outlet reported, citing unnamed sources, that US President Donald Trump was offering large sums of money to German scientists working on a vaccine. He wanted to secure exclusive rights to their work, the newspaper reported.

Lweji · 15/03/2020 10:09

It's not something you can just throw money at.

PerkingFaintly · 15/03/2020 10:35

So Jared Kushner's brother's father-in-law is a doctor, and Kushner asked him to ask on Facebook for suggestions how to handle a once-in-a-generation size threat to the US?

I... can't even.

It's like they're kids who broke in to the White House at the weekend and are playing at sitting in the big chair – but they don't know any of the real people who do the work, so just call more of their mates.

Lweji · 15/03/2020 10:36

I'm not quite sure I believe that story, but at the same time, nothing would surprise me by now.

lionheart · 15/03/2020 13:34

Across. Smile

No decent person will have a gag reflex left by the time Trump leaves office.

AcrossthePond55 · 15/03/2020 14:03

Ain't that the truth, lion!

His last few appearances he really gave the impression of someone who has been mildly sedated. Not the completely nutso ranting or his usual deranged veering from topic to self-praise that we're used to seeing. But more of a dazed and confused look to his face and that light slurring and not being able to get words out correctly that I associate with slight intoxication or sedation. I know he's teetotal, so......gotta be the latter.

News says he's tested 'negative for CV'. Means zip to me, except for a certain pang of disappointment.

Lweji · 15/03/2020 14:13

If only we could believe the test was negative.
I was half expecting the doctor's letter to say that all tests were positive, like that one before the election. Grin

AcrossthePond55 · 15/03/2020 20:42

I was half expecting the doctor's letter to say that all tests were positive, like that one before the election.

"I had the bigly-est most POSTIVE test. NO ONE tested more positive than ME!! What?...What?...Oh. Uhhh....It's the DEMS! The DEMS made me test positive....no....no...It's a 'fake test', that's it, FAKE TEST!!!"

lionheart · 15/03/2020 21:22

If he did actually get tested and the result was negative his minders probably had to take the phone away to stop him.

AcrossthePond55 · 15/03/2020 21:31

News conference:

Scrotus: "We have total control over the virus".

What a maroon!

AcrossthePond55 · 15/03/2020 21:35

CNN

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