The Disunited States of Trump (Trump Thread #104)

[TheNorthWestPawsage]

Trump used manipulation and race-baiting four years ago. He’s at it again. We are weary and worried but we shall persist.

Cartoon by Chris Riddell.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3983600-Less-than-100-days-and-counting-Trump-thread-103?msgid=99566209#99566209

I do feel very hopeful about this latest crisis🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

@Lweji

Anyone else wonders about the Venn diagram of those 10 on the record sources and the 4 anonymous sources? I suspect the smaller circle is completely inside the larger circle.

Oi oi, I had a mouth full of tea!

Pandering to Russia at this time won't do him any electoral favours, I don’t think. Unless...

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/05/donald-trump-casts-doubt-on-navalny-poisoning-saying-us-hasnt-had-any-proof

More straw clutching.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/04/trump-antiracism-training-white-privilege-critical-race-theory

This is a big coup for Trump, though.

I wonder if all the members are happy. Maybe they are, which would explain a lot.

www.businessinsider.com/biggest-police-union-fop-endorses-trump-for-president-over-biden-2020-9

[quote Lweji]This is a big coup for Trump, though.

I wonder if all the members are happy. Maybe they are, which would explain a lot.

www.businessinsider.com/biggest-police-union-fop-endorses-trump-for-president-over-biden-2020-9[/quote]
That endorsement doesn't surprise me at all. But I have a feeling that the cops who were going to vote Scrotus will vote Scrotus. Those that weren't, won't.

Unions aren't required to hold a general vote of the membership before they endorse a candidate. Endorsements are decided at the 'upper levels' most times they don't even bother with advising the members beforehand.

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Let's hope these people get to work in November.

www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-transition-idUSKBN25W0VJ?taid=5f53e2889ce301000129a1d7&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

'WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Saturday added former Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg, along with senior officials who served under President Barack Obama, to an expanded White House transition team.

Biden added four new co-chairs to the team led by his longtime ally Ted Kaufman: New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, former Obama economic adviser Jeffrey Zients, Louisiana Representative Cedric Richmond and his campaign adviser Anita Dunn.

He also named Buttigieg, a military veteran and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, to the advisory board, together with former deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and Susan Rice, national security adviser to Obama who was on the shortlist to be Biden’s running mate.'

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-05/joe-biden-greatly-builds-up-his-presidential-transition-team?utm_source=twitter&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_medium=social&__twitter_impression=true

Talking of Pete Buttigieg... here is how to answer back about Trump and his slurs

twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1302021198591782913

The whole interview lasting 5 mins is out there.

Well done to him

Lake Travis.

cbsaustin.com/news/local/multiple-boats-in-distress-sinking-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis

www.politicususa.com/2020/09/05/bin-laden-niece-endorses-trump.html

'Biden’s Week Gets Even Better As Osama Bin Laden’s Niece Endorses Trump.'

Interesting pattern.

www.rawstory.com/2020/09/trump-accused-by-prosecutor-of-trading-favors-for-election-help-from-ex-guatemalan-president-report/

Schadenfreude yet again.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-directs-federal-agencies-halt-race-related/story?id=72836468&cid=social_twitter_abcn

It's a sticky wicket being competent.

The State Department tagged the International Cricket Council instead of the International Criminal Court @IntlCrimCourt
twitter.com/gesfandiari/status/1302543148535762945?s=21

As described in Michael Cohen's book.

Trump hired a Black guy who looked like President Obama (a “Faux-Bama) to sit in front of his desk so Trump could insult him.

Now that’s a level of racism that goes deep into Trump’s character.
twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1302595093321392129?s=21

www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/michael-cohen-book-trump-white-house/index.html

One of these days something bad said about Trump is going to turn out not to be true.

I keep thinking "This is the one."

I'm thinking it now.

But it almost always turns out to be true...

I wonder why Kelly has chosen to speak out now? When he left the WH, that would have been the right time. The story about Trump's attitude to the military seems to have come from no where. Tactical by Kelly? Do you think he's had time to reflect and found his patriotism in time for the election?

@ludothedog

I wonder why Kelly has chosen to speak out now? When he left the WH, that would have been the right time. The story about Trump's attitude to the military seems to have come from no where. Tactical by Kelly? Do you think he's had time to reflect and found his patriotism in time for the election?

Or a book about to come out??

Hoist by their own pertard?

Kevin McCarthy warns Trump's war on mail could screw GOP
www.axios.com/republicans-mail-in-voting-trump-a75b7b58-6405-4840-a48f-e26caf72b0fc.html

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is privately encouraging voting by mail and warned President Trump the party could be "screwed" by his fight against mail-in voting.

The big picture: "We could lose based on that," McCarthy (R-Calif.) told me at a diner in Salt Lake City last week, during a campaign swing that began in the Pacific Northwest. McCarthy said the party can't afford for Republicans to sit home, afraid of getting COVID-19, while Democrats flood the field with mail-in ballots.

McCarthy is particularly worried about deterring senior citizens.
McCarthy said he's spent hours telling Trump that this preoccupation will hurt the president's own re-election, as well as Republicans running for Congress.

"I tried to show him ... you know who is most afraid of COVID? Seniors. And if they're not going to go vote, period, we're screwed," McCarthy told me.

sorry *petard!

@TheNorthWestPawsage - thanks for that link, what a powerful petard that could turn out to be - I really hope so, anyway!

Thanks, everyone, for keeping these threads going for so long. You have such stamina! I am politicked out as the latest Boris and Brexit and Covid stuff just flabbers my gast and I can't cope any more. Popping in here from time to time keeps me up to date but not too fraught! Thank you!

The apparant sources of the Atlantic report were actually Kelly and Mattis.