Trump's world....

[Nolebull813]

 

[Atticus Finch]

21 hours ago, DBP66 said:

 

Ruby Garcia's family disputes that Trump spoke with them after he used her name at event

Name a more formidable duo than Republicans and politicizing/lying about the deaths of random civilians.

[RedZone]

[DBP66]

Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White House

MICHELLE L. PRICE

Fri, April 5, 2024 at 12:06 AM EDT·6 min read

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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has called him a “threat to democracy.” Former national security adviser John Bolton has declared him “unfit to be president.” And former Vice President Mike Pence has declined to endorse him, citing “profound differences.”

As Donald Trump seeks the presidency for a third time, he is being vigorously opposed by a vocal contingent of former officials who are stridently warning against his return to power and offering dire predictions for the country and the rule of law if his campaign succeeds.

It’s a striking chorus of detractors, one without precedent in the modern era, coming from those who witnessed first-hand his conduct in office and the turmoil that followed.

Sarah Matthews, a former Trump aide who testified before the House Jan. 6 committee and is among those warning about the threat he poses, said it’s “mind-boggling” how many members of his senior staff have denounced him.

“These are folks who saw him up close and personal and saw his leadership style,” Matthews said.

“The American people should listen to what these folks are saying because it should be alarming that the people that Trump hired to work for him a first term are saying that he’s unfit to serve for a second term.”

Yet the critics remain a distinct minority. Republican lawmakers and officials across the party have endorsed Trump’s bid — some begrudgingly, others with fervor and enthusiasm. Many aides and Cabinet officials who served under Trump are onboard for another term, something Trump's campaign is quick to highlight.

“The majority of the people who served in President Trump’s cabinet and in his administration, like the majority of Americans, have overwhelmingly endorsed his candidacy to beat Crooked Joe Biden and take back the White House,” said Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung.

Still, the Biden campaign has trumpeted the criticism of former Trump officials in statements and social media posts, hoping to convince at least some Republican voters — including those who backed other candidates during the GOP primary — that they cannot support his candidacy.

“Those who worked with Donald Trump at the most senior levels of his administration believe he is too dangerous, too selfish and too extreme to ever lead our country again — we agree,” said Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa.

In many ways, the schism among former Trump officials is an extension of his time in the White House. Friction was constant as Trump’s demands ran into resistance from some officials and aides who refused requests that they found misguided, unrealistic and, at times, flatly illegal. Firings were frequent. Many quit.

Staff upheaval was particularly intense in the chaotic weeks after the 2020 election as Trump worked to overturn his election loss to Biden. Trump summoned supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, as his falsehoods about a stolen election became the rallying cry for supporters who violently breached the U.S. Capitol. Many people serving in the administration quit in protest, including Matthews.

Trump’s attempt to remain in office included a bitter pressure campaign against Pence, who as vice president was tasked with presiding over the count of the Electoral College ballots on Jan. 6. Trump was adamant that Pence should prevent Biden from becoming president, something he had no power to do. Pence had to flee the Senate chamber on Jan. 6 as rioters stormed the building to chants of “Hang Mike Pence!”

Pence recently said he “cannot in good conscience” endorse Trump because of Jan. 6 and other issues, despite being proud of what they achieved together.

And Pence is not alone.

Esper, who was fired by Trump days after the 2020 election, clashed with the then-president over several issues, including Trump’s push to deploy military troops to respond to civil unrest after the killing of George Floyd by police in 2020.

In a recent interview with HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” Esper repeated a warning that Trump is “a threat to democracy” and added, “I think there’s a lot to be concerned about.”

“There’s no way I’ll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that’s where I’m at,” Esper said.

Among Trump's most vocal critics are former aides who worked closely with him in the White House, particularly a trio who gained prominence testifying about the Jan. 6 attack and Trump’s push to overturn the election.

The group includes Matthews, former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin and Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. They have given a series of interviews in recent months opposing their former boss.

"Fundamentally, a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly,” Griffin told ABC in December.

John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, had his own long falling-out with Trump. Kelly, in a lengthy October statement to CNN, described Trump as “a person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators” and “has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.”

Olivia Troye, a former Pence adviser who left the White House in 2020, and former press secretary Stephanie Grisham, who resigned Jan. 6, are both outspoken critics who said they didn’t vote for Trump in 2020.

Even Bill Barr, Trump’s former attorney general who has not ruled out voting for him again, has referred to Trump as “a consummate narcissist” who “constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk and the conservative and Republican agenda at risk.”

Still, the ranks of former Trump officials opposing his bid are greatly outnumbered by those who are supportive.

Linda McMahon, who headed the Small Business Administration under Trump, is co-chairing a major fundraiser for the former president on Saturday in Florida, along with former Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

McMahon is also chair of the board of The America First Policy Institute, which is packed with supportive former Trump officials and has been described as an “administration in waiting” for a second Trump term.

The institute is headed by Brooke Rollins, Trump’s former domestic policy chief, and counts Pence’s national security adviser and retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg among its chairs, along with former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Trump’s U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer, and former National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow.

Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has campaigned for Trump, as has former Housing Secretary Ben Carson, who called him “a friend of America.”

Trump’s also got the backing of former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, former Interior Secretary and Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, and Russell Vought, who ran Trump’s Office of Management and Budget.

Vought said in a post on X that Trump is “the only person I trust to take a wrecking ball to the Deep State.”

Trump supporters are also quick to dismiss critics in the party.

Carmen McVane, who attended Trump's rally Tuesday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, said those who speak negatively against Trump or refuse to endorse are RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only, and will only help Biden and Democrats.

“There’s a lot of RINOs who don’t do what they’re supposed to do,” McVane said. “It’s time for everyone to back who we have and go full force ahead.”

[concha]

Donald Trump raises record $50.5m at Florida fundraiser - the highest for total ever for a single event - and double the amount netted by Biden at bash also attended by Obama and Clinton

[DBP66]

10 hours ago, concha said:

Donald Trump raises record $50.5m at Florida fundraiser - the highest for total ever for a single event - and double the amount netted by Biden at bash also attended by Obama and Clinton

the republican party is the party of the rich...who vote for Republicans solely for tax cuts...same old story...they vote for their pocketbooks....🙄..not for their love of the crazy, orange man.

[RedZone]

10 hours ago, concha said:

Donald Trump raises record $50.5m at Florida fundraiser - the highest for total ever for a single event - and double the amount netted by Biden at bash also attended by Obama and Clinton

Find the courage, chuck!

Stopping earthquakes and other natural disasters are much more important than scraping together some dollar bills.

Have the courage to free your soul and mind!

[golfaddict1]

[World Citizen]

On 4/4/2024 at 7:20 AM, Atticus Finch said:

Name a more formidable duo than Republicans and politicizing/lying about the deaths of random civilians.

Evangelicals and politics.   

[World Citizen]

1 hour ago, golfaddict1 said:

Amazing he got no credit for this from his cult followers.  He is indeed a stable genius.  One of my favorite photos is this one...

[golfaddict1]

30 minutes ago, World Citizen said:

Amazing he got no credit for this from his cult followers.  He is indeed a stable genius.  One of my favorite photos is this one...

You can say that again.   

[RedZone]

5 hours ago, RedZone said:

Find the courage, chuck!

Stopping earthquakes and other natural disasters are much more important than scraping together some dollar bills.

Have the courage to free your soul and mind!

Jesus raised NO money, but he did rise!

Repent @concha

[I AM IRONMAN]

4 hours ago, RedZone said:

Jesus raised NO money, but he did rise!

Repent @concha

 

[DBP66]

[DBP66]

The party of the rich....

Trump tells billionaires he’ll keep their taxes low at $50 million fundraising gala

Jonathan Allen and Matt Dixon and Garrett Haake

Sun, April 7, 2024 at 12:04 PM EDT·3 min read

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Lynne Sladky

• WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump emphasized the importance of extending his signature tax cuts to some of the nation’s wealthiest political donors, according to a readout of his private remarks Saturday night provided by a Trump campaign official.

“Trump spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key issues including unleashing energy production, securing our southern border, reducing inflation, extending the Trump Tax Cuts, eliminating Joe Biden’s insane [electric vehicle] mandate, protecting Israel, and avoiding global war,” the campaign official said of a roughly 45-minute speech to donors in Palm Beach, Florida.

The campaign declined NBC News’ requests to have a reporter present for his remarks and to make a full transcript of them available.

 

Trump senior advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said the dinner, held at the home of billionaire hedge fund investor John Paulson, grossed $50.5 million for a joint fundraising effort benefiting Trump’s campaign, his Save America political action committee, the Republican National Committee and state parties. That’s nearly double the $26 million President Joe Biden’s campaign said it raised last month at a star-studded Radio City Music Hall gala featuring former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

Biden hit Trump for promising to extend the 2017 tax cuts beyond 2025, when many of the provisions are set to expire, in a video released Saturday.

“When he thinks the cameras are not on, he tells his rich friends, quote, ‘We’re going to give you tax cuts,’” Biden says in the video as he stands with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a leading progressive who ran against Biden in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

Trump appeared to try to square raising a record-breaking amount of donations from the nation’s elite — a set that included billionaires such as sugar magnate José “Pepe” Fanjul Sr., oil baron Harold Hamm and Johnson & Johnson heir Woody Johnson — with a political movement fueled by populist themes.

“People are just wanting change,” he told reporters as he arrived at Paulson’s home. “The rich people want it. Poor people want it. Everybody wants change.”

During his remarks, Trump praised the assembled donors.

“We have expertise in this room that’s incredible — every one of you are leaders,” he said, according to the campaign official.

From the head table, Trump spoke for about 45 minutes to 117 guests seated under a giant tent, according to the campaign official. Afterward, they dined on endive and frisee salad, filet au poivre, and pavlova with fresh berries.

Several of Trump’s vanquished primary foes — Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum — also addressed the crowd, as did Republican National Committee co-chairs Lara Trump and Michael Whatley, the official said.

Trump’s 2017 tax cut reduced income tax rates for the vast majority of Americans, including top earners and most lower-income workers. Many of its provisions are set to expire in 2025, including a break for owners of so-called pass-through businesses — entities that are not taxed because the profits flow through to the owners, who are individually taxed — that are favored by hedge funds, private equity partnerships and privately held companies. The liberal-leaning, nonpartisan Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has estimated that extending the pass-through deduction would cost the government $700 billion in lost revenue over a decade.

[Nolebull813]

Too funny. The party that is Godless and approves of evil and societal rot lecturing the rest of us about supporting someone with questionable morals. 
 

And a little tidbit. Most people don’t support Trump because of his personality and morals. They support him because he is the best chance for a Democrat to NOT be in power and destroy the country. Kinda what Biden has been doing the last 4 years 

 

my favorite scripture. Hebrews 10:26

26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins…

[DBP66]

4 minutes ago, Nolebull813 said:

Too funny. The party that is Godless and approves of evil and societal rot lecturing the rest of us about supporting someone with questionable morals. 
 

And a little tidbit. Most people don’t support Trump because of his personality and morals. They support him because he is the best chance for a Democrat to NOT be in power and destroy the country. Kinda what Biden has been doing the last 4 years 

 

my favorite scripture. Hebrews 10:26

26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins…

.....amen!....the scripture is all about you election deniers....you have ZERO proof the election was tampered with but you CHOOSE to believe a certified liar who tells you different....you need to repent yesterday!!

[golfaddict1]

https://x.com/mmpadellan/status/1777015254897090572?s=46&t=Ub_4ZB--blmAW22AUOdwqQ
 

https://x.com/genoveno73/status/1774621568393457784?s=46&t=Ub_4ZB--blmAW22AUOdwqQ
 

Some quality humor  @DBP66

[Nolebull813]

9 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

.....amen!....the scripture is all about you election deniers....you have ZERO proof the election was tampered with but you CHOOSE to believe a certified liar who tells you different....you need to repent yesterday!!

Haha. I bet the cops who beat Rodney King are innocent in your mind. Same with Amadou Diallo. Justified killing. 
 

I don’t know if there was any voting machines tampered with but I do know that people on voting day were posting videos of really sketchy and bizarre things that could only be described as cheating. 3am drops at poll locations, ballot harvesting, mail in ballots to dead people, Republican poll watchers not being allowed to watch. And the craziest thing was there was only huge controversy in the 4 swing states that decided the election. And the biggest city in those states are run by democrats down the line who are in control of everything. 
 

The problem is you don’t count things like this as a stolen election. It was ALOT of little things 

[DBP66]

4 minutes ago, Nolebull813 said:

Haha. I bet the cops who beat Rodney King are innocent in your mind. Same with Amadou Diallo. Justified killing. 
 

I don’t know if there was any voting machines tampered with but I do know that people on voting day were posting videos of really sketchy and bizarre things that could only be described as cheating. 3am drops at poll locations, ballot harvesting, mail in ballots to dead people, Republican poll watchers not being allowed to watch. And the craziest thing was there was only huge controversy in the 4 swing states that decided the election. And the biggest city in those states are run by democrats down the line who are in control of everything. 
 

The problem is you don’t count things like this as a stolen election. It was ALOT of little things 

this is why you're a Kool-Aid drinker...."I do know that people on voting day were posting videos of really sketchy and bizarre things that could only be described as cheating. 3am drops at poll locations, ballot harvesting, mail in ballots to dead people, Republican poll watchers not being allowed to watch. "......ALL BULLSHIT...100%.....😪...repent...before it's too late!...😉

[Nolebull813]

9 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

this is why you're a Kool-Aid drinker...."I do know that people on voting day were posting videos of really sketchy and bizarre things that could only be described as cheating. 3am drops at poll locations, ballot harvesting, mail in ballots to dead people, Republican poll watchers not being allowed to watch. "......ALL BULLSHIT...100%.....😪...repent...before it's too late!...😉

You are so partisan that nothing could ever be shown to you monastery how much evidence for you to change your mind. You just dismissed everything with one brush. You only believe what you believe because it benefits your leader. I’m sure there are posts of you claiming Russia in 2016 even though it was all debunked myths used to undermine Trumps presidency. 

[Nolebull813]

Another thing you don’t understand is people were posting shady things happening election DAY. Meaning there was no conspiracy to deny the election. There was no refusing to accept the results. It was 11am the day of the election and you can see in real time some serious shady shit going on!! 

[DBP66]

1 minute ago, Nolebull813 said:

You are so partisan that nothing could ever be shown to you monastery how much evidence for you to change your mind. You just dismissed everything with one brush. You only believe what you believe because it benefits your leader. I’m sure there are posts of you claiming Russia in 2016 even though it was all debunked myths used to undermine Trumps presidency. 

it has been de-bunked so many times it's not even funny any more....it's a FACT Russia helped Trump get elected...Putin told us so and he spent millions on social media...look it up. You're just grasping for straws that were never there...and still have no proof!?....repent...asap!!

[DBP66]

4 minutes ago, Nolebull813 said:

Another thing you don’t understand is people were posting shady things happening election DAY. Meaning there was no conspiracy to deny the election. There was no refusing to accept the results. It was 11am the day of the election and you can see in real time some serious shady shit going on!! 

and why wasn't it proven and shown as proof??....because it was ALL BULLSHIT....repent!

[DBP66]