The Donald Trump Score Card

The coup.

 

Post 26686--The boys bumpin' dickheads!

 

Gotta keep those Dems down!

 

McConnell was saying," Don't worry Boo Boo Bear. The leader of the Senate will protect you again, just like when they impeached you. Now let's go and get the pick nick basket before the ranger man get here."

 

Top Homeland Security Officials Are Serving Illegally, G.A.O. Says
The acting secretary of homeland security, Chad F. Wolf, and his deputy, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, were appointed to their posts in violation of federal law, Congress’s watchdog determined.
By Michael D. Shear
Aug. 14, 2020

Top Homeland Security Officials Are Serving Illegally, G.A.O. Says

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON — President Trump’s top two officials at the Department of Homeland Security are illegally serving in their positions, with appointments that violated the laws governing who can fill Senate-confirmed posts, according to a report released Friday by the Government Accountability Office.

Chad F. Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, and Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, his deputy at the sprawling agency, are serving in violation of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which specifies orders of succession when senior officials resign, according to the G.A.O., Congress’s nonpartisan watchdog.

The report said the improper appointments began after Kirstjen Nielsen was forced out of office as the department’s secretary in April 2019.

“Because the incorrect official assumed the title of acting secretary at that time, subsequent amendments to the order of succession made by that official were invalid,” the Government Accountability Office said on Friday. The agency said that Mr. Wolf and Mr. Cuccinelli “are serving under an invalid order of succession.”"

 

Trump has been cited by the GAO before stemming from his withholding of U.S. government money to Ukraine which precipitated his impeachment.



GAO finds Trump administration broke law by withholding Ukraine aid
By Olivia Beavers and Rebecca Klar
01/16/20 10:06 AM EST

GAO finds Trump administration broke law by withholding Ukraine aid

excerpt:

"The Trump administration’s decision to freeze the release of security assistance to Ukraine violated the law, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report.

The independent watchdog said in an opinion issued Thursday that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) withheld the appropriated funds last summer not as a programmatic delay but in order to advance the president’s own agenda.

By doing so, the watchdog concluded, the White House violated what’s known as the Impoundment Control Act (ICA).

“Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law,” the report said. “OMB withheld funds for a policy reason, which is not permitted under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA)...Therefore, we conclude that OMB violated the ICA.”

The GAO opinion touched on a matter at the center of impeachment proceedings against President Trump: The decision by the White House to withhold nearly $400 million in U.S. aid to Kyiv as it fights off pro-Russian separatists."

 

"I'm your law and order president" ~ Donald J. Trump

 

Will the death of trump's brother humble Donnie?

 

You should start a comedy routine, you're very funny.

If the death of 170,000 americans couldn't humble the Don, the death of brother isn't going to do a thing.

Right now Don is on the phone with his attorney asking how much he'll gain through his brother's will.

 

^^^ This!

 

The House has scheduled an emergency oversight hearing for Aug 24.



House Dems summon postal leaders to hearing on mail delays
By AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press
August 16, 2020 — 1:36pm

House Dems summon postal leaders to hearing on mail delays

excerpt:

"BEDMINSTER, N.J. — The Democratic-run House on Sunday demanded that leaders of the U.S. Postal Service testify at an emergency oversight hearing Aug. 24 on mail delays as concerns grow that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the agency during the coronavirus pandemic while states expand mail-in voting options for the November presidential election.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee said it wants to hear from new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and from the chair of the Postal Service board of governors, Robert “Mike” Duncan. With heightened scrutiny of its operations, the agency is now requesting a temporary preelection rate increase, from mid-October through Christmas, though probably not for first-class letters.

The agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment about whether the two men would appear before the House committee.

Pressure is increasing on DeJoy, a major Republican donor and ally of the president, who has said he is modernizing the money-losing agency to make it more efficient. DeJoy has made cuts in overtime for postal workers, imposed restrictions on transportation and reduced of the quantity and use of mail-processing equipment.

“The postmaster general and top Postal Service leadership must answer to the Congress and the American people as to why they are pushing these dangerous new policies that threaten to silence the voices of millions, just months before the election,” congressional Democrats said in a statement announcing the hearing.

The lawmakers included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the committee chair, along with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Postal Service."

 

Is that an ad hominem?

 

Here’s when Fauci thinks the coronavirus pandemic will end and life will go back to normal
By Chris Smith
August 16th, 2020 at 10:33 AM

Here’s when Fauci thinks the coronavirus pandemic will end and life will go back to normal

excerpts:

"Things can’t and won’t get back to how they were before until the transmission rate is reduced significantly. That can happen once people start respecting the rules again, and once the first vaccines start rolling out more widely. But it’ll take more than a year for the US to get back to normal. The estimate comes from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading health expert and one of the world’s most trusted voices on all things COVID-19-related."


"Fauci made it clear that returning to normal does not mean the virus will be eradicated.

“The only virus that we have ever eradicated in the history of the planet has been smallpox for humans,” he said. “But we can get it under good enough control that it is so low that it doesn’t interfere with the kind of normal life that we want to get the economy back, to get employment back.”

Until vaccines are ready, Fauci says the US has a chance of bringing the surges down “if we pull together in a unified, consistent way.”

“Uniform and universal wearing of masks. Physical, social distancing. Avoiding crowds. Outdoor things always better than indoor things. And wash hands as often as you possibly can,” he said, adding that people should stay away from bars."

 

Trump has made this difficult by making up excuses for people to violate the social distancing guidelines formulated by his own administration. Instead of being a calming voice and responsible, he thrives on generating chaos as a means of splitting the country into an in-group and out-group which he uses to appeal to his base.

An example is an event on August 7 that he said would be a press briefing at his golf resort in NJ. He turned it into a pep rally for himself by having a group of his club members and supporters present to cheer him during the event. Most were standing close together an not wearing face coverings. Trump excused it by saying that there was a social distancing exemption for them at the expense of admitting that they were there to protest the media (at what was supposed to be a press briefing).

 

Trump N.J. golf club guests ignore social distancing at press conference. He calls it ‘peaceful protest.’
By Jonathan D. Salant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Updated Aug 08, 2020; Posted Aug 08, 2020

Trump N.J. golf club guests ignore social distancing at press conference. He calls it ‘peaceful protest.’

 

There was a time in the U.S. when one party stayed quiet during the week that the other held its convention as a show of courtesy.



Trump campaign to host nightly recap of Democratic Convention to highlight 'radical socialism' of the left
The rebuttal, which will include panels and commentary from Team Trump, will take place at 11p.m. each nigh
By Brooke Singman | Fox News
August 16, 2020

Trump campaign to host nightly recap of Democratic Convention to highlight 'radical socialism' of the left

excerpt:

"EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign will host a nightly recap of the Democratic National Convention, as part of its rapid response efforts and counter-programming, which they say will highlight the “radical socialism” of the left, Fox News has learned.

A Trump campaign official told Fox News on Sunday that the campaign, in response to nightly Democratic Convention programming, will launch “The Real Joe Biden,” a recap of the Democrats’ nightly events."

 

This guy still telling you it's going to end?

World just recorded it's largest number of daily cases ever on Sunday

France is up over 3000 cases a day again, Japan over 1000 a day

New Zealand in their infinite wisdom just closed down a whole city because Covid was on a box of frozen peas

Just had a study proving aerosol transmission

But yeah sure, wear a mask, stay away from bars, and it will be over soon

Frickin Moron

 

ad hominem just means towards (the) person in latin

Is that an towards person? Is what you just said


Argumentum ad hominem means argument against (the) person

 

So, errrr


No democrat saw this coming 5 months ago?

In the middle of a pandemic, with an election in November, more voters might need postal votes, and with 50 times the demand, the postal service might not be able to cope?

Okey Dokey