The Official Trump is Doing Awesome Thread

[Winehole23]

selling regulatory lenience

The Securities and Exchange Commission largely abandoned its hard-line approach to crypto trading platforms, ending lawsuits against Coinbase, Kraken and Ripple after the companies each donated $1 million or more to Mr. Trump’s inaugural committee, and ending an investigation into Robinhood after it donated $2 million to the committee. Coinbase and Ripple also donated to the ballroom, while Coinbase gave to America250.

[Winehole23]

regulatory favors to the pot industry

Last week, Mr. Trump signed an executive order to downgrade cannabis from the most restrictive category of drugs, easing some limitations and allowing for more research. It was a major victory for a burgeoning industry that has spent heavily since the election on lobbying and donations, including a $1 million donation to MAGA Inc. from American Rights and Reform PAC, a pro-cannabis political committee; and a $750,000 donation to the inaugural committee from Trulieve, a leading marijuana retailer. Kim Rivers, Trulieve’s co-founder and chief executive, urged Mr. Trump to make the move during multiple meetings with him, including a donor dinner at his New Jersey golf club in August, according to a person familiar with the event, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

“We are really thankful for the president,” Ms. Rivers said in an interview on Thursday. “He has been consistently supportive,” she added. She declined to comment when asked if she would have been granted the presidential audiences without donating.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...smid=url-share

[Winehole23]

special access sold to donors

Since retaking office, the president has lavished his post-election donors with praise and access to himself and his inner circle. In some cases, the attention can provide a compe ive business advantage. In others, it may only mean bragging rights.


At least 100 donors have attended exclusive dinners and events with Mr. Trump at the White House, accompanied him on overseas trips that include meetings with foreign dignitaries and prospective business partners — or both. About half have popped up at multiple events. Regular visitors to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue include Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia; Lisa Su, chief executive of AMD; Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple; and others.

[Winehole23]

more regulatory favors

Pilgrim’s Pride, a massive poultry producer, donated $5 million to Mr. Trump’s inaugural committee, making it the biggest donor. Good news for the poultry industry followed: In April, the Trump administration withdrew a Biden-era proposal that would have required poultry companies to keep levels of salmonella bacteria under a certain threshold and to test for six dangerous salmonella strains.

[Winehole23]

the promptness stands out

[Winehole23]

is this awesome for Trump?

https://www.nycbar.org/wp-content/up...ialPower-1.pdf

[SnakeBoy]

Please make them orange

[Winehole23]

awesome numbers

[Winehole23]

Please make them orange

political leaders naming after themselves is dictator

[DMX7]

Now do Obama.

[Winehole23]

Now do Obama.

where were you when I did?

I wasn't a fan

[Winehole23]

btw, what did Obama name after himself but his own library?

[Winehole23]

(not rhetorical, maybe you know more than I do)

[DMX7]

btw, what did Obama name after himself but his own library?

You're preaching to the choir on that. What Trump is doing with his naming spree is a total embarrassment.

[Winehole23]

You're preaching to the choir on that. What Trump is doing with his naming spree is a total embarrassment.

so what's your gripe about Obama in the present context?

[ChumpDumper]

DMX's wannabe heterodox zingers

[Winehole23]

Now do Obama.

political leaders naming after themselves is dictator

where were you when I did?

I wasn't a fan

It's weird that people assume I was an Obama fan, I ed louder and longer about carrying the bad paper of banks and non-banks, leaving mortgage-holders in the ditch, financial oppression via ZIRP and recurrent rounds of exotic QE, official secrecy, drone wars, torture and indefinite detention, assassination of US citizens based on secret criteria, insurance mandates, etc., etc.

Just check my in posts

They're searchable on this forum

[Blake]

Please make them orange

Less healthcare more death. Just another Trump class day.

[Winehole23]

Trump's vindictive financial coercion keeps getting slapped down by federal district courts, even by judges he appointed

This is a lawsuit by 12 states challenging DHS's attempt to withhold counterterrorism grants to states that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.

U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy's ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general that sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their "sanctuary" jurisdictions.

In total, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency reduced more than $233 million from Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. The money is part of a $1 billion program in which allocations are supposed to be based on assessed risks, with states then largely passing most of the money on to police and fire departments.

The cuts were unveiled shortly after a separate federal judge in a different legal challenge ruled it was uncons utional for the federal government to require states to cooperate on immigration enforcement actions to get FEMA disaster funding.

In her 48-page ruling, McElroy found that the federal government was weighing states' police forces on federal immigration enforcement in deciding whether to reduce federal funding for the Homeland Security Grant Program and others.

"What else could defendants' decisions to cut funding to specific counterterrorism programming by con uous round numbered amounts -- including by slashing off the millions-place digits of awarded sums -- be if not arbitrary and capricious? Neither a law degree nor a degree in mathematics is required to deduce that no plausible, rational formula could produce this result," McElroy wrote.

The Trump-appointed judge then ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore the previously announced funding allocations to the plaintiff states.
"Defendants' wanton abuse of their role in federal grant administration is particularly troublesome given the fact that they have been entrusted with a most solemn duty: safeguarding our nation and its citizens," McElroy wrote. "While the intricacies of administrative law and the terms and conditions on federal grants may seem abstract to some, the funding at issue here supports vital counterterrorism and law enforcement programs."

McElroy notably cited the recent Brown University attack, in which a gunman killed two students and injured nine others, as an event when the $1 billion federal program would be vital.

"To hold hostage funding for programs like these based solely on what appear to be defendants' political whims is unconscionable and, at least here, unlawful," the Rhode Island-based judge wrote in her ruling, issued little more than a week after the Brown shooting.

Emails seeking comment were sent to the DHS and FEMA.

"This victory ensures that the Trump Administration cannot punish states that refuse to help carry out its cruel immigration agenda, particularly by denying them lifesaving funding that helps prepare for and respond to disasters and emergencies," said Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell in a statement.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/...-states-judge/

[Winehole23]

Same judge ordered HUD to stick to its funding guidelines after proposing changes that could put tens of thousands of people on the streets

A federal judge on Friday halted the Trump administration’s attempt to overhaul a major federal homelessness program, blocking changes that could have redirected billions of dollars away from permanent housing programs and put tens of thousands of people at risk of losing stable shelter.

U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy granted a preliminary injunction preventing the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from altering how more than $3 billion in Continuum of Care grant funding is distributed. The ruling requires HUD to continue operating the program under its existing rules while the legal challenge moves forward.

The lawsuit was brought by a coalition of 20 states, Washington, D.C., along with local governments and nonprofit organizations.
The plantiffs argued that HUD’s proposed changes would significantly reduce funding for permanent housing programs and replace them with temporary, transitional housing models that include work or service requirements. According to the plaintiffs, those changes could jeopardize housing for roughly 170,000 people nationwide.

McElroy said HUD’s actions likely conflicted with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, the federal law governing the program. She noted that Congress designed the Continuum of Care system to prioritize long-term housing stability and renewal funding.

“Ensuring lawful agency action and continuity of housing and stability for vulnerable populations is clearly in the public interest,” McElroy said during the hearing.

“It’s concerning to the court that we sort of keep having these cases where the agency issues these orders or memos or changes of policy, but they haven’t done the work to get that policy through. And so it sort of begs the question, are they really intending to change the policy, or is the chaos the point?”

The department had withdrawn a revised funding notice shortly before an earlier court hearing and told the court it planned to issue a new version later. McElroy suggested that the timing appeared calculated to avoid judicial review, calling it “concerning” and potentially an evasion of the court’s authority.

HUD officials defended their broader goals after the ruling. In a statement, a spokesperson said the agency “remains committed to program reforms intended to assist our nation’s most vulnerable citizens and will continue to do so in accordance with the law.”
McElroy’s ruling maintains the current funding framework until HUD issues any new guidance through a process that complies with federal law. The judge said she expects to issue a written order formalizing the injunction early next week.

https://fox11online.com/news/nation-...administration

[Winehole23]

White House taking over DOJ social media comms

Poor Pam Bondi

[Winehole23]

Epstein toplines at p.2, questions 11-13

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.ne...es_s4jyXBa.pdf

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concentration camps

[velik_m]