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    In a development that should surprise nobody, especially at this particular time:

    Trump fires intelligence community watchdog who defied him on whistleblower complaint
    The president informed Congress of the move in a Friday-evening letter to the House and Senate intelligence committees.

    President Donald Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, who was the first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he received from an intelligence official involving Trump’s communications with Ukraine’s president.

    Atkinson's decision set in motion the congressional probe that culminated in Trump's impeachment and ultimate acquittal in a bruising political and legal drama that consumed Washington for months.

    Trump formally notified the Senate and House Intelligence Committees of his intention to fire Atkinson, to take effect 30 days from Friday, according to two congressional officials and a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO dated April 3.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...general-164287
    The timing of the firing seems to coincide with Horowitz interrupting his own FISA audit on March 30th with this memo and the fact that Atkinson had served as an Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice since 2016. Atkinson was the top lawyer at the National Security Division when all of the Page FISA’s were processed.

    https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2020/a20047.pdf

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    The timing of the firing seems to coincide with Horowitz interrupting his own FISA audit on March 30th with this memo and the fact that Atkinson had served as an Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice since 2016. Atkinson was the top lawyer at the National Security Division when all of the Page FISA’s were processed.

    https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2020/a20047.pdf
    no it doesn't

    It coincides with a Friday news dump during a pandemic, rube.



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    But the secretary, who had a strained relationship with Trump and many others in the administration, assured the president that those responsible were working on and monitoring the issue. Azar told several associates that the president believed he was “alarmist” and Azar struggled to get Trump’s attention to focus on the issue, even asking one confidant for advice.
    Within days, there were new causes for alarm.

    On Jan. 21, a Seattle man who had recently traveled to Wuhan tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the first known infection on U.S. soil. Then, two days later, Chinese authorities took the drastic step of shutting down Wuhan, turning the teeming metropolis into a ghost city of empty highways and shuttered skyscrapers, with millions of people marooned in their homes.

    “That was like, whoa!,” said a senior U.S. official involved in White House meetings on the crisis. “That was when the Richter scale hit 8.”
    It was also when U.S. officials began to confront the failings of their own efforts to respond.

    Azar, who had served in senior positions at HHS through crises including the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the outbreak of Bird Flu in 2005, was intimately familiar with the playbook for crisis management.

    He instructed subordinates to move rapidly to establish a nationwide surveillance system to track the spread of the coronavirus — a stepped-up version of what the CDC does every year to monitor new strains of the ordinary flu.

    But doing so would require assets that would elude U.S. officials for months — a diagnostic test that could accurately identify those infected with the new virus and be produced on a mass scale for rapid deployment across the United States, and money to implement the system.

    Azar’s team also hit another obstacle. The Chinese were still refusing to share the viral samples they had collected and were using to develop their own tests. In frustration, U.S. officials looked for other possible routes.
    A biocontainment lab at the University of Texas medical branch in Galveston had a research partnership with the Wuhan Ins ute of Virology.

    Kadlec, who knew the Galveston lab director, hoped scientists could arrange a transaction on their own without government interference. At first, the lab in Wuhan agreed, but officials in Beijing intervened Jan. 24 and blocked any lab-to-lab transfer.

    There is no indication that officials sought to escalate the matter or enlist Trump to intervene. In fact, Trump has consistently praised Chinese President Xi Jinping despite warnings from U.S. intelligence and health officials that Beijing was concealing the true scale of the outbreak and impeding cooperation on key fronts.
    The CDC had issued its first public alert about the coronavirus Jan. 8, and by the 17th was monitoring major airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, where large numbers of passengers arrived each day from China.

    But in other ways, the situation was already spinning out of control, with multiplying cases in Seattle, intransigence by the Chinese, mounting questions from the public, and nothing in place to stop infected travelers from arriving from abroad.
    Trump was out of the country for this critical stretch, taking part in the annual global economic forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was accompanied by a contingent of top officials including national security adviser Robert O’Brien, who took an anxious trans-Atlantic call from Azar.

    Azar told O’Brien that it was “mayhem” at the White House, with HHS officials being pressed to provide nearly identical briefings to three audiences on the same day.
    Azar urged O’Brien to have the NSC assert control over a matter with potential implications for air travel, immigration authorities, the State Department and the Pentagon. O’Brien seemed to grasp the urgency, and put his deputy, Matthew Pottinger, who had worked in China as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, in charge of coordinating the still-nascent U.S. response.

    But the rising anxiety within the administration appeared not to register with the president. On Jan. 22, Trump received his first question about the coronavirus in an interview on CNBC while in Davos. Asked whether he was worried about a potential pandemic, Trump said, “No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. . . . It’s going to be just fine.”

    Spreading uncontrollably
    The move by the NSC to seize control of the response marked an opportunity to reorient U.S. strategy around containing the virus where possible and procuring resources that hospitals would need in any U.S. outbreak, including such basic equipment as protective masks and ventilators.

    But instead of mobilizing for what was coming, U.S. officials seemed more preoccupied with logistical problems, including how to evacuate Americans from China.

    In Washington, then-acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Pottinger began convening meetings at the White House with senior officials from HHS, the CDC and the State Department.

    The group, which included Azar, Pottinger and Fauci, as well as nine others across the administration, formed the core of what would become the administration’s coronavirus task force. But it primarily focused on efforts to keep infected people in China from traveling to the United States even while evacuating thousands of U.S. citizens. The meetings did not seriously focus on testing or supplies, which have since become the administration’s most challenging problems.
    The task force was formally announced on Jan. 29.

    “The genesis of this group was around border control and repatriation,” said a senior official involved in the meetings. “It wasn’t a comprehensive, whole-of-government group to run everything.”

    The State Department agenda dominated those early discussions, according to participants. Officials began making plans to charter aircraft to evacuate 6,000 Americans stranded in Wuhan. They also debated language for travel advisories that State could issue to discourage other travel in and out of China.

    On Jan. 29, Mulvaney chaired a meeting in the White House Situation Room in which officials debated moving travel restrictions to “Level 4,” meaning a “do not travel” advisory from the State Department. Then, the next day, China took the draconian step of locking down the entire Hubei province, which encompasses Wuhan.

    That move by Beijing finally prompted a commensurate action by the Trump administration. On Jan. 31, Azar announced restrictions barring any non-U.S. citizen who had been in China during the preceding two weeks from entering the United States.

    Trump has, with some justification, pointed to the China-related restriction as evidence that he had responded aggressively and early to the outbreak. It was among the few intervention options throughout the crisis that played to the instincts of the president, who often seems fixated on erecting borders and keeping foreigners out of the country.

    But by that point, 300,000 people had come into the United States from China over the previous month. There were only 7,818 confirmed cases around the world at the end of January, according to figures released by the World Health Organization — but it is now clear that the virus was spreading uncontrollably.

    Pottinger was by then pushing for another travel ban, this time restricting the flow of travelers from Italy and other nations in the European Union that were rapidly emerging as major new nodes of the outbreak. Pottinger’s proposal was endorsed by key health-care officials, including Fauci, who argued that it was critical to close off any path the virus might take into the country.

    This time, the plan met with resistance from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and others who worried about the impact on the U.S. economy. It was an early sign of tension in an area that would split the administration, pitting those who prioritized public health against those determined to avoid any disruption in an election year to the run of expansion and employment growth.

    Those backing the economy prevailed with the president. And it was more than a month before the administration issued a belated and confusing ban on flights into the United States from Europe. Hundreds of thousands of people crossed the Atlantic during that interval.

    A wall of resistance
    While fights over air travel played out in the White House, public health officials began to panic over a startling shortage of critical medical equipment including protective masks for doctors and nurses, as well as a rapidly shrinking pool of money needed to pay for such things.

    By early February, the administration was quickly draining a $105 million congressional fund to respond to infectious disease outbreaks. The coronavirus threat to the United States still seemed distant if not entirely hypothetical to much of the public. But to health officials charged with stockpiling supplies for worst-case-scenarios, disaster appeared increasingly inevitable.

    A national stockpile of N95 protective masks, gowns, gloves and other supplies was already woefully inadequate after years of underfunding. The prospects for replenishing that store were suddenly threatened by the unfolding crisis in China, which disrupted offshore supply chains.

    Much of the manufacturing of such equipment had long since migrated to China, where factories were now shuttered because workers were on order to stay in their households. At the same time, China was buying up masks and other gear to gird for its own coronavirus outbreak, driving up costs and monopolizing supplies.

    In late January and early February, leaders at HHS sent two letters to the White House Office of Management and Budget asking to use its transfer authority to shift $136 million of department funds into pools that could be tapped for combating the coronavirus. Azar and his aides also began raising the need for a multibillion-dollar supplemental budget request to send to Congress.

    Yet White House budget hawks argued that appropriating too much money at once when there were only a few U.S. cases would be viewed as alarmist.
    Joe Grogan, head of the Domestic Policy Council, clashed with health officials over preparedness. He mistrusted how the money would be used and questioned how health officials had used previous preparedness funds.

    Azar then spoke to Russell Vought, the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, during Trump’s State of the Union speech on Feb. 4. Vought seemed amenable, and told Azar to submit a proposal.

    Azar did so the next day, drafting a supplemental request for more than $4 billion, a sum that OMB officials and others at the White House greeted as an outrage. Azar arrived at the White House that day for a tense meeting in the Situation Room that erupted in a shouting match, according to three people familiar with the incident.
    A deputy in the budget office accused Azar of preemptively lobbying Congress for a gigantic sum that White House officials had no interest in granting. Azar bristled at the criticism and defended the need for an emergency infusion. But his standing with White House officials, already shaky before the coronavirus crisis began, was damaged further.

    White House officials relented to a degree weeks later as the feared coronavirus surge in the United States began to materialize. The OMB team whittled Azar’s demands down to $2.5 billion, money that would be available only in the current fiscal year. Congress ignored that figure, approving an $8 billion supplemental bill that Trump signed into law March 7.

    But again, delays proved costly. The disputes meant that the United States missed a narrow window to stockpile ventilators, masks and other protective gear before the administration was bidding against many other desperate nations, and state officials fed up with federal failures began scouring for supplies themselves.

    In late March, the administration ordered 10,000 ventilators — far short of what public health officials and governors said was needed. And many will not arrive until the summer or fall, when models expect the pandemic to be receding.
    “It’s actually kind of a joke,” said one administration official involved in deliberations about the belated purchase.

    Inconclusive tests
    Although viruses travel unseen, public health officials have developed elaborate ways of mapping and tracking their movements. Stemming an outbreak or slowing a pandemic in many ways comes down to the ability to quickly divide the population into those who are infected and those who are not.

    Doing so, however, hinges on having an accurate test to diagnose patients and deploy it rapidly to labs across the country. The time it took to accomplish that in the United States may have been more costly to American efforts than any other failing.

    “If you had the testing, you could say, ‘Oh my god, there’s circulating virus in Seattle, let’s jump on it. There’s circulating virus in Chicago, let’s jump on it,’ ” said a senior administration official involved in battling the outbreak. “We didn’t have that visibility.”

    The first setback came when China refused to share samples of the virus, depriving U.S. researchers of supplies to bombard with drugs and therapies in a search for ways to defeat it. But even when samples had been procured, the U.S. effort was hampered by systemic problems and ins utional hubris.

    Among the costliest errors was a misplaced assessment by top health officials that the outbreak would probably be limited in scale inside the United States — as had been the case with every other infection for decades — and that the CDC could be trusted on its own to develop a coronavirus diagnostic test.

    The CDC, launched in the 1940s to contain an outbreak of malaria in the southern United States, had taken the lead on the development of diagnostic tests in major outbreaks including Ebola, Zika and H1N1. But the CDC was not built to mass-produce tests.

    The CDC’s success had fostered an ins utional arrogance, a sense that even in the face of a potential crisis there was no pressing need to involve private labs, academic ins utions, hospitals and global health organizations also capable of developing tests.

    Yet some were concerned that the CDC test would not be enough. Stephen Hahn, the FDA commissioner, sought authority in early February to begin calling private diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies to enlist their help.

    But when senior FDA officials consulted leaders at HHS, Hahn, who had led the agency for about two months, was told to stand down. There were concerns about him personally contacting companies regulated by his agency.

    At that point, Azar, the HHS secretary, seemed committed to a plan he was pursuing that would keep his agency at the center of the response effort: securing a test from the CDC and then building a national coronavirus surveillance system by relying on an existing network of labs used to track the ordinary flu.

    In task force meetings, Azar and Redfield pushed for $100 million to fund the plan, but were shot down because of the cost, according to a do ent outlining the testing strategy obtained by The Washington Post.

    Relying so heavily on the CDC would have been problematic even if it had succeeded in quickly developing an effective test that could be distributed across the country. The scale of the epidemic, and the need for mass testing far beyond the capabilities of the flu network, would have overwhelmed Azar’s plan, which didn’t envision engaging commercial lab companies for up to six months.

    The effort collapsed when the CDC failed its basic assignment to create a working test and the task force rejected Azar’s plan.

    On Feb. 6, when the World Health Organization reported that it was shipping 250,000 test kits to labs around the world, the CDC began distributing 90 kits to a smattering of state-run health labs.

    Almost immediately, the state facilities encountered problems. The results were inconclusive in trial runs at more than half the labs, meaning they couldn’t be relied upon to diagnose actual patients. The CDC issued a stopgap measure, instructing labs to send tests to its headquarters in Atlanta, a practice that would delay results for days.

    The scarcity of effective tests led officials to impose constraints on when and how to use them, and delayed surveillance testing. Initial guidelines were so restrictive that states were discouraged from testing patients exhibiting symptoms unless they had traveled to China and come into contact with a confirmed case, when the pathogen had by that point almost certainly spread more broadly into the general population.
    The limits left top officials largely blind to the true dimensions of the outbreak.
    In a meeting in the Situation Room in mid-February, Fauci and Redfield told White House officials that there was no evidence yet of worrisome person-to-person transmission in the United States. In hindsight, it appears almost certain that the virus was taking hold in communities at that point. But even the country’s top experts had little meaningful data about the domestic dimensions of the threat. Fauci later conceded that as they learned more their views changed.

    At the same time the president’s subordinates were growing increasingly alarmed, Trump continued to exhibit little concern. On Feb. 10, he held a political rally in New Hampshire attended by thousands where he declared that “by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”

    The New Hampshire rally was one of eight that Trump held after he had been told by Azar about the coronavirus, a period when he also went to his golf courses six times.
    A day earlier, on Feb. 9, a group of governors in town for a black-tie gala at the White House secured a private meeting with Fauci and Redfield. The briefing rattled many of the governors, bearing little resemblance to the words of the president. “The doctors and the scientists, they were telling us then exactly what they are saying now,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said.

    That month, federal medical and public health officials were emailing increasingly dire forecasts amongst themselves, with one Veterans Affairs medical adviser warning, ‘We are flying blind,’” according to emails obtained by the watchdog group American Oversight.

    Later in February, U.S. officials discovered indications that the CDC laboratory was failing to meet basic quality-control standards. On a Feb. 27 conference call with a range of health officials, a senior FDA official lashed out at the CDC for its repeated lapses.

    Jeffrey Shuren, the FDA’s director for devices and radiological health, told the CDC that if it were subjected to the same scrutiny as a privately run lab, “I would shut you down.”

    On Feb. 29, a Washington state man became the first American to die of a coronavirus infection. That same day, the FDA released guidance, signaling that private labs were free to proceed in developing their own diagnostics.
    Another four-week stretch had been squandered.

    One week later, on March 6, Trump toured the facilities at the CDC wearing a red “Keep America Great” hat. He boasted that the CDC tests were nearly perfect and that “anybody who wants a test will get a test,” a promise that nearly a month later remains unmet.

    Current and former officials said that Kadlec, Fauci, Redfield and others have repeatedly had to divert their attentions from core operations to contend with ill-conceived requests from the White House they don’t believe they can ignore. And Azar, who once ran the response, has since been sidelined, with his agency disempowered in decision-making and his performance pilloried by a range of White House officials, including Kushner.

    “Right now Fauci is trying to roll out the most ambitious clinical trial ever implemented” to hasten the development of a vaccine, said a former senior administration official in frequent touch with former colleagues. And yet, the nation’s top health officials “are getting calls from the White House or Jared’s team asking, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice to do this with Oracle?’ ”

    If the coronavirus has exposed the country’s misplaced confidence in its ability to handle a crisis, it also has cast harsh light on the limits of Trump’s approach to the presidency — his disdain for facts, science and experience.

    He has survived other challenges to his presidency — including the Russia investigation and impeachment — by fiercely contesting the facts arrayed against him and trying to control the public’s understanding of events with streams of falsehoods.

    The coronavirus may be the first crisis Trump has faced in office where the facts — the thousands of mounting deaths and infections — are so devastatingly evident that they defy these tactics.

    After months of dismissing the severity of the coronavirus, resisting calls for austere measures to contain it, and recasting himself as a wartime president, Trump seemed finally to suc b to the coronavirus reality. In a meeting with a Republican ally in the Oval Office last month, the president said his campaign no longer mattered because his reelection would hinge on his coronavirus response.

    “It’s absolutely critical for the American people to follow the guidelines for the next 30 days,” he said at his March 31 news conference. “It’s a matter of life and death.”
    Thanks for the article and sorry for quoting it. Most comprehensive one I’ve read on the situation.

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    Thanks for the article and sorry for quoting it. Most comprehensive one I’ve read on the situation.
    If this administration had led World War II efforts we’d all be speaking German. I guess Thread would be happy.

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    If this administration had led World War II efforts we’d all be speaking German. I guess Thread would be happy.
    I'd be happy if you told me about you ing your mother some more. Got a big bush, does she? A nice hairy one, perhaps.

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    Gotta say I love this ignore feature.

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    Gotta say I love this ignore feature.
    But, I [Ignore] no one.

    It's my religion.

    Now, have you ever sneaked a peek at your mother's coochie, picky?

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    In a development that should surprise nobody, especially at this particular time:

    Trump fires intelligence community watchdog who defied him on whistleblower complaint
    The president informed Congress of the move in a Friday-evening letter to the House and Senate intelligence committees.

    President Donald Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, who was the first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he received from an intelligence official involving Trump’s communications with Ukraine’s president.

    Atkinson's decision set in motion the congressional probe that culminated in Trump's impeachment and ultimate acquittal in a bruising political and legal drama that consumed Washington for months.

    Trump formally notified the Senate and House Intelligence Committees of his intention to fire Atkinson, to take effect 30 days from Friday, according to two congressional officials and a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO dated April 3.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...general-164287
    Announced at 10pm on a Friday during a national emergency, hoping fewer would notice the retaliation.

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    Announced at 10pm on a Friday during a national emergency, hoping fewer would notice the retaliation.
    Your side dumps on Friday nights as well. You've nary room.

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    If this administration had led World War II efforts we’d all be speaking German. I guess Thread would be happy.
    thanks for that article...

    when the 9-11 style commission begins gathering evidence- there will be a LOT more than these incriminating facts pointed out-

    and all those sources and witnesses will be compelled to testify-


    i think FOX news and trump and the GOP - should be sued by everyone losing family and friends to this pandemic - due to the criminal and negligent response led by trump

    and led by a sick cult.

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    thanks for that article...

    when the 9-11 style commission begins gathering evidence- there will be a LOT more than these incriminating facts pointed out-

    and all those sources and witnesses will be compelled to testify-


    i think FOX news and trump and the GOP - should be sued by everyone losing family and friends to this pandemic - due to the criminal and negligent response led by trump

    and led by a sick cult.
    You can count on that, daddy-O. That's the cottage industry comin' up fast.

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    You can count on that, daddy-O. That's the cottage industry comin' up fast.

    pesky facts will be exposed


    here is a thought for “future thread” (future you)

    As i see the facts uncovered by this nonpartisan commission-

    I recognize that these facts are damning to the man I supported and defended.

    The FACTS are that he was/is a really evil criminal-

    yet I defended him and his evil criminal actions 24/7. i staked my own life on his evil criminal acts.


    Why did I?

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    pesky facts will be exposed


    here is a thought for “future thread” (future you)

    As i see the facts uncovered by this nonpartisan commission-

    I recognize that these facts are damning to the man I supported and defended.

    The FACTS are that he was/is a really evil criminal-

    yet I defended him and his evil criminal actions 24/7. i staked my own life on his evil criminal acts.


    Why did I?
    tee, hee.

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    that is where we are headed-

    the same as the 9-11 commission-


    this will not be a “congressional” show


    this is going to be like the 9-11 deal-

    to yours and your teams disappointment

    this wont be something you can just call fake news and blind yourself again -

    this will be a true reckoning

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    that is where we are headed-

    the same as the 9-11 commission-


    this will not be a “congressional” show


    this is going to be like the 9-11 deal-

    to yours and your teams disappointment

    this wont be something you can just call fake news and blind yourself again -

    this will be a true reckoning
    - "Promises, promises."

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    good lord

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    good lord

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    ‘It’s not like we have a massive recession or worse,’

    says Trump after millions lose their jobs


    “It’s artificial because we turned it off,

    Trump said of the economic crisis, a distinction that makes no difference to the millions who have lost their jobs and their health insurance.

    Trump downplayed the intensifying economic downturn as “an artificial closing” and

    insisted that businesses like restaurants will be “bigger and better” than before once the COVID-19 crisis subsides.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/its-not-like-we-have-a-massive-recession-or-worse-says-trump-after-millions-lose-their-jobs/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4201



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    ‘Somebody ought to sue his ass off’:

    Trump bashes fired intel Inspector General for Ukraine whistleblower report





    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/som...blower-report/

    Trash is garbage, a piece of human






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    ‘Somebody ought to sue his ass off’:

    Trump bashes fired intel Inspector General for Ukraine whistleblower report





    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/som...blower-report/

    Trash is garbage, a piece of human





    He made President though, by God.

    ha, ha.

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    ‘It’s not like we have a massive recession or worse,’

    says Trump after millions lose their jobs


    “It’s artificial because we turned it off,

    Trump said of the economic crisis, a distinction that makes no difference to the millions who have lost their jobs and their health insurance.

    Trump downplayed the intensifying economic downturn as “an artificial closing” and

    insisted that businesses like restaurants will be “bigger and better” than before once the COVID-19 crisis subsides.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/its-not-like-we-have-a-massive-recession-or-worse-says-trump-after-millions-lose-their-jobs/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4201


    Stands to reason. Wrecked his to do it, but, with broad daylight all around him he had nary other choice.

    D's want to keep this lid on it till November, so, they'll be fighting hammer & tong to do everything in their power to make that happen.
    All he can do is keep the pom-pom's twirling like today & every day at the briefings. Those briefings are a Godsend & cost him nary a dime. Those briefings keep his dauber up, his blood from coagulatin'. Sure, he blubbers a bit as it carries on, but, he's soldiering in the finest traditions, showing us, his base how it's done, teaching us the ropes, how to slay our enemies.

    "The forgotten men and women of America will be forgotten no longer." - the old man.

    A better President has never walked the face of this earth.

    "God bless the United States of America and the men who made her free." - Daniel Webster

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    It'd a destroyed me to suffer Bill & Hillary Clinton again.

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