'Buddy, it was you!' GOP strategist turns tables on Trump as he whines about being victim

Matthew Chapman
June 12, 2024 11:08AM ET




Donald Trump (Photo: Shutterstock)




Longtime Republican strategist Rina Shah tore into former President Donald Trump on CNN Wednesday for his violence-laden grievance pitches to voters.

This came as CNN anchor Jim Acosta highlighted a new fundraising pitch by the Trump campaign, headlined "haul out the guillotine," proclaiming that Trump's political enemies want him "beheaded" and that "THEY'RE REALLY COMING AFTER YOU!"

"This email came out a couple of hours — nobody's made a big deal out of it," said Acosta. "I'm highlighting it because I just wonder, Rina, are we getting a little too numb to this kind of rhetoric? Is it getting out of control? Is he out of control?"

"I've been struck by it every time," said Shah. "Trump has been out of control for a long time because what he's wanted to do is whack this whole notion of impartiality, which I heard you touching on, and I couldn't agree more."

"I'm really glad you touch on that, because that impartiality is what makes us a country," Shah continued on. "We aren't a country if we can't look at our institutions and say these institutions protect the very American values that I know so many conservatives care about, which are freedom, equality, justice. If we don't have those things, we're not a nation at all."

ALSO READ: ‘Glaring crisis’: Postal service blasted for poor policing amid crime wave

But Trump, she added, "Wants to whack those things away just because he's mentally unstable on that day and wants to talk about a guillotine and wants to say that they want to take me to the guillotine. Buddy, it was you that was fine with people doing that to your vice president!"

Watch the video below or at the link here.




https://www.rawstory.com/trump-victim-2668510261/

 

A few reasons why biden shouldn't be reelected

 

Treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans have been in panic mode trying to clean this up ever since Trump said it. But they can't get their stories straight because Trump keeps doubling down on it. Which should actually be the least of their worries. What Trump and his treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans should be worrying about is Trump was supposed to be getting a heroes welcome at his triumphant return to the Capitol or at least near the Capitol. So how did this leak out? Because it was hitting the airways before he even left his meetings. Which means among his supposed adoring fans there are people just waiting to get their chance to stab Trump in the back.



'Horrible city': Trump caught slamming RNC host Milwaukee in closed-door meeting

Kathleen Culliton
June 13, 2024 11:24AM ET




Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at one of his property, 40 Wall Street, following closing arguments at his civil fraud trial on Jan. 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)




Former President Donald Trump Thursday called the most populous metropolis of a key swing state hosting the Republican National Convention next month a "horrible city," according to a new report.

Trump insulted Milwaukee to House and Senate Republicans who gathered for a policy discussion on Capitol Hill Thursday, the first of such meetings since January, 2021, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman reports.

"Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city," Trump reportedly told Republicans.

"Great strategy for a state you need to win," quipped X user Philly Nate in response.

ALSO READ: 'Most powerful thing': Witness details Trump's last moments before 'shocking' verdict

The Republican National Convention will take place in the Wisconsin city from July 15 to July 18, just days after Trump, the presumptive nominee, faces a sentencing hearing in Manhattan criminal court.

Trump last month was found guilty of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

ALSO READ: How Donald Trump could run for president — and lead the nation — from prison

Trump also faces criminal charges linked to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021.

The day of the U.S. Capitol riots was also the last day Politico updated its 2020 election results website for the state of Wisconsin.

President Joe Biden won the state with 1,630,866 votes roughly 20,000 more than Trump's 1,610,184, Politico reported. In Milwaukee, Biden claimed 317,527 votes while Trump took just 134,482. That's a difference of more than 183,000.

Trump's comment was met with scorn from Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), Milwaukee's representative in the House, who took a jab at the former president on X.

"I am certain he will discover that Milwaukee is a wonderful, vibrant and welcoming city full of diverse neighborhoods and a thriving business community," Moore wrote, "once he's settled in with his parole officer."



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-milwaukee/

 

Well, wrong story?
Who, exactly, did trump say these awful things about Milwaukee?
Is their audio or video?
No?
Just "Sources familiar with the situation?"

Noted.
We'll give this bit of propaganda the respect it deserves

 

And another phony stunt blows up in Trump's face. How did they ever think they could get away with busing in a few Black Trump supporters, fill a church with mostly White people, and then claim Trump was speaking at a Black Church.



'Preposterous lies': Ex-GOP insider torches Trump's 'completely fake' Detroit church stunt

Brad Reed
June 17, 2024 6:39AM ET




DETROIT, MICHIGAN - JUNE 15: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump joins community leaders for a roundtable discussion at the 180 Church on June 15, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. The event is one of two the former president is scheduled to attend while in Detroit today. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)




Former President Donald Trump over the weekend had a roundtable discussion at a predominantly Black church in Detroit that raised eyebrows because photos showed that white people made up the vast majority of people in the audience.

This drew the attention of former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, who told CNN on Monday that the stunt revealed a very soft underbelly in polls showing increasing Black support for Trump.

"He created a completely fake media event, he rented a church, he bussed in people who were wearing not church clothes but rally clothes, they were obviously not locals," he said. "You don't have to do that if you have support."

However, Frum said that it wasn't just the demographics on display at the event that should draw criticism but the many lies that Trump told about crime in the United States.

"He told a series of preposterous lies," he said. "Detroit... is having a magnificent turnaround. First population growth in half a century. Lowest homicides in half a century... Detroit is now a magnet for attracting new artists. Detroit is a great American turnaround story. So when you have to tell so many lies, when you have to bus in people, it tells me you probably don't have a lot of indigenous support in that town."

ALSO READ: 19 fabulously worthless things Trump will give you for your money

Later in the panel, Frum shredded Trump for claiming that American cities are overrun by crime despite the fact that crime has decreased significantly since he left the White House back in 2021.

"Donald Trump's genius is... that he's the world's leading marketer of crap products," said Frum. "Anybody can sell a good steak, he sells a terrible steak. Anyone can sell a good vodka, he sells a terrible vodka. And he's doing that now: The guy who presided over the steepest increase in crime since the '60s is saying, 'Vote for me, I'm anti-crime.'"

Watch the video below or at this link.




https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lies-2668535515/

 

We can always tell when an event damages the liberal mind set.

They twirl and spew and go on for days with their lies and propaganda.

Two things are sure.
When trump was in the whitehouse Americans weren't being murdered on American streets by ILLEGAL MIGRANTS.
And none of Trumps secret service detail were robbed at gunpoint.

 

Watch as CNN freaks out over black voters for trump. The largest change in over 60 years!

 

'It doesn't matter': Lara Trump admits plan for Trump to join RNC convention from jail

David Edwards
June 19, 2024 11:11AM ET




Lara Trump (Real America's Voice/screen grab)




Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump admitted that her party has a plan to nominate Donald Trump at its convention even if he's in jail or faces other types of confinement.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, host Terrance Bates asked Lara Trump what would happen if New York Justice Juan Merchan ordered her father-in-law to be incarcerated at his sentencing on July 11.

"And the thing that comes to mind for me is the fact that Judge Juan Merchan could very well sentence President Trump to jail or some sort of prison time, not allowing him to be there for the Republican National Convention, which is of major concern," Bates said.

"Here's the bottom line," Lara Trump replied. "It doesn't matter whether Donald Trump is in Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, or anywhere else they may try to put him."

ALSO READ: ‘They could have killed me’: Spycraft, ballots and a Trumped-up plot gone haywire

"On the day that we, as the Republican Party, will be nominating him as our official candidate and our official nominee for president, he will accept that no matter where he is," she continued. "He will go on to be our candidate all the way to November 5th, when he then is reelected as our 47th president."

She argued that Trump's 34 felony convictions were not "a negative for him" because it resulted in increased fundraising.

"I think everybody can only see it's been a positive for him," she said. "People in this country see what's going on with this."

"They see how third-world and communist it is, and they do not want to see this as the future of America."


https://www.rawstory.com/lara-trump-donald-trump-nomination/

 

More lame-ass bullshit from the Spewer-in-Chief. No answer is necessary to this steaming pile of nothing.

Funny how the thread title '2020 (LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL) Democrat Hopefuls' tends to be nothing about Democrats at all. But that's because the Demtards have nobody worth a shit running for anything - in 2024.

They shoulda just named this thread 'Orange Man Bad.'

 

Trump’s 'radical' tariff proposals fail 'basic math': libertarian economist

Alex Henderson, AlterNet
June 20, 2024 9:46AM ET




Former President Donald Trump in Phoenix on June 6, 2024 (Gage Skidmore)




Prominent liberal economists, from Robert Reich to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, have been vehemently critical of presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's tariff proposals. Trump is claiming that tariffs could be used to eliminate the United States' federal income tax, and Reich and Krugman are among the many economists who have been warning that if his proposals were implemented, they would, in effect, amount to a massive tax hike for low-income Americans.

But not all of the criticism is coming from the left.

In a biting article published by The Dispatch on June 19, libertarian Scott Lincicome — who serves as vice president of general economics and trade for the Cato Institute — lays out some major flaws of Trump's tariff proposals.

READ MORE: Trump’s newest policy proposal would be 'huge tax increase' for the middle class: analysis

"Even setting aside the many economic problems that tariffs create," Lincicome explains, "trying to use them to fund the U.S. government is not only mathematically implausible even with radical spending cuts, it also raises all sorts of practical problems and economic uncertainties…. The first big problem is basic math."

The libertarian continues, "The United States imported around $3.8 trillion total last year — $3.1 trillion in goods, $714 billion in services — but the federal government spent $6.1 trillion while raising just $4.4 trillion…. So, in a situation where nothing changed in response to higher tariffs…. the federal government would need to impose a tariff on all imports of goods and services of around 160 percent to cover current spending and 116 percent to replace just revenues."

Lincicome points out that "total income tax revenue" for the United States in 2023 "was almost $2.2 trillion," which means that a "58 percent global tariff" would be needed "to cover that amount."

"Apply tariffs to just goods, and you shrink the tax base — meaning you'd need even higher tariff rates to cover whatever revenues you’re trying to replace," Lincicome argues. "Nix only income taxes for the bottom 50 percent of American taxpayers, and you can apply much lower tariff rates — maybe just a few percentage points."

READ MORE: Paul Krugman: Trump’s 'crank economic doctrines' would make inflation much worse

Scott Lincicome's full article for The Dispatch is available at this link (subscription required).



https://www.rawstory.com/why-trumps-radical-tariff-proposals-fail-basic-math-economics-expert/

 

Newspaper runs anti-Biden advertorial — with racial slurs

Matthew Chapman
June 20, 2024 9:11PM ET




President Joe Biden participates in a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office of the White House on June 17, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)




The publisher for the Miami New Times is offering a mea culpa after the newspaper printed a lengthy "advertorial" attacking President Joe Biden, which used the N-word, Axios reported on Thursday.

"Miami New Times publisher Adam Simon tells Axios the ad is unacceptable and he's changing the alt weekly's ad review process," reported Martin Vassolo. "Normally, he said, staffers — including himself — review ads prior to publication. But in this case, the ad came in past their deadline and Simon did not review it. The New Times will no longer take ads so late that they can't be reviewed, he said. 'Naturally, had I seen it, which I should have, I would not have let it run as is.'"

The ad, whose buyer was not disclosed, directs readers to the website for Blacks for Trump, and features "JOE BIDEN SAYS 'N-----'" prominently at the top.

The article is taking a well-known Biden speech from 1985 out of context, in which Biden, while serving in the Senate, was quoting verbatim the racial slurs uttered by Louisiana state legislators at William Bradford Reynolds in a hearing, as an example of why Reynolds was unqualified for his nomination to serve as U.S. deputy attorney general.

In the quote in question, Biden pointed out that Bradford's fellow lawmakers had said, “We already have a n----- mayor, we don’t need any more n----- big shots!” as an argument for gerrymandering Lousiana's congressional districts to prevent the election of Black lawmakers, a plan which Reynolds was accused of helping them carry out despite knowing the racial animus behind it.

Former President Donald Trump is currently trying to improve his low numbers with Black voters, and while some polling has suggested he has made gains since 2020, he is still struggling greatly with the demographic — a point driven home when Trump held a campaign event in a Black church in Detroit, where nearly all the attendees were white.

ALSO READ: EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans subpoena ex-Capitol Police intel head for Jan. 6 inquiry



https://www.rawstory.com/miami-new-times-newspaper/

 

Brandon has proven himself a racist many times.

That brandon is a racist does not mean America is racist.

 

'Zero attendees in the upper bowl': Trump mocked for 'half empty' swing state speech

David McAfee
June 22, 2024 10:44PM ET




Donald Trump (Photo by Mandel Ngan for AFP)




Donald Trump on Saturday held a speech in Pennsylvania, but some liberals and conservatives alike are suggesting the crowd could have been larger.

Trump, who during his speech in Philadelphia had several verbal "misfires" that caused social media users to question the former president's mental acuity, has in the past heavily emphasized the numbers at his politically charged rallies as an indication of popularity.

Trump has also been accused of inflating his numbers when it comes to his controversial speeches.

ALSO READ: EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans subpoena ex-Capitol Police intel head for Jan. 6 inquiry

Tennessee Democratic election commissioner Chris D. Jackson, who previously floated evidence that Trump rally attendees were being paid for attendance in Nevada, posted a video making the allegation that the event had empty seats.

"Look at all those empty seats in Philadelphia," Jackson said. "Old man can't even fill a high school gym fill [sic] anymore. Sad."

@sandibachom replied, "He hasn’t done hardly any indoor venues because he still owes $500,000 each the venues he didn’t pay as far back as 2019 so he’s been doing them in fields next to firehouses and beaches that are free. It’s a lot easier to hide small crowd in those venues but this you can see it’s brutal."

Conservative Army Iraq War Veteran Peter Henlein also chimed in:

"Here is a video of Trump at his rally tonight in swing state PA at Temple University’s Liacouras Center, capacity 10,200. It’s half empty."

He continued, "Zero attendees in the upper bowl. Odd for a guy that brags about pulling 100k ppl in NJ and 30k in the Bronx."

In a follow-up post on social media on Saturday, Henlein asked Trump advisor Jason Miller, "Why was the small arena only half full?"

https://www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive/trump-half-empty-pennsylvania-speech/

 

Well, we know the trump Philly crowd was much bigger than Brandon's Philly crowd.

There's video. Anyone can find it and judge for themselves.

For those that do get the video, take note of the American flags and the enthusiastic patriotism at the trump rally.

Brandon's rally? No flags. No patriotism.

Why is that?

 

Watchdog memos show a Trump 'utterly indifferent to the public interest' in first term

Edward Carver, Common Dreams
June 25, 2024 6:40AM ET




Jared Kushner and Donald Trump (Photo: White House)




The Revolving Door Project on Monday released a set of reports on corruption and mismanagement in executive agencies during the Trump presidency, calling on the media to focus on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's poor governing record as he campaigns to retake the Oval Office.

The new reports, called "retrospective memos," show that Trump's executive branch was rife with cronyism and corporate influence from 2017 until 2021. RDP, a watchdog group focused on the executive branch, released the reports as a way to fight "Trumpnesia" and focus the political discussion on the governance records of Trump and President Joe Biden, a Democrat seeking reelection.

"Donald Trump's most important legacy as president wasn't what he said, or even what bills he signed, but how he turned the federal government into a favor machine to benefit his family and cronies," Jeff Hauser, RDP's executive director, said in a statement. "The media should not focus on the aesthetics of this week's presidential debate but rather cover the Biden vs. Trump election as a comparison between how each president administered the immensely important executive branch."

"It's important to revisit how poorly he ran the executive branch his first time round."

RDP issued eight memos, covering disaster management, the environment, financial regulation, housing, immigration, labor, education, and transportation.

Each provides evidence of a Trump administration that was "utterly indifferent to the public interest," as Timi Iwayemi, RDP's research director, said in the statement.

In many cases, Trump appointees were hostile to the original aims of the agencies. they served.

Mick Mulvaney, Trump's choice to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tried to roll back rules limiting predatory payday lending—a practice that "preys on the working poor," the financial regulation memo says.

Mulvaney—who's now suggesting a "revenge-a-thon" against Trump's foes—also appointed political cronies and failed to undertake the enforcement actions against companies that were the CFPB's raison d'être. A 2019 feature in The New York Times Magazine was titled, "Mick Mulvaney's Master Class in Destroying a Bureaucracy From Within."

Trump's National Labor Relations Board was led by Peter Robb, a management-side lawyer who was the Reagan administration's lead attorney on litigation dealing with the air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, in which the federal government fired about 11,000 workers and banned them from being rehired. Like Trump's Department of Labor, which was ultimately run by the son of former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the NLRB under Robb was pro-management—and reportedly dysfunctional.

Other federal agencies were hardly more committed to serving the public interest in the late 2010s.

"Trump's Interior Department advanced the interests of extractivist industry on public lands while refusing to account for how its actions would worsen climate change," according to RDP's environment memo. "The Trump administration auctioned off over 10 million acres of land and water to oil and gas drilling, including by drastically reducing the size of national monuments like Bears Ears in Utah, a sacred homeland to five tribal nations, in order to open them up to development."

The Department of Housing and Urban Development, run by former presidential candidate Ben Carson, was plagued by "handouts to friends and family," a series of "deadly budget cut proposals," and a "war on fair housing," according to the RDP's housing memo.

Trump's disaster management choices were particularly consequential. The Federal Emergency Management Agency " horrifically" mismanaged the response to two consecutive hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico in 2017, which got minimal—and very delayed—relief compared to Texas communities that were hit by a hurricane during that period.

RDP's catalog of Trump administration failures is designed to clarify the stakes of the 2024 election.

"The series serves as a reminder to the public that the president's primary responsibility is to direct the vast apparatus known as the executive branch of the federal government," RDP said. "Sadly, former president Donald Trump either neglected this responsibility or wielded it in favor of corporations throughout his four years in office."

Iwayemi said "Even as current conversations wisely focus on Project 2025 and Trump's promise to leverage executive power to harm political enemies, it's important to revisit how poorly he ran the executive branch his first time round as a cure to the public's apparent Trumpnesia."

https://www.rawstory.com/watchdog-m...fferent-to-the-public-interest-in-first-term/