Trump Disgraces America Every Day

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Outrage mounts over report Russia offered bounties to Afghanistan militants for killing US soldiers
Fierce response from top Democrats after US intelligence finding was reportedly briefed to Trump in March, but the White House has yet to act

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...report-outrage

“The intelligence finding was briefed to Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March.” White House officials apparently drew up several possible options to retaliate against the Kremlin, ranging from a diplomatic reprimand right through to fresh sanctions. However, the White House has so far not taken any action.

Donny's not about to sanction his pal Pootin, who is helping him corrupt the upcoming election...

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Donny boasts veterans law first passed by Obama as one of his greatest achievements

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9587511.html

Yes, he really is this stupid.

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Heather Cox Richardson
June 27, 2020 (Saturday)

The Trump administration did not respond until almost 5:00 this evening to last night’s astonishing news that Russian operatives had offered bounties on US soldiers during the Afghanistan peace talks, and that the administration had been briefed on this development back in March and had chosen not to respond. The story was broken last night by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and confirmed today by the Washington Post.
Trump himself did not engage the story at all, although he had plenty to say today on Twitter. Late in the afternoon, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany finally said in a statement that Trump and Vice President Pence had not been briefed on the “alleged Russian bounty intelligence.” Trump’s acting Director of National Intelligence at the time, Richard Grenell, who had no expertise in intelligence before taking the post, today denied knowing anything about the story.

Is it possible that intelligence officials knew that Russia was paying militants to target US and allied troops and they chose not to tell the president, vice president, or acting Director of National Intelligence? According to Ned Price, a national security expert who worked at the CIA for eleven years and who left rather than work for Trump, the answer is no. “That’s virtually inconceivable,” he wrote on Twitter. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham seemed to agree. “Imperative Congress get to the bottom of recent media reports that Russian GRU units have offered to pay the Taliban to kill American soldiers with the goal of pushing America out of the region,” he tweeted.

That was not the only story the administration denied today. Trump also pushed back on the story that the Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to kill the Affordable Care Act. “Now that the very expensive, unpopular and unfair Individual Mandate provision has been terminated by us,” he tweeted, “many States & the U.S. are asking the Supreme Court that Obamacare itself be terminate so that it can be replaced with a FAR BETTER AND MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE ALTERNATIVE…. Obamacare is a joke! Deductible is far too high and the overall cost is ridiculous. My Administration has gone out of its way to manage OC much better than previous, but it is still no good. I will ALWAYS PROTECT PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS.”

But the administration is in court right now trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act, along with its protection for people with pre-existing conditions. And while Trump ran for president in 2016 on the idea that he would replace the Affordable Care Act with something better, the Republican Party has never offered a replacement bill.

There was a lesser story, too, where what the administration said did not square with what actually happened. Yesterday, Trump tweeted “I was going to go to Bedminster, New Jersey, this weekend, but wanted to stay in Washington, D.C to make sure LAW & ORDER is enforced. The arsonists, anarchists, looters and agitators have been largely stopped….”
Today, Trump spent the day at his golf course in Sterling, Virginia.

And then there was a huge story where reality crashed into ideology. Today, the U.S. set another record for coronavirus cases, with 44,782 new infections. This is the fifth daily record in a row. Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Nevada all set new daily highs. Trump has consistently downplayed the severity of the pandemic, urging governors to reopen their states and restart their economies. Governors in Florida and Texas, who had been aggressive about reopening their states, have backtracked to slow the spread of the virus. “If I could go back and redo anything,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) said, “it probably would have been to slow down the opening of bars….”

Meanwhile, New York, which had been the epicenter of the virus, has dropped its new infections from almost 10,000 a day to just 673 cases statewide, and is about to enter a new phase of its reopening plan.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told CNN’s Chris Cillizza that Democrats like him had a fact-based theory about how to beat coronavirus infections: keep the state closed until metrics showed the virus was receding. Republicans, in contrast, thought: “We can reopen quickly and we can handle the virus because it will go away, or we will have a vaccine.”
Cuomo pointed out that the coronavirus highlighted the difference between reality and a narrative based in ideology. "A virus has a rate of increase and a number of deaths either goes up or goes down," he said. “The number of people going to hospitals goes up or goes down. It's not subject to debate because the hospital bed is either empty or it's full, we either bury people or we don't."

"We tested both theories," Cuomo told Cillizza. "We have the evidence. It's numbers. It's irrefutable. Why don't we pause and recognize the undeniable reality of the situation?" "There are no Democratic facts and Republican facts," he said. "There are just facts."

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The "tRump Train" has turned into "The Gaslight Express" which is fueled by trump truths*.

" Kayleigh McEnany finally said in a statement that Trump and Vice President Pence had not been briefed " Knowing what a paragon of truth she has been, and in a normal times, this could be serious.

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Former national security officials are questioning the White House's claim Trump never knew about a Russian bounty on US troops

https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-n...-denial-2020-6

Sorry, Donny, but you aren't going to be able to deflect this time. This story is huge.

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The Decline of the American World
Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new.

https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...-trump/613228/

Thanks, Donny! MAGA!

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The Lincoln Project is already on the Orange Boil's lack of response to Pootin's bounties for killing American troops. This one isn't going to go away before November.

https://youtu.be/kiDkTOKI7Ro

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Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney

If reporting about Russian bounties on US forces is true, the White House must explain:
1. Why weren’t the president or vice president briefed? Was the info in the PDB?
2. Who did know and when?
3. What has been done in response to protect our forces & hold Putin accountable?
4:20 AM · Jun 28, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

Bradley P. Moss @BradMossEsq
Replying to @Liz_Cheney

Good job on that impeachment vote. We warned you.

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tRump's response tweet is basically saying Huh, what? Nobody told me or Mikey.

Josh Lederman on Twitter:
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which last night said Trump and Pence never got a briefing on Russia bounty intel, is declining this morning to say whether the intel was included in a written President's Daily Brief.

So who's going to be thrown under the wheels or fall on his sword to say they were supposed to but didn't tell tRump?

Meanwhile fatboy is taking heat for re-tweeting a video showing his supporters shouting White power. His closest enablers are saying "he didn't see it". Yeah, he re-tweeted it but didn't see it. Well Donny you got your wish. The attention's been deflected form Covid-19.

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James Carville: There Is No Chance Trump Will Be Re-Elected

https://youtu.be/MHfBEopmyis