The NyTimes has just released a stunning report. Apparently former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein secretly blocked Robert Mueller from completing the counter-intelligence investigation of Trump and Russia.
The report from Michael Schmidt of the Times begins by stating, “The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the investigation into Russian election interference and any links to the Trump campaign, according to former law enforcement officials,” before adding, “But law enforcement officials never fully investigated Mr. Trump’s own relationship with Russia, even though some career F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators thought his ties posed such a national security threat that they took the extraordinary step of opening an inquiry into them.”
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The report points out that acting FBI director Andrew McCabe had given the go-ahead to open the investigation over concerns over foreign interference, but Rosenstein felt he had a conflict of interest and that the probe could not be justified.
“Mr. Rosenstein determined that the investigators were acting too hastily in response to the firing days earlier of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, and he suspected that the acting bureau director who approved the opening of the inquiry, Andrew G. McCabe, had conflicts of interest,” Schmidt wrote, adding, “Mr. Rosenstein never told Mr. McCabe about his decision, leaving the F.B.I. with the impression that the special counsel would take on the investigation into the president as part of his broader duties. Mr. McCabe said in an interview that had he known Mr. Mueller would not continue the inquiry, he would have had the F.B.I. perform it.
According to McCabe, “We opened this case in May 2017 because we had information that indicated a national security threat might exist, specifically a counterintelligence threat involving the president and Russia. I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team. If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that.”
This explains a great deal. It explains why Mueller never bothered to verify and refute the Steele dossier. It explains why he claimed that “no one in the Trump campaign” conspired with Russians, even though Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Don Jr. and Michael Cohen all definitely did that. Roger Stone was a particularly vital link between the Trump campaign, Guccifer 2.0 and Wikileaks which certainly would have proven “collusion” but Mueller wasn’t authorized to look into that, and Stone technically wasn’t “part of the campaign.”
He was only looking for criminal acts. And he found plenty.
Also remember that Rosenstein told Trump “I can land the plane” and that he also endorsed the complete white-wash and re-write of the Mueller report as implemented by Bill Barr.
This news comes just a couple days after the Super-Spreader Event also known as the Republican National Convention where 1,500 people sat maskless and shoulder-to-shoulder in order to be gaslit and lied to by Trump and others.
They claimed to protect Medicare, Social security and pre-existing conditions. however Trump has been cutting Medicare and Social security, his proposed payroll tax holiday would bankrupt Social security in three years and he’s current in court to end the Affordable Care Act which would end protections for pre-existing conditions.
They have no replacement plan.
They claimed to have gained over nine million jobs in three months, but in the previous two months of the pandemic twenty two million jobs were lost. We’re at a net loss of 13 million jobs, and even before that during his “great economy” during his first three years — his job growth rate was less that the rate during Obama’s last three years.
They claimed that Trump has presided over the “greatest economy ever” but that is simply a lie.
GDP Growth: I went to Macrotrends.net to gather all of the data on annual growth rates from 1961 to 2019, before the pandemic. In his best year, 2018, Trump’s growth rate was 3.18 percent, good for 29th best since JFK took office. In 2019, the GDP growth rate was 2.33 percent (41st best) and in 2017, it was 2.22 percent (44th best) out of all 59 years. In 1950, our first quarter GDP growth rate was 16.7 percent, according to Trading Economics.
And that’s before 2020. The Bureau of Economic Analysis revealed that our economy shrank by 5 percent during the first quarter, and a historic low -32 percent in the second quarter, as confirmed by Trading Economics.
Unemployment: President Barack Obama inherited the Great Recession, which began at the end of the George W. Bush administration. The unemployment rate was 9.9 percent in 2009. It declined every year down to 4.7 percent in 2016, according to Forbes. It has further declined under Trump to 3.5 percent in 2019 but then shot up to 14.7 percent in April in the midst of the pandemic. As of this writing, it is still in the double-digits.
Annual Median Household Income: As the Joint Economic Committee concluded: “During the last two years of the Obama administration, annual median household income increased $4,800. This is three times more than the $1,400 increase during the first two years of the Trump administration.” And this was published before the declines of 2020.
Stock Market: I expected that the stock market would have done better for Trump than Obama. I was incorrect. According to the JEC: “Between President Trump’s Inauguration Day and November 2019, the Dow Jones Average increased more than 40 percent, while over the eight years of the Obama administration, the DJIA increased almost 150 percent – a substantially greater pace.” The stock market had declined so much before Obama took office, so his numbers look better primarily for this reason.
Trade Deficit: Given his rhetoric on the trade and all of his claims to success. I was surprised to discover that under Trump the trade deficit became worse than it did under the Obama administration. “Despite his aggressive trade moves, the total monthly trade deficit in goods and services — that is, the value of goods and services exported by the US minus the value of imports — has gotten larger in the last couple years,” confirms Business Insider.
They claimed that Biden would implement a $4 Trillion tax hike, but the fact is that federal spending providing stimulus to the average American is the only way to stave off massive business losses and evictions while the virus rages on.
They claimed that Trump, pre-covid, created the “most inclusive economy ever” growing 7 million jobs, but his average growth from 2017-2019 was only 2.5%. Nowhere near the 4-5% growth he promised, or that occurred under President Clinton who first raised taxes and ultimately balanced the budget. Obama’s second term growth was 2.4%, almost exactly the same. Also unemployment dropped far faster under Obama than it did with Trump.
83% of Trump’s tax cuts went to the top 1% of earners, almost nothing has “trickled down” to the Average American. 60% of the cut went to the top 1/10th of 1%, but most Americans will pay more in taxes. Corporations spent more of the tax cut buying back their own stock, in order to boost their stock price and dividends, than sharing the spoils with workers by raising their wages.
And all of that was before Covid, which Trump has bungled putting millions at risk to the disease, poverty, destitution and eviction.
They claimed that the violence that we're seeing in the nation is the “direct result of refusing to allow law enforcement to do their jobs” when that’s just plain hogwash. The violence is being implemented against the bodies and lives of black people BY law enforcement. Right-wing agent provocateurs from the Proud Boys and the Boogaloo Bois are leading most of the looting and riots in a false flag operations.
The Blackbird report, “COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Disinformation Report – Volume 3.0” describes the Boogaloo movement’s efforts using social media to drive influence campaigns to encourage white nationalist rebellions, manipulation of anti-police sentiment and white supremacy. Blackbird says that the movement is closely allied with believers in Qanon, and far right conspiracies.
According to Blackbird, traffic on one of the Boogaloo movement’s prime social network boards, 4Chan, exploded immediately after the death of a black man, George Floyd, in police custody in Minneapolis.
The Blackbird report describes members of the Boogaloo movement as being middle-aged, well-off heavily-armed white men who are engaged in a number of activities such as spreading anti-mask conspiracies. They show up armed at otherwise peaceful protests typically wearing Hawaiian “Aloha” shirts. Several reports say that these groups use peaceful protests to cover their violent activities including arson and looting in an effort to start what they call a second civil war.
These attacks are separate and distinct from the peaceful protests. When Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people and wounded another with his AR-15, which he was too young to legally be in possession of so he’s a gun criminal too, Trump refused to condemn it. Mark Meadows refused to condemn it. Chad Wolf refused to condemn it. Sen Ron Johnson refused to condemn it. They refuse to recognize and respond to right-wing domestic terrorism. They want right-wing violence. That’s their base.
They claimed that they were the ones who reformed the VA and provided “Veteran’s Choice”, but the fact is the Veteran’s Choice act was signed into law in 2014. Trump signed a modification to that law in 2018.
They claimed that their the ones “looking out for middle America” when it’s Mitch McConnel who refuses to pass the House bill or honesty negotiate on a needed stimulus bill to help people who are out of work and in failing businesses.
This entire event was a sham and a scam.
Trump doesn’t care about middle-America. He doesn’t care about anyone, he wanted to have immigrants “maimed", “gassed” and to “pierce their flesh.” He’s a monster.
Here are the events from this past week and this next month.
August 22nd —
August 23rd —
August 24th —
- Kellyanne Conway plans to leave the WH, while George Conways leaves the Lincoln project to focus on their family and wayward teenage instagram posting daughter.
- The GOP has no party platform their convention. Literally.
- Peter Navarro berated FDA officials behind the scenes and demanded they get on “Trump time.”
- Protest breaks out in Wisconsin after police shoot a black man in the back seven times. The victim Jacob Blake survives.
- Meadows says that Conway’s resignation is a “big blow to us. We will certainly miss her.” He also fails to follow safety protocols at the RNC Convention.
- Conservative Ohio Reps launch impeachment bid against Gov. Dewine because he took Covid seriously.
- NY AG Letitia James launches lawsuit against the Trump org for falsifying the value of his properties.
- Jerry Falwell Jr. resigns from Liberty University because his wife had an affair with the pool boy and he knew about it. Then he unresigns, and re-resigns again.
- Trump takes the stage on the first day at his ‘upbeat, optimistic” convention and rants about mail-in ballots, the “postal hoax”, praises his own “success" with Covid, says there will be a vaccine “soon,” accuses Democrats of trying to steal the election using Covid and tugging on Santa Clause's beard.
- The House holds a hearing with Louis Dejoy and struggles to get straight answers from him. Katie Porter grills him on the cost of a post card, He gets caught in a lie about being in contact with the WH over vote-by-mail. He agrees to put postal sorting machines back for $1 billion. [Will that be cash or a check?] He is accused of withholding documents from Congress because he had a report on the slowdown of mail service and didn't give it to the Senate when they asked.
- FDA announcing plasma after political pressure pits the validity of the Covid vaccine at risk.
- Feds charge lobbyist Nickie Lum Davis for trying to extradite Bannon’s Chinese Yatch buddy.
- Federal official says Trump’s payroll tax scheme will bankrupt Social Security by 2023.
- MSNBC panel ridicules Trump for giving Fox News a “nonsense" list of so-called accomplishments.
- Border Patrol leadership had a “meet and greet” with Bannon’s wall group before he was arrested.
- Michael Steele joins the Lincoln Project.
- Don Jr. fears his dad will lose and the family will be prosecuted. [Uh, yeah, probably.]
- Eric Trump whines about “prosecutorial misconduct" after the NY AG fraud suit.
- RNC night one is “doom and gloom" with calls against "Dem Horror and Socialism.” They pounce on “cancel culture”, feature tons of racist dog whistles from the super-litigious gun-totting St. Louis couple who are under felony gun charges and brag about ventilators and their China ban at the start of the pandemic. [Ignoring their lack of quick response testing and isolation to actually stop the spread of the virus.] Nikki Haley slams the Iran Nuclear deal. Kimberly Guilfoyle performs a screaming screed of fascist invective at Democrats. Don Jr. performs the keynotes address and sounds like he's “coked up.”
August 25th --
August 26th —
August 27th —
August 28th —
August 29th —
- Tenents say they were tricked into RNC video appearance: “I’m not a Trump supporter”
- Mary Trump condemns the RNC: Trump will “use anyone for his purposes.”
- Trump claims he wants to see “first woman President also”, if it’s his daughter. [It won’t be]
- Kanye West Wisconsin ballot lawsuit linked to law firm of former RNC counsel.
- Biden will resume in-person campaigning in next few days.
- 1 person, wearing “Patriot Prayer” gear and apparently a Trump supporter, is killed in Portland during a clash between Trump supporters and Black Live Matter protesters.
- Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf denies knowing about the naturalization ceremony during the RNC before it aired. He also refused to condemn violent Trump supporters during a tense CBS interview.
- DNI Ratcliff justifies suspending in-person election security briefings to Congress because of supposed “leaks” claiming that Russia is a greater election threat than China after he honored a request to brief the entire congress. Instead they will be providing a written briefing. [Which could still be leaked.]
- Adam Schiff says that Congress may subpoena the DNI’s office to get an in-person briefing where they can ask detailed questions when the written briefing is wrong.
- Sen Ron Johnson calls Dems “Putin’s puppets" because they called out his election meddling, which Johnson claims was “over-hyped” and caused “division”, meanwhile Johnson continues to pursue Kremlin backed claims of corruption in Ukraine involving the Bidens. He also refuses to condemn the 17 year-old Kenosha shooter who killed two people and wounded another.
- Mark Meadows says “Trump doesn't own violence. Trump’s America is peaceful.” [Trump supporters have been firing guns and paint balls at BLM protesters. Also most of the violence and looting is coming from right-wing Boogaloo Bois and White Supremacists.]
- Chris Wallace scolds Laura Trump for the RNC “Super spreader event” where chairs were right next to another.
- Fox News Host Jedidiah Bila bickers with co-host Will Cain and Pete Hegeseth over the NFL’s Jacob Blake protests: “Don’t tell the country that your country is racist and your police are hunting members of the African-American community down in the streets, you are going to turn off a massive portion of your audience.” [Well, it *is* racist and African-Americans are being hunted down in the streets so why not face it and try to fix it?]
- The 2020 RNC most egregious lies — debunked. For example Trump didn't create the “greatest economy in history.”
- Trump wanted tanks and choppers for inauguration, reportedly to make it look like North Korea. [Dictator envy.] Then he loses it with the Mayor of Portland who blames him for the spreading violence.
- NYTimes reports that Rod Rosentein secretly blocked the counter-intelligence portion of the Mueller investigation, limiting it merely to a criminal investigation. Former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe states that if he had known, he would have had the FBI do it.
- Leaked memo reveals serious concerns about Jared Kushner’s security clearance blocking him from the daily brief.
August 30th—
August 31st —
- Biden also blasts Trump for having “forfeited any moral leadership” in a blistering speech about crime, violent, protests and justice.
- Full appeals court rejects Flynn’s dismissal and hands the case back to Judge Sullivan.
- WH rips Biden for not visiting Kenosha: “Trump shows up.” [Although the Mayor and Governor have told Trump not to come.]
- WH Covid advisor Scott Atlas claims that we should pursue a “herd immunity” strategy. [This would kill about 2 million Americans.]
- Herman Cain’s twitter claims Covid isn't as deadly as the media claims. [Uh, what?]
- Trump and supporters twist a CDC stat that 9% of Covid victims had died without any other complicating factors, to minimize the death count claiming only 9% had died of Covid. [We have 200,000 more people dying this year, did theyjust die of respiratory failure, hyper-tension and obesity all of a sudden?] He also claims that he talked to the “family pastor” of the Blake family, but they don't have one. [It was his mother’s pastor.] He refuses to speak to the family on the phone because they had their attorney Ben Crump on the line. [Crump had been on the line when Obama called the Martin Family, when he called the Brown family and when VP Biden and Sen. Harris had called the Blakes.] He criticizes Biden’s speech saying that he didn’t mention “antifa”: “If you can’t say the name of the problem, you can’t fix the problem.” [Antifa fights Nazis and Fascists, they have no real reason to fight with cops, to riot or to loot. They likely have nothing to do with any this, but the GOPers keep chasing that Dragon.]
- House oversight committee will subpoena the Postmaster General for docs on the mail slowdown that he hasn’t supplied Congress.
- Appeals court continues to stymie the House’s subpoena of Don McGhan claiming there is no law that supports congressional subpoenas, but they could make one. [Are these the same two wingnut DC appeals judges who agreed with Flynn’s dismissal?]
- Feds cite ‘voluminous” info seized in their fraud case against Steve Bannon.
- Melania’s former friend Stephanie Winston Wolcoff is working with 3 prosecutors who are investigating funky spending on Trump’s inauguration.
September 1st —
- Trump claims that police who murder or attempt to murder citizens have simply “choked” just like a golfer missing a 3-foot putt. [Then they would have missed with their shots, wouldn’t they?] He defends alleged double murderer Kyle Rittenhouse claiming he was acting in self-defense. [Rittenhouse shot a guy who had his hands up!] He claims that his supporters firing paintballs at BLM protesters were “non violent.” [Yeah, that’s just felony assault dude.] He recycles a vague Franklin Graham claim about black shirted [antifa?] guys being packed into a plane and flown somewhere, maybe out of DC, maybe to the RNC. He visits a law enforcement forum in Kenosha but not the Blake family because they “don’t want a photo-op.” While there he displays that he doesn’t know whether police should wear body cams, and he again denies that there is systemic racism in the legal system, only a few “bad apples.” [But somehow all he “good apples” never seem to arrest their ass!] He doesn’t even say the name “Jacob Blake”. [If you can’t name the problem, you can’t fight the problem.] Then not stroke victim Trump, rails against stroke claims and demands that CNN fire Joe Lockhart for repeating the claim. Also, reportedly, Trump told (married) Sarah Huckabee-Sanders to “take one for the team” after Kim Jung-un winked at her.
- Matt Drudge revives the “dragging leg” claims after Trump denies he had “mini-strokes.”
- Jacob Blake’s family host a block party and voter registration drive in response to Trump’s visit.
- Acting DHS Sec Wolf tells Tucker Carlson that he and AG Bill Barr have been pursuing RICO charges against Antifa and BLM leadership who have been “paying for flying protesters around the country.” [Uh, what? Really? These guys probably can’t even FIND Antifa and BLM leadership.]
- Pence was placed on “standby” to receive Presidential power while Trump was hospitalized at Walter Reid.
- Fox Host Pete Hegeseth criticizes Biden for “not having anyone around” during his speech. [He’s abiding by Covid protocols.]
- Some right-wingers are claiming that the Second American Civil War has already begun.
- Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance hints that his probe into Trump goes far beyond the hush money payments.
- Milwaukee Bucks dunk on Jared Kushner for his ignorant comments about the NBA boycott.
- Trump and the House’s lawyers wrangle over the subpoena for his financial records.
- Dr. Fauci squashes Trump’s distortion of CDC Covid death statistics.
- Judge Sullivan revives his analysis of Flynn’s dismissal and sentencing.
- Second Circuit Appeals court delays the criminal subpoena for Trump’s financial records from NY DA Cyrus Vance. Oral arguments are scheduled for Sept. 25th.
- Doctor insists that Trump never suffered any “mini-strokes” after Trump himself brings it up.
- Bogus Russia News story shows how election disinformation can “hack your mind.”
- PA Supreme Court will be ruling on ballot drop-boxes and other vote-by-mail disputes.
- Federal prosecutors are close to filling charges against GOP fundraiser Elliot Broidy for his involvement in a foreign influence campaign to extradite a Chinese Billionaire to Malaysia.
- America doesn’t have a national strategy for asymptomatic Covid testing, it needs one.
- USPS review finds delays in on-time delivery since 2018.
- Mnuchin touts “strongly recovering” economy and offers no concessions on the stalled Covid relief bill.
- Pence claims Trump has “remarkable” health amid mini-stroke claims.
- Former DHS Official Elizabeth Nuemann says that Trump is “ideologically aligned” with many of the biggest threats to America.
September 2nd —
- Ed Markey defeats Joe Kennedy in his primary bid.
- Kenosha store owner was replaced during Trump's damage tour because he didn’t want to be featured in a photo op. They used the former owner of the store, who also owns the building.
- Trump gives a conflicting excuse for his mysterious unexplained visit to Walter Reed Hospital as he continues to rail over mini-stroke claims. Then he slams Nancy Pelosi for visiting a hair salon in San Francisco where she was told she was within Covid rules, but she wasn't. He has a meltdown over a Lincoln Project ad that mocks the RNC ratings. “We had more people” [No, you didn’t — the DNC had 2 million more viewers.] Trump directs Federal agencies to “defund” cities that have had major police protests. [Whose “defunding” the police now?] He suggests that people send in an absentee ballot then go to the polls and try to vote again, which is a felony and won’t work.
- CNN fact checker Daniel Dale calls “BS” on Trump’s later complaints about mail-in voting.
- Melania’s former friend Stephanie Winston Wolcott claims FLOTUS has several private email servers. She also has secret recordings of the Trump family.
- Jim Sciutto corners Hogan Gidley about spreading Trump’s conspiracy theories.
- Biden makes a statement about how to handle the Covid crisis, and takes questions from reporters from Wilmington Delaware.
- Iowa Senator Joni Ernst pushes a Qanon conspiracy theory about there being only about “10,000 Covid deaths”.
- New Engineering reports states that Steve Bannon's privately built border wall will fail.
- Trump supporter hit with $250,000 lawsuit for firing paintballs at BLM protesters.
- DHS reportedly kept a Russian plot to smear Biden’s mental health under wraps.
- Biden plans to visit Kenosha tomorrow for a community meeting. He also has the best month in history for Presidential fundraising.
- Whistle-blower report says there are “serious errors” in the rushed Census for 2020.
- Trump camp refuses to condemn Rittenhouse saying “People have to defend themselves some way.” [Double Murder, that’s now he did it.]
- CNN’s Brianna Kieler brutally fact checks former WH Doctor Ronny Jackson on his claim that Trump’s Walter Reed visit was “no big deal.”
- Trump’s IRS commissioner Charles Rettig earns over $100,000 per year from renting out Trump properties in Hawaii.
- Postmaster General Louis Dejoy is “surprised and confused” after House Oversight subpoenas him for ignoring deadlines. Also court documents indicate that he stole his brother's portion of their family company.
- Current and former Trump supporters clash on CNN: “Voting for him helped kill over 100,000 Americans.”
- Experts are afraid as CDC tells them to be ready to receive a vaccine by November 1st.
- BIll Barr gives a stunningly partisan and arrogant interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN.
- He criticizes Biden and Harris for calling for Jacob Blake’s shooter to be prosecuted, then he claims that Jacob Blake “committed a felony” and was armed during his arrest. [He wasn’t. There was knife in his SUV, but he was never holding it.]
- He gets very angry about mail-in voting “People are playing with Fire” saying it undermines confidence in the election, then says that he’s only known of a “few” cases of voter fraud but can’t provide a specific number, and cites a mail-in voter harvesting case that involved “1,700” ballots in Texas. [Predictably, that’s bullshit.]
- He argues that there isn’t “systemic bias” in law enforcement, but then he admits that black people are often mistreated due to “stereotypes” — then he says “that’s not racism” and misquotes Jesse Jackson from 1993 saying he felt relieved when he sees white people walking behind him. [Yes, treating people differently due to stereotypes is racism.]
- He claims “Epidemic of police shooting black men is a false narrative” and that unarmed African-Americans are only “rarely shot by a white cop. It’s only 7 or 8 cases last year” [The WaPo records that police shot 1022 people in 2019, black people are more than twice as likely to be the victims of these killings. Young black men are killed at a rate that is nine times greater than their white peers. The Guardian reported in 2016 that 42 unarmed black men were killed by police out of 1093 cases. 79 unarmed black men were killed out of 1146 cases in 2015. The Bureau of Justice Statistics said in 2015 that there’s almost 90% more cases than that which go unreported including people who are killed in our jails. 64% of Arrest Related Deaths were homicides, 18% were suicides. 10% were accidents.]
- He says that between Russia, China and Iran the country that is the most active and dangerous to our upcoming election is China. [Written Intel documents say it's Russia.]
- He claims that he doesn’t know which plane Trump is talking about with people wearing “black t-shirts” but the DOJ has tracked members of antifa traveling from state to state by plane several times. He also claims that members who self-identify as antifa have been arrested at protests, he doesn’t say how many, but he never mentions members of the white supremacist Boogaloo Bois who’ve also been arrested for murder, terrorism, starting fires, trashing buildings and looting at various protests.”
- He says that despite the fact that Trump accuses them of “Treason” for “spying on his campaign” Obama and Biden are not currently under criminal investigation.
- He says when asked whether he would make an announcement that could impact the election with 60 days, he says “that's not the guidance” [The Hell it’s not!] and that you can’t do something “for political reasons.” [Which means John Durham could announce a political prosecution within 60 days of the election if he had some other excuse for it.]
- Wisconsinites are angry because Trump’s Foxconn deal is merely a shadow of what he promised.
- USPS watchdog found 1 million mail-in primary ballots that arrived too late to be counted.
- Bill Barr is blasted for his “open white supremacy” and “exact definition of racism” in his remarks about police violence protests.
- Trump’s fantasyland hopes of receiving a polling bump from the RNC have been dashed.
- Fox News has to report that Trump is losing in the polls, so they do it as fast as possible.
- Propublica argues that there’s never been a case in Texas or anywhere where someone attempted to fraudulently submit “1,700” mail-in ballots as Bill Barr described.
- Stephanie Winston Wolcoff is interviewed by Chris Cuomo about her new book about Melania and she states that she is not secretly resistant to Trump's bigoted and cruel ideas, she is down with the program and just as much of a monster as he is.
- Rubio: Senate Intelligence committee is still receiving in-person briefings on election security despite DNI Ratcliff’s order.
- Jacob Blake’s uncle does a take down of Bill Barr mis-stating of the facts of the case.
September 3rd —
September 4th—
- Trump scrambles to deny that he trashed John McCain and fallen soldiers. [Yeah, but we all heard him say McCain “wasn’t a hero”, was a "loser” and we saw he didn’t lower flags to half-mast for days after McCain’s death.] He doubles down on call for his supporters to vote twice. Then he inflicts a new wound on the military by ordering magazine Star and Stripes to be shuttered in 4 weeks. Trump bad mouths and blames John Kelly for the troops leak.
- Federal task force kills suspect from the “Patriot Prayer” shooting from last week while attempting arrest in Lacey Washington. The shooter had been interviewed and claimed he was acting in self-defense and the defense of others during the original Portland shooting.
- Unemployment falls to 8.4% with 1.4 million jobs added last month.
- DOJ admits that Bill Barr’s example of mail-in voter fraud with “1,700” ballots was bogus. [Told you it was bullshit.]
- Dr. Fauci tries to calm vaccine fears: “The FDA is very committed to science over politics.”
- Two heavily armed Trump supporters were arrested when authorities were tipped they wanted to “pick people off” the Feds in Kenosha.
- A former admin official says Trump believes troops who go missing in action aren’t worth finding.
- Ret. Gen. Mark Hertling tells Jim Sciutto that many service members hate Donald Trump; “Vile and disgusting.”
- Morning Joe says that Trump is shaken that his smears of the military are coming back to bite him.
- Veterans groups condemn Trump as a “national disgrace" for his comments about fallen soldiers.
- Trump’s EPA gives power plants a pass on deadly coal ash.
- A visibly angry Biden calls Trump’s comments on veterans “deplorable, damnable, disgusting. a disgrace” He takes it personally since his son Beau served in Iraq and Kosovo. He says Trump “doesn't care” about Americans hardships during the Covid crisis. He also slams Trump’s weird obsession with conspiracy theories.
- Jerry Falwell Jr. threatens reporter over Liberty U investigation into his finances.
- AR-15 toting Qanon candidate Marjorie Taylor Green threatens “offense” against the Squad.
- Medal of Honor recipient Col. Jack Jacobs tells MSNBC host Chris Jansing that he’s heard confirmation of how Trump speaks about our troops: “I’ve spoken to a lot of people who work directly for the president who reiterate exactly what Jeffrey Goldberg said in that article, who said the president has no respect for people in uniform, no respect for people who have served and, most significantly, does not understand the notion of being part of something that’s larger than yourself.”
- Over 175 law enforcement officials endorse Biden over Trump.
- Florida bars officials from releasing Covid infection rates in schools.
- Trade deficit soars to a 12-year high despite Trump’s promises to wipe it out.
- Illegal DHS officer Ken Cucciinelli struggles to defend Trump’s “antifa plane” claims.
- Fox News confirms reports that Trump denigrated the troops. He said about Vietnam “It was a stupid war, anyone who went was a sucker.” And he also had a standoff with WH staff over lowering flags to half-mast over John McCain, he didn’t like it.
- Miles Taylor confirms on CNN that he was there when Trump asked for the flags that were lowered for John McCain to be pulled back up, and they refused to do it unless he made it an “order.”
- In his first Interview since being fired by the FBI Peter Strzok frets about Trump-Russia unknowns.
September 5th —
September 6th—
September 7th—
September 8th—
September 9th —
- DOJ moves to become Trump’s personal lawyers in his rape lawsuit with E. Jean Carroll. Bill Barr says Trump was “acting as President” when he defamed Carroll.
- Sen. John Cornyn says allegations of campaign finance violations against Post Master Dejoy are “potentially a criminal offense.”
- Cohen says Trump was personally involved and approved the National Enquirer pushing the wacky JFK-Rafeal Cruz conspiracy theory.
- Trump orders his supporters to work as “poll watchers.” [An army of voter intimidation.] He basically plans to “wing it” during the debates. He is expected to order troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan. He revels in his nomination for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize which was submitted by an anti-immigrant Norwegian lawmaker, again. Then he admits that he artificially downplayed the threat of Covid to play “cheerleader” for the US. [We don't need a fucking cheer, we need a leader.] He goes on an extended rant threatening Comey, McCabe, Strzok and Page [who were all cleared by the IG of having any political bias] with prosecution by John Durham again claiming they “spied on his campaign” and committed “treason.” [Yeah, they didn’t.]
- Don Jr. shrugs off Rittenhouse’s alleged double murder: “We all do stupid things at 17.” [Yeah, that’s not how your dad reacted to the Central Park Five.]
- New Lincoln Project ad calls Trump a “draft dodger.”
- Peter Strzok: FBI is sitting on information that could destroy Trump.
- Republican election lawyer Ben Ginsberg says “there’s no proof” to Trump's mail-in voter theories.
- Scaramucci predicts more Trump officials will resign and denounce him in October.
- DHS confirms that violent White Supremacists remain the largest terrorist threat to the US.
- Bob Woodward’s new book RAGE features 18 interviews with Trump himself who admitted on February 7th on tape that he knew how deadly and dangerous Covid-19 was, he knew it affected both young and old, and he admits to down playing it “to prevent a panic.” The book also documents that former DNI Dan Coats thought “Putin has something on Trump” and that former Defense Sec. Mattis felt Trump was “unfit” for command. Trump also stated “My Generals are a bunch of fucking pussies” because they cared about maintaining foreign relationships more than trade.
- The Trump campaign is losing the fundraising war, and many of their donors are already “maxed out.” His fundraising fell well short of Biden's last month.
- McEnany denies that Trump downplayed the Covid crisis despite him admitting on tape that he did.
- DOJ lawyers claim it would take “several weeks” to compile information on the decision to truncate the census.
- Biden slams Trump for down playing Covid; “Beyond despicable.”
- DHS official Brian Murphy says in a whistle-blower document that he was pressured by Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli to change threat assessments involving White supremacists, antifa and Russia to “match Trump’s rhetoric.” He was told to make White Supremacy look “less severe” and to highten the threat from “left wing groups.” He was told to stop providing information on Russia and to include data on China and Iran.
- Woodward explains that he didn't reveal Trump’s covid secret earlier because he needed time to check out the accuracy of his claims. He didn’t feel comfortable about the facts until May.
September 10th—
- Trump defends raising less money than Biden; “I don't like big donors anyway.” He apparently blabbed with Woodward for months because he thought he’d get some good PR and to get validation among the Washington elite. [Fucking egomaniac, didn’ t he read “Fear?” He’s like Charlie Brown with Lucy and the football.] He gets grilled by reporters for lying about Covid. Trump claims Woodward didn't reveal his Covid comments earlier because they were “good and proper.” [WTF?? He’s a book author, he revealed it in his book f’r chris-sakes.] He attacks Woodward, a journalist, for not being Presidential enough to warn authorities about Covid. [The authorities knew because YOU’RE the Authorities, the public didn't know.] Trump brags about protecting Saudi Crown Prince MbS from going down over the killing of Khashoggi; “Saved his ass.” [He really (hearts) bloody murderers doesn't he?] He threatens to put down any protests or riots if he wins on election night: “Threatening America with his Gestapo.”
- Pompeo: Substantial chance that senior Russia officials directed the poisoning of Navalny. [Ya think Putin?]
- 884,000 new jobless claims filed last week.
- Key Biden campaign strategy firm is targeted by Kremlin-backed hackers.
- Meadows: I would not have recommended giving Woodward so much access. [Trump was calling him late at night to brag about shit.]
- Hannity and Rove attempt some damage control on Woodward's claims. Rove pulled out his whiteboard to do some amazing rhetorically acrobatics to make Trump’s admissions about Covid somehow Joe Biden's fault. He quotes from Biden’s speech slamming Trump’s lame Covid response then states: “That is to say, the President wanted people to die, he wanted them to get sick, and he did it on purpose,” Rove said, adding: “I mean, that is really over the top.” [It’s also exactly correct. He knew it was deadly, and didn’t give a shit.]
- Judge rejects Trump admins claim that they can't provide a reason for truncating the Census until next week. [That’s because they don’t have another reason besides; Racism.]
- US Treasury sanctions Ukranian MP Andrii Derkach, who has been trying to spread Biden disinformation through Rudy Giuliani for months, for also being an active Russian intelligence asset for over a decade.
- As Trump pressured Ukraine, former Energy Sec Rick Perry cut deals that could make his friends billions.
- Senate GOP attempts a skinny COVID relief bill that goes down in flames.
- Pelosi: Trump’s deception about the deadliness of COVID shows contempt for his supporters.
- Stanford Medical Faculty rips Trump’s new favorite fake Covid Doc Scott Atlas for Peddling “Falsehoods.”
- Armed right-wing group Oath Keepers are banned from Twitter for violating their extremist policies.
- Biden jabs Trump for not having a sense of “what constitutes National Security” in response to Woodward’s book.
- Microsoft says that Russian hackers have targeted over 200 organizations, including registration systems, tied to the election. Chinese hackers have targeted academics in international affairs and colleges. Iran has targeted account held by White House staff.
- Giuliani admits he may have been suckered by a Russian agent.
- 191,000 Americans are dead from Covid-19.
September 11th —
- Wisconsin court sets up a delay for absentee ballots one week before the mailing deadline.
- Trump ejected a Times reporter from his Michigan rally for no apparent reason. He apparently doesn’t know the words to the pledge of allegiance during a 9-11 ceremony. His campaign has abandoned the airwaves in key states, alarming the RNC chair. He brags that he stopped the second wave of Covid. [He hasn’t stopped the first fucking wave.]
- NIH Director: “I’m rather disheartened by the lack of masks at Trump’s rally.”
- CNN surveys maskless Trump supporters at his rally: “There’s no COVID, this is a fake pandemic. it’s a scheme to take down the US.” When the reporter says Trump said “it's deadly” he answers “That’s his opinion, but the CDC says there’s only been 10,000 Covid deaths.” [They did not say that, that’s Qanon bullshit.]
- Fox Host Kilmeade defends Trump deliberately downplaying the deadliness of Covid. [While generating fake bogus threats from antifa, Black Lives Matter, the “radical left” and low-income housing in the suburbs.]
- False rumors about Antifa starting the West Coast fires follows months of right-wing conspiracies.
- Former Judge John Gleeson flames the Trump admins handling of the Flynn case: “Corrupt and politically motivated favor unworthy of our justice system.”
- Loopy MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell threatens to sue CNN over his trainwreck interview where he was taken apart piece by piece by Anderson Cooper.
- Right-wing White Supremacists are America’s biggest terrorism threat.
- Trump admin has withheld millions from the FDNY 9-11 health fund.
- Mayor of Portland bans use of tear gas against protesters.
- Former Defense Sec. Mattis told Woodward he was worried about Nuclear War with North Korea: , “You’re going to incinerate a couple million people. No person has the right to kill a million people, as far as I’m concerned. Yet that’s what I have to confront.”
- 9/11 first responder John Feal slams Trump admin for their handling of the 9/11 Health Fund. “Wrong on every level.”
- US Attorney John Durham’s top assistant Nora Dannahey resigns from the DOJ in protest over pressure being applied to produce a report damaging to the FBI and CIA, or issue a bogus indictment, before the election.
- Teacher deaths and college-town outbreaks deepen concerns over the risk of opening schools during Covid-19. 40,000 students have tested positive. Teachers have died in fives states.
- Political appointees like Michael Caputo are pressuring the CDC to modify their scientific morbidity reports to match Trump’s rhetoric.
- Former Minneapolis Police Officer and murder suspect Derek Chauvin had used choke-holds before George Floyd, one victim had been left unconscious.
- Rudy Giuliani gives a crackpot interview to Chris Cuomo.
- 15 people are killed and 500,000 evacuated as wildfires rage in western US.
- Experts are rocked that “racist Trump stooge” Caputo tried to censor CDC reports; “Downright criminal.”
- Former prosecutor Glenn Kirshner says that DOJ Officials are “demoralized” by Bill Barr pushing for reports that can help Trump in the election.
September 12th —
September 13th —
September 14th —
- Trump camp deploys their “Fog of war” defense for Trump’s covid response. [Fog of bullshit.]
- Nevada Gov slams Trump over his indoor rally in Las Vegas; “Shameful, Dangerous and Irresponsible”
- Michigan Lt. Governor slams Trump as a “liar, who has killed people. Straight up.”
- US Ambassador to China is stepping down to campaign for Trump.
- House Covid-19 subcommitee is examining how Michael Caputo manipulated the CDC report to match Trump’s lying fever swamp BS.
- USPS sends out confusing post cards about Mail-In voting which frustrate state election officials.
- In one of his last calls with Woodward Trump touted the stock market over the Covid-19 damage.
- Jack Burkman was not raided by the FBI.
- Caputo writes a rambling FB post which accuses the CDC of having a “Resistance cell” [it’s actually about antibiotic resistance] as part of their “seditious deep state” agenda, and basically threatens violent civil war if Trump wins and Biden objects. He also used to work for the Kremlin as an associate of Boris Yeltzin, with Gazprom and to help burnish Putin’s reputation.
- Black Church leaders are furious at the Trump campaign for using their image with Joe Biden as a suggestion that he hangs out with “rioters.”
- A whistleblower complaint compares ICE detention facilities to an “experimental concentration camp” where forced hysterectomies were given to migrant women.
- Woman calls police on Black census worker for “standing in front of her neighbors house.”
- NBC reports that the DOJ Inspector General is reviewing the Roger Stone sentencing memo.
- Former Deputy DNI Sue Gordon says Trump is doing exactly what Putin wants.
- Legal experts say Trump could wind up in Rikers by the end of 2023.
- US hits 197,000 deaths due to Covid, but it’s not just the deaths, it’s the long-term health affects.
- Fox Host confronts Trump surrogate for failed attacks on Biden’s mental health.
- Trump spends the entire morning rage tweeting about Mueller, then boosts xenophobic post that claims that Omar was “radicalized in Minneapolis.” He rants about “explosive trees” while Biden says a Trump win means “more of America ablaze.” He also claims that climate change will “just get cooler.” Trump hires a climate science denier to head NOAA. He claims that the Nevada Governor “forced” him to have his rally indoors. [The rally was illegal under their Covid rules.] He calls Fox and Friends and calls the media the “enemy of the people.”
- Sen. Patty Murray demands that Caputo resign after he accuses the CDC of “Sedition.”
- Trump associates are alarmed as Biden buzzes through swing states with his fundraising haul
- Wrongful convictions: US police have withheld evidence in thousands of cases.
- Dejoy donated $600,000 to Trump after the top USPS job opened. His USPS slowdown is devastating small businesses.
- Pompeo’s wife asked State Dept. aides to do her personal chores.
- Feds are “very concerned” about serious side effects of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine trial.
- LA police set $100,000 reward for the shooter of two Sheriff’s.
- Russian state hackers are accused of trying to infiltrate Biden campaign firm.
- Michael Cohen’s daughter Samantha talks about how Trump creepily ogled her at age 15.
September 15th —
- Trump told Woodward that Covid-19 is a ‘killer, that rips you apart.” He defends his large indoor rallies: “I’m on stage and very far away.” He uses his rally to claim that the Nevada Gov will “cheat” with the ballots. He accuses Biden of taking performance enhancing medication. [What is he Lance Armstrong?]
- Wharton’s analysis: Biden plan will lead to greater economic growth.
- Louisville will pay $Millions in a settlement to Breonna Taylor’s mother. They also implement police reforms.
- Fox Host shutdowns Romney-McDaniels “Biden basement” smear: “He’s out on the campaign trail.”
- Michael Caputo apologizes to his staff for his crazed rant about armed insurrection.
- Jim Jordan gets clobbered for suggesting prison for John Bolton.
- Laurence Tribe explains how Trump can be criminally charged for endangering people’s lives and health.’
- Groundbreaking study shows that “deep listening” is 100 times more effective at changing the opinion of Trump voters.
- Hurricane Sally threatens flooding in southern US.
- DOJ opens criminal case against john Bolton over his tell-all book.
- Trump White House fought Esper plan to make the Pentagon more diverse.
- Bob Woodward fires back at Kushner who claims he has his own audio tapes: “I report accurately.”
- Bill Barr gets slapped down for pushing an “impossible” vote-by-mail conspiracy theory. Bill Barr also meddles in the election by complaining about so-called “Socialism” under Biden.
- Pete Buttigieg slams Trump on The View for putting his own supporters at risk of death.
- Anti-masker Louie Gohmert is spotted with a mask after surviving Covid.
- Pelosi: Trump “only calls other people crazy, because he know he is.”
- Legal experts slam Bill Barr’s retaliatory investigation of John Bolton.
- Tenets sue to stop paying rent at Kushner properties until “dangerous living conditions” are fixed. [Slumlord Billionaire.]
- Scientific American promotes Biden as President with their first endorsement ever.
- RonJohn hit job on Biden will be bad for Biden according to RonJohn.
- Saving the Census reaches a do-or-die moment in Congress.
- Dejoy brought four staffers from his ex-business with him to USPS.
- Trump is featured in a Town Hall on ABC with George Stephanopoulos.
- He claims that the CoronaVirus we “go away without a vaccine” due to a “herd mentality.” [Clearly he means herd immunity, which would kill about 2-6 million Americans first.]
- He claims he didn't play the virus down, he “played it up” with his ban on China [which let 40,000 people through] and that there's nothing different he could have done with over 195,000 dead; “We did a great job.” [He could have had a national testing plan, done national contact tracing and isolation to stop the spread of the virus like every other country on Earth.]
- Stephanopoulos shuts him down when he tries to lie about having a plan for pre-existing conditions while trying to kill the ACA at the Supreme Court.
- A black pastor slams him for not having a plan for African-Americans and asks him exactly when was America “Great” for them previously? Trump says “I hope there’s not a race problem” [Yeah, there is.] and he repeatedly talks about unemployment 6 months ago, which was 6% for African-Americans before Covid, almost twice the national average and only better than it was under Obama by 1%.
- He claimed he is “fighting a lot of forces” so he doesn’t have time to be “Presidential.”
- He blames Democrats for not implementing a national mask mandate, then he claims masks “aren’t good” because of “waiters.”
- He says people should “fear” police and that when someone dumped water on their heads with NYPD “there should be retribution.” [Uh, really no there shouldn’t — it’s just water.]
- He claims “stocks are owned by everybody.” [Only half of Americans own stocks.]
- Michael Cohen tells CNN that Trump's biggest fear over his taxes is that he’ll be caught committing tax fraud. He also says that Bill Barr is now Trump's #1 sycophant taking his former position as “Fixer.”
- Rachel Maddow rips Trump’s disastrous Town Hall performance. “Herd mentality?”
- Fox News panics with Laura Ingraham claiming Trump was the victim of an “ambush” on ABC. [No, it was just a bunch of undecided voters.]
- Pro Trump students and planning on building a secret “troll farm” to get around social moderation.
- Former Bin Laden chasing CIA Analyst Michael Scheuer is now a QAnoner.
- “Screaming Matches” erupted between HHS head Alex Azar and the FDA after he tried to authorize unverified tests for Covid.
September 16th—
September 17th—
- NIH Director: Public mistrust of vaccine driven by “mix of science and politics.” [Actually it’s mix of dumbassery and fuckwittery.]
- Bill Barr mocks complaints about his meddling in Trump-tied cases, compares prosecutors to preschoolers.
- 860,000 New jobless claims filed last week.
- Barack Obama’s memoir gets a release date.
- Another woman [#26] accuses Trump of sexual assault: “He shoved his tongue down my throat.”
- Feds considered removing protesters using a “heat ray” at Layfayette Square.
- Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf defied a subpoena from the House Committee on Homeland Security, claiming that his status as a pending nominee for the permanent secretary post made him ineligible to testify. [No, it doesn’t] Chairman Thompson accuses him of “Dereliction of Duty.”
- Mark Meadows claims that CDC Chief Redfield's 2021 Timeline for vaccines doesn't reflect those “closest to the process.” [Who the fuck is closer to the process than the CDC Director?]
- Trump ramps up his delegitimization crusade: Election “Results May Never be known.” He also get blasted for spending $22,000 at a club that was closed due to Covid-19. He brags about bringing back manufacturing, but we’re still bleeding manufacturing jobs.
- Seattle Mayor accuses Trump and Barr of “Tyranny” over their threat to charge her criminally over protesters.
- DHS probes whistle blower complaint of forced hysterectomies at ICE facility.
- Peter Strzok corrects the record on Mueller finding “collusion”; He did. Strzok also comments on the departure of John Durham's assistant Nora Dannehy after she complained that the prosecution of investigators was purely political.
- Boaters for Trump leader says that if Donald loses he’s “headed to the White House with a militia.”
- FBI Director Wray warns in testimony about the “very active” efforts by Russia to influence our election against Biden. He also says that the “majority” of people protesting police violence are nonviolent and peaceful and that antifa is an “ideology” not an organization.
- Experts say that Dannehy’s resignation shows what’s really wrong with Bill Barr's DOJ.
- Another WH Staffer tests positive for Covid-19 less than 24-hours after Trump's Philadelphia rally.
- OANN scrambles to remove references to Rudy Giuliani smear campaign buddy Andrei Derkach after he’s sanctioned for being a Russian Intelligence Asset. WH knew Derkach was a Kremlin agent for over a year while Giuliani was using him as a source but they didn't care; “That's how toxic things are.”
- Idaho pastor who discouraged wearing masks is now in the ICU with Covid-19.
- Former DNI Dan Coats urges alarm over the election results and calls for a permanent board to monitor and confirm voting.
- Trump followers believe he's given their life meaning: “Mass Delusion.”
- Facebook establishes new rules to control private groups that spread hate and misinformation.
- Scott Walker is acting as Kamala Harris in Mike Pence’s debate prep. [You don't have any smart black women in your entire freaking party who can do this?]
- Scott Atlas launches a defamation suit against Stanford Medical School who stated that he peddles “falsehoods” hiring Mark Kasowitz as his lawyer.
- Federal Judge issues nationwide injunction blocking USPS changes that have delayed delivery of the mail. He confirms that the USPS changes are an attempt to influence the election.
- The Gender wage gap is higher in Trump’s WH than it is nationally with WH women earning 69 cents per $1 earned by men.
- Former Pence aide Olivia Troye who left the admin in August and worked on the Covid Task Force speaks out saying that Trump only cared about his own re-election during meetings, and that she now supports Biden. She says that vaccine politicization was just one her final straws.
- Josh Venable, former Chief of Staff to Betsy Devos, joins an Anti-Trump group.
- Joe Biden gives a Town Hall where he shows empathy and touts his working class roots. He outlines his plans for the Covid-19 response and for Universal Health Care with a public option. He calls on Trump to “step down” over his botched response to the pandemic. He has such a good performance that Republicans claim he must have “cheated,” but who didn’t know he would get questions about Jobs, Health Care, Covid, Racism and Climate Change?
September 18th—
- HHS posts controversial guidance on tests on the CDC website, saying that a asymptomatic person doesn’t need a test even if they’ve been exposed to Covid-19, without proper scientific review.
- Dr Fauci says the NIH is “very adamant” about not succumbing to political pressure.
- Trump admin begins banning downloads of Tiktok and WeChat. They also reverse their bogus CDC guidance on Covid testing once it's discovered that it didn't come from the scientists. Shocking emails reveal plot implemented by Caputo to muzzle the CDC and disinform Americans. They file a motion with the SCOTUS to allow the to remove undocumented citizens from the Census.
- Trump tries to undermine his own FBI Director on his findings about Russia’s threat to the election, claiming that China is a greater danger. He uses a Teleprompter while mocking Biden for using a Teleprompter. He claims to “know more than the experts” on many subjects. [No, you don’t.] He claims he’s the “best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico.” [Now that he’s providing $Billions to them years after Hurricane Maria in an effort to win Florida.] And he claims we’ll have the Covid vaccine available to the public by April.
- MSNBC cuts away from Trump’s press conference when he says that Biden is anti-vaccine; “That’s not true.”
- Trump is blasted for his “McCarthy-like" call for patriotic education and his attack on Howard Zinn and the 1619 project.
- Trump's own health care advisors know nothing about the “mythical” health care plan he claims to have.
- Rick Wilson says Trump would “personally kill Ruth Bader Ginsberg and feed Melania to dogs" to save his election.
- Trump is being sued by the parents of a child who was featured in a deep fake video as a “racist baby.”
- WH is preparing a short list of candidates to replace Chris Wray after his testimony on Russia.
- Poorly protected postal workers are catching Covid-19 by the thousands.
- Covid-19 caused the “largest mass fatality incident” in modern NYC history.
- Assange lawyer claims Trump offered “win win" deal for a pardon if he would deny Russian meddling using Putin’s favorite congressmen Dana Rohrabacher.
- Colorado settles with the USPS over their confusing vote-by-mail advice.
- FEC Chairman sees the election as a “spiritual war" against “flat out anarchy.”
- Trump’s replacement campaign manager Bill Stepien didn't vote for him in 2016. He didn't vote at all.
- Andrew McCabe says Chris Wray is on a “collision course” with Trump because he’s too smart to ignore facts.
- White crowd cheers for the Confederate Flag at re-open Illinois rally.
- Medical expert doubts that Trump will have a Covid vaccine by April: “I don't see how that possible.”
- Psychology professor Jay Van Bavel demonstrates how people in different political groups perceive reality differently with a video of protesters vs police.
- Proud Boys and militia groups join hundreds in an armed protest outside the Michigan Capitol.
- Treasury is investigating the US Mint over discrimination claims.
- House Dems request an emergency investigation into Bill Barr’s Russia-gate probe. [An investigation of the investigation of the investigation.]
- Anti-Trump Republicans claim to have the backing an a “top” official still working for Trump.
- Seven dead, dozens infected after a “super spreader” wedding in rural US.
- New details emerge on Jared Kushner’s refusal to help fight Covid-19; “We're screwed.” He involved himself in the process to meet the demand for PPE but insisted the Federal government wouldn’t help the process. “Free markets will solve this,” Kushner replied. “That is not the role of government.” He called a report about Governor Cuomo struggling to get PPE “CNN Bullshit, They Lie. Cuomo didn’t pound the phones hard enough to get PPE for his state,” Kushner said. “His people are going to suffer and that’s their problem.” [That’s really really the wrong attitude to have.]
- Devin Nunes gets called out for racial scaremongering with a tv ad that shows protest violence and takes Kamala Harris out of context.
- NYTimes reports that a prescription drug deal died because of the insistence that $100 “Trump Cards” be included. Trump gets ripped for “trying to buy votes like a mob boss.”
- Alternet argues that Bill Barr may preparing political friends for a big let down with the Durham report.
- Top Dems demand IG investigation of Bill Barr’s illegal influence on the election in favor of Trump.
- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at age 87.
- Schumer throws McConnell’s words about a SCOTUS vacancy during an election year right back at him.
- McConnell: The Senate will vote on a replacement for Ginsburg. He calls her replacement their “October Surprise.”
- Rally crowd shouts “Ginsburg is dead” at clueless Trump when he mentions the SCOTUS.
- Professional Conservatives push the Senate GOP to hold the line on Ginsburg replacement vote.
- Biden: No Supreme Court nominee until after the election.
- Where key GOP Senators stand on election year SCOTUS vacancy. Graham, Collins, Murkowski and Romney are on the bubble.
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September 22nd —
- Pentagon used hundreds of millions in PPE funding to stockpile military equipment instead.
- Graham declares “We’ve got the votes” to confirm Ginsburg’s replacement before November.
- Trump will announce his SCOTUS pick on Saturday. He again downplays the virus claiming it only affects older people with pre-existing conditions. It affects “virtually nobody” he claims. He also admits that he plans to pack the SCOTUS so they can appoint him the “winner” if he loses the vote count. [Again. You're not supposed to admit the fucked up fraud plan out loud.] Trump claims violence against reports is “a beautiful sight” and calls Biden an “idiot” for wearing a mask.
- Even Trump's own Census director doesn't know who ordered The Count rushed.
- 13 Nobel Prize winning economists endorses Joe Biden.
- Romney supports holding the confirmation vote before the election.
- DOJ says their top officials will snub Congress because they were “mean” to Bill Barr.
- US CoronaVirus deaths reach 200,000.
- With the bogus claim of “millions of fraudulent votes" Don Jr. starts the so-called “Army for Trump.”
- Fauci warns that we are entering a “risk period” as the pandemic moves into Fall. He also throws cold water on Trump's claim that a Covid Vaccine is “imminent.”
- Former Pence aide Olivia Troye rips Trump over his “frightening” response to Covid-19. He knew how deadly it was in January, but called it “good” because he wouldn’t have to shake hands with his “disgusting” voters.
- Fox News moderator Chris Wallace chooses the topics for the first Presidential debate next week most of them are Trump campaign talking points. [So this should basically be like Biden will have to spend his time fact-checking and Trump will double down on every BS claim on the planet. However, Wallace just might confirm Biden’s claims and debunk Trump on live TV which he has a habit of doing.]
- Trump admin faces questions over their mid-October vaccine distribution plan.
- Mike Bloomberg raises $16 million to pay outstanding fines for 32,000 former felons so that they can vote again.
- A second federal court orders USPS to reverse Dejoy’s changes in time to ensure delivery of mail-in ballots.
- Former WH staffer Fiona Hill told Jim Scuitto that America under Trump is now an “object of pity” around the world.
- Kayleigh McEnany struggles to explain Trump’s claim that Covid affects “almost nobody” after 200,000 have died. She claims there are some states where no one under 18 has died. [That may be true, but there *are* states where people under 18 have died, and also most of us aren’t under 18 years-old.] She also claims as Covid deaths hit 200,000 “Well, at least it’s not 2 Million.” [What country on earth has 2 million deaths? Which country has as many as what we have?]
- Chris Cantwell the infamous “crying Nazi” is facing a criminal trial for rape threats.
- Cop involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor sends self-pitying screed that attacks “thug” protesters ahead of Grand Jury announcement.
- Right-wing Christians “praise the Lord” for the death of Ginsburg.
- Despite lack of an aid bill, Mnuchin sees a strong US rebound in Q3.
- Andrew Napolitano says that a Supreme Court fight could doom vulnerable GOP Senators; “Playing with fire.”
- Jim Acosta slams McEnany for a “flat out lie” to America about Covid-19 not affecting kids.
- Matt Gaetz warns his fellow conservatives: “Trump can’t be just an aberration.” [Yes, he can be.]
- Appellate Judge Amy Coney Barrett is Trump's front-runner for Ginsburg’s seat. Cuban American Judge Barbara Lagoa is the runner-up. Lagoa currently has to make a decision on a $100 million defamation suit involving Trump aide Jason Miller and Gizmodo.
- WaPo does a scathing eight part series listing every reason Trump threatens America.
- Manhattan prosecutors file brief suggesting Trump is facing a “criminal tax fraud” investigation.
- Mike Pence's chief of staff Marc Short belittles Olivia Troye.
- CIA states that Putin and senior Kremlin officials are probably “directing" the negative message campaign against Biden with help from the GOP through Derkach, Giuliani, Lindsey Graham and Ron Johnson.
- Trump campaign is still hiding large payments to Kimberly Guilfoyle and Lara Trump. Also, the campaign is broke.
- Outrage flares up over Desantis’ anti-protest bill: “Sledgehammer to permanently silence opposing voices.”
- George Conway has two questions for Trump: “Tell me one thing you don’t like about Vladimir Putin. Or something about him that gives you pause or concern. Just one thing,”
- Former Nashville Councilman Tony Tenpenny dies of Covid-19 after having mocked it as a “hoax” on social media. [Karma is a bee-yotch.]
- Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg claims that he fired Olivia Troye and had escorted her out of the WH. Troye counters that she wrote a letter of resignation that was cited by the WH and no one escorted her out, Kellogg also sent her a special coin with his name on it to thank her for her service. [So they just lie about people and trust Fux Snewz won’t report the counter facts.]
- NY AG Letitia James submits a filing that quotes Eric Trump on Fox News Radio issuing a “categorical refusal” to honor the subpoena.
- Weissman writes in his book that Mueller was afraid to go after Trump's finances. [Cyrus Vance isn't.] It’s also why he didn’t interview Ivanka.
- “Birtherism” lies about Kamala Harris because she’s the daughter of immigrants are even worse than they were about Obama.
- Experts link far-right domestic terrorism to pro-Trump Qanon conspiracy theories. “The conspiracy theory imagines that President Donald Trump is secretly battling a global network of evil elites, Democrats, celebrities and their ‘deep state’ bureaucratic counterparts — a dizzying conspiratorial alliance of thousands of American citizens who, behind closed doors, are believed to be closeted Satan-worshipping pedophiles who traffic, abuse and sacrifice children, and their enablers.” [And yet children are being abused and scarred for life while their parents are deported and blocked from entry where they’re likely to by killed by gangs or given forced hysterectomies due to Trump’s illegal inhumane racist policies at the border.]
- Cuban-American columnist Fabiola Santiago slams Trump's fraud on Florida supporters: “He tried to make money off of Castro's regime.” [Yes, he did and Michael Cohen can confirm this.]
- RNC blew $400,000 buying books from Don Jr. and Sean Hannity to make them look like (bogus) “best sellers.”
- The Whistle blower from Kushner’s task force admits he was told to “fudge” the death data.
- Biden says that Cindy McCain is endorsing him in the wake of Trump’s “loser” comments about fallen soldiers.
- WaPo reports that the FDA is setting a higher standard for the Covid vaccine, potentially delaying approval until after the election.
- Peter Strzok appears on Chris Cuomo and says “It’s staggering” how Russia is actively influencing the election to re-elect Trump through Giuliani and Ron Johnson.
- Former DHS staffer Miles Taylor vouches for Olivia Troye’s legitimacy and trashes the WH for lying about her.
- Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins are losing their races.
- Pence suggests that Trump's SCOTUS nominee should skip the committee hearings to avoid “election issues”
- Maddow exclusively busts the CDC Director for a massive scandal, and has the original docs to prove it. CDC shelved their original report on an Covid-19 outbreak at South Dakota’s Smithfield’s meatpacking plant which involved 1,300 workers, and changed it to downplay the details on their guidance to make it easier and “discretionary” for the plant. The office of the CDC Director, Robert Redfield, called the onsite team and told them to remove any “power language” that told the plant to actually do anything, only to offer them “suggestions, if possible.”
- Trump tweets and quotes are now being spread verbatim by Russian trolls.
September 23rd —
- Trump applauds violence against journalists after Ali Velchi is hit with a rubber bullet round: “It’s actually a beautiful sight.” He responds to Cindy McCain’s endorsement: “Cindy can have sleepy Joe.” He celebrates that “it's dangerous” for protesters at his rallies. He further guts anti-racism training by issuing a ban for government contractors. He calls on the FDA to fast track vaccine approvals. Trump nominates a former Nunes staffer as Intelligence Inspector General. He says that the election will be fine, “just a continuation if we just get rid of the ballots.” [No, we won't Sir.] And he refuses to commit to a peaceful transition of power. He's asked about Breonna Taylor and spends his entire answer praising himself.
- Omar responds to yet another Trump attack on her roots: “Why are you so obsessed with me?”
- Greg Miller at the WaPo reports that WH staff have said that Trump is such a bigot he said “black people are responsible for their own inequality”, Jews are just “in it for themselves” and he could never understand why Melania wanted to go to Africa.
- CIA Director muddles agencies efforts to convey Russia-Intel to the WH. Gina Haspel apparently “suppressed" Russian intel to keep from angering Trump.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s casket arrives at the Supreme Court.
- Cook Political Report moves Cory Gardner's race to “leans Democrat” after he comes out in support of the SCOTUS vote.
- Ron Johnson has his big pony show releasing a report of rehashed, bogus Hunter Biden allegations. “It's a dud, with minimal evidence.” It’s as if “Putin wrote it, disgraceful.”
- Career expert who vetted John Bolton's book alleges sketchy WH behavior in the review.
- MSNBC’s Donny Deutsche compares Trump to Hitler: “Let's just say it once and for all.”
- Court ruling may allow Maine to be first in nation to use ranked choice voting.
- Giuliani created two secret companies during his work in Ukraine, but he only had one client.
- Morning Joe Panel: Trump is “glorifying" violence and his “fascist" fans love it. Joe says American can not survive four more years of Trump's “fascist instincts.”
- Homeland Security has granted $Millions in contracts to a company that employs Chad Wolf's wife.
- Psychological analysis reveals 14 key traits of Trump supporters: “They just want to watch the world burn.” [So they're like Heath Ledger’s Joker?]
- Paul Krugman: “Expect violence from Trump supporters” after the election.
- The Atlantic reports that Trump's camp is making contingency plans to bypass the election results and keep him in power.
- Trump-loving company profits off of Covid-19 fears after holding an illegal indoor Trump rally in Nevada.
- Former Federal Prosecutor Barbara McQuade states Bill Barr could help Trump steal the election. A “determined Barr,” McQuade goes on to say, “could use the fraud statute to charge voters, the Democratic Party or even state election officials with a crime” and “could also involve the Justice Department in civil suits challenging election results.”
- Rand Paul get schooled by Dr. Fauci on Covid infection rates in New York; “You’re not listening.”
- WaPo reports that several former WH officials claim that Trump is not smart enough to be a White Supremacist.
- DOJ unveils proposal that would make it harder for Twitter and Facebook to block Trump’s dangerous posts.
- Trump aides worry he’s set himself up for a “humiliating loss” in next week's debate.
- Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA) shreds the GOP for obsessing about the SCOTUS seat while the CoronaVirus continues to rage.
- A Federal Reserve bond program intended to help workers keep their jobs instead prioritized Wall street investors.
- Turmoil ensues at Walmart as a racist calls a black women the N-word after she gets called out for cutting in line.
- Louisville Grand Jury indicts one officer in the death of Breonna Taylor, but not for shooting Taylor, it was for shooting indiscriminately at a neighboring apartment. AG Daniel Cameron says two other officers are deemed “justified” in returning fire from her boyfriend Kenneth Walker who was trying to defend the apartment from unknown attackers/invaders. {Yeah, but they didn't hit Walker now did they, they hit an innocent unarmed asleep woman.] Cameron also spoke at the RNC Convention and defended Trump’s racism.
- Dr. Birx is privately unsure how much longer she’ll remain on the WH Covid task force since she's “distressed” by Trump’s Covid response and has been placed on the sidelines with the addition of Radiologist Scott Atlas.
- Trump top SCOTUS pick Amy Barret is member of a Catholic “cult” called People of Praise according to an ex-member who alleges abuse and torture. [So the right will now claim this is the female form of being Kavanaughed?]
- Kenosha gunman and double-murderer Kyle Rittenhouse is hit with a Federal lawsuit from four people who claim Rittenhouse, militia groups, and other individuals violated their constitutional right to protest by using intimidation while inflicting emotional distress and physical harm.
- Mormon women urge Romney and GOP to wait on replacing Ginsburg on the SCOTUS.
- MSNBC's Al Sharpton blasts the “grossly insufficient” charges in the Breonna Taylor case.
- New York judge orders Eric Trump to sit for a deposition before Election day.
- Biden says that the DOJ has become Trump's private law firm: “Department of Trump.”
- Sen. Wyden points out that RonJohn stumbled onto evidence of Trump's corruption in the Ukraine probe. Hochstein told the investigation that former Energy Secretary Rick Perry “inappropriately pressured the Ukrainian government” to place a Houston-based businessman named Robert Bensch on the board of Naftogaz, while other DOE officials pressed Kyiv to sign an agreement with a “private business entity connected to Mr. Bensh,” the letter reads.
- Republicans sue Texas after GOP Gov Abbott allows early in-person voting to avoid Covid-19.
- California moves to outlaw gas powered vehicles by 2035.[That’s great, but it's much too slow.]
- Florida’s GOP Attorney General demands investigation into Bloomberg's offer to pay the outstanding fines of former felons seeking to vote.
- Two police officers are shot during protests in Louisville.
- A study by Citigroup indicates that racism has cost the US $16 Trillion since 2000.
- Larry Kudlow is caught faking economic data to make Trump's economy look stable.
- Trump’s Acting Homeland Security Sec. Chad Wolf claims that he never tried to downplay the White Supremacist threat. [There are whistle blowers on the record who say you did.]
- Trump “Warp Speed" exec Moncef Salaoui refuses to give up stock he owns in a Covid Vaccine company.
- MSNBC Panelist Jason Johnson unloads that “Black people can't go anywhere” while White Militia members casually stroll through Louisville protests.
- Hillary Clinton says that Dems should focus the SCOTUS fight around Health Care.
- Pro-Trump Missouri Gov who opposes masks tests positive for Covid -19.
- Team Trump turns to disinformation as they keep losing in court on Mail-in Ballot issues.
- MLK 3: There is no justice for Breonna Taylor.
- Maddow reports how Trump is planning to use state legislatures override the election voting results and place a 6th conservative vote on the Supreme court to help him steal the election.
