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TRUMP Reveals REAL October Surprise/Sows Election Fraud Fears in Truth Social
Inside Tech Billionaires’ Push to Reshape San Francisco Politics: A Hostile Takeover
The Guardian and Mission Local unravel ‘grey money’ network flooding progressive city with conservative cash to oust any Democratic power
The Guardian 12 FEB 2024
From left, cryptocurrency booster Chris Larsen, billionaire investor Michael Moritz and Y Combinator chief executive Garry Tan
People ride their bikes past a homeless encampment along the boardwalk in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles
In a way, it’s a story as old as time: ultra-wealthy figures pouring a flood of money into city politics in an effort to shape the way it is run.
Still, the political-influence machine that tech billionaires and venture capitalists have recently built in San Francisco stands out for its size and ambition. A new analysis of campaign filings, non-profit records and political contributions by the Guardian and Mission Local reveals the extent of this network, which is using its financial and organizational muscle to push the famously progressive city into adopting policies that are tougher on crime and homelessness, and more favorable to business and housing construction.
In the past six years, prominent tech and venture capital leaders – including the hedge fund manager William Oberndorf, the billionaire investor Michael Moritz, the cryptocurrency booster Chris Larsen, the PayPal co-founder David Sacks, the Y Combinator CEO, Garry Tan, and the Pantheon CEO, Zachary Rosen – have invested at least $5.7m into reshaping San Francisco’s policies, according to the analysis of public data. Because not all of their donations are publicly disclosed, the sum of their contributions may be far higher.
In a solidly Democratic city, they have joined forces with traditional business and real estate elites in an effort to oust some of its most progressive leaders and undo its most progressive policies
To achieve those goals, they have created a loose network of interlocking non-profits, dark money groups and political action committees – a framework colloquially known as a “grey money” network – that allows them to obscure the true scale of their involvement in San Francisco’s municipal politics.
The three major groups in this network – NeighborsSF, TogetherSF and GrowSF – have pulled in more than $26m in contributions since 2020, according to campaign finance and tax records, more than $21m of which they have spent on various political issues.
“They’re using multiple layers of organizations to hide the sources of their money, and to hide how much they’re spending,” said Jim Stearns, a political consultant with decades of experience in San Francisco politics and a critic of the groups.
“This is a $20bn hostile takeover of San Francisco by people with vested real estate and tech interests, and who don’t want anyone else deciding how the city is run,” he said, referring to the combined wealth of the most prolific new donors.
Dogged reporting by Bay Area outlets has previously exposed some of the money flowing into these groups. But their structure makes it difficult to easily uncover all sources of donations. Political action committees, or Pacs, are required to name their major donors. But the so-called dark money groups, which are technically civic leagues or social welfare groups, were formed under the 501(c)4 section of the tax code, and do not have to disclose donors or political contributions.
Since the 2010 supreme court ruling Citizens United v Federal Election Commission relaxed regulation around political donations, 501(c)4 groups have exponentially increased their involvement in political donations, to the tune of at least $1bn by 2019 nationwide, according to ProPublica reporting.
However, the Guardian and Mission Local’s analysis of financial records shows several of the organisations donating money to one another, and several groups sharing personnel, addresses and donors. And it reveals the sheer financial deluge they are spending ahead of the 2024 elections.
Complicated Contributions
Among the most prominent and resourced groups in this network is Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, which was founded by Oberndorf, and an affiliated 501(c)4 started by the longtime San Francisco real estate lobbyist Mary Jung, among others. Oberndorf sits on the board of directors of the dark money group.
NeighborsSF says it is committed to improving public safety, public education and quality of life in the city, backing what it calls “pragmatic” and “responsible” groups and candidates. The group has funded publicity campaigns for moderate candidates and bankrolled other 501(c)4s working to advance related issues.
NeighborsSF has been primarily funded by a handful of extremely wealthy donors from the tech and real estate worlds.
The group’s biggest donor, Kilroy Realty, a southern California-based firm with major holdings in downtown office property and highly desired parcels in the South of Market district, has given $1.2m since 2020. The dynastic real estate investor Brandon Shorenstein has contributed $899,000 through his family’s real estate firm. Larsen has donated at least $300,000. Moritz donated $300,000 in 2020 alone.
It’s a “longer-term, widespread, deliberate strategy”, said Aaron Peskin, the progressive president of San Francisco’s board of supervisors. “They’re propping up innumerable 501(c)4s that are doing everything from mounting political attack campaigns to infiltrating dozens of long-term neighborhood groups … Why would you say no if someone knocked on your door to organize Saturday neighborhood cleanups?”
Towards 2024
With key successes under its belt, this network is gearing up to play a major role in the 2024 elections, which will determine control of the San Francisco board of supervisors and the Democratic county central committee.
New Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win US 2024 Election
The New Secret Over The Top Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024
Exposing Secret Fascist Plan To ‘Win’ 2024 Election
Thom Hartmann RAW STORY 28 FEB 2024
Donald Trump is greeted by Rep. Mike Johnson
Back on March 13, 2020 — almost exactly four years ago — I wrote an article that was published at alternet.org laying out how Republicans were then, ten months before January 6th....
Planning to partially repeat the debacle of the election of 1876 by having Vice President Pence refuse to certify swing state votes and thus throw the election to the House to keep T in office, no matter how the election went.
When I published the article ten months before January 6th, I received concerned and even alarmed communications from several Democratic strategists and a few elected officials who basically said they didn’t think there was any way Trump would try such an audacious move and, if he did, he wouldn’t get away with it.
But I was right and that was exactly what Trump had up his sleeve. We saw it play out on January 6th. The only thing that stopped him was Pence’s unwillingness to go along with stealing an election.
Now I’m hearing a new story from those same GOP insiders (as well as other commentators) about Trump’s schemes for 2024. Here’s what I’m hearing Republicans are planning in the event Joe Biden wins re-election and Democrats hold the Senate and take the House this November:
First, Republicans need to make sure they’re in control of the House of Representatives on January 6th, 2024, when the new president will be certified.
To do that, even though Democrats might have won enough seats to take back the House in the 2024 election, Speaker Johnson will refuse to swear into Congress on January 3rd a handful of those Democrats, claiming there are “irregularities” in their elections that must be first investigated.
Consider that Johnson is still refusing to swear in Tom Suozzi (who recently won George Santos’ old seat), something Johnson apparently did to maintain enough Republican-majority votes to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas. (Johnson says they’ll swear him in this coming Thursday, but nobody’s holding their breath.)
Like Mitch McConnell withholding Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court for over a year, withholding certification of a handful of Democrats would be easy, legal, and completely immoral. There’s nothing Democrats can legally do to stop Speaker Johnson from pulling this off: he can postpone swearing a member in for as long as he wants.
That keeps Speaker “MAGA Moscow Mike” Johnson in charge of the House, so they can also refuse to accept the Electoral College certificates of election from a handful of states where they claim there are “problems.”
Keep in mind, Johnson was the guy who organized the wave of 138 House members who voted not to certify Joe Biden’s election in January of 2020. That’s why Trump wanted him as speaker.
Elise Stefanik, the number 3 person in House Republican leadership, has already refused to say whether she’d vote to certify the presidential election results this November.
Others, like Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, are repeatedly mentioning their belief that the House gets to decide who’s president, not the people or even the Electoral College. As Massie posted on X:
“Maine, Colorado, and other states that might try to bureaucratically deny ballot access to any Republican nominee should remember the U.S. House of Representatives is the ultimate arbiter of whether to certify electors from those states.”
In response, Elon Musk posted a one-word comment: “Interesting.”
Then, regardless of how many votes Biden won by, electoral or popular, the House simply refuses to certify the electoral college votes of enough states that the minimum of 270 isn’t reached. Under the 12th Amendment, like with the election of 1876, that throws the election to the House, where each state has one vote.
While a majority of Americans live in a state run by Democrats, a majority of the states themselves are run by Republicans. Each state gets one vote for president in the House, and right now 26 state delegations are GOP-controlled, meaning that a majority of the House would simply vote to put Trump back into the White House, 26-23 (Pennsylvania’s delegation is 50/50). All totally legal.
The Putin/Trump caucus in the House — led by Speaker Johnson — has largely given up on democracy when elections don’t give them power. As outrageous as this scenario sounds, they justify it to themselves as being essential to “save America” from “woke” Democrats.
Johnson has repeatedly said he thinks God Himself put Johnson into the speakership to fulfill some great destiny, comparing himself with Moses: stealing a presidential race “for the greater good” almost certainly qualifies as that. And, although Congress in 2022 raised the number of congressional objectors necessary to stop the certification of a presidential vote, Johnson himself was able to round up more than that number in 2020. This is eminently do-able.
Finally, the Supreme Court long ago ruled that they and the entire US court system have no jurisdiction over “political issues” that the Constitution says must be resolved by Congress. This issue of Congress’ certification of electoral college votes certainly qualifies, so, no matter what the courts might want to say or do, there’s probably no legal tool they can use to block a second Trump presidency under these circumstances.
Rightwing billionaires and neofascists within the GOP are salivating at this prospect. Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller must be giddy.
In one fell swoop they’ll “take back” the government, putting an end to that pesky problem of democracy and voters wanting nice things.
President Trump issues a new Schedule F executive order and suddenly 20,000 or so of the top management of every federal agency find themselves out of a job, being replaced by conservative ideologues who are being vetted by Heritage and other conservative think tanks as you’re reading these words.
Once they have control of both the political and the “deep state” or administrative government, these conservatives intend to set about making the changes they’ve been pushing for years:
— End gay marriage and criminalize being trans.
— Outlaw abortion and most forms of birth control.
— End the teaching of Black history.
— Outlaw DEI and affirmative action of any sort.
— Shut down most functions of the EPA so the fossil fuel and chemical industries can do whatever they want to our air and water.
— End enforcement of our anti-monopoly laws.
— Fire thousands of IRS investigators to make America safe for morbidly rich tax cheats.
— Shut down all “green” initiatives and instead “drill, baby drill.”
— Sell off public lands and parks to the highest bidders.
— Privatize Social Security and end traditional Medicare.
— End federal funding for public schools and colleges.
— Outlaw unions.
It’s truly breathtaking.... They’re committed to abandoning America’s historic embrace of democracy, the “radical new form of government” that our nation’s Founders brought back into the world after it had vanished for almost 3000 years.
But, as Americans have figured out the GOP’s priorities and are disgusted by their obeisance to great wealth and Vladimir Putin, Republicans have decided that winning free and fair elections is for suckers... Stealing them is so much easier. I don’t see any legal way such a strategy can be stopped, because it’s all based on “legal” technicalities. Like the legal technicality that George W. Bush and Donald Trump both lost the national popular vote but became president anyway (without significant protest from the American people)...
However take note, some that have tried to protest against Trumps' dishonest actions have not only lost, but have felt threatened
re: Neo-Nazi & Far Right Groups Join Trump to Spread His Rhetoric
WARNING About Steve Bannons' Collusion With TRUMP in The Past & as 2024 Election Looms
DANGER For Americans as Rick Wilson Raises RED Flag About Steve Bannon Chaos' as 2024 Election Looms
Tom Boggioni, Lincoln Project 4 MAR 2024
Steve Bannon with TRUMP
According to Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson, former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon will have an outsized influence on a second Trump administration despite no longer being a key architect of his rise.
In a deep dive into Bannon's strong influence on the MAGA movement, Wilson told the Guardian's David Smith that Bannon is a great believer in sowing "chaos" to achieve his goals and his ramping up his rhetoric as the former president makes his third bid for the Oval Office should set off alarms.
With Smith reporting Bannon harped on Trump winning the 2020 presidential election before an enraptured crowd at CPAC recently, he added, "It was a blunt reminder that Bannon, an architect of Trumpism variously compared to Thomas Cromwell, Rasputin and Joseph Goebbels, remains a potent force in American politics as the 2024 US presidential election looms into view and the re-election of Trump looks a clear possibility."
With that in mind, Smith suggested Bannon would cast " a long shadow" over a second Trump administration.
Former GOP strategist Wilson agreed.
“Steve Bannon is a if not the primary spiritual and intellectual force of this nationalist movement that is in control of the Republican party," he explained. "He is a very powerful figure in today’s GOP [Grand Old Party] and it is inescapable in some ways that he will play a central role in whatever Trump administration emerges if Trump wins. He is the architect.
As an avowed Leninist, he is a guy who is trying to engineer the revolution in his image.”
Continuing in that vein, he was asked what Bannon likely has in mind for a second Trump go-around.
“Concentration camps," he replied. "This guy keeps saying out loud they’re the enemies of the people, our opponents are deserve what they get, this hyperbolic rhetoric. He believes in power and chaos and will do whatever he can if he gets it. Whatever he could get away with in that circumstance, he will get away with it.”
Fellow anti-Trumper conservative Charlie Sykes agreed, telling the Guardian, "Donald Trump does not look at Steve Bannon and think this guy is unhinged; he’s looking at Steve Bannon and saying this is exactly what I want to hear from my supporters. Steve Bannon knows what he’s doing and he will act as a gravitational pull on the rest of the right because they have to match him.”
America is marching toward theocracy one zygote at a time..This is what happens when pro-life Republicans play God.
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‘He Believes in Power and Chaos’: Alarm as Steve Bannon Plots to Propel TRUMP
Steve Bannon hawks disinformation to support Trump as legal troubles mount
The Guardian 4 MAR 2024
A thrill of transgression swept through the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the National Harbor in Maryland. “Trump won!” Bannon barked, pointing a finger. “Trump won!” he repeated, shaking a fist. “Trump won!” he proclaimed again. His audience, as if hypnotised, chanted the brazen lie in unison.
It was a blunt reminder that Bannon, an architect of Trumpism variously compared to Thomas Cromwell, Rasputin and Joseph Goebbels, remains a potent force in American politics as the 2024 US presidential election looms into view and the re-election of Trump looks a clear possibility.
Bannon, 70, is currently appealing a criminal conviction and four-month prison sentence for defying a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. The committee heard evidence that Trump spoke to Bannon at least twice on January 5 and predicted that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow”.
In the meantime, he hosts a regular podcast called War Room, which propagates false narratives about the 2020 election and coronavirus vaccines but is given a veneer of respectability by guests including Elise Stefanik, the No 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, and other senior politicians.
A pop-up War Room studio commanded a prime location at CPAC last week and featured guests such as Liz Truss, the former British prime minister. On the main stage, Bannon compared Trump to the Roman general Cincinnatus and declared: “His fate and destiny is to have the greatest political comeback in American history from November 5 to drive the vermin out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
“Biden, you and your crime family are nothing but trash, OK? And on 20 January of 2025 we’re going to take out the trash.”
Fascists Conducting Campaign Against America After Trump Guilty Verdict-Putins’ Reply
Inside The Irregular Warfare Campaign Fascists Are Conducting Against America
Trump lies that the guilty verdict against him — by a jury of his peers that his own attorneys picked — is an illegitimate, politically motivated show trial.
MSN 6 JUN 2024
DANGER For Americans - Trumps’ Fascists
Trying to help Trump destroy Americans’ faith in our democracy and its justice system, Russian president Vladimir Putins’ spokesman today said of Trumps’ trial:
-- “If we speak about Trump, the fact that there is simply the elimination, in effect, of political rivals by all possible means, legal and illegal, is obvious.”
Hungarys’ dictator Viktor Orbán and Italys’ neofascist Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, both also argued that Trump is the victim of political persecution.
Right wing media commentators and Republicans in Congress have leaped at the opportunity to echo Putin and Orbán.
This sort of propaganda is called “irregular warfare” (IW) — warfare by means outside of troops, bombs, navies, etc. — and the US used to be an expert at it. Typically, irregular warfare involves the use of propaganda, proxies, or people willing to betray their own country.
Irregular warfare is part of how the US and western Europe brought down the Soviet Union (although that system also disintegrated from within under the weight of its own corruption and rot), with propaganda systems like the Voice of America, Radio Liberty, and Radio Free Europe.
A keen observer of this process was an irregular warfare leader based in East Germany at the time. Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin supervised spying and propaganda operations within East Germany until the fall of the Berlin Wall, when he moved to Moscow where, in 1999, he became the head of the Russian government and is now the longest-serving Russian leader since Stalin.
Having been on the receiving end of US and western European propaganda efforts, Putin dedicated himself to turning the tables on us, since the democratic example of America (and other western nations) is a thorn in his autocratic side.
And he’s had considerable success, including helping get his man Trump into the White House where Donald then handed a western spy over to Putin’s Foreign Minister Lavrov in a secret Oval Office meeting during his first month in office.
Two months later, US intelligence had to pull another spy out of Russia because they had evidence Trump had given his name to Putin as well. Trump may well represent the single most successful irregular warfare program Putin has ever run against America.
On July 31, 2019, as Trump was ramping up his 2020 campaign, he had another of what by that time were more than 16 private, unrecorded conversations with Putin. The White House told Congress and the press that they discussed “wildfires” and “trade between the nations.” No droids in this car.
The following week, on August 2nd, The Daily Beast’s Betsy Swan reported that Trump had just asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for a list of all its employees (including all our “spies” across the world) who had worked there more than 90 days, and the request had intelligence officials experiencing “disquiet.”
Fourteen months later, The New York Times ran a story with the headline: “Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants.” The CIA then alerted American spies around the world that their identities had probably been compromised, apparently by President Donald Trump himself.
Also in 2019, when the international press verified that Putin was paying the Taliban bounties to kill American service members in Afghanistan (and 4 had already died as a result)
Trump refused to demand the practice stop, another possible sign that Putin ran him, not the other way around.
Neo-Nazi & Far Right Join Trumps Campaign to Return to The White House
Neo-Nazi and Far Right Groups Seize on Trumps Anti-Immigration Rhetoric and His Campaign to Return to The White House
Extremist groups are latching on to ex-presidents xenophobic messages to recruit people and spread ideology
The Guardian 11 SEP 2024
Neo-Nazi groups and the online far right are latching on to the anti-immigration rhetoric coming from Donald Trumps campaign for the White House in an effort to recruit new supporters and spread their extremism to broader audiences.
CUNNING and DANGEROUS
After the Republican national convention in July, where supporters waved MASS DEPORTATION NOW! placards, it became clear that Trumps xenophobia has become part of the Republican establishment.
Upon his return to X, formerly known as Twitter, Trump released a stream of images targeting Vice-President Kamala Harriss stance on the border and immigration.
Among them were memes implying the Democrats will bring rapists into the country and a 2012 photo of men in Karachi, Pakistan, burning an American flag with the caption:
Meet your neighbors [...] IF KAMALA WINS.
In tandem with the Trump campaigns sloganeering, known figures on the far right and their online denizens are seizing on the open hatred of immigrants from the top Republican and going even more public with their brand of activism.
At this point, demonizing and lying about immigrants is part and parcel of the far-right scene and a major part of its anti-immigrant messaging, said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), an extremism watchdog organization. Non-white immigrants and refugees are enemy number one for the far-right.
Beirich warned the current climate is even more dangerous as shes seeing ideologies, once the sole domain of fringe neo-Nazis, being mainstreamed by political figures.
For example, two separate hate groups recently descended on Springfield, Ohio, rallying with masks and uniforms and threatening the approximately 20,000 Haitian immigrants that have arrived in the town since the pandemic.
In 2023, tensions among local residents flared up after a bus crash involving a Haitian driver helped make the Rust-belt town a flashpoint in anti-immigration debates.
In August, Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi group led by ex-US marine Christopher Pohlhaus, marched in Springfield waving swastika flags (with at least two members carrying rifles) and yelling anti-Black and racist epithets at a jazz festival.
Then, in early September, one of its leaders was granted time to speak at a town forum with local politicians.
Ive come to bring a word of warning, said the leader, speaking under a racist pseudonym. He is believed to be the second-in-command of Blood Tribe, after Pohlhaus, and also a former marine.
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Fully Radicalized Republicans Are Ready to Carry Out Really Dangerous Plan
Bulwark columnist A.B. Stoddard on Monday warned that former President Donald Trump is priming his supporters to block the certification of the 2024 presidential election for as long as possible.
Stoddard said that Trumps threat over the weekend to prosecute anyone whom he deemed to have engaged in election "cheating" was a call to action for his supporters who work at county-level governments to gum up the works should he not win this fall.
"There are Republicans who have been fully radicalized since 2020 at the ground level who intend to delay, at the county level, the certification of the election," she said.
"This really, really dangerous plan that is afoot. They want to come up with ways, as county canvassers, to avoid certifying in the days following November 5, which is a perfunctory and administerial and nondiscretionary duty."
Stoddard also touched upon Trumps comments over the weekend that his mass deportation program would be a "bloody" affair, and she believed that the former president and his base wanted to revel in the suffering of immigrants being removed from their communities and sent to detention camps.
"They want images of roundups to be dramatic and brutal and punitive in order to show that they are controlling the border and decreasing immigration," she said. "Spectacle is something that he knows his base very much craves."
Stop what youre doing before its too late. Crime and savagery will only increase with every Haitian you bring in.
Musk is PROMISED a Role & Will Make Drastic Cuts in TRUMP Govt
Musk to Deliver Drastic Cuts to TRUMP Government - Musk is PROMISED a Role in a Trump Admin
Elon Musks fervent support for Donald Trump in the upcoming US election could extend far beyond incendiary tweets and campaign cash if the former president returns to the White House.
MSNRAW 18 SEP 2024
The worlds richest person has become increasingly present in Trumps campaign, essentially putting his personal X account, with its nearly 200 million followers, at the candidates service. Following a second apparent assassination bid on Trump Sunday, Musk questioned why Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden have been spared such attempts on their lives.
He later deleted the post.
Musk has also used his personal account to endorse the unfounded conspiracy theory that a community of Haitian immigrants in Ohio had been stealing and eating the predominantly white populations pets.
- Role in a Trump Admin -
Less publicized is Musks agreement with Trump to lead a special commission on reducing federal spending, which would implement "drastic reforms," according to the former president.
The idea originated from a freewheeling conversation between Musk and Trump broadcast on X in August. Musk proposed a "government efficiency commission" to ensure taxpayers' money would be well spent.
Trump embraced the idea, praising Musk as "the greatest cutter," in reference to the Tesla and SpaceX founders ruthless approach to running his companies.
"When your employees stop working, you say 'Thats OK... every one of you is gone,'" Trump said admiringly of Musk.
While Trump didn't name the company, the reference was clearly to Musks 2022 takeover of Twitter, which he later renamed X.
In that acquisition, Musk eliminated 75 percent of staff, retaining only those willing to abide by his "hardcore" workplace ethos.
The mass layoffs decimated its content moderation teams and ushered in Musk's reign over the platform, leading to a rise in misinformation and an exodus of advertisers.
- No 'Rule by Fiat' -
According to the New York Times, the two men have had regular conversations about Musks workplace philosophy, with the hope that the multi-billionaire can impose it on the US government in a second Trump administration.
When asked on the "All-In" podcast if this meant cutting as much as 5 percent of federal staff annually (about 150,000 workers), Musk replied, "I think we'd need to do more than that."
He declined to be more specific, claiming doing so would put him at risk of being "assassinated," but said that workers would have time to find new careers.
"The number of disgruntled workers, former government employees will be quite a scary number," he added ominously.
Public policy scholars cautioned that Musk may be overestimating his potential influence.
In the United States, the power to cut government jobs lies with Congress, which controls the government's purse strings.
"Our system doesn't allow that concentration of power into any one office or any one individual that allows them to just rule by fiat the way that Musk can do at X, Tesla or SpaceX," said Casey Burgat, director of the legislative affairs program at George Washington University.
However, others worry that a second Trump administration could reset the rules, especially now that a conservative-led Supreme Court has the final say over the laws of the land.
The nine-member top court is now dominated by conservatives, including several Trump appointees, and has made recent decisions increasing the powers of the White House.
Richard Barton, assistant teaching professor at Syracuse University, suggests that Trump could decide to "do whatever he wants and let somebody file a lawsuit and bring it to the Supreme Court, who have been pretty favorable to Trump on matters of executive power."
- No Fouls? -
Neither Trump nor Musk seem to be bothered by questions of conflict of interest, which are glaring to many observers.
Musk's diverse businesses are deeply intertwined with government, whether as a supplier to NASA in the case of SpaceX or as a subject of regulation as with Tesla, which often faces scrutiny over safety issues.
Trump, meanwhile, has a history of appointing family members to top government positions and faces regular accusations of overlapping his business interests with his role as a public servant.
Enforcing conflict-of-interest rules requires the political will of Congress, which Burgat said did little against obvious breaches in the first Trump administration.
"There's no umpire calling fouls here," Burgat told AFP.
TRUMPs Plan to Deport Children With Serial Numbers After He Met Arab Leaders
TRUMP Explains Plan to Mass Deport Children Who Have Serial Numbers After Meeting With Arab Leaders
It's Going to Cost Him The Presidency: TRUMP Fans ANGRY at His Latest Action - to Mass Deport Children Who Have Serial Numbers
Trump Met Arab Leaders at Mar-a-Lago at the weekend and boasted about meeting his foreign leader "friends"
MSNRAW 23 SEP 2024
Furious TRUMP Panicking as MAGA Becomes Monster He No Longer Controls
Trump said he would round up immigrants by "serial numbers." "Don't you think the first time there is an image on television of a family tearfully being told to board a bus that that whole program would end" Reporter Attkisson asked.
"Yes to mass deportation, even of women and children," he continued. "You put one wrong person onto a bus or onto an airplane, and radical left lunatics will try and make it sound like the worst thing thats ever happened."
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer calls Donald Trump deranged after his abortion comments; more than 700 US national security officials have endorsed Kamala Harris for president
TRUMP Met Arab Leaders "Friends" at Mar-a-Lago
Trump over the weekend boasted about meeting his foreign leader "friends" at Mar-a-Lago, but the ex-president's supporters didn't take it very well.
Trump took to his own social media network, Truth Social, on Sunday to thank multiple Middle Eastern leaders for meeting with him.
"It was great seeing my friends His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of Qatar and His Excellency Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida," Trump wrote.
He then continued, saying, "The Amir has proven to be a great and powerful leader of his country, advancing on all levels at record speed. He is someone also who strongly wants peace in the Middle East, and all over the world. We had a great relationship during my years in the White House, and it will be even stronger this time around!"
Hardcore MAGA fans didn't like Trumps "friends," especially as it relates to their purported connections to Israeli conflicts.
@DocReality, who frequently shares content supporting Trump and attacking Vice President Kamala Harris, asked the former president, "Since when are you friends with Islamist antisemites?"
@Cheslerde, who identifies as a "Constitutional Conservative" and has a plea to elect Trump in his Truth Social bio, wrote, "Come on President Trump."
"I don't think the hostages and families are thrilled about Qatar hosting the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist freaks!" the user then added.
@MarcRudov, who promotes Trums claim that Harris is lying about once working at McDonald's many years ago, asked, "What about the whereabouts of Sinwar? The hostages in Gaza?"
@Cane1, who frequently defends Trump and attacks Harris in comments on Truth Social, appeared to be stunned.
"Qatar? Are funding and housing Hamas leaders, WTF are you doing," the user said, adding, "You can meet with the devil, but you don?t bargain with him in your home!"
@CJBlue, an Israel supporter who also defends Trump and attacks President Joe Biden, said, "If he's so great why does Qatar allow Hamas leaders to hide out in his country."
"Hey Don. You should really start watching your mouth. It's going to cost you the presidency," the user wrote Sunday.
Trump says he will not run again if he loses election. -
Jeffrey Archer: Trump will win many American fans are THUGS and arent intelligent
M0RE; Trump: Women Won't Even THINK About Abortion Once I am Elected Again...
Trump declared in a late Friday screed that women are sicker, poorer and more depressed than they were in 2020, and vowed that once he's re-elected they won't even be "thinking about abortion" they'll be so "happy."
The rant, posted in his signature all-caps style to his Truth Social app just before midnight, proclaimed that women are "poorer" "less healthy," "less safe on the streets," "more depressed" and "less optimistic and confident in the future" than they were when he was in the White House.
The MAGA leader then vowed to "fix all of that" ? "fast" ? and said American women will finally get a reprieve "at long last" from their "national nightmare."
''WOMEN WILL BE HAPPY, HEALTHY, CONFIDENT AND FREE! YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION, BECAUSE IT IS NOW WHERE IT ALWAYS HAD TO BE, WITH THE STATES, AND A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE - AND WITH POWERFUL EXCEPTIONS, LIKE THOSE THAT RONALD REAGAN INSISTED ON, FOR RAPE, INCEST, AND THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER - BUT NOT ALLOWING FOR DEMOCRAT DEMANDED LATE TERM ABORTION IN THE 7TH, 8TH, OR 9TH MONTH, OR EVEN EXECUTION OF A BABY AFTER BIRTH"
"I WILL PROTECT WOMEN AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE. THEY WILL FINALLY BE HEALTHY, HOPEFUL, SAFE, AND SECURE. THEIR LIVES WILL BE HAPPY, BEAUTIFUL, AND GREAT AGAIN!"
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Amazement at Donald Trumps unforced errors as the presidential campaign winds down to its final days.
Trump sowed swing state election fraud fears late Monday night with an angry Truth Social post that hurled accusations without providing any source for them.
Trump claimed that York County in Pennsylvania had received thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registration forms and mail-in ballot applications from a third party group.
"WHAT IS GOING ON IN PENNSYLVANIA???" Trump wrote. "Really bad 'stuff.'"
York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler said the applications were not unusual beyond the large number submitted by the political group, which Fox reported focuses on election advocacy in communities of color.
"As with all submissions, our staff follows a process for ensuring all voter registrations and mail-in ballot requests are legal," Wheeler said in a reported statement. "If suspected fraud is identified, we will alert the District Attorney's Office, which will then conduct an investigation."
Pennsylvania election officials have been on high alert since Oct. 25 when Lancaster County received 2,500 potentially fraudulent voter registration forms.
Despite assurances from Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt that such incidents are infrequent and the system is working, Trump on Monday struck a sinister tone.
"Law Enforcement must do their job, immediately!!!" Trump wrote. "WOW!!!"
Trump faces criminal charges in Washington D.C. and Georgia linked to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election on baseless claims of voter fraud. He pleaded not guilty.
The Republican National Committee, co-run by his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, had been preemptively and aggressively raising voter fraud concerns to cast doubt on the 2024 results.
The former president again warned, during a rally Monday night, that Kamala Harris would lead the country into World War II, which prompted his audience to correct him that he probably meant World War III. The flub was among many stumbles as the race nears the finish line. But something is not quite there, synapse is not firing
Trump has been scrambling to distance itself from an insulting joke that trashes Puerto Rico
"The Madison Square Garden mistake, nobody can act shocked about it. Trump stayed on stage and talked for a couple of hours Never once said, 'Oh, we don't like that joke, how dare we bring that up tonight.'
"I've got to say, I'm struck by the fact the October surprise this year thus far has been Donald Trump and the mistakes that the campaign has made Scarborough said. The crazy thing is, there were fights inside the Trump campaign on whether they should correct it or not."
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