All Things US Politics Related: Trump indicted.

[maj. tom]

^Damn, I know Cohen sentence definitely not getting commuted any time soon?

And BOOM! Suddenly "birtherism" questions pop up about Kamala's eligibility to run for office. Convenient.

On Cue!!! Trump blows the dog whistle for his people.

Trump stokes 'birther' conspiracy theory about Kamala Harris

President Donald Trump says he has "heard" Democratic candidate Kamala Harris "doesn't qualify" to serve as US vice-president, amplifying a fringe legal theory critics decry as racist.

She was born in the US to a Jamaican father and Indian mother in Oakland, California, on 20 October 1964.

As such, she is eligible to serve as president or vice-president.

For years, Mr Trump promoted a false "birther" theory that ex-President Barack Obama was not born in the US.

Ms Harris, a California senator, was named on Tuesday as the first woman of colour to serve as running mate on a main-party US presidential ticket.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53774289

[Kewell35]

What all you think of Trump's ad on Kamala Harris?

[matr1x]

Looks like another easy win for Donald

[shogun]

What all you think of Trump's ad on Kamala Harris?

Allyuh memory that short?











Where these fellas now? I'll wait.

[maj. tom]

Did you know that Donald Trump is illiterate?
As in he cannot read? Like he has the capacity of a 5th grader reading level at best.

I'll let this one be some fun for you all to search and watch the evidence of this. And there are testimonies too from people who were around him. Many people out there figured this out, and the videos are from 2015 and 2016. I was looking at them today and then caught myself off-guard when i saw the dates on the vids. America voted in an illiterate doddering, racist clown as President. That shows how corrupt their democracy has become. Trump also said "two beautiful world wars" in a recent Fox interview and that 'It’s “beautiful” to see “nurses running into death just like soldiers running into bullets.”'

And then there's the latest where Trump has interfered with the USPS process and the federal mail.

[Kewell35]

Is how Trump only pronouncing Kamala as "Cumla"

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Steve Bannon, former Trump adviser, arrested for fraud

Bannon and three others arrested for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in online fundraising campaign for border wall.



Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested on Thursday on charges that he and three others illicitly took money from donors in an online fundraising scheme "We Build The Wall".

The charges were contained in an indictment (PDF) unsealed in Manhattan federal court.

Federal prosecutors alleged that Bannon and three others "orchestrated a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors" in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign that claims to have raised more than $25m to build a wall along the southern border of the United States.

As a top adviser to US President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign who later served as White House chief strategist, Bannon helped articulate the right-wing populism and fierce opposition to immigration that have helped define Trump's three and a half years in office. Bannon left the White House in August 2017.

Bannon was arrested on Thursday morning along with Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea, according to a statement from the US Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York.

Bannon had publicly called the We Build The Wall campaign a "volunteer organisation".

The charges against Bannon are being handled by the same federal office that prosecuted Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and is investigating his current lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani. The office's top prosecutor, Geoffrey Berman, was abruptly removed by Attorney General William Barr earlier this year.

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Trump Must Turn Over Tax Returns to D.A., Judge Rules
A federal judge rejected the president’s argument that a subpoena seeking eight years of his tax returns was ‘wildly overbroad.’

Aug. 20, 2020
Updated 1:23 p.m. ET

A federal judge on Thursday rejected President Trump’s latest effort to block the Manhattan district attorney from obtaining his tax returns, roundly dismissing Mr. Trump’s arguments that the prosecutor’s grand jury subpoena was “wildly overbroad” and issued in bad faith.

The ruling by Judge Victor Marrero of Federal District Court in Manhattan marked another setback for the president in his yearlong legal fight to block the subpoena. The conflict has already reached the Supreme Court once and could end up there again as Mr. Trump’s lawyers quickly filed papers saying he would appeal.

The district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., a Democrat, has been seeking eight years of Mr. Trump’s personal and business returns and other financial records as part of an investigation into the president’s business practices.

The Supreme Court, in a landmark decision last month, denied Mr. Trump’s initial argument that a sitting president had immunity from criminal investigation. But that ruling opened the door for the president to return to the lower court in Manhattan and raise other objections to the subpoena.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyre ... vance.html

[maj. tom]

Hopefully when they get that clown out of office they can put him in jail.
No presidential pardon like Nixon.

[Kewell35]

Imagine Trump might go down as the greatest president in the history of the US.

[De Dragon]

Trump Must Turn Over Tax Returns to D.A., Judge Rules
A federal judge rejected the president’s argument that a subpoena seeking eight years of his tax returns was ‘wildly overbroad.’

Aug. 20, 2020
Updated 1:23 p.m. ET

A federal judge on Thursday rejected President Trump’s latest effort to block the Manhattan district attorney from obtaining his tax returns, roundly dismissing Mr. Trump’s arguments that the prosecutor’s grand jury subpoena was “wildly overbroad” and issued in bad faith.

The ruling by Judge Victor Marrero of Federal District Court in Manhattan marked another setback for the president in his yearlong legal fight to block the subpoena. The conflict has already reached the Supreme Court once and could end up there again as Mr. Trump’s lawyers quickly filed papers saying he would appeal.

The district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., a Democrat, has been seeking eight years of Mr. Trump’s personal and business returns and other financial records as part of an investigation into the president’s business practices.

The Supreme Court, in a landmark decision last month, denied Mr. Trump’s initial argument that a sitting president had immunity from criminal investigation. But that ruling opened the door for the president to return to the lower court in Manhattan and raise other objections to the subpoena.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyre ... vance.html

He sounding Mexican

[shogun]

Yet another allegedly corrupt Trump associate... who surprised though?

Steve Bannon and leaders Of ‘We Build The Wall’ Online Fundraising Campaign Charged With Defrauding Hundreds Of Thousands Of Donors

Steve Bannon, President Trump's former political adviser, has pleaded not guilty through his counsel to wire-fraud and money-laundering charges related to an online scheme that federal prosecutors said was responsible for defrauding hundreds of thousands of people.

Bannon appeared via video link in the Southern District of New York hours after his arrest Thursday morning on a yacht off the Connecticut coast.

Bannon and three other defendants are alleged to have orchestrated a scheme around an online crowdfunding campaign called "We Build the Wall," which has raised more than $25 million, according to prosecutors. The campaign was advertised as an effort to build portions of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and support maintenance operations.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/20/90424527 ... order-wall


Trump distancing himself predictably. "Yeah he worked here for a short time, You know, I didn't know him that well, I take pictures with thousands of folks" incoming, for sure.

[Kewell35]

Would real laugh if Trump wins again.

[Redman]

I bet that he will.....

[Kewell35]

I bet that he will.....

not sure if you being sarcastic but if not, why do you feel so?

[Redman]

No sarcasm.

The redneck/ pro america/anti china/pro gun/middle america crowd got him elected last time.
They were ignored by the Dems then and have remained so now.

The polarization that has happened since then, is compounded by Kamala Harris' selection. Biden will not fulfil his term.... heartland America isnt ready for an Indian Jamaican WOMAN as President of this here United States.

Harris's selection will bring out voters that might have ignored the election.

[Kewell35]

No sarcasm.

The redneck/ pro america/anti china/pro gun/middle america crowd got him elected last time.
They were ignored by the Dems then and have remained so now.

The polarization that has happened since then, is compounded by Kamala Harris' selection. Biden will not fulfil his term.... heartland America isnt ready for an Indian Jamaican WOMAN as President of this here United States.

Harris's selection will bring out voters that might have ignored the election.

You really think Biden would not fulfill his term? I hearing Trump people talk like that but maybe they just bullshitting.

I agree USA wouldn't be comfortable with a indian jamaican woman as leader but don't you think it would bring out the african american votes this time?

A big problem for Hillary was because african americans did not come out to vote for her.

[Kewell35]

Btw what happened to Effective Designs?

[Redman]

No sarcasm.

The redneck/ pro america/anti china/pro gun/middle america crowd got him elected last time.
They were ignored by the Dems then and have remained so now.

The polarization that has happened since then, is compounded by Kamala Harris' selection. Biden will not fulfil his term.... heartland America isnt ready for an Indian Jamaican WOMAN as President of this here United States.

Harris's selection will bring out voters that might have ignored the election.

You really think Biden would not fulfill his term? I hearing Trump people talk like that but maybe they just bullshitting.

I agree USA wouldn't be comfortable with a indian jamaican woman as leader but don't you think it would bring out the african american votes this time?

A big problem for Hillary was because african americans did not come out to vote for her.

Valid poit re African American....of course

13% of the US Population is African American, their turn out is about 7% points from their altime high under Obama, they declined in 2016.
In raw numbers you would have to compete with 73% of the population and whatever their turn out is.

Logic will dictate that in general if one demo is motivated to turn out-to some extent others would do likewise.

[De Dragon]

Btw what happened to Effective Designs?

Nothing much, he's still a tunts, but he's now a proud PNM tunts, just like the rest of the proud PNM tunts here on 2NR.

[MaxPower]

Btw what happened to Effective Designs?

Nothing much, he's still a tunts, but he's now a proud PNM tunts, just like the rest of the proud PNM tunts here on 2NR.

Proud to be PNM.

What your UNC has for us?

Now is not the time for drunken Covid lies.

Dont study Keith eh, even though he is resting now like sweet baby jesus in his quarantine..he works while he sleeps.

A brilliant mind is always thinking.

Keith and his team of medical experts are monitoring this situation carefully.

I really find that they are delaying action man. How come?

So much time, effort, strategy and expertise Team Keith injected into handling Covid initially.....so much money spent to keep the country and population alive......and now Trinis have the audacity to repay him like this? Na man thats cold

Understand that Master Rowley wants to open the borders to our stranded brothers and sisters. Understand that he does not want to lockdown the country any further....but also understand he has lost support from the citizens of T&T.

What more can we do?

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

^ Max I have read every word of your brilliant marvelous, beautiful post of our dear leader and have to agree with all except 1, do you really believe Rowley has lost support from the citizens of T&T?

I would have to respectfully disagree, he won the election by a landslide during the most difficult time imaginable. He is doing really good even compared to most places in the world, the recent spike will go down as soon as he implements the law charging people for not wearing mask in public.

Statistically he is one of the best in the world in dealing with Covid. I have not seen many faults in him except in keeping our roads in order the state of T&T roads is a disgrace and he should take blame for that, but most everything else he gets top scores from me.

my 2 cents

[De Dragon]

^^^
Awww, look, two tapeworms found each other, and love, in JUHN Scarfy's rectum

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Iran sanctions: nearly all UN security council unites against ‘unpleasant’ US

Letters from 13 of 15 members underscore US isolation as it seeks to ‘snap back’ measures against Tehran

Julian Borger in Washington

Fri 21 Aug 2020 23.35 BST

The extent of US isolation at the UN has been driven home by formal letters from 13 of the 15 security council members opposing Trump administration attempts to extend the economic embargo on Iran.

The letters by the council members were all issued in the 24 hours since the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, came to the UN’s New York headquarters to declare Iran in non-compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal.

Under that deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA), comprehensive UN sanctions on Iran would be restored 30 days after the declaration. But almost every other council member has issued letters saying that the US has no standing to trigger this sanctions “snapback” because it left the JCPOA in May 2018.

The US has said it is still technically a participant because it is named as one in a 2015 security council resolution endorsing the JCPOA. The argument was rejected by France, the UK and Germany even before Pompeo made his declaration.

Since then, Reuters reported that it had seen letters from Russia, China, Germany, Belgium, Vietnam, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Indonesia, Estonia and Tunisia, all rejecting the US position.

Only the Dominican Republic has yet to issue a formal letter on the subject. Last week the Caribbean state was the only security council member to back the US when it tried to extend an arms embargo on Iran. Pompeo visited the island two days after that vote.

Council members who normally consider themselves US allies on most issues said they would have supported Washington if a compromise had been found, in which the arms embargo could have been extended for a limited time period. The defeat of the US resolution on the embargo led directly to Pompeo’s legal gambit to try to snap back UN sanctions.

Diplomats at the UN said the depth of US isolation was in part a reflection of the abrasive style used by Pompeo, who accused Europeans of choosing to “side with the ayatollahs”, and the US ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, a political appointee.

“The Americans were actually being over the top in their ridiculousness,” one diplomat said.

“The underlying point here is that most countries on the security council basically agree with the US that Iran is not a nice country and it having nuclear weapons and more arms is not a good thing,” the diplomat said. “But the Americans misplayed their hand so often, so aggressively, that they isolated themselves from people not on policy, but on just being unpleasant.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... ike-pompeo

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

[The_Honourable]

Moderators announced for presidential debates

The presidential debates between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will be moderated by journalists from Fox News, C-SPAN and NBC, with CNN being shut out of the debates for the first time since 2008, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Wednesday.

Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace, who has angered some Republicans for his pointed questioning of Trump and White House officials, will moderate the first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 29.

The second debate, which will be town-hall style, will be moderated by C-SPAN’s Steve Scully in Miami on Oct. 15.

The third and final presidential debate will be moderated by Kristen Welker of NBC and will take place in Nashville on Oct. 22.

There will be one vice presidential debate between Vice President Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), which will be moderated by USA Today’s Susan Page and will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Oct. 7.

More: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5 ... al-debates

[maj. tom]

Considering how severe Covid is affecting USA, Kamala Harris would be just a heartbeat away from being the first female President of USA if Biden is affected. Maybe that was Biden's plan in getting a woman to the Oval Office. Going to enjoy her debate ripping up Mike Pence on Oct 7th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Unit ... al_debates


I wish for next GE that we could have debates and move our democracy one step up.

[sMASH]

An ass wipe verses trump.

[bluefete]

ED: Sully is right!


'Vote him out!' Miracle on the Hudson hero Captain Sully calls Trump 'unfit for office' and says he's the first president to 'repeatedly show vulgar contempt for those who have served' in blistering Twitter attack



















https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... osers.html

[bluefete]

Considering how severe Covid is affecting USA, Kamala Harris would be just a heartbeat away from being the first female President of USA if Biden is affected. Maybe that was Biden's plan in getting a woman to the Oval Office. Going to enjoy her debate ripping up Mike Pence on Oct 7th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Unit ... al_debates


I wish for next GE that we could have debates and move our democracy one step up.

That and a green donkey ...