Tag Archives: Our Fake President’s War on Fake News

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 266

Benedict Donald from Pinterest

Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Revelations of his total corruption begins today’s misadventures of our malignant minority-elect president* as someone inside the White House is leaking details of his complete incompetence, Trump’s war on the truth is causing him yet more problems and meltdowns, Benedict Donald’s Ministry of Propaganda called him out on his lies about the GDP and unemployment, for our Liar-in-Chief nothing celebrates 9/11 like repeating lies about ‘no collusion’ and feigning innocence for your treasonous crimes, why our dystopian Orange dip shit will always be a failure because he’s too closed minded and incapable of learning due to his diminished mental capacities, parts of Trump’s moronic minority of minions are beginning to abandon him and much more.

The ‘Deep State’ Calls Are Coming From Inside Trump’s White House article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/deep-state-calls-are-coming-inside-trumps-white-house

Revelations that someone inside our dimwitted dip shit’s own White House is leaking details of the complete incompetence emanating from him and thoughts that he won’t last through his first term.

Here’s why Trump’s attacks on Bob Woodward are a total ‘PR 101’ failure article from The Raw Story. –
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/heres-why-trumps-attacks-on-bob-woodward-are-a-total-pr-101-failure/

Our fake president* is losing his war on fake news – primarily because he’s too corrupt and incompetent to fight it since all he ever does is lie about everything:

Trump Today: President makes false claim about GDP and unemployment article from Market Watch. –
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-today-president-makes-false-claim-about-gdp-and-unemployment-2018-09-10

All our demented delinquent ever does is lie about everything and it’s about to burst the bubble in his land of delusion and bring him down.

Trump Blows A Gasket After Getting Destroyed By Bog Woodward On Live Television article from PoliticusUSA. –
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/09/10/bob-woodward-trump.html

Yet another in a growing line of books describing the complete incompetence of the Trump White House is – as predicted – causing our feckless fuhrer to have his typical meltdown:

“Bob Woodward took apart Trump and called the president at war with the truth and detached from what is going on. Trump responded with an epic gasket blowing tantrum.

Video of Bob Woodward on Today:

Woodward said, “There’s a war on truth by him. And he says these are unnamed sources. But these are not unnamed incidents. Specific people on specific dates. The book opening with Gary Cohn, the chief economic adviser in the white house, lifting a document from the president’s desk because he — Cohn worries, as he tells an associate, I have to protect the country because this will unravel a trade deal, which will jeopardize one of the most important intelligence operations we have going on. And the document is reprinted in the book there, and the president is saying, well, if he had known about this, he would have fired Gary Cohn in two seconds. We didn’t know about it because the document was taken.”…”

Trump’s Monday tweets show search for a response to Woodward and President Obama article from The Daily Kos. –
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/10/1794636/-Trump-s-Monday-tweets-show-search-for-a-response-to-Woodward-and-President-Obama

Our Twitter tyrant just can’t seem to grasp the facts that he is illegitimate and much less popular than his predecessor and that the sordid details of his incorrigibly incompetent and corrupt tenure as president* are causing his failed presidency to go down in flames.

Continue reading

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 245

Pleased Dictators Trump from Pinterest

Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Today’s misadventures of our malignant minority-elect president* begin with his committing yet another potential act of Treason by demanding no written historical record of his ‘summit’ with his Russian Master – in large part so he can lie his ass off about this farcical summit too, trying to stack the ‘Supreme’ Court with corrupt justices in his image to help him avoid accountability for his high crimes and misdemeanors probably won’t help Trump that much, questioning our Mango Mussolini’s definition of draining the swamp as it has grown exponentially since he was ‘elected’, pondering the point of a Trump rally in 2018, Trump’s hypocritical duplicity on immigration and sexual deviancy are astounding and so much more.

Trump wants no historical record of his opening talks with Putin at summit article from The Daily Kos. –
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/3/1777756/-Trump-wants-no-historical-record-of-his-opening-talks-with-Putin-at-summit

Can’t imagine why our treasonous illegitimate president wouldn’t want a historical record of him kissing his Authoritarian Master’s ass…

CNN unravels the ‘mind numbing’ source of Trump’s latest Obama conspiracy article from The Raw Story. –
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/cnn-unravels-mind-numbing-source-trumps-latest-obama-conspiracy/

Our dimwitted dip shit loves partaking in and creating conspiracy theories regardless of how remarkably ignorant they may be – which appeals to a large number of those that comprise his minority of moronic minions that support him.

Trump Docket: New justice could sway court on president’s personal cases article from Politico. –
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/05/trump-supreme-court-personal-692403

America’s most corrupt-ever president* wants to stack the corrupt ‘Supreme’ Court with justices that will illegally help him avoid accountability for all the high crimes and misdemeanors he has committed.

The Clown Who Plays King article from Crooks and Liars. –
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/07/clown-who-plays-king

The New York Daily News has a new cover worth checking out that shows our marmalade miscreant dressed like a clown wearing a crown – which captures Herr Frump’s incompetence completely:

“One imagines that outrage factories like Breitbart, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Fox News, etc wouldn’t be upset with this image so much, as they would with the idea that Trump and other collaborators with him are trying to overthrow American values.

Nor would they find the Daily News editorial at all to their liking, with passages such as this:

Enter the current occupant of the White House, who devotes this nation’s potent energies to barricading the borders, to separating refuge-seeking mothers from children, to ordering parents to leave the country with or without their kids now that a court has ordered their reunion.

Among them weep parents who assured their children before parting that they would see them soon, wherever they were going, in vain attempt to cushion the void…”

How Trump weaponized fake news — and changed the rules for fact checkers article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-weaponized-fake-news-changed-rules-fact-checkers-090032576.html

Our fake president’s* war on fake news has proved costly given there are so many idiots that are stupid enough to believe his lying ass, but it’s not difficult to weaponize the truth and use it against him either…

Continue reading

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 196

Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Today’s misadventures of our malevolent minority-elect president begin with a look back at the shit storm that was the first complete year of his failed presidency while making himself the center of attention for all the wrong reasons, Trump’s biggest con, Trump seeks credit for Women’s march – just not the credit he deserves for it, Trump’s ethics and conflict of interest scandals keep growing, how to fight Trump’s lies and delusions and use them against him, Trump used political fund donations illegally to pay off a porn star to keep her mouth shut, how passage of Trump’s fraudulent tax reform scam will enable the destruction of Medicaid, the damage done to America’s reputation around the world is unbelievable, growing desperation from Trump and the GOP as Trump’s Russia scandal continues enveloping him and their conspiracy theories aren’t working, the irony of having a man that told more than 2,000 lies during his first year in office testifying under oath will prove quite entertaining, Trump’s obstruction of justice and money laundering is well-documented by Mueller’s investigation, how Trump built an obstruction of justice case against himself, Trump is finished if he fires Mueller and much more.

The Donald Trump Show Wraps Up First Season article from The Huffington Post. –
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-first-year_us_5a6232fae4b074ce7a07faaf

A look back at the many ways our shit for brains president gained attention for all the wrong reasons.

Shutdown for the Trumpiversary: A Ghastly Symmetry article from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/43291-shutdown-for-the-trumpiversary-a-ghastly-symmetry

The one year anniversary of America’s worst-ever president was marred by the federal government shutting down due to the chicanery of Trump and Mitch McConnell.

Trump’s Biggest Con May Be The One He Has Played On American Workers article from The Huffington Post. –
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-con-american-workers_us_5a622fd5e4b0125fd6365bf4

Trump’s lies about taking care of the ‘forgotten Americans’ during the draconian speech at his inauguration helped him pull off one of his best Cons ever.

Trump And Lawmakers Got Cash From Payday Lenders, Then Weakened Lending Rules article from The International Business Times. –
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trump-lawmakers-got-cash-payday-lenders-then-weakened-lending-rules-2642460

After profiting and pushing more deregulation while appointing corrupt cronies to destroy sections of the government they’re in charge of, Trump and his GOP brown shirts destroyed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which was put in place to protect consumers after the massive fraud that caused the crash in 2008:

“Less than two months after President Donald Trump tapped his budget director to run the independent federal agency tasked with protecting U.S. consumers from harmful and predatory financial practices, the agency has moved to undo a rule intended to prevent payday lenders from preying on low-income Americans. The reversal — which follows recent congressional proposals with the same objective — is a major win for the $40 billion payday lending industry, which has recently started delivering big money to Trump and to congressional critics of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

The payday lending and title loan industry has been battling the CFPB since Congress created the bureau in 2010 — and the fight has intensified since the bureau started crafting rules to regulate short-term lending in 2015. Since then, payday lenders have given $1.5 million to congressional lawmakers and another $300,000 to the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee. The industry also spent another $6.2 million on politics at the state level to combat regulation over the same time period, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics. (A patchwork system of state-based laws currently governs the industry; a handful of states ban payday loans entirely.)

The industry’s shrewdest investment may have been the money it delivered to Trump after he won the 2016 election. While payday lenders weren’t lining up to support Trump during the presidential election, in January after Trump’s win, Advance America, the nation’s biggest payday lender, donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration. Title loan magnate Rod Aycox and his wife each donated $500,000 for the event; payday lender Checks into Cash chipped in another $25,000. In November, the Community Financial Services Association of America, the industry’s trade group, announced its annual conference and expo would be held at the Trump National Doral resort in Miami.

As that money flowed to Trump and his business empire, the Trump administration has made moves to help the industry — in particular, it took decisive action to undermine the CFPB’s previous efforts to regulate lenders…”

Trump Shut The Government Down And Now He’s Gone Into Hiding article from PoliticusUSA. –
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/21/trump-has-gone-into-hiding-with-zero-public-events-since-the-government-shut-down.html

Try as they may to spin the federal government shut down against Democrats, American’s know that Trump and his GOP brown shirts are to blame, and Trump is once again hiding to avoid responsibility for it.

Continue reading

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 195

Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Today’s misadventures of our malignant minority-elect president begin with why our national embarrassment continues providing such outlandish tweets and actions to serve as distractions from his corrupt policies and failed presidency, how our illegitimate minority-elect president has made millions laundering money while serving as president, debunking Trump’s lies directly and repeatedly with good framing will go a long way towards embarrassing him even further, Trump’s deplorable GOP brown shirts are trying to justify his racist comments, despite his delusions of being the best president ever Trump makes history with the lowest approval rating ever, how our fraudulent demented orange delinquent is illegally profiting off the presidency, growing chances of Trump ordering a false flag to try and bolster his failed presidency and save the GOP from the bloodbath they will receive during the 2018 midterm elections, why becoming accustomed and complacent to Trump’s delusional alternate reality and demented demeanor isn’t good, rights and freedoms in America are waning due to Trump’s desire to be a dictator – though fortunately for us that won’t happen – instead of a president, why our distractor-in-chief lies so much, our demented delinquent spent at least 38 weeks at his own properties at taxpayer expense during his first year in office, how to prepare for year two of our dimwitted dip shit’s term and much more.

Donald Trump’s Ruling Passions article from The Nation. –
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trumps-ruling-passions/

Our national embarrassment continues providing such profoundly ignorant, outlandish tweets and actions because he’s a narcissistic publicity whore who enjoys the attention regardless of the consequences and to serve as distractions from his corrupt policies and failed presidency.

Trump’s wealth comes from money laundering, and it’s gotten worse since he entered the White House article from The Daily Kos. –
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/12/1732169/-Trump-s-wealth-comes-from-money-laundering-and-it-s-gotten-worse-since-he-entered-the-White-House

For years our nefarious narcissist’s illegal business practices have made him millions which is why he’s freaking out about Mueller following the money.

Trump’s War on the Press Follows the Mussolini and Hitler Playbook article from The Daily Beast. –
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-war-on-the-press-follows-the-mussolini-and-hitler-playbook

Our fake president’s war on fake news is predicated on his Hitler-aspiring desire to turn our so-called Democracy into a dictatorship.

Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers article from Buzzfeed News. –
https://www.buzzfeed.com/thomasfrank/secret-money-how-trump-made-millions-selling-condos-to?utm_term=.plyKbV6z2#.baXGygABL

More on the millions Trump is making with his money laundering while sitting as president:

More than one-fifth of Donald Trump’s US condominiums have been purchased since the 1980s in secretive, all-cash transactions that enable buyers to avoid legal scrutiny by shielding their finances and identities, a BuzzFeed News investigation has found.

Records show that more than 1,300 Trump condominiums were bought not by people but by shell companies, and that the purchases were made without a mortgage, avoiding inquiries from lenders.

Those two characteristics signal that a buyer may be laundering money, the Treasury Department has said in a series of statements since 2016. Treasury’s financial-crimes unit has, in recent years, launched investigations around the country into all-cash shell-company real-estate purchases amid concerns that some such sales may involve money laundering. The agency is considering requiring real-estate professionals to adopt anti-money-laundering programs.

All-cash purchases by shell companies do not by themselves indicate illegal or improper activity, and they have become more common in recent years in both Trump buildings and other luxury home sales across the United States. Developers such as Trump have no obligation to scrutinize their purchasers or their funding sources…”

Trump claims he is ‘not a racist’ despite all evidence to the contrary article from Think Progress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-claims-he-is-not-a-racist-but-he-is-58f2a83645ce/

Regardless of how many times and how vehemently he denies it, there are decades of documentation that proves he is indeed racist.

Continue reading

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 194

Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

We begin today’s misadventures of our malevolent minority-elect president with an extremely embarrassing book that will undoubtedly accelerate the end of his failed presidency, why the debates over Trump’s mental deficiencies – which he has repeatedly proven he is suffering from – don’t matter, our lackluster lame duck president isn’t taking credit for his biggest accomplishments for obvious reasons, our national embarrassment’s complete corruption and ignorance have been a matter of public record for decades so it’s a mystery as to why his enablers in Washington continue aiding and abetting him – which makes them just as guilty as he is, our fake president’s war on fake news serve as distractions from his failed presidency, understanding how and why our idiotic Twitter tyrant tweets is key to identifying and ending his corrupt regime, our demented delinquent speaks at a 4th grade level – which is the lowest of the last 15 U.S. Presidents, Trump approval ratings reveal he’s the least popular president – by far – to enter a second year in office, Trump’s fraudulent ‘voter integrity commission’ found zero evidence of voter fraud, Trump’s violations of the emoluments clause and conflicts of interest are making him millions, America is paying a heavy price for the damage being inflicted by our Delusional Orange Menace, our racist Shit for brains president with no mandate just can’t stop showing his true colors and a lot more.

The Wildest Moments From ‘Fire And Fury,’ The Trump Book Everyone Is Talking About article from The Huffington Post. –
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fire-and-fury-highlights_us_5a4fca68e4b003133ec7a77f

Some of the more memorable excerpts from the book are highly embarrassing to America’s worst-ever president and it could easily play a major role in ending his failed presidency.

‘An Idiot Surrounded by Clowns’: Why Trump (Still) Sits in the White House article from Counterpunch. –
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/05/an-idiot-surrounded-by-clowns-why-trump-still-sits-in-the-white-house/

A look at how our dimwitted dip shit got to occupy the White House and why he’s still there.

6 Things Trump Actually Deserves Credit For article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/6-things-trump-actually-deserves-credit

Our lackluster lame duck president likes taking credit for his bogus accomplishments – most of which have absolutely nothing to do with him – so he needs to be recognized for his failures too.

Is President Trump Mentally Ill? It Doesn’t Matter article from Talking Points Memo. –
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-president-trump-mentally-ill-it-doesnt-matter

Trump has repeatedly proven that he has serious mental deficits and it will prove disastrous for this country if something isn’t done:

“We are now back on to the feverish debate about whether or not Donald Trump is mentally ill or suffering from the onset of dementia. The most important thing to know about this debate is that it simply doesn’t matter. Diagnoses are something for trained professionals and even they are challenged to make them without a proper in-person examination. But again, it doesn’t matter.

For public purposes, clinical diagnoses are only relevant as predictors of behavior. If the President has a cognitive deficiency or mental illness that might cause him to act in unpredictable or dangerous ways or simply be unable to do the job, we need to know. But My God, we do know! We see him acting in these ways every day – and not just in multiple news reports from an abundance of different news organizations. We see it with our own eyes: in his public actions, his public statements, his tweets. All the diagnosis of a mental illness could tell us is that Trump might be prone to act in ways that we literally see him acting in every day: impulsive, erratic, driven by petty aggressions and paranoia, showing poor impulsive control, an inability to moderate self-destructive behavior. He is frequently either frighteningly out of touch with reality or sufficiently pathological in his lying that it is impossible to tell. Both are very bad.

It is now widely believed that President Reagan showed early signs of his later Alzheimers diagnosis during the latter part of his presidency. How much or whether it affected his ability to carry out his duties is less clear. But that is a very different case. The kinds of subtle lapses in memory or cognition that might hint at such an affliction would be very difficult for the public to be aware of, especially if his staff is making efforts to conceal them. We don’t have that problem here.

It is also important to understand the nature of mental health diagnoses. Neurological disorders and lapses of cognitive function are different and something I know less about. But a key element of most DSM-V diagnoses is the degree to which the behavior or affect impairs normal life functions. Can you hold down a job? Can you carry on healthy or functional relationships with other people? Can you sleep and take basic care of your health? This fact is important for a number of reasons. But it highlights an important fact: the nature of clinical diagnoses of mental illness are heavily informed by the need for and potential efficacy of treatment. The framework of these clinical definitions simply don’t line up well with the issues that are important to ask about public officials, which are more or less entirely about behavior…”

Donald Trump Goes Full Fredo article from The Atlantic. –
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/donald-trump-goes-full-fredo/549875/

Our national embarrassment’s complete corruption and incompetence have been a matter of record for decades so it remains a mystery as to why he was ever allowed to run for President and why his enablers in Washington continue aiding and abetting his crimes – which makes them just as guilty as Trump is.

Continue reading

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 179

Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Today’s misadventures of our illegitimate popular vote losing fake president begins with his war on knowledge and truth so he can distract from all his embarrassments and malfeasance, Trump’s latest blatant attempt to sabotage Obamacare is both reckless and illegal, more on our national embarrassment’s failed presidency, an essay on why it’s time to flush the piece of shit in the White House down the toilet, our Liar-in-Chief is lying about his fraudulent tax reform scam, still trying to blame everyone else for his impotence and failures and a lot more.

Trump’s War on Knowledge article from The New York Review of Books. –
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/10/12/trumps-war-on-knowledge/

Our fake president’s war on fake news is history repeating itself, albeit ignorantly under his watch.

Golfer-In-Chief: Trump Has Now Spent 27% Of His Presidency On A Golf Course article from PoliticusUSA. –
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/14/golfer-in-chief-trump-spent-27-presidency-golf.html

That’s an awful lot of time wasted golfing for someone who constantly lambasted his predecessor for doing the same thing…

Why the 25th Amendment Won’t Save Us article from Truthout. –
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42268-why-the-25th-amendment-won-t-save-us

Because the GOP brown shirts that keep saving Trump’s duplicituos Orange ass are just as racist and illegitimate as their lackluster lame duck leader.

Sick Trump Celebrates Raising Insurance Premiums And Throwing People Off Their Healthcare article from PoliticusUSA. –
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/14/twisted-trump-celebrating-raising-health-insurance-premiums-throwing-people-healthcare.html

Destroying the lives of millions of Americans – which is tantamount to genocide – due to your profound ignorance isn’t going to help our national embarrassment at all:

“Trump is celebrating his health care executive order which is going to increase insurance premiums by 20% while throwing 1 million people off of their health insurance.

This is the messed up world that exists between Trump’s ears:

(2 Trump tweets)

Trump’s executive order doesn’t expand access or make healthcare more affordable.

Here are the three outcomes of Trump’s action:…”

Trump’s Media Furore… US Democracy On Thin Ice article from Strategic Culture. –
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/10/14/trump-media-furore-us-democracy-thin-ice.html

Our fake president’s war on fake news – anything that contradicts his corruption and reveals the true depths of his ignorance in a bad light – is putting an already wavering U.S. Democracy in a bad position.

Continue reading

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 176

Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Today’s misadventures of our minority-elect president begin with an overwhelming majority blasting his tardy, irresponsible response to Puerto Rico’s hurricane crisis – despite his self-absorbed lies that he and his administration get an A+ over how they handled it, Trump’s Russia scandal is growing more interesting with each passing day, insight into the multiple deferments used by Trump to avoid having to serve and his cowardice of bullying those that do, a look at the incredible corruption of an illegitimate, minority-elect president and the deviants that work for him, how our fake president’s war on fake news is actually a war on reality – which is starkly different from his delusional version of reality in his alternate universe, once again our impotent idiot tries to turn a crisis into being all about him, Trump is a textbook racist, the moron in the White House can’t handle the fact that one of his own actually called him a moron, it could take years to undo the damage done to this country by our popular vote losing psychopath in the White House and much more.

AP-NORC Poll: Low marks for Trump’s Puerto Rico response article from The AP on Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-norc-poll-few-approve-trumps-puerto-rico-100129728–politics.html

Despite our national embarrassment’s egregious claims that his administration handled the Puerto Rico disaster splendidly, the truth about his racist, disastrous response reveals that the delusions in his alternate reality are beyond belief…

With No Muslims to Blame, Trump the Twitter Troll Has Gone Eerily Silent About the Las Vegas Murderer article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trolls-silent-las-vegas-massacre

Our Twitter tyrants unusual sympathies and ‘warm condolences’ contradict our racist popular vote losing pig’s usual bluster – had it not been a white man who killed all those people in Vegas he would have been singing a much different tune.

Trump On Pins and Needles As More Bad Russia News Is Coming article from PoliticusUSA. –
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/03/trump-pins-needles-bad-russia-news-coming.html

Our lackluster lame duck president’s Russia scandal – primarily over the ample evidence of obstruction of Justice coupled with all the lies he told about not doing business with Russia – is about to ensure Trump’s compete implosion.

Nixon Lawyer: Donald Trump Abused Pardon Power When He Freed Joe Arpaio article from Time on Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nixon-lawyer-donald-trump-abused-151511604.html

Our gift that keeps on giving has no regard for Law or seperation of powers and will eventually dig himself a hole he won’t be able to climb out of:

“During the last two days of his embattled presidency, Richard Nixon made a rare principled decision. With the Watergate special prosecutor and congressional impeachment proceedings closing in, he rejected last-minute requests for pardons from his two former top aides, the men who could most damagingly testify against him. Unfortunately, while dust is settling on Donald Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, its message suggests a much cruder view of the pardon power, and sets a dangerous precedent for the months to come.

Most pardons attract little attention. Over the course of a presidency, typical presidents, with the advice of the Department of Justice, pardon or commute the sentences of hundreds of people who have moved beyond their crimes, and long after all investigations have ended. Sometimes, presidents issue pardons to try to help the nation move past bitter divisions, such Gerald Ford’s pardon of Nixon and Jimmy Carter’s general pardon of Vietnam draft dodgers. And occasionally, presidents issue pardons to friends, relatives, or supporters, and even at the request of a foreign government, such as Bill Clinton’s controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.

But never has a president embroiled in scandal used the pardon power to protect himself. Nixon’s refusal provides useful history. On March 1, 1974, a federal grand jury indicted former chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, former chief domestic advisor John Ehrlichman, and five other aides for criminal conspiracy stemming from the Watergate cover-up. The president was exposed as well. To be sure, the Department of Justice took the position that a president cannot be indicted while in office. But the grand jury named Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator. And before Ford pardoned him, he risked future prosecution.

On August 7, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, employing different channels, approached the White House and asked for pardons. They did not need to point out that the risk of prison time makes people more likely to testify. Yet Nixon rejected their request. The next day, he announced his resignation and submitted himself to fate. Gerald Ford later pardoned Nixon on September 8, 1974. Haldeman and Ehrlichman each served 18 months in prison. Neither ever fully testified under oath; their accounts of the Watergate cover-up are found only in their White House recordings, and Nixon’s secret tapes…”

Trump forgets to bring human empathy with him to Puerto Rico article from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-forgets-bring-human-empathy-him-puerto-rico

Empathy is something America’s worst-ever president is incapable of feeling, and as with his other visits to hurricane stricken locales, he did nothing to see the actual damage inflicted, opting instead to present another staged photo op to try and make himself look good while failing miserably…

Continue reading

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 135

Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

We begin today’s misadventures of our illegitimate minority-elect president with his attempts to take us back to the gilded Golden age with his draconian policies and non-existent mandate, how our fake president put his war on fake news front and center while allegedly honoring veterans – plus more on his war with the media and the truth, our Loser-in-Chief’s fraudulent voter integrity commission being recognized for what it is, why our national embarrassment’s White House leaks so many things to the press, the distractions of our Twitter tyrant aren’t doing him any favors and a lot more.

The Nineteenth-Century Trump article from The New York Book Review. –
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/06/27/the-nineteenth-century-trump/

Trump’s draconian policies and non-existent mandates are pushing this country backwards to the Gilded Golden Age.

‘I’m president, they’re not’: Donald Trump savages media at veterans rally article from The Guardian. –
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/02/im-president-theyre-not-donald-trump-savages-media-at-veterans-rally

How our fake president put his war on fake news front and center while allegedly honoring veterans.

Trump Tweets Fake Video of Him Body-Slamming, Dunking CNN article from Slate. –
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/02/trump_tweets_video_of_him_body_slamming_punching_cnn.html

Our popular vote losing demented delinquent in the White House posts fake video of himself attacking CNN after crying about fake news…

THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT LIE LIKE YOU AND ME article from Wired. –
https://www.wired.com/story/president-trumps-lies-and-untruths/

Inside the twisted mind of our incorrigibly incompetent Liar-in-Chief:

“EARLIER THIS WEEK, the New York Times posted a comprehensive accounting of President Donald Trump’s lies. It is, among other things, a triumph of web design. Orange, san-serif dates turn each falsehood into bricks in a vast wall. Scrolling turns the wall into a wave, a tsunami of mendacity.

And once the wave has crashed over you and you have wiped out on the rocky shoals of existential despair, the Times gives you a methods section:

We have set a conservative standard here, leaving out many dubious statements (like the claim that his travel ban is “similar” to Obama administration policy). Some people may still take issue with this standard, arguing that the president wasn’t speaking literally. But we believe his long pattern of using untruths to serve his purposes, as a businessman and politician, means that his statements are not simply careless errors.

We are using the word “lie” deliberately. Not every falsehood is deliberate on Trump’s part. But it would be the height of naïveté to imagine he is merely making honest mistakes. He is lying.

That’s admirable rigor. Writers David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson tell you what they counted—and defend their use of word “lie” overall, which a year ago was one of the most inflammatory charges you could lob at a political opponent, much less a president. So, crumple that idea up and chuck it. But pay attention to Leonhardt and Thompson’s definition of “lie.” Even if you accept the premise that lies and lying are bad (I do! I do!), lies have an architecture more intricate than “something not accurate.”…”

Trump defends tweets as ‘modern day presidential’ in renewed attack on media article from The Los Angeles Times. –
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-updates-everything-president-fake-1498958671-htmlstory.html

Only in our demented delusionist’s alternate reality would you see an impotent president talking about his ignorant Twitter tantrums being ‘modern day presidential.’

Continue reading