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Eight hundred thousand government employees have now gotten their second consecutive paycheck of $0.00. Many thousands of them have become slaves, working without pay for a slave owner who vows to hold them hostage until he gets $5.7 billion of US taxpayers' money so he can erect The Trump Wall as a monument to himself. His toadies and lackeys, same as the slave owner, do not care about the plight of these workers. On November 3, 2020, the workers will remember this.
Trump aides keep telling struggling federal workers to suck it up
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/24/pol...low/index.html
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This is lovely: The White House is now considering declaring an "emergency" and taking away $3.6 billion from military construction, $3 billion from Pentagon civil works funds and $200 million from DHS funds so the President can erect The Trump Wall, the monument to himself. If an emergency is declared, the US Army Corps of Engineers would be deployed to construct The Trump Wall. The administration would have to seize a lot of privately-owned land and would likely face dozens of lawsuits -- but, gosh darnit, how can we ever Make America Great Again without building The Trump Wall?
Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order and has identified $7 billion for wall
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/polit...aft/index.html
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Deutsche Bank loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to Trump when no other banks would do so.....and they also made huge loans to Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.....and they also made huge loans to Prevazon, a Russian company which sent one of its agents to the infamous Trump Tower meeting.....and in 2017, Deutsche Bank was forced to pay a $600 million fine for its role in a $10 billion Russian money-laundering scheme. Did Trump, too, engage in money laundering? We will eventually find out.
New Trump investigation launched as House probes his dealings with Deutsche Bank
https://www.investors.com/news/trump...deutsche-bank/
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Donald Trump thinks the United States will be a more secure nation if he can build The Trump Wall, his expensive, unnecessary monument to himself. If he's so concerned about national security, perhaps he should build a wall around his son-in-law.
Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance but were overruled
NBC News, Jan 24 2019 5:14 PM
Jared Kushner's application for a top secret clearance was rejected by two career White House security specialists after an FBI background check raised concerns about potential foreign influence on him — but their supervisor overruled the recommendation and approved the clearance, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.
The official, Carl Kline, is a former Pentagon employee who was installed as director of the personnel security office in the Executive Office of the President in May 2017. Kushner's was one of at least 30 cases in which Kline overruled career security experts and approved a top secret clearance for incoming Trump officials despite unfavorable information, the two sources said. They said the number of rejections that were overruled was unprecedented.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information, said the Trump White House attracted many people with untraditional backgrounds who had complicated financial and personal histories, some of which raised red flags. Kushner's FBI background check identified questions about his family's business, his foreign contacts, his foreign travel and meetings he had during the campaign, the sources said, declining to be more specific.
The Washington Post, citing current and former US officials familiar with intelligence reports on the matter, reported last February that officials in at least four countries had privately discussed ways they could manipulate Kushner by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience.
On the basis of potential foreign influence, the adjudicator deemed Kushner's application "unfavorable" and handed it to a supervisor. The supervisor agreed with the "unfavorable" determination and gave it to Kline, who overruled the "unfavorable" determination and approved Kushner for "top secret" security clearance, the sources said. The House Oversight Committee, now run by Rep. Elijah Cummings, announced yesterday that it is digging into how Kushner obtained his security clearance.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...rruled-n962221
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Breaking news! Trump and House Democrats have reached a deal allowing government to reopen, but only for three weeks while negotiations continue over the President's demand for $5.7 billion of US taxpayers' money so he can build The Trump Wall monument to himself. If he doesn't get his money by February 15, he will likely declare a "national emergency" in the hope of being able to build The Trump Wall.
Trump: 'We have reached a deal'
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/25/pol...der/index.html
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Many people have written books about Donald Trump and more are on the way. Trump sees the books as "negative" and "fake." That is because they tell the truth about him. Some day there will be a book that says nothing but good things about Donald Trump. Donald Trump will write it.
CNN reporter Jim Acosta writing book about Trump's war with the press
CNN, Jan 25 2019 10:00 AM
Jim Acosta, the CNN correspondent who was temporarily barred from the White House last November following a tense exchange with President Trump, is writing a book about the President's relationship with the media. Harper Collins imprint Harper will publish Acosta's The Enemy Of The People: A Dangerous Time To Tell The Truth In America this spring.
"Simply put, I am writing this book to share what I've experienced covering President Trump during his first two years in office," Acosta said. "This sobering, bewildering and sometimes frightening experience has made it absolutely clear that this is a dangerous time to tell the truth in America. The President and his team, not to mention some of his supporters, have attempted to silence the press in ways we have never seen before."
In a news release, Harper said the book will detail Acosta's "view from the frontlines of Trump’s relentless war on the media. He details never-before-revealed stories of this White House's rejection of truth, while laying out the stakes for how Trump's hostility toward facts poses an unprecedented threat to our democracy."
https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-...125-story.html
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The partial shutdown of government has temporarily ended. Bernie Sanders tweeted, "Thank you, Mr. President, for shutting down the government and holding 800,000 federal employees hostage. All for nothing!" Rep. Dan Kildee tweeted, "I've seen a lot of Presidents take a victory lap before but this is the first time I've seen a President go to the Rose Garden and take a defeat lap." Democrats remain opposed to what Rep. Hakeem Jeffries calls Trump's "medieval border wall" -- and the battle will rage on.
Dems say Trump caved on wall, shutdown was 'all for nothing'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...othing-n962891
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Trump has signed the measure approved by the House and Senate to reopen government until February 15. The measure provides no funding for The Trump Wall monument to himself but he promised his immigrant-hating followers a wall and he doesn't dare risk losing the support of base. Thus, he tells them the concession he made is not a concession. He also tries to sound magnanimous and sympathetic to everyone hurt by the shutdown -- while failing to mention that he is the one who ordered the shutdown and let it drag on for 35 days!
"Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I wish people would read or listen to my words on the Border Wall. This was in no way a concession. It was taking care of millions of people who were getting badly hurt by the Shutdown with the understanding that in 21 days, if no deal is done, it's off to the races!
4:33 PM - Jan 25, 2019"
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Trump says he wants to keep illegal immigrants out of the United States but he apparently has no problem with hiring them to work for him. I bet they were paid in cash and not by check.
One of Trump's golf clubs fired 12 unauthorized immigrant workers
Business Insider, Jan 26 2019
A dozen unauthorized Latin American immigrants have been fired from their jobs at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. On January 18, the employees were asked individually to meet with a Trump human resources representative who let them go, according to The Washington Post. The employees and their attorney told the newspaper they were fired because they were unauthorized immigrants. Workers were told staff had examined the immigration documents and discovered they were fake, despite the documents being held for years on file.
The news follows multiple reports that management at Trump's club employed several unauthorized workers. One employee even said the human resources department shielded her from being vetted by the Secret Service. Other reports said golf club management had provided unauthorized employees with fake immigration documents, an allegation which is under state and federal investigation.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...ployees-2019-1
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Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele makes a very good point. He complained that Trump "put a lot of American federal workers through hell for nothing. This whole idea of building the wall was not something that had any validity on Capitol Hill. If it was such a priority for them, why didn't they pass it over the last two years?"
I agree. Republicans controlled both houses of Congress during those two years. I think Trump deliberately waited until Democrats regained control of the House before he started demanding $5.7 billion of US taxpayers' money for The Trump Wall. He knew he wouldn't get the money and thus could start falsely accusing the Democrats of being "obstructionists" who want "open borders" and "floods of illegal immigrants." Donald Trump, "the great deal maker and great negotiator." Yeah, right. The only one who calls him that is Donald Trump.
'I hope we get some common sense': Republicans reeling from political damage caused by shutdown
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...own/ar-BBSM6EJ
