President Trump:

"Bob Woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought they were so bad or dangerous, why didn’t he immediately report them in an effort to save lives? Didn’t he have an obligation to do so? No, because he knew they were good and proper answers. Calm, no panic!"

The president told Woodward in March he always wanted to play down the seriousness of the virus.

“Well, I think Bob, really to be honest with you … I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told the author in a phone conversation. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”

Trump’s comment to Woodward echoed similar public statements the president made to reporters.

When reporters asked on March 30th why he was downplaying the seriousness of the virus, Trump replied, “The statements I made are: I want to keep the country calm. I don’t want to panic in the country.”


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What stops Mattis from speaking up right now ?

What combination motivates Woodward? Making $ on book sales or hurting Donald Trump's election chances? Woodward - conartist

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Originally posted by MRBTX:
Fiorina, another sore loser, on Fox Business stating she’s voting for sleepy joe.

Such a disappointment this bitch.

I never understood the attraction in the first place.

She was on the top-level executive team that, through a series of poor decisions and execution, led to the eventual demise of AT&T. (No, I don't mean the thing that calls itself "AT&T" today. I mean the real AT&T.) As CEO of HP, she nearly destroyed the company. What is left has been a mere shadow of its former self.

^^^ I totally agree. Results matter in business. Her results just aren't there.

Just another example of bad decision making and a flawed thought process from someone s who has been at the helm of several failures.

You do t expect brilliant insight from Carly. She just doesn’t have it.

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Arab League refuses to condemn Israel-UAE agreement, Palestinian Authority (PA) wets its pants.

Isn't it strange that the Middle East has been so much less a hot fucking mess for like 2 or 3 years. We went from essentially an all-out civil war in Syria that threatened to destabilize the whole region and Iran doing all the shit Iran does to...relative calm.

Hmmm. Wonder why that is???

And I thought the whole place was supposed to fall apart if we pulled out of the Iran nuclear "deal"....

So strange.

It is strange isn't.

Maybe blowing those Russian mercs to pieces helped too.

Oh, and General Salami[sic] too.

... watching the live broadcast (Fox News) as President Trump prepares to talk in Freeland, Michigan ...

Lee Greenwood singing 'God Bless The USA', as the CiC walks from Air Force One, to the podium.

It's times like these ...

Trump drew another large crowd here the other day in Winston Salem. Now one of the local "experts" is warning of dire consequences and the rally could be a "potential super spreader of the virus". I'm so damn tired of these bastards!!

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Trump drew another large crowd here the other day in Winston Salem. Now one of the local "experts" is warning of dire consequences and the rally could be a "potential super spreader of the virus". I'm so damn tired of these bastards!!

They never stop spewing lies. I can't believe how many people they packed into that airport. I've watched airshows there when I was kid.

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^^^ I totally agree. Results matter in business. Her results just aren't there.

I disagree. I’d argue that her results are very much there, clearly evident, and obviously negative.

One of the local TV "news" programs last night described this as "a small crowd."

Trump Michigan rally crowd nearly twice what was expected -- up to 10,000, airport manager says

All part of the plan. The 8 week plan. It's beautiful.

July 17 - EO: Only US Citizens would be counted. Lower prescription drug prices

8/2 Kurdish Oil deal.
9/7 UAE/Israel Normilize relations
9/7 Serbia/Kosovo normalize relations
9/9 US announces troop withdraw from Afghanistan
9/9 US announces peace talks with Afghanistan
9/10 PLO told to pound sand
9/11 Bahrain/Israel normalize relations
9/11 Saudi Arabia allows flights to/from Israel to fly over SA

BO saying an Iranian/Russian Nuclear umbrella was "inevitable"


WINNING!



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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

I can't remember, but I thought Cruz said he would turn it down....

I think you are right about Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. I remember it that way too, but that was 3+ years ago. Cruz may feel differently now. I would at least ask him.



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I would enjoy seeing Ted take Ruth's seat.

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President Trump announces deal between Bahrain, Israel to normalize relations in push for Mideast peace

Saudi Arabia next?

NY admits they rely on the honesty of non-citizens and illegal immigrants to decide if they vote or not.

https://justthenews.com/politi...red-vote-ny-election

Todd Valentine, New York Board of Elections co-executive director, and Nick LaLota, Suffolk County elections commissioner, said some non-citizens and illegal immigrants incorrectly get registered to vote in the state of New York.

"We don't have the proper amount of rules and laws and regulations to fetter out that sort of nefarious activity," LaLota said.

LaLota explained that undocumented immigrants are able to apply for driver's licenses in the state, which makes it easier for them to mistakenly become registered eligible voters.

"The state automatically registers them to vote unless they check a small box saying that no, they don't want to get registered to vote," LaLota said. "I would presume some of that happens intentionally, probably a larger amount happens unintentionally, but whatever the case is, the end result is a large amount of folks who are not in our country legally getting put on the rolls."

LaLota said his ability to find and remove non-citizens from voter files on the county level was constrained. "I don't have any tools," he said. "I'm not allowed to, as an elections commissioner, ask anybody from the U.S. Department of State or anybody else, who has citizenship, who has a Social Security number or anything else, so I have no tools here

"If they don't check the box, and say they are a citizen," he added, "it is going to go through and get that [voter] application and just as you pointed out, it's very difficult in the back end because there is no list of citizens that's ever been given to any state or county across the entire country."

Valentine said some states have asked the federal government for a list of citizens to help them locate ineligible registered voters, such as non-citizens, but they have been denied.

"Right now, we're reliant solely upon the voter to check the appropriate box on the application that yes, I am a citizen, and if they don't check the box — 'Hey, you forgot' — it's an incomplete application — that's the one good thing DMV does," he said.

Valentine explained that the current system relies on the honesty of non-citizens and illegal immigrants to indicate that they aren't citizens during the voter registration process at the DMV.

"It's very difficult, if there's no other way to validate that in any manner,"

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gee, if only we asked in the census

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