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National Debt by President
Joe Biden 2021 – present: $6.32 trillion - 6.33% (less than 1 term)
Donald Trump 2017 – 2021: $8.2 TRILLION (40.43% in just 1 single term)
Barack Obama 2009 – 2017: $8.34 trillion (69.98% 2 full terms)
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NEW YORK (AP) — A company that owns buildings with Donald Trump and the family of Jared Kushner is a finalist for a $1.7 billion contract to build the FBI’s new headquarters.
Donald Trump on Edward Snowden: Kill the ‘traitor’
Donald Trump on Edward Snowden: “I think Snowden is a terrible threat, I think he’s a terrible traitor, and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country — you know what we used to do to traitors, right?”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-kill-traitor/
List of Pardons by Trump:
- Alex Adjmi: Adjmi was granted a full pardon. The White House said Adjmi was convicted of a financial crime in 1996 and served 5 years in prison.
- Michael Ashley: Ashley was convicted for bank fraud over the 2009 collapse of mortgage company Lend America and sentenced to 3 years in prison in 2019. He was the executive vice president and chief business strategist with the company. Ashley was ordered to pay $49 million in restitution and $800,000 in forfeiture. His sentence was commuted.
- Stephen K. Bannon: Trump's former chief strategist in the White House was in charge of the final months of his 2016 presidential campaign and was indicted in August along with three others on wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges. Prosecutors alleged that Bannon’s crowdfunding “We Build the Wall” campaign raised more than $25 million from Trump supporters and used hundreds of thousands for personal expenses. He was taken into custody by U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents while on board the yacht of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. Bannon received a full pardon and now will not have to face a trial.
- Dr. Faustino Bernadett: Bernadett, a retired anesthesiologist, was sentenced last year to 15 months in federal prison for taking part in a long-running health care fraud scheme where he authorized sham contracts that concealed over $30 million in illegal kickback payments to physicians, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The overall scheme resulted in more than $900 million in fraudulent bills being submitted, the office said. The White House said Bernadett has spent the past year “devoted to helping protect his community from Covid-19.” He received a full pardon.
- Carl Andrews Boggs: Trump granted a full pardon to Carl Andrews Boggs. In 2014, Boggs pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from a criminal investigation into the illegal use of a disadvantaged business enterprise to obtain government-funded construction contracts. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the department of transportation and one count of money laundering conspiracy.
- Randall “Duke” Cunningham: Another ex-member of Congress, the California Republican was sentenced to 8 years in prison for bribery and was released in 2013. He received a conditional pardon.
- Kwame Kilpatrick: The former mayor of Detroit had his 28-year sentence commuted. He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and resigned from office as part of a plea deal in 2008 following a pay-to-play scheme in which Kilpatrick and his father took kickbacks and bribes to steer city business to certain contractors. He initially served 99 days in prison but then served an additional year for violating his probation and was released in 2011.
- Salomon Melgen: Trump commuted the prison sentence of Melgen, an eye doctor and major Democratic donor convicted of defrauding Medicare patients. He stood trial with New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, who lobbied Trump for Melgen's case.
- Rick Renzi: Former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., was granted a full pardon. In 2013, he was sentenced to three years in prison for extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering and racketeering in a public corruption case. He had served three terms in the House.
- Aviem Sella: An Israeli citizen, Sella was indicted in March 1987 on charges he recruited convicted American spy Jonathan Jay Pollard to collect U.S. military secrets for Israel. Trump granted him a full pardon and his request was supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
- David Tamman: Trump granted a full pardon to David Tamman, who was a partner at a law firm when he doctored financial documents at the behest of a client who was perpetrating a Ponzi scheme. According to the Department of Justice, the scheme ultimately took $22 million from victims. Tamman was found guilty of 10 counts that included obstruction of justice, altering records in a federal investigation, and being an accessory after the fact to the fraud scheme. He was convicted in 2013 and completed his seven-year sentence in 2019.
- Monstsho Eugene Vernon: Vernon had his sentence commuted after serving 19 years in prison. Vernon committed numerous armed bank robberies in Greenville, South Carolina. The White House said that some of these offenses involved Vernon carrying BB guns as opposed to genuine firearms.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...ences-n1254806
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Trump Doesn’t Deserve A Second Term For How He Mismanaged Covid
The Federalist
By: Georgi Boorman - August 18, 2023
If we truly want to safeguard our freedoms and our republic, it’s critical we remember what really happened in 2020.
Donald J. Trump currently faces unfair indictments that threaten the future of this republic by establishing judicial persecution as a way to keep political opponents out of office. If Trump becomes our nominee, millions of Americans will vote for him no matter what happens in court. They might see voting for him as necessary to send the message that this kind of persecution cannot be tolerated, but the record speaks for itself: Trump in no way deserves a second term.
Most of us are trying to move on from the Covid era and allow those traumatic memories to slip into the blurry past, but if we truly want to safeguard our freedoms and our republic, it’s critical we remember what really happened in 2020. President Trump played a key role in allowing us to be stripped of our freedoms and, through championing Operation Warp Speed, to be later subjected to draconian vaccine mandates during the Biden administration.
On March 16, 2020, Trump gave a press conference with Anthony Fauci and White House Covid Coordinator Deborah Birx that precipitated a cascade of supposedly state-led lockdowns. “My administration is recommending that all Americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people,” Trump said.
Then Anthony Fauci read the fine print on the two-page flyer of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance handed out at the conference and available online to every American. That fine print, which Trump may or may not have read (either way, it was his responsibility), prompted almost all states to lock down: closing businesses, churches, schools, denying social contact for seniors in long-term living, canceling weddings and funerals, and giving critical cover to inhumane hospital policies that forced people to die alone.
This set of “recommendations” was the perfect system of political CYA — one which Trump should have seen coming: The states could blame the CDC for demanding lockdowns, and the CDC could deny they ever “mandated” any lockdowns and claim it was purely the states’ decision. Showing the potency of the CDC’s lockdown guidelines, Fauci, as the Trump administration’s key media spokesman on Covid at the time, admitted that a “national stay-at-home order” is “essentially what it is.”
Fauci, Birx, and the CDC supported months more restrictions on basic liberties, long after Trump had changed his mind and demanded that America reopen. In June of 2020, he was bragging about what a great job he’d done on Covid while nursing home residents were still suffering in isolation, a third of small businesses across the nation had already been shuttered, and children as young as 2 were being forced to wear masks in the summer heat — masks Trump’s CDC demanded Americans wear. He also flip-flopped on reopening schools the following month, saying some may need to delay reopening, despite Covid not posing a substantial threat to children.
Trump himself made extended lockdowns possible by signing the CARES Act, which doled out $300 billion in paychecks for sitting at home and paid far more to businesses not to operate but keep employees on the books. Without CARES funds, the state could not afford to keep the country locked down. They would have had no choice but to begrudge people their basic rights to work, consume, and travel. Now, the profligate spending of the federal government during Trump and Biden’s terms has contributed to the inflation-straining family budgets today.
CARES also granted $400 million to encourage a Covid-conscious 2020 election via mail-in voting, leading to a number of problems with election security and integrity. His administration also shut down the cruise industry and severely curtailed international tourism after Covid was already known to be widespread within the states.
To his credit, Trump did change his mind. On May 18, he tweeted “REOPEN OUR COUNTRY.” (It appears it was then deleted.) He would later stand on a White House balcony and remove his facemask after returning from treatment for Covid. But it was too little too late, and this machine of panic and oppression he set in motion could no longer be controlled.
What’s more, once the first Covid shots became available, Trump, who had already been infected and recovered, chose to take them. His contribution to the serious misinformation campaign against the protection of natural immunity can’t be understated. Millions of people who had already had Covid followed his lead and got the jab, which proved to be the least safe, least effective modern vaccine ever to be mass-injected.
Of the three vaccines Trump’s government authorized, one, the Janssen shot, was quickly discouraged from use due to risk of dangerous blood clotting. The other two, from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, began showing evidence of causing myocarditis just months after launch — and this was only one kind of adverse event that the government would admit was causally related to the vaccines. Many more adverse effects are hotly disputed today, but the government’s surveillance system, VAERS, has taken in a record-shattering number of adverse-event reports for Covid shots compared to other vaccines. Though VAERS reports are unverified, the largest percentages of reports are typically submitted by health care professionals (38 percent) and vaccine manufacturers (30 percent). The system exists to generate “safety signal detection.”
Excess mortality in 2021, the year of mass vaccination with the products Trump championed, was even greater than in 2020. If the jabs, which nearly everyone deemed “vulnerable” took early that year, “saved millions of lives,” as Trump has claimed, how can this staggering rise in mortality be explained? Overdose deaths increased by 31 percent, a tragedy inseparable from lockdown fallout, yet only accountable for a small portion of the approximately 443,000 deaths over the expected number. Even deaths coded as “Covid” were at or above 2020 levels through most of 2021. Trump was simply wrong, and the fallout from the Covid shots he was so proud for the government to produce hand-in-glove with corporations with spotty track records and non-existent ones (Spikevax was Moderna’s first commercially available product) is still being felt.
The injections’ speedy FDA authorization, which happened on Trump’s watch, and the promotion by members of his administration as “safe and effective” later paved the way for strict mandates by employers, including city and state governments and the U.S. military. The Biden administration’s attempt to force as many Americans as possible to take the experimental products wouldn’t have been possible had Trump not greenlighted Operation Warp Speed.
Trump’s biggest indictment is that what control he did have, even after dissenting from Fauci and Birx, he refused to exercise. Defenders say moves like firing Fauci, Birx, and extreme mask-promoter Redfield wouldn’t have meant much because the mass hysteria had already set in. But it would have meant everything to people hurt by Covid policies; it would have shown prudence, conviction, and a willingness to learn from his errors. He deserves to be commended for hiring Dr. Scott Atlas, who promoted reopening schools. But he also kept key Covid panic-pushers on board until he left office, and indeed said he didn’t get enough credit for Fauci’s work on Covid.
For those of us who are willing to remember Trump’s actions during 2020, pleas that Trump “wanted to reopen the country” ring hollow. We went through the Covid nightmare because Trump led us into it, empowering tyrants at all levels of government to strip us of our liberties. He has not apologized, and said “we did the right thing.” He took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and he broke it. Any Democrat put in the White House is sure to oppress the people to an even greater extent, but primary voters must take Trump’s pivotal mistakes during Covid into account, no matter their feelings on the indictments or the 2020 election. Trump can’t be trusted with a second term.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/18...managed-covid/
The Federalist
By: Georgi Boorman - August 18, 2023
If we truly want to safeguard our freedoms and our republic, it’s critical we remember what really happened in 2020.
Donald J. Trump currently faces unfair indictments that threaten the future of this republic by establishing judicial persecution as a way to keep political opponents out of office. If Trump becomes our nominee, millions of Americans will vote for him no matter what happens in court. They might see voting for him as necessary to send the message that this kind of persecution cannot be tolerated, but the record speaks for itself: Trump in no way deserves a second term.
Most of us are trying to move on from the Covid era and allow those traumatic memories to slip into the blurry past, but if we truly want to safeguard our freedoms and our republic, it’s critical we remember what really happened in 2020. President Trump played a key role in allowing us to be stripped of our freedoms and, through championing Operation Warp Speed, to be later subjected to draconian vaccine mandates during the Biden administration.
On March 16, 2020, Trump gave a press conference with Anthony Fauci and White House Covid Coordinator Deborah Birx that precipitated a cascade of supposedly state-led lockdowns. “My administration is recommending that all Americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people,” Trump said.
Then Anthony Fauci read the fine print on the two-page flyer of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance handed out at the conference and available online to every American. That fine print, which Trump may or may not have read (either way, it was his responsibility), prompted almost all states to lock down: closing businesses, churches, schools, denying social contact for seniors in long-term living, canceling weddings and funerals, and giving critical cover to inhumane hospital policies that forced people to die alone.
This set of “recommendations” was the perfect system of political CYA — one which Trump should have seen coming: The states could blame the CDC for demanding lockdowns, and the CDC could deny they ever “mandated” any lockdowns and claim it was purely the states’ decision. Showing the potency of the CDC’s lockdown guidelines, Fauci, as the Trump administration’s key media spokesman on Covid at the time, admitted that a “national stay-at-home order” is “essentially what it is.”
Fauci, Birx, and the CDC supported months more restrictions on basic liberties, long after Trump had changed his mind and demanded that America reopen. In June of 2020, he was bragging about what a great job he’d done on Covid while nursing home residents were still suffering in isolation, a third of small businesses across the nation had already been shuttered, and children as young as 2 were being forced to wear masks in the summer heat — masks Trump’s CDC demanded Americans wear. He also flip-flopped on reopening schools the following month, saying some may need to delay reopening, despite Covid not posing a substantial threat to children.
Trump himself made extended lockdowns possible by signing the CARES Act, which doled out $300 billion in paychecks for sitting at home and paid far more to businesses not to operate but keep employees on the books. Without CARES funds, the state could not afford to keep the country locked down. They would have had no choice but to begrudge people their basic rights to work, consume, and travel. Now, the profligate spending of the federal government during Trump and Biden’s terms has contributed to the inflation-straining family budgets today.
CARES also granted $400 million to encourage a Covid-conscious 2020 election via mail-in voting, leading to a number of problems with election security and integrity. His administration also shut down the cruise industry and severely curtailed international tourism after Covid was already known to be widespread within the states.
To his credit, Trump did change his mind. On May 18, he tweeted “REOPEN OUR COUNTRY.” (It appears it was then deleted.) He would later stand on a White House balcony and remove his facemask after returning from treatment for Covid. But it was too little too late, and this machine of panic and oppression he set in motion could no longer be controlled.
What’s more, once the first Covid shots became available, Trump, who had already been infected and recovered, chose to take them. His contribution to the serious misinformation campaign against the protection of natural immunity can’t be understated. Millions of people who had already had Covid followed his lead and got the jab, which proved to be the least safe, least effective modern vaccine ever to be mass-injected.
Of the three vaccines Trump’s government authorized, one, the Janssen shot, was quickly discouraged from use due to risk of dangerous blood clotting. The other two, from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, began showing evidence of causing myocarditis just months after launch — and this was only one kind of adverse event that the government would admit was causally related to the vaccines. Many more adverse effects are hotly disputed today, but the government’s surveillance system, VAERS, has taken in a record-shattering number of adverse-event reports for Covid shots compared to other vaccines. Though VAERS reports are unverified, the largest percentages of reports are typically submitted by health care professionals (38 percent) and vaccine manufacturers (30 percent). The system exists to generate “safety signal detection.”
Excess mortality in 2021, the year of mass vaccination with the products Trump championed, was even greater than in 2020. If the jabs, which nearly everyone deemed “vulnerable” took early that year, “saved millions of lives,” as Trump has claimed, how can this staggering rise in mortality be explained? Overdose deaths increased by 31 percent, a tragedy inseparable from lockdown fallout, yet only accountable for a small portion of the approximately 443,000 deaths over the expected number. Even deaths coded as “Covid” were at or above 2020 levels through most of 2021. Trump was simply wrong, and the fallout from the Covid shots he was so proud for the government to produce hand-in-glove with corporations with spotty track records and non-existent ones (Spikevax was Moderna’s first commercially available product) is still being felt.
The injections’ speedy FDA authorization, which happened on Trump’s watch, and the promotion by members of his administration as “safe and effective” later paved the way for strict mandates by employers, including city and state governments and the U.S. military. The Biden administration’s attempt to force as many Americans as possible to take the experimental products wouldn’t have been possible had Trump not greenlighted Operation Warp Speed.
Trump’s biggest indictment is that what control he did have, even after dissenting from Fauci and Birx, he refused to exercise. Defenders say moves like firing Fauci, Birx, and extreme mask-promoter Redfield wouldn’t have meant much because the mass hysteria had already set in. But it would have meant everything to people hurt by Covid policies; it would have shown prudence, conviction, and a willingness to learn from his errors. He deserves to be commended for hiring Dr. Scott Atlas, who promoted reopening schools. But he also kept key Covid panic-pushers on board until he left office, and indeed said he didn’t get enough credit for Fauci’s work on Covid.
For those of us who are willing to remember Trump’s actions during 2020, pleas that Trump “wanted to reopen the country” ring hollow. We went through the Covid nightmare because Trump led us into it, empowering tyrants at all levels of government to strip us of our liberties. He has not apologized, and said “we did the right thing.” He took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and he broke it. Any Democrat put in the White House is sure to oppress the people to an even greater extent, but primary voters must take Trump’s pivotal mistakes during Covid into account, no matter their feelings on the indictments or the 2020 election. Trump can’t be trusted with a second term.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/18...managed-covid/
- Donald Trump: “ Klaus has done a fantastic job”
- Jan 20, 2021 Trump Revokes Lobbying Ban He Signed At The Beginning Of His Presidency
President Donald Trump, in one of his last acts as president, revoked his own executive order requiring federal government appointees to sign a pledge to not lobby the agencies in which they worked for five years after leaving the administration.
forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/01/20/trump-revokes-lobbying-ban-he-signed-at-the-beginning-of-his-presidency/
- Trump rails against GOP congressman who signaled support for forcing roll-call vote on coronavirus stimulus deal
March 27, 2020
(CNN)President Donald Trump suggested that a Republican congressman be unseated for potentially jeopardizing the passage of the $2 trillion stimulus package, which will provide Americans economic relief amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In an attack against a member of his own party, Trump called Rep. Thomas Massie a "third rate Grandstander" and claimed the Kentucky Republican "just wants the publicity" after threatening a roll-call vote, which would require members travel back to the US Capitol to vote in person...
...He added, "WIN BACK HOUSE, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!"...
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/03/27/...ut-of-the-gop/
(CNN)President Donald Trump suggested that a Republican congressman be unseated for potentially jeopardizing the passage of the $2 trillion stimulus package, which will provide Americans economic relief amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In an attack against a member of his own party, Trump called Rep. Thomas Massie a "third rate Grandstander" and claimed the Kentucky Republican "just wants the publicity" after threatening a roll-call vote, which would require members travel back to the US Capitol to vote in person...
...He added, "WIN BACK HOUSE, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!"...
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/03/27/...ut-of-the-gop/
- President Trump promised in the 2016 campaign to eliminate the federal debt over a two-term presidency. That pledge won't come to fruition, and, in fact, he will leave office having added massively to the debt.
“His tenure has been marked by a total disregard for any concern about mounting debt", said Jim Capretta, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C.
When Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2017, the total national debt was nearly $20 trillion, according to the Treasury Department. It has increased over roughly 30% since, nearly $8 trillion, to $27 trillion, as of Monday.
For comparison, President Barack Obama added roughly $9 trillion to the national debt during his eight years in office, according to the Treasury Department.
Before Trump took office, he railed against the debt. Shortly before winning the White House, he likened its high level to a “time bomb.”
“I will tell you, we are sitting on a time bomb,” he told CBS in June 2016, adding that “I don’t like debt for the country.”
Trump in 2016 vowed to eliminate the federal debt over an eight-year period. At the time, the federal government's debt was over $19 trillion, and most economists thought Trump's pledge ludicrous.
To Capretta, Trump’s actions have been fiscally reckless.
“Trump saw that it would be to his political advantage to be very liberal in terms of spending and tax reductions happening simultaneously,” he said.
In his first year of entering office, Trump signed into law a tax overhaul bill that added $1.9 trillion to the debt over a 10-year period, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the bookkeeper for Congress.
He also increased annual spending, by nearly $800 Billion, from $3.85 trillion in 2016 to $4.65 trillion in 2020 (before pandemic relief), according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan organization that examines the spending habits in Washington.
Then came the federal response to the pandemic, which drained federal coffers by $1.76 Trillion, according to the CBO.
Obama, too, increased spending to address a crisis, namely the Great Recession. He signed into law the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," also known as the stimulus, that added $787 billion to the annual deficit. The deficit is the difference between spending and revenues in a given year, while the debt represents accrued deficits.
Trump signed all of these bills into law without trying to reduce the amount of red ink that he was creating, according to Capretta.
“He never really pressed any kind of fiscal policy onto Congress,” he said.
Congress plays an integral role in the tax cuts and spending increases that are enacted into law and could have pressed for more fiscal responsibility in the bills that were passed.
Meanwhile, the trajectory of the debt is upward, according to the CBO. By the end of 2020, federal debt held by the public is projected to equal 98% of GDP, compared to 79% at the end of 2019 and 35% at the end of 2007.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...-debt-one-term
Donald Trump Owns Stock in Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson
- Trump decries "Reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories"
- Trump White House orders FDA chief to authorize Pfizer vaccine by Friday or submit his resignation
- Trump: Vax a "Medical Miracle" -"I pushed the FDA Like Nobody's Been Pushed Before"
Trump administration: Employers can require workers to get COVID-19 vaccine.
- Donald Trump appointed Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a well known physician with ties to the pharmaceutical industry as an FDA Commissioner in March, 2017. Two years later, on June 27, 2019, Gottlieb was elected to Pfizer’s Board of Directors to serve on its Regulatory and Compliance Committee. According to US Federal Election Commission documents (page 163), Pfizer, Inc. donated $1 million to Trump’s Presidential Inauguration Committee on December 22, 2016 and received four tickets to the Leadership Luncheon with Cabinet appointees and House and Senate Leadership. https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/he...-inauguration/
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