US Politics

[RabzonKhan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/832708293516632065

In an interview, Sen. Mccain indirectly criticize Trump for declaring the media “enemy of the American people”.

“A fundamental part of that new world order was a free press. I hate the press. I hate you especially,” McCain said with a smile. “But the fact is we need you. We need a free press. We must have it. It’s vital. If you want to preserve – I’m very serious now – if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.” Watch the video for more:

 

[F-22Raptor]

Watching this rally, does Donald realize he won the election? I get it, this is his security blanket, but the fact of the matter is that he'll head back to Washington with an approval rating at historic lows this early in a Presidency. Is he still going to yap about how terrible things are, and how he's going to fix it a year from now? Eventually he's going to have to work with Congress to get his proposals passed. The American people want results, an if they don't get it, he and members of his party are going to be run out of office in the mid-terms and 2020 election.

This war with the media is one he will never win. The hits will keep on coming. He's wasting time and energy on things he has little control over and Americans are getting fed up with it. It's time to get back to reality Donald.

 

[T-72M1]

This war with the media is one he will never win.

He's already won that war, now he's out to destroy them. Look at the media's poll ratings, the American people, it seems, just trust them anymore.. and with good reason, CNN is just disgusting on every level, pushed peegate and tried to give it credibility, they're pushing a pro saudi and jihadi narrative on Syria, colluded with crooked hillary's campaign, did everything they could possibly do and Trump still won the popular vote in 31 out of 50 states.

They don't have much credibility left, and they're making it worse for themselves with still trying to take on Trump, and it's not working, no one and nothing can stump the Trump.

 

[F-22Raptor]

He's already won that war, now he's out to destroy them. Look at the media's poll ratings, the American people, it seems, just trust them anymore.. and with good reason, CNN is just disgusting on every level, pushed peegate and tried to give it credibility, they're pushing a pro saudi and jihadi narrative on Syria, colluded with crooked hillary's campaign, did everything they could possibly do and Trump still won the popular vote in 31 out of 50 states.

They don't have much credibility left, and they're making it worse for themselves with still trying to take on Trump, and it's not working, no one and nothing can stump the Trump.

Your kidding right? Trump just fired his National Security Advisor due to press leaks that exposed his dishonesty. The Trump-Russia connection cloud still hangs over his head, and he's had multiple meltdowns on camera since. Clearly, you haven't been paying attention.

I think it's important to mention here that freedom of the press is a 1st Amendment Right. An based on the onslaught of lies from the Trump Administration over the 1st month, I trust the media far more than I do Trump and his bootlickers.

Whose been the real enemy of truth? Lets take a look at the latest lie:


Donald Trump Appears To Make Up Sweden Terror Attack

President Donald Trump falsely suggested at a Florida rally Saturday that Sweden had suffered a terror attack the previous night.

After announcing that the White House planned to renew its efforts to restrict immigration, Trump cited several European countries and cities that he said showed the dangers of admitting immigrants, particularly refugees.

“You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden,” Trump told a large crowd of supporters in a hangar at the Orlando-Melbourne International Airport. “Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden,” he added. “They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.”

Trump’s subsequent remarks made clear he was referring to European locales that had endured terrorist attacks in the past two years.

“You look at what’s happening in Brussels. You look at what’s happening all over the world,” he said. “Take a look at Nice. Take a look at Paris.”

Observers on Twitter pointed out that no such attack took place on Friday night.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-sweden-terror-lie_us_58a8f397e4b045cd34c263d3

 

[F-22Raptor]

Trump calls the media the enemy of the American people, yet when you look over his Twitter feed it's clear that he devours this information on a daily basis. Trump is a hypocrite and a liar. I hope the media continues to hold him and his administration accountable.

A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates

A week before Michael T. Flynn resigned as national security adviser, a sealed proposal was hand-delivered to his office, outlining a way for President Trump to lift sanctions against Russia.

Mr. Flynn is gone, having been caught lying about his own discussion of sanctions with the Russian ambassador. But the proposal, a peace plan for Ukraine and Russia, remains, along with those pushing it: Michael D. Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer, who delivered the document; Felix H. Sater, a business associate who helped Mr. Trump scout deals in Russia; and a Ukrainian lawmaker trying to rise in a political opposition movement shaped in part by Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager Paul D. Manafort.

At a time when Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia, and the people connected to him, are under heightened scrutiny — with investigations by American intelligence agencies, the F.B.I. and Congress — some of his associates remain willing and eager to wade into Russia-related efforts behind the scenes.

Mr. Trump has confounded Democrats and Republicans alike with his repeated praise for the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, and his desire to forge an American-Russian alliance. While there is nothing illegal about such unofficial efforts, a proposal that seems to tip toward Russian interests may set off alarms.

The amateur diplomats say their goal is simply to help settle a grueling, three-year conflict that has cost 10,000 lives. “Who doesn’t want to help bring about peace?” Mr. Cohen asked.

But the proposal contains more than just a peace plan. Andrii V. Artemenko, the Ukrainian lawmaker, who sees himself as a Trump-style leader of a future Ukraine, claims to have evidence — “names of companies, wire transfers” — showing corruption by the Ukrainian president, Petro O. Poroshenko, that could help oust him. And Mr. Artemenko said he had received encouragement for his plans from top aides to Mr. Putin.

“A lot of people will call me a Russian agent, a U.S. agent, a C.I.A. agent,” Mr. Artemenko said. “But how can you find a good solution between our countries if we do not talk?”

Mr. Cohen and Mr. Sater said they had not spoken to Mr. Trump about the proposal, and have no experience in foreign policy. Mr. Cohen is one of several Trump associates under scrutiny in an F.B.I. counterintelligence examination of links with Russia, according to law enforcement officials; he has denied any illicit connections.

The two others involved in the effort have somewhat questionable pasts: Mr. Sater, 50, a Russian-American, pleaded guilty to a role in a stock manipulation scheme decades ago that involved the Mafia. Mr. Artemenko spent two and a half years in jail in Kiev in the early 2000s on embezzlement charges, later dropped, which he said had been politically motivated.

While it is unclear if the White House will take the proposal seriously, the diplomatic freelancing has infuriated Ukrainian officials. Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Valeriy Chaly, said Mr. Artemenko “is not entitled to present any alternative peace plans on behalf of Ukraine to any foreign government, including the U.S. administration.”

At a security conference in Munich on Friday, Mr. Poroshenko warned the West against “appeasement” of Russia, and some American experts say offering Russia any alternative to a two-year-old international agreement on Ukraine would be a mistake. The Trump administration has sent mixed signals about the conflict in Ukraine.

But given Mr. Trump’s praise for Mr. Putin, John Herbst, a former American ambassador to Ukraine, said he feared the new president might be too eager to mend relations with Russia at Ukraine’s expense — potentially with a plan like Mr. Artemenko’s.

It was late January when the three men associated with the proposed plan converged on the Loews Regency, a luxury hotel on Park Avenue in Manhattan where business deals are made in a lobby furnished with leather couches, over martinis at the restaurant bar and in private conference rooms on upper floors.

Mr. Cohen, 50, lives two blocks up the street, in Trump Park Avenue. A lawyer who joined the Trump Organization in 2007 as special counsel, he has worked on many deals, including a Trump-branded tower in the republic of Georgia and a short-lived mixed martial arts venture starring a Russian fighter. He is considered a loyal lieutenant whom Mr. Trump trusts to fix difficult problems.

The F.B.I. is reviewing an unverified dossier, compiled by a former British intelligence agent and funded by Mr. Trump’s political opponents, that claims Mr. Cohen met with a Russian representative in Prague during the presidential campaign to discuss Russia’s hacking of Democratic targets. But the Russian official named in the report told The New York Times that he had never met Mr. Cohen. Mr. Cohen insists that he has never visited Prague and that the dossier’s assertions are fabrications.

Mr. Cohen has a personal connection to Ukraine: He is married to a Ukrainian woman and once worked with relatives there to establish an ethanol business.

Mr. Artemenko, tall and burly, arrived at the Manhattan hotel between visits to Washington. (His wife, he said, met the first lady, Melania Trump, years ago during their modeling careers, but he did not try to meet Mr. Trump.) He had attended the inauguration and visited Congress, posting on Facebook his admiration for Mr. Trump and talking up his peace plan in meetings with American lawmakers.

He entered Parliament in 2014, the year that the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych fled to Moscow amid protests over his economic alignment with Russia and corruption. Mr. Manafort, who had been instrumental in getting Mr. Yanukovych elected, helped shape a political bloc that sprang up to oppose the new president, Mr. Poroshenko, a wealthy businessman who has taken a far tougher stance toward Russia and accused Mr. Putin of wanting to absorb Ukraine into a new Russian Empire. Mr. Artemenko, 48, emerged from the opposition that Mr. Manafort nurtured. (The two men have never met, Mr. Artemenko said.)

Before entering politics, Mr. Artemenko had business ventures in the Middle East and real estate deals in the Miami area, and had worked as an agent representing top Ukrainian athletes. Some colleagues in Parliament describe him as corrupt, untrustworthy or simply insignificant, but he appears to have amassed considerable wealth.

He has fashioned himself in the image of Mr. Trump, presenting himself as Ukraine’s answer to a rising class of nationalist leaders in the West. He even traveled to Cleveland last summer for the Republican National Convention, seizing on the chance to meet with members of Mr. Trump’s campaign.

“It’s time for new leaders, new approaches to the governance of the country, new principles and new negotiators in international politics,” he wrote on Facebook on Jan. 27. “Our time has come!”

Mr. Artemenko said he saw in Mr. Trump an opportunity to advocate a plan for peace in Ukraine — and help advance his own political career. Essentially, his plan would require the withdrawal of all Russian forces from eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian voters would decide in a referendum whether Crimea, the Ukrainian territory seized by Russia in 2014, would be leased to Russia for a term of 50 or 100 years.

The Ukrainian ambassador, Mr. Chaly, rejected a lease of that kind. “It is a gross violation of the Constitution,” he said in written answers to questions from The Times. “Such ideas can be pitched or pushed through only by those openly or covertly representing Russian interests.”

The reaction suggested why Mr. Artemenko’s project also includes the dissemination of “kompromat,” or compromising material, purportedly showing that Mr. Poroshenko and his closest associates are corrupt. Only a new government, presumably one less hostile to Russia, might take up his plan.

Mr. Sater, a longtime business associate of Mr. Trump’s with connections in Russia, was willing to help Mr. Artemenko’s proposal reach the White House.

Mr. Trump has sought to distance himself from Mr. Sater in recent years. If Mr. Sater “were sitting in the room right now,” Mr. Trump said in a 2013 deposition, “I really wouldn’t know what he looked like.”

But Mr. Sater worked on real estate development deals with the Trump Organization on and off for at least a decade, even after his role in the stock manipulation scheme came to light.

Mr. Sater, who was born in the Soviet Union and grew up in New York, served as an executive at a firm called Bayrock Group, two floors below the Trump Organization in Trump Tower, and was later a senior adviser to Mr. Trump.

He said he had been working on a plan for a Trump Tower in Moscow with a Russian real estate developer as recently as the fall of 2015, one that he said had come to a halt because of Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. (Mr. Cohen said the Trump Organization had received a letter of intent for a project in Moscow from a Russian real estate developer at that time but determined that the project was not feasible.)

Mr. Artemenko said a mutual friend had put him in touch with Mr. Sater. Helping to advance the proposal, Mr. Sater said, made sense.

“I want to stop a war, number one,” he said. “Number two, I absolutely believe that the U.S. and Russia need to be allies, not enemies. If I could achieve both in one stroke, it would be a home run.”

After speaking with Mr. Sater and Mr. Artemenko in person, Mr. Cohen said he would deliver the plan to the White House.

Mr. Cohen said he did not know who in the Russian government had offered encouragement on it, as Mr. Artemenko claims, but he understood there was a promise of proof of corruption by the Ukrainian president.

“Fraud is never good, right?” Mr. Cohen said.

He said Mr. Sater had given him the written proposal in a sealed envelope. When Mr. Cohen met with Mr. Trump in the Oval Office in early February, he said, he left the proposal in Mr. Flynn’s office.

Mr. Cohen said he was waiting for a response when Mr. Flynn was forced from his post. Now Mr. Cohen, Mr. Sater and Mr. Artemenko are hoping a new national security adviser will take up their cause. On Friday the president wrote on Twitter that he had four new candidates for the job.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-russia.html?_r=0

The Trump-Russia stinch just won't go away.

 

[AMDR]

IMO by interfering in the 2016 election Russia won a short-lived tactical victory but may have committed a severe strategic mistake. This whole Russian scandal within the White House currently involves someone who was, even before it, not popular with most people and politicians (almost all Democrats and many establishment Republicans).

Before, many regular people didn't really care about Ukraine or Russia or anything like that because like very other foreign policy problem for America it was so far away. Now that Russia has threatened US institutions and processes on our own soil, their could be an awakening by many people, especially democrats, that Russia is a hostile foreign power that must be contained. The Russian Federation is not an equal to the United States and it likely never will be. It is a authoritarian, corrupt, stagnant power that wants to push revisionism so it can regain a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe an Central Asia. As we have seen, it will go to great lengths to make that path easier for them.

If this scandal persists right up to the 2020 election and Trump loses, that president will almost certainty have a tougher stance on Russia than any president since Ronald Reagan. We might see administrations take a hard line stance on Russia in the 2020s and most of the 2030s if this gets any worse.

 

[T-72M1]

IMO by interfering in the 2016 election Russia won a short-lived tactical victory but may have committed a severe strategic mistake. This whole Russian scandal within the White House currently involves someone who was, even before it, not popular with most people and politicians (almost all Democrats and many establishment Republicans).

Before, many regular people didn't really care about Ukraine or Russia or anything like that because like very other foreign policy problem for America it was so far away. Now that Russia has threatened US institutions and processes on our own soil, their could be an awakening by many people, especially democrats, that Russia is a hostile foreign power that must be contained. The Russian Federation is not an equal to the United States and it likely never will be. It is a authoritarian, corrupt, stagnant power that wants to push revisionism so it can regain a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe an Central Asia. As we have seen, it will go to great lengths to make that path easier for them.

If this scandal persists right up to the 2020 election and Trump loses, that president will almost certainty have a tougher stance on Russia than any president since Ronald Reagan. We might see administrations take a hard line stance on Russia in the 2020s and most of the 2030s if this gets any worse.

wow, some of you lot have truly lost the plot.

you have people chopping your heads off in Iraq, Syria, Libya and all over the world but Putin is the enemy ?

Russia are the good guys, if anything, you owe them a debt of gratitude for exposing crooked hillary and the demonrats... John Podesta and his satanic parties with prepubescent kids in the hot tub, Donna Brazile and fake news CNN illegally helping crooked H with debate and townhall questions, her foreign policy of helping al qaeda "rebels" in Syria and promise to start WW3 to help saudi arabia (the most disgusting illiberal fascist country on earth)

Donald Trump saved your asz, you should be very grateful for that.

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[RabzonKhan]

Trump family trips cost taxpayers $11.3m in one month – almost as much as Obama’s cost in a year

Jaunts to estate in Mar-a-Lago, and secret service charges for his son's business trips across the globe, are costing American taxpayers

By Peter Walker

Donald Trump’s family’s trips have cost taxpayers nearly as much in a month as Barack Obama’s cost in an entire year.

The US President’s three visits to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida since his presidential inauguration, combined with his sons’ business trips, reportedly cost $11.3m (£9.1m).

Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch estimated Mr Obama’s travel expenses totalled an average $12.1m in each of his eight years in the White House.

“This is an expensive way to conduct business, and the President should recognise that,” said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, speaking to the Washington Post.

“The unique thing about President Trump is that he knows what it costs to run a plane.

“Going down [to Mar-a-Lago] ain’t free.”

The three Mar-a-Lago trips in Palm Beach cost the federal treasury around $10m, based on figures used in an October government report analysing White House travel.

This includes cash for coast guards to patrol the exposed shoreline.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw also says it has cost local taxpayers $360,000 in police overtime for his three weekends in Florida since 20 January.

The Post also revealed it cost $88,320 to put secret service agents up in a hotel while son Eric Trump visited Uruguay to promote a Trump-brand condo tower.

Records show it cost $5,470 to put up secret service officials at the AlSol Del Mar hotel in the Dominican Republic, as they scoped out the area, ahead of a similar visit by Eric Trump.

https://twitter.com/x/status/503973652522885120

https://twitter.com/x/status/155014799909064704

The same records show more than $16,000 has been spent on secret service hotel bills for his two sons’ visit for a grand opening of a Trump-brand golf resort in Dubai.

The 70-year-old leader of the free world repeatedly criticised Mr Obama for his taxpayer-funded travel during his tenure.

He tweeted in January 2012: “President @BarackObama’s vacation is costing taxpayers millions of dollars----Unbelievable!”

The Independent has contacted Mr Trump's communications director for comment. Link

 

[RabzonKhan]

Hypocrisy Meter Off The Charts As Trump Has Golfed 6 Times Since Taking Office

By Sean Colarossi Feb 20th, 2017

Perhaps the new president should finish reading his job description instead of jetting off to Florida every weekend.

After repeatedly criticizing Barack Obama for his golfing habits, the hypocrisy meter is flying off the charts as Donald Trump has visited his golf course half a dozen times in the span of a single month in office.

For some reason, though, Trump’s team won’t admit that he’s actually golfing when he drops by his Sunshine State courses.

According to a new report from CNN, “[Trump’s] aides are trying to obscure whether Trump is actually golfing during the visits.”

Goodness, I can’t imagine why.

Could it have anything to do with the fact that Trump spent an entire campaign season waging attacks – like this one – on his predecessor?

Video:

“I don’t have time for that. I love golf, I think it’s one of the greats, but I don’t have time,” Trump said on the campaign trail in 2015. “We don’t have time for this. We have to work.”

On Twitter, President Obama’s golfing habits were brought up by Trump on numerous occasions, as this image from Brian Klaas points out:

https://twitter.com/x/status/830565403361304576

One tweet read: “Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf. Worse than Carter.”

Despite these attacks, Trump has spent three weekends in a row at his Mar-A-Lago Estate in Florida, where he has visited his nearby golf courses a half dozen times. Obama, on the other hand, didn’t play his first round of golf until the end of April in his first term.

The difference, of course, is that former President Obama led a scandal-free administration that saved the economy from a second Great Depression, revived the American auto industry, disposed of Osama bin Laden, and provided health insurance to more than 20 million Americans – to name a few.

On the contrary, Trump’s White House has been a magnificent dumpster fire, plagued by scandal and incompetence literally from day one. Perhaps he should finish reading his job description before jetting off to Florida every weekend.

To paraphrase the president, can you believe that, with all the problems and difficulties facing the new administration, that Trump has spent every weekend of his first month as president playing golf? Link

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Meanwhile, there are reports that Trump is set to introduce a new “Muslim ban”. Read

 

[RabzonKhan]

A man is known by the company he keeps.


Trump Parties Over Presidents’ Day Weekend With Bigoted Conspiracy Theorist Who Called For Killing 100 Million Muslims

Trump Attends Closed Event With Michael Savage And Newsmax CEO Who Criticized Reince Priebus For "Weakness"

ALEX KAPLAN February 21, 2017

President Donald Trump spent time over the Presidents’ Day weekend in the company of right-wing media figures who have a history of pushing anti-Muslim bigotry and conspiracy theories.

At a private event at his Florida property, Mar-a-Lago, on February 18, Trump met with Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy and radio host Michael Savage. Savage, whose wife Janet Weiner is a member of Mar-a-Lago, tweeted a photo of the get-together, writing, “PRES. TRUMP THANKS SAVAGE FOR VICTORY! W/ CHRIS RUDDY NEWSMAX! Mar-a-Lago.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/833158147309178880

Savage, a conspiracy theorist with an extensive history of bigotry, was an early backer of Trump’s campaign and said last February that he was “the architect of Trump’s messaging.” In 2006, Savage called for “kill[ing] 100 million” Muslims. Following the terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2016, Savage asked Trump to consider “closing the radical mosques in America.” In December, Savage mocked Muslim-Americans worried about Trump’s election, suggested Muslim immigrants came here “to stab people in the street, jump the curb with a car and run them over,” and argued that if you “interpret” the Quran “literally, you'll wind up cutting everyone's throat, blowing things up, and killing children.” Savage was also a birther, like Trump, who said Obama’s birth certificate was not valid, and claimed that Obama was gearing up to “fight a war against white people” and that Obama was engaging in “genocide” against white people. He has demanded a “revolution” in response to multiculturalism.

Savage regularly hosted Trump on his program throughout his campaign, and Trump has thanked him for being “amazing,” “really nice,” and “so loyal.” Last year after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died, Trump went on Savage’s show and questioned whether Scalia had been murdered. Savage claimed that Scalia "was found dead under suspicious circumstances,” and Trump said that "they found a pillow on his face, which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow.”

In 2008, Savage claimed that autism was “a fraud” because “in 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out.” Savage also has claimed that former President Barack Obama wanted “to infect the nation with Ebola,” attacked those with PTSD as “weak” and “narcissistic” “losers,” claimed lesbians are “jealous that they don't have an AIDS epidemic that they can cash in on,” and suggested that seltzer water and its “little bubbles of carbon dioxide” have driven liberals to “insanity.” More recently, Savage said in Decemberthat homeless people were “bums” and that the word “homeless” was “a construct of the radical left.” Trump has said that America would get “common sense” if Savage headed the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Ruddy, a longtime personal friend of Trump’s and the CEO of Newsmax, said in 2011 that Media Matters was “right” that Newsmax was an “early and enthusiastic promoter of Trump's presidential ambitions.” The website also repeatedly pushed the false claim that Obama’s birth certificate was not real. Ruddy himself said in 2009 that while there was “no evidence" Obama wasn't born in the United States, "there's some legitimate issues involving the birth certificate." Earlier this month, Ruddy criticized Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, saying there’s “a lot of weakness coming out of the chief of staff."

Another radio host, Laura Ingraham, who also was in Florida with Trump, shared the same photo on Twitter of the Mar-a-Lago event as Savage. Ingraham, a staunch supporter of Trump and one of Trump’s initial considerations for press secretary, has a history of using xenophobic rhetoric, such as claiming that Mexicans “have come here to murder and rape our people,” suggesting that northern Virginia is “a problem” because of an “illegal immigrant population” and “mosques going up,” and saying that she doesn’t “think of Jewish people as minorities because they're so successful.” Earlier this month, she speculated about whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s resignation, which came after he lied about discussing Russian sanctions with a Russian ambassador, was due to a “setup” by “neoconservatives.”

 

[RabzonKhan]

Candidate Trump: “I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump, 69, tells ITK. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.”

Pres. Trump: will once again spend the weekend at his Florida private club, as his 4th straight taxpayer funded trip will set a record by spending more money on travel in a month than former President Obama spent in a year.

What a hypocrite, SAD!


Trump Waste Of Taxpayer Money Sets A New Record With 4th Weekend Trip To Florida

By Jason Easley Feb 23rd, 2017

President Trump will once again spend the weekend at his Florida private club, as his 4th straight taxpayer funded trip will set a record by spending more money on travel in a month than former President Obama spent in a year.

Ken Vogel of Politico reported that Trump is heading back to Palm Beach, FL to meet with donors, “The party’s biggest donors are gathering in Palm Beach for a retreat organized by the Republican National Committee, and the president has been announced as the featured speaker, according to people with knowledge of the plans. A number of senior administration officials will also attend the retreat, the people familiar with the planning said, a key draw for the donors.”

Taxpayers will now be paying for Donald Trump and senior administration officials to meet with Republican donors in Florida. It is not a coincidence that the RNC is holding the donor retreat on the weekend in the same city as Trump’s private club.

When President Trump makes his fourth trip to his club in Florida, he will have spent more money on those trips alone ($13 million) than former President Obama spent during an entire year on travel ($12.1 million).

Trump’s recently complained that the country’s finances were a mess, and he promised to cut government waste and get the government’s finances cleaned up. If President Trump is serious about cutting government waste, his first move should be to stop taking needless trips to his winter vacation home at taxpayer expense.

The RNC could have held their retreat in the Washington, D.C., but that would have forced President Trump to spend a weekend in the nation’s capitol.

While he plans to take health care of millions of Americans, President Trump is living like a king on the taxpayers’ dime. 43,000 Americans will die each year if the ACA is repealed, but Trump will always make sure that the government has the cash to fly him to Florida. Link

 

[F-22Raptor]

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Candidate Trump: “I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump, 69, tells ITK. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.”

Pres. Trump: will once again spend the weekend at his Florida private club, as his 4th straight taxpayer funded trip will set a record by spending more money on travel in a month than former President Obama spent in a year.

What a hypocrite, SAD!


Trump Waste Of Taxpayer Money Sets A New Record With 4th Weekend Trip To Florida

By Jason Easley Feb 23rd, 2017

President Trump will once again spend the weekend at his Florida private club, as his 4th straight taxpayer funded trip will set a record by spending more money on travel in a month than former President Obama spent in a year.

Ken Vogel of Politico reported that Trump is heading back to Palm Beach, FL to meet with donors, “The party’s biggest donors are gathering in Palm Beach for a retreat organized by the Republican National Committee, and the president has been announced as the featured speaker, according to people with knowledge of the plans. A number of senior administration officials will also attend the retreat, the people familiar with the planning said, a key draw for the donors.”

Taxpayers will now be paying for Donald Trump and senior administration officials to meet with Republican donors in Florida. It is not a coincidence that the RNC is holding the donor retreat on the weekend in the same city as Trump’s private club.

When President Trump makes his fourth trip to his club in Florida, he will have spent more money on those trips alone ($13 million) than former President Obama spent during an entire year on travel ($12.1 million).

Trump’s recently complained that the country’s finances were a mess, and he promised to cut government waste and get the government’s finances cleaned up. If President Trump is serious about cutting government waste, his first move should be to stop taking needless trips to his winter vacation home at taxpayer expense.

The RNC could have held their retreat in the Washington, D.C., but that would have forced President Trump to spend a weekend in the nation’s capitol.

While he plans to take health care of millions of Americans, President Trump is living like a king on the taxpayers’ dime. 43,000 Americans will die each year if the ACA is repealed, but Trump will always make sure that the government has the cash to fly him to Florida. Link

As I've said before, Trump is a liar and a hypocrite. It's clear that he can't handle the heat out of DC. I wonder who he'll be golfing with this weekend?

An while VP Pence and Secretaries Tillerson and Mattis are in foreign countries cleaning up his mess, he'll be on the green with god knows who. Trump is FOS....

 

[F-22Raptor]

So now the White House has asked the FBI to essentially cover up the Trump-Russia story. Trump is ridiculously close to breaking the law and impeachment territory. This is amazing to me, really.

 

[cloud4000]

So now the White House has asked the FBI to essentially cover up the Trump-Russia story. Trump is ridiculously close to breaking the law and impeachment territory. This is amazing to me, really.

The White House has a whole team of lawyers to ensure POTUS follows the law. Everything he says, does, asks is vetted through these lawyers. Trump doesn't know he's only running the United States.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Watching Trump's CPAC speech now, and it sounds like yet another campaign speech. Fake news....bad dudes....election/Hillary....wall.....polls....promise after promise. Signing a bunch of symbolic executive orders means little in the long run Donald.