canpakes wrote:Later, in a transparent effort to soothe investors, the administration declared that scientists had developed a potential coronavirus vaccine in three days, because when you’ve already sacrificed every last shred of dignity, what’s one more patently obvious lie?
I'm something of a connoisseur of lies and craziness, so I'd love to have a source for this.
It would be wonderful if it turned out that this story was baseless, but I fear that it is all too likely that the Trump team would spout this kind of equine dung, in the sure knowledge that their base will simply shovel it into their daily MAGA-burgers.
President Donald Trump’s campaign manager is quietly channeling money to Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, and Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, The New York Times reported Monday.
The payments are hidden from public view because they’re made through campaign manager Paul Parscale’s private company, Parscale Strategy, based in San Antonio, sources told the Times. Typically, such payments would be part of public filings required by the Federal Election Commission so that donors can find out how their contributions are being used — in this case, to pay members of the president’s family.
The family benefits are linked to a network of politically connected private companies — operating with the support and help of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner — that have charged roughly $75 million since 2017 to the Trump reelection campaign, the Republican National Committee and other Republican clients, according to the Times.
Guilfoyle last year angrily confronted Parscale about late checks owed to her, two witnesses told the Times. He reportedly promised that the situation would be rectified by his wife, Candice Parscale, who often handles his company accounts.
One of Lara Trump’s most notorious contributions to her father-in-law’s campaign early this year was to mock rival Joe Biden’s stutter, which he has grappled with since he was a child.
She was initially hired as a senior consultant in early 2017 by another Parscale company, digital vender Giles-Parscale, also based in San Antonio, The Associated Press reported. Lara Trump was to serve as a liaison between the company and Donald Trump’s campaign, headquartered in Manhattan’s Trump Tower, which is owned by the president’s Trump Organization. Parscale was named Trump’s reelection campaign manager the following year.
The Trump campaign announced in January that Guilfoyle, a former Fox News personality who stated dating Trump Jr. two years ago, would lead the joint fundraising drive between the campaign and the RNC.
Guilfoyle left Fox News in 2018 following a human resources investigation into allegations of inappropriate behavior, including sexual misconduct, HuffPost reported at the time. An attorney for Guilfoyle denied all accusations as “unequivocally baseless.”
We can’t have folks being reminded of the possibility of Russian influence in our elections, with an election so close at hand.
; )
The U.S. Justice Department moved Monday to drop its two-year-long prosecution of a Russian company charged with orchestrating a social media campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The stunning reversal came weeks before the case — a spin off of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe — was to go to trial.
Assistants to U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea of Washington D.C., and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers cited an unspecified “change in the balance of the government’s proof due to a classification determination,” according to a nine-page filing accompanied by facts under seal.
Prosecutors also cited the failure of the company, Concord Management and Consulting, to comply with trial subpoenas and providing a “misleading” affidavit by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a co-defendant and the company’s founder. Prigozhin is a catering magnate and military contractor known as “Putin’s chef” because of his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Upon careful consideration of all of the circumstances, and particularly in light of recent events … the government has concluded that further proceedings as to Concord.... promotes neither the interests of justice nor the nation’s security,” prosecutors Heather Alpino, Luke M. Jones, Peter Lallas, and Adam Jed wrote.
“The better course is to cease litigation” against Concord and a sister catering company, also owned by Prigozhin, the prosecutors said.
The after-business hours filing brings an abrupt end to a case that was set to go to trial April 6 before U.S. District Dabney L. Friedrich.
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
yes, "inflame" is accurate...no reminder necessary.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Because no one has been harder on Putin than Donald Trump?
"One of the hardest things for me to accept is the fact that Kevin Graham has blonde hair, blue eyes and an English last name. This ugly truth blows any arguments one might have for actual white supremacism out of the water. He's truly a disgrace." - Ajax
Hey, let's ignore competent, experienced folks when selecting for important Administration positions, and instead hire loyalist college students for staff. ; )
The White House has hired a third college senior to be an administration official in a sensitive post, according to four people familiar with the matter.
As some prominent Democrats call for the military to help out more with the response to the coronavirus crisis, John Troup Hemenway has been temporarily hired on a 30-day detail to help the deputy director of the Presidential Personnel Office, Michael Burley, with paperwork for Defense Department political appointees, according to one of the people. Hemenway is expected to graduate from the University of Virginia in December 2020.
Hemenway, who is in his 20s and started last week, is the third college senior to be hired in short order by the White House. One administration official praised him by saying he’s “really good at what he does.”
James Bacon, 23 and a senior at George Washington University, was hired to be one of McEntee’s righthand men as he tries to fill the Trump administration with loyalists and fire anyone who they suspect of disloyalty.
Anthony Labruna, who is expected to graduate from Iowa State University in early May but was dismissed from the Trump campaign in February, was also recently named deputy White House liaison at the Department of Commerce.
Hemenway, who worked on the Trump campaign in 2016, got his start in the Trump administration when he was on the “beachhead” transition team at the Department of Defense and then worked in DoD’s White House liasion’s office, according to an administration official. At various points during his time in the Defense Department, Hemenway has also been working to finish his degree, according to two administration officials. He has also worked for Michael Griffin, DOD’s under secretary of defense for research and engineering. Hemenway didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Some officials see the hiring of Dans -- a lawyer who previously worked in New York and recently started at the agency, according to two people familiar with the matter -- as yet another affront. The job of White House liaison generally entails matching qualified people with political vacancies at an agency and moving appointees in and out of positions when needed.
Dans has “clearly come with some kind of agenda,” said a person familiar with his hiring, who noted that Dans doesn’t appear to have much of a background in Title 5 of the U.S. code, which deals with how the government is organized and how the federal civil service operates. Dans didn’t respond to a request for comment.
In his first weeks on the job, Dans has been meeting with various program offices to try to get a handle on what they all do. He previously was at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he was senior adviser in the Office of Community Planning & Development.
Dans began his legal career as an associate at two New York City white-shoe law firms LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae and Debevoise & Plimpton. The American Lawyer reported that when he was working at a lesser-known law firm in 2009, he didn’t get a partnership, which led him to be offered work for the small Miami law firm Rivero Mestre to help out a lawyer for Chevron who had been indicted by Ecuador with a conspiracy to violate environmental rules. Once there, he played a significant role in the legal strategy of the Chevron Ecuador case, which was one of the biggest civil litigations in history.
Dans is married to Mary Helen Bowers, a former New York City ballet dancer who has also trained celebrities like Natalie Portman in “Black Swan” and other clients like Zooey Deschanel, Kirsten Dunst and Miranda Kerr.
Dans is still going through the suitability background check but already is making some people nervous in his new agency, according to the person familiar with Dans’ hiring.
“He’s upsetting all kinds of apple carts without any basis of knowledge,” this person said.
canpakes wrote:Hey, let's ignore competent, experienced folks when selecting for important Administration positions, and instead hire loyalist college students for staff. ; )
I had to double check your post date because of the obvious time warp experienced when I discovered you were not posting about Raj Fernando. Love your newfound outrage and how its partisan aroma billows forth from the feu de cheveux.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
canpakes wrote:Hey, let's ignore competent, experienced folks when selecting for important Administration positions, and instead hire loyalist college students for staff. ; )
I had to double check your post date because of the obvious time warp experienced when I discovered you were not posting about Raj Fernando. Love your newfound outrage and how its partisan aroma billows forth from the feu de cheveux.
You’re confusing my skeptical humor for your conspiratorial outrage. Not surprising, considering your usual problems with the language. : D
