BeyondGeography
BeyondGeography's Journal"Some days he wanted more French fries. Other days he wanted documents."
“I think he’s just acquisitive.”
Bolton to Anderson Cooper on Trump’s motives.
He doesn’t rule out a financial angle, but he doubts it. I’m inclined to agree. George Conway has said basically the same thing; Trump acts like a five-year-old. He’s a baby with a hammer.
Either way, he broke the law.
Trump's 2016 Campaign Promise to Protect Classified Information During His Administration Goes Viral
https://twitter.com/aweissmann_/status/1559234589020889091?s=21&t=YAKAgXV0EFIw_LhFa8VcrwTrump’s attacks on his then-opponent, Hillary Clinton, and her alleged mishandling of classified information featured prominently in his 2016 campaign and even led to him strengthening laws regarding classified information.
On January 18, 2018, Trump signed S. 139 into a law. The bill, which Trump supported, edited 18 U.S. Code §1924, which originally read:
Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trumps-2016-campaign-promise-to-protect-classified-information-during-his-administration-goes-viral/
Rudy needs to make a deal in GA
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1559222473446522880https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1559226374501580800
Salman Rushdie's condition is improving
https://twitter.com/Stephenheid/status/1558648972696178689The post-Cold War history of Russia in 19 seconds
https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1558457602304086020Raskin on MSNBC
Paraphrasing:
“I don’t know anything more than has been reported but I noticed from the beginning that Trump was far more loyal to kleptocrats around the world like Putin and Orban than to the United States.”
Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
Source: AP
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
A bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/salman-rushdie-attacked-9eae99aea82cb0d39628851ecd42227a?taid=62f66e7da3b3e500018694a5&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1558109869152018433
David McCullough has died
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1556675936912801797I’m glad he lived past the TFG years to see a measure of sanity returned to our democracy.
Roger Waters is a political moron
Against my better judgment, I watched that Smerconish/Roger Waters CNN clip. The one where Waters defends his labelling Joe Biden as a war criminal and waves off any Russian and/or Chinese responsibility for any of the world’s current troubles.
Waters (among his many whoppers) claims the Soviets were well on the way to winning WWII without American help and that Smerconish is a hopeless ignorant dupe who needs to read more and get this thought that America has ever been on the right side of any significant foreign policy issue out of his empty head.
Like helping the Soviet Union avoid defeat at the hands of Nazi Germany, for instance.
Stalin and Kruschev are on the record, Roger:
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
https://www.rferl.org/amp/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html
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