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July 17, 2019

Trump Would Be Fired By Any Workplace In America For His Racist Rampage

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/07/16/trump-fired-workplace-america-racist-rampage.html

Posted on Tue, Jul 16th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
Trump Would Be Fired By Any Workplace In America For His Racist Rampage


Donald Trump remains in the White House on Tuesday after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to condemn his racism, but the presidency is likely one of the only jobs in America that he would be able to keep after spewing such racist garbage.

As MSNBC’s Chris Hayes pointed out on Tuesday, “The crazy thing is that condemnation from the House would be expected in basically any other workplace in America.”

He added, “If any one of us said to a coworker like in a meeting what the president said about those congresswomen, we would expect repercussions.”

https://twitter.com/politicususa/status/1151291043696041984

Hayes said:

The crazy thing is that condemnation from the House would be expected in basically any other workplace in America. If any one of us said to a coworker like in a meeting what the president said about those congresswomen, we would expect repercussions. In fact, get this. Here is what the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which polices workplace law and civil rights, here is what they say about immigrants employment rights under federal anti-discrimination laws. I’ll read it: “Examples of potentially unlawful conduct include insults, taunting or ethnic epithets such as making fun of a person’s foreign accent or comments like ‘Go back to where you came from’, whether made by supervisors or coworkers.” That is how crystal clear-cut this issue is.


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If he held any other job in America and launched into the same racist tirade he recently directed at four U.S. congresswomen, he would likely be fired.

Unfortunately, Donald Trump happens to hold the only position in America that would tolerate such a fundamentally unstable and dangerous individual.
July 16, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein Abused Victims While Serving Time in Florida, Accuser's Lawyer Says


BOMBSHELL
Jeffrey Epstein Abused Victims While Serving Time in Florida, Accuser’s Lawyer Says
Attorney Brad Edwards says a new accuser has come forward to say Epstein took advantage of work release to prey on young women.
Pilar Melendez
Katie Baker
Tracy Connor
Kate Briquelet
Updated 07.16.19 3:53PM ET / Published 07.16.19 11:45AM ET


An attorney representing Jeffrey Epstein accusers said Tuesday that at least one woman has come forward to say she was abused while the financier was on work release as part of his lenient 2007 plea deal.

Lawyer Brad Edwards said Epstein was allowed to have visitors while he was supposed to be working during the 13-month sentence.

“It was not for some business arrangement and it was for... improper sexual contact,” Edwards said, adding that the new accusers said they were under 21, though they may not have been minors.

“He just wasn’t in jail. He only slept there. He was in his office most of the day and what I can tell you he had visitors, female visitors,” Edwards said.

“All I can say is more than one person that visited him,” Edwards said, declining to provide more details because of ongoing litigation. “They believed they were going there for something other than a sexual purpose.

"Once there, he used his perfect master manipulation to turn the situation into something sexual,” Edwards said. “Not one of the individuals was a prostitute. These were all people who at the time that wanted something. They came over under false pretenses and he manipulated them and now his attorneys have labeled them prostitutes.”


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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-abused-victims-while-serving-time-in-florida-lawyer-brad-edwards-says?ref=home
July 16, 2019

Prosecutors unlikely to charge Trump Org executives, sources say

A friend of mine showed me this. Any thoughts? And where is everyone if this is true?

Prosecutors unlikely to charge Trump Org executives, sources say
By Erica Orden and Kara Scannell, CNN
Updated 7:17 PM ET, Fri July 12, 2019


(CNN)A federal investigation into whether Trump Organization executives violated campaign-finance laws appears to be wrapping up without charges being filed, according to people familiar with the matter.
For months, federal prosecutors in New York have examined whether company officials broke the law, including in their effort to reimburse Michael Cohen for hush-money payments he made to women alleging affairs with his former boss, President Donald Trump.

In recent weeks, however, their investigation has quieted, the people familiar with the inquiry said, and prosecutors now don't appear poised to charge any Trump Organization executives in the probe that stemmed from the case against Cohen.

A spokesman for the Manhattan US Attorney's office declined to comment. An attorney for the Trump Organization declined to comment.


In January, one month after Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison, prosecutors requested interviews with executives at the company, CNN reported. But prosecutors never followed up on their initial request, people familiar with the matter said, and the interviews never took place.

Meanwhile, there has been no contact between the Manhattan US Attorney's office and officials at the Trump Organization in more than five months, one person familiar with the matter said.

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/12/politics/trump-organization-federal-prosecutors/index.html


https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1149817859687768064

July 16, 2019

Trump's Racism Is Not Blundering -- It Is Tactically Deliberate

Trump’s Racism Is Not Blundering — It Is Tactically Deliberate


Trump's racism is not an oops, it's a fascist strategy.
By William Rivers Pitt,
Truthout
Published July 16, 2019


Donald Trump is a giant flapping racist and doesn’t give a single damn if that bothers you. Given this reality, it is important to note that when Trump dispensed with all pretense and held a one-man Sunday morning Klan rally on Twitter, it was not a blunder on his part.

When he dug his heels in on Monday morning and said the women of color he insulted were the ones who owed an apology, it was not an oops.

When asked pointedly by reporters on Monday if he was bothered that white nationalists have been celebrating his outburst, Trump replied, “It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me. And all I’m saying, they want to leave, they can leave.” It was not a mis-statement.

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Trump’s Sunday tirade fits the pattern he has been unspooling for years. He was deliberately terrible right out of the gate, and has grown incrementally worse with each passing day. None of this is accidental.

More than four years into the experience, Trump can now pull a stunt that would have obliterated any previous politicians’ career before sundown and get away with it, because it’s incrementally more of exactly what he has been doing since he rode that golden escalator into this elongated infamy we now endure.

This is part and parcel of creeping fascism. An instance of horrifying racism becomes merely “expected” from the president, and then he moves on to another one, and then another, and another after that. He and his administration are laboring to normalize the grotesque.


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https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-racism-is-not-blundering-it-is-tactically-deliberate/

July 16, 2019

World Leaders Tear Trump To Shreds For Spewing '1950s Racism'

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/07/15/world-leaders-tear-trump-to-shreds-for-spewing-1950s-racism.html

Posted on Mon, Jul 15th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
World Leaders Tear Trump To Shreds For Spewing ‘1950s Racism’


Republicans might be silent in the wake of Donald Trump’s new racist attacks on four congresswomen of color, but world leaders have quickly come together to denounce them.

According to The Washington Post, politicians from across the globe are slamming Trump for his “1950s racism.”


British Prime Minister Theresa May might be just days away from leaving office, but she took time out of her day to criticize Trump.

“The prime minister’s view is that the language used to refer to these women was completely unacceptable,” said one Downing Street spokesman, according to The Post.


Another British politician took to Twitter to condemn Trump’s bigotry, calling it “1950s racism straight from the White House.”
https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1150424700364959747
The First Minister of Scotland said of Trump’s attacks, “The President of the United States telling elected politicians — or any other Americans for that matter — to ‘go back’ to other countries is not OK, and diplomatic politeness should not stop us saying so, loudly and clearly.”


The mayor of London and one of Trump’s most outspoken critics, Sadiq Khan, tore into Trump, too.

“I’ve heard it from racists and fascists. Never from a mainstream politician,” he said, according to the same Washington Post report “Here you have the president of the U.S.A. using that same sort of language.”


Closer to home, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also chimed in on Trump’s racism, saying, “That is not how we do things in Canada. A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian, and the diversity of our country is actually one of our greatest strengths and a source of tremendous resilience and pride for Canadians. We will continue to defend that.”



Trump is an international disgrace

From the UK and Canada to Germany and Belgium, the advanced world stepped up and condemned racism – something the Republican Party here at home has shamefully failed to do.

No matter which party held the White House, the United States has historically been seen as the moral authority around the world – a country that has strived to advocate for equality.

With a racist in the White House and a GOP unwilling to put country over party, the United States no longer has that authority, and other world leaders are stepping up to fill that moral leadership void.
July 16, 2019

Democrats challenge a Florida law that puts Trump's name ahead of rivals' on the 2020 ballot


Democrats challenge a Florida law that puts Trump’s name ahead of rivals’ on the 2020 ballot
Critics say it's among several measures giving Republicans an unfair advantage in Florida's elections next year.
Danielle McLean
Jul 16, 2019, 8:00 am



Democrats are challenging a Florida law that ensures President Donald Trump’s name appears at the top of the state’s 2020 election ballot, which they say gives him and fellow Republicans an unfair advantage in the vote.

The Democratic Party and civil rights groups in Florida are suing over a number of state laws meant to suppress the votes of people of color and give Republicans an edge in the state, which has had numerous whisker-close elections in its recent past.

This latest legal challenge, filed by Florida voters and several Democratic groups last year at U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, seeks to end a nearly 70-year-old law mandating that candidates belonging to the governor’s political party be listed first on the ballot. A four-day federal court trial began in the case on Monday.

Democrats argue that people sometimes decide their vote based on where a candidate’s name appears on the ballot, a phenomenon known as “position bias.”

“Candidates of the Governor’s political party receive the benefits of position bias, creating an unfair and artificial electoral advantage” the lawsuit stated.

“Currently, Republican Party candidates routinely and without exception receive the advantage of position bias in Florida’s partisan elections,” the lawsuit continued. “Because a Republican has held the position of Florida Governor for 20 years, this advantage has continued, unabated, for two decades.”


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https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-sue-over-florida-law-that-puts-trumps-name-at-the-top-of-the-2020-ballot/
July 16, 2019

Trump Bets on Racism

https://politicalwire.com/2019/07/16/trump-bets-on-racism/

Trump Bets on Racism
July 16, 2019 at 8:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard


Steve Benen: “Party officials who believed they’d help set the party’s direction in the Trump era now realize that power is in the hands of one man: a hapless amateur whose rhetoric on race is too often indistinguishable from the angry, racist drunk at the end of the bar.”

“Republicans aware of their party’s demographic challenges – the party is increasingly dependent on older white voters, in a nation that’s becoming increasingly diverse – no doubt realize that Trump is making a risky electoral bet. But instead of pushing for a smarter strategy, most GOP leaders have effectively surrendered and accepted defeat.”

Greg Sargent: “Central to Trump’s racism — and more broadly to Trumpism writ large — is not just the content of the racism itself. It’s also that he’s asserting the right to engage in public displays of racism without it being called out for what it is.”

July 15, 2019

After years of decrying McCarthyism, Lindsey Graham accuses members of Congress of being Communists



After years of decrying McCarthyism, Lindsey Graham accuses members of Congress of being Communists
"They're anti-Semitic, they're anti-America."
Josh Israel
Jul 15, 2019, 1:04 pm


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who once spoke out against President Donald Trump’s racism, adopted an “if-you-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em” philosophy on Monday, echoing the president’s racist attacks against progressive Democratic congresswomen of color.

Graham attacked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) by name and others by association during a Fox News interview, claiming they were “Communists” who “hate our own country.”

Graham specifically criticized “this crowd” — an apparent reference to Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Trump had attacked the four lawmakers in a series of racist tweets over the weekend, suggesting the four should “go back” to their home countries to “help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

Three of the congresswomen were born in the United States. Omar immigrated here from Somalia as a child.

We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own country, they’re calling the guards along our border — the border patrol agents — concentration camp guards,” Graham said Monday, piling on top of Trump’s racist comments. “They accuse people who support Israel as doing it ‘for the Benjamins.’ They’re anti-Semitic, they’re anti-America.


Ocasio-Cortez responded to Graham’s comments Monday afternoon, tweeting, “I see @LindseyGrahamSC’s biggest issue w/ Trump’s racism is that it doesn’t go far enough – Graham wants to bring back 1950s McCarthyism, too. GOP is doing this because they have no plan for our future.”

She added, “We’re the ones fighting for healthcare, edu, good jobs, & they got nothing.”


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https://thinkprogress.org/after-years-of-decrying-mccarthyism-lindsey-graham-accuses-members-of-congress-of-being-communists-e2417674ae98/
July 15, 2019

David Frum: Trump Is Baiting Democrats

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/trumps-tweets-are-baiting-democrats/593956/

Trump Is Baiting Democrats
The president is trying to divide the House caucus and force it to fight the election on his terms. So far, it’s working.
8:08 AM ET
David Frum

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From the beginning, however, the no-impeachment strategy has faced one big obstacle: Trump himself. It’s not that he wants to be impeached, exactly—but more that he cannot refrain from behaving so outrageously that he drives his opponents toward impeachment. He did it again this past weekend, tweeting at “‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen” to go back to where they came from. The rage of Democratic indignation, always simmering, was immediately turned to boil.

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Plan or no plan, though, Trump hit the Democratic Party at its point of vulnerability. He is driving it toward ever more radical outcomes: against the enforcement of immigration laws and for the acceptance of virtually all border crossers; against the bread-and-butter issues that will mobilize the voters the Democrats need and for the symbolic actions that will gratify the educated urban progressives who live in the safest Democratic districts in the country.

Pelosi has been right at every move of this game. She is working to replace Trump at the ballot box, and she is working as best she can from the House to avoid mistakes that will help him and hurt the eventual Democratic presidential nominee.


Most of Pelosi’s party may well know and agree that she is right. But knowing and doing are two very different things. Trump is determined to make it impossible for Democrats to act on Pelosi’s knowledge—to break the discipline Pelosi has imposed on her party and to empower the Democrats who want to win Twitter today, rather than win the White House in 2020.

Will Democrats be goaded? The 2020 outcome may turn on whether the Democratic House caucus can continue to emulate its leader’s clarity of purpose and firmness of self-command.

July 15, 2019

ACLU says it will 'sue swiftly' over Trump administration ending asylum protections

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/453069-aclu-says-it-will-sue-swiftly-over-trump-admin-ending-asylum

ACLU says it will 'sue swiftly' over Trump administration ending asylum protections
By Chris Mills Rodrigo - 07/15/19 10:44 AM EDT


The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday promised to sue the Trump administration over a new rule that would end asylum protections for most migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"The Trump administration is trying to unilaterally reverse our country's legal and moral commitment to protect those fleeing danger," Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project at the ACLU, said in a statement.

"This new rule is patently unlawful and we will sue swiftly.”


The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced a rule that would make asylum seekers who pass through another country before reaching the U.S. ineligible for asylum.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/453069-aclu-says-it-will-sue-swiftly-over-trump-admin-ending-asylum

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