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April 14, 2019

Trump, California has poor management.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117242926654947328

A Republican Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger and with help from Republican law makers
left the state with >$25 billion deficit but a liberal Democratic Governor, Jerry Brown along
with Democratic law makers now have the state with a $9 billion surplus.

California's new Democratic Governor, Gavin Newsom and current democratic law makers are
continuing along the same path and currently California has the 5th or 6th biggest economy
in the world.
April 13, 2019

This is what a good American looks like.



Ilhan Omar wearing a hijab is her Constitutionally protected right under the 1st amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

When is enough going to be enough? Although I think Trump in many case says stupid stuff just to
change the news cycles from Trump/Russia.
April 12, 2019

Projection: Trump calls Mueller investigation 'treason' and Democrats 'treasonous'

For the second time in as many days, Donald Trump called the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller “treason” and indicated that he wants those involved charged with a crime. This follows an earlier tweet from Trump saying, “I think what the Democrats are doing with the Border is TREASONOUS.” The Atlantic suggests that Trump’s claims of treason are exactly how the Founding Fathers feared such accusations could be made, and precisely why the wording regarding what constitutes treason is so precise.

According to a White House pool report, Trump also said that he “absolutely” believes there was spying on his 2016 campaign and that the claim of spying by attorney general was “accurate.”

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That’s despite talking about WikiLeaks numerous times at rallies, where Trump made statements such as “WikiLeaks! I love WikiLeaks!” encouraged his followers to read the site, and relished pulling new documents published at WikiLeaks to drop in his daily speeches. Trump tweeted about WikiLeaks directly 11 times, and used sections of documents obtained from the site in dozens of other tweets. Trump claimed not to know that WikiLeaks follower Julian Assange had been arrested.

Numerous sources have noted that Trump has seemed “increasingly erratic” over the last two weeks as he conducted a purge of the Department of Homeland Security, threatened to close the southern border, and flip-flopped over how Republicans should handle health care going into 2020.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/11/1849539/-Trump-calls-Mueller-investigation-treason-and-Democrats-treasonous?detail=emaildkreadtestcontrol

April 11, 2019

Trump, "You know, I come from New York - you have 5th Avenue and that connects to Park Avenue ..."

5th Ave and Park Ave run parallel to each other. 5th Ave runs north and south along the east side
of Central Park and Park Ave runs parallel to 5th Ave 2 blocks to the east.

https://www.indy100.com/article/trump-us-border-wall-mexico-texas-size-video-8864911

http://dykesdodigital.org/central-park-new-york-maps/

April 9, 2019

At Trump's Florida Resort Empire, a Quiet Effort to Eliminate an Undocumented Work Force

Source: NY Times

Mr. Trump has long acknowledged that running the hospitality industry on a tight supply of American labor is extraordinarily difficult -- the reason Mar-a-Lago has frequently turned to legal guest workers for jobs that typically span only, in the case of Florida, the pleasant winter months. "It's very, very hard to get people," he explained during the 2016 campaign. "But other hotels do the exact same thing."

In the case of the Trump Organization, the hiring of some immigrant labor may be about to change: Facing growing questions about its employment of undocumented workers, the company has quietly begun to take steps to eliminate any remaining undocumented workers from its labor pool in South Florida.

In March, seven veteran maintenance workers at Trump National Jupiter, the golf club 18 miles north of Mar-a-Lago that Mr. Trump purchased in 2012, were informed that the work force was being reorganized. Workers had until March 22 to provide proof that they were legally eligible to work in the United States, they were told.

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"They got rid of me after so many years of hard work because I don't have papers," said an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who worked for 10 years on a maintenance crew at one of Trump's favorite golfing spots on his weekends at Mar-a-Lago

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/us/mar-a-lago-undocumented-workers.html



And now Trump is freaking out about the NY Times piece.


Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
The Mainstream Media has never been more inaccurate or corrupt than it is today. It only seems to get worse. So much Fake News!

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April 4, 2019

Trump is getting really nervous

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1113784899847249921

BTW Mueller is a republican, so is Rosenstein, and so is Jeff Sessions.
April 4, 2019

From Wiki: Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump was born in the Bronx on October 11, 1905.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump

I think Donny is either batcrap crazy and or is just saying stupid things in order
to change the news cycle from the Mueller report.

BTW Don lies about everything.

1927 arrest
On Memorial Day in 1927, the Ku Klux Klan marched in Queens to protest Protestant American citizens being "assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City."[9] Fred was arrested "on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so," and the only one of seven men dismissed without charges.[10][11] All seven arrested were referred to as "berobed marchers" in the Long Island Daily Press. A Vice article noted that if any of the attendees were not "dressed in a robe at the time, that may have been a reporting error worth correcting."[10] When asked about the issue in September 2015, Donald Trump, then a candidate for President of the United States, denied that his father had ever been arrested.[9][12]
April 3, 2019

Lori Lightfoot Chicago's New Mayor ... a must see video

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017537477

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https://www.businessinsider.com/lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-black-female-openly-gay-2019-4

Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot was elected Chicago mayor on Tuesday, becoming the first black woman and first openly gay person to lead the nation's third-largest city.

Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle, who served in the City Council for 19 years before becoming Cook County Board president.

Chicago will become the largest US city to elect a black woman as mayor when Lightfoot is sworn in May 20. She will join seven other black women currently serving as mayors in major US cities, including Atlanta and New Orleans.

Lightfoot said that as mayor, she would focus on investing in neighborhoods on the West and South Sides and bring transparency and accountability to City Hall.

President Lightfoot? Too soon.

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