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Trump: “If anyone has information that the Democratic Party is working with Ms. Carroll or New York Magazine, please notify us as soon as possible. The world should know what’s really going on. It is a disgrace and people should pay dearly for such false accusations.”
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Will A Trump Trade Move Create An Election Mess For Overseas U.S. Voters?
Will A Trump Trade Move Create An Election Mess For Overseas U.S. Voters?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-trade-overseas-voters-universal-postal-union
By Tierney Sneed
June 21, 2019 6:00 am
The Trump administration has supported plenty of moves to make it harder to vote. But an under-the-radar action President Trump took last year, as part of his trade war with China, may be a case of him just stumbling into that outcome, election experts fear.
Trump is threatening to withdraw from the international body that oversees global mail delivery, putting at risk the stability and reliability of the current system of sending and receiving mail internationally.
Any disruption to the international postal service, voter advocates say, could make an already difficult process of casting ballots for Americans abroad even more complicated. Among those who stand to be affected are members of the military overseas, whose ability to vote while serving their country has always been a politically sensitive issue.
The White House told TPM it’s working “diligently” to make sure that if the United States exits the 145-year-old international postal alliance, the withdrawal would be “seamless.” But the administration wouldn’t provide details about its planning, particularly as it pertains to elections, or about who exactly has been working on it. The lack of clarity is prompting anxiety in the election policy world. If the United States leaves the global mail delivery organization, it will happen just a few months before the 2020 primaries begin.
“I’ve had sleepless nights worrying what will happen for voters that won’t have the ability to return a ballot,” said Tammy Patrick, a senior advisor at the Democracy Fund who works with elections officials on voting administration issues.
She and others in the voting space fear it will be more expensive for overseas voters to cast ballots, if they have to rely on private carriers to do so, or that it will be altogether impossible for them to know for sure whether they’ll be able to get their ballots submitted in time.
Trump announced his intent to withdraw from the Universal Postal Union, which sets the rates and rules for international postal delivery across borders, last October. His objections to the current regime pertain to the subsidized rate China receives when sending packages out of its borders, which the administration says disadvantages American manufactures. If the UPU does not allow the U.S. to set its own rates — the organization is gathering in late September for negotiations — the U.S. is set to withdraw from the 192-country organization altogether come October...........................................
Trump 4EVA: POTUS Tweets Video Of Himself Running For Prez Until The End Of Time
Source: TpM
June 21, 2019 4:11 pm
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President Trump tweeted a video of a doctored TIME Magazine cover that essentially depicts him running for president to infinity and beyond.
According to journalist Yashar Ali, the video was created by the same account that made a doctored video of a fake Joe Biden massaging the real Joe Biden during his apology video for unwanted touching during his political career. Trump also tweeted out the Biden video.
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Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-4-eva-tweet
Trump has no national business to do today except to feed his big EGO!!
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Trumps tweet a Time cover........
music and all. What is this all about??
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Ben Rhodes: Trump's Iran policy is rooted in lies -- the kind that got us into the Iraq War Failing
I trust what Ben Rhodes says.
https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1142100050128097280
https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1142076781396201472
Trump’s Iran policy is rooted in lies — the kind that got us into the Iraq War
Failing to see his dishonesty for what it is could have devastating consequences.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/05/16/trumps-iran-policy-is-rooted-lies-kind-that-got-us-into-iraq-war/?utm_term=.ae8117af961a
By Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration, is author of "The World as It Is."
The Iraq War showed us all what happens when exaggerations and lies are weaponized to justify an ideological push for war: In 2002 and 2003, a relentless series of ominous, overblown public statements and bogus intelligence reports were used to justify an invasion — part of a deliberate campaign to make an offensive military action look defensive: “Should Saddam Hussein choose confrontation,” President George W. Bush said, “the American people can know that every measure has been taken to avoid war.”
It wasn’t true. Yet Bush made the case that the United States had to attack before Hussein could use weapons of mass destruction that Iraq didn’t really have. Now a similar cycle of deception may be repeating itself with President Trump’s increasingly belligerent posture on Iran.
Trump’s Iran policy has long been rooted in falsehoods. In 2017, his administration refused to certify the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — the Iran nuclear deal — on the premise that Iran wasn’t complying with the terms. That wasn’t true. Earlier that year, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Iran’s compliance; the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reported to Congress that “Iran is adhering to its JCPOA obligations”; and the U.S. intelligence community presented no evidence justifying Trump’s decertification.
Trump’s subsequent decision to withdraw from the JCPOA was no surprise. For years, he had railed against it as the “worst deal ever negotiated” by tossing out a raft of easily debunked assertions: that Iran was given $150 billion under the terms of the deal, a claim The Washington Post’s Fact Checker rated with four Pinocchios; that Iran’s regime was verging on “total collapse” before the deal, implying that somehow the deal lent the regime new life. After pulling out, Trump has continued to dispute his own intelligence community’s assessment that Iran had been complying. Numbed to a president who lies so regularly that it’s become the background noise to our political culture, his reckless exit from a multilateral, U.N. Security Council-endorsed arms-control agreement that wasn’t being violated was treated as just another routine turn of events in Trump’s Washington.
Since then, Trump’s administration has made every effort to manufacture a crisis with Iran. To the dismay of our closest European allies, the administration has repeatedly imposed new sanctions; officially designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization; announced an “Iran Action Group” in the same week as the 65th anniversary of a U.S.-backed coup in Iran; threatened, via a tweeted-out video message from national security adviser John Bolton, that the Iranian regime wouldn’t “have many more anniversaries to enjoy”; and hinted that the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force against al-Qaeda and associated forces could be applied to war with Iran.
This month, the manufactured crisis was escalated. Bolton announced the deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the region, referencing unspecified “troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran that could lead to the use of “unrelenting force” by the United States. Days later, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that any attacks from Iran or its proxies would be met with a “swift and decisive U.S. response.” The State Department has drawn down some of our personnel in nearby Baghdad, again citing unspecified threats from Iran.
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https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1129204638085918720
Hannity promises Trump would 'bomb the hell out of' Iran following downing of US drone
No doubt Trump and him are chatting.
Hannity promises Trump would 'bomb the hell out of' Iran following downing of US drone
By John Bowden - 06/20/19 09:54 PM EDT
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Fox News host Sean Hannity opened his show Thursday with a vow that President Trump would soon declare war on Iran unless Iran's leader take a "small opportunity" for peace.
Hannity said Thursday night that if the "Mullahs [of Iran] are smart enough" they will take a quickly disappearing option to negotiate peace with the U.S. following the destruction of a U.S. surveillance drone overnight Wednesday.
If not, Hannity said, Trump would proceed to "bomb the hell out of" the country.
A Media Matters reporter who first posted the clip online noted that Hannity's warning to Iran came just minutes after his lead-in, Tucker Carlson, praised the president for avoiding calls for war with Iran.
Trump's love for Fox News programming is well-known, and it was reported by the Daily Beast on Wednesday that Carlson has been personally advising Trump on the subject and urging him to resist calls for war from within his administration. Carlson has also publicly criticized Trump's national security adviser John Bolton, who is seen as hawkish on the issue of Iran...................................................
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Matt Gaetz gets laughed at after his attempt to derail Mueller hearing hilariously backfires
Source: raw story
Published 49 mins ago on June 20, 2019
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) .......................................
During his allotted time, Gaetz changed the subject away entirely from the Mueller report and decided to grill one of the witnesses for her views on border security.
In particular, Gaetz asked Carrie Cordero, a Robert M. Gates senior fellow and general counsel at the Center for New American Security, about her work writing about the security problems posed by Mexican drug cartels.
“Is it your impression that, since you wrote this in 2013, that the circumstances on our southern border have gotten better or worse?” Gaetz asked.
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“When I wrote that report, I thought it was an issue that needed attention,” she said. “There is clearly a humanitarian problem on the southern border that needs to be addressed. What you will not find in that article is any mention of a wall as a response to that challenge, nor any encouragement of any use of emergency authorities.”
At this point, many people in the room laughed at Gaetz.
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/matt-gaetz-gets-laughed-at-after-his-attempt-to-derail-mueller-hearing-hilariously-backfires/
What a prick!!
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Sinclair is forcing its stations to run a commentary segment that's essentially a Trump campaign ad
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Sinclair is forcing its stations to run a commentary segment that’s essentially a Trump campaign ad
Sinclair chief political commentator and former Trump aide Boris Epshteyn hosted a new “must-run” gushing about the president’s 2020 campaign
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/06/20/sinclair-forcing-its-stations-run-commentary-segment-s-essentially-trump-campaign-ad/223986
Blog ››› 4 hours 49 min ago ››› PAM VOGEL
Conservative local news giant Sinclair Broadcast Group is now pushing its local news stations to air what amounts to an unofficial ad for the Trump 2020 campaign.
The local news behemoth currently employs two commentators -- one pro-Trump and one liberal -- who each produce a “must-run” commentary segment on a near-daily basis. The segments are distributed to Sinclair’s local news stations across the country, and the stations are required to air them within a certain period of time, typically during a local newscast. The June 19 commentary segments from Boris Epshteyn and Ameshia Cross tackled President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign launch ploy in Orlando.
Epshteyn, who worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign and may have signed a nondisparagement agreement during that time that would prevent him from criticizing the president, delivered a 90-second segment that could just as easily have been produced by the Trump campaign itself.
In the segment, Epshteyn praises crowd sizes at Trump’s rallies and “unprecedented social media engagement” from Trump supporters, and encourages the president’s campaign to “ride the wind of his accomplishments to reelection.”
BORIS EPSHTEYN: Well, it’s official. President Trump has launched his 2020 reelection campaign. The energy behind President Trump and his “America First” movement is palpable, and if I’m a Democrat running in 2020, I am worried about my chances. That energy is quantifiable in the crowds that fill up massive stadiums. You see it on display when lines begin to form days in advance of Trump rallies. You see the energy in the unprecedented social media engagement for President Trump. You also see it in fundraising, where, according to reports, President Trump raised more in his first day running than any Democratic candidate did in their first three months.
Democrats have struggled to find a candidate who is able to hit these notes. Democratic candidates from Mayor Bill de Blasio to Sen. Kamala Harris and even the front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden, are failing to fill crowds or garner supporter reactions. On the other hand, the sitting president is treated like a rock star by his base.
President Trump’s strategy is simple: Keep the energy and motivation high, focus on several key issues, and ride the wind of his accomplishments to reelection. Here’s the bottom line: The advantages of incumbency and a successful first term are on full display for President Trump so far this cycle. While Democrats struggle to differentiate from one another, President Trump is proving that the GOP’s amp goes up to 11.
As of this morning, Epshteyn’s “must-run” segment has already aired on at least 42 Sinclair-controlled local news stations in 26 states and the District of Columbia, according to the iQ media database......................................
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