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June 19, 2021
Trump Commerce Boss Wilbur Ross Hoovered Up $53 Million While In Public Office
06/19/2021 08:43 am ET
Then he slipped out of public life and into a business he set up in the Cayman Islands while reportedly still commerce secretary.
By Mary Papenfuss
Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, earned at least $53 million from private companies while he was collecting a taxpayer salary and supposed to be looking out for the public instead of his own profits.
Ross reported making somewhere between $53 million and $127 million during his four years as head of the Commerce Department. The federal government only requires officials to report broad ranges of outside income.
It’s possible that Ross earned “significantly more” since he was not required to specify certain income totals over $1 million, noted watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which reported Ross’ financial disclosure filings earlier this week.
Ross’ many and profitable entanglements with private companies while he was supposed to be looking out for the American taxpayer triggered concern and criticism.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wilbur-ross-53-million-commerce-head-finance-report_n_60cd5ceae4b01af0c2706d30
June 19, 2021
By Josh Feldman Jun 18th, 2021, 5:21 pm
Senator Lindsey Graham (R- SC) spoke at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference Friday and said the stakes of the 2022 midterms couldn’t be higher for the GOP.
He warned the audience if Democrats win in 2022 and 2024, Democrats will “abolish the electoral college” and pack the court and make D.C. and Puerto Rico states.
“Winning in 2022 is the only option available for conservatism,” Graham continued.
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https://www.mediaite.com/election-2022/lindsey-graham-sets-the-stakes-for-midterms-gop-winning-in-2022-would-mean-the-party-of-trump-is-not-dead-and-buried/
Lindsey Graham: GOP Winning in 2022 Would Mean 'The Party of Trump Is Not Dead and Buried'
Lindsey Graham Sets the Stakes for Midterms: GOP Winning in 2022 Would Mean ‘The Party of Trump Is Not Dead and Buried’By Josh Feldman Jun 18th, 2021, 5:21 pm
Senator Lindsey Graham (R- SC) spoke at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference Friday and said the stakes of the 2022 midterms couldn’t be higher for the GOP.
He warned the audience if Democrats win in 2022 and 2024, Democrats will “abolish the electoral college” and pack the court and make D.C. and Puerto Rico states.
“Winning in 2022 is the only option available for conservatism,” Graham continued.
If we win in 2022, it means the party of Trump is not dead and buried, it’s still alive. It means we stopped the most radical agenda in the history of mankind coming out of the House. If we can pick up one Senate seat it means we’ll have a say about the judges they pick and a lot of other things.”
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1405957132692987906
https://www.mediaite.com/election-2022/lindsey-graham-sets-the-stakes-for-midterms-gop-winning-in-2022-would-mean-the-party-of-trump-is-not-dead-and-buried/
June 18, 2021
By Colby HallJun 18th, 2021, 9:58 am
Frequent Fox News guest Chris Hahn fired back at Rep. Ronny Jackson after the former White House doctor called for a cognitive test on President Joe Biden during an interview with Sean Hannity.
“I want Ronny Jackson to take a drug test,” Hahn tweeted, perhaps in reference to his rumored nickname of “Dr. Feelgood” while serving as White Hosue doctor under former President Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherHahn/status/1405703679349567489
“Absolutely, Sean,” replied Jackson. “He’s not physically or cognitively fit to be our president right now. And I just think that he’s not inspiring confidence in the American people. He’s not inspiring confidence in our allies overseas. And more importantly, it’s sending the wrong message to our adversaries overseas.”
In April of 2018, The New York Times reported “whispers” of Dr. Jackson’s rumored behavior while serving in the White House which explained Trump’s failed nomination to run the Department of Veteran Affairs:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-contributor-calls-for-ronny-jackson-to-take-a-drug-test-after-appearance-on-hannity/
Frequent Fox News Guest Calls For Ronny Jackson to Take a Drug Test After Appearance on Hannity
Frequent Fox News Guest Calls For Ronny Jackson to Take a Drug Test After Appearance on HannityBy Colby HallJun 18th, 2021, 9:58 am
Frequent Fox News guest Chris Hahn fired back at Rep. Ronny Jackson after the former White House doctor called for a cognitive test on President Joe Biden during an interview with Sean Hannity.
“I want Ronny Jackson to take a drug test,” Hahn tweeted, perhaps in reference to his rumored nickname of “Dr. Feelgood” while serving as White Hosue doctor under former President Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherHahn/status/1405703679349567489
“Absolutely, Sean,” replied Jackson. “He’s not physically or cognitively fit to be our president right now. And I just think that he’s not inspiring confidence in the American people. He’s not inspiring confidence in our allies overseas. And more importantly, it’s sending the wrong message to our adversaries overseas.”
In April of 2018, The New York Times reported “whispers” of Dr. Jackson’s rumored behavior while serving in the White House which explained Trump’s failed nomination to run the Department of Veteran Affairs:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-contributor-calls-for-ronny-jackson-to-take-a-drug-test-after-appearance-on-hannity/
June 18, 2021
By Tommy Christopher Jun 18th, 2021, 8:46 am
Then-President Donald Trump regretted not taking a harder line against protesters in the wake of the late George Floyd’s death, lamenting that “the Blacks” hated him and would never vote for him anyway.
According to Wall Street Journal reporter Mike Bender’s upcoming book “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost,” excerpted by Politico Playbook, Trump was seething in the immediate aftermath of Mr. Floyd’s murder, and regretting the meager criminal justice reform he had reluctantly supported.
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https://www.mediaite.com/news/they-all-fcking-hate-me-trump-ranted-about-the-blacks-after-his-response-to-george-floyd-unrest/
'They All F*cking Hate Me!' Trump Ranted About 'The Blacks' After His Response to George Floyd Unres
‘They All F*cking Hate Me!’ Trump Ranted About ‘The Blacks’ After His Response to George Floyd UnrestBy Tommy Christopher Jun 18th, 2021, 8:46 am
Then-President Donald Trump regretted not taking a harder line against protesters in the wake of the late George Floyd’s death, lamenting that “the Blacks” hated him and would never vote for him anyway.
According to Wall Street Journal reporter Mike Bender’s upcoming book “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost,” excerpted by Politico Playbook, Trump was seething in the immediate aftermath of Mr. Floyd’s murder, and regretting the meager criminal justice reform he had reluctantly supported.
“For Father’s Day in 2020, what DONALD TRUMP mostly wanted was to avoid his son-in-law. It was JARED KUSHNER who had talked the president into hiring BRAD PARSCALE to run a campaign that was now, just months before the election, in freefall. And when most Americans rejected Trump’s unreasonably truculent response to the civil unrest that was sweeping the country, the president also blamed Kushner. … Trump privately told advisers that he wished he’d been quicker to support police and more aggressive in his pushback against protesters.
“Trump had staked nearly his entire campaign in 2016 around a law-and-order image, and now groaned that the criminal justice reform that Kushner had persuaded him to support made him look weak and — even worse — hadn’t earned him any goodwill among Black voters.
“‘I’ve done all this stuff for the Blacks — it’s always Jared telling me to do this,’ Trump said to one confidante on Father’s Day. ‘And they all f—— hate me, and none of them are going to vote for me.’”
“Trump had staked nearly his entire campaign in 2016 around a law-and-order image, and now groaned that the criminal justice reform that Kushner had persuaded him to support made him look weak and — even worse — hadn’t earned him any goodwill among Black voters.
“‘I’ve done all this stuff for the Blacks — it’s always Jared telling me to do this,’ Trump said to one confidante on Father’s Day. ‘And they all f—— hate me, and none of them are going to vote for me.’”
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https://www.mediaite.com/news/they-all-fcking-hate-me-trump-ranted-about-the-blacks-after-his-response-to-george-floyd-unrest/
June 18, 2021
Matthew Chapman
June 17, 2021
On Thursday, Business Insider reported that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is no longer welcome at Fox News as his legal scandals continued to mount.
"In March, Gaetz appeared on Fox shows at least 19 times, according to an Insider review of Fox News clips, including those the congressman posted to his YouTube channel," reported Robin Bravender and Tom LoBianco. "In April, May, and so far in June? Not once. Gaetz has been 'excommunicated within the Fox News circles,' said a former Gaetz staffer who spoke to Insider anonymously in order to protect professional relationships."
Gaetz is currently under federal investigation amid allegations he and a Florida county tax official, now cooperating with federal prosecutors, transported a teenage girl over state lines for sex, and that drugs and campaign cash were involved in transactions with prostitutes. He has denied all allegations and claimed he is being targeted by a "Deep State" plot.
"It's not worth it for the conservative network to risk putting Gaetz on its airwaves while the high-profile sex trafficking investigation is playing out, according to Republican insiders and media watchdogs," said the report. "Gaetz hurt his relationship with Carlson during the infamous March 30 interview, sources told Insider." During that interview, Gaetz noted that Carlson was also "falsely accused of a terrible sex act," leading to an exchange Carlson said on air was "one of the weirdest interviews I have ever conducted."
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https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-fox-news-2653421667/
Matt Gaetz 'excommunicated' from Fox News amid sex and corruption scandals: report
Matthew Chapman
June 17, 2021
On Thursday, Business Insider reported that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is no longer welcome at Fox News as his legal scandals continued to mount.
"In March, Gaetz appeared on Fox shows at least 19 times, according to an Insider review of Fox News clips, including those the congressman posted to his YouTube channel," reported Robin Bravender and Tom LoBianco. "In April, May, and so far in June? Not once. Gaetz has been 'excommunicated within the Fox News circles,' said a former Gaetz staffer who spoke to Insider anonymously in order to protect professional relationships."
Gaetz is currently under federal investigation amid allegations he and a Florida county tax official, now cooperating with federal prosecutors, transported a teenage girl over state lines for sex, and that drugs and campaign cash were involved in transactions with prostitutes. He has denied all allegations and claimed he is being targeted by a "Deep State" plot.
"It's not worth it for the conservative network to risk putting Gaetz on its airwaves while the high-profile sex trafficking investigation is playing out, according to Republican insiders and media watchdogs," said the report. "Gaetz hurt his relationship with Carlson during the infamous March 30 interview, sources told Insider." During that interview, Gaetz noted that Carlson was also "falsely accused of a terrible sex act," leading to an exchange Carlson said on air was "one of the weirdest interviews I have ever conducted."
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https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-fox-news-2653421667/
June 18, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-rioters-2653446181/
...MAGA rioter squirms when CNN reporter confronts him with damning evidence
'You didn't watch all the videos!' MAGA rioter squirms when CNN reporter confronts him with damning evidencehttps://www.rawstory.com/capitol-rioters-2653446181/
June 18, 2021
Analysis: The former president promised that his Supreme Court picks would overturn the Affordable Care Act. He met the court's ruling with the deafening silence of defeat.
June 18, 2021, 4:30 AM EDT
By Jonathan Allen
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, the health insurance program that helped fuel the backlash tea party movement and ultimately his own candidacy.
If Trump couldn't get Congress to do away with the law — and he couldn't, even with Republicans in control of both chambers — he would choose Supreme Court justices who would declare Obamacare unconstitutional.
"If I win the presidency, my judicial appointments will do the right thing unlike Bush's appointee John Roberts on Obamacare," Trump tweeted in 2015, referring to the decision Roberts wrote that preserved the law's mandate for Americans to buy health insurance.
But two of the three jurists Trump picked for the court — Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — voted with Roberts as part of a 7-2 majority Thursday to deny standing to a group of conservative states that claimed the law harmed them. It was a major blow — perhaps a decisive one — against the political right's long fight against Obamacare and a sign of the limit of Trump's influence on the justices he appointed.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-was-wrong-about-law-obamacare-politics-his-judges-n1271216
Trump was wrong about the law, Obamacare politics and his judges
Analysis: The former president promised that his Supreme Court picks would overturn the Affordable Care Act. He met the court's ruling with the deafening silence of defeat.
June 18, 2021, 4:30 AM EDT
By Jonathan Allen
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, the health insurance program that helped fuel the backlash tea party movement and ultimately his own candidacy.
If Trump couldn't get Congress to do away with the law — and he couldn't, even with Republicans in control of both chambers — he would choose Supreme Court justices who would declare Obamacare unconstitutional.
"If I win the presidency, my judicial appointments will do the right thing unlike Bush's appointee John Roberts on Obamacare," Trump tweeted in 2015, referring to the decision Roberts wrote that preserved the law's mandate for Americans to buy health insurance.
But two of the three jurists Trump picked for the court — Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — voted with Roberts as part of a 7-2 majority Thursday to deny standing to a group of conservative states that claimed the law harmed them. It was a major blow — perhaps a decisive one — against the political right's long fight against Obamacare and a sign of the limit of Trump's influence on the justices he appointed.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-was-wrong-about-law-obamacare-politics-his-judges-n1271216
June 18, 2021
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 06/18/21 06:00 AM EDT
Centrists have gained leverage in the Senate battle over an infrastructure package after 11 more senators backed a $974 billion infrastructure framework.
Twenty-one senators in all are supporting the proposal, which is much smaller than what the White House and liberals prefer. The group includes 11 Republicans, 9 Democrats and an independent who caucuses with Democrats.
Liberals who were calling on fellow Democrats to “cut bait” only a few days ago now grudgingly acknowledge they will have to review the details of what the centrists will come up with before deciding their next move.
And centrist Democrats are touting the support of their 11 Republican colleagues for the five-year spending plan, arguing it is a strong indication that it can pick up 60 votes and pass the Senate outside the budget reconciliation process, which would avoid a filibuster but force all of the Senate’s 50 Democrats to stay together.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/559091-centrists-gain-leverage-over-progressives-in-senate-infrastructure-battle
Centrists gain leverage over progressives in Senate infrastructure battle
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 06/18/21 06:00 AM EDT
Centrists have gained leverage in the Senate battle over an infrastructure package after 11 more senators backed a $974 billion infrastructure framework.
Twenty-one senators in all are supporting the proposal, which is much smaller than what the White House and liberals prefer. The group includes 11 Republicans, 9 Democrats and an independent who caucuses with Democrats.
Liberals who were calling on fellow Democrats to “cut bait” only a few days ago now grudgingly acknowledge they will have to review the details of what the centrists will come up with before deciding their next move.
And centrist Democrats are touting the support of their 11 Republican colleagues for the five-year spending plan, arguing it is a strong indication that it can pick up 60 votes and pass the Senate outside the budget reconciliation process, which would avoid a filibuster but force all of the Senate’s 50 Democrats to stay together.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/559091-centrists-gain-leverage-over-progressives-in-senate-infrastructure-battle
June 18, 2021
Watch "Assault on Democracy: The Roots of Trump's Insurrection" this Sunday, June 20 at 9 p.m. ET on CNN.
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Watch "Assault on Democracy: The Roots of Trump's Insurrection"...
Watch "Assault on Democracy: The Roots of Trump's Insurrection" this Sunday, June 20 at 9 p.m. ET on CNN.
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June 18, 2021
Trump Appointees Solidify the Supreme Court's Center
June 18, 2021 at 7:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Joan Biskupic: “Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, demonstrated their collective power at America’s highest court on Thursday.”
“An overriding question going into the session that began last October was whether Roberts would still wield significant control, after former President Donald Trump appointed Barrett to succeed the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and created a 6-3 conservative-liberal bench.”
“But the latest developments suggest a possible 3-3-3 pattern, with Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh at the center-right, putting a check on their more conservative brethren who regularly push to overturn precedent.”
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https://politicalwire.com/2021/06/18/trump-appointees-solidify-the-supreme-courts-center/
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