In Mary Trump’s forthcoming book on her famous family, Too Much and Never Enough, she describes her involvement in helping The New York Times obtain tax documents uncovering decades of financial malfeasance and tax dodging by President Trump, his company, and his siblings.
That “has always struck me as one of the great overlooked jaw-droppers of the scandal-ridden Trump era,” Rachel Maddow said on MSNBC Tuesday night.
“His older sister, federal Judge Maryanne Trump-Barry, really did have to give up her lifetime seat on the federal bench in order to avoid a judicial ethics inquiry into a massive, multi-million-dollar alleged years-long tax fraud scheme that she reportedly engaged in with her family, including with her brother, who is the sitting president.
I mean, we don’t even think of that as one of the Trump scandals, but, like, that’s bigger than any other presidential scandal of my lifetime." Trump-Barry denied any willing part in the scheme, Mary Trump writes in her book.
Mary Trump also says her Aunt Maryanne called Donald Trump “a clown” in 2015 and expressed astonishment evangelicals Christians would support her brother, saying, “The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there. … He has no principles. None,” CNN’s Erin Burnett reported.
Trump biographer David Kay Johnston explained why Trump paying someone else to take his SATs is so plausible.
In the messy panoply of global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden stands out.
Unlike its Nordic and European peers, Sweden decided early on for a “soft” approach, foregoing lockdowns for subtle changes to commerce and entertainment, voluntary mitigation guidelines, and encouraging working from home.
“This is what has happened,” economic correspondent Peter S. Goodman reports in The New York Times: “Not only have thousands more people died than in neighboring countries that imposed lockdowns, but Sweden’s economy has fared little better.”
“They literally gained nothing,” Jacob Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, tells the Times.
“It’s a self-inflicted wound, and they have no economic gains.” Sweden did see slightly less contraction in the first quarter, but now its economic pain is essentially equal to its Nordic neighbors.
And Norway, which “was not only quick to impose an aggressive lockdown, but early to relax it as the virus slowed,” is actually “expected to see a more rapid economic turnaround,” Goodman reports.
As new COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise in the United States, White House officials are reportedly crossing their fingers that Americans will simply get used to it.
President Trump’s advisers are looking to “reframe” his coronavirus pandemic response, and they want to “convince Americans that they can live with the virus,” with White House officials hoping “Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day,” The Washington Post reports.
One senior administration official said Americans will have to “live with the virus being a threat,” while a former official told the Post,
“They’re of the belief that people will get over it or if we stop highlighting it, the base will move on and the public will learn to accept 50,000 to 100,000 new cases a day.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently said the U.S. could soon reach this shockingly high number of 100,000 new cases a day while also warning that the final death toll will be “very disturbing.”
The U.S. has reported almost 130,000 deaths from COVID-19 and has been setting records for the number of new cases per day.
There there, you’ll get used to it. That’s the feeling of logic and common sense washing over you. The view of actual reality rather than the dark, dystopian Fox hellscape. Now you have to pull all the other blue levers too. Republicans’ make-believe world must never again be imposed on America.
I do not understand how anyone could vote for Biden or Trump. That is just voting against the one you hate more. I’d rather cast a positive vote for Jo Jorgensen https://joj2020.com/issues-jo-jorgensen/
A Biden win would possibly be very good for the Republican Party. It would divest Repubs of Trump, who is a divisive populist, and clear the way for a stronger Repub candidate for 2020. It would give Dems a false sense of relief for having ‘defeated the bad guys!’. Biden’s serious ongoing cognitive decline, plus immediate Dem subgroup infighting, would ensure that no seriously damaging legislative or policy damage could be done in the 4 years of his one term. And, it would hasten the collapse of the Dem Party, already underway as their component groups tear at each other, clearing the way for a saner, and likely Repub, 2020 sweep.
Wouldn’t it be nice if IDIOT ORANGE PEEL was harmless? He has done unspeakable harm to a great many of the people to whom he swore an oath to protect. If he were an insect, he’d already be terminated with malice! V O T E B L U E!!
Came to the game late today. For a while, I was wondering whether this comic was worth checking out anymore.
But today, Scott is finally waking up (maybe) to the thought that, “voting your conscience” in the presidential race, not voting for the “lesser evil” (because that’s still voting for “evil”) only allowed the greater evil to “win.”
And who knows? Maybe that’s why we haven’t seen that many Biden cartoons from Scott. Oh, there’s been a couple. But nothing like the non-stop Hillary bunny cartoons that ran for, what was it, eight years? (It only seemed longer. Much longer)
And it’s not like Biden hasn’t made a fool of himself. What the heck, his performance in each of the debates was so embarrassing that, after a while, the other candidates stopped asking him questions.
And don’t get me started on that disastrous Breakfast Club interview.
Clearly, Biden does best when he says nothing.
But that’s our choice, folks. Like it or not. If you want to call him “Sleepy Joe,” that’s fine with me.
Because I don’t think any of us is getting much sleep with the current resident.
RobinHood almost 4 years ago
So what? You are free to vote however you want. No party has been particularly loyal, so why should we as voters?
kaffekup almost 4 years ago
But, but, he’s a radical socialist anarchist atheist communist, Carmen! Lie down, it’ll pass. /s
braindead Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Any vote for anyone else is a vote for Traitor Trump.
Because “Anyone who wants a test can get a test.”
and
“99% of the cases are harmless.”
.
#TraitorTrump
Sanspareil almost 4 years ago
Looks like Carmen has been Biden her time!
michaels11 almost 4 years ago
I have always said I would vote for a rock rather than Trump. It is so disappointing the Democrats are coming close to making me do so.
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
In Mary Trump’s forthcoming book on her famous family, Too Much and Never Enough, she describes her involvement in helping The New York Times obtain tax documents uncovering decades of financial malfeasance and tax dodging by President Trump, his company, and his siblings.
That “has always struck me as one of the great overlooked jaw-droppers of the scandal-ridden Trump era,” Rachel Maddow said on MSNBC Tuesday night.
“His older sister, federal Judge Maryanne Trump-Barry, really did have to give up her lifetime seat on the federal bench in order to avoid a judicial ethics inquiry into a massive, multi-million-dollar alleged years-long tax fraud scheme that she reportedly engaged in with her family, including with her brother, who is the sitting president.
I mean, we don’t even think of that as one of the Trump scandals, but, like, that’s bigger than any other presidential scandal of my lifetime." Trump-Barry denied any willing part in the scheme, Mary Trump writes in her book.
Mary Trump also says her Aunt Maryanne called Donald Trump “a clown” in 2015 and expressed astonishment evangelicals Christians would support her brother, saying, “The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there. … He has no principles. None,” CNN’s Erin Burnett reported.
Trump biographer David Kay Johnston explained why Trump paying someone else to take his SATs is so plausible.
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https://theweek.com/speedreads/924242/mary-trump-helped-uncover-biggest-trump-scandal-youve-already-forgotten-about-rachel-maddow-notes
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
In the messy panoply of global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden stands out.
Unlike its Nordic and European peers, Sweden decided early on for a “soft” approach, foregoing lockdowns for subtle changes to commerce and entertainment, voluntary mitigation guidelines, and encouraging working from home.
“This is what has happened,” economic correspondent Peter S. Goodman reports in The New York Times: “Not only have thousands more people died than in neighboring countries that imposed lockdowns, but Sweden’s economy has fared little better.”
“They literally gained nothing,” Jacob Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, tells the Times.
“It’s a self-inflicted wound, and they have no economic gains.” Sweden did see slightly less contraction in the first quarter, but now its economic pain is essentially equal to its Nordic neighbors.
And Norway, which “was not only quick to impose an aggressive lockdown, but early to relax it as the virus slowed,” is actually “expected to see a more rapid economic turnaround,” Goodman reports.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/924238/sweden-literally-gained-nothing-from-staying-open-during-covid19-including-no-economic-gains
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
As new COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise in the United States, White House officials are reportedly crossing their fingers that Americans will simply get used to it.
President Trump’s advisers are looking to “reframe” his coronavirus pandemic response, and they want to “convince Americans that they can live with the virus,” with White House officials hoping “Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day,” The Washington Post reports.
One senior administration official said Americans will have to “live with the virus being a threat,” while a former official told the Post,
“They’re of the belief that people will get over it or if we stop highlighting it, the base will move on and the public will learn to accept 50,000 to 100,000 new cases a day.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently said the U.S. could soon reach this shockingly high number of 100,000 new cases a day while also warning that the final death toll will be “very disturbing.”
The U.S. has reported almost 130,000 deaths from COVID-19 and has been setting records for the number of new cases per day.
~
https://theweek.com/speedreads/923821/white-house-reportedly-hoping-americans-grow-numb-covid19-death-toll
T Smith almost 4 years ago
Relax, Carmen… something like that is bound to happen to anyone who bothers to educate themself, and has even a modicum of integrity.
Durak Premium Member almost 4 years ago
So might I!
William Robbins Premium Member almost 4 years ago
There there, you’ll get used to it. That’s the feeling of logic and common sense washing over you. The view of actual reality rather than the dark, dystopian Fox hellscape. Now you have to pull all the other blue levers too. Republicans’ make-believe world must never again be imposed on America.
rossevrymn almost 4 years ago
Also leave the GOP, Carmen, it’s got a permanent stank.
OldManOfHockey1 almost 4 years ago
I do not understand how anyone could vote for Biden or Trump. That is just voting against the one you hate more. I’d rather cast a positive vote for Jo Jorgensen https://joj2020.com/issues-jo-jorgensen/
Holden Awn almost 4 years ago
A Biden win would possibly be very good for the Republican Party. It would divest Repubs of Trump, who is a divisive populist, and clear the way for a stronger Repub candidate for 2020. It would give Dems a false sense of relief for having ‘defeated the bad guys!’. Biden’s serious ongoing cognitive decline, plus immediate Dem subgroup infighting, would ensure that no seriously damaging legislative or policy damage could be done in the 4 years of his one term. And, it would hasten the collapse of the Dem Party, already underway as their component groups tear at each other, clearing the way for a saner, and likely Repub, 2020 sweep.
kentmarx36 almost 4 years ago
Wouldn’t it be nice if IDIOT ORANGE PEEL was harmless? He has done unspeakable harm to a great many of the people to whom he swore an oath to protect. If he were an insect, he’d already be terminated with malice! V O T E B L U E!!
Cheapskate0 almost 4 years ago
Came to the game late today. For a while, I was wondering whether this comic was worth checking out anymore.
But today, Scott is finally waking up (maybe) to the thought that, “voting your conscience” in the presidential race, not voting for the “lesser evil” (because that’s still voting for “evil”) only allowed the greater evil to “win.”
And who knows? Maybe that’s why we haven’t seen that many Biden cartoons from Scott. Oh, there’s been a couple. But nothing like the non-stop Hillary bunny cartoons that ran for, what was it, eight years? (It only seemed longer. Much longer)
And it’s not like Biden hasn’t made a fool of himself. What the heck, his performance in each of the debates was so embarrassing that, after a while, the other candidates stopped asking him questions.
And don’t get me started on that disastrous Breakfast Club interview.
Clearly, Biden does best when he says nothing.
But that’s our choice, folks. Like it or not. If you want to call him “Sleepy Joe,” that’s fine with me.
Because I don’t think any of us is getting much sleep with the current resident.
sciencedoc almost 4 years ago
Jo2020
librarian4hire almost 4 years ago
Biden wasn’t my first choice. Or 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th. I will vote for him because I want America to remain free.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 4 years ago
Joseph Biden isn’t a Progressive. He is conservative and would have been a Republican in the 1980’s.
CharlesTarrant almost 4 years ago
And you’d be making One Big Asinine Mistake America, again.
Spacetech almost 4 years ago
COVID-19 Made Me Do it
Nellie Rascal almost 4 years ago
I thought Barry fixed everything in his 8 years. Trump undid it all in just 3 1/2 years?
Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Is she even 18?