By the way, four of them are forbidden from running a charity in New York.
Courtesy of HuffPo:
Half of the 12 “key speakers” planned for the Republican National Convention will be Trumps, Fox News revealed Saturday.
Twitter critics went bonkers.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Melania, Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany Trump were all listed as main speakers at the big event that begins Monday, other media reported as well ― though the schedule was still being finalized over the weekend.
In addition to the family ranks will be Vice President Mike Pence, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.
Ironically, McCarthy earlier this year blasted Joe Biden for nepotism because son Hunter Biden worked for a Ukrainian energy company when Biden was vice president. But everything he ranted about could be applied to each of Trump’s adult children.
I guess when Trump said he wanted to transform the Republican party into his image he took that literally.
It’s like watching the political version of The Addams Family.
Trump also has plans to dominate every night of the convention as well.
Courtesy of Business Insider:
President Donald Trump will speak on all four nights of next week’s Republican National Convention, breaking with the longstanding tradition limiting the party’s presidential candidate to one big acceptance speech on the last night of the event, The New York Times reported.
Trump will speak at the RNC’s first-ever virtual event every night in a prime-time 10pm slot, reported the Times. The party plans are being coordinated by two former Apprentice producers who hope to eclipse the DNC’s first virtual convention last week. Trump was the show’s host for the first fourteen seasons, and the show’s popularity gave him a national profile and contributed to his rise to the presidency.
According to Politico, Trump believes that last week’s DNC event was too “gloomy,” and wants a more upbeat tone for the GOP conference.
The only way that Trump can make this brewing shit storm into something more inspiring than the DNC convention is by announcing that he is dropping out of the race.
What do we think the chances of that are?
I will try not to watch any of this tonight just to preserve what is left of my sanity, but I have to admit that I am really drawn to disaster movies so that might be a challenge.
time to read a good book. may i suggest one of Stephen King’s long ones. will last all week.
If they are just finalizing the schedule over the weekend, you know this is going to be some thrown together at the last minute production, sure they will use a lot of the photo ops of trump when he pretended to work.
Where is the lineup of Democrats saying they are voting for trump?
When you can only find family members, whose jobs depend on it, as character “witnesses” you know you are in trouble
At least they got their platform correct this year
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“The current Administration has exceeded its constitutional authority, brazenly and flagrantly violated the separation of powers, sought to divide America into groups and turn citizen against citizen,” the platform says.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/republicans-copy-and-paste-2016-gop-platform-saying-the-president-has-exceeded-his-constitutional-authority/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/he-is-evil-george-conway-chokes-up-as-he-explains-when-trumps-racism-finally-hit-home/
I was with my mother when I was a teenager in a parking lot in Massachusetts and somebody said to her, ‘go back to your country.’ It came home to me then. This man is a racist. He is evil,”
This year’s RNC will be Reing of Terror National Convention. Trump will have ample time to blame Democrats for all the gun violence, dog whistle non whites are going to invade cities, the suburbs, take your house away, destroy your property, Dems lied to destroy the best economy ever Trump created, take away your guns, lie Dems blocked his best ever and cheapest health care, Dems want no police forces anti law and order…top hitlies repeated with more lies and conspiracy theories. I anticipate he will act more unhinged than Sarah Palin toward her public end. Also, rant and rave Biden could not pass the basic dementia screening.
For entertainment Trump may reenact his walking down a ramp comedy routine, demonstrate drinking water, put his hand on Ivanka’s breast, mourn his brother’s death sharing his grief that threw his golf game off while his brother died.
This is going to be like a horrific accident I can’t rip my eyes off of.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/the-trump-campaign-is-using-tips-from-the-trump-university-playbook-to-scam-suckers-for-money-report/
“I’ve been struck by how his fundraising techniques match his Trump U playbooks,” she explained. “It’s all about activating outrage to motivate sales (donations), which is typical of his Twitter feed.”
“The level of disdain the Trump campaign shows for its own supporters is almost shocking for those who aren’t used to reading these emails. And it has had repercussions: some of Trump’s prominent supporters have been vocal about having their intelligence insulted,”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/exclusive-falwell-says-fatal-attraction-threat-led-to-depression
The WHOLE truth will CUM out.’”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/billy-grahams-granddaughter-joins-lincoln-projects-new-group-for-conservative-anti-trump-women/
“Lincoln Women”
“They are women who are unwilling to yield to the demeaning assaults from the president, or pressure from the Republican Party,”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/former-pool-boy-levels-explosive-allegations-against-liberty-universitys-jerry-falwell-jr/
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-falwell-relationship/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/rudy-giuliani-previews-rnc-speech-we-dont-have-to-be-a-socialist-country-like-europe/
Giuli Giuli Giuli
I don’t want to witness destruction TV.
I am not Republican, but I am sorry to see a party go down in this way. So very ugly and dark.
Yes, many have jumped ship but this could not be a more horrendous ending for history to record.
I am curious, if Trump wants a live show,
Why would he hire ppl like Mark Burnett?
What was his last live production?
Reality TV is as fake and staged as it gets.
8:11am
You are sorry to see what? You mean the party that exploits, lies, slanders and maliciously attacks anyone in their way ? Ruins lives and are the biggest hypocrites on this earth?
I want to be your dog.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/24/dejoy-lying-post-office-sabotage.html
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/24/character-matters-floridas-sun-sentinel-newspaper-endorses-joe-biden.html
The editorial board outlines a few key reasons for its endorsement:
the editorial board writes that his “fatal flaw, to the nation’s peril, is his narcissism. For the national interest, he can’t see beyond the nearest mirror.”
The editorial board expresses its hope that its message is heard by “all independents and responsible Republicans, whose votes could determine the outcome of this election.”
“Trump is no conservative. He is an illiberal, demagogic populist who appeals to racism and misogyny for a critical mass of votes and is inflaming the divisions in an already polarized nation. Whatever benefits some people see in his economic policies, they are not worth that price,” _ “He is shrewd, calculated and cunning, but those traits do not substitute for intelligence, thoughtfulness and curiosity.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-jr-dynasty_n_5f3ef43ac5b697824f965a31
In Trump campaign land, Donald Trump Jr. is the hottest ticket other than his dad.
At a rally at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in late February, Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, were hands down the most popular warmup speakers, even getting a prolonged roar as they walked to and from the camera riser for a pre-rally interview.
When he took the stage a short time later, a chant of “46” arose from the 15,000 — a reference to the president who will follow his father. Trump Jr. smiled but did not try to discourage them.
“Let’s focus on 2020 first. Eyes on the prize, all right? But thank you,”
“If he’s anything like his father, he’ll be fantastic.”
“He’s from the same mold,”
Trump Jr., who is 42 and works for his father’s family business, the Trump Organization, declined to answer questions last week. “Go through my guys,” he said, but then refused to say which “guys” he meant and then hung up.
Rick Wilson> It’s douchebag dynasty of the Trump family.”
…It was expanded beyond the Southern Strategy
A firm owned by Brad Parscale, jointly funded by the RNC and the Trump campaign proper, secretly pays Guilfoyle and Lara Trump, the wife of middle son Eric, $15,000 a month each. The RNC also has been purchasing large quantities of books written by Trump Jr. as premiums to give to donors, earning him many tens of thousands of dollars.
the Republican senators who have been pandering to Trump’s base by speaking like him and praising him are in for a rude surprise. “It’s a hideous landscape of wannabes who will be posting up against the son of God,” – “Just see what happens. It’s a family-centric cult.”
an informal White House adviser close to Trump said he definitely could see Trump Jr. jumping in. “I think he’s really good at it. I think he’s good for the base. I wouldn’t underestimate him in 2024,” he said, also on condition of anonymity. “What are we going to do, roll in a Pence or a Rick Scott or some boring-as-shit white guy and get our asses kicked? So there’s a part of me that says, sure, why not.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT2fsv7xt4E
Reagan’s Campaign Director and head of the Republican National Committee, Lee Atwater.
FB>””Full commie”
This dimwit couldn’t define communism if Joseph Stalin held him down while Karl Marx sat on his unshaven head and farted the Communist Manifesto to the tune of the State Anthem of the USSR.
If Junior here knew what communism actually was, he’d see there was NO danger whatsoever of America succumbing to that ideology, nor is there anyone outside a few nuts advocating for such.
This is nothing but fear mongering. Hysteria for likes.”<Jim Wright
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1297919343221604355
@DonaldJTrumpJr
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Aug 22
The book is here!! Including hundreds of citations! This is all based on FACT! Biden is a crook, FACT. Biden has thousands of terrible votes, FACT. Biden failed to the top, FACT. Get your copy now at http://donjr.com
This could be a tease for Jr. rather than Daddy Dearest. Trump would like nothing more than a dynasty, but he also wants to be president for life. Or it could be Trump is planning to run in 2024, providing he isn’t still in prison.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tweets-2024-poster_n_5d785302e4b09342507b425e
“President Donald Trump is really into his little joke about running for a third term in 2024.
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted a picture of a mock campaign poster after quipping just a day earlier about extending his time in office”
Except I don’t think it’s a joke.
“The president has a history of suggesting an extended stay in the Oval Office, including earlier this year when he complained about two “stollen” years in office and retweeted a suggestion that he should be compensated with two extra years. In 2018, he praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for his limitless term, saying “I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll give that a shot someday.””
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-trump-critics-bracing-donald-003752627.html
“The idea of a President Donald Trump Jr. is “bad,” John Ryder, a former high-level Republican National Committee member, told HuffPost. “The American public is not attracted to dynasties. I think that would be very, very difficult to make that case to the American people.” Rick Wilson, a GOP consultant and Trump critic, told HuffPost that is wishful thinking. “This is the dawn of the age of the imperial Trumps,” Wilson said. “He is going to say, ‘Donald J. Trump Jr., my son and heir, is the only one who can continue in my footsteps.’ They are a dynastic political force now. It’s douchebag dynasty of the Trump family.”
If Trump is re-elected in November, the GOP will truly become the party of Trump, Republican consultant Stuart Stevens told HuffPost, and he believes that in 2024 “Don Jr. would be the favorite for the nomination.” Wilson agreed, and said even Republicans who have fallen lockstep behind Trump won’t be able to compete against his eldest child. “It’s a hideous landscape of wannabes who will be posting up against the son of God,” he said. “Just see what happens. It’s a family-centric cult.””
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/was-donald-trump-jr-coked-out-of-his-mind-during-rnc-speech/
#cocaineeyes …Cocaine is trending. Wonder why.
@nathanTbernard
Don Jr clearly high as a kite, shouting through tears about how the radical left wants to cancel the founding fathers feels like a grim glimpse into his inevitable future run for office
So the first night of the Republican convention has concluded and the trending topics are:
Cocaine
Coked
and Adderall
Black Beauties & White Cross Bbay!
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/24/donald-trump-jr-gop-convention.html
The point of his speech seemed to be that Republicans need to be really scared because Joe Biden is a radical leftist who is coming to take away everything.
Keep it up Democrats, America is watching:
Three Maryland police officers were “ambushed” and shot while responding to a call Sunday evening, authorities said.
Prince George’s County police were responding to a reported home invasion around 6:30 p.m. in Hyattsville, a city about 32 miles southwest of Baltimore, Interim Police Chief Hector Velez said.
“Within minutes they arrived at the scene, and within seconds they came under gunfire,” Velez told reporters outside Prince George’s Hospital Center. “They were ambushed.”
Officers returned gunfire and took two men into custody unharmed, police said. The injured officers were expected to recover.
Velez said the three officers sustained varying degrees of injuries–one was struck in the chest and suffered injuries to an arm and a leg; another officer was shot in the back; the third officer was wounded in the foot.
The officers shot in the chest and the back were saved by their bullet-proof vests, Velez said. He also said officers provided selfcare before being rushed to a hospital for treatment. One officer needed surgery as of Sunday night.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/us/kenosha-police-shooting-jacob-blake/index.html
https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-police-officer-fired-viral-183938232.html
“Get on the FUCKin Ground! RIGHT NOW”
The incident was the subject of a viral TikTok video, which has been viewed at least 20 million times.
He lOOks like Schaeffer…
Yea, and the cops just shot a black man seven times in the back in front of his kids.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/24/trump-accepts-nomination.html
“Because we caught them doing some really bad things in 2016. Let’s see what happens. We caught them doing some really bad things. We have to be careful because trying it again with this whole 80 million mail-in ballots that they’re working on. … it’s not fair and it is not right and it is not going to be possible to tabulate in my opinion. It’s just my opinion. We have to be very, very careful and you have to watch, every one of you, you have to watch because bad things happened last time with the spying on our campaign and that goes to Biden and that goes to Obama. And we have to be very, very careful, and this time they’re trying to do it with a whole post office scam. They’ll blame it on the post office.” – “we have to win. This is the most important election in the history of our country. This is the most — do you know — for a long period of time, I would say, well, 2016, how special was that evening? Was that one of the great –that was one of the great evenings but we have to be very, very careful and we have to win.”
In one minute and forty-one seconds, Trump claimed that mail-in voting is a scam, Biden and Obama spied on his campaign, and Democrats are trying to steal the election in 2016 and are doing it again by protecting voting rights.
None of what Trump has said is true.
Any time Trump opens his mouth, lies spew forth. All the time.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state’s attorney general has filed a new lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump’s company and several other defendants, according to court records.
The complaint against the Trump Organization and the other defendants was filed with a New York state court in Manhattan, the court records show.
A copy of the complaint was not immediately available, and its subject matter could not immediately be determined. A letter filed with the court indicates that Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons, is among the defendants.
The office of the attorney general, Letitia James, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/mccain-palin-voter-bailing-on-gop-due-to-trumps-blunders-nepotism-and-racist-rot/
In an op-ed for USA Today, a now-former Republican who said she cast her first presidential ballot for John McCain and Sarah Palin in 2008, said she is done with the GOP due to Donald Trump and is backing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
According to Ashley Pratte, who is a board member of Republican Women for Progress, she can no longer stand by a party that is headed by Trump, and is moving on after watching the Democratic National Convention last week.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/08/24/trump-ruined-republican-party-for-me-choosing-biden-2020-column/3424095001/
OPINION
I never thought I would leave the Republican Party, but I’m voting Biden-Harris this fall
The good news is how desperate if sappy denuded Trump Jr. and dispossessed Guilfoyle are their prize.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/watch-trump-tells-rnc-audience-to-be-nice-after-man-shouts-obama-slur/
WTF SOMEONE JUST YELLED “MONKEY”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/kiss-the-senate-goodbye-gop-strategist-hits-panic-button-over-trumps-opening-rnc-message/
https://news.yahoo.com/rnc-what-to-watch-for-163419076.html
https://news.yahoo.com/meadows-kellyanne-conway-departure-big-133421510.html
ConBlow!
“It’ll be a big hole, a big blow to us,”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/honorable-ivanka-trump-rnc-speaker-twitter_n_5f42df01c5b697824f9a33ce
Not only is Ivanka mis-bestowed with the title of “Honorable” but so is quitter Kellyanus Conjob, who is leaving the White House at the end of the month. I guess leaving the sinking ship in early in hopes she won’t be dragged down with the rest.
Oh, and Junior is touted as the rising star for the 2024 ticket. But he’s apparently not “Honorable” enough.
Wonder if Ivanka would be his VP.
Eric Trump Summoned to Testify in Trump Org Probe. Accusing the Trump Organization of stonewalling an investigation that remained confidential for months, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the president’s business, his son Eric Trump and their associates on Monday to force compliance. “Nothing will stop us from following the facts and the law, wherever they may lead. For months, the Trump Organization has made baseless claims in an effort to shield evidence from a lawful investigation into its financial dealings,” James said in a statement. “They have stalled, withheld documents, and instructed witnesses, including Eric Trump, to refuse to answer questions under oath.” Revealed on the eve of the Republican National Convention, the attorney general’s months long probe has been investigating whether Trump and his business improperly inflated the president’s assets on annual financial statements to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits.
She says that Eric Trump refused to show up for a scheduled, subpoenaed interview. August 24, 2020
https://www.courthousenews.com/new-york-ag-letitia-james-sues-the-trump-organization/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/unprecedented-and-wrong-mike-pompeo-slammed-for-plans-to-address-gop-convention-from-jerusalem/
“Critics accused the secretary of state of “using Judaism as a political prop” and suggested his speech may violate the Hatch Act.” – “It is an outrageous exploitation of religion to advance Trump.”
Melania’s scene of destruction and despair at her Rose Garden speech is a metaphor of Trump Inc (crime syndicate). Total destruction of the GOP and their end time at the White House.
I may want to see her alive during this messy job of Burnett’s productions. Mute the voice. Deep, deep darkness for the likes of the Palin Pain to crow about.
The Death Party isn’t going to have a platform or goals this year. They’re just going to support Trump.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-party-platform-2020-trump_n_5f4353bac5b6305f32597ec4
“The Republican Party said Sunday it will not adopt a new party platform during the Republican National Convention this week, but instead will “reassert the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration.”
In a brief document, the GOP said it unanimously decided to abandon the traditional process in which parties adopt policy goals their candidates will run on.”
“The remarkable decision comes after the RNC’s executive committee initially voted in June to simply adopt the 2016 Republican platform and wait until 2024 to draft a new one. Trump waded into that vote days later, saying he preferred a “new and updated Platform” in “short form, if possible.””
What does it matter? Trump ignored the 2016 platform and since he doesn’t read would have ignored this year’s too.
Should be a lot of wonderful things said about herr trump. Alot of blame pointed outwards. Saw some jerk off repub, looked like Trey Gowdy, saying shit about what dems would do and wouldnt do and I had to get off that channel fast enough. Yeah. Those putinthugs at the RNC will be doing their gaslighting. Diva Donnie will want to stump for himself every take. Boooooorrrrrinnng.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trumps-claim-that-biden-will-rig-the-election-amounts-to-an-unachievable-conspiracy-theory-politifact/
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/24/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-joe-biden-can-only-win-rigged-el/
Our ruling
Trump said, “So this is just a way they’re trying to steal the election, and everybody knows that. Because the only way they’re going to win is by a rigged election.”
We rate this claim Pants on Fire.
Everyone I have talked to said that they were not interested in what Dumpster has to say. Sounds like they heard it all.
And they have decided who to vote for.
So now Trump is pretending to be a “family guy” by allowing most of his grifting family to speak? He is NOT on par with Biden’s family & never will be. That phony funeral at the White House was all about Donald Trump and not about his brother Robert. No wonder his sister didn’t attend that sham of a funeral.
hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Listening to the whole bunch, they are absolutely nuts.
Almonds. Cashews. Filberts. Just nuts.
And what could Tiffany possibly say? Christ Almighty.
It’s not the Republican party anymore. It’s the Trump family party. I wonder if the so called Republicans know that?
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/25/former-utah-legislator-calls-on-rnc-to-remove-burgess-owens-speaking-slot-because-of-ties-to-qanon.html
Allen says that “even occasional acknowledgment and participation in anything related to QAnon is irresponsible and does not at all represent what mainstream Republican values ought to be,” adding that the RNC “shouldn’t be inviting anyone to speak who has any affiliation with any of these groups or has participated with them.”
Not the only one.
https://news.yahoo.com/rnc-cancels-speaker-she-promoted-005421939.html
“An activist who was scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night was abruptly yanked off the program after it was reported that she had shared an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on social media hours ahead of her scheduled appearance.
“Do yourself a favor and read this thread,” the woman, Mary Ann Mendoza, wrote on Twitter, linking to a string of tweets about a bogus 100-year-old Jewish plot to run the world that managed to add some QAnon conspiracies and touched on everything from the Titanic to Hillary Clinton.
Mendoza apologized about an hour before the RNC programming was set to begin, saying: “I retweeted a very long thread earlier without reading every post within the thread. My apologies for not paying attention to the intent of the whole message. That does not reflect my feelings or personal thoughts whatsoever.””
Too late. She’s yanked. Poor little Angel Mom. I think that may start to be code for racist Mom.