Damning New Emails
Trump ordered the hold on aid to Ukraine less than two hours after the fateful July 25th call with Zelensky. The email was revealed over the weekend, part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit judgement issued late last week. The lawsuit had been filed by the Center for Public Integrity.
The email came from OMB official Michael Duffy and was to the DoD, ordering the halt on the funds. Chuck Schumer has Duffy on the the witness list that the WH and Mitch McConnell is blocking. Shumer’s list is short but telling. He wants to hear from Duffy, Mick Mulvaney, John Bolton, and Mulvaney aide Robert Blair.
Witnesses for innocent people are always allowed to testify. These aren’t. Draw your own conclusions.
IQ4.5 promised to donate his salary back to our Treasury. He didn’t say anything about it being in the form of attorney fees. To the chagrin of staffers like Michael Duffey their ratio of salary to attorney fees is more upside down than a junk mortgage in the Bush2 years.
1What’s in Your Wallet? **** An I.O.U. from Dolt, worth approx. the amount of the paper its printed on.
Trump just threw a crazy-corrupt Mar-a-Lago Christmas party — and made Americans pay for it
The party doesn’t appear to have been quite as much fun as those wild Mar-a-Lago bashes with Jeffrey Epstein back in the day. But it had something going for it that those parties didn’t — taxpayer money funded a huge part of it, with the rest is paid for by rich people willing to pay for play with the president of the United States. Huffington Post reports:
President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit resort in Palm Beach, Florida, with a Saturday visit to his course in neighboring West Palm Beach. The new total is the equivalent of 296 years of the $400,000 presidential salary that his supporters often boast that he is not taking.
And of that $118.3 million, at least several million has gone into Trump’s own cash registers, as Secret Service agents, White House staff and other administration officials stay and eat at his hotels and golf courses.
The exact amount going into Trump’s pocket cannot be determined because the White House refuses to reveal how many Trump aides have been staying at his properties when he visits them and the administration will not turn over receipts for the charges incurred.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/trump-just-threw-a-crazy-corrupt-mar-a-lago-christmas-party-and-made-americans-pay-for-it/
2I would say seize the account books but ten to one they don’t exist. Only scammers etc. would love this guy.
3Apropos of a pekinese trying to present itself as a pit bull.
Edit: “The latest round of polling shows that Lindsey Graham is in danger of losing next year’s election, as he’s now only 2 points ahead of his opponent, with 7% of voters still undecided. If Graham continues on his path of exonerating Trump before the trial even begins, he could find himself without a job in January 2021.
https://trofire.com/2019/12/22/lindsey-grahams-senate-seat-is-in-danger-as-his-challenger-catches-up-to-him/
4Maggie –
Which set of accounts would you seize ?
5Who needs witnesses when Trump and his GOP minions are there to tell us what to believe?
6Wait until roberts rules them as inadmissable in his role of protecting his thuglican daddy while overseeing impeachment proceedings in the senate.
7Remember first rule of thuglican judges are to protect their thuglican daddy’s
With the way things are suddenly appearing much to the dismay of the Golden Gibbon that there could actually be one impeachment following another! If so, I bet he would still not get the message and keep on being Dolt4.5! And I do not expect any Republican currently on the Hill to suddenly discover that a backbone is a good thing and take it to the face of Dolt 4.5 – Resign or be found guilty. Not one of them wants their “party” back! Amazing, ain’t it!
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