White House violated the law by freezing Ukraine aid, GAO says
House Democrats have said the Ukraine aid pause is part of a broader “pattern of abuse” by the White House budget office.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/16...gao-says-099682

Ukraine Launches Investigation Into Alleged Surveillance of Marie Yovanovitch
The good news for President Donald Trump is that he’s finally managed to get Ukraine to launch an investigation. The bad news is it’s into an alleged surveillance campaign on Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, carried out by the president’s associates. Ukraine made the announcement Thursday, with its Ministry of Internal Affairs releasing a statement saying it “took note of the possible illegal surveillance on the territory of Ukraine by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.” She was recalled from her position in May following what she has described as a smear campaign against her from Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-la...rie-yovanovitch

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...5c7&oe=5ED4A465

Trump renews attack on lightbulbs and goes after dishwashers, fridges, toilets and showers
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-renews-atta...-113230094.html

Latest Ukraine Docs Show How Trump World Launders Useful Lies Through Conservative Media
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020...ELd1gwL1X9nXUpM

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1
"While visiting Pearl Harbor, according to John F. Kelly, Trump's former chief of staff, Trump seemed to have no idea what had actually happened there.
Throughout he is misinformed and confused while at the same time utterly certain of himself."
9:45 AM · Jan 17, 2020

Trillian 🇬🇧@OldRawgabbit
How in blazes can anyone in the US, let alone the President, have no idea what happened at Pearl Harbour?
I am British and I and my fellow citizens all know!!
9:52 AM · Jan 17, 2020

Dianna@u_go_grls
Of course he had no idea of what happened there.
For God's sake, hasn't he given us more than enough evidence of his colossal ignorance and stupidity?
Why would we expect him to have any knowledge of anything??
9:53 AM · Jan 17, 2020

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Michael Steiner@vdubya
I can picture DonaldTrump lecturing the tour guides & military on what he thinks happened:
“Yes, it was a terrible thing. Terrible.
Like the HOAX the do-nothing-Democrats are papaya…papaya…perpetrating about Russia…Pelosi…Obama…
Guawd Blesh Zhe Uhnichted Schtatszh!"
10:05 AM · Jan 17, 2020

https://babylonbee.com/news/joseph-stali...cmMTNE9483UIofI

Well, sometimes even "Uncle Joe" is right...
"The Dems are kinda scaring me with all this far-left stuff," Stalin said during a brief visit from his father's house below. "Yes, I was one of history's most deranged mass murderers, killing, like, 20 million people, but even I knew a boy is a boy and a girl is a girl. And we didn't have any of this weird transgender athlete stuff."

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Trump is trying to cripple the environment and democracy
The Trump administration has fired the latest salvo in its never-ending assault on environmental safeguards: a proposal from the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to overhaul its regulations governing federal agency compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The proposal would narrow the scope of NEPA’s protections, weaken federal agency duties when the law applies, and attempt to shield violations of NEPA from judicial oversight. More significantly, the proposal is wildly inconsistent with NEPA’s most fundamental goal: fostering deliberation and democratic participation to improve the government’s capacity to promote social welfare. ...
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-envir...t-and-democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ziImAboX9o

Aha, verstehe, Sanders hat also gesagt, eine Frau könne nicht gewinnen, weil Warren diese Geschichte auch anderen Leuten erzählt hat. Tolle Argumentation. Man muss wohl ein eingefleischter Demokrat sein, um so etwas zu glauben.

Tucker Carlson hat recht: Das DNC wird alles tun, um zu verhindern, dass Sanders nominiert wird (wie beim letzten Mal). Mal sehen, ob man auch wieder den Antisemitismus gegen ihn auspackt.

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #9048

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So, wer lügt? Elizabeth Warren, die behauptet, Sanders habe gesagt, eine Frau könne nicht gegen Trump gewinnen, oder Sanders, der dies verneint. Ich traue eher Bernie als Pocahontas mit ihrer Cherokee-Herkunft.

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How Trump fused his business empire to the presidency
As Trump kicks off his fourth year as president with an impeachment trial tied to his actions involving Ukraine, critics say the president has yet to face accountability for blatant conflicts of interest tied to his private businesses.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/20...esidency-100496

Trump’s Encounter with the Constitution
Vanity Fair runs a brief excerpt from A Very Stable Genius in which President Trump was supposed to read a section of the U.S. Constitution for a documentary. It did not go well.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/01/20/tru...e-constitution/

Trump's model for America is corrupt, autocratic crony capitalism. Like in Russia.
Trump and his allies are meddling in our economy and legal system to punish opponents and reward supporters. That means more corruption, less freedom.

Russia is corrupt and autocratic. It ranks 138th out of 180 countries for corruption (where a higher ranking means more corrupt) and 149th for freedom of the press (where a higher ranking means less freedom). In Russia, government policies benefit the ruling party’s allies and punish its opponents.

America used to condemn countries like Russia. Now, President Donald Trump openly expresses his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and other corrupt autocrats. Even worse, Trump and the GOP want America to become more like Russia.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2...tZ8R_cXj9emYtEo

Das ist nicht der "Witz am Samstag" sondern die NYT.
Es könnte auch der Witz des Jahres sein.

Frau Warren wurde von diese Schmierblatt unterstützt, mit der Begründung:

"Senator Warren is a gifted storyteller. "

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020...ndorsement.html

Ja, Sie lügt wie eine Weltmeisterin.

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #9066

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Das ist nicht der "Witz am Samstag" sondern die NYT.
Es könnte auch der Witz des Jahres sein.

Frau Warren wurde von diese Schmierblatt unterstützt, mit der Begründung:

"Senator Warren is a gifted storyteller. "

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020...ndorsement.html

Ja, Sie lügt wie eine Weltmeisterin.

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #9066

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Das ist nicht der "Witz am Samstag" sondern die NYT.
Es könnte auch der Witz des Jahres sein.

Frau Warren wurde von diese Schmierblatt unterstützt, mit der Begründung:

"Senator Warren is a gifted storyteller. "

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020...ndorsement.html

Ja, Sie lügt wie eine Weltmeisterin.

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Daniel Dale@ddale8
Trump repeated one of his favorite tears lies this afternoon, the one about the people behind him crying as he signed his Waters of the United States order.
(Unlike most of his tears stories, which tend to take place "backstage" and such, this event was on camera. Nobody cried.)
10:31 PM · Jan 19, 2020

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOsqh-3UUAA9...ng&name=360x360


MassPatriot@mass_patriot
Replying to @ddale8
People downstream from the increased farm pollution will certainly be crying when they and their families get sicker by using and consuming tainted water.
10:40 PM · Jan 19, 2020

Fact check: 65 ways Trump has been dishonest about Ukraine and impeachment
President Donald Trump is dishonest about a whole lot of things. But he is rarely as comprehensively dishonest as he has been about his dealings with Ukraine and the impeachment process.

From the eruption of the Ukraine controversy in September to the Senate trial that officially began on Thursday, relentless deceit has seemed to be Trump's primary defense strategy in the court of public opinion. He has made false claims about almost every separate component of the story, from his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, to the whistleblower who complained about the call, to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's own relations with Ukraine.
The President has been dissembling about so many different things at once that it can be difficult to keep track of what is true and what isn't. To help you fight Trump-induced dizziness as the trial gets underway, we've tallied his dishonesty on the subject of Ukraine and impeachment. Our original list from mid-November included 45 false claims he has made and a brief fact check of each one.
We have since added 20 more for a total of 65. ...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/politics/...aine/index.html

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😂😂😂

Daniel Dale@ddale8
Just some subjects of Trump dishonesty last week:
Iran. Cancer. Ethiopia. AOC. Bolton. NATO. Highway permits. Canada. His crowds. His approval. His golfing. 2016. Vets. South Korea. Iraq. The visa lottery. China. Air. Obama.
12:02 PM · Jan 19, 2020

Reverting to his usual level of dishonesty, Trump made 81 false claims last week
President Donald Trump made just 15 false claims two weeks ago, a holiday week during which he uttered few public remarks.

He gave fact checkers only a brief respite. Back to Washington and back to doing interviews and campaign rallies, Trump made 81 false claims last week. That is tied for the fifth-highest total in the 27 weeks we have counted at CNN.
It was an eclectic batch of dishonesty. Among other things, Trump took unearned credit for both the Ethiopia-Eritrea peace agreement and for the drop in the US cancer death rate, absurdly claimed that NATO "had no money" before his presidency, wrongly denied that his golf excursions cost taxpayers any money, and repeated his usual varied inaccuracies about impeachment, immigration and the nuclear agreement with Iran.
Trump made 27 of the false claims at his campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio. He made 16 more in a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham. He made six in his speech on National Environmental Policy Act regulations, plus 10 in his exchange with reporters after the speech.
Trump's total of 81 false claims last week was above his average of about 61 per week. Trump is now up to 1,636 false claims since July 8, an average of about nine per day. ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/19/politics/...ncer/index.html

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https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...1c4&oe=5EA23619

Farmers refuse to cheer for Trump as he lies that he’s fighting for them to keep their land
President Donald Trump appeared in Texas Sunday to speak to the Farm Bureau conference. Among the things he promised was that he was fighting for them to have their water rights and rights to control their own land usage.

As one viewer noted, there was noticeable silence when Trump mentioned land usage. It could be due to the fact that Trump is suing in court to take the land of farmers and ranches so he can build his border wall. For some, the land has been in their family since the founding of the state of Texas.

Trump was also caught in multiple lies and twisting of the truth. He claimed that under former President Barack Obama’s administration, farmer income fell. He didn’t mention that it topped out at the highest it’s ever been, as one viewer noticed.

He also didn’t address the costs he’s forced on farmers due to his tariffs with China. While Trump provided corporate farms with multiple bailouts, those who don’t run huge farms lost a lot of money and many were even forced to file for bankruptcy. Farmer suicides also saw an increase under Trump. Thanks to Trump’s tariffs, equipment costs also significanlty increased.

None of the topics were ones Trump explained to those who deserved answers.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/farmers...eep-their-land/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eR1Pm7ANLw

Wieder hat Tucker mit allem recht.