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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-27-2020 04:43 PM:

Please stay on track, Trumpism can be treated though mental treatments!


[QUOTE]Originally posted by Adams, Harold
[B]The track has moved on to your guy.....pulling up slick are you?

What's next?

Cancel the November election?

It could come to that, because despite the power of incumbency and a passionate political base, President Trump's political prospects are looking shaky.

The Trump administration's incompetent response to the coronavirus has sent financial markets on a rollercoaster ride while triggering an explosion of public anxiety.



Last week's nationally televised speech from the Oval Office was full of factual errors. And on an emotional level it failed to reassure the public or the financial markets as evidenced by the alarming response from apolitical money managers.

They voted with a sell-off. Suddenly the word "Recession" has new currency. Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average saw their single biggest drops last week since the "Black Monday" stock market crash of 1987.

Then there is the political backlash from the right to consider:



Trump regularly fires up his base by telling them he is looking out for them. He presents himself as their guardian, standing between them and every threat.

He will build a wall to keep out the immigrants.

He will bring back jobs in coal mines and manufacturing factories.



He will ignore climate change so the government won't ask his fans to limit use of fossil fuels.

Well, four years later there is no wall. Coal mines and manufacturing remain in decline. Household debt and the national deficit continue to balloon.

And now he has failed to protect anyone with his faulty response to a pandemic. Local officials in the absence of federal leadership took the lead by shutting down schools, major sports leagues and Broadway shows.



Trump's primary response has been political spin.

He blames his failures on the "Fake News" media and the Democrats. He blames Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. He blames President Obama.

The reality is that Trump's failure to protect Americans from the virus is very hard to spin.

Last week a Hill/HarrisX poll found 53 percent of registered voters disapproving of the president's response to the virus. And 58 percent of independent voters also disapproved.

In a Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 55 percent of Americans are either "somewhat" or "very" concerned there will be a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus.

Keep in mind these numbers are likely to go up because Trump's base among Republicans is currently the least concerned about the impact of the virus. Trump told them not to worry.

A week after the first American was diagnosed with the virus in January Trump said, "We have it totally under control."

On February 24 he sent the same message, tweeting: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA."

Trump's spin, echoed by his choir in right-wing media, continued to downplay the public health crisis and dismissed the need to declare a national emergency.

He predicted on February 26 that the number of infections is "going very substantially down, not up" and in "a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero."

Incredibly, on February 28 he put more spin on the message by saying: "It's going to disappear...like a miracle - it will disappear."

When it did not disappear and passengers got sick on a cruise ship off the California coast, Trump put political appearances first by saying he did not favor allowing sick people off the boat for treatment.

"I like the numbers being where they are," he said of the total number of people counted as suffering with the virus in the U.S.

"I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault."

Trump's biggest failure is his administration's inability to provide testing kits to detect the virus.

Seven weeks after the first case of Coronavirus in the U.S. was made public, the problem with inadequate supply of tests is there for everyone, including Trump's supporters, to see.

And without proper testing, medical authorities have no idea about the size of the population already infected and spreading the disease.

Congressional panels have spent weeks grilling top Trump administration officials like Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar over the government's failure to provide enough testing equipment in the early stages of the outbreak.

"The system is not really geared to what we need right now...That is a failing. It is a failing, let's admit it," said Dr. Anthony Fauci from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

That is just one part of the failure.

In 2018, the Trump administration decided to disband the White House's global health security team.

Given the depth of the political hole he has dug eight months before the presidential election, does anyone really think the president would hesitate to use the coronavirus as justification for postponing or canceling the next presidential election?

Now is the time for journalism to hold the president and his administration and their Republican enablers in Congress fully accountable for their spin and failure to govern effectively.

Americans are panicked. The markets are tanking. People are dying. If now is not the time for Trump's base, independent voters and journalists to challenge him on his failures then there will never be a good time to do it.

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Posted by Adams, Harold on 12-27-2020 04:51 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by BEST EVER
Please stay on track, Trumpism can be treated though mental treatments!


[QUOTE]Originally posted by Adams, Harold
[B]The track has moved on to your guy.....pulling up slick are you?

What's next?

Cancel the November election?

It could come to that, because despite the power of incumbency and a passionate political base, President Trump's political prospects are looking shaky.

The Trump administration's incompetent response to the coronavirus has sent financial markets on a rollercoaster ride while triggering an explosion of public anxiety.



Last week's nationally televised speech from the Oval Office was full of factual errors. And on an emotional level it failed to reassure the public or the financial markets as evidenced by the alarming response from apolitical money managers.

They voted with a sell-off. Suddenly the word "Recession" has new currency. Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average saw their single biggest drops last week since the "Black Monday" stock market crash of 1987.

Then there is the political backlash from the right to consider:



Trump regularly fires up his base by telling them he is looking out for them. He presents himself as their guardian, standing between them and every threat.

He will build a wall to keep out the immigrants.

He will bring back jobs in coal mines and manufacturing factories.



He will ignore climate change so the government won't ask his fans to limit use of fossil fuels.

Well, four years later there is no wall. Coal mines and manufacturing remain in decline. Household debt and the national deficit continue to balloon.

And now he has failed to protect anyone with his faulty response to a pandemic. Local officials in the absence of federal leadership took the lead by shutting down schools, major sports leagues and Broadway shows.



Trump's primary response has been political spin.

He blames his failures on the "Fake News" media and the Democrats. He blames Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. He blames President Obama.

The reality is that Trump's failure to protect Americans from the virus is very hard to spin.

Last week a Hill/HarrisX poll found 53 percent of registered voters disapproving of the president's response to the virus. And 58 percent of independent voters also disapproved.

In a Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 55 percent of Americans are either "somewhat" or "very" concerned there will be a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus.

Keep in mind these numbers are likely to go up because Trump's base among Republicans is currently the least concerned about the impact of the virus. Trump told them not to worry.

A week after the first American was diagnosed with the virus in January Trump said, "We have it totally under control."

On February 24 he sent the same message, tweeting: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA."

Trump's spin, echoed by his choir in right-wing media, continued to downplay the public health crisis and dismissed the need to declare a national emergency.

He predicted on February 26 that the number of infections is "going very substantially down, not up" and in "a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero."

Incredibly, on February 28 he put more spin on the message by saying: "It's going to disappear...like a miracle - it will disappear."

When it did not disappear and passengers got sick on a cruise ship off the California coast, Trump put political appearances first by saying he did not favor allowing sick people off the boat for treatment.

"I like the numbers being where they are," he said of the total number of people counted as suffering with the virus in the U.S.

"I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault."

Trump's biggest failure is his administration's inability to provide testing kits to detect the virus.

Seven weeks after the first case of Coronavirus in the U.S. was made public, the problem with inadequate supply of tests is there for everyone, including Trump's supporters, to see.

And without proper testing, medical authorities have no idea about the size of the population already infected and spreading the disease.

Congressional panels have spent weeks grilling top Trump administration officials like Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar over the government's failure to provide enough testing equipment in the early stages of the outbreak.

"The system is not really geared to what we need right now...That is a failing. It is a failing, let's admit it," said Dr. Anthony Fauci from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

That is just one part of the failure.

In 2018, the Trump administration decided to disband the White House's global health security team.

Given the depth of the political hole he has dug eight months before the presidential election, does anyone really think the president would hesitate to use the coronavirus as justification for postponing or canceling the next presidential election?

Now is the time for journalism to hold the president and his administration and their Republican enablers in Congress fully accountable for their spin and failure to govern effectively.

Americans are panicked. The markets are tanking. People are dying. If now is not the time for Trump's base, independent voters and journalists to challenge him on his failures then there will never be a good time to do it.




😆...your degree of TDS is outstanding!!! 10 years from now someone say TRUMP you will immediately start copy and pasting. Love it ... 😆


Posted by BEST EVER on 12-27-2020 04:54 PM:

Psychiatrist: Trump’s 'Mental Incapacity' More Dangerous During The Coronavirus Pandemic

By Jen Sifferlen
April 27, 2020Greater Boston
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As groups of Trump supporters across the country gathered in defiance of social distancing rules to demand an end to stay-at-home orders, a prominent psychiatrist and expert on violence argued the president’s influence over the protesters made him more dangerous to the country than ever before.

“What I noticed in the behavior of the president is what I have seen in the dynamics of individuals who become violent, as well as those who provoke violence in others,” Dr. Bandy Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine, told Jim Braude on WGBH News’ Greater Boston Monday.

Lee, who was not speaking on behalf of Yale, referred to a recent series of tweets from the president urging his supporters to “liberate” their states and save the Second Amendment.

“I saw what he was doing, calling his followers to liberation, especially when they are suffering from the intense lock-downs and loss of jobs,” Lee said. “And now he is using that to test his ability to call out his armed troops, if you will.”

Lee attributed the president’s behavior to what she calls a “mental incapacity” to do his job as president.

“When someone lacks capacity, [they have] difficultly taking in information, taking in advice, processing that information and making sound, rational decisions,” she said. “And those are the kinds of things we are seeing in the president.”

Lee — who is also the author of a textbook called “Violence” and the editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” — urged people not to conflate what she sees as the president’s deficiencies with mental illness, which alone does not imply unfitness for office.

“Mental illness does not define incapacity,” she explained. “In fact, it almost has nothing to do with dangerousness, either.”

But in Trump’s case, Lee said, she and some of her colleagues have seen a pattern of dangerous behaviors — especially in the past year.

“After the Mueller Report was out, when the impeachment proceedings were happening, we felt that the president would engage in dangerous acts,” she said. “And he has, such as withdrawing troops from Northern Syria or commanding the assassination of [Iranian General Qasem Soleimani].”

“Now, under this coronavirus pandemic, we have found it necessary to also alert Congress. More urgently than ever, in fact,” she added.

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Posted by Adams, Harold on 12-27-2020 04:58 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Adams, Harold
😆...your degree of TDS is outstanding!!! 10 years from now someone say TRUMP you will immediately start copy and pasting. Love it ... 😆


Posted by BEST EVER on 12-27-2020 05:01 PM:

There is is help for mental illness through Obamacare since TRUMP did not repeal or replace. LMFAO!


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Posted by Adams, Harold on 12-27-2020 05:16 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by BEST EVER
There is is help for mental illness through Obamacare since TRUMP did not repeal or replace. LMFAO!


QUOTE]Originally posted by Adams, Harold

[/QUOTE]


You should put that medicade card to use then sweety!!!!


Posted by BEST EVER on 12-27-2020 05:23 PM:

Please.stay on Track please.


How Trump's Budget Will Affect People With Mental Health Conditions
By Caren Howard, MHA Advocacy Manager



You may have heard that the President released the Fiscal Year 2019 budget.

Typically, much of the budget takes form as a narrative about the administration’s strategy and perspective about the nation over the next ten years.

And though Congress is not bound by the President’s budget - the House and Senate agree to their own separate budget deal - the President’s budget is a request to Congress that highlights the Administration’s priorities.

We combed through the budget and found several key provisions that could affect people with mental health and substance use disorders.

The Fiscal Year 2019 budget requests $68.4 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is a $17.9 billion (or 21 percent) decrease from the 2017 enacted level.

And the budget:

Includes $10 billion over five (5) years to combat the opioid epidemic and serious mental illness to build upon the 21st Century Cures Act.
Promotes structural reforms to Medicaid to eliminate the funding gap between states that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare and those states that did not expand Medicaid, and asks states to chose between a per capita cap and a block grant.
Reduces Medicaid by $1.4 trillion, Medicare by ~$500 billion and Social Security Disability Insurance by $10 billion over ten (10) years. Medicaid and Medicare are currently the largest payers of behavioral health services in the country.
For Medicare, proposes to test and expand nationwide a bundled payment for community-based medication assisted treatment, including, for the first time, comprehensive Medicare reimbursement for methadone treatment.
Includes $15 million for a new Assertive Community Treatment for Individuals with serious mental illness.
Reduces funding for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Programs of Regional and National Significance by ~$600 million.
Discontinues funding for the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment program.
Increases funding for the Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice programs by $10 million to a total of $14 million.
Proposes to align the MarketBased Health Care Grant Program, Medicaid per capita cap, and block grant growth rates with the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) and allows states to share in program savings.
Consolidates federal graduate medical education spending from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program into a single grant program for teaching hospitals, and directs funding toward physician specialty and geographic shortages.
Eliminates $451 million in other health professions and training programs.
Eliminates funding for Minority Fellowship programs at SAMHSA.
Includes $500 million for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support and supplement existing efforts with a publicprivate collaborative research initiative on opioid abuse.
Integrates into one agency: the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation.
Slashes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, by $17.2 billion or 16 percent.
Cuts funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by 18 percent.
Does not request any of ~$8 billion in funding currently allocated to the HUD public housing capital fund.
While there are many additional changes made in the President’s budget, we thought these critical changes would be important to you.

We encourage your questions and comments which may be sent to our Advocacy Manager, Caren Howard or Senior Policy Director, Nathaniel Counts.

If You Think Of Ways In Which You Or Your Loved Ones Will Be Affected By Thie Budget Feel Free To Also Share Your Thoughts About The Impact With Your Congressional Representatives By:
Tweet them. Not sure of the Twitter handle of your members of Congress? Find them here.
Call your Senators' office or the Capitol Hill switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Press #2. Then enter your zip code.
Write to your Senator using Facebook's Town Hall feature. If this feature is available in your area, make sure your Constituent Badge is on. Many legislators will not read the comments of individuals who are not marked as one of their constituents.
Meet with your elected officials. Let them know that mental health is important to you, and that you are not just a number.
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ALETA COPLEY (NOT VERIFIED)

Sun, 02/18/2018 - 02:31

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No Funding For Oversight To
No funding for oversight to address fraud and waste.
This is overall terrible news, and I mean scary. No funding for intervention and referral? No request for $ set aside for HUD? 20% cuts all around. But I am thinking of going into law now, instead of Mental Health.

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GLENDA MILLER (NOT VERIFIED)

Thu, 02/22/2018 - 19:05

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This Budget Is Devastating To Both Medically Needy And Substanc
It seems obvious to me that If we had more trained people in the mental health and substance use disorder field we might reach more people that have drug or mental health psychosis before people are hurt, such as the school shootings. The young people are slipping through the cracks, the adults are slipping through cracks because we are lacking in these fields. This budget further strips us of the ability capture these people in a timely manner. I can only hope congress is more cognizant of the ramifications than the writer of this budget.

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KAREN E WOODSON (NOT VERIFIED)

Sat, 06/02/2018 - 15:32

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Mental Health Budget Cuts
Ok not sure where to begin so I will just say whats on my mind. I voted for Mr. Trump. I support him, I will stop someone in mid-sentence when they are slamming him. But please hear what I'm saying Mental Health Care is not where the Budget needs to be cut. Think about what you're doing we need more mental health care not less. PLEASE, I am begging you all to talk about this Please don't let this be in the Budget cuts. have a heart please it's so bad and so serious. Please re-evaluate this. Thank You for your time.Karen Woodson- Arkansas

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QUOTE]Originally posted by Adams, Harold
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You should put that medicade card to use then sweety!!!! [/B][/QUOTE]

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Posted by Adams, Harold on 12-27-2020 05:27 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by BEST EVER
Please.stay on Track please.


How Trump's Budget Will Affect People With Mental Health Conditions
By Caren Howard, MHA Advocacy Manager



You may have heard that the President released the Fiscal Year 2019 budget.

Typically, much of the budget takes form as a narrative about the administration’s strategy and perspective about the nation over the next ten years.

And though Congress is not bound by the President’s budget - the House and Senate agree to their own separate budget deal - the President’s budget is a request to Congress that highlights the Administration’s priorities.

We combed through the budget and found several key provisions that could affect people with mental health and substance use disorders.

The Fiscal Year 2019 budget requests $68.4 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is a $17.9 billion (or 21 percent) decrease from the 2017 enacted level.

And the budget:

Includes $10 billion over five (5) years to combat the opioid epidemic and serious mental illness to build upon the 21st Century Cures Act.
Promotes structural reforms to Medicaid to eliminate the funding gap between states that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare and those states that did not expand Medicaid, and asks states to chose between a per capita cap and a block grant.
Reduces Medicaid by $1.4 trillion, Medicare by ~$500 billion and Social Security Disability Insurance by $10 billion over ten (10) years. Medicaid and Medicare are currently the largest payers of behavioral health services in the country.
For Medicare, proposes to test and expand nationwide a bundled payment for community-based medication assisted treatment, including, for the first time, comprehensive Medicare reimbursement for methadone treatment.
Includes $15 million for a new Assertive Community Treatment for Individuals with serious mental illness.
Reduces funding for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Programs of Regional and National Significance by ~$600 million.
Discontinues funding for the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment program.
Increases funding for the Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice programs by $10 million to a total of $14 million.
Proposes to align the MarketBased Health Care Grant Program, Medicaid per capita cap, and block grant growth rates with the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) and allows states to share in program savings.
Consolidates federal graduate medical education spending from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program into a single grant program for teaching hospitals, and directs funding toward physician specialty and geographic shortages.
Eliminates $451 million in other health professions and training programs.
Eliminates funding for Minority Fellowship programs at SAMHSA.
Includes $500 million for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support and supplement existing efforts with a publicprivate collaborative research initiative on opioid abuse.
Integrates into one agency: the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation.
Slashes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, by $17.2 billion or 16 percent.
Cuts funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by 18 percent.
Does not request any of ~$8 billion in funding currently allocated to the HUD public housing capital fund.
While there are many additional changes made in the President’s budget, we thought these critical changes would be important to you.

We encourage your questions and comments which may be sent to our Advocacy Manager, Caren Howard or Senior Policy Director, Nathaniel Counts.

If You Think Of Ways In Which You Or Your Loved Ones Will Be Affected By Thie Budget Feel Free To Also Share Your Thoughts About The Impact With Your Congressional Representatives By:
Tweet them. Not sure of the Twitter handle of your members of Congress? Find them here.
Call your Senators' office or the Capitol Hill switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Press #2. Then enter your zip code.
Write to your Senator using Facebook's Town Hall feature. If this feature is available in your area, make sure your Constituent Badge is on. Many legislators will not read the comments of individuals who are not marked as one of their constituents.
Meet with your elected officials. Let them know that mental health is important to you, and that you are not just a number.
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ALETA COPLEY (NOT VERIFIED)

Sun, 02/18/2018 - 02:31

Permalink

No Funding For Oversight To
No funding for oversight to address fraud and waste.
This is overall terrible news, and I mean scary. No funding for intervention and referral? No request for $ set aside for HUD? 20% cuts all around. But I am thinking of going into law now, instead of Mental Health.

REPLY
GLENDA MILLER (NOT VERIFIED)

Thu, 02/22/2018 - 19:05

Permalink

This Budget Is Devastating To Both Medically Needy And Substanc
It seems obvious to me that If we had more trained people in the mental health and substance use disorder field we might reach more people that have drug or mental health psychosis before people are hurt, such as the school shootings. The young people are slipping through the cracks, the adults are slipping through cracks because we are lacking in these fields. This budget further strips us of the ability capture these people in a timely manner. I can only hope congress is more cognizant of the ramifications than the writer of this budget.

REPLY
KAREN E WOODSON (NOT VERIFIED)

Sat, 06/02/2018 - 15:32

Permalink

Mental Health Budget Cuts
Ok not sure where to begin so I will just say whats on my mind. I voted for Mr. Trump. I support him, I will stop someone in mid-sentence when they are slamming him. But please hear what I'm saying Mental Health Care is not where the Budget needs to be cut. Think about what you're doing we need more mental health care not less. PLEASE, I am begging you all to talk about this Please don't let this be in the Budget cuts. have a heart please it's so bad and so serious. Please re-evaluate this. Thank You for your time.Karen Woodson- Arkansas

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QUOTE]Originally posted by Adams, Harold




You should put that medicade card to use then sweety!!!!
[/QUOTE] [/B][/QUOTE]


😆 back to the TDS... 😆 I have had my laugh for the day time to go.... Keep it real or keep copy amd pasting... 😆 😆


Posted by BEST EVER on 12-27-2020 05:46 PM:

Please stay on track!

Trump history and behavior suggest destructive mental processes that put America at risk
Trump is not just a childish man having a tantrum or a selfish man who can't accept defeat. His actions are dangerous to America's health and security.
DR. KENNETH PAUL ROSENBERG AND NORMAN ORNSTEIN | OPINION CONTRIBUTORS | 5:59 pm EST November 24, 2020

One of us is a psychiatrist, the other a political scientist. We have watched the fiasco since the election with mounting trepidation, from two very different perspectives. But we have a common bond: For more than a decade, each of us has worked to advocate for people with serious mental illness to get treatment. We are coming together now to advocate for immediate intervention for our president.


Since President Donald Trump’s election, the psychiatric community has debated calling out his illness(es). The American Psychiatric Association says we should remain silent out of fear that we would violate the Goldwater Rule — an APA rule adopted largely to prevent the partisan misuse of psychiatric diagnoses to unduly influence an election. But it is clear what many psychiatrists know privately, and a few have said publicly. The threat to our democracy is too great to remain silent.

Not just tantrums or selfishness
It may be no surprise that Trump railed against a 2020 election process that promised a major increase in turnout through early voting and voting by mail. He and many Republicans have advocated for ways to suppress votes, and suggested repeatedly that when everybody votes, Republicans lose. Remember, Trump had said before the 2016 election that if he lost, it was rigged; if he won, it was fair.

APA CHIEF: Up to the people, not the medical profession, to oust Trump

It also may be no surprise that Trump denied the outcome of the 2020 election in the days that followed it, despite the fact that President-elect Joe Biden’s margins in battlegrounds Michigan and Pennsylvania were larger than Trump's four years ago and he flipped Arizona and Georgia to the Democratic column. And it is true that there is neither a legal nor constitutional requirement for a presidential candidate to concede when he has lost.


But Trump's behavior since is antithetical to every norm we have in a democracy that values as much as anything the legitimacy of elections and the peaceful and orderly transfer of power after voters have spoken.

Trump supporter Tara Immen of Happy Valley, Ariz., protests at the Maricopa County Elections Department in Phoenix on Nov. 18, 2020.
Trump supporter Tara Immen of Happy Valley, Ariz., protests at the Maricopa County Elections Department in Phoenix on Nov. 18, 2020.
ROSS D. FRANKLIN, AP
The president’s actions — ordering his minions to deny all the elements of a transition to the president-elect, including access to intelligence and pandemic briefings, access to agencies to plan the next administration, access to the FBI to begin security clearances for incoming appointees — are not just wrongheaded, they are dangerous to the security and health of the American people.

Biden's top unification task:Expose every ounce of Trump team wrongdoing, restore trust in government

The president’s moves to fire key officials, including those in charge of the safety of our nuclear stockpile and those in charge of our national security, suggest that the loyalty test — loyalty to the president and not to the Constitution — is going to be applied more often, hollowing out our pandemic teams and intelligence and defense capabilities, and leaving in charge a group of sycophants willing to do his bidding in his remaining weeks in office. The fact that he has not attended a meeting on the pandemic in months and has barely mentioned it as it explodes across the country is another sign of alarm.


Many say that Trump's refusal to agree to a peaceful and orderly concession is just a threat from a selfish man who can’t accept defeat. President-elect Biden calls Trump’s failure to concede an “embarrassment.” It is worse. When someone says they are planning their suicide, mental health professionals don’t call it a “cry for attention.” They hospitalize them immediately to prevent harm. When someone threatens homicide, violence or child abuse, we act swiftly to protect potential victims. It is naïve to consider the current acts of President Trump as childish tantrums and nothing more than fodder for late night comedians.

Signs of personality or mood disorder
To any first-year psychiatric resident,

QUOTE]Originally posted by Adams, Harold
You should put that medicade card to use then sweety!!!! [/QUOTE] [/B][/QUOTE]


😆 back to the TDS... 😆 I have had my laugh for the day time to go.... Keep it real or keep copy amd pasting... 😆 😆 [/B][/QUOTE]

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-28-2020 12:34 PM:

Trumps golf outings cost to Americas tax payers after playing over Christmas grand total for less than 4 years now comes in at $151.5 million, of coarse this includes his food and Security!!!! This equals out to 379 years of a Presidents salary. Plus right at 25% of his time spent playing golf.

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-28-2020 05:15 PM:

2 died of Ebola and Republicans said Obama should resign

4 Died in Benghazi and Republicans had Hillary testify for 11 straight hours

332,964 dies thanks to Trumps malevolence. They cheer him on, deny his his very large election defeat and try as stupid as it is to over turn Biden's land slide victory.

Russia hacks the United States to the point they call it the modern day Pearl Harbor and Trump has nothing to say but he does not think it is them, nor has anything been done to address it

This is the Republican party as it is know today!

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-28-2020 05:15 PM:

2 died of Ebola and Republicans said Obama should resign

4 Died in Benghazi and Republicans had Hillary testify for 11 straight hours

332,964 dies thanks to Trumps malevolence. They cheer him on, deny his his very large election defeat and try as stupid as it is to over turn Biden's land slide victory.

Russia hacks the United States to the point they call it the modern day Pearl Harbor and Trump has nothing to say but he does not think it is them, nor has anything been done to address it

This is the Republican party as it is know today!

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-28-2020 10:21 PM:

Biden mulls punishments for Russia over suspected role in government hack
President-elect will consider options for unprecedented attack
What we know – and still don’t – about the cyber-attack.
Question is will Trump be implicated once again in this hack?

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Posted by Richard Lambert on 12-28-2020 11:58 PM:

Oh my goodness, Biden is mulling punishments over. That will only take 4 or 5 months. I bet that you can see the smoke coming out of his ears.
Oh yeah, "mulls over" is code for " waiting on someone to tell him what to do".
Once again, what an embarassment.


Posted by BEST EVER on 12-29-2020 12:31 AM:

At least he will not get on his knees for Putin. Anything is better than nothing! A definition of a good leader is one who has good people in the right places and sees it gets done!


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Oh my goodness, Biden is mulling punishments over. That will only take 4 or 5 months. I bet that you can see the smoke coming out of his ears.
Oh yeah, "mulls over" is code for " waiting on someone to tell him what to do".
Once again, what an embarassment.

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-30-2020 08:21 AM:

22 Days and counting!!

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-30-2020 11:30 AM:

On Jan. 20, Trump will lose a major perk. Here's what legal challenges await him.
Tom Winter

It looks increasingly certain that on Jan. 20, 2021, around noon, Joe Biden will take the oath of office as president, and Donald Trump will lose both his job and one of its most important perks.

Trump has faced investigations involving his campaign, his business, and his personal behavior since he took the oath of office himself four years ago. As soon as he becomes a private citizen, however, he will be stripped of the legal armor that has protected him from a host of pending court cases both civil and criminal.

He will no longer be able to argue in court that his position as the nation’s chief executive makes him immune to prosecution or protects him from turning over documents and other evidence. He will also lose the help of the Department of Justice in making those arguments.

While it is possible he could go to jail as a result of some of the probes of his business affairs, the soon-to-be-former president is more likely to face financial punishment in the form of civil fines, law enforcement observers believe. He may also be embarrassed by financial and other secrets that will be exposed in court. Nearly all his legal troubles are in his hometown of New York, where he once basked in the tabloid limelight as a young mogul and where he rode a golden escalator into an unlikely political career.—

Here are some of the most perilous cases that await President Trump when he’s no longer president — and here’s how he could yet use the powers of the nation’s highest office to escape punishment:

The Manhattan district attorney’s case
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations for paying porn star Stormy Daniels to keep silent about her alleged affair with Trump. The indictment alleged Cohen had paid Daniels $130,000 prior to the 2016 election for the benefit of “Individual-1,” an unindicted coconspirator described as an “ultimately successful candidate for president.” But federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York didn't seek charges against Trump, who would have been immune from prosecution regardless while president.

Image: Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Trump appears with Cohen during campaign stop at the New Spirit Revival Center church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters file)
Image: Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Trump appears with Cohen during campaign stop at the New Spirit Revival Center church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters file)
Two prosecutors in New York seem to have picked up where federal prosecutors left off in examining Trump finances.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is probing a variety of alleged financial improprieties. Court documents show that the DA is investigating “possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization,” the president’s family business, which could include falsifying business records, insurance fraud and tax fraud.

While the campaign finance violation of Individual-1 is not a federal case, New York state law says that falsifying business records in furtherance of an illegal act is a felony. Cohen has also alleged that Trump effectively uses two sets of numbers in his business, one with higher values to secure loans, and a second with lower values to minimize taxes, according to his congressional testimony and published interviews. While Trump has declined to release his tax returns, saying he is under audit, the New York Times has obtained many years of his tax records, and determined that he had paid no federal income tax for 10 of the years and $750 in each of two other years.

Image: Stormy Daniels speaks to members of the media outside U.S. Federal Court (Hector Retamal / AFP - Getty Images file)
Image: Stormy Daniels speaks to members of the media outside U.S. Federal Court (Hector Retamal / AFP - Getty Images file)
Vance’s office has subpoenaed eight years of the president’s tax documents from his tax preparer, Mazars USA LLC, a subpoena the president fought all the way to the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court ruled in October 2019 that Trump was not immune from having to provide those documents while president and could only fight the subpoena along the same grounds that any other person could, on the merits.

Since that ruling, the president’s legal team has fought the subpoena on its merits, but has lost in the district and appellate courts. The Supreme Court must now decide whether to accept the president’s emergency request for a stay of the lower courts’ rulings and possibly hear the case again, or deny that stay. It's unknown when the Supreme Court could announce a decision, which would be made by a high court that now includes three Trump appointees.

If the stay request is denied, Vance gets the documents as soon as Mazars can transfer the files. This is the only known criminal investigation involving Trump, and if convicted the penalties could be solely or largely financial.

NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos said he expects Vance to pick the “lowest hanging fruit” of crimes to charge, which would likely be tax evasion or falsifying business records.

The penalty for falsifying business records can be up to a year in prison with fines or probation with fines.

Cevallos said a person can be found guilty of falsifying business records in the second degree in New York “when he has the specific intent to defraud. That means that he intends to cheat or deprive another person of property or a thing of value.”

He said a lower level employee could claim he or she didn’t personally benefit from the crime or merely executed orders on someone’s behalf. That affirmative defense likely wouldn’t apply to Trump.

The New York attorney general’s case
The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, meanwhile, is investigating four different Trump Organization real estate projects and the failed attempt to purchase the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. In March 2019, the office subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank. The fraud probe was reportedly prompted by Cohen’s testimony before Congress that he had inflated his financial assets.

The attorney general’s investigation is civil, not criminal, but the office would be allowed to refer any allegedly criminal elements to local prosecutors like Vance.

The Trump properties that James's office is investigating, according to court filings, include the Seven Springs Estate, a 212-acre property just north of New York City that the company is seeking to develop; 40 Wall Street, a heavily leveraged building owned by the company in Lower Manhattan; Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago; and Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles.

Trump has blasted both the Vance and James probes as politically motivated.

The women
Multiple women have accused Trump of inappropriate sexual behavior in alleged incidents that date as far back as the 1970s. Trump has denied the allegations. A few of the women have taken legal action, and in the case with the most serious potential implications, Trump enlisted the Department of Justice as his attorney to prevent submitting evidence.

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleged in a 2019 book that more than 20 years earlier, Trump raped her in a department store dressing room. Trump denied the allegation, saying she was not his type, and that the claim was meant to spur publicity for her book of “fiction.” Carroll sued saying the president had defamed her by accusing her of lying.

The Justice Department moved the case from state to federal court, and also filed a motion to act as the president’s defense attorney, saying that his denial of her rape allegation was a presidential act.

A judge denied the Justice Department’s motion in late October. As a private citizen and a defendant in a civil suit, Trump may now be compelled to provide evidence in the case — meaning testimony and, potentially, a DNA sample.

Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice, has also filed a defamation suit against Trump for denying her accusations of sexual assault. In a suit filed in early 2017, Zervos said he grabbed her breast and kissed her without permission. Trump agreed to testify, but his lawyers were able to postpone that testimony pending a decision from the New York State Court of Appeals that is not expected until next year.

E. Jean Carroll at her home in Warwick, N.Y. (Eva Deitch / The Washington Post/Getty Images)
E. Jean Carroll at her home in Warwick, N.Y. (Eva Deitch / The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Could Trump pardon himself before Jan. 20?
Legal experts said the president could pardon himself before leaving office, but it's unlikely such an action would survive a challenge in court.

“Could I say that I’m the starting center fielder for the Washington Nationals? You bet I can,” said NBC News legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg, a former FBI official and U.S. attorney. “Does it make a **** bit of difference to the Washington Nationals? No.”

The Justice Department tackled this very issue on Aug. 5, 1974 — four days before Richard Nixon resigned as president.

In a memo written by an acting assistant attorney general, the Justice Department determined that “under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case, the President cannot pardon himself.”

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The Justice Department opinion has never been tested in court. After succeeding Nixon as president, Gerald Ford gave him a "full, free, and absolute pardon" for any crimes he may have committed.

The 1974 memo does lay out one scenario for a self-pardon that experts have described as far-fetched and worthy of Hollywood. Says the memo, “If under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment the president declared that he was temporarily unable to perform the duties of the office, the vice president would become acting president and as such could pardon the president.

“Thereafter the president could either resign or resume the duties of his office.”

Any presidential pardon, whether bestowed by Acting President Mike Pence or by Trump himself, would only cover federal crimes, which would not help Trump in his New York state cases.

The fact is they are coming for Trump and the legal system will play out for him like any other citizen come Jan.20,2021, facts are he is guilty on several counts and will stand trial for them.

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-30-2020 02:05 PM:

Trump Administration Moves Forward With Rule Requiring Servers To Give Up More Of Their Tips

Sahid Fawaz December 23, 2020
Tipped workers at restaurants will have to pay their coworkers more under a rule proposed by the Department of Labor. The rule is scheduled to take effect in 60 days. Because Joe Biden will have taken over as President by then, his administration will have the opportunity to undo this rule before it can be implemented.

The rule will allow employers to require that back-of-the-house workers receive pay via a tip pool from tipped workers. These workers have traditionally received pay from employers only and have not participated in tip pools.


With the new rule, tipped workers will give up even more of their tips, while employers enjoy paying back-of-the-house workers less.

The Economic Policy Institute notes that this rule will be incredibly costly to workers:

“[The rule] will cost workers more than $700 million annually. It is yet another example of the Trump administration using the fine print of a proposal to attempt to push through a change that will transfer large amounts of money from workers to their employers.


We also find that as employers ask tipped workers to do more nontipped work as a result of this rule, employment in nontipped food service occupations will decline by 5.3% and employment in tipped occupations will increase by 12.2%, resulting in 243,000 jobs shifting from being nontipped to being tipped.”

The rule’s effect will be simple: the tipped workers’ loss will be the employers’ gain. It’s not rocket science. The Trump administration knows this. There is benevolent motive or grand economic theory here. It’s a simple transfer of wages from the working class to their employers.

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-30-2020 02:08 PM:

RYAN J. FOLEY
Tue, December 29, 2020, 1:56 PM EST
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge in Iowa who has warned against political corruption is ridiculing President Donald Trump’s pardons, including those issued to convicted Republican campaign operatives and former members of Congress.

“It’s not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals,” senior U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt of the Southern District of Iowa told The Associated Press in a brief phone interview Monday. In a bit of humor, he said: “But apparently to get a pardon, one has to be either a Republican, a convicted child murderer or a turkey.”

Pratt was referring to pardons Trump granted to his former campaign aides convicted during the special counsel's Russia inquiry, former GOP congressmen who committed crimes, and security contractors convicted of killing innocent civilians in Iraq. Trump also pardons turkeys — this year two from Iowa — annually before Thanksgiving.

Pratt has been on the bench since his appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1997. He has had a reduced caseload since 2012, when he assumed senior status.

Pratt made the remarks when asked for comment on pardons granted to two former top aides for Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign, who were convicted in a corruption scheme related to the Iowa caucuses.

He noted that the framers of the U.S. Constitution sought to stop U.S. officials from “enriching themselves” while in office by banning gifts and payments from foreign powers. Ongoing lawsuits have accused Trump of illegally profiting off the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel. A White House spokesman declined comment on Pratt’s remarks.

Trump last week pardoned Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton and campaign manager John Tate, who were convicted at trial of concealing $73,000 in payments that went to state Sen. Kent Sorenson in exchange for Sorenson’s endorsement of Paul. Benton and Tate were sentenced to six months of home confinement and probation.

Sorenson was an up-and-coming conservative, and he made news when he defected as Michele Bachmann’s campaign chairman to endorse Paul days before the 2012 caucuses. Paul’s campaign and Sorenson denied that any money would change hands. Only later did the public learn that Paul’s campaign secretly paid Sorenson, routing the money through a film production company as “audio/visual expenses” to conceal its true nature on disclosure reports.

Pratt oversaw Sorenson’s case, sentencing him to 15 months in prison in 2017 even though prosecutors recommended probation after Sorenson pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate. Sorenson’s testimony helped convict Benton, Tate and former Paul deputy campaign manager Dimitri Kesari.

Pratt did not oversee the trio’s trials. But he issued a lengthy opinion detailing his reasoning for sending Sorenson to prison, saying Monday, “I couldn’t believe what was going on.”

Pratt noted in the opinion that Sorenson took secret payments — $133,000 from the Bachmann and Paul campaigns — while serving as a state official. He said those who abuse positions of public trust for personal gain must face severe consequences, in order to deter misconduct and promote public confidence.

Otherwise, he warned, “political corruption will slowly corrode the foundations of our democracy until it collapses under its own weight.”

The White House noted in a statement that the pardons for Tate and Benton were supported by Paul's son Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Lee Goodman, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, who said the “reporting law violated was unclear and not well established.” An appeals court that upheld their convictions in 2018 rejected that argument.

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-30-2020 02:16 PM:

Trump administration facing legal action over ‘rushed’ sale of arms to UAE, 18 of the terrorist's from Saudi Ariba were on the planes that destroyed world trade center, the ones Trump just sold these weapons too. Is Trumps tied to the World Trade Center Bombings?
Samuel Lovett
Tue, December 29, 2020, 12:21 PM EST
<p>Donald Trump has come under criticism for forcing through the last-minute deal before Joe Biden takes over</p> (Getty Images)
Donald Trump has come under criticism for forcing through the last-minute deal before Joe Biden takes over

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The Trump administration is facing legal action over the “rushed” sale of £17 billion’s worth of arms to the United Arab Emirates, amid concern the weapons could be used indiscriminately in the ongoing Yemen civil war.

After the US Senate defeated efforts to block the transfer of advanced fighter jets, drones and munitions to the UAE, the New York Center for Foreign Policy Affairs (NYCFPA) has decided to file a lawsuit against the Department of State and secretary Mike Pompeo.

In a submission to be made to the US District Court for the District of Columbia on 30 December, and seen by The Independent, the NYCFPA claims that the sale “fails to meet the most basic requirements under the law” and should be deemed “invalid”.

“In just a few months, the Department rushed a review process that normally takes years, to authorize and finalize a sale of roughly $23 billion worth of the most technologically advanced weapons in the world,” the document reads.

The constitution gives the sitting president major powers to conduct foreign policy and national security matters. However, US law also requires congressional review of major arms deals that have been secured by the White House. These sales need to be blocked by a two-thirds majority in the Senate and House of Representatives to overcome a presidential veto.

Typically, certain factors must be taken into consideration when authorising a sale of this kind, including its impact on world peace and US security. The Department of State is also expected to provide a clear explanation for its decision-making and address any change in foreign policy that is connected to these deals, according to the Administrative Procedures Act.

The NYCFPA claims the government failed to dedicate enough time to the review process and has not provided suitable evidence that justifies the sale of arms to the Emirates.

Instead, the think tank argues, the deal risks disturbing Middle East relations and could jeopardise America’s own security if the weapons fall into the hands of its enemies.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) said the arms sale was “dangerous” and “will provide political support for the Emirate dictatorship, while fuelling tensions in the region and the brutal bombardment of Yemen.”

The Trump administration first told Congress on 10 November that it had approved the sale to the UAE of weapons made by General Atomics, Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Technologies Corp.

Congress was given a month to consider the deal and, on 9 December, voted narrowly against two resolutions that sought to invalidate it.

The sale includes 50 F-35 jets, one of the world’s most advanced fighter planes, more than 14,000 bombs and munitions, and would be the second-largest sale of US drones to a single country.

The White House said the deal directly supports US foreign policy and national security objectives by “enabling the UAE to deter increasing Iranian aggressive behaviour and threats” in the wake of its recent deal with Israel.

In its court submission, the NYCFPA says that “this threadbare, conclusory explanation… cannot be seen as ‘a reasoned explanation’.”

“Widespread and publically available evidence suggests that the weapons being sold will be used in direct contravention of world peace and US security, as well as prior US policy,” the document adds.

It claims the sale of F-35 fighter jets and drones to the UAE is the first of its kind in the Middle East, and represents “a change in policy” for the US, “which has previously declined to authorize such sales due to concerns over the technology or weapons themselves ending up in the wrong hands.”

According to the lawsuit, one senior State official said that the department “has not received the necessary assurances from the UAE to address concerns regarding the security of US weapons technology.”

It highlighted that top members of the committees for Senate Foreign Relations and Senate Armed Forces, including Robert Menendez and Jack Reed, have “decried the authorization process for the sale as incomplete”.

Both senators have criticised the Department of State over its “recklessly accelerated timeline,” arguing that the Trump administration has ignored “long-standing, deliberative, internal US processes” in order to “meet a political deadline”.

The lawsuit says that the US government has “violated” the law by “making an arbitrary and capricious decision to authorize the sale of weapons to the UAE”, and calls for the deal to be rescinded.

<p>F-35 jets</p>AFP via Getty Images
F-35 jets

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Critics have warned that the weapons will lead to an arms race in the Middle East and be used in current conflicts in Yemen and Libya, undermining any inference that the sale promotes world peace.

A report issued only last month by the Pentagon’s inspector general for counterterrorism operations in Africa noted that the Department of State had failed to adequately consider the effect of the deal on civilian causalities in Yemen.

The UAE has been criticised for its involvement in a Saudi-led coalition that has conducted air campaigns in Yemen as part of the country’s ongoing civil war, resulting in the deaths of civilians. The conflict has been described by the United Nations as “the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.”

The inspector general’s report also found that the UAE is helping to finance the Russian mercenary group Wagner in Libya, raising further fears over the Emirates arms deal.

Seth Binder, an advocacy officer at the Project on Middle East Democracy, said that the sale of weapons to the UAE amounted to an “endorsement” of the country’s actions and policies within the region.

The lawsuit added that there had been “no indication the Department of State adequately considered US national security, given the widespread concerns that” the weapons will be transferred beyond the UAE to American adversaries.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy highlighted that the UAE has violated past arms sales agreements, with US weapons ending up in the arms of dangerous militia groups.

Earlier this month, he said the sale had been forced through after Joe Biden was elected as president back in November.

“Re the UAE arms sale, the normal process allows the Foreign Relations Committee time to review and ask questions about major arms sales,” he tweeted on 8 December.

“But after Trump lost, he needed to jam the sale before Biden took office to tie Biden’s hands. So he just ignored the process. Unprecedented.”

NYCFPA, which will announce its court case on Wednesday, said it was “possibly precedent setting as very few, if any, other organization such as ours have challenged the state department and the US government on foreign military sales such as this.

“We are excited to be taking on such a case and possibly setting the groundwork for the cancellation of the sale of F-35s to the UAE.”

Attempts to block the sale in the Senate at the start of the month failed, with two resolutions against the deal falling short by two and four votes respectively.

<p>Trump has been accused of rushing through the deal to meet a “political deadline”</p>The Associated Press
Trump has been accused of rushing through the deal to meet a “political deadline”

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Mr Biden has repeatedly condemned US arms sales to Saudi Arabia and White House support for the war in Yemen. He is expected to review the deal after being sworn into office next month.

Mr Menendez argued a deal of this scale risked bringing further instability to the region.

“If we really want to talk about countering Iran, we need a comprehensive diplomatic strategy,” he said. “Arming partners with complex weapon systems that could take years – years – to come online, isn’t a serious strategy to confront the very real and timely threats from Iran.”

CAAT said it would be following the legal challenge raised by NYCFPA “very closely”.

“In the UK, the Court of Appeal set an important precedent in halting the flow of new arms sales from the UK,” spokesperson Andrew Smith told The Independent. “If that precedent is built on internationally then it could make a major difference.

“This war [in Yemen] is only possible because of the political and military support from the US and other arms dealing governments.

“Historically, Democrats have been just as hypocritical and hawkish as Republicans. However, Joe Biden has criticised these arms sales in the past and promised to stop them. If he lives up to his word and ends US support then it could be a crucial step in ending the conflict."

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Posted by 4play on 12-30-2020 02:22 PM:

jmo

Trump has stopped the Opiod pandemic.Deathes are Way down from Opiod deaths.
So far lowest Flu death cases...ever.
Great Job Trump!!

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-30-2020 04:04 PM:

Re: jmo

Trump as caused more deaths than any president in our history and will be noted for doing so. Some poorly educated would believe Trump over the doctors and families of ones passing. If your still not a believe you never will be, but the Minority is just that.


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So far lowest Flu death cases...ever.
Great Job Trump!!

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Posted by 4play on 12-30-2020 04:18 PM:

LOL

Trump passed OBAMA for most admired.Just came out,look it up.
Sleepy Pedo Joe got 8% in that same voting.......

But won USA election with 81 million.....no F'n way

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-30-2020 05:11 PM:

This is why Trump want to retain office!

Trump is worried that he will be prosecuted in New York after he leaves office!

Trump will not have the free rain to money to pay off his bad debits coming do and getting ready to come due.

His stripper Wife is going to cash in on her prenup!

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Posted by BEST EVER on 12-30-2020 05:17 PM:

Hot off the press!

New York prosecutor has just announced that they have hired a Forensic Accounting Expert Especially for Donald J Trump as his probe as it has now escalated to a new level.

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