Bad news from Mr. Chump and it is huge. Alexis Simmerman (AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN) reports:
Amid persistent economic concerns and a politically charged atmosphere, a new University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll
reveals growing unease among voters in the Lone Star State. For the
first time since August 2023, a majority of Texans (53%) now say the
state is headed in the wrong direction.
The
poll, conducted Aug. 22 through Sept. 1, also reveals that both
President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott have net negative approval
ratings among Texas voters. The survey, which has a margin of error of
+/- 2.83 percentage points, captures deep partisan divides in public
opinion, with starkly different approval ratings depending on party
affiliation, as well as early preferences in the 2026 U.S. Senate race.
Trump
remains popular with Texas Republicans but continues to lose ground
with independents and Democrats. In the latest poll, 43% of respondents
approve of Trump's job performance, while 50% disapprove - down from 52%
approval in February.
That
is 9% approval that he has lost in seven months. No doubt, now we know
why The Convicted Felon looks so bad, he has been hearing about this
sinkage. No one likes Donald Chump. And in more bad news for Mr.
Chump, Kate Plummer (NEWSWEEK) reports:
Nearly half of Americans believe that Donald Trump is too old to be president.
According
to new polling by YouGov, 49 percent of people think that the president
is of too advanced an age to serve in office, a 15-percentage point
increase from February 2025.
Newsweek contacted the White House by email to comment on this story.
At
78 years old, Trump was the oldest man to be elected president. There
has recently been growing concern about Trump's health. In July, photos
of the president's bruised hand circulated on social media, and the
White House revealed that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous
insufficiency, which his physician described as "benign and common."
The
YouGov poll found that the proportion of Americans who say Trump is too
old to be president has increased in the last few months. In February
2024, 34 percent held that view. That increased to 43 percent in August
2024, then increased again to 45 percent in November 2024—when the
presidential election took place.
I usually highlight comments that are correct and strong. But if someone wants to sport her stupidity, who am I to stop her?
Theresa Cassidy
21 hours ago
And
more than half of Americans don't think he's too old to be President.
As a matter of fact, they think he's doing a wonderful job and is
keeping campaign promises. This is exactly what more than half of
Americans voted for.
Okay, 37.4% of
adult Americans did not vote in the 2024 election. Let us all grasp
that. Of those who did vote? Chump did not "more than half" and, in
fact, he did not even get half.
Of
all adult Americans -- that includes those who did not vote -- 31.97%
voted for Mr. Chump while 31.03% voted for Vice President Kamala
Harris. Percentages of those who voted? Ms. Harris got 48.4% of the
voters and Mr. Chump got 49.4% of the voters. He did not get over half
the voters, he did not get half the voters.
Theresa
Cassidy, it would appear you have confused FOX "NEWS" with community
college. I would strongly advise you to find another avenue with which
to pursue your education.
Let me note some informed opinions:
JOHN H
20 hours ago
The
issue with trump goes beyond age, its his moral, characteristic and
narcissistic beliefs that cause him to be so vengeful, Cruel and
devisive. He doesn't even surround himself with intellegent, qualified
people for advice. Time for unification and positivity from trump and
cut out the hatred
Michael Wright
19 hours ago
Age
is not the problem with Trump being president; rather, it is the fact
that he is not qualified and incapable of leading in the best possible
way for all Americans, and he refuses to put America's interests above
his own and those of his family.
Rob Wright
17 hours ago
Mental decline occurs due to a number of factors:
Diet,
Exercise, Genetics and overall Lifestyle. Trump eats McDonalds, plays
Golf riding in a Cart (which 90+ year olds can do), and has a serious
family history of Dementia. Not saying his too old, am saying he's
senile and demented. Just try to listen to one of his speeches, not a
cognizant thought.
He calls it the "weave", it's actually random word association.
J R
19 hours ago
It's
not his age that is the problem, look at Rupert Murdock and how he is
able to continue to run his financial empire. trumps problem is that he
is incompetent, sleazy, and dangerous, mixed in with the temperament of a
7 year old.
This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot" for today:
Friday, September 12, 2025. Chump continues his war on immigrants while
MSNBC continues it's wall-to-wall canonization of a right-wing racist,
BLOOMBERG NEWS breaks news on Epstein and Maxwell, the economy dives
into the toilet, and much more.
A segment on the economy.
As Ruth noted last night, "Chump's delivering . . . destruction of the economy and country." Has anyone ever come in and so quickly destroyed the economy? Mike Crisolago (MONEYWISE) notes:
In
January, President Donald Trump declared “tariffs” to be “the most
beautiful word,” adding that his sweeping tariff plan would “bring our
country's businesses back.”
But Jeff Bowman,
CEO of Colorado-based Cocona Labs, doesn’t see that happening in his own
industry — textiles — or manufacturing in the U.S. more generally.
Like Trump, he attended the Wharton School of Business, but told Bloomberg he suspects the president skipped the tariff class.
“The
empirical history shows that when you impose tariffs, the net effect is
that you reduce the amount of business that takes place,” he said. “And
we’re seeing that happen already. Costs go up, consumers pay the price
eventually.”
Bowman is already experiencing it.
Cocona Labs produces a compound used in sustainable thermoregulation fabrics, but doesn’t manufacture the fabrics themselves.
Instead,
the company ships batches of the compound to manufacturers around the
world that produce the finished fabrics and products — from
high-performance sports apparel to bedding. In turn, those countries
export the textiles and fabrics back to the U.S. or sell them to their
own domestic consumers.
The problem is, the
manufacturers are all in countries like China that Trump has hit with
tariffs. In turn, those countries have imposed reciprocal tariffs on
U.S. products — like Cocona Labs’ compound.
And MAGA sings:
It's the Chump fat rump for us
It's the Chump fat rump for us
'Stead of treated
We get tricked
'Stead of kisses
We get kicked
It's the Chump fat rump for us
It's the Chump fat rump for us
How's that 2024 election working out for you, MAGA? And how's Chump's ass taste?
Sarah Sharkey (MONEY WISE) explains, "Moody's
economist Mark Zandi recently said that the U.S. economy is on the edge
of recession, writing on X that 'states making up nearly a third of
U.S. GDP are either in or at high risk of recession, another third are
just holding steady, and the remaining third are growing'." Martha McHardy (NEWSWEEK) reports:
For the first time, more Americans blame Republicans than Democrats for rising inflation, according to a new Cygnal poll.
Last
year, Democrats carried the bulk of the blame for inflation, with
nearly half of Americans (46.3 percent) in September 2024 saying they
were most responsible.
That number has since
dropped to 36.5 percent as of September 2025. In the same period, blame
for Republicans has risen steeply, from just 25.5 percent to 39.6
percent, overtaking Democrats.
Peter Loge,
director of George Washington University's Project on Ethics in
Political Communication, told Newsweek the poll is "bad news for
Republicans."
"Inflation hurts presidents. A
lot of voters use elections to punish people who they think are failing.
Elections are ways to fire the people in charge if voters don't like
what's going on. Many people view politics like plumbing, they just want
it to work. If your sink is leaking, you don't hire three plumbers who
stand around and argue about PVC piping. If your sink is leaking you
hire a plumber to fix it, if the plumber doesn't fix it you fire them
and hire a new plumber," he said.
Inflation? Christopher Rugaber (AP) reports, "Inflation
rose last month as the price of gas, groceries and airfares jumped
while new data showed applications for unemployment aid soared, putting
the Federal Reserve in an increasingly tough spot as it prepares to cut
rates at its meeting next week despite persistent price pressures." Alicia Wallace (CNN) adds:
The cost of living continues to increase for Americans at a time when the job market appears to be on shakier footing.
Consumer
prices rose 0.4% in August, driving the annual inflation rate to 2.9%,
the highest since January, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data
released Thursday.
The latest reading from the
closely watched Consumer Price Index marks an acceleration from the 2.7%
increase seen in July, with price hikes seen in some of the most common
places in daily life.
Grocery and fuel prices
shot higher in August after falling the month before. Food at home
prices rose 0.6% — the highest monthly jump in nearly three years — and
gas prices climbed by 1.9% after falling 2.2% the month before.
The
housing-related shelter category, which is the heaviest-weighted in the
CPI, was the leading contributor of August’s monthly increase; however,
on an annual basis, shelter inflation continued to slow from
pandemic-era highs to 3.6%, its lowest rate in nearly four years.
Max Pierson (PENNY WISE) notes
of the job market, "America’s largest employers are driving an historic
wave of layoffs, reshaping both local job markets and national economic
forecasts. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, US job cuts
have already surpassed 806,000 in 2025—a 75% jump over last year, and
the highest since the COVID pandemic." Taylor Telford (WASHINGTON POST) explains the poor job market is already registering with Americans:
In
the seven months since he was laid off from his position as a lead
training specialist for TikTok, Ryan Marrero has applied to more than
150 jobs, which have netted him six recruiter calls and only four
interviews. He’s recently started applying to customer service roles,
even though it would be “a step backward” for his career.
Before
this, the last time Marrero, 40, was on the job market was in 2021. It
was tough going then, too, but “at least then I was getting recruiter
calls,” he said. Now, the whole process feels “a lot less personal and a
lot more mechanical.” Despite spending hours each day tailoring resumes
and applications to get past artificial intelligence screening tools he
knows many employers are using, Marrero estimates that he hears nothing
back from 90 percent of the places he applies. All the ghosting,
rejection and living in limbo is taking a toll on his mental health.
“It doesn’t seem like anybody’s hiring new people.” Marrero said. “It’s almost like there’s nothing out there.”
Marrero’s
struggles reflect the frustrating realities for those braving the most
stagnant labor market the United States has seen in years. A rare and
vexing blend of forces — low unemployment and job quits, slowly rising
layoffs, and sluggish hiring — means there are fewer opportunities,
resulting in some of the toughest job-hunting conditions since the 2008
financial crisis.
Fresh data
released by the New York Federal Reserve this week underscores the
hardship in the labor market: Job seekers are feeling the worst about
their prospects since 2013, when its Center for Microeconomic Data first
started studying the trend. Job-finding sentiment plummeted by 5.8
percentage points in a single month to 44.9 percent in its August survey
of consumer expectations.
Allison Shrivastava,
an economist with the job site Indeed, said those with jobs are
sticking with them. “But if you’re trying to get a different job or
enter the labor market for the first time, you’ve probably not been
feeling great for a while now,” she said.
Currently, the labor market is “frozen, a deer in the headlights,” Shrivastava added. “Everything is just staying put.”
That's
Chump. He's destroyed our economy. Promised to deliver on day one.
And, please note, he was president from January 2017 to January 2021.
Back in elementary school, I was class president. I ran on all these
promises. Guess what? I achieved none of them. I honestly thought
that if I was president I could, for example, add an extra 15 minutes to
the daily lunch. As is the case with Chump today, I was a child then
(and he was an angry child in 2024). But unlike Chump, I had not held
the position before. I honestly thought I would be able to do what I
promised. Chump had served four years as president already when he was
making promises in 2024 that he knew he couldn't deliver on. (Remember
the war on Ukraine was going to stop immediately, remember that promise
from him?) He lied throughout 2024. And he has destroyed our economy
and instead of attempting to set us back on the right course, he wants
to lead us further astray and make things even worse.
Vegetables cost almost 40% more than they did 12 months ago, Today reported.
Bulk
purchasing expenses for homegrown produce shot up 38.9% in July when
measured against July 2024, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
These
expenses are what retailers pay before marking up products for
customers. This spike sets a record for summertime price jumps going
back nearly a century.
NBC senior business correspondent Christine Romans discussed the trend on Today.
"This
spike [...] reminds people that the cost of living is still issue No. 1
and there are still some significant pressures in terms of the prices
we're paying every day for everyday items," Romans explained. "You can't
swap out vegetables. Vegetables are a pretty important part of the
menu."
And of course this downward turn comes as Chump has gutted so much of the safety net. Keerthi Eraniyan (CONTRA COSTA YOUTH JOURNALISM) reports:
THE
SHELVES at the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano are getting harder
to keep stocked these days. In fact, nonprofits and programs across the
country are feeling the pinch of higher prices linked to tariffs - a
financial strain that could limit critical community services.
Under
President Donald Trump's 2025 trade policy, reciprocal tariffs as low
as 15% - and as high as 50% for some countries - have or are expected to
go into effect this year. American industries and organizations reliant
on imported goods will be affected by these increases. This includes
food banks and shelters that are expected to feel higher prices for
essential supplies, as well as bulk groceries, medical items and hygiene
products.
Additionally,
funding cuts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, previously known as
food stamps) are expected to impact food-based nonprofits, including
those in Contra Costa County.
The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
works to provide essential and emergency food to those in need
throughout the county. Rising food costs are affecting the Concord-based
food bank's ability to provide enough food for the community.
Let's note THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE.
A segment on the economy.
It's
needed much more than the garbage MSNBC has shoved off on us for two
days now. It's to the point that I'm thinking we may need to take a
long break from MSNBC.
When Chump was shot, the
media did their usual bullls**t and I had to talk to numerous Democrats
in office about how they needed to shut their damn mouths. There is
news coverage and there is mythology. By getting Dems to shut up on the
topic, it forced the media to move on.
A shooting took place, someone died.
And?
As Paul Krugman notes this morning:
At this point what do we know about who killed [. . .], and why?
Nothing. And we may never know anything.
In the last 24 hours, MSNBC has posted 28 videos about _______ to their YOUTUBE page.
For
comparison, yesterday was 9/11. Only two videos posted to the page
were noting that anniversary. Then you had a lawsuit against Kash Patel
-- one video. Two videos on BLOOMBERG NEWS' big Epstein-Maxwell story
(we'll get to that in a moment). Stephanie's economy segment that we
have posted above.
Six videos about things other than the shooting and 28 about the shooting.
Who is MSNBC working for?
We know "nothing," Paul Krugman points out. Nothing. But damned if you're not using all your time to waste our time.
I'm not in the mood for your bulls**t.
Now
on gun violence, if you're late to the party. That's not my story,
that's not my topic. There was a school shooting August 27th. I didn't
write about it. The only thing we had up here about it was Senator Amy
Klobuchar making a statement. I didn't even stream it before I posted
it. Why? Amy's got common sense. I had no fears that she would say
anything uncaring or outrageous. But that's all that went up here.
If
you've been around this site for any length of time, you know I do not
politicize shootings and I tend to look down on those who do. You also
know I'm not calling for The Second Amendment to be overturned. My
attitude here -- one later stolen by _________ -- has always been, "You
want us to give up our guns? Let's see the police do the same." I
don't own a gun. I've lived with men who did. Especially in more
radical times. Elaine's noted before at her site several times that in
one relationship -- with a political activist who most would describe as
a radical -- he had guns all over our home. You'd reach under the
couch for a catalogue (this is back in the seventies) and you'd nudge a
gun. You went to the bathroom and moved towels around, you'd find a
gun.
I'm not scared of guns. I don't own one.
If
we want to have a calm discussion about guns and gun violence, I'm for
that. I'm not for the screaming and yelling that tends to ensue
whenever there's a high profile shooting.
I think there is sensible gun control that we could have right now if we could speak calmly on the topic.
So
we never spend time here on gun violence. And that could change. I'm
probably closer right now than I've ever been in terms of thinking about
helping on that issue. Mainly because I keep seeing them screw up
their presentations and, as a result, turning away the people they're
trying to woo to their side.
Too many of you -- especially at MSNBC -- do not know what you're doing.
That's why your ratings are always low.
You don't know how to program. You don't grasp what host doesn't belong in prime time. You don't know what you're doing.
When you spend a 24 hour period posting 28 videos about _____ what do you think that says?
What do you think the takeaway is?
Are you so stupid that you don't get you're building him up?
I'm not even mentioning the racist's name. I'm not promoting him. But damned if MSNBC isn't glorifying him.
You're shooting the left in the foot.
There
is no new information. There is no reason for you to be wall-to-wall
with coverage of a vile and disgusting man. FOX "NEWS" and other
outlets exist for that.
If you're going to destroy the left, MSNBC, I'm not promoting you. I have better things to do.
Related, please read Marcia's "Racist Jill Filipovic is in another panic"
-- well known racist Jill Filipovic is pissing her panties as she tries
to tell the country -- including Black people -- how we should speak of
a dead racist. Jill's always hated Black women -- and did you miss the
fact that in 2019 when she was forced to (slightly) own up to her years
of racism, she didn't apologize.
MSNBC, you
are harming the left with your garbage right now. You're also insulting
those of us who are Black, those of us who are women and those of us
who are LGBTQ+ (in Marcia's case, all three). You really need to look
at the coverage you're doing because it's turning a minor figure into a
celebrity. It's, in fact, trying to make him the next Princess Diana.
His death has certainly gotten more US media coverage than the death of
Pope Francis.
Let's move over to immigration because we certainly can't count on MSNBC to cover it this week. Evann Gastaldo (NEWSER) reports:
An
immigration raid at a construction site near the CIA's headquarters in
Langley, Virginia, took a dramatic turn Wednesday when construction
workers bolted from the site and headed straight for the agency's
heavily fortified campus. According to sources familiar with the
situation who spoke to the New York Times, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement officers swooped in unannounced at the site, prompting
workers to scatter. Some attempted to vault over the CIA's outer
perimeter, only to face an even larger fence guarding the facility.
The
surprise influx triggered a lockdown at the intelligence compound,
causing a traffic jam and leaving some CIA staff stranded outside for
over an hour, NBC News reports. ICE reportedly did not alert the agency
beforehand, compounding the confusion. A CIA spokesperson acknowledged
the security event and confirmed law enforcement responded, but offered
no further details. ICE did not immediately comment on the incident.
Chump
can't oversee anything correctly. Maybe if he'd nominated better
people, qualified people, he wouldn't have so many basic problems.
If you're not getting how truly incompetent and how truly evil these people are, read Alex Woodward's report for THE INDEPENDENT:
A
secret memo between the United States and El Salvador reveals the Trump
administration’s $5 million deal for Nayib Bukele’s government to jail
dozens of Venezuelan immigrants deported from the country earlier this
year.
According to a term sheet made public in
court filings this week, the Trump administration agreed to pay the
Salvadoran government $4.67 million to detain deportees at the notorious
Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a brutal prison that human
rights groups have condemned as a “tropical gulag.”
Under
terms of the deal, El Salvador was prohibited from using the money to
support drug traffickers and “mass-migration caravans” to the
U.S.-Mexico border — as well as abortion care and support for diversity,
equity and inclusion initiatives.
But the deal
does not explicitly prohibit immigrants from being tortured,
experiencing abuse or being held indefinitely inside one of the western
hemisphere’s most notorious jails, where more than 250 Venezuelan
immigrants deported by the Trump administration spent more than four
months before they were sent back to their home country.
Torture was not a concern -- even though it's a War Crime and Chump's actions were
War Crimes. If Chump doesn't die from a stroke before his term is up,
let's hope that he faces a world court for his actions. They might not
be as indulgent as The Corrupt Court in declaring that a president can
break any law and get away with it (see Betty's latest on that body
""). In fact, maybe we could get John Roberts in front of a world
court. John Scum Of The Earth Roberts says racial profiling is legal.
Of course, he does. Chump's war on immigrants was always about his fear
of non-Whites (read Ava and my ""). Ja'han Jones (MSNBC) reports:
The
Trump administration has unveiled a plan to boost white immigration to
the United States, in stark contrast with its efforts to expel
immigrants from largely nonwhite countries as varied as Nepal and
Nicaragua.
On Monday, the U.S. Embassy in South
Africa announced that a group called Amerikaners will serve as an
official “referral partner” to help select candidates for settlement in
the U.S., following Trump’s bogus portrayal of white Afrikaners, who are
primarily of Dutch descent, as victims of racist oppression by South
Africa’s government.
Amerikaners
appear to have branded its organization specifically to appeal to a
Trump administration that has demonized nonwhite immigrants,
non-Christian immigrants and immigrants with poor English-speaking
abilities. As Reuters noted Tuesday, a memo the group sent to President
Donald Trump in May identifies itself as “mainly Christian,
conservative, and English-speaking,” while boasting about “a strong
Western cultural orientation.”
The organization
also pushed bogus claims of systemic anti-white racism in the memo,
including the allegation that government-backed programs designed to
subvert the lasting impact of South African apartheid — which has left
the country’s white minority with a hugely disproportionate amount of
the country’s wealth — are discriminatory.
According
to the U.S. Embassy’s announcement, Amerikaners will help “consider
eligibility for U.S. refugee resettlement for people who are of
Afrikaner ethnicity or a member of a racial minority in South Africa who
are victims of unjust racial discrimination.” As you may recall,
earlier this year Trump signed an executive order calling for the
prioritization of white Afrikaner immigration to the U.S. after forcing
South Africa’s president to watch a misinformation-filled video at the
White House that Trump falsely claimed was evidence of anti-white
genocide in South Africa.
As NPR noted in May,
claims of white genocide in Africa — whether in South Africa or in other
nations, such as Zimbabwe — have been peddled by white supremacists for
decades.
Don't worry, though, Chump will always keep the US a haven for White racists. Pedro Camacho (LATIN TIMES) reports on Chump shredding due process:
An
original investigation by The Guardian has uncovered that the Trump
administration is moving immigrants around the U.S. in increasingly
complex and opaque ways, with record numbers of deportation flights,
widespread detainee transfers, and growing obstacles to legal
representation.
According to The Guardian,
leaked flight manifests and passenger data from Global Crossing Airlines
(GlobalX)—a Miami-based charter company contracted by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE)—provide a rare look into the scale of ICE's
operations between January and May 2025. The data covers more than
44,000 immigrants and documents over 1,700 flights, the majority between
U.S. cities.
Nearly 3,600 immigrants were
moved repeatedly, boarding five or more flights each, while others
experienced up to 20 transfers between detention facilities. Many
detainees were relocated without advance notice, often to facilities far
from family, legal counsel, and their assigned courts. Attorneys cited
in the report say these practices have resulted in "apparent violations
of constitutional due process rights."
The Guardian found that
nearly 1,000 children were transported during this period, including 22
infants and nearly 500 under the age of 10. In some cases, detainees
were allegedly pressured into "voluntary" deportation after being
threatened with separation from family members or transfers to distant
facilities. "You end up in a continuous state of unknown for an
indefinite period of time," said Faisal Al-Juburi of the legal aid group
Raíces. "Families are being put into a purgatorial state."
This
is what Chump is doing to families while sending out fundraising
requests claiming he wants to get into heaven. Well, Chump, want in one
hand and you know what you can do in the other -- we both know which
hand will fill up first.
Chabeli Carrazana (THE 19TH NEWS) zooms in on one family being destroyed:
Her
first night in the bunks, she thought about how this place might change
her. Would her sons in the beds above and beside her see their father
again? What would she have to do to protect them? And did she have the
strength?
The rooms on this side of the Dilley
Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas, near San Antonio, housed
only women with their children. Nicolle Orozco Forero and her boys,
ages 5 and 7, arrived there on an afternoon in June, awaiting a
deportation she was sure would come.
When
she woke up from a nightmare around 9 p.m., she turned to see if her
husband was beside her. He had been separated from her when they
arrived, as her boys cried. “We want to stay in papa’s room,” they
said.
She cracked open a Bible and landed on a verse: “So do not fear, for I am with you.”
A
day earlier, Orozco Forero and her husband, Juan Sebastian Moreno
Acosta, arrived at their routine monthly meeting with U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expecting to make some progress on their
case.
The family, originally from Colombia,
had been living in Seattle for two years, where Orozco Forero worked as a
child care provider for children with disabilities. Her eldest son,
Juan David, has a serious kidney issue and was being treated at Seattle
Children’s Hospital. His nephrologist had written a letter to ICE
requesting he remain in the country to receive a biopsy and further
treatment.
But
the mood at the appointment that morning was different. An officer
shadowed them. Their case worker looked at them anxiously. When she
called them in and said, “There is nothing more we can do for you,”
Orozco Forero knew.
They were soon handcuffed,
stripped of their belongings and shuffled to the back of the building.
Orozco Forero said she showed an ICE officer a letter from Juan David’s
doctors approving a biopsy; the officer tore it apart, she said. “This
no longer works,” the officer told her.
The
cruelty and the inhumanity are all hallmarks of Chump and his
administration. His gestapo carries out his orders. We should all
remember that -- especially if we're lucky enough to force Chump to
stand before a tribunal someday.
Let's move over to Chump and his buddies Ghislaine Maxwell and the late Jeffery Epstein.
President Donald Trump is finding that the scandal surrounding his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein is refusing to fade.
This
week, Jeffrey Epstein's name came back to the fore with the release of a
birthday note allegedly sent by Trump to the disgraced financier,
published by The Wall Street Journal and circulated by Democrats on the
House Oversight Committee.
Trump's
authorship of the note - scrawled inside the sketched outline of a
woman's body - was immediately disputed by the White House. "As I have
said all along, it's very clear President Trump did not draw this
picture, and he did not sign it. President Trump's legal team will
continue to aggressively pursue litigation," press secretary Karoline
Leavitt said. Trump himself told NBC News on Tuesday that the matter was
a "dead issue."
But for a growing number of Americans—including many in Trump's own base—the issue is anything but over.
Trump's
association with Jeffrey Epstein dates back to the early 1990s, when
both men moved in the same social and business circles in Palm Beach,
Florida, and New York City. Photographs from the period show them
together at parties, and Trump even noted Epstein's taste for younger
women. In a 2002 interview with New York Magazine, Trump described
Epstein as a "terrific guy" who "likes beautiful women as much as I do,
and many of them are on the younger side."
He can't outrun his past -- especially considering his weight and age. Ailia Zehra reports:
Rep.
Thomas Massie (R‑Ky.) strongly challenged on Thursday President Donald
Trump’s claim that the renewed attention on convicted sex Jeffrey
Epstein is a political “hoax,” pointing instead to a diplomatic upheaval
in the United Kingdom as proof that there’s more to emerge.
Earlier
Thursday, the British government dismissed Peter Mandelson as its
ambassador to the United States after newly revealed emails and letters
showed a deeper and more supportive relationship with Epstein than had
previously been disclosed.
“If it's a hoax, why
did the British government just fire their ambassador to the United
States? It’s because more is coming out on the Epstein files and they
see what's coming down the pike,” Massie told CNN journalist Manu Raju
Thursday.
The
emails, part of a cache of more than 18,000 obtained by Bloomberg News,
show that Maxwell and Epstein were closer, in many respects, than
either publicly admitted. Maxwell opened at least one foreign bank
account using one of his addresses, was a named director on one of
Epstein’s main revenue-generating companies and traded stock in a
company they were both invested in, details that haven’t been previously
reported. The pair discussed undergoing a shared fertility procedure,
long after Maxwell claims she largely disassociated from him. They
corresponded about discrediting women who raised allegations against
them, including in one exchange where Maxwell said she planned to
circulate compromising information on one of Epstein’s sexual-abuse
victims.
The
emails include a spreadsheet itemizing nearly 2,000 gifts, luxury items
and payments totaling $1.8 million, with notations indicating they were
intended for Epstein’s friends, business associates and victims. The
spreadsheet, which was created by one of Epstein’s accountants, includes
a $35,000 watch that was earmarked for a former Bill Clinton aide; a
$71,000 purchase at a Lexus dealership for one of Epstein’s lawyers; and
other items, such as lingerie and chocolates, some for teenage girls
who later lodged sexual abuse complaints against Epstein and Maxwell.
The spreadsheet indicates that Maxwell helped Epstein arrange many of
the items; it doesn’t specify whether the intended recipients were ever
offered or actually accepted the gifts.
Maxwell
has maintained she was kept in the dark about details of Epstein's
initial sexual abuse case in the mid-2000s. Yet the emails demonstrate
her deep knowledge of the legal jeopardy he faced and show how she
helped him strategize over even the most consequential details.
“Question,”
Epstein wrote to Maxwell on May 23, 2008. “Which one do you prefer,,,
lewd and lscivious conduct ,, or procuring minors for prostituion.”
At
the time, he and his star-studded team of defense lawyers were closing
in on a generous plea deal with federal and state officials in Florida,
and Epstein was trying to negotiate the state charges to which he’d
plead guilty. Maxwell’s response was matter-of-fact: "I suppose Lews and
lecivious conduct . . I would prefer lewd and lescivious conduct w/a
prositute if possible
A
month later Epstein pleaded guilty to two Florida state charges: felony
solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors to engage in
prostitution. He also registered as a sex offender.
We
don't have to utilize MSNBC to note the BLOOMBERG exclusive. They can
continue their hours and hours spent on canonizing the racist while we
focus on reality. Some video reports.
"Epstein's Inbox"
is the title of BLOOMBERG NEWS' exclusive report by Jason Leopold, Ava
Benny-Morrison, Jeff Kao, Dhruy Mehrotra, Suray Mattu, Harry Wilson and
Max Abelson,
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