From The Bangor Daily News: A Hawaii defense contractor who has donated to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and whose business operates in Maine faces federal charges alleging he defrauded the Paycheck Protection Program, the small business loan program championed by the senator. Martin Kao, the CEO of Martin Defense Group, formerly known as Navatek LLC,…
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AK-Sen: GOP Is So Desperate They Want Dr. Al Gross (I) To Prove He Killed A Bear In Self-Defense
So this has been one of the best backstories for a candidate: x .@SenDanSullivan works for #MitchMcConnell – he votes Mitch’s way 97% of the time. I’m a different kind of candidate – one who will always put #Alaska first. Watch our first TV ad and chip in to help keep it on the air:…
Michigan Lt. Gov. decimated Trump’s defense for COVID response & destruction of the economy
Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist did not mince his words as he decimated the president. He made all the president defenses moot as he proved Trump's callous incompetence. Trump's shallow response decimated by Gilchrist x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. Michigan Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist appeared on an MSNBC program hosted by Katy Tur. Please…
Trump’s defense of his COVID failure slammed, Greg Palast voter suppression ACLU report
The Lt. Gov. of Michigan, Garlin Gilchrist, did not mince his words. Neither did Chuck Todd in pointing out Trump’s COVID failure. Greg Palast is back. Trump really in trouble this time x x YouTube Video Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091 At…
Donald Trump Jr. rushes to the defense of Karen cop who didn't get her McDonald's promptly enough
With everything that’s going on right now, somehow this is the bee under Donald Trump Jr.’s bonnet. (The second embedded video will play without bringing you to another page.) x 🚨🚨🚨Disgusting what’s going on right now. https://t.co/nRIrV47YVK — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 17, 2020 x Stacey who has been a cop for 15 yrs went…
NBC Host stops Trump sycophant from UV rays defense
MSNBC Host Nicolle Wallace did not allow a professional sycophant, a doctor, who attempted to give the president a pass on using UV rays inside the body to cure COVID-19. MSNBC Host corrects Trump sycophant in real-time Watch the full episode here. One of the reasons that Donald Trump and his Republican cabal have been successful…
MA-Sen: Sen. Ed Markey (D) Continues To Push Trump Use The Defense Production Act To Combat COVID-19
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: Last month, I called on President Trump to immediately begin using the Defense Production Act to produce the equipment we need to fight COVID-19. I was optimistic that our call had been heard when he finally claimed to invoke Defense Production Act…
This country's going to need billions of masks: what about that Defense Production Act, Donald?
Like Trump’s toughness, pretending you’re using the Defense Production Act of 1950 and hoping for corporate volunteerism is not the same thing especially if you claim you’re in “wartime”. WWII was won with national production planning that overwhelmed the enemy. Trump’s enemy is as he says “invisible”, much like his continuing disinformation, operating with invisible…
MA-Sen: Sen. Ed Markey (D) Demands Trump Use The Defense Production Act To Fight COVID-19
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: It is clear that we are at war with the coronavirus. In order to slow the spread of the disease, the United States needs to work together to flatten the curve by expanding testing capability and increasing our social distancing. That is…
Trump STILL hasn't implemented Defense Production Act to supply more masks and ventilators
So people are freaking out about whether we’ll have enough masks, ventilators, and other crucial medical equipment when COVID-19 cases peak in this country. It’s what one might call a hair-on-fire emergency. And yet the Trump administration is still acting as if everything will all work out somehow. A Saturday New York Times story made…
KY-Sen: “I challenge him to show me one trial where the jury coordinated with the defense lawyers.”
Kudos to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D. OH) for calling out Moscow Mitch: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) tore into Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday for how he maneuvered Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in favor of the president. In his remarks before the final vote on the president’s impeachment, Brown spoke of how the Senate took an oath to act as…
Trump Wants House Clowns on His Impeachment Defense Team
WaPo Politics has a new story out: GOP leaders spar over adding House members to Trump’s impeachment defense team A turf war over who should defend President Trump in a Senate impeachment trial is raging behind the scenes in Congress, as House Republicans push to join Trump’s legal team — an idea that piques the…
Defense Secretary Mark Esper was a defense industry lobbyist; guess whose stock just jumped
With his nomination of former Raytheon vice president and lobbyist Mark Esper for secretary of defense, Donald Trump essentially chummed the swamp with alligator feed. Of course, it was kind of a joke for Trump to put a defense contractor in charge of the DoD while at the same time insisting he was “draining the swamp.”…
Democratic Weakness In The Face Of Republican Disloyalty To The Constitution Is No Defense.
Josh Marshall over at TPM has a must read about Democrats who signal weakness when it comes to confronting the patently disloyal Republican Party. As I have stated before, some political scientists have used the term “disloyal party” to identify political groups who as part of the political system act to overthrow the government or…
After her defense of Trump mocking Greta Thunberg, Twitter gives Melania a new title
#UglyMelania was a top trend on Twitter, only followed by the ironic #BeBest hashtag for her ugly behavior. Never in our history have we had such a clueless and classless First Lady. Once again, Melania, in front of millions, appears to have condoned her husband’s bullying of a 16-year-old with Asperger's syndrome. According to Melania, her…
Defense officials concerned about growing support for Vladimir Putin by US Troops.
“People’s beliefs and perceptions are shaped more by whatever the leaders of their own political tribe say than by ideology, history, or even their own self-interest,” Paul Pillar, former senior CIA analyst. Putin can take over the world and Donald Trump will help him spread his propaganda wow ! I love to no what Trump…
Impeachment Inquiry day two: the “Sideshow Bob defense of Tяump” continues
“Sideshow Amigos” and “Sideshow Shreks” still remain at large in our imagination, as the House Intel Committee deposed Ambassador Yovanovitch. The GOP tried several procedural stunts, but lost the message as Trump tweeted an attack during the opening. What remained were what has now become routine in terms of distractions from what is now even…
will Florida Man skate because his defense is “I did it, so what – get over it”
Idiotic that Individual-1 is trying with the help of his GOP buddies, to make impeachment into reality-TV kayfabe. . @maddow @MSNBC @ChrisCuomo @CNN Day after day we hear about #ShitForBrains’ “perfect call.” Except his dirt for military aid scheme wasn’t just about “a call.” It was a months’ long conspiracy involving countless henchman who closed…
Russia’s Ministry of Defense Raining on drumpf’s al-Baghdadi Victory Lap.
Take this with as many grains of salt as you want but… Reuters “MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Sunday it had no reliable information on the U.S. operation that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, state-run RIA news agency reported after U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed his death. “The…
Wall Street Journal's idiocracy defense: Trump is too incompetent to be impeached
The Wall Street Journal in an editorial tries to rationalize the GOP stunt of crashing the Capitol SCIF. Because like the GOP, they’ve got nothing but process objections. Apparently fitness for office is irrelevant because Trump’s infallibility assumes that shooting someone on Fifth Avenue requires hitting a barn door. An editorial from the conservative Wall Street Journal argues…