None of This Is Normal

[bodysong]

Trump accused of ‘jury tampering’ after allegedly threatening
GOP senators not to vote against him

https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/tr...atening-gop-senators-not-to-vote-against-him/

Is the White House literally threatening to decapitate lawmakers
and place their heads on spikes ?

According to CBS News, Donald Trump has threatened
Republican senators to vote for his acquittal or their
"head will be on a pike."


"One Trump confidant tells CBS news that GOP Senators
have been warned: "Vote against the president, and your
head will be on a pike." via @CBSEveningNews

— Justin Goodman (@JustinPGoodman) January 24, 2020

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/01/t...-senators-your

"They don't want to find their heads on pikes, victims of the
ruthless political mob boss."

(Adam) Schiff rattled some Republicans by alluding to a CBS
News report that alleged Republican senators were warned:
“Vote against the president, and your head will be on a pike.”

“Methinks doth thou protest too much,” Democratic Senator Sherrod
Brown said, of the Republican reaction to Schiff’s remarks.

“They’re afraid to do the right thing here,” Brown said.

Outside Senate chambers, the Republican Senator James
Lankford told reporters that the president never told Republican
senators that their heads would be on a pike if they voted against
him

(note: CBS News
never outright states if the warning came from the president himself).

(just some anonymous Trump minion from the White House
that would dare spread a rumor like that, without Trump's
direct command ?)

Manu Raju (@mkraju)

“That’s not true,” Susan Collins said several times on the floor,
shaking her head when Schiff cited a news report saying WH
warned senators that a vote against Trump means
“your head will be on a pike.” Risch also said aloud:
“That’s not true.”

Cotton laughed when Schiff said it

January 25, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...live?page=with:block-5e2ba2b28f0879d539efecd4

 

[bodysong]

Adam Schiff forgot the lesson that Dan Rather learned-

"It's a trap!"

GOP Rolls Out Every Last Excuse to Keep Witnesses Out

(NOT ENOUGH)

yes, using Adam Schiff's blunder as an excuse to not cooperate
is not unexpected, since the excuses keep changing-

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dems-see-door-closing-on-chance-for-more-witnesses

Adam Schiff took the bait-

Democrats have been doing all the legitimate work, and they
are exhausted from crossing all the Ts and dotting all the I's.
Cannot blame them for trying for something that should raise
the hairs on the back of people's necks.

 

[JackLuis]

In the interest of dropping bad news on Friday so it dies over the weekend:

Republican lawmakers personally made millions from their giant tax cut: report

Although the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 did precious little to reduce the tax burden of middle-class Americans, it has been great for millionaires. And according to Peter Cary of the Center for Public Integrity, that includes many of the Republican senators and House members who rammed it through Congress.

Discussing the Center’s analysis of the 2017 law in an article for Vox this week, Cary explains: “Cutting tax rates for companies like Apple and hundreds of other stocks they own was one of many ways Republican lawmakers enriched themselves after they passed the tax law…. Democrats also stood to gain from the tax bill, though not one voted for it. All but 12 Republicans voted for the tax bill.”

Duhhhha, of course they did, they are Rethuglicunts!

 

[bodysong]

Spacecowboy brings up a very good point-

Why is it, that Trump did not simply fire Marie Yovanovitch ?

(Trump may have been cautioned against firing Marie Yovanovitch,
because the optics of firing an actual corruption fighter would
not be good look for Trump. Trump's accusations against her
fell flat, because Marie's reputation was held to be honorable
in the international community.)

In April 2019, Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from Ukraine
following a year-long smear campaign (and Lev Parnas's strange
mission in Ukraine)

Quote:

From the audio tape-

“Get rid of her!” Trump responds, “Get her out tomorrow.
I don’t care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay?
Do it.”

"Take her out."

Take her out of the picture-
Take her out of her position (her job)

"Get rid of her."

Pompeo’s upcoming Ukraine trip just got more awkward

Pompeo said he "never heard" that Yovanovitch may have
been under surveillance. In her testimony before the House,
Yovanovitch said she was told by the State Department that
she was being recalled because of concerns about her "security."

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/79924...e-what-s-right

Pompeo’s trip to Kyiv, slated to start Thursday, comes after a
previously announced visit, set for the early days of January,
was canceled amid spiraling tensions with Iran.

Pompeo’s stop in Kyiv is part of a multi-country tour that will
also take him to Britain, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan,
according to the State Department. The trip runs from Jan. 29
to Feb. 4, the department said.

It’s customary for visiting U.S. secretaries of State to stop by
the American embassy in their host country, and Pompeo is
expected to follow that tradition.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...ne-trip-104439

Politico points out the visit to the American embassy may be
awkward, because of the unpleasantness connected with
top diplomat William Taylor, and the absence of U.S.
ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.

Lingering questions over who ordered the attack on NPR journalist,
Mary Louise Kelly- "who has worked extensively overseas and has
a master’s degree in European studies from Cambridge University,"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...b3a_story.html

Mary Louise Kelly may have earned Trump's ire, by extensively
and thoroughly covering Trump's blunder of ordering the murder
of a coutry's leader, and the after-effects. The prospect of having
a competent and experienced journalist, with her own network of
contacts in Ukraine, keeping track of developments in Ukraine,
does not provide Pompeo with happy thoughts.

 

[bodysong]

'Take Her Out.'

In New Recording, Trump Heard Discussing Firing Ambassador
To Ukraine

January 25, 2020

In the recording, Parnas can be heard telling Trump
that the ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, had been
disparaging the president, and that he should
"get rid" of her. "She's basically walking around
telling everybody, 'Wait, he's going to get impeached,
just wait,'" Parnas says in the recording.

"Get rid of her," the president responds.
"Get her out tomorrow. I don't care.
Get her out tomorrow. Take her out."

In an interview with NPR on Saturday, Deputy White
House Press Secretary Steven Groves said the president's
comments were directed to then aide John DeStefano,
not to Parnas.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/25/7996...-heard-discussing-firing-ambassador-to-ukrain

 

[bodysong]

Trump requires stage props to accompany his lies-
Any available body will do, dead or alive.

Trump's tiny paws tugged on Kobe's corpse
to call attention to himself.

There were jokes, that Trump had Mal-ania write the
condolences, because they appeared to be cribbed from
President Obama's.

Aaron Rupar ✓
Twitter › atrupar

Trump’s tweet about Kobe is remarkably similar to Obama’s

19 hours ago

Trump accused of copying tribute to Kobe Bryant:
'Remarkably similar to Obama's'

January 27, 2020

Two hours later, after an earlier post calling the crash "terrible news,"
Trump wrote a lengthier tribute that many people claimed was
plagiarized from Obama.

Others were quick to remind Trump that Bryant had been a critic
of the president. In 2017, he tweeted: "A #POTUS whose name
alone creates division and anger. Whose words inspire dissension
and hatred can't possibly 'Make America Great Again'"


A #POTUS whose name alone creates division and anger.
Whose words inspire dissension and hatred can't possibly
"Make America Great Again"

— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) September 23, 2017

https://sports.yahoo.com/trump-slammed-tribute-kobe-bryant-170145960.html

Maybe Trump was trying to sound a bit more presidential,
after an earlier tweet that came across more like a news flash -
complete with inaccurate early information.

"Reports are that basketball great Kobe Bryant and three others
have been killed in a helicopter crash in California.
That is terrible news!" that Trump tweet read.

Some tweets suggested Trump posted the second tweet
because of the low number of likes for his first attempt -
only around 200,000 five hours later - while Obama was
up to 2.2 million within four hours.

For the second tweet, Trump was up to 315,000 tweets
after two hours.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/baske...nt-tweet-suspiciously-similar-to-one-by-obama

 

[bodysong]

bodysong comment- Have relatives living in the Villages ?

Golf cart protests intensify in the Villages, as one anti-Trump
Florida man receives threat

- Solomon Gustavo
Fri, Jan 31, 2020

"Be very careful if the well being of your family
is of importance."

That's the threat Ed McGinty of the Villages said
he received in the form of a hand-written note left
on his door.

The show-stopper was a cameo by Villager Marsha Hill –
honestly, its like self-parody at this point –
whippin' a golf cart like skrt. She told McGinty
that his signs were "blasphemy" and that he should
be locked up. She also said she was going to send
footage of the signs to the Trump campaign.

Hill said she was driving by and needed to step to
this man. The Sumter deputies were there, too, and
heard Hill's complaints. She told deputies that McGinty
called her a "pig." Again, the deputies said they couldn't
do anything about his protest.

You might see McGinty around. He said he likes to drive
his FTD cart ("fuck Donald Trump," cuh) an hour or so
every day in his Village of Hadley, to let his very
Republican neighbors know.

And if you didn't know, now you know, neighbor.

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs...as-one-anti-trump-florida-man-receives-threat

 

[bodysong]

Listened to a conversation between Greater Boston's Jim Braude,
Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey

discussion on their book- Unmaking the Presidency:
Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office.

interview streamed live on WGBH-( they are in MA)

Harvard Bookstore promotes an event-

The promotion materials bring up points that I heard,
during the discussion

They both bear brains, and I would swear to that.*
(*Thank you, Romeo and Juliet, for the nurse.)

Susan Hennessey spoke on Trump's abuses of the core
powers of the presidency

Benjamin Wittes mentions the difficulty of "coordinating
these systems of consultation"

"that rises to a presidentintial level"

Trump's response- (to information, proved authentic,
rules, laws, expert advice)

"To heck with all of it."
"I want to wing it!"

Trump's approach- "I dare you!"

They both spoke on how and in what ways
that Trump has changd the presidency

(cannot leaves lies out of that question,

From promotion materials-

In this book, they situate Trump-era scandals and outrages
in the deeper context of the presidency itself. How should
we understand the oath of office when it is taken by a man
who may not know what it means to preserve, protect, and
defend something other than himself?

What aspects of Trump are radically different from past
presidents and what aspects have historical antecedents?
When has he simply built on his predecessors’ misdeeds,
and when has he invented categories of misrule entirely
his own?

By setting Trump in the light of history, Hennessey and Wittes
provide a crucial and durable account of a presidency like no
other.

Harvard Book Store welcomes Brookings Institution fellows
and Lawfare co-founders SUSAN HENNESSEY and
BENJAMIN WITTES for a discussion of their co-authored
book, Unmaking the Presidency:
Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office.

Tuesday, Feb 04, 2020 6:00p -
7:30p

Where:
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St
Cambridge, MA 02138

Admission:
$6.00 or $29.75 (book-included)

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences

 

[bodysong]

February 5, 2020

‘None of this is normal’:

AOC joins other Democrats to boycott Trump’s State of the Union

https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/no...mocrats-to-boycott-trumps-state-of-the-union/

 

[bodysong]

Presiderp

... took great pains to lash out at those he feels wronged him.

Trump sounded off about a lot of people in his victory speech. Here’s what he said
- Jaclyn Reiss


Here’s a look at what he had to say about certain people and parties.

Mitt Romney

Speaking to Senator Mike Lee, Trump said: “A man who is brilliant, and who actually was deceived to an extent, comes from a great state: Utah, where my poll numbers have gone through the roof — and one of the senator’s poll numbers, not this one, went down big. . . say hello to the people of Utah, and tell them I’m sorry about Mitt Romney.”

Nancy Pelosi

“We did a prayer breakfast this morning. . . I had Nancy Pelosi sitting four seats away, and I’m saying things a lot of things a lot of people wouldn’t have said. But I meant them. I meant every word.”

“Nancy Pelosi is a horrible person. And she wanted to impeach a long time ago. And she said, ‘I pray for the president.’ She doesn’t pray — she may pray, but she prays for the opposite. But I doubt she prays at all.”

James Comey

“Had I not fired James Comey, who was a disaster by the way, it’s possible I wouldn’t even be standing here right now. We caught him in the act. Dirty cops. Bad people.”

Adam Schiff

“A corrupt politician named Adam Schiff made up my statement to the Ukrainian president. He brought it out of thin air. Just made it up. They say he’s a screenwriter, a failed screenwriter. Unfortunately, he went into politics.”

“Adam Schiff is a vicious, horrible person.”

Mitch McConnell

“Mitch McConnell, I want to tell you, you did a fantastic job. Somebody said, ‘You know, Mitch is quiet.’ I said, ‘He’s not quiet.’ He doesn’t want people to know that. And they say, ‘Is Mitch smart?’ I said, 'Well let’s put it this way: For many many years, a lot of very smart, very bad, sometimes good, people have been trying to take his place. And to the best of my knowledge, I’ve never even heard the subject come up because they’ve been wiped out so fast. This guy is great, and I appreciate it, Mitch. . . he’s a tough guy to read. My wife goes, ‘How’d it go with Mitch?’ I go, ‘I don’t know.’ That’s what makes him good."

The Democratic Party

“Democrats are lousy politicians, because they have lousy policies. Open borders, sanctuary cities. Horrible policy. Who the hell can win — oh, the new policy is to raise taxes.

“They do two things: They’re vicious and mean. Vicious. These people are vicious. . . They stick together — historically, not now — like glue. . . They stuck together, and they’re vicious as hell.”

On investigations into Trump’s dealings with foreign powers

“It was corrupt, it was dirty cops.
It was leakers and liars. . .
it was a disgrace."

“We were treated unbelievably unfairly.
We first went through Russia, Russia, Russia.
It was all bull-[expletive].
We then went through the Mueller report.
They should have come by one day later;
they didn’t.

They came back two years later.”


Boston Globe

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02...people-his-victory-speech-heres-what-he-said/

 

[Ziggins]

I thought something like this a while ago, but here it is in punditspeak: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/negative-partisanship-explains-everything-215534

"Over the past few decades, American politics has become like a bitter sports rivalry, in which the parties hang together mainly out of sheer hatred of the other team, rather than a shared sense of purpose. Republicans might not love the president, but they absolutely loathe his Democratic adversaries. And it’s also true of Democrats, who might be consumed by their internal feuds over foreign policy and the proper role of government were it not for Trump. Negative partisanship explains nearly everything in American politics today."

If you insist on being a partisan cheerleader, you could do something for the board by posting a pic of yourself in a cheerleader outfit.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

I thought something like this a while ago, but here it is in punditspeak: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/negative-partisanship-explains-everything-215534

"Over the past few decades, American politics has become like a bitter sports rivalry, in which the parties hang together mainly out of sheer hatred of the other team, rather than a shared sense of purpose. Republicans might not love the president, but they absolutely loathe his Democratic adversaries. And it’s also true of Democrats, who might be consumed by their internal feuds over foreign policy and the proper role of government were it not for Trump. Negative partisanship explains nearly everything in American politics today."

If you insist on being a partisan cheerleader, you could do something for the board by posting a pic of yourself in a cheerleader outfit.

I read the article and I tend to agree with the main points. Yet it overlooks the main fault I see in your system.

Two parties.

Since there is no valid third party option ( running as an independent is not a very good option). A third national party would create the need again for co-operation. Remove the bi-partisanship aspect currently dominating it to some degree.

Now I am not advocating for 5 or 10 parties, just a third choice which would have bona fide candidates and the financial, and logistical resources that a "party" brings.

 

[bodysong]

'A pretence of justice'

- Jon Henley

6 Feb 2020

Germany’s Die Zeit

France’s Libération

The Age (Australia)

El País (Spain)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...tice-global-press-trump-impeachment-acquittal

 

[bodysong]

More of Trump's dirty Tricks

Propaganda


February 7, 2020

The viral video shows President Trump delivering his
State of the Union address, with a very notable alteration.
As he commemorates “Young Women Receiving Scholarships”
and “Child Healthcare Successes,” the video repeatedly cuts
away to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripping up her copy
of the speech.

It didn’t actually happen that way:

Pelosi (D-Calif.) tore the pages only after Trump finished
what she later called his “manifesto of mistruths.”

But Trump on Thursday shared it anyway, sending
it to millions of users on Facebook and Twitter —
and sparking sharp criticism from Pelosi and her
fellow Democrats, who labeled the video “doctored”
and “fake,” and demanded that the sites remove it.
The companies refused.

The debate over the video highlights an immense gray
area when it comes to moderating posts, photos and videos
on social media, especially when they’re shared by users
with large numbers of followers, many of whom might
believe that the clips are an authentic retelling of events.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...ighting-gray-area-debate-over-disinformation/

Attention is so easily snatched away-

The Professional Attention Whore, Trump himself,
knows this-

Trump will do anything to interrupt the flow of information
that contains the truth, or hope and encouragement for
Democrats.

You can be almost certain that the accusations against
Democrats, for distributing fraudulent photographs
of Trump's orange make-up face, was constructed by
Trump's team of tech bros.

Trump's hairstyle was much too flattering to originate
from a Democrat source.

President Trump was photographed by William Moon
showing the wind pulling his hair back and exposing pale
white skin next to the orange colored front.

Trump calls the photo fake

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/trump-real-photo-orange-tan-skin.html

Anyone that watched the "Rome" tv series, would remember
Julius Caesar at his Triumph, with his face painted red with
blood. The skin of the face appeared to be very pale, because
of the contrast between the two colors.

 

[bodysong]

Protesters thrown out of NH ‘Cops For Trump’
rally during Pence speech

(Are the protesters right about Trump's minions ? How much hate
does it take to fuel Trump loyalists ?)

https://whdh.com/news/protesters-thrown-out-of-nh-cops-for-trump-rally-during-pence-speech/

 

[bodysong]

And an old phrase came back into fashion:

No, this is not normal.

— bmaz (@bmaz) February 11, 2020

bodysong comment- Bought and paid for-
but by who ? Putin, or Trump, himself ?

Trump was hired to work for The People!
What is Trump doing ? He is gathering
the might and will of the military to use
against The People- The 2021 budget plan
for the military is larger than 2020. The Space Force
is a scam to pour more money into the military. Which
Trump will claw back, to fund the hiring of yet more
Trump supporters and Trump loyalists...

/end bodysong comment

Just look what Bill Barr did to keep his job-

Groveling Barr Just Pissed Away DOJ’s Greatest Power

(opinion)

The department's hard-earned reputation for factual honesty
and legal credibility is in tatters now.

- David R. Lurie

Feb. 11, 2020

William Barr...the attorney general is doing his part to trash
the reputation and authority of the Department of Justice he leads,
... to make clear that there is no higher authority
in Donald Trump’s America than a presidential tweet.

The DOJ is among the most powerful arms of the federal government
because of its role in enforcing the nation’s laws But the department’s
power is inextricably tied to the respect its lawyers enjoy in the courts.
The Solicitor General, whose office argues the federal government’s
cases before the Supreme Court, is traditionally referred to as the
“Tenth Justice,” because of the deference given to his arguments.
The same holds true for line-level federal prosecutors, whose
arguments on behalf of the DOJ are given great deference by
most federal judges because of the department’s reputation
for demanding the highest standards of factual honesty and
legal credibility.

That reputation is in tatters now.

Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...ls-and-the-justice-department-turns-on-itself

bodysong comment- Solicitor General, please help America!

‘Things Are Not Good’:

Every Single Prosecutor Withdraws from Roger Stone Case
Amid DOJ Interference

Every single federal prosecutor assigned to a case impacting
President Donald Trump‘s longtime friend Roger Stone has
now exited the arena in a showy collective action aimed at
defying the president’s admitted meddling.

“Things are not good, folks,” said criminal justice advocate
and former BuzzFeed News legal reporter Chris Geidner.

“They are not,” agreed former Director of the Office
of Government Ethics Walter Shaub.

All four prosecutors working on the Roger Stone case
have now quit. A resounding rejection of DOJ corruption.

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) February 11, 2020

“Anyone who thought Donald Trump’s behavior would be
more circumspect after his impeachment was immediately
proven wrong today, as this action in the Roger Stone case
by Trump and his Justice Department absolutely reeks of
corruption,” said People For the American Way Executive
Vice President for Policy and Program Marge Baker in a
statement.

“It is hard to see this as anything other than blatant political interference
by the president in a criminal case involving a crony, and we agree with
the Senate Democratic leader, Sen. Schumer, that it demands an immediate
investigation.”

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profil...-from-roger-stone-case-amid-doj-interference/

 

[bodysong]

bodysong comment-

Presiderp Twerp is desperate to attract attention
away from something- he has been doing the
equivalent of violently waving his arms, all day.

/end bodysong comment

Trump used Twitter to take a swipe at the judge scheduled
to sentence ( Roger) Stone, Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama
appointee who has overseen several other Mueller-related cases.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...-backs-away-stiff-sentence-roger-stone-114006

 

[Ziggins]

Trump is our Gorbachev. He can't save capitalism, but he is correcting some of the previous insanity while the nation starts a transition to something else.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Trump is our Gorbachev. He can't save capitalism, but he is correcting some of the previous insanity while the nation starts a transition to something else.

Capitalism being a function of liberty and private property, doesn't need saving, certainly not from the authority and force of the state.

If anything the US is transitioning to a more capitalist model.....all this uncontrolled E-commerce and free exchange like with Uber/Lyft??

Commerce used to be so much more controlled.

Now there is so much capitalism going on the control freaks left and right are losing their minds....."Freedom bad!!" they all cry.

I fucking love it

 

[RobDownSouth]

Trump is our Gorbachev. He can't save capitalism, but he is correcting some of the previous insanity while the nation starts a transition to something else.

WHAT "previous insanity", pray tell?

Obamacare? I realize the hard-right wingnuts were aghast that previous conditions were outlawed....

 

[Ziggins]

WHAT "previous insanity", pray tell? Obamacare?

Endless war. Outsourcing the well-paying jobs and letting illegals in for fewer remaining jobs. Centralized bureaucratic incompetence. Crappy architecture. https://archinect.com/news/article/...-default-style-for-america-s-public-buildings (Greco-Roman is not my preference, but we can't get much worse than glass towers and Brutalism.)

Pick anything of the last few decades.

 

[bodysong]

jaded Sen. Susan Collins knew Donald the Potemkin King
would do something to contradict her words of assurance
to the nation- she did it anyways

RAJU: In light of the president's actions, do you think
there's any lessons that he learned from being impeached?

COLLINS: I don't know which actions you're referring to.
I've made very clear that I don't think anyone should be
retaliated against.

RAJU: Has he learned any lessons?

COLLINS: There's a reason why in all the years that since
George Washington was inaugurated as our first president,
that we have never removed a duly elected president.

RAJU: You said the president learned his lesson.
Do you think he learned any lessons?

COLLINS: (crickets)

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/02/susan-collins-comes-empty-hope-trump

bodysong comment- after COLLINS changed her story,
so many times, she ran out of versions and excuses ?

 

[bodysong]

Roger Stone attorneys demand new trial after Trump tweets

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...general-william-barr-roger-stone-live-updates

 

[bodysong]

New York Magazine ✓
Twitter › NYMag

The primary beneficiary of Ivanka’s Law would likely
be Ivanka herself.

@bridgetgillard

34 seconds ago

Ivanka Trump Continues Her Crusade to Empower One Lone Woman

(herself)

Ivanka Trump

- continues her relentless crusade to make women her thing —
specifically, the well-being of one very specific woman —
this time with the announcement of a new bipartisan bill in
Congress.

Trump last was at Daytona in 2001

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/02/16/daytona-500/

Ivanka Trump lauds Saudi, UAE on women’s rights reforms

Saudi Arabia woman that championed women's right to drive cars is punished

 

[bodysong]

Former WH ethics chief:
It was nice of taxpayers to fund Ivanka’s corporate trip to Dubai

February 18, 2020

Ivanka Trump spent the weekend in Dubai to promote
the Trump International Golf Club.

Trump International Golf Club in Dubai is promoting
its anniversary celebration on Instagram during
@IvankaTrump‘s United Arab Emirates trip.
Eric & Don Jr.’s travel for its opening weeks
after Trump’s inauguration cost US taxpayers $250k
on Secret Service

— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) February 17, 2020

Well, the former White House ethics chief under
President Obama and (oh so briefly) Donald Trump
noticed:

How convenient. It was nice of you taxpayers to sponsor
her corporate trip. It was nice of you to fund the propaganda
video VOA disseminated too. Yer the best.

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 17, 2020

The government even put together a nice glam video for
Ivanka’s modeling portfolio:

(video)

https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/fo...yers-to-fund-ivankas-corporate-trip-to-dubai/