sure be good. But I worry that greedy and venal politicians will screw things up, big-time!
The Trump administration said Friday it projects federal deficits will be cut in half over the next 10 years, attributing the reductions to a sweeping package of spending cuts, new trade tariffs and regulatory rollbacks accomplished in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Half is good, don’t get me wrong. But even half the deficit is unimaginably huge!
minute here… Maybe I need to re-think my position!
The president cannot be a figurehead—he must personally sign off on all pardons. That, as we suspected, appears to be in doubt.
The truth is, I don’t think the autopen pardons are legally valid. That said, the issue will be tied up for years in the courts, and eventually will have to be ruled on by the Supreme Court. So it’s far from certain what will happen.
But this sets a really nasty precedent. In the future, anyone can say, “Yeah, but Biden did it.” And how was that not a legitimate defense? Because if Joe Biden is immune from following typical practices and did clearly illegal things with complete impunity, why am I convicted for a “creative” interpretation of law? I thought there was equal protection under the law!
truly unsustainable. Things MUST eventually collapse under this weight. And people from BOTH parties have hosed us over on this. Sure, Democrats are worse, but too many Republicans/RINOs were perfectly willing to go along with it. Talk about an existential threat to the country!
I think most people are ignorant of just how bad and dangerous things are!
For weeks, I wanted to believe that massive incompetence led to the events in Butler. I really did because the alternative didn’t bear thinking of. I thought the lawfare campaign was banana republic stuff, but assassination? That is Putin-level evil.
But consider the facts: the security “breakdowns” were so massive and implausible when combined that any large police force could have done a better job than the most elite protection unit in the world. The shooter was identified, tracked, photographed, filmed on the roof, the Secret Service was warned multiple times, the shooter was in the line of sight of the snipers, and Trump was trotted out onto the stage and kept there as the shooter was lining up his shot in full view of the Secret Service snipers.
Me, too. I have wanted to believe that this was garden-variety incompetence. But I’m not so sure anymore. There are just too many “steps” to assume that it was merely a mistake. At best, we are talking negligence. But likely more than that. Likely a deliberate and malevolent negligence.
Now we learn from a whistleblower that the Acting Director of the Secret Service personally pulled resources from the Trump team, including the very people whose job it was to identify and track a potential threat. They weren’t there, despite it being a critical resource to deal with precisely this type of threat and standard to provide them.
… Can you give an innocent explanation? I can’t. Even Dan Bongino, who has been a week or two ahead of the rest of the media on this story, and his evidence has proven impeccable (he was a Secret Service protective detail agent for over a decade and has inside sources) is now voicing suspicions, despite being reluctant in the first week or two to consider anything besides massive incompetence.
… If you can give an innocent explanation for the mountain of evidence that this was allowed to happen, I really want to hear it, because a plot to get Trump killed is the worst-case scenario. I really don’t want to believe it.
It’s time to stand up and tell the truth. THAT is giving honor to the wonderful agents of yesteryear. Please, let’s not let their names be sullied by those who are doing this!
it was! DUH! Cheatle, if she had a decent and honest bone in her body, would resign.
Trump’s security detail:
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who previously served as White House physician for both Donald Trump and Barack Obama, revealed during an interview on Fox News Sunday morning that Trump’s security detail has told him that they’ve had trouble getting resources for months. They believe that this was politically motivated…
They felt that it was politically motivated. That Trump received lax security for political reasons is without a doubt the worst possible scenario we could have expected. If partisanship is impacting the kind of security Trump has been receiving, then we need to find out exactly how many people were responsible for this.
Was it Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, or was it based on a decision higher up?
getting worse and worse. The shooter used a drone to pave the way!
…Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, reportedly flew a drone over the rally area shortly before he executed his attack. Crooks scaled a rooftop unmolested, despite scores of attendees watching him army crawl on the roof, which was left unprotected by the Secret Service, as he lined up to take shots at Trump.
The roof was less than 200 yards from the stage. Donald Trump Jr. responded to this update tweeting, “Just to underscore how crazy this all is, I was once prevented flying my own drone off of the beach at Mar-a-Lago by USSS because my father was inside the house.”
Holy crap! It’s just getting harder and harder to pass all this off as innocent incompetence. It appears to be at least malicious negligence.