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gatthow · 8 years ago

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Trump’s America, days 4-8

Trump continued the attack against the New York Times and Washington Post, again calling them “Fake news” and again claiming that the NYT has a “dwindling” readership.

They don’t.

In fact their subscriptions numbers are growing.

Same with the WP.

Trump continued to prosecute the case that there had been 3-5 million illegal votes cast in the election, which he of course won..... but you see these illegal votes, according to Trump, affected the popular vote, which he lost by around 2.8 million votes.......

The Iraqi Information Minister White House Press sec. Sean Spicer bravely/foolishly took questions on the subject on Tuesday.

NPR's Mara Liasson got to the root of the matter: If Trump truly believes there were so many illegal votes, she asked, why hasn't he called for investigations?

Spicer tried to deflect and restate his previous boilerplate answer — that Trump believes what he believes — but Liasson pressed him. Eventually, Spicer granted that "Maybe we will [investigate]."

Later on, NBC's Hallie Jackson tried again, and Spicer said: "We're here on Day Two. I think let's not prejudge what we may do in the future."

And then NBC's Kristen Welker tried again. Spicer assured that he was only speaking hypothetically about a possible investigation. And then Spicer, as he had before, quickly tried to move on. "It's been asked and answered," he assured Welker, and called on the next reporter.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny asked Spicer toward the end of Tuesday's session how Trump can be confident in his win, given that massive alleged voter fraud. "What does that mean for democracy?"

"It means I've answered your question," Spicer responded.

Very next day, SURPRISE!!!:

So where does Trump’s illegal votes theory stem from?

The Intercept provided this handy history, and The Guardian and Salon both detail the work of Gregg (double g...) Phillips - who Trump has tweeted about - and who according to the Guardian has a federal tax debt of over 100K, and a VERY interesting work history.

On Monday, Trump signed executive orders re:

The TPP withdrawal;

a hiring freeze for federal workers, except for the military;

and the Mexico City Policy, a policy that prohibits federal funding to nongovernment organisations that promote or perform abortions. Since the policy was announced in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, it has been revoked by every Democratic president only to be reinstated by their Republican successor;

On Tuesday Trump signed an executive order and four presidential memorandums focused mostly on energy, infrastructure and pending pipeline projects. this included the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines;

On Wednesday Trump signed the “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements” order which sets in the motion the wall he promised he would build on the U.S-Mexico border.

It details:

Sec. 4. Physical Security of the Southern Border of the United States. The Secretary shall immediately take the following steps to obtain complete operational control, as determined by the Secretary, of the southern border:

(a) In accordance with existing law, including the Secure Fence Act and IIRIRA, take all appropriate steps to immediately plan, design, and construct a physical wall along the southern border, using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve complete operational control of the southern border;

(b) Identify and, to the extent permitted by law, allocate all sources of Federal funds for the planning, designing, and constructing of a physical wall along the southern border;

Trump tweeted:

Mexico cancelled the meeting.

Trump had also suggested a 20% tariff on Mexican goods imported into the USA.

For that tariff to apply, the NAFTA would have to be torn up.

Plus, Trump should/would be aware that the tariff would be paid by US importers, and in turn US consumers.

He’d know that, yeah?

Also on Wednesday Trump signed the “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States” which calls for the removal of illegal immigrants who’ve been convicted of a criminal offence, charged with a criminal offence (where the charge hasn’t been resolved), committed acts that “constitute a chargeable criminal offence” or “in the judgement of an immigration officer, otherwise pose a risk to public safety or national security.”

It also orders that federal grant money be stripped from “sanctuary cities,” cities willing to defy federal immigration laws so as to protect illegal immigrants.

Then on Friday, Trump signed a presidential memorandum for the defence secretary and the Office of Management and Budget director to conduct several reviews aimed at “rebuilding” U.S. Armed Forces.

Rebuilding? The USA spends as much pa on their military as the next six nations COMBINED.

The last executive order of the week that Trump signed on Friday was his “extreme vetting” directive.

The executive order, titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days and immigration from countries with ties to terror, including Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and Libya, for a period of 90 days.

It invokes the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001

“The visa-issuance process plays a crucial role in detecting individuals with terrorist ties and stopping them from entering the United States. Perhaps in no instance was that more apparent than the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when State Department policy prevented consular officers from properly scrutinizing the visa applications of several of the 19 foreign nationals who went on to murder nearly 3,000 Americans.”

Most of the 19 hijackers on the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa., were from Saudi Arabia. The rest were from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon.

None of those countries are on Mr. Trump’s visa ban list. **

** Bloomberg reported that the 7 country ban doesn’t include Muslim-majority countries where his Trump Organisation has done business or pursued potential deals....

It has consequences that affect dual citizens, such as UK Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi, who will not be able to visit his children who are studying in the US.

Mechanical engineer, author and TV presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied won’t be able to attend events in the U.S. in which she would have been a keynote speaker because she was born in Sudan.

“One was, ironically, on multiculturalism,” the 2015 Queensland Young Australian of the year told BuzzFeed News.

Airports in the US were thrown into chaos and protests ensued.

Trump said that the ban was “working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over," Mr Trump said.

There was some media debate regarding the nature of the order/ban.

Australia’s own chief twerp, the Australian’s Chris Kenny bemoaned on Twitter that the “fact free media” was reporting the travel ban as a “Muslim ban”.

Coincidentally, at the same time on the TV network Kenny’s boss owns in the USA, Former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani was telling the story of how Trump had asked him to make the “Muslim ban” work legally.

You just can’t make this shit up.

Also on Friday, the American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, issued a warning to allies, saying in her first remarks at the headquarters of the world body that the Trump administration would hold to account those who do not back the United States.

“You’re going to see a change in the way we do business,” Ms. Haley said.

“Our goal with the administration is to show value at the U.N., and the way we’ll show value is to show our strength, show our voice, have the backs of our allies and make sure our allies have our back as well.”

“For those who don’t have our back,” she added, “we’re taking names; we will make points to respond to that accordingly.”

Taking names......

In related world news, an ex-KGB chief suspected of helping the former MI6 spy Christopher Steele to compile his dossier on Donald Trump may have been murdered by the Kremlin and his death covered up. it has been claimed.

Oleg Erovinkin, a former general in the KGB and its successor the FSB, was found dead in the back of his car in Moscow on Boxing Day in mysterious circumstances.

Also, in Russia, three were arrested charged with treason by the FSB’s internal affairs bureau. “They included Sergei Mikhailov, a deputy director of the Center for Information Security, the agency’s computer security arm, and Ruslan Stoyanov, a senior researcher at a prominent Russian computer security company, Kaspersky Lab. A nationalist publication, Tsargrad, and RBC, a respected business newspaper, identified on Friday a third suspect, Dmitry Dokuchayev.”

China has now stated that “War with the US under Donald Trump is “not just a slogan” and becoming a “practical reality””,

so that’s good.

And that, is where I leave the Trump updates.

It’s obvious that it’s too hard to keep up with the Trump no-sleep-maniac-at-work-ethic, plus no one reads this anyway.

So from me, it’s as Ed Murrow would say:

Good night, and good luck.

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