Category: Opinion

You didn’t expect Donald Trump to just roll over and disappear after this is all over with did you? He is planning something, at least according to some anonymous reports coming from inside the White House.

Since before the election even ended, President Trump and his legal team have been fighting to expose voter fraud and attempting to find a way to remain in power. Now that that ship has sailed, Trump is said to already be planning his next move.

From Fox News:

“I don’t want to talk to 2024 yet,” the president told reporters on Thanksgiving.

But behind closed doors, Trump has told advisors that he wants to run again in four years, and could potentially announce his bid before or even during Biden’s Inauguration on Jan. 20, according to Fox News’ chief White House correspondent John Roberts, who confirmed a report from The Daily Beast.

The move could have long-lasting effects on the Republican Party.

Such an announcement, or even Trump’s flirtation with a third White House run, would definitely put a damper on what was thought to be a wide open battle for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination. And it could potentially freeze out early moves by other Republicans with national aspirations.

Trump’s voter base will be up for grabs and is a key prize for the Republican Party and their candidates, making a 2024 run by the President a risky one for any who might try to take him on from the right side of the aisle.

There have been more than a few presidents throughout history have who found themselves clashing with the intelligence community.

As a matter of fact, there is a quote habitually misrepresented as one of John F. Kenney’s that suggests tensions between the intelligence agencies and the White House.

Although JFK may never have said, “splinter the C.I.A. in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds,” President Donald has found a way to once again cause problems with another branch of an intelligence agency.

President Donald Trump engaged in what could best be described as a lengthy airing of grievances on Sunday morning, venting to sycophantic Fox News host Maria Bartiromo during his first post-election television interview while baselessly suggesting his own FBI and Department of Justice were “involved” with a “rigged” election against him.

“This is total fraud, and how the FBI and Department of Justice, I don’t know, maybe they’ve involved but how people are allowed to get away with this stuff is unbelievable,” he shouted. “This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud!”

The Fox host also wanted to know where the FBI and DOJ were in terms of investigating the president’s “serious charges” about Dominion, prompting the president to grouse that they are “missing in action” while suggesting they are part of the conspiracy against him.

“So you’re asking a question. These people have been there a long time and I know FBI and the FBI is great at the levels that we talked about, but it’s inconceivable,” Bartiromo said. “You would think if you’re in the FBI or Department of Justice, this is the biggest thing you could be looking at. Where are they? I’ve not seen anything.”

The President’s legal team has had a hard time holding up their voter fraud claims in court and it doesn’t seem as though these claims of FBI interference will stick either.

In former President Barack Obamas latest memoir he shamed the American people for liking “cheap gas and big cars” more than they ever cared about “the environment” even during the catastrophic 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Obama made these criticisms in “A Promised Land,” his newest 700-page book released in early November.

On the 570th page, the former commander in chief recalls a press conference held a month over the beginning of the oil spill, which has now been considered one of the largest in history. He said his comments at the time did not adequately express the true frustration he felt.

From Fox News:

“Reading the transcript now, a decade later, I’m struck by how calm and cogent I sound,” Obama writes in his book. “Maybe I’m surprised because the transcript doesn’t register what I remember feeling at the time or come close to capturing what I really wanted to say before the assembled White House press corps.”

What he really wanted to say was that government regulatory agencies were not fully equipped to address an environmental accident because many American voters for decades had “bought into the idea that government was the problem and that business always knew better, and had elected leaders who made it their mission to gut environmental regulations, starve agency budgets, denigrate civil servants, and allow industrial polluters to do whatever the hell they wanted to do.”

He then chastised Americans for not being willing to foot the bill for technology to “quickly plug the hole because it would be expensive to have such technology on hand, and we Americans didn’t like paying higher taxes—especially when it was to prepare for problems that hadn’t happened yet.”

The only way to truly prevent another catastrophe, like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Obama says, “was to stop drilling entirely.”

“But that wasn’t going to happen because at the end of the day we Americans loved our cheap gas and big cars more than we cared about the environment, except when a complete disaster was staring us in the face,” he writes.

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion killed 11 people and injured 17 others in April 2010 then for nearly three months over 200 million gallons of crude oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico polluting 16,000 miles of coastline in the southern United States and killing over 8,000 animals.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said it was “the worst environmental disaster in American history.”

According to new research published this year, the toxic oil spread far beyond the initial footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The president and first lady will not let recent events hamper their holiday spirit. One week after a huge 18-foot Fraser fir was delivered to the White House Melania Trump shared a video of the beautiful Christmas decorations decking the halls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

During this special time of the year, I am delighted to share “America the Beautiful” and pay tribute to the majesty of our great Nation. Together, we celebrate this land we are all proud to call home. #WHChristmas pic.twitter.com/fdZmB3rdXL

— Melania Trump 45 Archived (@FLOTUS45) November 30, 2020

Trump shared a sneek peek of this year’s festive touches featuring more traditional decorations than previous years. There were plenty of trees adorned with bulbs, stars, and many homemade decorations from children across the country.

The footage also appears to show a miniature White House decorated for the holiday, as well as a train set dubbed the “White House Express.”

This year’s theme is called “America the Beautiful” and aims to pay “tribute to the majesty of our great Nation,”

Mrs. Trump said on Twitter, “Together, we celebrate this land we are all proud to call home.”

She also praised “volunteers from all across the country” for pitching in to help put up the decorations over the weekend.

“Thank you for your time, enthusiasm & devotion to make sure the spirit of peace & joy fill the historic rooms & halls of the People’s House!” Trump wrote.

This weekend, volunteers from all across America have come to decorate the @WhiteHouse for the holiday season. Thank you for your time, enthusiasm & devotion to make sure the spirit of peace & joy fill the historic rooms & halls of the People’s House! #WHChristmas pic.twitter.com/k1VAqCpCgk

— Melania Trump 45 Archived (@FLOTUS45) November 28, 2020

So far, the White House’s 2020 Christmas decorations appear to be more traditional and less controversial, as in the past years. The first lady’s arrangments in 2017 gained criticism with some comparing it to the “Chronicles of Narnia” film franchise. And in 2018, critics took offense with the red trees lining one of the White Houe’s halls.

But Trump didn’t let the haters get her down and said she thought the adornments looked “fantastic.”

Since Jacqueline Kennedy decorated the White House with a “Nutcracker Suite” theme in 1961, it has become the first lady’s duty to choose a theme for the estate’s Christmas decorations.

The top election official in Georgia announced that he will be opening an investigation into whether third-party groups are trying to register nonresidential voters in Georgia’s Senate runoff elections on January 5.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters that “we have opened an investigation into a group called America Votes who is sending absentee ballot applications to people at addresses where they have not lived since 1994.”

He also said his investigators are looking into “Vote Forward, who attempted to register a dead Alabama voter, a woman, to vote here in Georgia.” Raffensperger also mentioned “The New Georgia Project, who sent voter registration applications to New York City.”

The secretary of state highlighted “Operation New Voter Registration Georgia, who is telling college students in Georgia that they can change their residency to Georgia and then change it back after the election.”

Raffensperger stressed that “voting in Georgia when you’re not a resident of Georgia is a felony. And encouraging college students to commit felonies without regard for what it might mean for them is despicable. These third-party groups have a responsibility not to encourage illegal voting. If they do so, they will be held responsible.”

Jeffery Epstein died in his jail cell from an alleged suicide over a year ago but his story is far from over.

There is still the fate of his long-time girlfriend and partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently locked up in Brooklyn jail cell awaiting trial. Many believe that Maxwell can provide enough substantial evidence to bring down everyone involved in Epstein’s sick empire.

Of course, that means Maxwell would have to implicate herself in the evil child sex trafficking operation believed to have involved some very famous people.

But there is another angle at play here and the Attorney General in the U.S. Virgin Islands is ready to break this thing wide open with a very serious request.

Flight logs listing the names of all the people transported on Jeffrey Epstein’s fleet of aircraft have been subpoenaed by a court in the U.S. Virgin Islands, sparking panic through the rich and famous ranks of those who partied with the deceased pedophile.

The Daily Mirror newspaper reports the Attorney General in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the billionaire had an estate and is said to have carried out many of his horrific crimes, has demanded to see the logs which document the passengers on his aircraft and their dates of travel.

The logs on his four helicopters and three planes, including his “Lolita Express” private jet, span from 1998 until his suicide in prison last year.

Attorney General Denise George has filed a lawsuit against his estate alleging 22 accounts including human trafficking, aggravated rape, child abuse, neglect, forced labour and prostitution, the Mirror reported.

Locals dubbed Epstein’s private island “Pedophile Island” as that is where he would traffick young girls he and his pals would use and abuse.

Given the many high-profile names mentioned in the scandal, there is no doubt that some very powerful people are getting very nervous right about now.

With every devastating blow President Trump has received this year, it’s amazing that he still manages to get out of bed every morning and run an entire country, half of which seems to be fighting against him.

He has dealt with wildfires, a global pandemic, political buffoonery, riots, and months of racial unrest. As if all of that wasn’t enough he still has to look out for the odd assassination attempt!

The president is lucky enough to still have a fiercely loyal team protecting him at all times or else we may have been welcoming President-elect Joe Biden into the White House a little sooner than anticipated.

From CBS News:

President Trump became offended during a news conference after reporter Jeff Mason from Reuters dismissed his claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.

Mason began by asking President Trump if he would concede if the Electoral College votes for Biden.

“It’s going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud,” The president responded, “Well, if they do, they made a mistake, because this election was a fraud.”

The president then snapped at the reporter, “Don’t talk to me that way. You’re just a lightweight. Don’t talk to me that way. I’m the president of the United States. Don’t ever talk to the president that way.”

Before the disruption, Trump had been making claims of election results showing Democrat Joe Biden “losing to Obama all over the place” in noncritical states, meaning Biden did not meet the election performance of the former president.

However, Trump did say that Biden’s vote totals passed those of Obama “in areas that mattered in terms of the election- in swing states.”

What the president seemed to be suggesting was that Biden’s vote totals in battleground states could have been manipulated.

No matter how you slice it President Trump always comes to the same conclusion, “This election was a fraud.”

'I'm the president of the United States, don't ever talk to the president that way.'

President Trump responds to @Reuters journalist @JeffMason1 when asked if he would concede the election pic.twitter.com/wUofYJcnYQ

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 27, 2020

This isn’t the first time President Trump had a confrontation with Mason. In late October the president poked fun at the reporter for wearing a face mask inside the Oval Office.

“This is Jeff Mason,” Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “He’s got a mask on that’s the largest mask I think I’ve ever seen. So I don’t know if you can hear him.”

An investigation has been launched by British Airways after one of its Heathrow-based stewardesses has been accused of selling sex and used undergarments during and in between flights.

Photos of the flight attendant were found on social media along with a risqué advertisement. The photos showed the attendant in several suggestive poses while wearing her airline uniform on the plane.

According to the advertisement, $33 will buy the attendant’s used underwear, double that will be a down payment for a prospective “client” to meet her at a hotel.

Also, if the price is right, passengers were promised unspecified “adult entertainment on-board.”

On Sunday doctors said that President-elect Joe Biden had sustained a sprain after twisting his right ankle while playing with his German Shepard, Major.

Biden’s physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said of the injury, “Initial x-rays are reassuring that there is no obvious fracture and he will be getting an additional CT for more detailed imaging. Follow-up CT scan confirmed hairline (small) fractures of President-elect Biden’s lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the mid-foot.”

“It is anticipated that he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks,” added the doctor.

This update came just hours after Biden’s team confirmed his injury, stating that the 78-year-old twisted his ankle while playing with the 2-year-old pup and would immediately be examined by an orthopedist “out of an abundance of caution.”

A spokesperson for Biden said appointments had been made for the president-elect to “receive an x-ray and then additional CT Sunday afternoon… to avoid disrupting scheduled appointments on Monday.”

Build Bark Better.

Happy #NationalDogDay. pic.twitter.com/64HXEBscwO

— Dr. Jill Biden (@DrBiden) August 26, 2020

Get well soon! https://t.co/B0seiO84ld

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2020

Reporters covering the president-elect were not allowed to see Biden as he entered the doctor’s office. However, he was seen limping as he left the doctor’s office heading to an imaging center for his CT scan. Biden was apparently able to walk without the use of a crutch or any other aid.

https://youtu.be/laDf9SV1rSo

Major will be the very first rescue dog to live in the White House. He is one of the two Biden’s German Shepards and was adopted from the Delaware Humane Society in 2018. Their other dog, Champ, has been in the family since 2008.

The Biden’s say they also have plans to get a cat.