Trump supporters hate America

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Trump's billionaire friend Tom Barrack reportedly called his ties to the former president 'disastrous' for his business
Sophia Ankel 3 hours ago

Former Trump advisor Tom Barrack is charged with illegal lobbying on behalf of the UAE.
In testimony on Monday, the billionaire reportedly said Trump was "disastrous" for his business.
He said that it would be "unquestionably" better if he hadn't supported Trump, per multiple outlets.

Donald Trump's billionaire friend Tom Barrack said Monday that his ties to the former president were "disastrous" for his business dealings, multiple outlets reported.

Barrack, who informally advised the former president during his 2016 campaign, made the comment on the stand at his own criminal trial in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, The Daily Beast reported.

The billionaire has been charged with illegally lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of the United Arab Emirates between 2016 and 2018. He also faces other charges including obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI.

He said his long-time relationship with Trump ended up being "disastrous" for him professionally and that business would be "unquestionably" better if he didn't support him in the 2016 presidential election, per The Daily Beast.

Barrack, who is the founder and former executive chairman of the investment-management firm Colony Capital, testified that Trump's political scandals made it harder for his company to keep its business with countries in the Middle East.

Barrack was charged in July of last year and his trial began earlier this month. He has pleaded not guilty and is expected to continue testifying on Tuesday.

Trump and Barrack became friends in the 1980s, and were described by journalist Michael Wolff as a "set of nightlife musketeers" in his 2018 book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."

Barrack, was also a chair on Trump's inaugural celebrations, told the court he was supportive of Trump when he decided to run for president and began to advise him early on in his presidential campaign, CBS News reported.

"I thought this is an amazing thing in America that you can take a well-meaning entrepreneur person like Donald Trump and enter the fray, and it's a good thing for the system," Barrack said in court, per CBS News.

It is unclear if the two remain friends, though they have spoken at least once since the trial started last month, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News.

There is no evidence that Trump was aware of Barrack's alleged wrongdoing during his presidency.

A day before the testimony, Trump took to Truth Social to support Barrack, calling him a "highly respected businessman" who is "being unfairly persecuted."

"Our seriously Weaponized 'Justice' Department, however, has accused him of being a foreign agent of the UAE, which I do not believe he was," Trump added.

A representative of Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

I dont recall businesses coming out one way or the other in the past. They made their donations carefully, quietly.

More fallout from Citizens United that Corporations are people?

Feels like that whole bit in Men the Built America where the millionaires put their own candidate in the white house & shuffled Teddy Roosevelt to the VP slot that was seen as a place to kill political careers.

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[abbey1227]

Oct 25, 2022 14:12:44 GMT merh said:

That hard to read what Jesus actually said?

You know my complaint that a lot of them never read the Bible. They trust some preacher to interpret it for them.

They lie.
I found that out.

Read it oneself

Gee, is it that hard to read what the Founders said?

There is that.........even preachers disagree or simply focus on certain areas over the others.

As House said "Everybody lies"  ..........even Google and the MSM.

Do you know what I feel is the most pervasive thing? People lying to themselves

[merh]

Oct 25, 2022 20:19:43 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 25, 2022 14:12:44 GMT merh said:

That hard to read what Jesus actually said?

You know my complaint that a lot of them never read the Bible. They trust some preacher to interpret it for them.

They lie.
I found that out.

Read it oneself

Gee, is it that hard to read what the Founders said?

There is that.........even preachers disagree or simply focus on certain areas over the others.

As House said "Everybody lies"  ..........even Google and the MSM.

Do you know what I feel is the most pervasive thing? People lying to themselves

The constitution?
Or everything every founder wrote?

So read the Bible. 
Read the constitution. 
Hell, the constitution isn't that long.

[abbey1227]

Oct 25, 2022 14:46:26 GMT merh said:

Who is that looker?    (And don't say Donald)

[abbey1227]

Oct 26, 2022 8:03:08 GMT merh said:

Oct 25, 2022 20:19:43 GMT abbey1227 said:

Gee, is it that hard to read what the Founders said?

There is that.........even preachers disagree or simply focus on certain areas over the others.

As House said "Everybody lies"  ..........even Google and the MSM.

Do you know what I feel is the most pervasive thing? People lying to themselves

The constitution?
Or everything every founder wrote?

So read the Bible. 
Read the constitution. 
Hell, the constitution isn't that long.

What part of "Open to interpretation" is eluding you?

Mark Levin knows the Constitution better than you or I..........pretty sure you'd disagree with most of his views. Even I disagree with him on one or two things

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The jurors returned the verdict deliberated for a day before convicting Joe Morrison, Pete Musico, and Paul Bellar of providing material support for a terrorist act, gang membership felonies, and felony firearm. The men are part of a paramilitary group called the Wolverine Watchmen.

TEXT:

Three men accused of supporting a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor were convicted of all charges Wednesday, a triumph for state prosecutors after months of mixed results in the main case in federal court.



Joe Morrison, his father-in-law Pete Musico, and Paul Bellar were found guilty of providing “material support” for a terrorist act as members of a paramilitary group, the Wolverine Watchmen.



They held gun drills in rural Jackson County with a leader of the scheme, Adam Fox, who was disgusted with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other officials in 2020 and said he wanted to kidnap her.



Jurors read and heard violent, anti-government screeds as well as support for the “boogaloo,” a civil war that might be triggered by a shocking abduction. Prosecutors said COVID-19 restrictions ordered by Whitmer turned out to be fruit to recruit more people to the Watchmen.



“The facts drip out slowly,” state Assistant Attorney General Bill Rollstin told jurors in Jackson, Michigan, “and you begin to see — wow — there were things that happened that people knew about. ... When you see how close Adam Fox got to the governor, you can see how a very bad event was thwarted.”



Morrison, 28, Musico, 44, and Bellar, 24, were also convicted of a gun crime and membership in a gang. Prosecutors said the Wolverine Watchmen was a criminal enterprise.



Morrison, who recently tested positive for COVID-19, and Musico watched the verdict by video away from the courtroom. Judge Thomas Wilson ordered all three to jail while they await sentencing scheduled for Dec. 15.



Defense attorneys argued that the three men had broken ties with Fox by late summer 2020 when the Whitmer plot came into focus. Unlike Fox and others, they didn’t travel to northern Michigan to scout the governor’s vacation home or participate in a key weekend training session inside a “shoot house.”



“In this country, you are allowed to talk the talk but you only get convicted if you walk the walk,” Musico’s attorney, Kareem Johnson, said in his closing remarks.



Defense lawyers couldn’t argue entrapment. But they attacked the tactics of Dan Chappel, an Army veteran and undercover informant. He took instructions from FBI agents, secretly recorded conversations and produced a deep cache of messages exchanged with the men.



Whitmer, a Democrat running for reelection on Nov. 8, was never physically harmed. Undercover agents and informants were inside Fox’s group for months. The scheme was broken up with 14 arrests in October 2020.



Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were convicted of a kidnapping conspiracy in federal court in August. Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta were acquitted last spring. Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks pleaded guilty.

apnews.com/article/michigan-gretchen-whitmer-jackson-adam-fox-kidnap-plot-trial-0a5a930cf86e74f8a1365040b783de0d?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_03

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Oct 26, 2022 9:39:28 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 26, 2022 8:03:08 GMT merh said:

The constitution?
Or everything every founder wrote?

So read the Bible. 
Read the constitution. 
Hell, the constitution isn't that long.

What part of "Open to interpretation" is eluding you?

Mark Levin knows the Constitution better than you or I..........pretty sure you'd disagree with most of his views. Even I disagree with him on one or two things

Mark Levin is highly partisan.
Meaning he's like a TV preacher.

Why do I need someone else to tell me what I can read with my own eyes?

[abbey1227]

Oct 26, 2022 17:32:46 GMT merh said:

Oct 26, 2022 9:39:28 GMT abbey1227 said:

What part of "Open to interpretation" is eluding you?

Mark Levin knows the Constitution better than you or I..........pretty sure you'd disagree with most of his views. Even I disagree with him on one or two things

Mark Levin is highly partisan.
Meaning he's like a TV preacher.

Why do I need someone else to tell me what I can read with my own eyes?

I would suggest that you and I are both highly partisan, as well.

When your eyes tell you that 'general welfare' should be defined as more handouts .......then it's time for a new prescription.

[merh]

Oct 26, 2022 22:35:30 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 26, 2022 17:32:46 GMT merh said:

Mark Levin is highly partisan.
Meaning he's like a TV preacher.

Why do I need someone else to tell me what I can read with my own eyes?

I would suggest that you and I are both highly partisan, as well.

When your eyes tell you that 'general welfare' should be defined as more handouts .......then it's time for a new prescription.

Mankind was my business.

Matthew 25: 31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

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Speaking of Liars

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is the latest Republican politician to insist that kids are using litter boxes in schools as part of a rant attacking transgender youth.

During a recent tele-town hall event, Johnson was questioned by a caller who claimed that his niece told him that her school had provided litter boxes for students who believe they are cats. The caller, who identified himself as a former Democrat, wanted to know whether the senator had heard about things like that happening and whether Johnson would support a federal law similar to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.

“One of the things that COVID did was that parents were looking over their kids’ shoulders and they became aware of the indoctrination of our children by radical leftists within our education system,” he said.


He went on to claim that he’d heard “on a radio talk show” that England’s National Health Service (NHS) has declared that “transgenderism” is “just a phase for children” and that we shouldn’t “accommodate the phase.” Johnson continued his misinformed rant saying that children should not be given “gender-blocking drugs” or receive “sex change operations.” In reality, gender-affirming genital surgeries are not performed on minors.

Johnson concluded by claiming that teachers are “pushing this stuff on our kids.”


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NEW: During a tele-town hall, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told a caller he was “aware” of litter boxes in schools, that teachers push “transgenderism” on students and schools should “not accommodate the phase” trans kids are going through (all are false). heartlandsignal.com/2022/10

Contrary to Johnson and other Republicans’ fearmongering, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, and other major medical/mental health organizations all support gender-affirming care for young people when appropriate. This often involves affirming young children’s gender identity via social transitioning, and in the case of older youths, the use of reversible puberty blockers to hold off the permanent changes of puberty so that young people have more time to understand their gender identities better. Puberty blockers have been shown to significantly reduce lifelong suicide risk among transgender people.

As for Johnson’s false claim that kids are using litter boxes in schools, the absurd hoax has recently become a common talking point among Republicans attempting to demagogue transgender people. The rumor, which has been spread by anti-LGBTQ social media accounts like Chaya Raichik’s Libs of TikTok, seems to originate with a parent in Michigan who opposed allowing transgender students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity. At a school board meeting in January, Lisa Hansen claimed that she had heard that students who identified as cats were using litter boxes in one school’s unisex restroom. The school board was forced to categorically deny Hansen’s claim.

But that has not stopped schools across the country from right-wing figures like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Nebraska state Sen. Bruce Bostelman (R), conservative podcaster Joe Rogan, and Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen from repeating the anti-trans hoax.

Johnson faces Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes in next month’s midterm election. Real Clear Politics‘ polling average shows Johnson is up by 3.3 points ahead of Barnes.

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She looks 50 at least.
Maybe 70