Category: Politics

President Trump Spending Close To 25% Of His Time Away From Washington…

Remember all the noise from the right about President Obama’s golfing activities and vacations? The outrage by some on the right over his time away from Pennsylvania Avenue?

Well now after almost six weeks in the office President Trump has spent almost 25% (four out of seven weekends) of his presidency at Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. Golfing and presumably relaxing with his wife and First Lady Melania.  Who as we know will not spend her time living in the White House. All this at great expense to American tax payers.

Where’s the outrage from conservatives and republicans? As we wait to hear even a peep. The hypocrisy of the right again on display.

Donald Trump is believed to have spent almost a quarter of his time as President in the sunshine state of Florida.

The President, who enjoys referring to his Palm Beach estate as the “Winter White House”, has spent four out of seven weekends of his presidency at his 126-room Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.

As of Sunday, when the billionaire property developer flew out of the resort, he had spent almost 242 hours out of his 1,060 total hours as president in Florida, according to the Palm Beach Post.

While he has spent the majority of his time inside or near his opulent Palm Beach estate, which he purchased for $5 million in 1985, he has also made fleeting visits to Tampa, Melbourne and Orlando.

Mr Trump expressed his fondness for Florida, a state he has been visiting for decades, over the weekend. He referred to it as his “second home” and Mar-a-Lago as the “Southern White House”.

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While Mr Trump and his family enjoy private quarters in a closed-off area of the grounds, the resort is also home to a members club. The Mar-a-Lago Club’s members include real estate developers, energy executives and Wall Street financiers.

On Monday, Democratic senators urged the Trump administration to publicly release logs of visitors to both Mar-a-Lago and the White House.

Mr Trump’s frequent visits to the resort have allowed members extraordinary access to powerful figures in the US government. Visitors have taken photos with Ivanka Trump, the President’s eldest daughter, reading by the pool, and taken selfies with Steve Bannon, Mr Trump’s chief strategist and the former executive chairman of far-right publication Breitbart News.

But the financial burden of his Florida trips could be hitting the taxpayer. An estimate by the Government Accounting Office found trips to Mar-a-Lago could be costing the US taxpayer more than $3 million (£2.4m) per visit.

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Levin Going Bonkers In Support Of Trump’s Conspiracy Theory…

Mark Levin, another right-wing nut job is making the case that the Obama administration was involved in wiretapping candidate Trump. Of course the only reference he makes to evidence supporting the allegation is to unnamed right-wing sources. Zero hard-core credible evidence was presented, which is typical of right-wing conspiracy nut jobs like Levin.

The one and only thing folks like Levin provide is hilarious comic relief. Figuring out how these delusional half wits come up with their stuff is way too challenging for the average sane person. It is best left to listening, reading, laughing, and then moving on to important issues that really do warrant our attention. Like improving healthcare, increasing civil liberties, improving educational opportunities for all, formulating strategy to combat anthropogenic climate change, formulating policies that actually disarm and make Islamic terrorism mute, and figuring out how to destroy the practice known as gerrymandering once and for all. That, as well as  other undemocratic practices we might discuss at another time.

Now for the hilarity of Levin and Breitbart, fake news and conspiracy theory at its best. Or perhaps I ought to say at its worst.

Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” while discussing President Donald Trump’s tweets accusing the former Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower before the election, conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin broke down the wiretapping reporting.

Levin said, “Well, a pleasure to be here. The evidence is overwhelming. This is not about President Trump’s tweeting. This is about the Obama administration spying, and the question is not whether it spied. We know they went to the FISA court twice. The question is who they did spy on and the extent of the spying that is the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, Trump surrogates.”
Levin then read several news articles about the surveillance.

Click HERE for the video of Levin and his bonkers diatribe.

The President Of The United States Is A Conspiracy Theorist…

Trump is, in essence, a conspiracy theory nut job. He bought into the birther movement of the far right. Now he has made wild accusations that President Obama had his phones wiretapped. This folks is something you would expect from Alex Jones, Stephen Banning, Joseph Farrah, Rush Limbaugh, INFOWARS, Breitbart, WND, and EIB Network. Not from the President of the United States.

But we do not have a normal person occupying The White House. We elected a narcissistic fool with huge insecurities. He has shown himself to be not only a narcissist but a misogynist, a xenophobic, and a pathological liar was well. He is a man many believe is in great need of psychoanalysis and extensive counseling. To think this man has the nuclear launch code is chilling to say the least.

Because Trump’s administration is under scrutiny for unethical conduct and lying in regards to contact with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign Trump has floated his on conspiracy theory. Of course he is doing this as a way to distract from the real story swirling around himself and his administration, and, because he know a yuuuuuge number of fellow nut cases will believe him. Simply because he says it is so. He has offered no credible evidence supporting his claim President Obama had his phones wiretapped. He hasn’t because there is none.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNN) – President Donald Trump made a stunning claim Saturday, alleging without offering evidence that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election.

“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump tweeted early Saturday morning in one part of a six-tweet tirade that began just after 6:30 a.m.
The President went on to compare the alleged tapping of his phones to Watergate and called Obama “bad (or “sick).”
“How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy,” Trump tweeted.
The White House did not provide evidence to back up Trump’s claim or explain the source of his information.
The White House did not provide evidence to back up Trump’s claim or explain the source of his information.
But two former senior US officials quickly dismissed Trump’s accusations out of hand.
“Just nonsense,” said one former senior US intelligence official.
Another former senior US official with direct knowledge of investigations by the Justice Department under the Obama administration said Trump’s phones were never tapped.
“This did not happen. It is false. Wrong,” the former official told CNN.
A spokesman for Obama, Kevin Lewis, called “any suggestion” that Obama or any White House official ordered surveillance against Trump “simply false.”
“A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,” Lewis said in a statement early Saturday afternoon. “As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”
Warrants to tap into someone’s phones in the course of a federal investigation would be sought by the Department of Justice, which conducts investigations independent of the White House and the president.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, an independent and secretive federal court, is responsible for issuing surveillance warrants in cases concerning foreign intelligence. The FBI has been investigating contacts between Trump campaign advisers and Russians known to US intelligence, and that court would likely be the forum to petition for such a warrant.
The former senior US official with direct knowledge of the Justice Department’s investigations said Obama could not have ordered such a warrant. It would have been taken to a judge by investigators, but investigators never sought a warrant to monitor Trump’s phones, the former official said.
A federal judge would only have approved a warrant to wiretap Trump’s phones if he or she had found probable cause that Trump had committed a federal crime or was a foreign agent.
Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes echoed the point in a tweet responding to Trump on Saturday morning.
“No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you,” he said in his Twitter post. (Read More – With Video & Tweets)
How this man gets up and looks at himself in the mirror every morning is beyond explanation.