My main take aways from today’s newsletter: 1. The House GOP thinks it would be advantageous to shut down the government a month before the election. 2. The GOP is “outraged” that the Fed cut interest rates and that agencies are registering people to vote.
We have a political party in this country actively working against the American people.
The outright anger that Republican lawmakers flash about people being helped to register to vote is really striking. It's not just that they dislike it - they HATE it.
They think it will be advantageous because they plan to challenge the results and want as few people reporting for duty as possible at DOJ and other agencies that are involved with protecting the election process.
When one party is outraged because American citizens are being assisted in voter registration, because they are actually registering, they know they have failed.
But the power of a violent corrupt minority willing to do anything to win can’t be overestimated… this is gonna get very very bad.
"The timing is a little suspect," - either Mr. Johnson pays zero attention to the markets (possible) or he's an outright bald faced liar. Wait, it's both.
I was really surprised by that remark. The Speaker suddenly appeared in the hallway and it was just me and two other reporters chasing him through Statuary Hall, back to his office. Everyone and his brother knows the Fed meeting was this week.
It felt like a quote designed to appease 45 and also something Fox could play for its audience with little worry that their viewers know anything about the Fed’s scheduled meetings.
Now that you mention it, that really is odd. I don't remember knowing anyone without a bank account other than a handful of people unable to manage their own affairs for one reason or another.
Soon after Donald Trump became president, authorities tried to warn him about the risks posed by golfing at his own courses because of their proximity to public roads. Secret Service agents came armed with unusual evidence: not suspect profiles or spent bullet casings, but simple photographs taken by news crews of him golfing at his private club in Sterling, Va.
➤ They reasoned that if photographers with long-range lenses could get the president in their sights while he golfed, so, too, could potential gunmen, according to former U.S. officials involved in the discussions. Like most others interviewed for this story, they spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
But Trump insisted that his clubs were safe and that he wanted to keep golfing, the former officials said. These preferences posed problems for his protection that former Trump aides, Secret Service officials and security experts said have only intensified in the years since he left the White House, as his security detail shrank and agents no longer maintained as extensive a perimeter guarding his movements. A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
I know a spot where photographers can sit and easily look into Trump's Virginia golf course. It's not hard to figure out. But it's also not easy to secure every inch of ground like that, because it's a large area located across the Potomac River in Maryland.
Maybe Trump will lose and then be convicted of some more felonies and then go to jail. That should be easy to secure: Give him a private cell with one Secret Service agent posted outside the bars. Done.
The good news is that every time an agent has to stay over night at one of his crappy properties, trump charges them (us) outrageously high prices for food and board. He's probably made millions just on that over the last few years.
More instructive are the angry comments I get on Twitter about my reporting. There are a lot of people out there who would like to burn down the Capitol and all the people inside.
My main take aways from today’s newsletter: 1. The House GOP thinks it would be advantageous to shut down the government a month before the election. 2. The GOP is “outraged” that the Fed cut interest rates and that agencies are registering people to vote.
We have a political party in this country actively working against the American people.
The outright anger that Republican lawmakers flash about people being helped to register to vote is really striking. It's not just that they dislike it - they HATE it.
They think it will be advantageous because they plan to challenge the results and want as few people reporting for duty as possible at DOJ and other agencies that are involved with protecting the election process.
When one party is outraged because American citizens are being assisted in voter registration, because they are actually registering, they know they have failed.
But the power of a violent corrupt minority willing to do anything to win can’t be overestimated… this is gonna get very very bad.
At least the current president will send troops to quell any violence. Will probably send troops to prevent it, given what happened last time.
"The timing is a little suspect," - either Mr. Johnson pays zero attention to the markets (possible) or he's an outright bald faced liar. Wait, it's both.
I was really surprised by that remark. The Speaker suddenly appeared in the hallway and it was just me and two other reporters chasing him through Statuary Hall, back to his office. Everyone and his brother knows the Fed meeting was this week.
It felt like a quote designed to appease 45 and also something Fox could play for its audience with little worry that their viewers know anything about the Fed’s scheduled meetings.
Everyone must be forgetting that Johnson claims to have no bank account in his name. Which is insane, of course.
But if he is so financially naive about bank accounts, there’s zero chance he understands anything about the economy.
Now that you mention it, that really is odd. I don't remember knowing anyone without a bank account other than a handful of people unable to manage their own affairs for one reason or another.
In regards to the Secret Service and Trump’s golf course, my question is simple:
How does a exclusive golf course not discover someone on their property for 12 hours?
First, the SS did their job. Second, are We the People going to have to secure every Trump Course?
When will the Trump organization start acting like a real commercial company with a semblance of their own basic security?
Soon after Donald Trump became president, authorities tried to warn him about the risks posed by golfing at his own courses because of their proximity to public roads. Secret Service agents came armed with unusual evidence: not suspect profiles or spent bullet casings, but simple photographs taken by news crews of him golfing at his private club in Sterling, Va.
➤ They reasoned that if photographers with long-range lenses could get the president in their sights while he golfed, so, too, could potential gunmen, according to former U.S. officials involved in the discussions. Like most others interviewed for this story, they spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
But Trump insisted that his clubs were safe and that he wanted to keep golfing, the former officials said. These preferences posed problems for his protection that former Trump aides, Secret Service officials and security experts said have only intensified in the years since he left the White House, as his security detail shrank and agents no longer maintained as extensive a perimeter guarding his movements. A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
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I know a spot where photographers can sit and easily look into Trump's Virginia golf course. It's not hard to figure out. But it's also not easy to secure every inch of ground like that, because it's a large area located across the Potomac River in Maryland.
Maybe Trump will lose and then be convicted of some more felonies and then go to jail. That should be easy to secure: Give him a private cell with one Secret Service agent posted outside the bars. Done.
The good news is that every time an agent has to stay over night at one of his crappy properties, trump charges them (us) outrageously high prices for food and board. He's probably made millions just on that over the last few years.
My jaw drops with each day of your reports on developments with the J6 insurrectionists. Tourists, indeed.
More instructive are the angry comments I get on Twitter about my reporting. There are a lot of people out there who would like to burn down the Capitol and all the people inside.
The same applies to comments threads everywhere. I scan comments to sense the mood of the crowd and I have come to expect lots of negative responses.
Of course I'm guilty of dropping a bit of sarcasm myself but I never advocate anything hateful or dangerous.
Does anyone know how many SS agents are assigned to people or is that protected information?