Zoltan Simon and Jennifer Jacobs, Staff Writers - Bloomberg
Stephan:
Criminal Trump openly proclaims his fascism, and members of the TCP applaud. The corporate media is not covering the rise of fascism in the United States properly. It ought to be a major story all media are focusing on, but it is not, and it is putting the entire nation in danger.
Criminal Trump entertaining his soulmate fascist Viktor Orban Credit: Bloomberg
Former US President Donald Trump praised Viktor Orban as a “fantastic leader” while poking fun at criticism of the Hungarian prime minister’s self-proclaimed illiberal tendencies as the two populist leaders met Friday at Mar-a-Lago.
Orban “is a non-controversial figure because he says, ‘this is the way it’s going to be,’ and that’s the end of it,” Trump joked to a room full of attendees at his Florida resort, according to video of the event posted by Orban on Instagram. “Right? He’s the boss. No – he’s a great leader, fantastic leader.”
Trump feted Orban with a tour of his residence, dinner with former first Lady Melania Trump, an hour-long meeting with senior aides, and musical performance by a band covering Roy Orbison.
The meeting is a defiant act by Trump just a day after President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address accused his presumptive November opponent and Republicans of turning their backs on democratic ideals by blocking additional assistance for Ukraine.
Biden criticized the planned get-together directly […]
I am going to stop using the Republican Party as the name of what used to be the party of that name. This party, which was once Republican, no longer has anything in common with the Republican Party of Dwight Eisenhower or even George H.W. Bush (the elder Bush). I am going to call it the Trump christofascist Party (TCP), since it has literally been taken over by criminal Trump and his family and minions. It has millions of willfully ignorant followers who, more than anything, remind me of the Germans who followed Hitler. Between now and November we will see how many of them wake up to what they have become.
Lara Trump attends the RNC’s Spring meeting on March 8, 2024, in Houston, Texas. Credit: Cecile Clocheret / AFP / Getty
The Republican National Committee voted Friday to install Donald Trump’s handpicked leadership team, completing his takeover of the national party as the former president closes in on a third straight presidential nomination.
Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican who has echoed Trump’s false theories of voter fraud, was elected the party’s new national chairman in a vote Friday morning in Houston. Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, was voted in as co-chair.
Trump’s team is promising not to use the RNC to pay his mounting personal legal bills. But Trump and his lieutenants will have firm control of the party’s political and fundraising machinery with limited, if any, internal pushback.
“The RNC is going to be the vanguard of a movement that will work tirelessly every single day to elect our nominee, Donald J. Trump, as the 47th president of the United States,” Whatley told RNC members in a speech after being elected.
I spent an hour or so today examining the candidates being put forward by the TCP, and they have nothing to do with fostering wellbeing and advancing democracy. No one makes this clearer than Mark Robinson, the TCP nominee for governor of North Carolina. That such a person would even be considered by a political party as their candidate tells you all you need to know about what the TCP is about. Now the question is, will the people of North Carolina elect such a man as their governor? That is going to tell us a great deal about what America has become.
Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, has, for some reason, not bothered to take down his old Facebook posts about the Jews.
“There is a REASON the liberal media fills the airwaves with programs about the NAZI and the ‘6 million Jews’ they murdered,” Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, wrote in one 2017 post. (The reason was left unsaid, but the scare quotes spoke loudly.) He regularly argued on Facebook that focusing on the evils of Nazism obscured the greater danger: the one represented by the Democratic Party. “George Soros is alive. Adolf Hitler is dead,” he wrote in one post, and in another, “Who do you think has been pushing this Nazi boogeyman narrative all these years?”
In 2018, Robinson, who is Black, offered some thoughts about what he seemed to see as a Jewish plot behind the hit movie “Black Panther.” The title character, he wrote, was “created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic Marxist,” calling the movie “trash” that was “created to pull the shekels” from the pockets of Black people, whom he referred to using a Yiddish slur. He has […]
This is what has concerned me from the start of all the criminal Trump trials. Trump is not a billionaire or anything close. When you get to the fundamentals he may no longer even be a millionaire because he is so heavily mortgaged and in debt. This article raises these issues about the E. Jean Carroll issues. But that money is only a fraction of what the New York A.G. is going after, half a billion. I don’t think he has half a billion in unencumbered real estate. So who is going to put that up, and to whom will Trump obligate himself, and about what? He would sell out America’s national interests in a heartbeat for that money. And as this article points out how will anyone know who will control Trump? The Saudis? Putin? Elon Musk?
Magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll arrives for her civil trial against criminal Donald Trump at Manhattan Federal Court on May 4, 2023, in New York City. Credit: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Credit: Trump photo / AFP
Many people are now asking about Evan G. Greenberg, the CEO of the Chubb Group, which has a subsidiary that fronted the cash given to Donald Trump for his bond in New York for the E. Jean Carroll settlement.
Even if Trump intends to appeal the settlement ruled on by the jury, he must put the cash up as a bond to the court. Greenberg is the one who made it happen.
As legal analyst Allison Gill pointed out, he is not only a New York businessman, but was also brought on by Trump in 2018 to serve on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. His term ended in 2022.
Yet another report about the TCP’s obsession with controlling and subordinating women. These men are like characters out of The Handmaid’s Tale, and so are the women who vote for them. There seem to be millions of American women who want to be controlled and subordinate to men because that is how they vote.
A top Republican state lawmaker is touting what he suggests are the off-label benefits of aspirin: as a contraceptive, if used as he directs.
The Mirror reports Borrelli “suggested women wouldn’t need contraceptives if they weren’t so promiscuous.”
Arizona Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs has been trying to get lawmakers to pass “The Right to Contraception Act,” but it appears the legislation is likely dead, after Republicans refused to even allow it to be heard in committee.
“This basic, commonsense proposal hasn’t made it past step one,” Hobbs said, speaking about the bill. “It begs the question: Why won’t they codify this basic freedom into law? What do they have against allowing us to have control over our own bodies and access to basic health care?”
The Mirror reports the legislation “sought to protect the ability of Arizonans to obtain all forms of birth control, including Plan B, and guarantee the right of health care providers to prescribe contraceptives or give information about them […]
