BANNON IS OUT!!! Sure, they're gonna try to make it as if he "resigned" like Preibus but we all know better.
You can't hog the spotlight from No45 or it will get you kicked the fuck out!!
So much fail!!
BREAKING: Steve Bannon Is Out! (DETAILS)
Steve Bannon has been removed from his position in Trump’s cabinet, as reported by the New York Times Friday morning. Rumors have swirled since Bannon was hired, but as Charlottesville tensions mounted, Trump obviously felt pressure to get rid of his alt-right pal.
REPORTS: Charlottesville Fallout Was The Final Nail In Bannon’s Coffin
By Shannon Barber·
REPORTS: Charlottesville Fallout Was The Final Nail In Bannon’s Coffin
White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon has long been a controversial figure. Prior to joining Donald Trump’s campaign, he was the head of Breitbart News, a racist website that Bannon said was the “platform for the alt-right.” The alt-right, is, of course, nothing more than a rebranded name for white supremacists. Ever since Trump made Bannon his Chief Strategist, there have been calls for his removal from the White House. Now, in the wake of Trump’s disgraceful response to the violent and murderous gathering of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virgnina, it is being reported that Bannon is finally being pushed out.
the rich asshole TV broadcasted defense of the rich asshole’s Nazi sympathizing into millions of American homes
The propaganda network using public airwaves to promote the rich
asshole went into action, defending his sympathetic comments toward white
supremacists.
The public airwaves are being used
to transmit and amplify a broadcast excusing some rich
asshole’s comments sympathizing with white supremacists, and
millions of American homes are seeing it.
A video
commentary from former the rich asshole
campaign staffer Boris Epshteyn aired on multiple stations owned by Sinclair
Broadcast Group across the country. In the piece, Epshteyn whitewashed the
rich asshole’s comments on the terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia,
acting as if the tepid, pre-written comments by the rich
asshole made nearly three days after the attack were his only statements on the
issue.
“The sky is blue,”Epshteyn said.
“Does the president have to repeat that fact, day in and day out for us to
believe it? No, he does not.”
Epshteyn then complained that the
rich asshole is being criticized for his response, but did not admit that the
criticism comes from the rich asshole’s claim that “many sides” are
responsible for the violence and his initial refusal to condemn white
supremacists.
Epshteyn also ignored the rich
asshole’s disastrous press availability where he offered a full-throated defense of
white supremacists, while excusing his failure to condemn their actions.
Epshteyn also invoked the shooting of
Rep. Steve Scalise as evidence that the “left” is just as violent as the right.
But he did not tell viewers that Democrats and progressives did not make excuses for the Scalise shooting,
unlike the extremists, including the rich asshole, who have made excuses for
the murder of Heather Heyer.
The commentary from Epshteyn is
forced on local stations by the conservative bosses at Sinclair, and designated a “must run” during local news
broadcasts.
During the presidential campaign,
Sinclair reportedly negotiated an agreement that in
exchange for access to the rich asshole, the network would soften its coverage
of his campaign. In repayment for this treatment, the rich asshole had the FCC invoke a loophole that allowed
Sinclair to buy more television stations and increase its reach across America.
Sinclair now operates as a the rich asshole TV-style
propaganda arm of the rich asshole administration, which along with its online Circa subsidiary, spreads a pro-the rich asshole conservative message in line
with the company’s previous work attacking Democrats and progressives.
Providing cover for the rich
asshole’s pro-white supremacist message is simply the latest attack that
Sinclair has launched against the truth and decency.
Twitter Users Mock the rich asshole’s Ridiculous ‘Blame On Both Sides’ Argument
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On Saturday, after a woman was murdered and two police officers died in a helicopter crash at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, President the rich asshole blamed “many sides” for the violence. After being criticized by Democrats and his own party for being unable to distinguish the good guys from the bad, on Tuesday, the rich asshole doubled down on his statement.
“I think there is blame on both sides,” he said in a press conference. “You had a group on one side that was bad. You had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say that. I’ll say it right now.”
By treating white supremacists and those who oppose their violence and bigotry as equals, the rich asshole both legitimized and strengthened the white supremacist cause. To illustrate the rich asshole’s amoral view of an obviously clear-cut situation, Twitter users have been giving historical conflicts and iconic moments in pop culture the “blame on both sides” treatment.
D-Day, June 1944, Allied Forces land at Normandy, where, by @realDonaldTrump's logic, there was blame on both sides for the violence.
the rich asshole Responds To Barcelona Terror Attack Like He Was Forced At Gunpoint
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Less than a week after a white supremacist terrorist carried out a car ramming attack in Alexandria, Virginia, a terrorist carried out a similar attack on a group of pedestrians in Barcelona, Spain.
One person has been confirmed killed so far, while at least 32 others were injured, ten of whom have serious injuries. Local media is reporting that an individual named Driss Oukabir, who may be from Morocco, has been arrested.
U.S. President some rich asshole has now taken to Twitter to respond to the incident, writing:
It’s disturbing that it took the president a significantly smaller amount of time to respond to this overseas terror attack then it took for him to respond to last weekend’s incident in Charlottesville. the rich asshole still refuses to single out white supremacist groups for condemnation in the wake of Charlottesville, instead saying that responsibility for the incident rests with the so-called “alt left” and not just the “alt right.”
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‘Can’t change history’: the rich asshole sides with white nationalists and praises ‘beautiful’ Confederate statues
President some rich asshole followed up his early morning tweet storm on Thursday by lamenting that Confederate statues are being taken down all across the U.S. and saying it’s “sad.”
“Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,” wrote the president, who has come under the heaviest fire of his administration in recent days over his gross mishandling of the response to the violence in Charlottesville, VA.
He followed up by saying, “You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson – who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!”
the rich asshole gushes over “beautiful” monuments to slavery defenders
AUGUST 17, 2017
some rich asshole said monuments to pro-slavery Confederate figures were "beautiful," and said he was saddened by their removal, again demonstrating his embrace of white supremacy.
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some rich asshole described monuments to slavery defenders as “beautiful” as he continued to debase and devalue the presidency of the United States.
“Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,” the rich asshole lamented, referring to the grassroots movement to remove statues littered around the United States honoring the treasonous pro-slavery Confederacy. He added, “the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!”
He again compared the Confederates, who sought to destroy the United States, to the Founding Fathers, writing, “Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson – who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!”
Baltimore recently removed its last remaining several statues of that ilk, including one of Roger B. Taney, who wrote the Dred Scott decision that declared blacks non-citizens because they were property.
Other statues and monuments hail Confederate generals and soldiers.
The confederacy was an illegal rebellion against the legitimate government of the United States. The Confederacy was about keeping plantation owners rich and wealthy, based on the free labor they used by owning human beings who were forced to work for them. The Confederacy was about keeping generations of human beings in chains to enrich their white owners and to further the cause of white supremacy.
The Confederacy was about the preservation of human slavery. Particularly, owning black people.
A statue honoring that can never be “beautiful.” And to describe it in that manner is a clear demonstration of how unfit some rich asshole is to serve in the presidency.
But it is also not a surprise. the rich asshole has built his entire political brand on white supremacy and denigration of non-whites. He launched his campaign attacking Mexicans as “rapists,” he called for a Muslim ban, and he was the most prominent backer of the racist birther conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama.
some rich asshole is the epitome of racial hatred and pro-white supremacy, and the only occupant of the White House in the modern era to embrace this role so openly. He is in open rebellion against the civil rights that thousands of Americans fought and died for.
THE RICH ASSHOLE PRAISES KIM JONG-UN FOR BEING WISER AND MORE REASONABLE THAN HIM
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some rich asshole is barely playing checkers while Kim Jong-Un is playing chess.
It’s not often that the American president is schooled by bratty little dictator, but that’s exactly what happened because the rich asshole is even more of a tantrum-throwing petulant child.
Instead of seeking diplomatic solutions to North Korea’s nuclear ability, the rich asshole chose to make threats and increased the chances of nuclear war.
the rich asshole said he would rain “fire and fury” upon North Korea. North Korea responded with threats of firing missiles at Guam. the rich asshole doubled down and bragged about America’s nuclear arsenal and suggested he would use it. He also said his “fire and fury” remarks were not strong enough.
Well, the rich asshole’s level of crazy is apparently too much crazy for Kim Jong-Un, who backed off his own rhetoric and proved without a shadow of a doubt that even he is a more reasonable leader than the rich asshole is.
the rich asshole even admitted it in a tweet praising the North Korean leader.
If nuclear apocalypse was so unacceptable to the rich asshole, he wouldn’t have threatened it in the first place. He put our world at serious risk by escalating rhetoric and tension. The world economy lost $1 TRILLION dollars because of the rich asshole, not because of Kim Jong-Un.
Kim Jong-Un has made empty threats before. It’s a cry for attention and the world moves on. But the rich asshole decided to react the way Kim Jong-Un wanted him to. Now the world sees North Korea’s crazy leader as a more reasonable and responsible leader than the rich asshole, thus damaging American prestige and our reputation around the globe.
There are ways to show strength and resolve without resorting to threatening nuclear annihilation. the rich asshole failed that test of leadership, and he embarrassed our nation in the process.
some rich asshole, however, thinks this showdown makes him look strong. It actually just proves that he is unfit to be president.
the rich asshole is making it harder for cops to go after white supremacists
By Taylor Dolven Aug 16, 2017
Law enforcement experts worry that the rich asshole administration’s rhetoric and decisions to continue deemphasizing the threat of white supremacist attacks — like the one in Charlottesville on Saturday — will further embolden far-right groups and increase the risk of more violence.
While law enforcement agencies across the country continue to investigate reports of far-right extremism, the rich asshole administration has prioritized other types of extremism — mainly ISIS-inspired — a trend that existed for much of the Obama administration. Only after Dylann Roof, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 did the Obama administration take small steps toward combating far-right violence, experts say.
President the rich asshole’s defense of the white supremacists who rallied in Charlottesville at a press conference Tuesday drew widespread condemnation and seemed to draw a moral equivalence between protesters and white supremacists.
“When you are a white supremacist and you hear the language coming out of the current administration, you sit back and you say, ‘Those people believe in what we believe in; they have my back’,” said John Cohen, a former analyst at the Department of Homeland Security. “That’s what concerns law enforcement the most right now.”
Preventing an attack like Charlottesville requires close coordination between local law enforcement and the FBI to identify people involved in the far-right movement who are prone to violence, Cohen said. These strategies, which often involve direction from top federal authorities, include responding to calls from concerned family members with mental health assessments, training local community leaders to spot signs of radicalization, and monitoring extremist social media sites for threats.
“As it relates to preventing mass-casualty attacks, we know what we need to do,” Cohen said. “This guy in Charlottesville [James Alex Fields Jr.] fits the behavior profile. His family had called the police before.” Fields allegedly ran his car into a group of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others.
But even though the prevention tactics are clear, the rich asshole administration’s approach to white supremacist extremism may be fueling the flames of far-right violence, leaving local authorities with more ground to cover and fewer resources. Just days before the attack in Charlottesville, Sebastian Gorka, an adviser to the president, said white supremacists are “not the problem” in an interview with a Breitbart radio show. On Tuesday the rich asshole said there were “very fine people on both sides,” referring to white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville.
“The inherent reality of all of this is that the federal government has a very hard time recognizing that Americans can be terrorists”
An internal DHS and FBI memo obtained by Foreign Policy makes clear that the threat from the far-right is something law enforcement analysts are concerned about. The memo from May, titled “White Supremacist Extremism Poses Persistent Threat of Lethal Violence,” shows that white supremacists killed 49 people in 26 separate attacks from 2000 to 2016, more than any other extremist group in the U.S. The authors of the memo predicted that attacks from white supremacist groups in the coming year would be mostly “spontaneous and involve targets of opportunity.”
“I am hugely concerned by the rhetoric,” said Jennifer Daskal, a former attorney with the National Security division of the Justice Department. “I’m hopeful that the rank and file are continuing to do their jobs and are tracking the threats regardless of their source and regardless of the rhetoric.”
As Charlottesville workers cleaned up the city Monday morning, Attorney General Jeff Sessions used the term “domestic terrorism” to describe the fatal car attack. The Justice Department civil rights division and the FBI are investigating the attack as a hate crime and looking into whether others may have been involved in planning the attack along with Fields, according to a DOJ spokesperson. This fits with Sessions’ earlier vow to aggressively prosecute hate crime offenders. Fields has long exhibited signs of radical racism, according to former classmates and teachers interviewed by VICE News.
Since January 2014, eight people with white supremacist ties have been charged with federal hate crimes under the Matthew Shepard Act, including Dylann Roof, according to court records. The last case was just over a year ago when two white men in Ohio beat up a black man, and one later posted on Facebook that the attack was “in the name of the White Race.”.
On Saturday, the same day as the lethal Charlottesville attack, federal agents in Oklahoma arrested a man who was allegedly attempting to replicate the Oklahoma City bombing with an explosive planted near a bank. On Monday, the Justice Department announced convictions for 89 people in what the department called “the largest prosecution in the nation’s history of individuals connected to a violent white supremacist gang.”
“This guy in Charlottesville fits the behavior profile. His family had called the police before.”
While these front-line efforts to combat white supremacist extremism are encouraging, without a change in tone and financial support from the rich asshole administration, we may be only “putting a Band-aid on the wound,” Cohen said. “Extremist thought and racist ideas are not the responsibility of law enforcement until those thoughts and ideals serve as a catalyst for violent behaviors.”
Ryan Lenz, a spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said more investment in deradicalization is needed to prevent future attacks. Earlier this year, DHS canceled a $400,000 grant for Life After Hate, the only group in the country that does interventions with far-right extremists.
“What the DOJ does, we approve of those convictions, justice is being served, but the larger problem is on a policy level,” Lenz said. “What really should be done is greater resources to find these threats before they surface.”
To confront the threat of far-right extremism, the rich asshole administration will have to name it and address it, which will go against the narrative of only “radical Islamic terrorism” it’s been pushing since the campaign.
“The inherent reality of all of this is that the federal government has a very hard time recognizing that Americans can be terrorists,” Lenz said. “Is it because they look like our neighbors? Maybe. Is it because we have the First and Second Amendment freedoms? Maybe. But in the aftermath of Charlottesville, it is no longer an environment in which politics can take precedent over the lives and rights of everyone.”
some rich asshole is a racist. We’ve always known that. He has been repeatedly sued by the Department of Justice for refusing to rent apartments to black and brown tenets, and he ran an openly racist campaign in his bid for the White House, regularly retweeting and playing footsie with white supremacy, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, and other various assorted bigots. Now that he is squatting in the Oval Office, this man is more dangerous than ever in this direction.
We all watched his disgraceful and terrifying defense of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and Klan members on Tuesday. Now, the rich asshole is prepared to take his sympathy for Nazis and other white supremacists a step further and shield them from prosecution for their domestic terrorism. John Cohn, a former Homeland Security terrorism analyst, says of the situation:
“When you are a white supremacist and you hear the language coming out of the current administration, you sit back and you say, ‘Those people believe in what we believe in; they have my back.’ That’s what concerns law enforcement the most right now.”
This is especially concerning, considering that the Department of Justice is explicitly focusing not on homegrown white supremacists, according to Vice News, but on ISIS-like groups instead. In fact, the the rich asshole Department of Justice is not concerned with white supremacists at all. Cohn goes on to say:
“As it relates to preventing mass-casualty attacks, we know what we need to do. This guy in Charlottesville [James Alex Fields Jr.] fits the behavior profile. His family had called the police before.”
Of course, James Alex Fields Jr. is the young neo-Nazi who rammed a car into a crowd of protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and wounding many others. He was known to idolize Adolf Hitler and was pretty much an out-front Nazi.
The racist the rich asshole Administration is literally endangering lives. This refusal to go after white supremacists, and indeed their open support of them, is beyond dangerous. It also means local law enforcement is on their own when dealing with this escalating threat because there will be no help to be had from the federal government. All of these fascists and racists need to be removed from office before more people die at the hands of the rich asshole’s Nazi followers.
You can read the entire disturbing report here, at Vice News.
Bannon ‘proud’ that the rich asshole ‘fully abandoned the globalists’ with Charlottesville speech: report
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White House strategist Steve Bannon is celebrating President some rich asshole’s reaction to the white nationalist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, VA.
“Steve was proud of how [the rich asshole] stood up to the braying mob of reporters” at President the rich asshole’s circus-like press conference, Axios reports.
“Bannon saw the rich asshole’s now-infamous Tuesday afternoon press conference not as the lowest point in his presidency, but as a ‘defining moment,’ where the rich asshole decided to fully abandon the ‘globalists’ and side with ‘his people,” Axios explained.
Before joining the the rich asshole campaign, Bannon was chief executive at Breitbart.com, which he described as a “platform” for the so-called white supremacy.
“Both the rich asshole and Bannon are of one mind, and, within the White House at least, theirs is a minority view. They saw the backlash to Charlottesville as an example of political correctness run amok and instinctively searched for ‘their’ people in that group of protesters,” Axios said. “Bannon has told associates that the rich asshole, on Tuesday afternoon, took it to the next level for the country by asking where does it end?”
Axios says Bannon spoke by phone with the president daily during the days when the rich asshole was criticized for refusing to condemn the white supremacists who marched on Charlottesville.
For weeks, there have been calls to fire Bannon from both sides of the party and the strain may be making the chief strategist paranoid.
Even the conservative National Review demanded the rich asshole fire Bannon.
“There’s a good reason that white nationalists rejoice at Steve Bannon’s proximity to power. There’s a good reason that countless Americans look at that man so close to the Oval Office and fear his influence on their president’s mind and heart,” the National Review noted. “How can the rich asshole look the American people in the face and say that he unequivocally condemns white supremacy when one of the men who did more than anyone else to enhance its influence works down the hall?”
President the rich asshole defended Bannon at the press conference Bannon is now celebrating.
“I like him, he’s a good man,” the rich asshole claimed. “He’s not a racist, I can tell you that.”
“He actually gets very unfair press in that regard, “the rich asshole said. “He’s a good person and I think the press treats him frankly very unfairly.”
‘I want them to talk about racism everyday’: Bannon gloats he ‘got’ Democrats talking identity politics
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White House senior strategist Steve Bannon is rejoicing at the criticism President some rich asshole is receiving for defending white nationalism.
Bannon phoned The American Prospect progressive writer and Editor Robert Kuttner Tuesday, according to his analysis of the interview.
In the interview, Bannon dismissed ethno-nationalists as irrelevant.
“Ethno-nationalism—it’s losers. It’s a fringe element,” Bannon noted.
“These guys are a collection of clowns,” he added.
Bannon claimed to welcome the intense criticism the rich asshole has received.
“The Democrats,” he said, “the longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.”
Kuttner described Bannon as being in “high spirits” during the call
“You might think from recent press accounts that Steve Bannon is on the ropes and therefore behaving prudently. In the aftermath of events in Charlottesville, he is widely blamed for his boss’s continuing indulgence of white supremacists,” Kuttner explained. “But Bannon was in high spirits when he phoned me Tuesday afternoon to discuss the politics of taking a harder line with China, and minced no words describing his efforts to neutralize his rivals at the Departments of Defense, State, and Treasury.”
“They’re wetting themselves,” Bannon said of opponents he planned to oust at State and Defense.
Pence on the rich asshole’s horrific defense of white supremacists: “I stand with the president”
AUGUST 16, 2017
It is increasingly impossible for Mike Pence to distance himself from the disaster that is some rich asshole's presidency.
There are no good options for Mike Pence, but standing with some rich asshole after he quadrupled down on his defense of white supremacists and Nazis is certainly not a wise choice.
During a very brief press availability in Chile Tuesday, Pence had the opportunity to disavow the rich asshole’s shocking embrace of the hate groups that rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He failed to do so.
REPORTER: Remarks made by President the rich asshole yesterday about the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, alarmed many Americans, including Republican supporters. Do you agree with the president that there were good people among the white supremacist protesters, and that there was blame to be had on both sides? And more broadly, sir, do you believe that Confederate statues should be removed, as is happening in many cities across the south? Or do you agree with the president that the Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, should be considered in the same pantheon as George Washington?
Those should not be difficult questions to answer. Those remarks of the rich asshole’s have already led to widespread condemnation, his economic advisory board disbanding in protest, and deafening silence from Republican leaders who have chosen not to follow the advice and talking points from the White House.
For Pence, though, it was not so easy. After several seconds of incredibly awkward silence, Pence said, “What happened in Charlottesville was a tragedy. And the president has been clear on this tragedy, and so have I.”
Then Pence uttered the words that could well seal his fate and forever doom his hopes of one day — perhaps sooner rather than later — being elected to the presidency.
“I stand with the president,” he said.
Pence then launched into a four-minute speech about his meetings and efforts in Latin America, and then ended the press conference without taking any further questions.
Pence is cutting his trip short to return to the United States Thursday, and while the White House has not offered any reason for the sudden schedule change, it is not hard to imagine that the rich asshole’s multi-day meltdown and the rapid collapse of his presidency and any support he might have still had has something to do with it.
Whatever happens next in this disastrous era of the rich asshole presidency, Pence has stood by him and supported him and even lied to protect the rich asshole’s administration.
the rich asshole tries to claim he dissolved 2 councils of CEOs after advisory group chooses to disband
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President some rich asshole is claiming he dissolved two councils of CEOs after multiple CEOs resigned from one panel and the other chose to disband altogether.
After the resignations of three executives from President some rich asshole’s American Manufacturing Council, Axios.com was contacted by executives from the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum, who said they had decided to disband.
“CEOs on President the rich asshole’s top outside business-advisory group decided Wednesday to disband amid the tumult over his response to this weekend’s white-nationalist violence in Charlottesville, top business sources tell Axios,” said Allen on Wednesday.
Moments after Axios made the announcement that the Strategy and Policy Forum is disbanding, President the rich asshole tweeted that he was ending both groups, apparently trying to take credit for the executives’ decision.
However, an executive from the group told Axios, “Debate over the forum has become a distraction and the group has decided to disband.”
The decision was made quickly by board members, the source said, “Given the comments of the last several days, no one could continue to be seen as supporting this kind of divisiveness.”
“The thinking was it was important to do as a group,” one member told CNBC. “As a panel, not as individuals because it would have more significant impact. It makes a central point that it’s not going to go forward. It’s done.”
“The thinking was it was important to do as a group,” one member told CNBC. “As a panel, not as individuals because it would have more significant impact. It makes a central point that it’s not going to go forward. It’s done.”
the rich asshole’s unwillingness to condemn the neo-Nazis and Klan members who rioted in Virginia has sent shock waves through the government and through the corporate world which understands that the president has crossed a line with the public.
“the rich asshole’s ‘both sides’ response to the violence has made CEOs even more wary of interacting with the White House, with many of them facing pressure from employees and shareholders to distance themselves. The loss of support from business could further undermine the rich asshole’s already-faltering legislative agenda,” said Allen.
Earlier this week, Merck Pharmaceuticals CEO Kenneth Frazier resigned from the American Manufacturing Council in protest of the rich asshole’s tepid condemnation of the hate groups that converged on Charlottesville leaving one person dead and at least 20 others injured.
the rich asshole immediately attacked Frazier on Twitter. The Merck CEO was followed by Under Armor CEO Kevin Plank and Itel’s CEO Brian Krzanich
the rich asshole claims with a straight face he needs ‘facts’ before speaking
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It was hardly the most important thing some rich asshole said at yesterday’s press conference, but when the president was asked why it took so long for him to denounce white supremacists after Saturday’s violence in Charlottesville, he launched a rant about the value he places on accuracy.
“I didn’t wait long. I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement. The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement. But you don’t make statements that direct unless you know the facts. It takes a little while to get the facts. You still don’t know the facts. And it’s a very, very important process to me. And it’s a very important statement.
“So, I don’t want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement. I want to know the facts…. When I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts. This event just happened. In fact, a lot of the event didn’t even happen yet, as we were speaking. This event just happened. Before I make a statement, I need the facts.”
How reporters in attendance didn’t burst into immediate laughter remains something of a mystery.
Look, I’m not even going to talk about the astonishing number of lies some rich asshole tells on a nearly daily basis, contradicting the idea that he “likes to be correct” when speaking. In this case, we can instead narrow the focus to instances in which the president rushed to make statements in response to violence and suspected attacks – often without having any idea what he was saying, occasionally pointing to attacks that didn’t actually happen.
In June, for example, the rich asshole told Americans about his concerns regarding a “terrorist attack in Manila,” when in reality, that’s not what happened.
In February, the president told a group of supporters about an “attack” that he said had happened the night before in Sweden. There was no such attack.
In April, the rich asshole talked to reporters about a terrorist incident in France before it had been confirmed by local officials, and before the president had relevant details.
As we discussed last week, the rich asshole’s rhetoric in response to suspected terrorism has been so profoundly irresponsible that the Associated Press published a fact-checking piece a couple of months ago that said the president “can’t be counted on to give accurate information to Americans when violent acts are unfolding abroad.”
The president seems to take his time in response to violence when the suspects appear to be right-wing Americans.
Waiting to get the facts is “very, very important” to him? Please. If the rich asshole is going to lie as a matter of course, the least he could do is stop insulting our intelligence.
‘He Has Failed Us’: the rich asshole’s Defense Of Nazis Has Fox & Friends Panelists In Tears (VIDEO)
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some rich asshole frequently watches Fox & Friends then retweets the show’s clips but the former reality show star won’t circulate this segment from Wednesday morning. In fact, Fox & Friends didn’t even bother tweeting it out, likely because it’s an emotional clip showing the impact the rich asshole’s words yesterday had on those who found his defense of Nazis in America unacceptable.
The segment was supposed to be about Confederate monuments, but instead, it quickly turned into an emotional discussion from both a Democrat and Republican panelist over the rich asshole’s justification for the violence perpetrated by the Alt-Right in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
Wendy Osefo, a Democratic Political Analyst, Gianno Caldwell, a Republican Political Analyst, shed tears during the segment while declaring that after yesterday’s press conference, the rich asshole has “failed us.”
Abby Huntsman, co-host of Fox & Friends, tried to shift the conversation back to discussing the removal of Confederate monuments but the two guests were having none of that.
Caldwell said, “I come today with a very heavy heart,” adding that “last night I couldn’t sleep at all because president the rich asshole, our president is literally betrayed the conscience of our country.”
“The very moral fabric in which we have made progress when it comes to race relations in America. He has failed us,” he continued. “And it’s very unfortunate that our president would say things like he did in that press conference yesterday when he says there are good people on the side of the Nazis. They weren’t all Nazis and they weren’t all white supremacists.”
“Mr. President, good people don’t pal around with Nazis and white supremacists. Maybe they don’t consider themselves white supremacists and Nazis, certainly they hold those views,” he said. “This has become very troubling for anyone to come on any network and defend what President the rich asshole did and said at that press conference yesterday is completely lost and the potential to be morally bankrupt.”
“I’m sorry, no I believe that and I’m being very honest as one who has been talking about these issues for a very long time,” he continued. “I’m sorry that this is where we are right now. I hope the president learns a lesson from his press conference on yesterday. It’s disturbing.”
Again, Huntsman tried to shift the conversation back to Confederate monuments, but the two panelists were both visibly upset by the rich asshole’s presser. But clearly, the hate-rally wasn’t really about the monuments.
Osefo had tears coming down her face while Caldwell took out a tissue as he wept.
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Another CEO quits the rich asshole council
Another CEO is walking away from President the rich asshole.
Inge Thulin, the chief executive of 3M, on Wednesday became the seventh person to quit the rich asshole's council on manufacturing.
"I joined the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative in January to advocate for policies that align with our values and encourage even stronger investment and job growth," Thulin said in a statement. "After careful consideration, I believe the initiative is no longer an effective vehicle for 3M to advance these goals."
He follows the CEOs of Merck, Under Armour and Intel, two leaders of the AFL-CIO and the president of a manufacturing industry group. All quit the council after the rich asshole's insistence that both sides were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend.
Mitch McConnell Takes Aim At the rich asshole For Praising Nazis
some rich asshole is going to throw a Twitter tantrum because of this.
During his bonkers press conference at the rich asshole Tower on Tuesday, the rich asshole once again blamed “both sides” for the violence and murder white nationalists committed in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
the rich asshole also claimed that many of the people at the “Unite The Right” rally are good people, vilified the counter-protesters, and attacked the media.
The press conference that made it absolutely clear that the rich asshole supports the white nationalists and the acts of domestic terrorism they are committing.
the rich asshole’s words have been condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike, as well as across the mainstream media.
And they were so bad that even Senator Mitch “Make President Obama fail” McConnell was forced to make a strong statement condemning the true perpetrators of the violence that the rich asshole so badly wants to blame on liberals.
“The white supremacist, KKK, and neo-Nazi groups who brought violence to Charlottesville are now planning a rally in Lexington, McConnell wrote. “Their messages of hate and bigotry are not welcome in Kentucky and should not be welcomed anywhere in America.”
“We can have no tolerance for an ideology of racial hatred,” McConnell continued. “There are no good neo-Nazis. And those who espouse their views are not supporters of American ideals and freedom. We have a responsibility to stand against hate and violence, wherever it raises its ugly head.”
the rich asshole’s remarks are inexcusable and should be condemned in the strongest possible terms. “Both sides” are not to blame. The Nazis showed up in Charlottesville and began chanting Nazi slogans and racial slurs in a town that did not ask them to come there. And once they were confronted by protesters they violently attacked them and murdered a woman with a car. And now they believe that they are supported by the rich asshole because he refuses to unconditionally condemn them.
the rich asshole is unfit to be president and he’s a threat to our country. It’s time for McConnell and Republicans to admit it and do something about it.
THE RICH ASSHOLE LAWYER: LOOK AT MY PICS OF ME WITH BLACK PEOPLE, I’M NOT A RACIST LIKE THE RICH ASSHOLE (IMAGES)
Posted by Conover Kennard on 16 Aug 2017
Following some rich asshole’s appalling defense of the Alt-Right Nazis who marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia while giving Nazi salutes, it left White House aides and advisers “appalled and furious.” the rich asshole is tearing his administration and the GOP apart as he casually accepts Nazism in this country while demonizing anti-racist protesters.
That leaves those who still support him in a precarious position. Case in point: the rich asshole’s personal attorney who on Wednesday took to Twitter to write, “As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I have no tolerance for #racism. Just because I support @POTUS @realDonaldTrump doesn’t make me a racist,” and he included pictures of himself with black people, so now you know he’s totally not a racist.
See, he has pictures to prove it:
As the son of a holocaust survivor, I have no tolerance for #racism. Just because I support @POTUS @realDonaldTrumpdoesn't make me a racist
As the son of a holocaust survivor, I have no tolerance for #racism. Just because I support @POTUS @realDonaldTrumpdoesn't make me a racist pic.twitter.com/lfIwdosreE
Trying to justify by posting pics with his black friends....lol
Does your coalition have slogans like "Blood and Soil" and "Jews will not replace us"?
look at this "look!! i have black friends" mess, you're complicit & i hope you're ashamed for life
The individuals in the pictures Cohen posted include former NFL players Ray Lewis and Jim Brown – both with checkered pasts – senior White House aide Omarosa Manigault, and video bloggers Diamond and Silk, all are staunch the rich asshole supporters, almost as if they’re making a vast fortune by betraying their own race and this country.
Lewis was charged in the fatal stabbing of two people outside an Atlanta Super Bowl party in 2000, but he dodged a murder rap in a plea deal in which he agreed to testify against the two other suspects. Brown has been arrested numerous times for sexual abuse and assault.
It’s quite telling that Michael Cohen feels the need to say that just because he supports the rich asshole, it doesn’t make him a racist. Meaning, he knows the rich asshole is a racist.
the rich asshole defends Nazis, attacks Founding Fathers
AUGUST 15, 2017
In a shocking meltdown, some rich asshole compared America's Founding Fathers to the Confederacy, and equated anti-racist protesters with white supremacists.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
some rich asshole held a press conference in the rich asshole Tower in New York City where he equated America’s founding fathers to the pro-slavery Confederacy, and continued to claim that white supremacists and liberal protesters were morally equivalent.
“So will George Washington now lose his status?” he angrily asked reporters. “Are we going to take down statues to George Washington?”
the rich asshole has been under fire for his slow, plodding response to the domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one woman was murdered and another 19 injured, and the perfunctory statement he grudgingly read nearly 72 hours after the death.
the rich asshole was combative with the media, who were trying to get answers from him to explain why he continues to make excuses from white supremacists. They were strong backers of his election, and continue to support his presidency. the rich asshole also has supporters of the extremist movement in key positions in his White House.
Discussing the movement to remove Confederate monuments across the country, the rich asshole complained that to do so would lead to the removal of monuments to Founding Fathers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. In doing so, the rich asshole equated the men who created America with the break-away rebellion that declared war on the country, in defense of keeping slavery — human bondage — intact.
He also complained that taking down Confederate statues is “changing history” and “changing culture.”
RICH ASSHOLE: George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down — excuse me. Are we gonna take down, are we gonna take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson, what do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay, good. Are we gonna take down the statue, ’cause he was a major slave owner. Now, are we gonna take down his statue? So, you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history, you’re changing culture.
the rich asshole echoed his comments on the day of the attack, asserting that there was moral equivalency between the white supremacist murderers and liberal protesters in Charlottesville, comparing the counter-protesters to the neo-Nazis and Klan members.
“There was a group on this side — you can call them the left, you’ve just called them the left — that came violently attacking the other group,” the rich asshole said. Then he added, “Yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. You look at both sides, I think there’s blame on both sides. I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say that.”
REPORTER: Are you putting the alt-left and white supremacists on the same moral plane?RICH ASSHOLE: I’m not putting anybody on a moral plane. What I’m saying is this: You had a group on one side, and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs, and it was vicious and it was horrible, and it was a horrible thing to watch. But there is another side. There was a group on this side — you can call them the left, you’ve just called them the left — that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is.
Asked why he waited so long to condemn the white supremacist and neo-Nazi riot in which a woman was murdered, the rich asshole said:
I didn’t wait long. I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct. Not make a quick statement. The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement. But you don’t make statements that direct unless you know the facts. It takes a little while to get the facts. You still don’t know the facts. And it’s a very, very important process to me. And it’s a very important statement. So I don’t want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement. I want to know the facts.
the rich asshole then re-read the statement in which he had refused to condemn white supremacists and instead blamed “many sides.”
Then he added, “When I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts.”
the rich asshole has made his personal political brand on the fact that he quickly responds to issues on social media, usually without knowing any of the facts at hand. He only seems to slow down when white supremacists are on the agenda.
“Honestly,” he continued, “if the press were not fake, and if it was honest, the press would have said what I said was very nice.”
The press availability was a complete train wreck, as the rich asshole went on at length defending his reprehensible remarks and refusing to directly confront racism and his racist support base. Instead, he added the men who created America to his long list of people who have been smeared in defense of his immense ego.
It was a low point for the country, and the rich asshole does not believe anything was wrong with it.
some rich asshole has not been having a good weekend. He was blasted by Congressional members on both sides of the aisle due to his failure to immediately condemn white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups who caused murderous riots in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was finally forced to do so days later, but many are still saying it is too little too late. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the rich asshole wanted to go to the place he feels most comfortable: the rich asshole Tower in New York City.
Now, it’s no secret that New Yorkers hate the rich asshole. Therefore, one would think that he wouldn’t want to go there. But, alas, go there he did. As was to be expected, protesters awaited him. Their display this time was so over the top that the rich asshole has to be fuming. The #RESISTANCE folks in New York City really outdid themselves this time, by presenting the rich asshole with a large likeness of himself as a rat. Here is an image of what they did:
This is absolute gold, and is sure to get under the rich asshole’s very, very thin skin. We might be stuck with the orange fascist for now, but that won’t stop #RESISTANCE minded patriots from heckling him whenever we can.
Keep it up, New York City #RESISTANCE! Make the rich asshole squirm on his own turf.
‘President was entirely correct’: WH talking points back the rich asshole’s push to blame ‘extremists on the left’
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The conservative Weekly Standard has published an Orwellian set of talking points that the White House sent to “potential surrogates and friendly voice Tuesday evening.”
“The President was entirely correct — both sides of the violence in Charlottesville acted inappropriately, and bear some responsibility,” the talking points suggest White House supporters repeat.
“He has been a voice for unity and calm,” the memo claims.
“What about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, at white supremacy?” the rich asshole asked in today’s press conference. “Do they have any assemblage of guilt? What about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hands swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do.”
The memo goes on to continue pointing the finger at the left for part of the violence.
“From cop killing and violence at political rallies, to shooting at Congressmen at a practice baseball game, extremists on the left have engaged in terrible acts of violence,” the memo claims.
“I think there is blame on both sides,” the rich asshole accused. “I have no doubt about it. You don’t have doubt about it either. If you reported it accurately, you would say that.”
the rich asshole Retweets A Random Twitter User Calling Him A Fascist (IMAGES)
Giant ‘the rich asshole Rat’ sits near the rich asshole Tower 08-15-17
© Photo via Twitter/ArtemSays A new inflatable animal is taunting President some rich asshole this week. On Monday afternoon, a 15-foot-tall inflatable rat created in the rich asshole’s likeness was erected on Fifth Avenue and 59th street, a few blocks from the rich asshole Tower .
The idea for the rat was conceived by John Post Lee, owner of BravinLee gallery in New York City, who funded the inflatable through a Kickstarter he created back in March: 227 supporters donated over $10,000 to bring the inflatable rodent to life.
Lee said the inspiration for the project came from the inflatable rats used by unions to protest non-union labor. “ It wasn’t until the rich asshole was elected that I knew we had to purpose that imagery in the new and different way,” Lee told the Daily Dot.
After being funded, the giant rat was made in Burnwich, Ohio . Lee said he hopes the inflatable will stay up at its current location for the rest of today and tomorrow before moving around to other parts of the city. Protesters are expected to gather around the rat throughout the rest of the day.
“ I wanted to ridicule this guy because he really doesn’t deserve to be president. He really lowered the bar,” Lee said. “I hope he sees it, and I hope he hates it, and I hope it gets under his skin.”
This the rich asshole Rat might not be the end of Lee’s criticism on the current administration. The the rich asshole Rat is intended to be loaned out to protesters for future events.
“I’d like to follow this up with a 3-foot-tall Jeff Sessions that sits in his lap,” Lee said.
The post Giant ‘the rich asshole Rat’ sits near the rich asshole Tower appeared first on The Daily Dot.
some rich asshole retweets man calling him a fascist
The President 'agrees with me', the man who sent the tweet joked
some rich asshole has retweeted a man calling him a "fascist".
In a seemingly inexplicable move, the US President shared a post by a Twitter user called Mike Holden, who was responding to a Fox News post.
The right-wing news outlet had tweeted a link to a story about Mr the rich asshole "seriously considering" a pardon to former Sherrif Joe Arpaio - who was recently found guilty of criminal contempt for defying a state judge’s order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected undocumented immigrants.
Having retweeted the initial Fox News post, he did the same with Mr Holden's reply to it, saying: "He's a fascist, so not unusual."
At the time of writing, Mr Holden had 831 followers.
Mr Holden posted a follow-up message joking that the retweet showed that "Donald agrees with me".
Mr the rich asshole usually only retweets things that he approves of. The posts he shares tend to come from supporters or from media organisations sharing stories that he likes.
It wasn't clear from the original tweet whether Mr Holden was referring Mr the rich asshole or Mr Arpaio, or both – but follow-up tweets from his account suggested that he was talking about the President.
About 15 minutes after the post was shared, the President undid his retweet. It wasn't clear whether Mr the rich asshole had retweeted him by mistake, or had chosen to un-share the post after the fact.
He also revoked a retweet of a post about the "fake news media", which depicted the "the rich asshole train" running over a person with the word CNN written on their head. Many pointed out that post seemed irresponsible given the fact that one person died and many were injured in Charlottesville when a car was driven into anti-fascist protestors.
The posts came just hours after the President finally condemned the racist, Nazi and fascist protestors who were involved in violence in the Virginia city. He had been criticised for taking days to single out those protestors, apparently refraining from distancing himself from far-right activists and instead condemning violence on "many sides".
The President's retweet wasn't the first time Mr the rich asshole has shared a post making explicit reference to fascism. In 2016, while Mr the rich asshole was still on the campaign trail, he retweeted a message that consisted entirely of a quote attributed to Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, and sent by a parody account that explicit referenced him.
Mr the rich asshole said after that event that he wanted "to be associated with interesting quotes".
"Mussolini was Mussolini... What difference does it make?" he said. "It got your attention, didn't it?"
THE RICH ASSHOLE ADMITS HE’S A FASCIST IN EARLY MORNING TWITTER BLUNDER
Posted by Stephen D. Foster Jr. on 15 Aug 2017
some rich asshole is a fascist who supports Nazis, the KKK, and other right-wing extremists, and he winked at them on Tuesday morning.
“Racism is evil — and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” the rich asshole said on Monday. “Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America.”
the rich asshole’s remarks came after he previously refused to condemn Nazis, choosing instead to blame both sides for the violence and death that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
Public outcry, criticism from the media and Republicans and Democrats, as well as protests from members of his Manufacturing Council forced the rich asshole to finally do the right thing, although it appears he only did so grudgingly.
For instance, not long after his remarks, the rich asshole retweeted a white supremacist.
And then in an early morning nod to his right-wing extremist supporters, the rich asshole seemed to admit that he is one of them by retweeting a post calling him a fascist.
First, he retweeted this from Fox News.
FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: President Trump 'seriously considering' a pardon for ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio fxn.ws/2w4LtM5
Then he retweeted this comment.
the rich asshole rushed to delete it, but by then it was too late. He had already slipped up and admitted he’s a fascist, or at the very least, a supporter of fascists.
some rich asshole clearly did not mean what he said about Nazis and the KKK. He merely condemned them by name because he wants to reduce the criticism of his initial reaction, which should be considered his real reaction.
The only way to really fight white nationalists is to impeach the rich asshole and elect someone who isn’t a racist piece of shit. Because as long as the rich asshole is in the White House, Nazis think they can do whatever they want.
the rich asshole says both sides to blame amid Charlottesville backlash
Photographer on capturing moment of crash
(CNN)In a remarkable news conference in the lobby of the rich asshole Tower, President some rich asshole blamed the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday on both sides of the conflict, equating the white supremacists on one side with the "alt-left" on the other side.
HE FINALLY CAME OUT AND SAID IT: THE RICH ASSHOLE CALLS PROTESTERS AS BAD AS NAZIS
Speaking at the rich asshole Tower on Tuesday, some rich asshole finally confirmed in his own words that he believes protesters are as much to blame for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend. Asked by a reporter why he didn’t name the Alt-Right in his condemnation of the murder of Heather Heyer at the hands of an Alt-Right activist, he defied the reporter to “define the alt-right for me,” repeating himself like the bully he is. As the reporter, who is not visible in this clip, tried to answer, the rich asshole began to speak over her:
Okay, what about the alt-left? Excuse me, what about the alt-left that came charging at the — as you say — the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt? Let me ask you this. What about the fact they came charging, they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do. As far as I’m concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day. Wait a minute, I’m not finished. I’m not finished, Fake News.
As reporters tried to get a word in edgewise, the rich asshole clearly had to compose himself for the camera, obviously flustered. Then he told reporters in attendance that he had watched it “much more closely than you people watched it,” and:
You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that, but I’ll say it right now. You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent.
After barely recovering from his disastrous “many sides” statement on Saturday, the rich asshole just proved the disgusting, hateful Alt-Right correct again. He refuses to condemn them because they are his base. They work by his side. They are his people.
the rich asshole says both sides to blame amid Charlottesville backlash
Updated 4:37 PM ET, Tue August 15, 2017
Photographer on capturing moment of crash
"I think there is blame on both sides," he said.
"What about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, the alt-right, do they have any semblance of guilt?" the rich asshole said. "What about the fact they came charging with clubs in hands, swinging clubs, do they have any problem, I think they do."
He added: "You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. nobody wants to say it, but I will say it right now."
the rich asshole defended his 48-hour delay in denouncing white supremacists, arguing that he took his time because he didn't know the facts.
The President subsequently called the driver of the car that drove through a crowd, killing one woman, as a "murder" then once again blamed both sides for the violence.
"You can call it terrorism, you can call it murder. You can call it whatever you want," he said. "The driver of the car is a murderer and what he did was a horrible, horrible, inexcusable thing."
"I didn't wait long. I didn't wait long. I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement," the rich asshole said Tuesday. "The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement, but you don't make statements that direct until you know the facts. It takes a little while to get the facts. You still don't know the facts and it is a very, very important process to me. It is a very important statement."
"I didn't wait long. I didn't wait long. I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement," the rich asshole said Tuesday. "The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement, but you don't make statements that direct until you know the facts. It takes a little while to get the facts. You still don't know the facts and it is a very, very important process to me. It is a very important statement."
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CNN has reportedly refused to air an advertisement created by some rich asshole’s 2020 campaign for president.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the rich asshole campaign issued a statement this week accusing CNN of “censorship.”
“After the campaign’s media team attempted a standard paid media placement for the ad, CNN blocked the ad buy, censoring the message to the American people that ‘President the rich asshole’s plan is working,'” the statement said.
The 30 second ad warned that the “president’s enemies don’t want him to succeed.” As the words were spoken, photos of CNN hosts Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper flashed on the screen.
A CNN source told The Hollywood Reporter that the network took issue with the suggestion that CNN personalities are “enemies” of the president.
“CNN would accept the ad if the images of reporters and anchors are removed. Anchors and reporters don’t have ‘enemies,’ as the ad states, but they do hold those in power accountable across the political spectrum and aggressively challenge false and misleading statements and investigate wrong-doing,” CNN said in a statement on Tuesday.
HOLY SH*T, THE RICH ASSHOLE DEFENDS ALT-RIGHT NAZIS AND BLAMES THE LEFT FOR CHARLOTTESVILLE MURDER (VIDEO)
Posted by Conover Kennard on 15 Aug 2017
On Tuesday, some rich asshole pretty much defended the Alt-Right during a bizarre press conference. the rich asshole seemed to equate the Nazi protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia to the anti-racist counter-protesters, one of which was murdered by a white supremacist, leaving 19 others injured. the rich asshole angrily called out the “alt-left” for “charging at” the Nazis who were marching in his name.
“I didn’t wait long,” the rich asshole said of his tweet finally acknowledging the attack on U.S. soil. “I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement.”
The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement, but you don’t make statements that direct unless you know the facts.” he continued. “It takes a little while to get the facts. You still don’t know the facts.”
“And it’s a very, very important process to me. And it’s a very important statement,”he said. “So I don’t want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement. I want to know the facts.”
Watch:
Pres. Trump on initial Charlottesville statement: "Before I make a statement, I need the facts." abcn.ws/2fJlW42
“What about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, at the alt right? Do they have any guilt?” he asked. “What about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hands swinging clubs?”
“You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent,” the Dummy-in-Chief said.
Watch:
the rich asshole then said, “There are two sides to a story,” and added that there were “a lot of bad people in the other group too,” referring to the counter-protesters.
Watch:
He incredibly went on to say there are “good people” on both sides, including those marching in the white supremacist rally, the latter of which he said were treated unfairly in the media.
A white supremacist attacked a group of ‘very good people,’ one of which died. Heather Heyer’s life was cut short by a man who had hate in his heart but we’re sure the rich asshole thinks he’s a really cool dude.
Following the rich asshole’s lackadaisical and belated remarks after the domestic terrorist attack by one of his supporters, five business leaders have resigned from the amateur president’s Alliance for American Manufacturing Council. We can expect more of an exodus from Team the rich asshole after his stunning remarks today.
Feds demand information on visitors to anti-the rich asshole website
August 14, 2017
AJ Dellinger
Posted with permission from International Business Times
Web hosting provider DreamHost announced Monday that it is engaged in an ongoing legal battle with the United States Justice Department over its demand to see records of visitors to an anti-Trump website.
At the center of the conflict is disruptj20.org, a website run by a group of activists who were attempting to build “the framework needed for mass protests to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump and planning widespread direct actions to make that happen.”
The U.S. Justice Department, currently headed by Attorney General Sessions, has demanded DreamHost—the company currently hosting disruptj20.org—to provide all information available about the website, it’s owner and its visitors.
On July 12, a search warrant was issued by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia that required DreamHost disclose a significant amount of information that would be stored on the company’s servers. The warrant included a request for all files associated with the site, email accounts the contents of those accounts associated with the site and contact and billing information of the person who registered the site.
The warrant also demanded DreamHost disclose any information it had about people who simply visited the website. The Justice Department asked for the IP addresses of visitors, which would generally provides information about a visitor’s location and other potentially identifiable information, as well as contact information of people who used the site.
DreamHost was required to comply with the search warrant within 10 days of it being issued but has been fighting the broad demands the Justice Department has made. The company filed an opposition motion in response to the warrant, objecting to its requests.
“In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website,” the company said in a legal filing.
DreamHost said it challenged the warrant and attempted to quell the requests through “reason, logic and legal process.” In response to that effort, the Justice Department filed a motion on July 28 asking the court to compel DreamHost to produce the requested records, prompting the hosting company to respond with its filing opposing the motion.
More than 200 people were arrested on the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, though it’s not clear how many of those people were directly or even loosely associated to disruptj20.org or events and demonstrations the site was used to organize.
Under the Justice Department’s warrant, it wouldn’t matter if a person used the site with the intention to break the law or simply looked at it out of curiosity; the information of every visitor would be collected by the agency.
“The internet was founded—and continues to survive, in the main—on its democratizing ability to facilitate a free exchange of ideas. Internet users have a reasonable expectation that they will not get swept up in criminal investigations simply by exercising their right to political speech against the government,” DreamHost said in a statement.
“We intend to take whatever steps are necessary to support and shield these users from what is, in our view, a very unfocused search and an unlawful request for their personal information.”
Earlier this year, the Trump administration attempted to compel Twitter to unmask an anonymous user on its site who had been critical of President Trump. Twitter challenged the effort and the administration eventually dropped the request.
President the rich asshole Outraged By Inflatable the rich asshole Rat Set Up In His View Upon Arriving At the rich asshole Tower
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August 14, 2017
A giant inflatable rat that closely resembles President the rich asshole has appeared in New York City, near the rich asshole Tower. The rat has been strategically placed so that the rich asshole’s motorcade from New York City area airports to the rich asshole Tower will pass the rat, making it visible to anyone in the motorcade.
The rat is located in the spot highlighted below, on the route to the rich asshole Tower down a one way street. The area near the rich asshole Tower has been closed by the NYPD because of the rich asshole, but the rich asshole’s motorcade is naturally allowed to bypass the barricades to quickly enter the rich asshole Tower.
Mike Pence tried to clean up some rich asshole's refusal to directly condemn the racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, but he ended up blaming the media.
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Mike Pence continued his attempt to cover up for some rich asshole’s refusal to directly rebuke racial terrorism committed in his name, but when challenged by a reporter on his claim that the rich asshole had forcefully spoken out, he instead complained about “many in the media.”
the rich asshole has refused to call out the white supremacists and Nazis who rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia, and who killed a young woman. Instead he referred to “many sides” being involved in the case.
Appearing on NBC News, Pence told White House correspondent Peter Alexander that the rich asshole “stated clearly” that he condemns hate and violence committed by white supremacists. Alexander challenged Pence’s claim, pointing out that the rich asshole “hasn’t used the same words.”
In response, a visibly disturbed Pence insisted that the rich asshole had made his point clear, but Alexander noted that even the rich asshole’s fellow Republicans, like Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, have called out the rich asshole for his immoral and inadequate response to the attack.
Pence then complained, “Many in the media have spent an awful lot of time focusing on what the president said, and criticisms of what the president said, instead of criticizing those who brought that hatred and violence to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.”
PENCE: President the rich asshole, yesterday, stated clearly that he condemns hate and violence in all of its forms. We will not tolerate hatred and violence of groups like white supremacists or KKK or the neo-Nazis. These extremist, fringe groups have no place in the American debate.
ALEXANDER: But you said —
PENCE: And we condemn them in the strongest possible terms.
ALEXANDER: You say that, why won’t the president use those same words? Why hasn’t he?
PENCE: The American people heard the president yesterday speak plainly and condemn in his words in the strongest possible terms organizations that purvey hate and violence. I think the American people heard him, but what they also heard, Peter, was a president calling for national unity.
ALEXANDER: To be fair, some Americans heard that, others didn’t, including Orrin Hatch who wrote, “We should call evil by its name. My brother didn’t give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home.” Was it a mistake for the president not to more clear when he made those remarks, and if you were advising him now, would you suggest he do it differently?
PENCE: I think the president yesterday spoke into a national moment. Words that the American people needed to hear. That we condemn acts of violence, acts of hatred.
ALEXANDER: He said on “many sides.” Name those sides. What are the sides?
PENCE: Well, look, as I said today, we condemn, in the strongest terms, the hate and violence advocated by groups like white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and their ilk.
ALEXANDER: Well that’s one side, what’s the other side, when he says on “many sides”?
PENCE: Well, as you look throughout the course of recent years, we’ve seen protests turn violent. We’ve seen fringe groups use peaceful protest environment to bring violence, in some cases against police officers.
ALEXANDER: But only one group yesterday, Mr. Vice President, killed an American.
PENCE: And we’re bringing the full weight of the federal government to bear on investigating and prosecuting that individual for that heinous act that took the life of that innocent woman. I will tell you Peter that I take issue with the fact that many in the media are spending more time criticizing how the president addressed the issue —
ALEXANDER: But this is Orrin Hatch and Cory Gardner, sir. It’s not me. I’m reading their quotes.
PENCE: Many in the media have spent an awful lot of time focusing on what the president said, and criticisms of what the president said, instead of criticizing those who brought that hatred and violence to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.
This isn’t the first time Pence has put himself in the role of batting clean-up in service of the rich asshole’s bigotry. When the rich asshole refused to directly condemn the anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish cemeteries — after a statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day omitting references to Jewish victims of the ethnic cleansing — the White House responded by sending Pence to the site in order to take some of the heat off the rich asshole.
The strategy of evasion and misdirection won’t change the fact that the rich asshole’s bigotry has again been exposed and revealed. He continues to live down to his own rhetoric, while refusing to condemn a major source of his support. Mike Pence cannot fix that.
JEFF SESSIONS CRUMBLES AS ATTEMPT TO DEFEND THE RICH ASSHOLE’S NON-REACTION TO NAZIS GOES TERRIBLY WRONG (VIDEO)
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Americans are still waiting for some rich asshole to denounce the white supremacy the country witnessed in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend when a white nationalist rally broke out in violence and chaos. But while many are criticizing the rich asshole for his refusal to condemn racism, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the disgraceful move to defend the rich asshole earlier today on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
In Sessions’ ABC appearance, Sessions reacted to the fatal attack that happened at the Charlottesville rally, in which a counter protester was killed after a driver rammed a car into a crowd of people protesting against white supremacy. Sessions called the act “domestic terrorism” and stated that “racism, white supremacy is totally unacceptable” – which was a far stronger statement than what the rich asshole had given, when the POTUS simply criticized “hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, on many sides.” This prompted questions about why the rich asshole had not given a stronger statement, as host David Muir asked:
What sides was he talking about here?”
There is no good way to defend the rich asshole’s weak response, and Sessions practically crumbled as he stated that the rich asshole was talking about ‘problems in America’ that had been happening “before some rich asshole, before Barack Obama.”
Muir refused to accept this and asked Sessions about the rich asshole’s “many sides” statement. Sessions responded:
He explicitly condemned the kind of ideology behind these movements of Nazism, white supremacy, the KKK. That his is the unequivocal position, he totally opposes those kinds of values. His statement yesterday again affirmed that, and I think you’ll hear that again today.”
However, this quickly fell apart, as Charlie Rose brilliantly pointed out that the rich asshole had never actually said any of those things. Rose said, “But that’s the spokesman, not the president,” obliterating Sessions’ argument. You can watch Sessions unravel below:
the rich asshole admits he only belatedly condemned Nazis because “truly bad” media made him do it
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Intel CEO resigns from the rich asshole’s American Manufacturing Council — third since Charlottesville attack
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“My request—my plea—to everyone involved in our political system is this: set scoring political points aside and focus on what is best for the nation as a whole,” Krzanich wrote in his press release. “The current environment must change, or else our nation will become a shadow of what it once was and what it still can and should be.”
Intel CEO resigns from the rich asshole’s American Manufacturing Council — third since Charlottesville attack
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A third CEO has departed from some rich asshole’s American Manufacturing Council since the president’s sluggish disavowal of white supremacists in the aftermath of the Charlottesville attack on Saturday.
Brian Krzanich, Chief Executive Officer of the technology company Intel, stepped down from the council “to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues,” according to a press release issued Monday.
“I have already made clear my abhorrence at the recent hate-spawned violence in Charlottesville, and earlier today I called on all leaders to condemn the white supremacists and their ilk who marched and committed violence,” he said. “I resigned because I want to make progress, while many in Washington seem more concerned with attacking anyone who disagrees with them.”
the rich asshole took two days to come out and unequivocally disavow white supremacy after a Nazi sympathizer drove into a crowd of counter-protestors and anti-fascists, killing 32-year old Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others. The president has received bipartisan condemnation for his slow—and seemingly forced—response.
Krzanich joins two other CEOs—Under Armour’s Kevin Plank and Merck & Co.’s Kenneth C. Frazier—in stepping down from the council following last weekend’s attack. the rich asshole on Monday attacked Krzanich on Twitter for leaving the group of advisors.
“My request—my plea—to everyone involved in our political system is this: set scoring political points aside and focus on what is best for the nation as a whole,” Krzanich wrote in his press release. “The current environment must change, or else our nation will become a shadow of what it once was and what it still can and should be.”
Under Armour CEO steps down from the rich asshole’s American Manufacturing Council
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Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank on Monday joined Merck & Co. CEO Kenneth C. Frazier in stepping down from the American Manufacturing Council after some rich asshole’s slow disavowal of white supremacists in the aftermath of a violent rally in Charlottesville, VA on Saturday.
“I am appreciative of the opportunity to have served, but have decided to step down from the council,” Plank wrote Monday. “I love our country and our company and will continue to focus my efforts on inspiring every person that they can do anything through the power of sport which promotes unity diversity and inclusion.”
Plank’s announcement followed Frazier’s decision early Monday to remove himself from the council—a move that prompted the rich asshole to tweet a sharp attack on the Merck CEO.
Read Plank’s full statement below, via Under Armour:
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Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank on Monday joined Merck & Co. CEO Kenneth C. Frazier in stepping down from the American Manufacturing Council after some rich asshole’s slow disavowal of white supremacists in the aftermath of a violent rally in Charlottesville, VA on Saturday.
“I am appreciative of the opportunity to have served, but have decided to step down from the council,” Plank wrote Monday. “I love our country and our company and will continue to focus my efforts on inspiring every person that they can do anything through the power of sport which promotes unity diversity and inclusion.”
Plank’s announcement followed Frazier’s decision early Monday to remove himself from the council—a move that prompted the rich asshole to tweet a sharp attack on the Merck CEO.
Read Plank’s full statement below, via Under Armour:
the rich asshole retweets prominent alt-right conspiracy theorist after sluggish disavowal of Charlottesville attack
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some rich asshole on Monday retweeted a post by prominent alt-right activist Jack Posobiec, despite weathering bipartisan criticism over his tepid response to a white supremacist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia that killed one and wounded 19 others.
the rich asshole took two full days to unequivocally disavow the white supremacists who violently attacked counter-protesters over the weekend. His retweet is unlikely to quell bipartisan concerns that the president is not forceful enough in his condemnation of the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who help elevate him to the presidency.
On Monday, the rich asshole railed against the “fake news media” which he argued is full of “truly bad people” who will never be satisfied by his remarks in Charlottesville. With his decision to retweet Posobiec—who organized the alt-right DeploraBall, discredited anti-the rich asshole protestors by planting a fake “rape Melania” and pushed the bogus “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory (among other controversies)—the president’s “fake news” tweet will likely prove a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Some reactions:
Not to mention Seth Rich conspiracy theorist as well. twitter.com/yappelbaum/sta…
David Duke bashes the rich asshole for giving into ‘fake news’ bullies after calling out his beloved KKK
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Former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke.
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President some rich asshole is now so unpopular, even former KKK leaders are mad at him.
As reported by Huffington Post, former Klan leader David Duke took to social media to condemn the rich asshole for finally naming the KKK and neo-Nazis as the perpetrators of violence at Saturday’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He first went on Twitter to berate the president who, just days before, he said inspired the “Unite the Right” rally.
It's amazing to see how the media is able to bully the President of the United States into going along with their FAKE NEWS narrative. twitter.com/realredelephan…
Duke then moved over to Periscope, where he posted a slur-laden video claiming that white nationalists are not violent and that it’s “just ridiculous” that the rich asshole felt compelled to make Monday’s statement.
“President the rich asshole, please, for God’s sake, don’t feel like you need to say these things,” Duke said on Periscope. “It’s not going to do you any good.”
On Saturday, HuffPost noted, Duke appeared to warn the rich asshole against condemning white nationalists in the wake of the attack that killed one and injured dozens.
I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
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