President Donald Trump

**qwerty** · 11-05-2020, 01:40 PM

There are three possibilities regarding the Conways:
1. They somehow manage to rigorously suppress any impulse to discuss politics with each other.
2. She deserves an Oscar.
3. They find political arguments to be arousing and after screaming at each other for an hour or so every evening, jump into bed together and go at it like a pair of bunnies.

**baldrick** · 11-05-2020, 02:58 PM

one hundred tweets in one day - the cnut is a lunatic

would get fired from macdonalds

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/...048709633?s=21

**Dragonfly** · 11-05-2020, 03:26 PM

Since Banana is having trouble doing basic Google search

here it is for Dr Raout

Didier Raoult — Wikipedia

Awards

2002 : European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Excellence Award (France)
2003 : Jean Valade Prize (Fondation pour la recherche médicale, France)
2005 : Medical grand round (Chicago, USA)
2008 : Sackler International Prize (Tel Aviv University)
2009 : Eloi Collery Prize (Académie Nationale de Médecine)
2010 : Inserm Prize (France)
2015 : Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Louis D. (Institut de France)

He was "classified among the ten leading French researchers by the journal Nature, for the number of his publications (a credit of more than two thousand) and for his citations number", in 2008, as reported by a daily economic newspaper covering his work.[13]

According to the Thomson Reuters source "Highly Cited Researchers List", Raoult is among the most influential researchers in his field and his publications are among the 1% most consulted in academic journals. He is one of the 99 most cited microbiologists in the world and one of the 73 most highly cited French scientists.[14] He is a world reference for Q fever and Whipple's disease.[15] In April 2017, on Google Scholar citations,[16] he cumulated over 104,000 citations and an h index of 148. He is also on the list of the 400 most cited authors in the biomedical world.[17]

According to the analysis of the publications from 2007 to 2013, by Kathleen Gransalke, for Labtimes (2017/02), Raoult appears at the top of the European classification (including Israel) with 18,128 citations.[18]

He totalizes more than 2,300 indexed publications including 8 in Science, and 3 in Nature, the two most visible scientific journals according to the N&S index of Shanghai's ranking.[19]
On 19 November 2010, he was awarded the "Grand prix de l'Inserm" for his career.[8] In 2015, Raoult was awarded the "Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Louis D." of the Institut de France. He shared the €450.000 prize money with biologist Chris Bowler from the Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.[9]

In 2014, according to ISI Web of Knowledge, he is the most cited microbiologist in Europe, and the 7th worldwide.[10][11]

Didier Raoult (born March 13, 1952)[1] is a French physician and microbiologist. He holds M.D. and Ph.D. degrees and specializes in infectious diseases. In 1984, Raoult created the Rickettsia Unit at Aix-Marseille University (AMU). He also teaches infectious diseases in the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University. Since 2008, Raoult has been the director of the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes. He gained significant worldwide attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for promoting Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease.

**Klondyke** · 11-05-2020, 08:40 PM

Damn Trump. Or also something else?

Originally Posted by Cujo

Some of it is due to Trump and his hapless and corrupt collection of grifters, buffoons, sycophants, lobbyists and relatives.

But there are also deeper roots.

American workers are far less unionized than workers in other advanced economies

The coronavirus has been especially potent in the US because America is the only industrialized nation lacking universal healthcare. Many families have been reluctant to see doctors or check into emergency rooms for fear of racking up large bills.

America is also the only one of 22 advanced nations failing to give all workers some form of paid sick leave. As a result, many American workers have remained on the job when they should have been home.

Adding to this is the skimpiness of unemployment benefits in America – providing less support in the first year of unemployment than those in any other advanced country.

American workplaces are also more dangerous. Even before Covid-19 ripped through meatpackers and warehouses, fatality rates were higher among American workers than European.

Even before the pandemic robbed Americans of their jobs and incomes, average wage growth in the US had lagged behind average wage growth in most other advanced countries. Since 1980, American workers’ share of total national income has declined more than in any other rich nation.

In other nations, unions have long pushed for safer working conditions and higher wages. But American workers are far less unionized than workers in other advanced economies. Only 6.4% of private-sector workers in America belong to a union, compared with more than 26% in Canada, 37% in Italy, 67% in Sweden, and 25% in Britain.

So who and what’s to blame for the worst avoidable loss of life in American history?

Partly, Donald Trump’s malfeasance.

But the calamity is also due to America’s longer-term failure to provide its people the basic support they need.

**helge** · 11-05-2020, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I bet when she gets home she says to George "the dumb shit believed me again!" and counts the money.

Agree
Probably the same as with "the cooked cat" James Carville and wife Mary Matalin

**Cujo** · 11-05-2020, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by qwerty

There are three possibilities regarding the Conways:
1. They somehow manage to rigorously suppress any impulse to discuss politics with each other.
2. She deserves an Oscar.
3. They find political arguments to be arousing and after screaming at each other for an hour or so every evening, jump into bed together and go at it like a pair of bunnies.

Who gives a fuck for crissakes. This is the Trump thread.

**harrybarracuda** · 12-05-2020, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by Cujo

Who gives a fuck for crissakes. This is the Trump thread.

Lighten up snowflake, one is a baldy orange cunto mouthpiece, the other his arch enemy.

**tomcat** · 12-05-2020, 08:10 AM

I've Seen Trump's Tax Returns and You Should, Too

The Supreme Court can help to make financial transparency a requirement, now that this presidency has demonstrated we can’t rely on tradition.

By Timothy L. O'Brien
May 11, 2020, 6:00 PM GMT+
https://www.bloomberg.com/asia

The contours of the president's finances are still hidden in the rough. Photographer: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images
Timothy L. O'Brien is a senior columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.

President Donald Trump took to Twitter early Sunday morning, elated: “So great to see our Country starting to open up again!”

He shared that sentiment with nearly 80 million followers and attached it to a tweet from one of his golf clubs, Trump National, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. “Game on! We are thrilled to announce the reopening of @trumpgolfla beginning Saturday May 9th!,” the club tweeted. “We look forward to welcoming you back. Book your tee time now!”

Sometimes a tweet is just a tweet. And sometimes it’s an advertisement for your business. And sometimes, when the president of the United States promotes his business on Twitter while overseeing the federal response to a pandemic gutting the economy, it’s a financial conflict of interest.

Is Trump pushing businesses to reopen despite ongoing perils attached to the coronavirus because it’s best for the country? Or is it because Covid-19 has battered his family’s fortunes? Or is it simply because he has the upcoming presidential election in mind? Who knows. But we are more than three years into this presidency and the same questions that have hung over Trump from the moment he launched his bid for the White House still linger: What are the contours of his personal finances and how do they inform his actions and policies?

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will help shape our understanding of some of this when it hears arguments involving efforts by Congress and a New York prosecutor to get access to Trump’s tax returns, bank documents and bookkeeping records. Trump’s lawyers and the Justice Department contend that the president shouldn’t have to comply with subpoenas — or can block his financial advisers from complying — because the requests are overly intrusive or undermine the sweeping immunity from criminal investigations he should enjoy while in office.

Congress says it wants Trump’s tax returns so it can craft legislation modernizing federal ethics and disclosure laws and protecting the 2020 election from foreign interference. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is conducting a probe into the Trump Organization’s efforts to mask hush money paid to two women who said they had sexual encounters with Trump. He wants to explore whether Trump’s team falsified business records as part of those maneuvers.

While the Supreme Court’s decision will likely touch on crucial Constitutional matters such as the separation of powers and the legislative branch’s ability to monitor the executive branch, the animating force guiding the court in this matter may be even more basic: whether or not any president is above the rule of law. If the court’s decision pivots off of that, then you’d do well to read George Conway’s recent op-ed in the Washington Post. “The Constitution is concerned with protecting the presidency, not the person who happens to be the president,” Conway writes. “That’s because no one in this country is above the law.”

The Constitution also makes it clear that presidents can’t use the most powerful office in the land to line their wallets. Articles I and II forbid presidents from accepting what the 18th century called “emoluments” and what the 21st century calls “bribes” from foreign or domestic sources. The Constitution’s ban on emoluments in and of itself requires presidents to be transparent about their finances and circumspect about their business dealings.

While federal conflict-of-interest laws dating from the Civil War era and updated in 1978 in the wake of the Watergate scandal also require presidents to disclose assets and business interests – and to have potential conflicts monitored by a federal ethics watchdog — much of the disclosure remains voluntary. Presidents remain exempt from federal conflict-of-interest statutes, so practices like placing assets in a blind trust (which Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, both of the Bushes and Bill Clinton did) or releasing personal income tax returns (which every president since Carter has done) is essentially voluntary. Financial transparency in the White House is a tradition but not a requirement.

Trump chose to buck tradition, of course. He hasn’t released his tax returns and the trust controlling his business interests is anything but blind — it’s overseen by his two eldest sons and his longtime accountant. Litigants typically aren’t hesitant to release information or documents that reflect well on themselves, so the natural question arising from Trump’s stonewalling in the matters the Supreme Court will hear is, “What’s he hiding?”

Trump sued me for libel in 2006 for a biography I wrote, “TrumpNation,” claiming the book unfairly and intentionally misrepresented his track record as a businessman and lowballed the size of his fortune. The suit was dismissed in 2011.

During the course of the litigation, Trump resisted releasing his tax returns and other financial records. My lawyers got the returns, and while I can’t disclose specifics, I imagine that Trump is hesitant to release them now because they would reveal how robust his businesses actually are and shine a light on some of his foreign sources of income.

Deutsche Bank AG, one of the firms Trump’s lawyers are trying to stifle in their arguments before the Supreme Court, also turned over documents in my case — including its own assessment of Trump’s wealth that pegged his fortune at $788 million in 2004, well below the $3 billion he told them he had at the time. Deutsche is the only major global bank to have continued doing business with Trump since the early 1990s and is conversant with his financial comings and goings since then.
Mazars USA is Trump’s outside accounting firm. Trump’s lawyers will argue before the Supreme Court that it too shouldn’t comply with subpoena requests for documents.

Mazars, which boasts a history ProPublica recently described as “colorful,” turned over documents in my litigation with Trump as well (through a predecessor company with which Mazars later merged). That trove included a financial statement Trump routinely used to substantiate his claims to fabulous wealth. The document, it turned out, was drafted without regard for standard accounting practices or other factors that might have diminished the future president’s claims.

If all of this information from Trump’s taxes, bankers and accountants was good enough for me over a decade ago, it’s certainly good enough for Congress and the Manhattan district attorney today. It’s also good enough for the American people. If we’ve learned one thing from the Trump presidency it’s that it’s no longer enough to rely on tradition when it comes to the Oval Office and financial transparency. Financial transparency should be a requirement for all presidents going forward — and the Supreme Court would do well to help pave the way.

**thailazer** · 12-05-2020, 08:26 AM

Glad she stood up for herself. She shows a whole lot more spine than, gasp, the leader of the free world.....

**David48atTD** · 12-05-2020, 09:27 AM

^ Coward!

If the YouTube above doesn't play in your country, here is another link.

Coronavirus: Trump ends press conference after reporters challenge him on testing

**cyrille** · 12-05-2020, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by tomcat

The contours of the president's finances are still hidden in the rough.

Sadly not the rest of his contours.

**baldrick** · 12-05-2020, 11:17 AM

drumpf has been on twitter for years and it does not forget

**harrybarracuda** · 12-05-2020, 12:01 PM

WTF is "Obamagate", it sounds really bad.

“Uh, Obamagate. It’s been going on for a long time,” he began. “It’s been going on from before I even got elected, and it’s a disgrace that it happened, and if you look at what’s gone on, and if you look at now, all this information that’s being released — and from what I understand, that’s only the beginning — some terrible things happened, and it should never be allowed to happen in our country again.”

**baldrick** · 12-05-2020, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

WTF is "Obamagate", it sounds really bad.

What is 'Obamagate' and why is Trump so worked up about it? | US news | The Guardian

Got caught doing what, exactly?

Trump also retweeted Buck Sexton, a rightwing podcaster who asserted that “the outgoing president used his last weeks in office to target incoming officials and sabotage the new administration”. The president then added his own commentary: “The biggest political crime in American history, by far!”

In other remarks on Thursday last week, Trump claimed without evidence that Flynn had been targeted by the Obama administration in an attempt to take down Trump himself. He bandied around terms such as “treason” and “human scum”.

Flynn, a retired general, pleaded guilty to making false statements in a charge brought by then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller. He now insists he did not lie and wants to back out of the plea.

Trump and his supporters have seized on recently disclosed FBI documents from interviews with Flynn, claiming they show he was the victim of “dirty cops”. One handwritten note from the FBI’s then-director of counterintelligence said: “What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”]

**raycarey** · 12-05-2020, 03:37 PM

it's nothing but an attempt to distract from:

80,000 deaths and rising
incredible fuck up on testing
33,000,000 jobs lost and rising
no wall
no obamacare replacement
n. korea still nuclear threat to region
iran situation worse
opioid addiction and deaths still out of control

so they're trying to shift focus to the guy who left office 3.5 years ago.

good luck with that.

**harrybarracuda** · 12-05-2020, 05:01 PM

Do you think baldy orange cunto will start being careful?

Fuck no, he'll whine like a stuck pig when his twatters get labelled "bullshit".

Twitter said Monday it plans to put labels and warning messages on some tweets that contain disputed or misleading information related to Covid-19, even if it's tweeted by President Donald Trump.

Twitter (TWTR) announced in March that it would remove Covid-19 tweets that could cause a "direct risk to people's health or well-being."

Starting Monday, it will use labels and warning messages "to provide additional explanations or clarifications in situations where the risks of harm associated with a Tweet are less severe but where people may still be confused or misled by the content."

Twitter says it will label misleading coronavirus tweets — even if they're from Trump - CNN

**misskit** · 12-05-2020, 06:45 PM

Got a chuckle out of this at Raw Story. It only occurred to him now?

Trump freaks out over possibility of Pelosi becoming president if he and Pence get sick from COVID-19

President Donald Trump started off Tuesday morning with a series of tweets, including one ranting against the presidential line of succession laid out in the U.S. Constitution.

Trump reacted to a report noting that Pelosi, as speaker of the House, was third in line to be president after Vice President Mike Pence, whose spokeswoman tested positive for the coronavirus — as have other staffers who serve in the West Wing.

“Then we must be very careful,” Trump tweeted. “Crazy Nancy would be a total disaster, and the USA will never be a Communist Country!”

MORE Trump freaks out over possibility of Pelosi becoming president if he and Pence get sick from COVID-19 – Raw Story

**raycarey** · 12-05-2020, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by misskit

Got a chuckle out of this at Raw Story. It only occurred to him now?

i'd say there's an even chance he had no idea.

**misskit** · 12-05-2020, 06:57 PM

He is just soooo stupid.

**Saint Willy** · 12-05-2020, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by misskit

He is just soooo stupid.

But routinely gets away with it.

**raycarey** · 12-05-2020, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

But routinely gets away with it.

because 38-43% of the population are also sooooo stupid....and the shareholders of the conglomerates that own the media companies love the ad revenue.

**harrybarracuda** · 12-05-2020, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by raycarey

i'd say there's an even chance he had no idea.

Those are rather low odds I fancy.

**Cujo** · 12-05-2020, 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

WTF is "Obamagate", it sounds really bad.

Well don't ask the shitgibbon, he doesn't know either.

**thailazer** · 13-05-2020, 04:27 AM

Flush . . .

**beachbound** · 13-05-2020, 06:29 AM

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