Teamsters President to Speak at Republican Convention (Bloomberg) -- Teamsters union president Sean O’Brien will speak at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next month, former President Donald Trump announced, a move that could undercut President Joe Biden’s appeal to blue-collar, union workers. The influential labor group has yet to endorse a presidential candidate, but O’Brien had requested to speak at both party conventions. It’s unclear if Democrats have invited him to speak at their gathering in August. Biden won the union’s endorsement in 2020.
When I sin it's like I walk down this path sweeping away my footprints with a broom to get rid of the evidence, that's what the blood of christ is all about, and when I continue to sin, I continue to wash it away with the blood broom excuse.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-facing-more-trouble-shady-210920355.html Trump Facing More Trouble After Shady Meeting With Oil Executives Hafiz Rashid Mon, June 24, 2024 at 11:09 PM GMT+2·2 min read Donald Trump may be in trouble for asking oil executives to donate $1 billion to his campaign in April. Citizen for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit watchdog organization, filed a complaint with the Justice Department alleging criminal bribery regarding Trump’s meeting with industry leaders. The former president and convicted felon told them the $1 billion would be part of a deal in exchange for loosened regulations of the oil industry. In a statement, CREW’s president Noah Bookbinder said Trump’s actions towards oil executives “follow a pattern.” “Donald Trump’s actions here follow a pattern of Trump opening himself up to corrupt influence, courting conflicts of interest, and using official positions to enrich himself–and in this case may run afoul of the criminal law,” Bookbinder said. The complaint was sent as a letter to the chief of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, Corey Amundson, as well as FBI Director Christopher Wray. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden, the respective chairs of the Senate Budget and Finance Committees, are also investigating the meeting, with Whitehouse calling it the “definition of corruption.” And he has a point. Trump is effectively selling laws to big business, with oil executives already drafting executive orders for him to sign immediately if he gets reelected. Trump reportedly promised these executives that he’d scrap a ban on permits for new liquefied natural gas exports on the first day, overturn new tailpipe emission limits designed to help the transition to electric vehicles, and offer more leases for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Trump’s first term was full of giveaways to the fossil fuel industry, so why is he asking for cash now? It’s because he’s short on cash, already funneling his donor contributions to the lawyers concerned with his many legal issues. As much as his rise in politics came from attacking the wealthy elite establishment, he’s fully willing to cozy up to billionaires and wealthy business leaders as long as they are willing to pay up.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-chicken-presidential-debate-probably-080629745.html Opinion Will Trump chicken out of the presidential debate? Probably. He's a Grade-A coward. Rex Huppke, USA TODAY Tue, June 25, 2024 at 4:06 AM EDT·5 min read The breathless advance coverage of the first debate between President Joe Biden and a well-known convicted felon has overlooked one key question: Will Donald Trump actually show up? Until we see him set foot on the debate stage Thursday night in Atlanta, there’s a strong chance the former president chickens out and runs to the safety of a rally where he can comfortably air his myriad grievances and extract money from his gullible fans. It wouldn’t be the first time he has blown off a debate. He refused to attend the second of three scheduled presidential debates in 2020 because it would be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And this year, he blew off all the GOP presidential primary debates. Trump blasts out conspiracy theories ahead of a debate he clearly fears Former President Donald Trump campaigns for reelection in Philadelphia on June 22, 2024. Thursday's debate is on CNN with hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash moderating. There will be no audience, and the microphones will be cut off so only one candidate can speak at a time. These are all things Trump agreed to, but that hasn't stopped him and his allies from using unhinged conspiracy theories to lay down suppressive fire ahead of what they’re already claiming will be a “rigged” debate. It’s on CNN, so it’s rigged against Trump! The moderators are Trump haters! Best of all, of course, is the now-gospel belief in the right-wing media ecosystem that Biden will be juiced up on some kind of magical elixir of youth. Presidential debate prep: Trump spent the weekend lying. Biden prepped. Thursday's debate will be interesting. “He’s gonna be so pumped up,” Trump said of Biden at a recent Wisconsin rally. “He’s gonna be pumped up.” With what? The Super Soldier Serum that turned Steve Rogers into Captain America? Trump's MAGA minions peddle pathetic claim Biden will be on drugs President Joe Biden on June 17, 2024. Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said the former president is always “demonstrating elite stamina” and “does not need to be programmed by staff or shot up with chemicals like Joe Biden does.” What are the chemicals? Who knows? The lunkheaded speculation runs from simple caffeine to cocaine to vague “performance-enhancing drugs.” Where is the evidence? There is none. When you live in MAGA-Fantasyland, no evidence is required, just fever-swamp daydreams. Trump has called for a drug test prior to the debate, ironic coming from a guy who keeps getting on rally stages and babbling nonsensically about sharks and Hannibal Lecter. We must stop pretending Trump is a normal candidate But despite all this preemptive excuse-making, many in the news media continue to presume Trump will show up at Thursday night’s debate and behave like a normal political candidate. He won’t because he is not in any way, nor has he ever been, a normal political candidate. Presidential debate banner on the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, ahead of the first debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on June 27, 2024. He is a narcissist and a liar. He is a convicted felon and an election denier. He is wholly disinterested in policy and singularly focused on grifting his followers and covering his own behind. Either Trump won't show up at the debate, or he'll storm out There are only a few honest scenarios that can be teased out ahead of the debate. The first, as mentioned before, is Trump turns tail and runs away from the debate, screaming about how it’s unfair and he’s treated so horribly and everyone is out to get him. A WHAAAAAAAAmbulance is dispatched to pick him up and deliver him to a nearby MAGA rally, where he delivers a record-breaking two continuous hours of woe-is-me-ing. Young voters are watching: Gen Z will be watching Trump and Biden debate. Will the old guys say the right things? The second possibility is Trump shows up to the debate and then, after having his microphone cut off a couple of times or hearing a question about his own behavior that he considers unfair, storms off the stage, creating a dramatic, faux-tough-guy scene he can use to raise more money to pay his copious legal bills. And if Trump does stay, it will be all noise and chaos and lies The third possibility is Trump shows up and goes through the whole debate, acting like the oafish boar he is, hollering when his mic is off, making up fact-free nonsense about “rigged elections” and a “Biden crime wave” and whatever else passes through his spider-filled brain. Then, afterward, he rails against the moderators, makes up more lies about Biden being on drugs, claims complete and total victory, says that “many are calling it the greatest debate performance they’ve ever seen,” and then puts out a slew of transparently scam-like fundraising emails trumpeting how the media and the deep state are trying to destroy him. How some still pretend there’s anything remotely normal about Trump is beyond me. The only thing he is at this point is predictable. You know he'll do all these crazy things because those are EXACTLY the same crazy things he has always done. The bar for Biden at the debate has been set so low a snake could trip over it. But despite all the “Sleepy Joe” rhetoric coming from Trump and his Republican allies, it’s clear they know Thursday night might not end well for Trump. Opinion alerts: Get columns from your favorite columnists + expert analysis on top issues, delivered straight to your device through the USA TODAY app. Don't have the app? Download it for free from your app store. That’s why my money is on him fleeing like the coward he has repeatedly shown himself to be. He’s going to say he won, no matter what. Why bother showing up in the first place?
Well at least you said "most likely" and not "most definitely". As for what he will do, the fat orange man hasn't sung .... yet!!
Trump will be Trump if he loses the debate that he requested, got, and then agreed to. What that means is that if he loses the debate he will complain the rules were unfair and that CNN was out to get him. Also, because of the "mute rule" and "no live audience"...Trump will be prone to having a temper tantrum during the debate and I wouldn't be shocked if he senses he's losing the debate that he storms off stage or just say he's done...the debate is over. The one thing Trump can not do or his campaign should advise him not to do...personal attacks because it could open the door for Biden to do the same by throwing in a few replies about Trump becoming the only former U.S. President and potentially the first U.S. President that is a convicted felon 34x... If the debate goes there, that's when Trump's temper tantrum will show up after he starts personally attacking instead of sticking to the issues that America wants them to talk about. Trump's best temper tantrums wrbtrader
"Convicted Felon" ---- you can get a lot of mileage out of that one. Just like "dictator." Problem is, my dog would be a convicted felon in a NYC jury trial if she took a leak on a sidewalk in Central Park wearing a red MAGA doggy sweater... even if peeing on the sidewalk was a misdemeanor at best and had never been prosecuted. See how that works? Learn to think critically Alice... that brain-washing you get, or perhaps in your case that you're trying to promote.... is unhealthy girlfriend.