Tag: Trump enablers

Pam Bondi’s Convention Performance Reached New Level Of Absurdity

You might have thought it would be hard to outdo the absurdity of Kimberly Guilfoyle screaming at the top of her lungs to an empty auditorium on the opening night of the Republican National Convention. But on Tuesday, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi reached new heights of absurdity in the second night of the event in a speech filled with unfettered hypocrisy.

Bondi returned to a theme of the Trump campaign that has largely been absent from the convention thus far: Joe Biden’s supposed corruption. As one of Trump’s lawyers during the impeachment trial, she tried to press the case against Biden at the center of the president’s high crimes. Trump tried to get Ukraine to investigate allegations that Biden, as vice president, corruptly sought to have a Ukrainian prosecutor fired to protect his son, who was working on the board of the energy company Burisma in the region.

The allegations against the Bidens have been repeatedly debunked. It was Trump’s demand that Ukraine investigate the matter that was deemed impeachable by the Democratic-led House of Representatives. Even one Senate Republican, Mitt Romney, agreed. Continue reading.

How Trump’s enablers are trying to rewrite the history of his failed coronavirus response before our eyes

AlterNet logoLately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the efforts of white people in the confederate states to rewrite history after the Civil War. Combined with a reign of terror, they were largely successful in re-establishing white supremacy, as we have seen in their defense of things like confederate statues and flags over the last few years. Just this week, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed a proclamation declaring April to be “Confederate Heritage Month.”

In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, we’re witnessing a similar attempt to rewrite our recent history with this pandemic. While many of us have been horrified at the way Donald Trump denied the threat during the first two crucial months of its spread here in the United States, his enablers in right-wing news are spreading propaganda like this, which comes from Brian Kennedy.

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump’s instincts have been far superior to the mass of government health care professionals who, to varying degrees, seem to have either their own agenda, were ill-prepared, or were trapped in a bureaucratic mindset that prevented them from addressing the crisis. This matters because we are about to engage in a full-throated debate over when to re-open the U.S. economy. Here is the common-sense case for doing it at the end of April.

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Hundreds of religious leaders demonstrate at White House gates to demand Trump and his enablers ‘repent of their sins’

“We must show up in person to deliver a prophetic indictment.”

Hundreds of interfaith leaders stood ready to face arrest outside the White House on Wednesday where they delivered a “moral indictment to an immoral administration.”

The march and rally, dubbed Moral Witness Wednesday, was organized to denounce the President Donald Trump administration’s cruel and unjust policies including the detaining of migrant children and attacks on healthcare access. Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of the Shalom Center, initially conceived of the action, organizations say.

In a tweet ahead of the protest, Barber, who’s also president of social justice group Repairers of the Breach and a co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, explained the motivation for the action: “Jeremiah 22 tells us that when political leaders abuse their office & hurt the poor, we must show up in person to deliver a prophetic indictment. Now is the time. Join us June 12.”

View the complete June 13 article by Andrea Germanos from Common Dreams on the AlterNet website here.