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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2021 19:54:57 GMT
Former President Donald Trump tried so hard to emulate Russian President Vladimir Putin while in office.
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“He saw Putin as the kind of epitome of the badass populist, frankly, you know, the kind of person that he wanted to be: super-rich, super powerful, no checks and balances, and essentially being able to stay in power forever,” Fiona Hill tells Molly Jong-Fast on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal.
But according to the former U.S. national security council official specializing in Russian and U.S. relations, the relationship was and is one-sided.
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2021 22:53:44 GMT
Senate Republicans, with a few exceptions, are hoping that former President Trump does not announce his intention to run again for president.
These GOP senators definitely don’t want to see Trump announce a bid before the 2022 midterm elections, fearing that could sink their hopes of winning back the Senate.
More broadly, they’re generally reluctant to see him on the ballot in 2024 at all because of his track record with independent and swing voters.
Several Republican senators, who requested anonymity to discuss Trump frankly, said they don’t want to see Trump return as the party’s standard bearer.
“I think we’re better off when he’s not part of any story,” said a Republican senator, who said his view is widely shared in the GOP conference.
“He’s a clinical narcissist. He threw away the election in the debate with Biden and he threw away the Senate out of spite,” the lawmaker added, referring to Trump’s first against Biden, which many Republican senators viewed as a disaster, and his influence on Republican voter turnout in the Georgia special election.
One thing is crystal clear: Most GOP senators think Trump announcing a bid before the midterms would hurt them.
“The 2022 election ought to be about the Biden administration and its rolling disasters so anything that would detract from the public being focused on what Democratic governance is doing to this country would be ill-advised,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a Trump ally, when asked about the possibility Trump could announce his campaign in the next year.
Johnson, a top Democratic target next year, hasn’t decided whether to run for reelection, but expects Democrats to make the Wisconsin Senate race all about Trump.
“That’s what they always want to do. They want to distract and most of the mainstream media will be trying to do that as well. We need to focus — not only Republicans but the country needs to focus on what a disaster the Biden administration has been,” he said.
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Post by Admin on Nov 15, 2021 0:32:46 GMT
Donald Trump’s family hotel company has reached an agreement to sell the rights to its glittering Washington, D.C., hotel for $375 million, according to people familiar with the matter. CGI Merchant Group, a Miami-based investment firm, is in contract to acquire the hotel lease for the Trump International Hotel, which is located a short walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. CGI intends to remove the Trump name, and it has reached a deal with Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. to have the property branded and managed by Hilton’s Waldorf Astoria group, these people said. The hotel is owned by the federal government, but with extensions the lease runs close to 100 years. It is housed in the former Old Post Office and it features some of the largest guest rooms in the capital. The sale, which people briefed on the matter said is expected to close in the first quarter, comes as Democratic-controlled House committees have been investigating and holding hearings on potential conflicts of interest and emoluments issues surrounding former President Trump. The Trump Organization has said it didn’t market the hotel to foreign dignitaries and that it writes a check to the U.S. Treasury Department for money made from foreign government guests. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has been examining the lease terms between the Trump Organization and the federal government’s General Services Administration for use of the Old Post Office. The deal predates Mr. Trump’s entry into national politics, but the committee is probing how well Mr. Trump managed conflicts of interest while president. It couldn’t be determined if the proposed sale would have an impact on the hearings, and representatives for the House committee didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter.
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Post by Admin on Nov 20, 2021 18:47:07 GMT
"CONGRATULATIONS TO KYLE": In a brief statement issued Friday night via his political action committee, former President Donald Trump offered his support for Kyle Rittenhouse, and for the teenager's acquittal of murder and other charges in a Kenosha, Wisconsin, courtroom earlier in the day. Trump on Kyle Rittenhouse: "They very violently attacked him" President Trump on Kyle Rittenhouse: "He was trying to get away from them, I guess, looks like. And he fell, and then they very violently attacked him... He was in very big trouble. He probably would have been killed."
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Post by Admin on Nov 28, 2021 14:07:04 GMT
Writer says non-supporters are using Trump’s lie
David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, argues that non-supporters of former President Trump are using his "Russia hoax" lie to their own advantage.
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