This is incredibly late, because my
computers been down for over a month. This week, I'm including the
Events of August, and next Friday will be the Events of September,
and then, hopefully a political article will follow the week
afterward.
This week, I'd like to include a
graphic from Vox's article, Brett
Kavanaugh proves the Never Trump movement was a sham all along.
The article stresses, as I've mentioned in conversations to friends
and family, that Republican support since the election has never
wavered, and that over 80% of registered Republicans supported
the President through the Travel Ban, the insane tweets, the
attempted repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the Firing of James
Comey, the "You
also had people that were very fine people, on both sides,”
the Helsinki meeting (which isn't on this graphic), and
the Flynn, Manafort, and Cohen convictions. And these examples are
only the worst of the noisy norm breaking of the Trump Presidency,
and fails to include the many compelling and disastrous policy
decisions.
To
help those, who have been forced to delete from their memory, what
occurred in August, so they can keep up with the events of late
September and early October, Awkward Mixture offers a short
summary.
August
began as the news of the Helsinki meeting was fading, replaced by the
Manafort trial. To some small degree, this change alleviated the
President's fixation on the Russia investigation. With the ongoing
migrant deportation crisis continued, the President demanded that the
ACLU, who had sued his administration for repeatedly violating a
judges order to reunite families, reunite the families for him. The
month contained recriminations between North Korea and the President,
as meetings between Pompeo and North Korean officials were canceled.
Former Apprentice contestant, and highly paid public employee,
Omarosa released tapes from inside secure centers in the White House,
demonstrating both how duplicitous and incompetent the entire staff
are. The Tariff war escalated with China as the White House prepared
to subsidized United States farmers, while the true number of deaths
from Hurricane Maria slowly trickled in.
Roger
Stone felt so cornered by Mueller's investigation that he launched a
preemptive defense, only to feel foolish when nothing ever came of
it. Wildfires in the west were blamed by the Interior Secretary, not
on Climate Change or Global Warming, but environmentalists. Iran
continued to adhere to the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action, even the United States had violated it.
The President continued to insult and rage at anyone involved in the
Mueller Investigation, including, Mueller, Sessions, Ohr, the FBI,
Lester Holt, and Brennen.
The
biggest news was the conviction of Manafort and Cohen, and the plea
deal offering full cooperation. Maybe McGahn, who is leaving,
cooperated with the investigation as well. And David Pecker and
Allen Weisselberg were granted immunity to testify.
And
finally, while the deficit grew 20% over the last because of the tax
cuts for the wealthy and big business, the President decided federal
employees shouldn't receive a 2 percent wage increase.
Finally,
introducing the Who
Said It game.
The following quotes were said in the month of August.
1.
“Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt
right now.”
2. "The actions of
the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by
political considerations."
3. “It’s called
flipping and it almost ought to be illegal.”
4. “I could run it (the Russia
Investigation) if I want.”
5. “Truth isn’t truth.”
6. “The President is an
equal-opportunity person that calls things like he sees it … The
President has got a lot more nasty things about some other people.”
7. “I can’t guarantee anything.”
8. “There was no conversation about
Michael Flynn.”
9. “Did Trump ask that question? He
must have mentioned that about 20 times.”
10. “This was a meeting to get
information on an opponent.”
The answers:
1. Trump.
2. Sessions, in
responses to Trump.
3. Trump, in response to Manafort's deal.
4. Trump.
5. Giuliani.
6. Sanders, in response to a question if Trump insults
minorities more.
7. Sanders, in response to whether Trump said the N
word.
8. Giuliani in August, in response to Giuliani in July, who at
first said the President did tell Comey to go easy on Flynn, but now
claims that conversation never occurred.
9. Lindsey
Graham, responding to whether the President asked if he could shut
down the Mueller investigation.
10. The President, responding to
past versions of himself, his lawyers, and his son who had previously
denied that the Trump Tower meeting was to get dirt, and was only to
meet the Russians to talk about irrelevant stuff.
And finally, here is the link to the
Events
of August.
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