June 21, 2020 – Trump’s Tulsa rally attracted only 6,600 people for a 19,000-capacity venue. Teenage TikTokers registered hundreds of thousands of “people” for the event, who didn’t show. But Trump’s campaign manager said the low attendance was the fault of “the fake news media,” which urged people not to go “because of Covid and protesters, coupled with recent images of American cities on fire.”
June 21, 2019 – Journalist E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s. Trump denied ever having met her, but Carroll provided a photo of herself with Trumpfrom 1987. Carroll was the twenty-fifth woman to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct since the 1970s.
June 21, 2017 – Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos tapped the CEO of a private student loan company to lead the Federal Student Aid program. This program handles $1.3 trillion in federal student loans for American citizens.
"An appeals court in Washington, D.C., denied Steve Bannon’s attempt to avoid prison Thursday. Bannon asked the federal appeals court earlier this month to delay his imminent prison sentence…"
@rbreich It's sickening that #BobIger has directed #WaltDisneyCo to resume contributions to anti-LGBTQ+ #GOP to appease #DeSantis and a handful of filthy rich fascist Wall Street investors.
#Disney isn't for regular Americans anymore. It's for the rich and the MAGA.
June 20, 2020 – In his latest dismissal of a government official, Trump fired federal prosecutor Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Berman’s office prosecuted Michael D. Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer who was sentenced to prison for financial crimes. He was also investigating Rudolph Giuliani, Trump’s attorney.
Democrats are seeking to overhaul an 1873 federal #law that #bans abortion-related materials from being sent through the mail, worried that a future Trump admin could invoke the #ComstockAct to crack down on #AbortionAccess or effectively #ban the procedure altogether.
And again, I would like to remind everyone that the Comstock Law was dreamed up by a 19th century misogynist pervert. Just like the current members of GOP the GOP and Trump are, in fact. #GrabThatPussy#GOP#GOPperverts#Misogyny#Women#WarOnWomen
June 20, 2020 – Trump said he ordered his administration to “slow down” coronavirus testing so that fewer cases of COVID-19 would be reported. “When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases,” he said in Tulsa. “So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’” In his speech, Trump also referred to the coronavirus as the “kung flu.”
June 20, 2017 – Donald Trump’s budget cuts to address homelessness and low-income housing did not cut funding for one New York City housing development—the subsidized Starrett City housing complex. It happened that Trump held a stake in Starrett City, and made about $5 million dollars off the property in three months during 2016. (June 20, 2017) Trump Business Dealings Policy.
June 20, 2017 – The Trump administration planned to cut more than 1,200 jobs from the EPA, shrinking the workforce by 15 percent while slashing the EPA budget by 31 percent.
June 19, 2020 – Twitter added a warning label to a doctored video Trump tweeted, saying it went against the company’s policies. The heartwarming video, shared by many in 2019, showed a black and white child running to each other, then hugging. The manipulated version posted by Trump included a fake CNN headline that read, “Terrified toddler runs from racist baby. … Racist baby probably a Trump voter.”
June 19, 2020 – Trump threatened those who planned to demonstrate at his rally in Tulsa. “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” he tweeted. “It will be a much different scene!”
June 19, 2019 – The Environmental Protection Agency issued the final Affordable Clean Energy Rule, which rolled back power-plant regulations established under President Obama.
June 19, 2019 – Former White House communications director Hope Hicks’ name showed up throughout Robert Mueller’s report. But when it came time for her to become the first confidante of Trump to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, she declined to answer any questions about her time in his administration.
Witness tells House Ethics Committee that Matt Gaetz paid her for sex: Sources -
“One woman, who ABC News is not identifying, told the committee that a payment from #Gaetz was for sex, while others have said they were paid to attend parties that Gaetz also attended and that featured drugs and sex, multiple sources told ABC News”
June 19, 2017 – During a security clearance renewal process, Mike Flynn failed to disclose a Middle East trip during which he represented Russian business interests. Rep. Elijah Cummings said of Flynn’s omission, “General Flynn’s actions are part of a broader pattern of concealing his foreign contact, payments, travel and work on behalf of foreign interests.”
June 19, 2017 – Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced he did not believe carbon dioxide causes climate change. This view contradicts numerous studies conducted by agencies like NASA, the EPA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Biden doesn't WANT to be president. He didn't WANT to run in 2020. He doesn't WANT to spend his golden years fighting fascist Republicans and judges. But he is. And that's WHY he's The Guy.
TRY TO REMEMBER: If Biden takes a hard-line stance against Israel, he hands the Presidency to Trump.
260 million Americans will experience temps above 90F this week.
Now's a good time to remind you that Trump's inner circle devised a 900+ page plan that includes gutting the EPA, halting clean energy projects, and burning more fossil fuels.
@rbreich
🥥 For a scary -- & entertaining -- preview of GOP plans for a second Trump administration, see the June 16 episode of John Oliver's show, "Last Week Tonight."
Oliver goes into depth about the right wing's Project 2025 and the people behind it.
Keep in mind, these are the people who'll be pulling the strings should they put their deranged orange tub of guts back in the White House. 🥥 #Project2025, #JohnOliver, #GOP, #Election2024, #LastWeekTonight, #Republicans, #TuckersBalls
June 18, 2020 – Trump campaign posts and advertisements that featured an inverted red triangle were removed by Facebook, which cited the company’s policies on hate-group symbols. The triangle was used by Nazis to single out political opponents. The Trump campaign dismissed the issue, saying, “This is an emoji.”
June 18, 2020 – In a tweet, Trump called two Supreme Court rulings — one protecting young immigrants from deportation, the other defending gay and transgender workers — “shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives.” In another tweet, he added, “Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?”
June 18, 2020 – Too much testing for the coronavirus “made the US look bad,” Trump said in an interview with the WSJ. “I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created the greatest testing machine in history,” he said.
Closing asset loophole could add billions to tax collections, IRS says
The Biden administration plans to stop businesses and wealthy individuals from manipulating the value of assets in arcane ways such as using the same assets over and over to lower their taxes.
High-end business partnerships like hedge funds and wealthy individuals such as real estate investors have inappropriately used labyrinthine structures to shield tens of billions of dollars from taxation, Treasury Department officials said Monday
as they vowed to crack down on the practice.
They announced several steps to address a tax planning strategy known as basis shifting,
in which complex business partnerships can move assets from one entity to another on paper for no reason other than to avoid taxes.
“These transactions don’t create any economic activity for the U.S. “Their sole purpose is to reduce tax bills,” said Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo,
adding that shutting down inappropriate basis shifting could increase tax collections from partnerships by at least $5 billion a year over the next decade. https://stocks.apple.com/Ac5vnY8JDQqW7R7Tx0K27HA
>> Then a look at the ridiculous "religious" tax exemptions allowed for spurious "religious" institutions
Better hurry up before #FelonGang supplants #Christianity as the dominant religion in USA, just like #MAGA took over the #GOP of a bygone era and turned it into a mere husk