“His campaign would have you believe that our nation’s top chief #executives are returning to support Trump for #POTUS, touting declarations of support from some prominent financiers #SteveSchwarzman & #DavidSacks.”
“That is far from the #truth. They didn’t flock to him before, & they certainly aren’t flocking to him now. #Trump continues to suffer from the lowest level of #corporate support in the history of the #Republican Party.
“I know this bc I work w/ ~1k chief #executives a year, running a school for them, which I started 35 yrs ago, & I speak w/ #business leaders almost every day. Our surveys show that 60 to 70% of them are registered #Republicans.
The reality is that the top #corporate leaders working today, like many #Americans, aren’t entirely comfortable w/either #Trump or #POTUS#Biden. But they largely like — or at least can tolerate — one of them. They truly fear the other.
“#Trump secured the WH partly by tapping into the #anticorporate, #populist messaging of #BernieSanders, …a move that Trump discussed w/me when I met him in 2015. The strategy might have won voters, but did little to enhance Trump’s image w/the #business community. & while a number of chief execs tried to work w/Trump as they would w/any incumbent #POTUS & many celebrated his move to cut the #CorporateTax rate, wariness persisted.”
#NewYork Judge Juan #Merchan partially lifted a gag order on Trump on Tues following the #Republican’s #conviction on criminal charges stemming from an effort to #influence the 2016 election by buying a porn star's silence.
The revised order now allows #Trump to speak publicly about #witnesses in the case, but keeps in place restrictions on his comments about individual prosecutors & others involved in the case.
Trump's attys argued the #GagOrder was stifling his #campaign speech, & said it might limit his ability to respond to attacks from Democratic #POTUS Joe #Biden during their coming #debate on June 27.
Is everyone aware that unless we stop #globalheating soon, below 2 degrees C, increasing parts of the global land areas will become too hot to live, so that many hundreds of millions will have to move to cooler, higher latitudes?
Study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305427120
@rahmstorf
I wish folks would contact their elected officials and point out to them how their failure to act on the #ClimatecCrisis will lead to even more political strife over immigration and refugees. The only way we will make faster progress is through pressure on elected officials.
I just used the contact forms to my Senators (Padilla & Butler), Congresswoman (Pelosi) and #POTUS = MY note :
"We hear a lot about the border, and asylum, and the need to manage immigration.
And yet we aren’t addressing factors that cause people to leave their home countries, not of a better life, but just life.
In the midst of the heatwave “35 times more likely and 2.5 degrees hotter (1.4 degrees Celsius) because of the warming from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas” (World Weather Attribution) the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published “Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically determined lower moist heat stress tolerance”, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305427120
President #Biden on Tues will announce sweeping new #protections for hundreds of thousands of #immigrants who have been living in the #UnitedStates illegally for years but are married to American #citizens.
#POTUS will detail the policy at the WH on Tues while marking the 12-yr anniversary of #DACA which protects people who came to the US as children from #deportation.
In our system of governance, #POTUS is not a dictator. Whatever new laws someone dreams up to make this a better place to live must be passed by #House & #Senate, which POTUS has no control over. Should one desire POTUS to solve all of one's problems, what one desires is a cult leader. For those who feel this way, Trump is your traitor! For those wishing to help him, a vote for Jill Stein or RFK Jr's brain worm will suffice. I'd rather our democracy stuck around for a bit longer. #Biden
The thing about the "Israel wants Trump" argumemt is that I think what #Israel wants even more than #Trump is to not have a #US#POTUS be seen to lose reelection for supporting Israel.
And I don't say that as some kind of checkmate, just a consideration I haven't seen brought up before.
Sharks, #Trump claimed, were attacking more than usual (not true) & posed a new risk bc boats were being required to use batteries (not true), which cause them to sink bc they’re too heavy (really, really not true—the world’s heaviest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, stays afloat bc of laws of #physics despite weighing >550M lbs).
#Italy PM #GiorgiaMeloni, a hard-line #conservative, has been intent on changing language that was included in last year’s G7 communiqué to exclude mentions of #abortion or reproductive rights. #POTUS, along w/the leaders of #France, #Germany & #Canada, pushed for its inclusion, & Biden threatened to not sign the doc if it was not included.
#Trump, seeking to show unity, to meet w/ #GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill
Trump plans to return to Washington on Thurs to meet w/congressional #Republicans near the #US Capitol, as the GOP tries to present a united front & coalesce around a #policy agenda [ha!] heading into the Nov #elections.
The trip will be #Trump’s 1st meeting w/ #GOP lawmakers since a jury found him #guilty on all 34 #felony counts of falsifying business records in his #NewYork#ElectionInterference case, making him the 1st fmr #POTUS convicted of a #crime. Since the historic guilty verdict, however, #Republicans have largely fallen in line behind Trump, as he & President #Biden continue to be locked in a tight race.
It will also be Trump’s 1st public visit to Capitol Hill since the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection…
#POTUS, who at 81 is decades younger than the vets he honored during Thurs’s D-Day commemoration, nonetheless found his age & fitness in the spotlight as selectively #edited clips of him circulated online.
D-Day’s 80th quickly became the latest example of the fast spread of #manipulated videos, highlighting the use of #misinformation [#disinformation ] & #ConspiracyTheories in politics.
#POTUS has said he will NOT #pardon his son. The president kept his distance from the trial & was not in office on 12 Oct 2018, when Hunter asserted he was drug-free on a background check when he was addicted to crack cocaine.
While #Biden has so far avoided naming #Trump during his time abroad, he has increasingly warned of the dangers posed by the kind of #authoritarian & #isolationist impulses the fmr president has embraced in his push to return to the #WhiteHouse. #POTUS, who has said in the past that America’s very #democracy is at stake in the coming #election, …[has juxtaposed] #DDay’s 80th anniversary to sound the alarm about the advance of #antidemocratic forces across the globe.
#Inflation soared under President #Biden in 2021 & 2022, as the #economy emerged from the #pandemic recession [that began under Trump]. Its causes were complex, including snarled #SupplyChains, stimulative policies by the #FederalReserve &, to a degree, federal fiscal policies incl’ing #Covid relief bills signed by #Trump &…Biden.
#Biden has worked to limit prices for #PrescriptionDrugs like insulin & inhalers, rein in #bank#overdraft & #creditcard fees & make airline #travel cheaper & more transparent, achievements that he often discusses on the campaign trail.
“We’re taking on #corporate#greed to bring down the #price of gas, food & rent, eliminating junk fees,” #POTUS told a crowd of cheering supporters in Philadelphia last week.
#POTUS#Biden said Thurs he would not #pardon his son, if convicted.
Biden said “yes” when asked in an ABC interview if he would rule out pardoning Hunter Biden…. Biden also said yes when the interviewer asked if he would accept the trial’s outcome.
The president has said for months that he would not pardon his son.
“I’ve been very clear — the president is not going to pardon his son,” WH press sec Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in Dec.
Hunter Biden is accused of making false statements in filling out paperwork to purchase a gun in 2018. The max sentence for the most serious charge is 10yrs in prison.
Hunter’s trial is unfolding days after #Trump was convicted of all counts in his #FalsifiedBusinessRecords 2016 #ElectionInterference trial in #NewYork.
Trump has vocally criticized the trial as “rigged”….
"He's trying to undermine it" #POTUS said re Trump. “He got a fair trial. The jury spoke."