Mary Trump: President Is a ‘Very Sick Man’ – ‘He Will Take this Entire Country Down with Him’
President Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that her uncle was “very sick” and capable of taking the entire country down if it suits his purposes.
Melber said, “For people who say they have a view of this election or they’re concerned about Donald Trump. But America is strong, and we’ll get through it either way. As his niece being so close to this, you say what?”
Trump said, “I say that as he very sick man, he’s never going to get better, he’s only going to get worse. If it suits his purposes, he will take this entire country down with him, and he clearly has a lot of people willing to do just that. Please vote carefully.”
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Bernstein: Trump’s ‘Felony’ Neglect Resulted in ‘Tens of Thousands of Deaths’
Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein accused President Donald Trump of criminal negligence regarding the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in “tens of thousands of deaths” on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”
Cooper said, “Carl, I mean, you know, you also — how about being a normal human being of, you know, descent spirit and as opposed to somebody who has — I know he has — this is what he’s built his career on is lies and fabulous talk but, you know, he’s president and it’s—and people are dying.”
Bernstein said, “There is no evidence in his life, especially his public life of descent impulse. It is what we have seen in this presidency though all the lying. This really is a criminal presidency with a criminal president. We have seen criminality as never before in his negligence as revealed in Bob Woodward’s book and on tape, the smoking gun tape of this president’s felony, the greatest felony perhaps by any president in our history resulting in tens of thousands of deaths.”
He continued, “Let’s take a breath, a deep breath, all of us and look at fact and truth here about what’s happened. There has never been anything like this kind of abdication of responsibility and decency as you put it. This is a president of the United States who put his own narrow reelection effort and interests in front of the health and welfare of every American. He endangered the lives of every American, encouraged a pandemic to take through the air instead of trying to fight that pandemic because he cannot confront the truth and tell the American people the truth because he’s abdication his responsibility and his criminally negligent.”
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book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic
tenure in office to date.” - Dwight Garner, The
New York Times
Read an excerpt:
‘You’re a
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THE BOOK
Washington
Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig
and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners,
provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump’s unique presidency
with shocking new reporting and insight into its implications.
“I
alone can fix it.” So went Donald J. Trump’s march to the presidency on July
21, 2016, when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland,
promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet over the
subsequent years, as he has undertaken the actual work of the commander in
chief, it has been hard to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal,
investigation, and constant bluster. It would be all too easy to mistake
Trump’s first term for one of pure and uninhibited chaos, but there were
patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The universal value of the
Trump administration is loyalty - not to the country, but to the president
himself - and Trump’s North Star has been the perpetuation of his own power,
even when it meant imperiling our shaky and mistrustful democracy.
Leonnig
and Rucker, with deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., tell
of rages and frenzies but also moments of courage and perseverance. Relying on
scores of exclusive new interviews with some of the most senior members of the
Trump administration and other firsthand witnesses, the authors reveal the
forty-fifth president up close, taking readers inside Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation as well as the president’s own haphazard but ultimately
successful legal defense. Here for the first time certain officials who have
felt honor-bound not to publicly criticize a sitting president or to divulge
what they witnessed in a position of trust tell the truth for the benefit of
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This
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As pandemic death toll approaches 200,000, American oligarchs celebrate their wealth
12 September 2020
The United States is passing through a historic social, economic and political crisis. The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is nearing 200,000 and could double by the end of the year. Democratic forms of rule are breaking down, with the Trump administration intensifying its open incitement of fascistic violence. Tens of millions are unemployed and face impoverishment and homelessness. Wildfires are burning out of control on the US West Coast.
It is impossible to understand any of these processes outside of the massive levels of social inequality. The United States is an oligarchy, with a concentration of wealth that is historically unprecedented.
The release of the Forbes 400 billionaire report
gives a sense of this reality. The richest 400
individuals (0.00012 percent of the population)
now possess more than $3 trillion.
The report declares: “Pandemic be damned: America’s 400 richest are worth a record $3.2 trillion, up $240 billion from a year ago, aided by a stock market that has defied the virus.” The surge in the stock market, underwritten by the multi-trillion-dollar CARES Act passed in March, has filled the already overflowing coffers of the super-rich, who now hold claim to the equivalent of 15 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.
Even the numbers provided by Forbes, based
on figures from July 24, are a major
underestimation of the current reality. Since
that time, the wealth of Amazon CEO Jeff
Bezos, the world’s richest person, has shot up
to more than $200 billion, while the wealth of
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has grown to over $100
billion. Bezos’s holdings are three million
times greater than the annual income of the
typical American household.
The staggering level of inequality reflected in the Forbes list is the central feature of American society, which is defined by the transfer of obscene and ever larger amounts of wealth from the working class into the hands of a tiny financial oligarchy through tax cuts, bailouts, the slashing of wages and the clawing back of pensions and other benefits won by workers in the struggles of the 20th century.
The latest rise in the billionaires’ wealth is not based on any exertion of labor but on the inflation of the stock market, with trillions of dollars in debt from the Federal Reserve and Congress which will be paid off the backs of the working class. Everything has been subordinated to ensuring that the Dow Jones and S&P 500 rise to new heights.
It would take the median American, who earns $33,000 per year, 97 million years to earn as much as is controlled by the wealthiest Americans. Consider what $3.2 trillion could pay for in a year:
- In the 2016-17 school year, $739 billion was spent on public elementary and secondary schools, providing education for 50.8 million students and employing 3.2 million teachers and another 3.2 million school employees.
- The Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal government will spend $1.3 trillion on health care programs this year.
- Diabetes cost the US economy $327 billion in 2017, with insulin accounting for $40 billion of this total. The average cost of insulin, critical for the survival of diabetes patients, is up to $6,000 per year and continues to rise.
- According to the US Department of Agriculture, $800 billion was spent by Americans on food and beverages for consumption at home in 2019. The federal government provided $60 billion of this in food stamps for the poorest and most vulnerable to gain access to essential nutrition.
- The 2018 fire season cost $24 billion, driven by record devastation including the destruction of the city of Paradise, California. All told, extreme weather and climate disasters that year cost $91 billion.
Added up, the wealth of just 400 people could pay for an entire year of public education, health care, nutrition and disaster relief for millions of Americans. The UN recently reported that 132 million more people will go hungry worldwide this year due to the pandemic, driving the number of undernourished close to 1 billion.
Despite the burning need to save millions from malnourishment and starvation, the World Food Program faces a shortage of $5 billion in its effort to deliver food to those in need. The wealth of the 400 richest people in the US is more than 600 times this amount.
Every element of politics is subordinated to the interests of this social layer. It is for this reason that the danger of the pandemic was initially covered up, the bailout of Wall Street was organized and the back-to-work and back-to-school campaigns were implemented.
The systematic looting of society left the country vulnerable to such an outbreak. The subordination of health care to the predatory interests of for-profit health care companies and insurance giants turned nursing homes for the elderly into death chambers and left nurses and doctors without the necessary personal protective equipment and other medical equipment—such as ventilators—needed to treat patients.
The drive of the Trump administration to fascism and the cultivation of extreme right cannot be understood except in relation to the class interests of the oligarchy, representing that faction of the ruling class which seeks to smash outright any sign of opposition from the working class. On the other side of the coin, the Democrats represent that faction that has sought to use the politics of race and identity to smother the class struggle while fighting for access to positions and greater wealth.
As only the latest example, the racially fixated New York Times published its “Faces of Power” list this week, noting that too many people in “influential positions” are white. What difference would it make if everyone one of them was black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American? In fact, the report found that a majority of police chiefs in the largest cities are black or Hispanic. Cold comfort for the young black men who are disproportionately killed by police.
The obsession by upper-middle class academics and journalists on race and gender is a distraction from the grotesque levels of wealth that define social relations in American society. This form of politics has nothing to do with the interests of the working class. Instead, it seeks to harness anger over racism and social inequality to advance the interests of a small layer of minorities in the next 9 percent who want a larger piece of the pie hoarded by the top 1 percent.
At every point, science, reason and human solidarity collide with the economic interests of the current rulers of society—the oligarchs, the parasitic masters of finance capital. It is impossible to defend democratic rights or save lives without confronting this issue.
Mass problems such as the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly deadly fires fueled by climate change, and global hunger require mass solutions. The problems of mankind cannot be resolved without breaking the stranglehold of the capitalist oligarchy in every country. The wealth must be expropriated and directed toward meeting social needs. The large corporations and banks transformed by the working class into democratically controlled institutions oriented to meeting human need and not private profit.
The social inequality that characterizes capitalist society—and all the policies that flow from it—is fueling an immense growth of social anger and working class struggle. These struggles must be organized and united on the basis of a conscious, revolutionary and socialist program.
Cher: ‘Trump Is a Mass Murderer’ … ‘The Punishment Is Death’
Left-wing pop star and actress Cher declared President Donald Trump a “mass murderer” and floated death as a punishment in a now-deleted tweet.
Cher stated that it is “CALLED MURDER IF YOU MURDER MORE THAN ONE PERSON,” which is apparently a reference to President Trump’s handling of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, the Moonstruck star has made that same connection in the past.
The “Strong Enough” singer wrote:
THERE’S A BLAME 4 KILLING SOMEONE…ITS CALLED “MURDER”. IF YOU MURDER MORE THAN ONE PERSON YOU ARE A MASS MURDERER. THERE ARE MANY PUNISHMENTS FOR DIFFERENT DEGREES OF MURDER,BUT WHEN SOMEONE “KNOWINGLY “MURDERS PEOPLE… THE PUNISHMENT IS DEATH. Trump’s a mass murderer… hhmm.
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While Cher deleted the tweet, she continued her rant in another thread, asking, “why did Trump lie” and admitting that she sometimes goes “too far.” She then provided a screenshot of articles on the Treasury Department reportedly siphoning millions from a 9/11 program. However, she said she would not “fall below my moral compass,” despite publicly suggesting that Trump be put to death.
Keep Thinking Why Did Trump Lie😳.I Mean,I Know Why He Lied,BUT WHEN 10’S Of Thousands Of Ppl Started Dying
Why Didn’t His Conscience
Kick In & Say To Him…WAITNOT ONLY ARE U LETTING 💯💯 OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DIE⚰️ THINK OF THE LOVED ONES👧🏽👶🏻👵🏻👩🏻👨🏽WHO WILL BE CRUSHED 4EVER— Cher (@cher) September 12, 2020
SOMETIMES I GO FAR,SOMETIMES TOO FAR
BUT AFTER READING TRUMP WAS KEEPING ὋFROM 911
FIRST RESPONDERS FUND
IT WAS TOO MUCH😤. HAVING SAID THAT, I CANT FALL BELOW MY MORAL COMPASS..
NO MATTER WHAT🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/Mm1H5APjp0— Cher (@cher) September 12, 2020
“LETS TALK…. I MUST TRY TO BE A BEACON OF LIGHT FOR YOU. OBVIOUSLY DIDNT HEAR MY HIGHER ANGELSDisappointed but relieved face,” Cher continued in the disjointed rant. “I APOLOGIZE.”
LETS TALK…. I MUST TRY TO BE A BEACON OF LIGHT FOR YOU.
OBVIOUSLY DIDNT HEAR MY HIGHER ANGELS😥I APOLOGIZE
— Cher (@cher) September 12, 2020
“I Feel Ashamed,” she said, failing to provide a reason for her shame but noting that shame itself is “important.”
I Feel Ashamed
SHAME IS IMPORTANT— Cher (@cher) September 12, 2020
In July, the pop icon accused Trump of killing Americans “without a thought” for “adulation at rallies” but offered a softer punishment than death, suggesting that he remain in “solitary confinement” for the remainder of his life.
trump Cares Nothing About Our Vets,Our Country,Ppl Who Are Dying of Covid,Ppl From Black Lives Matter,Kids He Keeps🔒In Cages,Nurses,& Drs Who Are Dying Because He Wont Protect Them,HE KILLS AMERICANS WITHOUT A THOUGHT,HE KILLS 4 ADULATION AT RALLIES☠️ https://t.co/ICvqOG5fBE
— Cher (@cher) July 11, 2020
trump Needs To Be In Solitary
Confinement 4 The Rest O His Life,— Cher (@cher) July 12, 2020
She doubled down in August, telling her millions of Twitter followers that Trump is torturing and killing Americans.
Believe There’s Chance trump’ll Come Up WithὋ+Benefits He Promised🇺🇸Ppl.(He’s Trying 2 Save MAMMOTH ASS).He Sold His Soul 2 ☠️&PUTIN 4 First Term,BUT After Torture & Killing 160 Thousand🇺🇸’s WITH NO😭, WE KNOW HE’S SCUM & DOES’T CARE.WITHὋHE CAN LIE HIMSELF IN2 BEING HERO
— Cher (@cher) August 8, 2020
Trump quickly instituted a travel ban on China at the end of January, despite pushback from Democrats and establishment media figures, some of whom accused him of taking racist actions. In fact, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “promoted tourism to San Franciso, California’s Chinatown and was moving forward with legislation to prevent the president from issuing travel bans” at the time of Trump’s initial action, as Breitbart News reported.
Cher is not the only high-profile Hollywood figure to essentially accuse President Trump of murder. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) stated this week that Trump “caused the COVID outbreak in New York.”
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