Politics-What's on your mind?

[Cin]

Interesting podcast. I didn't have the stomach to finish the whole thing yet, but I plan to. It's kind of disturbing.

Democracy isn't dying in the dark, it's dying in broad daylight.

https://megaphone.link/TRUO4922592667

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Republican Sen. Susan Collins' bid for a fifth term could be in jeopardy, according to recent polls.

A survey of 500 registered Maine voters released Tuesday by the Bangor Daily News found the incumbent trailing her opponent Sara Gideon, the state's Democratic House speaker, 35%-43%. Gideon's lead shrunk to five percentage points among likely voters.


Another poll released Tuesday, which was conducted by RMG Group, also found Collins trailing Gideon by 7 points among registered voters, 41%-48%.

And a Quinnipiac University poll released Aug. 6 found Gideon leading Collins 47%-43% among registered Maine voters.

Collins is one of the last moderate Republicans from New England remaining in Congress. A majority of Maine voters have not gone for a Republican presidential candidate since 1988, but several Republicans have won statewide elections since then, including Collins and former Gov. Paul LePage. Maine's other U.S. senator, Angus King, is an independent who caucuses with the Democrats.



Liar Liar Pants On Fire..

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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told CBS News that she believes President Donald Trump has learned his lesson following his impeachment.




Sidebar: She made these comments Feb 5th 2020. I wonder if she still believes them now in Aug 2020.



https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...sot-nd-vpx.cnn

[Wrang1er]

I worry because I see Trump signs EVERYWHERE. That's how it was last time when they said he was behind in the polls.

If Trump wins I am going to propose to Collette. Hopefully she accepts and I can move to Canada.

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Originally Posted by homoe

Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz) has cooked up an unusual fundraising pitch: She wants supporters to “fast” for a meal — then give her the money that they save for her campaign.

Stunned critics pointed out that this is the same senator who voted for tax cuts for corporations and billionaires.

“We’re doing our best to catch up, you know, to get our message out,” she told backers in an audio recording of a recent meeting in northern Arizona obtained by CBS affiliate KPHO-TV. “But it takes resources ... if you can give $5, $10. If you can, fast a meal and give what that would be.”

McSally is struggling against her Democratic rival, former astronaut Mark Kelly — the husband of shooting survivor and former Rep. Gabby Giffords — who is polling at least five points ahead of the Republican. He also reportedly had more than twice the campaign cash on hand as McSally did in mid-July.

Officials with her campaign insisted that McSally was joking about skipping a meal — though she didn’t sound like she was joking.

“This is a dumb non-story about a candidate making a joke on the stump,” campaign spokesperson Caroline Anderegg told the Arizona Republic. She said McSally would “literally give the shirt off her back for anyone.”

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President Trump on Saturday sought to downplay comments made by his sister Maryanne Trump Barry in audio leaked to the Washington Post that he has "no principles," is prone to "lying" and "you can’t trust him."

Why it matters: Maryanne Trump Barry has never publicly criticized the president on his policies. But, according to 15 hours of secretive recordings made by their niece Mary Trump, the retired federal judge said of his immigration policies in 2018: "It's the phoniness of it all. It's the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel."

When asked for comment on the revelations, President Trump said in a statement to Axios: "Every day it's something else, who cares."

https://www.axios.com/president-trum...03121b3df.html

[Orema]

Trump Might Not Know New York Attorney General Letitia James, But He’s Gonna Learn Tuhday

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
August 24, 2020


New York Attorney General Letitia James • Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images)

I keep trying to tell y’all this, and I feel like this is not getting to the people in the back, but New York Attorney General Letitia James did not come here to play with you and your little friends. She, of the James family, which includes such luminaries as: LeBron, Jesse, King, Etta, Rick, and Trinidad, comes from a long line of people who shut the front door because they understand that their mother’s air conditioning is not trying to cool the whole damn neighborhood.

Maybe you’ve heard the name before? That might because she’s trying to take down a good-ole-white boys club more commonly known as the National Rifle Association.

And now the New York attorney general, casually known as Tish although everyone calls her Ms. James, is going after Trump’s private business for reportedly inflating the value of its assets according to a legal filing, Monday, the Washington Post reports.

From the Post:

In the filing, signed by a deputy to Attorney General Letitia James, the attorney general’s office said it is investigating Trump’s use of “Statements of Financial Condition” — documents Trump sent to lenders, summarizing his assets and debts.

The filing asks a New York state judge to compel the Trump Organization to provide information it has been withholding from investigators — including a subpoena seeking an interview with the president’s son Eric.

The attorney general’s office said it began investigating after Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer,” Michael Cohen, told Congress in February 2019 that Trump had used these statements to inflate his net worth to lenders.

Eric Trump was initially supposed to be interviewed in late July but abruptly canceled that shit upon learning that “Tish” was Letitia James. The Trump not named Ivanka or Donald Jr. is now refusing to be interviewed and having his lawyers do the talking and they are claiming that, “We cannot allow the requested interview to go forward … pursuant to those rights afforded to every individual under the Constitution,” the Post reports.

The Post notes that much of the investigation has been left out of the filing, but three Trump properties valuations were listed: “a Los Angeles golf course, an office building at 40 Wall St. and a country estate called “Seven Springs” in Westchester County, N.Y.”

The Post has been following Trump’s money since the president took office and has noted that Trump inflated “the potential sale value of the Seven Springs property in a ‘Statement of Financial Condition’ — a type of document he sent to potential lenders to demonstrate his wealth.”

Also from the Post:

In 2011, Trump’s statement claimed that the property had been “zoned for nine luxurious homes,” and that the value of those home lots raised the value of the overall property to $261 million — far more than the $20 million assessed by local authorities. Local officials said Trump had received preliminary conceptual approval for those homes, but never completed the process or obtained final zoning permission. The homes were never built.

The court filing also mentions a question about a loan on Trump’s Chicago hotel, which one of Trump’s lenders forgave in 2010. The filing does not say why that forgiven loan is of interest to investigators.

“The Trump Organization has done nothing wrong,” Alan Garten, the Trump Organization’s chief legal officer, said in a statement. And, like most of those who follow Trump, Garten believes that the attorney general’s investigation is politically motivated.

The attorney general’s “continued harassment of the company as we approach the election (and filing of this motion on the first day of the Republican National Convention) once again confirms that this investigation is all about politics.”

James’ office told the Post that they’ve “not reached a determination” as to whether Trump’s company violated any laws.

But they are watching and there are only two people whose radar you don’t want to be on:

1. Omar (The Wire)
2. Tish James

https://www.theroot.com/trump-might-...tia-1844831067