Talk About Tennis 2.0

Not sure if this was posted. Sorry if it's a repeat

It never ceases to amaze me how accurate reporting on US issues often comes from overseas press. Of course this was met with crickets.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:14 pm It never ceases to amaze me how accurate reporting on US issues often comes from overseas press. Of course this was met with crickets.

I've read this guy before. Foreign publication, but the journalist lives in the US. He's someone who covers far right connections I believe. Just starting to get picked up by others, so we'll see in a few days if it's truly crickets.

My favorite part of the Pompeos abuse of their roles is that they had someone make a reservation at the Cheesecake Factory.

Sincerely, in the scope of the criminality of Tiny's administration, this is like charging Hannibal Lecter with stealing the salt and pepper shakers from the restaurant. This is minor, and I am sure that the Pompeo's did much worse.

City of Albuquerque refers Trump campaign bill to collection agency
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/ci ... D=ref_fark

There are an astounding number of unpaid bills from his rallies in various states. If they were easy to get them paid, so many would've done so over the years. Part of why some areas flat out refused to have their rallies in their cities in the last two years was not because of politics, but because there was an existing debt and they weren't signing up for a repeat.

Revealed: Donald Trump's firms charged Secret Service more than £17,000 for 2017 trips
Donald Trump’s golf resorts in Scotland and Ireland charged the US Secret Service more than £17,000 for a series of previously undisclosed trips during his first full year in office.
By Martyn McLaughlin
Saturday, 24th April 2021, 10:00 pm
Updated
5 hours ago

A tranche of invoices and spending records released by the US government agency under Freedom of Information legislation shows the former US president’s properties in Turnberry and Doonbeg received a string of payments throughout 2017.

As well as footing the bill for stays at Trump’s South Ayrshire resort, the records show US taxpayers stumped up several thousand pounds for luxury car rentals during a visit to Scotland by Trump’s son Eric.

The newly disclosed documentation was obtained by American Oversight – a non-partisan, non-profit ethics watchdog based in Washington DC, and passed to The Scotsman.

The organisation said the receipts provided further evidence of how the Trump family was able to “line its pockets” by charging its security detail to stay at Trump Organisation properties.

While the sums involved are relatively small, they provide further evidence of how Mr Trump’s private businesses received taxpayers’ money thanks to his public office. Throughout the 74-year-old’s single term, his Turnberry resort alone received close to £300,000 from the Secret Service.

The latest disclosure details an invoice prepared by the Turnberry resort dated August 14, 2017 for £5,400. The cost is for one room, although information about the duration of the stay has been redacted by the Secret Service. The invoice is addressed to the US Embassy in London.

It is unclear who visited Turnberry that month, but as revealed last December, Eric and a 30-strong party of "international guests" flew to Scotland by private jet in July 2017 to play the family’s golf resorts.

That trip, part of the Trump Organisation’s so-called Ultimate Links Tour, saw Secret Service agents stay at Turnberry.

The overall cost of the visit to the US public purse was more than £13,000, according to records previously obtained by The Scotsmanvia US Freedom of Information laws.

Austin Evers, executive director at American Oversight, said: “No-one objects to the Trump family receiving Secret Service protection, but every time they charge their security detail to stay at a Trump hotel, thousands of taxpayer dollars line their pockets.

“If Eric is going to visit Scotland in the future, the public should demand he find less kleptocratic accommodations.”

The newly released Secret Service receipts disclosed to American Oversight now show that during July, the Secret Service also paid £6,042 to Little’s – a Glasgow-based luxury car rental and chauffeur business.

The same firm received a six-figure windfall from the US federal government the previous summer when Trump flew to Turnberry on a private visit.

The receipts also show that during that month’s Ultimate Links Tour, Secret Service agents accompanied Eric and his guests after they left Turnberry for Trump’s Doonbeg resort in the Republic of Ireland. Trump’s Co Clare firm charged the agency £5,310 for rooms between July 22 and 23.

That April, meanwhile, the Doonbeg hotel also charged £6,680 to the Secret Service for accommodation to cover a visit by Eric. He and his wife, Lara, had visited Turnberry just days before, with Trump’s flagship Scottish firm paid £6,820 for hotel rooms.

The Trump Organisation did not respond to enquiries from The Scotsman.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ ... ps-3212314

The damage is done and this is basically irreparable in the short term. Every election lost by a GOP'er will be seen as fraudulent. Plus Dominion's claim that their reputation has been tarnished (to say it politely) and which is the foundation of their lawsuits is solid, because this is not an ATM machine that gives you the $50 you asked for when you press ENTER. I should know as, for example, there is no way I could trust casting a vote in a SMARTMATIC machine, after the fraud they ran in 2004 in Venezuela.
So you system of elections is shot, thanks to these lunatics.