September 30, 2024

Donald Trump

 
Donald Trump - “I hated to give overtime. I hated it. I shouldn't say this, but I'd get other people in. I wouldn't pay."
 
Independent, UK  -Donald Trump has sparked controversy for declaring that climate change is “one of the great scams” after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction, killing more than 100 people, across the southeast US.Speaking at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Sunday afternoon, the former president pushed a conspiracy theory that man-made climate change is a myth.

“Do you ever notice, this was such a big deal, the environmental stuff,” ​​he told rallygoers in a rambling address.“I haven’t heard the environmental stuff mentioned in six months. I was saying the other night: ‘What the hell happened to the environment?’”

Calling out to David McCormick, the Pennsylvania GOP Senate challenger, Trump added: “David, will you figure this out?”

“No but think about this,” Trump continued. “They never talk about the environment anymore. You know why?” He concluded: “It’s one of the greatest scams of all time… people aren’t buying it any more. I don’t want to use bad language, my wife said, ‘Please don’t use bad language.’”

NY Times - Republicans have unleashed a flurry of lawsuits challenging voting rules and practices ahead of the November elections, setting the stage for what could be a far larger and more contentious legal battle over the White House after Election Day.The onslaught of litigation, much of it landing in recent weeks, includes nearly 90 lawsuits filed across the country by Republican groups this year. The legal push is already more than three times the number of lawsuits filed before Election Day in 2020, according to Democracy Docket, a Democratically aligned group that tracks election cases.
 

Trump fights his old policies in series of flip-flops

MSNBC -  An investigation led by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has discovered what he sees as new red flags surrounding the equity fund of former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. In three years of work, Kushner’s fund, Affinity Partners, has taken billions from foreign investors and made over $100 million in investment fees. Yet in that time, Wyden points out in a letter to Affinity, the firm has not “distributed a penny of earnings back to clients.” Wyden now warns that Kushner’s fund’s behavior is lending weight to suspicions that have existed since Affinity’s founding: that it was a potential tool for foreign governments to curry favor with a possible future Trump administration.