Donald Trump

Robert Reich - Trump’s entire candidacy is based on a lie...There’s an old joke that the easiest way to make a small fortune is to start with a large one. And that’s exactly what Trump did. Multiple analyses show that if Trump had simply invested his multimillion-dollar inheritance in an index fund and not touched it, he’d be a lot richer than he is now. Think about that. His entire life’s work has been less successful than if he’d done nothing.

And when he was president, Trump ran the country like he ran his failed businesses. He added $8.4 trillion to the national debt — largely through his tax cuts for the rich and big corporations.Trump has managed to survive every one of his business failures by leaving other people on the hook — leaving workers unpaid and shafting his investors.The whole idea that Trump is good at business was a carefully crafted illusion — concocted for a reality TV show. And as with a lot of reality TV shows, we’ve come to learn it was all show, and no reality.The only business Trump has been successful at is conning people. Now he’s trying to do it again. Don’t fall for it. 

Trump’s Tax-Free Tipping Scheme: Another GOP Gift for Billionaires?

Axios -This year's devastating hurricane season has exposed the perils of Trump's war on climate experts, who have long warned that human-caused global warming is exacerbating extreme weather.  Through warming ocean and air temperatures, climate change makes hurricanes like Helene and Milton more destructive — and more likely to rapidly intensify all the way through landfall. The catastrophic back-to-back storms tore through the Southeast just weeks after climate scientists reported Earth's hottest summer on record.

Trump... has sought to weaponize the Biden administration's hurricane response while still downplaying the existence of climate change.

• He has called climate change a "hoax" and "scam," railed against President Biden's clean energy policies, and urged oil executives to fund his campaign in exchange for him slashing fossil fuel regulations.
• "Remember when they used to say 'global warming'?' They don't say that anymore," Trump falsely claimed at a rally last month. "They say 'climate change' because the planet's actually getting cooler."

As president, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement and publicly disavowed a landmark climate report by his own government — a preview of how he's likely to treat climate experts in a second term.Trump stunned his advisers by suggesting that national security officials explore the use of nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the U.S., as Axios scooped in 2019. Share this story.

CNN - Evidence has been uncovered that Donald Trump enriched himself at the expense of taxpayers. While Trump was president, he stole $1.7 billion dollars in revenue and directed the funds to flow through his businesses. Further, Trump did everything possible to ensure the majority of the stolen money came from American taxpayers.

Independent, UK - Newly surfaced video footage reveals former Donald Trump adviser and longtime ally Roger Stone suggesting the deployment of Trump-backed “armed guards” at vote counting areas.

“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.” - Vice President Dick Cheney

Microsoft - Mark Milley, the US Army general who Donald Trump appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now says the current Republican presidential nominee is a “fascist to the core” and says no person has ever posed more of a danger to the United States than the man who served as the 45th President of the United States. Milley, a decorated military officer who became a target for right-wing scorn after it became known that he expressed concerns over Trump’s mental stability in the wake of his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, is described by journalist Bob Woodward in his new book, War, as incredibly alarmed at the prospect of a second Trump term in the White House. The Independent obtained a copy ahead of the book’s October 15 release date...

Woodward writes that when he approached Milley at a reception, the general spoke first and told him: “We gotta talk.”He told the journalist that “no one has ever been as dangerous to this country” as the former president. 

 Independent, UK - Donald Trump has made a bold prediction that he will secure the vote of one highly unlikely supporter come November– Barack Obama. Writing on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday, the former president reasoned that his predecessor would not vote for his rival Kamala Harris because of her “extremely low IQ.” It comes after Obama delivered a speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Thursday in which he urged young Black men to turn out on voting day and not make “excuses” about not backing Harris.“Obama admits a total lack of enthusiasm for Kamala, especially with Black Men,” Trump wrote. “I think Obama will be voting for me because he doesn’t like the fact that Kamala is an extremely Low IQ Person!”