Trump this and Trump that

 Not a day goes by that we can read what former US President Donald Trump tried to do while holding office:

NOT A JOKE: TRUMP WAS GOING TO APPOINT IVANKA PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK UNTIL STEVEN MNUCHIN INTERVENED

"Back in 2019, as only the patriarch of the world’s most delusional family could, Donald Trump told The Atlantic about all the jobs that he’d wanted to give his daughter Ivanka, ones for which she wasn’t even qualified to do an unpaid internship. Ambassador to the United Nations? Ivanka “would’ve been great,” just “incredible” at the job, Trump explained to reporter Elaina Plott. “I even thought of Ivanka for the World Bank,” he added. “She would’ve been great at that because she’s very good with numbers. She’s got a great calmness...I’ve seen her under tremendous stress and pressure. She reacts very well—that’s usually a genetic thing, but it’s one of those things, nevertheless. She’s got a tremendous presence when she walks into the room.”"

Remember that cringeworthy video where Ivanka awkwardly tried to join a conversation that IMF Chair Christine LaGarde, Angela Merkel, Theresa May, and Emmanuel Macron were having at the G20? And they all just sort of uncomfortably nodded as she spoke and looked annoyed at having to talk to someone who had no idea what they were saying? Lagarde in particular was giving her a lot of side eye.

The IMF head and the World Bank President often work closely together. Imagine how a trained professional like LaGarde would feel having to talk to Ivanka.

It’s worse than you think. It’s not like she had a bad take on international monetary policy, she doesn’t fully comprehend the words she uses.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/ivanka-trump-misused-words-albeit-relative-basis-complicit-architecting-stephen-colbert/amp

Ivanka is his daughter. He has remarked how good looking she is and if she were not his daughter, he would indeed tap.

Honestly, with a guy with such low impulse control and a clear desire to bone his daughter, I'd be more shocked if he hasn't done it.

Google for "Trump Ivanka pictures". He posed with her in lovey dovey poses for romantic photos when she was, like, 12.

Coincidentally, he took her with him to Russia when she was about 12. Russia, known for rigging hotel rooms with cameras. There's speculation that the "pee tape" may actually be the "P[edo] tape".

Trump Wanted to 'Stay in Power Forever' Like Putin, Says His Ex-National Security Adviser

"Aformer top national security adviser to Donald Trump said the ex-president admired Russia's Vladimir Putin and wanted to "stay in power forever" like the strongman leader.

"He saw Putin as the kind of epitome of the badass populist, frankly, you know, the kind of person that he wanted to be: super-rich, super powerful, no checks and balances, and essentially being able to stay in power forever," Fiona Hill, who previously served as senior director for Europe and Russia on Trump's National Security Council, told Molly Jong-Fast of The Daily Beast on an episode of The New Abnormal podcast uploaded on Sunday.

Trump's affinity for Putin has long been criticized, as the former president often appeared to be publicly defensive of the authoritarian Russian president before and during his tenure in the White House."

I can’t wrap my head around Trump supporters thinking this will be good for them or the country/world. Trump somehow becoming president for life, that will not play out well for anyone other than himself and his kids.

Trump's presidency was 100% about himself. All his trips to Mar-a-lago on the taxpayer's dime, his nakedly self serving attempts to get the G7 summit at his resort. Trump is a freaking con man who has only ever acted in his own self interest. He doesn't give a shit about the people who voted for him. He would have turned them away from his fancy resorts and hotels as not good enough.

But they've all deluded themselves into believing Trump did anything for them. Not much has changed for me under Trump, or under Biden. But these people have convinced themselves that he changed the world and made it better, even if their own lives went from same to same.

Which absolutely makes no sense if you’re working or middle class. Trump’s policies were absolutely hammering the average Joe. The only ones profiting from a Trump administration was Trump, his family, cronies, and billionaires sucking up to him.

t actually makes total sense once you understand that his purpose was to rally the far-right to finally remove any evidence of liberal or social programs. Sure, many of the average Joe's voted for him ignorantly thinking that he would bring jobs, etc. But the big money people lobbied for him because he represents a long line of capitalists, industrialists, dictators and gangsters who want to do away with environmental protections, labor protections, civil rights, universal Healthcare, etc. They want to destroy socialism and establish the true free market capitalism in the worst way.

And they all think he's going to lift the lot of the Average Joe in the process. In their white minds, there would be more jobs available for white men if women stayed home, if we limited immigration, if we got rid of discrimination protections, if we let rich white business leaders drive the economy unfettered by social and environmental concerns. More women would stay home if their husband could provide for them, while also eliminating the need for abortion rights. By shrinking government, people would be forced to rely on the church for social welfare, driving more people into the flock. Peace would be restored because law enforcement would have much more freedom to rough people up, instilling fear in the poor, the black and native American population, and LGBTQIA folks. The country was interpreted as a white Christian utopia. They had no problem codifying their racism with territorial land grants, giving early white settlers free reign to kill, rape, abuse native Americans and black people. They had no problem stripping the Japanese of their property. It can happen again and Trump is the best chance they have to ensure that they dominate.

Biden declines Trump request to withhold White House records from Jan. 6 committee

"WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday formally blocked an attempt by former President Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, setting up a legal showdown between the current and former presidents over executive privilege.

In a letter to the National Archives obtained by NBC News, White House Counsel Dana Remus rejected an attempt by Trump’s attorneys to withhold documents requested by the House Select Committee regarding the then-president’s activities on Jan. 6, writing that “President Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified as to any of the documents.”"

For anyone confused or unsure, here's a few pieces of information that are relevant.

1. Executive privilege is not in the Constitution, nor is it laid out anywhere else legally except in a single SCOTUS ruling.
2. It only applies to stuff within the executive. Individuals who are not within the executive don't apply here (e.g. Bannon, Insurrectionists, etc who are not in communication with the executive).
3. It definitely does not apply to individuals in the Legislative branch who communicated with the Executive branch, e.g. texts between Congresspersons who aided and abetted.
4. It absolutely fucking does not apply if the requested documents and testimony are "essential to the justice of the case." (This is the precise text of the SCOTUS ruling.)

On Point #4, if Congress is investigating Trump's involvement with an attempted coup, then Trump's correspondence by its very nature is required for justice to prevail here.