More epic corruption exposed.

[berg80]

LONDON — The American ambassador to Britain, Robert Wood Johnson IV, told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that President Trump had asked him to see if the British government could help steer the world-famous and lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to three people with knowledge of the episode.

Trump’s Request of an Ambassador: Get the British Open for Me (Published 2020)

Woody Johnson, the N.F.L. owner, Trump donor and ambassador to Britain, was warned not to get involved in trying to move the tournament to a Trump resort in Scotland, but he raised the idea anyway — and he failed.

www.nytimes.com

This stuff just keeps coming in waves. Every day........more incompetence, more corruption, more chaos.

 

[gipper]

All you need do is stop consuming MSM “reporting” and it magically stops.

 

[bripat9643]

LONDON — The American ambassador to Britain, Robert Wood Johnson IV, told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that President Trump had asked him to see if the British government could help steer the world-famous and lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to three people with knowledge of the episode.

Trump’s Request of an Ambassador: Get the British Open for Me (Published 2020)

Woody Johnson, the N.F.L. owner, Trump donor and ambassador to Britain, was warned not to get involved in trying to move the tournament to a Trump resort in Scotland, but he raised the idea anyway — and he failed.

www.nytimes.com

This stuff just keeps coming in waves. Every day........more incompetence, more corruption, more chaos.

Anonymous sources. Sure fire sign of fake news.

 

[Nostra]

"these people said"

The Fake News NYTs with no sources sez...............

 

[berg80]

Anonymous sources. Sure fire sign of fake news.

The use of the fake news meme. A sure sign of Dear Leader Syndrome.

 

[berg80]

"The ambassador’s deputy, Lewis A. Lukens, advised him not to do it, warning that it would be an unethical use of the presidency for private gain, these people said. But Mr. Johnson apparently felt pressured to try. A few weeks later, he raised the idea of Turnberry playing host to the Open with the secretary of state for Scotland, David Mundell.

In a brief interview last week, Mr. Mundell said it was “inappropriate” for him to discuss his dealings with Mr. Johnson and referred to a British government statement that said Mr. Johnson “made no request of Mr. Mundell regarding the British Open or any other sporting event.” The statement did not address whether the ambassador had broached the issue of Turnberry, which Mr. Trump bought in 2014, but none of the next four Opens are scheduled to be played there.

Still, the episode left Mr. Lukens and other diplomats deeply unsettled. Mr. Lukens, who served as the acting ambassador before Mr. Johnson arrived in November 2017, emailed officials at the State Department to tell them what had happened, colleagues said. A few months later, Mr. Johnson forced out Mr. Lukens, a career diplomat who had earlier served as ambassador to Senegal, shortly before his term was to end."

 

[Nostra]

Anonymous sources. Sure fire sign of fake news.

The use of the fake news meme. A sure sign of Dear Leader Syndrome.

Your source has no sources.

 

[bripat9643]

Anonymous sources. Sure fire sign of fake news.

The use of the fake news meme. A sure sign of Dear Leader Syndrome.

No, it's the sign that you're spouting fake news.

 

[berg80]

Another day that ends in "y," another scandal that would potentially end the presidency of any other politician.

 

[bripat9643]

Another day that ends in "y," another scandal that would potentially end the presidency of any other politician.

Wrong. If Obama was the target, then the fake news would never have reported it.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Democrats need a scandal. Chicago is racking up the corpses.

 

[berg80]

No, it's the sign that you're spouting fake news.

You don't see a pattern? "Last year, the White House chose the Trump National Doral resort in Miami as the site of a Group of 7 meeting. Trump also urged Vice President Mike Pence to stay at his family’s golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland, last year during a visit, even though the vice president’s official business was on the other side of the country."

And of course there are all those visits to his own resorts when he overcharges Secret Service staff who stay in rooms there.

And this.............

 

[berg80]

And............https://time.com/donald-trumps-suite-of-power/

 

[two_iron]

Wow..... that's a real fucking snoozer you uncovered there...

I almost read it.

 

[berg80]

Wow..... that's a real fucking snoozer you uncovered there...

That's a very telling reaction. Trump tried to use the apparatus of government (an ambassador) and his position as prez to orchestrate naming his golf course as the place where the British Open would be played. Thereby corruptly profiting from his position as POTUS. Your response is telling because it reveals how routine it has become for the Orange Menace to abuse his position for personal gain.

But I will concede there are so many constant scandals with Individual 1 fatigue has set in. Like.......

Trump ex-lawyer Michael Cohen gets quick court hearing on prison release bid after suing Attorney General Barr

Michael Cohen was moving to publish a damning book about his former legal client, President Donald Trump, when he was sent back to prison.

www.cnbc.com

With No Final Say, Trump Wants To Change Who Counts For Dividing Up Congress' Seats

The president is calling for unauthorized immigrants to be excluded from census numbers used to divide seats in Congress. The Constitution says the count must include every person living in the U.S.

www.npr.org

 

[Aldo Raine]

LONDON — The American ambassador to Britain, Robert Wood Johnson IV, told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that President Trump had asked him to see if the British government could help steer the world-famous and lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to three people with knowledge of the episode.

Trump’s Request of an Ambassador: Get the British Open for Me (Published 2020)

Woody Johnson, the N.F.L. owner, Trump donor and ambassador to Britain, was warned not to get involved in trying to move the tournament to a Trump resort in Scotland, but he raised the idea anyway — and he failed.

www.nytimes.com

This stuff just keeps coming in waves. Every day........more incompetence, more corruption, more chaos.

I am shocked.....Uhm nope.

 

[berg80]

I am shocked.....Uhm nope.

That's the point. No one is shocked at what should be shocking. It's just that for this prez corruption has become second nature.

 

[berg80]

Is there no norm, constitutional or otherwise, the Adulterer-in-Chief doesn't try to break?

"President Trump released a memorandum Tuesday that calls for an unprecedented change to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the country — the exclusion of unauthorized immigrants from the numbers used to divide up seats in Congress among the states.

The memo instructs Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Commerce Department, to include in the legally required report of census results to the president "information permitting the President, to the extent practicable" to leave out the number of immigrants living in the U.S. without authorization from the apportionment count.

But the move by the president, who does not have final authority over the census, is more likely to spur legal challenges and political spectacle in the last months before this year's presidential election than a transformation of the once-a-decade head count, which has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic."

 

[colfax_m]

I’m looking forward to the shift from “fake news didn’t happen” to “so what, it’s not illegal or impeachable” that has happened so many times before.

 

[Nostra]

Another day that ends in "y," another scandal that would potentially end the presidency of any other politician.

You got him this time, Boy!