“Too many years.”

 

The deposition of the Great Donald Trump.

    Trump was successful in keeping this deposition out of the 2016 election. After watching it it’s easy to understand why. Mother Jones, yes they are leftist, got a hold of it. 

    I didn’t count the number of times where Trump responded “Too many years” to answer questions of Jason Forge, the plaintiff’s lawyer in the Trump University case, when he “couldn’t remember”. This is almost as good as the article from the Atlantic. Not near as scary though. It’s kind of like pleading the 5^th only using dementia as an excuse. Another old mob boss trick. 

    Dem courts kept this away from the public until after the election.

It’s kind of incredible—really!

    Most people won’t watch all of the deposition but do yourself a favor and at least watch parts of it. If seeing is believing there’s really not any doubt left as to the man’s character or rather lack of it. Remember German Sergeant Schultz from the Hogan’s Heroes? There are video clips available of one his famous utterances. I know nothing! Nothing! Watch the clip before getting too deep into the deposition. Then keep it in mind as you watch. At times Trump's answers reminded me of President Clinton when he would redefine what words meant when answering questions.

Trump settled.

    Remember Trump saying that he didn’t settle lawsuits? He does and he did. He settled out of court for $25 million dollars. Another victory?

Ω    The man lies. He’s proficient at it.

Ω    He said that what he wrote in his book wasn’t true.

Ω    He hired a lot of really good people but didn’t know one name. “Too many years.”

Ω    He lied about winning cases that he lost. (This one is classic Trump. He sued a reporter for defamation and then when he was under oath he admitted to lying 30 times in his deposition . BTW The deposition is 218 pages of reading.)

Ω    He lied. Then he lied about lying. The Washington Post article references the above deposition.

Ω    Trump is the champion liar. Just like is referenced in the bible. 

Too many lies.

    What I have learned is that if you show a cult member an obvious lie they either deny it completely, say that it actually means the opposite of what he said as in yes he lost but he actually won, or they mention something that someone else has done as being an excuse for whatever latest horrible thing that Trump the Liar has done.

    It is like the dozens of obsequious Senators that have switched their position on appointing a Supreme Court Justice in an election year. Then they campaign on their integrity and their opponents’ lack of same.

    The Liar has told too many lies to even bother with referencing. There are references all over the internet to his lies. He is burying the country in his pit of lies. 

In his next term he will fill in the grave.

 

Pandemic Purse forward

4/21/20        ^ What makes me sad as I write these posts is that from the time I start one until I finish more deaths are added just from COVID-19. When I first started this one deaths were at 40,000; today they are over 45,000. There’s a staggering amount of heartache and sorrow in those numbers. Then add on all the stress and grief from those just trying to get through the day. It’s humbling.

        ^ It’s important to acknowledge that for so many they entered into this pandemic that were already on the ropes with crushing poverty. 40 million people. That’s where the bulk of the relief should have gone rather than to the rich and corporations. Republican Jesters like Lindsey Graham fretted about giving them more than they deserve.

        ^ The multi-millionaire man of the pauper über religious Evangelical Party leader Franklin Graham released a campaign message for his master President Trump. I have his message in its entirety at the end of this. I retrieved it from his Facebook page. I do want to say that it is honest of him to just openly campaign for the biblical Liar. I’m just glad to hear that he pays his taxes. His net worth is estimated to be between ten to twelve million dollars. He earns over a half million a year as the CEO of Samaritan’s Purse. He also draws a salary from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

        ^ Unlike the multimillionaire Pastors supporting the Liar the majority of pastors in this country do not live in mansions, have yachts or airplanes and don’t live in luxury including many that are openly supporting the Liar.

Man of god.

Franklin Graham’s message of unity:

        ^ “This is just my opinion, but in listening to the President’s enemies and the liberal media, it seems that they would like to see this shut-down drag out into the summer months and further weaken the economy—not to save lives—but to try to use this to defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming election.”

        ^ He’s kind of passive in going after “liberal media”. It just “seems” to him that’s what they’re doing. It would have to “seem” to him because there isn’t any factual basis for his claim. It’s just something that those from the Evangelical Party and Republican Jesters in general like to say along with their White Nationalists et al supporters. Trump’s base of core supporters is broad and deep.

What’s missing?

        ^ This is what really kind of gets to me and saddens me from the messaging of men like Graham and Trump—their lack of empathy and compassion for those that are suffering. As multi-millionaires they stress that we need to get business up and running. The Evangelical Party has their priorities.

More from Graham’s message: 

        ^ “We’ve got to get our country up and running before the economy and people’s lives are damaged even more.”

        ^ What did he put first? “…the economy…”

        ^ Graham needs those donation dollars to start flowing in again.

        ^ IDK but dead is pretty much beyond repair damaged. Yes we do have to get things going again but I haven’t seen any indication in the media that says they want to the shut-down to continue so that more people can die. What the media and citizens are pointing out is that the Liar needs to start acting like a President and take some responsibility. Media and citizens are saying that the Federal government needs to start doing its job. Media and citizens are telling the Liar to stop lying and endangering people. Media and we the people are telling the Liar to stop fomenting insurrection.

        ^ What the media and others are also pointing out is the complete failure of our government to respond adequately while the Liar continues talking about his ratings and patting himself on the back for doing such a good job. In a democracy that’s what media and people do.  

        ^ Media is trying to get this Administration to do all the things that they should be doing to turn things around and pointing out that TESTING for the virus is desperately needed. Even at this late stage of the pandemic our nation is only conducting a fraction of the testing that is needed to MOST IMPORTANTLY—SAVE LIVES, then to get this country back on its feet again!

Graham does seem to be focused on the election:

“They would like to go into this election, not with the strongest economy in 70 years, but with the weakest. What the impeachment didn’t do, they are hoping the coronavirus will.”

        ^ “They” meaning liberals, the media and Democrats want there to be more dead people.

        ^ The election is the focus of the Evangelical Party now. They have to get their Caesar reelected. They are his Pharisees. His power is their power.

        ^ The Liar has been non-stop campaigning since the first week that he took office right up until the pandemic hit. He held rallies throughout his first three years. He campaigns constantly through Twitter. He picks his targets and goes after them.

        ^ Then he realized that he could use pandemic updates to campaign and not have to pay a dime. He’s racking up hundreds of millions in free campaigning. The liar tells people every day what a wonderful job he’s doing and plays the victim.

        ^ He’s holding national rallies now and doesn’t even have to show up!

Campaign rallies without Trump

        ^ If the protestors thought or took the virus seriously they would be wearing masks. The majority aren’t. Passing it to someone else isn’t a concern to them. At. All.

        ^ Sweet deal, his subjects show up and he doesn’t even have to risk getting the virus. They think that it’s a hoax. Meanwhile he’s the brave General CIC embedded in the White House in front his TV merrily tweeting away.

        ^ Conservative groups called for protest rallies nationwide. The Liar’s core supporters hit the streets with campaign signs for Trump. Trump equals freedom! Liberate Virginia! Liberate Michigan! Liberate Minnesota! Bring your guns! Bring your kids! It’s not that big of a deal. Democracy is under attack! The libs want our guns! Keep golfing. Get haircuts. Bring your Confederate flags! The virus is a hoax!

        ^ That last line is the key. The virus is a hoax. I watched that clip where the Liar called it a hoax over and over from different angles and he meant the virus was a hoax and really the ultimate proof is the majority of his core group of followers believe that it’s a hoax. The death count of oldsters doesn’t warrant a shutdown. They’re okay with 45,000 bodies. Hell, they’re okay with 250,000 bodies. It’s the economy! The fact that it’s hitting people of color harder is just icing on the cake. (They really couldn’t have known that ahead of time.)

Cannon fodder

        ^ The Liar rallies taking place across the country will cost “X” number of additional lives. The only positive aspect is that families of the survivors will be able to sue the conservative groups that pulled the rallies together.

        ^ There just isn’t adequate compensation for those lost to ignorance. Innocent bystanders, probably more oldsters and people of color than young ones will lose their lives as well. Just a little necessary collateral damage for the Liar willing to happily sacrifice his own.

        ^ Honestly the Liar is a natural born campaigning genius. The one area that he truly excels in and he is formidable. He plays media like a fiddle. He plays his supporters even better. While the United States of America burns.

If he only had the slightest idea of how to be a President and lead the people.

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Franklin Graham’s campaign message for President Trump, his Caesar.

“It was encouraging to hear President Donald J. Trump announce guidelines yesterday for opening up America again. That is good news—we thank God that it looks like we are past the peak of the coronavirus infection rate. We don’t want to delay opening up America. We’ve got to get our country up and running before the economy and people’s lives are damaged even more.  I read yesterday that Sweden had not shut down, but their people were following social distancing and other protocols with the government stressing personal responsibility, and their infection rate still remains lower than the UK’s, Italy’s, and Spain’s. I definitely agree that we all need to take precautions, wear masks, wash our hands, etc.; however, we also have to learn how to conduct business and keep production going during a pandemic. This is just my opinion, but in listening to the President’s enemies and the liberal media, it seems that they would like to see this shut-down drag out into the summer months and further weaken the economy—not to save lives—but to try to use this to defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming election. They would like to go into this election, not with the strongest economy in 70 years, but with the weakest. What the impeachment didn’t do, they are hoping the coronavirus will. Pray for our country and for the President, that God will give Him wisdom.”

Random Trumping [POLITICS]

        ^ Is knowing that someone is telling you truth important? Does it affect how you feel about someone if you know that they are a liar? Can you trust a liar?

        ^ Growing up my parents told me that being a liar was terrible. If you told lies no one would trust you. Telling the truth was important. Being a good person was important especially if you wanted to grow up and be President. Shows what they knew.

NOTE:  Once again, if you’re a supporter of President Trump there is no need for you to go any further. You won’t like it. Guaranteed! Just consider me as being already told off properly with as much ugliness as you could possibly imagine.

        ^ On a regular basis I check out articles and videos to stay updated on events and information. Checking out information these days is a little tricky but not as hard as some people make it out to be. At times I check out often well intentioned posts to verify their veracity. Usually I skip over the ones that are obviously false or that are posted just to inflame passions be insulting rather than encourage civil discourse. Like others I do slip up from time to time. (Most often when I do slip up it’s due to a little too much wine or beer while I’m writing. I love Jesus but I drinks a bit.) However, my intention is NOT to insult family, friends or even strangers for that matter.

        ^ An article from a news source that I don’t use other than for the entertainment value caught my eye. It just looked to be false from the headline alone. I hate it when the headline indicates something totally opposite from what is in the article. It’s aggravating but headlines are by design supposed to attention grabbing. It seemed to imply that President Trump said that wind turbines release fumes into the atmosphere. That isn’t true. At least not in the videos where I saw him make the comments about wind turbines. He said that it was the manufacturing process that was releasing fumes into the atmosphere. Now I have to add the caveat that there may be other videos where he did make the comment and was less clear about the source. I will add here that the manufacturing of any large complicated machinery does leave a carbon footprint.

        ^ His diatribes are becoming increasingly random, lacking in cohesive structure. At times what he is saying is simply gibberish. Fractured sentences. No discernable point. Just random words strung together with some kind of implied meaning or authority. He used to be a much better speaker when he was talking to a different audience.

        ^ In the video that I was watching President Trump was talking about all of the negative aspects of wind turbines. He really doesn’t like wind turbines. Trump mentioned that one of the negative aspects of wind turbines is that they lower property values by 50%. That was funny to me because I had just finished watching a video of him claiming that they lowered property values by 75%. He does this kind of stuff all the time. He just makes stuff up on the fly and if anyone has spent any time at all watching our President they simply have to know this or they have been incredibly unobservant. He has done this the majority of his adult life. It’s what he does. He is seriously good at it.

        ^ I knew a person that was a pathological liar. They lied about anything and everything. This person had a breakdown and ended up in therapy. They reached a point where there were simply too many lies to sustain and there were some serious consequences to some of the lies that they told. Serious.

        ^ No, I don’t believe that President Trump is going to have a breakdown. For one thing there haven’t been any personal consequences to his lies. Others may have been harmed but not him. On the contrary he has been rewarded. He is being enabled by all those around him, his family, his associates, his supporters. Everyone else is his enemy.

        ^ There are entire web pages dedicated and documenting the lies that he has told. He is over the 10,000 mark and climbing. A business employee from one of his hotels maintained that if a person spent an hour with Trump they would hear 10 to 15 lies. We just get to hear the ones that he tells in public. Can you even imagine the number of lies coming out of the White House on a daily basis?

        ^ I had the opportunity to study up on Donald Trump years ago when gambling interests were pushing for an expansion in Kansas. Trump was a casino operator then. He was a liar and fraud then as well. He lied to gaming commissions. He lied to banks. Now, I understand that some people may want to call what he did misrepresentations but they were lies pure and simple. He used undocumented workers then. He stiffed working people then just like he has continued to do until the present.

        ^ He was also a racist then. I want people to understand that I don’t take calling anyone a racist lightly. Anyone. I reached that conclusion based upon his actions up until then. He’s covered a whole lot of other racist ground since that time. He didn’t like black people then. He didn’t want them handling his money in casinos because he didn’t trust them. He didn’t want them renting his apartments. He didn’t like white women dating black men either. 

        ^ It’s immaterial to me if people don’t agree with this assessment. It’s like people claiming George Wallace wasn’t a racist or that David Duke isn’t one. White Supremacists/Alt Right/White Nationalists/KKK members/Confederates/Nazis etc. are drawn to and support President Trump for a reason. They recognize that he is one of them and his policies towards brown people are a reflection of that. If you support a racist and their policies you end up in their camp. Hate crimes against people of color and Jews are increasing for a reason. Racists have been emboldened by this Administration. After all President Trump sees some of them as very good people.

        ^ As I often do I have strayed from the path that I laid out in the beginning. I’ll get back to what I wanted to talk about primarily. The lies of President Trump or rather my favorites. A pathological or compulsive liar lies about anything. They lie when the truth would serve them better. They lie with no particular rhyme or reason.

        ^ In all the things that I will and have mentioned there are links available on the WWW to find them. I’m really not going to bother. I usually post the links but I have found that people don’t bother to go to them, refuse to believe them anyway for a multitude of reasons or simply excuse his actions.

        ^ So, on with my favs:

·        My all-time favorite is an interview that he did with Fox Pravda after he was elected and before he assumed office. During the interview he was asked by the host about the story that he punched his elementary music teacher and gave him a black eye. Trump said that he didn’t know where that story came from. It came from the book “Trump: the art of the deal” that he claimed he wrote.  (The story is on page 71 if you have the book.) No, he didn’t get expelled.

·        I have heard people say that Trump lies about where his father was born but that isn’t true. He lies about where his grandfather was born. In the book “Trump: the art of the deal” He said that his father’s father Fred Trump was born in Sweden. (Page 66) Nope. His grandfather father was born in Germany. He left Germany to avoid three years of compulsory military service to his country. Sound familiar? His grandfather’s name was Friedrich Trump. People will read that name and think that it means Fred Trump his father.

·        Then we have his initial claim before he had announced his running for President that he would release his income taxes. This is a really big lie that he told early on. He said that during an Irish television interview. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-5KEt1Abg ) This was in 2014. Straight out. No qualifiers. He would release his taxes. It was a very coherent interview. He was addressing a base of supporters then. No theatrics. None of the sing song syntax. No name calling. It was a good interview. I recommend anyone to watch it before the link is pulled. It’s had less than 50,000 views. That’s kind of surprising to me at this stage of the game. Now he’s asking the court to uphold his NOT releasing his income taxes.

·        That Mexico would pay for the wall on our border. This is just a lie of epic proportions. One of his main campaign themes. Really worked the crowds up. He said that it would be easy. Monumental lie.

·        Repeal and replace “Obama Care” with something better. Never happened. I consider it a lie because he never had a better health care plan ready. It’s almost poetic that so many of his supporters were insured under the Affordable Care Act and the only thing that he along with the Republican Party have accomplished is to make it worse not better.

·        Another stand out lie occurred during the Republican primary when Trump was doing interviews. This was essentially free campaign advertising for him. Free. He played media beautifully. I was watching one interview where he was asked about something and he talked extensively about it. Then at another interview with a different network not ten minutes later he claimed to be unaware of the subject. The panel had watched the interview on the other network and were incredulous but didn’t call him out on it.

·        Self-funding. Trump claimed numerous times that he would self-fund his campaign. Never happened. Donald Trump, the avowed multi-billionaire was taking in money from outside sources from the very beginning. He did spend his own money.

·        Not golfing because he would be too busy working. This lie is just a hoot! He gave his Presidential salary and so far we have spent $180 million guarding him while he golfs not to mention the millions that have been spent at his various properties. Remember when he complained about President Obama golfing? I’ll bet that you do. Seriously now, the man is supposed to be a multi-billionaire. Should hard working Americans really be picking up the tab for him?

·        Lock her up! He announced after the campaign that this was just rhetoric. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix49LjgaTaI  ) At his rallies they still chant about locking her up. This one is really funny when you stop to consider how many of his administration have been locked up so far and that he’s been impeached.

·        The stories that he passes along about when he’s talking with someone and then the names change the next time that he tells the same story. A Trump classic.

·        I really got a kick out of the story where he claimed that grown men were crying about some great thing that he did and the video of the occasion showed that no one was crying.

·        I watched a campaign rally recently where he claimed that he had started his campaign a few months ago. He filed to run almost immediately after taking office and has been going to rallies since the beginning of his Presidency. He needs the love and admiration. It’s his fuel.

        ^ Oh really, that’s more than enough. Why is any of this important?

        ^ It’s important because his word is meaningless and the rest of the world outside of his base knows what he is. They know that he simply can’t be trusted. After bailing on our allies the Kurds and leaving their fate to the Russians and the Turkish strongman do you think any remaining ally of ours feels like they can count on us when the chips are down? Think that the President of the Ukraine doesn’t know that?

        ^ We don’t live in a vacuum. The people of the world watch him. They see his actions. They hear his words. They know his character. He was laughed at on the world stage because of the man that he is.

        ^ I think that he’s going to get elected again. I’ll get into the why of why I think that at another time.

        ^ In the meantime I believe that our nation is better than the man at the top. I believe that we can do better. Much better. I believe that knowing right from wrong and the truth are important. I believe that character is important. What a person values is important.

        ^ This is more serious than Hillary’s emails.