The GOP should grow a spine instead of being worthless piles of protoplasm with no moral compass.....That also goes to the slurpers here who still do not recognize trump lost, biden won and there IS NO EVIDENCE OF ANY VOTER FRAUD OR BALLOT STUFFING!!!!!!! The root cause of this country are people who follow the leader without question!!!!!!
New Leaf:Yes, but this time with fresh, clean water.
NRA Reports Executive Misconduct to IRS 3:50 pm EST “After years of denying allegations of lax financial oversight, the National Rifle Association has made a stunning declaration in a new tax filing: Current and former executives used the nonprofit group’s money for personal benefit and enrichment,” the Washington Post reports.
OH NO! PATRIOTIC NRA TYPES WOULD NEVER DO THAT! NEVER!!!
“The NRA said in the filing that it continues to review the alleged abuse of funds, as the tax-exempt organization curtails services and runs up multimillion-dollar legal bills. The assertion of impropriety comes four months after the attorney general of New York state filed a lawsuit accusing NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre and other top officials of using NRA funds for decades to provide inflated salaries and expense accounts.”
SAY IT AIN'T SO! SAY IT AIN'T SO!.
Trump Rambles About Voter Fraud on Speakerphone 4:26 pm “President Trump phoned into a Pennsylvania state Senate hearing where his legal team was appearing as part of their shriveling legal battle against the election results,” NBC News reports.
“After calling his lawyers in the middle of the hearing — held at the Wyndham Hotel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — Trump launched a breathless, 10-minute long rant about election fraud during which he surfaced many his familiar false claims about dead people voting, illegal ballots, Democrats’ corruption and more.”
Trump Pardons Former Swamp Member Michael Flynn 4:18 pm President Trump announced he had pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, ending a three-year legal saga that saw Flynn seek to withdraw a guilty plea for lying to the FBI and a controversial reversal by the Justice Department on his case, the Washington Post reports.
Politico: “Trump’s move is an extraordinary intervention on behalf of an ally who pleaded guilty in 2017 and has spent the last two years fighting to overturn his original plea.”
Mark Osler: “President Trump’s announcement that he has pardoned Michael Flynn… is infuriating—and not merely because of the gross favoritism on display. What Trump has done once again is corrupt something that ought to be beyond corruption: the mercy that the most powerful person in the world can bestow upon those who are in chains.”
Fauci Expects Role In Biden’s Coronavirus Response 3:52 pm Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, told McClatchy that he expects a role in the incoming administration and would serve in a senior position if called upon by President-elect Joe Biden.
“Fauci said he assumes he will stay in his job as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a position he has held since 1984. But he would ‘seriously consider’ serving in another capacity, such as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or as secretary of Health and Human Services, if Biden asked.”
Scarborough Says He’s Left the GOP Forever 3:46 pm Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” told his viewers that he would never be a Republican again after the party supported President Trump.
As an expression of my thanks to you for everything you, and your Country have done for me, I want you to be aware of the following action I have taken:
Effective immediately, I have withdrawn the United States from the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty". As you know, the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty" allowed the United States to fly reconnaissance missions over Russia, and provide the U.S. with surveillance of Russian Military activity.
This agreement was not a problem while I was President of the United States, because as we both know, if I had been warned of any Russian Military buildup on the border of any other Country, I would have ignored it.
However, we both know that Joe Biden does not love Russia the way that I do. Russia does not hold the leverage over Joe Biden as they do me, and if Biden is warned of a Russian Military buildup, he will react to it. My decision to withdraw the United States from the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty", will protect you, and Russia from this U.S. surveillance.
After withdrawing the U.S. from the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty", I then feared that Joe Biden would rejoin the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty", once taking office. To prevent this, I have taken steps to make this extremely difficult for him to do so, by ordering the destruction of all of the OC-135B Air Force reconnaissance planes which were developed, and equipped for the specific purpose of providing surveillance of Russia.
Now, not only has the United Stated withdrawn from the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty" they no longer even have the planes required for the surveillance of Russia.
I hope you are satisfied with these actions I have taken. Please send me a list of everything you would like me to do before I leave office.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Trump aka Lame Duck President, Lame Duck Donald, Lame Duck Trump, Lame Donald Duck Trump, Impeached Trump, Impeached Donald Trump, Trump the Lying King, Trump the Tax Cheat
I left the Republican party when Donald J. Trump aka Lame Duck President, Lame Duck Donald, Lame Duck Trump, Lame Donald Duck Trump, Impeached Trump, Impeached Donald Trump, Trump the Lying King, Trump the Tax Cheat was elected by a minority popular vote against crooked Hillary.
Biden Leans Towards Donilon as CIA Director 7:12 pm “President-elect Joe Biden is leaning toward naming former Obama administration national security adviser Tom Donilon as his CIA director,” Politico reports.
“The choice for the spymaster role is one of the toughest facing Biden as he puts together his national security team. The CIA has found itself uncomfortably embroiled in domestic politics under Donald Trump, accused by the outgoing president and his allies of seeking to tar him as an agent of Moscow and representing a “deep state” bent on undermining his policies. Whomever Biden picks will also confront an emboldened Russia and an increasingly aggressive China, along with transnational threats like climate change and pandemics.”
Bonus Quote of the Day 7:06 pm “History will record the shameful irony that a president who lied to avoid military service staged a bogus event on the hallowed grounds of Gettysburg in a brazen attempt to undermine the Republic for which scores of real patriots had fought and died to preserve since its founding.” — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R), on Twitter.
ABC News Dialing into Pa. GOP meeting, President Trump shows no sign of concession
President Donald Trump phoned into a meeting of Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers to say he believes he was "cheated" out of a victory in the 2020 election and the outcome should be turned over.
"This was an election that we won easily. We won it by a lot," Trump said to the lawmakers and Republican supporters in the ballroom of a Gettysburg hotel. "Very sad to say it -- this election was rigged and we can't let that happen. We can't let it happen for our country. This election has to be turned around."
Trump has made few appearances since the election and the phone call represents some of the most direct remarks he has made about his desire to see the results of the contest reversed.
His claims have been widely debunked by elections officials from both parties and in a series of court challenges that ended in defeat for the Trump campaign. Democrat Joe Biden won the 2020 election by more than 6 million votes, and by the identical Electoral College margin that Trump amassed in 2016.
Trump's comments came near the conclusion of a lengthy presentation by his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who introduced a series of witnesses – some in person and some over video conference – who shared stories of what they believed were election oddities and irregularities.
A spokesperson for Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar called the claims "tired conspiracy theories" that have been "debunked and dismissed by the courts."
"Continuing to repeat these falsehoods in front of the cameras only harms the democracy that so many Americans have died to protect," the spokeswoman said.
The Biden campaign declined to respond to the president's comments, referring reporters to an earlier statement that called Trump's reaction "a sideshow."
"Look, the election is over, virtually everyone on Earth has accepted that truth except for Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, the Trump campaign has been laughed out of every courtroom, with their meritless and baseless lawsuits meant to undermine the will of the American people," spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said.
Trump had considered flying to Gettysburg to appear at the GOP event in person, but shortly before the meeting was scheduled to begin, reporters were told there would be no trip. At one point after the meeting was underway, Trump could be overheard on a speaker phone held by another of his lawyers, Jenna Ellis, providing direction to Giuliani.
Trump keeps threatening more lawsuits, but court challenges are hitting dead ends
Jenna Ellis, a member of President Donald Trump's legal team, held a cellphone to a microphone so the president could speak to the Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers gathered at the Wyndham Gettysburg Hotel.
When he addressed the group by phone, Trump said the anecdotes presented at the caucus meeting represent only a small fraction of the sworn statements his legal team has collected.
"We have to turn the election over," Trump re-iterated. "All we need is to have some judge listen to it properly without having a political opinion or having another kind of problem."
Much of the hearing and most of the witness testimony focused on allegations that Republican poll observers had been forced to stand too far away from the ballot-counting process to determine if the ballots were legally cast.
"If you were a Republican poll watcher you were treated like a dog," Trump said. "But the Democrats had no problems. They were rough. They were literally pushed out."
Over the past three weeks, the Trump campaign mounted a legal challenge making that allegation, but the Pennsylvania courts ultimately rejected them. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against the Trump campaign's claims that poll watchers were not close enough to "meaningfully observe" the vote count.
In a vote of 5-2, the court found that elections officials followed the law in providing the Trump campaign sufficient access to the poll workers who were opening mail-in ballots. There are simply no requirements that say how close the observers need to be placed to watch the process, the court found.
"These provisions do not set a minimum distance" for observers to watch the process, Justice Debra Todd wrote for the majority. "The General Assembly, had it so desired, could have easily established such parameters; however, it did not."
And even those dissenting were not partial to the Trump campaign argument. In his dissenting opinion, Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor wrote that the campaign's request to cancel large numbers of ballots "based on isolated procedural irregularities" was "misguided."
During his comments Wednesday, the president confirmed earlier reports that he has had difficulty securing a lawyer to take on the effort to contest the election.
"There are other lawyers that backed down because they were being screamed at," Trump said in praising the loyalty of Giuliani. "I told him the other day, Rudy, you were the greatest mayor … but what you're doing now is far more important. This is going to be your crowning achievement because you're saving our country."
WHAT BLUBBERING BS!
During his presentation, Giuliani repeated other arguments that have also been swiftly dismissed by the courts – including the claim that the election should be invalidated because voters in Republican-majority counties were treated differently than those in Democratic-majority jurisdictions. A federal ruling stated those claims were "without merit."
"This Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence," Judge Matthew W. Brann wrote. "In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more."
That case is now on appeal.
Mark Aronchick, a Philadelphia lawyer who argued the case against Giuliani, said he will wait to hear what the appeals court says before he can declare any sort of victory in the legal battle.
"I will say from the rooftops that the American public should be immensely proud that we have an independent judiciary," Aronchick said. "We operate under the rule of law, and not the rule of the soapbox from the driveway of Four Seasons Total Landscaping."
The Republican lawmakers who hosted Wednesday's caucus meeting said they were eager to find a way to fix what they considered to be significant problems with the 2020 election. Giuliani urged them to find a way to invalidate the mail-in ballots.
"This election, the numbers don't add up," Giuliani said. "Count the honest votes and the winner of this election changes."
MORE BLUBBERING BS. The President's lawyers don't have a leg to stand on. And the ones who abandoned the case knew it, and the ones still on the case refuse to allege fraud because there are consequences for lying to a judge.
Roger stated he was the cause of both of his failed marriages. Roger Stated he does do math well. Roger Stated in 2020 he would live in a luxury home with a super model GF, a huge bank Account and specified he would drive an Audi A8 a 78 k car.
25 comments:
Flynn should wave goodbye to judge Sullivan with his middle finger
The GOP should grow a spine instead of being worthless piles of protoplasm with no moral compass.....That also goes to the slurpers here who still do not recognize trump lost, biden won and there IS NO EVIDENCE OF ANY VOTER FRAUD OR BALLOT STUFFING!!!!!!! The root cause of this country are people who follow the leader without question!!!!!!
rrb: the swamp is being refilled
New Leaf:Yes, but this time with fresh, clean water.
NRA Reports Executive Misconduct to IRS
3:50 pm EST
“After years of denying allegations of lax financial oversight, the National Rifle Association has made a stunning declaration in a new tax filing: Current and former executives used the nonprofit group’s money for personal benefit and enrichment,” the Washington Post reports.
OH NO! PATRIOTIC NRA TYPES WOULD NEVER DO THAT! NEVER!!!
“The NRA said in the filing that it continues to review the alleged abuse of funds, as the tax-exempt organization curtails services and runs up multimillion-dollar legal bills. The assertion of impropriety comes four months after the attorney general of New York state filed a lawsuit accusing NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre and other top officials of using NRA funds for decades to provide inflated salaries and expense accounts.”
SAY IT AIN'T SO! SAY IT AIN'T SO!.
Trump Rambles About Voter Fraud on Speakerphone
4:26 pm
“President Trump phoned into a Pennsylvania state Senate hearing where his legal team was appearing as part of their shriveling legal battle against the election results,” NBC News reports.
“After calling his lawyers in the middle of the hearing — held at the Wyndham Hotel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — Trump launched a breathless, 10-minute long rant about election fraud during which he surfaced many his familiar false claims about dead people voting, illegal ballots, Democrats’ corruption and more.”
Trump Pardons Former Swamp Member Michael Flynn
4:18 pm
President Trump announced he had pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, ending a three-year legal saga that saw Flynn seek to withdraw a guilty plea for lying to the FBI and a controversial reversal by the Justice Department on his case, the Washington Post reports.
Politico: “Trump’s move is an extraordinary intervention on behalf of an ally who pleaded guilty in 2017 and has spent the last two years fighting to overturn his original plea.”
Mark Osler: “President Trump’s announcement that he has pardoned Michael Flynn… is infuriating—and not merely because of the gross favoritism on display. What Trump has done once again is corrupt something that ought to be beyond corruption: the mercy that the most powerful person in the world can bestow upon those who are in chains.”
Fauci Expects Role In Biden’s Coronavirus Response
3:52 pm
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, told McClatchy that he expects a role in the incoming administration and would serve in a senior position if called upon by President-elect Joe Biden.
“Fauci said he assumes he will stay in his job as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a position he has held since 1984. But he would ‘seriously consider’ serving in another capacity, such as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or as secretary of Health and Human Services, if Biden asked.”
Scarborough Says He’s Left the GOP Forever
3:46 pm
Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” told his viewers that he would never be a Republican again after the party supported President Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scarborough-says-he-ll-never-return-to-republican-party-after-gop-supported-trump/ar-BB1bmyYH
Watch the video. Read the article.
He left when he began shtupping Mika
Who gives a shit about joe Scarborough?
I haven't ever really been a Republican. At least not in the past 20 years or so.
Exactly.
More significant is Joe Manchin saying he's not gonna let all the crazy liberal legislation to through.
Dear President Vladimir Putin,
As an expression of my thanks to you for everything you, and your Country have done for me, I want you to be aware of the following action I have taken:
Effective immediately, I have withdrawn the United States from the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty". As you know, the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty" allowed the United States to fly reconnaissance missions over Russia, and provide the U.S. with surveillance of Russian Military activity.
This agreement was not a problem while I was President of the United States, because as we both know, if I had been warned of any Russian Military buildup on the border of any other Country, I would have ignored it.
However, we both know that Joe Biden does not love Russia the way that I do. Russia does not hold the leverage over Joe Biden as they do me, and if Biden is warned of a Russian Military buildup, he will react to it. My decision to withdraw the United States from the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty", will protect you, and Russia from this U.S. surveillance.
After withdrawing the U.S. from the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty", I then feared that Joe Biden would rejoin the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty", once taking office. To prevent this, I have taken steps to make this extremely difficult for him to do so, by ordering the destruction of all of the OC-135B Air Force reconnaissance planes which were developed, and equipped for the specific purpose of providing surveillance of Russia.
Now, not only has the United Stated withdrawn from the "Open Skies Surveillance Treaty" they no longer even have the planes required for the surveillance of Russia.
I hope you are satisfied with these actions I have taken. Please send me a list of everything you would like me to do before I leave office.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Trump aka Lame Duck President, Lame Duck Donald, Lame Duck Trump, Lame Donald Duck Trump, Impeached Trump, Impeached Donald Trump, Trump the Lying King, Trump the Tax Cheat
I left the Republican party when Donald J. Trump aka Lame Duck President, Lame Duck Donald, Lame Duck Trump, Lame Donald Duck Trump, Impeached Trump, Impeached Donald Trump, Trump the Lying King, Trump the Tax Cheat was elected by a minority popular vote against crooked Hillary.
Lame Duck Trump said...
balls said...
Scott asshole Jr. said...
Has anyone else noted that every time a major family holiday is upon us, a bitter old broken down drunk always spams the blog with fake nyms?
It speaks volumes of how empty their life is and the realization they’ve shit the bed are complete assholes, who deserve to be alone
LOL
Very well done, I'd say!
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Biden Leans Towards Donilon as CIA Director
7:12 pm
“President-elect Joe Biden is leaning toward naming former Obama administration national security adviser Tom Donilon as his CIA director,” Politico reports.
“The choice for the spymaster role is one of the toughest facing Biden as he puts together his national security team. The CIA has found itself uncomfortably embroiled in domestic politics under Donald Trump, accused by the outgoing president and his allies of seeking to tar him as an agent of Moscow and representing a “deep state” bent on undermining his policies. Whomever Biden picks will also confront an emboldened Russia and an increasingly aggressive China, along with transnational threats like climate change and pandemics.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
7:06 pm
“History will record the shameful irony that a president who lied to avoid military service staged a bogus event on the hallowed grounds of Gettysburg in a brazen attempt to undermine the Republic for which scores of real patriots had fought and died to preserve since its founding.”
— Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R), on Twitter.
ABC News
Dialing into Pa. GOP meeting, President Trump shows no sign of concession
President Donald Trump phoned into a meeting of Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers to say he believes he was "cheated" out of a victory in the 2020 election and the outcome should be turned over.
"This was an election that we won easily. We won it by a lot," Trump said to the lawmakers and Republican supporters in the ballroom of a Gettysburg hotel. "Very sad to say it -- this election was rigged and we can't let that happen. We can't let it happen for our country. This election has to be turned around."
Trump has made few appearances since the election and the phone call represents some of the most direct remarks he has made about his desire to see the results of the contest reversed.
His claims have been widely debunked by elections officials from both parties and in a series of court challenges that ended in defeat for the Trump campaign. Democrat Joe Biden won the 2020 election by more than 6 million votes, and by the identical Electoral College margin that Trump amassed in 2016.
Trump's comments came near the conclusion of a lengthy presentation by his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who introduced a series of witnesses – some in person and some over video conference – who shared stories of what they believed were election oddities and irregularities.
A spokesperson for Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar called the claims "tired conspiracy theories" that have been "debunked and dismissed by the courts."
"Continuing to repeat these falsehoods in front of the cameras only harms the democracy that so many Americans have died to protect," the spokeswoman said.
The Biden campaign declined to respond to the president's comments, referring reporters to an earlier statement that called Trump's reaction "a sideshow."
"Look, the election is over, virtually everyone on Earth has accepted that truth except for Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, the Trump campaign has been laughed out of every courtroom, with their meritless and baseless lawsuits meant to undermine the will of the American people," spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said.
Trump had considered flying to Gettysburg to appear at the GOP event in person, but shortly before the meeting was scheduled to begin, reporters were told there would be no trip. At one point after the meeting was underway, Trump could be overheard on a speaker phone held by another of his lawyers, Jenna Ellis, providing direction to Giuliani.
Trump keeps threatening more lawsuits, but court challenges are hitting dead ends
Jenna Ellis, a member of President Donald Trump's legal team, held a cellphone to a microphone so the president could speak to the Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers gathered at the Wyndham Gettysburg Hotel.
When he addressed the group by phone, Trump said the anecdotes presented at the caucus meeting represent only a small fraction of the sworn statements his legal team has collected.
"We have to turn the election over," Trump re-iterated. "All we need is to have some judge listen to it properly without having a political opinion or having another kind of problem."
Much of the hearing and most of the witness testimony focused on allegations that Republican poll observers had been forced to stand too far away from the ballot-counting process to determine if the ballots were legally cast.
"If you were a Republican poll watcher you were treated like a dog," Trump said. "But the Democrats had no problems. They were rough. They were literally pushed out."
Over the past three weeks, the Trump campaign mounted a legal challenge making that allegation, but the Pennsylvania courts ultimately rejected them. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against the Trump campaign's claims that poll watchers were not close enough to "meaningfully observe" the vote count.
In a vote of 5-2, the court found that elections officials followed the law in providing the Trump campaign sufficient access to the poll workers who were opening mail-in ballots. There are simply no requirements that say how close the observers need to be placed to watch the process, the court found.
"These provisions do not set a minimum distance" for observers to watch the process, Justice Debra Todd wrote for the majority. "The General Assembly, had it so desired, could have easily established such parameters; however, it did not."
And even those dissenting were not partial to the Trump campaign argument. In his dissenting opinion, Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor wrote that the campaign's request to cancel large numbers of ballots "based on isolated procedural irregularities" was "misguided."
During his comments Wednesday, the president confirmed earlier reports that he has had difficulty securing a lawyer to take on the effort to contest the election.
"There are other lawyers that backed down because they were being screamed at," Trump said in praising the loyalty of Giuliani. "I told him the other day, Rudy, you were the greatest mayor … but what you're doing now is far more important. This is going to be your crowning achievement because you're saving our country."
WHAT BLUBBERING BS!
During his presentation, Giuliani repeated other arguments that have also been swiftly dismissed by the courts – including the claim that the election should be invalidated because voters in Republican-majority counties were treated differently than those in Democratic-majority jurisdictions. A federal ruling stated those claims were "without merit."
"This Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence," Judge Matthew W. Brann wrote. "In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more."
That case is now on appeal.
Mark Aronchick, a Philadelphia lawyer who argued the case against Giuliani, said he will wait to hear what the appeals court says before he can declare any sort of victory in the legal battle.
"I will say from the rooftops that the American public should be immensely proud that we have an independent judiciary," Aronchick said. "We operate under the rule of law, and not the rule of the soapbox from the driveway of Four Seasons Total Landscaping."
The Republican lawmakers who hosted Wednesday's caucus meeting said they were eager to find a way to fix what they considered to be significant problems with the 2020 election. Giuliani urged them to find a way to invalidate the mail-in ballots.
"This election, the numbers don't add up," Giuliani said. "Count the honest votes and the winner of this election changes."
MORE BLUBBERING BS. The President's lawyers don't have a leg to stand on. And the ones who abandoned the case knew it, and the ones still on the case refuse to allege fraud because there are consequences for lying to a judge.
Cali is correct.
Roger makes up monikers to hide his loneliness, he has 5,000 FB friendsπ€£
Roger acts as IF not being a drunk is some how a "win".
Like a " 97 SAT".
Ignore personal attacks.
It's all the trolls have.
James, look in your mirror you will find the troll.
Personal Attack.
Actually , no.
Roger stated his SAT was 97
Roger stated he was a drunkard and now is not.
You don't read Roger's posts here or on his Facebook.
Roger stated he was the cause of both of his failed marriages.
Roger Stated he does do math well.
Roger Stated in 2020 he would live in a luxury home with a super model GF, a huge bank Account and specified he would drive an Audi A8 a 78 k car.
So James, those are facts.
Kputz's said the that he doesn't read my posts, but he posted distortion
A few months for now.....
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Tell us of the facts I listed You say Roger, you didn't?
I hope Trump enjoys his golf day...after all the does think our Military men and women are SUCKERS AND LOSERS! What a disgrace he is for our AMERICA!
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