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To: Sdgla who wrote (1188091)	12/25/2019 7:12:01 PM
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LOL, now you're going fantasize you can ban me from SI. What a dumbass.

To: Sdgla who wrote (1188091)	12/25/2019 7:14:01 PM
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Republican Group Hits Donald Trump With Scathing New Billboard Campaign Republicans for the Rule of Law asks “What Is Trump Hiding?” in its ads. A conservative group is targeting House Republicans with a digital billboard campaign that is heavily critical of President Donald Trump. In the new ads, Republicans for the Rule of Law calls out Trump for prohibiting key witnesses in the Ukraine scandal from testifying in the House impeachment inquiry against him. The ads show Trump with a finger over his mouth to indicate that he wants silence. He appears next to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in the images. All apart from Trump have tape placed over their mouths to keep them from speaking. “What Is Trump Hiding?” ask the ads, which will be placed in the congressional districts of House Republicans, including Reps. Greg Walden (Ore.), Mac Thornberry (Texas), Fred Upton (Mich.) Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) John Katko (N.Y.) and Martha Roby (Ala.). REPUBLICANS FOR THE RULE OF LAW House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against Trump on Tuesday. Trump is accused of abuse of power in relation to his alleged pressuring of Ukraine’s president to investigate potential 2020 Democratic rival Joe Biden, and obstruction of Congress, following his administration’s stonewalling of the congressional probe into the initial allegation. “The president doesn’t own the government and he’s not above the law,” Republicans for the Rule of Law spokesperson Chris Truax said in a statement to HuffPost. “He’s merely a caretaker acting on our behalf and when Congress demands an accounting, it’s the President’s duty to comply.” “President Trump has been given every opportunity to answer the charges against him,” the statement continued. “He demands friendly witnesses, yet refuses to allow his most loyal supporters to testify. He complains the proceedings are unfair, yet refuses to allow his lawyers to participate in the hearings.” “If President Trump really could prove he is innocent of the impeachment charges against him, he would have made some effort to do so by now,” Truax concluded. “If the President really does think the facts will exonerate him, why won’t he let those facts come out?” Last month, Republicans for the Rule of Law launched an ad campaign on Fox News in a bid to educate GOP voters on the facts of the Ukraine scandal. huffpost.com

To: Sdgla who wrote (1188091)	12/25/2019 7:25:34 PM
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Trump is a ‘truly inferior person’ with a ‘preliterate’ sense of history: Language expert December 24, 2019 By Matthew Chapman [ IQ measured at 73* when he was young. Probably dumber now. ]* On MSNBC’s “11th Hour,” language expert John McWhorter excoriated President Donald Trump for his attacks on the late Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) — and suggested that the way the president speaks about other people goes directly to his moral character. “You know, it’s interesting,” said McWhorter. “He’s sitting there using the name, and he’s implying that it sounds like some kind of genial, isn’t that funny. Of course it reminds you of uncle whoever, that counselor at camp. Everything about the man is easy, always easy. For example, never mind the history of the man who he’s talking about and his significance. Donald Trump has the historical sense of roughly a kitchen cabinet. The past doesn’t matter, except as possibly it flatters him in the present.” “One again, it’s about orality,” continued McWhorter. “Before you can write history down, people tend to preserve history in their heads, often with some one or two people who remember the history, and the history tends to be massaged to fit the needs of people living difficult lives in the present. Just mastering details such as what Franklin Pierce’s wife’s name was. It’s not important if you don’t have paper to preserve those meaningless details. He has this preliterate sense of how history works.” “And then, just the meanness,” said McWhorter. “If you talk to an actor, they’ll tell you as fascinating as it is to watch somebody be angry in a play, angry is easy. If somebody doesn’t know how to act, it’s fairly easy to have a tantrum. What’s difficult is getting on stage and conveying things such as genuine happiness or remorse or ambiguity, and notice how those three things are utterly alien from anything we’ve seen of Trump. What you see is a certain joy in making fun of other people. This is a truly inferior person to be leading this nation, and the bit with Dingell, he ought to be utterly ashamed of himself. And yet as we know, life will go on, and that thing could possibly be reelected because that’s how life works. We’ve unleashed something that’s truly frightening.” rawstory.com