Politics Thread

[paulxu]

“I work from early in the morning until late at night, haven’t left the White House in many months (except to launch Hospital Ship Comfort) in order to take care of Trade Deals, Military Rebuilding etc.,” Trump tweeted Sunday.

Clearly there was an imposter on the golf course and holding rallies in January, February and March.
Someone should arrest that guy, and lock him up.

[Masterofreality]

“I work from early in the morning until late at night, haven’t left the White House in many months (except to launch Hospital Ship Comfort) in order to take care of Trade Deals, Military Rebuilding etc.,” Trump tweeted Sunday.

Clearly there was an imposter on the golf course and holding rallies in January, February and March.
Someone should arrest that guy, and lock him up.

Clearly there was a sham Impeachment going on that took The Administration’s, and the Country’s, attention away from more important matters that should have been addressed. Someone should arrest Schiff, Nadler and Pelosi and lock them up, in cells without $20,000 refrigerators and high dollar ice cream.

[boozehound]

Clearly there was a sham Impeachment going on that took The Administration’s, and the Country’s, attention away from more important matters that should have been addressed. Someone should arrest Schiff, Nadler and Pelosi and lock them up, in cells without $20,000 refrigerators and high dollar ice cream.

This guy is President and he can't focus on two things at once? Explain to me how the 'sham' impeachment impacted Health and Human Services? They couldn't address the potential pandemic because of the impeachment trial? Trump never even testified so it's not like he was endlessly tied up in court. The only way the impeachment was a distraction for Trump was if he let it be a distraction.

Let's say for a moment that he was distracted and unable do deal with 'more important things': Why would anybody support a President with no ability to multitask and such a lack of focus?

[Xville]

This guy is President and he can't focus on two things at once? Explain to me how the 'sham' impeachment impacted Health and Human Services? They couldn't address the potential pandemic because of the impeachment trial? Trump never even testified so it's not like he was endlessly tied up in court. The only way the impeachment was a distraction for Trump was if he let it be a distraction.

Let's say for a moment that he was distracted and unable do deal with 'more important things': Why would anybody support a President with no ability to multitask and such a lack of focus?

All one needs to do is look at quotes from.certain members of a certain party from around that time period to see where their focus was...spoiler alert, it was not on the possible pandemic...in fact there were quotes attributed to key leaders during that time suggesting trump's administration was creating a crisis out of nothing.

Now this isnt to say trump has been late and a fool regarding this whole ordeal, but congress was also a huge waste of space (both sides of the aisle.)

[Masterofreality]

This guy is President and he can't focus on two things at once? Explain to me how the 'sham' impeachment impacted Health and Human Services? They couldn't address the potential pandemic because of the impeachment trial? Trump never even testified so it's not like he was endlessly tied up in court. The only way the impeachment was a distraction for Trump was if he let it be a distraction.

Let's say for a moment that he was distracted and unable do deal with 'more important things': Why would anybody support a President with no ability to multitask and such a lack of focus?

It’s not an issue of “multitasking” it was a case of keeping your job, and everything that is entailed with that along with having to deal with an adversarial media.
I would submit that if you were in a position of possibly losing your job, you would have a pretty singular focus on doing whatever you had to do to keep it with less attention to anything else. That was sure how the media played it 24/7.

[paulxu]

He was so focused on the impeachment that he went to multiple rallies, visited his own properties multiple times...and of course squeezed in many rounds of golf..
He's a real multi-tasker. He was acquitted on Feb 6th. He learned of the virus in early January. Here's his golf schedule for Feb/Mar.
He also held 9 rallies during those 2 months.

The one thing we know for absolute certainty (well, people that don't buy into his nonsense know this) is that he has left the White House many times. Maybe he doesn't even realize it; I don't know.

[Lloyd Braun]

What does the impeachment and the Democrats have to do with Trump lying that he hasn’t left the White House for months?

[AviatorX]

The "impeachment was a distraction" line of thinking is quite something. How can that even be something people actually think? If you're the POTUS, the buck stops with you, no matter what else is going on personal or professional, fair or unfair. That shouldn't be controversial. It's kind of part of the job description that comes with leader of the free world, no matter what letter is beside your name and no matter opposition party tactics.

Jesus.

[boozehound]

The "impeachment was a distraction" line of thinking is quite something. How can that even be something people actually think? If you're the POTUS, the buck stops with you, no matter what else is going on personal or professional, fair or unfair. That shouldn't be controversial. It's kind of part of the job description that comes with leader of the free world, no matter what letter is beside your name and no matter opposition party tactics.

Jesus.

That's pretty much my stance. It's amazing how some of these people simultaneously have complete trust in this guy while also apparently having a pretty low opinion of his discipline and overall ability. If he can't do his job while there is an impeachment trial going on then he shouldn't be the President. Not only that, but he knew from Day 1 that the Senate wasn't going to convict so it was pretty low stakes for him. Part of being an executive (of pretty much any kind, really) is never having job security and regularly making decisions that could cost you your job. If you can't do those things, you don't get to be an executive. Unless you inherit a company and a bunch of money from your Dad or something...

[Juice]

Here's is my favorite under the radar story going on in Ohio right now:

A Federal Super PAC Has Spent $321,821 on Alice DeWine’s Prosecutor Race in Greene County

https://theohiostar.com/2020/04/25/a...greene-county/

A Federal Super PAC Has Spent $321,821 on Alice DeWine’s Prosecutor Race in Greene County
April 25, 2020 Zachery Schmidt



As Alice DeWine, the daughter of Gov. Mike DeWine, battles for the Greene County prosecutor position, a federal super PAC named Protecting Ohio Action Fund (POAF) has supported her campaign by spending $321,821 on it, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

Alice is in a tight race against Assistant Greene County Prosecutor David Hayes for the county’s prosecutor position. Both candidates are Republican as no Democrats ran for this position.

The super PAC has been backing Alice by spending money on polling and digital advertising for her campaign, The Dispatch reported.

Almost $320,000 of POAF’s contributions came from a super PAC named Protecting Ohio Inc., according to Federal Election Committee records.

The Dispatch reported Protecting Ohio Inc. is a tax-exempt non-profit that formed right after Alice left the Greene County prosecutor’s office to go work in Clark County as an assistant prosecutor.

Protecting Ohio Inc. qualifies as a dark money group so it does not have to unveil its donors.

Besides a super PAC throwing its efforts behind Alice, her father and Attorney General Dave Yost have also publicly supported her.



Her father held the position his daughter is running for in 1976. This position launched his political career as he went on to become an Ohio state Senator in 1980.

Even with all this money and support against him, Alice’s opponent still feels confident about the election.

“That amount of money being spent on a local, county race, it is really insane,” Hayes told The Dispatch. “But, I have near-universal law enforcement support and the people who support me are residents of Greene County — not politicians in Columbus or family members.

“From their perspective, she has to win this race. This is her political coming-out party and if she doesn’t win this race, her political career may be over before it’s started,” he added.

The winner of the Greene County prosecutor will be announced next week as Ohio’s primary is April 28.