Firefighter Union Leader Responds After President Trump Lashes Out Over Joe Biden Endorsement
"Trump lashed out at the country’s largest firefighter union on Wednesday, claiming to have “done more for Firefighters than these dues sucking union will ever do” after the organization endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 Democratic primary".
http://time.com/5581002/donald-trump-firefighter-union/
This is what happens when you have too big of a mouth.
Trump doesn't understand that unions very seldom endorse Republican candidates. Republicans have been anti-union for many decades. Trump may not be but whether he is or not they'll almost always endorse Democrats. nevertheless, the endorsements really don't mean much as the rank & file pay little attention to it. They vote the way they want to.
In the president’s most recent budget proposal, which has little chance of becoming law, he proposed cutting the Assistance to Firefighters and Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant programs by $700 million, according to the Congressional Fire Services Institute. The budget document also proposed cutting the State Homeland Security Grant Program and the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) by one-third, and also zeroes out the “State Fire Training Assistance, a program that allows the National Fire Academy to partner with state fire training academies in delivering its classes at the state and local levels.” The budget would also cut the Volunteer Fire Assistance and State Fire Assistance programs.
Here’s what President Trump has actually done for firefighters
"President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning woke up and decided to attack the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), one of the most powerful and politically active unions in the country after it endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race".
http://thinkprogress.org/trump-biden-firefighters-record-disaster-relief-fires-zadroga-sprinklers-d5dafb372e25/
Exclusive: Foreign government leases at Trump World Tower stir more emoluments concerns
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department allowed at least seven foreign governments to rent luxury condominiums in New York's Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, according to documents and people familiar with the leases, a potential violation of the U.S. Constitution's emoluments clause.
The 90-story Manhattan building, part of the real estate empire of Donald Trump, had housed diplomats and foreign officials before the property developer became president. But now that he is in the White House, such transactions must pass muster with federal lawmakers, some legal experts say. The emoluments clause bans U.S. officials from accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments without congressional consent".
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-emoluments-exclusive/exclusive-foreign-government-leases-at-trump-world-tower-stir-more-emoluments-concerns-idUSKCN1S80PP
Just When Trump Thought He Was Out, Bill Barr Pulls Him Back In
"Bill Barr answered questions from senators Wednesday that confirmed once and for all that rather than conducting himself as the attorney general of the United States, Barr’s title should be attorney specific since he serves a single client—Donald J. Trump.
Barr sounded something like a defendant himself, talking in circles in a display one Democrat grudgingly praised as “masterful hairsplitting” to explain how he managed to publicly exonerate his client before releasing a report that painstakingly detailed his potential crimes".
http://www.thedailybeast.com/just-when-trump-thought-he-was-out-william-barr-pulls-him-back-in
By his own admission, Barr has said he hasn't read the full report. The man has had over a month, and it's "his baby", as he characterized it. So why has he not read the entire thing? And on what basis did he draw the conclusions within his 4-page memo days following the report's release to him? He is supposed to work for "WE THE PEOPLE". Not just Trump.
If I turned on to watch the hearing and didn't know who Barr was, you would think he was Trump's attorney.
Establishing that Trump continually violates both the foreign and domestic clauses would put enormous pressure on both parties to impeach Trump, and force Republicans senators to finally choose between Trump and upholding their oaths of office.
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Charles1962150
on Fri 05/03/19 12:23 AM