The Unfairness Of It All

Trump booed at World Series and chants of "Lock him up!" break out

resident Trump's low-profile appearance Sunday night at Game 5 of the World Series drew loud boos and jeers when he was introduced to the crowd.

resident Donald Trump is introduced during the third inning of Game 5 of the baseball World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, in Washington. Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

Wearing a dark suit and a tie, Mr. Trump arrived at Nationals Park just before the first pitch of the Houston Astros-Washington Nationals matchup. Hours earlier, he had announced that U.S. forces had assaulted the hiding place of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in the raid in northeast Syria. At the same time, a divisive impeachment inquiry into the resident is underway in Congress.

Mr. Trump and first lady Melania Trump entered a lower-tier box to the left of home plate as the game was beginning. At that point, his presence hadn't yet been formally announced, but baseball fans in the section just below his suite turned to look toward the box as he arrived. Some waved at the resident as he smiled and gave a thumbs-up.

At the end of the third inning, the resident stood and waved to the crowd, and ballpark video screens carried a salute to U.S. service members that drew cheers throughout the stadium. When the video on the Jumbotron cut to the resident and his entourage — which included a number of GOP lawmakers — and the loudspeakers announced the Trumps, cheers abruptly turned into a torrent of boos and heckling from what sounded like a majority of the crowd. Chants of "Lock him up!" broke out in some sections, including one below where the resident was sitting.

Mr. Trump appeared unfazed and continued waving. Later, some fans behind home plate held a sign reading "VETERANS FOR IMPEACHMENT." Another banner appeared during the game: "IMPEACH TRUMP!"

A red banner reading "Impeach Trump!" appeared over right field during game 5 Sunday night in the World Series. CBS News - Arden Farhi

The resident remained at the game for seven innings before heading back to the White House. The Astros took a 3-2 series lead with a 7-1 victory in Game 5.

Until Sunday night, Mr. Trump hadn't attended a major league game as resident even though the White House is a few miles northwest of Nationals Park. A dozen or so congressional lawmakers accompanied him, according to a list provided by the White House, including Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and David Perdue of Georgia, and Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

"I think everybody is excited," Nationals star pitcher Stephen Strasburg said before the game. "It's the resident of the United States. So there's obviously beefed-up security. So usually the dogs that are sniffing in our clubhouse are these nice Labs that are super friendly. And today there was a German shepherd that I didn't really feel comfortable petting."

Nationals manager Dave Martinez said: "He's coming to the game. He's a fan. Hopefully he cheers for the Washington Nationals, and I hope he enjoys the game."

Mr. Trump's staff has long tried to shield him from events where he might be loudly booed or heckled, and he has rarely ventured into the neighborhoods of the heavily Democratic city. He won just over 4% of the vote in the District of Columbia in 2016.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said he discussed with the resident whether he'd like to throw out the ceremonial first pitch, but the resident declined, citing the disruption that would cause fans getting to the ballpark.

Washington Nationals principal owner Mark Lerner told the Washington Post that Mr. Trump should be at the game, but he made clear that he did not invite the resident to throw out the first pitch, saying there were many other candidates who should be considered before Mr. Trump.

Jose Andrés, a prominent local restaurant owner and humanitarian, threw out the first pitch to a roaring, sustained ovation. He has a history with the resident, too, both in business and in politics.

Andrés has repeatedly opposed Mr. Trump's immigration policies and his administration's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Four years ago, he withdrew from plans to open a restaurant in the Trump International Hotel in Washington following Mr. Trump's controversial comments about Mexican immigrants during the presidential campaign. Legal action ensued and the dispute was settled in 2017.

—Arden Farhi contributed to this report.

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Democratic Rep. Katie Hill to resign amid allegations of improper relationship with staffer

WASHINGTON — 

Rep. Katie Hill (D-Santa Clarita) announced Sunday that she would resign from Congress after allegations that she engaged in affairs with a congressional aide and a campaign staff member became public this month.

Hill announced the resignation in a letter to constituents, saying she was stepping down “with a broken heart.”

The letter did not specify when the resignation would take effect. Hill will be the first female member of Congress to resign in a post-#MeToo era. Her resignation will also be the first after a House rule banning sexual relationships with staffers was enacted last year in response to nearly a dozen male members of Congress resigning amid sexual harassment allegations.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-27/rep-katie-hill-resigns-amid-scandal

Trump Bills Irish Cops $100,000 For The Honor Of Protecting Him

Police officers in Ireland just received a bill from Trump’s Doonberg resort after they were called in to provide extra security for the resident. His golf course is now billing them $100,000 for things like tea, coffee, and packs of snacks that they “provided” to the officers who were protecting the resident.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how this violates the Constitution, and why its just morally wrong.



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/trump-resort-sticks-irish-cops-with-a-massive-bill-after-they-were-forced-to-help-guard-the-president-there/

See lawmaker's reaction when Poppy Harlow calls him out for tweet

CNN's Poppy Harlow clashes with Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) over his tweet claiming without evidence that former Vice President Joe Biden committed a crime.

Matt Gaetz Leads Moron Brigade To Disrupt Impeachment Hearings

Dozens of Republican Representatives, led by Matt Gaetz, attempted to storm the impeachment hearings on Wednesday, creating a massive security breach by filming the sensitive information with their cell phones.

These Republicans are creating a spectacle of the entire impeachment inquiry by falsely claiming that they are being shut out of the process. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/republicans-commit-significant-breach-after-storming-closed-door-hearings-by-bringing-cellphones-to-secure-area/

https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/beyond-parody-matt-gaetz-and-dozens-of-his-gop-colleagues-try-to-barge-into-secret-hearing-in-latest-anti-impeachment-stunt/

MASSIVE SURGE In Approval For Impeachment!!! Watch Mitch McConnell & Matt Whitaker Both HURT TRUMP!

A poll released yesterday by Quinnipiac found that a full 55 percent of respondents approve of the impeachment inquiry, while a dwindling 43 percent opposed it. Last week those numbers were 51 percent to 45 percent.

 But the numbers representing the group that I believe are the most critical in the public opinion sphere were also the ones that saw the most dramatic movement. You see, support for Donald Trump’s Impeachment among independents jumped 8 points (in a single week).

 And here is what is very well fueling the rapid change related to how the American people feel about Impeaching and removing this clear and present danger from office. It is a combination of who is coming to the defense of Donald Trump and those who seem to be running in the other direction.

Note To Republicans On Impeachment Hearings: C'mon. We All Know What Happened

Posted by Rude One

Jesus, Republicans. It's embarrassing. It's really fucking embarrassing now. Every time one of you appears on some goddamned news network or another, opening your mouth holes to diarrhea out some absurd defense of Donald Trump, it's just embarrassing. As it would be if you went on TV and literally shit out of your mouths. At least then you might get some pity, a kind of "Oh, poor thing, he's sick" or "God, don't let that happen to me." But in the figurative case, it's just fucking pathetic.

See, we all know what happened. We all know that Trump was extorting Ukraine to get them to go along with weird-ass conspiracy theories he's had skull fucked into him by a constant feed of Fox "news" and its devolved stepchild, One American News, talk radio depravity, and whatever hell-creature Stephen Miller is. This involved both military aid to Ukraine, as well as a promised meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky. We all know that Rudy Giuliani is just a savage ghoul in it for however much he can line his filthy pockets. And, hell, if he can pretend he has power, too, and might be able to stick it to Hillary? That's just a bonus. In other words, one vile, mentally-imbalanced shit heel enabled another vile, mentally-imbalanced shit heel, and, together with all their lickspittles and whores, they sought to undermine the United States. All that we need to find out now is what levels of evil, greed, stupidity, and treachery are involved. And how much Russia needed to push anyone to do this shit.

I mean, c'mon, look at the opening statement by William Taylor, delivered today to the House Intelligence Committee. The whole thing is Trump and Giuliani attempting to push Ukraine to say that it was investigating the DNC server or the oil company Hunter Biden was getting paid by, Burisma, while Taylor and others were desperately trying to get Trump to knock it the fuck off.  Here's what Taylor said on page 7 about the hold on the $400 million in military aid: "My understanding was that the Secretaries of Defense and State, the CIA Director, and the National Security Advisor sought a joint meeting with the resident to convince him to release the hold."

You got that? Everyone who knew anything about Ukraine knew it needed the promised funds. But they couldn't get that meeting because Trump was too busy watching TV, tweeting, and holding his rallies of the damned. No wonder Rick Perry was involved. He was almost the only cabinet member who thought this was a good idea.

Then there's the whole side of this that's fucking nuts, that crazy-ass John Bolton was the comparative voice of reason. Bolton didn't want Trump to talk on the phone to Zelensky because he thought it "would be a disaster." At one point in July, Bolton and the regular foreign policy team butted right up against EU Ambassador and Trump taint sniffer Gordon Sondland and his shadow foreign policy team, confusing the shit out of the Ukrainians they were in talks with: "Bolton...wanted to talk about security, energy, and reform...Sondland...wanted to talk about the connection between a White House meeting and Ukrainian investigations."

How willfully blind do you have to be to think none of this was fucked up? It wasn't about uncovering corruption. There's a shit-ton of corruption involving Ukrainians and other Americans that Trump or anyone never fucking mentioned. And the DNC server? What the hell? What the hell? How is this even a thing anymore?

 On July 20, Sondland told Taylor that "he had recommended that Zelensky use the phrase 'I will leave no stone unturned' with regard to the 'investigations'" when Zelensky spoke to Trump. You know who else uses that phrase? Fucking Trump. And he had done so talking about the citizenship question on the census just nine days earlier in a pissy little appearance after the Supreme Court blocked it. So Sondland knows that Trump's a goddamn child who needs to be made to feel smart and special.

The mania with which Trump demanded Zelensky knuckle under to his lunatic conspiracy theories was brazen. Sondland told Taylor that Trump wanted Zelensky "'in a public box' by making a public statement about ordering such investigations." It got so ludicrous that Zelensky asked a pair of visiting U.S. senators if we were still standing by Ukraine. They told him that he "should not jeopardize that bipartisan support [for Ukraine] by getting drawn into U.S. domestic politics." The poor motherfucker went from making fart jokes on Ukrainian variety shows to having to deal with our lunatic leader.

And the most utterly, most reprehenisble part of this? The idea that if they say there was "no quid pro quo," if Republicans repeat "no quid pro quo" over and over, the idiot hordes will believe there was no quid pro quo when the quid pro quo is all there fucking is.

Goddamn, GOP.  We all know what went on. Aren't you tired of looking like asses and fools? Or has that just been your identity for so long that you figure why bother changing?

(Note: The attempt to smear Bill Taylor as a "radical bureaucrat," as the White House called him, is beyond laughable. The man worked for Reagan and both Bushes, as well as for Democrats. Step the fuck off on this "radical" and "far-left" bullshit.)

Can We Fix America Together? | Marianne Williamson | Politics | Tim Black

Author, activist and Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson joins us to talk about the issues: "Plan for US Dept. of Peace", "The Reparations Plan" and "U.S. Department of Children and Youth "The Whole Child Plan".



https://www.marianne2020.com/

Trump Rebuked For 'Lynching' Comment: He's 'A Violent White Nationalist'

Rutgers Professor Brittany Cooper says she’s ‘deeply offended’ by Trump’s comparison of being ‘held accountable’ by the impeachment inquiry, to the ‘spectacular violence of lynching.’

As Trump faces new damning Ukraine evidence, he claims impeachment is like a ‘lynching.’

The comparison drawing wide rebuke from democrats, civil rights leaders and the rare condemnation from many GOP leaders.

Establishment Democrats Panic As Biden Keeps Falling

According to a new report by The New York Times, establishment Democrats are in full panic mode as Joe Biden continues slipping and is no longer the front runner for the nomination.

They are asking around to see if there’s someone more friendly to their donors who can take the lead, but the polls show that the public wants someone who is going to shake up the Party and the country.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/politics/democratic-candidates-2020.html

Trump Calls Emoluments Clause “Phony” And He’s Likely Still Running His Businesses

Of all of the parts of the U.S. Constitution, none have been more trampled on by the Trump administration than the Emoluments Clause forbidding a resident from enriching themselves while serving.

Trump claimed on Monday that the Emoluments Clause was “phony” and then proceeded to reveal information that he wouldn’t know unless he was still (illegally) running his business. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/trump-appears-to-admit-he-is-still-running-his-real-estate-and-resort-empire-says-its-ok-because-washington-did/

What I Wish Everyone Knew About Bernie Sanders Poll Numbers | Tim Black

A new Florida North University Poll omits Bernie Sanders in their polls.

How can you trust these polls Johnson? Tim Black has the receipts.

This Could Be Pete Buttigieg's True Purpose | Tim Black

Pete Buttigieg is apparently thriving in the Iowa polls. What makes Pete a viable anti-Bernie candidate to begin with? Here's some food for thought.

Republicans FINALLY Stand Up To Trump

Has the GOP finally found its spine?

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.

Susan Rice: Lindsey Graham 'Is A Piece Of Shit'

The former National Security Advisor under President Obama made the observation in an episode of the "Pod Save the World" podcast.



https://crooksandliars.com/2019/10/susan-rice-lindsey-graham-piece-shit

The Jury is in. Lindsey Graham is really this stupid and racist.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212610709

Eric Trump Says It’s “Sickening” That Kids Use Their Parent’s Names To Get Rich

Eric Trump may be the most tone-deaf person in the United States. During a recent interview, he said that it was “sickening” to him to see the children of politicians using their family names to get rich.

Does he not know who he is?

Does he not understand that his entire life has been handed to him solely because of his last name?

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.





https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/eric-trump-bashes-the-children-of-politicians-profiting-off-their-family-name-to-enrich-themselves-it-is-sickening/

The Internet Howls With Laughter At Mitt Romney's Fake Twitter Account

Mulvaney & Pompeo Expose Donald Trump in Separate Interviews - Republicans Begin to Turn on Trump!

We are witnessing the steady erosion of Donald Trump’s grasp on the power of his Residency. There still remains a number of steps before he’s gone - and many of those steps involve the investigatory process which has only just gotten underway in the House via the official impeachment inquiry.

Another critical step in the process is to garner some Republican support. So, what's it going to take to sway the public stances of Republicans in Congress? You need to call your Representative and Senators… ESPECIALLY if they are Republicans and tell them you EXPECT them to support the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump from office.

This is, after all, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people!