Trump: Good Judgment, Bad Judgment
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 4 months ago
Occasionally he gets things right.
President Trump called the coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress a “disgrace,” saying that the checks to individuals are not big enough.
Trump also criticized the funds going to places such as Myanmar, Egypt, and Pakistan and funds for the Kennedy Center and national museums.
“Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists, and special interests while spending the bare minimum on the American people who need it,” Trump said. “It wasn’t their fault.”
Trump said he wants Congress to increase the stimulus checks to $2,000.
The more you hear about the monstrosity of the bill, the worse it seems. It’s just awful, and pork for carbon reductions, buried largesse for other countries, and on and on. Of course, it would have been much better for the communists not to have gutted the U.S. economy (but that was its intent).
Now for the awful judgment. The Gateway Pundit is reporting that, based on their own research from only public domain information, FBI director Chris Wray is associated with the companies involved in Uranium One.
Don’t forget. Uranium is essential not only for the national defense, but also for fueling nuclear reactors, the cleanest, cheapest source of energy on earth.
And yet, after discharging Comey (with a brief stint by the awful Andy McCabe), Chris Wray has been in charge of the FBI since, and will be in charge until the end of Trump’s presidency.
If the CIA wouldn’t give Trump good information on his nominees to high offices, he could have hired an independent investigative firm and done much better.
What awful, terrible judgment.
On December 23, 2020 at 12:47 am, 41mag said:
Read somewhere from a link at Normal American that there’s a neutering of the President being able to use the Insurrection act, written in the bill
On December 23, 2020 at 1:12 am, George 1 said:
One blog I read described the bill as “A good start on the Green New Deal”.
Just what we need.
On December 23, 2020 at 8:33 am, June J said:
Veto the dang pork bloated bill! Let Congress override the veto and own the results.
On December 23, 2020 at 11:07 am, Ned said:
41mag – I saw that too – although I’m not sure how a funding bill can quash Executive office authority. It would seem that the President either has the authority or he doesn’t, and that valid constitutional authority can’t be usurped by another branch of government.
I’ve been receiving a blizzard of spam texts from Republicans begging for donations since the Nov # election, including traitor McConnell. Meanwhile I saw that only 6 Republican senators voted against this abomination. It will be a cold day in hell before I fund any politician again.
On December 23, 2020 at 11:24 am, Brad said:
41mag
It’s not in the covid relief bill. It’s in the Defense Spending Bill.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2020/h141
Also, Trump gets a lot more right than he gets wrong. There’s a lot of defensive and offensive posturing going on. The poor SOB has no idea who is on his/our side at time. Rumor has it his chief of staff is now trying to submarine him.
On December 23, 2020 at 12:24 pm, Dov Sar said:
Lyn Wood tweeted that the Insurrection Act was nullified in the Covid relief aid bill and cited HR amendment 833 to HR 6395:
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1341530906855690240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1341530906855690240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fncrenegade.com%2F
On December 23, 2020 at 3:20 pm, scott s. said:
Unfortunately a lot of commentary is uninformed regarding what is happening. The 2021 NDAA is one bill that was passed out of Congress on the 11th and Trump threatened to veto because of the Confederate base renaming, among other things.
Another “bill” is commonly called “COVID relief” but is actually about 30 bills rolled into one, the most significant are the 12 annual appropriation bills that are supposed to be enacted by the end of September, but (largely because Sen Dems refuse to allow debate on them) have been held up with the gov’t running under “continuing resolutions” since 1 Oct as neither Congress nor President wanted to “shut down DC” (as it’s typically portrayed). So the 12 bills are now the major part of this bill (Consolidated Appropriations of 2021 Act). If Trump vetoes this, there will be a gov’t shutdown or a separate 6th continuing resolution would need to be enacted (the 5th runs through 28 Dec). Since the current Congress term will end on noon, 3 Jan they will want to get this done before then. (Under the old calendar terms lasted until 4 Mar which among other things would give more time to resolve any electoral vote disputes.)
On December 23, 2020 at 9:54 pm, Ned2 said:
@ All
https://wramsite.ning.com/m/blogpost?id=6617485%3ABlogPost%3A227622
Things could get very interesting Jan 6th.
Or before.
Remember that Trump is not the problem, but the symptom and what happens next is the solution. We need to stand together.