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Trump falsely calls impeachment probe ‘a coup’ designed to strip citizens of rights in wild Twitter tirade
Trump falsely calls impeachment probe ‘a coup’ designed to strip citizens of rights in wild Twitter tirade
The president is being investigated over a phone call to Ukraine‘s Volodymyr Zelensky in which it is said he appeared to attempt to leverage military aid for personal political gain.
On Tuesday night (Oct. 1), Mr Trump falsely likened the impeachment process to a coup, typically defined as an illegal and often violent seizure of power from a government.
“As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!”
The outburst came as officials inside his administration agreed to provide testimony for the investigation.
[...] Yet the language he used on Tuesday appeared to represent an escalation in his rhetoric, and may have been intended to energize those supporters who believe the president is being undermined from within by the so-called “deep state”.
Indeed, his words echoed those of former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich, a firm supporter of Mr Trump who claimed in a Fox News opinion article that the real estate mogul was the target of an attempted “coup d’etat” by Democrats.
“So, Pelosi rushes out ... announces, ‘We’re moving forward on impeachment’. They have not yet met with the whistleblower. They have not yet received the transcript of the phone call. Nothing had changed except the sheer pressure of her left. And she couldn’t get away from it!” He added: “And that sort of captures this whole process. That’s where we are right now. This is not an impeachment; this is a coup d’etat,”
Over the weekend, senior White House advisor Stephen Miller appeared on Fox News to denounce the whistleblower and allege that accusations were not only false, but that the individual was not genuine.
“I know what the deep state looks like,” said Mr Miller declared. “I know the difference between a whistleblower and a deep state operative. This is a deep state operative, pure and simple.”
UPDATE 1-Pompeo: 'I was on the phone call' that led to Trump impeachment probe
UPDATE 2-Pompeo says he was on phone call that triggered Trump impeachment drive
ROME/WASHINGTON, Oct 2, 2019 - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Wednesday that he was on the telephone call between Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart that sparked impeachment proceedings against the Republican president. "I was on the phone call," Pompeo told reporters during a visit to Italy.
Trump shouted 'you're making me look like an idiot' at White House staff, report claims
Trump shouted ‘you’re making me look like an idiot’ at White House staff, report claims
Donald Trump reportedly told aides and cabinet ministers they were making him look like an “idiot” in an expletive-laden rant over his failure to clamp down on the nation’s southern border.
In a March Oval Office meeting in which he called for entry to the US from Mexico to be completely shut down, the president is said to have berated officials including secretary of state Mike Pompeo, aide Stephen Miller and former homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
“You are making me look like an idiot,” he said, according to an excerpt of a new book featured in The New York Times, which said the statement also included an expletive.
Putin says he doesn't mind if his calls with Trump are disclosed
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he would not object to his phone calls with U.S. President Donald Trump being published and that he always assumed his words could potentially be published whenever he speaks.
Putin brushes off allegations of Russian election meddling
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that it was ridiculous to suggest Moscow would try to interfere in next year's U.S. presidential election, and that no proof had been presented of past election meddling by Moscow.
Putin backs Trump in U.S. domestic row, jokes about election meddling
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday sided with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in the domestic political storm raging in the United States, and briefly joked that Moscow would hack the U.S. presidential election in 2020.
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates 95th Birthday
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates 95th birthday
ATLANTA Oct. 2, 2019 - Jimmy Carter celebrated his 95th birthday on Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone as he continues his humanitarian work and occasionally weighs in on politics and policy.
Carter still lives in tiny Plains, Georgia, and planned no public celebrations on Tuesday. But he's had plenty to say recently, warning that re-electing President Donald Trump would be "a disaster" and expressing hopes that his Carter Center will become a more forceful advocate against armed conflicts in the future, including "wars by the United States."
"I just want to keep the whole world at peace," Carter said as he presented his annual Carter Center report last month.
"We have been at war more than 226 years. We have been at peace for about 16 years" since the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he said. And every U.S. military conflict from the Korean War onward has been a war of "choice," he said.
The 39th president survived a dire cancer diagnosis in 2015 and surpassed George H.W. Bush as the longest-lived U.S. president in history this spring. He's had some trouble walking after a hip replacement in May, but still teaches Sunday School in Plains, and with his wife of 73 years, Rosalynn, now 92, still plans an upcoming trip to help build houses with Habitat for Humanity in Nashville, Tennessee.
In his latest appearances at the Carter Center and in a town hall at Emory University, Carter blasted money in politics, urged action to combat the climate crisis, and celebrated the Carter Center's work on public health, election monitoring and conflict resolution. But he said the center can do more to constructively criticize U.S. military engagements. The Carter Center has "never voiced an opinion publicly" on individual wars, he said with some regret, adding: "This is primarily my fault."
"The United States is very deeply inclined to go to war," Carter said, partly to "implant American policies" in other countries, and partly to "make a hero" out of wartime commanders in chief. This has significant economic consequences, he said: China has "been at peace" since he normalized relations with Beijing in 1979, and while the U.S. has spent trillions on military conflict, China has invested similar amounts in high-speed rail, new college campuses and other infrastructure.
Comment: Jimmy Carter started out as a Peanut farmer and one of his Campaign "promises" was to help farmers and the farming industry. His economic Policies actually did the "reverse" and many generational farming families "lost their livelihood and their farms"!
His agricultural programs reduced the price(s) of milk products, beef, pork and chicken, while at the same time - raising export tariffs in International trade. Prices for seed grain for planting crops (wheat, oats, corn, cotton, etc.) rose sharply and many cattle farmers in the mid-West reduced their number of Beef Heifer stock. Consumer prices rose sharply for beef and pork, with the middlemen making the profit - not the farmers. Even many Peanut farmers in Georgia switched to planting "soy" because it was cheaper, which led to an increase in peanut oil prices for the consumer. Manufacturing textile corporations increased the price of goods at the counter, due to increasing unstable production and reducing yields of cotton. Carter's legacy has continued long after he was out of the White House. Farming communities were devastated and even now, it's been an up-hill battle to recovery. In the meantime, Monsanto has been making a killing - buying up seed companies. (Your GMO food product - has been served!) Let's not forget ... lab cultured Beef
Mouse falls from White House ceiling into man's lap (Definitely - a secret undercover Israeli operative? Or Democrat in disguise?)
Mouse falls from White House ceiling into man's lap
Reporters got a surprise when a mouse fell from the ceiling at the White House.
The rodent fell onto the lap of NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander yesterday morning (Oct. 1), before eventually seeking refuge amid a tangle of wires behind a shelf.
Some reporters ran for cover, while others sought to corner the mouse and capture it. The rodent snuck under the door into the main hall of the press area before it eventually ran into the briefing room, where reporters lost track of it.
Social media was bombarded with images of the mouse and the subsequent hunt.
President Donald Trump was even more concise in 2017, when he reportedly pointed out that the White House is a “real dump.”
Interesting timing - Secretary of State Pompeo is visiting Italy, for a Vatican Conference and Vatican police have just raided the offices of the Holy See's Secretariat of State and its Financial Information Authority.
Pompeo blasts China over Uighur Muslims during Vatican visit
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends the launch of a Vatican - U.S. Symposium on Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs), at the Old Synod Hall in the Vatican, October 2, 2019. Andreas Solaro
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday blasted China over its treatment of Uighur Muslims, during a Vatican conference taking place in the shadow of a political crisis back home.
Pompeo reserved his toughest criticism for China in a keynote speech at a Vatican conference on religious freedom. The others were Cuba, Iran, Pakistan and Myanmar.
“When the state rules absolutely, it demands its citizens worship government, not God. That’s why China has put more than one million Uighur Muslims ... in internment camps and is why it throws Christian pastors in jail,” he said.
Pompeo, who is due to meet Pope Francis on Thursday morning, later visited the Sistine Chapel and other parts of the Vatican museums.
His trip, which will also include a visit to his ancestral home in the rugged Abruzzo region northeast of Rome and stops in Montenegro, North Macedonia and Greece, has been overshadowed by an impeachment inquiry at home targeting President Donald Trump.
Vatican police raid top offices in financial investigation
Vatican police raided the offices of the Holy See's Secretariat of State and its Financial Information Authority, or AIF, on Tuesday and took away documents and electronic devices as part of an investigation of suspected financial irregularities, a Vatican statement said.
Vatican financial control office director, four others suspended: report
Five Vatican employees, including the number two at the Vatican's Financial Information Authority (AIF) and a monsignor, have been suspended following a police raid, the Italian magazine L’Espresso reported on Wednesday.
The magazine report was written by Emiliano Fittipaldi, who has authored several books on Vatican financial scandals. He wrote that Vatican investigators were believed to be looking into real estate transactions, particularly relating to expensive properties in London.
Fittipaldi said investigators were also looking into the use of money from Peter’s Pence, a fund taken up in parishes around the world and earmarked for the pope’s charitable activities.
Trump falsely calls impeachment probe ‘a coup’ designed to strip citizens of rights in wild Twitter tirade
The president is being investigated over a phone call to Ukraine‘s Volodymyr Zelensky in which it is said he appeared to attempt to leverage military aid for personal political gain.
On Tuesday night (Oct. 1), Mr Trump falsely likened the impeachment process to a coup, typically defined as an illegal and often violent seizure of power from a government.
“As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!”
The outburst came as officials inside his administration agreed to provide testimony for the investigation.
[...] Yet the language he used on Tuesday appeared to represent an escalation in his rhetoric, and may have been intended to energize those supporters who believe the president is being undermined from within by the so-called “deep state”.
Indeed, his words echoed those of former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich, a firm supporter of Mr Trump who claimed in a Fox News opinion article that the real estate mogul was the target of an attempted “coup d’etat” by Democrats.
“So, Pelosi rushes out ... announces, ‘We’re moving forward on impeachment’. They have not yet met with the whistleblower. They have not yet received the transcript of the phone call. Nothing had changed except the sheer pressure of her left. And she couldn’t get away from it!” He added: “And that sort of captures this whole process. That’s where we are right now. This is not an impeachment; this is a coup d’etat,”
Over the weekend, senior White House advisor Stephen Miller appeared on Fox News to denounce the whistleblower and allege that accusations were not only false, but that the individual was not genuine.
“I know what the deep state looks like,” said Mr Miller declared. “I know the difference between a whistleblower and a deep state operative. This is a deep state operative, pure and simple.”
UPDATE 1-Pompeo: 'I was on the phone call' that led to Trump impeachment probe
UPDATE 2-Pompeo says he was on phone call that triggered Trump impeachment drive
ROME/WASHINGTON, Oct 2, 2019 - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Wednesday that he was on the telephone call between Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart that sparked impeachment proceedings against the Republican president. "I was on the phone call," Pompeo told reporters during a visit to Italy.
Trump shouted 'you're making me look like an idiot' at White House staff, report claims
Trump shouted ‘you’re making me look like an idiot’ at White House staff, report claims
Donald Trump reportedly told aides and cabinet ministers they were making him look like an “idiot” in an expletive-laden rant over his failure to clamp down on the nation’s southern border.
In a March Oval Office meeting in which he called for entry to the US from Mexico to be completely shut down, the president is said to have berated officials including secretary of state Mike Pompeo, aide Stephen Miller and former homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
“You are making me look like an idiot,” he said, according to an excerpt of a new book featured in The New York Times, which said the statement also included an expletive.
Putin says he doesn't mind if his calls with Trump are disclosed
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he would not object to his phone calls with U.S. President Donald Trump being published and that he always assumed his words could potentially be published whenever he speaks.
Putin brushes off allegations of Russian election meddling
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that it was ridiculous to suggest Moscow would try to interfere in next year's U.S. presidential election, and that no proof had been presented of past election meddling by Moscow.
Putin backs Trump in U.S. domestic row, jokes about election meddling
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday sided with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in the domestic political storm raging in the United States, and briefly joked that Moscow would hack the U.S. presidential election in 2020.
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates 95th Birthday
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates 95th birthday
ATLANTA Oct. 2, 2019 - Jimmy Carter celebrated his 95th birthday on Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone as he continues his humanitarian work and occasionally weighs in on politics and policy.
Carter still lives in tiny Plains, Georgia, and planned no public celebrations on Tuesday. But he's had plenty to say recently, warning that re-electing President Donald Trump would be "a disaster" and expressing hopes that his Carter Center will become a more forceful advocate against armed conflicts in the future, including "wars by the United States."
"I just want to keep the whole world at peace," Carter said as he presented his annual Carter Center report last month.
"We have been at war more than 226 years. We have been at peace for about 16 years" since the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he said. And every U.S. military conflict from the Korean War onward has been a war of "choice," he said.
The 39th president survived a dire cancer diagnosis in 2015 and surpassed George H.W. Bush as the longest-lived U.S. president in history this spring. He's had some trouble walking after a hip replacement in May, but still teaches Sunday School in Plains, and with his wife of 73 years, Rosalynn, now 92, still plans an upcoming trip to help build houses with Habitat for Humanity in Nashville, Tennessee.
In his latest appearances at the Carter Center and in a town hall at Emory University, Carter blasted money in politics, urged action to combat the climate crisis, and celebrated the Carter Center's work on public health, election monitoring and conflict resolution. But he said the center can do more to constructively criticize U.S. military engagements. The Carter Center has "never voiced an opinion publicly" on individual wars, he said with some regret, adding: "This is primarily my fault."
"The United States is very deeply inclined to go to war," Carter said, partly to "implant American policies" in other countries, and partly to "make a hero" out of wartime commanders in chief. This has significant economic consequences, he said: China has "been at peace" since he normalized relations with Beijing in 1979, and while the U.S. has spent trillions on military conflict, China has invested similar amounts in high-speed rail, new college campuses and other infrastructure.
Comment: Jimmy Carter started out as a Peanut farmer and one of his Campaign "promises" was to help farmers and the farming industry. His economic Policies actually did the "reverse" and many generational farming families "lost their livelihood and their farms"!
His agricultural programs reduced the price(s) of milk products, beef, pork and chicken, while at the same time - raising export tariffs in International trade. Prices for seed grain for planting crops (wheat, oats, corn, cotton, etc.) rose sharply and many cattle farmers in the mid-West reduced their number of Beef Heifer stock. Consumer prices rose sharply for beef and pork, with the middlemen making the profit - not the farmers. Even many Peanut farmers in Georgia switched to planting "soy" because it was cheaper, which led to an increase in peanut oil prices for the consumer. Manufacturing textile corporations increased the price of goods at the counter, due to increasing unstable production and reducing yields of cotton. Carter's legacy has continued long after he was out of the White House. Farming communities were devastated and even now, it's been an up-hill battle to recovery. In the meantime, Monsanto has been making a killing - buying up seed companies. (Your GMO food product - has been served!) Let's not forget ... lab cultured Beef
Mouse falls from White House ceiling into man's lap (Definitely - a secret undercover Israeli operative? Or Democrat in disguise?)
Mouse falls from White House ceiling into man's lap
Reporters got a surprise when a mouse fell from the ceiling at the White House.
The rodent fell onto the lap of NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander yesterday morning (Oct. 1), before eventually seeking refuge amid a tangle of wires behind a shelf.
Some reporters ran for cover, while others sought to corner the mouse and capture it. The rodent snuck under the door into the main hall of the press area before it eventually ran into the briefing room, where reporters lost track of it.
Social media was bombarded with images of the mouse and the subsequent hunt.
President Donald Trump was even more concise in 2017, when he reportedly pointed out that the White House is a “real dump.”
Interesting timing - Secretary of State Pompeo is visiting Italy, for a Vatican Conference and Vatican police have just raided the offices of the Holy See's Secretariat of State and its Financial Information Authority.
Pompeo blasts China over Uighur Muslims during Vatican visit
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends the launch of a Vatican - U.S. Symposium on Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs), at the Old Synod Hall in the Vatican, October 2, 2019. Andreas Solaro
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday blasted China over its treatment of Uighur Muslims, during a Vatican conference taking place in the shadow of a political crisis back home.
Pompeo reserved his toughest criticism for China in a keynote speech at a Vatican conference on religious freedom. The others were Cuba, Iran, Pakistan and Myanmar.
“When the state rules absolutely, it demands its citizens worship government, not God. That’s why China has put more than one million Uighur Muslims ... in internment camps and is why it throws Christian pastors in jail,” he said.
Pompeo, who is due to meet Pope Francis on Thursday morning, later visited the Sistine Chapel and other parts of the Vatican museums.
His trip, which will also include a visit to his ancestral home in the rugged Abruzzo region northeast of Rome and stops in Montenegro, North Macedonia and Greece, has been overshadowed by an impeachment inquiry at home targeting President Donald Trump.
Vatican police raid top offices in financial investigation
Vatican police raided the offices of the Holy See's Secretariat of State and its Financial Information Authority, or AIF, on Tuesday and took away documents and electronic devices as part of an investigation of suspected financial irregularities, a Vatican statement said.
Vatican financial control office director, four others suspended: report
Five Vatican employees, including the number two at the Vatican's Financial Information Authority (AIF) and a monsignor, have been suspended following a police raid, the Italian magazine L’Espresso reported on Wednesday.
The magazine report was written by Emiliano Fittipaldi, who has authored several books on Vatican financial scandals. He wrote that Vatican investigators were believed to be looking into real estate transactions, particularly relating to expensive properties in London.
Fittipaldi said investigators were also looking into the use of money from Peter’s Pence, a fund taken up in parishes around the world and earmarked for the pope’s charitable activities.
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I always had a problem understanding "intellectuals"? 
