Trump Hotel Paid Millions in Fines for Unpaid Work

Trump is nothing but a typical NY slumlord:

In the days around Donald Trump’s inauguration, the hotel bearing his name in downtown Washington, D.C., quietly settled two liens totaling more than $3 million for allegedly unpaid construction work. In one case, a contractor reached an agreement after receiving a phone call from someone his attorney identified as “Trump.”

The liens had both been previously reported. But their settlements had not. And the fact that they were handled right around the time when Trump took office—perhaps even at the behest of the then-president-elect himself—underscores just how politically sensitive the management of the Trump International Hotel was and is to the current White House occupant.

Freedom and Democracy is Dying Worldwide, Including America.

America is not even considered a full democracy. And the decline didn’t begin with Trump:

A DECADE has passed since Larry Diamond, a political scientist at Stanford University, put forward the idea of a global “democratic recession”. The tenth edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index suggests that this unwelcome trend remains firmly in place. The index, which comprises 60 indicators across five broad categories—electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, democratic political culture and civil liberties—concludes that less than 5% of the world’s population currently lives in a “full democracy”. Nearly a third live under authoritarian rule, with a large share of those in China. Overall, 89 of the 167 countries assessed in 2017 received lower scores than they had the year before.

Trump rigged Miss Universe pageants to favor countries where he had business interests

A new report from the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin alleges that President Donald Trump used to regularly rig Miss Universe pageants to favor women who hailed from countries where he had business interests.

Former contestants at the Miss Universe pageant told Toobin that Trump would regularly talk with them about business deals that he did in their countries — and that women whose countries were doing business with Trump would routinely get selected as finalists, sometimes overruling the decisions that were made by pageant judges.

Source: Trump rigged Miss Universe pageants to favor countries where he had business interests: report

Donald Trump ranked worst president in US history by nearly 200 political scientists

Nearly 200 of America’s top political scientists have voted Donald Trump the worst president in US history.

According to the 2018 Presidents & Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey, Mr Trump ranks even lower than disgraced President Richard Nixon – even among conservatives. Abraham Lincoln, unsurprisingly, takes the top prize. Mr Nixon sits at 33.

Source: Donald Trump ranked worst president in US history by nearly 200 political scientists

A Married Trump Once had Sex in a Hallway with a Waitress who had been Serving him

A British entrepreneur has described a scene that his wife allegedly witnessed, which entails Trump getting caught in a compromising position. It is only fair to say that this man also described a business dealing that left him a bit tainted against Trump. Donald Trump was allegedly seen with a waitress in a corridor outside a business meeting that both Peter de Savary and Trump were in London to attend. De Savary claims his wife saw Trump and he was having sex with the waitress that just served them their meals.

Source: Trump Rumors Swirl — Waitress Encounter Alleged By British Entrepreneur Peter de Savary’s 3rd Wife

Trump in Big Trouble: Stormy Daniels has a ‘Monica Lewinsky dress’

Donald is going to have trouble explaining that one to Melania. And will Trump pull a Clinton and lie under oath about the affair?

As Stormy Daniels gets ready to “tell her story” about a night in July 2006 when she allegedly had sex with Donald Trump, she may have a way to back it up, The Blast reported.

The porn star has a “Monica Lewinsky dress,” the site said, citing sources close to Daniels. Daniels’ dress is a gold mini dress she wore during the alleged tryst in a Lake Tahoe hotel with the man who would become president.

She’s kept the dress “in pristine condition” and plans to have it forensically tested for samples of hair, skin or “anything else” that would contain DNA, reported The Blast, which also shared a photo of the dress in its report.

And Stormy is talking:

Stormy Daniels, the porn star whom President Donald Trump’s personal attorney acknowledges paying $130,000 just before Election Day, believes she is now free to discuss her alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

A manager for the adult film actress told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Daniels believes Trump’s lawyer invalidated a non-disclosure agreement by publicly discussing the payment.

And she ain’t the only one who might be talking:

A former Playboy model who claims she had an affair with Donald Trump starting in 2006 detailed for the New Yorker her experience with the future president and the system by which he and his friends kept his affairs quiet.

The model, Karen McDougal, described a legal agreement—one she willingly signed but claims she did not fully understand—that silenced her. She also spoke of the affair, which she said began just a few months after Trump’s son Barron was born, and recounted behavior similar to that of affairs he reportedly had with other women around the same time. The New Yorker report, by Ronan Farrow, cites dozens of pages of documents supporting her account.

Parkland School Shooter Instagram Profile Contains Trump MAGA Hat

The right wing is quick speculate whether a mass shooter is a Jihadist. But when it turns out they think like them silence. This individual thought it was cool to wear a MAGA hat. And we need ask Trump supporter why that is. And why are they silent when something like this happens and the shooter is not a Jihadist.

The motive for the Florida school shooting remains unclear, but some of the social media posts of accused school shooter Nikolas Cruz are getting attention, in particular a profile picture with a “MAGA” hat on Instagram. The slogan stands for “Make America Great Again,” which is President Donald Trump’s signature campaign motto.

America’s New Sport: Mass Shootings. Courtesy of the NRA and the Politicians they Own.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends the National Rifle Association's NRA-ILA Leadership Forum during their annual meeting in Louisville, KentuckyAnother day, another school shooting. How many times has that been said. It happens so often now that we have to consider mass shootings a new sport in America. And the press does the play-by-play. And has happened so many times before, it will be forgotten in a couple of days. The politicians will give plenty of lip service but nothing will be done to prevent similar horrors in the future:

As Republicans begin heaping “thoughts and prayers” on the families of the 17-plus people killed in Wednesday’s deadly shooting at a high school outside Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live! made sure to note how much each had taken from the National Rifle Association.

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