This is the parachute people. I went to see one of their shows at Fort Bragg. They answer to crisis contingencies. They were deployed to Iraq to work with the Iraqi military. They usually respond to a crisis within 18 hours. It makes sense that an emergency unit would respond first if the USA military was called up to attack the American people in protest.
Make no mistake, calling up the USA military into the interior of the USA is an attack on the citizens of the USA. The USA military is trained for war. Trump is running his own war against the American people with the permission of the Secretary of Defense.
Believe me, Mark Espers has a limited future in the Department of Defense. He is the Trump scapegoat for the war on citizens. Trump is in the bunker after all and his commanders are conducting the "War against Americans." Last night in DC isn't proof enough? A Photo Op? Protesters were assaulted for Trump's Photo Op. Sure. Why not after all it's the President under siege.
Trump has mental health issues and he is running a war on the American people. And Espers is the best man for the job, huh? How is FOX News selling it? "Trump takes on the thugs?" Sure. American thugs though.
The Deputy Secretary the US Senate confirmed today is Trump's next Secretary of Defense. I just don't see Espers returning to Raytheon after conducting a war on the American people.
The 82nd Airborne (click here) Division's Immediate Response Force (IRF) is deploying in response to riots in Washington D.C., three sources confirmed to Connecting Vets.
Connecting Vets was the first to report that the IRF has been placed on alert to respond to civil unrest over the weekend. The Department of Defense denied that report.
"Off-the-record: This is inaccurate ... Not true," officials said in an email. No off-record agreement was negotiated with Connecting Vets.
Now, a defense official with knowledge of troop movement is providing details of the IRF deployment to Joint Base Andrews-Naval Air Facility Washington in Maryland last night. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and provided the information on condition of anonymity.
The IRF is broken down into three separate packages called Immediate Response Battalions (IRB) which are numbered IRB 1, IRB 2, and IRB 3. Yesterday, IRB 1 drew weapons and ammunition, to include crew-served M240 machine guns, at Fort Bragg, the source said.
The paratroopers were transported from Pope Army Air Field at Fort Bragg to Joint Base Andrews on three C-17 transport aircraft, sources said. Nine UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and three CH-47 Chinook helicopters were also transported to Joint Base Andrews. The helicopters were flown into Andrews by pilots and flight crew....
Special Council Report on the Russian Interference of the 2016 Elections (click here)
Page 125 in the report and page 133 of the PDF
Although only delegates could participate in formal discussions and vote on the platform,
the Trump Campaign could request changes, and members of the Trump Campaign attended
committee meetings.791 John Mashburn, the Campaign’s policy director, helped oversee the
Campaign’s involvement in the platform committee meetings.792 He told the Office that he
directed Campaign staff at the Convention, including J.D. Gordon, to take a hands-off approach
and only to challenge platform planks if they directly contradicted Trump’s wishes.793
John Mashburn employment record (click here)
On July 11, 2016, delegate Diana Denman submitted a proposed platform amendment that
included provision of armed support for Ukraine.794
Diana Denman (click here) was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Texas. Denman was one of 104 delegates from Texas bound by state party rules to support Ted Cruz at the convention.[1] Cruz suspended his campaign on May 3, 2016. At the time, he had approximately 546 bound delegates.
The amendment described Russia’s “ongoing
military aggression” in Ukraine and announced “support” for “maintaining (and, if warranted,
increasing) sanctions against Russia until Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are fully
restored” and for “providing lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine’s armed forces and greater
coordination with NATO on defense planning.”795 Gordon reviewed the proposed platform
changes, including Denman’s.796 Gordon stated that he flagged this amendment because of
Trump’s stated position on Ukraine, which Gordon personally heard the candidate say at the March
31 foreign policy meeting—namely, that the Europeans should take primary responsibility for any
assistance to Ukraine, that there should be improved U.S.-Russia relations, and that he did not
want to start World War III over that region.797 Gordon told the Office that Trump’s statements
on the campaign trail following the March meeting underscored those positions to the point where
Gordon felt obliged to object to the proposed platform change and seek its dilution.798
On July 11, 2016, at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Platform
Subcommittee, Denman offered her amendment.799 Gordon and another Campaign staffer, Matt
Miller, approached a committee co-chair and asked him to table the amendment to permit further
discussion.800 Gordon’s concern with the amendment was the language about providing “lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine.”801 Miller did not have any independent basis to believe that this language contradicted Trump’s views and relied on Gordon’s recollection of the candidate’s views.802
According to Denman, she spoke with Gordon and Matt Miller, and they told her that they had to clear the language and that Gordon was “talking to New York.”803 Denman told others that she was asked by the two Trump Campaign staffers to strike “lethal defense weapons” from the proposal but that she refused.804 Denman recalled Gordon saying that he was on the phone with candidate Trump, but she was skeptical whether that was true.805 Gordon denied having told Denman that he was on the phone with Trump, although he acknowledged it was possible that he mentioned having previously spoken to the candidate about the subject matter.806 Gordon’s phone records reveal a call to Sessions’s office in Washington that afternoon, but do not include calls directly to a number associated with Trump.807 And according to the President’s written answers to the Office’s questions, he does not recall being involved in the change in language of the platform amendment.808
Rick Dearborn, (click here) seated on the couch with his left hand raised, will serve as Deputy Chief of Staff in President-elect Donald Trump’s White House.
Gordon stated that he tried to reach Rick Dearborn, a senior foreign policy advisor, and Mashburn, the Campaign policy director. Gordon stated that he connected with both of them (he could not recall if by phone or in person) and apprised them of the language he took issue with in the proposed amendment. Gordon recalled no objection by either Dearborn or Mashburn and that all three Campaign advisors supported the alternative formulation (“appropriate assistance”).809 Dearborn recalled Gordon warning them about the amendment, but not weighing in because Gordon was more familiar with the Campaign’s foreign policy stance.810 Mashburn stated that Gordon reached him, and he told Gordon that Trump had not taken a stance on the issue and that the Campaign should not intervene.811
When the amendment came up again in the committee’s proceedings, the subcommittee changed the amendment by striking the “lethal defense weapons” language and replacing it with “appropriate assistance.”812 Gordon stated that he and the subcommittee co-chair ultimately agreed to replace the language about armed assistance with “appropriate assistance.”813 The subcommittee accordingly approved Denman’s amendment but with the term “appropriate assistance.”814 Gordon stated that, to his recollection, this was the only change sought by the Campaign.815 Sam Clovis, (click here) the Campaign’s national co-chair and chief policy advisor, stated he was surprised by the change and did not believe it was in line with Trump’s stance.816 Mashburn stated that when he saw the word “appropriate assistance,” he believed that Gordon had violated Mashburn’s directive not to intervene.817
7. Post-Convention Contacts with Kislyak
Ambassador Kislyak continued his efforts to interact with Campaign officials with responsibility for the foreign-policy portfolio—among them Sessions and Gordon—in the weeks after the Convention. The Office did not identify evidence in those interactions of coordination between the Campaign and the Russian government.
a. Ambassador Kislyak Invites J.D. Gordon to Breakfast at the Ambassador’s Residence
On August 3, 2016, an official from the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the United States wrote to Gordon “[o]n behalf of” Ambassador Kislyak inviting Gordon “to have breakfast/tea with the Ambassador at his residence” in Washington, D.C. the following week.818 Gordon responded five days later to decline the invitation. He wrote, “[t]hese days are not optimal for us, as we are busily knocking down a constant stream of false media stories while also preparing for the first debate with HRC. Hope to take a raincheck for another time when things quiet down a bit. Please pass along my regards to the Ambassador.”819 The investigation did not identify evidence that Gordon made any other arrangements to meet (or met) with Kislyak after this email.
b. Senator Sessions’s September 2016 Meeting with Ambassador Kislyak Also in August 2016, a representative of the Russian Embassy contacted Sessions’s Senate office about setting up a meeting with Kislyak.820 At the time, Sessions was a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and would meet with foreign officials in that capacity.821 But Sessions’s staff reported, and Sessions himself acknowledged, that meeting requests from ambassadors increased substantially in 2016, as Sessions assumed a prominent role in the Trump Campaign and his name was mentioned for potential cabinet-level positions in a future Trump Administration.822
On September 8, 2016, Sessions met with Kislyak in his Senate office.823 Sessions said that he believed he was doing the Campaign a service by meeting with foreign ambassadors, including Kislyak.824 He was accompanied in the meeting by at least two of his Senate staff: Sandra Luff, (click here) his legislative director;
Work history (click here)
Is it a Republican thing they hire lobbyists for their assistants? That is built-in corruption.
and Pete Landrum, who handled military affairs.
Former Senior Advisor (click here) to Sen. Jeff Sessions strengthens firm’s national securityand international offering
Washington, D.C. – April 3, 2017: BGR Government Affairs announced today that retired Army Colonel Pete Landrum, who spent the last ten years as a Senior Advisor to former Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), joined the firm as Vice President. Pete will strengthen the firm’s International and Defense practice, focusing on its homeland security, shipbuilding and aerospace clients....
Peter Landum employment history (click here)
825 The meeting lasted less than 30 minutes.826 Sessions voiced concerns about Russia’s sale of a missile defense system to Iran, Russian planes buzzing U.S. military assets in the Middle East, and Russian aggression in emerging democracies such as Ukraine and Moldova.827 Kislyak offered explanations on these issues and complained about NATO land forces in former Soviet-bloc countries that border Russia.828 Landrum recalled that Kislyak referred to the presidential campaign as “an interesting campaign,”829 and Sessions also recalled Kislyak saying that the Russian government was receptive to the overtures Trump had laid out during his campaign.830
Oops there it is. Trump was courting Russia the entire time and he carried that relationship into the White House. Interesting that Sessions is wooing ambassadors during the campaign only to have Trump, through Michael Cohen, bargain their way into the White House.
None of the attendees, though, remembered any discussion of Russian election interference or any request that Sessions convey information from the Russian government to the Trump Campaign.831
There was no reason for Sessions or Kislyak to discuss the campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election, Trump did that on a regular basis in the open. I imagine Trump's open conspiracy with Russia did make it an interesting campaign for Russia.
"Russia can you hear me...." was definitely being heard.
During the meeting, Kislyak invited Sessions to further discuss U.S.-Russia relations with him over a meal at the ambassador’s residence.832 Sessions was non-committal when Kislyak extended the invitation. After the meeting ended, Luff advised Sessions against accepting the one on-one meeting with Kislyak, whom she assessed to be an “old school KGB guy.”833 Neither Luff nor Landrum recalled that Sessions followed up on the invitation or made any further effort to dine or meet with Kislyak before the November 2016 election.834 Sessions and Landrum recalled that,
after the election, some efforts were made to arrange a meeting between Sessions and Kislyak.835
According to Sessions, the request came through CNI...
I am uncertain what CNI is referred to in this document. I think it is the second one, The Council for the National Interest.
Council of Networked Information (click here)
The Council for the National Interest (click here)
...and would have involved a meeting between
Sessions and Kislyak, two other ambassadors, and the Governor of Alabama.836 Sessions,
however, was in New York on the day of the anticipated meeting and was unable to attend.837 The
investigation did not identify evidence that the two men met at any point after their September 8
meeting.
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Footnotes are primarily emails, telephone calls or emails.
Footnote 791 Hoff 5/26/17 302, at 1;
Rachel Hoff (click here) was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Washington, D.C. Hoff was one of ten delegates from Washington, D.C., bound by state party rules to support Marco Rubio at the convention. Rubio suspended his campaign on March 15, 2016.
Hoff was on the Republican National Convention Platform Committee. She was the first openly gay person to be on the committee.
At last week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, (click here) the GOP unveiled its most right-wing platform in years. It called for the end of women in combat, said pornography is a “public health crisis,” and, over a full year after the Supreme Court declared marriage a constitutional right for all, still defined marriage as between one man and one woman. But behind the scenes of the platform’s adoption was a small and ultimately outnumbered group of moderate voices fighting to keep their party relevant.
One of those voices was Rachel Hoff, the first-ever openly gay delegate on the Republican platform committee. Hoff proposed an amendment that wouldn’t actually endorse gay marriage but would acknowledge that people within the party disagreed on the issue. It was voted down. Then, in part to “test just how far this committee is willing to go to avoid a single positive reference to the LGBT community,” she proposed language specifying that the victims of the Orlando mass shooting were targeted for being gay. That, too, was rejected....
Gordon 9/7/17 302, at 10.
Footnote 792 Mashburn 6/25/18 302, at 4; Manafort 9/20/18 302, at 7-8.
Footnote 793 Mashburn 6/25/18 302, at 4; Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 10.
Footnote 794 DENMAN 000001-02
DENMAN 000012
DENMAN 000021-22
Denman 12/4/17 302, at 1
Denman 6/7/17 302, at 2.
Footnote 795 DENMAN 000001-02,
DENMAN 000012,
DENMAN 000021-22.
Footnote 796 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 10-11.
Footnote 797 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 11;
Gordon 9/7/17 302, at 11;
Gordon 2/14/19 302, at 1-2, 5-6.
Footnote 798 Gordon 2/14/19 302, at 5-6.
Footnote 799 Denman 6/7/17 302, at 2; see DENMAN 000014.
Footnote 800 Denman 6/7/17 302, at 2;
Denman 12/4/17 302, at 2;
Gordon 9/7/17 302, at 11-12;
see Hoff
5/26/17 302, at 2.
Footnote 801 Denman 6/7/17 302, at 3.
Footnote 802 M. Miller 10/25/17 302 at 3.
Footnote 803 Denman 12/4/17 302, at 2; Denman 6/7/17 302, at 2.
Footnote 804 Hoff 5/26/17 302, at 2.
Footnote 805 Denman 6/7/17 302, at 2-3, 3-4; Denman 12/4/17 302, at 2.
Footnote 806 Gordon 2/14/19 302, at 7.
Footnote 807 Call Records of J.D. Gordon Grand Jury . Gordon stated to the Office that his calls with Sessions were unrelated to the platform change. Gordon 2/14/19 302, at 7.
Footnote 808 Written Responses of Donald J. Trump (Nov. 20, 2018), at 17 (Response to Question IV, Part (f)).
Footnote 809 Gordon 2/14/19 302, at 6-7; Gordon 9/7/17 302, at 11-12; see Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 11.
Footnote 810 Dearborn 11/28/17 302, at 7-8.
Footnote 811 Mashburn 6/25/18 302, at 4.
Footnote 812 Hoff 5/26/17 302, at 2-3;
see Denman 12/4/17 302, at 2-3;
Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 11.
Footnote 813 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 11;
Gordon 9/7/17 302, at 12.
Footnote 814 Hoff 5/26/17 302, at 2-3.
Footnote 815 Gordon 2/14/19 302, at 6.
Footnote 816 Clovis 10/3/17 302, at 10-11.
Footnote 817 Mashburn 6/25/18 302, at 4.
Footnote 818 DJTFP00004828 (8/3/16 Email, Pchelyakov [embassy@russianembassy.org] to Gordon).
Footnote 819 DJTFP00004953 (8/8/16 Email, Gordon to embassy@russianembassy.org).
Footnote 820 Luff 1/30/18 302, at 5.
Footnote 821 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23-24;
Luff 1/30/18 302, at 5.
Footnote 822 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23-24;
Luff 1/30/18 302, at 5;
Landrum 2/27/18 302, at 3-5.
Footnote 823 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23.
Footnote 824 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23.
Footnote 825 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23;
Luff 1/30/18 302, at 5-6;
Landrum 2/27/18 302, at 4-5 (stating he
could not remember if election was discussed).
Footnote 826 Luff 1/30/18 302, at 6; Landrum 2/27/18 302, at 5.
Footnote 827 Luff 1/30/18 302, at 6; Landrum 2/27/18 302, at 4-5.
Footnote 828 Luff 1/30/18 302, at 6; Landrum 2/27/18 302 at 4-5.
Footnote 829 Landrum 2/27/18 302, at 5.
Footnote 830 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23.
Sessions also noted that ambassadors came to him for information
about Trump and hoped he would pass along information to Trump.
Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23-24.
831 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23;
Luff 1/30/18 302, at 6;
Landrum 2/27/18 302, at 5.
Footnote 832 Luff 1/30/18 302, at 5; Landrum 2/27/18 302, at 4.
Footnote 833 Luff 1/30/18 302, at 5.
Footnote 834 Luff 1/30/18 302, at 6; Landrum 2/27/18 302, at 4-5.
Footnote 835 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23.
Footnote 836 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23.
Footnote 837 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 23.
Continued in following entry.
The Special Counsel Report on Russian Interference in the 2016 Elections
Page 123 in the report and 131 on the PDF
This is a very lengthy assessment and will require more than one entry to cover all of it.
I might add as reading this section of the Special Counsel's Report the facts that Trump objected to funding Ukraine's military needs even as a candidate. Withholding the funding of Ukraine while intimidating the new Ukraine president was on the agenda the entire time.
Released Trump Memo (click here)
6. Events at the Republican National Convention
Trump Campaign officials met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the week
of the Republican National Convention. The evidence indicates that those interactions were brief
and non-substantive. During platform committee meetings immediately before the Convention,
J.D. Gordon, a senior Campaign advisor on policy and national security, diluted a proposed
amendment to the Republican Party platform expressing support for providing “lethal” assistance
to Ukraine in response to
Russian aggression.
...J.D. Gordon (click here) also told NPR that Page as well George Papadopoulos, who recently pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his own Russia contacts, were marginal figures in the Trump world. Both men served as members of the then-candidate's foreign policy team, but they were not central figures with a meaningful voice, he said.
"They were peripheral members of a relatively peripheral advisory committee," Gordon told NPR by text message. "They had no campaign email addresses, no assigned office space, no building passes, no responsibilities and very little access to campaign leadership."...
Perhaps party platforms are not taken as seriously as they should be, but, this is a direct benefit to Russia in an overt way that Putin could measure Trump's influence in the RNC, hence elected Republicans.
Gordon requested that platform committee
personnel revise the proposed amendment to state that only “appropriate” assistance be provided
to Ukraine. The original sponsor of the “lethal” assistance amendment stated that Gordon told her
(the sponsor) that he was on the phone with candidate Trump in connection with his request to
dilute the language. Gordon denied making that statement to the sponsor, although he
acknowledged it was possible he mentioned having previously spoken to the candidate about the
subject matter. The investigation did not establish that Gordon spoke to or was directed by the
candidate to make that proposal. Gordon said that he sought the change because he believed the
proposed language was inconsistent with Trump’s position on Ukraine.
Trump's corruption of this party and the country to benefit Russia is obvious and never changed once in office.
a. Ambassador Kislyak’s Encounters with Senator Sessions and J.D. Gordon the
Week of the RNC
In July 2016, Senator Sessions and Gordon spoke at the Global Partners in Diplomacy
event, a conference co-sponsored by the State Department and the Heritage Foundation held in
Cleveland, Ohio the same week as the Republican National Convention (RNC or
“Convention”).775 Approximately 80 foreign ambassadors to the United States, including Kislyak,
were invited to the conference.776
On July 20, 2016, Gordon and Sessions delivered their speeches at the conference.777 In
his speech, Gordon stated in pertinent part that the United States should have better relations with Russia.778 During Sessions’s speech, he took questions from the audience, one of which may have
been asked by Kislyak.779 When the speeches concluded, several ambassadors lined up to greet
the speakers.780 Gordon shook hands with Kislyak and reiterated that he had meant what he said
in the speech about improving U.S.-Russia relations.781 Sessions separately spoke with between
six and 12 ambassadors, including Kislyak.782 Although Sessions stated during interviews with
the Office that he had no specific recollection of what he discussed with Kislyak, he believed that
the two spoke for only a few minutes and that they would have exchanged pleasantries and said
some things about U.S.-Russia relations.783
Later that evening, Gordon attended a reception as part of the conference.784 Gordon ran
into Kislyak as the two prepared plates of food, and they decided to sit at the same table to eat.785
They were joined at that table by the ambassadors from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, and by Trump
Campaign advisor Carter Page.786 As they ate, Gordon and Kislyak talked for what Gordon
estimated to have been three to five minutes, during which Gordon again mentioned that he meant
what he said in his speech about improving U.S.-Russia relations.787
In preparation for the 2016 Convention, foreign policy advisors to the Trump Campaign,
working with the Republican National Committee, reviewed the 2012 Convention’s foreign policy
platform to identify divergence between the earlier platform and candidate Trump’s positions.788
The Campaign team discussed toning down language from the 2012 platform that identified Russia
as the country’s number one threat, given the candidate’s belief that there needed to be better U.S.
relations with Russia.789 The RNC Platform Committee sent the 2016 draft platform to the
National Security and Defense Platform Subcommittee on July 10, 2016, the evening before its first meeting to propose amendments.790
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Footnote 775 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 9;
Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 22;
Allan Smith, (click here) We Now Know More About
why Jeff Sessions and a Russian Ambassador Crossed Paths at the Republican Convention, Business Insider
(Mar. 2, 2017).
Sessions was involved with the Russian Ambassador Kislyak on several occasions. This picture is of the meeting both Session and Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel. (click here)
Sessions lies a lot more than about Trump, he also lies about his connections to White Supremacists as a speaker at their meetings. I believe one took place in California.
...During his Senate confirmation hearing, (click here) Sessions did not mention the pair of discussions in an exchange with Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota. Franken did not ask Sessions whether he specifically spoke with Russian operatives, but Sessions, in answering an unrelated question, said he did not have any communications with "the Russians."
"If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?" Franken asked.
"Sen. Franken, I'm not aware of any of those activities," Sessions responded. "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it."...
Footnote 776 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 9;
Laura DeMarco, (click here) Global Cleveland and Sen. Bob Corker Welcome
International Republican National Convention Guests, Cleveland Plain Dealer (July 20, 2016).
Footnote 777 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 9; Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 22.
Footnote 778 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 9.
Footnote 779 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 22; Luff 1/30/18 302, at 3.
Footnote 780 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 9; Luff 1/30/18 302, at 3.
Footnote 781 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 9.
Footnote 782 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 22; Luff 1/30/18 302, at 3; see also Volume I, Section IV.A.4.b, supra
(explaining that Sessions and Kislyak may have met three months before this encounter during a reception
held on April 26, 2016, at the Mayflower Hotel).
Footnote 783 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 22.
Footnote 784 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 9-10.
Footnote 785 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 9-10.
Footnote 786 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 10; see also Volume I, Section IV.A.3.d, supra (explaining that Page
acknowledged meeting Kislyak at this event).
Footnote 787 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 10.
Footnote 788 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 10.
Footnote 789 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 10.
Footnote 790 Gordon 8/29/17 302, at 10; Hoff 5/26/17 302, at 1-2.
Continued in the next entry.
US Senate (click here)
Perdue University is incorrect. Perdue stated the virus only effects the elderly and young people are not at issue. COVID-19 effects the lives of all ages, including college age people. There are handicapped noted by this virus and it cannot be ignored as schools at all level are reopening.
Victor Mercado of California is nominated to Assistant Defense Secretary for Strategies, Plans and Capabilities
Afternoon Session
The Senate (click here) will consider the nomination of Brian Miller to be Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery at the Treasury Department, a new position created by the CARES Act. He currently serves as White House Senior Associate Counsel.
Protests at night is not about violence. People work a job even in the USA today and they cannot march in the daytime.
August temperatures arrive early in the USA now.
The majority of marchers in protest of police brutality find evening and nighttime temperatures easier to walk. Even road work is being conducted at night now. It is called the Climate Crisis.
Senator Duckworth wanted to immediately pass US Senate bill 1938 to a vote. It was introduced three years ago. Lindsay Graham objected to it and ended the forward movement of a very worthy bill.
Short Titles
Police Training and Independent Review Act of 2019. (click here)
Official Titles as Introduced
A bill to provide for grants for States that require fair and impartial police training for law enforcement officers of that State and to incentivize States to enact laws requiring the independent investigation and prosecution of the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
Senator Klobuchar requests an investigation into the problems in law enforcement and the prison system.
Minority Leader Senator Charles Schumer raised objection to the actions of Trump and the overpowering police to remove. He notes the only reason protesters were pushed aside is for Trump's photo op.
Schumer Resolution - Constitutional rights of Americans must be enforced, looting and violence are unlawful and rubber bullets, gas and forced must not be used against protesters.
He has asked there to be a vote by unanimous consent. McConnel objected talking out both sides of his mouth. He states all those provisions of Schumer resolution but he doesn't see it should be documented in a resolution. McConnell is not stating the reason why the resolution cannot be adopted but for political reasons and includes Trump in his excuse to end any vote on the resolution.
McConnell introduced Resolution 601and Minority Speaker Schumer objected to it. There is no current e-page for either of these resolutions.
The session continued for the vote to confirm Brian Miller to be Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery. The vote will split along party lines.
Brian Miller is involved in the Ukraine cover-up.
Last year, (click here) Brian Miller, a White House lawyer, rejected a request by the Government Accountability Office for the White House to provide information about the withholding of aid to Ukraine.
...Brian Miller, (click here) who is currently senior associate counsel in the Office of White House Counsel, would oversee a $500 billion rescue fund for industry if confirmed by the Senate as the new special inspector general for pandemic recovery. Trump announced late Friday his intent to nominate Miller for the job.
In the counsel’s office, Miller was involved in defending the president during the impeachment proceedings, and Democrats said his current role raises questions about his independence.
“This oversight position, which will be responsible for overseeing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, requires complete independence from the president and any other interested party to assure the American people that all decisions are made without fear or favor,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement Saturday. “To nominate a member of the president’s own staff is exactly the wrong type of person to choose for this position.”...
Brian Miller was passed by 51 Republican votes.
Senator Booker addressed the current unrest in the country regarding racism. The Senator addressed the depersonalization of the victims of racist violence.
Ahmaud Arbery (click here)
Kentucky - "Louisville (click here) postal inspector Tony Gooden asserted that the LMPD did not use his office to verify that a drug suspect delivered packages to Breonna Taylor’s address, which directly contradicts what the police stated in the affidavit to secure a no-knock warrant for the home.
This revelation validates what we already knew: This young woman was brutally and unjustifiably killed by Louisville police, who supplied false information on the warrant they used to enter her home unannounced. Gooden further stated that ‘no packages of interest were going there.’ We will continue to demand transparency from the Louisville police on behalf of Breonna’s family.”
George Floyd - ...Then Terrence Floyd (click here) collapsed to his knees, and the crowd hushed as he let out an anguished scream.
He had traveled from Brooklyn, N.Y., with several others, including the Rev. Kevin McCall, who told the crowd that the Floyd family has “a long road ahead of justice.”
“Just because we’re doing it peacefully, that doesn’t mean we don’t want all four of the officers locked up,” said McCall, drawing cheers.
US Senator Booker spoke at length about his experience of racism. He stated the protesters don't need just the end of violence, but, also the presence of justice. I think that is a very valid point. The protesters across the country are still on the street because of the lack of justice.
Senator Van Hollen's speech on the Senate floor was cut off at C-Span.
end
Trump has used the Bible as a prop before.
My mother is a very prayful person. She attends online mass everyday and prays the rosary daily. When she saw him stand in front of St. John's Church she screamed "Sacrilege," ran to her bedroom lit a candle that had been blessed and prayed the rosary. She is 85 years old and I would appreciate it if Trump would stop trying to kill the elderly. If it isn't COVID-19, he is playing games with their faithful hearts.
January 30, 2016
Just two days ahead of the first nominating contest in Iowa, (click here) Donald Trump is making a final attempt to court evangelical Christian.
In a new video posted to Facebook Saturday, the billionaire businessman thanked evangelicals and promised to "never let you down."...
