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Kim Perales

"China encouraging public perception Beijing has the upper hand on #tariffs as Trump retreats. State TV refers to him by one of his nicknames here “10,000 Tariff Grandpa." Other names online: “King Know-It-All” “Trump The Nation Builder… for China."
-E Yoon

And🐓"Chickening out".

#China#Trump#Liar
Daniel Ohanian

“A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer”

After proclaiming himself the direct descendant of a 12th-century #Crusader king, the #Armenian priest and educator Ambroise Calfa hit upon an ignoble scheme: grant knighthood to anyone willing to pay. These are the cunning exploits of a forgotten 19th-century #conman, whose initially honorable intentions quickly escalated into all-out fraud.

@histodons
publicdomainreview.org/essay/a

The Public Domain ReviewA Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian ScammerAfter proclaiming himself the direct descendant of a 12th-century Crusader king, the Armenian priest and educator Ambroise Calfa hit upon an ignoble scheme: grant knighthood to anyone willing to pay. Jennifer Manoukian recovers the cunning exploits of this forgotten 19th-century conman, whose initially honorable intentions quickly escalated into all-out fraud.
Chuck Darwin

John Bolton rips into Trump’s pick for counter-terrorism chief Sebastian Gorka

Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has laid into #Sebastian #Gorka, the president-elect’s pick for
👉counter-terrorism chief, as a “#conman”
whose selection is not “going to bode well for counter-terrorism efforts when the [national security council’s] senior director is somebody like that”.

Trump praised Gorka, an immigrant from Hungary, as a “tireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement”.

But Bolton came out swinging at Gorka on Friday.
The arch-conservative, who served in the Reagan, George W Bush and first Trump administrations, has set out his stall against many of Trump’s picks,
including former Democrat and Iraq veteran #Tulsi #Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and told CNN that he “wouldn’t have him in any US government”.

Earlier this week, Bolton told NewsNation’s The Hill that up until Gorka was nominated by Trump as a deputy assistant to the president and the senior director for counter-terrorism, he would have said that Gabbard’s nomination “was the
💥worst cabinet appointment in recent American history”.

Bolton’s not alone in his criticism. Democratic National Committee spokesperson Alex Floyd called
“a far-right extremist who is as dangerous as he is unqualified to lead America’s counter-terrorism strategy”.

Gorka is outspokenly pro-Israel and supportive of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,
and has faced allegations of Islamophobia for supporting Trump’s 2017 Muslim travel ban that barred travel to the US for 90 days for visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Gorka also claimed that Islam is “not a religion of peace”.
He’s come under fire for showing up at Trump’s 2017 inaugural ball wearing an honorary medal from the
⭐️Hungarian nationalist organization #Vitézi #Rend
and for a previous position serving as an adviser to the Hungarian prime minister, #Viktor #Orbán.

Bolton said Gorka “needs a full FBI field background investigation” and his “education claims” need to be investigated.

“I think he is a perfect example of somebody who owes his position purely to Donald Trump,” Bolton told the outlet.
“He doesn’t display loyalty. He displays fealty. And that’s what Trump wants. …
“He doesn’t want Gorka’s opinions, he wants Gorka to say ‘yes, sir’, and I’m fully confident that’s exactly what will happen no matter what it is Trump says.”
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n

The Guardian · John Bolton rips into Trump’s pick for counter-terrorism chief Sebastian GorkaBy Edward Helmore
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William Lindsey :toad:

"It costs a lot of money to be one of Donald Trump’s supporters. When they’re not paying his legal bills, they’re being scammed into buying gold sneakers and NFT trading cards. And then there are the silver coins he’s selling. [Act now while supplies last.]"

~ Mary Trump

#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy #policy #policies #grift #grifter #ConArtist #Conman
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marytrump.org/p/donalds-rubes

The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump · Donald’s RubesBy Mary L Trump
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Nonilex

“She said he was ‘the sexiest man I’ve ever met,’ & a lot of people say that Justin is his son. He swears that he isn’t, but how the hell would he know! Castro had good hair, the ‘father’ didn’t, Justin has good hair, & has become a communist just like Castro.”

Any suspicion that #Trump didn’t write this book himself should be allayed by the presence of such glorious gibberish.

#WTF#ConspiracyTheories#delusional
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Nonilex

A hundred pages in, #Trump returns to that theme, claiming that he drew a bigger crowd than Martin Luther King Jr. “But I don’t care,” he says magnanimously, “because I love Martin Luther King!”
[that doesn’t even, oh what’s the point?]

Even the book’s brief nod to #Jan6, 2021, is obsessed w/crowd size rather than, say, accusations of incitement, treason, conspiracy & insurrection.

#grift#scam#ConMan
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Nonilex

Then the story begins in earnest, dragging us back to #Trump’s central obsession & his administration’s initial “alternative fact.” Under a photo of the 2017 inauguration, he writes, “Democrats tried to disparage Crowd size, knowing that this was the Largest Inaugural Crowd EVER — See for yourself!”

#grift#scam#ConMan
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Nonilex

#Trump’s reticence is matched by the book designers, who inexplicably decided to strip away any identifying information & context from these photos. (There’s no table of contents, no index — every expense was spared.) And so, we gaze upon Trump at a factory, at a rally, in a hangar, on a field, in a meeting.

Where? When? Why?

Who cares?! This is “Where’s Waldo?” for the MAGA fanatic.

#grift#scam#ConMan
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Nonilex

…the potential historical *value* of these stock photos is thwarted by #Trump’s stingy commentary. For some reason, the man who won’t stop nattering on at campaign events becomes downright laconic [more like lazy] in these pages. Even images of the assassination attempt — showing him smeared with blood, raising his fist — inspire nothing more than a few pat sentences.

#grift#scam#ConMan
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Nonilex

Although the accrual of these images is [meant to be] offered as a chronology of success, their numbing redundancy serves as a kind of repudiation of time: #Trump as the beginning & the end, the first & the last, alpha male & omega male. He claims that “Save America” “is a MUST HAVE on U.S. History,” but the tone is so onanist that the book should really be left alone to enjoy itself in private.

#grift#scam#ConMan
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Nonilex

Over >350 lavish pages, #Trump presents a breathless gallery of himself during & after his reign as the 45th president. There are many, many smiling images of Trump; there are Dirty Harry images of Trump; there are photos of Trump surrounded by adoring fans, conferring w/heads of state & gazing over fields of worshipful supporters; & there are innumerable shots of Trump making a fist.

#grift#scam#ConMan
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