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In reply to the discussion: Trump announces he will unilaterally ban all immigration to the United States [View all]alp227
(32,018 posts)36. Election year security theater, just like what Tom Ridge revealed
CNN in August 2009 about Ridge recounting events from 2004:
Imagine if Trump had been president instead of The Apprentice host in 2004.
"An election-eve drama was being played out at the highest levels of our government" after Osama bin Laden released a pre-election message critical of President George W. Bush, writes Ridge in his new book, "The Test of Our Times."
Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld strongly advocated raising the security threat level to "orange," even though Ridge believed a threatening message "should not be the sole reason to elevate the threat level."
Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld strongly advocated raising the security threat level to "orange," even though Ridge believed a threatening message "should not be the sole reason to elevate the threat level."
Imagine if Trump had been president instead of The Apprentice host in 2004.
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Trump announces he will unilaterally ban all immigration to the United States [View all]
Chicago1980
Apr 2020
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Now all the DT babbling about how great closing to Chinese citizens in Jan is understandable
TreadSoftly
Apr 2020
#5
And he calls it "the Invisible Enemy". In 1933 it was "juden vermin". Just watch the racists
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2020
#7
This is what my dad's family from Arkansas would call "closing the barn door after...
LudwigPastorius
Apr 2020
#9
Other angle, he is flailing, so now he is escalating the distractions. This has zero effect on the
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2020
#10
Aye its purely his attempt to rally his base after calling the virus fake and cluster fucking a
cstanleytech
Apr 2020
#33
Except Chump and the hard right currenlty have the courts stacked in their favor.
Initech
Apr 2020
#57
May be some serious dereliction of duty, LIHOP, at Marion State Prison. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2020
#39
Sure, it's a tough virus. But other prisons have minor outbreaks. Marion is very bad.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2020
#41
If I were a foreigner there is no way I'd want to visit the U.S.A. right now
sdfernando
Apr 2020
#56
That's kind of him. It will protect foreigners from contracting the Coronavirus.
Kablooie
Apr 2020
#35
No one wants to come anyway. I'm more concerned about other countries doing this..
Blasphemer
Apr 2020
#52