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Trump Pledges an Orderly Transition to a Biden Presidency

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/trump-offers-assurance-of-orderly-transition-to-biden-presidency

President Donald Trump, minutes after Congress certified President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College Victory and hours after Trump supporters broke into the Capitol, pledged “an orderly transition.”

“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th,” Trump said in a statement posted on Twitter by his aide Dan Scavino early Thursday morning.

Trump’s statement came as staff resigned and as congressional allies abandoned him in the aftermath of a mob of his supporters laying siege to the Capitol on Wednesday.

Posted by 50 Shades Of Blue | Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:29 AM (19 replies)

'The Waltons' Cast To Bring In New Year For 'Stars In The House'

Don’t say “Good night, John-Boy” just yet. The cast of The Waltons will come together for the first Stars in the House reunion of 2021.

Nearly every one of the surviving original cast members will join Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley for the January 7 episode of the Actors Fund benefit series on YouTube. Set for the virtual get-together are Richard Thomas (John-Boy Walton), Michael Learned (Olivia Walton), Mary Beth McDonough (Erin Walton), Eric Scott (Ben Walton), Kami Cotler (Elizabeth Walton) and Judy Norton (Mary Ellen Walton). That leaves just two absentee brothers: Jon Walmsley, who played Jason Walton, and David W. Harper, who played Jim-Bob Walton.

The cast is expected to reminisce about their time on the iconic 1970s family drama and answer fan questions.

https://deadline.com/2021/01/the-waltons-cast-reunion-stars-in-the-house-1234664410/

ETA link to YT page:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheActorsFund/videos

Posted by 50 Shades Of Blue | Tue Jan 5, 2021, 02:12 PM (5 replies)

Manhattan prosecutor agrees to shelve subpoena for Trump tax returns

Manhattan’s top prosecutor on Monday agreed to delay enforcement of a subpoena for eight years of President Trump’s tax returns.

Cyrus Vance Jr., the Democratic district attorney for Manhattan, had the legal right as of this Friday to enforce a New York grand jury subpoena to obtain a lengthy financial paper trail that includes Trump’s corporate and personal tax records.

But Vance has agreed to temporarily shelve the subpoena against Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA. The delay allows for another round of litigation, extending the nearly yearlong court battle over the subpoena in which Trump has lost every bout, including a landmark decision last month at the Supreme Court.

https://thehill.com/regulation/513370-manhattan-prosecutor-agrees-to-shelve-subpoena-for-trump-tax-returns#.X0Pm6vAG3J4.twitter

Posted by 50 Shades Of Blue | Mon Aug 24, 2020, 01:22 PM (16 replies)

Mickey Mouse and Bernie Sanders want Kanye West on WI ballot

https://twitter.com/DanielBice/status/1291800597579137026

Daniel Bice
@DanielBice
Level 1:
Then there is Mickey Mouse signing off on @kanyewest
's nomination papers in Wisconsin. [image of signatures]

https://twitter.com/DanielBice/status/1291801914661896199

Daniel Bice
@DanielBice
Level 1:
Here is Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' John Hancock on @kanyewest
's nomination papers. Sanders now apparently resides on Tripoli Ave. in Milwaukee. [image]

Posted by 50 Shades Of Blue | Sat Aug 8, 2020, 01:50 PM (6 replies)

From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm U

Source: CNN

(CNN)In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and so abusive to leaders of America's principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials -- including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff -- that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States, according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations.

The calls caused former top Trump deputies -- including national security advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as intelligence officials -- to conclude that the President was often "delusional," as two sources put it, in his dealings with foreign leaders. The sources said there was little evidence that the President became more skillful or competent in his telephone conversations with most heads of state over time. Rather, he continued to believe that he could either charm, jawbone or bully almost any foreign leader into capitulating to his will, and often pursued goals more attuned to his own agenda than what many of his senior advisers considered the national interest.

These officials' concerns about the calls, and particularly Trump's deference to Putin, take on new resonance with reports the President may have learned in March that Russia had offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan -- and yet took no action. CNN's sources said there were calls between Putin and Trump about Trump's desire to end the American military presence in Afghanistan but they mentioned no discussion of the supposed Taliban bounties.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics/trump-phone-calls-national-security-concerns/index.html

Posted by 50 Shades Of Blue | Mon Jun 29, 2020, 05:51 PM (19 replies)

Thank you!!!!

Posted by 50 Shades Of Blue | Wed Apr 22, 2020, 07:57 PM (0 replies)

2014 photograph shows earlier ties between Trump and indicted Giuliani associate

A photograph of President Donald Trump posing with a recently indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani was posted online in April 2014, two years prior to what had been their first known interaction.

In the photo, Trump and Lev Parnas stand shoulder to shoulder, smiling at the camera at what appears to be an outdoor nighttime event. Trump wears a white, Trump-branded cap and white shirt under a jacket. Parnas wears a royal blue collared shirt. The circumstances of the meeting captured in the photograph remain unclear.

It was posted on April 2, 2014, on the Facebook account of Shawn Jaros, also known as Shawn Jarosovich. Jaros captioned the photo “the big homies!!!!!!!!!!! for real tho” and then commented on the photo, “salute lev im coming brother!!!!!!!!!”

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/12/trump-lev-parnas-photo-giuliani-045137

Posted by 50 Shades Of Blue | Sat Oct 12, 2019, 08:47 PM (0 replies)

Good for Tiffany Trump!

Unlike her father, she's a pet lover and just adopted another rescue kitten.

https://twitter.com/HumaneRescue/status/1170110046275022849

Posted by 50 Shades Of Blue | Sat Sep 7, 2019, 02:31 PM (16 replies)

The Duchess of Cornwall doesn't need words.

https://twitter.com/georgebowden/status/1135569167980081152

Posted by 50 Shades Of Blue | Mon Jun 3, 2019, 07:07 PM (18 replies)

AOC has this doggy's vote!

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1098776458011525120

Posted by 50 Shades Of Blue | Thu Feb 21, 2019, 10:54 PM (9 replies)

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