JD Wolf (MTN) notes, "Trump slipped out again Sunday for an unlisted trip to his Virginia golf club -- his second in as many days. Like other golf excursions, the travel, staffing, and security costs add up to millions for taxpayers." While wasting tax payer money usually puts a smile on Chump's face, this time his little trip resulted in his exposing more of how his body is rotting before our eyes. Erkki Forster (DAILY BEAST) reports:
A new bruise has appeared on President Donald Trump’s left hand, adding to the one he’s had on his right hand for months, amid mounting questions about his health.
The 79-year-old president hit the links with former Major League Baseball player Roger Clemens and his son Kacy at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia on Saturday. The fresh mark was spotted in a video Kacy posted to Instagram on Sunday titled “A Day on the Course with The President.”
At one point in the video, as the camera pans to Trump overlooking his course, the back of his left hand comes into view, showing a dark discoloration nearly identical in placement to the one on his right hand.
Donald Trump’s flesh-colored concealer has returned.
The president was seen leaving The People’s House: A White House Exhibit on Friday, August 22, when reporters snapped photos of his right hand with a blotch of unblended makeup.
Trump, 79, put on a brave face for the public, but under his concealer-covered hand is a permanent reminder to the politician that his days as a brisk, vigorous alpha are materializing before his eyes.
The president hasn’t confirmed why he smears the top of his hand with makeup; however, instances of the concerning nature continue to arise after it was revealed in July that he was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency.
And Mayukh B (INQUISITR) added:
President Donald Trump might act like he is ever young and is fit like he can do anything, but people can’t deny nature’s work. He still is an exception though. At 79 years of age, he has achieved the record of being the oldest person ever to become the president of the country, and on top of that, if he stays at the White House until August 15, 2028, he will set another major record of being the oldest sitting U.S. president in history. That would surpass every commander-in-chief before him.
However, keeping his victory aside, which earned him a second Presidential term, Trump was seen relentlessly questioning his predecessor, Joe Biden, concerning his age and fitness for office, but it now seems like his criticism has boomeranged on him. His physical and cognitive health has taken a toll from high talk with critics, even speculating that going forward, this role might be a toll for him.
Trump has given multiple physical signs in his recent public appearances that have eventually fueled the talk, which significantly circles around a mysterious, lingering bruise on the back of his hand, noticeably swollen ankles, and unexplained marks on his neck. Observers say these aren’t just minor details — they’re visual cues that have many questioning his condition behind closed doors.
Russia launched a rare drone and missile attack on western Ukraine overnight, officials said Thursday, striking targets including an American-owned electronics plant and injecting further uncertainty into the U.S.-led efforts to end the 3-year-old war.
The aerial assault on a part of Ukraine that has largely not experienced such focused attacks was one of Russia's biggest this year and came as Moscow objects to key aspects of proposals that could end the fighting.
U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the war with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska last week before hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was one of several officials who took to social media to report the airstrike, saying at least 15 people were wounded.
In his post on the Telegram messaging app, Zelenskyy called it an "ordinary civilian enterprise, an American investment. They produced such familiar household items as coffee machines."
The Ukrainian leader went on to say that the Russian military "delivered this strike as if nothing had changed at all. As if there were no efforts by the world to stop this war."
The company that was hit, Flex, produces civilian electronic components and products with more than 100 offices and factories worldwide. The company was founded in the U.S., is listed on NASDAQ, and has headquarters in both Austin, Texas, and Singapore. Flex did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
Videos on social media showed thick black smoke rising from the company's plant in the town of Mukachevo, near the border with Hungary.
Some 600 workers were on the job when the missiles struck before 5 a.m., said Myroslav Biletskyi, head of the regional military administration. Before the attack, they heeded the air raid sirens and took cover in secure areas, he noted, or the casualty toll would have been much higher. He said about one-third of the massive plant burned down.
"This enterprise exclusively produced household appliances. It never produced any military equipment," Biletskyi said, adding that Flex had been operating at the site since 2012.
"Russia continues to destroy and humiliate U.S. businesses in Ukraine, targeting companies that invest and trade on the U.S. stock markets," Andy Hunder, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, wrote on X. He said the factory was one of the largest U.S. investments in Ukraine by a private company.
As Trump quickly changed the subject Friday, he resorted to his oft-repeated lie about having ended several wars during his second term. The president had previously said he ended six of them. Recently, he added a mysterious seventh conflict to that claim.
“I settled seven wars,” Trump continued Friday, before loosening the criteria for the tally in order to bolster the figure. “Actually, if you think about pre-wars, add three more, so it would be 10.”
He's not having much luck fooling people about his relationships with dead convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and convicted pedophile and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Ailia Zehra notes:
On Saturday, Rep. Robert Garcia (D‑Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, criticized the latest production, noting that the vast majority of the more than 30,000 pages delivered on Friday were already publicly available.
"In fact, to answer the most pressing Epstein-related questions, the people you would want to speak with would probably include — in no particular order — Trump himself, Bondi, Patel, Blanche, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Alex Acosta, who negotiated the sweetheart 2007 plea deal with Epstein while serving as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida," the article said.
"You might even call these bizarro investigations. They do not appear to be asking the right questions or talking to the right people to address the things that the average American might actually want to know."
As Ben noted at the video at the top of this snapshot, 97% of the documents 'released' on Friday were already available to the public. People are right to be outraged. Belén Fernández (ALJAZEERA) adds, "Never mind Maxwell’s reputation as a serial liar who was charged with two counts of perjury for lying under oath – charges that were dropped following her conviction on other counts. Surely the obsequious tribute to Trump’s allegedly upstanding nature has nothing to do with the fact that Maxwell is presently seeking a presidential pardon from the same man." Robert Davis observes, "Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator appears to be trying to con GOP lawmakers with the same strategy she used to victimize multiple young girls, according to one expert. Jess Michaels, a survivor of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes, told Aaron Parnas on his Substack, 'The Parnas Perspective,' that Maxwell is trying to play up her submissive femininity to earn favorable treatment from the Trump administration and congressional lawmakers. Michaels said on Sunday that this is the same strategy she used to lure victims." Kelly Rissman (INDEPENDENT) reports:
Democratic lawmakers and the families of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims are outraged over the Trump administration’s latest “distraction” after the Department of Justice released transcripts and audio recordings from its interview with Ghislaine Maxwell.
During a wide-ranging two-day interview with a top DOJ official last month, Maxwell was asked about Virginia Giuffre, an outspoken victim of Epstein’s sexual abuse and grooming by Maxwell, who died by suicide in April.
Those meetings, Giuffre’s family says, gave the 63-year-old convicted sex trafficker a “platform to rewrite history.”
“The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction for child sex trafficking,” the family said in a statement. “This travesty of justice entirely invalidates the experiences of the many brave survivors who put their safety, security, and lives on the line to ensure her conviction, including our sister.”
Congressional Democrats also criticized Maxwell’s interview with deputy attorney general Todd Blanche, a former defense attorney for Donald Trump, with one lawmaker branding the release of the transcript an attempt to “distract” from a “White House cover-up.”
And Chump can body hump pedophile Maxwell all he wants, the truth is known. And it's about to become even more well known. Hillel Italie explains:
A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Giuffre, will be published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said Sunday.
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is scheduled for release October 21, the publisher confirmed to the Associated Press.
Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at age 41, had been working on Nobody's Girl with author-journalist Amy Wallace and had completed the manuscript for the 400-page book, according to Knopf. The publisher's statement includes an email from Giuffre to Wallace a few weeks before her death, saying that it was her “heartfelt wish” the memoir be released “regardless” of her circumstances.
“The content of this book is crucial, as it aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across borders,” the email reads. “It is imperative that the truth is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are addressed, both for the sake of justice and awareness.”
The Trump administration opened an immigrant detention site at a former Japanese internment camp in Texas, leading to condemnation from politicians, advocacy groups, and descendants of survivors of the WWII-era program.
Fort Bliss, a military base headquartered in El Paso, is slated to be the site of the largest federal detention center in the country. It currently holds around 1,000 detainees, but it is expected to eventually hold 5,000. Costing more than $1 billion in private contracts, it has also been used as a base for deportation flights.
The camp is reminiscent of “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Florida immigration detention facility that is slated to be shut down soon, per a judge’s order. Like Alligator Alcatraz, this makeshift tent facility forces detainees to endure soaring temperatures, risking heat-related illnesses.
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said in a press release that there were “disturbing parallels” with Japanese internment at Fort Bliss. “Texas knows this history all too well, and we refuse to let it happen again,” she said.
[. . .]
Fort Bliss previously held up to 91 people of Japanese, German, and Italian descent in 1942 during World War II according to the Densho Encyclopedia, which chronicles the history of Japanese internment during the war. The facility had two compounds surrounded by barbed wire with guard towers.
Eduardo Cuevas and Lauren Villagran (USA TODAY) note:
But stewards of Japanese American history, including the children and grandchildren of those who were held in detention, are criticizing the use of Fort Bliss and the plans to expand immigrant detention on American military bases.
Fort Bliss was a "cog" in the United States Japanese internment machine, said Brian Niiya, a historian and content director at Densho, a nonprofit that chronicles Japanese American internment.
Niiya's own grandfather, the managing editor of a Japanese language newspaper, was arrested the night of Japan's Pearl Harbor attack, on Dec. 7, 1941, in Honolulu and held in six different internment camps over the next two years.
"It’s important to look to this past to maybe try to understand what’s going on in the present and what the end results could be," he said.
This teachable history moment brought to you by the idiots Chump, Kristi Noem and Tom Holman.
Way to go, Chump. His decision to use Fort Bliss could draw more attention to the illegal internment of Japanese Americans throughout the country in WWII than any Smithsonian exhibit.
Convicted Felon Donald Chump can't help himself, he's a crook. And we all know what Freud said about the criminal having a compulsion to confess.
Fort Bliss is his confession that he is a War Criminal intent on disgracing this country and attacking human rights. US House Rep Jasmine Crockett's office issued the following on Thursday:
EL PASO, TX
— Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) joined the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and immigrant rights advocates in El Paso
to condemn the Trump administration’s plan to convert Fort Bliss into
the nation’s largest immigration detention camp. The proposed tent
camp—projected to cost taxpayers $1.26 billion—could hold up to 5,000
people, exposing them to inhumane conditions.
More than 700
contract workers are already stationed at Fort Bliss. That’s proof Trump
is putting his friends first and turning detention into a payday.
Meanwhile, more than 1,000 people are being held without access to
something as basic as a legal library. This isn’t about safety or
justice. It’s about profit.
“What I saw today was a dangerous
misuse of military land and resources to cage human beings,” said Rep.
Crockett. “This attempt doesn't make our country safer, it wastes
taxpayer dollars, rips families apart, and takes us backwards as a
nation.”
Fort Bliss has a documented history of being used to
detain people unjustly, including Japanese Americans during World War
II. Rep. Crockett noted the disturbing parallels and vowed to continue
fighting against Trump’s attempts to repeat that history.
“Texas
knows this history all too well, and we refuse to let it happen again,”
Crockett added. “Instead of pouring millions into mass detention, we
should be fixing our broken immigration system in ways that respect
people’s rights and dignity.”
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Back to the USA TODAY report:
A Cato Institute analysis of government data in June found ICE was arresting four times more non-criminals each week on the streets than people with convictions. ICE's own data show that 45% of the roughly 59,000 people in custody in mid-August had no criminal record or charges.
Mike Ishii, executive director and co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity, an immigrant rights advocacy group, said he sees parallels with the current administration “coming in and removing people from their homes, from their workplaces, often with no explanations.”
Ishii, whose family was held at the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho, said, “Right now, it's very frightening for people,” he said. “In 1941, it was also frightening.”
Eighty years ago, Fort Bliss housed dozens of people labeled "alien enemies" by the government in a detention camp that included two compounds surrounded by double barbed wire fences, according to Densho.
Yes, we're back on an ugly page of history, one we all hoped we were long finished with. But that's what happens when you staff an administration with idiot, not just idiots though, idiots prone to cruelty. Jason Wilson (GUARDIAN) explains:
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has repeatedly endorsed the Reformation Red Pill podcast, and has appeared on four episodes. But the former pastor who hosts the show, and who attends Hegseth’s theocratic church, has voiced a range of extreme positions in recent months on issues including Ice raids, capital punishment, the racist “great replacement” theory, adultery and neo-Nazism.
The revelations come on top of recent media reports focused on Hegseth also boosting a video of Douglas Wilson and other Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) pastors arguing that women should lose the vote in the United States. They also follow previous revelations about Hegseth’s links to or apparent sympathies for Christian nationalist positions.
Joshua Haymes is a member of the CREC-aligned Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship (PHRF), and his podcasts advocate for the CREC’s moral and theological positions. As the Guardian previously reported, he once served as a pastoral intern at the church. Online he has claimed that liberalism is a greater threat to the US than neo-Nazism, and that the Bible is “pro-Ice raids”. On X, he has also advocated for capital punishment for adultery and abortion, and appeared to call for the drowning of LGBTQ+ Pride marchers.
[. . .]
Despite distancing himself from the PHRF, Haymes regularly hosts Brooks Potteiger, the congregation’s pastor and Hegseth’s closest spiritual adviser. Potteiger’s most recent appearance was just over a week ago. Pottiger appears alongside Haymes in the profile image for the podcast’s channel on YouTube, whose description reads: “We created this podcast as a resource to serve you in your reformation red pill journey.”
These materials, mostly published since Hegseth was confirmed as secretary of defense, underline the extreme Christian nationalist positions at Pilgrim Hill, in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, the community within which Hegseth acquired an 8,800 sq ft, $3.4m mansion in 2022.
And in a functioning administration, that would be more than enough to finally get Loose Lips Hegseth kicked out as Secretary of Defense.
But this is the administration run by a convicted criminal so they're all about keeping the worst of the worst in the administration in order to carry out more crimes. The stupidity and lust for cruelty combine to create a lot of laws broken by the corrupt administration. Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez (KUOW) reports:
The University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights is warning that federal immigration action has crossed a new boundary and is now breaking international humanitarian law.
The report zeroes in on 16 cases where people have been arrested by government agents and held for extended periods of time without access to a lawyer, or to the outside world. The legal term for such detentions is “enforced disappearance.”
“What I'm talking about is cases where days or even weeks go by that families still don't know where their loved one is,” said Center for Human Rights Director Angelina Godoy.
All of the cases covered in the center’s report have connections to Washington state. The people involved were either Washington residents, they were held at federal facilities in the state, or they were deported through Tacoma’s ICE immigrant lockup.
“The level of secrecy is what's different in these cases,” Godoy said.
Another example? Alexander Willis (RAW STORY) reports:
The Department of Homeland Security admitted to what experts called a “violation” of federal law when pressed by a watchdog organization in late July, according to reporting from The New York Times Friday.
American Oversight, a nonprofit watchdog group, filed a public records request with DHS related to the deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles in June. In a letter received by the organization on July 23, however, the agency said it “no longer maintained” records – specifically text messages from DHS officials and staff – as of April 9.
“(Text messages of top DHS officials) are records that must be preserved and kept because they are created in the course of conducting government business,” said Chioma Chukwu, executive director of American Oversight, speaking with The New York Times.
“If they are not preserving those records, or if they are making so they cannot search for those records, that is a violation of the Federal Records Act.”
The DHS’ failure to maintain communications as is required by law is not new under Trump’s two administrations.
Need another? David Fischer and Mike Schneider (INDEPENDENT) report:
A controversial immigration detention centre, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" and located deep within Florida's Everglades, faces an uncertain future after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to halt its expansion and begin its closure.
US District Judge Kathleen Williams formalised a temporary halt she had imposed two weeks prior, amidst ongoing testimony in a multi-day hearing. Environmental advocates had argued the facility violated crucial environmental laws.
The state of Florida swiftly responded to the ruling, filing a notice of appeal on Thursday night.
"The
deportations will continue until morale improves," DeSantis spokesman
Alex Lanfranconi said in response to the judge's ruling.
The judge said she expected the population of the facility to decline within 60 days through the transferring of the detainees to other facilities, and once that happened, fencing, lighting and generators should be removed. She wrote the state and federal defendants can't bring anyone other than those who are already being detained at the facility onto the property. The order does not prohibit modification or repairs to existing facilities, "which are solely for the purpose of increasing safety or mitigating environmental or other risks at the site.,"
Well maybe it can reopen in January 2029? Just in time to house Chump.
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