All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Animavore]

[Animavore]

[Hermit]

[pErvinalia]

[Scot Dutchy]

It is against the law apparently to alter a weather map.

[pErvinalia]

He really is a fuckstick of the highest order. When is this nightmare going to be over?

[Animavore]

[Brian Peacock]

[Tero]

[Tero]

"Boris Johnson is like if Benny Hill did a Trump impersonation."

[Seabass]

Rather than admit that he was wrong about the path of the hurricane, he instead doctors a hurricane diagram to double down on, and reinforce his earlier misstatement. I've never seen such extreme narcissism. This man should be hospitalized. It's astonishing that he hasn't been removed yet. What the fuck will it take?

[Tero]

[Tero]

Melania is some kind of Einstein! Because her modeling skills alone were ordinary.

Back in 2000, Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model dating Donald Trump, began petitioning the government for the right to permanently reside in the United States under a program reserved for people with “extraordinary ability.”

Knauss’ credentials included runway shows in Europe, a Camel cigarette billboard ad in Times Square and – in her biggest job at the time – a spot in the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated, which featured her on the beach in a string bikini, hugging a six-foot inflatable whale.

She also claimed to be a college graduate.

In March 2001, she was granted a green card in the elite EB-1 program, which was designed for renowned academic researchers, multinational business executives or those in other fields, such as Olympic athletes and Oscar-winning actors, who demonstrated “sustained national and international acclaim.”
The year that Knauss – now first lady Melania Trump – got her legal residency, only five people from Slovenia received green cards under the EB-1 program, according to the State Department.

Donald Trump and Melania Knauss 2001
In all, of the more than one million green cards issued in 2001, just 3,376 – or a fraction of one percent – were issued to immigrants with “extraordinary ability,” according to government statistics.

“She was never a supermodel, she was a working model – like so many others in New York,” said one person who knew her in the 1990s and requested anonymity to discuss the first lady’s early years in the United States.

In 1998, at age 28, she began dating Trump after meeting him at a party, an association that raised her modeling profile. She started appearing on Page Six and in other celebrity columns on the arm of the real estate developer.

At the time, she was modeling on a work visa for skilled immigrants. Melania Trump received five H1-B visas between October 1996 and 2001, Wildes has said.

Under her husband’s administration, such temporary visas have been harder to get, dropping by more than 50,000 in 2017 compared with the previous year, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

FAKE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE DEGREE

CBS News has checked the official public records of the university, and Melania Trump is not listed as having graduated from there with a degree.
https://www.politicalflare.com/2019/09/ ... ut-having/

[L'Emmerdeur]

We did this all on our own, honest! Barr's bootlicking Department of Justice is exploring ways to fuck with automobile companies that have agreed with California to improve fuel efficiency and emission standards.

'Feds Launch Antitrust Investigation Into Four Car Companies That Sided With California: Report'

The fight over cleaning up the nation’s fuel economy standards just got a whole lot dirtier.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Justice Department has launched a preliminary antitrust probe into whether the four automakers that reached an independent agreement with the California Air Resources Board, an agreement which defied the Trump administration’s attempts to freeze fuel economy standards until 2026, violated antitrust law with cartel-like behavior.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Justice Department lawyers are seeking to determine if Ford Motor Co., Honda Motor Co., BMW AG, and Volkswagen AG violated federal competition law by agreeing with each other to follow tailpipe-emissions standards beyond those proposed by the Trump administration, the people said.

This report comes on the heels of another WSJ report yesterday that the EPA and Department of Transportation are working on ways to revoke CARB’s ability to set their own fuel economy regulations independent of the federal government’s.

A source involved with the investigation speaking to the Journal claim the Justice Department undertook this effort independently of the Trump administration. But this assertion that strains credulity considering the report from yesterday about the Trump administration’s direct efforts to undermine CARB and their agreement with the automakers. In either event, it sure is awfully convenient for the Trump administration that the Justice Department is trying to poke holes in the agreement as well.

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