Day: January 7, 2020

Paul Says It’s Naive to Expect Iran to negotiate Now

Buck Banks

“The administration tore up the Iran agreement, placed a significant, severe embargo on Iran, and then killed one of their major generals — nobody in their right mind would actually think that that would lead to negotiations. So when Secretary of State Pompeo’s out there saying, ‘Well, maximum pressure, our goal is to get them back to the negotiating table,’ no naive child would believe that, you would have to be brain-dead to believe that.”

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), on CNN.

Trump Averages Almost Two Obama Mentions Per Day

Buck Banks

1.8

CNN: “Trump has been lambasting Obama for years, even before he ran for the top job. Recently, though he’s been doing it more often. A November analysis from CNN’s Daniel Dale shows Trump has mentioned Obama and the Obama administration by name more frequently in the past 18 months than he had in the first 18 months of his presidency. … Through October, Trump had mentioned Obama by name 537 times during 2019 as a whole — an average of 1.8 times per day.”

Pelosi Warns Senate Not to Be ‘Complicit’ in Trump’s Coverup

Buck Banks

“The President and Sen. McConnell have run out of excuses. They must allow key witnesses to testify, and produce the documents Trump has blocked, so Americans can see the facts for themselves. The Senate cannot be complicit in the President’s cover-up.”

— Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement about John Bolton’s offer to testify in a Senate impeachment trial.

Bloomberg Has Hired 800 for Campaign

Buck Banks

800

“Michael Bloomberg is wasting no time building out his campaign’s ground game, with 500 organizers and staff in more than 30 states, including all 14 of the delegate-rich Super Tuesday states,” his campaign told NBC News. “The ramp-up — both in staff and in spending on TV ads — has been quick. Just six weeks after he announced his candidacy, the former mayor of New York now boasts more than 800 staffers on his payroll and over $100 million spent on advertising.”