Month: February 2022
More Trump Accounting News
“Being fired by your accounting firm is never a good thing. When the accounting firm not only walks away from you but does so loudly with an express warning to users of your financial information that they can no longer rely on its accuracy, that’s even worse. When access to loans is the lifeblood of your business, it’s worse yet. And when all of this happens in the midst of civil and criminal investigations into your financial dealings, you could be in big trouble.”
— Philip Rotner in The Bulwark
Rubio Leads Demings in Polls
49% to 42%
A new Mason-Dixon survey in Florida finds Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) leading challenger Val Demings (D-FL) in the U.S. Senate race, 49% to 42%, with another 9% of voters undecided.
Consequences of Mazars Abandoning Trump Could Be Serious
“This explodes the national security risk by a factor of 10, because now he’s going to be desperate for new loans. Legitimate banks are not going to touch him. So it expands the universe of shady characters who could offer him loans in return for favors that might include disclosing U.S. national security secrets.”
— Joseph Cirincione, a fellow at think-tank the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, responding to the news that Donald Trump’s accounting firm has stopped being the Trump Organization’s accountant firm, according to the Daily Beast.
Biden Wants $30 Billion More for COVID Fight
$30 billion
“The Biden administration is telling Congress that it needs an additional $30 billion to press ahead with the fight against Covid-19,” the AP reports.Politico: “While the administration anticipates it has enough vaccines and therapeutics to ride out the Omicron surge, three people with knowledge of the matter said the government doesn’t currently have enough money to respond if another dangerous variant emerges.”
Study: Dems Are ‘Preachy,’ Focused on ‘Culture Wars’
“And the party’s House campaign arm had a stark warning for Democrats: Unless they more forcefully confront the GOP’s ‘alarmingly potent’ culture war attacks, from critical race theory to defunding the police, they risk losing significant ground to Republicans in the midterms.”
— Democrats’ own research shows that some battleground voters think the party is “preachy,” “judgmental” and “focused on culture wars,” Politico reports.
Election Fraudit Is Expensive
$550,000
Legal fees paid so far by Arizona Senate Republicans to defend their refusal to release records related to their “fraudit” of the 2020 presidential election. The Senate president has called lawsuits aimed at forcing the Senate to release the records “frivolous,” but judges have consistently ruled in favor of organizations who argue the Senate has failed to comply with Arizona law.
Trumpster Navarro Sputters When Asked if VP Harris Can Throw out Results of 2024 Election
HuffPost: “Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro apparently thinks it would have been OK for then-Vice President Mike Pence to challenge the 2020 election results, but not for current Vice President Kamala Harris to do the same in 2024. After claiming that Pence has the ability to throw votes that might be ‘suspicious’ back to the states, Navarro got into a bit of a tizzy when MSNBC’s Ari Melber asked him on Thursday: ‘It would follow, from your contention, that Vice President Harris should ultimately have the call over who should be president, regardless of the results in the next election?’…
‘It’s not for the vice president to determine who wins. The only thing Pence had the authority to do was go back to the states and let the states look at the votes,’ he said. Of course, Navarro ignored the most basic point of his plan: The votes can’t go back to the states unless a vice president like Pence or Harris goes along with the scam.”
