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Yall really elected Joffrey


Roose Bolton works too (TV Show Roose)
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Going to need Don Jr. to play his part
 
Nigerian Army uses Trump's words to defend gunning down dozens of protesters
“We released that video to say if President Trump can say that rocks are as good as a rifle, who is Amnesty International?”

 
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/michael-cohen-trump-racist-language

During our conversation, Cohen recalled a discussion at Trump Tower, following the then-candidate’s return from a campaign rally during the 2016 election cycle. Cohen had watched the rally on TV and noticed that the crowd was largely caucasian. He offered this observation to his boss.“I told Trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. Trump responded, ‘That’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.’” (The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)

This conversation, he noted, was reminiscent of an exchange that the two men had engaged in years earlier, after Nelson Mandela’s death. “[Trump] said to me, ‘Name one country run by a black person that’s not a ****hole,’ and then he added, ‘Name one city,’” Cohen recalled, a statement that echoed the president’s alleged comments about African nations earlier this year. (White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied those comments at the time. She added that “no one here is going to pretend like the president is always politically correct—he isn’t.” She subsequently noted that it was “one of the reasons the American people love him.”)

Cohen also recounted a conversation he had with Trump in the late 2000s, while they were traveling to Chicago for a Trump International Hotel board meeting. “We were going from the airport to the hotel, and we drove through what looked like a rougher neighborhood. Trump made a comment to me, saying that only the blacks could live like this.”

I for one am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
 
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/...ector-general-audits-tariff-exemption-process
Commerce Department IG to audit Trump's tariff exemptions
The Commerce Department's office of inspector general (IG) is planning to audit the process by which firms gain exemptions to U.S. tariffs, according to documents obtained by The Hill.

According to an internal letter dated Monday, the IG is investigating how decisions are made to assign exemptions for President Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs.

The IG will review the Bureau of Industry and Security and the International Trade Administration's processes for assigning aluminum and steel tariff exemptions.

A spokesman for the IG confirmed to The Hill on Thursday that the audit is taking place.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have expressed concerns about the process by which tariff exemptions are adjudicated.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in August demanding he explain how firms are granted exclusions and calling the process "arbitrary."

"The Department's denial of the exclusion request has resulted in [one] Wisconsin business incurring an additional $2.6 million tariff cost that can not be used to expand production or to pay salaries of new employees," Johnson wrote in the letter.

"Across the country, many businesses share the same frustration about the difficult and time-consuming process."

That same month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on the IG to look into the steel and aluminum tariff exemption review process.

"This process appears to be running on an ad hoc basis, with little transparency, and bending to political pressure from well-connected lobbyists and administration officials," she contended.

There have been complaints about the exemption process since the tariffs rolled out, after the Commerce Department was caught in a flood of requests, allegedly leading to disarray, The New York Times reports.
 
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