Category: Politics

President Donald Trump can add another police union boss to his long list of supporters.

“Donald Trump has our back. President Trump has supported us when so many people have turned against us,” New York State Troopers PBA President Thomas Mungeer told the New York Post.

The union represents 4,000 state police troopers and is overseen by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a well known critic of the president.

“Joe Biden supported cops in the past but he’s turned his back on us,” said Mungeer. “Biden has taken anti-police stands that pander to his base.”

Mungeer added that Joe Biden wanting to reform qualified immunity, which protects police officers from being sued civilly for misconduct, also contributed in his decision to support Donald Trump’s reelection.

“No one is going to want to become a cop if he faces frivolous lawsuits,” Mungeer said.

He also added that his officers have also been restricted in doing their jobs due to reforms from New York Democratic lawmakers.

“My members have been seriously handcuffed from doing their jobs,” Mungeer said. “It is the people who are going to suffer. The people who need us the most. The silent majority supports law enforcement but they’ve been silent for too long.”

The New York City Police Benevolent Association also announced its support for the President earlier this month.

“I cannot remember when we’ve ever endorsed for the office of the president of the United States until now — that’s how important this is,” PBA President Pat Lynch said while announcing the endorsement at Trump’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey. “We need your strong voice across the country.”

New York City, in particular, has seen an uptick in crime this summer, with some of the violence directed at officers. An anti-police sentiment in the city has also contributed to the increase in officers filing their retirement papers, amid protests and riots sparked by the death of George Floyd.

Lynch has said that police officers are “at their breaking point, whether they have 20 years on the job or only two. We are all asking the same question: ‘How can we keep doing our job in this environment?’ And that is exactly what the anti-cop crowd wants. If we have no cops because no one wants to be a cop, they will have achieved their ultimate goal.”

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows appeared on “This Week” and argued that President Trump has ”accomplished more in his first 100 days than Joe Biden did in the last 40 years.”

Meadows argued: “Joe Biden has barely passed two bills, one of which he’s trying to run away from because of the left.”

Reacting to Biden’s DNC speech, Meadows commented ”You couldn’t have watched any of that without considering it dark.”

Addressing accusations made from a leaked tape of Trump’s sister, Meadows said “a number of the accusations that are being made I’ve been able to witness up close and personal and they’re just not true.”

He added “The president is not only well-prepared but reads so much that it causes me to have to read many times well into the night to catch up with him.”

In the interview, Meadows was pressed on Trump’s tweet Saturday alleging that “The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics,” and claiming the process was being delayed until after the election.

“What evidence does the president have that the FDA is manipulating this process, this approval process, for political reasons?” Stephanopoulos asked.

“This president is about cutting red tape. That’s what the tweet was all about,” the chief of staff said, after first refuting that anything was being “manipulated.”

“He had to make sure that they felt the heat. If they don’t see the light, they need to feel the heat because the American people are suffering, this president knows it, and he’s going to put it on wherever — the FDA or NIH or anybody else to make sure that we deliver on behalf of the American people.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Republicans who continue to support President Trump will be held to account for doing so.

Pelosi joined CNN anchor Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” to discuss coronavirus relief and the Democrats’ continued push for a broader vote-by-mail system.

She began by touting the work that Congress had done so far to provide relief to Americans facing continued impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

“When we go to putting money into people’s pockets, we have to do so not in a bread and circus way. This is like ancient Rome. Trump fiddles while Rome burns, while America burns,” Pelosi said. “And Trump gives bread and circuses.”

Tapper went and suggested that President Trump’s comments about potential fraud — with regard to mail-in ballots — might be an effort to undermine the legitimacy of the coming election.

“Hillary Clinton said Americans can’t let the president, quote, sneak or steal his way to victory. President Obama warned don’t let them take away your democracy,” Tapper added, asking Pelosi directly, “If President Trump wins re-election in November, do you think Democrats will accept it as legitimate, will you accept it as legitimate?”

“Of course,” Pelosi replied, but went on to say that it’s imperative to make sure that Americans had all the information they needed to get them to vote — early if necessary.

“It isn’t a question of accepting the result. The question is, is making sure the public knows that they must vote, they must have a plan to vote, they must vote early because their playbook is one that has all kinds of obstacles to participation in our country,” Pelosi concluded.

“It’s so sad to see Republicans marching to this drummer. They’re going to have, as I’ve said over and over, major doggy doo on their shoes for a long time to come.”

Sharing a Forbes article that heaps praise on her, actress and activist Alyssa Milano tweeted “There really is a lot of Milano Derangement Syndrome out there.”

She added: “But none of you will ever, ever silence me. Can’t stop won’t stop.”

The term “Milano Derangement Syndrome” is a play on the popular phrase used by conservatives “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Saturday night Alyssa tweeted “Am I still trending? I’m afraid to look.”

#AlyssaMilanoIsaLie trended on Twitter after Alyssa engaged in feud with former “charmed” co-star Rose McGowan.

Tara Reade also blasted Alyssa Milano and called her “an enabler of rape.”

Reade wrote: “And don’t ever forget Alyssa Milano, Joe Biden sexually harassed and assaulted then ruined my life. Not once not twice but three times.“

She added: “YOU ARE COMPLICIT” Alyssa Milano and an enabler of rape And I will NEVER let you forget how you tried to erase me. Now stop trolling Rose.”

Rep. Jim Jordan appeared on Fox Business with Neil Cauvto, and made the argument that the Dem $25 billion dollar USPS bill is about politics, not the postal service.

“You need no better example than the sponsor of today’s legislation – the chairwoman of the oversight committee Carolyn Maloney.”

“Her election was on June 23rd but it took six weeks to determine who the winner was.” Rep. Jordan explained

“So that’s the concern the President has. That’s the concern I have. That’s the concern I think lots of Americans have,” Jordan continued.

“This is not about the Postal service. This is about politics.” He added

The House approved legislation to allocate $25 billion to the US Postal Service and ban operational changes that have slowed mail service around the country.

The bill passed 257-150, largely along party lines, with Democrats supporting it. Few Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the measure, defying House GOP leaders and President Trump, who actively urged Republicans to oppose it. On the eve of the vote, the White House threatened to veto the bill.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared on Watters World and predicted a “dramatically bigger” Trump win than expected.

Gingrich told Jesse Watters that the current situation is showing Trump on the lead and that the Dems are heading towards a landslide.

“I’m predicting that it will be a dramatically bigger victory than people currently expect,” Gingrich said

The former House Speaker also added that he believes a Trump victory is “beginning to build now.”

Newt made the argument Republicans need to highlight contrast with Democrats in order to help Donald Trump’s chances.

“We don’t have to want to make stuff up. We don’t have to invent some post office phony scandal,” he said.

“We just have to tell the truth about how radical these people are,” Newt Gingrich concluded.

President Trump said that that during the Democratic National Convention, Democrats left the word “God” out of the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

“The Democrats took the word GOD out of the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democrat National Convention,” he said on Saturday.

“At first I thought they made a mistake, but it wasn’t. It was done on purpose. Remember Evangelical Christians, and ALL, this is where they are coming from-it’s done. Vote Nov 3!”

Trump was quickly condemned for his statement after videos of the convention’s recitations of the pledge made their way around social media.

During each of the four nights of the convention, the Pledge of Allegiance was stated in full, including the word “God.”

However, the main convention events weren’t the only meetings held at the DNC this week. Smaller meetings were held for individual caucuses.

In at least two instances, the Pledge of Allegiance was recited at a caucus meeting without the word “God.” Those included the Muslim caucus meeting and the LGBTQ caucus meeting.

“At the #DemocraticNationalConvention , LGBT Caucus purposely leaves out the words, “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance. Watch. This now makes twice that two key constituencies of the Democratic Party have done this. See my earlier tweet about DNC Muslim Caucus,” David Brody posted.

“Watch delegate AJ Durrani skip it. Featured speakers at the event were @BernieSanders @RashidaTlaib & @TomPerez @realDonaldTrump,” he added.

The Democrats concluded their virtual convention on Thursday as former Vice President Joe Biden accepted his party’s nomination. Republicans will host their own virtual convention this coming week.

In a post that has since gone viral on Twitter, actress Rose McGowan shared a somber meme.

In the image, she writes: “I was raped by a TOP Democratic donor. Hillary Clinton shut down NBC’s expose of HW (Harvey Weinstein) with one call from her spokesperson.”

She continues: “I strongly believe Joe Biden is a rapist. DNC had Bill Clinton, serial abuser of young women (Epstein & others) speak.”

“You want me to be pro-Dem? I know more than you will ever know about their evil.”

“You can hide behind your convenient morality. I won’t,” she added.

Former Vice President Joe Biden was accused of rape by Tara Reade.

Reade on Thursday accused the DNC of “gaslighting” survivors by mishandling her claims and said the four-day convention had been “traumatizing” to watch, according to a Fox News report.

“They’re pretending that they’re the upholders of the ‘Me Too’ like a shield but meanwhile, some of their main Democratic elites, some of the main powerful people involved with the party are actually perpetrators themselves,” Reade, 56, told the publication.

“And frankly, I think the Democratic National Committee is complicit because they’re not just ignoring it. They’re participating in it … and enabling those perpetrators,” she continued.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will “listen to the scientists” if he is elected in November and shut down the U.S. to combat the coronavirus.

The former vice president criticized the “fundamental flaw” of Trump’s administration and its response to the pandemic, telling ABC News anchor David Muir that there can be no economic recovery for the nation until we “fix the virus” and he is prepared to unveil a strategy to do so on day one of his presidency.

Biden spoke for ABC “World News Tonight” on Friday in his first joint interview with vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris since the two accepted the party’s nominations. He asserted that, as president, he will work on the advice of scientists to “save lives” if there is a second wave of COVID-19.

“I will be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the country moving until we control the virus,” Biden said in the ABC News preview clip of a special edition of “20/20.”

“That is the fundamental flaw of this administration’s thinking to begin with. In order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing, and people employed, you have to fix the virus, you have to deal with the virus,” he said.

“So, if the scientists say shut it down?” Muir asked.

“I would shut it down. I would listen to the scientists,” he responded.

The remarks echoed Biden’s grim outlook for America in his DNC acceptance speech this week as he declared that “no miracle is coming” and that, as a “patriotic duty,” Americans will have to come under a “national mandate to wear masks.”

Biden also claimed that “we will never get our economy back on track,” or get schools open and “have our lives back” until “we deal with this virus.”

“And the president keeps telling us the virus is going to disappear. He keeps waiting for a miracle. Well, I have news for him. No miracle is coming,” Biden said, slamming President Trump because he allegedly “still does not have a plan.”

“Well, I do. If I’m your president on day one we’ll implement the national strategy I’ve been laying out since March,” he continued, actually claiming he would “put politics aside.”

“We’ll have a national mandate to wear masks not as a burden but as a patriotic duty to protect one another. In short, we’ll do what we should have done from the very beginning,” he said.

Trump called the Democratic National Convention the “darkest, angriest and gloomiest” ever during a speech to the conservative Council for National Policy in Arlington, Virginia.

“They spent four straight days attacking America as racist and a horrible country that must be redeemed,” he said. “Joe Biden grimly declared a season of American darkness, and yet look at what we’ve accomplished until the plague came in.”

“They want to punish America and its citizens instead of holding them high,” President Trump added. “When Joe Biden sees American darkness, I see American greatness.”

In an Op-Ed for the Washington Times, former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani argues “Joe Biden has nothing to offer Black America but fear.”

The Democratic National Convention concluded Thursday with Joe Biden giving his keynote speech.

The speech has was mostly praised from liberal pundits and some conservative media figures.

Giuliani writes: “Mr. Biden’s announcement speech was a blatant attempt to racially divide people.”

“He worked hard to make the audience view White supremacists as “a threat to our nation …” — which they are — but failed to mention other threats to Blacks and other Americans that are thousands of times worse,” he continued.

“Although his remarks were intended to divide, he still presented himself as the one who could unite.”

“Over a year later, he was telling radio host Charlamagne tha God that “you ain’t black” if you haven’t decided to vote for him yet. Such a statement can only come from an arrogant, entitled career politician who thinks he owns Blacks and the Black vote,” Giuliani said.

“It is a strategy that is consistent with what Mr. Biden and the Democratic Party have offered African-Americans for the entirety of Mr. Biden’s political career: fear and dependency.”