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Donald Trump’s revenge tour continues as the New York Times, NBC News, NPR and Politico have been ordered to clear out their long-held offices in the Pentagon to be replaced by Trump-friendly outlets. Continue reading “Pentagon Ousts Major News Orgs For Trump-Friendly Outlets”
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President Trump fired Christopher Krebs on Tuesday night, retaliating against his administration’s most senior official responsible for securing the presidential election.
Mr. Krebs, who has systematically disputed Mr. Trump’s baseless declarations in recent days that the presidency was stolen from him through fraudulent ballots and mysterious software glitches that changed millions of votes, had worked in the Department of Homeland Security.
The announcement came via Twitter, the same way Mr. Trump fired his defense secretary two weeks ago.
Mr. Trump seemed set off by a statement released by Homeland Security late last week, the product of a broad committee overseeing the elections, that declared the 2020 election “was the most secure in American history.”
…votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more. Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020
Chris Krebs did a lot of work this year to help state and local officials pull off remarkably free and fair elections with record turnout, under difficult circumstances. For this, he was fired by Donald Trump.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 18, 2020
Trump just “terminated” Chris Krebs, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director. By tweet, of course. As predicted. His reason? That Krebs dared to call the Nov. 3 election “the most secure in American history.” The truth is kryptonite to Trump.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) November 18, 2020
Stewing in the WH, the lame duck president just fired a leading cybersecurity official in Chris Krebs who vouched for the security of US election. Trump still has more than two months before he has to go. Two more months to settle scores and potentially cause great damage.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 18, 2020
Donald Trump (photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr – CC License)
Wray and Haspel are despised and distrusted almost universally in Trump’s inner circle. He would have fired both already, one official said, if not for the political headaches of acting before Nov. 3.
Why it matters: A win, no matter the margin, will embolden Trump to ax anyone he sees as constraining him from enacting desired policies or going after perceived enemies.
As for Wray, whose expected firing was first reported by the Washington Post, Trump is angry his second FBI chief didn’t launch a formal investigation into Hunter Biden’s foreign business connections — and didn’t purge more officials Trump believes abused power to investigate his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia.
Trump also grew incensed when Wray testified in September that the FBI has not seen widespread election fraud, including with mail-in ballots.
Trump soured on Esper over the summer when the Defense secretary rebuffed the idea of sending active-duty military into the streets to deal with racial justice protests and distanced himself from the clearing of Lafayette Square for a photo op at St. John’s church.
Donald Trump used this morning’s bipartisan National Prayer Breakfast to attack “dishonest and corrupt” individuals who opposed him in his impeachment trial singling out Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) who voted against Trump, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. NBC News reports:
Entering the stage, Trump lifted up a copies of USA Today and The Washington Post with headlines reading “ACQUITTED” and “Trump Acquitted” splashed across the front pages, displaying them to the crowd.
“I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do I like people who say, ‘I pray for you,’ when they know that that’s not so. So many people have been hurt and we can’t let that go on. And I’ll be discussing that a little bit later at the White House.”
At prayer breakfast, Trump unloads: "As everybody knows, my family, our great country and your president have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people they have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing very badly hurt our nation."
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) February 6, 2020
It's fitting that @realDonaldTrump would use a prayer breakfast to complain about what's been done to him. He still has no sense of what he's done to the country. And he has no sense of what a prayer breakfast is about. To him its only about him. As Godless as it gets.
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) February 6, 2020
Pres Trump only shook hands with those on his side of the Dais. @SpeakerPelosi was seated on the other side of the Dais – and @POTUS didn't walk down to greet those dignitaries. He sat quietly as Pelosi delivered a prayer for the poor and persecuted. pic.twitter.com/h2am3CYQGV
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) February 6, 2020
Trump just walked into the National Prayer Breakfast & didn’t bow in submission to God, but held up papers saying acquital & flaunted his supposed glory & victory. What’s worse, preachers & many other attendees applauded him. pic.twitter.com/MWPH63EjXy
— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) February 6, 2020
This is a story of the most awesome glitter bomb ever.
The video has garnered almost 8 million views in a day.
Even though former NASA engineer Mark Rober’s porch cams captured video of a thief absconding with an Amazon package left at his house, the police told him there was little they could do to help him.
Feeling a bit powerless and violated, he decided to do a bit of ‘revenge-engineering’ to punish porch thieves for their un-Santa-like ways.
Rober, whose work is part of the Insight Lander currently sitting on the surface of Mars, spent six months designing a revenge-bait package intended to punish evildoers who steal.
The package (which took six months to design) contains four cell phones with wide-angle lenses, motion sensors, GPS trackers, about a pound of rainbow glitter and fart spray.
The package was designed so that once it was moved, the GPS trackers turned on. When the thief would lift the top of the box, all four cell phones would begin recording the high-tech revenge and upload the video to the cloud.
At the same time, a spinning cup would send the rainbow glitter EVERYWHERE (you know how hard it is to get rid of glitter, right?)
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| If anyone could design the ultimate revenge-bait package, it’s Mark Rober |
And the final pièce de résistance – the fart spray would be delivered every 30 seconds. According to Rober, just one spray can clear a room.
Even if the box was thrown away or destroyed, Rober would be able to view his revenge video via the cloud.
Rober calls this his “Magnum Opus” and lots of folks agree.
The video is currently #1 Trending on YouTube.
Hit the play button below where Rober (who’s pretty cute) spends a few minutes explaining the situation and then we get to see several thieving punks go down in a cloud of glitter.
Reality TV personality and Donald Trump surrogate Omarosa Manigault, speaking to the press last night, said the newly-minted President-elect is making a list (and checking it twice) of people who did not support his run for the White House.
At Trump’s election night party at the Midtown Hilton Hotel in New York, Omarosa told the Independent Journal Review that “it’s so great our enemies are making themselves clear so that when we get in to the White House, we know where we stand.”
An an example, Manigault reminded that Sen. Lindsey Graham did not support the Trumpster during the presidential cycle and instead cast his ballot for independent candidate Evan McMullin. “If [Graham] felt his interests was with that candidate, God bless him. I would never judge anybody for exercising their right to and the freedom to choose who they want. But let me just tell you, Mr. Trump has a long memory and we’re keeping a list.”
Check this video from earlier in the campaign where Omarosa spells out how Trump sees his enemies.
“It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.”