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Obvious maladies: prepublication reviews and Trump’s Bolton problem : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 23/6/2020

It was another atrocious week for US President Donald Trump, whose efforts to prevent the publication of his former national security adviser's memoir seemed more than a touch childish.

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Hi individual

Nothing as organised as the “Organizing for Action” (OFA), I reckon.

Maybe Australia's ABC and other federal public servants loose groupings perhaps?

More information about OFA is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizing_for_Action

OFA is "A nonprofit and community organizing project that advocates for the agenda of former U.S. President Barack Obama. The organization is officially non-partisan, but its agenda and policies are strongly allied with the Democratic Party.

It is the successor of Obama's 2012 re-election campaign and of Organizing for America, which itself succeeded Obama's 2008 campaign.

Founded after Obama's re-election, the group seeks to mobilize supporters in favor of Obama's legislative priorities. OFA is registered as a 501(c)(4) organization, which may advocate for legislation but is prohibited from specifically supporting political candidates.

Chairman Jim Messina (Obama's 2012 campaign manager) and Michelle Obama announced the formation of OFA on January 18, 2013. White House official Jon Carson left the Obama administration to become the executive director. Campaign senior adviser David Axelrod serves as a consultant.

Funding

Jim Messina has stated that the group would not be accepting corporate donations and would disclose donation amounts, and OFA executive director Jon Carson and Messina have both stated that OFA is a non-partisan, grassroots issue advocacy group.

In March 2013, OFA said that it would begin to publish its donors list (including donation amounts) on a quarterly basis.

In May 2014, the organization halved its staff and announced that it would stop requesting large contributions."

COMMENT

But OFA may now have grown again in membership and funding to fix Trump.

Cheers
Posted by plantagenet, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 7:57:14 PM
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Steele

Fact: it is the US President's prerogative to appoint or dismiss all the Federal Prosecutors.

They actually work for him.

They are not part of the third arm of the system of the separation of power, ie The Judiciary.

All Presidents, Republican or democrats, have replaced Prosecutors who work against them. It is not part of the accepted role of Federal Prosecutors to oversee the activities of Presidents or as it is known The Executive Arm of Government.

. That role is, as we have seen for the last couple of years, the Congress, through Impeachment.

Ignorance based commentary about Trump and of the US system doesn't help you anti Trumpers. It undermines you.
Posted by imajulianutter, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 10:51:31 PM
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Plantagent,
Over many years of written and oral debate, both formal or informal, I have come to have attained a little wisdom.

An area for you to improve upon, in presenting your view, you might drop your intemperate language in referring to those with who you disagree.

It, like Binoy's and Steele's, obvious paucity of knowledge of facts and reliance on unsubstantiated assertions, does not help convince people of the righteousness of your case.

These act against convincing not only those who do not share your view, but also those who might be wavering or uninterested.

Such tactic's resound of shrillness and win no friends

Sorry about the lecture but you would improve the prospects of convincing readers or listeners, if you followed this good sense, in debate.
Posted by imajulianutter, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 11:14:00 PM
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Dear imajulianutter,

To paraphrase your good self;

'Ignorance based commentary about Trump and of the US system doesn't help you Trumpers. It undermines you.'

My first post was a quote from Chomsky. Apologies if that wasn't clear. It did not mention Federal Prosecutors at all, nor have I.

You appear to be confusing Federal Prosecutors with Inspectors General who are independent, nonpolitical law enforcement officers.

“In the United States, an inspector general leads an organization charged with examining the actions of a government agency, military organization, or military contractor as a general auditor of their operations to ensure they are operating in compliance with generally established policies of the government, to audit the effectiveness of security procedures, or to discover the possibility of misconduct, waste, fraud, theft, or certain types of criminal activity by individuals or groups related to the agency's operation, usually involving some misuse of the organization's funds or credit.”
Wikipedia

Other presidents have fired the odd Inspector General but the only one who tried it wholesale was Reagan and he pulled back after stiff opposition.

Obama did dismiss one, the Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2009.

But Trump recently fired the inspector general of the State Department, one of many.

He got rid of the Intelligence Community inspector general, “whose release of a CIA employee’s whistleblower complaint prompted impeachment proceedings.”

He moved aside acting Department of Defense Inspector General Glenn Fine and replaced him with one of the White House Counsel who helped with his impeachment defense.

 The acting inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Resources was “fired after issuing a report critical of the administration’s handling of pandemic testing”.

The Inspectors General were created after Watergate in order to “increase government accountability and prevent waste, fraud and abuse in agencies and programs.”

Obviously a corrupt president would want to silence them through intimidation and firings.

Now hopefully this will give you cause to go and do some basic research rather than inflicting us with “Ignorance based commentary about Trump and of the US system”.
Posted by SteeleRedux, Thursday, 25 June 2020 11:34:25 AM
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Some good points SteeleRedux, Joe, Alan B., Aidan and individual

Here are some excellent comments from James Palmer's "China Brief" on Trump's many foreign "policy" failings:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/24/trump-administration-division-china-deeper-than-ever-trade-deal-peter-navarro-john-bolton-xinjiang-coronavirus/

"Trump Has Had a Bad Week on China Policy"

"Six months on, the status of the U.S.-China trade deal remains murky. On Monday, U.S. trade advisor and China hawk Peter Navarro called the deal “over” in a TV interview, only to have President Donald Trump contradict him hours later after markets dipped. Trump attempted to put the onus of the breakdown in relations on China, but the state of the global economy makes fulfillment of even the “phase one” terms, which governed the first two years, unlikely.

Meanwhile, in a week that typified the administration’s inconsistent attitude on China, Trump has also doubled down on anti-Chinese racism, repeatedly using a racist term to describe the coronavirus. That gives easy ammunition to Beijing, seeking to position itself as the global defender of the Chinese diaspora against anti-Asian racism stirred by the pandemic. The wild swings coming out of Washington make it difficult to form coherent policy, but they also stir further mistrust in Beijing, where officials find it hard to grasp that the administration can be as chaotic as it is and instead see plots or deceit.

Political revelations. The rhetoric followed the release of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s book, which alleges that Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win reelection, sided with Xi on China’s description of its concentration camps for ethnic minorities, and dismissed the plight of the Uighurs in Xinjiang. Trump signed the Uighur Human Rights Act last week after congressional pressure but admitted in an interview that he delayed sanctions in order to push through the trade deal—as FP’s Amy Mackinnon reported last year. Today it emerged that the White House had asked a senator to hold up another China sanctions bill.
Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 25 June 2020 12:19:41 PM
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'DTS ! Drain the Trumpf Swamp ! ASAP !'

yeah we know Joe replace it with the Clinton connections and Kavanaugh accusers. You really have lost your moral compass. TDS does that to you.
Posted by runner, Thursday, 25 June 2020 12:48:07 PM
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