Williams issued a cease-and-desist for the use of his song, and condemned the choice to do so hours after 11 people were murdered at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Trump has repeatedly used songs without permission and received similar legal threats, including for songs by R.E.M., Aerosmith, Prince, Adele, and the Rolling Stones, among others.
Trump said that the police response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida was “disgusting.” He claimed that, “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon, and I think most of the people in this room would’ve done that too.”
17 people died in what was at the time the second-deadliest school shooting in American history.
10 years prior, Trump recounted to Howard Stern about how he was too disgusted to help an elderly man who had fallen and was bleeding heavily.
In a 2007 trial, the former Vice President Cheney chief of staff was was found guilty of four felony counts of perjury and obstruction of justice regarding the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity.
Irving “Scooter” Libby. Wikipedia
Though President Bush refused to pardon him at the time, Trump did so in 2018. Some political commentators theorized that this was to indicate Trump’s willingness to provide legal cover to allies amid the investigation into Trump’s own obstruction of the Mueller probe into Russian election interference.
D’Souza, who served as policy analyst in the Reagan administration, is a prolific conservative commentator and author. He is known for such works as The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left where he makes the academically fallacious claim that Nazism was leftist and that modern American liberals draw their ideology from Nazism. He has also created conservative documentaries, such as the critically panned film 2016: Obama’s America.
Dinesh D’Souza. www.dineshdsouza.com
D’Souza’s past commentary includes defending conditions at prison Abu Ghraib, in which multiple Iraqi prisoners were tortured, claiming it to be comparable to typical Middle Eastern hotels. He was condemned by liberal and conservative commentators alike for mocking the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
In 2014, he pleaded guilty to making $20,000 in illegal contributions to the New York Senate campaign of Wendy Long, who ultimately lost to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Trump pardoned him of the crime in 2018.
Trump had recently announced that he would be ending joint military exercises with South Korea, at the North’s request. During an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump was asked if North Korea was trying to drive a wedge between the US and South Korea when he made the remark.
WSJ: You think North Korea is trying to drive a wedge between the two countries, between you and President Moon?
Mr. Trump: I’ll let you know in—within the next 12 months, OK, Mike?
WSJ: Sure.
Mr. Trump: I will let you know. But if I were them I would try. But the difference is I’m president; other people aren’t. And I know more about wedges than any human being that’s ever lived, but I’ll let you know. But I’ll tell you, you know, when you talk about driving a wedge, we also have a thing called trade. And South Korea—brilliantly makes—we have a trade deficit with South Korea of $31 billion a year. That’s a pretty strong bargaining chip to me.
The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?
In Bob Woodward’s 2018 book Fear, former chief economic advisor Gary Cohn explained Trump’s suggestion to deal with the United States’ record national debt: “Just run the presses — print money.”
Printing money to offset debt can lead to runaway inflation, which Cohn said he went on to explain to the President.
Trump made similar remarks in his campaign about how the United States could never default because it could simply print more money.
