His enemies are divided only in the sense that some want to lock him up now while others want a trial first. So why is President Trump so cheerful?
“We just got great news from California, a judge ruled for us,” he said, referring to a decision blocking a state law that aimed at keeping Trump off the ballot unless he made his tax returns public.
The president said a “breaking news” alert had “me holding my breath because I know it’s going to be about me. They’re always about me.” We both laughed.
That was the start of my Tuesday night phone interview. It was 10 p.m. and the president, who sees sleep as a waste of time, seemed very energized despite the relentless onslaught and long days. He admitted he was feeling good, joking that “it must be a personality defect.”
“It sounds strange to say I’m energized, but I love it, I love it,” he said of the daily combat with Democrats and the media. “These people are so corrupt. They’re cons, all they want to do is win the election.”
“These people are so corrupt. They’re cons, all they want to do is win the election.”
this is from the same guy who told the american people that they will get a tax cut in a desperate attempt to not have his party get smoked in the mid terms.
pot, meet kettle.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
talks broke down again between the US and North Korea. also, Kim is back to testing missiles.
at least trump got some love letters.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Yes, another setback in negotiations. Perhaps more love letters will be written and sent while 30 million people will wake up each morning not having been vaporized.
Yes, just like nobody was vaporized before trump, except now trump handed Kim a seat on the world stage for literally nothing in return. Trump rewarded Kim for bad behavior.
Kim - 1, trump 0
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
A federal judge Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to block the release of his personal and corporate tax returns to the Manhattan District Attorney, who is conducting a criminal investigation related to the president’s company.
Judge Victor Marrero’s ruling, which Trump immediately appealed, flatly rejected what he called the “extraordinary claim” by Trump that he is while president immune not only from criminal prosecution, but also from being criminally investigated by a state prosecutor or anyone else.
Marrero said that under Trump’s theory, not only his behavior would be immune from an investigation, but so would suspected “misconduct of any other person, business affiliate, associate or relative who may have collaborated with the President in committing purportedly unlawful acts.”
“This Court finds aspects of such a doctrine repugnant to the nation’s governmental structure and constitutional values,” Marrero wrote in his 75-page decision in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Read the court’s ruling here.
Marrero said if Trump’s argument was allowed, it could “frustrate the administration of justice” in regard to a president’s conduct.
Trump’s attorneys asked U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to block Marrero’s ruling from taking effect, and the president’s accountants being compelled to comply with a subpoena for his tax returns.
One of those lawyers, William Consovoy, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A spokesman for Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. declined to comment.
Vance’s office had objected to a federal court becoming involved in the dispute, and had accused Trump’s legal team of trying to delay execution of the subpoena so that the statute of limitations for potential crimes that Vance is eyeing would expire.
WATCH NOW VIDEO12:55 The saga of Trump’s taxes The case relates to a grand jury subpoena obtained by Vance, who is seeking eight years of the president’s tax returns from the accounting firm Mazars USA.
Vance is probing, at the very least, if the Trump Organization violated the law in how it accounted for hush money payments made to two women, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, ahead of the 2016 election.
Both women were paid to keep them quiet about sexual affairs they claim they had with Trump years before that election.
Trump denies having sex with either woman, but his then-personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels for her silence, and the Trump-friendly supermarket tabloid, The National Enquirer, paid off McDougal.
The judge’s ruling came right before a 9 a.m. deadline that Trump’s lawyers had set. Those lawyers had told the judge that they would ask the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to handle the dispute if Marrero did not issue his ruling by then.
Trump has repeatedly fought efforts by both prosecutors and lawmakers to release his tax returns. He broke with decades of precedent by refusing to release the documents when he ran for president in 2016.
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So I went and read some of the actual ruling instead of just the article.
Basically, trump is trying to use his authority to shield him from legal and constitutional proceedings, which he can’t do. The presidential shield doesn’t protect him from potential criminal wrongdoing.
Lol oh well.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
U.S. Supreme Court tosses challenge to Republican-drawn Ohio congressional maps
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a challenge to Republican-drawn congressional districts in Ohio that Democrats said were drawn to unlawfully diminish their political clout, a move that follows a major ruling by the justices in June that foreclosed such lawsuits.
The court’s action in the case involving a practice known as partisan gerrymandering means that 16 U.S. House of Representatives districts will no longer be reconfigured, as a three-judge panel had ordered in May.
The Supreme Court had put the panel’s ruling on hold ahead of its rulings, issued the next month, in two major gerrymandering cases from Maryland and North Carolina.
The justices in June dealt a major blow to election reformers by saying in its June 27 ruling that federal courts have no role to play in reining in electoral map manipulation by politicians aimed at entrenching one party in power.
The ruling gave the Ohio challengers little option but to concede defeat.
A similar case from Michigan, in which a lower court invalidated nine Republican-drawn U.S. House districts and 25 state legislative districts, was also put on hold by the Supreme Court in May. An appeal in that case remains pending and would be expected to be dealt with the same way as the Ohio dispute.
The June high court ruling did allow partisan gerrymandering to be challenged in lawsuits based on violations of a state constitution. On Sept. 3, a state court in North Carolina struck down the Republican-drawn state legislative electoral map as an unlawful example of partisan gerrymandering under the state constitution.
In partisan gerrymandering, one political party draws legislative districts to marginalize voters who tend to support the other party. The lines are typically redrawn once a decade after the U.S. census, and in many states the party in power controls the decision-making.
Included in the 2012 Ohio electoral map drawn by Republicans at issue in the case was the “Snake on the Lake,” which the judges called “a bizarre, elongated sliver of a district that severed numerous counties,” referring to the state’s 9th district that runs along Lake Erie. The electoral map consistently led to a lopsided advantage for Republicans in U.S. House races.
The League of Women Voters and the American Civil Liberties Union sued to challenge the legality of the map.
Ohio voters in 2018 voted overwhelmingly to redistrict (71% in favor) and the US Supreme Court steps in and threw out the results of that election concerning redistricting, defying the will of the people of Ohio...what the hell!
Here’s why Trump’s poll numbers are defying the impeachment mess
-A very large number of Americans don’t have high levels of trust and respect for the government, and they’re generally OK with Trump being the junkyard dog who digs it all out, writes Jake Novak.
No matter where you turn, the news is filled with embarrassing stuff about President Trump. The CIA whistleblower complaint about his conduct on a call with Ukraine’s president has turned into a full-court impeachment scandal.
But through all of this, Trump’s approval rating is at its highest level of the year according to the Hill-HarrisX survey, and the other major polls taken since this Ukraine phone call whistleblower story emerged show few changes from the last surveys taken before the news broke.
Oct 8 (Reuters) - The Senate committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election said on Tuesday that the Kremlin's best-known propaganda arm increased its activity after that vote, adding to concerns about foreign meddling in the current 2020 campaign.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, which has managed to operate under bipartisan consensus when other congressional panels have not, said in a report that activity by the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency "increased, rather than decreased, after Election Day 2016."
IRA-linked account activity jumped more than 200% on Instagram and more than 50% on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, the committee said. The IRA and related entities and people were indicted earlier this year by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The committee, led by Republican Chairman Richard Burr and Democratic Vice Chairman Mark Warner, also concluded that African-Americans had been the group most targeted by Russian influence campaigns that sought to exacerbate domestic tensions and increase the election prospects of President Donald Trump.
The report by the Republican-controlled committee reaffirmed findings by the U.S. intelligence community and Mueller that the Kremlin pursued an influence operation through social media and other means that was aimed at throwing the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Trump over his Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton.
In doing so, the Senate report contradicted allegations by Trump's personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani and others that Ukraine, not Russia, colluded with Democrats to undermine Trump's campaign as well as charges by the White House and Trump allies including Representative Devin Nunes that Russia actually aided Clinton's candidacy.
The panel recommended that Congress consider new laws requiring disclosure of who pays for election-related online advertising. It also said social media companies, which have come under fire for allowing propaganda to flourish, should share more information about what they find on their platforms. (Reporting by Joseph Menn in San Francisco, additional reporting by Jonathan Landay in Washington; Editing by Dan Grebler and Cynthia Osterman)
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
The Trump administration has a turnaround time faster than a red light district.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
We are going to absolutely bury, any Ohio ideology that believes in Donald Trump.
Can I interest you in Kentucky and West Virginia? Before you answer, remember I am coming for your semi automatic rifles.
We are going to absolutely bury your antiquated notions, and the world will rejoice so, accordingly so. BTW, I’d put your treatment of the black man, in line with your plantation views of plant earth.
You should literally, all be ashamed of yourselves .
The fact that anyone thought walls were a good idea, perhaps were not fortunate enough as I, to look through history and realize, there is a better way
We are going to absolutely bury your ideology, once and for all. You know who you are
Boy, oh boy, the incredibly brilliant creative minds over in the alt-right just ooze hate and threats of violence out of every orifice even if it is copyright protected! This article describes the troglodyte minds of the trump supporting alt-right chan-trolls that create epic hits like this one that will probably go down as fast as the one covered in the article.
Violent Video Was Product of Right-Wing Provocateurs and Trump Allies
The White House said President Trump condemned a fake video depicting him killing rivals and members of the news media. But Mr. Trump never mentioned it.
WASHINGTON — The creator of a gruesome video that showed a fake President Trump killing journalists and political opponents and that was played at a meeting of a pro-Trump group over the weekend is part of a loose network of right-wing provocateurs with a direct line to the White House.
The unidentified creator of the video operates under the name “The GeekzTeam” and has proclaimed on Twitter to be a “red blooded American with ZERO tolerance for the liberal agenda.” Like many such amateur agitators, the GeekzTeam specializes in creating pro-Trump internet content, often by remixing the president’s image into clips from popular movies and television shows.
Another of the provocateurs, Logan Cook, who often has posted videos on MemeWorld, his website, participated in a social media summit at the White House in July and took his children to meet the president in the Oval Office, accompanied by Dan Scavino, the White House social media director.
The connections underscore how the president’s escalating war on what he calls the “fake news” media has elevated people from the far-right fringe into presidential allies who defend him with extreme language and images.
The president did not mention the video on Monday in the blizzard of tweets he sent out wishing a former press secretary good luck on “Dancing with the Stars,” defending his recent decisions on Syria and attacking Democrats for their impeachment inquiry.
But Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, said Mr. Trump condemned the video. It was shown at a meeting of American Priority, a pro-Trump organization, celebrating “free speech, free association and American culture” for hundreds of attendees at Trump National Doral Miami, a golf resort that he owns.
Three headliners of the event — Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son — said they did not condone the violence portrayed and were not aware that the video had played on a loop in a conference room next to the resort’s Donald J. Trump Ballroom. Two small television screens were set up in the conference room, where people filtered in and out. The video was projected against a wall, according to one person who attended and shared a photo.
The online community that makes and shares grisly videos like this one uses what it calls “spicy memes” to fire up the president’s base, stir outrage among his opponents and provoke coverage by the mainstream media, which often helps amplify the messages.
Some of these meme-makers profit by soliciting donations or running ads on YouTube. (Data from SocialBlade, a website that tracks social media statistics, estimates that the GeekzTeam has earned less than $2,000 from the channel over the past year.) Others do it purely for the notoriety — or, best of all, an approving retweet from the president.
The GeekzTeam has been a prolific meme-maker for several years, posting videos with titles like “Captain MAGA” and “Trump: The Punisher” to YouTube and to r/the_donald, a large pro-Trump forum on Reddit. The video shown at the American Priority meeting was first posted on YouTube in July 2018.
Earlier this year, the account began contributing to MemeWorld, a centralized meme repository organized by Mr. Cook, who goes by the name “Carpe Donktum” online.
Mr. Cook’s website acts as a clearinghouse for offensive memes and videos, allowing users to post homemade videos that often depict Mr. Trump as a crusader or superhero who uses violence to suppress news outlets, individual journalists and political opponents.
On Monday, Mr. Cook’s site posted a statement disavowing political violence while defending The GeekzTeam, saying that the video showing Mr. Trump shooting, stabbing and punching his foes was “clearly satirical.”
Mr. Cook’s own videos, as well as his one-stop shop of a website, have become a go-to resource for Mr. Scavino, who often shares items with Mr. Trump. In April, Mr. Cook landed in the center of a controversy over a doctored version of a video in which former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. addressed his interactions with women.
In the doctored video, a cartoon version of Mr. Biden appears to be nuzzling the back of his own head. Mr. Trump shared the video with his 60 million followers on Twitter at the time.
“Trolls in the White House,” Mr. Cook wrote in a photo on his Instagram account on July 11, describing his family greeting Mr. Trump in the Oval Office.
At the White House social media meeting, which honored pro-Trump meme-makers and other members of the far-right ecosystem, Mr. Trump praised a room full of content creators as people who had worked with Mr. Scavino on ideas that ultimately saved him money on advertising.
“He’ll come up with ideas, and you’ll come up with ideas,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Scavino and the attendees. “And he’ll run into my office. He said, ‘You got to see this.’”
Mr. Trump added, “Some of you are extraordinary. I can’t say everybody, but some of you are extraordinary. The crap you think of is unbelievable.”
A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment about why Mr. Cook was invited to the White House social media meeting in the first place.
Tracing the origins of the video shown over the weekend illustrates the often-complicated origins of modern political messaging. The graphic doctored footage was taken from the 2014 movie “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” and showed the actor Colin Firth in a massacre at a fundamentalist church.
In an earlier online iteration the target was one news organization: CNN. Mr. Trump’s head was superimposed on Mr. Firth’s body, but all the people punched, shot and stabbed had CNN logos covering their faces.
“You are fake news,” Mr. Trump said as he pointed a gun at a woman with the logo for a face.
The creator of that original video, Andres Hughes, said online that he submitted it to a meme contest run by the right-wing website Infowars three years ago, hoping to win a $20,000 prize.
But in July 2018, the doctored film clip was further altered to include new targets. News organizations like PBS, NPR, Politico and The Washington Post were added to the mix.
Mr. Trump was also depicted killing and maiming political enemies like Representative Maxine Waters of California; Senator John McCain of Arizona, who died last year; Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont; former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton; as well as Hillary Clinton and others.
The video, which had fewer than 1,000 views on YouTube as of Sunday night, had clocked nearly 200,000 by midday Monday but was removed from the site a few hours later because of a copyright complaint. On Sunday, the GeekzTeam appeared to celebrate the video’s success, posting a new one on Twitter that showed CNN’s logo exploding after coming into contact with the phrase “Trump memes.”
An email to an address listed on the creator’s YouTube channel was not immediately returned. American Priority denounced the video shown at its event as not “approved, seen or sanctioned” by the organizers and condemned violence of any kind. But the group’s founder, Alex Phillips, has his own longstanding relationship with Mr. Cook, and has supported his work online.
In a video posted to Facebook in June, Mr. Phillips and Mr. Cook played down the idea that such content can foment hate and violence. “Hate speech is a made-up word,” Mr. Cook says in the video. “You can’t cause violence with words.”
Mr. Phillips said he agreed. “The truth hurts sometimes,” he responds. “Deal with it.”
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' GOP House speaker sought help ousting members of his own party in 2020, called a female lawmaker "vile" and said President Donald Trump is "killing us" in pivotal races in a secretly recorded meeting with a conservative activist released Tuesday.
House Speaker Dennis Bonnen also profanely disparaged another Democratic House member in the hourlong tape, which also reveals other political scheming and has thrown the GOP-controlled Legislature into disarray at a fragile moment when their majority is at stake.
The tape has uncorked the biggest Texas political scandal in years. Democrats filed a lawsuit accusing Bonnen — the third-most powerful Republican in the Texas Capitol — of breaking campaign finance laws during the June meeting with the head of a conservative group called Empower Texans, which has spent lavishly in pursuit of pulling the Legislature far to the right on issues such as abortion and guns.
State investigators responsible for looking into allegations of corruption by public officials have also opened a case .
The meeting was secretly recorded and released by Empower Texans CEO Michael Quinn Sullivan, who said he surreptitiously recorded the meeting held at Bonnen's Capitol office to protect himself. Bonnen can be heard seeking Sullivan's help in targeting several Republican incumbents in primaries next year, while also suggesting that a news affiliate of Empower Texans could obtain media credentials that would provide access to the House floor where votes are taken. Bonnen sought to drive out moderate GOP members who he saw as standing in the way of his agenda.
"You need to hear what I want to do," Bonnen said. "We can make this work. I'll put your guys on the floor next session."
Republicans have controlled the Texas House for nearly two decades, but their dominance is eroding quickly. Since the GOP reached a peak of a 101-49 super-majority in 2011, Democrats have tapped into a growing Hispanic population and liberal shifts in suburban areas to shrink that gap. Heading into 2020, Democrats can grab a majority if they flip nine seats.
Bonnen suggests on the tape that Trump — who is holding a campaign rally in Dallas on Thursday — isn't helping.
"With all due respect to Trump, who I love, he's killing us in urban, suburban districts," Bonnen said.
Bonnen also used crude language while discussing freshmen Democrats whose midterm victories in 2018 weakened the GOP's House majority.
"Jon Rosenthal makes my skin crawl. He's a piece of (expletive)," Bonnen said in the recording.
Mentioning another Democrat, Bonnen adds, "We've got Michelle Beckley, who's vile. But we got people who beat our Republicans that are not even trying to act like moderate Democrats, OK? Which is good for us. Because we ought to be able to take their heads off. But I need you firing harder that way."
It wasn't clear whether the hourlong recording was edited.
Bonnen has previously apologized for "embarrassing" and "hurtful" comments on the tape. But on Tuesday, he released a statement that only expressed vindication at the tape finally being made public.
"I have repeatedly called for the recording to be released because it will be immediately clear that no laws were broken. This was nothing more than a political discussion - the problem is that I had it with that guy," Bonnen said. "My colleagues have always deserved the facts and context this recording provides, and with clear evidence now disproving allegations of criminal wrongdoing, the House can finally move on."
Republicans, including Gov. Greg Abbott, remained largely silent after the tape was released, making Bonnen's future unclear. He is coming off his first term as House speaker and the Texas Legislature won't meet again until 2021.
But the release of the tape amplified calls for Bonnen's resignation, including from Beckley, who said "this a bunch of a men that are in a backroom afraid" of the Democrats taking control the House.
Rep. Chris Turner, the House Democratic leader, called Bonnen's comments "completely out of bounds, even with the Republican Party's low standards of the Donald Trump era."
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
I was worried for a while but I'm starting to think Trump will smoke all those freaks trying to give away everybody's money.
And Swish, Texas will never vote for any of those Yahoos. LOL Their women are tougher than anybody in California, Oregon and Massachusetts.
Such ‘freaks’ wanting our tax money to go to all of us instead of the war machine and corporate subsidies. The rest of what you said is garbage... Like most of your banal drool you ooze through your keyboard.
I was worried for a while but I'm starting to think Trump will smoke all those freaks trying to give away everybody's money.
And Swish, Texas will never vote for any of those Yahoos. LOL Their women are tougher than anybody in California, Oregon and Massachusetts. [/quote
Such ‘freaks’ wanting our tax money to go to all of us instead of the war machine and corporate subsidies. The rest of what you said is garbage... Like most of your banal drool you ooze through your keyboard.
I would come back at you but I get banned. You don't. Thats how Liberals roll. Have a nice day.
If the video depicting a fake President Trump massacring members of the media — which was condemned by the White House — wasn't too much to handle already, ProPublica and WNYC released more disturbing audio from the conference where the footage was originally shown.
While speaking at the pro-Trump conference in Miami, Florida, at the Trump National Doral Miami, Mark Burns, a pastor, told the crowd multiple times that "we've come to declare war." As he continued, he reportedly asked if anybody was "read to go to war for Donald J. Trump, this nation?" as the audience reportedly cheered him on.
Additionally, radio host Wayne Allyn Root reportedly boasted about a time in his childhood when, as one of the few white students at a predominantly black high school, he knocked one classmate unconscious and shattered another kid's teeth. "My buddies and I were high-fiving and laughing," Root reportedly said during his speech. "Man, it was funny."
Root reportedly went on to say that "you've got to be a natural-born killer" to win in politics. Listen to the audio clips at ProPublica.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
If the video depicting a fake President Trump massacring members of the media — which was condemned by the White House — wasn't too much to handle already, ProPublica and WNYC released more disturbing audio from the conference where the footage was originally shown.
While speaking at the pro-Trump conference in Miami, Florida, at the Trump National Doral Miami, Mark Burns, a pastor, told the crowd multiple times that "we've come to declare war." As he continued, he reportedly asked if anybody was "read to go to war for Donald J. Trump, this nation?" as the audience reportedly cheered him on.
Additionally, radio host Wayne Allyn Root reportedly boasted about a time in his childhood when, as one of the few white students at a predominantly black high school, he knocked one classmate unconscious and shattered another kid's teeth. "My buddies and I were high-fiving and laughing," Root reportedly said during his speech. "Man, it was funny."
Root reportedly went on to say that "you've got to be a natural-born killer" to win in politics. Listen to the audio clips at ProPublica.
Psychopaths worshiping a false idol with cottoncandy for hair.
If the video depicting a fake President Trump massacring members of the media — which was condemned by the White House — wasn't too much to handle already, ProPublica and WNYC released more disturbing audio from the conference where the footage was originally shown.
While speaking at the pro-Trump conference in Miami, Florida, at the Trump National Doral Miami, Mark Burns, a pastor, told the crowd multiple times that "we've come to declare war." As he continued, he reportedly asked if anybody was "read to go to war for Donald J. Trump, this nation?" as the audience reportedly cheered him on.
Additionally, radio host Wayne Allyn Root reportedly boasted about a time in his childhood when, as one of the few white students at a predominantly black high school, he knocked one classmate unconscious and shattered another kid's teeth. "My buddies and I were high-fiving and laughing," Root reportedly said during his speech. "Man, it was funny."
Root reportedly went on to say that "you've got to be a natural-born killer" to win in politics. Listen to the audio clips at ProPublica.
Man I hope these dumbasses try to start a civil war over Trump. The National Guard will put them down like rabid dogs. That might drive them back into their holes. I hate fascists.
Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
Trump pick for education board writes Illuminati self-help books: report
President Trump's pick for a federal education board authors self-help Illuminati books.
The Commission of Presidential Scholars awards high school seniors in the country annually, and its board is comprised of education experts like the 2019 National Teacher of the Year. Trump's nominee to this board, George Mentz, was announced last week, The Denver Post reported.
Mentz, a lawyer and online professor of wealth management at the Texas A&M University School of Law, has written books called "The Illuminati Secret Laws of Money," “The Illuminati Handbook,” “50 Laws of Power of the Illuminati” and “100 Secrets and Habits of the Illuminati for Life Success.”
“If you conceive of your desire, you can then imagine that your goal will take place with belief, and then you will be able [to] retrieve the opportunity from the world’s storehouse of riches,” he wrote in his book "Spiritual Wealth Management."
The nominee said he uses the word "Illuminati" in his books about money and wealth partly for marketing reasons.
“Just because I use the word Illuminati, don’t let that get you too excited,” Mentz told The Denver Post. “If you look the word up, it means ‘illumination.’ How to be more aware, conscious, a better person.”
Mentz has donated thousands of dollars to Trump's campaign and political action committee, after supporting him for three decades, The Denver Post report said.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
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