Conspiranon

Trump Speaks at NABJ Conference. Trump accused Vice President Harris of not always claiming to be Black. The 2024 Republican presidential nominee’s accusation came during a discussion with three journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists' convention held in Chicago. Former President Trump also criticized one of the reporter’s questions and proceeded to call her and her employer, ABC News, fake news. Other topics that came up during this face-to-face interview included Sen. JD Vance’s “childless cat ladies” comment, border security, and Mr. Trump’s age and health. The journalists interviewing him were Rachel Scott with ABC News, Kadia Goba with Semafor, and Harris Faulkner with Fox News. https://www.c-span.org/video/?537472-1/president-trump-speaks-nabj-conference In 2016 Donald J. Trump won the presidential election with overwhelming Christian evangelical support. Commentators and pundits have struggled to explain how a president who seems to s...

For four years, Caligula capriciously ruled Rome, drained the treasury, and mocked the Senate—until those sworn to protect him plotted his death. Also, according to Cassius Dio, Caligula threatened to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul and ordered the sun to rise during the night. The Romans soon began to hate him and he was finally assassinated. After Caligula's death, many of his statues were destroyed or defaced. Caligula - Roman Emperor 37-41 AD. LIKE TRUMP, CALIGULA... 0. Was in office for only four years. 1. Only slept three hours a night. 2. Made spontaneous pronouncements constantly. 3. Proclaimed his enormous wealth. 4. Told his mother that he could do anything and was above the law. 5. Lived in such luxury that the Roman Empire had to increase the budget to pay for his luxuries. Eventually he bankrupted the Roman Treasury. 6. His chariots, chairs and living areas had precious stones and gold inlaid within them. 7. Known for sexual excesses and corruption....

Even after all the alarming antics former president Donald Trump has engaged in over the past decade, it was jarring to learn what he said to about two dozen oil company executives at an April 11 dinner in his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion, Mar-a-Lago. As The Post reported, Mr. Trump responded to one executive’s complaint about the burdensome regulations the industry faces under PresidentBiden, despite spending $400 million on lobbying against them. He told them they should instead donate $1 billion to his presidential election campaign, in return for which they would get lighter regulation and lower taxes — a much better “deal.” TO BE SURE, it’s impossible to know whether this was a serious quid pro quo or just another case of the former president’s off-the-cuff bombast. Perhaps we’ll learn more if an inquiry by House Democrats gains traction. The troubling appearance, so consistent with Mr. Trump’s generally unprincipled approach to politics and government, is evident, though. 20...

When the Nazis set out to legally disenfranchised and discriminate against Jewish citizens, they weren't just coming up with ideas out of thin air. They closely studied the laws of another country. According to James Q. Whitman, author of Hitler’s American Model, that country was the United States. In particular, Nazis admired the Jim Crow-era laws that discriminated against Black Americans and segregated them from white Americans, and they debated whether to introduce similar segregation in Germany. “America in the early 20th century was the leading racist jurisdiction in the world,” says Whitman, who is a professor at Yale Law School. “Nazi lawyers, as a result, were interested in, looked very closely at, [and] were ultimately influenced by American race law.” “One of the most striking Nazi views was that Jim Crow was a suitable racist program in the United States because American Blacks were already oppressed and poor,” he says. “But then in Germany, by contrast, where...

TO KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING IT HELPS TO KNOW WHERE YOU'VE BEEN... The Ugly Origins of Trump’s “America First” Policy With this phrase, the former president is connecting himself to the Ku Klux Klan and outright fascist movements. By Lawrence S. Wittner | March 19, 2024 People’s choice of words can be revealing. That’s certainly the case with respect to one of Donald Trump’s favorite slogans, “America First.” In April 2016, Trump initially used the term in a campaign speech, proclaiming that “America First” would be “the major and overriding theme of my administration.” The following year, in his inaugural address, he promised that “a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first―America first.” Subsequently, he has employed the slogan frequently to describe his approach to foreign and domestic policy. This approach is remarkable because, over the past century, “America First” has acquired some very unsavory connotations...