Individual-1 will “vacation” at Mar-a-Lago from December 21 to January 6 for his longest official trip there. Which club members will get appointed to cabinet posts or ambassadorships this time.
Trump's next ambassador to South Africa happens to be a Mar-a-Lago member.
Handbag designer Lana Marks would become the latest Mar-a-Lago member to join the U.S. diplomatic corps.
Over $80 million already in golf-related travel with $90,000 allocated for Secret Service golf carts in the time remaining this year. (2017: The Secret Service has spent at least $137,505 to rent golf carts to protect President Trump this year at his private clubs in New Jersey and Florida). Mick Mulvaney will get a lot of golf games with Individual-1.
He also had become personally fond of Mulvaney as the two met to discuss budget matters and played golf together. The president, who has little patience for lengthy briefings, also appreciated the colorful maps and graphics the budget director would use to highlight his presentations. And he considered Mulvaney a natural on television.
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Which Russians will be docking their yachts or parking their jets nearby during this trip.
And the latest tweet spreads more disinformation in the form of a recycled lie to the Trump base and its bots.
President Donald Trump went on Twitter Saturday to put forward a story line that is clearly misleading, pushing an argument that makes a software error sound like a grand anti-Trump conspiracy theory. Considering his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, did the same thing, it all looked like part of a coordinated strategy to plant doubts about the ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
A few hours earlier, Giuliani had put forward a similar message in a tweet. “How can Mueller’s gang get away with erasing over 19,000 texts of Trump haters Stroyk and Page? They say it was DOJ policy to destroy evidence? I guess Mueller’s angry Democrats fall under the Hillary exception to obstruction of justice. She erased over 30,000 emails,” Giuliani wrote, misspelling Strzok’s name. He then published five more tweets on the issue (including two he sent twice for some reason), often linking to conservative news outlets.
Instead, the missing texts— thousands of which were ultimately recovered by the way—had to do with a technology failure by the software the FBI used to sweep up the messages. The report by the inspector general said there was no evidence either Strzok nor Page purposefully tried to get around any kind of protocol by deleting messages.
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