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Trump's Big Beautiful.....Gold Ballroom

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I can't believe people, that donated to Trump were okay with waisting their money on a over priced ballroom.
Oh, they didn't waste their money, they got valuable government contracts and favorable treatment on regulatory matters.
 
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Oh, they didn't waste their money, they got valuable government contracts and favorable treatment on regulatory matters.
I forgot it business corporations. How un-caring of them.
 
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The upcoming book Regime Change by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan detailed how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt walked into the Oval Office to find Trump "clutching a tube of super glue and attempting to affix gold decorations to the marble fireplace mantle."
The original reporting by Maggie Haberman and Jonathon Swann:

New York Times Exclusive: Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files

[VP JD] Vance had also floated to colleagues an extraordinary P.R. gambit — that the White House enlist Tucker Carlson to interview Epstein’s longtime girlfriend and co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, in prison. It might help the president if Maxwell was willing to state that Trump had not been part of any wrongdoing with Epstein.

Vance told the group he believed all the files should be released as soon as possible. He argued that Congress was going to force the release of the files eventually. It was already clear that a bipartisan coalition in favor of such action was forming on Capitol Hill, and the momentum was going in one direction. If the administration got out ahead of this and released everything voluntarily — including whatever material existed about the president — it would at least get credit for transparency. The alternative was to let the story drag on for months as information dripped out, each new revelation renewing the cycle of suspicion and fury. Better to rip the bandage off and move on.

...As the president’s former defense attorney, [Deputy AG Todd] Blanche had a unique vantage point in the discussion. He was better equipped than anyone else in the room to weigh the ideas being discussed against Trump’s personal and political interests. Blanche laid out what he saw as their best options.

Option 1 was to petition Federal District Courts in Florida and New York to unseal the grand jury testimonies — the secret transcripts of prosecutors’ presentations of witnesses and evidence in their efforts to obtain indictments in past Epstein-related cases. As those were almost certain to contain no significant new information, everyone agreed that this option was a good idea, and not only because a release was unlikely to damage the president....

Option 2 was to have Justice Department lawyers question Maxwell and publicly release the transcript — a twist on the idea proposed earlier by Vance. Blanche offered to interview Maxwell himself.

...Just then, The Wall Street Journal article they had been trying to kill was published online...The birthday card attributed to Trump depicted a nude woman, hand-drawn and inscribed with an imagined dialogue between the two men about a “wonderful secret.” The drawing was signed with what appeared to be Trump’s distinctive jagged Sharpie signature in place of the woman’s pubic hair.

...By mid-November, the bipartisan coalition the Trump team had worried about since the summer finally had the votes to force the administration’s hand. The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed the House and the Senate in quick succession, and on Nov. 19, Trump, yielding to the inevitable, signed it into law.

The new law went further than the House subpoena. It sought a broader tranche of files and contained a warning to the administration thatno record shall be withheld, delayed or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure or foreign dignitary.” It sought everything that Trump had spent the better part of the year trying to suppress.

The legislators who passed the bill had no idea how many files they had mandated to be released within a month. The pages would end up numbering in the millions, and the president, his family and places like his Mar-a-Lago estate would be referred to more than 38,000 times, according to a New York Times analysis.
 
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Also from the intrepid duo:
NYT: 6 Takeaways From the Story of How the Epstein Files Paralyzed the White House

Senior officials clashed in a series of meetings as they struggled to manage a crisis over the president’s refusal to release the documents.

  1. The government’s national-security bunker became an Epstein war room.
  2. The president wanted the whole thing buried.
  3. Vice President JD Vance wanted to release all the files — even the unsubstantiated material about Trump.
  4. Expletive-laden blowups fractured the top of the Justice Department.
  5. Advisers found themselves having a surreal debate over an unverified allegation about Mr. Trump.
  6. More than a year later, the files were still damaging the president.
 
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Trump admin just handed ballroom firm another secret $17 million no-bid contract

“The National Park Service wanted to repair two ornamental fountains in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House,” reports the Times. “The Biden administration in 2022 had estimated the work would cost $3.3 million. But Mr. Trump’s government agreed to pay Clark $11.9 million to do it, and later added tasks that increased the contract to $17.4 million, the documents show.”
"President Donald Trump in recent months has cultivated a side project: counting the number of trees in a public park across the street from the White House," the report detailed. "Under Trump’s plans for Lafayette Square, which he has previously described as 'the entrance to the White House,' the public park would feature 47 trees, matching his status as the nation’s 47th president, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail the administration’s plans for the park. The trees would all be maples, a favorite of the president’s."

"Trump has claimed that he made a multimillion-dollar contribution to Lafayette Square’s renovations, but he has not provided evidence of his gift. The administration has not publicly posted contracting documents for the project. The administration also did not present its plans for Lafayette Square to federal review panels before beginning its work. Trump, a real estate developer before entering politics, has a long history of picking out trees for his projects and has expressed particular fondness for maple trees."
 
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This 11-starred probable-AI abomination is hopefully entirely imaginary and not coming to the White House, but Trump seems excited about it, and the White House has to back him up, so...

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Where are the "waste, fraud, and abuse" people now?

Also, I'm glad Trump has time to personally negotiate the price of concrete.
I thought it was 300 millions. I prefer donations to go improving school buildings young kids programs. And feeding children.
 
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This 11-starred probable-AI abomination is hopefully entirely imaginary and not coming to the White House, but Trump seems excited about it, and the White House has to back him up, so...

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I count 11 stars, not thirteen, why’s it got eleven?
 
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I count 11 stars, not thirteen, why’s it got eleven?
I’ll be in the cold, cold ground before I recognize [insert two original colonies here]!

Alternatively the historical significance of 13 is lost on a certain individual but they and the clanker dishing slop were trained to know 13 unlucky.
 
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The upcoming book Regime Change by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan detailed how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt walked into the Oval Office to find Trump "clutching a tube of super glue and attempting to affix gold decorations to the marble fireplace mantle."

Oval Office crammed with new gold bling as Trump's Krazy Glue tube goes viral


CNN White House producer DJ Judd first spotted the adhesive on Monday evening, as Trump fielded reporters' questions about Iran from behind the Resolute Desk.

The next morning, Daily Mail White House correspondent Jon Michael Raasch also spotted something new on the marble fireplace: two golden seals that hadn't been there in late April, when Trump met King Charles in the same room.

During a Fox News tour of the White House, Trump insisted the decorations are made from 24-karat gold. But HuffPost reported that at least some of the curlicue moldings resemble a polyurethane item made in Taiwan and sold at Home Depot for $58.

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Oval Office crammed with new gold bling as Trump's Krazy Glue tube goes viral


CNN White House producer DJ Judd first spotted the adhesive on Monday evening, as Trump fielded reporters' questions about Iran from behind the Resolute Desk.

The next morning, Daily Mail White House correspondent Jon Michael Raasch also spotted something new on the marble fireplace: two golden seals that hadn't been there in late April, when Trump met King Charles in the same room.

During a Fox News tour of the White House, Trump insisted the decorations are made from 24-karat gold. But HuffPost reported that at least some of the curlicue moldings resemble a polyurethane item made in Taiwan and sold at Home Depot for $58.

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How do you know the glue isn’t for his hairpiece?
 
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How do you know the glue isn’t for his hairpiece?
Well I know another use for glue, but let's not accuse anyone of anything, even if that would cause some things to make sense.
 
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Well I know another use for glue, but let's not accuse anyone of anything, even if that would cause some things to make sense.
Its not called Krazy Glue for nothing.
 
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