"Accepting the results of a legitimate democratic election is patriotic. Refusing to do so and inciting violence is anti-American."
The agents resorted to porta-potties and even the Obamas' nearby bathroom.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are making Florida their new home base after they exit from Washington, D.C. life next week, but their new neighbors aren't exactly rolling out the welcome mat. Indian Creek Country Club, a swanky place for the elite to hang out, isn't interested in having Ivanka and Jared as members. Becoming […]
Over the last four years, the Trump family has made everyday life even more difficult for most people, including those working to protect them. In the latest, strange chapter of this Trumpian dystopia, it has come to light that U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have apparently had to come up with some creative ways to simply use the bathroom. Despite the fact that Trump and Kushner have more than six bathrooms in their Kalorama neighborhood home in Washington, D.C., secret service agents have been instructed they’re not allowed to use any of them, the Washington Post reports. Instead, agents have had to go to great lengths to find a bathroom on the job. According to the Post‘s report, in 2017, Secret Service agents relied on a restroom in a garage in former President Barack Obama’s house. They also had to make the one-mile drive to the home of Vice President Mike Pence to use a bathroom in a stand-alone guard station. Since then, the federal government has been forced to implement some changes. Trump and Kushner’s Secret Service detail is still not allowed to use any of the restrooms inside their home, sure, but they can use one that’s apparently costing taxpayers upwards of $100,000. According to the report, the federal government has spent $3,000 a month since September 2017 to rent a basement studio from the Kushner family’s neighbors, just so they would have easier access to a nearby restroom. Lucky! “It’s the first time I ever heard of a Secret Service detail having to go to these extremes to find a bathroom,” said one law enforcement official familiar with the situation. The bathroom saga shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, though. After all, Trump and Kushner seem to think of themselves as royalty, as one of their former neighbors said. In the midst of a global pandemic, the Kushners transferred their three kids to a different school after other parents complained the couple wasn’t complying with COVID guidelines. Likewise, Ivanka is so out of touch that in an interview with Yahoo! Finance last year, she described her pandemic lockdown experience as similar to “pretty much every parent around the country.” This couldn’t be farther from the truth. The First Daughter, whose net worth is roughly $375 million is having a far different experience during the pandemic than the millions of Americans now facing unemployment. Neighbors of the Kushner family, like Marti Robinson, a trial attorney and Obama-appointed member of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission told the Post they just want their “nice, quiet neighborhood back.” And they might be in luck. Last month, the couple bought property in a “Billionaire Bunker” enclave in Southern Florida, where they’re already having trouble with their new neighbors. Yikes! Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?Melania Trump Refuses To Welcome In Jill BidenTrump Refuses To Pay For Giuliani's Legal FeesWhy Isn't The Senate Voting To Convict Trump Now?
So much for respect for law enforcement.
I've never thought about where Secret Service agents use the bathroom before — that's on me. On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Secret Service detail had been denied access to the bathrooms in their home for these past four years, leading agents to get increasingly inventive at finding a place to […]
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Secret Service detail aren’t allowed to use their restroom As we count down the days until the Trump administration is over, one detail about Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s, uh, bathroom situation has come to light and it is both weird and infuriating. According to several sources speaking on the []
Brace yourself, Florida. After next week's inauguration, there's a whole lot of Trump headed down south to set up their new homes, with one Trump family member after another revealing their plans to settle in the southeast state. Donald Trump and Melania have been house-hunting near Mar-A-Lago; Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner bought a $30 […]
President-elect Joe Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration is fast approaching, and all parties are rushing to make the necessary arrangements — a phrase that carries somber new meaning in light of last week's attack on the Capitol Building. President Donald Trump announced his plans not to attend the inauguration on Twitter shortly before he was removed […]
Another day, another case of social media misinformation.
Are Donald Trump and his children all preparing to call Florida their new home after his presidential term ends next week? Daughter Ivanka has already put down roots in the state's Indian Creek Country Club (also known as Billionaire's Bunker) by purchasing a $30 million lot, and now it seems as though Donald Trump Jr. […]
Trump is the first-ever president to be impeached twice.
Republican challenger and state Rep. Nancy Mace, right, debates Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham, left, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, at the SCETV studios in Beaufort, S.C., in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District seat race. (Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP) When a Republican leader starts to quote Dr. Martin Luther King out of context, you just know you’re about to hear something that is, at best, vague and void of any responsibility. Wednesday morning, on the House floor, South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace admitted that Donald Trump must be held accountable for last week’s attack on the Capitol — but she seemed to also blame Democrats and leftists for the riot started, perpetrated, and incited by Trump’s camp. “Remember the words of the legendary great leader in this country, Dr. Martin Luther King, who once said, ‘The time is always right to do what is right.’ And if we’re serious about healing the divisions in this country, Republicans and Democrats need to acknowledge this is not the first day of violence we’ve seen,” Mace said. “We’ve seen violence across our country for the last nine months. And we need to recognize, number one, that our words have consequences, that there is violence on both sides of the aisle.” As the House moves to impeach Trump for incitement of insurrection, Mace isn’t the only Republican congressperson trying to shift blame onto “both sides.” In a Wednesday morning interview with CNN, Colorado Rep. Ken Buck argued that it wasn’t just “one speech or incident” that caused the events of last week. “The level of animosity and the level of, really, vitriol between these two sides has been building for five or six years now,” he said. “What I’m trying to suggest to you is that both sides are at fault.” Technically, a small part of Buck’s statement is correct: Trump’s supporters didn’t suddenly become emboldened after one speech or tweet, and last week’s riot wasn’t just the result of one single incident. But the incessant, building vitriol and animosity that led to the attack didn’t come from both sides — it came from Trump, and from his administration. Since beginning his political career, Trump has refused to condemn white supremacists and protect at-risk Americans. After taking office, Trump quickly began to stoke division by denouncing reliable media sources and spreading lies about prominent Democratic leaders. And after losing reelection, he declined to concede, creating more tension, challenging democracy, and — yes — encouraging the violence that happened on January 6. Republicans love to blame “both sides,” as if fascism and anti-fascism are just two extreme entities instead of, you know, an immediate threat to our lives and a necessary response to that threat. The protests and riots we’ve seen from Democrats this year were reactions to police brutality, institutional racism, and a government that upholds white supremacy. And another stark, undeniable difference between these events and the attack on Capitol Hill is that protestors were tear-gassed, shot with rubber bullets, and hit with batons. Like just about everything else, the “two sides” argument is one often used (if not started) by Trump himself. During the 2017 neo-Nazi riot in Charlottesville, which erupted into violence and left one woman dead, he famously said that “many sides” should be held responsible. “What about the ‘alt-left’ that came charging at, as you say, the alt-right,’ do they have any semblance of guilt?” he asked. “You had a group on one side that was very bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say it, but I will say it right now.” In 2019, he doubled down on the same rhetoric. “I am concerned about the rise of any group of hate. I don’t like it,” he said in an interview. “Any group of hate, whether it’s white supremacy, whether it’s any other kind of supremacy, whether it’s Antifa.” To be clear, this is not a denouncement of white supremacy. You can’t condemn fascism or racism while also condemning the movements to end both. Antifa is not a hate group. Trump went on to add, “Whether it’s any group of hate, I am very concerned about it. And I’ll do something about it.” As we all know, he went on to do nothing to address white supremacy. This became clearer than ever in 2020. So no, Nancy Mace, we don’t need to recognize violence from “both sides of the aisle.” We need to recognize violence incited by President Trump — and impeach him immediately. And we need to put Dr. King’s words in context, too. After all, the words Mace invoked were just several lines from a speech on white supremacy: “Let nobody give you the impression that the problem of racial injustice will work itself out. Let nobody give you the impression that only time will solve the problem. That is a myth, and it is a myth because time is neutral,” he said. “And I’m absolutely convinced that the people of ill will in our nation — the extreme rightists — the forces committed to negative ends — have used time much more effectively than the people of good will.” Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?Why Lauren Boebert Refuses To Use Metal DetectorThe FBI Knew About The Capitol Riot BeforehandAOC Thought She Was Going To Die During The Siege
Yahoo Lifestyle