September 16, 2018: Hurricane Florence Batters Carolina's - Trump Feels Sorry for Himself

 

9/16/18: Trump sleeps late Sunday, after a hard day of dealing with reality Saturday. Naturally, his first thoughts when he wakes are for the families of the 14 dead in North and South Carolina, the 400 people who had to be rescued from flooded New Bern and the people of Lumberton trying to keep flood waters from breaking a levee and causing toxic materials to spill from a nearby coal ash pit. You know the president is worried about people downstream from various pig farms, where thousands of gallons of pig manure may mix with flood waters, and a million people without power across the two states. Hurricane Florence has set records for rainfall in North Carolina, dumping more than 30 inches in places, breaking by six inches a record set by Hurricane Floyd just a decade ago. (See: climate change; 9/11/18.) 

Yes, Trump is deeply concerned about the… 

No, of course he’s not! Donald J. Trump has less capacity for empathy than a full-grown zucchini.

 

His very first inclination upon rising is to tweet about how it’s so unfair that people who worked for his campaign keep confessing to felonious activities in various courts. His 9:20 a.m. post: 

The illegal Mueller Witch Hunt continues in search of a crime. There was never Collusion with Russia, except by the Clinton campaign, so the 17 Angry Democrats are looking at anything they can find. Very unfair and BAD for the country. ALSO, not allowed under the LAW!

 

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IN OTHER NEWS Republican mega-donor Seth Klarman announces plans to support Democrat candidates in the midterm elections, telling The New York Times, he believes “democracy is at stake [emphasis added].” 

 

Spineless in the face of the president. 

Klarman donated $2.9 million to Republicans in 2016, but now explains: “We need to turn the House and Senate as a check on Donald Trump and his runaway presidency.” 

Republicans in Congress, he says, have been “spineless” in the face of the president. They’re “profiles in cowardice.” 

He says he’s willing to spend up to $20 million in 2018 in hopes Democrats can retake at least one if not both houses of Congress and “act as a check and balance” on a dangerous fool in the Oval Office.