April 11, 2019: President Trump Scores Highest Approval Rating Ever - According to Fox News

 

4/11/19: Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, 82, the president’s sister, retires as a federal judge. Apparently, she takes this step in hopes of insulating herself from an investigation into possible tax fraud. 

An earlier story in The New York Times cited documentary evidence that could lay grounds for a case against her. 

The Times reported: 

Judge Barry had been a co-owner of a shell company — All County Building Supply & Maintenance — created by the [Trump] family to siphon cash from their father’s empire by marking up purchases already made by his employees, The Times investigation found. Judge Barry, her siblings and a cousin split the markup, free of gift and estate taxes, which at the time were levied at a much higher rate than income taxes.

 

Anyone else who might be involved in that alleged scheme? 

Donald J. Trump.

 

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“Four years of Donald Trump in payback mode.” 

HAVE WE MENTIONED “Fake News” lately? It turns out the President of the United States and Fox News have been spreading the fakest possible news. First: Fox. On Lou Dobb’s show, they posted the graphic below, based on a recent poll by Georgetown University. It shows Trump with an approval rating of 55 percent, the highest of his presidency. 

Trump gets so aroused he has to tweet:

  

Naturally, his fans love it and the tweet piles up 130,000 “likes.” More than 32,000 people retweet the news! 

Real reporters, and even ordinary citizens with sufficient brain cells, notice a problem with both the graphic and the president’s tweet. 

The poll cited actually found that 55 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of Trump, as a human being. Only 41 percent had a favorable opinion. As for the job he was doing, only 43 percent approved. 

Despite what Trump likes to claim, his approval ratings have been consistently low since he took office.

 

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FINALLY, “Sloppy Steve” Bannon, as Trump once labeled him, decides to comment on the possibilities in a 2020 election. He’s not sure the Democrats have put forward anyone who can beat Trump; but if Trump wins, Bannon has no doubt what we’ll get as a nation. “You’re going to get pure Trump off the chain. Four years of Donald Trump in payback mode.” 

Neo-fascism.

August 23, 2020: "The lying. Holy Sh*t."

 

8/23/20: A new critic of the president emerges. This time it’s his sister and federal judge, Maryanne Trump Barry, 82. In secret tapes of conversations with her niece, Mary, who wrote a book about her uncle, we hear what a family insider thinks. “He has no principles,” his sister tells the author. “You can’t trust him [emphasis added].” she adds, her comments based on intimate knowledge gained over decades observing her brother. She tells Mary that Donald had someone take his SAT test for him. “He doesn’t read,” she notes. As for his performance in office, the president’s sister has this to say. “The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy sh*t.”  

HOLY SHIT, indeed. Even the president’s relatives think he’s a conniving, lying, ill-informed bum.

Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, right.

 

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ALSO TODAY, Trump gets loose on Twitter and calls the Food and Drug Administration part of “the deep state.” He says scientists are holding up the vaccine process until after the November election. (See: 10/6/20.)