Baltimore pastor @DrDonteLHickman, from Dec. 9, when asked about Trump’s record (in 2018, Hickman helped Trump launch the “opportunity zones” council at a WH event featuring Trump & the pastor):
@DrDonteLHickman He added, "I’m looking forward to working with the new administration.”
Here’s a look back at Hickman’s work & frustrations with the Trump initiative, which POTUS widely touted as a supposed success story for his policies for poor & Black communities: thedailybeast.com/trump-promised…
@DrDonteLHickman Pastor Hickman spent years, even when he was critical of how the opportunity zones were coming along (or not coming along), refraining from aggressively going after Trump, saying he was focused on helping his community in Baltimore and didn’t want to get dragged into the...
@DrDonteLHickman …political back-and-forth or feuds with Trump that other pastors and Black religious leaders had been in. This conversation from over a month ago was the first time I recall Hickman so thoroughly calling out Trump the fraud he is/was, most importantly, “beyond his rhetoric."
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“The president knows about it. I’ve spoken with Ivanka & I’ve spoken with Jared, & I’ve been told that President Trump is aware of the case & has been reviewing it,” Alice Johnson confirmed to me. “I’ve spoken to Mark Meadows about it, and he said he’d take a look at it.”
As of Sunday, Harry-O was still waiting to hear if he’ll be out of prison and headed home as the Biden era dawns. Trump’s final batch of pardons/commutations is expected to drop soon.
It appears that when the list of Trump’s final pardons/commutations finally comes out, a Death Row Records founder will be on it. "It feels like the weight of the world has been lifted off my sholders," Harry-O said in a statement to The Daily Beast...
in gauging the president’s interest level, the meeting apparently lasted five-to-ten minutes, and also: "The president, in Lindell’s account, didn’t even get through the first four pages before sending Lindell out of the room.”
…that Lindell relayed was President Trump asking who a man and a woman were in the photos on the second page of the “report.” Lindell says he replied that he did not know.
if he remains so “committed” to it than why were there various escalations, and why, when he had four years as commander in chief, are the wars still endlessly going on
Trump showed exponentially more commitment to absolving accused and convicted war criminals than he did to ending endless war. He inherited them, but he escalated several conflicts. And now he leaves office with more domestic blood caked on american soil than even his harshest...
…critics could have imagined when this all started.
His presidential library is going to a hilarious whitewash, it’ll make museums run by some dictators look quaint
If you think what Bernie did in terms of saying healthcare keeps people alive and taking it away is Bad has any moral equivalence whatsoever with what Trump and swaths of the GOP did, there’s literally no point in debating you. I don’t mean that figuratively, there’s...
...actually no point. You have all the basic reading comprehension skills and baseline understanding of the world of someone who says eight plus eight equals 2 and a half.
if u don’t know much about Lisa Montgomery & her team’s efforts to get Trump, or someone, to spare her life, please check out the story. (I know, a lot going on)
Horrific lifestory of the perpetrator, horrific crime she committed, horrific killing spree that Trump/Barr inflicted
…and absolutely horrific system of killing federal inmates we have here, and the extra, arbitrary cruelty of the reality that if the scheduling had just been put off a week or so, the next administration would have very likely kept her alive and in prison.