@TimStone and part of that is a flat out lie because he doesn't know how Tariffs work. though if no one in his staff is correcting him i think it's safe to assume that to be president you don't even know how anything works, just make it all up
@TimStone I mean, it sounds like people signed on for a blanket endorsement of his stuff, and his campaign is giving them an option to opt out of any individual endorsements
So, how are the hearings going? Well, looks a lot like the President just committed a federal crime (witness intimidation) from his twitter account while that witness was testifying on live TV. That tweet was then subsequently read to the witness, who confirmed, on live TV, that it was intimidating and disturbing
@BradC "I know! Let's do more crimes to cover up the crimes I've already done! Nobody cares if I make it very known that people have to be loyal to me, and me alone."
The impeachment is going to take forever, because they're going to have to keep addressing all of the new crimes he commits during the impeachment proceeding
At some point, you'd just have to call it and go, "Look, guys, they keep happening. We literally could keep going to the heat death of the universe. We're just gonna call it here and use future actions as reinforcement that it's the right decision."
So, that transcript of the earlier Trump/Zalinsky call the White House released earlier this morning, and that Nunes read into the record during his opening statement?
> There is a notable omission. Trump never mentions corruption, despite an official White House readout distributed at the time saying Trump expressed a commitment to working together to "root out corruption."
Not to mention, "I had a different phone call in which I didn't commit a crime" isn't particularly... exculpatory
> Wernecke left his previous job at an event company in Boston, where he had worked for more than three years, to join Eventique in June. A week after he was hired, Wernecke’s coworkers commented on his “girly” engagement ring. When a co-worker asked if his wife wore a similar ring, Wernecke replied that his partner, Evan, did.
> In the interim months, the complaint alleges, Wernecke was ostracized and excluded from professional meetings and office social events, passed over for assignments with large commissions and subject to discriminatory remarks.
> The alleged discrimination took a toll on Wernecke’s mental health, forcing him to book an appointment with a psychiatrist in August for the first time in his life, the document says, and he began taking anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication to cope with the situation.
> “I couldn't sleep at night thinking that you were being paid so much more than the other females in the office,” David told Wernecke, according to the complaint.
@TimStone Sounds like it
Like, a lot. They cut his salary
> Eventually, David called Wernecke into his office to tell him his salary was being cut from the $145,000 that was initially agreed upon to $70,000.
> Not long after, Wernecke discovered that David had lowered his salary even more, to $58,000 or 40 percent less than the starting salary he was promised when he left his former job, the lawsuit says
@Wipqozn The stupid part is, without a contract, this is perfectly legal in the US.
You can't retroactively change pay for time worked, but continuing to work after being informed your pay is being reduced is implicit acceptance of the cut.
> Eventually, David called Wernecke into his office to tell him his salary was being cut from the $145,000 that was initially agreed upon to $70,000.
> Not long after, Wernecke discovered that David had lowered his salary even more, to $58,000 or 40 percent less than the starting salary he was promised when he left his former job, the lawsuit says.
It was more than just the manager himself; the other employees were being explicitly encouraged by the manager to exclude the gay coworker, in meetings, in social gatherings, etc.
> Most recently, at least three people have come forward with new testimony regarding Ms. Stites’s fiancé, Jimmy Fennell. Mr. Fennell is a former police officer who was released from prison in 2018; he pleaded guilty in 2008 to kidnapping a woman he had encountered while on duty. The woman said he had also raped her.
Problem is, this is still up to Gov. Abbott, noted terrible person.
Anyway we definitely shouldn't take the ousted Ambassador's concerns for her safety seriously in light of the President just pardoning people who say nice things about him but also do checks notes Actual War Crimes, so
