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Source: Microsoft News: President Donald Trump has turned on everyone -- including Vice President Mike Pence and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- as he continues trying to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden.

The president has been meeting with conspiracy theorists and other fringe characters in the Oval Office to discuss ways to override the will of the voters and the U.S. Constitution, and Axios co-founder Mike Allen reported that Trump has grown paranoid about his own vice president and the Republican majority leader.

"We have late reporting out of the White House last night that President Trump now is turning on Vice President Pence, on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, on the White House counsel [Pat Cipollone] -- anyone who doesn't want to go out and impound voting machines is now suddenly considered by the president to be weak," Allen told MSNBC's "Way Too Early." So one example of this, the Lincoln Project which always seems to get inside the president's head, ran an ad saying that Vice President Pence was turning on Trump, and sources tell Jonathan Swan that this clearly stuck in the president's head. He's starting to doubt even Mike Pence."
 
Trump pardoned a man who ripped off Medicare for over a billion dollars.
 
The founder of Blackwater is Betsy DeVos’s brother. I guess being a loyal (if incompetent) Trump soldier for the entire four years pays off.......
 
https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/justice/blackwater-iraq-guilty-verdicts/index.html

Nicholas Slatten, 30, of Sparta, Tennessee, the team’s sniper, was found guilty of first-degree murder while armed in the slaying of the river of a white Kia sedan in the Baghdad traffic circle. Prosecutors said Slatten kicked off the incident when he opened fire.

The other verdicts:
– Paul Slough, 35, of Keller, Texas, was found guilty of 13 counts of voluntary manslaughter, 17 counts of attempted manslaughter and one firearms offense;

– Evan Liberty, 32, of Rochester, New Hampshire, was found guilty of eight counts of voluntary manslaughter, 12 counts of attempted manslaughter and one firearms offense;

– Dustin Heard, 33, of Maryville, Tennessee, was found guilty of six counts of voluntary manslaughter, 11 counts of attempted manslaughter and one firearms offense.

Seventeen Iraqi civilians were killed that day at Nusoor Square, including 9- and 11-year-old boys. Fourteen of those killings were unjustified under the rules of the use of deadly force in Iraq by Iraqi security contractors.
Eighteen more people were injured.

The September 16, 2007, incident began when 19 Blackwater contractors were assigned to a convoy. After learning a car bomb had detonated in Baghdad, near where a U.S. official was being escorted, the team – known as Raven 23 – drove to a secured checkpoint.

“Once there, in disregard of an order from Blackwater’s command, the team’s shift leader directed Raven 23 to leave the Green Zone and establish a blockade in Nusoor Square, a busy traffic circle that was immediately adjacent to the Green Zone,” the prosecutor’s statement said.

Seven members of the team opened fire in the traffic circle, killing and injuring unarmed Iraqis, and Slough kept firing as the team exited the circle, killing and wounding even more Iraqis.

Blackwater had a $1 billion government contract to protect American diplomats at the time. 2007: Blackwater most often shoots first, congressional report says In 2007, congressional hearings were held on possible misconduct by Blackwater, and then-owner Erik Prince was vilified by Congress. “I believe we acted appropriately at all times,” Prince testified before Congress.
“Blackwater seems to have fostered a culture of shoot first, sometimes kill, and ask questions later,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, said at one hearing.
 
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SlyPokerDog said:
https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/justice/blackwater-iraq-guilty-verdicts/index.html

Nicholas Slatten, 30, of Sparta, Tennessee, the team’s sniper, was found guilty of first-degree murder while armed in the slaying of the river of a white Kia sedan in the Baghdad traffic circle. Prosecutors said Slatten kicked off the incident when he opened fire.

The other verdicts:
– Paul Slough, 35, of Keller, Texas, was found guilty of 13 counts of voluntary manslaughter, 17 counts of attempted manslaughter and one firearms offense;

– Evan Liberty, 32, of Rochester, New Hampshire, was found guilty of eight counts of voluntary manslaughter, 12 counts of attempted manslaughter and one firearms offense;

– Dustin Heard, 33, of Maryville, Tennessee, was found guilty of six counts of voluntary manslaughter, 11 counts of attempted manslaughter and one firearms offense.

Seventeen Iraqi civilians were killed that day at Nusoor Square, including 9- and 11-year-old boys. Fourteen of those killings were unjustified under the rules of the use of deadly force in Iraq by Iraqi security contractors.
Eighteen more people were injured.

The September 16, 2007, incident began when 19 Blackwater contractors were assigned to a convoy. After learning a car bomb had detonated in Baghdad, near where a U.S. official was being escorted, the team – known as Raven 23 – drove to a secured checkpoint.

“Once there, in disregard of an order from Blackwater’s command, the team’s shift leader directed Raven 23 to leave the Green Zone and establish a blockade in Nusoor Square, a busy traffic circle that was immediately adjacent to the Green Zone,” the prosecutor’s statement said.

Seven members of the team opened fire in the traffic circle, killing and injuring unarmed Iraqis, and Slough kept firing as the team exited the circle, killing and wounding even more Iraqis.

Blackwater had a $1 billion government contract to protect American diplomats at the time. 2007: Blackwater most often shoots first, congressional report says In 2007, congressional hearings were held on possible misconduct by Blackwater, and then-owner Erik Prince was vilified by Congress. “I believe we acted appropriately at all times,” Prince testified before Congress.
“Blackwater seems to have fostered a culture of shoot first, sometimes kill, and ask questions later,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, said at one hearing.
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EL PRESIDENTE said:
Pharmabro too!
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Shrkeli is a wormy fuck but in all honesty I think he’s just one example of pharma scammery. I feel like they just needed someone to offer up on a platter to take the heat off the rest of them and he drew the shortest straw.

“Here, take this douchebag to make it appear as if there is oversight and leave us to our own devices for another 20 years”

One of the most corrupt industries out there.
 
jonnyboy said:
Shrkeli is a wormy fuck but in all honesty I think he’s just one example of pharma scammery. I feel like they just needed someone to offer up on a platter to take the heat off the rest of them and he drew the shortest straw.

“Here, take this douchebag to make it appear as if there is oversight and leave us to our own devices for another 20 years”

One of the most corrupt industries out there.
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If Shkreli hadn’t been such a smarmy wiseass he’d have probably gotten off with a lighter sentence. Hard to get sympathy when you’re happily crowing about screwing the sick and dying. Though now that I think about it, it’s worked pretty well for Trump so far.......
 
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