Fred Trump III writes that his uncle, Donald Trump, made the shocking suggestion during an Oval Office meeting in May 2020.

During a private meeting at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, then-president Donald Trump reportedly mused aloud about whether people with disabilities would be better off dead instead of causing more expenses for their caregivers.

The shocking remark is included in a new book, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way, by the former president’s nephew, Fred Trump III, who makes other startling claims about his uncle.

According to an excerpt of the book published by Time, Fred Trump III — the brother of psychologist and author Mary Trump and the eldest son of Donald Trump’s late older brother, Fred Trump Jr. — claims his uncle made the offensive remark during a private meeting in May 2020.

Fred Trump III writes that he, then-President Trump, then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and White House Covid Task Force member Dr. Brett Giroir, along with other disability rights advocates, spent 45 minutes discussing the needs of people with disabilities at the White House.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-nephew-disability-memoir-b2585139.html

Following the White House meeting, Fred Trump III said he was ushered back into the Oval Office with his uncle and Azar at Donald Trump’s request.

His uncle greeted him: “Hey, pal — how’s everything going?”

Fred Trump III told him things were “good” and thanked him for meeting.

At that point, he writes that his uncle started to speak again.

“Those people ...” he said, trailing off. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die,” he suggested, according to the book.

President Biden's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination could defuse the age question dogging the Democrats: Harris will be 60 on Inauguration Day — 22 years younger than Biden.

Why it matters: Concerns over Biden's age and mental fitness were central to calls for his replacement as the Democratic nominee. Trump, at 78, becomes the oldest nominee in U.S. history if Harris or someone else younger than Trump succeeds Biden atop the Democratic ticket.

Reality check: Twelve U.S. presidents were 60 or older at the time of their inauguration.

Biden and Trump were the only presidents older than 70 at the start of their terms.
Catch up quick: Biden's performance during the first presidential debate against Trump on June 27 led to calls from constituents and politicians for him to step down.

Zoom out: All three branches of federal government have prompted conversations about America's gerontocracy.

The 118th Congress, one of the oldest in U.S. history, drove debates last year about term limits and fitness for office.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stepped aside in 2022, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced he'd retire as the head of Senate Republicans following the 2024 election.
On the Supreme Court, 74% of Americans favor a maximum age limit for justices, according to Pew polling from last year.

Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer signaled support for age and term limits in March.
He said it would have helped him avoid "going through difficult decisions" in deciding whether to retire in 2022 as the oldest member of the court at the time.

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/21/kamala-harris-age-presidential-nominee

U.S.A. election politics here.
Pol seems to be running at a million miles per second, and my thread went to pg10 in 10 seconds flat, so this will go here. It should be just as relevant. Anyway...
The U.S. gov, including both of its parties, are designed to be as confusing as possible. I'd say since before 2016.

Both parties are rampant with hypocrisy over corporate interests, and sometimes just saying stupid shit to piss off voters for another party and create further division. He did not divide us, it was the ones pulling the strings in the background! Such as putting third trimester abortions in the spotlight, or talking about women who want to "abort" children they just birthed. That's right. That shit didn't even happen in the U.S.. It was part of a policy Canada was working on, and I don't even think it went through, so it was wholly irrelevant to U.S. pol. And yet, the left were talking about it in the news media anyway. It's like they were planted, glowing, even. The left does this with gun rights, too, yes, I am insinuating that there are planted shootings, as dangerous as that can be. Trump got shot but the secret service could have shot the shooter first. You all probably know that story by now.

Both sides like to kill off their opponents, and all of them work towards achieving just one thing, making money for their corpos. Trump himself is possibly the only independent factor, since he pretty much just acts for his own interests, but man, the right sure does love to lose when it's trying to take away abortion rights federally. Almost like trying that is inherently unconstitutional, and won't get voted in. They were lucky that it got put up to the states.
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There are numerous articles I could mention here, but I'll put this one down instead.
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/larry-fink-blackrock-and-his-global-crusade-advance-identity-politics

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxx2d25l634o
Democrats have poured $81m (£62m) in donations into Vice-President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday.

It is the largest 24-hour period of campaign funding in presidential history with more than 888,000 donors making contributions of less than $200 in the day after Mr Biden stepped aside.

“Grassroots supporters are energized and excited to support her as the Democratic nominee,” ActBlue, the progressive donation platform, said on X.

Donors who had pulled back their funding over concerns about Mr Biden’s age say they now intend to resume their support for the party.

The party raised over $27.5m in the first five hours of Ms Harris’ presidential campaign. That number nearly doubled by the end of the day. In 24 hours, the sum broke a presidential fundraising record.

The new funds mark a significant turn for the Democratic party, which had seen support erode from major donors after Mr Biden’s poor performance in June’s presidential debate against Donald Trump.

Grassroots funding from small donors had also diminished, according to Biden campaign insiders cited in US media.

But soon after Mr Biden’s announcement to drop out of the race and his endorsement of Ms Harris’ bid for the White House, Democrats went online to contribute at a startling pace.

Win With Black Women, a group of black women leaders, held a Zoom call with more than 44,000 participants on Sunday night to throw their support behind the vice-president.

Donald Trump spent part of his Monday attacking President Joe Biden, Vice President and likely Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and the media.

The former president fired off a series of messages from shortly before midnight until a little bit after, including one where he attacked Harris for having “absolutely terrible pole numbers against a fine and brilliant young man named DONALD J. TRUMP!”

The “young man” named Trump is 78, making him nearly 19 years older than Harris. With Biden leaving the race before accepting the nomination, Trump is the oldest presidential candidate from a major party in U.S. history.

It’s also likely the former president meant poll numbers rather than “pole numbers.”

Trump has been workshopping attacks on Harris, but seems to be running out of ideas. He has previously called her “Laffin’ Kamala,” but since that hasn’t picked up any traction is now experimenting with “Lyin’” instead.

Just one problem: “Lyin’” ― with the apostrophe instead of the “g” ― was also his nickname for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) during the 2016 primaries. Trump at that time also attacked Cruz’s wife and father. Cruz responded by turning into one of Trump’s most devoted supporters.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-pole-numbers_n_669f5c65e4b030a2640ad14e

Straight white male conservative incel who played violent video games and obsessed over Star Wars and guns was acting out a fantasy when he shot an insurrectionist convicted-criminal cult leader and a Putin simp last Sunday

Trump shooter Thomas Crooks was likely 'acting out a fantasy': Extremism expert
“Crooks could easily have become a mass killer – the Secret Service snipers prevented that," says Jytte Klausen
Christina Coulter By Christina Coulter Fox News
Published July 22, 2024 6:00am EDT

https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-shooter-thomas-crooks-likely-acting-out-fantasy-extremism-expert

BETHEL PARK, Pa. – An expert in extremism and terrorism said that Thomas Matthew Crooks' assassination attempt on former President Trump was likely not politically motivated – instead, the 20-year-old was likely "acting out a fantasy," and seeking a target that would bring him "attention and fame."


Jytte Klausen, a political science professor at Brandeis University, has studied terrorist networks and violent extremism for two decades, putting together a methodology for forensic biographies of perpetrators and radicalization trajectories.

She is currently writing a book called "How to Become a Terrorist" that dives into incels, homegrown Islamists, neo-Nazis and other groups.

"He wanted to become somebody – he wanted to make a mark," Klausen posited about Crooks, who unleashed the attack on Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. "He appears not to have been particularly politically motivated, I think, based on what we know about his search history… there's no sense he wanted to effect the election."

Researchers have long suggested that sea life could be impacted by drugs dumped into the water by smugglers, with tonnes of cocaine found around Florida, South and Central America.

A study from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil has now found evidence sharks are in fact being affected by drugs polluting the ocean.

The scientists dissected 13 wild Brazilian sharpnose sharks that were bought from small fishing vessels, as the species spend their entire lives in coastal waters and were therefore most likely to be affected by pollution.

Muscle and liver tissue were then tested using a standard technique called liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry - where molecules are separated in a liquid - to look for cocaine and benzoylecgonine, the main metabolite in the drug.

All 13 sharks were positive for the drug, with a concentration as much as 100 times higher than previously reported for other aquatic creatures, the scientists found.

It marks the first study to find the presence of cocaine in free-range sharks, and found the substance was more prevalent in muscle tissue than in the shark's livers.

However, the study said the field of research was "very limited" and the impact of cocaine or benzoylecgonine on aquatic life is not fully known.

https://news.sky.com/story/sharks-off-brazil-coast-test-positive-for-cocaine-13183543

Attorneys for Hunter Biden dropped a lawsuit accusing Fox News and its parent company of targeting him with "revenge porn," according to court documents filed late Sunday.

A person familiar with Hunter Biden's legal strategy told ABC News that they dropped the suit with the intention of refiling it against new defendants.

The suit was filed three weeks ago over Fox News' production of a fictional miniseries that attorneys for Hunter Biden called "an effort to harass, annoy, alarm, and humiliate him, and tarnish his reputation."

The miniseries, called "The Trial of Hunter Biden," is described by Fox as a mock trial that seeks to show "how a possible Hunter Biden trial might look," and includes several sexually graphic images of Hunter Biden.

When the litigation was filed, Fox News called it an "entirely politically motivated lawsuit is devoid of merit."

The suit was voluntarily withdrawn Sunday within hours of President Biden's announcement that he was withdrawing from the 2024 presidential election.

Hunter Biden's legal team did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News.

The president's son was found guilty last month on three counts related to his 2018 purchase of a firearm while allegedly addicted to drugs. He faces a separate trial on tax charges in September.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/hunter-biden-drops-revenge-porn-lawsuit-fox-news/story?id=112155198

Why is it taking a month before this democRAT resigns?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna163285

they also apologize for their marketing depicting an average day in san francisco. # stop asian hate
https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/23/ubisoft-apologies-assassins-creed-shadows-doesnt-say-21281545/