Donald Trump swindled his father's estate for several hundred million dollars and turned himself into a phony billionaire. We now know it was all a con.

The Trump administration, according to today's New York Times, was leaning on the CDC to provide any kind of evidence, no matter how thin or meaningless, that could be used to justify opening schools. We now know that was all a con.

Two hundred thousand Americans are dead and 7 million now have a pre-existing condition because Donald Trump didn't want to take the time and trouble to seriously challenge the coronavirus. He insisted everything would be wonderful and "like a miracle" it would disappear. It was all a con.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Donald Trump, facing financial ruin, sought control of his elderly father's estate. The family fight was epic." by Michael Kranish.

Article: "Read the Presentation the White House Sent to the C.D.C. on Reopening Schools".

Article: "Trump Knew Virus Was Deadly as He Misled Americans" by Taegan Goddard.

Article: "'Blood, toil, tears and sweat' versus 'like a miracle - it will disappear'" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Scientists and officials say climate change causes wildfires; Trump says 'forest management' is to blame" by David Jackson.

Article: "Trump trade wars have led to lost US jobs and factories. We need a worker-centered recovery." by John Cavanagh.

Article: "The President's Taxes: Long-concealed Records Show Trump's Chronic Losses And Years Of Tax Avoidance" by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire.

Article: "Donald Trump Claims That He's Worth $10 Billion" by Carrie Dann.

Article: "Supreme Court to hear challenge to Obamacare on Nov. 10, a week after Election Day" by Tucker Higgins.

Article: "Trump's dubious claims on health care, court" by Hope Yen, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Josh Boak.

Article: "Trump Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Class In 2018" by Camilo Maldonado.

Article: "Trump's millions from Turkey and the Philippines are corrupt" by Timothy P. Carney.

Article: "The Kurds Have Paid Dearly for Trump's Recklessness" by Eli Lake.

Article: "Trump's own FBI director throws cold water on president's claims of voter fraud" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Trump disputes health officials, sees mass vaccinations soon" by AP.

Article: "Talk About 'The Appearance of Corruption'" by Charles P. Pierce.

Article: "Jared Kushner's Real-estate Firm Sought Money Directly From Qatar Government Weeks Before Blockade" by Clayton Swisher, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Drain the swamp? Trump has named more lobbyists to Cabinet than Bush or Obama did in 8 years" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Judicial Crisis Network" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Judicial Crisis Network launches $3 million ad campaign for Barrett" by Marianne Levine.

Article: "Trump Taps Amy Coney Barrett - Memo Lays Out Tactics For Opposition" by Ryan Grim.

Article: "Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters" by McKay Coppins.

Article: "United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mens rea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump backs sentencing reform bill he says will give ex-inmates 'a second chance at life'" by Samuel Chamberlain.

Article: "Biden and Trump Face Off: How to Watch the First Presidential Debate and What to Watch For" by Adam Carlson.

Article: "Trump involved in 3,500 lawsuits: report" by Jesse Byrnes.

Article: "Trump University" by Wikipedia.

Article: "History of the Supreme Court of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "This Is How FDR Tried to Pack the Supreme Court" by Lesley Kennedy.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States... To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"

Article: "Susan Sarandon: Trump more likely to bring 'revolution' than Clinton" by Tal Kopan.

Article: "Nancy Pelosi still doesn't think Biden should debate Trump" by Emily Jacobs.

Article: "'My Job is to Be as Invisible as Possible': A Look Inside the Preparations of Fox's Chris Wallace Ahead of Tuesday's Debate" by Joe DePaolo.

Video: Reagan 1980 Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Article: "Head of Pro-Trump Super PAC Says Brad Parscale Spent Campaign Cash 'Like a Drunken Sailor'" by Brendan Cole.

Article: "Donald Trump's Tab For MAGA Rallies Jumps to $1.8 Million as 14 Cities Say President Hasn't Paid Police Bills, Report Finds" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Article: "Video shows workers removed social distancing signs before Trump Tulsa rally: WaPo" by Marina Pitofsky.

Article: "Tickets for Trump campaign rally include liability disclaimer about possible exposure to coronavirus" by Michael Collins, David Jackson.

Article: "Three Weeks After Trump's Tulsa Rally, Oklahoma Reports Record High COVID-19 Numbers" by Madeleine Carlisle.

Article: "The Who concert disaster" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Can it happen here? Is it happening here? The "F" word-fascism.
- Professor Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University / Author of 4 books, including most recently, How Fascism Works: The Politics Of Us And Them

Event: Wed, Sept 30, 7-9pm EDT: "How Fascism Works, and How to Stop It: A Dialogue with Andy Zee and Jason Stanley".

Article: "Adolf Hitler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Augusto Pinochet" (Chile) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ku Klux Klan" (KKK) by Wikipedia.

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014

Article: "Citizens United V. Federal Election Comm'n ( No. 08-205 ) - Dissent" by Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, and Justice Sotomayor join, concurring in part and dissenting in part.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution"

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Why Trump's expected Supreme Court nominee believes all Civil Rights legislation is 'illegitimate'" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Report: Trump Called U.S. WWI Veterans 'Suckers' And 'Losers'" by Matt Perez.

Article: "Trump brags about not paying taxes: 'That makes me smart'" by Dan Mangan.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden campaign quickly capitalizes on Trump taxes report with T-shirts, buttons and stickers" by Paul Steinhauser, Andrew O'Reilly.

Video: Vice Presidential Debate 2012: Joe Biden, Paul Ryan Best Moments.

Article: "Federalist 81: The Judiciary Continued, and the Distribution of the Judicial Authority" by Alexander Hamilton.

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review)

Article: "Federalist 44: Restrictions on the Authority of the Several States" by James Madison.

Article: "How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be" by Robert M. Poole.

Article: "Trump Announces 'Patriotic Education' Commission, A Largely Political Move" by Alana Wise.

Quote: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell.

Article: "Navajo Nation, Patagonia file lawsuits after Trump shrinks National Monuments" by Jenna Mulligan.

Article: "Democrats Need a Plan. Fast." by Adam Jentleson.

Article: "Pelosi says Democrats will 'use every arrow in our quiver' to block Trump's Supreme Court nominee" by John Parkinson.

Article: "Proud Boys rally in Portland, Oregon, draws smaller crowd than authorities feared" by Jason Wilson.

Article: "Three U.S. Navy Flattops Sail Toward China As War Of Words Escalates" by David Axe.

Hour Three: Wisconsin "Movers" Voter Purge List Errors
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters.

Article: "Wisconsin justices weigh removal of 130K from voter rolls" by Scott Bauer.

Article: "Wisconsin "Movers" Voter Purge List Errors" by By Greg Palast and the Palast Investigative Fund.

Article: "Wisconsin "Movers" Voter Purge List Errors" by Dr. Noami Wolf.

Article: "Wisconsin "Movers" Didn't Move" by Greg Palast.

Video: Wisconsin Vote Purge: Wrong and Racist.

Site: Black Voters Matter.

Site: Save My Vote 2020.

Article: "Democrat Mark Kelly says winner of Arizona special Senate election should be 'promptly seated'" by Quinn Scanlan and Meg Cunningham.

Site: Mark Kelly for Senate.

Article: "Poll shows Warnock leading in Georgia special Senate election" by Zack Budryk.

Site: Reverend Warnock for U.S. Senate.

Article: "VoteRiders" by Wikipedia.

Site: Indivisible

Article: "The Trump Family's Immigrant Story" by Natasha Frost.

Article: "New York Times Report Alleges Ivanka Trump Received Huge Consulting Fees From Dad's Company" by Cullen Paradis.

Article: "Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons' Significant Others" by S.V. Date.

Article: "Buried in Trump's taxes, what's going on at his golf resorts makes no sense ... unless it's a lie" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "How deep does the Russia collusion go? To McConnell?" (aluminum factory) by Joan McCarter.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Exclusive: U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak" by Marisa Taylor.

Tweet: "We literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored And an office called the Pandemic Preparedness Office... that they abolished.
And a global monitoring system called PREDICT .. that they cut by 75%" by Ronald Klain.

Article: "Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2" (SARS-CoV-2) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus disease 2019" (COVID-19) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's IRS Chief Has Made Hundreds Of Thousands From Trump Properties While In Office" by Jordan Libowitz.

Article: "Election Day Registration" by Wisconsin Elections Commission.

Article: "President Trump's checks repaying Michael Cohen for hush money, explained" by Emily Stewart.

Article: "Michael Cohen, former Trump attorney, gets 3 years in prison for tax fraud, campaign finance violations, lying" by Alex Pappas.

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