With worries over foreign election interference, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) says it’s essential to have backup paper ballots in November. She tells Lawrence O’Donnell there is an opportunity in “real time” to protect the integrity of the election by including funding for paper ballots in the next version of the HEROES Act. Aired on 7/21/2020.
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Sen. Klobuchar: Paper Ballots, Election Funding Essential To Fight Foreign Interference | MSNBC
We are repeating ourselves and doing the same thing over and over. INSANITY!
keef davis yeah, why the obsession?
Trump’s entire presidency has been nothing more than a 4 year long smash & grab crime spree for him and his failing businesses.
Woody Johnson is a wealthy NFL owner, and a big money donor to Trump’s campaign. And that’s why Trump made him the US Ambassador to Britain, even though he has less than zero diplomatic experience. Well Woody was warned not to get involved in trying to move the British Open tournament to Trump’s resort in Scotland, but he raised the idea anyway, and he failed, spectacularly
The American ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson told multiple colleagues in Feb 2018, that Trump had asked him to see if the British government could help steer the lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to three people with knowledge of the episode.
The ambassador’s deputy, Lewis A. Lukens, advised him not to do it, warning that it would be an unethical use of the presidency for private gain. But Johnson was apparently under pressure from Trump to try. A few weeks later, he raised the idea of Turnberry playing host to the Open with the sec of state for Scotland, David Mundell.
The episode left Mr. Lukens and other diplomats deeply unsettled. Mr. Lukens, who served as the acting ambassador before Johnson arrived in Nov 2017, emailed officials at the State Department to tell them what had happened, colleagues said. A few months later, Johnson forced out Mr. Lukens, a career diplomat who had earlier served as ambassador to Senegal, shortly before his term was to end.
Trump’s Turnberry golf resort drew attention when the Pentagon acknowledged it had been sending US troops to the resort on the taxpayer dime, while they were on overnight layovers at the nearby Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
Emoluments Clauses, prohibits a president from receiving any profit, gain, or advantage from any foreign or domestic government. Impeachment, as outlined by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 65, is a political remedy for a president’s egregious violations of these prohibitions.
The Framers of the Constitution were very aware of the dangers from foreign influence on any president. This is why they created rules to prevent foreign governments from purchasing undue influence on a sitting President. Essentially buying a sitting President, which is basically what Putin and Saudi Arabia have done withTrump.
The rule prohibits anyone holding any “Office of Profit or Trust under the United States” from receiving any “emolument” from foreign powers. An emolument, for purposes of the Constitution, according to two courts, is any “PROFIT, GAIN, or ADVANTAGE. This rule is what has become known as the Foreign Emoluments Clause, and is located at Article I, Section 9, Clause 8.
FUN FACT: The emoluments clauses are our country’s original anti-corruption laws. They are written into the very document that created our government and defined our system of laws.
Trump has been violating the Constitution since he was sworn in at noon on January 20, 2017. His decision prior to his inauguration to keep ownership and control of his businesses —a move that went against both long-standing historical practice and the advice of career government ethics officials—put him at odds with the Constitution’s original anti-corruption provisions the moment he was sworn in.
Yup! And within that first week he dismantled the ethics oversight committee. Shady af! I really hope he is held accountable to his many crimes.
Trump has violated the emoluments clause in so many ways. Trump has to go to prison for at least a couple of years, or what he has done WILL become a normal.
Make no mistake, Putin is America’s enemy, and not because we want him to be, he’s America’s enemy because that’s what he has chosen to be. Trump is a Russian asset, and not because that’s what we want him to be, he’s a Russian asset because that’s what he has chosen to be. We should treat them both accordingly with the choices that they have made..
Semper Fi..
David J obsess much?
Vote by Mail!!!!! If this bill fails then Putin has gotten to the Republican Congress.
tom t Red wave baby
Moscow Mitch says “Nyet” 🤪. And he was paid many Rubles to say so.
Lloyd Acton obsess much?
Trump isn’t just on the wrong side of history, he’s on the wrong side of sanity.
Ann van de Kew obsess much?
Trump 2020!
putin is a hardcore KGB agent,when he heard of trump he could only laugh how an easy mark ,in 3 1/2 yrs he caused chaos an distrust in GOV., MEDIA,HEALTH,JUSTICE SYS., AND OUR ALLIES,something russia couldn’t
Priority Number One: Get rid of Trump. Everything else we can fix afterwards. If he stays, America is through!
facite non victimarum obsess much?
@YouRuse is A leftist org Troll much?
BIDEN 2020 👍
Republicans want voter suppression. They disguise it as “concern about fraud.” The fraud will be the help Trump gets from Russia.
Jeff Randall obsess much?
@YouRuse is A leftist org bot much?
Trump got in trouble with Russia with money back in the 80’s due to the US banks not giving him anymore money due to banktrumpsy to bad so sad. You think the rest of America has not had hardship over recessions every 10 years. Just saying
YES! Vote early if you have the chance. The hardest push to block voting will be on November 3rd. Be prepared, help people get to polls if you have to. And that means everyone. Keep our citizens safe and our Democracy safer!!
Rest in power Michael Jamal Brooks!!! The work continues. Organize. Focus. Be intentional. WORK TOWARDS TANGIABLE BENEFITS. DEMAND MORE FROM LEADERS, SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONS. left is best!!! Also buy his book!!!
Dems are not cheating, says them, but the Russians are, says them.
Read it slowly.
I’d like to know why TRUMP has his head do far up Putin’s☯️
J M obsess much?
Putin owns and tRump owe$$$…Deutschbank Russian laundromat helped duh Donald and we’re all paying
@for paws laundering money though that German bank since two thousand and four. Mostly from Russian oligarchs. CAREER CRIMINAL.
@YouRuse is A leftist org won’t be much longer TROLL.
tldr. criminal president is criminal. c r i m i n a l. criminal.
no exoneration.
Thank you, Senator Amy Klobuchar for watching our backs. This is a time like no other the stakes could not be higher. All hands on deck. 🌊🇺🇸
Free and Fair elections are the last line of defence of Democracy against Dictatorship and Authoritarian Regimes, as exists in Russia and China – two Police States. Because of the almost unbridled powers vested in the president, controlling the president is the equivalent to controlling the Nation. Trump has claimed for himself, without authority , the title of Chief Law Enforcement Officer, meaning that he is above the Law with authority to pardon anyone who in his SOLE judgement has been treated unfairly by the Legal Process.
Safe guarding the integrity of the Ballot Box so that the election results reflects the Will of the People, should be the # 1 priority of the nation, even ahead of the Corona Virus. Law makers in Congress will rue the day if they fail to take Amy K’s warning seriously, if on election day they find out that Putin has stolen the 2020 Election and re-elected his Stooge Trump for 4 more years. Then it would be too late to do anything. Western Intelligence is no match for Putin’s Hackers and Cyber Criminals who are KGB / URL Agents, without their uniforms, masquerading as Free lance operators, so as to provide Putin with the right of Denial for their Grave and consequential actions..
when you know that the election of the leader of the free world is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, going to be rigged and your country is powerless to stop it. Isn’t this what the second ammendment is for? this country is a f’n mess
0:12 Did she say “kowkow”? 🤔