{"id":104822,"date":"2020-09-08T14:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T18:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104822"},"modified":"2020-09-08T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T18:10:28","slug":"daily-politics-trump-hires-obama-look-alike-to-fire-pelosi-faces-backlash-for-pandering-on-labor-day-racist-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104822","title":{"rendered":"Daily Politics: Trump hires Obama look-alike to fire, Pelosi faces backlash for pandering on Labor Day, Racist biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/news\/2020\/09\/06\/TELEMMGLPICT000238705814_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqsLy2B9LJZVJ1cSFalvkZVtWdfv-lqwEO16rP7HcnaE8.jpeg?imwidth=1280\" width=\"432\" height=\"270\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fauxbama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to put today&#8217;s political posts in one spot. That way it&#8217;s easier to ignore if you&#8217;re getting like me and just can&#8217;t wait for November 4 to roll around.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"e-headline u-heading-1  \" data-test=\"headline\">Donald Trump &#8216;hired an Obama look-alike so he could fire him on camera&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Jeff LPH 3 sends in this<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/09\/06\/donald-trump-hired-obama-look-alike-could-fire-camera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Telegraph article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Trump so hated Barack Obama that he hired a look-alike to sit in his office so he could &#8220;fire&#8221; him, according to claims in a new book from the president&#8217;s former lawyer, Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>Disloyal<\/em>, out on Tuesday, Mr Cohen alleges\u00a0that his old boss was\u00a0\u201ca cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>High praise from a convicted tax cheat, campaign finance violator, and one of the rare few people to be convicted of lying to Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lawyer, 54, is\u00a0currently under house arrest, having been freed from prison early during the coronavirus pandemic. He was sentenced to three years in December 2018 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations &#8211; crimes he alleged were a result of covering up for Mr Trump&#8217;s &#8220;dirty deeds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a photo included in the book, Mr Trump is seen seated at his desk across from the alleged &#8220;Faux-Bama&#8221;, wearing a suit with an American flag pin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of all the salacious stories about the president, many of them outright lies, I can actually believe this one.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"headline\">Pelosi\u2019s Labor Day tweet paying homage to \u2018hard-working families\u2019 gets panned amid salon fallout<\/h3>\n<p>ninja sends this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pelosis-labor-day-tweet-paying-homage-to-hard-working-families-gets-panned-amid-salon-fallout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News report.<\/a>\u00a0Nancy ventured out of her ivory tower to pander on Labor Day.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable\">House Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi, who was\u00a0accused by critics last week of using her platform to damage\u00a0a local\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hair-salon-owner-thanks-supporters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hair salon owner<\/a>\u00a0in San Francisco, was called out on Monday over a tweet she posted celebrating the \u201chard-working families\u201d across the U.S. on Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver generations, working people across America built the middle class and secured progress for hard-working families,\u201d Pelosi wrote. \u201cHouse Democrats are unified in our commitment to America\u2019s working families. Happy #LaborDay!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tweet didn&#8217;t sit well with some commenters who pointed to her recent visit to a hair salon. Security footage obtained by Fox News, time-stamped last Monday at 3:08 p.m., showed the speaker walking through ESalonSF with wet hair\u00a0and without a mask.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<h3 id=\"link-4f5a6cbe\" class=\"css-rsa88z e1h9rw200\" data-test-id=\"headline\">The Battle Over Biscuits and Gravy at the 11-Worth Cafe<\/h3>\n<p>The KoB, Gun Bunny, all too often winner of the coveted Weekend Open Thread First! sends us this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/05\/us\/politics\/omaha-cafe-confederate-protests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NYT article<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In \u201clevelheaded\u201d Omaha, a protester was killed and, in the aftermath, people demanding an end to racial injustice set their sights on police budgets \u2014 and a diner with Robert E. Lee on the menu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No joke. The NYT continues their unbiased reporting since the &#8220;protester&#8221; was violently attacking a business owner and ignored his warning shots. The outrage mob then set their sights on a local breakfast institution after one of their cooks (also the owner&#8217;s son) made some unwise social media posts. They discovered this restaurant has\u00a0<em>*gasp*<\/em> Robert E. Lee Biscuits and Gravy on the menu\u00a0<em>*clutches pearls*.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to put today&#8217;s political posts in one spot. That way it&#8217;s easier to ignore &hellip; <a title=\"Daily Politics: Trump hires Obama look-alike to fire, Pelosi faces backlash for pandering on Labor Day, Racist biscuits\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104822\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily Politics: Trump hires Obama look-alike to fire, Pelosi faces backlash for pandering on Labor Day, Racist biscuits<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,430,576,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-2020-election","category-blm","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104823,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104822\/revisions\/104823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}