Apr 30, 2024 04:58 PM
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A ‘veep of faith’? Trump’s running mate could be one of these Catholics
https://www.ncregister.com/news/veep-of-...e-catholic
EXCERPT: Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are widely considered to be on Trump’s vice-presidential shortlist, joining the ranks of non-Catholic front-runners like South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Another possible Catholic VP, according to both political pundits and odds-makers, is Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas.
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Mar-A-Lago prayer event labels Trump voters' 'only Catholic option'
https://thecatholicobserver.substack.com...ago-prayer
EXCERPT: The "Catholic Prayer for Trump" event at the former president's residence in Palm Beach, Florida, presented a bleak portrait of life in the United States...
[...] Standing firm against those "enemies at the gates," as one speaker described it, is former President Donald Trump, who was presented as "the only Catholic option" for voters this election year and the one presidential candidate who can begin to "restore" the United States and defeat "atheistic communism."
"President Trump is our protection against that. We need to get behind him," John Yep, the president of Catholics for Catholics, said at the event. The Arizona-based nonprofit organized the $1,000-a-ticket black-tie event at Mar-a-Lago... (MORE - missing details)
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"Surest sign" yet that Trump wants to run the US like the mafia (Sicilian Catholic style)
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/surest-sign-...ia-3032361
INTRO: Donald Trump intends to make government a family affair, as if he did not do enough of that in his first term. This week, it was reported that if Trump should win again, his sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr, will take a formal role in his administration.
Neither served during Trump’s first term, but it’s the particular role that they have in mind that stands out.
It has been said that Eric and Don Jr will serve on their father’s “transition team”, which in the months between the election and inauguration prepares the new administration, and weed out anyone they deem “disloyal”. The Trumps intend to scour thousands of people who would serve in a second Trump administration to test their personal affiliation – they do not wish the top officials of the new government to be loyal to America, but rather to Donald Trump himself.
Even more alarming are the stated reasons for this – Trump and those now around him are still furious at the people in his cabinet and his senior White House roles that wouldn’t simply obey his orders when he was president, even when they were illegal. Through that term there was a litany of such incidents: refusals to prosecute his opponents or steal the election, or to enact illegal executive orders.
The Trumps want to make sure nothing like the rule of law stops them doing what they want should they get a second time around.
There is, of course, a term for an enterprise that values loyalty above all else, expects its associates to act outside the law, and which operates as a family affair: it is usually referred to as a mafia. If it was ever in doubt that Donald Trump intended to make the US a mafia state, that moment has long since passed... (MORE - details)
https://www.ncregister.com/news/veep-of-...e-catholic
EXCERPT: Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are widely considered to be on Trump’s vice-presidential shortlist, joining the ranks of non-Catholic front-runners like South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Another possible Catholic VP, according to both political pundits and odds-makers, is Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas.
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Mar-A-Lago prayer event labels Trump voters' 'only Catholic option'
https://thecatholicobserver.substack.com...ago-prayer
EXCERPT: The "Catholic Prayer for Trump" event at the former president's residence in Palm Beach, Florida, presented a bleak portrait of life in the United States...
[...] Standing firm against those "enemies at the gates," as one speaker described it, is former President Donald Trump, who was presented as "the only Catholic option" for voters this election year and the one presidential candidate who can begin to "restore" the United States and defeat "atheistic communism."
"President Trump is our protection against that. We need to get behind him," John Yep, the president of Catholics for Catholics, said at the event. The Arizona-based nonprofit organized the $1,000-a-ticket black-tie event at Mar-a-Lago... (MORE - missing details)
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"Surest sign" yet that Trump wants to run the US like the mafia (Sicilian Catholic style)
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/surest-sign-...ia-3032361
INTRO: Donald Trump intends to make government a family affair, as if he did not do enough of that in his first term. This week, it was reported that if Trump should win again, his sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr, will take a formal role in his administration.
Neither served during Trump’s first term, but it’s the particular role that they have in mind that stands out.
It has been said that Eric and Don Jr will serve on their father’s “transition team”, which in the months between the election and inauguration prepares the new administration, and weed out anyone they deem “disloyal”. The Trumps intend to scour thousands of people who would serve in a second Trump administration to test their personal affiliation – they do not wish the top officials of the new government to be loyal to America, but rather to Donald Trump himself.
Even more alarming are the stated reasons for this – Trump and those now around him are still furious at the people in his cabinet and his senior White House roles that wouldn’t simply obey his orders when he was president, even when they were illegal. Through that term there was a litany of such incidents: refusals to prosecute his opponents or steal the election, or to enact illegal executive orders.
The Trumps want to make sure nothing like the rule of law stops them doing what they want should they get a second time around.
There is, of course, a term for an enterprise that values loyalty above all else, expects its associates to act outside the law, and which operates as a family affair: it is usually referred to as a mafia. If it was ever in doubt that Donald Trump intended to make the US a mafia state, that moment has long since passed... (MORE - details)
