Hit piece - Aus MSM

‘Visible disgust’: Bombshell book exposes Donald Trump’s creepy Ivanka comments

An explosive new book claims former US president Donald Trump made a series of inappropriate comments about his own teenage daughter.

Donald Trump made lewd remarks about his daughter Ivanka’s appearance and wondered “what it might be like to have sex with her”, a new book about life inside his White House administration reveals.

Former chief of staff of Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Miles Taylor makes the claim in his soon-to-be-released book Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump.

Taylor describes what he calls “naked sexism” towards female advisors and staff members. And he says one of Trump’s many chiefs-of-staff, John Kelly, felt compelled to intervene during a ribald rant.

“Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” Taylor writes.

“Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was ‘a very, very evil man’.”

Trump was famously caught on tape in 2005 claiming that he could grab women “by the p***y”, stating that “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything”.

It is not the first time Trump has been accused of focusing on the sexuality of his daughter.

A photo taken in 1996 with his then 15-year-old daughter showed the apparently braless Ivanka sitting on his lap with a statue of two parrots appearing to engage in intercourse in the foreground.

A year later, as the 16-year-old Ivanka hosted the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, he reportedly told the then Miss Universe: “Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?”

n a 2006 talk show appearance, he said: “She does have a very nice figure. If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her. Isn’t that terrible? How terrible? Is that terrible?”

At about the same time, he told radio host Howard Stern, “She’s actually always been very voluptuous”. He added it was okay to call her a “piece of ass”.

In 2015, he told Rolling Stone that Ivanka was “a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father …”

The book’s release comes shortly after a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing — but not raping — journalist Jean Carroll.

Carroll said Trump attacked her in a store changing room in the 1990s. Trump has vehemently denied the allegation but Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages.

Trump is appealing and suing her for defamation over comments she made during an interview with CNN.

Several former staff members have since spoken out against his treatment of women while president.

“There still are quite a few female leaders from the Trump administration who have held their tongues about the unequal treatment they faced in the administration at best, and the absolute naked sexism they experienced with the hands of Donald Trump at worst,” Taylor told Newsweek.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/visible-disgust-bombshell-book-exposes-donald-trumps-creepy-ivanka-comments/news-story/17f7c96adbba0b8135a59ecf1327edf8

BIS: CBDC Roll-Outs May Require Changing The Constitution

The IMF is warning that with all these CBDCs about to launch, there need to be global inter-operability standards between them all, and they’re working on a global platform to facilitate just that.

Speaking at a conference of African central banks in Rabat, Morocco, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that there needs to be agreement among CBDC implementations,

“on a common regulatory framework for digital currencies that will allow global interoperability. Failure to agree on a common platform would create a vacuum that would likely be filled by cryptocurrencies”

Not to be outdone, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) worked with seven central banks to publish YARP (Yet Another Research Paper) on CBDC policy, entitled “Central Bank Digital Currencies: ongoing policy perspectives”… (yawn).

The central banks involved were: Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, England, the United States, Canada, and the European Union.

The paper is mostly a snoozer:

“Development of CBDC work requires careful consideration and engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, including the private sector and legislators”…

“To successfully meet its public policy objectives, a CBDC ecosystem should allow a wide range of private and public stakeholders to participate and, in doing so, deliver services which benefit end users.”…

“The complex design questions and the potential risks arising from the implementation of any CBDC require careful consideration.”

Until you get to the rather innocuous sounding Annexes, like “Box 2: Legal Considerations”.

This is where it starts to get interesting.

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/bis-cbdc-roll-outs-may-require-changing-constitution

Report: Allegations Emerge of U.S. Officials Meeting with ‘Missing’ Biden Corruption Witness

Allegations emerged Thursday of U.S. law enforcement officials setting a meeting with a “missing” Biden family whistleblower, Dr. Gal Luft, who claims authorities arrested him in Cyprus to prevent his cooperation with House Oversight Committee chair James Comer’s (R-KY) probe into the Biden family.

Comer wanted to interview Luft as a “potential witness” before he went into hiding after his arrest in February. Authorities charged Luft with conspiring to sell Chinese weapons to the UAE, Kenya, and Libya, violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and making a false statement.

Luft claims he skipped bail in Cyprus in April while awaiting extradition: “I did not believe I will receive a fair trial in a New York court,” he said.

As a fugitive, Luft alleges his testimony to the committee would show the Biden family received money from CEFC China Energy Co, an entity linked to the CCP. He also claims the Bidens had a mole inside the FBI who shared information to the benefit of the family business.

Luft, who claims he is a fall guy, said he gave the incriminating evidence of Biden family wrongdoing to the FBI and the DOJ in Brussels at a March 2019 secret meeting. But U.S. authorities covered up the meeting, he alleged.

On Thursday, allegations surfaced via a document from Miranda Devine that supports the alleged meeting occurred. The reported document represents the first alleged proof of his claims:

Luft said six U.S. authorities attended the Brussels meeting, including four FBI agents and two prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, named Daniel Richenthal and Catherine Ghosh.

“Why did the government dispatch to Europe so many people?” Luft asked in a video released Wednesday in the New York Post.

“They knew very well I’m a credible witness and I have insider knowledge about the group and individuals that enriched the Biden family,” he said.

“Over an intensive two-day meeting, I shared my information about the Biden family’s financial transactions with CEFC, including specific dollar figures,” he added. “I also provided the name of Rob Walker, who later became known as Hunter Biden’s bagman.”

Walker is an infamous character involved in the Biden business. Suspicious activity reports obtained by Comer’s committee revealed Rob Walker received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC in 2017. In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer.

Walker was also cc’d on a 2017 email chain between Hunter and two of his former business partners, Tony Bobulinski and James Gilliar, about ten percent “held by H for the big guy.”

According to an IRS whistleblower’s testimony, U.S. officials prevented prosecutors from questioning Walker about the email.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/08/allegations-emerge-u-s-officials-meeting-missing-biden-corruption-witness/

Acting Labor Sec’y: Rate Hikes Are Hurting a Lot of People, People ‘Continue to Feel’ ‘Pain’

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” acting Labor Secretary Julie Su acknowledged that the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates to tame inflation is hurting many people and stated that “We should acknowledge some of the pain that Americans continue to feel.”

Host Ana Cabrera asked, “Markets are reacting to today’s news, still down slightly this morning. Wall Street expects another interest rate hike…mortgage rates are already way up. Credit card rates are up. This is hurting a lot of Americans. What’s the answer?”

Su responded, “I think that’s right. We should acknowledge some of the pain that Americans continue to feel. Remember, just three years ago, we were deep in a pandemic, and the economic catastrophe that associated — that came with it. I think part of the answer, though, is to continue to do what the President said. Let’s finish this job. Let’s continue to create good jobs in communities all across the country, let’s create pathways so people who have been left out of the labor market before can get those good jobs, and let’s continue to focus on bringing down inflation, bringing down costs of living so that Americans can feel this in their homes, at the grocery stores, and at the kitchen table.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/07/08/acting-labor-secy-rate-hikes-are-hurting-a-lot-of-people-people-continue-to-feel-pain/

Mockery

Parts of central Virginia lose power due to thunderstorms

A flash flood warning was issued until 3:15 p.m. as a result.

Over 7,000 Dominion Energy customers in multiple areas of central Virginia have had their power knocked out due to thunderstorms on Saturday.

A large amount of the outages reported are in either Richmond, Henrico or Hanover, according to 6News.

Dominion Energy shows that just before 3:00 p.m., power was out to more than 4,300 homes in Henrico, more than 1,200 in Hanover, and more than 900 in Richmond.

A flash flood warning was issued until 3:15 p.m. as a result.

One to three inches of rain were predicted, as well as potential flash flooding.

https://justthenews.com/government/local/central-virginia-loses-power-due-thunderstorms