From c5126937e7f43abbf6673925d4cdb097100a9289 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralph Hightower <32745442+RalphHightower@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:49:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [blog](blog): 2024-12-11 blogs --- ...24-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters.md | 2 +- _posts/2024/12/2024-12-11-TrumpMerkel45.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++ _posts/2024/12/2024-12-11-TrumpVsJan6Facts.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 _posts/2024/12/2024-12-11-TrumpMerkel45.md create mode 100644 _posts/2024/12/2024-12-11-TrumpVsJan6Facts.md diff --git a/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters.md b/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters.md index 26ebfdf7..da3aa7c0 100644 --- a/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters.md +++ b/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ layout: post tags: [grift, fraud, privatization, overbilling, Medicare Advantage, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMJS), UnitedHealthcare, politics] categories: [Donald Trump] date: 2024-12-10 4:18 PM -excerpt: "“In the wake of that nomination, we write regarding our concerns about your advocacy for the elimination of Traditional Medicare and your deep financial ties to private health insurers. Indeed, private insurers that run the Medicare Advantage program drastically overcharge for care. Your advocacy for eliminating the Traditional Medicare program and replacing it with Medicare Advantage also raises questions about your own financial conflicts of interest. In your financial disclosures from your 2022 Senate run, you reported owning over $550,000 of stock in UnitedHealth, the largest private insurer in Medicare Advantage and largest employer of physicians in the nation. The company is currently under a sprawling antitrust investigation by the Department of Justice — including for its role in aggressively upcoding Medicare Advantage enrollees to secure higher payments from CMS — and has been sued on multiple occasions for Medicare fraud. Under your plan, UnitedHealth’s revenue from Medicare Advantage would roughly double to $274 billion annually.” – letter to Dr. Oz written by Democratic senators of the Finance Committee" +excerpt: "“In the wake of that nomination, we write regarding our concerns about your advocacy for the elimination of Traditional Medicare and your deep financial ties to private health insurers. Indeed, private insurers that run the Medicare Advantage program drastically overcharge for care[^11]. Your advocacy for eliminating the Traditional Medicare program and replacing it with Medicare Advantage also raises questions about your own financial conflicts of interest. In your financial disclosures from your 2022 Senate run, you reported owning over \$550,000 of stock in UnitedHealth, the largest private insurer in Medicare Advantage and largest employer of physicians in the nation. The company is currently under a sprawling antitrust investigation by the Department of Justice — including for its role in aggressively upcoding Medicare Advantage enrollees to secure higher payments from CMS — and has been sued on multiple occasions for Medicare fraud. Under your plan, UnitedHealth’s revenue from Medicare Advantage would roughly double to $274 billion annually.” – letter to Dr. Oz written by Democratic senators of the Finance Committee" #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' #description: #permalink: diff --git a/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-11-TrumpMerkel45.md b/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-11-TrumpMerkel45.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..82906572 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-11-TrumpMerkel45.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [Angela Merkel, Germany, CNN, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), interview, politics] +categories: [Donald Trump] +date: 2024-12-11 9:44 AM +excerpt: '' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'title' +--- + + +## Merkel shares her impression of Trump when he was first elected + +Dec 3, 2024 #CNN #News + + + +CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel about her impression of President-elect Donald Trump when he was first elected into office. #CNN #News diff --git a/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-11-TrumpVsJan6Facts.md b/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-11-TrumpVsJan6Facts.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4eab9a05 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-11-TrumpVsJan6Facts.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [2020 presidential election, Department of Justice (DOJ), January 6th 2021 insurrection, politics] +categories: [Donald Trump] +date: 2024-12-11 10:41 PM +excerpt: '' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: "January 6, 2021 Insurrection:Facts of Law Versus Trump's Alternative Reality" +--- + + +## Reality stubbornly resists Trump's January 6 narrative + + + +Dec 10, 2024 #Trump #Politics #Election +While Donald Trump continues to insist that people convicted and jailed for their participation in the January 6 insurrection are actually hostages, and the congressional committee that investigated January 6, including Trump's role in instigating it somehow committed a crime, the fact remains that even if everyone in America didn't have a first-hand memory of the violence that day, there is copious, on the record evidence, including seemingly endless amounts of video exposing Trump's lie about that day. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a member of the January 6 Committee joins Rachel Maddow to discuss. + +@RalphHightower: Trump is not a Law and Order president. The only times when Trump is for the law is when it favors him. From 5fd1706109e437675ef7e139515f637a31ea5175 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralph Hightower <32745442+RalphHightower@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:52:58 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [fix](blog): 2024-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters(front matter) --- _posts/2024/12/2024-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters.md b/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters.md index da3aa7c0..26ebfdf7 100644 --- a/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters.md +++ b/_posts/2024/12/2024-12-10-TrumpAdministrationAreGrifters.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ layout: post tags: [grift, fraud, privatization, overbilling, Medicare Advantage, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMJS), UnitedHealthcare, politics] categories: [Donald Trump] date: 2024-12-10 4:18 PM -excerpt: "“In the wake of that nomination, we write regarding our concerns about your advocacy for the elimination of Traditional Medicare and your deep financial ties to private health insurers. Indeed, private insurers that run the Medicare Advantage program drastically overcharge for care[^11]. Your advocacy for eliminating the Traditional Medicare program and replacing it with Medicare Advantage also raises questions about your own financial conflicts of interest. In your financial disclosures from your 2022 Senate run, you reported owning over \$550,000 of stock in UnitedHealth, the largest private insurer in Medicare Advantage and largest employer of physicians in the nation. The company is currently under a sprawling antitrust investigation by the Department of Justice — including for its role in aggressively upcoding Medicare Advantage enrollees to secure higher payments from CMS — and has been sued on multiple occasions for Medicare fraud. Under your plan, UnitedHealth’s revenue from Medicare Advantage would roughly double to $274 billion annually.” – letter to Dr. Oz written by Democratic senators of the Finance Committee" +excerpt: "“In the wake of that nomination, we write regarding our concerns about your advocacy for the elimination of Traditional Medicare and your deep financial ties to private health insurers. Indeed, private insurers that run the Medicare Advantage program drastically overcharge for care. Your advocacy for eliminating the Traditional Medicare program and replacing it with Medicare Advantage also raises questions about your own financial conflicts of interest. In your financial disclosures from your 2022 Senate run, you reported owning over $550,000 of stock in UnitedHealth, the largest private insurer in Medicare Advantage and largest employer of physicians in the nation. The company is currently under a sprawling antitrust investigation by the Department of Justice — including for its role in aggressively upcoding Medicare Advantage enrollees to secure higher payments from CMS — and has been sued on multiple occasions for Medicare fraud. Under your plan, UnitedHealth’s revenue from Medicare Advantage would roughly double to $274 billion annually.” – letter to Dr. Oz written by Democratic senators of the Finance Committee" #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' #description: #permalink: