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https://twitter.com/CarolMaps/status/1556992917113282562
Domino's Pizza Quits Italy After Locals Shun American Pies
The last of Dominos 29 branches have closed after the company started operations in the country seven years ago. It borrowed heavily for plans to open 880 stores, but faced tough competition from local restaurants expanding delivery services during the pandemic and sought protection from creditors after running out of cash and falling behind on its debt obligations.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-09/domino-s-pizza-leaves-italy-as-traditional-margherita-wins
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1556992711064010754
Good morning...Mar-a-Lago getting raided by the FBI wasn't a dream
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1556975986368987136"They even broke into my safe!"
https://twitter.com/thor_benson/status/1556778177292390403
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals
In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille Day celebrations thrown by Emmanuel Macron, the new French President. Macron staged a spectacular martial display to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the American entrance into the First World War. Vintage tanks rolled down the Champs-Élysées as fighter jets roared overhead. The event seemed to be calculated to appeal to Trumphis sense of showmanship and grandiosityand he was visibly delighted. The French general in charge of the parade turned to one of his American counterparts and said, You are going to be doing this next year.
Sure enough, Trump returned to Washington determined to have his generals throw him the biggest, grandest military parade ever for the Fourth of July. The generals, to his bewilderment, reacted with disgust. Id rather swallow acid, his Defense Secretary, James Mattis, said. Struggling to dissuade Trump, officials pointed out that the parade would cost millions of dollars and tear up the streets of the capital.
But the gulf between Trump and the generals was not really about money or practicalities, just as their endless policy battles were not only about clashing views on whether to withdraw from Afghanistan or how to combat the nuclear threat posed by North Korea and Iran. The divide was also a matter of values, of how they viewed the United States itself. That was never clearer than when Trump told his new chief of staff, John Kellylike Mattis, a retired Marine Corps generalabout his vision for Independence Day. Look, I dont want any wounded guys in the parade, Trump said. This doesnt look good for me. He explained with distaste that at the Bastille Day parade there had been several formations of injured veterans, including wheelchair-bound soldiers who had lost limbs in battle.
Kelly could not believe what he was hearing. Those are the heroes, he told Trump. In our society, theres only one group of people who are more heroic than they areand they are buried over in Arlington. Kelly did not mention that his own son Robert, a lieutenant killed in action in Afghanistan, was among the dead interred there.
I dont want them, Trump repeated. It doesnt look good for me.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1556628203246329856
Exclusive photos: Trump's telltale toilet
Why it matters: Destroying records that should be preserved is potentially illegal.
Trump denied it and called Haberman, whose New York Times coverage he follows compulsively, a "maggot."
Well, it turns out there are photos. And here they are, published for the first time.
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/trump-toilet-photos-maggie-haberman
https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/1556582713473306624
Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach...
The analysis shows that people working with Matthew DePerno - the Trump-endorsed nominee for the states top law-enforcement post - examined a vote tabulator from Richfield Township, a conservative stronghold of 3,600 people in northern Michigans Roscommon County.
The Richfield security breach is one of four similar incidents being investigated by Michigan's current attorney general, Democrat Dana Nessel. Under state law, it is a felony to seek or provide unauthorized access to voting equipment.
DePerno did not respond to a request for comment.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-trump-backed-michigan-attorney-general-candidate-involved-voting-2022-08-07/
Tsk, tsk.
Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, docume
Source: Reuters
Aug 7 (Reuters) - The Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general led a team that gained unauthorized access to voting equipment while hunting for evidence to support former President Donald Trumps false election-fraud claims, according to a Reuters analysis of court filings and public records.
The analysis shows that people working with Matthew DePerno - the Trump-endorsed nominee for the states top law-enforcement post - examined a vote tabulator from Richfield Township, a conservative stronghold of 3,600 people in northern Michigans Roscommon County.
The Richfield security breach is one of four similar incidents being investigated by Michigan's current attorney general, Democrat Dana Nessel. Under state law, it is a felony to seek or provide unauthorized access to voting equipment.
DePerno did not respond to a request for comment.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-trump-backed-michigan-attorney-general-candidate-involved-voting-2022-08-07/
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