A Weekly Dose of President Trump - Trump Family Train (1/27/19 to 2/8/19)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6662147/Trump-names-former-doctor-assistant-medical-adviser.html

Trump appointed Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson on Saturday despite controversy
Trump also decided to promote Jackson to a two-star admiral on Saturday

1,801 posted on 02/03/2019 10:34:21 AM PST by jennychase

Donald Trump has appointed his controversial former doctor to chief medical adviser and assistant to the President.

1,802 posted on 02/03/2019 10:35:28 AM PST by jennychase

1,803 posted on 02/03/2019 10:38:02 AM PST by STARLIT (Hope begins when you're standin in the dark lookin out at the light.)

1,804 posted on 02/03/2019 10:39:05 AM PST by Rusty0604

President Trump's son Barron (far right) met his football hero Wayne Rooney (far left) when the ex-England captain, his wife Coleen and their four sons were guests of honor at the White House Christmas party

1,805 posted on 02/03/2019 10:40:23 AM PST by jennychase

To: JudyinCanada; Spunky

1,806 posted on 02/03/2019 10:41:18 AM PST by Rusty0604

1,807 posted on 02/03/2019 10:42:17 AM PST by Rusty0604

1,808 posted on 02/03/2019 10:43:21 AM PST by Rusty0604

Spunky I'm sure if your tired he must also be...so a late breakfast isn't out of line. Going at your own speed is good. I'm trying to get caught up myself because I wanted to share my pastors sermon yesterday. I thought it was very thought provoking. It was on LOVE..and the different kinds of LOVE.

1,809 posted on 02/03/2019 10:43:34 AM PST by STARLIT (Hope begins when you're standin in the dark lookin out at the light.)

To be clear, Adm. Jackson joined the White House medical staff under Pres. Bush2, and was promoted to ‘Physician to the President’ by Pres. Obama. Jackson was never DJ Trump’s ‘personal’ physician.

1,810 posted on 02/03/2019 10:44:27 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)

To: sweetiepiezer

1,811 posted on 02/03/2019 10:45:01 AM PST by Spunky ("Immigration is a privilege, not a right." President Donald Trump)

1,812 posted on 02/03/2019 10:45:24 AM PST by Spunky ("Immigration is a privilege, not a right." President Donald Trump)

Sick...I have no intention of watching.

1,813 posted on 02/03/2019 10:45:45 AM PST by STARLIT (Hope begins when you're standin in the dark lookin out at the light.)

Great news! The accusations were proved to be false, started by a woman doctor, that, from what I remember, wanted a promotion.

1,814 posted on 02/03/2019 10:47:02 AM PST by Rusty0604

1,815 posted on 02/03/2019 10:47:58 AM PST by Rusty0604

Made me cry also Spunk.

1,816 posted on 02/03/2019 10:49:58 AM PST by sweetiepiezer (Winning is not getting old.)

First Lady Melania Trump takes a leisurely stroll at Mar-a-Lago as the President prepares to host lavish Super Bowl party

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6661761/Melania-Trump-takes-leisurely-stroll-Mar-Lago-President-prepares-host-Super-Bowl-party.html

1,817 posted on 02/03/2019 10:50:56 AM PST by jennychase

Thanks, Rusty. I had heard it wasn’t starting until after 8, and it made me wonder how the president was going to see the end of the game, seeing as he’s leaving for Washington around 8:30. Come to think of it, he may be watching the end on the plane.

1,818 posted on 02/03/2019 10:53:10 AM PST by JudyinCanada

Families Beware: This Super Bowl Ad Tries to Turn Porn Addiction into a Joke

Football is dead to me. Haven't had anything to do with it since the NFL looked the other way for the Kneelers.

1,819 posted on 02/03/2019 11:07:24 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (A.D. 636 Jerusalem Falls To Islam, A.D. 642 Christian Egypt Is Lost To Islam)

https://www.mintpressnews.com/audit-pentagon-cannot-account-6-5-trillion-dollars-taxpayer-money/219246/?fbclid=IwAR3fAkoYnSl632Zn1arLCDZxcFvtgVtw6MPWGafJpUuHoQ-HPMdCAcu7DGo#.XE7jgjfH1HE.facebook
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While there is nothing in the IG’s report specifying that the money has been stolen, the mere fact that the Pentagon can’t account for how it spent the money reveals a potentially far greater problem than simple theft alone.

For every transaction, a so-called “journal voucher” that provides serial numbers, transaction dates and the amount of the expenditure is supposed to be produced. The report specifies that the agency has done such a poor job in providing documentation of their transactions, that there is no way to actually know how $6.5 trillion dollars has been spent. Essentially, the government has no way of knowing how the Pentagon has spent the trillions of taxpayer dollars allocated by Congress for national defense.

In turn, employees of the DFAS were routinely told by superiors to take “unsubstantiated change actions” commonly referred to as “plugging” the numbers. These “plugs” – which amounted to falsifying financial records – were then used to create the appearance that the military’s financial data matched that of the U.S. Treasury Department’s numbers when discrepancies in the financial data couldn’t be accounted for, according to the Reutersinvestigation.

According to that Reuters investigation:

For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars.

Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. Department of Defense’s accounts.

Every month until she retired in 2011, she says, the day came when the Navy would start dumping numbers on the Cleveland, Ohio DFAS…. Using the data they received, Woodford and her fellow accountants there set about preparing monthly reports to square the Navy’s books with the U.S. Treasury’s…. And every month, they encountered the same problem. Numbers were missing. Numbers were clearly wrong. Numbers came with no explanation of how the money had been spent or which congressional appropriation it came from.

While many of the problems occurred due to bookkeeping errors rather than actual financial losses, the DFAS has failed to provide the necessary tracking information essential to performing an accurate audit of Pentagon spending and obligations, according to the IG’s report.

“Army and Defense Finance and Accounting Service Indianapolis personnel did not adequately support $2.8 trillion in third quarter adjustments and $6.5 trillion in year-end adjustments made to Army General Fund data during FY 2015 financial statement compilation,” wrote Lorin T. Venable, the assistant inspector general for financial management and reporting. “We conducted this audit in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards.”

The Pentagon has a chronic failure to keep track of its money – how much it has, how much it pays out and how much is wasted or stolen. Adding to the appearance of impropriety is the fact that thousands of documents that should be on file have been removed and disappeared without any reasonable explanation.

DFAS “did not document or support why the Defense Departmental Reporting System . . . removed at least 16,513 of 1.3 million records during Q3 FY 2015. As a result, the data used to prepare the FY 2015 AGF third quarter and year-end financial statements were unreliable and lacked an adequate audit trail,” according to the IG’s report stated.

The accounting errors and manipulated numbers, though obviously problems in their own right, highlight a far greater problem for the Defense Department than only bad recording keeping and wasteful spending habits. In reality, they are a representation of the poor decision making, and lack of oversight and accountability that plague our nation’s government as a whole.

While the Department of Defense can’t account for $6.5 trillion dollars of taxpayer funds, in 2014 there were 47 million people, including over 15 million children, living in poverty in the U.S. – %15 of the U.S. population, which is the largest total number in poverty since records began being kept 52 years ago.

1,820 posted on 02/03/2019 11:11:52 AM PST by STARLIT (Hope begins when you're standin in the dark lookin out at the light.)

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LOL...good comment.

Spunky I'm sure if your tired he must also be...so a late breakfast isn't out of line. Going at your own speed is good. I'm trying to get caught up myself because I wanted to share my pastors sermon yesterday. I thought it was very thought provoking. It was on LOVE..and the different kinds of LOVE.

Sick...I have no intention of watching.