Links

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-150-days-presidency-trump-golf-club-1090729
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-150-days-presidency-trump-golf-club-1090729
Aug. 25, 2018
Donald Trump’s arrival at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, Saturday morning marked 150 days of his 582 days in office that he’s spent at a golf club bearing his own name. That is a quarter of his time in office. 
The visit also marked his 193rd day at a Trump property. Or a third of his time in office. 
On the campaign trail, then-candidate Trump repeatedly said, if elected president, he wouldn’t “have time to go play golf.” He also said he would probably never see his private Turnberry golf resort in Scotland or his Doral golf resort in south Florida.
Just last month, Trump visited his Turnberry property for a weekend in between meetings with NATO leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said it would “hopefully” include some golf.


https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/trumps-eating-tax-dollars.html/
https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/trumps-eating-tax-dollars.html/
10 Ways the Trumps Are Eating Through Your Tax Dollars
Samuel Becker
February 22, 2018
2. You might have heard that Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida resort, has the unofficial moniker of “White House South.” Trump likes it and has been spending his weekends there at the beginning of his presidency. But it’s not cheap. With just three visits, he burned through more than $10 million in taxpayer money.
6. One particularly maddening way in which the Trumps seem to be profiting off of the presidency is by paying for members of the family to fly around the world to promote the Trump brand. Case in point: Eric Trump recently took a trip to Uruguay to look over the family’s business interests. That single trip, which, by law, required Secret Service protection, cost taxpayers almost $100,000.
7. The Trumps recently opened a fancy new hotel in Washington, D.C., a location they lease from the government. This has been tagged as a big conflict of interest, with a report from a Republican senator’s office showing Trump was granted $40 million in tax credits.


https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/all-the-ways-trump-cashes-in-on-the-u-s-presidency.html/
https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/all-the-ways-trump-cashes-in-on-the-u-s-presidency.html/
Here Are Ways Trump Cashes In on Being President
June 21, 2018
Not only do Trump’s frequent golf trips burn taxpayer dollars; they also make the Trumps lots of money. The system is rather simple and, once you see how it works, you can see why Trump spent over 25% of his first year in office at his own golf clubs.
Overall, the easiest mark is the U.S. Secret Service tasked with the job of protecting Trump. As the law stands, the agency cannot receive payments from presidents. This law exists to limit potential conflicts of interest (irony alert). So the Secret Service paid $137,000 to Trump’s Florida and New Jersey properties for golf cart rentals in just the first nine months of 2017.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45406857
Sept. 5, 2018 (their time, Sept.4 here)
Japan has been hit by its strongest typhoon in 25 years, causing at least seven deaths and 200 injuries.
Typhoon Jebi made landfall in western areas, bringing heavy rain and reports of winds up to 172km/h (107mph).
In Osaka Bay it swept a tanker into a bridge and in Kyoto parts of a railway station roof came down.
Officials ordered more than a million people in affected areas to evacuate their homes amid warnings of high waves, flooding and mudslides.
It has already left tens of thousands without power and authorities have urged people to move to safety.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04/politics/north-carolina-court-gerrymander-midterms/index.html
https://www .cnn. com/2018/09/04/politics/north-carolina-court-gerrymander-midterms/index.html
Sept. 4, 2018
A federal court concluded Tuesday there is 'insufficient time' before the November midterm elections to redraw an electoral map that the courts have ruled is unconstitutionally gerrymandered.
"Having carefully reviewed the parties' briefing and supporting materials, we conclude that there is insufficient time for this Court to approve a new districting plan and for the State to conduct an election using that plan prior to the seating of the new Congress in January 2019," the court ruling read.
"And we further find that imposing a new schedule for North Carolina's congressional elections would, at this late juncture, unduly interfere with the State's electoral machinery and likely confuse voters and depress turnout."
In late August, the same panel of federal judges ruled that North Carolina's congressional map favors Republicans and "constitutes an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment, and Article I of the Constitution."
Republicans hold 10 of the state's 13 seats in the US House of Representatives, and a redrawn map could potentially affect control of the House.
The court ruled North Carolina cannot use the current gerrymandered congressional map after the Nov. 6 general election.