Biden campaign's response to use of Amtrak /PA investigation

[Budi]

Biden paid for the charter "Anyone can charter a train with Amtrak. Last time we checked, no one can charter the White House South Lawn for a political convention"

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[FarPoint]

1. Shazam!

That is the best comeback rebuttal for the day....

[Budi]

4. Yup. I applaud their response as well!

💙
How much did the Bible photo op, complete with armed swat teams cost us taxpayers?

[elleng]

2. EXCELLENT!

[grumpyduck]

3. Double BOOM!

[TwilightZone]

5. Perfect.

Biden has one of the best rapid-response organizations I've ever seen.

[peggysue2]

6. Keep it rolling, Biden Team!

Punch back and shove it up their you know what. This is all projection from Team Trump. Because . . .

They've run out of track.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. BTW,the price tag on

a Amtrak Charter is pricey. And Amtrak does not do anything for free or in kind type thing. Our Rail Club pays full fair for our outings and trust me,we have tried to pull discounts,not going to happen.

[crickets]

8. Yep. You know Amtrak could always use the money.

Biden's charter was likely a boon for them, and the free advertising they received over time was a nice little bonus. The tortuous logic in this letter that claims the charter somehow hurt Amtrak is just unreal.

We are concerned that the apparent use of a struggling, resource-deprived, publicly-run service for political gain does not serve the best interests of Amtrak or the American taxpayers at this time.

Then they go on: You didn't give him a discount, did you? Did he make any freight trains run late? Has anyone else ever done this? Where are the time sheets for everyone working for Amtrak who was even slightly involved? Basically: here's a long list of questions we want you to waste your time and resources answering for us. It will take many man hours and we all know it's meaningless, partisan BS on our part, but your funding could be on the line in future, so hop to it! While Amtrak may have made money from Biden's charter, we are going to cost you money by sending you out on this snipe hunt, because we are shameless, oblivious idiots blahblahblah.

Unbelievable. Biden's reply was the perfect slap back.

[gratuitous]

19. These Republican knuckleheads are concerned for Amtrak, are they?

I'll just pull up a chair and wait for the explanation: Amtrak is "a struggling, resource-deprived, publicly-run service" according to these mental midgets. How does it hurt Amtrak to be doing cash business? I can wait.

[Wellstone ruled]

23. When our Coaches hit the Main Line,

whether tagged on the back of a Freight or a Passenger Consist,we travel by the host Railroads Time Table. If we want to stop and Sight See as a group or do Photo Ops,we get charged by the hour for Car Spotting as well as charge for rehooking on the next train going by.

[Illumination]

9. EXCELLENT RESPONSE!...

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Twitter reply :

Link to tweet

[Duppers]

22. $841,000 total from 10 cities

Donald Trump’s campaign committee has not paid at least 10 bills — totaling more than $841,000 — sent to it by municipal governments to cover public safety costs associated with Trump campaign rallies.
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Some invoices are three years old.
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"America’s police officers have earned the everlasting gratitude of our nation,” Trump said in October.

Trump’s campaign certainly has the money to pay cities’ police bills: it reported nearly $40.8 million cash on hand, as of March 31, according to federal records.

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donald-trump-police-cities-bills-maga-rallies/

There's a search function at the link for as many as 57 cities.

[lpbk2713]

11. The taxpayers pay for Trump's $3 Million golf weekends at Mar-a-Loogie.

And at last count there were over thirty such trips.

Link: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691684859/government-watchdog-trumps-trips-to-florida-costing-taxpayers-millions

[LAS14]

12. Brilliant! They have such good media people!!!! nt

[Tommymac]

13. PA Rethug State Congress Critters are ignorant tools.

Consider the source.

We have had to live with their bullshit here for many years, since they Gerrymandered the state way back years ago.

Another example of Minority Rule.

I hope they all choke on their cornflakes.

[Aristus]

14. Oh, that's going to leave a mark!

[DeminPennswoods]

15. GOP must've missed this

How to charter your own private train on Amtrak.

Link: https://www.amtrak.com/charter-your-private-train

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Oh. . . .Snap!

;donkey:

[KWR65]

17. Oh Know it's AMTRAK-gate. You mean if you pay for the tickets you can ride the train?

[Lucinda]

18. KNR

[SheltieLover]

20. Bazinga!

Superb!

[MarcA]

21. The railroad companies give priority to their freight trains

over Amtrak. That among other things is why Amtrak often runs late. Also, most of
the Amtrak charters I have seen are attached to the rear of the regular Amtrak train cars,
although I guess you could charter the entire train, engines and all. Only time I have seen that
is when the railroad execs have their own train.

[Blue Owl]

24. Go fuck yourself Trump

n/t

[Cha]

25. Rt.. TY Joe Biden!

Mahalo, Budi!