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| 01-27-19 08:05pm - 2155 days | #1401 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump and his administration say workers who aren't paid can take out loans. And if contractors aren't paid back wages, they are still in favor of building a wall to protect our country. Trump is the man. He wants the American public to know that he cares about the common man. ------ ------ Mick Mulvaney dodges question on back pay for contract employees hurt by shutdown HuffPost US Hayley Miller Jan 27th 2019 6:04PM Mick Mulvaney, the White House’s budget director and acting chief of staff, danced around a question Sunday on whether government-contracted employees would be reimbursed for wages they missed during the partial government shutdown. Margaret Brennan, host of CBS’ “Face The Nation,” asked Mulvaney if and when both federal employees and government-contracted workers should expect to receive back pay for work they missed or continued to do without financial compensation during the 35-day shutdown. ″What about all of those contractors who don’t necessarily have job guarantees?” Brennan asked Mulvaney. “Are they going to be made full?” But Mulvaney breezed past the plight of contractors in his response, noting that the roughly 800,000 federal employees stung by the shutdown would likely receive retroactive pay in the coming days. ″Uh, the contractors will depend on the contract and, um, let’s talk about the (government) employees for a second because I know a little bit more about that,” Muvlaney said. “Some of them could be early this week,” he said of back pay for federal employees. “Some of them may be later this week. But we hope that by the end of this week all of the back pay will be made up. And, of course, the next payroll will go out on time.” Though shutdowns are anxiety-ridden events for federal employees living paycheck to paycheck, they have almost always received back pay once the government reopened. But most government-contracted workers usually aren’t as lucky. It’s unclear how many of contracted workers ― employed in a range of occupations, including food services, janitorial, security and computer software development ― were impacted by the recent shutdown. Estimates range from hundreds of thousands to millions. President Donald Trump and other high-ranking officials downplayed the shutdown’s effects on Americans, pointing out that federal employees would eventually receive back pay. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Thursday said he didn’t “quite understand” why some workers needed to rely on food pantries during the shutdown ― the longest such closure in U.S. history ― when they could just take out loans until the government reopens and they receive their back pay. AdChoices The Trump administration’s tone-deaf statements also failed to acknowledge government-contracted workers who may never see the money they missed during the shutdown. The president signed a bill on Jan. 16 that guarantees back pay for federal employees at “the earliest date possible” once the government reopens, but the legislation did not extend protections to contractors ― many of whom are low-income earners. After vowing to veto a spending bill that would reopen federal agencies hit by the shutdown if it did not include $5.7 billion for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, Trump caved to Democrats on Friday and signed a measure to keep the government open for three weeks. He has vowed to continue his push for wall funding during this period and, if again stymied, unilaterally move forward with erecting the barrier it by declaring it’s needed for national security reasons. “If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on Feb. 15, again, or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and Constitution of the United States to address this emergency,” he said Friday. Mulvaney on Sunday said he believes Trump is prepared to shut down the government again if his demands aren’t met. ″He’s willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border,” Mulvaney said. “He doesn’t want to shut the government down ― let’s make that very clear. He doesn’t want to declare” a national emergency in order to get it built. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have strongly spoken out against Trump’s suggestion that he would declare a national emergency to secure funds for his long-promised border wall, which he had vowed Mexico would pay to build. “I don’t think it’s a good idea,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told NBC’s” Meet The Press” on Sunday. “I think it would be a terrible idea. I hope he doesn’t do it. I don’t think it’s leverage either. ... It’s just not a good precedent to set in terms of action. It doesn’t mean that I want border security ― I do. I just think it’s the wrong way to achieve it.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-29-19 01:12pm - 2154 days | #1402 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Donald Trump is hoping that China and Russia will improve his position in the 2020 elections. US intel agencies fear that Donald Trump will remain president of the US for 4 more years, if China and Russia have their say. Neither China or Russia are legal states in the United States of America, but both countries have the power to sway American voters. US intel also thinks North Korea will keep its nuclear weapons, in spite of Donald Trump declaring in June 2018 that North Korea was "no longer a nuclear threat." (Maybe Trump was being optimistic, or counting on North Korea to honor its promises. However, Trump himself has a history of making promises that don't hold up. ----------- U.S. intel agencies: Russia and China plotting to interfere in 2020 election NBC News Ken Dilanian Jan 29th 2019 12:46PM U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Russia and China will seek to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, having learned lessons from Russia's operation in 2016, according to the annual public survey of national security threats issued Tuesday. "We assess that foreign actors will view the 2020 U.S. elections as an opportunity to advance their interests," Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate intelligence committee at the worldwide threats hearing. In another notable statement, Coats noted that U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons because "its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival." That view stands in stark contrasts to comments from President Donald Trump, who in June declared that North Korea was "no longer a nuclear threat," citing his talks with leader Kim Jong Un. Coats also refuted Trump's statement that ISIS has been defeated. He said the group was "nearing" military defeat in Iraq, but has returned to its "guerrilla warfare roots," continues to plot attacks and "still commands thousands of fighters in Iraq and Syria." On political interference, the written assessment added that intelligence analysts expect American adversaries "to refine their capabilities and add new tactics as they learn from each other's experiences, suggesting the threat landscape could look very different in 2020 and future elections." Political interference, using social media and cyber attacks, was scarcely mentioned in threat assessments before last year, but was listed second behind cyber attacks in Tuesday's array of the challenges facing U.S. national security policy-makers. "Russia's social media efforts will continue to focus on aggravating social and racial tensions, undermining trust in authorities, and criticizing perceived anti-Russia politicians," says the written threats assessment. "Moscow may employ additional influence toolkits—such as spreading disinformation, conducting hack-and- leak operations, or manipulating data—in a more targeted fashion to influence US policy, actions, and elections." China and Iran may also seek to influence American politics, the assessment said. And China and Russia are working together as never before in recent history. "China and Russia are more aligned than at any point since the mid-1950s, and the relationship is likely to strengthen in the coming year as some of their interests and threat perceptions converge, particularly regarding perceived US unilateralism and interventionism and Western promotion of democratic values and human rights," the assessment says. The worldwide threats hearing is generally the one time during the year that all the heads of major U.S. intelligence agencies testify in public about the threats facing the nation. FBI Director Christopher Wray may be asked about the acting attorney general's comment Monday that the Mueller investigation is wrapping up, and he may be pressed about how much of Mueller's findings will be made public. | |
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| 02-05-19 07:32am - 2147 days | #1403 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump announces winter is coming. Says that Climate Control is one of his top priorities. Right after arresting and executing all scummy Democrats and other opposition leaders who stand in the way of making America Great, White, and Morally Christian. Thank God that Trump is standing firm on the Great Walll to the South that will keep out Mexican bandidos and other bad people who have brown skin or other diseases. Lord, we thank you for sending us Donald Trump, a man we can trust and believe in, to do the right thing. Amen.   | |
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| 02-06-19 10:54am - 2146 days | #1404 | |
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OneMan (0)
Active User Posts: 29 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Europe |
 .... who's this "Trump " ? | |
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| 02-13-19 12:44pm - 2139 days | #1405 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
TRUMP CAVES IN TO DEMOCRAT DEMANDS. SAYS HE WILL OUTLAW COWS THAT FART AND AIRPLANES THAT FLY IN THE AIR. THIS WILL HELP AMERICA IN THE FIGHT AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING. AND TRUMP WILL CLAIM CREDIT, SINCE THIS IS FOR THE GOOD OF ALL AMERICANS, EVEN THE ONES WITH BLACK, BROWN, OR YELLOW SKIN. TRUMP IS NOT A RACIST. IT'S NOT RACISM FAVORING YOUR OWN KIND OF PEOPLE: MEGA-RICH, WHITE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE REAL OWNERS AND RULERS OF AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE | |
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| 02-14-19 09:58am - 2138 days | #1406 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
MONICA WITT, A US AIR FORCE OFFICER, DEFECTS TO IRAN. NO REAL DETAILS ON THE BACKGROUND OF THIS TRAITOR HAVE BEEN RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. BUT THIS CASE SMELLS. IT SMELLS LIKE DONALD TRUMP'S TRACKS. TRUMP BRUTALIZES WOMEN, AND CLAIMS HE IS THE PRESIDENT, SO HE IS COVERED BY POLITICAL IMMUINITY. BULLSHIT. TRUMP IS UNDER THE LAW, NOT ABOVE THE LAW. WE ARE A NATION UNDER GOD, UNDER LAWS. TRUMP CAN SPEW ALL THE LIES HE WANTS: BUT EVENTUALLY, THE COURTS WILL DRAG DOWN THIS LIAR, THIS PERVERT. WRITTEN IN THE NAME OF POLITICAL LICENSE. WHEN WILL TRUMP BE FORCED TO WEAR AN ORANGE JUMP SUIT, PUT IN PRISON, AND THEN GANG-RAPED LIKE HE HAS RAPED AMERICA? STAY TUNED TO FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE TRUMP CRIME FAMILY, WHICH IS BEGINNING TO CRUMBLE UNDER THE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LAWSUITS THAT ARE COMING. ------- ------- Monica Witt: US Air Force officer defects to Iran with information 'seriously damaging' to national security, officials reveals Chris Riotta ,The Independent•February 13, 2019 A US Air Force officer has defected to Iran and shared information that could cause "serious damage" to America's national security, officials have revealed. The former Air Force intelligence specialist was charged with espionage and was accused of working for Iran, according to an unsealed federal indictment. The announcement arrived after Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers and other senior officials held a call with reporters to discuss what they called “a national security related action involving Iran”. Mr Demers was joined by US Attorney for Washington, Jessie Liu, FBI Executive Assistant Director for National Security Jay Tabb, Treasury Department director of Foreign Assets Control Adrea Gacki and Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Terry Phillips. The officials discussed the unsealed indictment against Monica Witt, a former counterintelligence officer for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Ms Witt defected to Iran nearly six years ago in 2013. Also charged are four Iranian hackers. Prosecutors say they targeted former colleagues of Ms Witt’s in the intelligence community. The indictment says the four Iranians were acting on behalf of the government-linked Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. “It is a sad day for America when one of its citizens betrays our country,” Mr Demers, the head of the Justice Department’s national security division, said on the call. Ms Witt remains at-large. The 39-year-old “has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for conspiracy to deliver and delivering national defence information to representatives of the Iranian government,” according to the indictment that was unsealed on Wednesday morning. “Witt, who defected to Iran in 2013, is alleged to have assisted Iranian intelligence services in targeting her former fellow agents in the US Intelligence Community (USIC). Witt is also alleged to have disclosed the code name and classified mission of a US Department of Defence Special Access Program,” the indictment continues. A warrant has been placed for her arrest. The four hackers, whose names are Mojtaba Masoumpour, Behzad Mesri, Hossein Parvar and Mohamad Paryar, have also been charged with conspiracy, attempts to commit computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft. Their alleged crimes date back to 2014 through 2015, in which they are charged with “using fictional and imposter social media accounts and working on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), sought to deploy malware that would provide them covert access to the targets’ computers and networks.” The hackers, referred to in the indictment as “Cyber Conspirators,” also remain at-large and have warrants placed for each other their arrests. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the agency was “taking action against “malicious Iranian cyber actors and covert operations that have targeted Americans at home and overseas as part of our ongoing efforts to counter the Iranian regime’s cyber-attacks.” “Treasury is sanctioning New Horizon Organization for its support to the IRGC-QF,” he continued in a statement. “New Horizon hosts international conferences that have provided Iranian intelligence officers a platform to recruit and collect damaging information. | |
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| 02-17-19 11:07pm - 2134 days | #1407 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
EXCUSE THE CAPS: THEY'RE EASIER FOR ME TO SEE: TRUMP CLAIMS OBAMA WAS READY TO START A BIG WAR WITH NORTH KOREA. BUT TRUMP SAVED US. BY BEING ELECTED, INSTEAD OF HAVING OBAMA DRAG US INTO A WAR WITH NORTH KOREA. TRUMP IS THE MAN: WHO SAVED US FROM AN OBAMA-WAR WITH NORTH KOREA. ------- ------- Trump claims Obama was ‘so close to starting a big war with North Korea’ Geobeats Feb 16th 2019 10:07PM President Trump has claimed that former President Obama had indicated “he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea.” Trump made the remark Friday during a Rose Garden press conference where he took credit for the U.S.‘s improved relationship with North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-un. Trump said: “When I came into office, I met right there, in the Oval Office, with President Obama. And I sat in those beautiful chairs and we talked. It was supposed to be 15 minutes. As you know, it ended up being many times longer than that.” "I said, ’What’s the biggest problem?’ He said, ‘By far, North Korea.’ And I don’t want to speak for him, but I believe he would have gone to war with North Korea," Trump added. “I think he was ready to go to war. In fact, he told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea. And where are we now? No missiles. No rockets. No nuclear testing. We’ve learned a lot.” AdChoices While Trump did not go into specifics, he may have been referring to Obama’s reported consideration of a pre-emptive strike in September 2016 amid the regime’s ramped up missile testing activities. The New York Times notes: “Obama asked if a surgical strike could take out the country’s arsenal, but after being told it would require a ground invasion, he rejected any action as ‘unthinkable.’” | |
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| 02-26-19 08:01am - 2126 days | #1408 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
THE HOUSE OF TRUMP IS STARTING TO CRUMBLE. MICHAEL COHEN, PRESIDENT'S TRUMP FORMER LAWYER AND FIXER, IS WILLING TO TALK ABOUT TRUMP'S CRIMINAL ACTS. Michael Cohen will give Congress evidence of Trump criminal conduct since becoming president NBC News Allan Smith and Adam Reiss Feb 26th 2019 8:01AM During his much-anticipated public testimony before Congress, President Donald Trump's former longtime attorney Michael Cohen will provide evidence of his old boss' criminal conduct since becoming president, a knowledgeable source about what to expect told NBC News. And, as this source laid out, there is much more congressional investigators and viewers can expect Cohen to provide. Trump's ex-attorney will detail what he will describe as the president's lies, racism and cheating as a private businessman while Cohen spent a decade working for him, the source said. Cohen will also reveal information about Trump's financial statements and may actually provide the statements, the source said. This information would require the president's long-held secret tax returns in order to verify, providing an avenue for House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to request those returns. As the source said, Trump deflated the value of his properties in some cases so to reduce his property tax. The source said Cohen will address his motives for lying on behalf of Trump and why he lied to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow negotiations — a charge he pleaded guilty to late last year. Cohen will additionally discuss if anyone told him to lie. In addition to his public session on Wednesday, Cohen will testify behind closed doors to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday and the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday. The House Oversight Committee earlier provided the framework for what they want Cohen to address during his open testimony. In December, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for what a Manhattan federal court judge called a "veritable smorgasbord" of criminal conduct, including facilitating secret payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, lying to Congress about the president's business dealings with Russia and failing to report millions of dollars in income. | |
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| 02-27-19 09:47pm - 2124 days | #1409 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
IVANKA TRUMP ENDORSES WORKING YOUR WAY UP THROUGH LIFE. JUST THE WAY IVANKA DID. SHE STARTED WITH NOTHING. AND BECAUSE SHE IS SO SMART, SHE BECAME A MILLIONAIRE. DID IT HELP THAT DONALD TRUMP, HER FATHER, GAVE HER A FEW MILLION OR MORE TO START WITH? IVANKA SAYS AMERICANS DON'T WANT THINGS GIVEN TO THEM. AMERICANS, IN THEIR HEARTS, ONLY WANT TO EARN THEIR OWN WAY. JUST LIKE IVANKA DID. IVANKA MADE OVER $12 MILLION LAST YEAR, INCLUDING $2 MILLION FROM THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION WHEN SHE LEFT THAT ORGANIZATION. BUT SHE EARNED EVERY PENNY OF THAT MONEY. SHE IS HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER. HE EARNED EVERY PENNY HE EVER HAD. AND SHE EARNED EVERY PENNY SHE EVER HAD. CAN YOU SMELL THE BULLSHIT? IT'S COMING OUT OF HER EARS, HER EYES, HER MOUTH, AND EVERY OTHER PORE IN HER BODY. | |
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| 02-28-19 05:14pm - 2124 days | #1410 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User  Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
I laugh at the irony of the anti-welfare state crowd, who believe that people should get what they've worked for, supporting Trump and his family/friends, all of whom were born with a silver spoon in their mouth. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-03-19 10:02am - 2121 days | #1411 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
EXCUSE THE CAPS. EASIER FOR ME TO SEE AND EDIT. LOCK HIM (TRUMP) UP. LOCK HIM (TRUMP) UP. FOR LYING TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. FOR CORRUPTION IN OFFICE. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT IF TRUMP IS REMOVED FROM OFFICE, WE'LL GET MIKE PENCE. WHO IS, PARDON THE FRENCH, A PIECE OF MERDE. (MERDE IS FRENCH FOR SHIT.) March 3, 2019 11:43AM ET House Judiciary Chairman Says the President Obstructed Justice “You have to persuade the American public” before going ahead with impeachment, Rep. Jerrold Nadler said By Peter Wade On Sunday morning, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) did not mince words when asked by ABC’s This Week host, George Stephanopoulos, whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice. “It’s very clear that the president obstructed justice. It’s very clear,” Nadler answered. BREAKING: @GStephanopoulos: "Do you think the president obstructed justice?" House judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler: "Yes, I do. It's very clear that the president obstructed justice" https://t.co/YaWpzth66u pic.twitter.com/m7TiPwAKyo — ABC News (@ABC) March 3, 2019 Nadler went on to explain, “Eleven-hundred times [Trump] referred to the Mueller investigation as a witch hunt. He tried to protect [former national security advisor] Michael Flynn from being investigated by the FBI. He fired [former FBI Director] James Comey in order to stop the ‘Russia thing’ as he told NBC News. He’s intimidated witnesses in public.” Stephanopoulos then asked the chairman if all of that is true, then why not pursue impeachment. Nadler said the committee would need to organize and “sort out” the evidence before taking further steps. Nadler also explained that securing public support is necessary. “Before you impeach somebody, you have to persuade the American public that it ought to happen, Nadler said. He also made the point that impeachment needs bipartisan support, adding, “You have to persuade enough of the opposition party voters, Trump voters… that you’re not just trying to reverse the results of the last election.” That last point by Nadler seemingly feels impossible. At this point, no matter how much evidence is accumulated, does anyone really believe that Trump voters will ever see this president clearly enough to support impeachment? | |
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| 03-03-19 11:58am - 2121 days | #1412 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
If President Trump is impeached and convicted by the Senate, there is a possibility that Vice President Pence might not be able to assume the presidency. In circumstances where the Trump-Pence campaign was found to have committed a criminal conspiracy (or other wrong doing), Vice President Pence would be implicated in the wrong doing too. Therefore it is not unreasonable that he too would have to resign, and House Speaker Pelosi would become president. This is one of the reasons that I find the possibility of impeachment slim. It would be seen as a coup against a government by the opposition party in the eyes of more than 40% of the U.S. public. Very dangerous territory. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-03-19 03:05pm - 2121 days | #1413 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I DOUBT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE. HE HAS THE US SENATE AND THE SUPREME COURT ON HIS SIDE. BUT IF HE DID RESIGN, I BELIEVE MIKE PENCE WOULD TAKE OVER. UNLESS THERE WAS HARD EVIDENCE OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY BY PENCE, WHICH I DOUBT EXISTS, HE IS FIRST IN LINE TO REPLACE TRUMP. BRETT KAVANAUGH WAS NOMINATED AND PLACED ON THE US SUPREME COURT. THERE WERE NUMEROUS WITNESSES THAT PUBLICLY STATED KAVANAUGH LIED UNDER OATH WHILE TESTIFYING TO THE SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS. THE FBI DID NOT INTERVIEW ANY OF THEM, EVEN WHEN THEY SENT LETTERS TO THE FBI STATING THEY HAD KNOWLEDGE OF KAVANAUGH GIVING FALSE TESTIMONY. THE FBI INVESTIGATION WAS A COVER-UP. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. THE FBI DID NOT INTERVIEW MANY WITNESSES WHO SAID KAVANAUGH WAS LYING. WHY? THEY WERE DIRECTED BY, EITHER PRESIDENT TRUMP, OR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, IN THE SCOPE OF THEIR INVESTIGATION. | |
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| 03-03-19 04:24pm - 2121 days | #1414 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
Impeachment is a political process, not a legal one, so it is no panacea. It's not likely to actually end up in the removal of a president. It literally never has (no president has ever been removed from office through impeachment, though a few federal judges have). The specific grounds for articles of impeachment are the crux of the matter about political succession. If the Trump-Pence campaign is accused of criminal conspiracy, how could Vice President Pence then assume the presidency as a benefactor of the conspiracy? Impeachment is not a magic bullet solution. It's more like using a sledgehammer when a scalpel would be better. I'm not a prognosticator, but the most likely scenario would be a state of constant investigation of the President and his campaign and businesses for the next two years, concurrent with federal and state prosecutions for any crimes thus unveiled. With President Trump having a floor of about 30-40% support in the electorate, there's not much else that can happen. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-07-19 02:00am - 2117 days | #1415 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Democrats bar Fox News from moderating debates after reported Trump ties Thomson Reuters Jim Oliphant, Sheila Dang, and Lisa Lambert Mar 6th 2019 9:30PM WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday said it will not allow Fox News to host any of its candidates' political debates through 2020, citing a report this week about the conservative channel's ties to U.S. President Donald Trump. "Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates," DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement provided to Reuters. "Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates," Perez said in a statement. Representatives for Fox said they hoped the DNC would reconsider and let some of its journalists moderate a Democratic presidential debate. Trump responded to the announcement by saying he may refuse to participate in certain debates. "I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!" he said in a Twitter post. Trump has criticized CNN and MSNBC, among other media, as "Fake News" for their coverage of his administration. The DNC's decision is a rerun of the 2016 primary election, when it turned down Fox's multiple offers to host a debate, citing the network's longstanding conservative bent and prominent criticism of Democratic policies. At that time a Democrat, Barack Obama, occupied the Oval Office. Trump, a Republican seeking re-election in 2020, has stoked polarization between the two U.S. political parties by appealing to his base on Twitter and television and policy speeches while simultaneously publicly attacking and feuding with prominent Democrats. The New Yorker earlier this week reported on "seamlessly" close ties between Trump and the television network founded by Rupert Murdoch, citing an expert on presidential studies who said Fox is the "closest we've come to having state t.v." The article went on to describe the access and interviews that members of the White House have granted exclusively to the network. breaking-news logo As the field of competition to become Democrats' next presidential nominee grows ever more crowded, the party has decided to split its first primary debate over two weeknights this summer. Twelve people have already jumped into the race and the DNC has capped each debate night at 20 candidates. The party's primary debates this year will mark a sharp reversal from its last round of contests, when less than half a dozen politicians appeared at a handful of debates that were televised on Saturday nights and other times with notoriously low television viewership. (Reporting by Jim Oliphant, Sheila Dang, and Lisa Lambert; writing by Susan Heavey and Lisa Lambert) | |
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| 03-07-19 09:51pm - 2116 days | #1416 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
I don't think that avoiding Fox News is a good move for Democrats. Fox has the highest ratings of any news network and is watched by many Americans who feel ignored and overlooked by "elites" on the coasts. Failing to engage with the audience of Fox News is akin to Hillary Clinton's failure to campaign in Rust Belt states in 2016. It reinforces the idea that the Democrats are ignoring vast portions of the American electorate. It's also a further entrenchment into us vs. them political tribes that is damaging the republic. And what does it say about the Democratic field? That they're too scared to engage Fox News? If they're too scared to take on Fox, how do they hope to prevail in 2020 against Trump, who will be able to tell his base and swing voters that the Democrats ignored them and were afraid of a challenging venue? Yes, Fox News is almost an extension of the Republican Party and President Trump. But what kind of person who seriously considers themselves qualified to be president can make the argument that they can handle the pressures of the presidency if they can't handle Fox News? "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-08-19 07:44am - 2116 days | #1417 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
FOX NEWS IS NOT AN IMPARTIAL NEWS SOURCE. FOX NEWS SLANTS MANY OF ITS PROGRAMS IN FAVOR OF DONALD TRUMP. I SEEM TO REMEMBER READING THAT FOX NEWS ITSELF SAID IT WAS NOT A NEWS ORGANIZATION. (I DON'T RECALL THE EXACT WORDS, BUT FOX NEWS SAID THEY WERE GIVING OPINIONS, NOT NEWS. NEWS IS SUPPOSED TO BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL: FOX NEWS HEAVILY SUPPORTS DONALD TRUMP, WHICH IS ONE REASON TRUMP WATCHES IT.) DONALD TRUMP IS A SERIAL LIAR AND HE DISTORTS THE FACTS. HE SAID PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS A POOR STUDENT WHO DID NOT DESERVE TO ATTEND HARVARD. IT'S TRUE THAT OBAMA DID NOT PUBLICLY RELEASE HIS COLLEGE GRADES. ON OTHER HAND, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FRIENDS, BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT, PRESSURED THE ADMINSTRATORS OF TRUMP'S HIGH SCHOOL TO HIDE HIS GRADES. THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE SCHOOL SAID THEY HAD NEVER HIDDEN ANYONE'S SCHOOL RECORD, EXCEPT FOR TRUMP. THE REASON THEY GAVE IN TO PRESSURE WAS THE THREAT THE SCHOOL COULD LOSE A LOT OF MONEY FROM WEALTHY DONORS AND ALUMNI. TRUMP ACCUSED OBAMA OF BEING A POOR STUDENT, WHO DID NOT DESERVE TO GET INTO HARVARD. A FEW DAYS LATER, TRUMP'S WEALTHY SUPPORTERS LOBBIED TRUMP'S HIGH SCHOOL TO HIDE HIS HIGH SCHOOL RECORDS. WHICH WAS A FIRST FOR THE SCHOOL: HIDING A FORMER STUDENT'S RECORD. THE NEWS ABOUT THE HIGH SCHOOL HIDING TRUMP'S HIGH SCHOOL RECORD WAS PUBLISHED IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK, BY DIFFERENT NEWS SOURCES. TRUMP, OF COURSE, BRAGGED THAT HE "WAS ONE OF THE TOP GUYS AT THE SCHOOL." TRUTH, OR ANOTHER OF TRUMP'S LIES? IF TRUMP WAS ONE OF THE TOP GUYS AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL, WHY WERE HIS HIGH SCHOOL RECORDS MOVED AND SEALED? THE HIDDEN SCHOOL RECORD FOR TRUMP WAS A UNIQUE EVENT: NEVER DONE BEFORE AT THE SCHOOL. TRUMP IS WILLING TO ATTACK ANYONE, MALE, FEMALE, AND THE ATTACKS ARE OFTEN NOT BASED ON FACTS, BUT ON LIES AND FICTION: OBAMA WAS BORN IN AFRICA, SO OBAMA WAS NOT A LEGITIMATE PRESIDENT, ACCORDING TO TRUMP. EXCEPT OBAMA WAS BORN IN HAWAII, WHICH MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE IS PART OF THE UNITED STATES, SO FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, OBAMA WAS A LEGITIMATE PRESIDENT. THERE'S NOTHING STOPPING FOX NEWS FROM DOING STORIES ABOUT THE DEBATES, AND GIVING OPINION PIECES. BUT A DEBATE IS BASED ON RULES: SUPPOSEDLY FAIR TO BOTH SIDES. IN POLITICS, OR IN BUSINESS, DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO LET FOX NEWS HOLD A DEBATE, WHEN YOU ALREADY KNOW FOX NEWS IS HEAVILY BIASED IN TRUMP'S FAVOR? DO YOU WANT TO LET A CROOKED UMPIRE RULE A BASEBALL GAME? YOU THINK FOX WOULDN'T FAVOR TRUMP OVER HIS OPPONENTS? IF THE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS FAVORED DEMOCRATS OVER REPUBLICAN, THEN YOU COULD HAVE FOX NEWS HOLDING ONE DEBATE, AND A NEWS ORGANIZATION HOLDING A DIFFERENT DEBATE. MAYBE THE BIASES WOULD CANCEL EACH OTHER OUT. EXCEPT THAT FOX NEWS CONSIDER TRUMP'S LIES AS GOSPEL MOST NEWS ORGANIZATIONS (THE FAKE NEWS THAT TRUMP WANTS TO DESTROY), ONLY PRINT STORIES BASED ON THE FACTS OR EVIDENCE AVAILABLE TO THEM. SO FOX NEWS WOULD COME OUT AHEAD, TRUMP WOULD COME OUT AHEAD, IN A DEBATE, BECAUSE FOX NEWS IS BASICALLY THE PUBLIC MOUTHPIECE FOR TRUMP: FOX NEWS IS NOT NEWS, IT'S POLITICAL OPINIONS IN SUPPORT OF TRUMP. | |
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| 03-08-19 12:43pm - 2116 days | #1418 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
I see your point, lk2fireone, but disagree. It's not debate between Trump and Democratic candidates, but between the Democratic candidates alone. Fox will have a pro-Trump bias and likely ask slanted questions of the Democratic candidates, but those candidates will need to be able to make the case for their election to the many people in the US who think the exact same way that Fox does. If they can't make a good case in a debate environment, what chance do they have in a general election? I think a Fox-hosted Democratic debate will be biased towards Trump, but in what way does literally ignoring the thoughts and questions Trump supporters have make a stronger Democratic candidate? Wouldn't any Democrat who could show backbone, charisma, and poise in a Fox-hosted debate actually be a strong candidate? I personally don't care whether the Democratic Party does a Fox News-hosted debate in the primaries. I am not a Democrat and it's up the their party to decide which presidential candidate should be their standard bearer in 2020. I just question whether or not this decision is in the best interest of our republic. Isn't one of the biggest problems in this country that two political tribes just constantly appeal to their own bases and ignore everyone who disagrees with them? How does not letting Fox News host a Democratic debate change that dynamic? It doesn't. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-17-19 06:42pm - 2107 days | #1419 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Although John McCain died last year, President Trump will never forget, never forgive McCain for treason against the Republican party. McCain was a stained man. Trust Trump on this: But McCain's family stay loyal to the man. In spite of Trump's personal attacks. ------ ------ Trump slams John McCain over vote, Meghan McCain fires back Geobeats Mar 17th 2019 9:36AM Senator John McCain died in August of last year, and months later, President Trump is still attacking him. On Saturday, Trump took to Twitter and slammed McCain over the Russia dossier and Obamacare repeal vote. “Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier ‘is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain.’ Ken Starr, Former Independent Counsel,” Trump tweeted. “He had far worse ‘stains’ than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!” The late senator’s daughter, Meghan McCain, promptly fired back at the president. “No one will ever love you the way they loved my father…. I wish I had been given more Saturday’s with him,” she tweeted. “Maybe spend yours with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine?” After John McCain gave a deciding “no” vote on the GOP’s effort to overhaul Obamacare in 2017, Trump repeatedly criticized him, even while he was battling brain cancer. Cindy McCain, John McCain’s wife, told the BBC late last year that Trump’s attacks on her husband are something she may never get over. | |
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| 03-21-19 02:17pm - 2103 days | #1420 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
PRESIDENT TRUMP, THE BRAVEST, MOST HONEST, AND DECENT PRESIDENT THE UNITED STATES HAS EVER HAD, CONFESSES THAT JOHN MCCAIN, WHO IS NOW DEAD, WAS A TRAITOR TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND A TRAITOR TO PRESIDENT TRUMP HIMSELF. AND YET, PRESIDENT TRUMP ALLOWED MCCAIN TO BE BURIED WITH HONORS, BECAUSE TRUMP IS THE KIND OF MAN WHO FORGIVES HIS ENEMIES. -------- -------- AP FACT CHECK: Trump pins woes in Russia probe on McCain Associated Press HOPE YEN, CALVIN WOODWARD and ERIC TUCKER,Associated Press 3 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's slam on Sen. John McCain flips reality on its head when it comes to who gave veterans the option to see a private doctor at public expense. He also pins some of his woes in the Russia investigation on a distorted account of the late senator's actions in the matter. Trump overstates McCain's role in aiding the FBI with a false chronology on when the senator provided a so-called "dossier" that detailed many salacious but unconfirmed details about Trump and his aides. The president also got his history wrong on veterans. "McCain didn't get the job done for our great vets," Trump said. "I got it done." Actually, McCain got it done. Trump routinely takes full credit for enacting the Choice program, suggesting he had fulfilled a campaign promise to provide private-sector care for veterans while ignoring the fact that it was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2014. This time, his boast came as part of a broad-brush denunciation of McCain, the senator from Arizona, Vietnam war naval aviator and tortured prisoner of war who died in August of brain cancer. A look at the claims: TRUMP: "John McCain received a fake and phony dossier. Did you hear about the dossier? It was paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton. Right? And John McCain got it. He got it. And what did he do? He didn't call me. He turned it over to the FBI, hoping to put me in jeopardy." — remarks Wednesday at an Army tank factory in Lima, Ohio . TRUMP: "So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) 'last in his class' (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election. He & the Dems, working together, failed (as usual)." — tweet Sunday. THE FACTS: Trump's chronology is incorrect. McCain did not present then-FBI Director James Comey with a copy of the memos compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele until December 2016, according to a deposition from a McCain associate, David Kramer. FBI officials had access to Steele's research on Trump before the election, as they referenced it as part of an application for a secret search warrant of Trump associate Carter Page. Trump often claims falsely that special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe is based on the dossier. That probe is examining Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible coordination with the Trump campaign. The FBI's investigation actually began months before it received the dossier of anti-Trump research financed by the Democratic Party and Clinton's campaign. The FBI probe's origins were based on other evidence — not the existence of the dossier. There is no evidence that McCain provided the dossier to the news media. And while McCain famously racked up demerits and earned poor grades at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, he ultimately graduated fifth from the bottom of his 1958 class, not last. ___ TRUMP: "The vets were on my side because I got the job done. I got Choice, and I got accountability. ... For many decades, they couldn't get it done. It was never done. I got it. Five months ago, I got it done. Choice." — remarks in Ohio. THE FACTS: What Trump got done was an expansion of the program achieved by McCain and Sen. Bernie Sanders, most prominent among the lawmakers who advanced the legislation signed by Obama. McCain was a co-sponsor of the 2014 legislation to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs following a scandal at VA's medical center in Phoenix, where some veterans died while waiting months for appointments for medical care. He was a key negotiator for the legislation establishing the Veterans Choice program, working with Sanders, the co-author of the bill. Sanders was then chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. McCain didn't rest after the law was enacted. He fought to expand the program and achieved that, too, in his last months. Congress approved the expansion in May and Trump signed the legislation in June. It's named after three veterans who served in Congress. One of them is McCain. It's called the John S. McCain III, Daniel K. Akaka, and Samuel R. Johnson VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act of 2018. ___ TRUMP: "Instead of waiting in line for two days, two weeks, two months, people waiting on line — they're not very sick, by the time they see a doctor, they are terminally ill — we give them Choice. If you have to wait for any extended period of time, you go outside, you go to a local doctor, we pay the bill, you get yourself better, go home to your family — and we got it passed. We got it done." — remarks in Ohio. THE FACTS: As he does routinely, Trump exaggerated what's been accomplished with his expansion. Veterans still must wait for weeks before they can get private care outside the VA system. The program currently allows veterans to see doctors outside VA if they must wait more than 30 days for an appointment or drive more than 40 miles (65 kilometers) to a VA facility. Under new rules to take effect in June, veterans are to have that option for a private doctor if their VA wait is only 20 days (28 for specialty care) or their drive is only 30 minutes. But the expanded Choice eligibility may do little to provide immediate help. That's because veterans often must wait even longer for an appointment in the private sector. Last year, then-Secretary David Shulkin said VA care is "often 40 percent better in terms of wait times" compared with the private sector. In 2018, 34 percent of all VA appointments were with outside physicians, down from 36 percent in 2017. The VA also must resolve long-term financing because of congressional budget caps after the White House opposed new money to pay for the program. As a result, lawmakers could be forced later this year to limit the program or slash core VA or other domestic programs. Also key to the program's success is an overhaul of VA's electronic medical records to allow seamless sharing of medical records with private physicians, a process expected to take up to 10 years. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie has said full implementation of the expanded Choice program is "years" away. ___ HuffPost George Conway Reveals Why Donald Trump 'Couldn't Be Allowed' To Talk To Robert Mueller HuffPost Lee Moran,HuffPost 8 hours ago George Conway risked reigniting his Twitter feud that’s been raging with Donald Trump this week as he offered an explanation Thursday as to why the president hadn’t spoken to special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his Russia investigation. Conway claimed that a lawyer for Trump told him the president “couldn’t be allowed” to talk to Mueller because “he’d lie his ass off.” The conservative attorney, who is married to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, doubled down in other posts on his suggestion that Trump is mentally unfit for office. He also bashed him for lying “even when it makes no sense to lie” and said “the two keys to understanding Trump” were his “narcissism and compulsive prevarication.” Trump was the “worst kind of dumb,” he added. Trump has fired back at Conway’s earlier attacks, calling him the “husband from hell” and a “stone cold LOSER,” but has yet to respond to the latest tweets. Check out Conway’s posts here: This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 03-24-19 01:49am - 2100 days | #1421 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, OUR GREATEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT, REVEALS THAT JOHN MCCAIN WAS EVIL. MCCAIN WAS A HORRIBLE PERSON, PRESIDENT TRUMP REVEALS. TRUMP, THE GREATEST WAR HERO OF THE VIETNAM ERA, SAYS THAT MCCAIN WAS NO HERO. MCCAIN WAS CAPTURED. HE WAS WEAK. HE DID NOT ESCAPE HIS ENEMIES, BUT WAITED UNTIL THE US GOVERNMENT WAS ABLE TO BRING HIM HOME. COMPARE THAT TO DONALD TRUMP, WHO ATTENDED SCHOOLS WHILE IN THE UNITED STATES, WAITING TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY HONORABLY, UNTIL THE DAY HE BECAME PRESIDENT OF OUR COUNTRY, VOWING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT IN 2020 (UNLESS THAT TRAITOR MUELLER USES UNFAIR MEANS TO HAVE TRUMP IMPEACHED. GO, TRUMP!!!! ------ ------ Trump Triples Down on Bizarre Attacks Against ‘Evil’ John McCain, Complains ‘He Was Horrible’ People Helen Murphy,People Fri, Mar 22 10:58 AM PDT After a weekend tweet-storm and a Wednesday speech, President Donald Trump again attacked the late Arizona Sen. John McCain in an interview with Fox Business Network that aired Friday morning. Trump told Maria Bartiromo that his recent criticisms of the politician — including falsely mocking McCain as “last in his class” at the Naval Academy — stem from the fact that the president believes McCain was motivated by “evil” intent when he gave the FBI an as-yet-unconfirmed dossier about Trump’s alleged connection with the Russian government. (According to the New York Times, federal authorities already had a copy of the dossier when McCain brought it to them.) As CNN explains, the so-called “Steele dossier” was written by British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and alleges a “widespread conspiracy of collusion” between the president and the Russian government. Both Trump and the Kremlin deny the claims and some details of the dossier have not been verified, though many have “held up over time” or “proved to be partially true,” according to CNN. Trump said Friday the dossier “was a fake, it was a fraud” and that McCain passed it to the FBI “for very evil purposes. That’s not good.” The president also brought up McCain’s dramatic last-second 2017 vote against efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, essentially dooming the Republicans’ years-long campaign against it. RELATED: John McCain’s Ultra-Private Daughter Bridget Tweets Directly to Trump Over His Attacks — ‘You Are a Child’ “The other thing: He [McCain] voted against repeal and replace,” the president said. “Now he’s been campaigning for years for repeal and replace. I’m not a fan. After all this time — think of this, repeal and replace — we would’ve had great health care.” When asked why he continued to attack McCain even though the senator died in August from brain cancer at the age of 81, Trump said it was because the press kept bringing up the subject — even though Trump himself mentioned McCain again, unprompted, in a Twitter spree this weekend and again at speech in Ohio. “He was horrible, what he did with repeal and replace,” Trump said. “What he did to the Republican Party and to the nation and to sick people that could have had great healthcare was not good.” “I’m not a fan of John McCain, and that’s fine,” the president finished. President Donald Trump (left) and Sen. John McCain | SHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock; Mustafa Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Trump’s animosity about the late senator traces back years but returned to view over the weekend, when he accused McCain of leaking the aforementioned dossier. (Amid his flurry of tweets over several days, Trump also attacked Saturday Night Live and the husband of one of his top advisers.) Trump falsely claimed in his tweets that McCain graduated last in his class at the United States Naval Academy. “Spreading the fake and totally discredited dossier ‘is, unfortunately, a very dark stain against John McCain.’ Ken Starr, Former Independent Counsel. He had far worse ‘stains’ than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!” Trump wrote on Saturday. McCain’s daughters Meghan and Bridget weren’t shy in their response to the president. During Monday’s episode of The View, Meghan, 34, and the rest of her co-hosts discussed Trump’s tweets over the weekend. After sitting quietly for the first part of the conversation, Meghan spoke up and slammed Trump for spending his weekend speaking poorly of her late father, whom she referred to as a “great man.” “[Trump] spends his weekend obsessing over great men because — he knows it and I know it and all of you know it — he will never be a great man,” she stated. “My father was his kryptonite in life, he’s his kryptonite in death.” On Thursday, McCain’s ultra-private daughter Bridget tweeted at the president directly. “Everyone doesn’t have to agree with my dad or like him, but I do ask you to be decent and respectful,” wrote Bridget, 27. “If you can’t do those two things, be mindful. We only said goodbye to him almost 7 months ago.” In a second tweet, Bridget went on the offensive, casting the president’s fixation on her father as part of his broader narcissism and poor impulse control. “Even if you were invited to my dad’s funeral, you would have only wanted to be there for the credit and not for any condolences,” she wrote. “Unfortunately, you could not be counted on to be courteous, as you are a child in the most important role the world knows.” This week, Trump also bizarrely complained that “didn’t get a thank you” for approving McCain’s funeral. Speaking at a White House event at an Ohio tank manufacturing facility on Wednesday, Trump claimed he did not receive proper gratitude on behalf of McCain’s loved ones after “approving” the senator’s funeral service — which he did not attend — on Sept. 1. It’s unclear what Trump meant as presidential approval was not required for any of the McCain memorials. But he was likely referring to his authorization of the use of a military plane to transport McCain’s body to Washington, D.C. “I endorsed him at his request and I gave him the kind of funeral he wanted, which as president I had to approve,” Trump said at the event. He then reiterated his comments from a day earlier, telling the crowd, “I don’t care about this … I didn’t get a thank you. That’s okay. We sent him on the way. But I wasn’t a fan of John McCain.” RELATED: Donald Trump Claims He ‘Didn’t Get a Thank You’ for ‘Approving’ John McCain’s Funeral Amid Attacks Trump’s bad blood with McCain started as early as 1999 when Trump questioned whether or not the senator was a war hero during a 60 Minutes interview. McCain was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for more than five years. The former Navy pilot previously told PEOPLE that he survived thanks to his “faith in God, faith in my fellow prisoners and faith in my country.” But on 60 Minutes, Trump, who received a deferment from the military draft, was openly derisive. “He was captured … Does being captured make you a hero?” he said of McCain. “I don’t know. I’m not sure.” Trump’s comment resurfaced during the 2016 Republican presidential primary. This time, Trump doubled down. “He’s not a war hero,” Trump said at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa in July 2015. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” Trump and McCain would continue to go head-to-head up until the senator’s death. In his final letter, shared after he died, McCain expressed his gratitude for his accomplished life and the importance of sticking to American ideals despite “present difficulties.” McCain’s letter mentioned “tribal rivalries” and “[hiding] behind walls rather than [tearing] them down” — seemingly subtle shots at Trump’s resistance to foreign alliances and immigration and his inflammatory racial rhetoric. On Thursday, Meghan said on The View that Trump’s continued fuming was draining for her family. “I don’t expect decency and compassion from the Trump family,” she said. “I do want to thank the American public for all the decency and compassion that they have given us. Do not feel sorry for our family.” She instead urged viewers to “do something good out of all this toxicity,” such as support wounded veterans. | |
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| 03-24-19 08:53pm - 2099 days | #1422 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS HIS BOSS IS INNOCENT. (WE ARE ALL INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW.) SO WHY ISN'T TRUMP RELEASING THE MUELLER REPORT IN FULL, KNOWING IT WILL PROVE HIS INNOCENCE? BECAUSE TRUMP IS SUCH AN HONEST, GOD-FEARING MAN, WHO STRIKES TERROR IN THE HEARTS OF EVIL DEMOCRATS WHEREVER THEY MAY LURK. GOD SAVE DONALD TRUMP, THE MAN WHO IS MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. | |
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| 03-25-19 05:52pm - 2099 days | #1423 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
My liberal friends all felt that Mueller's report would be a proverbial smoking gun. I kept telling them that was foolish. Now that there will be no further criminal charges, we can get back to serving the public interest. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-28-19 09:17am - 2096 days | #1424 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Trump, our beloved president of the United States, reveals that Bob Mueller is a traitor, who tried to smear President Trump's image. Trump, the most heroic and moral president the US has ever had. Trump, the man who will stand at Jesus' right hand when Trump ascends to heaven. Let us all agree, that Trump, our beloved leader, will lead the fight to make America great again. We have to understand the forces of Evil, which are trying to bring Trump and the rest of America down. We must unite in love and strength behind Trump, who was sent by God himself to lead America. | |
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| 03-31-19 12:08pm - 2093 days | #1425 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Fake news: President Trump says the New York Times and The Washington Post were given the Pulitzer Prize for fraudulent news reports. Trump says he will order US troops to storm the headquarters of the Pulitzer Board to arrest the criminals who gave the prizes to these fake news organizations. Trump will personally head a 5-man jury to determine whether the Pulitzer Board are guilty of treason, and should be placed in front of a firing squad. If found guilty, President Trump will fire the first shots, because he is a hero of the Amerian people, and he stands for truth, honesty, and the American way of life. Trump, man of the people. There need to be consequences when people try to smear Trump or publish fake news. Trump over all. | |
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| 03-31-19 11:42pm - 2092 days | #1426 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Trump is the best golfer we've ever had. When he plays with the professional golfers, they strain to compete with Trump's scores. Trump, the best golfer, the best man, the most honest man: more honest than George Washington, more honest than Honest Abe. Trump, man of the people. ------ ------ Pro golfers say President Trump 'cheats at the highest level' in new book Yahoo Sports Ben Weinrib Mar 31st 2019 8:57PM President Donald Trump is certainly known to bend the truth. The Washington Post has counted nearly a dozen false or misleading claims per day of his presidency, while Politifact scored 70 percent of his statements as Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire. As it turns out, that propensity to lie also carries over to his longtime love of golf. There’s already been the story of Trump naming himself the winner of a tournament he never played in, but former Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly spells out the extent of the lying and cheating in his new book, “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump,” which will be available on Tuesday. “To say ‘Donald Trump cheats’ is like saying ‘Michael Phelps swims,'” Reilly writes. “He cheats at the highest level. He cheats when people are watching and he cheats when they aren’t. He cheats whether you like it or not. He cheats because that’s how he plays golf … if you’re playing golf with him, he’s going to cheat.” Mulligans and tampering with balls Trump’s most blatant cheating reportedly comes in the form of not playing his shots — or others’ — where they actually land. When Trump played golf with Tiger Woods, world No. 1 Dustin Johnson and PGA Tour veteran Brad Faxon in February, Trump hit a ball into the lake. But when the other players weren't looking, he got out another ball and hit another try, although that too went into the lake. “So he drives up,” Faxon said, “and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.” The cheating is not just to impress pro golfers. Reilly also details stories with ESPN announcer Mike Tirico, LPGA pro Suzann Pettersen and actor Samuel L. Jackson. In one of the most egregious stories, Tirico remembers hitting one of the best shots of his life squarely onto the green, but when he walked over, the ball was 50 feet away in a bunker. “Trump’s caddy came up to me and said, ‘You know that shot you hit on the par 5?’” Tirico says. “‘It was about 10 feet from the hole. Trump threw it in the bunker. I watched him do it.’” Lying is par for the course for Trump One of the strangest things about Trump’s history of lying while golfing is that he’s reportedly a very respectable golfer. However, he habitually lies about how good he is, including his self-reported 2.8 handicap, which is less than a stroke away from PGA legend and frequent golfing partner Jack Nicklaus. Even his courses contain lies, from his Trump National Golf Club wrongly claiming that a Civil War battle took place on site to his Bedminster course falsely attributing praise from famed golf architect Tom Fazio. Still, none of this is particularly shocking to anyone who has followed Trump. After he repeatedly admonished former President Obama for golfing and said that he would have no time to play himself, Trump has played a round every 4.2 days — twice Obama’s rate. And, naturally, he tends to lie and cover up how often he plays while on the job. | |
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| 04-03-19 08:30pm - 2089 days | #1427 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Fake news: Trump praises Mueller report. Says Mueller has declared Trump is totally innocent, and now that the report is finally out, Trump and Mueller can be best friends again. Democrats, on the other hand, want to read the full report for themselves, to find what the report says, instead of reading the summary by the Attorney General, who says his summary is not a summary, but a report on a report. -------- -------- Mueller's team reportedly believes its findings are more dangerous to Trump than Barr indicated Business Insider Sonam Sheth Apr 3rd 2019 9:16PM Some of the investigators who worked with the special counsel Robert Mueller on the FBI's Russia investigation believe their findings are more damaging to President Donald Trump than Attorney General William Barr has indicated, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. According to The Times, some members of Mueller's team have told associates that they are concerned Barr's initial review of the report, which included his "principal conclusions" of Mueller's findings, has already shaped the public's perception of the probe before the final report is released. Mueller was tasked with investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 US election, whether members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with Moscow, and whether Trump obstructed justice in the investigation after then FBI Director James Comey publicly confirmed its existence in March 2017. In his review of Mueller's findings, Barr wrote that the special counsel did not find sufficient evidence to bring a conspiracy charge against Trump or anyone associated with his campaign. The attorney general added that investigators declined to make a "traditional prosecutorial judgment" on whether Trump obstructed justice and did not conclude — one way or another — whether the president committed an obstruction crime. Investigators noted that their final report did not "exonerate" the president. But Barr, in consultation with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, concluded that there was not enough evidence to accuse Trump of obstruction. Barr has told lawmakers that he will work quickly to release as much information as possible from the special counsel's final report. According to The Times, however, Mueller's investigators had already written multiple summaries of the report, and some of them believe Barr should have included more of their material in the initial four-page letter he sent to Congress laying out his principal conclusions. But the Justice Department reportedly determined that the summaries Mueller's office put together contained sensitive information, including classified material, secret grand-jury testimony, and information related to current ongoing federal investigations. The Times' report is the first public indication of tension between the attorney general and the special counsel's office over the conclusions about the Russia investigation. Barr recently told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler that he is in the process of redacting certain types of information from the nearly 400-page report and intends to release the document by mid-April, if not sooner. But House Democrats are moving to subpoena a full, unredacted copy of the report from the Justice Department. "We have reason to suspect [the Trump administration's] motives," Nadler said in a statement Wednesday, before the House Judiciary Committee voted to authorize subpoenas for the report. "The Mueller report probably isn't the 'total exoneration' the President claims it to be. And, in any event, this Committee has a job to do. The Constitution charges Congress with holding the President accountable for alleged official misconduct." "That job requires us to evaluate the evidence for ourselves — not the Attorney General's summary, not a substantially redacted synopsis, but the full report and the underlying evidence," the statement said. Trump, meanwhile, initially said he would support releasing Mueller's full report without redactions. But the president shifted gears in recent days, slamming Democrats and suggesting an unredacted version should not be released to Congress or the public. | |
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| 04-04-19 01:58pm - 2089 days | #1428 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump tweets his is no longer besties with Robert Mueller. Even though Attorney General William Barr wrote a non-summary of the Mueller report, Trump has tweeted that Mueller and the sneaky Democrats are trying to smear Trump: Trump, the most honest, loyal, hardest-working man who promised not to play golf while serving as president, unlike the black guy, Obama, who wasted lots of time on the golf course while he should have been doing his job as president of the United States: Remember, Donald Trump was sent by God Himself to make America great again. ------ ------ Trump's Russia report victory turns sour AFP Sebastian Smith,AFP 4 hours ago Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump wanted a victory lap after the apparent flop of the Russia collusion probe, but on Thursday, 11 days later, the president instead found himself being chased in circles. Over and over the president has crowed that special counsel Robert Mueller's massive investigation into the Trump team's links to Moscow resulted in total "exoneration." But that claim is based on the conclusions of Trump's handpicked attorney general William Barr who released a four-page summary of the still secret report. The actual report, running hundreds of pages, has yet to be released publicly. And US media reports have now quoted sources from the previously almost totally leak-proof Mueller team saying that Barr's characterization glossed over potentially damaging findings. "Members of Mueller's team have complained to close associates that the evidence they gathered on obstruction was alarming and significant," The Washington Post said late Wednesday. The New York Times -- another mainstay of insider US political reporting -- quoted its unnamed sources saying that Barr "failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated." The Justice Department was forced Thursday to defend Barr's summary, saying "every page" of Mueller's report was flagged as potentially containing confidential material and insisting it would be released in full once "appropriate redactions" had been made. And in a furious tweet, Trump said the Times "had no legitimate sources, which would be totally illegal, concerning the Mueller Report. In fact, they probably had no sources at all! They are a Fake News paper who have already been forced to apologize for their incorrect and very bad reporting on me!" - Vindication - This is not the way it was meant to be for the Republican as he launches his 2020 reelection fight. For two years Trump loudly, repeatedly excoriated Mueller's "witch hunt" and dismissed as nonsense the idea he might have colluded with attempts by Russia to tilt public opinion in his favor during the 2016 election. The Barr summary looked like a stunning vindication. According to Barr, Mueller found that no one in the Trump team had "conspired or coordinated with Russia." On the question of whether Trump had tried to obstruct justice and prevent Mueller from freely investigating the Russia angle, Barr said the special prosecutor did not reach a definitive conclusion. "While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," Barr quoted Mueller as saying. That sounded perilously ambiguous for the president, but with Barr himself making the judgment that there was in fact no obstruction offense, Trump could call it a win. In streams of tweets, comments to journalists and a celebratory campaign rally, Trump said he had been proven right. He even accused the law enforcement officials and Democratic Party politicians who supported Mueller's probe of treason. - 'Sneaky,' 'rabid' - But questioning by Democrats about why the report has not been fully released and now the reported leaks from the Mueller team are turning that victory sour. In a statement on Thursday, Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec defended Barr's handling of the report. "Given the extraordinary public interest in the matter, the Attorney General decided to release the report's bottom-line findings and his conclusions immediately -- without attempting to summarize the report -- with the understanding that the report itself would be released after the redaction process," she said. Barr "does not believe the report should be released in 'serial or piecemeal fashion,'" she added. In the meantime, it was back to business as usual for Trump on Twitter, with attacks on opponents that could have been written months ago. "According to polling, few people seem to care about the Russian Collusion Hoax, but some Democrats are fighting hard to keep the Witch Hunt alive," he tweeted Thursday. "They should focus on legislation or, even better, an investigation of how the ridiculous Collusion Delusion got started - so illegal!" Trump's lawyer, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, was also refighting the supposedly finished battle. On Fox News Wednesday night, he called the Mueller team "a bunch of sneaky, unethical leakers. And they are rabid Democrats who hate the president of United States." As for Trump's actions regarding the murky Russian involvement in the election? "We think we can prove beyond any doubt that there is nothing to collusion," Giuliani said. | |
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| 04-08-19 08:18am - 2085 days | #1429 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Fake news: Trump declares national emergency: sends US military troops into civilians homes in Southern California, with orders to shoot to kill any rebels who are traitors to his goal of making America great again. Trump, the man who wants to re-write the US Constitution so his family can control our Manifest Destiny of Free, White America. We must be strong and deport the Mexican rapists and other people of low moral character from the shores of our great land. Only then can we be safe to sleep in our beds at night, without an AK-47 by our side. Trump is pushing his friend and ally Vladimir Putin to send boatloads of AK-47 to the US so American citizens (White, not brown or black or some other mongrel strain) can defend their freedoms with strength, integrity, and the power of the Russian-made AK-47. | |
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| 04-24-19 08:20am - 2069 days | #1430 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump confesses to the nation: I am innocent. Crooked Hillary Clinton is a criminal who belongs in prison. The scumbag Democrats hate me, even though I am struggling to make America great again. My Father, who art in Heaven, will send his angels down to smite the heathen Democrats and unleash the fires of Hell upon their thieving, conniving souls. May God have mercy on my enemies, because I sure as hell won't. ------------- ------------- Trump: Mueller report 'didn't lay a glove on me' Yahoo News Dylan Stableford Apr 24th 2019 10:41AM President Trump continues to claim exoneration from special counsel Robert Mueller's report, while simultaneously attacking it, as Democrats debate whether the accounts of Trump's repeated attempts to interfere with the probe justify pursuing his impeachment. "The Mueller Report, despite being written by Angry Democrats and Trump Haters, and with unlimited money behind it ($35,000,000), didn’t lay a glove on me," Trump tweeted early Wednesday. "I DID NOTHING WRONG." That followed by 48 hours a retweet by the president of Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tex., about Mueller’s “disreputable, twisted history,” describing the investigation as an attempted “coup against a lawfully elected president.” Mueller’s two-year investigation concluded that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election “in sweeping and systemic fashion.” A redacted version of Mueller's report released last week found no conspiracy between Russia and Trump’s campaign. But it chronicled at least 10 episodes of efforts by Trump to obstruct the federal probe. And while the special counsel declined to charge Trump with obstruction of justice, investigators explicitly refused to exonerate the president. “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state,” the report explained. “We are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” The findings have spurred calls by several top Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to pursue Trump's impeachment. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is urging caution, saying she wants to see Mueller's full unredacted report and hear testimony from current and former members of the Trump administration before considering it. “Impeachment is one of the most divisive forces, paths that we could go down to in our country,” Pelosi said Tuesday. “But if the path of fact-finding takes us there, we have no choice.” Trump warned that such a move would lead to a legal battle. "If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court," Trump tweeted. "Not only are there no 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors,' there are no Crimes by me at all. All of the Crimes were committed by Crooked Hillary, the Dems, the DNC and Dirty Cops - and we caught them in the act! We waited for Mueller and WON, so now the Dems look to Congress as last hope!" "No Collusion, No Obstruction - there has NEVER been a President who has been more transparent," he continued. "Millions of pages of documents were given to the Mueller Angry Dems, plus I allowed everyone to testify, including W.H. counsel. I didn’t have to do this, but now they want more." Trump added: "Congress has no time to legislate, they only want to continue the Witch Hunt, which I have already won. They should start looking at The Criminals who are already very well known to all. This was a Rigged System - WE WILL DRAIN THE SWAMP!" | |
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| 05-02-19 01:07am - 2061 days | #1431 | |
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Real news: Attorney General William Barr stands up for the independence of the Executive Branch from Congressional Oversight. Says Congress has no authority to demand what the Executive Branch does. Tells Congress to fuck off. ------- ------- Barr calls Mueller's letter 'a bit snitty,' but won't give Senate notes from call Yahoo News David Knowles May 1st 2019 8:35PM Attorney General William Barr refused Wednesday to turn over his notes on a conversation he had with Robert Mueller during which the special counsel complained about Barr’s summary of his report about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and Donald Trump’s attempts to cover it up. “No,” Barr responded when asked by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., if he would provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with the notes he took to document the call with Mueller. “Why not?” Blumenthal responded. “Why should you have them?” Barr answered. Barr’s defiance came at the end of a contentious day of testimony during which Democratic members of the committee accused the attorney general of the United States of lying. Republican committee members, meanwhile, sought to shift the focus of the hearing to what they described as corruption in the FBI during the 2016 campaign. Moments before the tense exchange, Barr derisively described a March 27 letter by Mueller objecting to Barr’s summary of his report. The four pages released by Barr “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” Mueller wrote. The phone call Blumenthal was asking about was a follow-up to Mueller’s letter. “The letter’s a bit snitty and I think it was probably written by one of his staff people,” Barr said. “Snitty,” the adjective form of “snit,” means agitated or annoyed. Throughout his testimony Wednesday, Barr deflected responsibility to Mueller for the decision not to charge Trump with obstruction of justice. Democrats on the committee said Mueller’s interactions with Barr show that the attorney general had provided political cover for the White House. Barr’s notes of his conversation with Mueller, they believe, could shed light on that issue. If Barr’s appearance before the committee made anything clearer, it was that Mueller would soon be asked for his version of events. “I’m going to write a letter to Mr. Mueller and I’m going to ask him is there anything you said about that conversation that he disagrees with,” committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said before adjourning the hearing. But on his way out, in response to a question, Graham said he had no plans to call another hearing for Mueller to testify in public. "I'm not going to do any more. Enough already. It's over." | |
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| 05-03-19 03:17pm - 2060 days | #1432 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Real news versus the fake news reported by Fox news: Trump and Putin discussed the Mueller report. Putin praises Trump for standing firm and denying guilt and collusion. Trump asks for raise from Putin for doing such a great job taking money from the lower class and middle class and giving it to the rich. Putin says Trump is a genius, almost as good as Adolf Hitler, in spreading lies about his enemies. Putin promises Trump that if Russia sends nuclear warheads into America, they will try to avoid areas where Trump's golf courses are located, so Trump should feel safe from any nuclear attacks. Trump spokeswoman Sarah Sanders tells reporters that President Trump, unlike former President Obama, takes threats of foreign interference in US elections seriously. Obama was a wimp, who let foreign countries disrupt US elections. Trump is a hero, who safeguards the right of Americans to vote freely. --------- --------- Trump, Putin discussed Mueller report and agreed no collusion, White House says NBC News Dartunorro Clark May 3rd 2019 4:11PM President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Friday and both agreed "there was no collusion" between Moscow and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said. Sanders said that the two briefly discussed special counsel Robert Mueller's report "essentially in the context of that it's over and there was no collusion." She added that she was "pretty sure both leaders were very well aware of (the Mueller report's finding) long before this call took place" because it was "something we've said for the better part of two and a half years." When asked if they also discussed election meddling by Russia that Mueller detailed in his report, she said that the administration is committed to securing American elections and blasted the Obama administration for not taking action in 2016. "This administration, unlike the previous one, takes election meddling seriously," she said. | |
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| 05-04-19 07:48pm - 2058 days | #1433 | |
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Real news: Trump supports the right of free speech. If you want to call a criminal a scumbag Democrat that should burn in hell, you have every right, says Trump. He wants everyone to have the right to say "Fuck you, pig" to disliked neighbors. It's the American way to show support for the flag, and to bring America closer together. Our Father, who Art in Heaven, Glory be Thy Name, and let us worship at the side of Donald Trump. -------- -------- Trump tweets support for far-right activists Facebook banned New York Daily News Dave Goldiner May 4th 2019 3:15PM Get ready for the Don vs. Mark smackdown. President Trump slammed Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook for banning several far-right figures — and took a shot at the mainstream media for what he calls its #FakeNews falsehoods. In an early morning tweet spree, Trump twice retweeted hate-spewing YouTube personality Paul Joseph Watson, who complained that the social media giant is muzzling him for being politically incorrect. The online outburst came on top of Trump’s late Friday tweets complaining that #MAGA-backing actor James Wood should not have been banned from the platform. He said the White House would “monitor” Facebook’s actions, which he suggested infringe on freedom of speech. Facebook on Thursday cracked down on hate speech by banning Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan and InfoWars chief Alex Jones, whose site traffics in conspiracy theories like the claim that the Sandy Hook massacre never happened. Far-right-wing haters such as Laura Loomer and ex-Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulis were also given the boot by the site and its partner, Instagram. The move was a big shift for Zuckerberg who earlier defended the rights of Holocaust deniers and other hate merchants to remain on Facebook. | |
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| 05-05-19 10:48am - 2058 days | #1434 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Real news: President Trump uses the clenched fist to slam the opponents who are dragging down America. Trump promises he will piss on the graves of the criminals and immoral lawbreakers like Hillary Clinton and John McCain, traitors to the glorious heritage of the United States of America. Trump urges all loyal Americans to burn down the homes and properties of those Commie-loving slimeball Democrats, who should burn in hell. And Trump promises to give out pardons to all right-thinking cops who gun down the criminals on our streets. Cinco de Mayo is the day we must put on our white hoods and carry our AK-47s and AR-15s and march on Los Angeles and New York City and take back the lands the Commie liberals have stolen from us. God bless America. God bless Donald Trump. | |
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| 05-09-19 01:21pm - 2054 days | #1435 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The real news: President Trump says his son Don Jr. is a very good boy. Prez says his son is innocent: if he did something wrong, it was because he didn't know better: but his son is innocent of any crimes. Prez says his son gets a get-out-of-jail card because the Prez can give out pardons. So, "Fuck you, Congress", Prez tweets to his followers. "You want to play dirty, I'll cover you in shit." And the Prez's shit is very stinky. So, ha, ha, ha, Prez and can claim Executive Privilege and the power of the pardon. And the Prez says he will never forgive, never get, any of his enemies. All Democrats are shithole slumdogs, says the Prez. ------- ------- Trump says Senate subpoena of Donald Jr. left him 'very surprised' Yahoo News Dylan Stableford May 9th 2019 3:05PM President Trump on Thursday said he was “very surprised” — and appeared displeased — that the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena for Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, to answer more questions about his contacts with Russia. “I was very surprised,” Trump told reporters during an event that was supposed to focus on medical billing reform at the White House. People close to Trump Jr. say he is resisting the subpoena and may invoke his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions, according to the New York Times. The president questioned why the committee’s co-chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., would pursue the matter after special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election concluded that there was not enough evidence to charge Trump or members of his campaign with conspiracy. “I saw Richard Burr saying there was no collusion two or three weeks ago,” Trump said. Donald Trump Jr. was a key witness in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s probe of Russia’s meddling. The panel is reportedly seeking to question Trump Jr. about congressional testimony he gave in September 2017 about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow — testimony that was later contradicted by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Trump Jr. told the committee that he “was peripherally aware” of the Trump Tower Moscow project. But in public testimony to the House Oversight Committee, Cohen said he briefed Trump family members, including Don Jr. and Ivanka Trump, “approximately 10 times” about it. The president painted Don Jr. as a political novice who backed into his role in the 2016 campaign. “My son’s a very good person. Works very hard,” the president continued. “The last thing he needs is Washington, D.C. He would rather not ever be involved. I remember he said to me a long time ago when I was thinking about running, ’Dad, if I can help, let me know. It’s not my expertise, it’s not something I really like, but whatever I can do, you are my father.’” Trump Jr. arranged the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who claimed to have dirt on his father’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, which Trump Jr. said he would “love.” The president on Thursday described it as “opposition research” that “99 percent” of those in the room had done. Referring to the Mueller report as “the Bible,” Trump falsely claimed that the special counsel completely exonerated him and his son. Mueller explicitly refused to clear Trump of obstruction of justice, citing at least 10 occasions when he sought to meddle in the federal probe. “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state,” the report read. “We are unable to reach that judgment.” House Democrats want Mueller to testify. Attorney General William Barr said that he would not object to letting Mueller, who is still an employee of the Department of Justice, testify before the committee. Last week, Trump told reporters he would leave Mueller’s testimony up to the attorney general. On Sunday, Trump reversed course, tweeting: “Bob Mueller should not testify. No redos for the Dems!” On Thursday, the president appeared to return to his initial position. | |
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| 05-13-19 05:49am - 2050 days | #1436 | |
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Trump has called farmers “great patriots” who are willing to sacrifice because they “know they’re doing it for the country.” The rural vote helped put Trump over the top in the 2016 election, yet his trade war has hit farmers particularly hard. It has contributed to a record number of farm bankruptcies as U.S. farm exports plunge. But Trump, with a Republican led Congress, signed into law a tax cut for billionaires that saves them billions of dollars in taxes. So the billionaires are super-patriots, because Congress has rewarded the US billionaires with billions of dollars in tax cuts. While middle and lower classes in the US are now paying higher taxes due to that same law. -------- -------- Trump seeks new $15 billion subsidy to protect farmers from his own trade war HuffPost US Mary Papenfuss May 13th 2019 4:26AM President Donald Trump is seeking an additional $15 billion in U.S. subsidies in an effort to protect farmers from the devastating impact of his trade war with China. That’s on top of $12 billion already earmarked for the farmers to help them weather the fallout. That would be an additional bill for U.S. taxpayers already shouldering the cost of increased tariffs in the form of higher costs for products and parts from China. Trump revealed the subsidy figure in a tweet Friday. He suggested the government use the funds to buy agricultural products to ship to other nations for humanitarian aid, though setting up such a system would be extremely complicated. In his most recent budget proposal, Trump proposed eliminating three food aid programs, Politico noted. The president appeared to dismiss the impact of the cost as he falsely claimed — again — that “massive” tariff payments are being paid by China “directly” to the U.S. Treasury, which would presumably be used to cover the cost of the subsidy. There is “absolutely no need to rush” to negotiate a deal with China, he tweeted. In fact, the tariffs are paid by U.S. importers, who pass on the extra costs to the American consumer in the form of higher prices for products, a fact White House economic adviser Larry Kudlowadmitted Sunday. Economists have estimated that the trade war is costing the U.S. more than $3 billion a month. AdChoices The administration last year earmarked $12 billion in aid to farmers, almost all of it in direct payments. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) applied for funds for their farms. The rural vote helped put Trump over the top in the 2016 election, yet his trade war has hit farmers particularly hard. It has contributed to a record number of farm bankruptcies as U.S. farm exports plunge. Other industries affected by the tariffs are not receiving subsidies. Trump has called farmers “great patriots” who are willing to sacrifice because they “know they’re doing it for the country.” | |
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| 05-20-19 02:36pm - 2043 days | #1437 | |
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Real news: Trump tells his former lawyer to defy Congress. Trump is above the law. The Justice Department backs up Trump's claim that Congress has no power over the president. Trump says, "I'm the man. I can shoot people on New York streets, and the peons will vote for me anyway." --------- --------- Trump tells ex-counsel McGahn to defy congressional subpoena The Associated Press Michael Balsamo and Jonathan Lemire May 20th 2019 4:12PM WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump directed former White House counsel Don McGahn to defy a congressional subpoena, citing a Justice Department legal opinion that McGahn would have immunity from testifying before Congress about his work as a close Trump adviser. The decision is certain to deepen tensions between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration. They've accused Trump and Attorney General William Barr of trying to stonewall and block Congress from carrying out its oversight duties. Democrats have been eager to hear from McGahn, a key figure in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation who described ways in which the president sought to curtail the probe. The House Judiciary Committee had issued a subpoena to compel McGahn to testify by Tuesday, and the committee's chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., has threatened to hold McGahn in contempt of Congress if he doesn't testify. The White House instructed McGahn not to comply with the subpoena to further its strategy of trying to block every congressional probe into Trump and his administration. Officials mulled various legal options before settling on providing McGahn with a legal opinion from the Department of Justice that justifies him defying the subpoena. "The immunity of the President's immediate advisers from compelled congressional testimony on matters related to their official responsibilities has long been recognized and arises from the fundamental workings of the separation of powers," the Justice Department's opinion reads. "Accordingly, Mr. McGahn is not legally required to appear and testify about matters related to his official duties as Counsel to the President." The Judiciary committee still plans on meeting even if McGahn doesn't show up. If McGahn were to defy the White House, it could endanger his own career in Republican politics but also puts his law firm, Jones Day, in the president's crosshairs. Trump has mused about instructing Republicans to cease dealing with the firm, which is deeply intertwined in Washington with the GOP, according to one White House official and a Republican close to the White House not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations. Trump has fumed about McGahn for months, after it became clear that much of Mueller's report was based on his testimony. He has bashed the former White House counsel on Twitter and has insisted to advisers that the attorney not be allowed to humiliate him in front of Congress, much like his former fixer Michael Cohen did, according to the official and Republican. The Justice Department has long held the opinion that close presidential advisers have "absolute immunity" from being compelled to testify before Congress about their work for the president. A similar legal opinion issued in 2014, under the Obama administration, argued that if Congress could force the president's closest advisers to testify about matters that happened during their tenure, it would "threaten executive branch confidentiality, which is necessary (among other things) to ensure that the President can obtain the type of sound and candid advice that is essential to the effective discharge of his constitutional duties." The House Judiciary Committee voted earlier this month to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt after he defied a subpoena for an unredacted version of Mueller's report. | |
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| 05-21-19 06:13am - 2042 days | #1438 | |
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Real news: Fox News is biased propaganda, not even qualifying as news. It promotes President Trump's biases. And distorts the truth. Here is a case where commentaters at Fox news denigrate Robert De Niro, one of the finest actors of his generation, because De Niro is an outspoken critic of Trump. -------- -------- Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson blast Robert De Niro's anti-Trump remarks: ‘He's just a has-been actor’ Yahoo Entertainment Video Stephen Proctor May 21st 2019 8:22AM Sean Hannity and his fellow opinion hosts at Fox News took aim at Robert De Niro Monday night following the actor’s anti-Trump rant at an awards ceremony over the weekend. While honoring Al Pacino at the American Icon Awards, De Niro said, among other things, that a fitting tribute for Trump would be impeachment and imprisonment. This was just one of many times De Niro has slammed the president, and this time, Hannity had some harsh words of his own for the Oscar winner. Hannity began by naming De Niro the “Villain of the Day” before going on to call him leftist, liberal, socialist and a “very angry man.” Hannity then said of De Niro, “He’s just a has-been actor that has too much time on his hands.” Laura Ingraham then joined in and compared the star to Grumpy Cat, who died last week. “Hannity, we lost the Grumpy Cat,” Ingraham said. “Ya know the Grumpy Cat died last week? Now we have a new Grumpy Cat: De Niro.” Earlier in the evening, Tucker Carlson and frequent guest Mark Steyn also took shots at De Niro, even coming up with their own awards show just for him, though it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as the Academy Awards or Golden Globes. “They should have best cranky, embittered grandpa 40 years past his acting best award ‘cause he’d be a shoo-in for that,” Steyn said of De Niro. “He’d definitely be in the running,” Carlson replied, “though I would argue there are some other contenders.” | |
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| 05-31-19 04:30am - 2032 days | #1439 | |
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President Trump: friend of the common man. Best buddies with Putin (Russia) and Kim Jong Un (North Korea). Why can't the US be more like Russia or North Korea: instead of firing his former employees, wouldn't it be a more permanent solution if he could have them executed or sentenced to forced labor with ideological education to help these failed people learn to serve Trump better? President Trump: my hero. Who would love to follow in the footsteps of Stalin and Hitler in his goal of making America great again. -------- -------- North Korea reportedly executes officials for failed Trump-Kim summit HuffPost US Nick Visser May 31st 2019 4:30AM North Korea has executed the country’s special envoy to the United States over February’s failed summit between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported Friday. Kim Hyok Chol, the chief negotiator who led the working-level negotiations with the U.S., was executed in March alongside several other officials in punishment for the outcome of the event, the newspaper reported. Trump and Kim met in Hanoi, Vietnam, for their second official summit to discuss Pyongyang’s nuclear program, but the talks abruptly collapsed after the pair failed to come to a deal. Tensions with the North have only increased in recent months after a period of relative calm. “Kim Hyok Chol was investigated and executed at Mirim Airport with four foreign ministry officials in March,” an unnamed North Korean officials told the Chosun Ilbo, according to a translation from Reuters. Another official, Kim Yong Chol, who worked with Vice President Mike Pence in the lead-up to the Hanoi summit, has also been punished, reportedly with forced labor and “ideological education,” according to the South Korean paper. Some experts on North Korea expressed hesitation over the reports, noting that Pyongyang’s reclusive nature makes it hard to pin down who may or may not have been punished by the Kim regime. Several senior officials have been reported to be executed or disappeared only to reappear in public several months later. Relations with North Korea have declined since the summit in Hanoi, although Trump has continued to tout his relationship with Kim, praising the leader earlier this month as a “very smart man.” Trump also denied that Pyongyang had fired any ballistic missiles in violation of United Nations resolutions, even though his own national security adviser, John Bolton, said last weekend there was “no doubt” North Korea had done just that. “My people think it could have been a violation,” Trump said earlier this week during a state visit to Japan. “I view it differently.” The North has grown openly antagonistic toward several Trump officials who have urged the president to take a harder line against Kim, including Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In April, the North’s state-run news agency quoted several senior officials who said they would no longer speak with Pompeo and preferred that he be replaced with someone more “mature.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 06-03-19 05:50pm - 2029 days | #1440 | |
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President Trump, the teflon president. "I'm innocent. No conspiracy. No collusion". But lots of people around the Trump presidency have been charged with lying to the government (Trump lies on a daily basis), violating federal campaign laws, violating almost every other financial crime. Now add child pornography to the list of crimes of people associated with Trump, the beloved figure who stands for Christian morals and groping women by the pussy and secretly paying off women he beds while married to his current wife. ------- ------- Politics News June 3, 2019 6:02PM ET Add Child Porn to Crimes Allegedly Committed by Trump-Affiliated Figures Businessman George Nader was involved in the Trump transition. He could spend the rest of his life in prison By Ryan Bort & Andy Kroll Figures associated with President Trump have been charged with everything from lying to the government to violating federal campaign finance law to just about every financial crime imaginable. Add trafficking child pornography to the list. George Nader, a Middle East fixer who advised the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates and whose connections to Trump drew the attention of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, was apprehended on Monday and indicted on federal child pornography charges. According to federal prosecutors, he was arrested upon landing at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and charged with “transporting visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.” Child pornography isn’t a new interest for the 60-year-old Nader. In 1991, he was convicted in the same federal court in eastern Virginia on the same charge. Just over a decade later in 2003, Nader was convicted in the Czech Republic on 10 counts of sexually abusing minors. Nader was also charged in a 1985 case involving a shipment of Dutch magazines depicting naked adolescent boys, but the charges were ultimately dropped. Nevertheless, the Lebanese American businessman was able to worm his way into Trump’s orbit, particularly during the transition following the 2016 election. In December 2016, he attended a Trump Tower meeting that featured Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates, the latter of whom Nader was advising. I wouldn't recommend reading the Nader affidavit (https://t.co/XrfNEDDMCG), but it confirms that the charges unsealed today arise from files on iphones seized at IAD on Jan. 17, 2018, which is when the Special Counsel team reportedly stopped him on his way to Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/53Jsb1UaWX — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 3, 2019 Nader’s name appears more than 100 times in the partially redacted version of Special Counsel Mueller’s final report released in April. According to the report, a Russian businessman with close connections to President Vladimir Putin contacted Nader after Trump’s election victory to help arrange a meeting with members of Trump’s transition team. The report states that Nader orchestrated a meeting in the Seychelles in January 2017 between the Kremlin-connected oligarch, Kirill Dmitriev, and Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater who had ties to the Trump campaign. (Prince’s sister, Betsy DeVos, is Trump’s education secretary.) After Trump’s election, Nader also worked with a Republican fundraiser and Trump supporter named Elliott Broidy on an elaborate public affairs effort to shape the Trump administration’s foreign policy in the Middle East. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Nader and Broidy pushed Trump to be more critical of the tiny but wealthy Persian Gulf state of Qatar while moving closer to the UAE and Saudi Arabia. (A lawyer for Broidy has said that his work with Nader was not lobbying, adding that his clients “has never agreed to work for, been retained or compensated by, nor taken direction from any foreign government directly or indirectly for any interaction with the United States government, ever.”) At the same time, Broidy was also seeking business deals with Middle Eastern leaders for his private defense companies. Broidy and Nader were on the cusp of closing a major deal with UAE when Nader was stopped by federal agents at Dulles Airport in 2018. He sat for “multiple” interviews with Mueller’s office, according to the special counsel’s final report. Nader faces a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of 40 years in prison If convicted of Monday’s charge. | |
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| 06-05-19 09:32am - 2027 days | #1441 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump, master of the art of the deal, is creating new opportunities in China with his trade war: US actors in China can now migrate back to the US instead of appearing in Chinese films. -------- -------- June 5, 2019 8:28AM PT Trump Trade War Starts to Threaten Hollywood’s Business in China (EXCLUSIVE) By Patrick Frater and Rebecca Davis China has started putting the brakes on the entry of some U.S. content in apparent retaliation against Washington’s escalation of its trade war with Beijing, multiple sources tell Variety. Chinese film officials have told some local buyers to steer clear of U.S. movies. One Chinese distributor says he was advised by various platforms not to submit U.S. titles for consideration, while another has heard through unofficial channels that private companies can no longer import U.S. content. American actors working in the Middle Kingdom say their careers have nosedived without explanation. Industry insiders stress that there is nothing in writing – no officially published decree – putting a freeze on U.S. content. The Chinese government tends to exercise such controls internally and unofficially, which allows it to publicly deny the existence of any restrictions and to make exceptions when it suits them. Three years ago, when China blocked South Korean films, pop bands and other cultural exports out of anger over Seoul’s decision to deploy U.S.-made missiles, it took six months before Beijing publicly acknowledged the policy. “Our clients and industry sources are telling us there is to be a de facto ban on U.S. content in the theatrical and streaming sectors,” said Beijing-based entertainment attorney Mathew Alderson, a partner at Harris Bricken, an international law firm whose China office has several U.S. clients. “As far as I’m aware, the policy has not been written down, and we don’t expect it to be. However, it is coming to the attention of the industry now.” U.S. studio sources point out that they are still getting movies into China. Sony’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home” was recently granted a prime June 28 debut, ahead of its U.S. release, and other films such as “The Secret Life of Pets 2” and “Toy Story 4” have received slots. But privately they acknowledge that storm clouds may be brewing. “It’s all still very gray,” one studio insider said. Hollywood studios have also been grousing that China is applying “phantom” taxes on the ticket revenues they collect. Under their pact, the studios get 25% of ticket sales from the movies they release in China. Given how important China has become in terms of box office, any kind of slowdown or ban could cost these companies tens of millions of dollars. China has become such an important market in recent years that major films are greenlit and cast based on their appeal to the Middle Kingdom. Equally, Chinese exhibitors depend on Hollywood blockbusters to keep the turnstiles spinning, particularly since the Fan Bingbing tax-evasion scandal last summer, which has led to a massive local production slowdown. Foreign films were widely expected to grow their market share this year to make up the difference. “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” “Aladdin” and “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” dominate the top spots this week at China’s box office. One local distributor told Variety that Hollywood tentpoles are likely to still get through. “Everyone I’ve dealt with says they’re not going to mess with Hollywood movies,” a Chinese exhibitor said. But evidence is mounting of problems in other corners of the industry. A leading U.S. sales agent said four major Chinese buyers told him they had received phone calls from China’s Film Bureau during the Cannes Film Festival informing them that no more non-revenue-sharing movies from the U.S. would get release slots after May 24. (The big-budget Hollywood productions are almost invariably revenue-sharing titles in China.) Indie Rights, an L.A.-based sales company specializing mostly in the streaming sector, told Variety that it had received “an email from our biggest Chinese buyer saying that, due to the trade war with the U.S., the censorship office will not be reviewing any more films from the U.S.” And a Chinese distributor, speaking on condition of anonymity, said she had heard unofficially that private firms have been forbidden from importing U.S. films since Chinese New Year, in February, and that local streaming platforms were recently made subject to the same prohibition. “Right now the information is very confusing and chaotic. We really don’t know what will happen when,” the distributor said. “We have heard the same information” regarding the squeeze on some U.S. content, said Jean Prewitt, president of the Independent Film & Television Alliance. “It is very unfortunate as China has become an important part of the independent film financing matrix. This would be an extreme setback.” In addition to being the world’s second-largest film market, China also accounts for 60% of the world’s SVOD subscribers, according to research published last week by Ampere Analysis. Chinese viewers and industry professionals alike got an inkling of a possible shift in policy last month when streaming of the “Game of Thrones” finale on Tencent Video was halted. An HBO spokesman told the Wall Street Journal that there were no transmission problems and that Tencent had been ordered by the Chinese government to pull the show because of the trade dispute. A source close to China’s censorship regime told Variety that internet TV and streaming platforms have not been ordered to remove U.S. content, but have been discouraged from promoting it online. On another front, five American actors working in Chinese productions told Variety that the trade tensions with the U.S. have taken a toll on their careers. One says that numerous production companies told him in the past two weeks that he could not take part in their upcoming projects because of his citizenship. “Essentially overnight, many Americans have been left with no on-screen prospects,” said the actor, who asked that he not be identified. “Some were fired, some had auditions canceled, and essentially all our phones have stopped ringing….No one imagined they could be this far away from America, but still affected by the U.S. government’s choices.” If restrictions on U.S. content bite hard and long enough to reduce the number of U.S. films playing theatrically, China’s film regulators may turn elsewhere for film imports. But there, too, politics is likely to play a role. Two of the most obvious alternative sources of English-language content are the U.K. and Australia . But diplomatic relations between Australia and China are near an all-time low, and the U.K. is risking Chinese anger over its policy towards tech firm Huawei, which the U.S. wants its allies to ban. Canadian filmmakers appear to have already come under fire for their country’s arrest of Huawei CEO Meng Wanzhou following U.S. charges of fraud, with a Canadian director disinvited from the Beijing Intl. Film Festival in March. Brent Lang contributed to this report. | |
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| 06-09-19 09:05am - 2023 days | #1442 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Donald Trump, a man of his word. Trump heavily criticized President Obama for taking time off from his job to play golf. Trump pledged, while campaigning for president, that he would never play golf while president because the job was too important. But since becoming president, Trump has played at least twice as much golf, maybe even 3 times as much golf, as President Obama ever played. And the US taxpayer is paying a heavy price for President Trump's golf. Much of it going into Donald Trump's own pockets. -------- -------- June 8, 2019 6:45PM ET Trump’s Ireland Golf Course Visit Cost Taxpayers $3.6 Million That brings the total to $105.8 million spent on reimbursements to properties owned by the president during his administration By Peter Wade President Donald Trump, right plays golf. Ren Onuma/AP/Shutterstock The president is rarely in a building, save for the White House, that doesn’t have his name on it. And that is costing the American taxpayer more than $100 million, according to HuffPost. Trump’s recent visit to his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, contributed $3.6 million to that total. The expenses for Trump’s trip included $1,023,940 for car and limo rentals, $10,866 to install temporary phone lines and an astounding $16,325 for the Secret Service to rent golf carts to follow the president while he played the links. And according to HuffPost, the jaunt to Ireland cost the State Department $1.5 million in contracts for the trip. And the resort tried to cash in even more on its presidential owner by posting videos on Facebook of him golfing there and of his helicopter arrival. But, HuffPost says, the videos were taken down after they made inquiries. As were two tweets promoting the president’s visit. The posts were a violation of the pledge the Trump Organization made at the beginning of his term, promising that “no communications of the Organization, including social media accounts, will reference or otherwise be tied to President-Elect Trump’s role as President of the United States or the Office of the Presidency.” Trump told reporters as he left the White House last week that he was staying at his resort at Doonbeg for convenience, saying, “Well, we’re going to be staying at Doonbeg, in Ireland because it’s convenient and it’s a great place. But it’s convenient.” As HuffPost points out, however, going to Doonbeg required quite a detour, and it would have made more sense for Trump to stay overnight in France after visiting Normandy, rather than flying to Ireland. Jordan Libowitz of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which is suing the administration for violating the “emoluments clause” of the Constitution told HuffPost, “At this point, it appears that Donald Trump views his presidency as just another way to support his business,” Libowitz said. “On an international trip at taxpayer expense, he stopped by to film a commercial for his Irish golf course, which is advertising the stop explicitly as one by the president of the United States. His own lawyers, in their ‘Conflict of Interest’ white paper, said this would not happen. But at this point, it’s clear all that matters to President Trump is what makes him money.” The trip was Trump’s 181st overnight stay at a golf course during his presidency, and most of those stays—all but two—were at Trump-owned properties. Trump returned to the White House from his European trip on Friday night. On Saturday, he was back at another one of his properties: Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. | |
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| 06-16-19 04:51pm - 2016 days | #1443 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Donald Trump demands that the US votes him President For Life. Says he will not leave office after his second term (even though he hasn't yet won a second term). Donald Trump will re-write the US Constitution, granting him the office of President for Life. After Trump dies, the office will pass to his loyal daughter, Ivanka Trump, who is beloved by the American public. Long live Donald Trump, man of the people. Long live Ivanka Trump, the glorious daughter of our beloved President For Life. ------------ ------------ Rolling Stone Politics News June 16, 2019 4:44PM ET Trump Loves to Say He May Not Leave Office After Two Terms, and It’s Dangerous We are living in a time where the unbelievable has become believable By Peter Wade Donald Trump thinks his supporters will want him to serve a third term, despite not yet winning a second. On Saturday, the New York Times reported that Pentagon and intelligence officials kept certain details from the president regarding a new U.S. military program that included cyber warfare attacks on Russia because of “the possibility that [Trump] might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials.” On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump, angered by the story, took to Twitter to blast both the New York Times and the Washington Post, calling both “the Enemy of the People.” Included in his dangerous tweet, the president also floated the idea of staying in office longer that what is constitutionally allowable because his supporters might “demand that I stay longer.” …..news is that at the end of 6 years, after America has been made GREAT again and I leave the beautiful White House (do you think the people would demand that I stay longer? KEEP AMERICA GREAT), both of these horrible papers will quickly go out of business & be forever gone! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2019 As laughable or terrifying as that may sound, the notion that Trump would try to stay in office should not be scoffed at. We are living in a time where the unbelievable has become believable. As the Washington Post reminded us after the Mueller report was released, Trump shared a tweet from Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. that called for extending his first term by two years “as pay back for time stolen by this corrupt failed coup.” Back in April, Trump seemingly joked about changing term limits and just last month House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke about Democrats having to win back the White House by a “big” margin, as to hold off charges from Trump and his supporters who may question the legitimacy of the 2020 elections. “We have to inoculate against that, we have to be prepared for that,” Pelosi told the New York Times. No matter what happens this election cycle or the next, the one thing we can be assured of, is that Donald Trump will not go quietly. And his repeated talk about not respecting the rule of law—let’s not forget he recently said to George Stephanopoulos that he would accept information on an opponent from a foreign country—should be a red flag to the Democratically-controlled House that still refuses to pursue impeachment. | |
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| 06-23-19 12:54pm - 2009 days | #1444 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump warns he's not prepared to lose the 2020 re-election. Too much fraud in the system. Trump vows he will stay in the White House, even if the fake popular vote and fake electoral college results show he has lost. Trump knows that he is the winner of the 2020 re-election. If the results show he lost, the results are fake news, and Trump vows he will still be the President of the United States. Trump instructs the Armed Forces and the Secret Service to be armed and ready to defend him in occupying the White House in 2020, because he's the man who made America great again, and he deserves to stay in the White House, even if fake news shows a fake result that he lost. Trump uber alles. ========= ========= Trump warns he’s not ‘prepared to lose’ reelection Yahoo News Kadia Tubman Jun 23rd 2019 12:53PM President Trump declared that he is not “prepared to lose” reelection in 2020, saying he does not believe the official results of the popular vote count from his first election. When asked if he was prepared to lose in an interview with told NBC's “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, Trump said, “No. Probably not.” “It would be much better if I said, ‘Yeah.’ It would be much easier for me to say, ‘Oh yes,’” Trump offered, but said, “No, I’m probably not too prepared to lose. I don’t like losing. I haven’t lost very much in my life.” “You didn’t like the fact that you lost the popular vote?” asked “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd. “That bothered you, didn’t it.” “I’ll say something that, again, is controversial,” Trump said. “There were a lot of votes that I don’t believe.” “There was much illegal voting,” he added, vaguely referring to California and a settlement by Judicial Watch requiring Los Angeles County to remove as many as 1.5 million inactive registrations as a part of a “massive voter roll clean-up.” There is no evidence that ballots were cast in the names of any of the inactive voters. This wasn’t the first time Trump — who in 2016 lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes and carried the Electoral College with 304 votes — has claimed that he won the popular vote. President Donald Trump speaks with moderator Chuck Todd at the White House for "Meet the Press" in Washington, D.C., Friday, June 21, 2019. (Photo: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images) A few weeks after the 2016 election, Trump tweeted, “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” “I like popular vote,” said Trump, who is one of five presidents to win a presidential election while losing the popular vote. “I think I’d do better with the popular vote. But I didn’t campaign for the popular vote. You didn’t see me campaigning in California or New York.” Trump added: “If it was up to the popular vote, I would have done, I think, even better. I won 306 to 223, which is a lot in the Electoral College, but it’s like you’re training for the 100-yard dash versus the mile.” (In the past, he compared winning the Electoral College to a marathon.) Trump recently came out in favor of the Electoral College, which he called “a disaster for democracy” in 2012. In April, he changed his mind, saying it’s "far better for the U.S.A." Still, he argued in his interview that “the Electoral College is tougher for a Republican to win than the popular vote, at least me.” Meanwhile, Democrats, including presidential candidates, have called for an end to the Electoral College and choosing the president by popular vote. Trump credited his 2016 victory to campaigning in states where his Democratic opponent Clinton “didn’t do a good job,” such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. “They always say she was a lousy candidate,”Trump said. “I actually think that Hillary Clinton was a great candidate. She was very smart, she was very tough, she was ruthless and vicious.” When asked if he would rather run against Clinton again, Trump said, “No. I would actually rather run against Biden. I think that would be my preference.’ ‘Why?” asked Todd, who pointed out that Trump “referred to Hillary Clinton more than Trump’s would-be 2020 opponents’ in his campaign announcement speech last Tuesday. “Sleepy Joe,” Trump responded. “He’s sleepy. She was not sleepy.” | |
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| 07-05-19 06:44pm - 1997 days | #1445 | |
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LKLK (0)
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President Trump claims the American revolutionary army took over airports in 1775. He also mixed up the War of 1812 with the War of Independence. Was Trump guilty of skipping his high school history lessons? Or maybe Trump and his kids can write history books that are used in the public education system, to make our kids brighter and more up-to-date on the real history of the US. ------- ------- 05 Jul 2019 Trump claims army 'took over airports' in 1775 A speech delivered by President Trump at Independence Day celebrations contained historical errors. At the event in Washington DC, for the 4th of July “Salute to America”, he referred to airports existing in 1775. The mistake was attributed by some US media outlets to difficulty reading the teleprompter. The US president also mixed up the War of 1812 with the War of Independence. | |
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| 07-06-19 01:28am - 1996 days | #1446 | |
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Loki (0)
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President Trump also claimed that the telephone was invented by an American. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland and a British-resident of Canada when he invented the telephone. Bell became an American citizen in 1882, six years after getting an United States patent for the telephone. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." Edited on Jul 06, 2019, 01:32am | |
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| 07-07-19 04:52pm - 1995 days | #1447 | |
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LKLK (0)
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Alexander Graham Bell was an American spy hiding from the Redcoats (British frogmen). He was outed as an American, only after the telephone reached widespread acceptance, and America (the United States) had the money to hire personal security to guard one of America's finest geniuses and inventors. Trump learned the personal history of Bell after reading the Book of Secrets, a hidden manuscript that only acting US Presidents have access to. Neither Canada nor Mexico is part of America, they are shithole countries that are enemies of the Trump regime. Trump, the leader who will make America great again. | |
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| 07-11-19 09:11am - 1991 days | #1448 | |
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LKLK (0)
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President Trump stands tall with sex offenders everywhere. It's a man's right to grope a woman by the pussy. And if she happens to be underage, oh my God, I'm just trying to train the bitch so she can learn how to please a real man. ------ ------ With Acosta in crosshairs, Trump unleashes tweet barrage at everything else he can think of Yahoo News Dylan Stableford Jul 11th 2019 10:37AM On the morning after his labor secretary gave a poorly-reviewed explanation of the sweetheart deal struck with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in Miami 11 years ago — which was immediately disputed by Florida state officials — President Trump began a multi-tweet rant on a host of unrelated subjects that seemed intended to shift attention away from the controversy. Trump began his morning at 6:48 a.m. ET by announcing he would hold a Rose Garden news conference at the conclusion of a “social media summit” with mostly right-wing figures who claim their views are censored by Twitter and Facebook. Multiple news organizations reported that he is planning to announce an executive order to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. That would appear to defy a ruling by the Supreme Court last month that said the administration had failed to provide a good-faith justification for the change. In his tweets, the president predicted that the news media will effectively endorse him for a second term because he’s more entertaining than Democratic alternatives, employing his usual insults to refer to former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg. It wasn’t immediately obvious what he meant by “(1000/24th)” in reference to Warren. The Massachusetts senator has faced questions about her claims to Cherokee descent and released the results of a DNA test that indicated Native American forebears six to 10 generations back. If Trump intended to mock that claim, he appears to have gotten the fraction reversed. Trump has referred to himself as a “stable genius” frequently, and in at least one other tweet in the past paid homage to his own “great” looks. For the second time this week, Trump attempted to give oxygen to a controversy that barely made the local news in St. Louis Park, Minn., where the city council voted to stop saying the pledge at allegiance at meetings. The president’s favorite morning news show, “Fox & Friends,” covered the story Monday. He then relayed positive quotes about his economic policies from the Wall Street Journal and president of BET. Trump moved on to a New York Times story about his real estate career — from May — that asserted “most Wall Street banks had stopped doing business with him.” He pointed out, correctly, that congressional Democrats had displayed an outdated picture of migrant children at a hearing on the border crisis. The photo was taken in 2014, during former President Barack Obama’s second term. The president concluded his Twitter run, at least as of 10:04 a.m, with a misleading attack on Democrats and former special counsel Robert Mueller, who is set to testify before Congress next week. Mueller’s report did not find “no obstruction,” despite Trump’s repeated false claims. In defending the non-prosecution agreement entered into by his office, Acosta laid blame on the Palm Beach attorney’s office for not seeking to charge Epstein with crimes that would result in jail time. But Barry Krischer, the Palm Beach County attorney in 2007, took issue with Acosta’s version of events, telling the Associated Press that Acosta “should not be allowed to rewrite history. “If Mr. Acosta was truly concerned with the state’s case and felt he had to rescue the matter,” Krischer said, “he would have moved forward with the 53-page indictment that his own office drafted.” | |
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| 07-13-19 09:04am - 1989 days | #1449 | |
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LKLK (0)
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President Trump reveals Deep State of America is full of evil, cancerous vermin who are trying to destroy America. Trump reveals that Mueller is a criminal who is using the FBI and the Justice Department to commit illegal acts. Acts that will put Mueller in prison, where he belongs, before Trump can assemble a firing squad to execute this traitor. Trump and America, uber alles. Trump will make America great again, after he cleans out the criminals infiltrating our government. -------- -------- Trump attacks Mueller, accuses him of 'Illegal Deletion' Geobeats Jul 13th 2019 10:35AM President Trump on Saturday accused former special counsel Robert Mueller of illegally deleting texts in the course of his investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The president reacted to a tweet alleging that Mueller’s office may have participated in a cover-up by deleting texts between former FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. “This is one of the most horrible abuses of all,” Trump tweeted. “Those texts between gaga lovers would have told the whole story. Illegal deletion by Mueller. They gave us ‘the insurance policy.’” Trump had made similar claims about the texts that were critical of him in a Fox Business interview last month. “Robert Mueller terminated their text messages together,” Trump said. “He terminated them. They’re gone. And that’s illegal. That’s a crime.” However, CNBC pointed out at the time that Trump did not provide any evidence to back his claim. Mueller is scheduled to testify before Congress on July 24. | |
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| 07-21-19 06:38pm - 1981 days | #1450 | |
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LKLK (0)
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/po...anors-nadler-861700/ Politics News July 21, 2019 6:16PM ET Trump Is ‘Guilty of High Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ House Judiciary Chair Says “This is a president who has violated the law six ways from Sunday,” said Rep. Gerry Nadler ahead of Robert Mueller’s testimony By Peter Wade On Sunday, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) spoke with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace about the importance of the much-anticipated testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller slated for Wednesday before both the Judiciary Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The Fox News host started the interview with a question that seemed to infer that Mueller’s coming testimony is either theatrics by the Democrats or simply a waste of time. “Why are you putting Mueller and the country through this?” Wallace asked. But Nadler went right to the crux of the issue by calling out President Donald Trump and his surrogates about how they’ve dishonestly presented the findings of Mueller’s report and expressing the importance of the American people to hear, at length, from Mueller himself. “Well, we want the American people to hear directly from Special Counsel Mueller what his investigation found. The president and the attorney general and others have spent the last few months systematically lying to the American people about what the investigation found, they’ve said that it found no collusion, that it found no obstruction, that it exonerated a president.” Nadler continued, “All three of those statements are absolute lies. [The report] found a great deal of collusion, it found a great deal of obstruction of justice by the president and it pointedly refused to exonerate the president.” Nadler went on to blast the president, saying he broke the law multiple times and is “guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors,” the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses. “We think it’s very important for the American people to hear directly what the facts are because this is a president who has violated the law six ways from Sunday. If anyone else had been accused of what the report finds the president had done, they would have been indicted,” Nadler said. The idea of actually consuming some of the details of a lengthy substantive report that most Americans likely have not read is important. And the Trump administration understands this all too well. They proved as much when they sent out Attorney General William Barr, in front of cameras, to misrepresent the report’s findings hours before anyone else could read the redacted version for themselves, and it worked. Now Mueller will have a chance to flip the script with his testimony this week. | |
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