StrangeSox Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 (edited) Trump: Special counsel "hurts our country terribly because it shows we're a divided, mixed-up, not-unified country" I remember 16 hours ago when the WH message as how Not Mad he was about the special counsel Edited May 18, 2017 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017...white-house-job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 18, 2017 -> 02:15 PM) I remember 16 hours ago when the WH message as how Not Mad he was about the special counsel It's the second or third time in a week his tweets (where he first b****ed about this) totally contradicted the official WH message. Electoral College is totally slanted to the Democrats. So we have his excuse if he lost. Of course, he was within 3 million of winning the popular vote. But this does expose a divided country. Who knew? Everybody was on board with Trump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 John Harwood ✔ @JohnJHarwood after Rosenstein briefing, Graham says Congressional probe tougher because Trump/Russia is "a criminal investigation" - not counter-intel 2:20 PM - 18 May 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Trump keeps looking around to blame someone for being unable to unify the country, and he doesn't realize(and nobody will tell him) that the job he is describing is his own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Regardless of how all of this plays out for Trump, it's revealed some pretty significant flaws in our system. We have no good system for removing someone who's actually guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and cannot carry out the functions of their office as well as anyone else that may be implicated. There really should be provisions for special elections in this case. If, hypothetically, Trump were to be impeached for his campaign colluding with Russia, it's absurd that we'd end up with a President Pence or Ryan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 18, 2017 -> 02:25 PM) Trump keeps looking around to blame someone for being unable to unify the country, and he doesn't realize(and nobody will tell him) that the job he is describing is his own LOCK HER UP! GET 'EM OUT! BUILD THAT WALL! why doesn't everyone like me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 18, 2017 -> 02:26 PM) Regardless of how all of this plays out for Trump, it's revealed some pretty significant flaws in our system. We have no good system for removing someone who's actually guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and cannot carry out the functions of their office as well as anyone else that may be implicated. There really should be provisions for special elections in this case. If, hypothetically, Trump were to be impeached for his campaign colluding with Russia, it's absurd that we'd end up with a President Pence or Ryan. If Trump resigned, would Ivanka and President Jared stay on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 18, 2017 -> 02:27 PM) LOCK HER UP! GET 'EM OUT! BUILD THAT WALL! why doesn't everyone like me How many miles of wall has he built so far? Hows that defeat of ISIS Coal is booming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 (edited) David Chalian ✔ @DavidChalian Per McCaskill, Rosenstein said he knew Comey was going to be fired before he wrote his memo. 2:26 PM - 18 May 2017 Rosenstein got thrown under the bus by Sessions and Trump (before Trump blew his own cover like a moron). He's pissed and he's going to do everything he can to make them pay. Edited May 18, 2017 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 I wonder if the sky is blue in DC? I bet Brett knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Trump going to 100% on his Nixon speed run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Meanwhile: Sen. Lindsey Graham: Congress should abandon Russia investigation, go back to Clinton’s emails Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Clinton, Obama. Neither one of them are working for the US. Just stop it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 18, 2017 -> 02:56 PM) Meanwhile: Sen. Lindsey Graham: Congress should abandon Russia investigation, go back to Clinton’s emails It's good to know elected officials know exactly what to spend their time on. How do people re-elect these idiots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 U.S. officials tell NBC News Flynn's intervention in military plan the Turks opposed *did* delay the Raqqa operation http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/flynn-...opposed-n761656 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 (edited) New video shows Erdogan watching his goons beat up peaceful protesters and may have even directly ordered them to do it https://twitter.com/pbump/status/865316617273606144 longer video: https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/865310629934112768 and who got arrested in all of this? the protesters that were described in the Secret Service report as peaceful https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/turki...protest-dc.html The police said two people were arrested Tuesday evening. Ayten Necmi, 49, of Woodside, N.Y., was charged with aggravated assault, and Jalal Kheirabaoi, 42, of Fairfax, Va., was charged with assault on a police officer. Protest organizers said those arrested were part of their group. Edited May 18, 2017 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 (edited) Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic-Trump during his commencement speech. That is comedy gold coming from him. Reality doesn't exist in his world. Edited May 18, 2017 by Dick Allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Hurtin Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Meanwhile... New ferry links North Korea and Russia despite U.S. calls for isolation http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkor...m_medium=Social Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 (edited) Trump doubling down today on idiotic statements that contradict previous ones Director Comey was very unpopular with most people," he said. "I actually thought when I made that decision, and I also got a very, very strong recommendation, as you know, from the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. When I made that decision I actually thought it would be a bipartisan decision because you look at all of the people on the Democratic side, not only the Republican side, that were saying such terrible thing about Director Comey." CNN.com Response, Rosenstein names Bharara, Yates and Comey to assist Mueller's investigatory team. Edited May 18, 2017 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 18, 2017 -> 02:13 PM) Man, after yesterday, the big lesson is clear: Do NOT piss off the media and intelligence community together We finally agree on something 100 percent. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 18, 2017 -> 03:02 PM) He pissed off the media during the entire election cycle yet here we are with him as President. Not a bad point. However, at that time the media was somewhat preoccupied with other stories like Hillary and Bernie. Now it's all Trump, all the time. Hillary and Bernie (for a while until his 15 minutes of fame ended) were worth writing about as well. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 18, 2017 -> 10:52 PM) Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic-Trump during his commencement speech. That is comedy gold coming from him. Reality doesn't exist in his world. I recommend everybody youtube Will Farrell commencement speech at USC. Not perfect humor but funny and worth a listen IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 (edited) So Rosenstein told senators he knew the day before that letter was written Comey would be fired. Trump has contradicted himself many times on this subject already. Edited May 18, 2017 by Dick Allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Hurtin Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Ruh roh https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/05/18/politics...ouse/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 (edited) This nyt story about Comey literally trying to blend into the curtains so Trump doesn't notice is great. I mean it's mainly about how Comey was troubled by Trump deeply from day one, and reince is dirty too for asking Comey to lie about Flynn, but that part is hilarious. There's even video of it! What James Comey Told Me About Donald Trump https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-james-come...ut-donald-trump Edited May 19, 2017 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Though he was relaxed, attendees said he went through his usual pronouncements, making clear he doesn’t think the media covers all the good work the White House is doing. “I don’t watch you guys as much anymore because if I did, it would be all hell. You couldn’t tell that i went to a good school, studied, that I succeeded in my companies,” he griped. Channeling his inner Greg775 (politico.com) “I’m not a psychologist, but there’s something strange going on with Mr. Trump,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said during a CNN town hall on Tuesday night. Many of those divisions are of Trump’s making, too. He starts in Saudi Arabia, which he’s attacked in the past, and where he’ll give a speech that’s being written by the same aide who wrote his Muslim ban. Then he’ll go to Israel, which he may have just sold out to the Russians on their intelligence gathering, but where he’s already scrapped a stop to the historic site of Masada, constricted his visit to the Holocaust Museum there to 15 minutes, had his national security adviser suggest that the Western Wall isn’t part of Israel and appears to be backing out of his promise to move the Embassy to Jerusalem. Next up, Rome to see Pope Francis, who’s sideways criticism of him last year for attacking Mexican immigrants Trump called “disgraceful.” Then, a series of meetings for NATO and the G7, which he spent the last year degrading, in addition to swiping at several of the leaders whom he’ll be seeing. Plus, he’ll spend the NATO part of the trip in Brussels, the city he called “a disaster” in his response to the terrorist attacks there last year. Thursday, Trump tried to practice statesmanship. He congratulated the Colombian president on the Nobel Peace Prize he won last year for making peace with the rebel FARC, though he oddly then added, “Thank you very much.” http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/18/t...ity-plea-238582 Depending on which poll numbers you go by, Trump is somewhere between 8% and 22% approval rating across European Union countries as he undertakes this first international trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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