**President Trump 2018 Thread**

[caulfield12]

Take Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, who is promoting the notion that a "secret society" within the FBI is conspiring against President Donald Trump. Appearing on Fox News Tuesday night, Johnson said that "an informant" had told him of this "secret society … holding secret meetings off-site." It was, he said, "evidence of corruption – more than bias but corruption at the highest levels of the FBI."

 

No, seriously. He really is a sitting senator and chairman of an important committee. As The MaddowBlog's Steve Benen put it: "I suppose it's possible that life is like a Dan Brown novel and somewhere in the bowels of the Justice Department, there's a cabal of nefarious liberals who hatched a secret plot to undermine the president. Of course, if such a plot existed, there doesn't appear to be any evidence of it." Indeed, when Johnson floated this wild allegation Fox News host Bret Baier asked for elaboration, "Is there anything more about that?" and Johnson responded: "No, we have to dig into it. This is not a distraction."

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jeffe...ump?context=amp

 

Republicans Go Full Illuminati

http://theweek.com/articles/750337/republi...full-illuminati

 

Why Donald Trump Will Be Very Welcome In Davos

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnis...elcome-in-davos

Edited January 25, 2018 by caulfield12

[StrangeSox]

Trump Puts the Purpose of His Presidency Into Words

 

A few hours after news of his remarks broke, Trump attempted to reframe his objections as a matter of public safety. "The Democrats seem intent on having people and drugs pour into our country from the Southern Border, risking thousands of lives in the process," Trump tweeted. "It is my duty to protect the lives and safety of all Americans. We must build a Great Wall, think Merit and end Lottery & Chain. USA!"

 

Or as Walker put it, "the present situation is most menacing to our peace and political, safety. In all the social and industrial disorders of this country since 1877, the foreign elements have proved themselves the ready tools of demagogues in defying the law, in destroying property, and in working violence." He offered that "There may be those who can contemplate the addition to our population of vast numbers of persons having no inherited instincts of self-government and respect for law; knowing no restraint upon their own passions but the club of the policeman or the bayonet of the soldier; forming communities, by the tens of thousands, in which only foreign tongues are spoken, and into which can steal no influence from our free institutions and from popular discussion. But I confess to being far less optimistic."

 

The benefit of this history is that we know how the story ended then; with the adoption of racist immigration laws, and the immigrants from the "s***hole countries" of the turn of the century defending the country in two world wars. But their children and grandchildren, having assimilated into the very whiteness Walker and his ilk saw as endangered, now repeat the same slander laid upon their ancestors against a new generation of immigrants looking for a better life in America. The old lies are now again embraced by the descendants of those who once suffered because of them.

 

Already the president's defenders lurch from one argument or another in transparent bad faith. No one is offended by the president's use of profanity; it is the substance of his remarks, and not the specific word he employed, that is appalling. It makes the president's remarks no less racist to say that many who voted for him share the same sentiments; it merely means that those voters subscribe to the same racism. The president was not making an assessment of the relative quality of life in Haiti or Norway, he was condemning entire populations of people of as undesirable because of where they were born. Trump's remarks do not merely express contempt for foreigners; but also for every American who shares their origins.

 

The president's focus on the nationality, rather than on the personal merits, of immigrants suggests what he means by "merit-based" immigration: Not accepting those immigrants who have mastered science or engineering or some other crucial skill, but instead a standard that finds white Scandinavians acceptable, while ruling out Haitians, Salvadorans, and Africans. The only "merits" here are accidents of birth and geography, owing to no individual accomplishment at all.

 

It would be useless to point out that African immigrants are, on average, more highly educated and more likely to be gainfully employed than native-born Americans, or that immigrants in general are less likely to commit crimes. Trump's is not a logic that employs facts, it is one that employs tribe. It is the logic of "us" being better than "them," with white Scandinavians reflecting a self-definition of "us," that excludes blacks and latinos regardless of their relationship to this country.

[Big Hurtin]

Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit

 

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/us/po...sel-russia.html

[caulfield12]

Trump Puts the Purpose of His Presidency Into Words

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?u...p+of+the+Saints

A lot of the anti-immigration views of Bannon, Stephen Miller are attributable to this particular book, fwiw

[Steve9347]

I hate this clown.

[Dick Allen]

Stormy Daniels to appear on Jimmy Kimmel the night of the State of the Union Address.

 

[pettie4sox]

Stormy Daniels to appear on Jimmy Kimmel the night of the State of the Union Address.

 

Has Trumped denied it yet or say something along the lines of Fake News?

 

[Dick Allen]

Has Trumped denied it yet or say something along the lines of Fake News?

It's been denied. Bannon said there have been many women paid off.

[pettie4sox]

It's been denied. Bannon said there have been many women paid off.

 

How is Bannon saying women have been paid off help the president? Are they still beefing?

[Dick Allen]

How is Bannon saying women have been paid off help the president? Are they still beefing?

What would be interesting is finding where the funds came from for the hush money. For some reason, I don't think they are Trump's personal funds.

 

 

And Bannon, in an interview for journalist Michael Wolff's tell-all book about the Trump White House 'Fire and Fury', suggested that Clifford wasn't the only woman to receive a similar payout.

 

'Look, Kasowitz has known [Trump] for twenty-five years,' Bannon allegedly said.

 

'Kasowitz has gotten him out of all kinds of jams. Kasowitz on the campaign - what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz took care of all of them.'

 

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-52...l#ixzz55Imi5IVb

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Edited January 26, 2018 by Dick Allen

[StrangeSox]

Financier Is Top Choice to Advise President on Intelligence Matters

Trump has finally picked members for a key intelligence advisory board, and billionaire Stephen Feinberg is slated to head it.

 

 

The guy has zero intelligence or government experience but he raises a lot of money for the GOP!

[caulfield12]

The White House Dreamer Deal Isn't A Compromise. It's A Racist Ransom Note.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-drea...-154909701.html

 

What will be interesting to see is how many DACA recipients and Dreamers argue it’s not worth it sign this deal to save themselves because of the harm coming to future immigrants due to the Nativist checklist.

 

 

There is no tangible benefit to the USA to have a diversity immigration program or to allow chain migration to extended family members. I say that as a progressive, not a Trump supporter.

 

1) Left unsaid is that’s exactly how Trump’s mother got into the US from Scotland, unskilled chain migration.

 

2) What will Trump do now to staff Mar-A-Lago?

 

3) What about the hundreds of thousands of H1B workers from China and India that are hired for 50 cents on the dollar to provide even greater profits to the tech industry? They’re okay, right?

 

4) When will the Trumps agree to bring their manufacturing back to the US?

China mom pays dearly for husband's probe of Ivanka Trump’s suppliers in China

http://amp.sacbee.com/news/business/article196550684.html

 

"If I see them f---ing messed up again," the manager yells, "I'll beat you right here." Another worker was left with blood dripping from his head after a manager hit him with the sharp end of a high heeled shoe , according to three eyewitnesses who spoke to the AP.

 

The Huajian Group, which runs the factories where the abuses allegedly occurred, has called the charges "completely not true to the facts."

 

The investigators were released after 30 days, but the bail conditions — restrictions on travel, regular meetings with the police — have made it hard for Hua to find work.

 

Hua was ordered not to speak to the media and declined to comment for this story.

 

Ivanka Trump, who still owns but no longer closely manages her namesake brand, has remained silent about human rights issues within her brand's supply chain — and labor conditions in China, where tons of her products are made and a generation of women like Deng has left their children to go work.

Edited January 27, 2018 by caulfield12

[caulfield12]

What would be interesting is finding where the funds came from for the hush money. For some reason, I don't think they are Trump's personal funds.

 

 

And Bannon, in an interview for journalist Michael Wolff's tell-all book about the Trump White House 'Fire and Fury', suggested that Clifford wasn't the only woman to receive a similar payout.

 

'Look, Kasowitz has known [Trump] for twenty-five years,' Bannon allegedly said.

 

'Kasowitz has gotten him out of all kinds of jams. Kasowitz on the campaign - what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz took care of all of them.'

 

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-52...l#ixzz55Imi5IVb

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http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/01...ner-dnt-tsr.cnn

Sara Sidney/Alana Evans (porn name) talks about her friend’s relationship with Trump and being invited for threesome at golf tourney

[greg775]

Was switching channels and one of the cable networks had a host yapping about how Trump is not getting the credit for the surge in the economy. Said if this was a Democrat everybody would be celebrating in the streets over the economy.

[pettie4sox]

Was switching channels and one of the cable networks had a host yapping about how Trump is not getting the credit for the surge in the economy. Said if this was a Democrat everybody would be celebrating in the streets over the economy.

 

Hot takes.

[caulfield12]

If this article in the Washington Post is accurate, immigration is never going to pass the House

https://politiciandirect.com/washington-pos...-on-immigration

 

 

OMRO, Wis. — Again and again, constituents at Rep. Glenn Grothman’s town hall meetings this week wanted to talk about DACA, “chain migration” and “the wall” — the right half of the vocabulary of the fierce immigration debate now playing out in Washington.

 

“Can’t they go back and get in line?” asked one woman who came to a dim municipal basement here, about 12 miles west of Oshkosh, on a recent weekday morning. “Why can’t they go back and do it legally?”

 

Grothman didn’t hesitate: “I’ll do all I can to hold out for as tough a position as we can get,” he told the woman, who declined to give her name to a reporter. “We’d rather shut down the government rather than go down the path of ruining America. And I think doing what some of those Democrats wanted — immediate legality for all these people and then just starting the open-borders thing again — could ruin America. I mean, it would be the end of America.”

 

President Trump has promised to protect young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children and who are now living in limbo because of his cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. And a bipartisan group of senators has been negotiating for days to reach a deal.

 

But House Republicans such as Grothman could have the last word on the fate of “dreamers,” as these immigrants are known.

Edited January 27, 2018 by caulfield12

[Brian]

Was switching channels and one of the cable networks had a host yapping about how Trump is not getting the credit for the surge in the economy. Said if this was a Democrat everybody would be celebrating in the streets over the economy.

 

Well, it was a Democrat who turned the economy around.

The only thing Trump did his first year was not get anything done to stop it. We’ll see what effects his tax cuts will have but history has me weary.

Edited January 27, 2018 by Brian

[Dick Allen]

Was switching channels and one of the cable networks had a host yapping about how Trump is not getting the credit for the surge in the economy. Said if this was a Democrat everybody would be celebrating in the streets over the economy.

Go find yourself a chart. You may be in for a shock.

 

Did you notice how much the economy improved under The democrat? Probably not, considering what cable and radio show you frequent. Trump uses the unemployment numbers now. Candidate Trump said they were phony numbers. There is an article you can google that tracks Trumps tweets about the stock market. When Obama was in office, bubble, bubble, going to crash. His first tweet about it while he was in office, bubble gone up all because of Trump.

[caulfield12]

Go find yourself a chart. You may be in for a shock.

 

Did you notice how much the economy improved under The democrat? Probably not, considering what cable and radio show you frequent. Trump uses the unemployment numbers now. Candidate Trump said they were phony numbers. There is an article you can google that tracks Trumps tweets about the stock market. When Obama was in office, bubble, bubble, going to crash. His first tweet about it while he was in office, bubble gone up all because of Trump.

 

A plunge in retail jobs, by 20,300, weighed on the labor market as brick-and-mortar stores continued to close.

 

Still, December was the 87th straight month in which employers hired more people than they fired, extending the longest stretch of job growth on record. The economy created 2.06 million jobs last year (2017).

 

Under Obama during his last four years, a net gain of 10,288,000 jobs. Trump’s job creation pace is about 20% behind that.

 

The Democrats have outperformed Republican administrations consistently in job creation for the last fifty years.

 

The only exception is the economic recovery during Reagan’s second term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_create...sidential_terms

 

Let’s just wait and see where the stock market is in October, 2020.

Edited January 27, 2018 by caulfield12

[Chicago White Sox]

Was switching channels and Fox News had a host yapping about how Trump is not getting the credit for the surge in the economy. Said if this was a Democrat everybody would be celebrating in the streets over the economy.

FIFY

Edited January 27, 2018 by Chicago White Sox

[Dick Allen]

Greg, keep on watching

 

 

Hannity on Thursday said, “The New York Times is trying to distract you,” referring to its report that day that Trump last summer directed White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, but backed down when the lawyer threatened to resign.

 

 

"Our sources, and I've checked in with many of them, they're not confirming that tonight," Hannity said on his program. "And the president's attorney dismissed the story and says 'nope, no comment, we're not going there tonight.'"

 

But near the end of the segment, Hannity made an about face.

 

“All right, so we have sources tonight just confirming to Ed Henry that, maybe, yeah, Donald Trump wanted to fire the special counsel for conflict. Does he not have the right to raise those questions?" Hannity said.

 

 

[caulfield12]

Trump's DC hotel had an average monthly occupancy rate of about 50% through November 2017, according to data provided to CNN covering the first 11 months of 2017. That occupancy rate is about one-third below an industry average for a broad group of luxury hotels in Washington over the same period.

 

CNN compared the Trump hotel's monthly occupancy and room rates to a report by lodging industry research firm STR, which surveyed nearly two dozen high-priced, luxury hotels in the city that likely includes the Trump International Hotel. The hotel might measure itself against an even smaller, more elite subset of those rivals.

 

Despite the low occupancy, the Trump hotel charged nightly room rates that were 40% higher on average than those same nearly two dozen hotels.

 

According to STR's analysis, top-tier hotels in Washington reported an average monthly occupancy of 77% -- 27 percentage points higher than Trump's hotel. Those competitors charged an average of $334 per night versus Trump's $559 average daily rate.

 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/27/politics/tru...data/index.html

[Middle Buffalo]

Go find yourself a chart. You may be in for a shock.

 

Did you notice how much the economy improved under The democrat? Probably not, considering what cable and radio show you frequent. Trump uses the unemployment numbers now. Candidate Trump said they were phony numbers. There is an article you can google that tracks Trumps tweets about the stock market. When Obama was in office, bubble, bubble, going to crash. His first tweet about it while he was in office, bubble gone up all because of Trump.

I feel like Greg will ignore this.

 

Information learned flipping through channels (and landing briefly on a conservative radio or tv program) holds greater weight for Greg than any other form of information. And he doesn't even like Trump. But, come on guys...he's just askin'.

[caulfield12]

Millions of Americans Believe God Made Trump President

A surprisingly fascinating book explains why.

By AMY SULLIVAN January 27, 2018

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...resident-216537

 

 

There will be no point at which Trump’s most loyal evangelical and charismatic supporters declare they have had enough. Because to do so would be to admit that they were wrong, that God wasn’t behind Trump’s election, and that their Holy Spirit radar might be on the fritz. That it was, after all, about something as temporal and banal as hating his Democratic rival.

 

Strang was in New York for the Trump campaign’s victory party on November 8, 2016, and as he describes the euphoria of the evening, he shows just enough of his hand to validate this conclusion. “It was as if God had answered our prayers and the impossible had happened,” he writes. “We had a new president, one we believed God had raised up for a time such as this.”

 

“And perhaps best of all,” he continued, “we each thanked God in our own way that Hillary Clinton was not going to be the next commander in chief.”

 

[greg775]

I feel like Greg will ignore this.

 

Information learned flipping through channels (and landing briefly on a conservative radio or tv program) holds greater weight for Greg than any other form of information. And he doesn't even like Trump. But, come on guys...he's just askin'.

I don't like trump. I do want prosperity. So yes i want him to succeed