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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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You know, if Steele believed the information in the dossier he might well be passionate that Donald Trump not be elected....
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Russians charged over US 2016 election tampering
Thirteen charged, 3 cases of wire fraud and 5 of aggravated identity theft. They’re accused of promoting Trump and Sanders against their rivals. Apparently they had a budget of $1 million per month. However there are no allegations of anyone in either campaign colluding with these Russians.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
While the meeting took place and it is certain that the intent was to arrange a deal between the Trump campaign and the Russian government it’s not clear that they got any further than the meeting. It doesn’t seem that the Trump campaign got any dirt on Clinton - which is what the Russians offered to get the meeting.
It’s pretty bad - there was an offer of collusion and Trump jr was definitely interested - but we haven’t seen the evidence that there was anything more than talk.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
But was there an agreement to commit an illegal act ? The Russians committed illegal acts but you seem to be short on evidence that the Trump campaign agreed to any of them.
This is not to say that there was no agreement, only that the evidence so far made public doesn’t show that.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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quote: I think that you are stretching. Is handing over information illegal in itself ? You may presume that it referred to illegally obtained information but that claim is not explicit in the email and I don’t see how you can prove that Trump jr thought it referred to illegally obtained information. (Even then the illegal act had already taken place) As I say it looks bad but it doesn’t rise to the level of proving conspiracy.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
I’ll just point out that there seem to be serious questions over whether a document alleging misconduct by a Clinton donor should really be included.
Eugene Volokh
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Apparently a speaker from the Cato Institute tried to convince CPAC that immigration had net benefits.
They didn’t want to hear that: data clashes with emotion
The only panel dedicated to immigration at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference quickly went off the rails Thursday, with audience members drowning out panelists’ presentation of data about the benefits of immigration with boos, laughter, and stories of obvious illegal immigrants defecating in the woods, fornicating in the woods.
Whenever Bier cited research to counter incorrect claims from his fellow panelists and the audience that recent immigrants are disproportionately criminal, are an economic drain on government or take several generations to learn English, he was met with vocal hostility.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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After working on an interim clearance Kushner hasn’t made the cut for the top clearance. BBC
You might ask why it took a year to get to this point. One reason:
Last October, the head of the National Background Investigations Bureau told Congress he has "never seen that level of mistakes" on any security clearance application.
Trump hires the best people...
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
And Pompeo is put in his place. Whether that is good or bad news for the demoralised State department I don’t know.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
She has experience of destroying evidence of illegal activity and getting away with it. Trump may be looking for some pointers.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
It seems to be more nuanced than that. Which is unusual when talking about Trump.
From the figures I have seen Trump is right if he’s only talking about trade in goods for 2017. Trade in services had a surplus, which claws back about a third of that (I think). For 2016 the surplus in services was actually larger than the deficit in goods, so the U.S. had an overall surplus that year. However, this figure seems to be historically quite low. In 2007 the deficit in goods was $68 billion.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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John Dowd, leading Trump’s team dealing with the Mueller probe has resigned.
BBC
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
The BBC reports that House Speaker Paul Ryan is leaving. Reportedly, the main reason was the frustrations of dealing with Trump.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Trump wrote his own health letter
Who elected this guy?
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Seeking to get it wound up and more
BBC report
The lawsuit alleges that the foundation paid $100,000 (75,000) to settle legal claims against Mr Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort, $158,000 to settle claims against one of his golf clubs, and $10,000 to purchase a painting of Mr Trump to hang at another of his golf clubs.
We knew it was bad - but not that bad.
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