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JonF
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Message 3214 of 4573 (861247)
08-18-2019 8:21 PM


Every day in every way he's deteriorating.
Trump thinks he can block shipments to Venezuela by posting Navy ships along their coastline
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In a strange turn of national security events, President Donald Trump thinks that he can cripple Venezuela by stationing Navy ships along the coastline of the country. He seems to have forgotten that Venezuela is connected to other countries on its south, west and southeastern border.
According to Axios, five current and former officials have either directly heard Trump say it or have been briefed on his plan.
The plan would be to blockade the country in the south Carribean for at least a year and a half.
The Pentagon, by contrast, isn’t taking the idea seriously, because officials think it’s impractical, the Navy is already stretched too thin, and there’s no legal way to justify it.
Yes, I am, Trump confessed he’s thinking about it as an option when he was asked by a reporter about it earlier this month.
He literally just said we should get the ships out there and do a naval embargo, confessed one source who heard Trump’s comments. Prevent anything going in.
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JonF
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Message 3216 of 4573 (861301)
08-19-2019 4:04 PM


Trump knuckles under to the NRA
Fox News’ Shep Smith ridicules Trump ‘saneless’ 180-degree turn on gun safety
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President Donald Trump flipped a complete 180-degree turn on background checks after saying that he was certainly open and interested in using that low-level fix to America’s gun problem after another week full of mass shootings. Fox News host Shep Smith, who is known for rebuking Trump’s politics and presidency, offered only mockery.
The message has, again, changed, Smith said at the top of his Monday show. Remember calls escalated after the domestic terror attack in El Paso and the mass murder that followed in Dayton. The president said at the time, ‘We need strong background checks.’ Now, something new. First, listen to him yesterday.
90+% of Americans support universal background checks.

  
JonF
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Message 3217 of 4573 (861305)
08-19-2019 4:40 PM



(Judicial Watch is an ultra-right-wing site famed for fake pro-Trump news)
ABE
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Message 3223 of 4573 (861466)
08-21-2019 4:19 PM



  
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Message 3230 of 4573 (861522)
08-22-2019 4:38 PM


Is there any idiocy he can't get away with
El Paso hospital forced to call out Trump’s lie that surgeons left the operating room to see him
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President Donald Trump bragged that he got an overwhelming welcome from Ohio and Texas when he went to visit survivors of the mass shootings before his latest vacation. Now, however, El Paso’s University Medical Center is being forced to dispute the president’s account of events.
Not only did they meet with me, they were pouring out of the room. The doctors were coming out of the operating rooms. There were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor. You couldn’t even walk on it. So, you know, there’s a lot to happen, Trump told reporters on the White House lawn Wednesday.
At no time did, or would, physicians or staff leave active operating rooms during the presidential visit. Our priority is always patient care, UMC spokesman Ryan Mielke told ABC-7.

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JonF
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Message 3233 of 4573 (861534)
08-22-2019 9:04 PM
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08-22-2019 7:19 PM


Re: Is there any idiocy he can't get away with
What do you think of the headline in this case?

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JonF
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Message 3239 of 4573 (861587)
08-23-2019 12:33 PM



Words fail.

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Message 3241 of 4573 (861664)
08-25-2019 8:57 AM
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08-24-2019 9:53 PM


Re: Donald Trump's Twitter-verse
The real problems are that Trump is clueless about macroeconomics and trade, and thinks everything is a zero-sum game. He can't conceive of a win-win.

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JonF
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Message 3245 of 4573 (861719)
08-25-2019 5:36 PM



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JonF
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Message 3247 of 4573 (861728)
08-25-2019 8:14 PM


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President Donald Trump’s lack of knowledge about science prompted another embarrassing moment when the U.S. president said that we should simply nuke hurricanes to solve the problem.
Another hurricane is headed toward Puerto Rico this week. The island is still recovering from being hit twice in 2017. Trump’s solution, however, wasn’t entirely thought out, however, Axios reported Sunday.
I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them? Trump said during a hurricane briefing at the White House, sources said. They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane, and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do that?
The source admitted to paraphrasing the statements from the president.
Sir, we’ll look into that, responded the briefer to the president.
Trump reportedly then asked how many hurricanes the United States could take as if the country was a ship floating in the oceans.
The person briefing was knocked back on his heels, according to the source in the room. You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What the f*ck? What do we do with this?'
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Message 3248 of 4573 (861729)
08-25-2019 8:35 PM


Expending every effort to prevent peace in the Middle East.

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JonF
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Message 3255 of 4573 (861799)
08-27-2019 9:43 AM


Moscow Mitch continues his campaign against democracy
THe FEC has been a pretty toothless watchdog, but even that is too much for Moscow Mitch.
Thanks to Mitch McConnell, U.S. now has no functioning election commission:
quote:
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) intended to be a group of no more than three Democrats and no more than three Republicans overseeing the federal campaign finance system has been operating with just a bare quorum of four for the past 18 months. With the resignation of Vice Chairman Matthew Petersen, at the end of the week, the commission will be virtually paralyzed.
The reason for this: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his Republican-controlled U.S. Senate.
...
President Donald Trump has made little effort to appoint new commissioners since taking office. But the one nomination he has made pro-Trump attorney Trey Trainor of Texas has been waiting for a confirmation hearing since September 2017.
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JonF
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Message 3261 of 4573 (861857)
08-28-2019 10:26 AM


You get a pardon! Everybody gets a pardon!
‘Impeachable bribery’: Legal experts horrified by Trump’s promise to pardon aides for breaking the law to build his wall
quote:
Overnight The Washington Post published a bombshell report: President Donald Trump, in an effort to ensure his re-election, has been directing aides to break the law to get his border wall built. Trump has ordered White House aides to fast-track billions of dollars’ worth of construction contracts, and aggressively seize private land and disregard environmental rules, according to the Post, so he can fulfill a campaign promise.
To make matters worse Trump also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly.
Legal experts are weighing in n the news and they agree: Trump’s actions are illegal and impeachable.
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The White House, in an effort to minimize the damage, has said the President was only joking when he told aides to break the law so he could cinch re-election.

  
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Message 3262 of 4573 (861858)
08-28-2019 10:30 AM


That explains a lot
#RussianCosigners trends on Twitter after bombshell report says Trump’s loans were guaranteed by Putin’s pals
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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell reported a bombshell news story Tuesday night: President Donald Trump’s Deutsche Bank loans were guaranteed by Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin.
O’Donnell, who cites a source close to Deutsche Bank, also says the German financial services company has copies of Trump’s tax returns that show he pays little in income taxes, and that Trump would not have been able to obtain those loans without co-signers.
If true, that would explain every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin, O’Donnell added, as Raw Story reported. If true, that would be a significant factor in Vladimir Putin’s publicly stated preference for presidential candidate Donald Trump over presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

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Message 3264 of 4573 (861887)
08-28-2019 3:59 PM


Trump Press Secretary lies! Film at 11
Trump’s top spokeswoman caught in a ‘bald faced lie’ after trying to justify Playboy reporter’s suspension
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According to documents filed by attorneys for the Justice Department this Wednesday, a supposed written statement by a Secret Service agent used to justify the suspension of a reporter’s White House press pass does not exist, Law & Crime reports.
The alleged written statement was attributed to a Secret Service agent who intervened during a Rose Garden spat between Playboy reporter Brian Karem and former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka. During a government hearing this Tuesday to determine the constitutionality of Karem’s suspension, a U.S. District Judge ordered the White House to provide the statement, which White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham initially cited as evidence.
Responding to the court this Wednesday, DOJ attorneys said there is no written statement by the Secret Service agent who intervened and spoke to Mr. Karem during the July 11, 2019 incident.

  
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