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Post by Blunashun on Sept 25, 2019 21:56:01 GMT
Isn’t El Chapo funding at least part of the wall? Didn’t we seize around a half a billion in assets from him? That way at least ONE Mexican would be paying for it, or at least part of it.
Like I said - and it doesn’t matter to me what side you’re on - blue, red, indy - whatever. They’re ALL a bunch of lying, manipulative criminals who will do and say anything to either get elected or continue their position on that teat. The waste will never stop; the size will continue to grow and nothing short of a complete overhaul (which we all know is NEVER going to happen) will ever change things. The idea that the government works for we, the people and its electors is a farce that disappeared long ago and it ain’t coming back in any of our lifetimes. GO DODGERS!!! Eh. I'm sure that's gone. And that may be about what Trump is withholding from Ukraine in foreign aid until they comply with his 'request.' Have you read the transcripts of what this delusional fuck thought was an okay telephone conversation? They say he speaks in 'code' when trying to coerce. That code sounded a lot like a blunt instrument to me. But this country is & always will be an oligarchy. Two Adams as presidents? Two Harrisons? Two Roosevelts? Two Bushs? C'mon! My thing is I set out not liking Trump but hoping for the best. If he succeeds, we succeed. Now he's just such an embarrassment I want him to go far, far away. He'll never hide because his ego wouldn't permit that. But PLEASE, go away. |
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Post by jrgreene6 on Sept 26, 2019 0:49:51 GMT
Scarier still - there’s ANOTHER couple of them in the wings with Junior and Barron.
GO DODGERS!!!
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 2, 2019 3:32:21 GMT
This is hilarious. He sounds like a Latin American dictator & not the President of the United States. Before he had commented that his impeachment could lead to a civil war.
Trump says he's becoming victim of a 'coup'
Brett Samuels 2 hrs ago
President Trump on Tuesday escalated his criticism of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry, claiming the process resembled a "coup."
"As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP," Trump tweeted.
The president wrote that the investigation into his alleged abuse of power is "intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!"
House Democrats last week formally launched an impeachment inquiry against Trump, spurred largely by his conduct on a call with the Ukrainian president in which Trump urged the foreign leader to "look into" Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The White House last week released a rough transcript of the July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which showed Trump urging Zelensky to get in touch with his personal attorney and the attorney general to investigate possible wrongdoing by Biden.
A whistleblower complaint made public last Thursday shed further light on how the White House sought to conceal the contents of the call by limiting those who had access to the transcript.
Trump's tweet on Tuesday mirrored the rhetoric he deployed during former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president regularly decried the probe as a "witch hunt" and referred to it earlier this year as "a coup," likening it to something that would happen in "a third world country."
But Mueller's report did not establish that Trump conspired with Russia, and it failed to deliver a verdict on whether he obstructed justice.
The Ukraine controversy represents a more urgent threat to Trump's presidency, as Democrats have indicated they are prepared to move quickly toward impeachment. In response, Trump's attacks on his critics have become increasingly hostile.
The president on Monday suggested House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who has been at the forefront of the impeachment inquiry, should be arrested for treason for his exaggerated description of Trump's call with Zelensky.
Trump has also been fiercely critical of the whistleblower, deriding them as partisan and questioning whether they are loyal to the country.
The president said Monday that the White House is trying to find out who the whistleblower is, and he has claimed that he has the right to interview the individual, despite protections in place to keep the person's identity anonymous.
Democrats and some Republicans have pushed back against Trump's attacks on the whistleblower, saying the individual followed the proper protocols in filing their complaint.
"No one should be making judgments or pronouncements without hearing from the whistleblower first and carefully following up on the facts," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a statement on Tuesday. "Uninformed speculation wielded by politicians or media commentators as a partisan weapon is counterproductive and doesn't serve the country."
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 2, 2019 3:35:50 GMT
Treason, coup. What a buffoon. Coups are best if you kill the dictator first. We blew that with Castro.
For sure though I would like to hear the actual conversation & not just read a transcript. Was there something top secret said in the conversation that would risk national security if released? Or was the rough transcript a watered down version of what Donald really had to say & he doesn't want us to hear that?
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 2, 2019 3:38:36 GMT
Forgot to post the actual tweets. Every time a Donald Trump tweet is repeated an angel gets it's wings.
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As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the....
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....People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 2, 2019 3:39:10 GMT
Glad he included the border wall. We almost forgot.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Oct 2, 2019 4:28:59 GMT
Treason, coup. What a buffoon. Coups are best if you kill the dictator first. We blew that with Castro. For sure though I would like to hear the actual conversation & not just read a transcript. Was there something top secret said in the conversation that would risk national security if released? Or was the rough transcript a watered down version of what Donald really had to say & he doesn't want us to hear that? The corruption and lies in DC are ridiculous and continue to worsen on a daily basis. And it dates back to times when many of us weren’t even alive. From Pearl Harbor to the Kennedys to Watergate and on and on and on. I’m certainly not one of those “conspiracy theorists”, but I have always been skeptical about our space travel and especially moon landings. I saw a program the other night on one of those educational channels that further supported my suspicions. I never believed we had the technology that long ago to land on the moon. The program I saw was showing NASA’s current capsule that they hope to take to Mars. One of their biggest concerns is if it can withstand the radiation core that is @ 3,600 miles from Earth. Didn’t they have to travel through that layer to get to the moon, which is @ 200k miles from Earth? And if they’re worried about this current capsule making it through, 50 years AFTER the Apollo missions, how did those previous rockets and modules make it through? And how did it take six days to go 100k miles and only one day to go ANOTHER 100k plus? How did they get that land rover up there? The lunar module was barely large enough for the three astronauts and I don’t remember ever seeing it towing a trailer with the rover. The transmissions between the astronauts and NASA were also suspect. There was absolutely NO delay. 200,000 miles plus with NO DELAY? Anyone who watches the news, whether local or national knows there is always a three to five second delay when they go from the studio to the field correspondent, down the street or on the other side of the planet. Yet the responses between NASA & the module were instantaneous. They showed some footage when you could actually see the wires from the rigging which made them look weightless as they “bounced” around. There was one scene where one astronaut was helping another get to his feet after he tripped and fell and he is actually pulled backward AWAY from the astronaut offering his hand. How did they get a golf ball to sit on a tee so it could be launched into space? That drive must STILL be going! 😊 Another thing I never understood - why has no other country been there? We were in a race with Russia and “won” most will say. So, the Ruskies just gave up? China and Japan have been light years ahead of us in technology, electronics, motor vehicles, etc. for as long as I’ve been alive. Why have they never shown any interest in space exploration? Lastly, ALL of the audio and video tapes of every Apollo mission are nowhere to be found in the NASA archives / library. Not a single moment from these decade plus missions can be located. I could go on, but I’ll just go back to my original assertion that at this point we have a government we can’t and shouldn’t believe in and no matter how this all ends, we will remain a nation divided and the ugliness we are seeing now is only the tip of the iceberg. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 3, 2019 0:09:38 GMT
Adam Schiff has now taken the top spot on Trump's hit parade. He too should be tried for treason.
TREASON!!! THIS IS A COUP!!! I AM THE BENEVOLENT DESPOT OF MY PEEPLES!!! My peeples, you must understand that everything I do for you is out of love. I love my country & it's peeples. You are my children & every parent loves their children. But sometimes even loving parents must punish their children.
Manuel, we have the firing squads lined up yet? This may be an all-nighter. Someone send out for pizza.
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 6, 2019 10:57:47 GMT
Kamala Harris has called for Trump's Twitter account to be suspended. HA-HA-HA-HA! Oh my God. Too funny. Like taking a toy from a petulant child. He would shrivel up & die from the lack of attention.
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 10, 2019 17:25:01 GMT
This is getting serious.
Two men with ties to Giuliani arrested on campaign finance charges
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Two men with ties to Giuliani arrested on campaign finance charges originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
Two men who reportedly have assisted Rudy Giuliani in his efforts to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's family have been arrested and are expected to face charges for allegedly violating campaign finance laws, a federal law enforcement official told ABC News on Thursday.
The two men were arrested Wednesday night at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, just outside Washington, as they attempted to leave the country, an official said.
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two Soviet-born businessmen based in Florida, were expected to face charges from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Both Parnas and Fruman have been tied to the work done by the president's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in Ukraine where Giuliani has had significant business interests.
Additionally, for the last year, Giuliani has been investigating Hunter Biden and his financial interests in Ukraine. It was not immediately clear the nature of the charges related to Parnas and Fruman or if the charges have any relation to the work being done by Giuliani.
According to the Associated Press, Parnas and Fruman sought to replace Andriy Kobolyev, the CEO of Naftogaz, a Ukrainian state-owned energy company, with another senior executive at the Ukrainian company, Andrew Favorov. According to the AP, their goal was to partner up with Favorov in a lucrative deal to export up to 100 tanker shipments a year of U.S. liquefied gas to Ukraine.
The two have been major donors to President Donald Trump, making a series of big and small contributions to Trump's various fundraising vehicles as early as 2016. Their single-biggest contribution -- a $325,000 check to pro-Trump super PAC America First Action from last year -- was made under the name of their newly established gas company named Global Energy Producers.
According to a court document in a separate case filed by an investor in Global Energy Producers, the investor’s legal team wrote that Parnas and Fruman had bragged to him about their close relationships with key allies of the president, including Giuliani, former Trump-aide-turned Washington lobbyist Brian Ballard and Nick Ayers, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence.
Parnas and Fruman, who have been sent a letter from House Democrats last week requesting documents and deposition, along with Giuliani, recently hired President Trump's former lawyer John Dowd. Dowd earlier this week announced in a statement that his clients won't be able to comply with House Democrats' request for documents and deposition, which are due this week.
Attempts to reach Dowd Thursday for comment were not immediately successful. The news of the arrests was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 10, 2019 17:26:48 GMT
You can bet your bottom dollar the intelligence community is behind this kind of information. They're pissed at Trump's handling of the FBI & CIA.
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 10, 2019 20:25:54 GMT
It's starting to look like this one might stick.
White House Shifted Authority Over Ukraine Aid Amid Legal Concerns
Andrew Duehren, Gordon Lubold 31 mins ago
WASHINGTON—The White House gave a politically appointed official the authority to keep aid to Ukraine on hold after career budget staff members questioned the legality of delaying the funds, according to people familiar with the matter, a shift that House Democrats are probing in their impeachment inquiry.
President Trump’s order to freeze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine in mid-July is at the center of House Democratic efforts to investigate allegations that Mr. Trump used U.S. foreign policy powers to benefit himself politically. The hold came days before Mr. Trump’s request, on a July 25 call, that the Ukrainian president work with Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr to conduct investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential hopeful.
Mr. Trump has said he ordered the aid frozen because he wanted European countries to do more to support Ukraine. He has also said he didn’t make the aid to Ukraine contingent on the country’s cooperation in an investigation of Democrats. A rough transcript of the July 25 call released by the White House doesn’t show Mr. Trump explicitly linking the aid to an investigation.
A Justice Department spokeswoman has said the president never asked Mr. Barr to make the call nor did he ask the attorney general to investigate Mr. Biden.
The president has the authority to delay the release of money in certain instances, according to the Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan research agency, including if there has been an unexpected change in circumstances for the program. But without being provided explanation or justification about why the administration was delaying the aid, some career officials at the Office of Management and Budget became worried they didn’t have the legal authority to hold up the funds, according to the people familiar.
While career civil servants put an initial hold on the aid, Michael Duffey, associate director of national security programs in OMB, was given the authority for continuing to keep the aid on hold after the career staff began raising their concerns to political officials at OMB, according to the people familiar with the matter. Mr. Duffey also began overseeing the process for approving and releasing funds, called apportionment, for other foreign aid and defense accounts, according to a public document indicating the change.
Some people familiar with the change said Mr. Duffey, previously a high-ranking Pentagon official and the executive director of the Wisconsin Republican Party, took on the role because he was new to the job and wanted more insight into the apportionment process. Acting Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has the authority to delegate responsibility for approving funds to different staff members as he sees fit.
A political official like Mr. Duffey signing off on apportionments is unusual, according to several former OMB officials. Career staff below the political level at OMB with years, and sometimes decades, of technical knowledge of the funding process have historically overseen the routine process, according to the former officials. Career staff remain involved in preparing the apportionments, while Mr. Duffey now reviews and signs off on them, according to some of the people.
“The idea that administration officials would not be involved in budget execution, including apportionment authority, after decades of precedent, is absolutely ludicrous,” Rachel Semmel, a spokesperson for OMB, said in a statement after publication of this story. “It is absurd to suggest that the president and his administration officials should not play a leadership role in ensuring taxpayer dollars are well spent.”
At least five House committees are looking into the delay in the aid, and the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight committees sent a subpoena to Mr. Vought and to Defense Secretary Mark Esper this week for records about the funds. House investigators are requesting documents related to any discussion of the legality of withholding the funds and the change in apportionment authority.
Mr. Trump has also repeatedly said that concerns about corruption in Ukraine spurred the desire to hold up the funds. Mr. Trump, then-national security adviser John Bolton and Mr. Esper began discussing in June the prospect of putting a hold on the funds while the administration reviewed them, according to a senior administration official, the Journal has previously reported.
In May, the Defense Department, working with the State Department, certified that Ukraine “has taken substantial action to make defense institutional reforms for the purposes of decreasing corruption” in approving $125 million of the aid, according to documents reviewed by the Journal. Congress approved the money in recent years via several bills, and then the Pentagon and State Department initially approved its release.
Some career staff at OMB were worried that the delay to Ukraine didn’t meet the legal standards necessary for holding up congressionally approved money. “Those decisions were made pretty high up, with some concern by people who are career employees who were not super comfortable,” said one individual familiar with the matter.
The Democratic leaders of the House Budget and Appropriations committees, which are also probing the delay in the aid to Ukraine, called the involvement of a political official in the apportionment process “seemingly unprecedented” in a letter requesting documents from OMB. Those committees have received some documents from OMB that they requested.
The administration released the aid to Ukraine in mid-September after bipartisan scrutiny of the decision to delay the funds.
“I gave the money because Rob Portman and others called me and asked. But I don’t like to be the sucker and European countries are helped far more than we are,” Mr. Trump said last week, referencing Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio).
The delay on the aid to Ukraine came as the White House was seeking to cut a broad set of foreign aid programs, which prompted similar pushback on Capitol Hill. But the administration abandoned its effort to cut those other foreign assistance programs by Aug. 22, while the hold on the aid to Ukraine remained for several more weeks.
Officials on Capitol Hill became concerned that the administration wouldn’t release the Ukraine money before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, effectively canceling it. A short-term spending bill passed by Congress and signed by Mr. Trump last month extends the administration’s ability to spend the Ukraine funding.
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 15, 2019 15:05:38 GMT
Trump now calling for China to investigate the Bidens.
So if I have this correctly, Russia did NOT interfere in the 2016 election. Trump tries to coerce Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 election. Getting caught in the act this time, Trump doubles down (he should appreciate that analogy) & asks China to interfere. He's like a clumsy magician. 'Look at this hand. NOOO! Not the other hand.'
Turkey killing Kurds & America withdraws peace keeping forces. Trump Towers remains intact in Istanbul.
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 17, 2019 19:49:07 GMT
It was bound to happen with that weak-ass response of Trump's. He only talks a good fight.
Russia questions language of "unusual" Trump letter to Erdogan
MOSCOW, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday questioned the tone of a letter sent by U.S. President Donald Trump to his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan, saying it was highly unusual for correspondence between heads of state.
The White House on Wednesday released the Oct. 9 letter, in which Trump urged Erdogan to halt Turkey's cross-border offensive into northeast Syria, saying "Don't be a tough guy" and "Don't be a fool!"
"Let's work out a good deal!" the letter said.
"You don't often encounter such language in correspondence between heads of state. It's a highly unusual letter," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
Moscow's ties with Washington are at post-Cold War lows, but the Kremlin is usually careful not to call into question actions by Trump whom Russian politicians often cast as a positive force in ties who is held back by an anti-Russian U.S. establishment.
The letter was released as Trump battled to control political fallout after his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria, clearing the way for Turkey's operation against Washington's Kurdish allies. (Reporting by Tom Balmforth and Andrew Osborn; editing by Mark Heinrich).
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 17, 2019 20:05:47 GMT
By abandoning the Kurds, & making a flippant remark about - "They have a lot of sand to play with," Trump is sending the message to any future allies that we'll use you & then dump you when it's convenient. George Bush Sr. had to do this with our Iraqi allies after the first Persian Gulf War, but it wasn't his fault. We had coalition forces & our wussy European allies wanted to stop after Saddam Hussein lost 'The Mother of All Battles' (swept aside) & sued for peace. Pretty sure Bush wanted to kill him. Our allies inside Iraq paid a fearful price.
This one is all on Trump for not protecting the Kurds. We had troops already there. He withdrew them. Think the Turks risk attacking American troops? They've been on our dole for decades. That was rather unsettling to me because of the genocides they carried out towards the end of the Ottoman Empire. Did they ever apologize (or even admit) for those atrocities? But they were a strategic ally & we put up with them for that very reason.
Now Trump sidesteps their oncoming army because 'it's not our fight.' 'There's a lot of sand over there.' This places Erdogan in an awkward position. Does he heed Trump's belated warning of economic sanctions & show weakness to his people? Or turn to Turkey's traditional nemesis Russia for the payoffs we used to give him? By being weak Donald has forced the situation, & Putin is obviously poised to take advantage.
Way to go, tough guy. (The sound of one hand clapping...).
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