TRUMP Thread

If you have actually followed the news, Manafort is, for the majority, being indicted for things that happened before 2014. (Trump is not mentioned at all in the indictment.) However while Manafort was allegedly receiving money from Russia he was working with Podesta. John Podesta was Hillary's campaign manager.Why did his brother Tony resign from their Group today?)

Nine months, 400 Democratic lawyers and a 100 million dollars and this is the result?..Lol..money crimes in DC..a sure hit with how many?! Too many.

Mueller is likely trying to cover up his own criminal activities in Uranium 1. Also, his leaking of grand jury indictments is not only unethical, it's illegal. Congressman Trey Gowdy stated this morning that Mueller's leaking of grand jury indictments is illegal. So now it looks like we're going to have to have a special counsel to investigate the special counsel.

 

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Oh c'mon now, your beast Hillbilly was and is, in the thick of it. Yet Eric Holder and the DOJ under the Obama administration REFUSED to appointment a special prosecutor, despite the call for it.

So now Mueller (Obama's holdover), has charged Manafort and Gates with 'financial wrongdoing' - (as explained to AB, this is Washington DC we're talking about; financial wrongdoing charges for a prominent person in DC is as close to an 'automatic hit' as you get in American jurisprudence).
Obviously Mueller's long and expensive special inquiry has drawn a 'Trump Russian Goverment collusion' blank.

 

Since you love playing this card so much!

 

"What a crowd. What a crowd. Thank you for coming out." ~~ Said Trump to Texas hurricane victims :lol

Apparently, Trump Wanted To Throw Cans Of Chicken At Hurricane Victims

"Several first-hand accounts from the ground tell a different perspective than the administration, which claimed Trump’s Tuesday trip (Oct. 4) was a success. Reporters from CNN and The Washington Post shared how the infamous paper towel moment very well could’ve been canned goods instead.

Speaking from the Cavalry Chapel, a church in the lavish area of San Juan, Trump was intrigued by canned chicken and was interested in tossing them into the crowd of Hurricane victims. “Whoa! I’ve never seen that before. That looks kind of good,” he said. “Let’s start handing it out. Do you feel like this?”

https://www.vibe.com/2017/10/trump-wanted-to-throw-cans-of-chicken-at-hurricane-victims/

"We're going to help you out. Have a good time." ~~ Donald Trump :lol

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Key points that President Trump’s supporters in the US seem to frequently bring up:

1. Politicians screw things up – and have been for years. Even Republicans. Because they are bought and paid for by powerful interests. They do not care about ordinary people, just the rich.
2. Trump tells it like it is – as shown by his tweets. Unlike the media and the politicians, he is not careful with his words, he is not politically correct. He says things that wind up hurting him, which just goes to show you how honest he is. You can trust him.
3. Trump is a successful business man – so he knows how to get things done in the real world. It means he understands how to make the country wealthier, as proved by the stock market going up and unemployment going down.
4. Trump will shake things up – as shown by his fearlessness in saying what he thinks, as shown by his complete lack of experience as a politician. He cares about ordinary people. He cares deeply about the country and where it is headed. Because he is himself rich, he is independent of the powerful interests that bought and paid for Congress.
5. Trump is not racist – that is what the left calls you when they cannot win a debate. They are the real racists.
6. Trump was right about Charlottesville – both sides are to blame for the violence. But the left started it. After all, the Klan had the proper permits. It was the left who came in and screwed things up.
7. We need a wall – to keep us safe. What is wrong with enforcing the law? Without borders we have no country.
8. The media is unfair – you cannot believe anything they say. They should just give you the facts and let you make up your own mind. But they hate Trump too much to do that. CNN is fake news. Thank God we have Trump’s tweets to tell us the truth!
9. The Russia stuff is made up – after a year there is not a shred of evidence to prove it. The Democrats are just sore losers who cannot admit they lost fair and square. That is why they make a big deal out of Russiagate.
10. Give Trump a chance – if the media and the Republicans in Congress would give him a chance, he could get some good things done. He is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances.

Media diet: Trump’s tweets, Fox News.
In short, have faith in Trump, do not believe CNN, and blame Congress. Write off scandal and incompetence as fake news, deep state and on-the-job training. Do not take everything he says seriously – just the parts you want to believe.
With that kind of thinking, they are with him for the long term.
That is 35% of the country. Meanwhile some 48%, myself among them, suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. That leaves 17% somewhere in between. The fate of the nation rests with them.

 

Yup! How bigly of him. The second one totally speaks volumes. You're getting the real deal when it comes to children and animals.

 

It began on Sunday morning when Mr. Trump, posting on Twitter, accused Mr. Corker of deciding not to run for re-election because he “didn’t have the guts.” Mr. Corker shot back in his own tweet: “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”



The senator, Mr. Trump said, had “begged” for his endorsement. “I said ‘NO’ and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement),” the president wrote. He also said that Mr. Corker had asked to be secretary of state. “I said ‘NO THANKS,’” he wrote.
Mr. Corker flatly disputed that account, saying Mr. Trump had urged him to run again, and promised to endorse him if he did. But the exchange laid bare a deeper rift: The senator views Mr. Trump as given to irresponsible outbursts — a political novice who has failed to make the transition from show business.



Mr. Trump poses such an acute risk, the senator said, that a coterie of senior administration officials must protect him from his own instincts. “I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him,” Mr. Corker said in a telephone interview.



The deeply personal back-and-forth will almost certainly rupture what had been a friendship with a fellow real estate developer turned elected official, one of the few genuine relationships Mr. Trump had developed on Capitol Hill. Still, even as he leveled his stinging accusations, Mr. Corker repeatedly said on Sunday that he liked Mr. Trump, until now an occasional golf partner, and wished him “no harm.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Mr. Corker’s remarks.

Mr. Trump’s feud with Mr. Corker is particularly perilous given that the president has little margin for error as he tries to pass a landmark overhaul of the tax code — his best, and perhaps last, hope of producing a major legislative achievement this year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/08/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

Trump's popularity is slipping in rural America: poll

Trump's popularity is slipping in rural America: poll
John Wilson, 70, at the Morgan County Fair in McConnelsville, Ohio. REUTERS/Tim Reid
(Reuters) - Outside the Morgan County fair in McConnelsville, in a rural swath of Ohio that fervently backed U.S. President Donald Trump in last year’s election, ticket seller John Wilson quietly counts off a handful of disappointments with the man he helped elect.

The 70-year-old retired banker said he is unhappy with infighting and turnover in the White House. He does not like Trump’s penchant for traveling to his personal golf resorts. He wishes the president would do more to fix the healthcare system, and he worries that Trump might back down from his promise to force illegal immigrants out of the country.

“Every president makes mistakes,” Wilson said. “But if you add one on top of one, on top of another one, on top of another, there’s just a limit.”

Trump, who inspired millions of supporters last year in places like Morgan County, has been losing his grip on rural America.

According to the Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll, the Republican president’s popularity is eroding in small towns and rural communities where 15 percent of the country’s population lives. The poll of more than 15,000 adults in “non-metro” areas shows that they are now as likely to disapprove of Trump as they are to approve of him.

In September, 47 percent of people in non-metro areas approved of Trump while 47 percent disapproved. That is down from Trump’s first four weeks in office, when 55 percent said they approved of the president while 39 percent disapproved.

The poll found that Trump has lost support in rural areas among men, whites and people who never went to college. He lost support with rural Republicans and rural voters who supported him on Election Day.

And while Trump still gets relatively high marks in the poll for his handling of the economy and national security, rural Americans are increasingly unhappy with Trump’s record on immigration, a central part of his presidential campaign.

Forty-seven percent of rural Americans said in September they approved of the president’s handling of immigration, down from 56 percent during his first month in office.

Poll respondents who were interviewed by Reuters gave different reasons for their dissatisfaction with the president on immigration.

A few said they are tired of waiting for Trump to make good on his promise to build a wall along America’s southern border, while others said they were uncomfortable with his administration’s efforts to restrict travel into the United States.

“There should be some sort of compromise between a free flow of people over the border and something that’s more controlled,” said Drew Carlson, 19, of Warrensburg, Missouri, who took the poll.

But Trump’s “constant fixation on deportation is a little bit unsettling to me.”

The Trump administration would not comment about the Reuters/Ipsos poll.

To be sure, Trump is still much more popular in rural America than he is elsewhere.

Since he took office, “I like him less, but I support him more,” said Robert Cody, 87, a retired chemical engineer from Bartlesville, Oklahoma who took the poll.

Cody said that Trump may rankle some people with the way he talks and tweets, but it is a small price to pay for a president who will fight to strip away government regulations and strengthen the border.

DROPPING OFF THE SCREEN
When Trump called the election a ”last shot“ for the struggling coal industry and when he called for protecting the nation’s southern border with a “big, fat, beautiful wall”, he was speaking directly to rural America, said David Swenson, an economist at Iowa State University.

“Feelings of resentment and deprivation have pervaded a lot of these places,” Swenson said. “And here comes a candidate (Trump) who’s offering simplistic answers” to issues that concern them.

Rural Americans responded by supporting Trump over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 26 percentage points during the election, an advantage that helped tip the balance in battleground states, such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where Trump won by less than 1 percentage point.

But after 10 months, many are still waiting to see concrete changes that could make life easier in rural America, said Karl Stauber, who runs a private economic development agency serving a patchwork of manufacturing communities in south central Virginia.

“Rural people are more cynical about the federal government than people in general are,” Stauber said. “They’ve heard so many promises, and they’ve not seen much done.”

Despite all the talk of bringing manufacturing jobs back, Stauber said he has not seen any companies which have relocated to his region, or anyone expand their workforce, due to new federal policies.

“It just seems like we’ve dropped off the screen,” he said.

According to the poll, Trump’s overall popularity has dropped gradually, and for different reasons, this year.

Rural Americans were increasingly unhappy with Trump’s handling of healthcare in March and April after he lobbied for a Republican plan to overhaul Obamacare and cut coverage for millions of Americans.

In May and June, they were more critical of Trump’s ability to carry out U.S. foreign policy, and they gave him lower marks for “the way he treats people like me.”

In August, they were increasingly unhappy with “the effort he’s making to unify the country” after he blamed “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a suspected white nationalist drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English across the United States. It asked people to rate the president’s performance and the results were filtered for people who lived in zip codes that fell within counties designated as “non-metro” by the federal government.

The poll combined the results of “non-metro” respondents into nine, four-week periods. Each period included between 1,300 and 2,000 responses and had a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3 percentage points.

Reporting by Chris Kahn and Tim Reid; Editing by Jonathan Oatis

 

Mueller’s A-team of top investigators and attorneys has reportedly begun researching just how “complete” Trump’s pardon power really is, and whether he could pre-emptively pardon his family members and close associates. Specifically, the special prosecutor’s top legal counsel, Michael Dreeben, is looking into past presidential pardons to determine what restrictions exist, according to a Bloomberg report published Tuesday.

Dreeben is venturing into uncharted territory. As Mueller’s investigation was metastasizing at the end of July, The Washington Post reported that Trump had begun asking his advisers and legal team about his ability to pardon aides, associates, family members, and even himself—questions Dreeben is likely seeking the answers to himself. “While there has been a lot of speculation over the past months, the language about the pardon power in the Constitution is very broad and the unusual circumstances commentators (and now Dreeben) are considering [have] never happened before,”Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, wrote on Twitter. “Mueller and Dreeben are likely planning their legal argument in advance as well as plotting out next steps in case the President issues pardons that could otherwise hinder the investigation.”


https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/robert-mueller-donald-trump-pardon-power

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Kelly and Mattis discussed literally tackling Trump in the event he ‘lunges for the nuclear football’: report
Elizabeth Preza
New York Magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman on Tuesday reported on a remarkable conversation he had with a senior Republican official, who described conversations Donald Trump’s chief of staff Gen. John Kelly and defense secretary James Mattis have had about “physically [restraining] the president” in the event he “[lunges] for the nuclear football.”

Sherman was discussing the growing concern in the West Wing over Trump’s temperament, particularly as the president continues to escalate feuds with prominent Republicans like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) while simultaneously setting the United States “on the path to World War III.”

“A conversation I had with a very prominent Republican today, who literally was saying that they imagine Gen. Kelly and Secretary Mattis have had conversations that if Trump lunged for the nuclear football, what would they do?” Sherman told NBC’s Chris Hayes. “Would they tackle him? I mean literally, physically restrain him from putting the country at perilous risk.”

“That is the kind of situation we’re in,” Sherman added.

Pressed by Hayes to explain the sources’ relationship to—and direct knowledge of—the Trump administration, Sherman explained, “these are the conversation they have, on very good authority, are taking place inside the White House.”

 

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[h=1]“I Hate Everyone in the White House!”: Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear the President Is “Unraveling”[/h]In recent days, I’ve spoken with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president that seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods.

At first it sounded like hyperbole, the escalation of a Twitter war. But now it’s clear that Bob Corker’s remarkable New York Timesinterview—in which the Republican senator described the White House as “adult day care” and warned Trump could start World War III—was an inflection point in the Trump presidency. It brought into the open what several people close to the president have recently told me in private: that Trump is “unstable,” “losing a step,” and “unraveling.”

The conversation among some of the president’s longtime confidantes, along with the character of some of the leaks emerging from the White House has shifted. There’s a new level of concern. NBC News published a report that Trump shocked his national security team when he called for a nearly tenfold increase in the country’s nuclear arsenal during a briefing this summer. One Trump adviser confirmed to me it was after this meeting disbanded that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “moron.”In recent days, I spoke with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president who seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods. Trump’s ire is being fueled by his stalled legislative agenda and, to a surprising degree, by his decision last month to back the losing candidate Luther Strange in the Alabama Republican primary. “Alabama was a huge blow to his psyche,” a person close to Trump said. “He saw the cult of personality was broken.”

Even before Corker’s remarks, some West Wing advisers were worried that Trump’s behavior could cause the Cabinet to take extraordinary Constitutional measures to remove him from office. Several months ago, according to two sources with knowledge of the conversation, former chief strategist Steve Bannontold Trump that the risk to his presidency wasn’t impeachment, but the 25th Amendment—the provision by which a majority of the Cabinet can vote to remove the president. When Bannon mentioned the 25th Amendment, Trump said, “What’s that?” According to a source, Bannon has told people he thinks Trump has only a 30 percent chance of making it the full term.



https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/donald-trump-is-unraveling-white-house-advisers

 

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400 lawyers and $100 million dollars spent???LOL Not even close.
And there have been no grand jury indictment leaks. There was simply an announcement last week the first indictment would happen Monday.

What's really going to roast Trump's ass is the fact that former Trump campaign staffer George Papadopoulos has admitted he lied to the FBI about Russia contacts and is supposedly about to make a deal behind closed doors about the Trump team's knowledge of Russian interference and efforts to help Trump win the election.

The Russia scandal is very easy to understand and breaks down like this; Russia tried on several different occasions to contact the Trump campaign team offering to help aid in his defeat of HRC. This included offering the Trump team HRC's ILLEGALLY hacked emails and to launch a cyber-disinformation campaign against HRC.
In exchange, Russia wanted Trump to lift sanctions placed on them under Obama for their activities in Georgia and Ukraine.

WHen you're running for POTUS, you can't knowingly condone a foreign government stealing information from your political opponents, or use social media to spread REAL 'fake news' as a form of propaganda.

But no, stupid ass Trump allowed an adversarial nation to basically run his presidential campaign, which is by definition treason.

Stay tuned, but I'm almost 100% sure Trump is going to end up resigning before he ever risks being impeached.

As for this BS uranium conspiracy theory, I'll let Joy Reid break it down for you.
2:20 minute vid.

 

He definitely has them trained well as they totally stick to the script.

 

Nearly everything in that dossier has proven to be true. In fact political pundits have speculated Mueller is using it as his template for investigation into Trump's dealings with Russia.
BTW there's nothing illegal about the Uranium deal. Also, none of that uranium has left the country, nor will it EVER. It's basically just a stock. We never sold or transferred uranium to Russia.

As for Tony Podesta, the brother of top Clinton aide John Podesta, resigning his lobbying firm, I'll paraphrase what I read on twitter today;

Let's see here: - Tony Podesta resigns - 1 point for Team Trump - Gates Indicted - 10 points Team Anti-Trump - Paul Manafort Indicted - 100 points Team Anti-Trump - George Papadopoulos Flipped - 1000 points for Team Anti-Trump Team Anti-Trump = 1110 points Team Trump = 1 point

 

Well said, John Oliver dug into this Uranium 1 non-conspiracy, pay for play, nonsense earlier...

start at 10:17