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Congress Reaches Deal on Russia Sanctions, Setting Up Tough Choice for Trump

The new legislation would sharply limit the president’s ability to suspend or terminate the sanctions — a remarkable handcuffing by a Republican-led Congress six months into Mr. Trump’s tenure. It is also the latest Russia-tinged turn for a presidency consumed by investigations into the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian officials, including conversations between Trump advisers and Russian officials about prospective sanctions relief.

Now, Mr. Trump could soon face a decision he hoped to avoid: veto the bill — a move that would fuel accusations that he is doing the bidding of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — or sign legislation imposing sanctions his administration has opposed.
“A nearly united Congress is poised to send President Putin a clear message on behalf of the American people and our allies,” said Senator Benjamin L. Cardin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “and we need President Trump to help us deliver that message

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/us/politics/congress-sanctions-russia.html

 

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Peggy Noonan: Trump's a 'drama queen'


President Ronald Reagan and Margaret Ellen "Peggy" Noonan

"Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan said President Trump's biggest flaw undermining his own power is that he lacks traditionally masculine characteristics.

"He's not strong and self-controlled, not cool and tough, not low-key and determined; he's whiny, weepy and self-pitying," she wrote Thursday night in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. "He throws himself, sobbing, on the body politic.

He's a drama queen."
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"Trump must remind people of their first wife," wrote Noonan.

"Actually his wife, Melania, is tougher than he is with her stoicism and grace, her self-discipline and desire to show the world respect by presenting herself with dignity. ... His inability — not his refusal, but his inability — to embrace the public and rhetorical role of the presidency consistently and constructively is weak."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/peggy-noonan-trumps-a-drama-queen/article/2629969
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Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role

WASHINGTON — President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff.

Mr. Scaramucci’s abrupt removal came just 10 days after the wealthy New York financier was brought on to the West Wing staff, a move that convulsed an already chaotic White House and led to the departures of Sean Spicer, the former press secretary, and Reince Priebus, the president’s first chief of staff.

The decision to remove Mr. Scaramucci, who had boasted about reporting directly to the president not the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, came at Mr. Kelly’s request, the people said. Mr. Kelly made clear to members of the White House staff at a meeting Monday morning that he is in charge.

It was not clear whether Mr. Scaramucci will remain employed at the White House in another position or will leave altogether.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/us/politics/anthony-scaramucci-white-house.html

 

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Washington Post: Trump dictated son's misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer

"Flying home from Germany on July 8 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said he and the Russian lawyer had "primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children" when they met in June 2016, according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations.

The statement, issued to the New York Times as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was "not a campaign issue at the time."

The claims were later shown to be misleading."

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/...cle_7dd9533a-764d-11e7-9659-8bfe0d7dc381.html

 

First of all, Peggy Noonan used to be so cute.
Secondly, Trump has got to be one of the most insecure men we've ever had as POTUS.
You knew that when he lied and said he had a huge inaugural crowd and told Sean Spicer to keep telling the lie.
Inaugural crowd size is just random bullshit no POTUS cares about after winning the election.
But to Trump, that validation mattered.smh

 

Did you watch it?

 

Some. The National Park Service confirmed that Trump had an average to small inaugural crowd, especially compared to Obama.
Again, why did Trump even turn that into an issue or even care about it??

The man has too many obvious insecurities IMO to be leader of the free world, among his other issues. He always needs to be validated, always has to posture like he's a tough guy, etc.

For such an esteemed conservative voice like Peggy Noonan to say Trump comes across like a drama queen is shocking.
Even that fucked up handshake Trump does, why does he still need to SHOW and PROVE his personal dominance instead of being gracious and conducting himself like a statesman and diplomat...since he's now the POTUS and arguably the most powerful man in the world?

That's security and ignorance on the part of Trump not knowing the immense authority and power the POTUS has around the globe.
IMO Trump judged the presidency by how much money the job paid and therefore thought it was beneath his role as CEO of Trump Inc.lol

The guy just wanted the accomplishment of getting elected POTUS, but still doesn't have much of an idea the enormous responsibility that comes with the job.

 

Kelly sworn in as Trump's second chief of staff

By Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 10:17 PM ET, Mon July 31, 2017

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politics/john-kelly-chief-of-staff/index.html

John Kelly was sworn in as President Donald Trump's new chief of staff Monday, tasked with bringing order to an often chaotic White House and jump-starting the President's stalled legislative agenda.

"We look forward to, if it is possible, even a better job as chief of staff," Trump said of his former secretary of homeland security.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that his administration has "done very well," noting the stock market, unemployment and business confidence.

A general's rigor could face hurdles under a chaos-prone boss

"We have a tremendous base, we have a tremendous group of support, the country is optimistic and I think the general will just add to it. The country is doing very well. Strongest stock market ever," Trump said.
He added: "We will proceed and we will keep going but we have a fantastic leader, chief of staff, he is going to do a really great job."

Republicans on Capitol Hill hope Kelly, a retired United States Marine Corps general known for his fastidious nature, will bring order to a White House where disorder -- in the eyes of those on the Hill -- has led to few legislative victories and slumping poll numbers. Kelly's resume leads many to believe he has the chops to turn the White House around; he served as the commander of United States Southern Command for four years under President Barack Obama and served as a commanding general in Iraq from 2008 to 2009.

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President Donald Trump talks with new White House chief of staff John Kelly after he was privately sworn in during a ceremony in the Oval Office on Monday, July 31, 2017, in Washington.

Trump campaigned for president as the ultimate political outsider and promised his history as a real estate magnate in New York would make it easy for him to strike a host of deals with lawmakers in Washington. The reality has been anything but. Trump's legislative agenda, capped by a failure to pass a health care plan, has languished on Capitol Hill and Trump will likely leave for his August vacation without passing a sweeping legislative win.

It was those failures that helped lead to the decision to have Kelly take over for Reince Priebus, who was ousted from the job after only six months on Friday.

New order at WH front and center as Kelly takes helm

Priebus, the former Republican National Committee chair, was brought in as Trump's first chief of staff because he had the deep relations with Republicans in Washington the outsider President lacked. The former chief of staff told CNN that he tendered his resignation on Thursday but the President surprised Washington when he announced the move on Twitter Friday shortly after a trip to New York.

"I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff," Trump tweeted. "He is a Great American... and a Great Leader. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security. He has been a true star of my Administration."

The move caps months of speculation that Priebus' hold on his job was weak given internal White House chaos, continued leaks and the fact the former RNC chair was not always in sync with longtime Trump aides and advisers.
"The President wanted to go a different direction," Priebus told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room" Friday evening. "A president has a right to hit a reset button. I think it's a good time to hit the reset button. I think he was right to hit the reset button."

Who is John Kelly, Trump's new chief of staff?

Kelly comes in with high expectations that his general's sense of hierarchy can bring order to a President who has long thrived on chaos and countless opinions.

But bringing order to the Trump White House will be a tall order, given both Trump's reliance on voices outside the White House and the fact Trump has more assistants to the President -- a senior role in the White House -- than any modern commander in chief.

Trump has at least 26 assistants, including family members like Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Obama had 22 assistants during his first year in office, while former President George W. Bush had as many as 17 assistants.
Corey Lewandowski, Trump's former campaign manager and a ever-present outside adviser, said Sunday that his advice to Kelly would be don't try to change Trump.

"The thing that General Kelly should do is not try to change Donald Trump," he said. "I say you have to let Trump be Trump. That is what has made him successful over the last 30 years. That is what the American people voted for. And anybody who thinks they're going to change Donald Trump doesn't know Donald Trump."

Questions remain about the kind of power Kelly will have in the White House, particularly whether the sprawling world of Trump's advisers will report through the general or directly to Trump.

Sources told CNN that many of Trump's top advisers are fully bought into the chief of staff change, but little clarity has been provided about the reporting structure.

"Jared and Ivanka are very supportive of him (Kelly) coming in and have a tremendous amount of admiration for him and will follow his lead on how he wants things done," a source told CNN on Sunday. "They will follow his lead. They want this to work."

Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's new communications director who publicly sparred with Priebus in a obscenity-laden tirade to a reporter, has said that he will report directly to Trump.

Looking to push the idea Kelly will have authority within the West Wing, a senior administration official said Trump has given "Gen. Kelly full authority."

Trump pushed back against the idea that his White House was in chaos on Monday, tweeting a string of purported successes - including a booming stock market and low unemployment - before adding, "No WH chaos!"

 

Now does this dummy not realise the BIGGEST beneficiaries of AA are ww??? So an AA ban will hurt whites the MOST!!
Whites make up the BIGGEST percentage of legacy admissions also.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...-action-justice-department-college-admissions

 

Wasn't this just a report? Like SI saying he called the whitehouse a "dump." Anyway I read that they are investigating discrimination against white applicants from certain colleges. They'll find nothing that will give them a dog in this fight if they are looking to end AA. His and Sessions ignorance won't work here and will be met with more outrage than anything else he is doing.

Affirmative Action isn't race based, it's protection against race based. It's a shame we need it, but it's also a shame racism is apart of the power structure in the U.S.

 

This is just more red meat for Trump's base, those White male Red staters who now think they're the victims of reverse discrimination.

All affirmative action says is that race can be considered as a positive attribute in the admissions process.
Most colleges try to build a diverse, representative student body that reflects the demographics of the USA.

No Black student is ever accepted to college just because they're Black, a belief that is highly racist to begin with. But if you are a Black student who academically qualifies for admission, you race can and will be considered a positive factor.

To be truthful, ALL colleges look at the race and ethnicity of every applicant to make sure the build a representative study body.

For instance, most colleges want a 50/50 ratio of male to female students. They want students from all over the country and not just one region where the school is located. That's why in many cases a student has a better chance getting into a UC school if they apply from the East Coast than if they lived in L.A. They want a certain amount of White students, Black, Asian, Hispanic and Native American.

For a student to get in once that quota has been met, they have to be an usual applicant. Like an athlete, a musician, a vet, an international student, or they have a skill or talent that will be used for the benefit of their school. I knew a couple kids in college who were considered future members of the U.S. Olympic team who said the fact they were nationally ranked in judo or fencing definitely helped them get in.

No college has a purely blind admissions process based solely on academic performance and standardized test scores, although many conservatives try to sell that crap to their voters.

For the Justice Department to claim they're going to pursue cases where White students are unduly discriminated against in the college admissions process is hilarious.
A girl I used to date in undergrad used to argue that if a college admitted 10 White students and 3 Black and you as a White applicant didn't get in, you shouldn't be challenging the admissions of those 3 Black students. That White student with the rejection letter should wonder why those 10 other White students got in ahead of you.

Another disgusting example that voting in presidential elections matters.

To be honest, even if conservatives got rid of affirmative action, most colleges would still use it on their own to diversify their student body.

I almost kind of wish they would get rid of it so conservatives would have nothing to bitch about and still be forced to wonder how a non-White student got in over them.

 

Trump wants to drive WW back into the kitchen. Barefoot and pregnant.

 

Unfortunately once they believe things there is nothing that can change their mind. Like them believing that the Black Panther Party is racist hate group. You can show as much evidence as possible, as much knowledge and it will be like talking to programmed person that's stuck on stupid. They are gleeful in ignorance that they mistake for intelligence ALL because the party or people they follow tell them what and how to think.

 

Too bad for them they don't have the sperm count to make it happen

 

White boys need to quit stroking their firearms and start stroking their women

 

Donald Trump to African American and Hispanic voters: ‘What do you have to lose?’

I feel like, under Obama, liberals like me (not just Black or Hispanic voters) got so tired of only getting half of what we wanted that we forgot what it's like to get nothing.