Trump 13: More Scandal, More Fun. Yay! :/

[RoseWilder]

Preach it. 

 

[fraurosena]

We can add some more names to our list. I'm beginning to think the list of Repubs that aren't part of the Russian Connection is going to be much, much shorter.

Sticking With Trump, Republicans Resist Call for Broader Russian Inquiry

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Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, has shown no signs of budging from his longstanding resistance to calls for a select committee. His office did not respond to questions about whether his position had changed.

The result, though, is that the controversy has focused attention once again on an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by its Republican chairman, Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, an often outspoken Trump supporter during the campaign.

In a statement on Thursday, Mr. Burr said he would trust Mr. Sessions to “make what he feels is the appropriate decision as to his involvement in any investigation into Russian active measures and the 2016 election.”

Representative Devin Nunes of California, raised a separate concern: rushing to conclusions about anyone who has contact with Russian diplomats.

“I’m sure some of you are in contact with the Russian Embassy, so be careful what you ask for here,” he told reporters. “Do you want us to conduct an investigation on you or other Americans because you were talking to the Russian Embassy?”

Really, Nunes? The investigation is NOT because anyone is talking to the Russian Embassy. It's about the position that someone has when talking to the Russians, and what they are talking ABOUT, you idiot!

Only people who have something to hide would be afraid of an investigation.

 

1. Ted Cruz

2. Devin Nunes

3. Paul Ryan

4. Tom Cotton

5. Lindsey Graham

6. Orin Hatch

7. Steve King

8. Rand Paul

9. Chuck Grassley

10. Mitch McConnell

11. Richard Burr

 

[47of74]

7 hours ago, JMarie said:

Grassley could be the next??

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sticking-with-trump-republicans-resist-call-for-broader-russian-inquiry/ar-AAnJaAX?ocid=spartanntp

 

Grassley is an idiot.  I need to have a few four letter words with the people who voted him back in as well.

[Howl]

6 hours ago, RoseWilder said:

Heh!   Crux sentence in the Independent's article:  

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However, Mr Steele became increasingly frustrated that the FBI was failing to take action on the intelligence from others as well as him.

He came to believe there was a cover-up, that a cabal within the bureau blocked a thorough inquiry into Mr Trump, focusing instead on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. The MI6 officer’s passing of information to the FBI ceased in December last year.

With Comey still large and in charge @ FBI,  the Bureau has zip credibility in my eyes.  This article is telling us the the FBI had credible information that would torpedo Trump, but sat on that intel and instead released a last minute faux Hillary Clinton email investigation! announcement.  So yeah, the Russians interfered in the elections, but so did the FBI.  I like their use of the word cabal (a secret political clique or faction). 

I'd love to see someone in the House or Senate grow a pair and announce an investigation of a rogue element in the FBI, which is in some ways the larger story. 

[Local Gorilla]

 A "safe space", wherein Trump supporters can connect with other lonely bigots and others labeled undesirable by the general population.

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/14/515179534/when-dating-in-the-era-of-divisive-politics-both-sides-stick-to-themselves

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“I started TrumpSingles.com because of the divide in our country”

Um. What? ...As if TrumpSingles  will unite the country! This does the exact opposite!  That’s like starting an all-white school to promote desegregation.  ...These losers display inordinate levels of cognitive dissonance. Apparently, they feel hated - persecuted, even! So, it does not surprise me at all that they’ve formed their own devolutionary dating pool.

I would love to troll this site. Go on a date buy top notch booze and dip out through the back, throw my burner phone in a dumpster and call it a night. I could easily do that once a week.

[Howl]

Gotta love Josh Marshall over at Talking Points Memo, contemplating RussiaGate: 

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Astronomers can't see black holes directly. They map them by their event horizon and their effect on nearby stars and stellar matter. We can't see yet what's at the center of the Trump/Russia black hole. But we can tell a lot about its magnitude by the scope of the event horizon and the degree of its gravitational pull, which is immense.

 

[turquoise]

1 hour ago, Howl said:

With Comey still large and in charge @ FBI,  the Bureau has zip credibility in my eyes.  This article is telling us the the FBI had credible information that would torpedo Trump, but sat on that intel and instead released a last minute faux Hillary Clinton email investigation! announcement.  So yeah, the Russians interfered in the elections, but so did the FBI.  I like their use of the word cabal (a secret political clique or faction). 

I'd love to see someone in the House or Senate grow a pair and announce an investigation of a rogue element in the FBI, which is in some ways the larger story. 

This really scares me. I want to know what the Russians have on Comey and some of these other Republicans who keep looking the other way and pretending nothing is wrong. They are traitors, We are in deep shit here.

[formergothardite]

Since most of these Republicans who are turning a blind eye to this situation are claiming to be Christian, perhaps they should remember the lyrics to that Johnny Cash song:

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Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What's done in the dark will be brought to the light

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down

 

This has gotten too big and it isn't going to go away. Whatever they did with Russia or whatever Russia has on them is going to eventually come out.

[RoseWilder]

1 hour ago, Howl said:

With Comey still large and in charge @ FBI,  the Bureau has zip credibility in my eyes.  This article is telling us the the FBI had credible information that would torpedo Trump, but sat on that intel and instead released a last minute faux Hillary Clinton email investigation! announcement.  So yeah, the Russians interfered in the elections, but so did the FBI.  I like their use of the word cabal (a secret political clique or faction). 

Louise Mensch, who has been researching Trump's Russian ties for months, and has gotten the story before other leading news outlets, still believes that Comey is the good guy in all of this and that he's legitimately investigating. 

Before I quote her blog article, I want to tell you why I think she's credible. She was reporting on the story about the FBI having a FISA warrant to go into Trump tower, and she reported on it last October, even before any other news outlet had reported on it. She also was reporting all this Jeff Sessions stuff weeks/months before the media started reporting on in this Wednesday.

Her research has been consistently two steps ahead of the media, so when she first floats a theory, it seems a little crazy. But then she's been proven right enough times that I'm starting to believe she's credible. Vanity Fair has listed her as one of the 5 twitter pages to follow for Trump-Russia news. 

Here's what she says is happening with James Comey: 

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When the writer Jason Leopold of Vice asked if Trump had been under investigation in September he got a GLOMAR response: ‘We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any such records’.

GLOMAR responses are named for a submarine and can only be given if a matter of national security is at stake. Mr. Leopold announced he would sue, for why should a concluded investigation be a matter of national security? I told him, with little credibility then and tons now, that the GLOMAR response made sense because there is an ongoing investigation into Mr. Trump and his associates on a matter of national security.

Democrats, including Democrats in Obama’s government who ought to know better, have asked if James Comey had ‘a double standard’ over the investigations into Clinton and Trump. Yes; he did, and he does. He may talk about a criminal investigation. He may not talk about a current, ongoing investigation into espionage, bribery, money laundering and so forth that affects US national security.

Over the summer and early autumn Democrats wrongly stated that the FBI / Comey had said they were not looking into Roger Stone and had declined to investigate Roger Stone, who announced his links to Wikileaks. This came from a Senate hearing and Mr. Comey’s testimony to Democrat Rep. Nadler. Rep. Nadler asked if Stone’s boasts constituted special circumstances, Comey said “I don’t think so.”  It must have been frustrating for Comey. He was GLOMAR-ing Congress right to their face and they did not understand what was going on.

Subsequently, the heads of NSA, CIA and FBI “Glomar”ed, in no particular order, two Congressional open Russian hack hearings, one closed briefing to the House of Representatives, and in the case of the CIA’s Director Brennan, Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

Furthermore, although Comey is a natural Republican he appeared to have played it straight. In the summer he cleared Clinton of a criminal standard of negligence. In the fall, he had been sandbagged by Russian moles inside the FBI Field Office in New York. But I do not believe Mr. Comey surrendered wrongly to ‘pressure’. He knew the moles had effective kompromat – the emails your hacker Nikulin planted or woke – and that were he not to revise his testimony in the light of new evidence, his far more important natsec investigation into the traitor, Donald Trump, would be discredited. He then worked around the clock to clear Mrs. Clinton.

All evidence shows that James Comey is pursuing your assault on America, Mr. Putin, with the fearless I expect from a counter-intelligence patriot. In June, he named Donald Trump to a FISA court as an agent of Russian influence. In July, he did the same. Both times, the court turned him down. In April, Mr. Comey received audio of Russian money financing Trump – that’s the same time that Paul Manafort joined the campaign to run it. He formed a joint CIA/FBI /Treasury task force to look at the money.

Over the summer, US counter-intelligence met with Chris Steele because they had already got their own independent information that he was correct. On October 5th, your hacker Nikulin was picked up on an FBI ‘Red Warrant’ in Prague which means Director Comey had put a top priority on getting him some time before. Armed with whatever Nikulin spilled – and, Mr. Putin, he fainted when they caught him – Director Comey went back again, to a new FISA judge, on October 15, and he got his warrant.

Every indication is that Director Comey is not only independent but plays better chess than both you or I, Mr. Putin. (Can I call you VVP? I feel like I know you). For in September, the FBI did not join the ODNI statement about Russia’s intent being to aid Trump. Why not? Because while the NSA and CIA had heard the tapes of Americans in Trump’s camp working with your officials, taking your bribes, disseminating your information, Director Comey had not yet received his warrant. In order not to give Trump’s defense and the defense of his camps anything to go on, the FBI was Caesar’s wife. It did not act on surveillance of US persons abroad offered by the UK, Estonia, BIS, and Lithuania until it got the warrant. Director Comey does not want any ‘fruit of the poisoned tree’ defenses (no pun intended, Mr. Putin, and may I remind you sir that it is bad form to kill one’s opponents in chess. It’s cheating).

The FBI ‘changed’ its stance on the final Russian hacking report because they had, by then, listened to the tapes. Legally. Under a warrant.

The FBI has, fortunately, always employed the principle of compartmentalization. The FBI Counter-Intelligence division in New York kept their dealings secret from the criminal field office in New York.

ETA: The quote from her blog mentions Russian spies within the NY office of the FBI. She has reason to believe that Russia has moles without the NY division of the FBI and that they were placed there so that the Russian money laundering and various other illegal activity could be covered up. Again, it's a crazy theory, but she's been right so many times before that I think it's credible. Here's her blog if anyone wants to read it: 

https://patribotics.wordpress.com/

[Penny]

2 minutes ago, formergothardite said:

This has gotten too big and it isn't going to go away. Whatever they did with Russia or whatever Russia has on them is going to eventually come out.

I agree, I just hope we find out soon. My hope is that it takes out many of the Republicans. This will hurt Agent Orange business as well. 

[GreyhoundFan]

9 hours ago, candygirl200413 said:

I'm so over with how they can do anything and that there will never be repercussions. (Do we have a nickname for Jason Cheffetz?) cause he is STILL investigating Hillary's non-existence email issue.

I'm just so so pissed.

I call him Chapass because it chaps my hide when I see his smug asshole-like face. I hope he goes down in flames and takes a bunch of his Repub buddies with him.

[RoseWilder]

Damn, I can't keep up with the news lately. Every hour something drops. 

 

[RoseWilder]

And we're up to 12 now: 

1. Ted Cruz

2. Devin Nunes

3. Paul Ryan

4. Tom Cotton

5. Lindsey Graham

6. Orin Hatch

7. Steve King

8. Rand Paul

9. Chuck Grassley

10. Mitch McConnell

11. Richard Burr

12. Trey Gowdy

If this keeps up I'm going to have to learn to use the spoiler tags because the list is going to get VERY long. 

[GreyhoundFan]

8 minutes ago, RoseWilder said:

And we're up to 12 now: 

 

That's rich. Trey Gowdy certainly seemed to think he was a criminal investigator during the ridiculous Benghazi tribunals. Loathsome prick.

 

"Trump needs to recuse himself from the presidency"

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Everybody is now saying that Jeff Sessions’s recusal was the obvious move, with so many questions in the air. Don’t want the appearance of a conflict! I have another obvious move: Trump should recuse himself from the presidency, until such time as a thorough investigation determines that his campaign didn’t collude in an effort that may have caused him to be an inappropriate beneficiary of a tainted process.

While we’re waiting for the (commencement and) completion of that investigation, we should look for an appropriate caretaker president to sit in.

We could ask the American people whom they would prefer. I suggest we look back at their votes in November to see what they actually said in the first place.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Another "fixed it for you":

[Local Gorilla]

@GreyhoundFan Ha, ha. For the life of me, until just now,  I thought your avatar was just a crude piece of shit smeared onto Trump's face! 

eta: In any case, I agree with you about the quality of some of the press. Washington Post has slayed it, for some time now. But it's NOT enough to affect the cognitive dissonance in our American political culture. We need a barrage!

[47of74]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

That's rich. Trey Gowdy certainly seemed to think he was a criminal investigator during the ridiculous Benghazi tribunals. Loathsome prick.

 

"Trump needs to recuse himself from the presidency"

 

That's insulting to loathsome pricks to compare them to Trey Gowdy.  Gowdy is a much, much lower form of life. 

Agent Fornicate Face could murder someone in front of both houses of Congress while on live TV with the Pope and Jesus Christ are sitting in the room and Trey would be right there to explain it all away.  Meanwhile if Mrs. Clinton had won and done the same thing he'd be getting the poles and the nails all ready for the crucifixion.

[JMarie]

Trump's agenda for today:

1.  Visit Catholic elementary school in Florida and talk about vouchers

2.  Spend rest of the day (early weekend!) at Mar-a-Lago

 

[iweartanktops]

15 hours ago, RoseWilder said:

So I'm assuming the Republicans will now be chanting LOCK HIM UP  LOCK HIM UP about Mike Pence and the emails. 

Oh wait, I forgot. He's a Republican. So it's okay. 

He's also a man. 

I'm trying like hell to keep up and be a productive member of society. This is crazy! 

Popcorn, anyone? 

[RoseWilder]

Trump's only been in office for a month and a half and already 32 people have left his administration: 

http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/32-people-donald-trump-exited/1680/

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Donald Trump promised that he would “drain the swamp” in Washington and find “the best people” for his own administration. Instead he’s found the worst people, and he’s already had to drain his own swamp a number of times during his brief tenure. There have been resignations, firings, and staffers escorted out of the White House after being flagged by the FBI. In total, at least thirty-two people have already controversially exited the Donald Trump administration.

The article goes on to list the 32 people and why they left. It's an interesting/horrifying article. 

[RoseWilder]

In the midst of all of the Russia stories, the China trademark story is getting lost: 

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trump-china-trademark-investigation-democrats-235361

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Three senior Senate Democrats are seeking answers from the State Department on China’s decision to grant a trademark to the Trump Organization — a decision the senators say could violate the Constitution.

Sens. Ben Cardin of Maryland, Dianne Feinstein of California and Jack Reed of Rhode Island wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday asking for more details on the trademark, which Donald Trump had been seeking for more than a decade but wasn’t granted until soon after being elected president.

Feinstein has previously argued the trademark deal could violate the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, which bars government officials from accepting gifts and payments from foreign countries.

“The possibility that the government of China is seeking to win President Trump’s favor by granting him special treatment for his businesses is disturbing,” the three senators said in their letter. “As you may be aware, for more than a decade the Trump Organization sought to receive this trademark registration without success.”

 

[RoseWilder]

Senator Schumer puts Senator Burr on notice: 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/schumer-burr-is-on-notice-after-contacts-with-the-white-house-over-russia-stories/2017/02/27/7d99e36c-fd26-11e6-9b78-824ccab94435_video.html

[RoseWilder]

The White House seems awfully desperate considering they claim to have nothing to hide: 

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/white-house-planted-fake-story-to-smear-politico-reporter-who-wrote-about-leaks-reports/

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The White House apparently attempted to smear a critical reporter by planting a story about him laughing at the mention of a Navy SEAL’s death.

Politico published a story Sunday morning by Alex Isenstadt and Annie Karni on a surprise meeting called by White House press secretary Sean Spicer to examine aides’ phones and other electronic devices for evidence of leaks.

When multiple sources leaked details of that meeting to Isenstadt and Karni, it appears other White House officials slapped back at one of the Politico reporters using the death of a Navy SEAL killed just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in a controversial Yemen raid.

The Washington Examiner published a story Sunday evening, about six and a half hours after the “phone check” report broke, that claims one of the Politico reporters mocked a Trump aide’s emotional reaction to the death of Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens.

Politico’s editor, Carrie Budoff Brown, accused the White House of anonymously planting a false story to smear one of the website’s reporters.

 

[iweartanktops]

Yes, this is real. 

[RoseWilder]

12 minutes ago, iweartanktops said:

Yes, this is real. 

Wow. Every time I think he's scrapped the bottom of the integrity barrel, he manages to sink even lower.