Media is fake, CBO scores are fake, anyone with a different opinion is fake, jobs numbers are fake.....ooops, he likes the numbers so they're not fake now. The whole administration is just such a joke.
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The CBO continues to prove its models simply can't be trusted to accurately predict the outcomes of important healthcare legislation.
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the President of the United States is explicitly trying to undermine trust in the government he leads
Some of President Trump’s lawyers are exploring ways to limit or undercut special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, building a case against what they allege are his conflicts of interest and discussing the president’s authority to grant pardons, according to people familiar with the effort.
Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, according to one of those people. A second person said Trump’s lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers among themselves.
Trump’s legal team declined to comment on the issue. But one adviser said the president has simply expressed a curiosity in understanding the reach of his pardoning authority, as well as the limits of Mueller’s investigation.
Pardon himself? Lol, oh man. This thing just gets more insane and ridiculous by the day. I can only imagine the crazy labyrinth of information that Mueller's team is currently sorting through. The walls are most definitely closing in on Der Führer, but it seems like this investigation is gonna take a while. Unless the GOP suddenly grows a spine (not likely), I'd say we're looking at at least another full year of Trump before anything happens in regards to impeachment proceedings, etc..
I take comfort in the fact that we're 6 months into this s**t storm, and Team Trump has yet to pass any significant legislation. If this glorious losing streak continues for the rest of his term, the U.S. just might be able to survive this insanity and hopefully start to right the ship in 2018.
Trump’s legal team declined to comment on the issue. But one adviser said the president has simply expressed a curiosity in understanding the reach of his pardoning authority, as well as the limits of Mueller’s investigation.
Yes, the man who chose to ride in a firetruck rather than learn about his healthcare bill wants to learn about an exceptionally complex legal issue just for curiosity's sake. I bet.
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News: Marc Kasowitz out as @POTUS attorney - legal team now Cobb, Sekulow & Dowd. Sounds like a law firm but is not. Corrallo has resigned.
I'm sure tomorrow's news feed will be slow and boring.
So if Trump is indeed lining up to fire Mueller, what next? Obviously chaos, then what? Can Trump just keep firing people, look guilty, and survive?
He's survived so far with little to no consequences, thanks mostly to the soulless GOP dirtbags who continue to hitch their wagon to him. But firing Mueller? That would be even worse than the Comey firing, and I'd like to think that the fallout from that would finally be enough to begin impeachment proceedings.
Unfortunately the GOP are a bunch of spineless turds who will never do the right thing as long as they're in power, so we're probably in for at least another year or two of Trump before the whole thing comes crashing down. Thankfully Rebublicans will forever be tied to this disaster. If there's any justice at all, it'll completely destroy them in the end. And even if it doesn't, it'll take decades to wash the stink off.
So if Trump is indeed lining up to fire Mueller, what next? Obviously chaos, then what? Can Trump just keep firing people, look guilty, and survive?
I have lost any and all faith that the GOP will do what's right and will instead follow party lines no matter what. All the evidence thus far would support that belief.
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An article I found really in depth about Trump's known Russian ties. What's amazing is who he's dealing with -- like Russian mob bosses, and oligarchs:
"In Russia, Mogilevich’s influence reportedly reaches all the way to the top. In 2005, Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian intelligence agent who defected to London, recorded an interview with investigators detailing his inside knowledge of the Kremlin’s ties to organized crime. “Mogilevich,” he said in broken English, “have good relationship with Putin since 1994 or 1993.” A year later Litvinenko was dead, apparently poisoned by agents of the Kremlin.
Mogilevich’s greatest talent, the one that places him at the top of the Russian mob, is finding creative ways to cleanse dirty cash. According to the FBI, he has laundered money through more than 100 front companies around the world, and held bank accounts in at least 27 countries. And in 1991, he made a move that led directly to Trump Tower. That year, the FBI says, Mogilevich paid a Russian judge to spring a fellow mob boss, Vyachelsav Kirillovich Ivankov, from a Siberian gulag. If Mogilevich was the brains, Ivankov was the enforcer—a vor v zakone, or “made man,” infamous for torturing his victims and boasting about the murders he had arranged. Sprung by Mogilevich, Ivankov made the most of his freedom. In 1992, a year after he was released from prison, he headed to New York on an illegal business visa and proceeded to set up shop in Brighton Beach.
He's survived so far with little to no consequences, thanks mostly to the soulless GOP dirtbags who continue to hitch their wagon to him. But firing Mueller? That would be even worse than the Comey firing, and I'd like to think that the fallout from that would finally be enough to begin impeachment proceedings.
Unfortunately the GOP are a bunch of spineless turds who will never do the right thing as long as they're in power, so we're probably in for at least another year or two of Trump before the whole thing comes crashing down. Thankfully Rebublicans will forever be tied to this disaster. If there's any justice at all, it'll completely destroy them in the end. And even if it doesn't, it'll take decades to wash the stink off.
The GOP supported Nixon too until they couldn't. The defections will be Swift and sudden. One minute Ryan fully supports Trump, then suddenly he won't. In that world you don't rebuke the president until you have impeachment articles in hand
Thus far, in the Senate at least, some senators have a backbone and are not just voting for ideology. It's only a handful that are actually listening and might even be concerned of stuff beyond their re-election. But that handful is why there had been no major pieces of legislation passed. And to be fair to congress there are some in there that also have a backbone but they don't have power in such a lopsided congress like a few senators do.
From CNN...a GOP Senator that would not go on record with their name. "The attorney general is America's top law enforcement official ... It's unclear if he understands that, and that's pretty disturbing."
Perhaps I'm ever hopeful but the usual Trump bashing suspects would gladly put their name down so I have to wonder if things are starting to get to ones that have just been putting their hands up every time the turtle tells them to.
Some of President Trump’s lawyers are exploring ways to limit or undercut special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, building a case against what they allege are his conflicts of interest and discussing the president’s authority to grant pardons, according to people familiar with the effort.
Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, according to one of those people. A second person said Trump’s lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers among themselves.
Trump’s legal team declined to comment on the issue. But one adviser said the president has simply expressed a curiosity in understanding the reach of his pardoning authority, as well as the limits of Mueller’s investigation.
For a guy who seems to value such fierce loyalty, he sure seems to have a lot of people on his staff that will tell everything to anyone who will listen. It seems weird that conversations about legal strategies with his lawyers wouldn't be treated more confidentially.
They all hate each other and constantly leak to try and undermine each other or gain advantage. Reporters covering the White House say they've never seen it anywhere near this degree.
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I've gotta say, I'm liking Fox's coverage of the Mueller investigation and Trump's latest missteps much more than CNN's. They're fairly balanced. CNN really has become too Democrat biased even for me. It's gotten to the point that its awkward to watch like an embarrassing scene in a movie.
