American Politics Thread: Orange is the new POTUS

[Senator Clay Davis]

Gotta love the double irony of healthcare being shelved because of a needed vote needing healthcare, and that Senator getting the surgery is getting it through taxpayer funded healthcare.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Gotta love the double irony of healthcare being shelved because of a needed vote needing healthcare, and that Senator getting the surgery is getting it through taxpayer funded healthcare.

Triple irony is that even if they passed it, the Senators put in a provision keeping themselves on Obamacare

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Triple irony is that even if they passed it, the Senators put in a provision keeping themselves on Obamacare

That's truly some 'heads on spikes' level corruption.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

President Trump’s standing with the American people has deteriorated since the spring, buffeted by perceptions of a decline in U.S. leadership abroad, a stalled presidential agenda at home and an unpopular Republican health-care bill, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Approaching six months in office, Trump’s overall approval rating has dropped to 36 percent from 42 percent in April. His disapproval rating has risen five points to 58 percent. Overall, 48 percent say they “disapprove strongly” of Trump’s performance in office, a level never reached by former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and reached only in the second term of George W. Bush in Post-ABC polling.

Almost half of all Americans (48 percent) see the country’s leadership in the world as weaker since Trump was inaugurated, compared with 27 percent who say it is stronger. Despite the fact that Trump campaigned as someone skilled at making deals that would be good for the country, majorities also say they do not trust him in negotiations with foreign leaders and in particular Russian President Vladimir Putin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.bf2c3c0ecb9b

[mrdonkey]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.bf2c3c0ecb9b

So much winning. How does Trump handle all this winning?

[ToewsFan]

Originally Posted by mrdonkey

So much winning. How does Trump handle all this winning?

By spinning it like he has for the past year, calling it "fake news."

[EldrickOnIce]

So he is now polling about the same as he was just before the election?

[direwolf]

Trump having another Twitter meltdown this morning. And yes, he's still obsessed with his former opponent.

HILLARY! EMAILS!

[DuffMan]

He doesn't sound mentally unstable at all.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

HillaryClinton can illegally get the questions to the Debate & delete 33,000 emails but my son Don is being scorned by the Fake News Media?

[DuffMan]

Responds to the poll

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

The ABC/Washington Post Poll, even though almost 40% is not bad at this time, was just about the most inaccurate poll around election time!

[ToewsFan]

Trump is not the only right wing blowhard having a twitter meltdown:

@AnnCoulter
"Why are you taking me out of the extra room seat I specifically booked, @Delta?' Flight attendant: "I don't know.”

@AnnCoulter
.@Delta didn’t give my extra room seat to an air marshall or tall person. Here’s the woman given my PRE-BOOKED seat:

@AnnCoulter
Hey @Delta, you mind telling me why it was an "emergency" to move someone else into the seat I had carefully chosen in advance and booked?

@AnnCoulter
So glad I took time investigate the aircraft & PRE-BOOK a specific seat on @Delta, so some woman could waltz at the last min & take my seat.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by ToewsFan

Trump is not the only right wing blowhard having a twitter meltdown:

Clearly you have no empathy for people who struggle with entitlement issues.

[photon]

Jay Sekulow from Trump's legal team on ABC trying to say if Trump Jr.'s meeting was so nefarious, why did the Secret Service allow them into the meeting in the first place.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

Clearly you have no empathy for people who struggle with entitlement issues.

Those two guys clearly didn't look enthused about the proposition of having to sit next to Ann Coulter. I think the Delta attendant was just trying to be polite.

[Mike F]

Must read: Trump's Russian Laundromat

Since Trump’s election as president, his ties to Russia have become the focus of intense scrutiny, most of which has centered on whether his inner circle colluded with Russia to subvert the U.S. election. A growing chorus in Congress is also asking pointed questions about how the president built his business empire. Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has called for a deeper inquiry into “Russian investment in Trump’s businesses and properties.”

The very nature of Trump’s businesses—all of which are privately held, with few reporting requirements—makes it difficult to root out the truth about his financial deals. And the world of Russian oligarchs and organized crime, by design, is shadowy and labyrinthine. For the past three decades, state and federal investigators, as well as some of America’s best investigative journalists, have sifted through mountains of real estate records, tax filings, civil lawsuits, criminal cases, and FBI and Interpol reports, unearthing ties between Trump and Russian mobsters like Mogilevich. To date, no one has documented that Trump was even aware of any suspicious entanglements in his far-flung businesses, let alone that he was directly compromised by the Russian mafia or the corrupt oligarchs who are closely allied with the Kremlin. So far, when it comes to Trump’s ties to Russia, there is no smoking gun.

But even without an investigation by Congress or a special prosecutor, there is much we already know about the president’s debt to Russia. A review of the public record reveals a clear and disturbing pattern: Trump owes much of his business success, and by extension his presidency, to a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia. Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties. Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Tower—in a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part. Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics. “They saved his bacon,” says Kenneth McCallion, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Reagan administration who investigated ties between organized crime and Trump’s developments in the 1980s.

. . . .

Over the years, Trump and his sons would try and fail five times to build a new Trump Tower in Moscow. But for Trump, what mattered most were the lucrative connections he had begun to make with the Kremlin—and with the wealthy Russians who would buy so many of his properties in the years to come. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets,” Donald Trump Jr. boasted at a real estate conference in 2008. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

[iggy_oi]

Imagine all the attention Hilary's emails would have gotten had she won the election and there wasn't all this other stuff to discuss.

[DownInFlames]

It's shocking that Trump doesn't like the new poll results. But that's ok, he's taking his own, totally not biased polls.

Spoiler for size

Spoiler!

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

It's shocking that Trump doesn't like the new poll results. But that's ok, he's taking his own, totally not biased polls.

I don't even know what's real and what's from the Onion anymore.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by photon

Jay Sekulow from Trump's legal team on ABC trying to say if Trump Jr.'s meeting was so nefarious, why did the Secret Service allow them into the meeting in the first place.

The Secret Service responded to this today.

The U.S. Secret Service on Sunday said Donald Trump Jr. was not under protection during his meeting with a Russian attorney in June 2016, adding that they would not have screened any of his meetings.

"Donald Trump, Jr. was not a protectee of the USSS in June, 2016. Thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time," Secret Service spokesman Mason Brayman said in a statement to Reuters.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...esponds-240612

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by direwolf

The Secret Service responded to this today.



http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...esponds-240612

I think it's pretty obvious what Trump's next move has to be. Immediately and completely defund the Secret Service.