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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 1:41:40 GMT -5
“They may have a different version of the truth than we do,” Rudy Giuliani
Lucky for him he has a bunch of allies in the media who are willing to tell the same lie even though they know better...
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 1:45:46 GMT -5
It's like that one time when the President's Chief of Staff got briefed on an investigation into the President's campaign. And everyone knows anytime the Gang of Eight meets Republicans get to bring a +1....
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Post by SSHoya on May 24, 2018 5:32:13 GMT -5
Sure, Flake is retiring so he is free to speak. But what about Paul Ryan: Profiles in Cowardice. The spineless Speaker and will go down in American history as one of the worst. (And Ryan, how about Harley -- shareholders thrilled, the 350 laid off workers, not so much -- $700 million stock buyback) www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/harley-davidson-layoffs-after-tax-cuts-anger-employees-1240540227937Sen. Jeff Flake, one of the most vocal critics of President Trump in the Republican Party, said Wednesday that Trump has “debased” the presidency and that the nation’s leadership “may have hit bottom.” In an interview with The Washington Post and an address to the graduating class at Harvard Law School, the Arizona Republican offered a sharply critical view of Trump’s time in the White House and called on the next generation to chart a different course. “Our presidency has been debased,” Flake said. “By a figure who has a seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division. And only a passing familiarity with how the Constitution works.” He added: “Simply put: We may have hit bottom.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/05/23/republican-sen-jeff-flake-our-presidency-has-been-debased/?utm_term=.de0d9a38ee31
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Post by tashoya on May 24, 2018 7:41:42 GMT -5
Sure, Flake is retiring so he is free to speak. But what about Paul Ryan: Profiles in Cowardice. The spineless Speaker and will go down in American history as one of the worst. (And Ryan, how about Harley -- shareholders thrilled, the 350 laid off workers, not so much -- $700 million stock buyback) www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/harley-davidson-layoffs-after-tax-cuts-anger-employees-1240540227937Sen. Jeff Flake, one of the most vocal critics of President Trump in the Republican Party, said Wednesday that Trump has “debased” the presidency and that the nation’s leadership “may have hit bottom.” In an interview with The Washington Post and an address to the graduating class at Harvard Law School, the Arizona Republican offered a sharply critical view of Trump’s time in the White House and called on the next generation to chart a different course. “Our presidency has been debased,” Flake said. “By a figure who has a seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division. And only a passing familiarity with how the Constitution works.” He added: “Simply put: We may have hit bottom.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/05/23/republican-sen-jeff-flake-our-presidency-has-been-debased/?utm_term=.de0d9a38ee31One thing I learned in my time trading, calling bottoms is really difficult. And when someone is calling the bottom, you're better off getting short because we're going lower. We used to say, "who's catching the falling knife?"
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Post by TC on May 24, 2018 7:47:58 GMT -5
You can say we've hit bottom when Republicans are willing to do something to stop Trump. Otherwise it's pretty obvious we're going to head lower.
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Post by TC on May 24, 2018 9:11:00 GMT -5
I wasn't defending him or the nomination. I guess Obama ignored his background, too, when he wanted to promote him. If the Korea situation gets settled, I hope Trump gets the Nobel Peace Prize for no other reason than it will cause a few heads on this board to explode. LOL
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Post by Elvado on May 24, 2018 9:16:19 GMT -5
I am shocked, shocked that this summit is not going to happen. How can two such level-headed statesmen fail to come together?
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 9:47:27 GMT -5
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Post by TC on May 24, 2018 9:57:16 GMT -5
Doubt that'll stop Bolton from trying to start a war.
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Post by njhoya78 on May 24, 2018 9:58:34 GMT -5
I am shocked, shocked that this summit is not going to happen. How can two such level-headed statesmen fail to come together? Who had May 24 in the “Trump/Kim summit canceled" pool? I thought it would have cratered at least a week earlier.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 10:01:51 GMT -5
Doubt that'll stop Bolton from trying to start a war. No, it won't unfortunately... Probably more important than Bolton are the Saudi's and Israel who are itching for a fight, and are willing to spend lavishly to curry favor with the President. A strategy that seems to be working out nicely for them so far...
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 10:36:12 GMT -5
South Koreans blindsided by Trump's announcement can't be a good thing..
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 11:06:44 GMT -5
This White House won't even admit when the President is golfing...
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 12:56:27 GMT -5
RUDY tells @dsamuelsohn that today’s briefing will inform Trump’s legal defense:
“We want to see how the briefing went to today and how much we learned from it. If we learned a good deal from it, it will shorten that whole process considerably.”
Kind of like the time when...
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Post by tashoya on May 24, 2018 22:34:08 GMT -5
As you point out, kind of like the time when, well, never. The attempts at equating this presidency to any other are disingenuous and attempting to find ways to do so are getting more tenuous, literally, by the day. I think, absent feelings about the previous president or the alternatives to the current one, we'd probably all agree that this is new territory for us all.
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Post by SSHoya on May 25, 2018 6:47:12 GMT -5
Are we tired of so much winning yet? Trump's tactics/strategy: "We'll see what happens." Brilliant. At 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, I was speaking with a senior Administration official involved in the preparations for President Trump’s summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. The chances, the official told me, were still “seventy-thirty” that the summit would happen, in Singapore, on June 12th, despite increasingly jittery statements from both sides in recent days. By the time we talked again, after dinner, however, the prospects seemed to be dropping by the minute. The North Koreans had released a new statement in the hour since we had first spoken, calling remarks by Vice-President Mike Pence “ignorant and stupid” and threatening to cancel the meeting and, instead, proceed with a “nuclear-to-nuclear showdown.” “I saw that,” the official said, referring to the bellicose new statement. “Well, maybe it’s down to sixty-forty, but the point is we are planning for it.” Already, though, it was clear that the summit, which so recently had Trump openly musing about his prospects for a Nobel Peace Prize, was in serious doubt, and the official repeatedly returned to the question of the blame game that could ensue if the talks collapsed. He had been reviewing the long history of unsuccessful nuclear negotiations with North Korea, spanning three generations of the Kim family, and had concluded that, no matter what the facts, there was always an aggressive fight to affix responsibility. “Whenever talks have failed with North Korea,” the Administration official observed, “it’s been because of North Korea.” On Thursday morning, Trump called off the summit, writing in a testy letter to Kim that he was cancelling the meeting, “based on the tremendous anger and hostility displayed in your most recent statement.” The blame game, it seemed, had already begun. Even before the collapse of the North Korea negotiations, it was clear that this week was not going to do much for Trump’s vaunted self-image as a dealmaker. Not only were the prospects for the Kim meeting in doubt, there were setbacks regarding Trump’s two other top priorities: China and Iran. On Monday morning, after a weekend of negotiations with China, Trump appeared to be abruptly backing off his threat to launch a trade war with Beijing, without winning any major concessions. “It’s absolutely stunning how we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory,” Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, a huge proponent of Trump’s earlier strategy of confrontation, told the Times. “Sadly China is out-negotiating the administration & winning the trade talks right now,” the Republican Senator Marco Rubio, of Florida, a free-trader whose views are generally the opposite of Bannon’s, tweeted on Tuesday. By Wednesday evening, Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, and his Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, rushed up to the Capitol for an emergency session with a half-dozen unhappy Republican senators. The attendees were mad at Trump, but for different reasons than Bannon. They pressed for an explanation as to why, exactly, Trump seemed to be granting concessions to a Chinese telecom company, ZTE, that has been crippled by U.S. sanctions that prevent it from buying American components. The answer appeared to be a personal, direct request to Trump from the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, amid the broader talks over Trump’s threat of sweeping trade tariffs. That explanation, though, failed to appease the senators. An attendee at the meeting told me later that he anticipated there could be more than seventy votes in the Senate to block Trump legislatively on the matter. This is not generally what winning looks like. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/president-trump-is-a-better-dealbreaker-than-dealmaker
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Post by TC on May 25, 2018 8:44:26 GMT -5
John Cornyn having the greatest tweet ratio week in history.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2018 8:49:00 GMT -5
Sounds about right....
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Post by TC on May 25, 2018 8:57:01 GMT -5
"We'll take it step by step, day by day" means "if he flips on us he loses that money train".
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2018 9:13:46 GMT -5
"Days after the inauguration, Mr. Intrater’s private equity firm, Columbus Nova, awarded Mr. Cohen a $1 million consulting contract, a deal that has drawn the attention of federal authorities investigating Mr. Cohen" So many things going on at Trump Tower, it's pretty sad "the boss" was kept out of the loop on all of it...
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