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Post by SSHoya on Sept 27, 2018 9:25:38 GMT -5
Chris Christie noticed a piece in the New York Times – that’s how it all started. The New Jersey governor had dropped out of the presidential race in February 2016 and thrown what support he had behind Donald Trump. In late April, he saw the article. It described meetings between representatives of the remaining candidates still in the race – Trump, John Kasich, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders – and the Obama White House. Anyone who still had any kind of shot at becoming president of the United States apparently needed to start preparing to run the federal government. The guy Trump sent to the meeting was, in Christie’s estimation, comically underqualified. Christie called up Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, to ask why this critical job had not been handed to someone who actually knew something about government. “We don’t have anyone,” said Lewandowski. The first time Trump paid attention to any of this was when he read about it in the newspaper. The story revealed that Trump’s very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon, the chief executive of his campaign, from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling: You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my Editeding money! What the Edited is this? www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team?CMP=fb_gu
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 27, 2018 18:33:32 GMT -5
I may be wrong about this, but I could have sworn that I heard that Trump said that the UN was laughing with him, and not at him. If true, spoken like a truly clueless narcissist.
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 28, 2018 16:35:00 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 29, 2018 16:34:35 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 1, 2018 5:57:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2018 6:50:57 GMT -5
One more time for the folks in the back...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2018 8:43:44 GMT -5
But I thought his Business and his Presidency were separa.... Nevermind
This means, rather obviously, he lied to the American public about his involvement. It's ok, he was probably just stressed out and telling lies when you're stressed is ok... If Conservative...
DJT-"Hey son, I really need you to be my point man in strong arming the pornstar I had an affair with while Baron was a baby. Can you handle it? I have a meeting with my faith council later."
ET- "Which one Dad?"
DJT- "Ask Michael! IDFK!"
Sarah Sanders and the Trump clan had a lot of stories about this incident, and none of them were true... As usual..
Conservatives say they don't care about his affairs but what about the constant lying coming from the leader of the Party?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2018 8:57:17 GMT -5
Of course that Senior official was Mitch McConnell who went out of his way to let them know he would make any attempt to alert the Public to Russia's disinformation campaign a Partisan issue...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2018 10:37:54 GMT -5
How can you not be disgusted by this? Thought we were all Team USA...
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 2, 2018 12:04:49 GMT -5
How can you not be disgusted by this? Thought we were all Team USA... I suspect the entire GOP has been compromised by the RIS. And they know it. See e.g., Devin Nunes; Dana Rohrbacher; NRA; the so-called "Christian" right. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/07/20/the-entire-republican-party-is-becoming-a-russian-asset/?utm_term=.3fbc436cc72aBut that doesn’t explain why, for example, Speaker Paul Ryan, a Russia hawk who is retiring in January, allowed his party to torpedo the House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian interference in the election. Ryan, after all, knows full well who and what Donald Trump is. In a secretly recorded June 2016 conversation about Ukraine, obtained by The Washington Post, the House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, said, “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” Far from disagreeing, Ryan said, “What’s said in the family stays in the family.” If he were patriotic — or even if he just wanted to set himself up for a comeback should Trump implode — he would have stood up for the rule of law in the Russia inquiry. It’s hard to see what he got in return for choosing not to. www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/opinion/republican-party-national-rifle-association-trump-russia.html
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 2, 2018 15:16:56 GMT -5
We knew he was a con man. A family of grifters. Let's see your tax returns, con man Trump! President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found. Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help. But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day. Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings. The Times’s findings raise new questions about Mr. Trump’s refusal to release his income tax returns, breaking with decades of practice by past presidents. According to tax experts, it is unlikely that Mr. Trump would be vulnerable to criminal prosecution for helping his parents evade taxes, because the acts happened too long ago and are past the statute of limitations. There is no time limit, however, on civil fines for tax fraud. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2018 16:23:12 GMT -5
He truly is the perfect GOP avatar...
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 3, 2018 5:21:57 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Oct 3, 2018 7:22:25 GMT -5
NY is probably too worried about regulating Draft Kings and the really important, high-level stuff like that.
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 3, 2018 8:01:19 GMT -5
NY is probably too worried about regulating Draft Kings and the really important, high-level stuff like that. We will now see how immune to facts and reason Trump supporters/enablers/sycophants are. They may reveal themselves as ignorant as they appear to be. "My hope [is] that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason." --Thomas Jefferson to George Mason, 1791. "Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." --Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1787.
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Post by tashoya on Oct 3, 2018 8:04:20 GMT -5
NY is probably too worried about regulating Draft Kings and the really important, high-level stuff like that. We will now see how immune to facts and reason Trump supporters/enablers/sycophants are. They may reveal themselves as ignorant as they appear to be. I'm sure it'll go along similar lines as the accusations made against Kavanaugh. It's an old story. What difference does it make now? Yada, yada.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 8:38:16 GMT -5
"What emerges from more than 100,000 pages of documents and interviews is a financial biography of Trump at odds with the story he has sold in books, on TV and on the campaign trail."
Trump was doing a bunch of criminal stuff in the 90's but that probably stopped when his father, who was in charge of bailing out his catastrophic business decisions, passed.
Or he's the crook who continues to get away with it...
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 3, 2018 8:58:36 GMT -5
I love how he acts like time value of money is some sort of exotic voodoo. Remember, this guy went to Wharton.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 14:34:06 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 6, 2018 6:22:00 GMT -5
The firing of the Director of OPM after only 7 months after confirmation will receive very little national press. It is not a "sexy" story. However, this is a move right out of an authoritarian's playbook. Don the Con is attempting to seize control over the personnel management of the career civil service so what he is attempting to do at the FBI and DOJ can be carried out across all areas of government. President Trump on Friday abruptly replaced his federal personnel director after just seven months, leaving the agency that oversees 2.1 million civil servants with no permanent leadership at a time when the White House has proposed drastically shrinking its mission. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-abruptly-replaces-federal-personnel-director-after-just-7-months/2018/10/05/29497f6e-c8dd-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html
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