As most people are aware, the first Mueller indictments of the thirteen Russian citizens and three Russian companies (one which doesn't exist) came from a previously published Russian magazine article, that listed the same people and same crimes.
Now it appears that the Russian Nationals he indicted came from the House intelligence report authored by Kevin Nunes. The same allegations and the same names can be found in that report. The House report was widely criticized and ignored because it did not offer any evidence of collusion.
Of course neither of the Russian indictments offered by Mueller suggests any American involvement. In fact, Rosenstein made it clear that no Americans were impicated in either indictment. The fact that both cases are being "handed off" would suggest that Mueller is not seeing a connection. If he believed these people were working with Americans, it would make no sense to pass this off.
After all, the very idea of collusion is that two parties were involved. You cannot logically charge one person of collusion with someone without charging the other. At least not without changing the meaning. So, if he was going to offer more indictments of these Russians along with Americans, he would certainly not run separate prosecutions.
So, once again this looks like a P.R. move as much as anything. Designed in large part to give his allies talking points.
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Liza Paige closed her legs long enough to talk with congress, she " admitted she is a Democrat"
Best explication of the lost years.
"Anyone want to bet putin gets concessions and we get hacked without 《obama》 doing anything? "
Talk to Gowdy CH.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, says President Trump should ask Russian President Vladimir Putin where exactly "we can pick up the 25 Russians" who have indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
"I would ask the president to give some serious consideration, your first request of Vladimir Putin needs to be, 'Tell us which airport we can pick up the 25 Russians that tried to interfere with the fundamentals of our democracy,'" Gowdy told "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
Mr. Trump is scheduled to meet with Putin one-on-one in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday.
Gowdy suggested that Mr. Trump tell Putin: "If you really claim that you had nothing to do with it, then you should be as shocked as we were that your military being used to impact our election, tell us where your going to extradite those folks because an American grand jury indicted them for undermining our democracy."
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12 more Russians on Friday for their alleged attempts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Rosenstein said the 12 defendants are all members of the Russian intelligence arm GRU, and attempted to interfere with the 2016 presidential election by "spear-phishing" volunteers and employees of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
In February, the Justice Department indicted 13 other Russians and three Russian companies for their alleged involvement in the effort to influence the 2016 race.
Gowdy noted that no American has been named in an indictment as having conspired with the Russians. Gowdy, who is a leading figure in a separate congressional probe into election interference, said that Mueller's investigation is not a "witch hunt" and instead said his focus is on what exactly did Russia do to the U.S. election system.
"This is an attack on all of us," Gowdy added of Russia's campaign.
You're nothing more than a mouthpiece for the President. Why do you hate America?
"Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election."
All about Obama's inaction. Not a smidgen of Trump collusion.
Cowardly "Anonymous" is a twerp.
Stand up like a man or even a woman and go by some
obvious designation. Anyone can sign in as Anonymouse, coward.
I sometimes do too just to have a little fun.
《obama》
He's not in charge anymore, your asshole is.....LOLOLOL!!!
All about Obama's inaction. Not a smidgen of Trump collusion.
Another brainwashed loser buys into the trump troll.....Hook line and asshole.....idiot..
Why do you hate America?
Because he likes sucking trumps dick.....
Here's a bit of a different take, folks.
What Putin Must Be Wondering
David Ignatius:
“Putin’s elite spy world has been penetrated by U.S. intelligence.
That’s the implication of the extraordinarily detailed 29-page indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence (GRU) officers handed up by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators on Friday. The 11-count charge includes names, dates, unit assignments, the GRU’s use of ‘X-agent’ malware, its bitcoin covert funding schemes and a wealth of other tradecraft.
“Putin must be asking himself: How did the Americans find out all these facts? What other operations have been compromised? And how much else do they know?”
_________________
Meanwhile I and all other patriotic American should be asking,
How long will this pitiful excuse for a supposedly Constitution- upholding "President" go on playing footsies with the ex KGB criminal?
commie said...
《obama》
He's not in charge anymore, your asshole is.....LOLOLOL!!!
Talk about talking out of your ass
Hey, low-IQ commie, this is about 2016 interference, who was in charge then? Will give you plenty of time to try and figure out.
ROFLMFAO !!!
"My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust." Putin
this is about 2016 interference,
Which donnie believes is BS and is doing NOTHING about it NOW with all agencies saying it is real!!! ....Obama is retired and you are an idiot.....Continue sucking....LOL
The ’80s called, they want their foreign policy back
"I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship, and so we will do it together.'
So commie thinks the Mueller probe is about current Russian actions.
Figures.
ROFLMFAO !!!
"Putin must be asking himself: How did the Americans find out all these facts? What other operations have been compromised? And how much else do they know?”
Don't be a stupid, traitorous war monger.
Trump is cleaning up another Obama mess.
A Surreal Moment In U.S. History
Jim VandeHei: “At today’s Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, you have an American president huddling alone with an enemy of the United States who infiltrated our election system.”
“They’ll do it on the first weekday after the president’s own government indicted a dozen Russian intelligence agents for carrying out the cyberattack. Also Friday, Trump’s top intel official declared that the current danger of more Russian cyberattacks is akin to warning signs before 9/11, when 3,000 were killed and terrorism reshaped the core of our country and lives.”
“You have an American president who publicly shrugs at the threat, and claims most of the coverage is fake — even as it echoes the precise warnings and conclusions of his own government officials.”
"My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust.
WHICH PROVES WHAT??? Be specific.....maybe you should have posted the whole quote....asshole....typical of mentally challenged assholes like yourself who only tell half the story,....Nice try!!!
In an already-famous op-ed in the New York Times, Russian President Vladimir Putin scolds President Obama over rhetoric:
My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is “what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.” It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, says President Trump should ask Russian President Vladimir Putin where exactly "we can pick up the 25 Russians" who have indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Sure and Putin will ask when can we expect you to turnover those 25 CIA opertives we charged with crimes against Russia.
That's why this was stupid empty posturing to begin with. Much better to conduct covert revenge.
Trump Blames U.S. for Poor Relations with Russia
President Trump blamed US policy — not Vladimir Putin — for the dismal state of relations between the two countries, just four hours before arriving to meet with the Russian leader, CNN reports.
Said Trump on Twitter: “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!”
The Hill reports Russia’s foreign ministry responded: “We agree.”
"I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship, and so we will do it together.'"
LMAO! THAT didn't age well.
Putin Keeps Trump Waiting
The Guardian: “Putin’s motorcade has arrived late at the presidential palace in Helsinki for the summit. There’s been no sign yet of Trump. He now appears to be trying to make Putin wait.”
“There’s lots of this macho stuff: Putin’s limo is slightly bigger than Trump’s.”
Andrew Roth notes Putin often keeps world leaders waiting.
CHILDREN WILL BE CHILDREN.
So commie thinks the Mueller probe is about current Russian actions.
When in doubt, assholes like you resort to the tactic of losers....making shit up......asshole
Sasse Calls Putin a ‘Murderer’
Just hours before Presidnet Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) launched a brutal attack on Twitter calling the Russian president a crook, a liar, and a murderer.
James said...
Here's a bit of a different take, folks.
What Putin Must Be Wondering
figures the "pastor" would be in Putin's head
Talk about assholes, there's a "double-header'
ROFLMFAO !!!
CHILDREN WILL BE CHILDREN.
And your asshattery will keep growing.....
What Mueller Knows – and What He’ll Pursue Next
Garrett Graff: “Examining the public bread crumbs of Mueller’s investigation, though, gives some indication about what’s left that we don’t know—the active and ongoing investigative work that Mueller’s team is pursuing that hasn’t seen the light of day. In broad buckets, there are at least eight significant areas of the investigation yet to be penciled in by Mueller.”
“Spoiler alert: Nearly all of these open avenues involve not only Americans, but sometimes even senior campaign, transition, and White House aides to Donald Trump.”
Trump Winks at Putin
Almost missed during some extremely awkward body language before their one-on-one meeting was President Trump’s wink to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
In actual fact, the only one colluting with Russia are Democrats and liberal media personalities who has made stupidly and ignorently advances Putin's goals of disruption beyond his wildest dreams.
Commonsense said...
In actual fact, the only one colluting with Russia are Democrats and liberal media personalities who has made stupidly and ignorently advances Putin's goals of disruption beyond his wildest dreams.
So true
Fox News Will Interview Trump After Putin Meeting
President Trump will sit down with two Fox News hosts for his first interviews following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” The Hill reports.
“Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson will each conduct separate interviews with Trump in Helsinki on Monday after Trump and Putin conclude their meeting.”
HANNITY WILL CURL UP IN HIS LAP.
CARLSON MAY ACTUALLY ASK SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT.
I see James is hiding.
So true
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
The only truism here is your abject stupidity....
Commonsense said...
I see James is hiding.
and spamming from his echo chamber
ROFLMFAO !!!
Trump Says Private Meeting with Putin was ‘Good Start’
President Trump described his one-on-one meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “good start,” Reuters reports.
“Trump made the brief remarks in front of reporters, at a conference table surrounded by top officials at the start of a ‘working lunch’ that began after he and Putin met behind closed doors for two hours with only their interpreters.”
GUESS HE LOOKED DEEP INTO PUTIN'S EYES AND SAW HIS SOUL?
"I see James is hiding."
He's irrelevant. No one reads his plagiarized spam.
Loretta said...
"I see James is hiding."
He's irrelevant. No one reads his plagiarized spam.
Maybe not even himself, huh?
ROFLMFAO !!!
MEANWHILE, IN THE REAL WORLD WHERE REAL,
AMERICA-LOVING POLITICS ARE GOING ONE:
Democrats Are Finally Running on Obamacare
“Democrats are centering their campaign to retake Congress and defeat President Trump’s Supreme Court pick on a staunch defense of the Affordable Care Act, the landmark health-care law that Republicans used to wipe away their majorities in the last two midterm elections,” the Washington Post reports.
“The strategy marks a dramatic turnabout from the previous two midterms when many Democrats avoided defending Obamacare, and illustrates the extent to which the law has taken root as millions of Americans have come to depend on it. Republicans, who relentlessly attacked Democrats for supporting the ACA in 2010 and 2014, are now largely [AND DESPERATELY] steering their campaigns toward different topics.”
"Maybe not even himself, huh?"
The pedophile is always himself.
Who dat? Who dat pedophile? I don' see no pedophile.
Now that's James at his most offensive.
Who say dat?
Sumbody makin fun er how I talks?
james the POS "pastor" from Normal Illinois talks like Hillary.
and I guess Obama
ROFLMFAO !!!
The intent of the Russian intervention was to sew doubts about the credibility of our democracy. He succeeded beyond his expectations. Scott is representative of his success.
Deep state conspiracy.
FBI agents are biased.
The intelligence agencies are not credible.
"Now that's James at his most offensive."
The worst of the worst.
White trash exemplified describes James Boswell of Normal, Illinois.
"The intent of the Russian intervention was to sew doubts about the credibility of our democracy."
No kidding.
I told you that over a year ago, when you freaks invented #resistwemust, #notmypresident, #impeach45, #collusionRussiaRussiaRussia...
You fruitcakes played right into Putin's hands.
Be proud, fruitcake.
Putin is thrilled with his success. He has allies in the United States. The people who support the President are puppets.
James, excellent point, the Hacking happened in 2016 under your boy.
President Trump Winning;
"Putin’s elite spy world has been penetrated by U.S. intelligence." James
For Trump to win in 2016, Democrats had to have been fooled by Russia bots.
“This is my last election ... After my election I have more flexibility,” Obama
“I will transmit this information to Vladimir,” said Medvedev.
Obama nods
Roger must have missed this but must agree, sure doesn't like Trump standing up to Putin/Obama
Journalists are being escorted out of the conference room.
A reporter from The Nation Magazine was wrestled out of the conference room.
"Roger Amick said...
Journalists are being escorted out of the conference room.
A reporter from The Nation Magazine was wrestled out of the conference room"
With Obama they would have quietly and respectably left to write their glowing reports.
"Putin is thrilled with his success. He has allies in the United States. The people who support the President are puppets."
Always have to laugh at poor OLD broken down Rog...
"With Obama they would have quietly and respectably left to write their glowing reports."
Or arrested.
Trump surrendered. The "so called" intervention Putin said that.
Nothing on the intervention.
The end of the cold war is how the President will use to withdraw the United States from NATO.
"The end of the cold war is how the President will use to withdraw the United States from NATO."
This comment won't age well, lol.
He [Putin] has allies in the United States.
Yes, one of them just got the Democrat nomination to be the Congresswomen from Bronx.
Trump denied that the Russians intervened into the election.
33,000 email!
Yes, the US media really are Putin's allies.
The most important ally of Vladimir Putin is the President of the United States.
The freedom of the press is under assault by the President of the United States.
The "Witch Hunt" was the final comment by the President.
He is not believing his own appointees in the intelligence agencies.
Roger is have a moment. Look up the word. Conflating.
:Yes, one of them just got the Democrat nomination to be the Congresswomen from Bronx."
Bingo.
California's Socialist Democrats rejected Sen DiFi as not being radical left enough.
“I don’t see any reason why it would be Russia” who attacked our election. So says the US President, defending Russia while attacking the US. Weakness, groveling.
“I don’t see any reason why it would be Russia” who attacked our election."
I am asking because I don't know. I your "journalis " from "The Nation Magazine " holding a "no nuke " sign?
Ex-FBI Asst. Dir. Frank Figliuzzi: "In 25 yrs of working counterintel for this government, I never thought that I would sit here and watch a U.S. president castigate and denigrate the U.S. Intelligence Community ... standing alongside the leader of an adversarial country."
AP Reporter: Let's create a diplomatic incident by having the president publically accuse Putin of lying.
I blame Trump. He should have seen that question coming from a mile off and have a more deft answer ready.
But did people really expect Trump to crater US/Russian relations to the point of open war?
HELSINKI (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump emerged from a meeting with Vladimir Putin on Monday saying he saw no reason to believe Russia had hacked the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and the Russian leader “was extremely strong and powerful” in denying it.
Does your hatred for the Democrats overrule your ability to watch a U.S. president castigate and denigrate the U.S. Intelligence Community ... standing alongside the leader of an adversarial country." and stand with the President?
Remove Trump, go ahead Rog. Surely you so dearly want it.
John Brennan former CIA director said
Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???
Lol, this meeting between Putin and Trump is so much fun. Fun because the way the left is reacting. Knee braces will be selling briskly.
"John Brennan"
LOL.
Where are you? " Roger
I am at my paid for Ranch are you in your mortgaged home?
Brennan the commie lover would know
Republican patriots no longer exist.
They have all become sycophants afraid to tell
the emperor that he has no clothes/brains/decency.
Russia, China and other evil doers attempts to influence American elections have been going on for decades.
It only became an "attack on our democracy" when Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton.
Trump Told Allies Erdogan ‘Does Things the Right Way’
Foreign policy analyst Ian Bremmer tells CBS News that backstage at the NATO meeting there were elements that were even more eyebrow-raising than reports have suggested.
Said Bremmer: “Trump was very frustrated; he wasn’t getting commitments from other leaders to spend more. Many of them said, ‘Well, we have to ask our parliaments. We have a process; we can’t just tell you we’re going to spend more, we have a legal process.’ Trump turns around to the Turkish president, Recep Erdogan, and says, ‘Except for Erdogan over here. He does things the right way,’ and then actually fist-bumps the Turkish president.”
“It was a startling gesture of support for the increasingly authoritarian Turkish leader, who recently won another term and is widely expected to continue consolidating his power.”
-----------Soon he will tell us Hitler did things "the right way."
s
'W
No one cares what the pedophile spams.
Obama cyber chief confirms 'stand down' order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016
WASHINGTON — The Obama White House’s chief cyber official testified Wednesday that proposals he was developing to counter Russia’s attack on the U.S. presidential election were put on a “back burner” after he was ordered to “stand down” his efforts in the summer of 2016.
The comments by Michael Daniel, who served as White House “cyber security coordinator” between 2012 and January of last year, provided his first public confirmation of a much-discussed passage in the book
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-cyber-chief-confirms-stand-order-russian-cyberattacks-summer-2016-204935758.html
Russian meddling was about as successful as American meddling abroad under Obama.
Putin also denied that Russia interfered in the US election, contradicting conclusions from US intelligence agencies, while acknowledging he had hoped Trump would win in 2016.
Trump did not explicitly say he believed Putin on the subject of election interference but did call the Russian leader's denials "extremely powerful."
There was no meddling according to the President and his boss Vladimir Putin.
You inherited the ranch .
caliphate4vr said...
Brennan the commie lover would know
He even admitted to voting for the communist ticket once.
No wonder the "pastor" loves him. What did he do when Obama gave the stand down order. And how significant was the actual meddling? Guess it may have changed some of the left-wingers here.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Jeff Flake
✔
@JeffFlake
I never thought I would see the day when our American President would stand on the stage with the Russian President and place blame on the United States for Russian aggression. This is shameful.
9:14 AM - Jul 16, 2018
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Jeff Flake, LMAO.
"And how significant was the actual meddling?"
According to Obama, NOT significant at all...
John brennan says trump's press conference was an impeachable offense. Good grief what a stupidass. And this guy was in charge of our national intelligence??
RESIST
ROFLMFAO
How about Mueller just showing his empty hand and getting on with life?
Oh, I forgot, RESIST
Maybe Flake and Franken can hold a joint news conference.
The stench of James.
It only became an "attack on our democracy" when Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton." Ette
Bingo. She raising cash to run in 2020.
Thing is , like Sen (CA) Difi, they are not left enuff for today's fully transformed Socialist Democrat.
And this guy was in charge of our national intelligence??"
Yep, the best and the brightest that failed during the Lost years to protect and Defend the US Election.
Roger make a very forceful and convincing argument for Voter ID. Thanks Rog.
Barack Obama’s CIA chief, John Brennan, told the Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus, on 15 September 2016, in Washington DC, that when he had applied in 1980 to join the CIA, he admitted to them that in the 1976 Presidential election, when Jimmy Carter was running against Gerald Ford, Brennan had voted instead for the candidate of the US Communist Party, Gus Hall, and that he was then greatly relieved to find that this information didn’t cause rejection of his CIA-application.
We had just finished the Watergate situation. I voted for Ford. Reagan in 1980. I thought about Gus Hall because he really wasn't a communist.
But he is right. Trump has committed treason.
Meddling & collusion are NOT the same thing.
Russia did meddle in 2016 election & are trying it again. I’ve seen no evidence of collusion, plenty evidence of Russian meddling.
Russia didn’t beat Clinton. Trump beat Clinton.
Bad day for the US. Can be fixed. Must be fixed.
Ette, thanks for remembering this one.
"There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even — you could even rig America’s elections, in part, because they are so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved,” Obama said during a press conference at the White House in October 2016. “There is no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. And so I’d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.”
That was, as you said Ette, until Trump WON.
Two statements from Roger:
I thought about Gus Hall because he really wasn't a communist.
Gus Hall was chairman of the Communist Party USA.
But he is right. Trump has committed treason.
For not starting WWIII over Podesta's emails.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R)
Seriously.
Why does your hatred for the Democrats overrule your ability to watch a U.S. president castigate and denigrate the U.S. Intelligence Community ... standing alongside the leader of an adversarial country." and stand with the President?
Roger is so wrong so often.
Roger, which of your list have zero grounds.
1, Trump Colluded with Putin.
2, 25th Amendment
3, emoluments clause
Debbie wasamanschults never said they are not real, nor did hillary, or Donna Brazilla or Pedesta.
WIKI LEAKS is a Putin website.
All three of our intelligence agencies and the FBI said that the Russians intervened in the 2016 election. We will never know if it altered the outcome of the election.
But the President said that the President of Russia and former Chief of the KGB was telling the truth when he denied the allegations. He is a clear and present danger to the security of the United States. That's a high crime and misdemeanor giving aid and comfort to an adversary government.
The President said that the President of Russia and former Chief of the KGB was telling the truth when he denied the allegations. He is a clear and present danger to the security of the United States. That's a high crime and misdemeanor giving aid and comfort to an adversary government.
Least we forget what the Russians exactly did.
They hack the DNC and Clinton email servers and exposed the Democrat plot to rigged the primary and nomination in favor of Hillary Clinton.
So they are screaming at the country who caught them with their hand in the cookie jar.
The New York Times would be getting a pulitzer prize if they did the same thing the Russians did.
But then the they would have passed because it's Democrats.
Hillary and Obama "Reset" the US - Russia relationship. And Putin a former KGB Leader took that as a Green Light.
Obama gave up land to Russia for the First time Russia Expanded Territory.
Roger, please at least attempt to learn.
:There is no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result."
Rod Rosenstein"
Trump said he had confidence in the intelligence community. To Roger that is denigrating.
The AP reporter knew Trump couldn't give answer the Democrats wanted to hear because it would have created a major international incident.
I'm sure he's had a beer by now patting himself on the back.
Obama said it did not happen.
‘One of the Most Disgraceful Performances’
Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory. The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake.
President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world.
It is tempting to describe the press conference as a pathetic rout – as an illustration of the perils of under-preparation and inexperience. But these were not the errant tweets of a novice politician. These were the deliberate choices of a president who seems determined to realize his delusions of a warm relationship with Putin’s regime without any regard for the true nature of his rule, his violent disregard for the sovereignty of his neighbors, his complicity in the slaughter of the Syrian people, his violation of international treaties, and his assault on democratic institutions throughout the world.
Coming close on the heels of President Trump’s bombastic and erratic conduct towards our closest friends and allies in Brussels and Britain, today’s press conference marks a recent low point in the history of the American Presidency. That the president was attended in Helsinki by a team of competent and patriotic advisors makes his blunders and capitulations all the more painful and inexplicable.
No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant. Not only did President Trump fail to speak the truth about an adversary; but speaking for America to the world, our president failed to defend all that makes us who we are—a republic of free people dedicated to the cause of liberty at home and abroad. American presidents must be the champions of that cause if it is to succeed. Americans are waiting and hoping for President Trump to embrace that sacred responsibility. One can only hope they are not waiting totally in vain.
Imagine the outrage if President Obama had met with Castro.
Never mind, hold the outrage
ROFLMFAO !!!
Two Explanations for Trump’s Shameful Press Conference
James Fallows:
“Either Donald Trump is flat-out an agent of Russian interests—witting, unwitting, from fear of blackmail, in hope of future deals, out of manly respect for Vladimir Putin, out of gratitude for Russia’s help during the election, out of pathetic inability to see beyond his 306 electoral votes—whatever the exact mixture of motives might be, it doesn’t really matter.
“Or he is so profoundly ignorant, insecure, and narcissistic not to realize that, at every step, he was advancing the line that Putin hoped he would advance, and the line that the American intelligence, defense, and law-enforcement agencies most dreaded.
“Conscious tool. Useful idiot. Those are the choices, though both possibly true—the main question is the proportions.”
Maybe Trump should just go on an American apology tour and learn to bow. Lefties and apparently never Trumpers love that.
LOL Obama met with Castro, but did no act like a toady.
When all you have is cut and paste spam you have nothing.
Or are the POS "pastor".
A true despicable.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Russian Charged with Being Foreign Agent
“A Russian woman who tried to broker a pair of secret meetings between candidate Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin during the 2016 presidential campaign, was charged Monday and accused of carrying out a secret Russian effort to influence American politics,” the New York Times reports.
“The Justice Department said in court documents that the woman, Mariia Butina, worked to establish ‘back channel’ lines of communication with American politicians… Ms. Butina twice tried to set up a meetings between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin in 2016. The charges announced Monday do not name Mr. Trump but they make clear that Ms. Butina’s overtures were part of a Russian intelligence operation.”
The Washington Post notes that Butina is accused of developing relationships with American politicians and a “gun rights organization.”
Obama praised Castro so what.
What Does Putin Have on Trump?
David Frum: “We still do not know what hold Vladimir Putin has upon President Trump, but the whole world has now witnessed the power of its grip.
“Russia helped Donald Trump into the presidency, as Robert Mueller’s indictment vividly details. Putin, in his own voice, has confirmed that he wanted Trump elected. Standing alongside his benefactor, Trump denounced the special counsel investigating the Russian intervention in the U.S. election—and even repudiated his own intelligence appointees.
“This is an unprecedented situation, but not an uncontemplated one. At the 1787 convention in Philadelphia, the authors of the Constitution worried a great deal about foreign potentates corrupting the American presidency.”
Please don't release those videos of me golden streaming with the prostitutes.
Nobody reads the POS "pastor's" spam but he sure gets busy copying from his echo chamber.
A big fucking loser
And a world class asshole
ROFLMFAO !!!
Mr. Trump: Too often, in both recent past and long ago, we have seen the consequences when diplomacy is left on the table. We’ve also seen the benefits of cooperation. In the last century, our nations fought alongside one another in the Second World War. Even during the tensions of the Cold War, when the world looked much different than it does today, the United States and Russia were able to maintain a strong dialogue. But our relationship has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed as of about four hours ago. I really believe that.
Nothing would be easier politically than to refuse to meet, to refuse to engage, but that would not accomplish anything. As president, I cannot make decisions on foreign policy in a futile effort to appease partisan critics, or the media, or Democrats who want to do nothing but resist and obstruct. Constructive dialogue between the United States and Russia affords the opportunity to open new pathways toward peace and stability in our world. I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics. As president, I will always put what is best for America and what is best for the American people.
During today’s meeting, I addressed directly with President Putin the issue of Russian interference in our elections. I felt this was a message best delivered in person. Spent a great deal of time talking about it. And President Putin may very well want to address it, and very strongly, because he feels very strongly about it, and he has an interesting idea. We also discussed one of the most critical challenges facing humanity: nuclear proliferation. I provided an update on my meeting last month with Chairman Kim on the denuclearization of North Korea. And after today, I am very sure that President Putin and Russia want very much to end that problem, going to work with us. And I appreciate that commitment.
No one reads the plagiarized spam by the pedophile.
"what did Trump whisper to Putin?July 16, 2018 at 2:54 PM
Please don't release those videos of me golden streaming with the prostitutes."
Says the pedophile from Illinois.
Anonymous JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY talking about himself postulated that he's
A big fucking loser
And a world class asshole
Brilliant commentary jag off....Putin is looking for more assholes like you!!!
Excellent comment Mr. President
Commonsense said...
Trump said he had confidence in the intelligence community.
And chose to believe putin....the liar of russia...
see the low iq (lower case even) commie has joined in.
What a trifecta.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has criticized the president's posture toward Russia in the past, called it "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."
The summit, which took place between Trump and Putin at Finland's presidential palace Monday in Helsinki, was a "tragic mistake," McCain said. But dismissing the news conference that followed as a "pathetic rout" of a political novice is too generous, he added.
"President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world," McCain said.
"No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant," he added.
Former CIA director John Brennan, a Democrat and a frequent Trump critic, called Trump's performance at the news conference "nothing short of treasonous."
Retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., called it "shameful."
"I never thought I would see the day when our American President would stand on the stage with the Russian President and place blame on the United States for Russian aggression. This is shameful," Flake, another frequent critic of the president, said on Twitter.
At the news conference held after the summit, Trump downplayed the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community that Moscow mounted an effort to help him win the presidency in 2016.
"[Putin] just said it's not Russia," Trump said. "I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be."
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., who rarely criticizes Trump publicly, contradicted Trump's equivocations about Moscow's election meddling and said "the president must appreciate that Russia is not our ally."
"There is no question that Russia interfered in our election and continues attempts to undermine democracy here and around the world," Ryan said in a statement.
"There is no moral equivalence between the United States and Russia, which remains hostile to our most basic values and ideals. The United States must be focused on holding Russia accountable and putting an end to its vile attacks on democracy," Ryan added.
Standing next to the Russian leader, Trump also bashed the Democratic Party, the FBI, special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling, Hillary Clinton and members of the news media.
It was "the most astonishing display of weakness and submission that I have ever seen from an American President," Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said.
"A person can be in favor of improving relations with Russia, in favor of meeting with Putin, and still think something is not right here," tweeted Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich.
Abby Huntsman, a Fox News reporter and daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman, excoriated Trump in a tweet, saying "no negotiation is worth throwing your own people and country under the bus."
Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., also called Trump's remarks a "missed opportunity" to hold Russia accountable.
"This answer by President Trump will be seen by Russia as a sign of weakness and create far more problems than it solves," Graham said in a tweet.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called Trump's performance an embarrassment and suggested, without evidence, the Russians may have damaging information about the president.
“President Trump's weakness in front of Putin was embarrassing, and proves that the Russians have something on the President, personally, financially or politically," she said in a statement.
“This is a sad day for America, and for all Western democracies that Putin continues to target."
Putin eats Trump's lunch in Helsinki
-- This is no way to win against Russia
Douglas Schoen
2 hrs ago
If the idea was to give Vladimir Putin and his thug regime a new way to sabotage the United States, nice work.
So, is Russia now presumed innocent of hacking the 2016 election?
If not, it is difficult to understand any proper purpose served by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of twelve military officers in the Kremlin’s intelligence services for doing what everybody in America already knew that they did, and has known since before Donald Trump took office — indeed, since before the 2016 election.
Make no mistake: This is nakedly politicized law enforcement. There is absolutely no chance any of the Russian officials charged will ever see the inside of an American courtroom. The indictment is a strictly political document by which the special counsel seeks to justify the existence of his superfluous investigation.
Oh, and by the way, the answer to the question posed above is, “Yes, it is now the official position of the United States that Russia gets our Constitution’s benefit of the doubt.” Here is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announcing the Friday the 13th indictment: “In our justice system, everyone who is charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.”
Of course, the indicted Russians are never going to be proven guilty — not in the courtroom sense Rosenstein was invoking.
As is so often the case in today’s politicized Justice Department, Rosenstein was trying to make a different political point. As he went on to note, if people whom we have formally charged are presumed innocent, then, a fortiori, people who have not been accused — implicitly, Rosenstein was talking about President Trump — must also be presumed innocent
What a trifecta of genius fixed it for you jagoffl....
fucking daddy fellates donnie with much gusto but pulled the wrong hair out!!!.....LOLOLOL!!
'An absolute disgrace': Republicans blast Trump for his 'disgusting' press conference with Putin
===Republicans blasted President Donald Trump for his remarks at a press conference Monday alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin.
===Republicans said Trump's performance was "shameful,"
"an absolute disgrace,"
and "moronic."
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/07/16/trump-putin-press-conference-republicans-respond/23483216/
President Trump’s diplomacy will continue to make America safe and strong, as long as he relies upon his own experience in negotiation and does not follow State Department guidance.
The majority of our 75,382 State Department employees do not support our president. Many are openly scornful. Several ambassadors, ready to retire anyway and with full pensions locked in, have resigned dramatically.
But because State Department protocols and diplomacy have failed us for decades – in Libya, Syria, with the creation of ISIS, Russian expansion, and North Korean belligerence – their “Resistance” has given President Trump the opportunity to do an end-run around them.
We now have a man in the White House who knows how to negotiate from strength. He’s going to keep on winning until we’re sick of all the winning. He can solve conflicts with North Korea, Iran, ISIS, Russia, and China. He can solve the Arab/Israeli conflict. But he must rely on his own strength and experience, and he must not rely upon the State Department.
The Left is Always Wrong: Election Meddling Edition
Twelve Russians have been indicted for hacking the DNC and releasing DNC emails showing that the DNC had violated its own rules and worked against Bernie and for Hillary in the primaries.
Leftists are talking about the Russians meddling in the U.S. election as a result. The problem is that while hacking the DNC is illegal and the Russians should be prosecuted, how can telling the voters that the DNC conspired against Bernie be considered “meddling” in our election?
Doesn’t the Washington Post say that “Democracy dies in darkness”? Which means that if the voters don’t know the truth they can’t vote intelligently. Given that the DNC admits the veracity of the emails, isn’t the voters finding about the DNC’s efforts to suppress a democratic socialist like Bernie using light to remove the darkness?
Think about this: when NBC released the “Access Hollywood” tape did anyone on the left complain about election meddling? Though NBC claimed that only days before the tape was released someone suddenly remembered the tape, everyone knew, and TMZ stated, that NBC sat on the tape waiting to release it as an October Surprise. The release of the tape was clearly intended by NBC to influence the election -- otherwise they’d have released it sooner -- yet no one on the left worried about election meddling or collusion.
On every issue the left has two standards; one for the left and one for everyone else. In this case, it’s perfectly fine when parties release false information that is damaging to Trump, but it’s the ultimate evil when someone releases accurate information that hurts a leftist; i.e. Hillary.
But what about the fact that it was the Russians? Isn’t it worse when a foreigner meddles than when Americans do?
Ask yourself if leftists would consider it meddling if right before the election a British “ex” spy tried to convince the media that a dossier he would later admit contained only unverified rumors from Russian sources that painted Trump in a very bad light was the real deal.
Of course, you don’t need to ask yourself, since we know for a fact that Hillary paid an “ex” spy from Britain to produce a report full of “dirt” on Trump based on Russian sources. We know that Steele -- the “ex” spy -- produced such a document and that he told everyone that it was the real deal and that he would have known if his sources were lying even in cases where he never met the actual source. Well, he said that right up until he was sued in England by some of the people he mentioned in the dossier. Then he suddenly changed his tune and declared that the information in the dossier was only a place for a real investigation to start; that nothing in the report was verified.
Steele’s unwillingness to defend in court the claims that he’d told the media and the FBI were all very reliable is clear and unambiguous proof that the dossier is all or mostly all lies. Because if Steele had actual evidence for any of the claims, he could present it in court and get out of a serious legal situation. That he’s not doing so even though it could save him from potentially very serious legal consequences shows that he doesn’t have any proof to back up his claims.
Yet even though the left now knows that the dossier is bogus, which is why they are suddenly saying that the dossier wasn’t a key reason the investigation into Trump was started, they are not saying that its use was “meddling” in our election. That despite the rumors all coming from Russia and despite the person who vouched for those rumors being British.
To the left, a factually incorrect report on Trump produced by a foreigner, based on sources solely from Russia, and used to attack Trump is not election meddling.
But the Russians leaking factual DNC emails showing that the DNC had lied to Democrat voters about being impartial and had, in fact, violated its own rules and worked hard to torpedo Bernie, democratic socialist par excellence, is election meddling.
But the Russians leaking factual DNC emails showing that the DNC had lied to Democrat voters about being impartial and had, in fact, violated its own rules and worked hard to torpedo Bernie, democratic socialist par excellence, is election meddling.
What makes the whole story even more bizarre is that, as with all of Mueller’s indictments, there is no claim that the crimes involve any collusion related to the election between the Russians and anyone in Trump’s campaign. In fact, the FBI made it clear that no Americans were indicted along with the Russian “hackers.” Yet the left is already generating #FakeNews that this latest indictment is bad news for Trump.
Another interesting issue is that the same leftists who are having a fit over Trump’s “collusion” aren’t bothered by the fact that the full power of the U.S. intelligence establishment was turned against the Trump campaign. They’re also not bothered by the fact that political appointees in the Obama administration, i.e. not supposedly neutral civil servants, unmasked the names Americans whose calls were monitored.
If the ruling Democratic party using national intelligence assets to listen in to the inner workings of the Trump campaign isn’t election “meddling” then it’s unclear what is. Essentially the leftists are saying that it’s kosher for the government to spy on Trump’s campaign to help Hillary. To use a poker analogy, it’s like one player using a spotter who sees the other player’s cards; but then to the fascist left, where winning is all that matters, anything that helps them is fair game.
Remember, the modern left still calls out Watergate, where some Republicans tried to illegally get intelligence on the Democrat campaign, as the worst thing ever. Yet now when it’s clear that Obama/Hillary did the same thing, but succeeded because they managed to subvert the FBI, far worse than anything Nixon did, leftists say that nothing bad happened. Watergate was wrong but condemning it while not caring about the FBI spying on a political candidate is hypocrisy at its worst.
But many Americans who get their news from the leftist media won’t hear the truth or take the time to figure out the obvious hypocrisy in the left’s claims. It’s up to you to talk to your friends, coworkers, and relatives. No need to be confrontational. Just mention how it’s horrible that the Russians meddled in the election by peddling fake rumors about Trump to a foreign agent Hillary hired.
Ask them if Democrat political operatives, whose jobs had no relation into any investigation of Trump, reading intelligence collected from the Trump campaign where the names of U.S. citizens were revealed strikes them as meddling.
Ask them if they feel that their knowing about how the DNC persecuted Bernie is bad thing, would they rather have been kept in the dark?
Ask them if they think that the Washington Post will change its slogan to “Democracy dies when the voters know too much.”?
But the Russians leaking factual DNC emails showing that the DNC had lied to Democrat voters about being impartial and had, in fact, violated its own rules and worked hard to torpedo Bernie, democratic socialist par excellence, is election meddling.
What makes the whole story even more bizarre is that, as with all of Mueller’s indictments, there is no claim that the crimes involve any collusion related to the election between the Russians and anyone in Trump’s campaign. In fact, the FBI made it clear that no Americans were indicted along with the Russian “hackers.” Yet the left is already generating #FakeNews that this latest indictment is bad news for Trump.
Another interesting issue is that the same leftists who are having a fit over Trump’s “collusion” aren’t bothered by the fact that the full power of the U.S. intelligence establishment was turned against the Trump campaign. They’re also not bothered by the fact that political appointees in the Obama administration, i.e. not supposedly neutral civil servants, unmasked the names Americans whose calls were monitored.
If the ruling Democratic party using national intelligence assets to listen in to the inner workings of the Trump campaign isn’t election “meddling” then it’s unclear what is. Essentially the leftists are saying that it’s kosher for the government to spy on Trump’s campaign to help Hillary. To use a poker analogy, it’s like one player using a spotter who sees the other player’s cards; but then to the fascist left, where winning is all that matters, anything that helps them is fair game.
Remember, the modern left still calls out Watergate, where some Republicans tried to illegally get intelligence on the Democrat campaign, as the worst thing ever. Yet now when it’s clear that Obama/Hillary did the same thing, but succeeded because they managed to subvert the FBI, far worse than anything Nixon did, leftists say that nothing bad happened. Watergate was wrong but condemning it while not caring about the FBI spying on a political candidate is hypocrisy at its worst.
But many Americans who get their news from the leftist media won’t hear the truth or take the time to figure out the obvious hypocrisy in the left’s claims. It’s up to you to talk to your friends, coworkers, and relatives. No need to be confrontational. Just mention how it’s horrible that the Russians meddled in the election by peddling fake rumors about Trump to a foreign agent Hillary hired.
Ask them if Democrat political operatives, whose jobs had no relation into any investigation of Trump, reading intelligence collected from the Trump campaign where the names of U.S. citizens were revealed strikes them as meddling.
Ask them if they feel that their knowing about how the DNC persecuted Bernie is bad thing, would they rather have been kept in the dark?
Ask them if they think that the Washington Post will change its slogan to “Democracy dies when the voters know too much.”?
Let's go deeper.
What they're saying:
John McCain: "[O]ne of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."
House Speaker Paul Ryan: "The president must appreciate that Russia is not our ally. There is no moral equivalence between the United States and Russia..."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: "The Russians are not our friends and I entirely agree with the assessment of our intelligance community."
House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Ed Royce: (R)“I disagree with the president’s comments. There is simply no comparing the actions of the United States and Vladimir Putin.
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas): "I never would have thought that the US President would become one of the ones getting played by old KGB hands."
Fox Business host Neil Cavuto: "[D]isgusting. I’m sorry it's the way I feel. It's not a right or left thing, it’s just wrong.
Dan Coats, Trump's director of national intelligence: "We have been clear in our assessments of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and their ongoing, pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy..."
Flashback: Coats three days ago... "The warning lights are blinking red again."
"Imagine the outrage if President Obama had met with Castro.
Never mind, hold the outrage
ROFLMFAO !!!"
Our trade with them has skyrocketed, like Obama said it would?
New SF mayor will try asking homeless to be nice, instead of penalizing them for pooping on the streets
San Francisco has a brand new mayor, Ms. London Breed, the result of the untimely death of Mayor Ed Lee, and it does not look good for the city coming to grips with a crisis on its streets. The accumulation of human waste and contaminated drug needles posing a severe threat to the health of its residents and visitors is also a challenge to the survival if the city's biggest industry in terms of employment: tourism. A huge medical convention has announced that it will no longer visit San Francisco owing to the health and safety hazards the streets now pose
Mayor Breed, who grew up in a ghetto and is the city's first African-American female mayor, granted an interview with NBC-owned and operated affiliate KNTV, which had telecast video of the street filth that drew national attention. Her response to the crisis does not inspire confidence:
San Francisco Mayor London Breed, in her first one-on-one interview since taking office, said homeless advocacy groups that receive funding from the city need to better educate the homeless to "clean up after themselves."
LOL.
KD said...
"Imagine the outrage
If you actually posted something cogent....I won't hold my breath. Find a job yet or are you happy just being an asshole????
I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than risk peace in pursuit of politics.
-President Trump
Amen.
Amazing how democrats are now so opposed to working for peace. This is what the angry left has become.
Breitbart
DUPREE: That is what I wanted to see. I mean, it’s all well and good for the president to talk about the Strzok and server and Hillary Clinton and all of that. But this wasn’t the time and the place. This was the time and place for the president to look Putin squarely in the eye and said, ‘You will be punished for what you did in 2016, and don’t ever think about doing that again.’
CAVUTO: But he didn’t. And what’s what made it disgusting. That’s what made his performance disgusting. I’m sorry it’s just the only way I feel. It’s not a right or left thing to me. It’s just wrong. U.S. president foreign soil talking to our biggest enemy or adversary or competitor, I don’t know how we define them these days is essentially letting the guy get away with this, not even, offering a mild, a mild criticism. That sets us back a lot.
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Favoring a nation that is not our friends over over our past allies. Quit drinking his bathwater .
Rush ripped the liberal media a new one today on his show. He's right. They've become clown versions of themselves.
Favoring those not our friends over allies. I guess roger is talking about obama and israel, obama and iran etc
Idiot.
Myballs said...
Rush ripped the liberal media a new one today on his show.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Rush the deaf drug addict boy lover? That rush......you certainly learn about people by whom they listen to, loser!!!!! Berating the FBI with putin standing next to him says a lot about the stupidity of you and trump!!!!
Amazing how democrats are now so opposed to working for peace.
And you have a cite that dems are opposed to peace, or did you get that from the gigantic asshole of rush.....LOLOL11
This just in from the "WiNing President" over 70 and so very, very out of touch with Real Americans.
"Well, I’ll tell you,” she said, “I’ve been back there listening to Randi (Weingarten) and I’m so exhausted, I can barely stand here.”
Clinton flashed moments of bitterness and anger to the unionists gathered in Pittsburgh.
Receiving the Women’s Rights Award from the union, she railed on how she has been oppressed in life.
“When I was growing up, there were scholarships I couldn’t get, colleges I couldn’t attend, jobs I couldn’t apply for just because I was a girl,” she lamented.
She attacked the layout of classified ads in newspapers.
“It wasn’t so very long ago that classified ads were divided into ‘help wanted dash male,’ and ‘help wanted dash female,'” Clinton said.
"Amazing how democrats are now so opposed to working for peace. This is what the angry left has become."
They're now the party of traitorous war mongers.
They're now the party of traitorous war mongers.
And you belong to the party of moronic russian lovers....congrats on being a complete asshole......
You can easily tell low iq commie lives in an outhouse. All he ever sees are assholes and yellow rain.
Very sad and telling.
ROFLMFAO !!!
"Very sad and telling"
He's a Russian.
"Diatlovich"
I knew Roger was half-Stepping again
"Roger AmickJuly 16, 2018 at 10:09 AM
Journalists are being escorted out of the conference room.
A reporter from The Nation Magazine was wrestled out of the conference room."
The so called "Journalist" was protester with a " holding up a sign that read "Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty."
Roger, you support this?
This is a moment of truth. Will the Republicans stand up for the country or the insecure President.
There are exactly two possible explanations for the shameful performance the world witnessed on Monday, from a serving American president.
Either Donald Trump is flat-out an agent of Russian interests—maybe witting, maybe unwitting, from fear of blackmail, in hope of future deals, out of manly respect for Vladimir Putin, out of gratitude for Russia’s help during the election, out of pathetic inability to see beyond his 306 electoral votes. Whatever the exact mixture of motives might be, it doesn’t really matter.
Or he is so profoundly ignorant, insecure, and narcissistic that he did not realize that, at every step, he was advancing the line that Putin hoped he would advance, and the line that the American intelligence, defense, and law-enforcement agencies most dreaded.
Conscious tool. Useful idiot. Those are the choices, though both are possibly true, so that the main question is the proportions.
Whatever the balance of motivations, what mattered was that Trump’s answers were indistinguishable from Putin’s, starting with the fundamental claim that Putin’s assurances about interference in U.S. democracy (“He was incredibly strong and confident in his denial”) deserved belief over those of his own Department of Justice (“I think the probe is a disaster for our country”).
I am old enough to remember Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon telling lies on TV, about Vietnam in both cases, and Watergate for Nixon. I remember the travails and deceptions of Bill Clinton, and of George W. Bush in the buildup to the disastrous Iraq War.
But never before have I seen an American president consistently, repeatedly, publicly, and shockingly advance the interests of another country over those of his own government and people.
Trump manifestly cannot help himself. This is who he is.
Those who could do something are the 51 Republican senators and 236 Republican representatives who have the power to hold hearings, issue subpoenas, pass resolutions of censure, guarantee the integrity of Robert Mueller’s investigation, condemn the past Russian election interference, shore up protections against the next assault, and in general defend their country rather than the damaged and defective man who is now its president.
There are real Americans here. They are facing a challenge to the democratic republic.
Fallows is a moonbat no wonder to didn’t site the source
Paul you should know better than to support the President after the press conference today. He said that he doesn't believe the national security system in favor of Putin. All three are saying that the President is incorrect. Patriotic Republicans have to decide whether to let him dismantle the western alliance that has kept us from another World War in favor of Putin. You really need to step back and look outside the partisan view.
I hoped that he would have confronted Putin but instead he knelt down and sucked his dick.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/moment-of-decision/565289/
What do FBI employees know that the media don't?
The FBI conducts an annual employee survey to determine internal attitudes about how the bureau is viewed by its own people. The survey this year is an eye-opener.
An annual survey of FBI employees found a sharp decline in confidence in bureau leadership amid a series of scandals, results published Sunday indicate.
Although pride in working at the FBI remained about the same, faith in the "honesty and integrity" of senior executives plummeted – going from an average employee rating of more than four out of five in 2017 to 3.5 out of five this year at the FBI's 56 field offices.
Workers at FBI headquarters in Washington reported a slightly less dramatic erosion of faith in leaders' honesty.
The survey data was collected in February and March amid significant internal uncertainty about the fate of top leaders including then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and FBI agent Peter Strzok. ...
Support for the director [Christopher Wray]'s "vision and ideas" tanked from about 4.5 out of five in 2016 to about 3.5 in 2018 at the bureau's field offices, with only slightly less dramatic drop at FBI headquarters
Most FBI employees are dedicated public servants who do a very difficult job very well. There is great pride in working for a government agency tasked with so many vital jobs.
But it's obvious to the employees – if not to the media – that something is terribly, horribly wrong at the top of the bureau. Partisanship, incompetence, intrigue – these have no place in such a powerful law enforcement agency. Employees, regardless of their political beliefs, know that the bureau cannot perform its mandates when the top leadership is corrupt.
The continuing revelations that cast a shadow across the behavior of FBI leadership will put even more doubts in the minds of FBI employees. You have to wonder how badly the bureau has been damaged and how it can be fixed. Perhaps only a complete housecleaning at the top can begin to address the malaise and loss of faith by employees in this once proud government agency.
GOP Lawmaker Says Trump ‘Getting Played’
Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX), a former CIA officer, said on Twitter that President Trump was “getting played” by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Said Hurd: “I’ve seen Russian intelligence manipulate many people over my professional career and I never would have thought that the US President would become one of the ones getting played by old KGB hands.”
So Much for ‘America First’
Dan Balz:
“When the history of Donald Trump’s presidency is ultimately written, July 16, 2018, will have a special entry. On a day when the setting called for a show of strength and resolve from an American president, Trump instead offered deference, defensiveness, equivocation and weakness.
“If anyone can recall a performance by a U.S. president that rivaled the one seen around the world Monday, let them come forward. In the meantime, Trump’s extraordinary joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin will stand on its own, for sheer shock value and for the reality of an opportunity lost.
“One can only imagine Putin’s satisfaction at the way things have turned out.”
Jonathan Swan:
“I was sitting maybe 20 feet from Putin, in the second row of press gathered at the palace in Helsinki. Putin was subtly smirking throughout the conference and pumped his chest as he forcefully smacked down U.S. reporters with his lies.”
Putin Won’t Deny He Has Comprising Info on Trump
“Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed a question Monday about whether the Russian government holds compromising material about President Trump, offering as evidence his claim that he was not even aware of Trump’s visits to Russia as a private businessman,” the Washington Post reports.
“However, Russian government officials — including Putin’s top spokesman — knew Trump was in Moscow in November 2013 to host the Miss Universe pageant and were told about the real estate developer’s eagerness to meet with Putin while he was there.”
“Putin did not explicitly deny that Russia has compromising information about Trump or his family. Instead, he offered a winding response about how little he knew of Trump’s travels to Russia.”
CNN: “What happened Monday in Helsinki isn’t likely to put the embers of those rumors out.”
Senator Says ‘Something Close’ to Pee Tape Exists
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) told BuzzFeed News that “something close” to the long-rumored “pee tape” exists, saying he thinks “it’s likely” that Vladimir Putin has something on President Trump.
Democratic Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen on Monday called for the “military folks” to save America from President Donald Trump after Trump’s much-criticized press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Where are our military folks? The Commander in Chief is in the hands of our enemy!” Cohen wrote on Twitter, using language suggestive of a military coup
Is Trump Committing Treason?
John Shattuck:
“According to the law, the federal crime of treason is committed by a person ‘owing allegiance to the United States who… adheres to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort.’ Misprision (abetting) of treason is committed if a person ‘having knowledge of the commission of treason conceals and does not disclose’ the crime.”
“Today the evidence of Russian cyberattacks against the US democratic process is overwhelming… The president’s hostility to the US investigation of Russian cyberattacks, his failure to impose a cost on Russia for the attacks, his denigration of US alliances, and his eagerness to have ‘an extraordinary relationship’ with the Russian leader all point toward giving aid and comfort to an enemy.”
Fox News anchor Sean Hannity went on a tirade against the Republicans who condemned President Donald Trump’s comments during his press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on his radio show on Monday afternoon.
“These Republicans have been so pathetically weak,” Hannity said. “They have been so feckless, they have been so visionless, they have been so uninspiring, they can’t keep the simplest of promises, and the only reason that there’s not a massive blue wave developing … is because Donald Trump has single-handedly dragged them all kicking and screaming.”
“Every single person on the list that they’re calling a conservative is not a conservative. Every single one has been a never-Trumper, a huge Trump critic,” he continued.
“I’m watching all of these Republicans and I’m thinking none of them, NONE OF THEM, have the ability to lead anything,” Hannity added.
Former presidential nominee Mitt Romney recently hosted a donor meeting for former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz who has been reportedly considering a run for president as a Democrat in 2020.
Politico’s Ben Schrekinger said the event did not go well and that many left uninspired by the potential nominee.
“Will there be some segment of the customer base that decides, ‘I’m not going to go to Starbucks anymore should he become a candidate,” Mark Kalinowski, president of Kalinowski Equity Research, asked Politico. “You have to think about the employees. You have to think about the shareholders, everybody who might be affected by the decision to run.”
Both Wall Street analysts and Starbucks leadership are concerned about how a potential campaign would impact the coffee company, according to Politico. They’re worried about potentially losing customers from the other side of the political aisle.
Is Trump Committing Treason?
Max Boot:
“In the past, the only people who questioned the loyalty of U.S. presidents were crazy conspiracy theorists such as the John Birchers, who accused President Dwight Eisenhower of being a Russian agent — or the birthers, including Trump, who questioned whether President Barack Obama was really born in the United States. But today the question of where the president’s loyalties lie is a legitimate one, and it will only grow in urgency after Putin deflected the question about whether he had kompromat on Trump.”
Trump, Churchill’s Chair, and Barack Obama
Recently, on Donald Trump’s “working visit” to the UK, environmentalist royal princes Charles and William refused to meet the President. Based on their boorish behavior, the population control liberals may be emulating Barack Obama, who exhibited hostility toward world leaders when he refused to attend Bibi Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress.
Despite Charles, William, and newlywed Harry’s absence, Mr. and Mrs. Trump arrived at Windsor Castle where they were greeted by the 92-year-old Queen who didn’t invite them to a sleepover like she did the Obamas, but did serve tea.
After the visit, no one reported whether or not Melania “charmed” the aging monarch by trapping her in a Michelle Obama-style death grip. However, the press did allege that in place of DVDs and recordings of Trump rallies, the first couple broke with Southside of Chicago protocol and showed up instead with a historical artifact as a gift.
Petty British tabloids, behaving like a future mother-in-law sizing up her only son’s girlfriend, criticized the President for arriving late to meet Her Majesty (which he did not), strolling nonchalantly in front of the Queen (he’s a relaxed guy), and for shaking the Queen’s hand when he also bowed. Stopping just short of accusing Donald Trump of exhaling when he should inhale, the British press must have forgotten that Obama, who bowed for Saudi kings, didn’t bow for the Queen.
The resentment comes from British colonialists who cooed over anti-colonialist Obama even after he thought “God Save the Queen,” was the musical accompaniment to his Shakespearian-themed toast at the Queen’s State Dinner, and who, behind closed doors, allegedly mocked America’s so-called “special relationship” with Britain.
And while the Queen of England was courteous, amongst the commoners, Arab Spring-like, Soros-funded, pink pussy hat gatherings and street-level protests greeted America’s president with loud and boisterous animosity.
Thankfully for the protesters, Trump had rolled back the offshore safety rules that crashed British pensions when Obama trash-talked British Petroleum after the Gulf oil spills. With rebounding annuities, demonstrators must have had extra cash to buy Dump Trump posters. Thus, central London overflowed with Trump-bashers dressed in red, white and blue bikinis being shielded from the hot sun by a mini-blimp featuring Baby Trump in a nappy.
During the POTUS’s time at Prime Minister Theresa May’s residence at Chequers in Buckinghamshire, many were aghast when Trump sat in Winston Churchill’s chair. Remembering back, these same Brits were only mildly offended when Kenyan Son, Barack ‘Neville Chamberlain’ Obama wrapped Winston Churchill’s bust in bubble wrap, evicted it from the Oval Office, and banished it back to Britain.
Same liberal media called Reagan 'warmonger' and Trump 'accommodationist' on Russia
Many of you remember the 1980s. Ronald Reagan became president in the wake of the Iran hostage crisis, the Soviet placement of nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Reagan's response was to call the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and to begin a major buildup of our conventional and military forces, as well as placing medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe to drive Russia to the negotiating table.
And how did the liberal media respond? They called Reagan a "hardliner" and a "warmonger." They urged him repeatedly to engage in détente with the Soviet Union. The media showed no interest in investigating Soviet involvement in the U.S. anti-nuclear movement, which might have uncovered allegations like this:
Russian GRU defector Stanislav Lunev said in his autobiography that "the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad[.]
Now go back even farther to the 1950s, and liberals tell us that this was a shameful period infested with "McCarthyism" where people were investigated for ties to the Soviet Union (which really existed).
Obviously, in both the 1950s and the 1980s, the liberal media thought engagement with the Soviet Union was progressive and that opposition to it, even rhetorically, was "hard-line."
Now let's talk about the present. Anyone who advocates dialogue with Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, is labeled an accommodationist. The media eagerly play "Where's Waldo" in the search for Russian collaborationists in the ranks of the Trump administration nearly every day. It's gotten so bad that we have reporters questioning whether it is even appropriate for President Trump to meet with Vladimir Putin. "Why Trump won't cancel his meeting with Putin," blares Politico. "Just sitting down with Trump, Putin comes out ahead," declares The New York Times.
So what has changed since the 1980s, when dialogue with Russia was considered forward-thinking and even rhetorical criticism of Russia was considered backward?
Russia is much less of a threat than the Soviet Union ever was. It has a much smaller army. It has a smaller economy. It occupies a much smaller land mass. It's still a dictatorship (basically), and it still has nuclear missiles pointed at us, and it seems to like poisoning people in Britain a lot, but from a rational standpoint, it is impossible to see how engagement with a strong Soviet Union is good but engagement with a weaker Russia is bad.
The only way it makes sense is to look at what is good for liberals. Liberals had a not so secret crush on the Soviet Union because it was a communist country. Liberals loved, and still love, communism, even as they rebrand it KFC- and IHOP-style with names like "progressivism" and "socialism."
But liberals hate Russia because Russia tried to interfere in our elections against Hillary. Liberals feel that a bunch of Twitter and Facebook bots tossed the election to Donald Trump. They really believe this. Perhaps they felt that all the Russian-originated Facebook posts somehow counteracted the legions of illegal aliens who voted for Hillary. So liberals hate Russia because they think Russia tried to stop Hillary from winning the election.
Their partisan hatred is what is driving national policy now. If the Russians had tried to help Hillary, they'd love Russia.
Trump and the queen
It remains interesting that much of the ridicule aimed at Trump involves things that liberals do as well. Case in point from the Huffington Post:
The royal family adheres to a strict code of etiquette and behavior. So when the ever-boisterous President Donald Trump met with Queen Elizabeth II for tea at Windsor Castle on Friday, many expected him to serve up some awkward interactions.
Of course, Trump did not disappoint.
My goodness – Trump was rude to the queen? Our leaders should respect the customs and protocols of other nations just as we expect them to respect ours. What on earth did Trump do?
The president's critics on Twitter were quick to call him out for briefly walking in front of the queen, which is reportedly a social faux pas, during a ceremonial inspection of the Guard of Honor.
Reuters noted that Trump "halted abruptly" during the inspection, forcing Queen Elizabeth to walk around him.
As the sportscasters say, let's go to the tape. Trump and the queen initially walked appropriately, but they weren't walking in a carpeted ballroom. As they made a turn, for a brief moment, Trump was ahead of Her Majesty. It is not clear that Trump caused the problem. The queen is remarkably spry for her age, but she is 92.
Trump stopped, which allowed the queen to retake the lead. To say he forced the queen to walk around him is a remarkably biased way of putting it.
This is not earth-shattering stuff, but the article then produces an endless stream of Twitter comments describing Trump's boorishness.
We are forced to ask how our previous, oh, so debonair president handled royal etiquette. In 2011, Barack Obama was seated at the head table of the queen's banquet. He rose to offer a toast to the queen and asked others to stand with him. The protocol calls for the playing of their national anthem, which is then followed by the toast. The band played on cue. The completely unaware Obama delivered his entire toast speaking over the anthem.
To compound the error, Obama was unaware he was on a state visit to the United Kingdom and not just England. This ranks up there with his thinking that people in Austria speak Austrian.
My point is not to make fun of Obama. At one point or another, any of us can commit a faux pas or demonstrate ignorance of a fact even elementary school children should know. These instances are worth a smile, but that's about it.
Trump is doing an impressive job, which means our liberal friends are left with nothing to ridicule except the little stuff. We have to keep reminding them that their team messes up the big stuff and the little stuff as well. Given their inability to see themselves as others do, this is a big job. We're up to the challenge
My oh my I see the POS lying "pastor jim boswell, normal Illinois has been on another torrential spamming tear.
What a fucking asshole.
No one reads your shit anyway
But who's your daddy?
ROFLMFAO !!!
The President is the reason for the loss of faith in the FBI .
It's not a deep state conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump. Nor does it matter that Clinton lost. She is the reason why she lost. She was a terrible candidate.
"What a fucking asshole."
He's a pedophile.
Im not interested in reading spam after spam all by anonymous. Post your name or dont post.
I agree with balls, own it.
I agree with balls, own it.
What a low life.
"It's not a deep state conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump. Nor does it matter that Clinton lost. She is the reason why she lost. She was a terrible candidate." Alky
In 2016 , your canidate "Had it All".
Some Republicans have grown some balls.
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, declared, “No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.” Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and Trump adviser, declared the news conference “the most serious mistake of his presidency.” Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and current Senate candidate from Utah, called it “disgraceful and detrimental to our democratic principles.”
The effect extended far beyond official Washington. One local official — Chris Gagin, the chairman of the Republican Party in Belmont County, Ohio — resigned his post, announcing on Twitter that he “did so as a matter of conscience, and my sense of duty.” Neil Cavuto, a Fox Business Network host, called Mr. Trump’s performance “disgusting,” adding, “I’m sorry, it’s the only way I feel. It’s not a right or left thing to me, it’s just wrong.”
"Senator John McCain"
Bitter old man.
Pres Lost years reverse - Midas Touch.
"Netflix signed up far fewer subscribers than it forecast in the second quarter of 2018.
The company said it added 670,000 streaming customers in the U.S., below its guidance of 1.2 million new subscribers. Internationally, the company added 4.47 million new subscribers, short of its guidance for 5 million. Wall Street had expected the company to report even more subscribers than it had forecast."
Cnn called not my president. The RED President.
How cool is that.
A lawyer I've known
One thing I’ve learned in all my years of law practice is that when con artists start getting caught, they don’t hesitate — they keep going for the fences, as if nothing is wrong. There’s a logic to it . . . after all, why not go for broke, you might get away with it by keeping the con going.
Trump’s singular obsession with the Mueller investigation from the beginning tells us one thing — he knows he’s caught. So why not boldly continue the con, to become more bold, tell more fantastic lies, dramatize the con with every possible prop and scene, to equate the investigation with threats to our national security, even the threat of nuclear war. When the investigator is ethically attack-proof, then attack those around him, his investigators, his bosses at Justice, the FBI, intelligence. Sheer repetition of the lie is intended to try to make it true.
Today, the con is running out. His submissiveness with Putin, his willingness to turn on his own government while in a foreign country in order to save himself has, at long last, begun to turn the country against him. His supporters are human and they resist what we all resist — admitting they were wrong about Trump, but make no mistake, they feel it and know it, and at some level they are sickened by it. Now, it is a matter of time.
Miss Alzheimer's is a bitter old bitch.
Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and Trump adviser, declared the news conference “the most serious mistake of his presidency.” Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and current Senate candidate from Utah, called it “disgraceful and detrimental to our democratic principles.”
"Now, it is a matter of time."
LMAO.
This too shall pass, drunkard.
"Pres Lost years reverse - Midas Touch."
Better make $$$ before the traitorous two-bit community organizer gets too involved.
Everything the traitorous two-bit community organizer touches turns to shit.
Did the Muller investigation find anything. Vladimir Putin answered the questions.
REPORTER: “Did you want President Trump to win the election? And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?”
PUTIN: “Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal.”
LOL.
You're quite the sleuth!
LMAO.
If the Trump/Putin meeting shows us anything... it’s not treason.
It’s that Democrats, Neo-cons, and the media want WAR.
The country’s leading intelligence officials said Tuesday that Russia intends to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections. But they wouldn’t discuss in an open setting what the U.S. intelligence community is doing to stop it—or how it could be combatted without the support of the White House.
“There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations,” Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, said during the Senate Intelligence Committee’s annual worldwide-threats hearing on Tuesday.
“We have seen Russian activity and intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle,” CIA Director Mike Pompeo said later. Other top intelligence officials, including the FBI Director Chris Wray, agreed.
The director of the National Security Agency, Mike Rogers, emphasized that steps should be taken “to ensure the American people that their vote is sanctioned and not manipulated in any way,” and Coats advocated for as much transparency as possible.
“We need to inform the American public that this is real … and that we are not going to allow some Russian to tell us how we’re going to vote,” Coats said. “There needs to be a national cry for that.”
It's a quote.
So Mike Pompeo got demoted. Good find.
Nobody wants a war.
The President is getting criticized from all sides. He threw the intelligence agencies under the bus. The issue seems to me is that he's insecure about his electoral college victory while losing the popular vote. He said that over three million illegal voters all of whom voted for Clinton and giving her the popular vote victory.
This is just another notch in the history of his Presidency that makes him feel better.
This matters and it's not going away.
A day that will go down in history.
When the history of Donald Trump’s presidency is ultimately written, July 16, 2018, will have a special entry. On a day when the setting called for a show of strength and resolve from an American president, Trump instead offered deference, defensiveness, equivocation and weakness.
If anyone can recall a performance by a U.S. president that rivaled the one seen around the world Monday, let them come forward. In the meantime, Trump’s extraordinary joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin will stand on its own, for sheer shock value and for the reality of an opportunity lost.
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