Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Trump continues to use his position as President to interfere with the 2020 election!

Stocks extend record run on strong economic data
The Dow was up 40 points, while the S&P 500 climbed 0.4% and the Nasdaq advanced 0.55%. The averages posted intraday records and were headed for their fourth straight day of gains.
 
Consumer discretionary was the best-performing sector in the S&P 500, rising 0.7%. Durable goods orders rose 0.6% in October while economists expected a decline of 0.8%. Weekly jobless claims, meanwhile, fell to 213,000 from 227,000. Third-quarter GDP was revised to show growth of 2.1%. That’s up from a previous reading of 1.9%.
The strong data comes ahead of the Federal Reserve releasing its Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions, also known as the Beige Book, at 2 p.m. The commentary offers insight on the state of the world’s largest economy and a look into how the Fed views its monetary policy stance. The Fed has lowered rates three times this year and has indicated it will likely keep rates at current levels for the foreseeable future.
The major averages have been on fire over the past month as optimism around U.S.-China trade talks increases. The Dow and S&P 500 are up 4.3% and 4.1%, respectively, in that time while the Nasdaq is up 5.5%.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said negotiators were close to reaching an initial trade deal. Trump’s upbeat comments on trade followed a phone call between officials from the U.S. and China. The negotiators agreed to keep working on remaining issues.

Yes, the President is engaging in even more attempts to influence the 2020 election by presiding over such a good economy. It's become crystal clear that a good economy, low unemployment, and a robust future will help the President get reelected as well as hinder the Democrat's changes of undermining him with lots of pointless investigations.

I mean, look at the nerve of this guy? Using his office to make everyone's life better, all to undermine the Democrat and ultimately get himself reelected. This cannot stand!

34 comments:

Commonsense said...

How dare he!!! IMPEACH HIM!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

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anonymous said...

Third-quarter GDP was revised to show growth of 2.1%. That’s up from a previous reading of 1.9%.



BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! What happened to 3 or 4% and the slurper Llil Scotty talks the DOW!!!!! I'd be willing to bet that he has little stock holdings as he has a 90 k job, 2 households, 2 wives and 2 kids he is supporting.......Too fucking funny!!!!!

anonymous said...

IG report out.....FBI did not spy on trump or his campaign.....another lie debunked which the R's will hang onto....like the Ukraines interfered.....Trump the liar caught again.....I bet Lil Scotty will be depressed.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Justice Department Report Will Undercut Trump Claims

“The Justice Department’s inspector general found NO evidence that the FBI attempted to place undercover agents or informants inside Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016 as agents investigated whether his associates conspired with Russia’s election interference operation,” the New York Times reports.

“The determination by the inspector general, Michael Horowitz, is expected to be a key finding in his highly anticipated report due out on Dec. 9 examining aspects of the Russia investigation. The finding also CONTRADICTS some of the most inflammatory accusations hurled by Mr. Trump and his supporters, who alleged not only that F.B.I. officials spied on the Trump campaign but also at one point that former President Barack OBAMA had ordered Mr. Trump’s phones TAPPED.

“He also found that FBI leaders did not take politically motivated actions in pursuing a secret wiretap on a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page — eavesdropping that Mr. Trump’s allies have long decried as politically motivated.”

IOW, WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump to Cut Financial Contribution to NATO

“The Trump administration has moved to substantially cut its contribution to NATO’s collective budget according to several US and NATO officials, a symbolic move that comes as many continue to question President Trump’s commitment to the transatlantic alliance as he prepares to attend a summit to mark its 70th anniversary in London next week,” CNN reports.
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Putin is applauding. He's achieving one after another of his goals, due to Trump's stupidity.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Speaking with Forked Tongue, Giuliani Gives Shifting Answers on Ukrainian Oligarch

Rudy Giuliani acknowledged this week meeting with a lawyer for a Ukrainian oligarch who he had previously said he had “nothing to do with,” CNN reports.

Giuliani said “that he met a lawyer for oligarch Dmitry Firtash in New York City for two hours during a time he was seeking information useful to President Trump’s re-election and seeking to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. The acknowledgment is in apparent conflict with what Giuliani told CNN in October, when he said he did not think Firtash had information relevant to any of his efforts.”

The Lying President's Lying Lawyer. WHAT A PAIR!

November 27, 2019 at 4:38 PM

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Giuliani Tells Trump ‘Insurance’ Remark Was a Joke

Rudy Giuliani called President Trump this week to reassure him that he had been joking when he told media outlets he had “insurance” if Trump turned on him in the Ukraine scandal, Reuters reports.

Attorney Robert Costello said Giuliani “at my insistence” had called Trump “within the last day” to emphasize that he had not been serious when he said he had an “insurance policy, if thrown under the bus.”

Donald, you didn't really think I have a copy of the golden stream video, did you? (Actually, I do.)

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump Twin Netanyahu Unleashes Populist Fury Against Prosecutors

Washington Post::
“The divisions were on display Tuesday night at a raucous pro-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv. Angry supporters reportedly chanted ‘Die Leftist’ and ‘Arrest the Investigators’ and carried signs reading ‘Cops — Or Criminals?’ Speakers railed against the attorney general and prosecutors — who have been given security details in recent days — parroting the prime minister’s portrayal of the indictments as a ‘coup’ attempt by an unaccountable deep state and a biased media. One protester attempted to grab the microphone of an on-air journalist as another spat on him.

“But, following a day of speculation about his plans, Netanyahu failed to make an appearance at the gathering as discomfort over his scorched-earth response to the indictments grew.”
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Many Israelis just want decency to return to their government, as we want decency to return to ours.
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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

White Supremacist Stephen Miller Keeps His Place In Trump’s Inner Circle

“In case there were any doubts over his White House standing, Stephen Miller offered his critics the ultimate power move Tuesday as he boarded AIR FORCE ONE to accompany President Trump to a campaign rally in South Florida,” the Washington Post reports.

“Miller’s RESERVED SEAT was another sign that the White House senior adviser has suffered no internal consequences in the two weeks since a social justice website published a trove of his old emails that showed him promoting political material and talking points linked to WHITE-SUPREMACIST groups.”

C.H. Truth said...

Hey James...

Help me out. Where can I read all of those racist emails? I keep hearing rumors and everything, but I can't quite seem to get my hands on them?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

https://www.splcenter.org/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott, you have been ignoring the posts that the Michael Horowitz, is expected to be a key finding in his highly anticipated report due out on Dec. 9 examining aspects of the Russia investigation. The finding also CONTRADICTS some of the most inflammatory accusations hurled by Mr. Trump and his supporters, like you who alleged not only that F.B.I. officials spied on the Trump campaign but also at one point that former President Barack OBAMA had ordered Mr. Trump’s phones TAPPED.

And the claim that the phones in the Golden Tower building were wiretapped as claimed by the President.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If the investigation into the alleged deep state conspiracy theories are debunked by
Michael Horowitz report, you won't believe it anyway, because he people who conducted the investigation are members of the deep state conspiracy, despite the investigation was conducted by Williams Barr's department of Justice.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

This link offers "a trove of Stephen Miller's old emails showing him him promoting political material and talking points linked to white-supremacist groups."

https://www.splcenter.org/

Anonymous said...

Yawn

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump says he didn't direct Giuliani's Ukraine efforts. Witnesses say otherwise.

President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that he did not direct his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to have Ukraine dig up dirt on his political rivals, contradicting testimony from several witnesses in the House impeachment inquiry.

"No, I didn't direct him but he's a warrior, Rudy's a warrior. Rudy went, he possibly saw something,” Trump told former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly in an interview.

Asked by O’Reilly what Giuliani was doing in Ukraine on Trump's behalf, the president said: "You have to ask that to Rudy, but Rudy, I don't, I don't even know. I know he was going to go to Ukraine and I think he canceled a trip. But, you know, Rudy has other clients other than me. I'm one person."

Trump added that Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, had done “a lot of work in Ukraine over the years, and I think, I mean, that's what I heard, I might have even read that someplace.”

The New York Times reported that Giuliani was planning a trip to Ukraine to encourage then-President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy to move forward with investigations that could be politically beneficial to Trump's re-election campaign. Giuliani ultimately canceled the trip after political blowback.

Public testimony in the impeachment inquiry from multiple senior diplomats portrayed Giuliani as the driver behind Trump’s pressure campaign to get Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden and a leading voice in the spread of debunked conspiracies that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

Trump asked Zelenskiy to get in touch with Giuliani in the July 25 phone call that ultimately led to the impeachment inquiry.

“Rudy very much knows what’s happening and he is a very capable guy,” Trump said according to a summary of call released by the White House. “If you could speak to him that would be great.”

In testimony from two key witnesses alone, Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union and Kurt Volker, then the U.S. special representative for Ukraine, Giuliani was mentioned more than 430 times, highlighting his outsize influence in Ukraine policy.

"Secretary Perry, Ambassador Volker and I worked with Mr. Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine matters at the express direction of the president of the United States," Sondland said. "We did not want to work with Mr. Giuliani. Simply put, we were playing the hand we were dealt."

Sondland added: "Mr. Giuliani’s requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Zelenskiy. Mr. Giuliani demanded that Ukraine make a public statement announcing investigations of the 2016 election/DNC server and Burisma. Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the United States, and we knew that these investigations were important to the president."

Two of Giuliani's associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were charged with funneling money from foreign entities to U.S. candidates to buy influence. Giuliani has previously said that they were helping him to encourage Ukraine to open an investigation into the Bidens. Parnas and Fruman have pleaded not guilty.

Giuliani has maintained that there was nothing illegal or improper about his actions, even tweeting publicly about conducting an "investigation" on Trump's behalf.

"The investigation I conducted concerning 2016 Ukrainian collusion and corruption, was done solely as a defense attorney to defend my client against false charges, that kept changing as one after another were disproven," he tweeted in November.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

LOL Yawn.
Yawning will not be a very effective defense when it really matters.

C.H. Truth said...

James...

Those are stories from someone who is said to be reviewing them (they are not actual links of the emails). Direct quotes from the emails fall well short of the rhetoric being pushed.


So again... where are the actual emails?

I'll wait...

C.H. Truth said...

Roger - let's see what the actual report states.
We have seen so far:

1) signs that it would be really bad
2) CNN and others saying differently
3) Now people walking that back

I have (btw) written about it on multiple occasions.

The most lucid predictions suggests that CNN is simply trying to get ahead of things by creating a narrative that underplays things. Already other sources have suggested that the email change did in fact probably sway at least one of the FISA warrants against Page (by editing an email to mean almost the opposite of that it said).

There is also evidence that CNN edited their own story to take certain more incriminating and controversial angles out of it. All for the sake of show.

I learned a long time ago not to trust ANYTHING coming from CNN, NYT, WaPo or Politico. At least 75% of what they predict based on their sources turn out to be wrong.

Could it be that they simply prefer sources who tell them what they want to hear, rather than accurate sources?

Anonymous said...

Nadler is calling no actual Fact Witnesses.

Why Not?

Surely Palsy/Schiff didn't use all the Bomb shell ?

Anonymous said...

Broke Corey Booker to drop out. no money coming in.

Anonymous said...

Democrats continue to reject minorities Canidates in thier own Party.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump’s White-Nationalist Vanguard

THE ATLANTIC
The emails of a key presidential aide show an extremist ideology influencing policy in the White House.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

On the lawn of the White House, Trump lashed out at those criticizing his call to Biden, arguing, “Other than the fact that I did not know who I was talking to, that phone call was perfect.”


Therefore no Quid Pro Quo!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

You said that you are Thecoldheartedtruth, a partisan, but moderate Republican and some libertarian views.

But you actually believe this shit.

I learned a long time ago not to trust ANYTHING coming from CNN, NYT, WaPo or Politico. At least 75% of what they predict based on their sources turn out to be wrong.

Could it be that they simply prefer sources who tell them what they want to hear, rather than accurate sources?


The American dream guaranteed requires a free press. ,The Foundation fathers made it the First Amendment for a reason!!!

You have chosen to believe that the journalist are all trying to overturn the last election. And in coordination with the FBI and justice department anonymous sources who actually believe work for the President are fake!

You choose to believe the sources that don't even try to be independent and non partisan. Fox, Breitbart News etc. are not non partisan. You have chosen to believe propaganda.

Almost every single journalist is not partisan hack. Perfect? No.


You exhibit the behavior of the millions of people around the world have enabled dictatorships for most of the history of civilization. Any critical information on the President or Prime minister is biased. You believe the fact that this President has lied literally thousands of times since he was elected Presiden, is not true, because the journalists are lying.

The President said that the fake news is is anti-American.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Richard Spencer 
November 27, 2019 at 2:56 p.m. PST
Richard Spencer is the former secretary of the Navy.

The case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was charged with multiple war crimes before being convicted of a single lesser charge earlier this year, was troubling enough before things became even more troubling over the past few weeks. The trail of events that led to me being fired as secretary of the Navy is marked with lessons for me and for the nation.

It is highly irregular for a secretary to become deeply involved in most personnel matters. Normally, military justice works best when senior leadership stays far away. A system that prevents command influence is what separates our armed forces from others. Our system of military justice has helped build the world’s most powerful navy; good leaders get promoted, bad ones get moved out, and criminals are punished.

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In combat zones, the stakes are even higher. We train our forces to be both disciplined and lethal. We strive to use proportional force, protect civilians and treat detainees fairly. Ethical conduct is what sets our military apart. I have believed that every day since joining the Marine Corps in 1976.

Navy secretary fired over handling of SEAL’s war crimes case
Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer was fired Nov. 24 after Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper took issue with how he handled a Navy SEAL’s war crimes case. (Reuters)
We are effective overseas not because we have the best equipment but because we are professionals. Our troops are held to the highest standards. We expect those who lead our forces to exercise excellent judgment. The soldiers and sailors they lead must be able to count on that.

Earlier this year, Gallagher was formally charged with more than a dozen criminal acts, including premeditated murder, which occurred during his eighth deployment overseas. He was tried in a military court in San Diego and acquitted in July of all charges, except one count of wrongfully posing for photographs with the body of a dead Islamic State fighter. The jury sentenced him to four months, the maximum possible; because he had served that amount of time waiting for trial, he was released.

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President Trump involved himself in the case almost from the start. Before the trial began, in March, I received two calls from the president asking me to lift Gallagher’s confinement in a Navy brig; I pushed back twice, because the presiding judge, acting on information about the accused’s conduct, had decided that confinement was important. Eventually, the president ordered me to have him transferred to the equivalent of an enlisted barracks. I came to believe that Trump’s interest in the case stemmed partly from the way the defendant’s lawyers and others had worked to keep it front and center in the media.

After the verdict was delivered, the Navy’s normal process wasn’t finished. Gallagher had voluntarily submitted his request to retire. In his case, there were three questions: Would he be permitted to retire at the rank of chief, which is also known as an E-7? (The jury had said he should be busted to an E-6, a demotion.) The second was: Should he be allowed to leave the service with an “honorable” or “general under honorable” discharge? And a third: Should he be able to keep his Trident pin, the medal all SEALs wear and treasure as members of an elite force?

On Nov. 14, partly because the president had already contacted me twice, I sent him a note asking him not to get involved in these questions. The next day, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone called me and said the president would remain involved. Shortly thereafter, I received a second call from Cipollone, who said the president would order me to restore Gallagher to the rank of chief.




Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This was a shocking and unprecedented intervention in a low-level review. It was also a reminder that the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.

Given my desire to resolve a festering issue, I tried to find a way that would prevent the president from further involvement while trying all avenues to get Gallagher’s file in front of a peer-review board. Why? The Naval Special Warfare community owns the Trident pin, not the secretary of the Navy, not the defense secretary, not even the president. If the review board concluded that Gallagher deserved to keep it, so be it.

I also began to work without personally consulting Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper on every step. That was, I see in retrospect, a mistake for which I am solely responsible.

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On Nov. 19, I briefed Esper’s chief of staff concerning my plan. I briefed acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney that evening.

The next day, the Navy established a review board to decide the status of Gallagher’s Trident pin. According to long-standing procedure, a group of four senior enlisted SEALs would rule on the question. This was critical: It would be Gallagher’s peers managing their own community. The senior enlisted ranks in our services are the foundation of good order and discipline.

But the question was quickly made moot: On Nov. 21, the president tweeted that Gallagher would be allowed to keep his pin — Trump’s third intervention in the case. I recognized that the tweet revealed the president’s intent. But I did not believe it to be an official order, chiefly because every action taken by the president in the case so far had either been a verbal or written command.

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The rest is history. We must now move on and learn from what has transpired. The public should know that we have extensive screening procedures in place to assess the health and well-being of our forces. But we must keep fine-tuning those procedures to prevent a case such as this one from happening again.

More importantly, Americans need to know that 99.9 percent of our uniformed members always have, always are and always will make the right decision. Our allies need to know that we remain a force for good, and to please bear with us as we move through this moment in time.

Commonsense said...

This was a shocking and unprecedented intervention in a low-level review.

It was a shocking and unprecedented attempt to defy the double-jeopardy provision of the US Constitution as well as gross insubordination of the commander-in-chief's orders.

When the president pardon's that is the final say on the matter. When the president orders a rank restored that is also the final say in the matter.

The naval officers who initiated the review should be brought up on charges.

anonymous said...

The naval officers who initiated the review should be brought up on charges.


God that is a stupid comment cramps....Nothing you posit is a surprise any more....especially defending the asshole in chief who knows shit about anything military....appearantly a lot of seals who were involved with the process are not too pleased with the BS trump has pulled.... When trump says shit....you yell how MUCH!!!!!!! Your opinion of gross insubordination is most amusing like the rest of your stupid post.....Don't choke on turkey today......BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

If Trump had been president when US troops at My Lai slaughtered Vietnamese civilians, men and many women, young and old, including even babies (yes, babies!), Trump would have exalted Calley and all who were involved to heroes.

The simple truth is that there were soldiers there that day who rightly refused to do what others were doing, and were able to save at least some civilians.

We only learned about it because pictures were taken, and it kept bothering certain peoples' consciences.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

https://time.com/longform/my-lai-massacre-ron-haeberle-photographs/

Commonsense said...

God that is a stupid comment cramps.

Nothing stupid about it Denny Insubordination is a chargeable offense according to the UCMJ.