The farmer hauled another load from the horse's stall

[gotsnowgotslush]

Today's effort to run interference for Donald Trump comes from the likes of Rep. Mike Pompeo and the Wall Street Journal, who have ginned up a bogus story about a "secret payment" of $400 million to Iran, delivered in cash in return for the people being held hostage in Iran.

If the press had the collective memory of a peanut, this would be a complete non-story. But because we have a right-wing echo chamber, social media, and many distractions, it's now blowing up into a story devoid of facts and even logic.


http://crooksandliars.com/2016/08/no-gop-400m-payment-iran-was-not-secret


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/03/business/ap-us-campaign-2016-iran-fact-check.html?_r=0


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...in_factchecker-trumpiran-735pm:homepage/story


gsgs comment-

Big man, big news, big deal, big top secret!

I am very certain that they are not happy about lending him the courtesy...

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Trump spent a long time recounting the details of a very special video showing the absolutely non-secret transfer of non-ransom money to Iran

Trump described the video as being very clear, steady, and good quality.

(Military tape! Government quality camera!)

"The trouble is … there is no such tape. Not publicly anyway. So if Trump is describing an actual tape, it’s one that only he saw, possibly as part of a briefing."

http://www.dailykos.com

Video from Jan. 17 in Geneva where three Americans first landed after being released from prison in Tehran, not a video of recent money transfer

At a rally in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Wednesday afternoon, Trump announced that the months-old video had been recorded by the Iranian government and released to embarrass the United States.

Trump provided no source for this exclusive information but described in detail what he saw in the video.Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort said in an interview on Fox News earlier in the day that those briefings have not yet begun.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...d-video-leaked-by-iran-of-the-money-transfer/

Yes," spokeswoman Hope Hicks responded in an email. "Merely the b-roll footage included in every broadcast."

Hicks has yet to respond to a follow-up email asking why Trump thought the footage showed a money transfer and not the widely watched prisoner swap, and why Trump said it was recorded by the Iranian government.


gsgs comment-

Look here, do not look here!

Day after, day, one load from the horse's stall, is covered over by another load.
There is a problem. A horse was dumped into the pile of stable waste.

What horse, is this, that is kicking and neighing ?

Russia.


But why would Trump—whose frequent bungling of foreign policy questions, including those about the Ukraine, suggests that he’d have a hard time finding anything in Eastern Europe other than supermodels—be so quick to address what is, after all, a relatively minor plank in the Republican platform? Why would he care?

He might not. But Paul Manafort would. Trump’s campaign manager worked long and hard for pro-Russian forces inside the Ukraine that were trying to destroy the pro-western government.

In doing this work, Manafort has been working directly against the interests of the United States. And directly for the interests of Vladimir Putin.


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...news-away-from-the-one-story-he-wants-to-bury

Everyday, Trump manages to generate publicity for himself.

Today's question was centered on Trump's integrity.
Did he, or did he not, make a government secret , public ?
Or, did his memory fail him ?

It furthered Trump's effort in smearing Hillary Clinton and President Obama.


"Our incompetent Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!" Trump tweeted Wednesday morning, following a Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday evening that cited U.S. and European officials, as well as congressional staff briefed on the details of the operation after the fact.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has jumped on reports that the US paid $400m in cash to Iran after the country’s historic nuclear deal, saying that the episode was a “scandal” for Hillary Clinton, who started the talks as secretary of state.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...nton-scandal-us-400-million-iran-nuclear-deal

"I support him [Ryan] as a speaker, and I know after next week I’m going to be supporting him as a candidate for president, too — uh, I mean for,” Paul Manafort said before correcting himself on CBS’ “This Morning.”

After laughing at his obvious slip-up, Manafort explained that the GOP presidential candidate does not want to take positions in many primary races right now. Donald Trump infuriated Republicans earlier this week by saying he was "not quite there yet" in endorsing Ryan, who has reluctantly endorsed Trump for president but continues to criticize his controversial comments.


http://www.latimes.com/nation/polit...gn-manager-slips-up-1470320010-htmlstory.html


Mmmmm, delicious plausible deniability!

Perpetual doubt.

Is it a lie ?

Will Trump drop out of the race ?

Is the spokesman truly gone ?

The Schrödinger's cat of a candidate.


Truman's first boast was that he was rich, and he was funding his own campaign.

His integrity is better than theirs!

He is not compromising his intergrity, like everyone else.

/end gsgs comment

Trump’s claims of self-funding have always been dubious at best and actively misleading at worst.

Trump has made self-funding a major point of his campaign, proof that unlike his rivals, he’s not beholden to anyone.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/trumps-self-funding-lie/482691/


No donor, no lobbyist, no special interests. A president for the people!

That boast has mutated quite a bit, over the months...

 

[phrodeau]

There is every indication that Trump has already dropped out of the race, but just can't say the words.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

President Obama attends to his duties, herding cats, by giving a speech at a news conference, that clearly explains what was done, and why.

It was not enough for the media and political pundits to hear the explanation and reasons from one of President Obama's spokespeople.


"...the cash was flown to Iran and paid in foreign currency because the United States does not have a banking relationship with Iran."

5:20, Boston, USA August 4, 2016

http://thehill.com/policy/international/290269-white-house-400m-iran-payment-not-ransom

gsgs comment-

Diplomacy!

 

[about_average]

I can understand the flight itself being secret. It would be kinda dumb to advertise a flight carrying that much cash.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Sounds familiar.

The Iran–Contra affair also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. They hoped thereby to secure the release of several U.S. hostages and to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Why would Trump let the truth get in the way of an attention whoring opportunity ?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/05/today_s_trump_apocalypse_watch.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ney-claim-cash-us-election-2016-a7174001.html

The truth was not the point.

He told them what they wanted to hear.

That unimportant detail, does not matter.

It did not cost him anything that mattered, to admit to the truth, this time.

Next pile from the horse barn, is ready for TV.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Why would Trump let the truth get in the way of an attention whoring opportunity ?

The truth was not the point.

He told them what they wanted to hear.

That unimportant detail, does not matter.

Good thing Clinton would NEEEEEEEEEEEEVER do anything like that.

LOL

 

[LadyVer]

Thought the thread was about Sid Miller.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-casino-women-executives

No, Mr. HWMNBN does not employ a "tremendous" amount of women.

 

[sr71plt]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-casino-women-executives

No, Mr. HWMNBN does not employ a "tremendous" amount of women.

Certainly not a lot with any brains, if his media spokesbimbos are representative.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

At the Federalist, Mollie Hemingway called Machado “2016’s Sandra Fluke, A Democratic Public Relations Scam.” Fluke, the Georgetown student and birth control advocate whose 2012 Congressional non-testimony became a cause célèbre (and got Fluke called a slut by Rush Limbaugh and a bunch of other assholes), may have posed as “a fresh-faced little law student,” said Hemingway, but in reality she was the hardened queenpin of a propaganda campaign “pre-packaged by the country’s most Democrat-aligned public relations firm” and transmitted by a corrupt media (“CNN had 146 pieces dealing with Fluke,” Hemingway gasped) to give the otherwise unbelievable impression that “an innocent, random young woman” had been “victimized by mean old Republican men.”

Now, said Hemingway, it was all happening again! In Machado’s case, the liberal conspiracy was “cutting out the public relations firm middle men” — a tricksy variation! — but though they want you to believe their coverage is inspired by a Presidential candidate’s bizarre and offensive midnight ravings, it’s really about media “coordination.” Also, Hemingway went on, Machado really had gained a bunch of weight — to prove it she quoted a catty story from 1997 on CNN, which apparently wasn’t corrupt back then. “Media outlets could have noted that they themselves were calling Machado a fatty-boombaladdy at the exact same time Trump made his remarks,” said Hemingway, but they won't because they’re “playing cabana boy to the Clinton campaign.” (A quick search of “fatty-boombaladdy” shows no other citations, but I don’t have LexisNexis.)

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/tr...n-hill-nothing-rightbloggers-cant-fix-9178121

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Congress passed this week in their first-ever congressional override of a presidential veto by Barack Obama.

That seems to have been the singular selling-point for Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader. Having ignored multiple warnings from the Obama administration that the legislation would open a Pandora's box of litigation against the United States, now they are both trying to blame Obama for not saying it forcefully enough.


http://crooksandliars.com:8080/2016/09/mitch-mcconnell-paul-ryan-forget-how-run


Displaying lack of interest as well as lack of spine, altogether too many Democrats joined in the near-unanimous override. Tellingly, the only nay vote in the Senate was outgoing Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

Given this much dysfunction, it's understandable that Barack Obama would circumvent Congress wherever necessary, such as in prosecuting the war on the Islamic State without so much as a congressional hearing. Ryan and McConnell have declined to consider any new war powers legislation until they have a president of their own party. But it is also terrifying to realize just how wide this gulf of responsibility has gotten in such abdication, and how fundamentally unserious this do-nothing Congress has gotten to be.

 

[snugglestruggle]

I bet there are a few "herbal growers" that would love to get a sample of what you've been smoking lol.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

More voters decide to support Hillary, and the higher her plinth rises.
She is elevated to see all who have taken to her side.

Donald Trump is always looking up at Hillary.
There, above him, is a pussy that he cannot grab.

His pile of compost has elevated him.
The farmer had an unexpected load this week.
Biggest load, so far.
Trump is sinking.
Muck's not solid.

Take a look at nymag.com

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

500 loads for the farmer to haul away to Trump's hill, the compost heap.


The Toronto Sun has the list.

Seems as though, everyone that gets into bed with Trump has reason to regret it.

"...cutting himself off from Trump will cost him more than any good that will come out of it — in terms of his bottom line of course: “We have contractual obligations to the Trump Organization, banks, purchasers, consultants, trades and business partners. These legally-binding contracts cannot be altered.”

Well, more likely they can be altered, but it may mean Trump would sue him to Kingdom come, a journey that Joo Kim is not prepared to take at this time.


http://www.vancourier.com/opinion/joo-kim-tiah-take-down-that-trump-sign-1.2134320

Other people's money

Investors are suing the project's developers, saying they were misled about its finances, and have lost millions because of promises made that have never come to pass. Talon disputes those allegations and is fighting them in court.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/trump-tower-toronto-1.3834368

Blackballed in Canada

Sane Washington DC does not want to associate itself with Trump
Sane Canada is refusing to accept Trump.

The entire piece at Politico is worth a read, for the assorted foolishness one usually associates with Trump and ventures which carry his name: the mysterious Russian bilionaire/financier, unpaid contractors, deposits on condos never returned, numerous lawsuits, and on and on it goes.



http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/trump-tower-toronto-goes-bust



2015, Trump and Talon were suing each other, with the Trump team alleging a Talon scheme to take over the management, Talon alleging a Trump scheme to devalue the property in order to buy it at a discount, and both sides accusing each other of shoddy financial record-keeping.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/trump-tower-goes-bust-canada-214412


The project's partners, investors, and lenders all got a Trump Experience, one that isn't available from the concierge.


Do you think the Secret Service helped Trump stage a fake attack on Trump ?
Someone shouts "gun."
No gun found.

Former New York mayor and Donald Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani is now denying he was leaked information regarding the FBI’s new interest in Hillary Clinton’s emails by “active” agents.

"Damn right, I did!"


inartfully

(How to say misspoke ?)

phrase it, in a way that might damage someone you dislike ?

Oh! Say it is not so!




FVX Tv walks it back. FVX TV said they had two people that said it, and we should believe them.

Indictment Indictment indictment indictment uh no wait no indictment


Giuliani swore up and down this morning, “I’m real careful not to talk to any on-duty, active FBI agents. I don’t want to put them in a compromising position.” Last week, however, Giuliani said, “The other rumor that I get is that there’s a kind of revolution going on inside the FBI…. I know that from former agents. I know that even from a few active agents.”

So, which is it? Does Giuliani get leaks from active FBI agents or doesn’t he?


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...ani-admits-he-received-inside-scoop-fbi#break


That nice Mr. Reagan


1947, Ronnie and Walt Disney testified that the movie industry was under threat from communism. By then Reagan was President of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and he used his position’s considerable clout to advise the FBI of the pressing need for the government to take a ‘definite stand’, if it expected the motion picture people to ‘conduct any type of cleaning of their own house’. This ‘sanction’ granted by the SAG President gave the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) added impetus to go after suspected communists and left-wingers in Hollywood.

At around this time, as President of SAG, he and the equally unscrupulous (and equally greedy) vice president of the guild, (another second-rate actor at the wrong end of his movie career named Walter Pidgeon), managed to get a blanket waiver approved by the SAG committee that all but handed control of the industry to MCA and its head Lew Wasserman. And Ronnie’s reward? His own TV program General Electric Theater. He left SAG soon afterwards, but he would return at Wasserman’s behest seven years later and betray his fellow actors a second time.


http://filmstarfacts.com/2015/03/24/ronald-reagan-1911-2004/

 

[underguy1]

Today's effort to run interference for Donald Trump comes from the likes of Rep. Mike Pompeo and the Wall Street Journal, who have ginned up a bogus story about a "secret payment" of $400 million to Iran, delivered in cash in return for the people being held hostage in Iran.

Whereas Hillary has threatened to level Iran with nukes and has constantly lied about a non-existent nuclear weapons programme in service of her Israeli funders.

 

[Hypoxia]

Tromp Whoopee Cushion

https://trumpcushion.com/assets/img/trump-spin--med.gif