25th Weak of the Trumpanzy!

[JackLuis]

“What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump?”

That’s the open-ended question a Quinnipiac poll asked Americans recently. The No. 1 answer: “idiot.”

Have you seen anything since then that would move the needle away from “idiot”? Or from “ignorant” (the ninth most frequent answer), or “stupid” (12th)? He doesn’t know what’s in the Senate’s health care bill. He’s not reading his intelligence briefings. He’s watching more Fox News than your cranky uncle. His behavior seems engineered to provoke responses like, “Can you believe what an idiot/ignoramus/stupid person Trump is?”

I’ll grant you those aren’t exact synonyms. As Mrs. Bustard, my honors English teacher at Union High, always said, the reason there are different words for the same thing is that they’re not the exact same thing. “Ignorant” implies a lack of knowledge that can be remedied by education, while “idiot” suggests an irremediable mental deficiency. The difference between “idiot” and “stupid” seems subtler, and involves attitude. I’d also put “moron” in that cluster, which I was surprised not to see on the list of nearly 50 words.

 

[sr71plt]

Does "buffoon" rank anywhere in the poll? You can just "be" an idiot and not show and celebrate that you are. To do it like The Donald does, you have to go the extra step of being a buffoon to do a good Trump.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

corrupt

 

[LincolnDuncan]

Reince Priebus is a sniveling, little, rat faced git

 

[JackLuis]

Outgoing ethics chief accuses Reince Priebus of making ‘explicit threat’ to silence his complaints about Trump

“I think the fairly explicit threat from Reince Priebus really is emblematic of how the interactions with the White House have been since the beginning of this administration,” Shaub explained, adding that he was not “pushed out.”

“I really always thought the ethics rules were strong enough to protect the integrity of the government’s operations,” Shaub continued. “My recent experiences have convinced me that they need strengthening. And frankly, they convinced me that that I achieved that all I could possibly achieve in this job.”

IOW, fuck a bunch of Trumpanzies!

 

[JackLuis]

Tillerson heads to Kuwait to help resolve GCC crisis

OMG! Actual Diplomacy yet. Who let the big kids in?

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip marks a new level of involvement in US efforts to help end the Gulf dispute.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties with Qatar on June 5 and imposed a land, air and sea blockade on the country.

The quartet accuse Qatar of funding "terrorism", an accusation Qatar rejects as "baseless".

On June 22, they issued a 13-point list of demands, including the shutdown of Al Jazeera, as a prerequisite to lift the sanctions.

Doha rejected the demands and the countries now consider the list "null and void".

But the Gulf state of Kuwait is still trying to mediate the dispute.

Oh Al, you've pissed off the wrong People!

 

[magicalmoments]

Sociopath.

 

[JackLuis]

‘The whole thing is nefarious’: Ex-CIA spy says Trump Jr. fell head first into a classic Russian trap

A former CIA operative appeared on CNN to dissect Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer last year who promised him valuable dirt on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — and she said it was a classic tactic by Russian intelligence services.

During a CNN panel discussion on Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, former CIA spy Lindsay Moran said that she has seen the Russian government use these kinds of tactics in the past on American citizens, who may unwittingly find themselves compromised by Russian foreign agents.

“Legality aside, this is Russian intelligence tactics at their best,” she said. “Let’s promise Trump Jr. something that he wants, lure him in, bait and switch. It doesn’t matter whether they talked about nefarious activities with him at the meeting — the whole thing is nefarious.”

‘Don Jr changed his story — period’: CNN’s Cuomo hammers Kellyanne Conway over Russia meeting

‘We have a potential for actual treason’: Ex-Watergate prosecutor says Don Jr faces serious legal jeopardy

A former Watergate prosecutor said Donald Trump Jr. may have committed a most serious offense by meeting with a Russian lawyer who offered damaging information against Hillary Clinton in exchange for lifting U.S. sanctions on human rights abusers.

Nick Akerman, who assisted the special prosecutor during Watergate, said the president’s son may have betrayed the U.S. by agreeing to meet with Kremlin-linked attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, along with his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

“There’s lots of legal implications,” Akerman said. “First of all, we have a potential for actual treason. We have Donald Trump Jr., the ‘mini-me’ to the president, who is meeting with a Russian operative, thinking that he’s going to get information on the Hillary Clinton campaign.”

 

[JackLuis]

Keith Olbermann digs up old Trump tweet that may confirm he knew Don Jr. met with Russian lawyer

Keith Olbermann began Monday with a bombshell revelation by digging up President Donald Trump’s first tweet after former campaign chair Paul Manafort and son Donald Trump Jr. met with the Russian lawyer.

According to the New York Times report, Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya had a previously undisclosed meeting at Trump Tower with campaign officials on June 9, 2016. The meeting was not disclosed despite federal requirements that they do so.

The first tweet Trump sent after the meeting between Manafort, Don Jr. and Veselnitskaya happened to also be the first time Trump mentioned former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “missing 33,000 emails.”

 

[TheWhiteBull]

Ridiculous

 

[JackLuis]

Ex-RNC head Steele: ‘Emasculated’ GOP lawmakers falling in line for Trump will cause the party to collapse

Steele singled out White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus — who followed him at the RNC — for not reining in Trump and, thus, damaging the GOP brand.

“You still have to stand for something,” Steele explained. “You still have to be about something, and for the party that always takes it on the chin when it comes to matters related to women and minorities and others, and yet we argue that’s not who we are – you seemingly embrace the ugliness of [Trump’s Access Hollywood video] – I think that’s a problem.”

Saying the 2018 mid-terms could be devastating for the Republicans, adding, “the party that I know I chaired will not exist,” Steele said Republicans need to step up with more than words and mentions of the party’s glorious past.

“The party has emasculated its authority, in my view, to speak to various groups of people about a host of issues,” Steele said. “I get sick and tired of hearing Republicans going out and citing Ronald Reagan and they clearly don’t even know the man.”

 

[JackLuis]

Don Jr. just released the full Russia emails and they contain a potential smoking gun — read them here

Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday released the entire set of emails between himself and music publicist Rob Goldstone — and they contain explicit promises of support from “Russia and its government for Mr. Trump.”

Trump Jr. took to Twitter and posted copies of the emails, which he said he was releasing for the sake of transparency.

In the first email sent from Goldstone to Trump, the music publicist explicitly told the elder Trump son that he was offering information to the Trump campaign that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

“The Crown prosecutor of Russia… offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,” Goldstone wrote. “This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

 

[JackLuis]

Mike Pence distances himself from Trump campaign as Don Jr’s emails threaten several insiders

Pence has repeatedly denied that any Trump campaign associates had met with Russians — but the president’s son revealed that he scheduled a June 9, 2016 meeting, along with Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, with a Kremlin-linked lawyer who had damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

The emails show he knew the information came from the Russian government, and that the Kremlin favored Donald Trump in the election — and Pence put some distance between himself and the chief executive.

“The vice president is working every day to advance the president’s agenda,” Pence said in a statement. “He was not aware of the meeting. He is also not focusing on stories about the campaign — especially those pertaining to the time before he joined the campaign.”

The former Indiana governor joined the campaign July 15, 2016, and he oversaw the presidential transition starting three days after the election.

"I know... Nothing!" isn't a defense, Mike.

 

[JackLuis]

This video suggests that Mike Pence is in deep, deep trouble

=back in January, Mike Pence vehemently denied that Trump campaign members had any contact with Russian officials.

“Did any adviser or anybody in the Trump campaign have any contact with the Russians who were trying to meddle in the election?” John Dickerson of “Face the Nation” asked the vice president-elect on January 15.

“Oh, of course not,” Pence responded. “And I think to suggest that is to give—to give credence—to some of these… bizarre rumors that have swirled around the candidacy and the fact that a few news organizations—not this one—actually trafficked in a memo that was produced as opposition research and associated that with intelligence efforts, I think could only be attributed to media bias.”

In the same interview, Pence also defended incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn, who he said “did not discuss [with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak] anything having to do with the United States’ decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia.”

Flynn resigned less than a month later.

 

[sr71plt]

The Trump people are just dumb and out of their depth on how to act in government. The real villains here are the Republicans in Congress (and Pence) for trying to give this all a pass.

 

[JackLuis]

‘I’m not sure this administration lasts’: Fox News guest blows the lid off Don Jr’s evidence of ‘collusion’

Jim Kessler, a co-founder of the centrist Third Way think tank, said President Donald Trump may be able to win the media battle, but he isn’t sure the administration can survive his legal challenges.

“It’s a public battle in the press that they’re doing pretty well, they don’t know how to wage a legal battle,” Kessler said. “I think we just crossed into a new zone of seriousness about these Russia allegations, and it’s gone into a DEFCON 5.”

“I also think that we just saw Donald Trump Jr. sort of abandoning Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort and going in his own direction,” Kessler said. “You’ve got three very, very vulnerable senior people now not on the same page. I think this is trouble for them and deservedly so, frankly.”

If Jr. rolls over for Muller, do Jared and Manafort take the fall?

 

[magicalmoments]

‘I’m not sure this administration lasts’: Fox News guest blows the lid off Don Jr’s evidence of ‘collusion’





If Jr. rolls over for Muller, do Jared and Manafort take the fall?

I always thought it would be one of the Trump family that would be the cause of the regimes downfall, how dumb is Don jnr?

 

[RjThoughts]

If someone offers to take Don Jr fishing, he best not go!!

 

[LincolnDuncan]

If someone offers to take Don Jr fishing, he best not go!!

I don't know if it's true but it was reported on TV that he is known as Fredo in the White House.

 

[RjThoughts]

I don't know if it's true but it was reported on TV that he is known as Fredo in the White House.

So that makes Ivanka Michael?
Eric Sonny?
Tiffany Tom Hagen?

 

[LincolnDuncan]

So that makes Ivanka Michael?
Eric Sonny?
Tiffany Tom Hagen?

I wish that they were Michael, Sonny and Tom

 

[RjThoughts]

I wish that they were Michael, Sonny and Tom

they're more like

Moe: Don Jr
Larry: Ivanka
Curly: Eric
Shep: Tiffany
Curly Joe: Jared

 

[JackLuis]

‘Sum of all fears’: White House aides consider lawyering up as ‘precaution’ as Trump Jr’s emails surface

When Donald Trump, Jr. decided to publicize the emails setting up his now-infamous meeting with a Russian lawyer to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton, the repercussions were felt strongly and swiftly in the White House.

“This is sum of all fears stuff. It’s what we’ve all been dreading,” an unnamed White House aide told The Daily Beast. That same official also claimed they are considering hiring an attorney for “purely precautionary reasons.”

Condemnations of Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s oldest son who now controls much of the president’s real estate empire, didn’t end with his actions. According to the Beast’s report, this controversy has, for many White House sources, solidified a “vanishingly low” opinion of the president’s junior.

 

[sr71plt]

I can remember the Republican Convention coverage when even CNN was salivating over the great Trump children. Even then I was saying "Eh what?" to the TV. But then Eric had been living near to me for over a year, and I'd already gotten a pretty good look at him.

 

[JackLuis]

I can remember the Republican Convention coverage when even CNN was salivating over the great Trump children. Even then I was saying "Eh what?" to the TV. But then Eric had been living near to me for over a year, and I'd already gotten a pretty good look at him.

I read about how he got the Winery, Trump style!

Check this video;
Ann Coulter rips Republicans for not giving Trump what he wants; They ‘hate him as much as MSNBC does’

Fox News host Stuart Varney got a lecture about “Republican Obstructionism” in the US Senate when he had Ann Coulter on to talk about Trump’s lack of legislative success.

“I do think we’re getting a little Republican obstructionism with Trump as well,” complained Coulter, who authored a book titled, In Trump We Trust.

Coulter suggested the Republican Congress has culpability for Trump’s lack of success on Capitol Hill.

Yea Think?

Coulter also blamed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the Republican caucus.

“A lot of them really, really hate Trump every bit as much as MSNBC does,” Coulter claimed. “They’re slow-walking everything and they’re not helping him.”

“In the case of health care reform, they’re all action and no talk. Where are the hearings?” Coulter wondered.

Watch Ann Coulter’s disappointment with the Republican Party: