17th Weak of the Trumpanzy OMG!

[JackLuis]

The 17th Weak of the Trumpanzy starts

James Comey will testify about Trump before Senate — but only if the public can watch: sources

“Mr. Comey made no comment, but later in the day he declined a request to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday. According to a close associate of Mr. Comey, he is willing to testify, but wants it to be in public,” wrote Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear.

Mediaite.com said, “in response to Trump’s threatening ‘tapes’ tweet, someone close to Comey responded by saying he ‘hopes’ there are tapes.”

Mediaite also pointed to an interesting bit of information in the Times that said, “Allies and former employees of Mr. Trump have long said that he taped some of his own phone calls, as well as meetings in Trump Tower. During the campaign, Mr. Trump’s aides told reporters that they feared their offices were bugged and that they were careful about what they said.”

“They said he listened in on calls between club employees or, in some cases, between staff and guests,” revealed BuzzFeed last June. “None of them knew of Trump eavesdropping on guests or members talking on private calls with people who were not employees of Mar-a-Lago. They also said that Trump could eavesdrop only on calls made on the club’s landlines and not on calls made from guests’ cell phones. Each of these four sources said they personally saw the telephone console, which some referred to as a switchboard, in Trump’s bedroom.”

It takes a Tapper to catch a tapper?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump aides: President has grown ‘increasingly isolated and agitated’ since Comey firing

Following Donald Trump’s surprising firing of FBI Director James Comey, the atmosphere in the White House grew “dejected” as staffers attempted to figure out how to handle the increasingly angry president

According to CNN’s White House sources (who all spoke on conditions of anonymity), Trump has been “increasingly isolated and agitated” without any public appearances in a week.

Before traveling to the evangelical Liberty University on Saturday to deliver a commencement speech, Trump reportedly hadn’t left the White House since last Sunday. Internal sources said the president’s mood had been low due to “going a full week without hearing the applause and adulation” that he craves.

I suppose he will fuck that up too?

 

[JackLuis]

Impeach Trump for the Right Reasons

The Constitution suddenly seems to have bestirred itself and declared itself, through its many Washington spokespeople, to be in crisis.

I'm sorry, interjects the world, but what the hell took you so long?

We laid out the clear Constitutional violations of Trump's financial and business interests on the day he became president (in the real sense, not the media event months later when "He finally became president" by bombing enough people) at ImpeachDonaldTrumpNow.org.

Since the later hours of Day 1 back in January through the present instant, the clear and documented (when not openly bragged about) Constitutional offenses have been piling up.

Can you keep in perspective the hypocrisy that all of this telegraphs to the earth? Barack Obama recorded a campaign ad for a French candidate in last week's election, while Samantha Power was busy accusing Vladimir Putin of trying to influence the French election. The US has openly sought to influence dozens of elections, including Yeltsin's (the Trump of Russia?), not to mention overthrowing dozens of governments -- still being pursued in Syria. How does this look? Wouldn't it look better to at least add in a few articles of impeachment for the highest of crimes even if Russia isn't involved in them?

Don't be like the DNC and forget the actual crimes just so you can piss off Putin.

 

[JackLuis]

Search for a new FBI Director?

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OMFG!

Ray Kelly, former commissioner of the New York City Police Department
J. Michael Luttig, the general counsel for Boeing Corp
Larry Thompson, deputy attorney general under Bush
Paul Abbate, a senior official at the FBI responsible for the bureau’s criminal and cyber branch
Andrew McCabe, FBI’s acting director
Michael Garcia, former New York prosecutor
John Suthers, former U.S. attorney and Colorado attorney general
Adam Lee, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Richmond office, Virginia
Henry E. Hudon, a federal judge in Richmond
Frances Townsend, former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to Bush

Thank God Rudy isn't on that list!

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Or John Cornyn, evil GOP senator

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OMFG!



Thank God Rudy isn't on that list!

 

[JackLuis]

‘I call turbo bullsh*t on that’: John Oliver blasts Trump’s account of Comey conversations

Somehow President Donald Trump has managed to be both a terrible and brilliant liar, according to comedian John Oliver on Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight.”

When the new president fired FBI director James Comey he tried to claim that it had nothing to do with the Russia investigation but with the botched investigation of Hillary Clinton. It was the suspicious way that Trump managed to put words in Comey’s mouth as he shoved him out the door that Oliver took issue with.

But it all came to an end when Trump managed to undo two days of insane damage control by his communications team in just a few sentences to Lester Holt during an NBC News interview.

“Think about what happened there,” Oliver said after showing a clip of the interview. “Trump is so desperate to seem dominant he will rush to take credit for anything no matter how bad it is.”

Then Trump admitted that he did, in fact, fire Comey for the Russia investigation.

“What are you doing?” Oliver wondered. “‘I was thinking of the Russia investigation when I fired Comey’ is the one thing that you are not supposed to say out loud. It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to ask three questions. One, can he really be this stupid? Two, does he really think that we as a country are this stupid? Three, are we as a country really this stupid?”

As for Trump claiming Comey told him that he was not under investigation, Oliver absolutely did not believe it.

“I call bullsh*t. I call turbo bullsh*t on that. There is no way those conversations went down in that manner,” Oliver said.

Turbo Bullshit?

 

[phrodeau]

Trump leaves for foreign shores this week.

While he's away, let's get that travel ban approved.

 

[phrodeau]

Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, tweeted a photo of his daughter in lingerie. That's all you need to know.

 

[lovecraft68]

Going by Trump's 'standards' the Boeing exec with no experience in the FBI is a lock.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Far worse than what has already been reported’: Trump’s Russian disclosures so serious Senate had to be alerted

After the Washington Post released a bombshell report claiming that President Donald Trump divulged ‘highly classified’ information to Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting last week, Buzzfeed News confirmed the reports — and added that the disclosures were so serious that they required a Senate Intelligence Committee briefing.

According to one anonymous source who spoke with Buzzfeed, the disclosures were “far worse than what has already been reported”.

Buzzfeed confirmed that there was at very least a Senate Intelligence Committee briefing, though it appears that other officials were briefed as well.

Following the meeting, White House staffers allegedly “moved quickly to contain the fallout” of the information Trump revealed to Russia’s US ambassador Sergei Kislyak and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, which included classified informational about ISIS that not even American allies were privy to.

What a dick head Dumb Fuck we have for a Prezident.

 

[JackLuis]

Morning Joe says FBI close to exposing the president: ‘It’s a criminal issue — and Trump knows that’

John Heilemann, the co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and an MSNBC political analyst, agreed that Comey’s firing was not an irrational action or a political miscalculation, but rather an effort to stop or slow the FBI investigation into his ties to Russia.

“The reason he did this is not because he’s out of his mind,” Heilmann said. “He did this is because, as you said Joe, I think he recognizes — he looked over at the FBI and said, this guy James Comey came to the White House, I asked him, if we believe this story, asked him for his loyalty, he wouldn’t give me his loyalty. He’s been investigating since last July, he’s now taking daily briefings on this matter, rather than weekly, he’s now asking for more prosecutors. Donald Trump knows what’s at the heart of this. I don’t know what that is, but he does, and he’s saying this guy knows, too.”

Scarborough said he’s heard from FBI sources that the investigation had gathered steam in recent weeks, and he said Comey was fired in response to that development.

“They have already found the string and they are pulling on it, based on my contacts inside the FBI and they are starting to tug on that string, and they are going to keep tugging, keeping going, and it’s accelerated because of the way he fired Comey, and he knows it,” Scarborough said.

Oppose, Impeach, Convict!​

 

[JackLuis]

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Ghost of Presidents past!​

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Whats up for Monday, Jack?

What nuthinburger you cookin for us?

 

[sr71plt]

Is that like the nothingposts you provide?

 

[Carnal_Flower]

What is it with Trump voters (that would be all the idiot Dumb Fucks who put this asshole in office) showing up here as if they have no responsibility?

At least JBJ sticks by his retardness.

 

[JackLuis]

More Americans want Trump impeached than don’t

On the heels of allegations that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian officials, more Americans think he should be impeached than think he shouldn't. Forty-eight percent of respondents said they would support Trump getting impeached, while 41 percent said they would oppose it, according to a survey released Tuesday by Public Policy Polling.

Trump’s approval rating also dropped yet again, to 38 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. It’s the lowest approval rating for the president since April, though his all-time low came in March when his approval dropped to 35 percent.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

What is it with Trump voters (that would be all the idiot Dumb Fucks who put this asshole in office) showing up here as if they have no responsibility?

At least JBJ sticks by his retardness.

I'm a political realist.

Hillary lost and all the money for Democrats went bye bye. Politics is all about distribution of money. TRUMP is an asshole wont get Democrats elected. Toothless white trash racists like me wanna see the money.

 

[JackLuis]

‘When will this sh*t stop?’: GOP operatives worry that Trump will drag the whole party down with him

Republicans in Congress may finally be reaching their limit with President Donald Trump, according to a feature in the Washington Examiner on Wednesday, as they begin to see him as a potential drag on the party’s electoral prospects in 2018.

As chaos has taken hold at the White House and even Trump’s closest advisers admit that the president is in deep trouble, Republicans who were content to let Trump’s antics slide in the past are beginning to grow wary and concerned.

“You have this White House that is lurching from crisis to crisis, the image is of disarray — they can’t get their hands around the basic day-to-day agenda, and define the progress they have made,” said Republican pollster David Winston to the Examiner. “One of the things that the president has is the bully pulpit; the bully pulpit lets you drive the agenda and these crises haven’t let the White House effectively get there.”

“I’d be a fool if I said it wasn’t causing us at least a little heartburn,” they said. “I mean, seriously, when is this shit going to stop?”

Lobbyists report that complaints from donors are piling up as the wealthy elite who set the GOP’s agenda and financially grease the wheels of the party machine are getting restive and disenchanted.

“People are feeling — it’s disgust, it’s shame, it’s you name it, all of the above,” one lobbyist said. Donors reportedly keep asking, “When is this going to end? How can we recover? These are clowns.”

The GOP's believed Donny boy was sane. They were/are wrong!

 

[Carnal_Flower]

When will you see money, lol?

You better settle for the racism, it's all you'll get from the R Party.

I'm a political realist.

Hillary lost and all the money for Democrats went bye bye. Politics is all about distribution of money. TRUMP is an asshole wont get Democrats elected. Toothless white trash racists like me wanna see the money.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Supposedly Trump is up to spending 25% of his presidency on the golf course. Of course of course.

 

[JackLuis]

And now the bad news!

Don’t count on the precedent of Watergate to help depose Trump

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“Our Constitution works.” So declared newly installed President Gerald Ford in 1974 after Richard Nixon’s resignation. “Our great republic is a government of laws and not of men.”

Oh glory be! All’s well that ends well. That has been the conventional wisdom ever since. Nixon was checked by checks and balanced by balances. The republic was saved, proving, in the words not only of Ford but of just about everyone, that the system does indeed work.

Except for one thing: It didn’t. In fact, the real lesson of Watergate is not that the Constitution worked. It is that it failed spectacularly. Contrary to the myth, Nixon’s resignation was anything but the inevitable consequence of a powerful constitutional juggernaut.

Apparently, integrity isn’t what it used to be. And remember that the hopelessly compromised Rosenstein, who has already said he sees no need for a special prosecutor, would be charged with appointing one. And as for a new FBI chief to head the investigation? Well, of course, Trump will appoint him or her. And finally there is this: unlike Nixon, Trump ain’t leaving unless he is booted out.

So don’t count on some moderate Republican or some high-minded career prosecutor or some unimpeachable judge or some FBI leader or some administration whistle-blower or the Supreme Court or the Constitution or even Rube Goldberg to save us from Trump. We got lucky once — very, very lucky. We aren’t likely to be that lucky again.

In other words, we are fucked, again, also, too.

 

[sr71plt]

What has me laughing is the TV pundits saying it will come down to who to believe, Trump or Comey.

Well, no. Comey did screw up in testimony to Congress recently and voluntarily sent a correction. We had months and months of blatant, unapologetic lying by Trump in live coverage of directly him speaking and tweeting. The only ones who say it's a tossup on who to believe are just purposeful shills of The Donald and despicable in their own life. He's made quite clear that he's a congenital liar.

 

[JackLuis]

Justice Department appoints special counsel to oversee Russia investigation​

So fast, it took ~2 years for Watergate to bloom!

The Justice Department on Wednesday named a special prosecutor to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives, CNN reports.

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller will head the investigation, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced Wednesday. Rosenstein took over the Russia probe after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself following intense scrutiny over his ties to the campaign.

In a letter obtained by CNN, the Justice Department authorized Mueller “to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters.”

 

[JackLuis]

Ex-ARMY officer who worked with McMaster: ‘He’s not telling the whole truth’

A prominent retired Lieutenant Colonel who has known US National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster for decades, explained to NPR that McMaster isn’t being honest with the American people.

Retired Army Lt. Col. John Nagl spoke with NPR’s Rachel Martin about how and why McMaster has been “parsing his words” so carefully.

“I think he is not answering the question that he was asked,” Nagl suggested. “And I think that he is doing so knowing absolutely in full cognizance of the fact that he is not telling the whole truth, but he’s being very careful not to tell lies.”

Nagl suggested obfuscation is all McMaster can do given the actions of President Donald Trump.

“I obviously think he’s in an absolutely impossible position,” Nagl told NPR. “The president expects him to defend the indefensible.”

A White House staffer who worked on the Trump 2016 campaign said, “I don’t see how Trump isn’t completely f*cked.”

 

[sr71plt]

McMasters isn't in an impossible position. He was undermined by a Trump tweet. He could just walk away and say he didn't sign up for that shit. Then, if subpoened on anything, he can just tell the truth. That's a problem with these people They think the situation and Trump are going to get better. They aren't.