The 98th Weak of the Lumpy Dumpling

[JackLuis]

How long until Trump is fully exposed and the extent of his treasonous behavior is made public?

Salon lists Donnie's offences to the nation and ends with:

In this story there will be no magical deus ex machina moment where the story is neatly resolved for the benefit of the hero and the audience. The unbelievable story about a billionaire conman who became president of the United States with the help of a hostile foreign country will end in what might delicately be termed a clusterf**k. No one will get out of this clean or easy. America has been stained and sullied by a scandal right out of a horrible novel or screenplay.

Will there be a sequel where all these loose ends are tied up and all is made right in the world? We shall see; I doubt it.

 

[JackLuis]

Major Trump fundraiser received laundered foreign money to influence Justice Department investigation: prosecutors

One of President Donald Trump’s top fundraisers was cited in Justice Department documents for receiving laundered foreign money to lobby the administration, The New York Times reports.

Elliot Broidy was the Finance Vice Chairman of Trump’s campaign and was named the Deputy Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee following Trump’s victory.
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Federal prosecutors claim Broidy “was paid to lobby the Trump administration to try to end an investigation related to the embezzlement of billions of dollars from a Malaysian state-owned fund” The Times explained.

OMG! Another Rethuglican blows his load!

Watch Stephen at the end of the article. Much fun to be made of "Sean Hannity"

 

[JackLuis]

Trump unlikely to trade Pence the presidency for a pardon because there’s no way to save the Trump Org

Since the start of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, parallels have been drawn between Trump’s situation and the one faced by disgraced ex-president Richard Nixon.

Nixon, it’s commonly understood, offered his resignation, sparing the country an impeachment fight, and received a pardon from his successor, President Gerald Ford.
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In a new blog post, Wheeler argues that Pence’s pardon power could spare Trump prison, but not save the thing he values the most, his company.

Presidents cannot pardon companies, such as the Trump Org.

“If there’s a conspiracy to obstruct Mueller’s investigation, I’m fairly certain the Trump Organization was one of the players in it,” she writes. “It utterly changes the calculation Nixon faced as the walls started crumbling. Nixon could (and had the historical wisdom to) trade a pardon to avoid an impeachment fight; he didn’t save his presidency, but he salvaged his natural person.”

This would not work for Trump.

“With Trump, a pardon won’t go far enough: he may well be facing the criminal indictment and possible financial ruin of his corporate person, and that would take a far different legal arrangement (such as a settlement or Deferred Prosecution Agreement) to salvage. Now throw in Trump’s narcissism, in which his own identity is inextricably linked to that of his brand. And, even beyond any difference in temperament between Nixon and Trump, there’s no telling what he’d do if his corporate self were also cornered,” she writes. “Trump might not be able to take the Nixon — resign for a pardon — deal, because that may not be enough to save his corporate personhood.”

And Pence may not pardon such a Lumpy Dumpling!

 

[JackLuis]

The silver lining of Trump’s ‘grifter’ presidency has been inspiring other elites to ‘clean house’

‘Subdued’ Trump had to ‘make concessions to reality’ and become a ‘non-factor’ at G20 summit

Economists say GM layoffs are just the start of fallout from Trumponomics: ‘This is the chickens coming home to roost’

Scott said Trump’s trade policies make no sense and that his tax cuts have been counterproductive.

“If nothing is done to address the problems created by Trump’s budget and failed trade policies, the problem is going to get worse,” he said.

Is it time for another Rethuglican Recession? Maybe Pence can take the blame for this one?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump threatens to blow up trade with Canada and Mexico by pulling out of NAFTA in fight with Democrats

Well that lasted almost as long as The Mooch!

President Trump is again threatening a pullout of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), setting up a congressional showdown with the incoming Democrat-led House of Representatives.

The move is to force acceptance of Trump’s replacement for NAFTA, the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMACA), which he signed with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto in Buenos Aires on the 30th of November.
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If Trump makes good on his threat, congress would need to pass the USMCA within six months; failure to act could lead to the cancellation of both agreements, impacting free trade between the three countries.

The move comes as leaders in congress mull over the agreement, with neither Republicans nor Democrats happy with the new agreement.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump says he’s willing to delay government shutdown until after H.W. Bush funeral

There was a fear that President Donald Trump might shut down the government because he hasn’t received the requested funding for his US-Mexico border wall. However, the death of former President George H.W. Bush might throw a wrench in his plans.

Despite telling supporters at campaign rallies that the wall has been built and prevented the Central American caravan from coming into the United States, the wall hasn’t been built. Indeed, the wall hasn’t been funded by the president’s own party members who led Congress and the Senate for the past two years.
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“If [members of Congress] come — which they have — to talk about an extension because of President Bush’s passing, I would absolutely consider it and probably give it,” Trump said.

Trump might also be waiting to shut down the government until Democrats are in charge so that he can blame it on them.

Lumpy is a snivelling DICK!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Get me out of here!’: Hot mic catches confused Trump as he wanders off stage at G-20

A confused President Donald Trump was caught by a hot mic saying, “Get me out of here” as he wandered off the stage at the G-20 on Saturday.

This CBS News video shows the American President leaving the President of Argentina unexpectedly alone.

Demented Doddard Donald needs to pee!

 

[JackLuis]

Here’s why Trump’s proposed Moscow project is even dirtier than it looks

Weirdly, it kind of makes sense that Donald Trump’s supporters on Fox News and elsewhere are brushing off last week’s revelations about the Trump Tower Moscow deal as a “nothingburger.”This article was originally published at SalonThis knee-jerk reaction makes sense because Trump loyalists clearly haven’t been following the ongoing reporting on this story, even though Rupert Murdoch’s own paper, the Wall Street Journal, has been one of many top-shelf publications covering the Trump-Russia saga in granular detail. Simply put: The Red Hats are just now catching up to speed with a story that’s been years in the making. So perhaps their nothingburger meme is just a reflection of being slow on the uptake.

Dirty Doddard Don hoisting his own petard!

 

[JackLuis]

Are You Smarter Than a Box Of Rocks?

Yale psychiatrist explains how devotion to Trump is based on emotional patterns most people grow out of by age five

Bandy X. Lee: The sense of grandiose omnipotence that he displays seems especially appealing to his emotionally-needy followers. No matter what the world says, he fights back against criticism, continues to lie in the face of truth, and above all is still president. What matters is that he is winning, not whether he is honest or law-abiding. This may seem puzzling to the rest of us, but when you are overcome with feelings of powerlessness, this type of cartoonish, exaggerated force is often more important than true ability. This is the more primitive morality, as we call it, of “might makes right,” which in normal development you grow out of by age five.

So Lumpy is sort of like Sponge Bob for morons?

 

[KeithD]

So Lumpy is sort of like Sponge Bob for morons?

Pretty much, yes.

 

[JackLuis]

‘He was irrelevant’: MSNBC panel mocks seething Donald Trump at an event that ‘wasn’t about him’

“It’s such an interesting point you make, because there has not been an example since he emerged on the political stage of him being able to see anything as not about him,” Wallace replied. “This was not about him.”

“It really wasn’t about him — and you could completely ignore him,” argued Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson. “And all he could do was sit there and the rest of the program went on.”

“I thought it was very powerful and I thought he was irrelevant,” he added.

Maybe we can make the next funeral about him?

 

[KeithD]

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Maybe we can make the next funeral about him?

With a much smaller set of mourners, I'm willing to bet.

I have a fantasy that the Donald will look at today and decide, "I want a funeral like that," and completely change his ways and attitude. As I said, a fantasy.

 

[jomar]

With a much smaller set of mourners, I'm willing to bet.

I have a fantasy that the Donald will look at today and decide, "I want a funeral like that," and completely change his ways and attitude. As I said, a fantasy.

Because he’ll want a military parade, flyovers and Putin’s blessings.

 

[KeithD]

Because he’ll want a military parade, flyovers and Putin’s blessings.

He'll be dead. No one who could is likely to give him anything like that.

 

[JackLuis]

Because he’ll want a military parade, flyovers and Putin’s blessings.

How about a tug boat from Staten Island to the continental shelf, and Chicago Boots?

 

[jomar]

How about a tug boat from Staten Island to the continental shelf, and Chicago Boots?

I'd wave bye from shore, assuming I bothered to be there.

 

[JackLuis]

Undocumented immigrant worker at Trump golf club lashes out at president’s ‘abuse’: ‘We are tired of the insults’

Undocumented immigrants who either work or have worked at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey are now going on the record to talk about their experiences working there in interviews with the New York Times.

One of the undocumented immigrants, a woman named Victorina Morales who hails from Guatemala, tells the Times that in the past she has been responsible for making President Donald Trump’s bed and cleaning his toilet.

In fact, she was even given an official certificate of appreciation by the Trump White House for her “outstanding” support in taking care of the president during one of his visits to the resort.

The Times also interviews a woman named Sandra Diaz, another undocumented immigrant who worked at Trump’s golf course from 2010 to 2013, and who tells the paper that at least two of her supervisors knew she was not in the country legally.

“There are many people without papers,” Diaz said of employees working at Trump’s golf club.

So Trump is exploiting the very people that he doesn't want in the country? Or is he attacking the undoc's to make sure his exploited are too afraid to complain?

 

[KeithD]

Trump has been using and exploiting undocumented alien workers for decades. He's special. Rules and laws don't apply to him, especially that ones he hammers away on at his rallies for his unthinking supporters.

 

[sharingfantasies]

Undocumented immigrant worker at Trump golf club lashes out at president’s ‘abuse’: ‘We are tired of the insults’



So Trump is exploiting the very people that he doesn't want in the country? Or is he attacking the undoc's to make sure his exploited are too afraid to complain?

Nice of the paper to quote first and last names along with their previous job site. Makes it so much easier for ICE.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

Dumpy Lumpling works too

 

[KeithD]

Nice of the paper to quote first and last names along with their previous job site. Makes it so much easier for ICE.

And then there's Melania Trump's case. There was going to be a press conference to explain why the status she came in under was appropriate and legal, but there never was.

 

[JackLuis]

And then there's Melania Trump's case. There was going to be a press conference to explain why the status she came in under was appropriate and legal, but there never was.

The LSM understands she is just waiting for him to die. Flogging her serves no purpose, as long as she keeps her mouth shut, until the trial.





If he goes to jail for "High Crimes" she has a good chance of a bigger payoff.

 

[KeithD]

I think of all of DonaldGrabEmbythePussy Trump's crimes as low crimes.

 

[JackLuis]

I'm hoping Cohen and the Accountant gave Muller the "Rubel Laundry"!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Very strong evidence, if not proof’: Trump’s campaign may have illegally coordinated with the NRA during the 2016 election

On top of suspicions that President Donald Trump’s campaign nefariously coordinated with the Russian government as a part of the 2016 campaign, and in addition to the sworn statement by Michael Cohen that Trump directed him to engage in criminal campaign finance violations, the Trump campaign now stands accused of another form of illegal campaigning: coordinating with the National Rifle Association.

The allegations come from Mother Jones and in a joint investigation with The Trace.

Ann Ravel, a former chair of the Federal Election Commission, reviewed the records for the outlet and agreed.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a situation where illegal coordination seems more obvious,” she said. “It is so blatant that it doesn’t even seem sloppy. Everyone involved probably just thinks there aren’t going to be any consequences.”

But, but, but they are old white Rethuglicans! consequences? What! Oh Noes!