Thread: President Donald Trump

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

But a shift in the dominant paradigm has indeed begun.

Sadly the dominant paradigm was experience and intelligence...

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Sadly the dominant paradigm was experience and intelligence...

As opposed to experience going to war and obscuring the truth.
Trump has experience making deals and twittering it like it is. No the usual corrupt politician, me thinks.
The old guard corrupt politicians are toast.

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Trump has experience making deals and twittering it like it is. No the usual corrupt politician, me thinks.

Yep, Don is pure as driven snow....

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

As opposed to experience going to war and obscuring the truth.
Trump has experience making deals and twittering it like it is. No the usual corrupt politician, me thinks.
The old guard corrupt politicians are toast.

...

I'm guessing Earl thinks being a bald face lying cocksucker is what makes America great.

Originally Posted by CSFFan

I'm guessing Earl thinks being a bald face lying cocksucker is what makes America great.

And the "making deals" shit....


Purlease....

How many bankrupticies and shafted small businesses again?

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Yep, Don is pure as driven snow....

I doubt anyone is saying that.

Trump simply represents a shift away from status quo of entrenched political corruption.

It ain't gonna happen overnight, but it is happening.

oops double post

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

I doubt anyone is saying that.

Trump simply represents a shift away from status quo of entrenched political corruption.

It ain't gonna happen overnight, but it is happening.

I think the piss drinker actually *believes* this, you know.

He also believes that babies are born via the urethra.

He’s a mix of dim and deluded, lacks the ability to distinguish between fact and opinion and critically evaluate what he’s told to think: so the perfect Trump supporter and Fox demographic.

Ooooh no desperation there then.

Lawyers for US President Donald Trump are seeking $20 million (£14m) in damages from a porn actress he says broke a non-disclosure deal signed before the 2016 elections.

They argue Stormy Daniels breached the agreement at least 20 times.

The actress claims she had an affair with Mr Trump that began in 2006 and lasted several months.

The president's lawyer, Michael Cohen, has said he paid her $130,000 of his own money to remain silent.

This is the first time President Trump has become directly involved in the case. He "vehemently denies" the alleged affair.

The lawyer acting for Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, this month filed a lawsuit aiming to scrap the non-disclosure agreement.

Michael Avenatti said the filing by the law firm representing the president were "unprecedented" and "yet another bullying tactic" against her.

The filing also sought a change of venue from state to federal court.

Ms Clifford says the 2016 agreement is invalid as Mr Trump did not sign it.

She first made claims of a sexual relationship with Mr Trump in a 2011 interview with InTouch magazine.
The story came back into the public eye earlier this year when reports emerged she was paid not to discuss the alleged affair in the run-up to the 2016 election.

Mr Avenatti alleged on Friday that the porn actress had been physically threatened, but did not give further details.
Ms Clifford has recorded an interview with the CBS network's 60 Minutes programme to air later this month about her fight to void the agreement.

A CrowdJustice campaign to raise funds for her legal fees has already raised almost $200,000.

Mr Trump has also obtained a restraining order against the adult film actress to try to prevent her sharing "confidential information" about their alleged relationship.

Trump lawyers seek $20m in damages from porn star Stormy Daniels - BBC News

Or it could be simple bullying....it's not like trump hasn't done the same thing in the past, repeatedly.

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Or it could be simple bullying....it's not like trump hasn't done the same thing in the past, repeatedly.

But the tweet...

^ that's classic ....

MAGA.

Originally Posted by uncle junior

MAGA.

muh:GAH or MAG:uh?

I was hoping to watch the Stormy Daniels interview by Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes tomorrow. They won't air it until next weekend. Boo. Hiss.

In the meanwhile, Trump has ordered FBI Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe fired yesterday after convincing himself McCabe was some kind of Clinton plant. McCabe was just a couple of days from retirement and the vindictive Cheeto in Chief ruins his pension.



Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is fired -- and fires back

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe late Friday, less than two days shy of his retirement, ending the career of an official who had risen to serve as second-in-command at the bureau.



McCabe had more recently been regularly taunted by President Donald Trump and besieged by accusations that he had misled internal investigators at the Justice Department.
In a blistering statement Friday night, McCabe said his firing is part of a larger effort to discredit the FBI and the special counsel's investigation.


"This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally," McCabe said. "It is part of this Administration's ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel's work."


Shortly after midnight, Trump tweeted.


"Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy," Trump said. "Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!"

McCabe had been expected to retire this Sunday, on his 50th birthday, when he would have become eligible to receive early retirement benefits.
But Friday's termination could place a portion of his anticipated pension, earned after more than two decades of service, in significant jeopardy.

The origin of his dramatic fall stems from an internal review conducted by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. That report -- the details of which have not been publicly released -- is said to conclude that McCabe misled investigators about his role in directing other officials at the FBI to speak to The Wall Street Journal about his involvement in a public corruption investigation into the Clinton Foundation, according to a source briefed on it.


CNN reported on Wednesday that the findings in Horowitz's report on McCabe were referred to the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility, staffed with career officials, who recommended McCabe's termination. McCabe, accompanied by his lawyer, tried making a last-ditch effort Thursday to avoid the firing, meeting with officials at the deputy attorney general's office at the Justice Department for several hours while Sessions was traveling, but to no avail.


"After an extensive and fair investigation and according to Department of Justice procedure, the Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) provided its report on allegations of misconduct by Andrew McCabe to the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR)," Sessions said in a statement late Friday. "The FBI's OPR then reviewed the report and underlying documents and issued a disciplinary proposal recommending the dismissal of Mr. McCabe. Both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions."

Horowitz's office is continuing to investigate how the Justice Department and FBI handled sensitive investigations leading up to the 2016 presidential election -- including the probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server -- and a more global report is expected this spring. That closely watched report, which Trump has derided as "already late," could prove devastating for former and current top officials at the Justice Department and FBI depending on the findings, as the President has sought to weave a narrative of biased "deep state" holdovers from the Obama administration determined to undermine his presidency.

McCabe alleged that the report's release was sped up "only after" his testimony suggested that he would corroborate Comey's accounts of his conversations with Trump.
"Here is the reality: I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey," McCabe said in a statement. "The OIG's focus on me and this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the Administration, driven by the President himself, to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that I worked 21 years to earn. The accelerated release of the report, and the punitive actions taken in response, make sense only when viewed through this lens."


A representative for McCabe said he learned from a press release that he had been fired by Sessions. A Justice Department spokesperson pushed back, saying, "Mr. McCabe and his attorney were informed in advance of any news media."


McCabe's representative said he received an email on his FBI account shortly before the Justice Department notified the media, but he was not regularly checking that account, since he was on leave from duties at the bureau.


While former FBI officials say a lack of candor is a death knell for an agent's career, Sessions' decision to fire McCabe presented unique political complications.

Trump often used McCabe as a political punching bag on the campaign trail given his wife's purported past ties to Clinton -- going so far as heckling Sessions over the summer for failing to fire McCabe -- despite the fact that Trump had interviewed McCabe just weeks prior about serving as FBI director after he ousted James Comey. In December, Trump made a cryptic reference to McCabe's approaching retirement, tweeting: "FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go?!!!"


The full implications of McCabe's firing on his pension remain to be seen, but he could potentially stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. Retirement benefits for federal employees are based on several variables in employment history, but McCabe's salary is not public and the FBI declined to release it to CNN.


https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/16/p...red/index.html

McCabe's full statement here https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dr...uld-read-it-3/

"This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally," McCabe said. "It is part of this Administration's ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel's work."

That’s a bit of a stretch.

It’s not like anyone close to Trump - say, his personal counsel - has come out and directly linked McCabe’s firing to Muellers investigation by saying it’s the example to follow...

...Oh!

For innocent people they sure do act guilty.

The mess gets bigger and bigger. It is frightening to me Donald Trump is in the process of firing all the adults around him. Rumors now he will next get rid of H.R. McMaster and John Kelly. For all their warts, those two are the remaining bit of sanity in the White House.

The Big Cheeto is in full meglomania mode.

^ I do love it how all the virtue signalling social just warriors keep harping away about Trump the orange cunto, while completely ignoring the enormous fact that the USA is sitting on the edge of a giganormous financial cataclysm.

As if Trump had much of anything to do with it or could ever possibly fix the unfathomable catastrophe facing the USD.

Trump is trying delay the inevitable with some desperate bandaids.
Desperate because when the USD collapses it will bring the global US petro dollar economies to their knees..

But let's be perfectly clear; this is all Trump's fault..

Didn't you get the latest Fox News 'These Are the Points We Wan't You To Regurgitate' memo?

'Social Justice Warrior' is so last week.

This just in... Trump has been lying again and Trumptards will be lapping it up. Also again...

TRUMP: "Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently added...does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!" — tweet today.

THE FACTS: Trump's suggestion that the Mueller investigation is politically biased lacks important context. Several members of Mueller's team have made political contributions to Democratic candidates, including Clinton. But Mueller, who is a longtime Republican, could not have barred them from serving on the team. Federal regulations and Justice Department policy prohibit the consideration of political affiliation in hiring and other personnel actions involving career lawyers. Mueller reports to Deputy Attorney-General Rod Rosenstein, an ex-US Attorney under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama who was named to the Justice Department post by Trump. Rosenstein serves under Attorney-General Jeff Sessions, a Trump appointee to the Cabinet.

TRUMP: "The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!" — tweet yesterday.

THE FACTS: He's incorrect to say "no crime" was found. So far, four former Trump campaign aides have been charged with financial crimes or with lying to the FBI, and three of them have pleaded guilty and agreed to assist in Mueller's investigation. Those who pleaded guilty are former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign aide Rick Gates. Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case. In all, six people — including the four Trump campaign aides — have been charged, with 13 Russians accused in a hidden but powerful social media campaign to meddle in the American election. Trump's claim that the Russia probe was based on a "fake dossier" is also inaccurate. The FBI's investigation began months before it received a dossier of anti-Trump research funded by the Democratic Party and Clinton's campaign. The FBI probe's origins were based on other evidence — not the existence of the dossier.

TRUMP: "As the House Intelligence Committee has concluded, there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump Campaign. As many are now finding out, however, there was tremendous leaking, lying and corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, Justice & State." — tweet yesterday.

THE FACTS: He's wrong. That conclusion came from Republicans on the committee; it was not a committee finding. Democrats on the committee sharply dispute the Republican conclusions and will issue their own. Whatever the findings of the committee, Mueller is leading the key investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and Russian contacts with the Trump campaign. The probe has produced a number of charges and convictions, none to date alleging criminal collusion. But Mueller continues to explore whether collusion occurred and whether Trump or others may have obstructed justice. Trump did not specify what he meant in accusing the agencies of corruption. McCabe was fired ahead of the release of an inspector general's report that's expected to conclude he was not forthcoming about matters related to the FBI investigation of Clinton's emails.

TRUMP: "The Fake News is beside themselves that McCabe was caught, called out and fired. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars was given to wife's campaign by Crooked H friend, Terry M, who was also under investigation? How many lies? How many leaks? Comey knew it all, and much more!" — tweet yesterday.

THE FACTS: Some context is missing here. This is true: McCabe's wife, Jill McCabe, ran as a Democrat for the Virginia state Senate in 2015, and the political action committee of Democratic Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe gave her campaign US$500,000 during her race. McAuliffe is a longtime associate of Hillary Clinton, branded "Crooked H" by Trump. Jill McCabe lost the race. Trump's complaint, as he spelled it out in the past, is that Clinton-linked money went to "the wife of the FBI agent who was in charge of her investigation." But that timeline is wrong. Andrew McCabe was elevated to deputy FBI director and didn't become involved in the Clinton email probe until after his wife's bid for office was over. The FBI said McCabe's promotion and supervisory position in the email investigation happened three months after the campaign. The bureau also said in a statement at the time that McCabe sought guidance from agency ethics officers and recused himself from "all FBI investigative matters involving Virginia politics" throughout his wife's campaign.

Fact check: A look at Trump's latest tweets - NZ Herald