Thread: President Donald Trump

Some pundits are expecting a landslide in Biden's favour.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

^^^^
Trump is in desperate need to will this election, and he will do anything. Without the protection of DOJ,Senate , and other appointees. He will be thrown to the dogs. Amd trust me, there is a lot to chew on. The moment he is out of power watch boot lickers like Graham, turn on him. Trump knows it and is panicking.

Nope, no jail time or charges, they just want him out, and then they'll growl at him for a while as they settle down to the real business, like burying people and issues that need burying, slaughtering the frackers, raising taxes, packing scotus, dismantling the electoral college and maybe even creating 2 new states to effectively pwn the Senate, agenda being to turn the US into a one-party nation; and then who knows, they might find time for some looting.

Just a wild guess, from a cynic.

Originally Posted by jabir

Nope, no jail time or charges, they just want him out, and then they'll growl at him for a while as they settle down to the real business, like burying people and issues that need burying, slaughtering the frackers, raising taxes, packing scotus, dismantling the electoral college and maybe even creating 2 new states to effectively pwn the Senate, agenda being to turn the US into a one-party nation; and then who knows, they might find time for some looting.

Just a wild guess, from a cynic.

You should apply for the snake oil salesman’s speech writer’s job.

You heard it here first:

The Taliban have endorsed baldy orange cunto!



Taliban endorse Donald Trump in US presidential race: report | News | DW | 11.10.2020

A disgruntled Republican

Mark Cuban on Trump.

From an actual billionaire Mark Cuban on 45 "losing" a billion dollars:
“That’s crazy! First of all, when you look at that tax return, it shows he didn’t have a billion dollars in cash. You can work backwards from the amount of tax and interest that he earned,” said Cuban. “That means if he didn’t have it, he didn’t have it to lose—so he had to borrow it. So not only did he lose it, he lost someone else’s money. How the fuck do you do that!”
“[Trump] actually took the loans that he got from somebody else for we don’t know what, sold those loans—because he had personal guarantees—sold them to the shareholders of those casinos, so not only did he fuck the people that he borrowed $915 [million] or a billion dollars from, he then fucked the casino shareholders who are little guys who are just trying to own a stock and make some money. So he got double the fun...”
“He’s horrible. Here’s how you know, right: has there been anyone who’s come forth and said, ‘Donald Trump was a great mentor to me, I learned so much and it helped me build my business?’ Has there been anybody who’s come forward and said, ‘You know what, I invested in Donald’s business and I made so much money?’ Has there been anybody who came forward and said, ‘Donald Trump invested in my business and he helped me make [money]?’ No! All you see is, ‘He took this,’ ‘he stiffed me,’ ‘he sucks.’ He’s horrible at everything! He hasn’t been successful at anything!”

Originally Posted by panama hat

I read that as well . . . had a bit of a chuckle.

To even this out, Trump will have to accuse Hunter Biden of working for the Bin Ladens.

What theatre this is

Originally Posted by helge

To even this out, Trump will have to accuse Hunter Biden of working for the Bin Ladens.

What theatre this is

Lots of people work for the Bin Ladins. They are a massive company.

The Taliban have denied endorsing baldy orange cunto.

It says something when a bunch of murderous, bloodthirsty, psychopathic terrorists believes supporting you will tarnish their reputation.

The White nats, Trumps base and wanna-be tough guys, are nothing but cowards living out their Rambo fantasies amongst civilians. They need to be shipped off to Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria where they can return in body bags.




Here is their leader, Christopher Cantwell, crying for help.

A crooked one.

IT WAS SPRINGTIME at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, and the favor-seekers were swarming.


In a gold-adorned ballroom filled with Republican donors, an Indian-born industrialist from Illinois pressed Mr. Trump to tweet about easing immigration rules for highly skilled workers and their children.


“He gave a million dollars,” the president told his guests approvingly, according to a recording of the April 2018 event.


Later that month, in the club’s dining room, the president wandered over to one of its newer members, an Australian cardboard magnate who had brought along a reporter to flaunt his access. Mr. Trump thanked him for taking out a newspaper ad hailing his role in the construction of an Ohio paper mill and box factory, whose grand opening the president would attend.


And in early March, a Tennessee real estate developer who had donated lavishly to the inauguration, and wanted billions in loans from the new administration, met the president at the club and asked him for help.


Mr. Trump waved over his personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen. “Get it done,” the president said, describing the developer as “a very important guy,” Mr. Cohen recalled in an interview.


Campaigning for president as a Washington outsider, Mr. Trump electrified rallies with his vows to “drain the swamp.”

But Mr. Trump did not merely fail to end Washington’s insider culture of lobbying and favor-seeking.

He reinvented it, turning his own hotels and resorts into the Beltway’s new back rooms, where public and private business mix and special interests reign.

Read on here...

Trump’s Swamp: Taxes Trace Payments to Properties by Those Who Got Ahead - The New York Times

A very good look at just how fetid the swamp is and how crooked Trump is.
Lock him up

President Donald Trump’s order to his secretary of state to declassify thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails, along with his insistence that his attorney general issue indictments against Barack Obama and Joe Biden, takes his presidency into new territory — until now, occupied by leaders with names like Putin, Xi and Erdogan.


Trump has long demanded — quite publicly, often on Twitter — that his most senior cabinet members use the power of their office to pursue political enemies. But his appeals this week, as he trailed badly in the polls and was desperate to turn the national conversation away from the coronavirus, were so blatant that one had to look to authoritarian nations to make comparisons.


He took a step even Richard Nixon avoided in his most desperate days: openly ordering direct immediate government action against specific opponents, timed to serve his reelection campaign.


“There is essentially no precedent,” said Jack Goldsmith, who led the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush and has written extensively on presidential powers. “We have a norm that developed after Watergate that presidents don’t talk about ongoing investigations, much less interfere with them.”

“It is crazy and it is unprecedented,” said Goldsmith, now a professor at Harvard Law School, “but it’s no different from what he has been saying since the beginning of his presidency. The only thing new is that he has moved from talking about it to seeming to order it.”


Trump’s vision of the presidency has always leaned to exercising the absolute powers of the chief executive, a writ-large version of the family business he presided over. “I have an Article II,” he told young adults last year at a Turning Point USA summit, referring to the section of the Constitution that deals with the president’s powers, “where I have the right to do whatever I want as president, but I don’t even talk about that.”


Now he is talking about it, almost daily. He is making it clear that prosecutions, like vaccines for the coronavirus, are useless to him if they come after Nov. 3. He has declared, without evidence, that there is already plenty of proof that Obama, Biden and Clinton, among others, were fueling the charges that his campaign had links to Russia — what he calls “the Russia hoax.” And he has pressured his secretary of state to agree to release more of Clinton’s emails before the election, reprising a yearslong fixation despite having defeated her four years ago.


Presidential historians say there is no case in modern times where the president has so plainly used his powers to take political opponents off the field — or has been so eager to replicate the behavior of strongmen. “In America, our presidents have generally avoided strongman balcony scenes — that’s for other countries with authoritarian systems,” Michael Beschloss, the presidential historian, wrote on Twitter after Trump returned from the hospital where he received COVID-19 treatment and removed his mask, while still considered contagious, as he saluted from the White House balcony.


Long ago, White House officials learned how to avoid questions about whether the president views his powers as fundamentally more constrained than those of the authoritarians he so often casts in admiring terms, including Vladimir Putin of Russia, Xi Jinping of China and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. They have something in common: Trump’s State Department has criticized all three for corrupting the justice systems in their countries to pursue political enemies.


Pompeo has always bristled when reporters have asked him to explain what the world should believe when it reads Trump’s most authoritarian-sounding tweets. He answers that what distinguishes the United States is that it is a “rule of law” nation, and then often turns the tables on his questioners, charging that even raising the issue reveals that the reporters are partisans, not journalists, intent on embarrassing Trump and the United States.


But his anger is often wielded as a shield, one that keeps him from publicly grappling with the underlying question: How can Washington take on other authoritarians around the world — especially China, Pompeo’s nemesis — for abusing state power when the president of the United States calls for political prosecutions and politically motivated declassifications?


“We’ve never seen anything like this in an American election campaign,” said R. Nicholas Burns, a former undersecretary of state who is now an informal adviser to Biden. “It reduces our credibility — we look like the countries we condemn for nondemocratic practices before an election.”


“I have worked for nine secretaries of state,” Burns said. “I cannot imagine any of them intervening in an election as blatantly as what we are seeing now. Our tradition is that secretaries of state stay out of elections. If they wanted to release Hillary Clinton’s emails, they could have done it in 2017, 2018 or 2019. It is an abuse of power by Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo.”


Another career diplomat who served as both ambassador to Russia and deputy secretary of state, William J. Burns, said that what Trump had ordered is “exactly the kind of behavior I saw so often in authoritarian regimes in many years as an American diplomat.”


“In dealing with Putin’s Russia or Erdogan’s Turkey, we would have protested and condemned such actions,” he said. “Now it’s our own government that’s engaging in them.


“The result,” said Burns, now the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “is the hollowing out of our institutions at home and deep corrosion of our image and influence abroad.”


In the current cases, it is unclear whether Trump will get his wish — or whether his loyal appointees will slow-walk his requests. There is some evidence they are already looking for escape hatches.


Pompeo, the administration’s most conspicuous ideologue, Trump’s most vocal loyalist and a lawyer, was clearly taken aback when the president expressed displeasure, saying he was “not happy” that the State Department had not released emails sent through Clinton’s home server.


“You’re running the State Department, you get them out,” the president told Fox Business in an interview this week. “Forget about the fact that they were classified. Let’s go. Maybe Mike Pompeo finally finds them.”


Pompeo, one of his aides said Saturday, was in a box: The complaint about Clinton’s home server was that she was risking exposing classified emails by not using the State Department email system — a system Russia had already infiltrated — yet Trump was demanding that they be released in full. Just days before, he had announced, over Twitter, that he was using his executive power to declassify all of them, without redactions.


“We’ve got the emails,” Pompeo responded on Fox News. “We’re getting them out. We’re going to get all this information out so the American people can see it.”


But he also hinted that many of Clinton’s emails, mostly those that were stored on the State Department’s own system, have already been posted on the agency’s website, after an unusually diligent effort by the department to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests from Trump’s supporters. (They are often heavily redacted — to the point of containing no content — despite the president’s order to the contrary.)


“We’re doing it as fast as we can,” Pompeo told Dana Perino, a Fox News anchor who once served as President Bush’s press secretary. “I certainly think there’ll be more to see before the election.”


Pompeo clearly understands the problem: Even if he makes all of them public, they are unlikely to satisfy the president. Last year, the State Department’s own inspector general found that while Clinton had risked compromising classified information, she did not systematically or deliberately mishandle her emails.


William Barr may face an even greater challenge in satisfying the president. No attorney general since John Mitchell, who served Nixon and brought conspiracy charges against critics of the Vietnam War, bent the Justice Department more in a president’s direction. And Nixon himself, while urging the IRS to audit political opponents, stopped short of publicly calling for individual prosecutions. Yet in February, Barr told ABC News that Trump “has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case.” At the same time, he complained that the president’s tweets about the Justice Department “make it impossible for me to do my job.”


Now, clearly, the president has asked Barr to act in a criminal case — and not in a quiet phone call. Instead, he did it on Twitter and Fox News, expressing his deep disappointment with his second attorney general, for essentially the same reason he fired his first one, Jeff Sessions: insufficient blind loyalty.


His complaint appears to have been driven by Barr’s warning to the White House and other officials that there are likely to be no indictments before the election from the investigation being run by John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut. Durham is searching for evidence that the inquiry into Russia was a politically motivated effort to undercut his presidency.


Trump says the case is clear-cut. He told Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host to whom he gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the last State of the Union address, that Durham has had “plenty of time to do it.”


“Unless Bill Barr indicts these people for crimes — the greatest political crime in the history of our country — then we’ll get little satisfaction, unless I win,” Trump said on Fox Business.


“If we don’t win,” he said, “that whole thing is going to be dismissed.”


This article originally appeared in The New York Times.






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There's something wrong with the system that allows him to do this.

Taking Page From Authoritarians, Trump Turns Power of State Against Political Rivals

declassify thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails

Originally Posted by Cujo

There's something wrong with the system that allows him to do this.

Something wrong? Not to investigate a wrongdoing? When the matter has been illegal, with the aim to harm his election, suppressed by the state, connected with a criminal activity?

Paradoxically, for the same pretext (to harm his opponent's election) the POTUS was tried to be impeached. Anyway, slowly it's coming to air, the Ukraine's investigation recently confirmed the Burisma illegal payments...

That level of "pay for play" is unreal. Thanks for posting. My level of pissedoffness has been way too low.

Originally Posted by Cujo

A crooked one.



Read on here...

Trump’s Swamp: Taxes Trace Payments to Properties by Those Who Got Ahead - The New York Times

A very good look at just how fetid the swamp is and how crooked Trump is.
Lock him up

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Something wrong? Not to investigate a wrongdoing? When the matter has been illegal, with the aim to harm his election, suppressed by the state, connected with a criminal activity?

Paradoxically, for the same pretext (to harm his opponent's election) the POTUS was tried to be impeached. Anyway, slowly it's coming to air, the Ukraine's investigation recently confirmed the Burisma illegal payments...

You seem desperate for the snake oil salesman to fall over the line dykey .

Do you have an agenda ?

Originally Posted by peaches

Do you have an agenda ?

Destroy the loathsome America!

Originally Posted by peaches

Do you have an agenda ?

russia's IRA has him on a quota of disinformation posts/day.

Originally Posted by peaches

Do you have an agenda ?

Just calling the things by their right names, so simple. Do you like double standard and hypocrisy?

Originally Posted by misskit

Destroy the loathsome America!

Destroy by calling the things by their right names and commenting the lies? ? The destroying is happening by your leaders and by the ones who zealously (and stupidly) support them and let to do it.

Originally Posted by misskit

Destroy the loathsome America!

How the destruction is proceeded shows quite clearly what was here posted yesterday:

Top CIA analyst explains Israel's destructive role in US policies
https://teakdoor.com/world-news/1358...ml#post4172056 (Benjamin Netanyahu Thread)

In fact, the whole story tells more about the self-destruction (no other power is needed), how the policies are provided and how the lies influence politicians...

Originally Posted by Klondyke

... the whole story tells more about the self-destruction ...

That's exactly what we were thinking about you and your life.

Donald J Trump has soulless eyes, that’s all you really need to know about him .

I still reckon he should have been christened...........Damian.