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I fucking love this President. My 2 faves during my lifetime are Trump and Nixon. They share a lot of similarities and were besieged by the same groups of assholes. No I’m not trolling. Y’all, the lef

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This.....is magnificent. The "younger generation" is going to have to work double-time to fund YOUR Social Security, which YOUR generation of elected officials raided the fuck out of.  And which,

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Trump's library will consist of blank pieces of paper, some discarded Big Mac wrappers, and porn flicks on VHS.

I don't know where this bit about Boris Johnson and Steve Bannon goes, so I'm putting it here:
 



 

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New evidence suggesting close links between Boris Johnson and Donald Trump’s controversial former campaign manager Steve Bannon can be revealed, calling into question the former foreign secretary’s previous denials of an association with the influential far-right activist.

Video evidence obtained by the Observer shows Bannon, who helped mastermind Trump’s successful bid for the presidency but was later exiled from the White House, talking about his relationship and contacts with Johnson, and how he helped him craft the first speech after his resignation as foreign secretary, in which Johnson tore into Theresa May’s Brexit strategy.

The revelations will pile new pressure on Johnson after the Guardian reported that police had been called to the flat he shares with his partner, Carrie Symonds, in the early hours of Friday morning after neighbours heard a loud altercation involving screaming, shouting and banging.

 
 
Reports of Johnson and Bannon’s relationship were first published last summer. When asked about it at the time, Johnson said: “As for the so-called association with Steve Bannon, I’m afraid this is a lefty delusion whose spores continue to breed in the Twittersphere.”

He said he had met Bannon in his role as foreign secretary and found the accusation that he was ‘with Bannon’ to be ‘perplexing’.

The unpublished footage was shot in July last year by Alison Klayman, an American film-maker who followed Bannon over many months for a new documentary called The Brink. It sets out Bannon’s account of how the two had been in close contact particularly around the time of Johnson’s resignation from the May government.



 

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2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Trump presidential library will 100% be one of his properties 

 

With lots of gaudy gold and trinkets and whatnot.

The mouth breathers will gladly pay $109 a ticket to see a reproduction of the Resolute desk covered in gold leaf.

 

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Oh some morally bankrupt right wing university will try to give him a building. Hello Liberty University! The funny thing will be him refusing the "honor" so he can profit from the building of his library on one of his properties. 

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18 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Liberty university has a pool boy lined up to run it !

 

22 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I think those are the choices. Liberty U or a Trump property. 


"Hey Ethel ... let's go see that giant Noah's Ark replica then swing by the Trump Library at Liberty University!"

I agree that it's going to go to a Trump property. No way he passes on a chance to fleece his supporters out of a dime.

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1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

So many lies....

 

If he's referring to the Interstate system as highways built during Eisenhower's time....we also had a 91% tax rate on income over $200,000 for singles or couples making over $400,000.

And the corporate tax rate was 52% then and despite two recessions during Eisenhower's 8 years in office, they weren't cut.

Not trying to turn this into a tax debate, but maybe the country had less debt during that time due to (checks notes) higher taxation pushed off on the taxpayers and corporations and less on tariffs, which he still thinks foreign countries pay.

 

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2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I think those are the choices. Liberty U or a Trump property. 

The Second National Trump University

"We know more about that than anybody."

We're told it's the best university in history. We didn't know that, but that's what people say.

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Home of the Fighting Stable Geniuses 

Winner of Every National Championship in Every Sport

 

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

If he's referring to the Interstate system as highways built during Eisenhower's time....we also had a 91% tax rate on income over $200,000 for singles or couples making over $400,000.

And the corporate tax rate was 52% then and despite two recessions during Eisenhower's 8 years in office, they weren't cut.

Not trying to turn this into a tax debate, but maybe the country had less debt during that time due to (checks notes) higher taxation pushed off on the taxpayers and corporations and less on tariffs, which he still thinks foreign countries pay.

The highway system was funded as a pay as you go program supported by user taxes such as the fuel tax.  The example is no more relevant to a debate about personal and corporate income tax rates than a discussion of tariffs.  

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6 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

Who’s he talking to?

 

Probably tweeting this while he's suppose to be listening and participating in the service. And the Franklin Graham's are going "what a Christian President!" No, he's a con man, this is all for show and getting reelected. 

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Which trump University campus will eventually house his Presidential Library, I wonder?  

It sure as shit ain't gonna be Penn.  

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Trump promises Iran "obliteration like you wouldn't believe."

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/trump-obliteration-iran-nuclear-weapons-pursuit-1376744


People say that my obliteration is the best obliteration. Believe me, when I obliterate it's obliteration like you wouldn't believe. The highest obliteration in history.

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https://www.axios.com/leaked-donald-trump-vetting-docs-hbo-6ce3cd26-1eb9-4da8-b15e-47b56020aef7.html

 

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Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked to "Axios on HBO" identify a host of "red flags" about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government. 

Why it matters: The massive trove, and the story behind it, sheds light on the slap-dash way President Trump filled his cabinet and administration, and foreshadowed future scandals that beset his government.

 

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Some highlights: 

Scott Pruitt, who ultimately lost his job as EPA Administrator because of serial ethical abuses and clubbiness with lobbyists, had a section in his vetting form titled "allegations of coziness with big energy companies."

Tom Price, who ultimately resigned as Health and Human Services Secretary after Trump lost confidence in him in part for stories about his use of chartered flights, had sections in his dossier flagging "criticisms of management ability" and "Dysfunction And Division Has Haunted Price's Leadership Of The House Budget Committee."

Mick Mulvaney, who became Trump's Budget Director and is now his acting chief of staff, has a striking assortment of "red flags," including his assessment that Trump "is not a very good person."

The Trump transition team was so worried about Rudy Giuliani, in line for Secretary of State, that they created a separate 25-page document titled "Rudy Giuliani Business Ties Research Dossier" with copious accounting of his "foreign entanglements."

One red flag for Gen. David Petraeus, who was under consideration for Secretary of State and National Security Adviser: "Petraeus Is Opposed to Torture." 

 

 

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In the chaotic weeks after Trump's surprise election victory, Trump fired Chris Christie as the head of his transition. The team that took over — which V.P. Mike Pence helmed — outsourced the political vetting of would-be top officials to the Republican National Committee.

We obtained the political vetting forms that Trump and his senior aides were given for Ben Carson, Dan Coats, Betsy DeVos, Gary Cohn, Don McGahn, Elaine Chao, John Kelly, James Mattis, John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, Nikki Haley, Rex Tillerson, Rick Perry, Robert Lighthizer, Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt, and many others.

President-elect Trump reviewed many of these documents at Trump Tower and Bedminster before his interviews, according to a source who saw him eyeball them.

 

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Traditionally, any would-be top official faces three types of vetting: an FBI background check, a scrub for financial conflicts of interest from the Office of Government Ethics, and a deep dive from the president-elect's political team, which veteran Washington lawyers often handle.

We obtained many of the political vetting forms. According to sources on the RNC vetting team, senior Trump officials asked them to do an initial "scrub" of the public record before Trump met the contenders. But in many cases — for example the misguided choice of Andrew Puzder as Labor Secretary — this RNC "scrub" of public sources was the only substantial vetting in Trump's possession when he announced his picks.

The documents show what Trump’s vetting shop worried about in assessing candidates for the most important jobs in government.

 

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The first red flag for Rex Tillerson, who became Trump’s first Secretary of State, was about Russia. "Tillerson's Russia ties go deep," it read. 

One red flag for Fox News host Laura Ingraham, considered for White House press secretary: "Ingraham said people should wear diapers instead of sharing bathrooms with transgender people."

One heading in the document about Kris Kobach, in the running for Homeland Security Secretary, listed "white supremacy" as a vulnerability. It cited accusations from past political opponents that he had ties to white supremacist groups.

Vetters had unique concerns about Gary Cohn. "Some Say Cohn Has An Abrasive, Curt, And Intimidating Style," they wrote, citing a Bloomberg piece. "He Would Sometimes Hike Up One Leg And Plant His Foot On A Trader's Desk, His Thigh Close To The Employee's Face, And Ask How Markets Were Doing."

 

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Some of the contenders were strikingly swampy — even by the RNC vetters' standards.

Seema Verma, who Trump appointed as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, had this paragraph near the top of her vetting form: "Verma was simultaneously advising Indiana ($3.5 million in contracts) on issues impacting how it would spend Medicaid funds while she was also being paid by a client that received Medicaid funds. Ethics experts have called the arrangement a conflict of interest that potentially put Indiana taxpayers at risk."

Sonny Perdue, Trump's pick for Agriculture Secretary, had a vetting form with sections labeled "Business conflicts of interest" and "Family conflicts of interest." It noted that "Perdue is the owner of Houston Fertilizer and Grain, a company that has received contracts from the Department of Agriculture."

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The documents point to Trump’s willingness to meet with — and sometimes hire — people who had harshly criticized him. The vetting team often put these denigrations at the top of the documents. A source with direct knowledge told me many of these documents were handed to Trump; he knew about the insults, and picked the insulters anyway. 

Nikki Haley, who became Trump's U.N. ambassador, had a note that she'd said Trump is everything "we teach our kids not to do in kindergarten."

Ryan Zinke, who became Interior Secretary, had described Trump as "un-defendable."

Rick Perry, Energy Secretary, had voluminous vetting concerns: "Perry described Trumpism as a 'toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness, and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition,'" the vetters noted.

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The RNC vetted some left field contenders. Nobody we spoke to, including senior members of the transition, could remember what job Hollywood talent agent Ari Emanuel was vetted for. (A suggested question for Emanuel in his interview: "Will you have any personal issues during times when the Trump administration faces partisan criticism from Democrats, including your brother Rahm or President Obama?")

Two sources who were doing the vetting at the RNC told me they often didn't know what jobs they were vetting people for.

 

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We are publishing a selection of these vetting documents. Below you can read the forms we obtained for the people who got jobs in the Trump administration, as well as a small group who didn't get jobs but whose vetting dossiers are noteworthy. 

We redacted personal details that weren't newsworthy, information from spurious sources, and material the vetting team described as rumors about contenders’ personal lives, and contact and identification information. All the unredacted information is from public sources. 

We've reached out for comment to the White House, the Republican National Committee, and each person whose vetting form we are publishing. You can see the responses here, and we publish the RNC's full statement in a separate article that has behind-the-scenes details about their work.

 

Damn.

https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-presidential-transition-vetting-rnc-686f1655-8731-43fe-964b-819e541eaee3.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic

 

 

 

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"To be honest, the process was such a disaster and such a shit-show and there were so many unqualified people coming through that the issues with [future HUD Secretary Ben] Carson don't really stick out to me," said one RNC vetter. "You know, I'm like, 'Oh gentle Ben is unqualified and thinks that pyramids store grain or whatever. Great. At least he's not beating his wife and his wife's not appearing on Oprah.'"

 

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We'd be sitting around and Trump would be like, 'Oh, hey, I'm bringing like Joe Shmoe up to Bedminster for Department of Interior,' and then we were like, 'F---, we need to run a vet on this guy to make sure he's not a kid-toucher,'" said one source involved in the vetting. "It was just a clown show."

"I think I truly understood what less than half of the people were being vetted for," said another source involved in the vetting. "Totally inadequate resources for the overall process. ... We would probably run through dozens [of contenders] a day."

 

 

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