20th Weak of the Trumpanzy!

[oggbashan]

Wonder if she received Idi Amin.

Amin made state visits to Britain in 1971 and 1972, during which he enjoyed a ceremonial trip to Edinburgh and dinner in London with the Queen (on the silver anniversary of the Queen’s coronation, Amin asked her to send him her "25-year-old knickers" to mark the celebrations).

Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/idi-amin-1-660737

 

[domroger]

Amin made state visits to Britain in 1971 and 1972, during which he enjoyed a ceremonial trip to Edinburgh and dinner in London with the Queen (on the silver anniversary of the Queen’s coronation, Amin asked her to send him her "25-year-old knickers" to mark the celebrations).

Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/idi-amin-1-660737

Shit,I forgot about the "Last King of Scotland" .

 

[JackLuis]

Financial docs show Trump funneled money intended for kids’ cancer treatment to his own businesses

Newly unearthed financial documents show how charity money raised by the Eric Trump Foundation intended for children’s cancer treatment was funneled back into President Donald Trump’s own businesses.

In a detailed report at Forbes, Dan Alexander reveals that the Eric Trump Foundation redirected money raised through its annual charity golf tournament back into Trump’s own businesses.

Even though Eric Trump had originally set up the golf tournament so that all money raised would go directly to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, sources tell Forbes that the elder Trump grew furious that his younger son let his foundation’s charity use the Trump National Golf Course for free.

“In the early years, they weren’t being billed [for the club]–the bills would just disappear,” Ian Gillule, who used to serve as membership and marketing director at Trump National Westchester explains to Forbes. “Mr. Trump had a cow. He flipped. He was like, ‘We’re donating all of this stuff, and there’s no paper trail? No credit?’ And he went nuts. He said, ‘I don’t care if it’s my son or not — everybody gets billed.'”

 

[sr71plt]

Of course he did. He's done that over and over again. The only ones who won't acknowledge that are his stupid shills. (And now we'll hear from some of them here. )

 

[JackLuis]

Sean Spicer: Trump’s tweets are considered ‘official statements’ by the White House

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday asserted that President Donald Trump’s tweets are considered “official” White House statements.

During Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Spicer was asked if the White House considered Trump’s tweets to be “official statements.”

“The president is the president of the United States so they are considered official statements by the president of the United States,” Spicer insisted.

Former Trump aide: President treats Twitter ‘like owning his own newspaper’ and ‘can’t be handled’

 

[phrodeau]

Your next thread will likely be "Final week of the Trumpanzy!"

 

[JackLuis]

Your next thread will likely be "Final week of the Trumpanzy!"

You trying to cheer me up?

Watergate ‘pales’ in comparison: Ex-DNI Clapper drops a truth bomb on Trump-Russia scandal

Speaking at Australia’s National Press Club on Wednesday, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper argued the Watergate “pales” in comparison to the current investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion with Donald Trump’s campaign.

“I lived through Watergate,” Clapper said of the multiple scandals engulfing the Trump administration. “It was a scary time, I have to say though that I think, you know, compare the two, that Watergate pales in my view compared to what we’re confronting now.”

“I think in many ways our institutions are under assault both externally—and that’s the big news here is the Russian interference in our election system—and I think as well our institutions are under assault internally,” Clapper said on “State of the Union.”

Tapper asked the former director of national intelligence if he was referring to the president when he spoke of an internal assault.

“Exactly,” Clapper replied.

How soon before the Repugs cut their losses?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump is selling a privatization scam — and just calling it an infrastructure plan

President Trump’s original proposal for a $1 trillion infrastructure jobs plan was, in principle, a worthy idea, a practical way to create jobs and improve the country’s highways, bridges, railways, and airports. In reality, Trump’s jobs agenda is a sham that does not involve a trillion dollars, won’t do much for the country’s infrastructure and won’t create many jobs.

That became obvious Monday during the first installment of what the Trump White House billed as “infrastructure” week: a televised event designed to look like a signing ceremony. Before the cameras, the president made only a very modest proposal calling on Congress to split air traffic control away from the Federal Aviation Administration and place it under a private, non-governmental entity. Trump made a show of signing two documents as if they were legislative bills or executive orders. In fact, they were merely statements of “legislative principles,” according to the White House.

Trump’s still-vague proposal bears all the marks of a large-scale bait and switch sales pitch like the one Trump perfected in selling fraudulent enterprises like the now-defunct Trump University to unsuspecting consumers.

So, more bullshit for the Rubes?

 

[lilmissfilthy]

If only labour leaders were as worried about terrorists entering the U.K. as they are Donald Trump.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s anger reaches new peaks in the White House

"In private, the president’s exasperation has been even sharper" than his tweet storms, The Times' Maggie Haberman wrote, citing several White House sources. Trump has “intermittently fumed for months” over Sessions, repeatedly taking to Twitter to denounce his own administration’s Justice Department, the nation’s courts and federally-appointed judges and his apparent enemies, Haberman added.

"He’s unhappy when the results don’t come in," David B. Rivkin Jr., a White House lawyer under former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, told the Times of his two stalled executive orders restricting travel from seven, then six, Muslim-majority nations. "I’m sure he was convinced to try the second version, and the second iteration did not do better than the first iteration, so the lawyers in his book did not do a good job. It’s understandable for a businessman."

 

[sr71plt]

That's the upside of Trump's election victory. It's tearing the man apart and it's also brought him out into the limelight where people worldwide can see what he is and spit on him for it. His legacy is to be hated and reviled for decades to come, his family reaping the result of his overweaning ambition and crude vileness. It also is causing some of his really, really dumb and racist supporters to realize who they are and how badly they've screwed themselves.

 

[JackLuis]

CNN legal analyst on Comey testimony: ‘If that’s not obstruction of justice, I don’t know what is’

In it, Mediaite.com said, he detailed an interaction he had with the president in which Trump asked Comey to “let go” of the investigation of disgraced former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn:

The President then returned to the topic of Mike Flynn, saying, “He is a good guy and has been through a lot.” He repeated that Flynn hadn’t done anything wrong on his calls with the Russians, but had misled the Vice President. He then said, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” I replied only that “he is a good guy.” (In fact, I had a positive experience dealing with Mike Flynn when he was a colleague as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency at the beginning of my term at FBI.) I did not say I would “let this go.”

Comey added, “I had understood the President to be requesting that we drop any investigation of Flynn in connection with false statements about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in December.”

On CNN, Toobin responded by saying, “If this isn’t obstruction of justice, I don’t know what is.”

 

[JackLuis]

Colbert rips Trump for begging Comey to ‘lift the cloud’ of Russia probe

Stephen Colbert, host of “The Late Show” devoted much of his monologue to the pre-written senate testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey.

Using his notorious Donald Trump voice, the CBS host discussed the political, paleontological and meteorological details of the multiple federal investigations into potential Trump campaign collusion with the Kremlin.

“Comey first met with Trump on January 6th, to let him know about some so-called ‘salacious intelligence,'” Colbert began, before whispering to his audience that referred to, “pee pee tape.”

“There’s a lot of weird stuff in this document,” Colbert said. “For example, Trump frequently referred to the scandal as, ‘the cloud.'”

“Mr. President, that’s not a cloud, meteorologists call that a sh*tstorm.”

 

[sr71plt]

Where there's a cloud, there's . . .

The TV commentators are, probably tongue in cheek, wondering why the need for Trump to protect Flynn. Why, because Flynn was his direct messenger boy with the Russians and has Trump by the balls.

 

[magicalmoments]

Where there's a cloud, there's . . .

The TV commentators are, probably tongue in cheek, wondering why the need for Trump to protect Flynn. Why, because Flynn was his direct messenger boy with the Russians and has Trump by the balls.

It seems self evident doesn't it.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump may be so enraged right now that he will fire his entire senior staff

Reports have surfaced over the last week that President Donald Trump is so angry about his staff handling of the string of scandals. Thursday, Judge Andrew Napolitano told Fox News’ Shep Smith that Trump’s rage may have reached a level that he’s prepared to fire his entire staff.

Napolitano told Smith that he doesn’t anticipate the president will take today well.

“I know how strong and towering his personality is and I know how strong his opinion is of his own ability to get things done,” he continued. “You may see that clean sweep in the west wing that’s been rumored for a long time, from and after today.”

 

[JackLuis]

Full Testimony of the Comey Hearing

Wow that was pretty dull, so far.

No smoking derringer, but a few odors of Trumpimisms, ( ie: Lies).

McCain was almost incoherent in trying to bring Hillary in on this shit! and "Why isn't Hillary being investigated?"

The cross section of the Senate exposes the need to "prune the non-baring dead wood."

 

[Trumpire]

Even before he pulled out of the Paris stuff (in meeting I think I'd read about before he was even running), I was looking forward to his MidEast trip, hoping we could treat him like the businessman he once was, call that vacation/sick days away from work/the office he hadn't pre-requested, & fire him...

..Either that, or add one of the countries he was in to a travel ban so he couldn't return.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Full Testimony of the Comey Hearing

Wow that was pretty dull, so far.

No smoking derringer, but a few odors of Trumpimisms, ( ie: Lies).

It was a big nothing-burger. Except Comey really proved he should have been fired all along and he dropped Lynch in it. We need a good bureaucratic house cleaning it seems. And hey Trey Gowdy is the new oversight guy.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Not true at all.

The big smoking gun has been lying out there for weeks: Dumb Ass's admission to Lester Holt that he fired Comey to squash "the Russia thing." You can bet that is what the Special Counsel will be looking at.

Today we got confirmation that a.) Trump had been telling Comey he was doing a great job for months, and so had no cause to fire him; b.) he had tried to exert pressure on Comey to beg for his job, stop the investigation into Flynn, and go public with what he wanted him to say; and c.) when Comey didn't do what he wanted, he fired him.

We have Comey stating unequivocally that Trump lied his ass off on multiple occasions.

We have hints that both Pence and Sessions are in big trouble, and a lot more is going on with them in the investigation than anyone knows about.

We have Comey refusing to say that Trump "did not collude" or "was not under investigation" for collusion because that might infringe on classified material and that he handed over his notes to Mueller for Mueller's investigation into the question of obstruction of justice.

So if Trump was not "personally" under investigation before, he certainly is now.

All very bad news for Trump.

Full Testimony of the Comey Hearing

Wow that was pretty dull, so far.

No smoking derringer, but a few odors of Trumpimisms, ( ie: Lies).

 

[JackLuis]

Not true at all.

The big smoking gun has been lying out there for weeks: Dumb Ass's admission to L//

So if Trump was not "personally" under investigation before, he certainly is now.

All very bad news for Trump.

Let's see how it plays out on the MSM, shall we? The various 'spins' should be interesting. :caning: or ?

 

[JackLuis]

‘They’re terrified’: Bill Kristol says GOP’s calm reaction to Comey testimony is just an act

‘Attorney General Sessions is a marked man’: Dan Rather says Comey sealed AG’s fate Thursday

‘A devastating day’: Conservative writer says Comey testimony is beginning of the end for Trump

When asked why he documented his conversations with Trump, Comey said, approximately, "I sensed he was a skeevy New York Prick, and I wanted back up for when he lies about this."

Aides took advantage of Trump’s short attention span to keep him distracted and off Twitter during Comey testimony

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Also, not that it came as a surprise, but Comey testified that Drumpf never asked ONE TIME about the Russian hack or how we can protect American elections in the future.

Of course not, because it all detracts from his glorious victory.

 

[Trumpire]

Of course not, because it all detracts from his glorious victory.

You mean the one that wasn't?!

 

[JackLuis]

GOP ex-lawmaker calls out Paul Ryan: ‘You know’ Republicans would impeach Trump if he was a Democrat

A former Republican congressman who voted to impeach former President Bill Clinton called out House Speaker Paul Ryan as a hypocrite.

Ryan argued Thursday that congressional Republicans would not be calling for the impeachment of a Democratic president accused of the same activity as President Donald Trump — but former representative Bob Inglis dismissed those claims as nonsense.

“You know this isn’t true,” Inglis tweeted to Ryan. “You know that you would be inquiring into impeachment if this were a D.”

Can we hold Congress up for obstruction Justice because they are traitorous Dicks?