Outsider Trump Faces Impeachment Threat
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Michael Lewis: Trump's election echoes the 2008 financial crisis
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/micha...hoes-the-2008-financial-crisis-172606029.html
President Trump is "going to create such a kind of weird chaos that it’s going to be interesting.”
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/micha...hoes-the-2008-financial-crisis-172606029.html
President Trump is "going to create such a kind of weird chaos that it’s going to be interesting.”
Spot on.
thats fcking beautiful lol!!!!
"Interesting" chaos...
Corey Lewandowski Says ‘Drain The Swamp’ Is No Longer A Priority For Donald Trump
The president-elect disputes the claims.
12/22/2016 11:05 am ET | Updated 11 minutes ago
Igor Bobic Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
Mike Segar / Reuters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/donald-trump/
"Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski plans to open a lobbying firm alongside another adviser to the president-elect — engaging in the same kind of work they frequently railed against.
"Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Thursday downplayed the president-elect’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp” of lobbyists and ingratiating influence-peddlers in Washington, D.C.
“If you had to put them in a chronological order, drain the swamp is probably somewhere down at the bottom,” Lewandowski said of the refrain on “Fox & Friends,” adding that “what it’s really about is putting people back to work.”
“As opposed to getting tax reform done, making sure middle-class people have more jobs, making sure we’re renegotiating our bad trade deals, ensuring that we’re fixing ObamaCare,” the long-time aide and surrogate continued.
"Trump denied the claims on Thursday, tweeting that his administration will “always be trying to” empty the swamp.
"Lewandowski announced on Wednesday that he was opening a lobbying firm alongside former Trump campaign adviser Barry Bennett, engaging in the same kind of work the president-elect and his team frequently railed against.
“If I can be a resource to corporations who want to get a fast answer from the government and not a long maybe, I think that’s a value add that I can potentially provide, so look, that’s what the goal is here,” he said. “The goal isn’t to go and become a swamp creature or to become a lobbyist. I’m not going to be a lobbyist. It’s not going to happen.”
Corey Lewandowski Says ‘Drain The Swamp’ Is No Longer A Priority For Donald Trump
The president-elect disputes the claims.
12/22/2016 11:05 am ET | Updated 11 minutes ago
Igor Bobic Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
Mike Segar / Reuters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/donald-trump/
"Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski plans to open a lobbying firm alongside another adviser to the president-elect — engaging in the same kind of work they frequently railed against.
"Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Thursday downplayed the president-elect’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp” of lobbyists and ingratiating influence-peddlers in Washington, D.C.
“If you had to put them in a chronological order, drain the swamp is probably somewhere down at the bottom,” Lewandowski said of the refrain on “Fox & Friends,” adding that “what it’s really about is putting people back to work.”
“As opposed to getting tax reform done, making sure middle-class people have more jobs, making sure we’re renegotiating our bad trade deals, ensuring that we’re fixing ObamaCare,” the long-time aide and surrogate continued.
"Trump denied the claims on Thursday, tweeting that his administration will “always be trying to” empty the swamp.
"Lewandowski announced on Wednesday that he was opening a lobbying firm alongside former Trump campaign adviser Barry Bennett, engaging in the same kind of work the president-elect and his team frequently railed against.
“If I can be a resource to corporations who want to get a fast answer from the government and not a long maybe, I think that’s a value add that I can potentially provide, so look, that’s what the goal is here,” he said. “The goal isn’t to go and become a swamp creature or to become a lobbyist. I’m not going to be a lobbyist. It’s not going to happen.”
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U.S. intelligence agencies had for months contended that it was Russia who hacked the DNC emails and those of Clinton campaign chief John Podesta. Putin’s objectives, they contend, were to damage both U.S. democracy and Hillary Clinton, whom Putin detests, and to aid Trump.
Trump had previously dismissed claims of Russian hacking as unproved conjecture, and also as being advanced to delegitimize his victory.
Wednesday, Trump conceded Russia did it: “As far as hacking, I think it was Russia,” adding, Vladimir Putin “should not be doing it.”
The stakes in all of this are becoming huge.
Clearly, Trump hopes to work out with Putin the kind of detente that President Nixon achieved with Leonid Brezhnev.
This should not be impossible. For, unlike the 1970s, there is no Soviet Empire stretching from Havana to Hanoi, no Warsaw Pact dominating Central Europe, no Communist ideology steering Moscow into constant Cold War conflict with the West.
Russia is a great power with great power interests. But she does not seek to restore a global empire or remake the world in her image. U.S.-Russian relations are thus ripe for change.
But any such hope is now suddenly impaired.
The howls of indignation from Democrats and the media — that Trump’s victory and Clinton’s defeat were due to Putin’s involvement in our election — have begun to limit Trump’s freedom of action in dealing with Russia. And they are beginning to strengthen the hand of the Russophobes and the Putin-is-Hitler crowd in both parties.
When Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson went before the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Marco Rubio demanded to know why he would not publicly declare Putin a “war criminal.”
The more toxic Putin-haters can make the Russian president, the more difficult for President Trump to deal with him, even if that is in the vital national interest of the United States.
The sort of investigation for which McCain has been clamoring, and the Beltway drums have now begun to beat, could make it almost impossible for President Trump to work with President Putin.
The Washington Post describes the engine it wishes to see built:
“The investigators of Russian meddling, whether a Congressional select committee or an independent commission, should have bipartisan balance, full subpoena authority, no time limit and a commitment to make public as much as possible of what they find.”
What the Post seeks is a Watergate Committee like the one that investigated the Nixon White House, or a commission like the ones that investigated 9/11 and the JFK assassination.
Trump “should recognize,” writes the Post, “that the credibility of his denials of any Russian connections is undermined by his refusal to release tax returns and business records.”
In short, when the investigation begins, Trump must produce the evidence to establish his innocence. Else, he is Putin’s man.
This city is salivating over another Watergate, another broken president. But President-elect Trump should be aware of what is at stake. As The Wall Street Journal writes:
“Mr. Trump’s vehement denials (of collusion with Moscow and corrupt behavior) also mean that if we learn in the future that Russia does have compromising details about him, his Presidency could be over.”
Yes, indeed, very big stakes.
http://buchanan.org/blog/trumps-enemies-see-opening-126410
U.S. intelligence agencies had for months contended that it was Russia who hacked the DNC emails and those of Clinton campaign chief John Podesta. Putin’s objectives, they contend, were to damage both U.S. democracy and Hillary Clinton, whom Putin detests, and to aid Trump.
Trump had previously dismissed claims of Russian hacking as unproved conjecture, and also as being advanced to delegitimize his victory.
Wednesday, Trump conceded Russia did it: “As far as hacking, I think it was Russia,” adding, Vladimir Putin “should not be doing it.”
The stakes in all of this are becoming huge.
Clearly, Trump hopes to work out with Putin the kind of detente that President Nixon achieved with Leonid Brezhnev.
This should not be impossible. For, unlike the 1970s, there is no Soviet Empire stretching from Havana to Hanoi, no Warsaw Pact dominating Central Europe, no Communist ideology steering Moscow into constant Cold War conflict with the West.
Russia is a great power with great power interests. But she does not seek to restore a global empire or remake the world in her image. U.S.-Russian relations are thus ripe for change.
But any such hope is now suddenly impaired.
The howls of indignation from Democrats and the media — that Trump’s victory and Clinton’s defeat were due to Putin’s involvement in our election — have begun to limit Trump’s freedom of action in dealing with Russia. And they are beginning to strengthen the hand of the Russophobes and the Putin-is-Hitler crowd in both parties.
When Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson went before the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Marco Rubio demanded to know why he would not publicly declare Putin a “war criminal.”
The more toxic Putin-haters can make the Russian president, the more difficult for President Trump to deal with him, even if that is in the vital national interest of the United States.
The sort of investigation for which McCain has been clamoring, and the Beltway drums have now begun to beat, could make it almost impossible for President Trump to work with President Putin.
The Washington Post describes the engine it wishes to see built:
“The investigators of Russian meddling, whether a Congressional select committee or an independent commission, should have bipartisan balance, full subpoena authority, no time limit and a commitment to make public as much as possible of what they find.”
What the Post seeks is a Watergate Committee like the one that investigated the Nixon White House, or a commission like the ones that investigated 9/11 and the JFK assassination.
Trump “should recognize,” writes the Post, “that the credibility of his denials of any Russian connections is undermined by his refusal to release tax returns and business records.”
In short, when the investigation begins, Trump must produce the evidence to establish his innocence. Else, he is Putin’s man.
This city is salivating over another Watergate, another broken president. But President-elect Trump should be aware of what is at stake. As The Wall Street Journal writes:
“Mr. Trump’s vehement denials (of collusion with Moscow and corrupt behavior) also mean that if we learn in the future that Russia does have compromising details about him, his Presidency could be over.”
Yes, indeed, very big stakes.
http://buchanan.org/blog/trumps-enemies-see-opening-126410
He hasn't even been sworn in and he already has to deal with an attempted coup by our own intell agencies in cahoots with Trump haters/neo-con morons like McCain and Rubio.
The last thing he should do is agree to any sort of investigative commission and he should tell McConnell to forget it as well. This is just a blatant attempt to undermine his presidency.
These assholes could care less about security,etc. How concerned were they when Hillary Clinton was storing Top Secret docs on her personal server? The facts about that were not even in dispute, only the motivation. Here we are dealing with assumptions and conclusions that are inherently incapable of solid proof. Plus, we are told the intell agencies have already conducted an exhaustive review. Is a congressional committee filled with lawyers and community activists going to do a better job?
Like Pat Buchanan wrote, they have three objectives. One, weaken Trump, two, make it impossible for him to improve relations with Russia, and three, lay land mines around that could blow up his presidency one day. It would very uncharacteristic for him to agree to something this stupid.
Right now he should lay low until Friday, then he can shitcan the intell leadership and send their politicized underlings to postings in nigeria. This would be a good time for his supporters in the senate to step up and tell McCain to shut up, but of course, other than Sessions, he doesn't have any.
The last thing he should do is agree to any sort of investigative commission and he should tell McConnell to forget it as well. This is just a blatant attempt to undermine his presidency.
These assholes could care less about security,etc. How concerned were they when Hillary Clinton was storing Top Secret docs on her personal server? The facts about that were not even in dispute, only the motivation. Here we are dealing with assumptions and conclusions that are inherently incapable of solid proof. Plus, we are told the intell agencies have already conducted an exhaustive review. Is a congressional committee filled with lawyers and community activists going to do a better job?
Like Pat Buchanan wrote, they have three objectives. One, weaken Trump, two, make it impossible for him to improve relations with Russia, and three, lay land mines around that could blow up his presidency one day. It would very uncharacteristic for him to agree to something this stupid.
Right now he should lay low until Friday, then he can shitcan the intell leadership and send their politicized underlings to postings in nigeria. This would be a good time for his supporters in the senate to step up and tell McCain to shut up, but of course, other than Sessions, he doesn't have any.
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The problem for Trump is he will need their votes to get Supreme Court justices confirmed. You are right though. They are snakes.
I really don't like the strategy of having his cabinet ministers feign believing that Russia must be dealt with in order to be confirmed, either. Because if that isn't his real strategy, it's probably going to come back to haunt them all.
I was thinking what a cute trick it would have been to have his defense and state sec nominees tell it like it really is, have them voted down by the senate, and then just run defense and state out of the white house through bannon, ivanka and kushner. And if anyone has a problem with it, just say they wouldn't confirm his picks so tough shit.
I was thinking what a cute trick it would have been to have his defense and state sec nominees tell it like it really is, have them voted down by the senate, and then just run defense and state out of the white house through bannon, ivanka and kushner. And if anyone has a problem with it, just say they wouldn't confirm his picks so tough shit.
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