Take a moment to reflect on the symmetry between the inner and outer Sarah.
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oh lawd...he's on the sauce again
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/na...x-trump-campaign-members-russia-probe-n957906
Senate intel committee grilling ex-Trump campaign members in Russia probe
Investigators asked former Trump aide Sam Nunberg about the president's business dealings and how he formulated his policies toward Moscow.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/na...x-trump-campaign-members-russia-probe-n957906
Senate intel committee grilling ex-Trump campaign members in Russia probe
Investigators asked former Trump aide Sam Nunberg about the president's business dealings and how he formulated his policies toward Moscow.
In 2017, Obama officials briefed Trump's team on dealing with a pandemic like the coronavirus. One Cabinet member reportedly fell asleep, and others didn't want to be there.
When President Donald Trump visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month as coronavirus cases accelerated in the US, he said that "you can never really think" that something like this might happen.
But it turns out the Obama administration did think this was something Trump could face in office and took steps to brief his appointees on how to respond to an outbreak before he took over in 2017.
Politico reported on Monday that it obtained documents from that legally mandated training and spoke with more than a dozen attendees, from the Obama and Trump administration sides.
Obama officials, they said, explained what the Trump administration would have to do when faced with a pandemic. The model scenario was similar to the coronavirus outbreak: an outbreak that crops up in Asia, spreads to the US, and exposes problems like shortages of ventilators and antiviral drugs.
While most of the Trump administration officials paid attention, others tuned out and questioned why they had to be there, Politico's sources said.
When asked whether any information from the session made its way to the president-elect, a former senior Trump administration official wasn't sure. But they told Politico that hypotheticals like that were not "the kind of thing that really interested the president very much."
"He was never interested in things that might happen. He's totally focused on the stock market, the economy, and always bashing his predecessor and giving him no credit," the source said. "The possibility things were things he didn't spend much time on or show much interest in."
As Politico pointed out, one of the challenges of the training was that Trump's appointees largely did not have government experience.
"The problem is that they came in very arrogant and convinced that they knew more than the outgoing administration — full swagger," another former Obama administration official told Politico.
Another issue is that the administration's high turnover means that about two-thirds of the people who attended the training had left the White House by the time of the coronavirus outbreak.
When President Donald Trump visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month as coronavirus cases accelerated in the US, he said that "you can never really think" that something like this might happen.
But it turns out the Obama administration did think this was something Trump could face in office and took steps to brief his appointees on how to respond to an outbreak before he took over in 2017.
Politico reported on Monday that it obtained documents from that legally mandated training and spoke with more than a dozen attendees, from the Obama and Trump administration sides.
Obama officials, they said, explained what the Trump administration would have to do when faced with a pandemic. The model scenario was similar to the coronavirus outbreak: an outbreak that crops up in Asia, spreads to the US, and exposes problems like shortages of ventilators and antiviral drugs.
While most of the Trump administration officials paid attention, others tuned out and questioned why they had to be there, Politico's sources said.
When asked whether any information from the session made its way to the president-elect, a former senior Trump administration official wasn't sure. But they told Politico that hypotheticals like that were not "the kind of thing that really interested the president very much."
"He was never interested in things that might happen. He's totally focused on the stock market, the economy, and always bashing his predecessor and giving him no credit," the source said. "The possibility things were things he didn't spend much time on or show much interest in."
As Politico pointed out, one of the challenges of the training was that Trump's appointees largely did not have government experience.
"The problem is that they came in very arrogant and convinced that they knew more than the outgoing administration — full swagger," another former Obama administration official told Politico.
Another issue is that the administration's high turnover means that about two-thirds of the people who attended the training had left the White House by the time of the coronavirus outbreak.
The Daily Beast counts at least 18 people connected to President Trump who “have been locked up, indicted, or arrested since the real-estate mogul announced his candidacy in 2015.”
Kick rocks toots.
Anyone that believed Trump's bullshit is a bigger clown than Trump.
https://www.defensenews.com/congres...-meeting-on-troubled-pentagon-policy-nominee/
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, a Fox News contributor and staunch ally of the president, has been under fire since his nomination, after CNN revealed since-deleted tweets from 2018 in which Tata made derogatory comments about Democrats. They included calling President Barack Obama “a terrorist leader” and calling Islam the “most oppressive violent religion I know of.”
Tata once reportedly tweeted at former CIA Director John Brennan: “Might be a good time to pick your poison: firing squad, public hanging, life sentence as prison b*tch, or just suck on your pistol. Your call. #Treason #Sedition #crossfirehurricane #Obamagate.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/politics/kfile-tata-conspiracy-theory/index.html
Top Pentagon nominee pushed conspiracy theories that former CIA director tried to overthrow Trump and even have him assassinated
Tata asserted a number of conspiracy theories in his radio and television appearances and on social media. In several media appearances, Tata attacked Brennan, the former director of the CIA in the Obama administration, as a "former communist" who "manipulated ISIS intelligence" for Obama on a 2016 podcast.
After Trump revoked Brennan's security clearance in August 2018, Tata told Fox News, "I think that John Brennan is a clear and present danger and a threat to this nation. He supports the overthrow of this particular president and he needed to have his access to information revoked."
In an appearance on the far right network OANN in 2018, Tata also speculated Brennan might be "allied with some foreign power" and that his tweets were helping Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"It would not surprise me if eventually it came out that he was somehow allied with some foreign power because what he's doing is fomenting the division. You look at his tweets, you look at what he says, and he is doing Putin's bidding every day on Twitter. He is dividing this nation and he's trying to ossify the left against the right," said Tata.
Tata went further in a May 2018 tweet when he pushed a conspiracy theory of his own by claiming that Brennan used a coded tweet to order the assassination of Trump. After Brennan tweeted a Cicero quote, Tata replied, "As incompetent as @JohnBrennan was as a #CIA analyst (failure at Khobar Towers), we must assume he knows spy tradecraft. This is a signal to someone, somewhere. Cicero was assassinated for political reasons. This is a clear threat against @POTUS."
When a Twitter user challenged if Tata was serious about his accusation, Tata replied, "Totally. He's nervous. He ran the CIA. He's committed multiple crimes. He has the network to do what he threatens here."
The Twitter user then asked the retired general if Brennan's tweet was a signal to someone to assassinate the President. Tata wrote back, "I believe so. Why else would he randomly quote Cicero on a day that @realDonaldTrump asks for an investigation of crimes that directly implicates him? Serious crimes: treason, sedition. He's a cowardly bureaucrat that lucked into a powerful psn. He doesn't have the spine for this."
In a now deleted tweet, Tata also used the hashtag "Clinton Body Count" to refer to the conspiracy that former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have ordered the assassinations of their associates, and wrote that he hoped former FBI lawyer Lisa Page did not meet an "untimely demise."
Tata also accused the Obamas of engaging in "borderline treasonous" behavior during the presidential transition period from Obama to Trump after they expressed dismay at a Trump presidency.
"So when you see President Obama on Comedy Central, digging on the President-elect, making fun of him and talking about Russia. And you hear Michelle Obama on the Oprah show saying for the first time in her life, she's felt no hope--that is unconscionable. That is, that is a borderline treasonous to be undermining the term, a peaceful transition of power," said Tata on a December 2016 podcast.
He also claimed Obama was an insurgent who tried to undermine and overthrow American life in another broadcast from December 2016.
"He had the Jeremiah Wright philosophy. He had the Weather Underground philosophy. And so he had all the insurgent philosophy of how to undermine American values and American way of life and American foreign policy, which he is effectively done," Tata said, referring to the Weather Underground Organization, a radical militant group responsible for bombings and other acts of political violence in the 1960s and 1970s. The FBI designated the organization as a domestic terrorist organization.
Tata also maintained that opponents of Trump would rather see the President fail than succeed, often using extreme rhetoric. In 2018 Tata said, "I believe in my soul that Hillary Clinton and others would prefer to see a nuclear cloud over America than to see Donald Trump succeed. I mean that 100%."
"That we are so divided right now that the left wants to, would rather see the country burned down, than to have this President succeed," he added.
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, a Fox News contributor and staunch ally of the president, has been under fire since his nomination, after CNN revealed since-deleted tweets from 2018 in which Tata made derogatory comments about Democrats. They included calling President Barack Obama “a terrorist leader” and calling Islam the “most oppressive violent religion I know of.”
Tata once reportedly tweeted at former CIA Director John Brennan: “Might be a good time to pick your poison: firing squad, public hanging, life sentence as prison b*tch, or just suck on your pistol. Your call. #Treason #Sedition #crossfirehurricane #Obamagate.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/politics/kfile-tata-conspiracy-theory/index.html
Top Pentagon nominee pushed conspiracy theories that former CIA director tried to overthrow Trump and even have him assassinated
Tata asserted a number of conspiracy theories in his radio and television appearances and on social media. In several media appearances, Tata attacked Brennan, the former director of the CIA in the Obama administration, as a "former communist" who "manipulated ISIS intelligence" for Obama on a 2016 podcast.
After Trump revoked Brennan's security clearance in August 2018, Tata told Fox News, "I think that John Brennan is a clear and present danger and a threat to this nation. He supports the overthrow of this particular president and he needed to have his access to information revoked."
In an appearance on the far right network OANN in 2018, Tata also speculated Brennan might be "allied with some foreign power" and that his tweets were helping Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"It would not surprise me if eventually it came out that he was somehow allied with some foreign power because what he's doing is fomenting the division. You look at his tweets, you look at what he says, and he is doing Putin's bidding every day on Twitter. He is dividing this nation and he's trying to ossify the left against the right," said Tata.
Tata went further in a May 2018 tweet when he pushed a conspiracy theory of his own by claiming that Brennan used a coded tweet to order the assassination of Trump. After Brennan tweeted a Cicero quote, Tata replied, "As incompetent as @JohnBrennan was as a #CIA analyst (failure at Khobar Towers), we must assume he knows spy tradecraft. This is a signal to someone, somewhere. Cicero was assassinated for political reasons. This is a clear threat against @POTUS."
When a Twitter user challenged if Tata was serious about his accusation, Tata replied, "Totally. He's nervous. He ran the CIA. He's committed multiple crimes. He has the network to do what he threatens here."
The Twitter user then asked the retired general if Brennan's tweet was a signal to someone to assassinate the President. Tata wrote back, "I believe so. Why else would he randomly quote Cicero on a day that @realDonaldTrump asks for an investigation of crimes that directly implicates him? Serious crimes: treason, sedition. He's a cowardly bureaucrat that lucked into a powerful psn. He doesn't have the spine for this."
In a now deleted tweet, Tata also used the hashtag "Clinton Body Count" to refer to the conspiracy that former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have ordered the assassinations of their associates, and wrote that he hoped former FBI lawyer Lisa Page did not meet an "untimely demise."
Tata also accused the Obamas of engaging in "borderline treasonous" behavior during the presidential transition period from Obama to Trump after they expressed dismay at a Trump presidency.
"So when you see President Obama on Comedy Central, digging on the President-elect, making fun of him and talking about Russia. And you hear Michelle Obama on the Oprah show saying for the first time in her life, she's felt no hope--that is unconscionable. That is, that is a borderline treasonous to be undermining the term, a peaceful transition of power," said Tata on a December 2016 podcast.
He also claimed Obama was an insurgent who tried to undermine and overthrow American life in another broadcast from December 2016.
"He had the Jeremiah Wright philosophy. He had the Weather Underground philosophy. And so he had all the insurgent philosophy of how to undermine American values and American way of life and American foreign policy, which he is effectively done," Tata said, referring to the Weather Underground Organization, a radical militant group responsible for bombings and other acts of political violence in the 1960s and 1970s. The FBI designated the organization as a domestic terrorist organization.
Tata also maintained that opponents of Trump would rather see the President fail than succeed, often using extreme rhetoric. In 2018 Tata said, "I believe in my soul that Hillary Clinton and others would prefer to see a nuclear cloud over America than to see Donald Trump succeed. I mean that 100%."
"That we are so divided right now that the left wants to, would rather see the country burned down, than to have this President succeed," he added.