Trump, the man with a dream of a Wall

[Tero]

Just locker room talk!
Tracing the Trump White House's year of permanent scandal
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EXCLUSIVE: 'He pulled me, naked and dripping from the shower to yell at me.' Ex-wife of Trump aide Rob Porter who's ...

[Forty Two]

I read he's dating Hope Hicks. She's a piece of ass...

Well, from what I read of this Porter fellow, there are a ton of allegations, and witnesses saying that they were told of some of the violence years ago. And, the story about the black eye doesn't make a lot of sense -- he says they were arguing over a vase and that the ex-wife was somehow hit in the eye by the vase? The only way that would seem to happen, unless she hit herself in the eye with it, would be for him to either cause it to move toward her, or to be pulling on the vase and then let go so it snaps back and hits her in the eye.

That doesn't help him much, because no matter what, he's still in a physical struggle with a woman, and cause her to get a solidly black eye. Then he says he took the picture of the eye himself, which she corroborates. But she has a reason for it - says that he was contrite and she made him take the pic as part of his penance. And he hasn't offered a reason why.

And he resigned, so - he's fucked. And, he's out. If he does beat up women, then good thing for that.

[Brian Peacock]

There goes Rosenstein's successor, cleverly avoiding that poison chalice...

No. 3 Official at the Justice Department Is Stepping Down

WASHINGTON — Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the country’s top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump, according to two people briefed on her decision.

Ms. Brand’s profile had risen in part because she is next in the line of succession behind the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who is overseeing the special counsel’s inquiry into Russian influence in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, who has called the investigation a witch hunt, has considered firing Mr. Rosenstein.

Such a move could have put her in charge of the special counsel and, by extension, left her in the cross hairs of the president.

Ms. Brand, who became the associate attorney general in May, will become the global governance director at Walmart, the company’s top legal position, according to people briefed on her move. She has held politically appointed positions in the past three presidential administrations.

In her current job, she reports directly to Mr. Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, who has recused himself from the Russia investigation....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/p ... tment.html

[JimC]

Probably make a shit load more money, too...

[Seabass]

The Largest Number Of Scientists In Modern U.S. History Are Running For Office In 2018

More than 60 researchers and technologists are running for federal office in 2018 as part of a historic wave of candidates with science backgrounds launching campaigns.

At least 200 candidates with previous careers in science, technology, engineering and math announced bids for some of the nation’s roughly 7,000 state legislature seats as of Jan. 31, according to data that 314 Action, a political action committee, shared exclusively with HuffPost.

The group, which launched in 2014 to help scientists run for office, said it is talking with 500 more people and is pressing about half of them to run. An additional 200 such candidates are running for school boards.

“The sheer number is really astonishing,” 314 Action founder Shaughnessy Naughton told HuffPost. “We’ve never seen anything like this.”

This is the largest number of scientists to run for public office in modern history. If any of them win, it could dramatically multiply the number of scientists in Congress beyond Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.), the lone Ph.D. scientist, a physicist.

The surge in congressional bids comes as scientists are experiencing a fierce political backlash. A year into his first term, President Donald Trump has yet to name a science adviser and has proposed dramatically slashing research budgets across federal agencies. He openly mocks the widely accepted science behind global warming and has nominated ardent climate deniers to key environmental positions. Under Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, the White House has reversed regulations to reduce greenhouse gases and put new rules in place to give control of the agency’s science advisory boards to researchers paid by industries.

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[Tero]

Deep state still punishing Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/10/politics ... index.html

[Tero]

Politician tells some kind of fake facts about Trump who is just getting started rooting out Democrats from Government:
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/37327 ... lled-facts

[Seabass]

It's time to change the name of the United States of America to the Banana Republic of America.

[Seabass]

Donald Trump's military parade condemned by US Navy Seal who killed Bin Laden: 'Third world bullshit'

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[Tero]

Trump the result of hatred for Obama. Sanders or Hillary, result would have been the same
http://www.msnbc.com/kasie-dc/watch/jul ... 9207491766

[Tero]

The swamp has won:
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-signs-tri ... cit-802995

[Animavore]

What? Those idiots believed Trump was fighting against 'the swamp'?

[Tero]

There is almost a religious belief that polticians are ruined the day they set foot in DC. Even those governors we run for president. As soon as they are settled in the Oval Office, ”deep state” gets them.

[Forty Two]

The new leftist mantra: How dare you criticize or question our honorable intelligence services??? The CIA, the NSA and the FBI don't abuse power, engage in secret and improper activities, investigate and surveill without probable cause, stretch the truth, or behave illegally. These are hard-working, dedicated people that tireless work to protect us all without passion or prejudice.

Question: what is the factual basis for David Corn’s unbelievably inflammatory assertion that a “Russian covert op” has brought Trump to power? Answer: second-hand characterizations of unverified CIA claims as relayed by the Washington Post. So just to be clear, the Washington Post report in question doesn’t even contain any first-hand evidence. It wasn’t as if the CIA agent who possesses the motherload of Trump-Putin smoking gun evidence let his favorite Washington Post reporter have a look. Rather, the article Corn so breathlessly and uncritically promoted is based on summaries of briefings as relayed by unnamed “senior government officials,” which Marcy Wheeler speculates could simply mean Harry Reid. Reid’s unhinged rants with regard to Trump and Russia are already public knowledge because he’s spewed them publicly, so if he is the Washington Post’s sole source, this would be crucial context. (Other senators reportedly dispute the characterization.)

In other words, we don’t even have direct assertions from the CIA of explicit pro-Trump interference by the Russians. But let’s say we did have those assertions: the CIA puts out a press release tomorrow declaring that Putin launched a “covert op” to elect Trump. Even if that were to happen, if any agency on the face of Earth should not have its claims taken at face value, it’s the CIA. The CIA’s history is wretched and wicked. It should be abolished. The CIA are trained liars. It wasn’t so long ago that Democratic senators were accusing the CIA of lying when agents claimed they had not hacked into Senate staff computers, only to later admit that they had in fact done so.

But now prominent Democrats and their media allies like Corn want us to uncritically regurgitate purported CIA talking points, just because it’s supposed to reflect poorly on Trump. They drop any pretense of skepticism about the CIA, notwithstanding its horrifying track record, because their number one goal in life is to slam Trump. This is intellectual and journalistic malpractice — and on top of that it’s going to strengthen Trump, because it makes his ostensible opposition look like deluded morons. Is scoring short-term political points against Trump (a tactic likely to backfire anyway) really worth rehabilitating the CIA as an arbiter of accurate and reliable information? Is Corn so desperate to vindicate his laughable campaign reporting (based on innuendo fed to him by “spies” working for unnamed “corporate” outfits) that he’s willing to hold up the CIA as a shining example of truth and honor? Really?

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