Trump, the man with a dream of a Wall

[Tero]

But he reproduces. That part of his DNA still working.

[Tero]

Icelanders welcome. But of course, the entire population of Iceland equals the number of refugees coming from Shtiholes!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 7509249024

[Seabass]

The porn star is smarter and more articulate than the fucking President of the United States of America. Fuck's sake. What a time to be alive.

Stormy Daniels is crushing President Trump at his own game

President Trump made shamelessness into a political tool. In Stormy Daniels, he's met his match.

The porn star has turned to the courts to invalidate a hush agreement, signed 10 days before the 2016 presidential election, that prevents her from disclosing details and documents pertaining to an alleged affair between herself and the president over a decade ago. The president's attorney, Michael Cohen, has admitted to "facilitating" a payment of $130,000 to Daniels just a few days before the election. Daniels (who had already given an interview to In Touch) wants to be released from an agreement that she says was never valid since the person named in the agreement (one "David Dennison") never actually signed it. She has offered to return the alleged hush money in full — and not to Cohen, or the shell company he used to pay her — but to Trump himself. Now it's being reported that a second Trump Organization attorney has been involved in the legal battle against her, further undercutting Cohen's claims that neither the president nor his company have been connected to the payment.

One remarkable feature of Stormy Daniels' chess match with Trump is that shame — this White House's usual instrument against its adversaries — isn't working. Porn stars don't find shame especially useful, and Daniels is no exception. This poses a problem for the president: Daniels (aka Stephanie Gregory Clifford) is utterly unembarrassed about profiting off her connection to him. She's unembarrassed in general. As the president's most virulent defenders have come after her, she's parried their attacks with jokes that defang them. Cracks about her age earn GILF humor, cracks about her being a prostitute have her crowing with glee. She's so good at this that her attackers often end up deleting their tweets; it's just not worth it.

The entire Trump playbook — imply that an enemy's motives are shameful, dishonest, and not what they claim — falls apart when they have no interest in seeming better than they are. Daniels is open about the fact that her motive is money. Just as Trump has always been. He's every bit as flummoxed by her shamelessness as others are by his. Rumors that Trump's attorney Michael Cohen might try to quash Daniels' upcoming interview with 60 Minutes smack of desperation (one is reminded, in fact, of Trump's opponents flailing in the primaries).

If shamelessness is Trump's weapon of choice, it's also his Achilles heel. Stormy Daniels won't let this story drop, she's smart enough to hire great lawyers, and she's set up a legal conundrum that lands the president in a world of trouble no matter how he responds.

http://theweek.com/articles/760471/stor ... trump-game

[Hermit]

The porn star is smarter and more articulate than the fucking President of the United States of America. Fuck's sake. What a time to be alive.

Stormy Daniels is crushing President Trump at his own game

President Trump made shamelessness into a political tool. In Stormy Daniels, he's met his match.

The porn star has turned to the courts to invalidate a hush agreement, signed 10 days before the 2016 presidential election, that prevents her from disclosing details and documents pertaining to an alleged affair between herself and the president over a decade ago. The president's attorney, Michael Cohen, has admitted to "facilitating" a payment of $130,000 to Daniels just a few days before the election. Daniels (who had already given an interview to In Touch) wants to be released from an agreement that she says was never valid since the person named in the agreement (one "David Dennison") never actually signed it. She has offered to return the alleged hush money in full — and not to Cohen, or the shell company he used to pay her — but to Trump himself. Now it's being reported that a second Trump Organization attorney has been involved in the legal battle against her, further undercutting Cohen's claims that neither the president nor his company have been connected to the payment.

One remarkable feature of Stormy Daniels' chess match with Trump is that shame — this White House's usual instrument against its adversaries — isn't working. Porn stars don't find shame especially useful, and Daniels is no exception. This poses a problem for the president: Daniels (aka Stephanie Gregory Clifford) is utterly unembarrassed about profiting off her connection to him. She's unembarrassed in general. As the president's most virulent defenders have come after her, she's parried their attacks with jokes that defang them. Cracks about her age earn GILF humor, cracks about her being a prostitute have her crowing with glee. She's so good at this that her attackers often end up deleting their tweets; it's just not worth it.

The entire Trump playbook — imply that an enemy's motives are shameful, dishonest, and not what they claim — falls apart when they have no interest in seeming better than they are. Daniels is open about the fact that her motive is money. Just as Trump has always been. He's every bit as flummoxed by her shamelessness as others are by his. Rumors that Trump's attorney Michael Cohen might try to quash Daniels' upcoming interview with 60 Minutes smack of desperation (one is reminded, in fact, of Trump's opponents flailing in the primaries).

If shamelessness is Trump's weapon of choice, it's also his Achilles heel. Stormy Daniels won't let this story drop, she's smart enough to hire great lawyers, and she's set up a legal conundrum that lands the president in a world of trouble no matter how he responds.

http://theweek.com/articles/760471/stor ... trump-game

The Stormy Daniels affair won't harm Donut. A third of his voters simply don't care, another third wish they could have fucked her too and the last third just look the other way because Jesus is such a forgiving dude, and anyway, Donut gives them open slather to be racist fucks and makes America grate again in so many other ways.

[Seabass]

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

The porn star is smarter and more articulate than the fucking President of the United States of America. Fuck's sake. What a time to be alive.

Stormy Daniels is crushing President Trump at his own game

President Trump made shamelessness into a political tool. In Stormy Daniels, he's met his match.

The porn star has turned to the courts to invalidate a hush agreement, signed 10 days before the 2016 presidential election, that prevents her from disclosing details and documents pertaining to an alleged affair between herself and the president over a decade ago. The president's attorney, Michael Cohen, has admitted to "facilitating" a payment of $130,000 to Daniels just a few days before the election. Daniels (who had already given an interview to In Touch) wants to be released from an agreement that she says was never valid since the person named in the agreement (one "David Dennison") never actually signed it. She has offered to return the alleged hush money in full — and not to Cohen, or the shell company he used to pay her — but to Trump himself. Now it's being reported that a second Trump Organization attorney has been involved in the legal battle against her, further undercutting Cohen's claims that neither the president nor his company have been connected to the payment.

One remarkable feature of Stormy Daniels' chess match with Trump is that shame — this White House's usual instrument against its adversaries — isn't working. Porn stars don't find shame especially useful, and Daniels is no exception. This poses a problem for the president: Daniels (aka Stephanie Gregory Clifford) is utterly unembarrassed about profiting off her connection to him. She's unembarrassed in general. As the president's most virulent defenders have come after her, she's parried their attacks with jokes that defang them. Cracks about her age earn GILF humor, cracks about her being a prostitute have her crowing with glee. She's so good at this that her attackers often end up deleting their tweets; it's just not worth it.

The entire Trump playbook — imply that an enemy's motives are shameful, dishonest, and not what they claim — falls apart when they have no interest in seeming better than they are. Daniels is open about the fact that her motive is money. Just as Trump has always been. He's every bit as flummoxed by her shamelessness as others are by his. Rumors that Trump's attorney Michael Cohen might try to quash Daniels' upcoming interview with 60 Minutes smack of desperation (one is reminded, in fact, of Trump's opponents flailing in the primaries).

If shamelessness is Trump's weapon of choice, it's also his Achilles heel. Stormy Daniels won't let this story drop, she's smart enough to hire great lawyers, and she's set up a legal conundrum that lands the president in a world of trouble no matter how he responds.

http://theweek.com/articles/760471/stor ... trump-game

The Stormy Daniels affair won't harm Donut. A third of his voters simply don't care, another third wish they could have fucked her too and the last third just look the other way because Jesus is such a forgiving dude, and anyway, Donut gives them open slather to be racist fucks and makes America grate again in so many other ways.

Oh, I know it won't hurt him. Nothing will hurt him. They don't call him "Teflon Don" for nothing! He's got all the dummies under his spell.

[Seabass]

If John Bolton replaces McMaster, WWIII becomes a whole lot more likely. This cat makes motherfucking Curtis LeMay look like a pacifist by comparison.

Vox: John Bolton, the ultrahawk rumored to be Trump’s next national security adviser, explained

The Atlantic: Hiring John Bolton Would Be a Betrayal of Donald Trump's Base—The president won the 2016 election with foreign-policy positions antithetical to those championed by the perennially hawkish Iraq War supporter.

[Seabass]

Look at him! He's nuts!

[Seabass]

Trump knows all the best people!

Mother Jones: Steve Mnuchin Spent Nearly $1 Million in Taxpayer Dollars on Eight Flights—The treasury secretary is the latest cabinet member under fire for excessive spending on the taxpayer dime.

A new set of documents obtained by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington shows that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spent nearly $1 million in taxpayer dollars on eight trips, opting for military aircraft over commercial flights.

Through a Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent lawsuit, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington obtained emails and other documents that detail how Mnuchin “apparently abused his access to military and non-commercial aircraft for both business travel and occasional personal travel,” according to CREW’s press release. Last August, Mnuchin was criticized for taking a military jet with his wife, Louise Linton, to Fort Knox, Kentucky, around the time of the eclipse.

Mnuchin’s flights include:

A $15,112 trip to New York for a meeting with the president at Trump Tower to “discuss pending issues regarding tax reform and tariffs.”
A $16,350 trip to Ottawa, Canada, last June for 20 people, including Linton and members of the press.
A $33,046 flight to Louisville and Fort Knox in August for “for official events with Majority Leader McConnell, U.S. Representative Guthrie, and other potential officials.” A military plane was needed “due to scheduling, logistics, and communications needs.” Mnuchin also took a $94,100 flight to Parkersburg, West Virginia, and Las Vegas “for official events with Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Senator Joe Manchin, and Congressman David McKinley in WV and Senator Dean Heller in NV.”
That same month, the Treasury Department requested that Mnuchin and his wife be allowed to fly on a military jet “for a personal junket to Edinburgh, Great Britain; Paris, France; Gargnano, Italy; and Milan, Italy that was, in fact, their honeymoon trip.” Mnuchin said at a Politico event that he withdrew the request after he found another option. CREW noted that the documentation it received did not reflect the change.
A $45,136 military flight to Miami for the Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America and a meeting with Jose Antonio, Mexico’s finance minister. The trip would have cost $688 per person on a commercial flight.
A weeklong $183,646 trip to the Middle East for “bilats and press conferences with government officials and participate in business roundtables with local/international business leaders.” Jared Kushner and then-deputy National Security Adviser tagged along for each leg of the trip.
A $301,167 three-day trip to the United Kingdom and Germany last March for meetings.
A $314,000 trip to Bari, Italy, for the G-7 finance ministers meeting on a military aircraft. CREW noted that the original request for a flight included an ask for a “C-40B/C if aircraft is available” but the trip was taken on a smaller transport craft that fit 45 people. “The initial request for the larger C-40 that can accommodate 120 passengers (or 8 pallets of cargo/some combination therein) for a trip with a manifest that included 24 names (UST 000052-53) is puzzling at best,” CREW noted.

Mnuchin has joined a growing list of President Donald Trump’s current and former cabinet members who have come under fire for excessive spending on travel and in-office renovations using public funds. Most recently, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was criticized after he and his wife spent $31,000 on a dining set. In September, Tom Price resigned from his post as Health and Human Services Secretary after Politico discovered that he spent more than $1 million on overseas and domestic travel.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... t-flights/

[Seabass]

Sessions just fucked McCabe, sans lube.

Andrew McCabe, former FBI deputy director targeted by Trump, was just fired—Now he might not get his pension.

The Trump administration has spent months attacking former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Now, McCabe has been fired 26 hours before his formal retirement — a move that could cost him his federal pension.

On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced McCabe’s ouster from the FBI. McCabe had planned to leave for good on March 18 after a storied 21-year career, but Sessions decided to push him out the door early.

more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... -trump-fbi



McCabe's statement:
https://www.vox.com/2018/3/16/17132418/ ... -statement

I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years. I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City. I have spent the second half of my career focusing on national security issues and protecting this country from terrorism. I served in some of the most challenging, demanding investigative and leadership roles in the FBI. And I was privileged to serve as Deputy Director during a particularly tough time.

For the last year and a half, my family and I have been the targets of an unrelenting assault on our reputation and my service to this country. Articles too numerous to count have leveled every sort of false, defamatory and degrading allegation against us. The president’s tweets have amplified and exacerbated it all. He called for my firing. He called for me to be stripped of my pension after more than 20 years of service. And all along we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from the mission of the FBI by addressing the lies told and repeated about it.

No more.

The investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has to be understood in the context of the attacks on my credibility. The investigation flows from my attempt to explain the FBI’s involvement and my supervision of investigations involving Hillary Clinton. I was being portrayed in the media over and over as a political partisan, accused of closing down investigations under political pressure. The FBI was portrayed as caving under that pressure, and making decisions for political rather than law enforcement purposes. Nothing was further from the truth. In fact, this entire investigation stems from my efforts, fully authorized under FBI rules, to set the record straight on behalf of the Bureau and to make it clear that we were continuing an investigation that people in DOJ opposed.

The OIG investigation has focused on information I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a legal counselor. As Deputy Director, I was one of only a few people who had the authority to do that. It was not a secret, it took place over several days, and others, including the Director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter. It was the same type of exchange with the media that the Deputy Director oversees several times per week. In fact it was the same type of work that I continued to do under Director Wray, at his request. The investigation subsequently focused on who I talked to, when I talked to them, and so forth. During these inquiries, I answered questions truthfully and as accurately as I could amidst the chaos that surrounded me. And when I thought my answers were misunderstood, I contacted investigators to correct them.

But looking at that in isolation completely misses the big picture. The big picture is a tale of what can happen when law enforcement is politicized, public servants are attacked, and people who are supposed to cherish and protect our institutions become instruments for damaging those institutions and people.

Here is the reality: I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey. The release of this report was accelerated only after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that I would corroborate former Director Comey’s accounts of his discussions with the President. The OIG’s focus on me and this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the Administration, driven by the President himself, to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that I worked 21 years to earn. The accelerated release of the report, and the punitive actions taken in response, make sense only when viewed through this lens. Thursday’s comments from the White House are just the latest example of this.

This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally. It is part of this Administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel’s work.

I have always prided myself on serving my country with distinction and integrity, and I have always encouraged those around me to do the same. Just ask them. To have my career end in this way, and to be accused of lacking candor when at worst I was distracted in the misty fo chaotic events, is incredibly disappointing and unfair. But it will not erase the important work I was prevailed to be a part of, the results of which will in the end be revealed for the country to see.

I have unfailing faith in the men and women of the FBI and I am confident that their efforts to seek justice will not be deterred.

[Brian Peacock]

Does he keep his pension? One assumes that being sacked (2 days before he retired) means he'll lose some of his benefits? That looks a bit suspicious - punitive.

[Tero]

Trump got power, really showing his pettyness. Wonder what he will do to Hillary yet. And Nanci and Maxine.

[Tero]

Trump/Dennis sues porn star for 20 million, trying to keep his manhood and white grandpa underwear out of press:

Mr. Trump’s reason for asking that the case be moved probably concerns the Federal Arbitration Act, which makes arbitration the preferred forum for resolving many kinds of disputes. Federal courts have applied that law more strictly than state courts, particularly ones in California. Mr. Trump may be hoping that his chances of keeping the dispute in arbitration and out of public view are better before a federal judge than a state one.

[Tero]

Trump spends hundreds of thousands silencing women he fucked 2000-2015

(CNN)The lawyer representing the porn star Stormy Daniels says six additional women have come forward alleging sexual relationships with President Donald Trump -- including some he says who also claim to have nondisclosure agreements.

"We've been approached by six separate women who have claimed to have similar stories to that of my client," Michael Avenatti told CNN's "New Day" Friday morning. "Two of them -- at least two have (nondisclosure agreements). We're in the very early stages of vetting those stories."
CNN's Chris Cuomo asked, "Do these women, in terms of what their allegations are at this point before you vet them, do they all involve the President of the United States?
"Yes," Avenatti replied.
He did not provide the names of any women nor any details of the circumstances of their alleged involvement with Trump. Avenatti also told Cuomo his legal team is "not vouching for these stories" and said it was possible he won't represent the women.

[Scot Dutchy]

Surprised? A spoilt prick like Trump; thick and rich must have attracted plenty of gold diggers.

[Tero]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/974987955281580032

BUT Trump is proud of being the asshole he is:
Donald J. Trump
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Verified account

@realDonaldTrump
9h9 hours ago

Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!