"The butt of global jokes": who might this be? (Talk Trump)

[Seabass]

Ignorant blowhard making a fool of himself on the international stage. Just another day in the Trump presidency.

4D chess, L'emmy, 4D chess. There's simply no way a common NPC like yourself could possibly comprehend the strategery that this brilliant businessman is capable of. If only Trump University was still around, then maybe you'd at least have a chance.

[L'Emmerdeur]

I'm shocked, shocked to find that Mr. Trump had his fingers all over the payouts to women to keep silent about him screwing around on his wife.

As a presidential candidate in August 2015, Donald Trump huddled with a longtime friend, media executive David Pecker, in his cluttered 26th floor Trump Tower office and made a request.

What can you do to help my campaign? he asked, according to people familiar with the meeting.

Mr. Pecker, chief executive of American Media Inc., offered to use his National Enquirer tabloid to buy the silence of women if they tried to publicize alleged sexual encounters with Mr. Trump.

Less than a year later, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Pecker to quash the story of a former Playboy model who said they’d had an affair. Mr. Pecker’s company soon paid $150,000 to the model, Karen McDougal, to keep her from speaking publicly about it. Mr. Trump later thanked Mr. Pecker for the assistance.

The Trump Tower meeting and its aftermath are among several previously unreported instances in which Mr. Trump intervened directly to suppress stories about his alleged sexual encounters with women, according to interviews with three dozen people who have direct knowledge of the events or who have been briefed on them, as well as court papers, corporate records and other documents.

Taken together, the accounts refute a two-year pattern of denials by Mr. Trump, his legal team and his advisers that he was involved in payoffs to Ms. McDougal and a former adult-film star. They also raise the possibility that the president of the United States violated federal campaign-finance laws.

The Wall Street Journal found that Mr. Trump was involved in or briefed on nearly every step of the agreements. He directed deals in phone calls and meetings with his self-described fixer, Michael Cohen, and others. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan has gathered evidence of Mr. Trump’s participation in the transactions.

[Wall Street Journal Twitter link to full story]

[L'Emmerdeur]

4D chess, L'emmy, 4D chess. There's simply no way a common NPC like yourself could possibly comprehend the strategery that this brilliant businessman is capable of. If only Trump University was still around, then maybe you'd at least have a chance.

His brilliance is truly humbling.

[Joe]

I'm shocked, shocked to find that Mr. Trump had his fingers all over the payouts to women to keep silent about him screwing around on his wife.

As a presidential candidate in August 2015, Donald Trump huddled with a longtime friend, media executive David Pecker, in his cluttered 26th floor Trump Tower office and made a request.

What can you do to help my campaign? he asked, according to people familiar with the meeting.

Mr. Pecker, chief executive of American Media Inc., offered to use his National Enquirer tabloid to buy the silence of women if they tried to publicize alleged sexual encounters with Mr. Trump.

Less than a year later, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Pecker to quash the story of a former Playboy model who said they’d had an affair. Mr. Pecker’s company soon paid $150,000 to the model, Karen McDougal, to keep her from speaking publicly about it. Mr. Trump later thanked Mr. Pecker for the assistance.

The Trump Tower meeting and its aftermath are among several previously unreported instances in which Mr. Trump intervened directly to suppress stories about his alleged sexual encounters with women, according to interviews with three dozen people who have direct knowledge of the events or who have been briefed on them, as well as court papers, corporate records and other documents.

Taken together, the accounts refute a two-year pattern of denials by Mr. Trump, his legal team and his advisers that he was involved in payoffs to Ms. McDougal and a former adult-film star. They also raise the possibility that the president of the United States violated federal campaign-finance laws.

The Wall Street Journal found that Mr. Trump was involved in or briefed on nearly every step of the agreements. He directed deals in phone calls and meetings with his self-described fixer, Michael Cohen, and others. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan has gathered evidence of Mr. Trump’s participation in the transactions.

[Wall Street Journal Twitter link to full story]

And Lordy, they have tapes!

[Brian Peacock]

There's nothing illegal in paying women to keep mum.

[pErvinalia]

I'm shocked, shocked to find that Mr. Trump had his fingers all over the payouts to women to keep silent about him screwing around on his wife.

....Pecker...

Hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe

[DRSB]

I'm shocked, shocked to find that Mr. Trump had his fingers all over the payouts to women to keep silent about him screwing around on his wife.

....Pecker...

Hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe

The wife has been paying back in kind probably, , she also had had a life before Donald. Honestly, if you were married to Trump, wold you keep fidelity?

[Scot Dutchy]

The Orange Scum is taking on more scum:

Trump's acting attorney general involved in firm that scammed veterans out of life savings

Matthew Whitaker was paid advisory board member for WPM
Veteran: ‘I spent the money on a dream. I lost everything’

Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their life savings, according to court filings and interviews.

Whitaker, a former US attorney in Iowa, was paid to work as an advisory board member for World Patent Marketing (WPM), a Florida-based company accused by the US government of tricking aspiring inventors out of millions of dollars. Earlier this year, it was ordered to pay authorities $26m.

[Scot Dutchy]

What a truly ignorant cunt. Attacking your host soon as you arrive. He should be kicked out of Europe along with NATO.

Trump says Macron's call for European army is 'insulting'

US president attacks French host as he lands in Paris for trip marking armistice centenary

Donald Trump has started his first foreign trip since the midterm elections with a jab at his host, tweeting as he arrived in France that Emmanuel Macron’s call to build up Europe’s military was “insulting”.

The US president arrived in France late on Friday for the centennial of the end of the first world war this weekend, but will skip a summit on global cooperation in Paris, which begins the same day.

He is just pig shit ignorant.

[Sean Hayden]

Let's assume he is. Is it possible he's parroting sentiments he's picking up from the people around him?

Let that shit sink in.

"We're working from the inside to thwart his plans" -what plans?

[Tero]

Fox and friends mentioned Caravan 20 times each episode before election
now the hordes of rabid rapists are gone!
https://www.facebook.com/colbertlatesho ... 864772265/

[Animavore]

TRUMP IS INSPIRING A TERRIFYING NEW ERA OF RIGHT-WING VIOLENCE

“These are all extremist messages that I saw on Stormfront and other white-supremacist message boards 10 or 15 years ago,” says one former Homeland Security analyst. “Now they are being endorsed as policy by the president.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11 ... NJAZBAavMk

[Scot Dutchy]

This is really sick :

Donald Trump to award biggest campaign donor’s wife medal of freedom

Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave more than $100m to Republicans for 2018 midterms

Donald Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to seven “distinguished individuals,” including the wife of the Republican party’s largest donor, the White House announced.

Philanthropist Miriam Adelson, the wife of billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, is set to be honoured at a ceremony later this week.

The Adelsons have donated more than $112m to Republican political action committees in this past election cycle, which ended as the most expensive in US history at $5.2bn spent.

[Tero]

Global warming causing arctic drilling stopped by global warming
https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/ ... aufort-sea

[L'Emmerdeur]

TRUMP IS INSPIRING A TERRIFYING NEW ERA OF RIGHT-WING VIOLENCE

“These are all extremist messages that I saw on Stormfront and other white-supremacist message boards 10 or 15 years ago,” says one former Homeland Security analyst. “Now they are being endorsed as policy by the president.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11 ... NJAZBAavMk

Yeah, the mainstream media is raising concerns about the Trump administration's not-so-tacit encouragement of far-right extremism along with its policy of de-funding efforts to counteract the rise of the same. FAKE NEWS! (Well, except for the fact that the Obama administration bears some blame for tending to downplay this threat.)

'U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.'

If the link above is geo-blocked, it's actually a New York Times article.

For years, [Mississippi Democratic Representative] Thompson pressed both the [Obama] administration and fellow members of Congress to be more outspoken on domestic terrorism. “The silence was almost deafening when it came to raising any of those issues in Congress,” he says. “And the administration had this do-nothing approach. They kept telling us, well, we see that white supremacy is a problem, but there’s no way we can get ourselves involved in this because they won’t talk to us.”

It was a curious response from an administration whose “C.V.E.” agenda supposedly addressed all types of ideologically motivated violence. “I really suspect they did some polling and found out that there were certain things an African-American president couldn’t talk about,” one former adviser said. “I think they didn’t want to poke the bear.”

This approach was most evident with Obama’s second Homeland Security chief, Jeh Johnson, who came to the department in 2013, after a three-year sojourn as general counsel to the Defense Department, where he provided legal authority for the drone-strike program. During Johnson’s tenure, Nate Snyder says, his office received calls from evangelical pastors worried about far-right recruitment in their congregations. There was also concern about reports of white supremacy in the military.

Johnson, who told me that fear of another ISIS-style attack kept him up at night, held regular round tables with imams and other members of the Islamic community. He resisted the pressure from some members of his staff, and some in Congress, like Thompson, to make similar overtures to communities concerned about antigovernment or white-supremacist groups. He thought it would be absurd to hold round tables with sovereign citizens and white supremacists. “I didn’t think that would have been a very effective use of my time to try,” he told me.

Johnson never called Dylann Roof a domestic terrorist, a phrase commonly applied to Timothy McVeigh. “If there was ever an opportunity to define white extremists as domestic terrorists, Dylann Roof was it,” Snyder says. “But people went back and forth, and it went down the same careful deliberation that happens with active shooters: Maybe it was a mental-health issue. Maybe he was ‘disturbed.’ Maybe he had a predisposition to violence.”