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Post by dewryce on Sept 27, 2019 18:57:13 GMT
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Post by thundergal on Sept 27, 2019 19:01:35 GMT
If you want a few minutes of entertainment this afternoon go watch the far right melt down over this and Sharp Smith from yesterday on Twitter. So many are taking their toys and going home, and will only watch...wait for it...OAN from now on because Fox is apparently a bunch of liars spreading faux news. I can't see the image...what are the melting down over?? I wanna know!
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Post by dewryce on Sept 27, 2019 19:42:35 GMT
If you want a few minutes of entertainment this afternoon go watch the far right melt down over this and Sharp Smith from yesterday on Twitter. So many are taking their toys and going home, and will only watch...wait for it...OAN from now on because Fox is apparently a bunch of liars spreading faux news. I can't see the image...what are the melting down over?? I wanna know! Chris Wallace and Shep Smith told the truth, basically. Chris Wallace criticized Trump defenders and said their spin was “misleading” among other things. And yesterday Shep Smith got into it with Tucker. ” Shep Smith on the impeachment inquiry: "It's bigger than anything political. It's about getting to the truth, and doing the right thing in protection of the democracy while following the Constitution."”
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 20:08:31 GMT
Kyle Griffin...
”Breaking: Mike Pompeo has just been subpoenaed for Ukraine documents by the chairs of the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight Committees. bit.ly/2nkMSuA”
So now we get to see what trump is going to do. Trying to stop Pompeo from testifying.
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Post by missfrenchjessica on Sept 27, 2019 20:14:26 GMT
So, the first tweet, The Donald is having a fit because CNN removed a “hyphen”? First off, the mark they removed was not a hyphen. Second he is losing his mind because they accused him of misspelling a word and in his tweet blasting them for accusing him of mispelling he misspelled describing, using “discribing”. You just can’t make this shit up. Duh, I missed all that! I couldn't even figure out where the misspelling was that he was accusing CNN of removing or the hyphen or whatever the fuck he's accusing him of. He is a fucking LUNATIC and they've allowed him to RUN THE DAMN COUNTRY! What in the everlovingfuck is everyone around him thinking?
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Post by missfrenchjessica on Sept 27, 2019 20:20:47 GMT
MSNBC... ”Another person familiar with the discussions described the mood inside the White House as “shell-shocked,” with increasing wariness that as this impeachment inquiry drags out, the likelihood increases that the president could respond erratically and become “unmanageable.” Bold mine
Holy shit....the Trump we see now is manageable? Crap on a cracker...what in the world are we in for next?
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Post by thundergal on Sept 27, 2019 20:32:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 21:01:51 GMT
So trump has pinned this tweet with a video attached to it.
”I AM DRAINING THE SWAMP!”
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 27, 2019 21:27:07 GMT
So trump has pinned this tweet with a video attached to it. ”I AM DRAINING THE SWAMP!” yeah, it's draining all right- because they're all resigning and/or getting sent to prison. he is SO delusional.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 22:00:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 22:04:06 GMT
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 27, 2019 22:34:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 22:39:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 22:45:08 GMT
Was Amash the first Republican to say he is in favor of impeachment? I guess he is not a republican anymore though so maybe he does not count anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 22:55:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 23:01:24 GMT
All my life all I've heard in the reputable organizations in which I've worked (public & private) is that behavior should avoid EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. I've lived my life by that.
Too bad our President acts in ways that embrace the appearance AND THE ACTUALITY OF IMPROPRIETY and still his big money suck ups keep sucking up.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 23:06:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 23:08:03 GMT
"cheap extortion racket" - you said it Madame Most-Votes-in-the-2016-Election
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Post by dewryce on Sept 27, 2019 23:14:47 GMT
All my life all I've heard in the reputable organizations in which I've worked (public & private) is that behavior should avoid EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. I've lived my life by that. Too bad our President acts in ways that embrace the appearance AND THE ACTUALITY OF IMPROPRIETY and still his big money suck ups keep sucking up. Do you mean like not meeting in the Oval Office with a group that was designated a foreign asset to Russia before your last campaign? www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/politics/trump-lapierre-nra-impeachment.html#click=https://t.co/VS7lrRCTzh
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 23:50:53 GMT
CNN...
“White House restricted access to Trump's calls with Putin and Saudi crown prince”
“Washington(CNN) White House efforts to limit access to President Donald Trump's conversations with foreign leaders extended to phone calls with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, according to people familiar with the matter.
Those calls -- both with leaders who maintain controversial relationships with Trump -- were among the presidential conversations that aides took remarkable steps to keep from becoming public.
In the case of Trump's call with Prince Mohammed, officials who ordinarily would have been given access to a rough transcript of the conversation never saw one, according to one of the sources. Instead, a transcript was never circulated at all, which the source said was highly unusual, particularly after a high-profile conversation.
The call - which the person said contained no especially sensitive national security secrets -- came as the White House was confronting the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which US intelligence assessments said came at the hand of the Saudi government.
With Putin, access to the transcript of at least one of Trump's conversations was also tightly restricted, according to a former Trump administration official.
It's not clear if aides took the additional step of placing the Saudi Arabia and Russia phone calls in the same highly secured electronic system that held a now-infamous phone call with Ukraine's president and which helped spark a whistleblower complaint made public this week, though officials confirmed calls aside from the Ukraine conversation were placed there.
But the attempts to conceal information about Trump's discussions with Prince Mohammed and Putin further illustrate the extraordinary efforts taken by Trump's aides to strictly limit the number of people with access to his conversations with foreign leaders.
The White House did not comment about the limiting of access to calls with the Russian and Saudi leaders.
Officials said the practice began more than a year ago after embarrassing leaks revealed information about Trump's phone conversations with the leaders of Australia and Mexico. While it includes the highly secure system for particularly sensitive matters, it has also extended to limiting the number of individuals who are provided a transcript or are able to listen to the call.
Those efforts have come under scrutiny after the intelligence whistleblower alleged that White House officials took unusual steps to conceal Trump's phone call with Ukraine's new president.
The complaint alleged the handling of the Ukraine call was "not the first time" that such steps had been taken "solely for the purpose of protecting political sensitive — rather than national security sensitive — information."
Administration officials say John Eisenberg, the White House deputy counsel for national security affairs and a national security legal adviser, directed the Ukraine transcript call be moved to the separate highly classified system, as detailed in the whistleblower complaint.
That system is normally reserved for "code word" documents that are extremely sensitive, such as covert operations.
Eisenberg also played a role in the early Justice Department handling of the whistleblower complaint. Eisenberg was on an August 14 call with the general counsel of the intelligence agency where the complainant worked, and John Demers, the assistant attorney general for the Justice national security division, a US official briefed on the matter said.
During that call, the general counsel informed Eisenberg and Demers that there were concerns being raised about one of Trump's phone calls with a foreign leader. Eisenberg invited Demers and the intelligence agency's general counsel to review the transcript of the call, and Demers traveled to the White House the following day to review it. The general counsel of the intelligence agency declined to review the call, according to the official.
The White House acknowledged earlier Friday that administration officials directed the Ukraine call transcript be filed in a highly classified system, confirming allegations contained in the whistleblower complaint.
In a statement provided to CNN, a senior White House official said the move to place the transcript in the system came at the direction of National Security Council attorneys.
"NSC lawyers directed that the classified document be handled appropriately," the senior White House official said.
But the statement did not explain whether anyone else in the White House was part of the decision to put the Ukraine transcript in the more restrictive system. Nor did it delve into an accusation in the complaint that other phone call transcripts were handled in a similar fashion.
Like the call with Saudi's crown prince, the Ukraine transcript did not contain highly classified information to require such a move, raising questions about why the order was made.
The White House has not explained why it selectively put certain head of state calls into the codeword system, even when the content wasn't highly classified, such as the Ukraine call.
Officials from the past two administrations said it was unusual to transfer a transcript that doesn't contain sensitive information into the code word computer system.
"In my experience you would never move a transcript to the code word system if it does not have any code word terms. If the president is classifying and declassifying stuff he doesn't want to get out, that is an abuse of power and abuse of the system," said Sam Vinograd, a CNN national security analyst who served on President Barack Obama's National Security Council and at the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush.
Three other former National Security Council officials said they were unaware of calls that did not contain highly sensitive national security materials being moved into another location.
While the practice of limiting access to foreign leader calls began in earnest last year after the leaks of Mexico and Australian calls, it's not clear precisely when the initial steps were taken begin that effort.
The White House was also embarrassed when it was reported Trump had congratulated Putin on a phone call shortly after a Russian election widely seen as illegitimate. White House staff had written a memo specifically recommending Trump "do not congratulate" Putin in the call.
John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser who departed from his post earlier this month, was known for keeping a tight hold on all information generally speaking, according to sources who worked with him at the NSC. He did not reply when asked for a request for comment through his spokesperson.
A former administration official said that despite the code word protection, you didn't necessarily need a special clearance to view the records and there was a process for officials to access the calls they wanted.
Trump's relationships with both Prince Mohammed and Putin have come under scrutiny over the past several years. Both are strongmen with dismal human rights records.
After Khashoggi was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018, Trump vowed to get to the bottom of the matter. But he has repeatedly said he's unwilling to break off US-Saudi ties -- including military and trade — as a result.
With Putin, Trump has regularly worked arduously to guard his conversations, including asking for notes taken by his interpreter after their first encounter in 2017. He remains sensitive to accusations he's too cozy with the Russian leader who oversaw an election interference effort to get him elected.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Sept 27, 2019 23:54:34 GMT
All my life all I've heard in the reputable organizations in which I've worked (public & private) is that behavior should avoid EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. I've lived my life by that. Too bad our President acts in ways that embrace the appearance AND THE ACTUALITY OF IMPROPRIETY and still his big money suck ups keep sucking up. You're known by the company you keep! Cannot tell you how many times I was told that!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Sept 27, 2019 23:56:44 GMT
He has also been implicated in the pressure campaign seeking dirt on Biden.
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Post by imkat on Sept 28, 2019 2:22:11 GMT
This is a weird head scratcher.
Do you think he meant lil' instead of liddle'? The only time I've ever seen liddle were some of my favorite dolls from childhood: Liddle Kiddles.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Sept 28, 2019 2:30:40 GMT
I think he has already used the Liddle...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2019 3:08:26 GMT
It's about time y'all take notice of the fact that this POTUS wipes his butt on the Constitution and uses the office as his own personal extortion tool. "Over 300 ex-national security and foreign policy officials signed a Friday letter that called the growing controversy involving President Trump and Ukraine a “profound national security concern,” NBC News reports. The letter, signed by former officials from both the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, claims Trump’s alleged pressuring of Ukrainian officials to investigate corruption accusations against former Vice President Joe Biden and his son is an “unconscionable abuse of power.” “It also would represent an effort to subordinate America’s national interests—and those of our closest allies and partners—to the President’s personal political interest,” the letter read. The letter’s authors also praised the formal impeachment inquiry that House Democrats announced earlier this week, and said it was “imperative” and could “ascertain additional facts” about the matter." www.thedailybeast.com/over-300-ex-officials-trumps-ukraine-controversy-is-a-national-security-concern
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2019 3:47:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2019 3:54:13 GMT
Do any of you remember what I said about Bolton a few weeks ago?
On 9/10 on the Part 28 thread, I wrote:
"This Bolton news makes me giddy.
Why?
Because it gives me hope that the establishment (greedy) GOP is finally giving up on corralling the Trump clan (the god, gays, guns enablers) GOP.
And if the establishment (read big money) GOP is finally done trying to corral Trump, maybe they will finally start yanking the strings on their puppets in the Senate.
We'll see. I hope so."
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Post by samantha25 on Sept 28, 2019 4:05:20 GMT
This is a weird head scratcher.
Do you think he meant lil' instead of liddle'? The only time I've ever seen liddle were some of my favorite dolls from childhood: Liddle Kiddles.
Could liddle be integrated into the term oh... you widdle, widdle, widdle teeny tiny baby..... or it's short for little, which could be lil'..... or this is what I read on some responses on Twitter , which some are really clever.... on a Qanon site (which I don't even know what this is), that there's a conspiracy theory about A. Schiff about a ped. ring that involves a company called Liddle Kidz...which is terrible and I dislike putting this info out there, but is Dump taking info from this site for his "great" intel and just went with this spelling. I am not promoting this theory, only read it on twitter responses and found it interesting of the spelling of an idiotic response.
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