trump catch all - part 7

I was thinking this part of trump’s NY Times interview.  It just leaves you speechless especially when you remember it’s the President of the United States saying it.

“Another reason that I’m going to win another four years is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes,” Mr. Trump said, then invoked one of his preferred insults. “Without me, The New York Times will indeed be not the failing New York Times, but the failed New York Times.”

He added: “So they basically have to let me win. And eventually, probably six months before the election, they’ll be loving me because they’re saying, ‘Please, please, don’t lose Donald Trump.’ O.K.”

So full of himself.  On one level he must think the masses just love him but yet he very rarely strays to places that he can’t control who will be there.  

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Really? You are just now figuring this out little Marco?  Or did you know it all along and hoped the American People wouldn’t catch on?

From the Hill..

“Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in an interview published Friday that Republicans "probably went too far" cutting corporate taxes in their just-enacted overhaul of the tax code.

Rubio said he expects corporations to pay out higher dividends to shareholders and buy back shares to increase their stock price with proceeds from the bill.

"You're going to see a lot of these multinationals buy back shares to drive up the price," Rubio told the southwest Florida-based News-Press.

"Some of them will be forced, because they're sitting on historic levels of cash, to pay out dividends to shareholders," Rubio said. "That isn't going to create dramatic economic growth."

The GOP tax bill reduced the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. Republicans have insisted that the corporate tax cut would yield higher wages and more jobs for U.S. workers.

Several U.S. corporations that supported the tax bill announced raises, bonuses and benefits increases for employees shortly after Congress passed the measure on Dec. 22. These include Boeing, Wells Fargo, Comcast, AT&T and close to a dozen others.

But other corporations are planning to funnel the savings into benefits for executives, board members and shareholders. White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn was visibly stunned at an October interview when only a handful of CEOs in attendance indicated they would reinvest tax savings in hiring and expanding.

Rubio said while the bill contained several things he supported, "If I were king for a day, this tax bill would have looked different." He and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) successfully pushed GOP leaders to increase the child tax credit, a provision meant to assist struggling families.

Rubio said he expects Americans to embrace the tax bill once the changes are implemented.  But still showing he ,along with other GOP members of Congress, are still delusional I see.  

"If I'm against the tax bill because I don't think it'll actually cut my taxes and I get my first paycheck in February and it has $200 in there that didn't used to be there, I'm going to notice that," Rubio said.

"By the time we get to November of next year, their opinion about the tax bill is not going to be based on media coverage. It's going to be based on what their paycheck is telling them."

From Newsweek right wing conspiracy theories....

Barack Obama is operating a shadow government...

Obama’s post-presidency plans are to continue living in Washington D.C. until his youngest daughter, Sasha, graduates high school in 2019. But on Fox & Friends, Ed Klein, an author who has been accused of fabricating claims about politicians, said that Obama and his aides were “setting up what they're calling a shadow government,” in the house. In February 2017, The New York Post reported that Obama was controlling “an army of agitators” and running a shadow government “from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.” The claim spread across far-right blogs and websites.

In a March, 2017 town hall meeting, Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania claimed that Obama was operating an insurgency from his Washington D.C. home. Obama is using his home “for one purpose and one purpose only,” he said. “And that is to run a shadow government that is gonna totally upset the new agenda.”

From Newsweek another right wing conspiracy....

“A Obama official confirmed that the former president wiretapped Trump Tower”

On March 2, 2017, a conservative radio host outlined what he believed was a plot by the Obama administration to sabotage Trump’s campaign by wiretapping Trump Tower. A day later, Breitbart reiterated the claim. On March 4, Trump tweeted about the story, saying of the fabricated scandal, “This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”

Later in the month a YouTube account called “The Leaping Frog” made a video saying Obama official Evelyn Farkas admitted his administration spied on Trump. The video, which misrepresented what Farkas had said, was picked up by Fox & Friends and later cited by then-press secretary Sean Spicer.“

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From the New York Times.  The important point is how yet another outside the country source became concerned enough that something was going on in the trump campaign they told US Officials.   Instead of taking any of this seriously enough to find out how much of this and the dossier are true the GOP in Congress are working extremely hard to discredit all of this, even if that means trashing the FBI, without finding the truth.

”Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” describes the GOP in Congress today.  I can’t help but think the Founders could never have imagined this happening when they put together this country with its checks and balances. 

“How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt”

From the article.

WASHINGTON — During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.

About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.

Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role.”

#sad