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linktrump gave an interview to Face the Nation. They have posted the transcript. I can’t decide what is worse, listening to him or reading what he says. From the interview... ”MARGARET BRENNAN: Would you shut down the government again? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, we're going to have to see what happens on February 15th and I- I think-- MARGARET BRENNAN: You're not taking it off the table? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don't- I don't take anything off the table. I don't like to take things off the table. It's that alternative. It's national emergency, it's other things and you know there have been plenty national emergencies called. And this really is an invasion of our country by human traffickers. These are people that are horrible people bringing in women mostly, but bringing in women and children into our country. Human trafficking. And we're going to have a strong border. And the only way you have a strong border is you need a physical barrier. You need a wall. And anybody that says you don't, they're just playing games. MARGARET BRENNAN: You had quite the showdown with Speaker Pelosi. What did you learn about negotiating with her? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I think that she was very rigid - which I would expect - but I think she is very bad for our country. She knows that you need a barrier. She knows that we need border security. She wanted to win a political point. I happen to think it's very bad politics because basically she wants open borders. She doesn't mind human trafficking or she wouldn't do this because you know-- MARGARET BRENNAN: She offered you over a billion dollars for border security. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Excuse me? MARGARET BRENNAN: She offered over a billion dollars for border security. She doesn't want the wall. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: She's- she's costing the country hundreds of billions of dollars because what's happening is when you have a porous border, and when you have drugs pouring in, and when you have people dying all over the country because of people like Nancy Pelosi who don't want to give proper border security for political reasons, she's doing a terrible disservice to our country. And on the 15th we have now set the table beautifully because everybody knows what's going on because of the shutdown. People that didn't have any idea- they didn't have a clue as to what was happening, they now know exactly what's happening. They see human trafficking. They see drugs and gangs and criminals pouring in. Now, we catch them because we're doing a great job. But if we had proper border security we wouldn't have to work so hard and we could do an even better job, and I think Nancy Pelosi is doing a terrible disservice to the people of our country. But she can-- MARGARET BRENNAN: You're still going to have to deal with her now. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, she can keep playing her games, but we will win. Because we have a much better issue. On a political basis, what she's doing is- I actually think it's bad politics, but much more importantly it's very bad for our country.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 15:46:16 GMT
From the Face the Nation transcript. Subject intelligence or his lack of.
”MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about your intelligence leaders who were testifying on Capitol Hill this week. Did you read the report that they presented?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I did.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And did you - there was some conversation you had because you went on Twitter and you called them naive and told them to go back to school.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I think--
MARGARET BRENNAN: What specifically was wrong about what they said?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think- let me just say it wasn't so much a report. It was the questions and answers as the report was submitted and they were asked questions and answers. We've done an incredible job with Syria. When I took over Syria it was infested with ISIS. It was all over the place. And now you have very little ISIS and you have the caliphate almost knocked out. We will be announcing in the not too distant future 100 percent of the caliphate which is the area- the land- the area- 100. We're at 99 percent right now, we'll be at 100. When I took it over it was a disaster. I think we've done a great job with that. At the same time, at a certain point, we want to bring our people back home. If you look at Afghanistan we're going in very soon we'll be going into our 19th year spending 50 billion dollars a year. Now if you go back and look at any of my campaign speeches or rallies, I talked about it all the time.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You did. You've been talking about- and that--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --I want to bring people home
MARGARET BRENNAN: But that's one of the questions here. Is because you have these strongly held convictions and people ask, "Well, why don't the facts influence those opinions, if those facts change?" And- and your director of national intelligence said ISIS still has strongholds in Iraq and Syria--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: By the way--
MARGARET BRENNAN: --and will launch attacks from there.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You're going to always have pockets of something. What-- you're going to have people, like the one armed man who blew up a restaurant. You're going to have pockets. But you're not going to keep armies there because you have a few people. Or you even have fairly reasonable numbers of people. We've been there for many, many years. We were supposed to be in Syria for four months. We've been there for years. We have been in Afghanistan for 19 years. And by the way, I've been hitting very hard in Afghanistan and now we're negotiating with the Taliban. We'll see what happens, who knows--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Can you trust the Taliban? Can you actually broker a deal?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Look, whether we should have been there in the first place, that's first question. Second question--
MARGARET BRENNAN: That's where 9/11 was launched from.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --we've been there for 19 years, almost, we are fighting very well. We're fighting harder than ever before. And I think that they will- I think they're tired and, I think everybody's tired. We got to get out of these endless wars and bring our folks back home. Now, that doesn't mean we're not going to be watching with intelligence. We're going to be watching, and watching closely. North Korea--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Isn't that harder when you don't have troops on the ground?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, everything's harder. But, you know you pay a big price for troops on the ground. We're spending hundreds of billions of dollars on military. We're the policemen of the world and we don't--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Because the concern in here by your intelligence chiefs, though, is that you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of ISIS.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure.
MARGARET BRENNAN: See a resurgence of terror groups like Al-Qaeda--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And you know what we'll do? We'll come back if we have to. We have very fast airplanes, we have very good cargo planes. We can come back very quickly, and I'm not leaving. We have a base in Iraq and the base is a fantastic edifice. I mean I was there recently, and I couldn't believe the money that was spent on these massive runways. And these- I've rarely seen anything like it. And it's there. And we'll be there. And frankly, we're hitting the caliphate from Iraq and as we slowly withdraw from Syria. Now the other thing--
MARGARET BRENNAN: How many troops are still in Syria? When are they coming home?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: 2,000 troops.
MARGARET BRENNAN: When are they coming home?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They're starting to, as we gain the remainder, the final remainder of the caliphate of the area, they'll be going to our base in Iraq, and ultimately some will be coming home. But we're going to be there and we're going to be staying--
MARGARET BRENNAN: So that's a matter of months?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We have to protect Israel. We have to protect other things that we have. But we're- yeah, they'll be coming back in a matter of time. Look, we're protecting the world. We're spending more money than anybody's ever spent in history, by a lot. We spent, over the last five years, close to 50 billion dollars a year in Afghanistan. That's more than most countries spend for everything including education, medical, and everything else, other than a few countries.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is there a scenario where you would keep troops in Afghanistan? A smaller number?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yes. And I'll leave intelligence there. Real intelligence, by the way. I'll leave intelligence there and if I see nests forming, I'll do something about it. But for us to be spending 51 billion dollars, like last year, or if you average the cost it's- I mean you're talking about numbers that nobody's ever heard of before.
MARGARET BRENNAN: The Senate Republicans voted, the vast majority of them said that they don't support what you're doing. That what you're doing risks national intelligence by a precipitous withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan. Doesn't that concern you?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I ran against 17 Republicans. This was a big part of what I was saying, and I won very easily. I think the people out in the world- I think people in our country agree. We've been fighting for 19 years. Somebody said you were precipitously bringing to- precipitously? We've been there for 19 years. I want to fight. I want to win, and we want to bring our great troops back home. I've seen the people. I go to Walter Reed Hospital. I see what happens to people. I see with no legs and no arm- arms. And I've seen also what happens to them up here because they're in this situation, and they come back and they are totally different people-- where the wives and the fathers and the mothers say, "What has happened to my son? What has happened in some cases to my daughter?" It's a terrible thing. We've been there close to 19 years. And it's time. And we'll see what happens with the Taliban. They want peace. They're tired. Everybody's tired. We'd like to have- I don't like endless wars. This war. What we're doing is got to stop at some point.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you- but you also campaigned saying that, you know, President Obama made a big mistake by telegraphing his military moves. You're telegraphing your retreat.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I'm not telegraphing anything. No, no, no. There's a difference. When President Obama pulled out of Iraq in theory we had Iraq. In other words, we had Iraq. We never had Syria because President Obama never wanted to violate the red line in the sand. So we never had Syria. I was the one that actually violated the red line when I hit Syria with 59 Tomahawk missiles, if you remember. But President Obama chose not to do that. When he chose not to do that, he showed tremendous weakness. But we didn't have Syria whereas we had Iraq. So when he did what he did in Iraq, which was a mistake. Being in Iraq was a mistake. Okay. Being in Iraq- it was a big mistake to go- one of the greatest mistakes going into the Middle East that our country has ever made. One of the greatest mistakes that we've ever made--
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you want to keep troops there now?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --but when it was chosen-- well, we spent a fortune on building this incredible base. We might as well keep it. And one of the reasons I want to keep it is because I want to be looking a little bit at Iran because Iran is a real problem.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Whoa, that's news. You're keeping troops in Iraq because you want to be able to strike in Iran?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, because I want to be able to watch Iran. All I want to do is be able to watch. We have an unbelievable and expensive military base built in Iraq. It's perfectly situated for looking at all over different parts of the troubled Middle East rather than pulling up. And this is what a lot of people don't understand. We're going to keep watching and we're going to keep seeing and if there's trouble, if somebody is looking to do nuclear weapons or other things, we're going to know it before they do.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 16:09:01 GMT
The Kyle Griffin...
“Senior intel briefers are breaking their silence to warn that Trump is endangering U.S. security with what they say is a stubborn disregard for their assessments.
Citing multiple episodes, officials say Trump displays what one called "willful ignorance."
All you you have to do is read his interviews to know that’s true.
Kyle Griffin...
”What's most troubling, say these officials, are Trump's angry reactions when he's given info that contradicts positions he has taken.
Intel officers even reported that they have been warned to avoid giving Trump intel assessments that contradict stances he has taken in public.”
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 16:33:24 GMT
linkWill Jordan.. ”CBS/YouGov pre-SOTU poll - 66-34 oppose state of emergency for wall - 58-42 oppose new NoKo summit - 50-28 state of the union is “worse” than last year” This is what I don’t understand. You would think they would want to know one way or the other.. ”Russia investigation Republicans continue to see the investigation as a "witch hunt" and believe Mueller is conducting it unfairly. Democrats see a critical matter to national security. Most Americans say the Russia investigation is either a critical matter of national security (43 percent) or at least a serious one (22 percent). A third, including 73 percent of Republicans, call it a political witch hunt and a distraction.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2019 17:03:55 GMT
MARGARET BRENNAN: You had quite the showdown with Speaker Pelosi. What did you learn about negotiating with her? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I think that she was very rigid - And he is not rigid? Hummmmmm....... wanted 5 billion, upped to 5.7 billion, now 7 billion...... I guess not rigid, but just more and more now....... Or no wall = no deal.... no compromise. He IS ridged!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 17:43:46 GMT
This from the Hill..
”Howard Schultz: "We shouldn't get to a place where there are people yelling from the rafters that because you have been successful, you are a bad person and we're going to be punitive to you. That's, to me, the antithesis of the spirit of the country."
Prompted this response from Paul Waldman..
”I'm Howard Schultz, and I approved this message because I know that as Americans, we have it within us to join together for a common goal: making sure billionaires are treated more kindly by all you wretched plebs.”
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 18:43:37 GMT
Daniel Dale...
”Trump reiterated his preference for having "acting" Cabinet officials rather than Senate-confirmed permanent officials, saying, "It's easier to make moves when they're acting." He added, "I like acting because I can move so quickly. It gives me more flexibility."
Unbelievable.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 18:51:13 GMT
This from Face the Nation..
”.@realdonaldtrump says “we’ll come back if we have to” when @margbrennan asks about a potential resurgence of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, “We have very fast airplanes, we have very good cargo planes. We can come back very quickly.”
Prompted this from Bradley Whitford...
”Life and death foreign policy decisions discussed with the intellect and gravity of a con man selling a nonexistent time share in Aruba. My lord.”
Yes we do have very fast airplanes and good cargo planes that were missing in the aid of Puerto Rico after the hurricane became PR is an island surrounded by a lot of big water.
Actually here is trump’s quote from MSNBC..
Take this morning, for example, when the president delivered a speech to the National Association of Manufacturers. Reading from his teleprompter, Trump began by sending “our thoughts and prayers to the people of Puerto Rico, who have been struck by storms of historic and catastrophic severity.” But then he strayed from his script:
“The response and recovery effort probably has never been seen for something like this. This is an island surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2019 19:23:33 GMT
Daniel Dale... ”Trump reiterated his preference for having "acting" Cabinet officials rather than Senate-confirmed permanent officials, saying, "It's easier to make moves when they're acting." He added, "I like acting because I can move so quickly. It gives me more flexibility." Unbelievable. I guess he knows that they would not be confirmed even with his GOP Senate!
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Post by pjaye on Feb 3, 2019 23:47:28 GMT
"The new prettier wall is currently under construction" (no, it's not!)
Plus he thinks one of the main reasons people are objecting to the wall is that it isn't attractive enough?? At least now he's applying his judgment on appearances to inanimate objects instead of women for a change.
and just for fun...a linguist's take on Trump's language.
"he went to all the best schools...and he learned nothing in them"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 0:27:09 GMT
Reuters...
”Pentagon sending 3,750 extra U.S. forces to border with Mexico reut.rs/2S4pWOV”
Why? Seriously why?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 1:49:54 GMT
Reuters... ”Pentagon sending 3,750 extra U.S. forces to border with Mexico reut.rs/2S4pWOV” Why? Seriously why? OH no. Not again. Could this be another stunt to reinforce this faux emergency?? And he'll brag about this during the SOTU address. Ooy.
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Post by katlaw on Feb 4, 2019 4:51:06 GMT
Have you watched Ellen Page on Stephen Colbert? (Sorry if this has been shared elsewhere, I did not see it) Start watching at the 7 minute mark This is why my transgender friend refuses to travel to the U.S. right now. Because he does not feel safe. Because the level of hatred and bigotry is frightening.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 5:21:20 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 4, 2019 5:48:53 GMT
Reuters... ”Pentagon sending 3,750 extra U.S. forces to border with Mexico reut.rs/2S4pWOV” Why? Seriously why? OH no. Not again. Could this be another stunt to reinforce this faux emergency?? And he'll brag about this during the SOTU address. Ooy. Yes, absolutely! He has said the announcement would be the 15th... oh wait he will decide on the 15th when he will make his announcement.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 4, 2019 11:11:30 GMT
OH no. Not again. Could this be another stunt to reinforce this faux emergency?? And he'll brag about this during the SOTU address. Ooy. Yes, absolutely! He has said the announcement would be the 15th... oh wait he will decide on the 15th when he will make his announcement. He still thinks he’s on a TV show that needs cliffhangers and plot twists and turns for ratings. Trump is a fucking moron, deserves no respect, (and has not earned any either).
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Post by imsirius on Feb 4, 2019 12:44:11 GMT
Maybe this is why he bankrupted all his businesses...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 15:12:26 GMT
"What happened: The three months of schedules, Axios' Alexi McCammond and Jonathan Swan report, give unprecedented visibility into how this president spends his days. The schedules show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past three months in unstructured "Executive Time," which includes tweeting, newspaper-reading, TV-watching and phone calls. Go deeper: Read 95 pages of private schedules. The main story: Trump's first meeting of the day — usually around 11 or 11:30 a.m. — is often an intelligence briefing or a 30-minute meeting with the chief of staff. Why it matters: What we learned about Trump. How time was scheduled for Clinton, Bush, Obama." www.axios.com/white-house-reaction-trump-private-schedules-leak-a0c23dc5-ad34-47f5-830f-1bc496398cc2.html
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Post by quinlove on Feb 4, 2019 15:25:39 GMT
I don’t think I need to read about how the other presidents spent their time actually in the Oval Office, overseeing that our country is heading in the right direction and not into the toilet.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 15:38:34 GMT
Newsweek...
”Deutsche Bank denied Trump loan in 2016 fearing he would become president and default: Report trib.al/oHCyN7G”
Ah with 4 bankruptcies there is a higher probability he would default regardless if he became president or not.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 15:40:31 GMT
Unbelievably detailed timeline of the Trump/Russia/Sanctioned Bank deal and cover-up. Ending with... "Trump and his associates have repeatedly lied to the American people to cover up their multiple attempts to ignore and get around sanctions on Russia to implement this project. They’ve undermined U.S. foreign policy and implemented multiple violations of the Logan Act by reaching out to Russia while they were still in the campaign or during the transition, before they had legal authorization to negotiate on behalf of the United States. The Russians had a conspiracy to undermine Hillary Clinton and the U.S. in general favor of Trump. At the same time, Trump and his cohorts had a parallel conspiracy to do this deal with Russia and undermine sanctions while ignoring and minimizing their attacks. The cover-up is the criminal conspiracy to collude with Russia: they are one and the same. This is not sour grapes, and this is not partisan: This is about the basic standards of conduct that this country expects from its leaders. Either we have some recognition of the rule of law, or we don’t." www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/27/1828956/-Trump-Tower-Moscow-was-a-much-larger-deal-and-potential-crime-than-anyone-has-realized
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