President* Trump

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He likes to brag about not being paid a salary; I don't think Kennedy or Hoover was ever paid....not sure..... checked and Kennedy did not take a salary. Hoover did but donated most of it to charity and divided the rest among his staff.

[billy.pilgrim]

Don't forget the "phony emoluments" line.

Yeah, that was one of the highlights; I think my favorite was when he started quacking about Obama and his tv and book deals. The stupid fucker apparently just doesn't realize Obama's deals were made after he left office. What a juvenile minded fool trump is. Incredible.

Plus:

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

After years of accusations, how can he not have read the Emoluments Clause?

Wasn't there a big deal about the Clinton's accepting a Christmas present or something. It ended up being turned over to the gov- I think

[GoCubsGo]

Good lord.

Putin and Hungary’s Orban helped sour Trump on Ukraine

President Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine for information he could use against political rivals came as he was being urged to adopt a view of that country as hopelessly corrupt by its regional adversaries, including Russian President Vladi­mir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, U.S. officials said.

Unfit to be commander in chief.

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Good lord.

Putin and Hungary’s Orban helped sour Trump on Ukraine

President Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine for information he could use against political rivals came as he was being urged to adopt a view of that country as hopelessly corrupt by its regional adversaries, including Russian President Vladi­mir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, U.S. officials said.

Unfit to be commander in chief.

... the real winner of a military aid to Ukraine suspension is intentionally Putin.

http://www.blueridgedebate.com/forum/vi ... in#p102801

Pentagon officials deemed withholding of aid to Ukraine was illegal

This all seems like an awful elaborate and long term plan just to get Ukraine to do an investigation of Biden based on POSPOTUS lies, one that was never going to turn up anything.

Rather, I think the explanation is simpler. Holding up the Ukraine aid was a treasonous service to Putin. Involving Biden, a campaign law felony and also treason, came as an afterthought to our short attention span POSPOTUS.

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Made myself watch his cabinet news presser.

News Flash: He's really fucking nuts.

I just read a news story about it. Sounded like a few lies, a few "don't they realize how great I am" squawks, and some whining.

Y'all have stronger stomachs than me, this 1:28 is right around my limit.

Fact-Checking The Incredible Shrinking Brain Of Donald Trump
And other interesting insights from the spiraling Donald Trump during his presser. CNN took the trouble to fact-check him in real time with a split screen; we took care of the rest.

Oh, the things we learn from the The Incredible Shrinking Brain of Donald Trump. He held a 20-plus-minutes long press conference during which he mostly free-associated, pushing as many lies as he could out of his sphincter-mouth.

CNN, god-love-'em, tried to keep up with a split-screen, and fact-checking. It requires more manpower than one newsroom can handle in real time, though, so they only managed to get a couple of the lies straightened out for its viewers. We try to help with the rest.

Here's a list of what Donald said over the span of two minutes, with our responses in parenthesis.

He put all his stuff into trusts! he says. He didn't have to do it! he says. (No, he didn't. And, yeah he did.)

Did you know George Washington had two desks? One for business-y stuff and one for president-y stuff? (No, he didn't. He had one desk, which he purchased himself because he wanted to keep it after he was done being president. Our BRILLIANT sleuthy Managing Editor, Karoli Kuns, found THAT gem out for us.)

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Now, Washington WAS a businessman, in the sense that he owned a plantation, and participated in the running of said plantation. He was also a brutal slaveholder — something with which Trump probably has no problem, either. But he wasn't a "businessman" in that he was trying to build a real estate empire or get trademarks for sweatshop purses to be manufactured in China type of thing.

The Emoluments Clause is PHONY. (No, it ain't. Right there in Article II. CNN caught this one for everyone.)

Obama made his book and Netflix deals while in office! (No, he didn't. Both of those deals were made post-presidency. CNN fixed that one, too.)

Did you know Washington was actually considered rich? (Um, yes. Yes, we did.)

It's costing Trump between 2 - 5 billion dollars to be president. (Really? Can we see the tax returns to show us for sure?)

He has a great business. THE BEST BUSINESSES AND PROPERTIES. Doral was SETTING RECORDS, people! (It was setting records for hemmorhaging money. Net operating income dropped 69% from 2015 - 2017.)

He owned Doral for a period of time. (Okay, that one we cannot dispute. He did, indeed, own it for "a period of time.")

You think we're kidding? Read the transcript and watch the batsh*t video. It would be funny if it wasn't pathetic.

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Hopefully Grandma Winnie gets her wish!

You go, Grandma Winnie!

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Hopefully Grandma Winnie gets her wish!

You go, Grandma Winnie!

Wish she would have said son of a bitch.

Hope she goes viral.

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Wish she would have said son of a bitch.

Or worse.

Hope she goes viral.

943K views.

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Wish she would have said son of a bitch.

Or worse.

Hope she goes viral.

943K views.

4.04M views.
https://twitter.com/graham_monica/statu ... 7651086339

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So who does this remind you of?

Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has dismissed six palace officials for "extremely evil" conduct, a palace announcement said on Wednesday, in a shake-up that come days after the sacking of the king's royal consort.
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Former Royal Consort Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi was stripped of her titles in an extraordinary announcement on Monday, just months after the king made her his royal noble consort - the first such appointment in almost a century.

A palace statement on Monday accused her of being "disloyal" and conducting a rivalry with Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana, who married King Vajiralongkorn in May just days before his elaborate coronation.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/th ... &ocid=iehp

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So who does this remind you of?

Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has dismissed six palace officials for "extremely evil" conduct ...

45SHOLE dismisses officials for 'not evil enough' conduct.

I thought that a consort and spouse were the same thing.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/consort?s=t
Apparently not in Thailand.

Former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says she left post because 'saying no' wasn't enough

Not that I'll ever be a fan, but I can believe that POSPOTUS wanted her to be worse.

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Federal judges seem skeptical of Trump arguments in tax case

[billy.pilgrim]

Was he scared? Asshole gives a speech at a historically black college but brings his own audience and refuses to comment

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/25/politics ... index.html

[billy.pilgrim]

https://deadspin.com/donald-trump-gets- ... 1839403261


Lock him up, lock him up

[neoplacebo]

https://deadspin.com/donald-trump-gets- ... 1839403261


Lock him up, lock him up

Did you catch trump's news conference about the killing of Bag Daddy? He was true to form, making it substantially about himself, even promoted his book from years ago in which he says he predicted bin Laden was "someone to watch." This was bullshit since the intelligence community had started tracking bin Laden during Clinton's administration. And he said Bag Daddy was "whimpering and crying" while running from our Special Forces guys; maybe so but I doubt it.....Bag Daddy was more likely cursing and ranting while running away. Hell, he could have cried and whimpered in his own room without having to run. Besides, crying and whimpering don't go with running for your life; cussing and ranting does.

And I saw a list of other attendees in the World Series box where trump was; Gaetz, Meadows, Liz Cheney, and a few other nutjobs. Perfect. A veritable home run of nutjobs.

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Did you catch trump's news conference about the killing of Bag Daddy? He was true to form, making it substantially about himself, even promoted his book from years ago in which he says he predicted bin Laden was "someone to watch." This was bullshit since the intelligence community had started tracking bin Laden during Clinton's administration. And he said Bag Daddy was "whimpering and crying" while running from our Special Forces guys; maybe so but I doubt it.....Bag Daddy was more likely cursing and ranting while running away. Hell, he could have cried and whimpered in his own room without having to run. Besides, crying and whimpering don't go with running for your life; cussing and ranting does.

And I saw a list of other attendees in the World Series box where trump was; Gaetz, Meadows, Liz Cheney, and a few other nutjobs. Perfect. A veritable home run of nutjobs.

Call Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi every evil name in the book, but he neither lived nor died "like a coward." No opponent of the most powerful military on Earth does.

This is especially ironic coming from the lifelong cowardly Chickenhawk in Chief, who just allowed the freeing of 100 ISIS fighters while abandoning our longtime Kurdish allies, you guessed it, like a coward.

[billy.pilgrim]

Did you catch trump's news conference about the killing of Bag Daddy? He was true to form, making it substantially about himself, even promoted his book from years ago in which he says he predicted bin Laden was "someone to watch." This was bullshit since the intelligence community had started tracking bin Laden during Clinton's administration. And he said Bag Daddy was "whimpering and crying" while running from our Special Forces guys; maybe so but I doubt it.....Bag Daddy was more likely cursing and ranting while running away. Hell, he could have cried and whimpered in his own room without having to run. Besides, crying and whimpering don't go with running for your life; cussing and ranting does.

And I saw a list of other attendees in the World Series box where trump was; Gaetz, Meadows, Liz Cheney, and a few other nutjobs. Perfect. A veritable home run of nutjobs.

Call Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi every evil name in the book, but he neither lived nor died "like a coward." No opponent of the most powerful military on Earth does.

This is especially ironic coming from the lifelong cowardly Chickenhawk in Chief, who just allowed the freeing of 100 ISIS fighters while abandoning our longtime Kurdish allies, you guessed it, like a coward.

All that about us chasing him down tunnels with him crying and screaming was inaccurate in more than one instance, unless you consider the dogs we sent after him as "us".

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All that about us chasing him down tunnels with him crying and screaming was inaccurate in more than one instance, unless you consider the dogs we sent after him as "us".

Then, he throws a separate hissy fit with a ridiculous idle threat over the whole thing:

Donald Trump threatens to drop ISIS jihadis 'right at UK border'

[billy.pilgrim]

All that about us chasing him down tunnels with him crying and screaming was inaccurate in more than one instance, unless you consider the dogs we sent after him as "us".

Then, he throws a separate hissy fit with a ridiculous idle threat over the whole thing:

Donald Trump threatens to drop ISIS jihadis 'right at UK border'

Can't resist

https://deadspin.com/donald-trump-gets- ... 1839403261





Lock him up, lock him up

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Trump’s Syria Troop Withdrawal Complicated Plans for al-Baghdadi Raid
President Trump’s abrupt decision to pull forces from northern Syria forced the Pentagon to press ahead with a risky night operation that killed the ISIS leader, military officials said.

... But Mr. Trump’s abrupt withdrawal order three weeks ago disrupted the meticulous planning underway and forced Pentagon officials to speed up the plan for the risky night raid before their ability to control troops, spies and reconnaissance aircraft disappeared with the pullout, the officials said.

Mr. al-Baghdadi’s death in the raid on Saturday, they said, occurred largely in spite of, and not because of, Mr. Trump’s actions....