Lets see if we can keep this thread a little more civil.

I found this interview very interesting.  A lot of soft balls thrown at Trump, he explained his back pedalling on his more extreme issues as a lot of his claims as opening bids for negotiation purposes.  Which .. whatever .. I still think that those are insincere claims he used to get elected.

He does now come across way more presidential then he did prior to the election.  A lot of his noise, yelling, and rhetoric has been scaled back.

Do respect this one though:

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Lesley Stahl: Are you gonna take the salary, the president’s salary?

Donald Trump: Well, I’ve never commented on this, but the answer is no. I think I have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year. But it’s a -- I don’t even know what it is.

Donald Trump: Do you know what the salary is?

Lesley Stahl: $400,000 you’re giving up.

Donald Trump: No, I’m not gonna take the salary. I’m not taking it.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-donald-trump-family-melania-ivanka-lesley-stahl/

4 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

She's angry at times but not angry enough to go against Trump. I want an SOB.

She's smart enough to throw everything back at him. I'm not worried about her. She would make a good president. 

Whatever it is, must be really bad, to evoke this code red response.

 

 

Edited October 2, 20196 yr by Mark F

WOw- this is nuts, and a bit funny.

 

 

 

some highlights:

"Complicating things is the outsize role Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is playing in the controversy, as well as Trump's public comments on the matter. "We're just waiting for Hurricane Rudy to stop obliterating everything in its path," the White House official told Insider."

"Trump needs a "defense that doesn't look like it was put together by a bunch of pissed-off preschoolers," a former White House official said. "You can't go around screaming 'fake news' and 'witch hunt' when you yourself put the evidence out there. It doesn't work that way."

 

Liz Warren is plenty tough

 

31 minutes ago, Mark F said:

Liz Warren is plenty tough

 

Man she completely dismembered that douchebag, and he tried to spin his way out of it. 

She's my favourite of the Democratic nominees anyway. She's well informed and intelligent and is not afraid of facts. 

Holy ****...

 

If trump gets removed and so does pence... that means the next in line is the speaker of the house.

Cue Fox news to starting peddling DEEPSTATE CORRUPTION! NANCY PELOSI'S EVIL PLAN TO STEAL THE PRESIDENCY FOR HERSELF!!!!

Edited October 3, 20196 yr by wanna-b-fanboy

Interesting take By George Conway on trumps malignant narcissistic personality disorder. Bonus: He opens with a football reference.

 

 

12 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Interesting take By George Conway on trumps malignant narcissistic personality disorder. Bonus: He opens with a football reference.

 

 

Some of us knew this......a long time ago.

1 minute ago, do or die said:

Some of us knew this......a long time ago.

I would say a lot of people knew this a long time ago.

 

Yeah, my family is bullish on Warren too.  She reminds me of my first boss -- direct, forthright, and thoughtful. Of course, this is all image building and political smoke and mirrors, but she is marketing herself very effectively to me.

I'm sad that Bernie's having heart trouble and I would have been fine with him as the Dem nominee, but if he drops out and throws in with Warren, the progressive wing of the Dems might actually manage to get through this primary without shooting itself in the wang.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wto-aircraft-drink-food/u-s-hits-scotch-whisky-italian-cheese-french-wine-with-25-tariffs-idUSKBN1WH2G7

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Federal Election Commission char Ellen L. Weintraub would like to inform everyone that it’s illegal to push foreign governments to investigate your political rivals, in case anyone forgot.

After Trump declared on camera Thursday that Ukraine and China should investigate 2020 rival Joe Biden, Weintraub recirculated her statement from June 13 on “illegal contributions from foreign governments.”

“Let me make something 100% clear to the America public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election,” the statement read. “This is not a novel concept.”

“Is this thing on?” Weintraub tweeted with a microphone emoji on Thursday.

 

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fec-chair-ellen-weintraub-trump-illegal-foreign-election-aid

Trump going down in flames and taking a few people with him.

 

19 minutes ago, Mark F said:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fec-chair-ellen-weintraub-trump-illegal-foreign-election-aid

Trump going down in flames and taking a few people with him.

 

Hopefully he takes enough with him to end the Republican war on the middle class. It's spilling over into Canada.

IRS whistleblower said to report Treasury political appointee might have tried to interfere in audit of Trump or Pence

Oct. 3, 2019 at 3:25 p.m. CDT

An Internal Revenue Service official has filed a whistleblower complaint reporting that he was told at least one Treasury Department political appointee attempted to improperly interfere with the annual audit of the president or vice president’s tax returns, according to multiple people familiar with the document.

Trump administration officials dismissed the whistleblower’s complaint as flimsy because it is based on conversations with other government officials. But congressional Democrats were alarmed by the complaint, now circulating on Capitol Hill, and flagged it to a federal judge. They are also discussing whether to make it public.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/irs-whistleblower-said-to-report-treasury-political-appointee-might-have-tried-to-interfere-in-audit-of-trump-or-pence/2019/10/03/0c768b34-e52e-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html

Blow them whistles, blow....

It just gets better....

 

 

 

 

 

The pit is getting bigger and bigger and is going to swallow up a whole lot of bodies.

45 minutes ago, bustamente said:

The pit is getting bigger and bigger and is going to swallow up a whole lot of bodies.

You don't say?

 

Oh Boy... looks like Giuliani might not be able to claim executive privilege...

 

 

 

45 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Oh Boy... looks like Giuliani might not be able to claim executive privilege...

 

 

 

RG has already said that he wasn't acting as the President's attorney while doing the deed for Trump. He also said he was asked to do work by the State Department. That's also not privileged.

Giuliani is Trump's attorney only because no qualified attorney would take the job. He's already put so much evidence into the public sphere, he should disbarred. And, I'm sure he will be one day.

Cohen was also Trump's attorney. 

God damn this news cycle- it's killing me:

 

 

 

 

The US is a Banana Republic. 

You would think, as a country, they would be smarter but that's obviously not the case. Morons support this man.