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He's gone:

Anthony Scaramucci removed as White House communications director
Who will be next?

You mean Sean Spicer was actually right about this guy? No way!

 

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The cartoon says it all, liar liar pants on fire. Everyone knows politicians lie to get elected, but this guy has taken it to another level.

The in-fighting is getting really good, though. With Scaramuchi in now to control all the leaking coming out and exposing all this good stuff, things might heat up to a new level. He's already called out Ryan Priebus for all the leaks which is an indication that there is some serious tension inside the White House.

The big bombshell with Scaramuchi is what he said on CNN today, that there are several people in the WH who think that Trump is not fit to run the country. Even if the context of what he was saying was that these people need to be either gotten rid of or they need to be replaced with people who are more loyal is irrelevant. It just shows the major in-fighting that is going on and that people within the administration are saying he's unfit?! Wow!

I am not surprised at all, and can we blame them for not taking him seriously, I mean, there is no doubt the man is unfit to be the president of this great Nation.

The chaos and infighting was inevitable, one just have to look at who’s who in the White House, on one hand, you have far right-wing white extremist like Bannon and Gorka pushing their extremist agenda, Reince Priebus was most probably more loyal to the Republican party than to Trump and then you have Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is also one of his advisers, according to the Federal election commission records, he has contributed $101,950 to Democratic campaigns and committees since 1999, he also contributed $ 2,000 to Hillary Clinton’s 2000 campaign for U.S. Senate election and contributed $ 4,000 to the committee supporting then Sen Clinton in 2003. Link

In short, white house is a mess!

 

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What a circus this administration is!

 

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one just have to look at who’s who in the White House, on one hand,

Replace White House with Animal House.

 

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Count Vlad Dracula for stealth president 2020!

 

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Trump dictated son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer

On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Trump’s advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump’s oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign — a disclosure the advisers knew carried political and potentially legal peril.

The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn’t be repudiated later if the full details emerged.

But within hours, at the president’s direction, the plan changed.

Flying home from Germany on July 8 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said that he and the Russian lawyer had “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children” when they met in June 2016, according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations. The statement, issued to the New York Times as it prepared an article, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was “not a campaign issue at the time.”

The claims were later shown to be misleading.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...eb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.b3fba1740221


Here's further evidence of Trump's attempt to lie to and mislead the American people, and obstruct the Russia investigation. What are you hiding Donnie?

 

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Trump's approval rating has dropped to 33%, a new low.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-...-new-low/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=40500788

 

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Closer and closer!

Mueller impanels grand jury in Russia probe: report

BY BRANDON CARTER - 08/03/17

Special counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly impaneled a grand jury in Washington as part of the ongoing investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Such a move would signal that the investigation is growing and entering a new phase. The special counsel is looking into Russia's efforts to influence the election and any ties between President Trump's campaign and Moscow.

Mueller’s spokesman declined to comment to the newspaper, while White House special counsel Ty Cobb said he was unaware of the new development.

“Grand jury matters are typically secret. The White House favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly," Cobb told the Journal. "The White House is committed to fully cooperating with Mr. Mueller."

The grand jury, located in Washington, D.C., follows a separate grand jury previously convened in Alexandria, Va., by federal prosecutors investigating former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

The news follows efforts from some in Congress to protect Mueller from Trump and his administration’s ability to fire him.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced a bill on Monday that would require the Justice Department to seek a request from a federal judge before firing Mueller or any other special counsel.

"Our bill allows judicial review of any decision to terminate a special counsel to make sure it’s done for the reasons cited in the regulation rather than political motivation. I think this will serve the country well," Graham said in a statement.

Booker added that special counsel should never be subjected to "interference or intimidation because of where an investigation takes them."

Mueller continues to expand the team investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election with the addition of former Justice Department official Greg Andres, who became the 16th lawyer to join Mueller’s team. Andres previously worked in the Justice Department’s criminal division.

Trump has ratcheted up attacks on Mueller as the investigation proceeds. In an interview with The New York Times in July, Trump warned Mueller against investigating his family’s finances.

“I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia,” Trump told The Times.

Trump also argued that Mueller has hired “Hillary Clinton supporters” and is good friends with former FBI Director James Comey.

“Well he’s very, very good friends with Comey. Which is very bothersome,” Trump told Fox News. “We’re going to have to see. But there has been no obstruction, there has been no collusion. There has been leaking by Comey. And virtually everyone agrees on that.”

“The people who have been hired are all Hillary Clinton supporters,” he said. “Some of them worked for Hillary Clinton. I mean the whole thing is ridiculous if you want to know the truth from that standpoint."

Trump’s own legal team has reportedly been looking into Mueller’s team for potential conflicts of interest to potentially undermine or discredit the investigation.

 

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Today’s headline news, Pres Trump announced a new immigration policy. What a joke,
first, it is a Republican (remember, “the swamp”) immigration policy (I can bet, Trump did not even read) he has borrowed, just like he borrowed their health care plan, now one wonders, does he even have anything of his own, remember, throughout the campaign he used to refer to Republican politicians as swamp and now he has no problem borrowing their health and immigration plans, SAD.

Second, this is all cheap gimmicks, because technically speaking, the bill will need 60 Senate votes, that means at least eight Democrat senators will have to vote in favour of the bill, yeah, good luck with that.

Now remember, his flop healthcare bill needed 50 Republican votes to pass, now imagine, if the “great negotiator” could not even get his own parties 50 Republican senators to support the health care bill, now how the hell, is he going to get all the 52 Republicans and 8 Democrats to support this bill?!

And the most funny part of the bill is that Trump’s own grandfather would not have been able to migrate to the United States, because his grandpa did not speak English, and that means, there would have been no Pres Trump.

Under Trump’s new immigration rule, his own grandfather likely wouldn’t have gotten in

By Philip Bump August 3 2017

It wasn’t until the media started asking questions that the White House’s introduction of a law curtailing legal immigration got contentious. During the daily press briefing, CNN’s Jim Acosta, himself a son of Cuban immigrants, challenged senior adviser Stephen Miller on a component of the proposed bill which would grant English-speakers more favor in gaining admission to the United States.

“Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you’re telling them you have to speak English?” Acosta asked. “Can’t people learn how to speak English when they get here?”

The answer is, of course, that they can. As President Trump’s grandfather did. As Stephen Miller’s great-grandparents did. And as a member of Trump’s own Cabinet did.

The policy, the Raise Act, would introduce a point-based system for new applicants to enter the United States. In addition to speaking English, points would be awarded based on answers to these other questions that Miller mentioned: “Can they support themselves and their families financially? Do they have a skill that will add to the U.S. economy? Are they being paid a high wage?

Were that policy in place in 1885, Friedrich Trumpf would likely not have gained entry to the United States. The immigration record for his arrival that year indicates that he arrived without an identifiable “calling”: The word “none” sits next to his name in that column.

A biographer of Trumpf — father of Fred Trump, who was the father of the president — told Deutsche Welle that Donald Trump’s grandfather didn’t speak English when he got here.

“He came to New York,” Gwenda Blair said, “and, after he learnt English, he went to the West Coast, ran restaurants, amassed a nest egg, then went back to Kallstadt, married the girl next door and brought her to New York.” Read more

 

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Closer and closer!

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Mueller impanels grand jury in Russia probe: report

BY BRANDON CARTER - 08/03/17

Special counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly impaneled a grand jury in Washington as part of the ongoing investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Such a move would signal that the investigation is growing and entering a new phase. The special counsel is looking into Russia's efforts to influence the election and any ties between President Trump's campaign and Moscow.

Mueller’s spokesman declined to comment to the newspaper, while White House special counsel Ty Cobb said he was unaware of the new development.

“Grand jury matters are typically secret. The White House favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly," Cobb told the Journal. "The White House is committed to fully cooperating with Mr. Mueller."

The grand jury, located in Washington, D.C., follows a separate grand jury previously convened in Alexandria, Va., by federal prosecutors investigating former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

The news follows efforts from some in Congress to protect Mueller from Trump and his administration’s ability to fire him.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced a bill on Monday that would require the Justice Department to seek a request from a federal judge before firing Mueller or any other special counsel.

"Our bill allows judicial review of any decision to terminate a special counsel to make sure it’s done for the reasons cited in the regulation rather than political motivation. I think this will serve the country well," Graham said in a statement.

Booker added that special counsel should never be subjected to "interference or intimidation because of where an investigation takes them."

Mueller continues to expand the team investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election with the addition of former Justice Department official Greg Andres, who became the 16th lawyer to join Mueller’s team. Andres previously worked in the Justice Department’s criminal division.

Trump has ratcheted up attacks on Mueller as the investigation proceeds. In an interview with The New York Times in July, Trump warned Mueller against investigating his family’s finances.

“I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia,” Trump told The Times.

Trump also argued that Mueller has hired “Hillary Clinton supporters” and is good friends with former FBI Director James Comey.

“Well he’s very, very good friends with Comey. Which is very bothersome,” Trump told Fox News. “We’re going to have to see. But there has been no obstruction, there has been no collusion. There has been leaking by Comey. And virtually everyone agrees on that.”

“The people who have been hired are all Hillary Clinton supporters,” he said. “Some of them worked for Hillary Clinton. I mean the whole thing is ridiculous if you want to know the truth from that standpoint."

Trump’s own legal team has reportedly been looking into Mueller’s team for potential conflicts of interest to potentially undermine or discredit the investigation.

Just a matter of time before Mueller starts dropping indictments.

 

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Trump is on a 17-day vacation (though he denies it’s a vacation), he often used to criticized Obama for taking time off from work.

When it comes to lying and hypocrisy, Trump is the king!

https://twitter.com/x/status/270609412480192513

“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump, 69, tells ITK. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.” “You don’t have time to take time off,” Link

 

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Trump is on a 17-day vacation (though he denies it’s a vacation), he often used to criticized Obama for taking time off from work.

When it comes to lying and hypocrisy, Trump is the king!

https://twitter.com/x/status/270609412480192513

“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump, 69, tells ITK. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.” “You don’t have time to take time off,” Link

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I remember him criticizing Obama over and over again on the campaign Trail for taking too many vacations.

And I'm paraphrasing here, but I recall him saying he would be too busy to take a vacation because of all the work he would be doing on behalf of the American people.

 

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I salute Heather Heyer a true American Patriot, who was killed by a racist terrorist in Charlottesville, VA on Aug. 13, 2017. Link

A memorial of flowers and a photo of victim, Heather Heyer, sits in Charlottesville, Va., Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017. Heyer died when a car rammed into a group of people who were protesting the presence of white supremacists who had gathered in the city for a rally. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)


Pres Trump, once again showed his hypocrisy and his soft corner for the racist terrorist, after violent clashes between the racist and anti-racist protesters, Trump issued a statement without naming the racist terrorist:


“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides,” Trump told press at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Saturday. “This hate and division must stop, and it must stop now.”

As we can notice, Trump failed to call the evil by its name, but once upon a time, Trump used to repeatedly criticize Obama for not referring AQ, ISIS and others as “radical Islamic terrorists”.

https://twitter.com/x/status/665896711685087237

Meanwhile his statement was welcomed by many racists, including David Duke, the former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and Daily Stormer, a popular neo-Nazi website of racist Alt-Right movement.

But thankfully, that outraged many Americans, who condemned and questioned Trump’s lousy and apologetic statement.

Thanks to the bipartisan criticism, Trump was forced to issue a new statement: (I’m loving it)

“Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” “We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal.”

What a great victory!

 

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Steve Bannon, Trump's controversial chief strategist, caught lying red-handed.

STEVE BANNON SAID HE LEARNED TO FEAR MUSLIMS WHEN HE VISITED PAKISTAN. EXCEPT HE WAS PROBABLY IN HONG KONG.

Peter Maass August 11 2017

IF YOU ASK Steve Bannon how he got the idea that Muslims in the Middle East are a civilizational threat to America, he will say that his eyes were first opened when he served on a Navy destroyer in the Arabian Sea. At least that’s what he told the journalist Joshua Green, whose new book about President Donald Trump’s senior counselor is a best-seller.

“It was not hard to see, as a junior officer, sitting there, that [the threat] was just going to be huge,” Bannon said. He went on:

We’d pull into a place like Karachi, Pakistan – this is 1979, and I’ll never forget it – the British guys came on board, because they still ran the port. The city had 10 million people at the time. We’d get out there, and 8 million of them had to be below the age of fifteen. It was an eye-opener. We’d been other places like the Philippines where there was mass poverty. But it was nothing like the Middle East. It was just a complete eye-opener. It was the other end of the earth.

That’s Bannon’s version. There are a few problems with it, however.

The port of Karachi was not run by the British in 1979. Karachi, which is the commercial hub of Pakistan, had a population that was well short of 10 million (it was about half that) and is not usually considered part of the Middle East. But the biggest problem is that the destroyer Bannon served on, the USS Paul F. Foster, never visited Karachi while Bannon was aboard.

Six sailors who served on the Foster with Bannon told The Intercept that the vessel did not stop at Karachi during its 1979-1980 deployment. The recollections of these enlisted men and officers are supported by the ship’s deck logs, which show no stop on the way to the Arabian Sea and are available to the public at the National Archives. And a map of the Foster’s port calls that was published in its “cruisebook” shows stops in Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines, Christmas Island, Hong Kong, and Singapore — but not Karachi.

It turns out that Bannon, who has drawn a large amount of criticism for his exclusionary stances on race, religion, and immigration, has also inaccurately described his military service, simultaneously creating an erroneous narrative of how he came to an incendiary anti-Muslim worldview that helps shape White House policy. Read more