The Trump Presidency

[zeeblofowl_1969]

If you still in any way support the Cheeto you are either in on his scam or you are extremely desperate/naive.

 

[Johan]

If you still in any way support the Cheeto you are either in on his scam or you are extremely desperate/naive.

Trump has actually brain-washed about 35% of the population into thinking he's both infallible, patriotic, self-less and caring. That could seem to be an amazing act of manipulationand persuasion but remember : we're talking about a country in which twice more people believe in angels than in climate-change...

As a people, as a nation, Americans are stupid and ignorant obscurantists.
As a nation, as a country, America is currently in a dark age, it's experiencing its Middles-Ages

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

 

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Corruption, Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Justice, Criminal Conspiracy, the list goes on and continues to grow. Of course it's hard to point to a crime when Cheeto Benito has committed and continues to commit so many. The GOP, ignoring what's right in front of them since 2016!

 

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[zeeblofowl_1969]

Corruption, Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Justice, Criminal Conspiracy, the list goes on and continues to grow. Of course it's hard to point to a crime when Cheeto Benito has committed and continues to commit so many. The GOP, ignoring what's right in front of them since 2016!

Thank you.

 

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Thank you.

You're welcome. Here's my last post for a few minutes, I've got to get away from this computer for a while!!! Here's the whole problem with TrumpTard Orange Pig Supporters-

 

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[Johan]

President Trump wanted border wall to have alligator-filled moat and troops to shoot illegal immigrants in the LEGS, claims new book


Ina series of meetings in March, Donald trump proposed several ideas to slow illegal immigration and even had his aides draw up quotes on what it would cost
The ideas included adding an alligator or snake-filled moat along the border and shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down
Another included shutting down the whole 2,000-mile border by noon the day after
His ideas were shut down by then-National Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen who often told him his ideas weren't obtainable
During a briefing on the legal authority to take down drones, Trump cut her off and called her 'honey'
'Kirstjen, you didn't hear me the first time, honey,' Trump said, according to the sources. 'Shoot 'em down. Sweetheart, just shoot 'em out of the sky, OK?'


Donald Trump floated adding a moat filled with snakes and alligators at the border and shooting border jumpers in the legs as a solution to the influx of illegal immigration coming from the south, it was revealed Tuesday.

During a private March meeting with White House advisers, the president asked for cost estimates on several ideas he had that he felt would stop migrants from illegally crossing into the U.S., more than a dozen White House and administration officials directly involved in the events revealed in a new book.

The book, 'Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration' by New York Times Washington correspondent Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, will be published by Simon & Schuster on October 8, but excerpts were adapted and published on the Times' website Tuesday.

One idea he proposed was shutting down the entire 2,000-mile border the U.S. shares with Mexico by noon the following day.
Some of his other more outlandish proposals included a snake or alligator-filled trench at the southern border or electrifying the border wall and adding spikes at the tip that could pierce human flesh so people couldn't climb over it.

Publicly, Trump talked about border patrol agents throwing rocks at migrants, but backed off when staff informed him that it was illegal. But aides recalled that he later brought up the idea of shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down as they made a dash for the U.S. The aides had to inform him that was also against the law.
'The president was frustrated and I think he took that moment to hit the reset button,' Thomas Homan, who had served as Mr. Trump's acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, recalled. 'The president wanted it to be fixed quickly.'

Back in May, reports emerged that Trump was micromanaging the border wall construction down to the smallest details, including wanting it to be painted a 'flat black' so it would absorb more heat in the summer and make it harder for climbers to scale the metal.

Reports from that time also revealed that the president considered a design plan that included a field-tested anti-climbing surface and rounded metal cylinders, but he said he didn't like the appearance, claiming metal points would look more intimidating.
He told a group of aides that spikes would cut climbers' hands and be a more effective in deterring them from scaling the wall.
Not only did Trump make the suggestions so it would be hard for border jumpers to cross, but also so it would be visually appealing and threatening.

At the time of his inquiry about his preferences for the border wall, then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen found herself being the ones who had to constantly tell the president he couldn't have what he wanted.
When Trump said he wanted 'flat black' paint, Nielsen informed him it would cost an extra $1 million per mile, and when he wanted wall construction to be sped up, she told him he would need to obtain permission from landowners.
He told Nielsen they should just take the land and let the property owners sue them.

Two people familiar with a particular conversation said when Nielsen tried to turn the conversation away from incessant ranting about the border wall, the president condescendingly called her 'honey' and 'sweetheart.'

During a briefing on the legal authority to take down drones, Trump cut her off in the middle of her sentence.
'Kirstjen, you didn't hear me the first time, honey,' Trump said, according to the sources. 'Shoot 'em down. Sweetheart, just shoot 'em out of the sky, OK?'

Nielsen was ousted as homeland secretary in early April after a tumultuous tenure in charge of the border security agency, a post that often made her the target of Trump's criticism.
'I have determined that it is the right time for me to step aside,' she said in her resignation letter. 'I hope that the next secretary will have the support of Congress and the courts in fixing the laws which have impeded our ability to fully secure America's borders and which have contributed to discord in our nation's discourse.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...r-snake-moat-wanted-immigrants-shot-LEGS.html


A moat filled with alligators, chat a child ! What about arrowslits, a dawnbrige and some machicolation (to throw boiling-oil at climbers).
I said it, The US are currently having their middle-ages. And I would had that Trump is their mad king. Or maybe he's just the American version of Joffrey Baratheon, as G.R.R. Martin said...

 

[Johan]

Poll shows net 20-point swing in favor of impeaching and removing Trump


Public opinion on impeaching and removing President Trump from office is continuing to shift in Democrats' favor, according to new Quinnipiac and CNN/SSRS polls released Monday.

The big picture: The polls continue the trend of increased favorability for impeachment in the days since Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry into allegations that Trump pushed Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, over unsubstantiated corruption allegations.

By the numbers: Quinnipiac found that 47% of voters favor impeaching and removing Trump from office, compared with 47% who do not. A Quinnipiac poll released on Sept. 25 found showed voters did not want to impeach and remove Trump at 57%-37% split — indicating a net 20-point swing in less than a week.

50% of those surveyed said Trump did something wrong in propositioning Ukraine to investigate Biden, while 40% said he did not. Along party lines, that breaks down to...
Democrats: 86%-3%
Republicans: 9%-83%
Independents: 52%-41%

CNN found a 47%-45% split in favor of impeaching and removing Trump from office, up from 41%-54% in May.

CNN notes: "The change since May has largely come among independents and Republicans. About three-quarters of Democrats favor impeaching Trump and removing him from office, roughly the same as in May, while among independents, support for impeachment and removal has risen 11 points to 46% among independents and 8 points to 14% among Republicans."

Between the lines: 56% of those surveyed in the Quinnipiac poll believe members of Congress favor impeaching Trump "more based on partisan politics than on the facts of the case." 36% say the newly invigorated calls for impeachment have been driven by the facts.

https://www.axios.com/trump-impeach...ine-0bb15f93-b25c-4e17-98f5-9b5e1a6b6751.html

The CNBC All-America Economic Survey also found a substantial drop in Trump’s overall approval rating, hitting the lowest level of his presidency. Just 37% approve of Trump’s handling of his job and 53% disapprove. The president’s “net approval” (approval minus disapproval) dropped to -16 points, 2 points worse than the previous low of his presidency in June and September 2017. The decline results substantially from lost support among independents.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/01/tru...ill-oppose-impeachment-cnbc-survey-finds.html

 

[Luxman]

The Mafia Style in American Politics
Roy Cohn connects the McCarthy era to the age of Trump across more than half a century.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/roy-cohn-mafia-politics/599320/

 

[meesterperfect]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...r-snake-moat-wanted-immigrants-shot-LEGS.html


A moat filled with alligators, chat a child ! What about arrowslits, a dawnbrige and some machicolation (to throw boiling-oil at climbers).
I said it, The US are currently having their middle-ages. And I would had that Trump is their mad king. Or maybe he's just the American version of Joffrey Baratheon, as G.R.R. Martin said...

Exactly. People love a great villain.
Almost every story has one. Many times the villain is even more popular than the hero.

Which is why they chose Trump to play the role. He's perfect for the part. And we all must admit he's absolutely just nailing it.

 

[Johan]

Donald Trump calls on China to investigate Joe Biden amid impeachment inquiry over Ukraine call


US President Donald Trump, ensnared in an impeachment inquiry for allegedly pressuring Ukraine to investigate former vice-president Joe Biden, says China should also conduct a probe.

"China should start an investigation into the Bidens," Mr Trump said in remarks to reporters outside the White House on Thursday (local time).
Mr Trump said he had not directly asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to investigate Mr Biden and his son Hunter but said it was "certainly something we could start thinking about".

By publicly egging China on to investigate a Democratic political rival, Mr Trump appeared to confirm making the same request to Ukraine's President — a conversation which has led to the impeachment investigation by the House of Representatives.
Mr Trump has defended his contact with the Ukrainian President as "perfect" and now is giving a broad airing to a similar appeal to China, a nation that has much at stake in its relationship with the US in an ongoing trade war.

Mr Trump's comments evoked his public call in 2016 for Russia to release Hillary Clinton's emails if they had obtained them by hacking — which US intelligence agencies later determined to be the case.

In the case of both Ukraine and China, Mr Trump has made his allegations against Mr Biden without evidence of wrongdoing.
The President and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani also have tried to raise suspicions about Hunter Biden's business dealings in China, leaning heavily on the writings of conservative author Peter Schweizer.
Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, labelled the allegation that a Chinese government business gave Mr Biden's son $US1.5 billion ($2.23 billion) "totally groundless".

Mr Trump's alleged pressuring of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate the Bidens, as well as Mr Giuliani's conduct, are at the centre of an intelligence community whistleblower's complaint that sparked the House Democratic impeachment inquiry last week.

The President's reference to China came unprompted when he answered a question about the July 25 Ukraine call and moments after he was asked about trade negotiations with China.
"I have a lot of options on China, but if they don't do what we want, we have tremendous, tremendous power," Mr Trump said.
He later alleged without evidence that China had a "sweetheart deal" on trade with the US because of the Bidens.
"You know what they call that," Mr Trump said. "They call that a payoff."

Mr Biden's campaign chairman Cedric Richmond dismissed Mr Trump's assertions as a reflection of the President's concerns about facing Mr Biden in his re-election campaign.
"This President is scared, and he's acting out," the Louisiana congressman said.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, who is taking a leading role in the impeachment inquiry, said Mr Trump's comments showed "he feels he can do anything with impunity".
Federal Election Commission chairwoman Ellen Weintraub responded to Mr Trump's remarks, tweeting a reminder that it was a violation of campaign finance law for anyone to "solicit, accept or receive" anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a US election.

The agency polices campaign finance laws. But after a recent resignation, its board does not have enough commissioners to legally meet and take enforcement action.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/03/politics/trump-biden-call-xi-secure-server/index.html

Notice tht Trump is pissed that, according to him, a US citizens, Hunter Biden, got a great deal at the expense of a foreign country.
I thought Trump was all about "America First"... Seems like when it comes ot isd political opponents, it's more like "foreign countries first".

Trump reportedly brought up Biden and Warren with China in June, gave Xi a pass on Hong Kong


President Trump publicly asked China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son on Thursday, but he has also privately discussed both Biden and 2020 Democratic co-frontrunner Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) with Chinese President Xi Jinping, CNN reports.
In a June 18 call with Xi, Trump brought up the political prospects of both Warren and Biden, CNN reports, citing two people familiar with the discussion. "In that call, Trump also told Xi he would remain quiet on Hong Kong protests as trade talks progressed."
Financial Times had a similar report in July.


The transcript of the Xi call was stored in the same classified codeword server used to irregularly store Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, CNN says. The whistleblower complaint concerning that call prompted the discovery that Trump aides are using the system to store politically sensitive Trump communications, not just national security secrets, and it also pushed the House to start an impeachment process.
China, like Ukraine, says it does not want to get enmeshed in U.S. domestic politics.

Trump's National Security Council and the State Department are also reportedly frustrated that Trump hasn't denounced China's crackdown on pro-democracy activists who have held weekly protests in Hong Kong for months. On Tuesday, when Hong Kong police shot a teenager in the chest with live ammunition, Trump focused on the other big event in China, tweeting: "Congratulations to President Xi and the Chinese people on the 70th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China!"

https://theweek.com/speedreads/8696...iden-warren-china-june-gave-xi-pass-hong-kong

So, Trump is now asking the communist leader of China, a country he's waging a trade war on, to help him for his re-election campaign by getting some dirt on his democratic rivals. !even if you take aside the illegal part of it, a Republican President asking a communist state leader to help to beat his democratic opponents, seriously ? How's that no deeply disturbing ?

 

[georges]

Trump Baits Panicking Media - Says Forget 4 More Years, How About 16?
https://www.westernjournal.com/trum...ff_campaign=pushtraffic&ff_content=2019-09-29

Unemployment Rate Hits 50-Year Low as 136,000 Jobs Are Added
https://www.westernjournal.com/unem...ff_campaign=pushtraffic&ff_content=2019-09-29

Trump's Approval Rises in New Poll After Dems Launch Suicidal Impeachment Proceedings
https://www.westernjournal.com/trum...ff_campaign=pushtraffic&ff_content=2019-09-29

Trump Digs Up Footage of Biden, Pelosi, Nadler, Schumer Condemning Impeachment
https://www.westernjournal.com/trum...ff_campaign=pushtraffic&ff_content=2019-09-29

Trump Suspends Entry of Immigrants Who Cannot Pay for Healthcare
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/t...b=DM57549_10052019&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010504r19nxq

 

[Johan]

After the chants began during his Thursday speech on Medicare at The Villages, Trump said, “Don’t do four more years. Say eight more years,” Fox News reported.

“If you want to drive them crazy just say eight more years or 12 more years. Sixteen would do it good,” he added. “You’d really drive them into the loony bin.”

Conservative-style bad faith : 16 ? Oh sop he's planning not only to win re-election but also declaring martial law at the end of his second term in order to satay in office after that second term reaches its end.
Tyranny !!!

 

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[Johan]

It is quite sad because I realy think Trump had a chance to make it, to make a deal with Kim. He's probably the one who's been the closest to make a dzeal with NK, closer than Bush and Obama. Unfortunately, he and his minions bungled it, as usual...

 

[Supafly]

 

[Luxman]

If Trump can't weasel out of the impeachment, don't be surprised if there is a major false flag event disguised as an accident, disaster, political or financial scandal, or attack, to take the focus off or cancel the impeachment and give the president emergency powers and public support to deal with the event.

 

[Supafly]

If Trump can't weasel out of the impeachment, don't be surprised if there is a major false flag event disguised as an accident, disaster, political or financial scandal, or attack, to take the focus off or cancel the impeachment and give the president emergency powers and public support to deal with the event.

I am positive, that the lone decision, to desert the Kurds in north of Syria is the begin of these attempts. But it sure won't be the last.