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Unagi wrote:Is there any argument that Australia leaked the transcript?

ImLawBoy wrote:

Unagi wrote:Is there any argument that Australia leaked the transcript?

Unless they somehow also had the transcript for Trump's call with Pena Nieto, probably not.

Unagi wrote:

Rip wrote:

hepcat wrote:

Rip wrote:I just can't believe what the words people are writing about him.

May need to have the lawsuit people look into it.

If that were possible, Hillary Clinton would own your ass.

Ahh, but I'm not a words person and I am poor. The lawsuit people won't waste their time on me.

Get A Room

Unagi wrote:I was thinking Reince Priebus was more likely for this one.

He's raw.


...and was more suspected, IIRC, of being a suspected leaker

Octavious wrote:Is it typical for them to do this go in every 3 days and bang a gavel thing during recess, or is this a Trump special to keep him from doing more dumb shit?

Octavious wrote:Is it typical for them to do this go in every 3 days and bang a gavel thing during recess, or is this a Trump special to keep him from doing more dumb shit?

malchior wrote:It is sort of interesting they are doing it with their own President. Trust levels are not high.

Rip wrote:

malchior wrote:It is sort of interesting they are doing it with their own President. Trust levels are not high.

Are you referring to when they did it to Obama?

Smoove_B wrote:Guess what the secret service has spent $60,000 on this year.

Spoiler:

Golf cart rentals

Pyperkub wrote:

Smoove_B wrote:Guess what the secret service has spent $60,000 on this year.

Spoiler:

Golf cart rentals

I wonder if there are special requirements (full offroad, bulletproof, rifle/shotgun rack, etc.).

Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20-to-25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.

These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, don’t contain top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives. Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.

Stephen Miller: "President #Trump's the most gifted politician of our time, and he's the best orator to hold that office in generations."

Chaz wrote:He's therefore conflated giving the order to do a thing, and the thing actually happening.

RunningMn9 wrote:

Chaz wrote:He's therefore conflated giving the order to do a thing, and the thing actually happening.

As I pointed out to him, he didn't actually give the order to do the thing either. His first order as President was to neuter the ACA. He's never issued an EO regarding modernizing or boosting our nuclear arsenal. Which he probably couldn't even do anyway, do the enormous cost of such an endeavor (which would probably require an act of congress).

On Jan. 27, one week after his inauguration, Trump issued an executive order directing the Defense Department to launch a Nuclear Posture Review, a major undertaking that will set his administration's nuclear policy.

The Pentagon has said the review, which officially began in April, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. It is expected to guide the Defense Department as it builds new nuclear-capable submarines, bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles in coming years. Full modernization of the arsenal could then take many years.

The last such review was conducted in 2010 under the Obama administration, which developed a purchasing plan to update all three legs of the nuclear triad with modernized weapon systems that would not be completed until well into the 2020s.

“Any decision that the president were to take now, or that he took in January, would take years to implement,” said Jon Wolfsthal, who served in the Obama administration as the National Security Council's senior director for nonproliferation and arms control. “I'm very skeptical of the idea that Trump believes that he has modernized or adjusted our arsenal because there have been no visible changes to it.”

RunningMn9 wrote:(which would probably require an act of congress).

Max Peck wrote:Actually, he did order a nuclear posture review, just as Obama did before him.

The Nuclear Posture Review is a legislatively-mandated review that establishes U.S. nuclear policy, strategy, capabilities and force posture for the next five to ten years.

RunningMn9 wrote:And as far as I can tell, the last nuclear posture review was completed in 2010. Not sure when it was ordered. But they haven't issued a report yet on Trump's January EO. Presumably any actions taken from that review come after the review is complete.

Holman wrote:Trump said something about wanting to modernize and expand our nukes during the campaign. Isn't that the same as ordering it and achieving it?

Skinypupy wrote:In addition to his typical unhinged bullshit, in the last 24 hours, Trump has retweeted 9 stories from Fox News.

State run media, indeed.

Smoove_B wrote:...and now President Trump is taking shots at Mitch McConnell. This is glorious!.

LordMortis wrote:

Smoove_B wrote:...and now President Trump is taking shots at Mitch McConnell. This is glorious!.

This is actually consistent for Trump (for the last few weeks). Shocking, I know, but he set his sights on (Republican leadership in) Congress (and specifically the Senate) two weeks ago. Putintine plans to use DonDon Trump to put a vote of no confidence to dissolve the Senate, I think, after he weakens the sanctioned military and hands internationally policing to an independent Blackwater group, for which Putintine holds favor. Rumor has it, they'll mask the take over with disputes over unfair federated trade disputes.

Or something like that.

Edit: Oh Internet, don't ever change



Edit:

Didn't Trump hire McConnell's wife? Loyalty!

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... mp/532320/

here we go!

"'The President ... Says What He Wants to Say'

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao tried to explain Donald Trump’s tweets..."

Since President Trump won the Republican nomination, the majority of his companies’ real estate sales are to secretive shell companies that obscure the buyers’ identities, a USA TODAY investigation has found.

Over the last 12 months, about 70% of buyers of Trump properties were limited liability companies – corporate entities that allow people to purchase property without revealing all of the owners’ names. That compares with about 4% of buyers in the two years before.

USA TODAY journalists have spent six months cataloging every condo, penthouse or other property that Trump and his companies own – and tracking the buyers behind every transaction. The investigation found Trump’s companies owned more than 430 individual properties worth well over $250 million.