President Trump- The Implications

[heironymouspasparagus]

What does Hillary have to do with anything?   Other than somehow being the go-to scapegoat/projection for all of Trump's woes.

I can name a lot of people that aren't president.

Sore winner syndrome.

[swake]

Sore winner syndrome.

They elected a disaster and badly need an excuse as to why they screwed up so terribly.

[heironymouspasparagus]

So now the President of the Boy Scouts admits, yeah, he expected something from Trump like what happened....

Randall Stephenson is being a borderline apologist for Trump and the Trump excesses at the Boy Scout Jamboree.  While he did not personally attend, he was obviously watching closely and will again invite Trump in 4 years if re-elected.  Oh, yeah...by the way...Stephenson is also CEO of AT&T.  The company that is trying to get Trump regulators to approve their $85 billion purchase of Time Warner.   Naw...no collusion there, either.   Well, maybe just a little quid pro quo...??


https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/ap-exclusive-boy-scouts-chief-expected-fiery-trump-000253354--election.html

[guido911]

This is not the way to convince people that LGBT belong in our military.behaving like rabid jackasses.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4733888/Protests-Trump-bans-transgender-people-military.html

[guido911]

What does Hillary have to do with anything?   Other than somehow being the go-to scapegoat/projection for all of Trump's woes.

I can name a lot of people that aren't president.

Everything. She refuses to shut her damned mouth and get out of the way. And all things Hillary naturally belongs in a thread wanting to discuss Trump and the "implications". One implication was supposed to be the nail in the Clinton coffin. But nooooo.

[BKDotCom]

Everything. She refuses to shut her damned mouth and get out of the way.

citation needed

[swake]

So now Donnie has his idiot Sec of the Interior calling Alaska's Republican Senators threatening to withhold federal support to the state of Alaska if they don't vote the "right way" on healthcare.

Which is a Hatch Act violation and a crime.

Stupid Watergate rolls on.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-interior-secretary-called-alaskas-senators-to-threaten-them-over-health-care-vote/

[Hoss]

citation needed

you won't get one.  It's just like any other Trump supporter (even though he says he's not one, he acts like one).  Can't/won't criticize the President for what he's doing, so pivot to Hillary/Obama or whatever other straw man argument they can think of.  Even Senator Graham had this to say today:

"Any effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency unless Mueller did something wrong"

Even most Republicans can't argue that last fact.  They all think he's well suited for what he's doing.

All except the Cheeto Jesus that is.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Everything. She refuses to shut her damned mouth and get out of the way. And all things Hillary naturally belongs in a thread wanting to discuss Trump and the "implications". One implication was supposed to be the nail in the Clinton coffin. But nooooo.

You mean the way that Trump lied for 8 years about the Obama birth certificate...

Just one tiny one among all the other lies he has told.  And crimes he has engaged in.  And sexual deviancy he enjoys.

But yeah,...Hillary is the problem...  We understand.  We really DO understand!

[swake]

you won't get one.  It's just like any other Trump supporter (even though he says he's not one, he acts like one).  Can't/won't criticize the President for what he's doing, so pivot to Hillary/Obama or whatever other straw man argument they can think of.  Even Senator Graham had this to say today:

"Any effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency unless Mueller did something wrong"

Even most Republicans can't argue that last fact.  They all think he's well suited for what he's doing.

All except the Cheeto Jesus that is.

The only people talking about Clinton are Trump, Fauxnews and Hannity.

[heironymouspasparagus]

So now Donnie has his idiot Sec of the Interior calling Alaska's senators threatening to withhold federal funding to the state of Alaska if they don't vote the "right way" on healthcare.

Which is a Hatch Act violation and a crime.

Stupid Watergate rolls on.

And yet...we STILL see no Republican response!!  Nothing but crickets from those paragons of virtue, defenders of the faith, good Upright Moral Christian people who stand by Trump and the 10 Commandments - no matter how many times Trump blasts them to smithereens!!

[heironymouspasparagus]

It's just like any other Trump supporter (even though he says he's not one, he acts like one).  Can't/won't criticize the President for what he's doing, so pivot to Hillary/Obama or whatever other straw man argument they can think of.

And isn't it just amazing the vast number of RWRE who claim to NEVER listen to Fake Fox News - yet spew the script verbatim.  Perform the screenplay like it is their real life!  Well, I guess it is, actually!

[swake]

Now we have complete scumbag Ken "gang rape" Starr condemning Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kenneth-starr-mr-president-please-cut-it-out/2017/07/26/b9af0c78-723e-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.f36c279c862c

When you are too much of a scumbag for Ken Starr, you must really be a scumbag.


In defense of the White House, The Mooch is now quoting Joe "I didn't think child rape was so bad" Paterno regarding dignity and honor.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article163949992.html

Seriously. This can't be real can it?

Stupid Watergate.

[swake]

And now we have the head of the Boy Scouts having to apologize for how the President of the United States spoke to the scouts

http://scoutingwire.org/chief-perspective-presidential-visit/

July 27, 2017
Scouting Family,

In the last two weeks, we have celebrated the best of Scouting at our 20th National Jamboree with nearly 40,000 participants, volunteers, staff and visitors. The 2017 National Jamboree has showcased and furthered the Scouting mission by combining adventure and leadership development to give youth life-changing experiences. Scouts from Alaska met Scouts from Alabama; Scouts from New Mexico met those from New York, and American youth met youth from 59 other countries.

Over the course of ten days, Scouts have taken part in adventures, learned new skills, made new and lasting friendships and completed over 200 community service projects that offered 100,000 hours of service to the community by young men and women eager to do the right thing for the right reasons.

These character-building experiences have not diminished in recent days at the jamboree –  Scouts have continued to trade patches, climb rock walls, and share stories about the day's adventures. But for our Scouting family at home not able to see these real moments of Scouting, we know the past few days have been overshadowed by the remarks offered by the President of the United States.

I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree. That was never our intent. The invitation for the sitting U.S. President to visit the National Jamboree is a long-standing tradition that has been extended to the leader of our nation that has had a Jamboree during his term since 1937. It is in no way an endorsement of any person, party or policies. For years, people have called upon us to take a position on political issues, and we have steadfastly remained non-partisan and refused to comment on political matters. We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program.

While we live in a challenging time in a country divided along political lines, the focus of Scouting remains the same today as every day.

Trustworthiness, loyalty, kindness and bravery are just a few of the admirable traits Scouts aspire to develop – in fact, they make up the Scout Oath and Scout Law.

As part of our program's duty to country, we teach youth to become active citizens, to participate in their government, respect the variety of perspectives and to stand up for individual rights.

Few will argue the importance of teaching values and responsibility to our youth — not only right from wrong, but specific positive values such as fairness, courage, honor and respect for others.

For all of the adventure we provide youth such as hiking, camping and zip-lining, those activities actually serve as proven pathways and opportunities to develop leadership skills and become people of character.

In a time when differences seem to separate our country, we hope the true spirit of Scouting will empower our next generation of leaders to bring people together to do good in the world.

Yours in Scouting,

Mike

That's a downright sad reality.

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The White House Communications Director:

Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon

- Ryan Lizza
On Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director. He wasn't happy. Earlier in the night, I'd tweeted, citing a "senior White House official," that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White House with President Trump, the First Lady, Sean Hannity, and the former Fox News executive Bill Shine. It was an interesting group, and raised some questions. Was Trump getting strategic advice from Hannity? Was he considering hiring Shine? But Scaramucci had his own question—for me.
"Who leaked that to you?" he asked. I said I couldn't give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. "What I'm going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we'll start over," he said. I laughed, not sure if he really believed that such a threat would convince a journalist to reveal a source. He continued to press me and complain about the staff he's inherited in his new job. "I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can't help themselves," he said. "You're an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I'm asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it."
In Scaramucci's view, the fact that word of the dinner had reached a reporter was evidence that his rivals in the West Wing, particularly Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, were plotting against him. While they have publicly maintained that there is no bad blood between them, Scaramucci and Priebus have been feuding for months. After the election, Trump asked Scaramucci to join his Administration, and Scaramucci sold his company, SkyBridge Capital, in anticipation of taking on a senior role. But Priebus didn't want him in the White House, and successfully blocked him for being appointed to a job until last week, when Trump offered him the communications job over Priebus's vehement objections. In response to Scaramucci's appointment, Sean Spicer, an ally of Priebus's, resigned his position as press secretary. And in an additional slight to Priebus, the White House's official announcement of Scaramucci's hiring noted that he would report directly to the President, rather than to the chief of staff.
Scaramucci's first public appearance as communications director was a slick and conciliatory performance at the lectern in the White House briefing room last Friday. He suggested it was time for the White House to turn a page. But since then, he has become obsessed with leaks and threatened to fire staffers if he discovers that they have given unauthorized information to reporters. Michael Short, a White House press aide considered close to Priebus, resigned on Tuesday after Scaramucci publicly spoke about firing him. Meanwhile, several damaging stories about Scaramucci have appeared in the press, and he blamed Priebus for most of them. Now, he wanted to know whom I had been talking to about his dinner with the President. Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.
"Is it an assistant to the President?" he asked. I again told him I couldn't say. "O.K., I'm going to fire every one of them, and then you haven't protected anybody, so the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks."
I asked him why it was so important for the dinner to be kept a secret. Surely, I said, it would become public at some point. "I've asked people not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period," he said. "They won't do it." He was getting more and more worked up, and he eventually convinced himself that Priebus was my source.
"They'll all be fired by me," he said. "I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I'll fire tomorrow. I'll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he'll be asked to resign very shortly." The issue, he said, was that he believed Priebus had been worried about the dinner because he hadn't been invited. "Reince is a bucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac," Scaramucci said. He channelled Priebus as he spoke: " 'Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the bucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.' " (Priebus did not respond to a request for comment.)
Scaramucci was particularly incensed by a Politico report about his financial-disclosure form, which he viewed as an illegal act of retaliation by Priebus. The reporter said Thursday morning that the document was publicly available and she had obtained it from the Export-Import Bank. Scaramucci didn't know this at the time, and he insisted to me that Priebus had leaked the document, and that the act was "a felony."
"I've called the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice," he told me.
"Are you serious?" I asked.
"The swamp will not defeat him," he said, breaking into the third person. "They're trying to resist me, but it's not going to work. I've done nothing wrong on my financial disclosures, so they're going to have to go love themselves."
Scaramucci also told me that, unlike other senior officials, he had no interest in media attention. "I'm not Steve Bannon, I'm not trying to suck my own cock," he said, speaking of Trump's chief strategist. "I'm not trying to build my own brand off the bucking strength of the President. I'm here to serve the country." (Bannon declined to comment.)
He reiterated that Priebus would resign soon, and he noted that he told Trump that he expected Priebus to launch a campaign against him. "He didn't get the hint that I was reporting directly to the President," he said. "And I said to the President here are the four or five things that he will do to me." His list of allegations included leaking the Hannity dinner and the details from his financial-disclosure form.
I got the sense that Scaramucci's campaign against leakers flows from his intense loyalty to Trump. Unlike other Trump advisers, I've never heard him say a bad word about the President. "What I want to do is I want to bucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the President's agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people," he told me.
He cryptically suggested that he had more information about White House aides. "O.K., the Mooch showed up a week ago," he said. "This is going to get cleaned up very shortly, O.K.? Because I nailed these guys. I've got digital fingerprints on everything they've done through the F.B.I. and the bucking Department of Justice."
"What?" I interjected.
"Well, the felony, they're gonna get prosecuted, probably, for the felony." He added, "The lie detector starts—" but then he changed the subject and returned to what he thought was the illegal leak of his financial-disclosure forms. I asked if the President knew all of this.
"Well, he doesn't know the extent of all that, he knows about some of that, but he'll know about the rest of it first thing tomorrow morning when I see him."
Scaramucci said he had to get going. "Yeah, let me go, though, because I've gotta start tweeting some smile to make this guy crazy."
Minutes later, he tweeted, "In light of the leak of my financial info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45." With the addition of Priebus's Twitter handle, he was making public what he had just told me: that he believed Priebus was leaking information about him. The tweet quickly went viral.
Scaramucci seemed to have second thoughts. Within two hours he deleted the original tweet and posted a new one denying that he was targeting the chief of staff. "Wrong!" he said, adding a screenshot of an Axios article that said, "Scaramucci appears to want Priebus investigated by FBI." Scaramucci continued, "Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. @Reince45."
A few hours later, I appeared on CNN to discuss the overnight drama. As I was talking about Scaramucci, he called into the show himself and referenced our conversation. He changed his story about Priebus. Instead of saying that he was trying to expose Priebus as a leaker, he said that the reason he mentioned Priebus in his deleted tweet was because he wanted to work together with Priebus to discover the leakers.
"He's the chief of staff, he's responsible for understanding and uncovering and helping me do that inside the White House, which is why I put that tweet out last night," Scaramucci said, after noting that he had talked to me Wednesday night. He then made an argument that journalists were assuming that he was accusing Priebus because they know Priebus leaks to the press.
"When I put out a tweet, and I put Reince's name in the tweet," he said, "they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are. So, if Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker, let him do that."
Scaramucci then made a plea to viewers. "Let me tell you something about myself," he said. "I am a straight shooter."
-Ryan Lizza is the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, and also an on-air contributor for CNN.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon