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TAKE THE POLL: HOW LONG BEFORE TRUMP GETS IMPEACHED
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one thing trump has been consistent on and set a record...something he likes to do.....he has had the lowest approval rating of any pres in history...although it is higher now than at any point in his pres...….there is also a higher number of people waiting for the Mueller report...and a higher number of people that has finally come to the conclusion the guy is a liar!
so it would seem the public is giving him some lee-way......but do not believe anything he says....rest of the world has already figured out he is a loser....Americans just a little slow in that department
so it would seem the public is giving him some lee-way......but do not believe anything he says....rest of the world has already figured out he is a loser....Americans just a little slow in that department
Trump's current approval rating
Trump’s current approval rating in Gallup’s weekly poll is comparable to his average rating, standing at just 38%, with 57% saying they disapprove.
Trump's approval rating at lowest for any president in ...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/16/trumps-approval-rating-at-lowest-for-any-president-in-their …
Trump’s current approval rating in Gallup’s weekly poll is comparable to his average rating, standing at just 38%, with 57% saying they disapprove.
Trump's approval rating at lowest for any president in ...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/16/trumps-approval-rating-at-lowest-for-any-president-in-their …
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Sometimes you need a bit of distance to get perspective.
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what the fuck are you smoking?
Obama supported the shutting down of the coal industry. Shifting factories to Mexico and China. Had a hatred of factory workers because they were white, religious and liked their guns. Did not do one thing to save or revive the steel undustry. Wanted high gas prices that was brural on small busineeses, fanilies and rural areas. Obama wanted unrestricted immigration that would provide plenty of democrat votes at the expense of wage growth for all but tje weslthy.
Trump has done the opposite. Get people back to work. Revive the manufacturing base, get the energy sector working again, get real wage growth for everyone, crack down on unfair trade deals. I guess the question is not if I am smoking crack, but why were you smoking crack during the ‘Bamster nightmare years.
what the fuck are you smoking?
actually trump reminds me of the old wizard of oz movie....Dorothy finally gets to Oz and in to see the "wizard"....here is all this smoke and mirrors saying "I am all Powerful"...something screws up and the curtain opens...here is this fat old man with no powers at all ...just a bag of tricks!
and he had the whole kingdom fooled
and he had the whole kingdom fooled
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http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/art...-closed-under-trump-than-in-obamas-first-term
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/09/6072...al-appalachia-will-trump-s-promises-come-true
syscom ..... give FOX NEWS and Trump's lies a rest.
Bush just died... And the rest will follow him to hell. Where they belong
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Washington (CNN)Roger Stone is known for hyperbole, but his latest graphic warning should worry Donald Trump.
The political trickster said Tuesday, a day he pleaded not guilty to seven charges laid by special counsel Robert Mueller, that Trump's presidency is in mortal peril because the Russia investigation amounts to a "speeding bullet heading for his head."
Stone's comment, to "Breitbart News Daily" on Sirius XM radio, added to soaring anticipation, fueled by a remark by acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker on Monday, that the probe could soon end with Mueller's final report.
And it raised the question of whether Trump's repeated claim of "no collusion" fired off in scores of tweets and comments to the press, is a sufficiently broad defense to the existential threat that Stone perceives from Mueller's work.
The indictment of Stone, Trump's longest serving political adviser, refocused attention on whether Trump and his team crossed legal and ethical lines during an effort to defeat Hillary Clinton in an election that featured a simultaneous Russian meddling operation.
The key question for Mueller has always been whether there was a criminal conspiracy by members of Trump's team to cooperate with Moscow's bid to make him President.
So far, he has offered no proof of such a bombshell finding, in a forest of indictments, court filings, one trial and convictions of people around the President in a probe that appears to be getting ever closer to the Oval Office.
If Mueller does establish such behavior, it would answer the puzzling question: Why have so many people around Trump -- at great costs to themselves -- repeatedly lied about ties to Russians?
Or, it's conceivable -- if the special counsel could conclude that though there was evidence of a cover-up -- it was not motivated by a desire to hide a crime, but was meant to spare Trump the political embarrassment of noncriminal links to Russia?
But even if that is the case, Mueller's voluminous filings and other publicly available information have established a pattern of behavior by Trump and aides that tore at norms of behavior during campaign season and shows clear disrespect for the integrity of a presidential election -- part of the fabric of US democracy.
It is likely to fall to the Democratic-led House to consider whether such activity is unethical and in such conflict with American values, that it merits further action -- potentially even impeachment.
A record of questionable electioneering
Acting AG Whitaker: Mueller investigation 'close to being completed'
There is already no doubt the Trump team was ready to go to extreme lengths in 2016 to win.
In one of many staggering revelations about Russia in 2017, The New York Times reported that Trump's *******, Donald Trump Jr., wrote in an email "I love it" when told a senior Russian official had "dirt" to hand over on Clinton in a subsequent meeting in Trump Tower in New York.
A more recent bombshell raised more doubts about the Trump camp's observance of electoral propriety. The President's former lawyer Michael Cohen admitted paying adult film actress Stormy Daniels a $130,000 hush payment in violation of campaign finance laws at the direction of the President.
Then, when Cohen pleaded guilty to a charge lodged by Mueller in November, he said he had lied about the duration of a project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. He originally said discussions ended in January 2016 but corrected that to say they continued as late as June 2016.
That left open the possibility that Trump had not only lied when he told Americans he had no business ties to Russia, but that he saw his campaign -- a form of public trust when he should have been promoting America's interests -- as a way to grease the wheels to a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Another question that Mueller could clear up is why Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort offered proprietary polling data to Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime business associate with ties to Russia intelligence.
The episode emerged from a botched campaign filing this month by Manafort's lawyers. It is not known whether the uber lobbyist was acting alone, possibly in an effort to funnel information to Ukrainian oligarchs to whom he was in debt.
There was immediate speculation that Manafort was acting at the behest of other campaign operatives and the polling data might have helped the targeting of social media disinformation campaigns in key swing states by Russian intelligence. Mueller alleged in a separate indictment that a Kremlin-linked troll farm spent millions to influence Americans on social media, though the charges did not describe any coordination with Trump's team.
Trump often showed disdain for accepted standards of behavior in campaigns. For instance, the then-Republican nominee called on Russia to find 30,000 missing emails from the private server Hillary Clinton used while secretary of state.
Later that day, according to a Mueller indictment, Russian intelligence operatives, spent hours trying to hack emails from a domain used by Clinton's private office.
In August 2016, Trump was personally warned by senior US intelligence officials that foreign adversaries including Russia would likely attempt to infiltrate his team or gather intelligence about his campaign.
In October, US intelligence agencies went public with findings that Russia had directed efforts by DCLeaks and WikiLeaks to release Democratic emails stolen by its spies.
Yet the candidate Trump repeatedly praised WikiLeaks for the emails that badly damaged the Clinton campaign from the stump.
"I love WikiLeaks," he said at one point.
The public warning from the intelligence agencies coincided with the release of an "Access Hollywood" tape that contained shocking audio of Trump making lewd comments about women.
Less than an hour later, Wikileaks dumped a new batch of emails that appeared to have been designed to take the sting out of an October surprise that threatened to derail Trump's entire campaign.
Jerome Corsi, a conservative author and conspiracy theorist, told CNN in November that Stone had called him several times that day to ask him to get in touch with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to get him to release more material. Stone denies this.
Stone pleaded not guilty in court Tuesday to seven criminal charges of false statements, witness tampering and obstruction.
He was not charged with conspiracy, though the indictment described how Stone allegedly coordinated with Trump campaign officials about his outreach to WikiLeaks.
In one intriguing passage, Mueller alleged that "after the July 22, 2016 release of stolen (Democratic National Committee) emails by (WikiLeaks), a senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact STONE about any additional releases and what other damaging information (WikiLeaks) had regarding the Clinton Campaign."
The sentence sparked speculation about whether the person giving that direction, was Trump, or a member of his family. Even if it was Trump, it would not necessarily be a sign of a crime -- but could put him in jeopardy if he solicited information from WikiLeaks he knew was illegally obtained.
Stone is a flashing warning sign
Roger Stone enters not guilty plea
Even without clarity on whether the President directed Stone's activity, his presence close to Trump during the 2016 campaign is casting a suspicious light on the strategy the President pursued to win.
Stone is a link between the Watergate storm, when he worked for President Richard Nixon's notorious dirty tricks gang, and the Russia intrigue -- potentially the biggest Washington scandal since the one that felled the 37th President.
"Stone will do anything to win," Princeton University history professor Julian Zelizer recently said on CNN. "I think a lot of Republicans shudder to see him back in the news right now, literally flashing the Nixon signs and people are making that comparison between President Trump and President Nixon."
If Mueller does not establish the activity during 2016 adds up to a criminal conspiracy, Congress will have to decide whether it needs to act in defense of the US electoral system. If it does, it wouldn't be the first time, and lawmakers may look to history for guidance.
In an appendix to the final report of the Senate Select Committee on the Watergate scandal, which he chaired, North Carolina Sen. Sam Ervin defined that drama as an effort "to destroy, insofar as the Presidential election of 1972 was concerned, the integrity of the process by which the President of the United States is nominated and elected."
Should Congress decide Trump is guilty of a similar transgression, with or without a recommendation by Mueller, it must then work out whether it meets the standard of a high crime and misdemeanor, the standard for impeachment.
A debate is likely at that point over whether wrongdoing before a President is elected requires the ultimate sanction against a commander in chief.
After all, Nixon was already in office when the President's men set out to stain the integrity of the 1972 election.
Corey Brettschneider, author of the recent book "The Oath and the Office: a Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents" says that a candidate who undermines elections cannot be taken seriously when they later take an oath to defend the constitutional system.
"Certainly, cheating in an election or committing illegal acts to influence an election not only undermines a future president's integrity, it represents an existential threat to democracy, especially when it comes to colluding with a foreign government," Brettschneider said.
"If Trump cheated on the way to becoming president, he betrayed his oath to defend the basic law that underlies our system of self government," he said.
CNN's Marshall Cohen contributed to this report.
REF: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/politics/donald-trump-roger-stone-collusion/index.html
* * * ANOTHER FACT * * *
FRIENDS OF FEATHER FLOCK & FLY TOGETHER.
IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF NIXON: "I AM NOT A CROOK"
GUILTY AS INDICTED, CHARGED, AND SOON TO BE CONVICTED!
FRIENDS OF FEATHER FLOCK & FLY TOGETHER.
IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF NIXON: "I AM NOT A CROOK"
GUILTY AS INDICTED, CHARGED, AND SOON TO BE CONVICTED!
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"I have past posts linking to stories pointing out that areas with high density - cities - tend to be more Democrat/liberal than suburban and rural areas. Perhaps communitarian and egalitarian values become important when people live on top of each other. Individualism matters more when one has lots of space surrounding them.
Its an idea."
REF: http://theweakerparty.blogspot.com/2014/01/and-another-redblue-image.html
Over 1,000 nonsensitive documents turned over to the defense attorneys of a Russian company indicted by Mueller - Concord Management and Consulting - were "altered" and subsequently disseminated online in October 2018, Mueller's office said in a Wednesday court filing.
"Certain nonsensitive discovery materials in the defense's possession appear to have been altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign aimed (apparently) at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the U.S. political system," prosecutors said in the filing.
According to the filing, in late October the "newly created Twitter account @HackingRedstone published the following tweet: 'We've got access to the Special Counsel Mueller's probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case Concord LLC v. Mueller. You can view all the files Mueller had about the IRA and Russian collusion. Enjoy the reading!'"
Federal prosecutors said that the tweet included a link to a webpage located on an online file-sharing portal and "contained file folders with names and folder structures that are unique to the names and structures of materials (including tracking numbers assigned by the Special Counsel's Office) produced by the government in discovery."
Read more: Roger Stone says he'd be open to talking about his conversations with Trump, and that could be a game changer for Mueller
The filing added, "The fact that the webpage contained numerous irrelevant files suggest that the person who created the webpage used their knowledge of the nonsensitive discovery to make it appear as though the irrelevant files contained on the webpage were the sum total evidence of 'IRA and Russian collusion' gathered by law enforcement in this matter in an apparent effort to discredit the investigation."
The Internet Research Agency, or IRA, is a St. Petersburg-based research firm. The IRA's top executives have also been indicted in Mueller's probe, and are accused of playing a central role in Russia's efforts to use social media to influence the US presidential election in 2016.
The account behind the October tweet, which the filing said had a Russian IP address, has since been suspended. The disinformation campaign ultimately didn't gain momentum.
Federal prosecutors said there was no evidence that the FBI or the special counsel's office had been successfully hacked.
The filing also informed the Russian company's defense team that Mueller's office is declining a request for sensitive documents to be turned over in preparation for trial, citing the disinformation campaign as a large part of the motivation for this decision.
"Concord's request to send the sensitive discovery to the Russian Federation unreasonably risks the national security interests of the United States," the filing stated.
Concord is owned by owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is often referred to as "Putin's chef."
REF: https://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-office-targeted-russian-disinformation-campaign-2019-1
Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, one of 13 Russians named in Mueller’s indictment, serves dinner to Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Reuters
REF: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-farm-and-russias-plot-to-hijack-us-democracy
Its an idea."
REF: http://theweakerparty.blogspot.com/2014/01/and-another-redblue-image.html
- Federal prosecutors claim special counsel Robert Mueller's office was targeted by a Russian disinformation campaign.
- Nonsensitive documents provided to a Russian company indicted by Mueller were altered and leaked online in October 2018, according to a Wednesday court filing.
- The disinformation campaign was largely a flop but is part of the reason Mueller is declining the Russian company's request for access to sensitive documents ahead of trial.
Over 1,000 nonsensitive documents turned over to the defense attorneys of a Russian company indicted by Mueller - Concord Management and Consulting - were "altered" and subsequently disseminated online in October 2018, Mueller's office said in a Wednesday court filing.
"Certain nonsensitive discovery materials in the defense's possession appear to have been altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign aimed (apparently) at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the U.S. political system," prosecutors said in the filing.
According to the filing, in late October the "newly created Twitter account @HackingRedstone published the following tweet: 'We've got access to the Special Counsel Mueller's probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case Concord LLC v. Mueller. You can view all the files Mueller had about the IRA and Russian collusion. Enjoy the reading!'"
Federal prosecutors said that the tweet included a link to a webpage located on an online file-sharing portal and "contained file folders with names and folder structures that are unique to the names and structures of materials (including tracking numbers assigned by the Special Counsel's Office) produced by the government in discovery."
Read more: Roger Stone says he'd be open to talking about his conversations with Trump, and that could be a game changer for Mueller
The filing added, "The fact that the webpage contained numerous irrelevant files suggest that the person who created the webpage used their knowledge of the nonsensitive discovery to make it appear as though the irrelevant files contained on the webpage were the sum total evidence of 'IRA and Russian collusion' gathered by law enforcement in this matter in an apparent effort to discredit the investigation."
The Internet Research Agency, or IRA, is a St. Petersburg-based research firm. The IRA's top executives have also been indicted in Mueller's probe, and are accused of playing a central role in Russia's efforts to use social media to influence the US presidential election in 2016.
The account behind the October tweet, which the filing said had a Russian IP address, has since been suspended. The disinformation campaign ultimately didn't gain momentum.
Federal prosecutors said there was no evidence that the FBI or the special counsel's office had been successfully hacked.
The filing also informed the Russian company's defense team that Mueller's office is declining a request for sensitive documents to be turned over in preparation for trial, citing the disinformation campaign as a large part of the motivation for this decision.
"Concord's request to send the sensitive discovery to the Russian Federation unreasonably risks the national security interests of the United States," the filing stated.
Concord is owned by owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is often referred to as "Putin's chef."
REF: https://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-office-targeted-russian-disinformation-campaign-2019-1
Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, one of 13 Russians named in Mueller’s indictment, serves dinner to Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Reuters
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He won't easily 2 term
