“And that’s just one example, there are countless others. None of which seemed to bother the media because, as MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle put it, “Even if not all of it is true, the spirit of the book is and it’s troublesome. It’s chaotic.”
What’s true and what’s fiction doesn’t matter because as that cable news personality basically put it, it fit what they all believe to be the case. We are now in a time where what is news is determined by the “spidey sense” of activists with media credentials.
As we learned with the Titanic, there is a lot more to an iceberg than just the tip. And this ridiculous week was no different.
A group of Democrats in Congress held briefings on Capitol Hill with a Yale professor named Brandy X. Lee who, in admitted complete violation of the ethics governing her profession, has edited and contributed to a book claiming President Donald Trump is losing his mind. What’s the point of ethics when you have a product to sell?
Lee found a receptive audience among the more unstable liberals in Congress, including Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin, who regaled CNN with tales of his “concern” for Trump’s mental health. Raskin, looking like he’d recently slept in a bag of potato chips, told CNN of his concern that the President was crazy.
What’s really crazy is advocating for policies that have failed throughout the world, as Raskin and his fellow travelers often do in government. Unstable is the mind calling for socialized medicine and extol the virtues of the UK’s National Health Service without acknowledging the fact that all non-emergency surgeries have been canceled for the month of January because their system is simply overwhelmed. That’s straight jacket-level insane.”
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Who the crazy ones are is all a matter of perspective. Being infected with TDS has even caused some usually sane people to side with partisan frauds, but only because they want to believe what the frauds are saying is true. So they jump on the crazy train with them. Amusing really. But I’m not laughing with them, I’m laughing at them.
Just think, only 3 to 7 more years of this. It’s gonna be great. 🙂
"In June 2017, Trump…said he was '100 percent' willing to testify under oath about his conversations with Comey." No way Trump does this. One purpose of the subsequent sustained attack on Comey is to lay the predicate for refusing to testify before him.https://t.co/QzwVqCqxtt
Ricky @ 8:24 I think Miller was correct when he said in his interview that CNN and Tapper don’t want to cover the things that are important to Trump supporters because the working people are not important to them.
My fear is that this lack of concern will be a problem in 2020, and the Weaver candidate (although cute as a button) may be weak in this area.
Thanks for posting the interview, Debra. I tried to find it on Sirius all the home from Lubbock yesterday afternoon. It was ugly. Miller was really unpleasant and Tapper was not professional.
I thought Miller not at all unpleasant; he was more articulate than I expected. But yes, Tapper was very unprofessional. CNN has really fallen in quality. I have not watched them since I stopped working at Amazon a couple of years ago. They were playing CNN all day and all night in the break rooms, so I used to see CNN for about half an hour daily. If Tapper is the best they’ve got, they’re really on the skids.
HA! So I guess it just remains to be determined which direction his food bowl is coming from….and I think I know: somewhere in the 1980s with Ronald Reagan.. :–)
“The Department of Homeland Security will not renew the Temporary Protected Status designation that has allowed the Salvadorans to remain in the United States since at least 2001, when their country was struck by a pair of devastating earthquakes, according to multiple people with knowledge of the plan.
Individuals will have until September 2019 to leave or seek other means to obtain lawful residency. DHS will make its formal announcement later this morning, these people said.”
@ 10:28 I hope they have made arrangements for most of these people to receive green cards or the current equivalent as long as they are not criminals or gang affiliates. I understand cleaning up the immigration process, but deporting law abiding people who have undoubtedly grown up, married and had children here— who are lawful citizens of the US—would be a really dumb idea, in my opinion.
AJ – Re: last night’s discussion – I should have mentioned that the man I referred to as a staunch conservative is not a Never-Trumper. IIRC, he has given Trump his due in other matters.
As I’m thinking about this, I realize that “staunch conservatives” are often against Trump, and “staunch Republicans” are often against Trump. But there are those who fit those names that are not full-on Trump supporters, and neither are they Never-Trumpers. They are somewhere in the middle, giving him his due where they see him doing something they approve of, but also not completely happy with him in other ways. Maybe the man I mentioned falls into that category. What should we call them?
In today’s politics, neither side cares what you want or think, unless you’re on their side. That’s why I’d prefer neither, and would like to see the 2 party system die.
That’s why I support Trump. He’s the perfect tool for the job. 🙂
He brings out the worst in both sides, for all the world to see. I’m actually starting to feel a little bad at times, for enjoying this spectacle so much.
Like I said Michelle, the perfect tool for the job. 🙂
And not nearly been the nightmare the Democrats and Never-Trumpers predicted.
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“Once Trump was in power, how does Wolff explain the near phenomenal economic turnaround in the latter part of 2017? Does he not see that the stupider you make Trump in his successful first year, by inference the even stupider you make the supposedly smarter actors in their many failed years?
Although psychological in part, the upswing is not accidental. So far economic robustness seems predicated on massive deregulation, the expectation and then the reality of comprehensive tax reform and reduction, wooing home capital and industry, expanded energy production, loud business boosterism, recalibrating foreign investment and trade, and declining illegal immigration. Did Trump do that between scarfing down cups of Häagen-Dazs? Did his team act on their own while Trump was too busy scraping the crumbs out of the bottoms of his barrels of KFC?
Why did not the supposedly far more sober and judicious Obama comprehend how to achieve 3 percent GDP growth. Could not Larry Summers or Timothy Geithner have ushered in record consumer and business confidence? Why did not black employment reach 2018 levels in 2013?
Is not a man like Obama who eats arugula instead of daily swigging a dozen diet sodas far more studious and intellectually curious on all matters economic? Are we dunces really to believe merely building a high-rise in Manhattan takes more savvy than editing in near absentia the Harvard Law Review?
Abroad, why did not the supposedly worldly Hillary Clinton as secretary of state tweet her support for the Iranian revolutionaries in the streets in 2009—in the manner that a supposedly buffoonish and semi-literate and combed-over Donald Trump instinctively did in 2018? Presidencies in purported shambles, after all, are supposed to leave the country in greater shambles.
Buffoon or Revolutionary?
Absent, then, in Wolff’s supposed Confederacy of Trump White House Dunces is any explanation how such supposed clueless amateurs reset economic and foreign policy in such a way as to achieve startling improvements in less than a year at home and abroad.
And that is the quandary is it not? The dunce Trump in his first year was supposed to prove an irrelevant dumbo, not a skilled conservative revolutionary who threatens to nullify 2009-2017?
The lurid revelations of Trump White House chaos make no sense, given the Trump electoral success and first-year record of governance—unless the stories are either fake news or perhaps a quarter true.”
“James Comey has been under more than his fair share of scrutiny lately, but now a new angle seems to be emerging. The Washington Times reported on Friday that former Justice Department lawyer Ty Clevenger has raised questions in New York over whether Comey’s decision to leak potentially classified memos to the press through a friend of his might constitute grounds for disbarment. And the original complaint is tied to accusations being made by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley.
Former FBI Director James Comey’s decision to leak memos of his interactions with President Trump could come back to haunt him in a challenge to his New York bar membership.
Ty Clevenger, a lawyer who filed a grievance against Mr. Comey, said in a letter Friday to the New York lawyers’ disciplinary committee that if the fired director ended up leaking classified information it should bolster the case against him.
Earlier this week Sen. Charles E. Grassley revealed that Mr. Comey appears to have authored seven memos about his interactions with Mr. Trump. The government has deemed four of those seven memos to have classified information. Mr. Comey also leaked at least four memos to a law professor friend.
It’s easy to see how this could be viewed as retribution by people with an ax to grind against Comey and his defenders will no doubt make that claim. But at the same time, the wording of the complaint could have merit. Grassley has concluded that at least one of the leaked memos must have had classified information in it. Assuming that’s true, it could amount to a willful breach of client confidentiality (?) or, “illegal conduct that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer.” The second sounds more likely than the first, given I’m not entirely sure who would be defined as a “client” in this case. Trump? But the second aspect would speak more to any attorney’s fitness as an officer of the court.”
Ricky, the upside to the politburo is that finally we can come to terms with your favorite trading partner, China. Our politburos can talk to each other and decide for us how it’s all to be handled. And all those pesky regulations can fly right out the window. Who needs clean air, clean water and unleaded paint when we can have bottled water from Flint. ;–)
We determined that we would have no more Bushes. I agreed.
Dr. Ben Carson didn’t have name recognition nor a record we could count on.
We needed somebody, anybody, who would defeat the Clintons.
So we got Trump
The Democrats have to find someone to counter that.
“Now, “24” was so over the top that its dramatic twists became something of a punch line. How preposterous to imagine that a president’s handpicked cabinet would vote to oust him in a palace overthrow! But that fantasy land is precisely what some of the mostly unelected opposition hopes to see happen with President Trump as part of the more-than-a-year-long temper tantrum against the results of the 2016 election.
In the last debate of 2016, Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would accept the election results, and he said “I will tell you at the time.” Hillary Clinton responded to Trump by calling his remark “horrifying.” The general media environment was to react with unabashed horror for at least 72 hours.
Trump’s comments were wrong — undermining confidence in the electoral process is unbecoming of a political leader of this great nation. But it’s doubtful that even Trump would have done a tiny fraction what his unelected opposition has done to undermine and overturn the results of the election had he lost. Even if he had thrown a year-long temper tantrum, he would not have been aided and abetted in it by a majority of the media or other members of the establishment.
Since his surprise win, the country has been subjected to attempts to delegitimize Trump’s election by blaming “fake news” for tricking voters into supporting him, or a year-long obsession, still noticeably unsubstantiated, with the idea that he conspired with Russians to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. We’ve heard people desperately attempt to keep the Electoral College from voting for him, been told that damaging information from intelligence agencies would keep him from being inaugurated, and that the cabinet should pull a “24”-style move and oust him via the 25th Amendment.
Among those struggling to accept the fact that the American people elected Donald Trump in 2016, the 25th Amendment has been a go-to fantasy for a while, particularly among those who strongly dislike Trump’s less-interventionist foreign policy. Eliot Cohen reached for it in the very first week of the presidency.
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker waited until February 10 to say that the cabinet should use that amendment’s provisions since Trump is “so incompetent — or not-quite-right” that he poses a threat. Perhaps most famously, New York Times‘ conservative columnist Ross Douthat went hard for the 25th Amendment solution to what ails him in mid-May.”
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Michelle@12:33 That’s a pretty good article regarding the Wolff book. Here’s the last few paragraphs:
….In short, an isolated Trump campaign and initial administration were, by the definition of its very character and intent, going to be very weird and strange—and orphaned from the halls of supposed expertise and sober establishmentarian protocol. Was that not the point of Trump’s blind Samson with his arms around the pillars of the Temple of Dagon campaign?
What few people—Wolff least of all—understood is that amid the supposed chaotic palace intrigue, Trump on his own chose to receive some good advice from Mike Pence, congressional Republican leaders in the House and Senate, conservative activist organizations, the legal team in the White House, and others. Thus he made good political and legal appointments and liberated them with wide parameters and trajectories.
Wolff’s disclosures, if a few are even marginally true, are messy and the stuff of caricature—but not as funny and depressing as the fact that someone of Trump’s background and temperament saw more clearly than his supposed betters where the country should be headed and who might lead it in such a direction.
If that be chaos, then Trump made the most of it—and at least for now the result is preferable to the mannered mediocrity of the past. Such an admission says lots more about those who think they should be in power than it does those who voted for their antitheses.
“The long legal saga of the Bundys and their armed opposition to federal land management in 2014 has come to an abrupt end. Federal district court judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial last month over violations of discovery rules by prosecutors, who then filed motions to retry the case. Navarro put her foot down this afternoon, ordering the charges to be dismissed with prejudice — meaning that the Department of Justice cannot retry any of the defendants:
SEE ALSO: It’s beginning to not look a lot like Steyermas in 2018
U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case last month, saying federal prosecutors willfully withheld evidence that lawyers for the Bundys and alleged co-conspirator Ryan Payne should have had access to while mounting their defense.
She said the attorneys were in violation of the Brady rule, which requires prosecutors to disclose evidence that could be favorable to a defendant, and told them it wasn’t possible to proceed with the case.
On Monday, she dismissed the case “with prejudice,” meaning the government cannot retry the defendants. “The court finds that the universal sense of justice has been violated,” Navarro said.”
Nice to see Comey further exposed. So much for the straight shooting do-gooder lawman certain parties wanted him portrayed as. He’s just another partisan hack.
And again, so thankful for Judicial Watch. Without them there would be even more unexposed corruption polluting our govt. They’ve become THE watchdog group. Due to their doggedness and resources, they get the answers the govt. doesn’t want to give.
As we have seen in the movies and in real life, criminals, their families and their followers hate law enforcement. With Hillary, Comey was the investigator. With Trump, Comey was first the investigator, then the ultimate whistleblower.
I think Hillary is probably jealous of Trump’s Cult. She had to do all her whining by herself.
In 2016, we couldn’t believe that the election was actually going to turn out to be a ridiculous farce until May (when Trump clinched the nomination). In 2020, we all know it is going to be a comedy from the beginning and we can forego any serious analysis in favor of jokes.
Tom’s an old white dude. Only way he gets the nomination is as a Republican. 🙂
Now Oprah, she checks all the required boxes. Female, minority, rich and famous. If she admits to some bisexual experimentation in her younger years, she’s a shoe-in.
Wandering Views 
Yes indeed we do.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2018/01/07/we-live-in-stupid-times-n2431031
“And that’s just one example, there are countless others. None of which seemed to bother the media because, as MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle put it, “Even if not all of it is true, the spirit of the book is and it’s troublesome. It’s chaotic.”
What’s true and what’s fiction doesn’t matter because as that cable news personality basically put it, it fit what they all believe to be the case. We are now in a time where what is news is determined by the “spidey sense” of activists with media credentials.
As we learned with the Titanic, there is a lot more to an iceberg than just the tip. And this ridiculous week was no different.
A group of Democrats in Congress held briefings on Capitol Hill with a Yale professor named Brandy X. Lee who, in admitted complete violation of the ethics governing her profession, has edited and contributed to a book claiming President Donald Trump is losing his mind. What’s the point of ethics when you have a product to sell?
Lee found a receptive audience among the more unstable liberals in Congress, including Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin, who regaled CNN with tales of his “concern” for Trump’s mental health. Raskin, looking like he’d recently slept in a bag of potato chips, told CNN of his concern that the President was crazy.
What’s really crazy is advocating for policies that have failed throughout the world, as Raskin and his fellow travelers often do in government. Unstable is the mind calling for socialized medicine and extol the virtues of the UK’s National Health Service without acknowledging the fact that all non-emergency surgeries have been canceled for the month of January because their system is simply overwhelmed. That’s straight jacket-level insane.”
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Who the crazy ones are is all a matter of perspective. Being infected with TDS has even caused some usually sane people to side with partisan frauds, but only because they want to believe what the frauds are saying is true. So they jump on the crazy train with them. Amusing really. But I’m not laughing with them, I’m laughing at them.
Just think, only 3 to 7 more years of this. It’s gonna be great. 🙂
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Three years maximum. It could be a much, much shorter period of time.
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Assuming Trump makes it to 2020:
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I think Steven Miller really flustered Jack Tapper on State of the Union yesterday. ;–)
http://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-miller-escorted-off-cnn-2018-1
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Ricky @ 8:24 I think Miller was correct when he said in his interview that CNN and Tapper don’t want to cover the things that are important to Trump supporters because the working people are not important to them.
My fear is that this lack of concern will be a problem in 2020, and the Weaver candidate (although cute as a button) may be weak in this area.
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Thanks for posting the interview, Debra. I tried to find it on Sirius all the home from Lubbock yesterday afternoon. It was ugly. Miller was really unpleasant and Tapper was not professional.
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Debra @ 9:04 Arnold is much like Trump. He really doesn’t care that much about working or non-working people. He cares about his own food.
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I thought Miller not at all unpleasant; he was more articulate than I expected. But yes, Tapper was very unprofessional. CNN has really fallen in quality. I have not watched them since I stopped working at Amazon a couple of years ago. They were playing CNN all day and all night in the break rooms, so I used to see CNN for about half an hour daily. If Tapper is the best they’ve got, they’re really on the skids.
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HA! So I guess it just remains to be determined which direction his food bowl is coming from….and I think I know: somewhere in the 1980s with Ronald Reagan.. :–)
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Scrolling through FB is like watching ping-pong as friends from both sides of the aisle post their stories.
Hard to know what to believe.
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NBC, unbiased as always.
https://twitter.com/nbc/status/950172700625915904
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Malpractice.
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Some folks won’t like this, but the TPS program was never supposed to be long term.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/200000-salvadorans-will-be-forced-to-leave-the-us-or-face-deportation-as-trump-administration-ends-immigration-protection/ar-BBI6zHb
“The Department of Homeland Security will not renew the Temporary Protected Status designation that has allowed the Salvadorans to remain in the United States since at least 2001, when their country was struck by a pair of devastating earthquakes, according to multiple people with knowledge of the plan.
Individuals will have until September 2019 to leave or seek other means to obtain lawful residency. DHS will make its formal announcement later this morning, these people said.”
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The left need to make up their mind. He can’t be both.
Is Trump a half insane dolt, or an evil genius with mind control power?
Again, not laughing with them, but at them.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/01/berkeley-linguist-trump-has-the-power-to-control-tens-of-millions-of-brains-via-tweets/
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Well that didn’t take long…..
NBC has pulled their Oprah is soon to be OUR president Tweet.
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@ 10:28 I hope they have made arrangements for most of these people to receive green cards or the current equivalent as long as they are not criminals or gang affiliates. I understand cleaning up the immigration process, but deporting law abiding people who have undoubtedly grown up, married and had children here— who are lawful citizens of the US—would be a really dumb idea, in my opinion.
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AJ – Re: last night’s discussion – I should have mentioned that the man I referred to as a staunch conservative is not a Never-Trumper. IIRC, he has given Trump his due in other matters.
As I’m thinking about this, I realize that “staunch conservatives” are often against Trump, and “staunch Republicans” are often against Trump. But there are those who fit those names that are not full-on Trump supporters, and neither are they Never-Trumpers. They are somewhere in the middle, giving him his due where they see him doing something they approve of, but also not completely happy with him in other ways. Maybe the man I mentioned falls into that category. What should we call them?
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Victor Hanson is always interesting.
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“What should we call them?”
Collateral damage.
In today’s politics, neither side cares what you want or think, unless you’re on their side. That’s why I’d prefer neither, and would like to see the 2 party system die.
That’s why I support Trump. He’s the perfect tool for the job. 🙂
He brings out the worst in both sides, for all the world to see. I’m actually starting to feel a little bad at times, for enjoying this spectacle so much.
But it passes. 🙂
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Like I said Michelle, the perfect tool for the job. 🙂
And not nearly been the nightmare the Democrats and Never-Trumpers predicted.
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“Once Trump was in power, how does Wolff explain the near phenomenal economic turnaround in the latter part of 2017? Does he not see that the stupider you make Trump in his successful first year, by inference the even stupider you make the supposedly smarter actors in their many failed years?
Although psychological in part, the upswing is not accidental. So far economic robustness seems predicated on massive deregulation, the expectation and then the reality of comprehensive tax reform and reduction, wooing home capital and industry, expanded energy production, loud business boosterism, recalibrating foreign investment and trade, and declining illegal immigration. Did Trump do that between scarfing down cups of Häagen-Dazs? Did his team act on their own while Trump was too busy scraping the crumbs out of the bottoms of his barrels of KFC?
Why did not the supposedly far more sober and judicious Obama comprehend how to achieve 3 percent GDP growth. Could not Larry Summers or Timothy Geithner have ushered in record consumer and business confidence? Why did not black employment reach 2018 levels in 2013?
Is not a man like Obama who eats arugula instead of daily swigging a dozen diet sodas far more studious and intellectually curious on all matters economic? Are we dunces really to believe merely building a high-rise in Manhattan takes more savvy than editing in near absentia the Harvard Law Review?
Abroad, why did not the supposedly worldly Hillary Clinton as secretary of state tweet her support for the Iranian revolutionaries in the streets in 2009—in the manner that a supposedly buffoonish and semi-literate and combed-over Donald Trump instinctively did in 2018? Presidencies in purported shambles, after all, are supposed to leave the country in greater shambles.
Buffoon or Revolutionary?
Absent, then, in Wolff’s supposed Confederacy of Trump White House Dunces is any explanation how such supposed clueless amateurs reset economic and foreign policy in such a way as to achieve startling improvements in less than a year at home and abroad.
And that is the quandary is it not? The dunce Trump in his first year was supposed to prove an irrelevant dumbo, not a skilled conservative revolutionary who threatens to nullify 2009-2017?
The lurid revelations of Trump White House chaos make no sense, given the Trump electoral success and first-year record of governance—unless the stories are either fake news or perhaps a quarter true.”
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Tell ’em to pound sand, take his perjury trap with him, and find somewhere else to fish.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/08/next-trump-mueller-interview/
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The few liberal girls (now middle-aged ladies) in my high school class are swooning over Oprah.
I intend to fully enjoy this year.
In 2019-2020 we will have Trump and/or Pence with a Democratic Congress.
After the 2020 election, I expect we will have Oprah and a Politburo.
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Yes please.
And then prison.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/08/could-comey-be-disbarred/
“James Comey has been under more than his fair share of scrutiny lately, but now a new angle seems to be emerging. The Washington Times reported on Friday that former Justice Department lawyer Ty Clevenger has raised questions in New York over whether Comey’s decision to leak potentially classified memos to the press through a friend of his might constitute grounds for disbarment. And the original complaint is tied to accusations being made by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley.
Former FBI Director James Comey’s decision to leak memos of his interactions with President Trump could come back to haunt him in a challenge to his New York bar membership.
Ty Clevenger, a lawyer who filed a grievance against Mr. Comey, said in a letter Friday to the New York lawyers’ disciplinary committee that if the fired director ended up leaking classified information it should bolster the case against him.
Earlier this week Sen. Charles E. Grassley revealed that Mr. Comey appears to have authored seven memos about his interactions with Mr. Trump. The government has deemed four of those seven memos to have classified information. Mr. Comey also leaked at least four memos to a law professor friend.
It’s easy to see how this could be viewed as retribution by people with an ax to grind against Comey and his defenders will no doubt make that claim. But at the same time, the wording of the complaint could have merit. Grassley has concluded that at least one of the leaked memos must have had classified information in it. Assuming that’s true, it could amount to a willful breach of client confidentiality (?) or, “illegal conduct that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer.” The second sounds more likely than the first, given I’m not entirely sure who would be defined as a “client” in this case. Trump? But the second aspect would speak more to any attorney’s fitness as an officer of the court.”
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You guys are enjoying this way too much. :–)
Ricky, the upside to the politburo is that finally we can come to terms with your favorite trading partner, China. Our politburos can talk to each other and decide for us how it’s all to be handled. And all those pesky regulations can fly right out the window. Who needs clean air, clean water and unleaded paint when we can have bottled water from Flint. ;–)
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Be careful about the precedent you set. The Oprah Cult may want to start jailing Trump Cult members when it comes to power.
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Sorry, Debra. My last comment was directed at the comment before yours.
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The whole world is going insane!
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Going?
More like just tired of hiding it. 🙂
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We determined that we would have no more Bushes. I agreed.
Dr. Ben Carson didn’t have name recognition nor a record we could count on.
We needed somebody, anybody, who would defeat the Clintons.
So we got Trump
The Democrats have to find someone to counter that.
OPRAH!.
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The temper tantrum continues.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/08/treat-mental-health-talk-against-trump-like-the-coup-attempt-it-is/
“Now, “24” was so over the top that its dramatic twists became something of a punch line. How preposterous to imagine that a president’s handpicked cabinet would vote to oust him in a palace overthrow! But that fantasy land is precisely what some of the mostly unelected opposition hopes to see happen with President Trump as part of the more-than-a-year-long temper tantrum against the results of the 2016 election.
In the last debate of 2016, Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would accept the election results, and he said “I will tell you at the time.” Hillary Clinton responded to Trump by calling his remark “horrifying.” The general media environment was to react with unabashed horror for at least 72 hours.
Trump’s comments were wrong — undermining confidence in the electoral process is unbecoming of a political leader of this great nation. But it’s doubtful that even Trump would have done a tiny fraction what his unelected opposition has done to undermine and overturn the results of the election had he lost. Even if he had thrown a year-long temper tantrum, he would not have been aided and abetted in it by a majority of the media or other members of the establishment.
Since his surprise win, the country has been subjected to attempts to delegitimize Trump’s election by blaming “fake news” for tricking voters into supporting him, or a year-long obsession, still noticeably unsubstantiated, with the idea that he conspired with Russians to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. We’ve heard people desperately attempt to keep the Electoral College from voting for him, been told that damaging information from intelligence agencies would keep him from being inaugurated, and that the cabinet should pull a “24”-style move and oust him via the 25th Amendment.
Among those struggling to accept the fact that the American people elected Donald Trump in 2016, the 25th Amendment has been a go-to fantasy for a while, particularly among those who strongly dislike Trump’s less-interventionist foreign policy. Eliot Cohen reached for it in the very first week of the presidency.
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker waited until February 10 to say that the cabinet should use that amendment’s provisions since Trump is “so incompetent — or not-quite-right” that he poses a threat. Perhaps most famously, New York Times‘ conservative columnist Ross Douthat went hard for the 25th Amendment solution to what ails him in mid-May.”
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Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Looks like Kristol is the first Never-Trumper to jump the Oprah shark. He’s such a principled conservative ya’ know.
And it shows. 🙂
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/08/bill-kristol-unleashes-tweet-storm-endorsing-oprah-for-president/
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Michelle@12:33 That’s a pretty good article regarding the Wolff book. Here’s the last few paragraphs:
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Yet another black eye for the Obama led DoJ and FBI. Seems to be a recurring theme.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/08/prosecutorial-misconduct-judge-rips-doj-dismisses-charges-bundys/
“The long legal saga of the Bundys and their armed opposition to federal land management in 2014 has come to an abrupt end. Federal district court judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial last month over violations of discovery rules by prosecutors, who then filed motions to retry the case. Navarro put her foot down this afternoon, ordering the charges to be dismissed with prejudice — meaning that the Department of Justice cannot retry any of the defendants:
SEE ALSO: It’s beginning to not look a lot like Steyermas in 2018
U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case last month, saying federal prosecutors willfully withheld evidence that lawyers for the Bundys and alleged co-conspirator Ryan Payne should have had access to while mounting their defense.
She said the attorneys were in violation of the Brady rule, which requires prosecutors to disclose evidence that could be favorable to a defendant, and told them it wasn’t possible to proceed with the case.
On Monday, she dismissed the case “with prejudice,” meaning the government cannot retry the defendants. “The court finds that the universal sense of justice has been violated,” Navarro said.”
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Aj @1:07pm: The FOIA official in the FBI has stated that all four memos released by Comey were classified, which is a federal crime!
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3619663/posts
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Nice to see Comey further exposed. So much for the straight shooting do-gooder lawman certain parties wanted him portrayed as. He’s just another partisan hack.
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Meanwhile FoxNews continues to take all possible steps to become even dumber.
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So who hates Comey more: Hillary Clinton or The Trump Cult?
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And again, so thankful for Judicial Watch. Without them there would be even more unexposed corruption polluting our govt. They’ve become THE watchdog group. Due to their doggedness and resources, they get the answers the govt. doesn’t want to give.
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I guess what Comey meant to say was no reasonable prosecutor who has committed the same crimes would prosecute Clinton.
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More on Comey’s alleged crimes.
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We just saw a couple of posts which indicate The Trump Cult hates Comey more, but then there was this from Hillary:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/13/politics/hillary-clinton-james-comey-anderson-cooper/index.html
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Then there was this from Hillary:
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As we have seen in the movies and in real life, criminals, their families and their followers hate law enforcement. With Hillary, Comey was the investigator. With Trump, Comey was first the investigator, then the ultimate whistleblower.
I think Hillary is probably jealous of Trump’s Cult. She had to do all her whining by herself.
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Kevin D. Williamson acts completely offended when someone asks him if he has watched Oprah:
https://twitter.com/kevinnr/status/950508003098230785
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In 2016, we couldn’t believe that the election was actually going to turn out to be a ridiculous farce until May (when Trump clinched the nomination). In 2020, we all know it is going to be a comedy from the beginning and we can forego any serious analysis in favor of jokes.
https://twitter.com/kevinnr/status/950491526613880834
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Wait, I thought Tom Hanks was going to be the Dem favorite for president
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Tom’s an old white dude. Only way he gets the nomination is as a Republican. 🙂
Now Oprah, she checks all the required boxes. Female, minority, rich and famous. If she admits to some bisexual experimentation in her younger years, she’s a shoe-in.
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