thethe (01-03-2018)
Bannon's comments do highlight something that isn't much appreciated. Which is that the matter of "collusion" during the campaign is a distant third in terms of the biggest threats to the Trump presidency.
The two much bigger threats have to do with financial crimes that pre-date his run for the presidency and obstruction which occurred after he became president.
Not that I think a thorough investigation of Russian interference is not warranted. I think it is important to get to the bottom of it and hope Mueller will be allowed to finish his work.
Last edited by nsacpi; 01-03-2018 at 05:37 PM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Natural Immunity Croc
The Trump Presidency aside, Russian Collusion undermined / interfered our collective right to a vote. With the aid of an official presidential campaign
Which big picture is more far more important and long lasting than a trump presidency.
Now, can we please get back to how corrupt the Obama Presidency is ? I mean was
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
so who's got the bigger button...trump or bannon?
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
no, votes didn't sway very far away ...
you can look it up.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Nunez is now getting all document's and witnesses. Now things are getting interesting.
Krgrecw (01-04-2018)
He better hope he finds some Clinton magic
I have a simple question. If you believe tampering with foreign nations elections is a heinous crime then should we not extradite US officials who participated in overthrowing foreign governments to face justice for their crimes? If election tampering is an act of war we are at war with half the world right now.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Some great stuff in there including this paragraph:
There was some effort to ascribe to Trump magical powers. In an early conversation — half comic, half desperate — Bannon tried to explain him as having a particular kind of Jungian brilliance. Trump, obviously without having read Jung, somehow had access to the collective unconscious of the other half of the country, and, too, a gift for inventing archetypes: Little Marco … Low-Energy Jeb … the Failing New York Times. Everybody in the West Wing tried, with some panic, to explain him, and, sheepishly, their own reason for being here. He's intuitive, he gets it, he has a mind-meld with his base. But there was palpable relief, of an Emperor's New Clothes sort, when longtime Trump staffer Sam Nunberg — fired by Trump during the campaign but credited with knowing him better than anyone else — came back into the fold and said, widely, "He's just a ****ing fool."
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
And, indeed, suddenly there were the 11 days of Anthony Scaramucci.
Scaramucci, a minor figure in the New York financial world, and quite a ridiculous one, had overnight become Jared and Ivanka's solution to all of the White House's management and messaging problems. After all, explained the couple, he was good on television and he was from New York — he knew their world. In effect, the couple had hired Scaramucci — as preposterous a hire in West Wing annals as any — to replace Priebus and Bannon and take over running the White House.
There was, after the abrupt Scaramucci meltdown, hardly any effort inside the West Wing to disguise the sense of ludicrousness and anger felt by every member of the senior staff toward Trump's family and Trump himself. It became almost a kind of competition to demystify Trump. For Rex Tillerson, he was a moron. For Gary Cohn, he was dumb as ****. For H.R. McMaster, he was a hopeless idiot. For Steve Bannon, he had lost his mind.
Most succinctly, no one expected him to survive Mueller. Whatever the substance of the Russia "collusion," Trump, in the estimation of his senior staff, did not have the discipline to navigate a tough investigation, nor the credibility to attract the caliber of lawyers he would need to help him. (At least nine major law firms had turned down an invitation to represent the president.)
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."