Church of Trump

[CosmicCowboy]

Mitt Romney needs to off. y little sore loser.

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump won't be able to have the classiest, most luxurious presidential administration

the big names—and plenty of the small ones—in Republican policy don’t want to work for Trump:

One former Republican official who worked in the Environmental Protection Agency put it this way: “You’d have to worry about your future career and the way you’re perceived in these things. You just kind of think of how he deals with people. Would you really want to work for him?”

So what’s a Trump administration going to look like if the Paul Wolfowitz types think they’re too good for it?

“The bottom line is Trump will be able to fill these jobs because there is a whole class of people who want these les so badly it doesn’t matter who is president,” said a former senior George W. Bush administration official.

“But these are B- or C-level people. They are honorable, but not very good.

The A-level people, and there are not that many of them to begin with, mostly don’t want to work for Trump.

He will cut the A-level bench of available policy talent at least in half, if not more.”

You don’t have to praise the big names of the George W. Bush administration to think it would be truly terrifying to see what a B- and C-level administration headed by Donald Trump would look like.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/0...28Daily+Kos%29

war criminal Wolfie? Really?

[MultiTroll]

^^ Fat Bas got the job of recruiting for Trumps cabinet?

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this Repug mofo "bucket of warm piss" is as dumb as ever

Has anyone heard from Dan Quayle? Oh wait, there he is now.

Hillary Clinton may be a more qualified presidential candidate than Donald Trump “on paper,” former Vice President Dan Quayle said Thursday. But Trump is more qualified in another respect, the Indiana Republican suggested.

“He’s more qualified in the sense that the American people, I think, want an outsider,” Quayle said in an interview with NBC’s “Today,” remarking that he would support him as the Republican Party’s nominee. “And they want an outsider this time. She’s not an outsider, so if you’re looking for an outsider, no, she’s not qualified, and he is.”

It sounds as if the former vice president is arguing that if we take the word “qualified,” and change its meaning so that it’s unrelated to qualifications, then Trump is fully capable and ready to lead – even more so than the Democratic frontrunner.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

[Reck]

Paul Ryan has assumed the position. Is now sucking Trump dry.

[Mitch]

It was never a matter of if, only when. He sees how Republicans are disowning the Bush dynasty and had to bend the knee or switch parties. He might make a better Democrat like Webb would make a better Republican.

Paul Ryan has assumed the position. Is now sucking Trump dry.

[CosmicCowboy]

Trump and Bernie have both pushed their parties left.

Hillary is out of touch with whats going on in her own party and is now stuck to the right of Trump on a couple of issues...

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Trump and Bernie have both pushed their parties left.

Holy , you're dumb mark for the Trump con job.

Bernie is sincere, consistent, has been for the campaign, has been for decades, as a social democrat.

Trump is a con man, changes his con on every topic, even within hours, even on same day.

He won't be able to do any of the "leftist" you swallow, and never intended to. His people said he will make up his policies after he's elected.

His suckered followers haven't been "pulled left".

They're still extreme right, racist, misogynist, white supremacy/nationalist, xenophobe, anti-govt, anti-Muslim who have been conned into thinking Trump will accomplish any of the extreme right, bigoted he claims, and what they didn't get from establishment Repugs.

And they all will vote in AGAIN the extreme right, racist, misogynist, white supremacy/nationalist, xenophobe, anti-govt, anti-Muslim assholes they put in Congress already. "pulled left"?

[CosmicCowboy]

go suck Bernies , Bookaki.

[boutons_deux]

Donny hires the best people. Premonitions for his cabinet:

Trump’s butler calls for Obama’s execution

Donald Trump's longtime former butler hates President Barack Obama and thinks he should be killed, according to recent social media rants teeming with profanity and exclamation points.

Anthony Senecal, who worked as Trump's butler for 17 years and was named the in-house historian at the business mogul's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, has touted his close relationship with his former boss in media interviews. But Senecal feels very differently about the nation's first black president, according to Mother Jones, which posted Thursday his social media rants. Read them here.

Senecal, 84, confirmed the posts to Mother Jones. "I wrote that. I believe that," he said. A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign told Mother Jones Senecal had not worked at Mar-a-Lago "for many years."

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/trum...e+Raw+Story%29

Trump the Turd attacks flies, maggot-y people.

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I Was Attacked Over Nude Trump Painting



From death threats to an alleged attack: Artist Illma Gore, whose unflattering pastel drawing of Donald Trump in the buff is hanging in a gallery in London, says a Trump supporter punched her in the face on a Los Angeles street as she walked near her home on Friday.

Gore, who had just returned from the UK, tells NBC4 that a shirtless man around 25 years old, wearing red shorts and a red cap, jumped out of a car, yelled "Trump 2016," hit her, and then laughed.

An Instagram photo shows Gore with blood in her eye and plenty of bruising. "She sustained severe injuries," an LAPD rep says. "We are aware of the incident and we are investigating."

http://www.newser.com/story/224582/artist-i-was-attacked-over-nude-trump-painting.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=referral& utm_campaign=im

Trump incites, attracts the Very Best less Goons and Bullies in America.

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Artist threatened with lawsuits if she sells nude Donald Trump painting

An infamous nude of Donald Trump has attracted bids of over £100,000 after it went on display at the Maddox Gallery in Mayfair, London, last week, but the artist is being anonymously threatened with legal action if she sells it, due to its resemblance to the Republican presidential hopeful.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/17/nude-donald-trump-painting-illma-gore-lawsuits

[TheSanityAnnex]

Maddow FTW.

She has her own specific point of view, but is always cogent, and offers some very intelligent commentary.

It is telling that the right has no equivalent, IMO. It is almost as if you have to give up your ability to think critically to be "right-wing".

Maddow makes no mention of Clinton and people actually in the intelligence community seem to have more concerns about Clinton than Trump. Maddow FTL.


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With the Republican and Democratic conventions fast approaching, intelligence officials are already mapping out their approach to providing classified briefings to the eventual nominees. It’s a decades-long tradition embedded in the transition of power, but several former high-ranking officials have expressed concerns to ABC News over what they consider “unprecedented” cir stances facing both current front-runners and their capabilities to responsibly handle sensitive intel.


The Briefing

Barring unforeseen cir stances, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are currently closest to securing their parties' nominations at their respective conventions.
According to a former intelligence official involved in past briefing processes, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, after the conventions, President Obama or a leading national security advisor will coordinate with the director of National Intelligence and the CIA to determine the content of an introductory classified briefing for both of the nominees.
“Until somebody’s elected president, most of the information is what I’d call analytical, sophisticated, carefully thought-out thoughts about where things are going, where trend lines are, things to watch,” this former official told ABC News. “It’s more of a description of the landscape and where the landmines are and where the active volcanoes are rather than getting into the capabilities.”
The White House has so far suggested it will not interfere with Clinton or Trump's receiving the briefings, but White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest would not answer whether President Obama is comfortable with Trump's handling classified info.


Concerns Over Trump

In the past, Trump has taken to Twitter to promote conspiracy theories, was a leading promoter of the "birther" movement, and, with no experience in public office, has never been a recipient of classified or sensitive intelligence.
But in an interview with ABC News, former CIA Director Gen. Mike Hayden said the outgoing president is obligated to provide the briefings to the nominees whether he wants to or not.
“I would share the general concern that people have expressed," Hayden said of Trump’s penchant for what some have described as recklessness, “but you’ve got real cons utional considerations at work here. One of the great powers of this country is the peaceful transfer of power. There are things that need to be done, particularly for a president elect, and you need to go about doing those things even if this particular president-elect might seem a bit more ... I don’t know fill in the blank.”


In a recent interview with The Washington Post, Trump said he was “eager” to start regularly receiving classified briefings.
But House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff has questioned the ultimate value of providing Trump classified information. “The practice of providing intelligence briefings to the presidential nominees of both parties is a sound one,” Schiff, D-California, said. “Whether it would do any good is another [question].”
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama, said he has met with Trump to discuss foreign policy and has no doubts about his capacity.
“Mr. Trump is preparing to become the leader of the free world and I have no qualms with him being presented classified information to better prepare him to be that leader,” Flynn said in an interview with ABC News. “The one person in this race who cannot handle classified information is Secretary Clinton. She’s proven that.”
Since leaving his post, Flynn has expressed criticism of both Clinton and President Obama’s handling of foreign policy, but there’s no evidence he was ever pushed out.

Clinton Faces Ongoing Investigation

In her capacity as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton had virtually unfettered access to the nation’s top secrets, but her use of a private email server during that time has led to a formal FBI inquiry about how she may have handled that information, leading some intelligence officials to doubt her judgment.
Flynn argues that Clinton should be ineligible to receive the briefings. “If you mishandled classified information unintentionally you immediately have your clearance suspended -- at a minimum -- until the investigation is complete,” Flynn said. “So Hillary Clinton should not even have access to classified information until this investigation is over.”
The FBI investigation into Clinton's private email server is still ongoing and so far no one has been accused formally of any criminal wrongdoing.
Clinton says she only used her account for unclassified email and that no information in her emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them.


The former unnamed intelligence official speaking to ABC News said Clinton’s status is “unprecedented” in the history of presidential candidates.
“I don’t really recall any time when I’ve seen such, what I’ll call, ‘willful negligence’ in handling classified information,” the former official said. “I can tell you I have counseled people before on the rules and they ignored the rules and they’ve paid a penalty.”
While it would not weigh in on Trump, the White House maintained President Obama has no doubts about his former secretary of state's again receiving classified briefings.
Clinton and Trump's campaigns did not immediately respond to ABC News' requests for comment.


In the end, this former intelligence official said it is less about whether each candidate would willfully compromise classified information, but how responsibly they would put it to use.
“I think Donald Trump has many secrets, and I think Hillary Clinton does too,” the former intelligence official said. “So I don’t think either of them have a problem with keeping a secret. It’s a question of whether they have the wrong judgment about when to use secret information.”


https://www.yahoo.com/gma/former-off...opstories.html

[boutons_deux]

Rudy Giuliani eyed for controversial GOP ‘commission’

Trump told Fox News the proposed ban was “only a suggestion,” adding, “It hasn’t been called for yet.” I’m not altogether sure what that means – ithas been “called for,” by Trump himself – but this is apparently Trump’s way of making his more outlandish ideas sound more palatable.

Nevertheless, Trump is moving forward with ideas as to how best to implement his “suggestion.” The AP reported yesterday:

Donald Trump says he may set up a commission to study his immigration policies and his proposed ban on foreign Muslims entering the U.S. The man he may ask to lead the commission is the former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, who’s called Trump’s idea of a Muslim ban uncons utional. […]

He says a commission would examine all those issues, as well as the question of letting in Syrian refugees, and it would be “possibly headed” by Giuliani, the mayor when New York was attacked on 9/11.

Soon after, the New York Times reported that the former mayor seems to be on board with the plan. “I think the idea of studying how we can best deal with radical Islam, and try to figure how to distinguish between all the good people who are Muslims and the bad ones, is a good idea,” Giuliani told reporters yesterday.

The other way is that this endeavor is absurd and offensive. The idea that a government commission, led by a former mayor who has no background in matters of religion or national security, would tackle “distinguishing” between “good” members of faith tradition and “bad” is so plainly ridiculous and unworkable that the proposal itself is something of a national embarrassment.

The only thing worse than the idea of some kind of McCarthy-like anti-Muslim commission is putting Rudy Giuliani in charge of it. Media Matters pulled together a list of some of the former mayor’s recent comments on race and diversity, and the list is as ugly as it is long.

We are, however, starting to get a better sense of what a Trump administration might actually look like, and how it might go about achieving some of its goals. So far, the evidence is more than a little alarming.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

[CosmicCowboy]

Hey bookaki....London's new mayor says there are good Muslims and radicalized Muslims. Is he wrong?

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Hey bookaki....London's new mayor says there are good Muslims and radicalized Muslims. Is he wrong?

why ask me? Figure out some for yourself.

[spankadelphia]

The Democrat party is tearing itself apart. Even moreso than the GOP.

At least the GOP has a light at the end of the tunnel. The useless "cuckservatives" and the traitorous neoco(he)ns are being pushed aside in favor of nationalists/populists, which is exactly what America needs and is a recipe for electoral success for the next several decades.

But the Democrats are facing an existential crisis. Hillary is a neocon warhawk, who nobody likes, not even liberals. But she's the leader of the party and is a capable politician who controls the party machinery and generates massive amounts of cash. But it won't win the election for her, and it looks like she's going to drive the whole Democrat power/money machine right into the ground.

Bernie is more aligned with the party's ideology, but he's an ineffective pushover who could never in a million years lead the party to greatness.

Tough times for Democrats.

[boutons_deux]

The Democrat party is tearing itself apart. Even moreso than the GOP.

At least the GOP has a light at the end of the tunnel. The useless "cuckservatives" and the traitorous neoco(he)ns are being pushed aside in favor of nationalists/populists, which is exactly what America needs and is a recipe for electoral success for the next several decades.

But the Democrats are facing an existential crisis. Hillary is a neocon warhawk, who nobody likes, not even liberals. But she's the leader of the party and is a capable politician who controls the party machinery and generates massive amounts of cash. But it won't win the election for her, and it looks like she's going to drive the whole Democrat power/money machine right into the ground.

Bernie is more aligned with the party's ideology, but he's an ineffective pushover who could never in a million years lead the party to greatness.

Tough times for Democrats.

Apply to Fox as contributor. They adore liars, ignorant s, ideological idiots.

[Reck]

Supposely there is a recording of Trump impersonating a publicist hyping himself from 20 years ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...6e0_story.html

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Trump on his tax rate: ‘None of your business’

this morning the story took an unexpected turn. For quite a while, Trump has suggested he’d be comfortable with disclosure – he specifically said this week he’d “like to” disclose the tax do ents – but the IRS process is standing in the way. It’s a bogus posture, which he seemed to abandon this morning during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Yes or no: Do you believe voters have a right to see your tax returns before they make a final decision?

TRUMP: I don’t think they do.

He quickly added that he’s willing to “present” the do ents anyway, after “the audit ends.”

When the host asked what tax rate he currently pays, the Republican candidate snapped, “It’s none of your business. You’ll see it when I release. But I fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible.”

There’s no shortage of angles to this – Trump’s hypocrisy, his dishonesty, his reversals from previous commitments – all of which raise questions about what in the world the presumptive GOP nominee is so desperate to hide. For that matter, given how eager Trump is to slash rates for the wealthiest of the wealthy – people like Trump himself – it arguably is our “business” just how big a tax break the Republican candidate intends to give himself.

Paul Waldman noted at the time, “Apparently, Romney feels that if you don’t hire lawyers to help you take advantage of every hidden provision and loophole that might lower your tax bill, you’re some kind of contemptible sucker unworthy of high office.”

As part of this morning’s interview, Trump also said “many presidents” have not released their tax returns. Pressed to explain, he said he was referring to pre-1976 presidents.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

What an autocratic, lying asshole. He thinks can dictate to US govt as he dictates to the sycophants he employs.

[Warlord23]

The video is hilarious. "John Miller" praises Trump for a while, then says "I've seen her" when talking about Carla Bruni, and then starts talking about Trump in the 3rd person again. Trump also stated in court that he used the name John Miller, but completely denies it now. This guy is a total weirdo

[rmt]

I don't know a single person who doesn't try to pay the least amount of taxes that he/she legally can - including Bernie and his <14% tax rate.

[boutons_deux]

I don't know a single person who doesn't try to pay the least amount of taxes that he/she legally can - including Bernie and his <14% tax rate.

Bernie had nothing to hide, and released his.

Bishop Gekko had to hide his tax evasion crimes, and I bet Trump has been LYING about being "really rich", and is lying about "after the IRS audit".

[TheSanityAnnex]

Bernie had nothing to hide, and released his.

Bishop Gekko had to hide his tax evasion crimes, and I bet Trump has been LYING about being "really rich", and is lying about "after the IRS audit".

Peanuts compared to the lies of his Democratic counterpart.

[Spurminator]

I don't know a single person who doesn't try to pay the least amount of taxes that he/she legally can - including Bernie and his <14% tax rate.

This is always an interesting comment, and I don't mean to assume anything about you, but it typically comes from the same people who complain about lazy moochers stealing from taxpayers by taking advantage of as much of the en lements they legally can.

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