Church of Trump

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Jared Kushner proves he's as horribly corrupt as the family he married into

what the is the WH doing whining to a corporation about bad press from their owned subsidiary when that corporation is right now under federal review for a proposed merger?

Kushner met with top executives at Time Warner—the parent company of President Trump’s least-favorite media organization CNN—to express his concern about “unfair coverage slanted against the president.”

Kushner specifically was complaining about two CNN pundits, conservative Ana Navarro and liberal Van Jones.

Navarro leaped to respond with scathing tweets calling him "Little Jared" and "baby boy,"

laughing out loud that "Little boy Kushner,

tough guy who's supposed to achieve Middle East peace,

is complaining about me to CNN. Boo-hoo!"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/17/1634939/-Jared-Kushner-proves-he-s-as-horribly-corrupt-as-the-family-he-married-into?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_cam paign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29

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Trump declares 'fake news' media 'the enemy of the American people'

Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
3:48 PM - 17 Feb 2017



Michael Beschloss
✔@BeschlossDC

On December 1972 tape, Nixon told Kissinger, “The press is the enemy, the establishment is the enemy, the professors are the enemy."
4:06 PM - 17 Feb 2017

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...ople/98065338/Michael

Trash is an insane syphilitic.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Did you repeat the article 3 times?

This is on par with the furiously paced copy/paste runs and then oops in the wrong thread. Sometimes he just let's them ride and doesn't edit. Other times I'll log on and see he's been on a posting bender and there will be like five posts in a row all edited and cleared hours after he posted them.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Enjoy your Friday boots. Life must be good.

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Popular Domestic Programs Face Ax Under First Trump Budget

The White House budget office has drafted a hit list of programs that President Trump could eliminate to trim domestic spending, including longstanding conservative targets like the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting,

the Legal Services Corporation,

AmeriCorps and the

National Endowments for the Arts and

the Humanities.

Most of the programs cost under $500 million annually, a pittance for a government that is projected to spend about $4 trillion this year. And a few are surprising, even though most if not all have been perennial targets for conservatives.

Mr. Trump has spoken volubly about the nation’s drug problems, yet the list includes the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, which dispenses grants to reduce drug use and drug trafficking.

And despite Mr. Trump’s vocal promotion of American exports, the list includes the Export-Import Bank, which has guaranteed loans to foreign customers of American companies since the 1930s.

their coming budget proposal as examples of misuse of taxpayer dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/us/politics/trump-program-eliminations-white-house-budget-office.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Mulvaney is ING CRAZY

ing up govt and America is the Repug/VRWC strategy. The assholes don't have any good-faith bones in them.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Anti-Defamation League: Trump Not Directly Addressing Anti-Semitism Is ‘Mind-Boggling’

For the second day in a row, President Trump addressed anti-Semitism during a press conference, and also for the second day in a row, the Anti-Defamation League was positively stunned by how he handled it.

Yesterday, Trump started off his answer to a question about anti-Semitism by invoking his electoral college win. The ADL responded in a tweet that it was “troubling” he didn’t “condemn the real issue of anti-Semitism” in America today.

Well, today Trump got another question on the matter. The reporter brought up recent bomb threats against Jewish centers across the country and other anti-Semitic acts going on. Trump immediately scolded the reporter, told him to sit down, and said, “I am the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life.”

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and ADL National Chair Marvin Nathan issued the following statement in response:

On two separate occasions over the past two days, President Trump has refused to say what he is going to do about rising anti-Semitism or to even condemn it. It is mind-boggling why President Trump prefers to shout down a reporter or brush this off as a political distraction. This is not a partisan issue. It’s a potentially lethal problem — and it’s growing.

In light of the bomb scares, online harassment, physical vandalism, death threats and other hate crimes, there is a simple question at hand that Americans of all faiths deserve an answer to – what is the Trump Administration going to do about the recent surge of anti-Semitism? What concrete steps will the White House take to address intolerance?

We are going to keep asking these questions – and urge others in the press and public to do so as well – until we get a clear answer from our President.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/anti-...mind-boggling/

Trump clashes with Jewish reporter over anti-Semitism question


Toward the end of a 77-minute press conference, Trump searched the room “to find a friendly reporter,” before landing on Jake Turx of Ami Magazine, a Jewish publication.

“What we are concerned about and what we haven’t really heard you address is the uptick in anti-Semitism and how you intend to take care of it,” the reporter said, citing statistics that indicated a recent rise in anti-Semitic acts.

Turx prefaced his question by saying he hasn’t seen “anyone in my community accuse either yourself or anyone on your staff of being anti-Semitic.”“See he said he was going to ask a very simple question and it’s not,” Trump shot back.

“It’s not a simple or fair question. Sit down, I understand the rest of your question.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...itism-question

Same Jewish reporter defends Trump



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YASaS6AmzQs

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[ducks]

ICE: 350% More Illegals Snared in Raids Under Obama

[Adam Lambert]

Enjoy your Friday boots. Life must be good.

posts for 4 hours on a friday night and calls out someone else for posting on a friday night

funny guy

[Splits]

Cubes

[dbestpro]

I don't need to go to CNN or MSNBC to get my fake news. I can come here and just review all of the latest bd rants.

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John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump's entire worldview

John McCain is increasingly mad as about President Donald Trump.

And on Friday, he went after Trump - hard.

During a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Republican senator from Arizona delivered a pointed and striking point-by-point takedown of Trump's worldview and brand of nationalism. McCain didn't mention Trump's name once, but he didn't have to.

And even considering the two men's up-and-down history and the terrible things Trump has said about McCain, it was a striking display from a senior leader of a party when it comes to a president of the same party.

In his speech, McCain suggested the Western world is uniquely imperiled this year - even more so than when Barack Obama was president - and proceeded to question whether the Western world will survive.

"In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism. Not this year," McCain said. "If ever there were a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now."


n case there was any doubt that this was about Trump. Here's what followed:

--"[The founders of the Munich conference] would be alarmed by an increasing turn away from universal values and toward old ties of blood and race and sectarianism."

--"They would be alarmed by the hardening resentment we see toward immigrants and refugees and minority groups, especially Muslims."

--"They would be alarmed by the growing inability, and even unwillingness, to separate truth from lies."
That's Trump, Trump and Trump.

McCain continued: "But what would alarm them most, I think, is a sense that many of our peoples, including in my own country, are giving up on the West, that they see it as a bad deal that we may be better off without, and that while Western nations still have the power to maintain our world order, it is unclear whether we have the will."

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/artic...d-10941789.php

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Citizen Trump likely wouldn’t get a security clearance

If Donald Trump were an off-the-street federal job applicant, he most likely would not be granted a security clearance. Measured against the standards applied to thousands of Americans involved with our national security, knowledge essential to granting Trump access to classified information simply isn’t there.

Security clearances are granted after determining that an individual’s personal and professional histories make it safe to do so. The criteria for such a judgment include, quoting State Department policy, the person’s

“loyalty to the United States, strength of character, trustworthiness, honesty, reliability, discretion, and sound judgment, as well as freedom from conflicting allegiances and potential for coercion, and a willingness and ability to abide by regulations governing the use, handling, and protection of classified information.”

The most critical step in deciding whether to grant someone access to classified information is a background investigation consisting of a thorough examination of the individual’s past and current histories.

This is where deciding whether Trump is an acceptable security risk hits a wall.

There is so much about him and his conduct, past and present, that is unknown.

And, as the Wall Street Journal reported this week, questions about Trump may be causing U.S. intelligence officials to withhold sensitive intelligence from him.

The intelligence community’s concerns, reportedly, center on the Trump team’s contacts with the Russian government. There are also Trump’s repeated expressions of admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump’s call during the presidential primary for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails, and FBI and CIA knowledge that the Russians leaked Clinton campaign emails to undermine her candidacy and boost Trump’s.

Then there are those aspects of Trump’s life that would raise security concerns were they found in background checks of others seeking clearances.

Applicants’ associations with foreign interests — especially substantial business, financial or property interests in a foreign country or with foreign-owned businesses — would not escape U.S. scrutiny, especially if those associations might subject the applicant to a risk of foreign influence or exploitation.
Trump has eluded such an examination.

Little is known about the nature of Trump’s foreign business relationships — what they are, his conduct while traveling outside the United States, or his interactions with foreign governments known to target U.S. citizens to try to obtain protected information.

A background investigation that

uncovers questionable judgment,

lack of candor or dishonesty draws heightened attention. So, too, the

refusal to provide full, frank and truthful answers to lawful questions.

That kind of activity may cons ute grounds for unfavorable clearance action.

Trump has never been subjected to such an inquiry.

He has a proven record of not providing truthful or candid answers. True, it didn’t disqualify him from the presidency. It would, ironically, darken his chances of getting a U.S. government security clearance.
A security clearance applicant

who has engaged in deceptive financial practices,

who has a history of failing to meet financial obligations, and

who fails to identify and explain all sources of income is a red flag.

Such a record, of course, is no bar to the presidency.

A background investigation that turns up evidence of possible emotional, mental or personality disorders, even without a formal diagnosis, elevates security concerns , although not to the point of disqualification without an evaluation by a duly qualified mental-health professional.

But bizarre behavior suggesting emotional instability, and which casts doubt on the individual’s judgment or reliability, will certainly get a closer professional look before a security clearance is granted. Trump has no such worries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/citizen-trump-likely-wouldnt-get-a-security-clearance-heres-why/2017/02/17/b2a7258e-f492-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html?tid=hybrid_experimentrando m_1_na&utm_term=.d3bd69a41e95

PVL so-called Pres Trash is national security risk!

Trash ask that his sons and SIL get security clearances, IIRC, but since they associate with a Pootin-compromised, shady huckster who hides all his financial data and obligations, they may not get them.

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List of Mar-a-Lago members reveals 500 wealthy individuals who can dictate policy directly to Trump

The New York Times reported on Saturday that the 500 people paying $200,000 per year to belong to Trump’s exclusive club include “dozens of real estate developers, Wall Street financiers, energy executives and others whose businesses could be affected by Mr. Trump’s policies.”

“At least three club members are under consideration for an ambassadorship,” wrote the Times‘ Nicholas Confessore, Maggie Haberman and Eric Lipton. “Most of the 500 have had memberships predating Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and there are a limited number of memberships still available.”

Among current members are

fossil fuel billionaire William H. Koch,

trader Thomas Peterffy,

insurance executive George Norcross and

Rockstar Energy Drink CFO and co-founder Janet Weiner, whose company is attempting to loosen regulations on its products.

Real estate developer and co-founder of Toll Brothers — one of the largest home-building companies in the U.S. — told the Times that the

influence of members on Pres. Trump is benign

and is just part of casual discussions with the former reality TV star.

Another member is former Reagan White House chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein, who “now works as a corporate consultant and lobbyist. Clients of Mr. Duberstein’s firm include
Alibaba Group, the Chinese internet company;
Amgen and Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giants; and
Dow Chemical and
America’s Health Insurance Plans, which represents the nation’s largest health insurers.”

When the Times asked Duberstein about his Mar-a-Lago membership, he brushed aside ethical concerns by saying,

“It’s a social thing. It is not a business thing.”

However, member Richard LeFrak — a New York real estate developer — said that

he was startled when Trump told him the Department of Homeland security was quoting a $10 billion price tag for the border wall with Mexico, then offered to cut him in.

“He said, would I consider doing it? And then he suggested that the price that was being quoted in the media seemed absurdly high to him,” Mr. LeFrak said. “And I didn’t react to him one way or the other because I don’t know what the facts are.”

Le Frak said he said to Trump, “I thought you were going to have homeland security deal with this.”

Trump, who LeFrak described as stymied by the bureaucracy, reportedly said, “Yes, maybe General Kelly will call you.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/list...ctly-to-trump/

Grifter-in-chief raised M-A-L-itious fee to $200K after he was elected, blatantly profiting from his office. $100M!

Crooked Hillary?

Pay (Clinton Foundation) to Play?

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Trump just fired a National Security Council aide for criticizing him

The White House fired a senior National Security Council aide yesterday after reports that he had harshly criticized President Trump and his team at a private event in front of about two dozen scholars.

Craig Deare had been serving as the NSC’s senior director for Western Affairs. At an off-the-record roundtable hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Deare criticized Trump and chief strategist Steve Bannon, venting about the chaotic nature of the Trump administration.

Deare particularly lamented the fact that senior national security aides like himself do not have access to the president. He also performed an embarrassing reenactment Trump’s hostile phone call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

“I don’t need the Mexicans. I don’t need Mexico,”

Trump told the Mexican president, according to Mexican press.

“We are going to build the wall and you all are going to pay for it, like it or not.”

http://usuncut.com/news/trump-just-f...e-criticizing/

[Thread]

Trump just fired a National Security Council aide for criticizing him

The White House fired a senior National Security Council aide yesterday after reports that he had harshly criticized President Trump and his team at a private event in front of about two dozen scholars.

Craig Deare had been serving as the NSC’s senior director for Western Affairs. At an off-the-record roundtable hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Deare criticized Trump and chief strategist Steve Bannon, venting about the chaotic nature of the Trump administration.

Deare particularly lamented the fact that senior national security aides like himself do not have access to the president. He also performed an embarrassing reenactment Trump’s hostile phone call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

“I don’t need the Mexicans. I don’t need Mexico,”

Trump told the Mexican president, according to Mexican press.

“We are going to build the wall and you all are going to pay for it, like it or not.”

http://usuncut.com/news/trump-just-f...e-criticizing/

No more of juicy twice a month checks. No more umpteen federal holidays. No more of that GOOD health care.

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No doubt The Old SC Lesbian Senator will vote to convict

Lindsey Graham warns Trump: Free press and judiciary ‘are worth fighting and dying for’

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/lind...e+Raw+Story%29

[Mitch]

No more of juicy twice a month checks. No more umpteen federal holidays. No more of that GOOD health care.

No more companies hiring spanish speakers to accommodate to illegals.

It's an ass kicker to have a julio or jesus at ever register, I tell ya.

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Aide: Senators Want Materials Saved For Probe Into Russian Election Interference

The Senate Intelligence Committee has sent formal requests to more than a dozen organizations, agencies and individuals, asking them to preserve all materials related to the committee's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and related issues, according to a congressional aide.

The committee chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and its vice chairman, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., sent letters Friday, the same day committee members received a classified briefing from FBI Director James Comey.

Committee members declined to comment on what was discussed after the more than hourlong briefing.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/re...+%28TPMNews%29

[boutons_deux]

Learning Eye-Popping Details About Mr Sater



As I noted in my previous post, I've been keenly interested in Donald Trump's association with Felix Sater going back to last Spring.

I also knew he had been an FBI informant and leveraged that status to dramatically reduce his sentence in a major financial crime.

I didn't realize until this evening that there were more details about this part of the story in the public domain than I'd realized.

It's rather mind-blowing.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/...+%28TPMNews%29

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Trash will state visit UK, but UK Parliament won't accept this orange piece of criminal .

British MPs Clash Over Trump State Visit

No one was mincing words.

A packed Westminster Hall saw Britain’s Parliament quarrel over whether President Trump’s planned state visit to the U.K. should be canceled.

Over the three-hour debate — prompted by an online pe ion with nearly 2 million signatures — Trump was branded a “bully and a bigot” and “immoral” by MPs from both sides of the aisle.

Government sources say there’s no way the visit will be canceled, but Britain’s Speaker of the House has made it clear that Trump won’t be allowed to address Parliament.

http://www.ozy.com/presidential-dail...1#article75881

[boutons_deux]

Texans not very happy about Trash's direction

[DMX7]

Texans not very happy about Trash's direction

The end result of this is that our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned! And together, we will rule the galaxy as father and son!

[Spurminator]

Texans not very happy about Trash's direction

I think you're misreading this chart.

[DMX7]

They like the travel ban that's not a ban.