45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 6)

[zb]

Halb said:

This should be interesting.

Yes, Easter may be illuminating.

[Byker28i]

Halb said:

Blackpuddin said:

Nobody spotted this one yet about Trump's lawyer refusing to release The Donald's tax returns?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-4784002...

Edited by Blackpuddin on Saturday 6th April 20:23

This should be interesting.

President Trump: "I'm under audit. When you're under audit, you don't do it. But I'm under audit. Other people are under audit and nobody would do it when you are going through an audit. I always go through audits. They audit me all the time."

just a shame weeks earlier that his attorney had told Congress just weeks earlier that he wasn't under audit.

[Gameface]

Was audit his word of the day, that day?

[Byker28i]

I missed this as well on friday:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Will soon be landing in Calexico, California to look at a portion of the new WALL being built on our Southern Border. Within two years we will have close to 400 miles built or under construction & keeping our Country SAFE – not easy when the Dems are always fighting to stop you!

10:48 AM - 5 Apr 2019

trump went on friday to re-classify an old repair project as the start of a 'border slats' vanity project. Having had two years of complete control and no border wall built, planned...

Mind you whilst there he said:
"It's a wall. It's got 36 doors in it, big doors, very big doors. And they never put the doors on. So it's 38 miles with 36 doors that you can drive a truck through. There's only one problem, they never put the doors on it."

he also said: "Our country is full," Trump said at one point during the roundtable. "When it's full, there's nothing you can do. You have to say, 'I'm sorry, we can't take you.'"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/05/tr...

The good news is that trump baby balloon made an appearance as trump was there

[Gameface]

"It's a wall. It's got 36 doors in it, big doors, very big doors. And they never put the doors on. So it's 38 miles with 36 doors that you can drive a truck through. There's only one problem, they never put the doors on it."

And doors was his word of the day, that day.

How can anyone respect a man who speaks like this?

He'd be trailer trash but for winning the birth lottery.

[minimoog]

Gameface said:

How can anyone respect a man who speaks like this?

He'd be trailer trash but for winning the birth lottery.

He was much more articulate in his youth. He's well on the way to senility now.

[Byker28i]

A Trump supporter was just charged with making explicit threats against the life of ilhan omar.

But that didn't did not stop trump from attacking her and trying to ridicule her in his Republican Jewish Coalition speech in Las Vegas today.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-new...

[Gandahar]

What do you think his odds are for getting a 2nd term?

When he first came to power, and I chuckled. And then I continued laughing for the next months, I'd have said 10%.

Now I think it is 60%. He's just such a salesman who promised gold and so far the US has some gold.


What is your percentage guess?

The opposition seems to not have a united front so far. Bit like the labour party over here, from liberal to extreme, so splits their forces against the Dark Lord. Er, Donald.

[RobDickinson]

Really depends who gets through the Democrat primaries.

50/50 for now I think

It doesn't matter to his voters what he does.

[Countdown]

I’d make it 65%.

He’s doing really well on immigration and that’s what matters to most US voters. He’s completely scandal proof.

[glazbagun]

I think it depends on who gets the Dem job. Trump won with 62,984,828 votes (a UK sized population voted for Trump!) Obama had 69M in his 08 election and just shy of 66M in his second.

It's down to the electoral college of course, but the votes are there for a decent candidate with broad appeal.

[Byker28i]

Byker28i said:

A Trump supporter was just charged with making explicit threats against the life of ilhan omar.

But that didn't did not stop trump from attacking her and trying to ridicule her in his Republican Jewish Coalition speech in Las Vegas today.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-new...

In his speech he told US jews that Benjamin Netanyahu is "your prime minister",

https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-tells-us-j...

[Byker28i]

Nielsen has gone, so that will be another acting post. Senior US official says Nielsen was asked to the WH after a week of Trump’s frustrations, including over not being able to seal the border. It was up to her to convince him to keep her. Lets remember there's still a national emergency declared at theborder by trump.

Amazing when separating children from their parents still isn't enough to keep you your job with trump

Nancy Pelosi on Nielsen's resignation: "It is deeply alarming that the Trump Administration official who put children in cages is reportedly resigning because she is not extreme enough for the White House's liking."

Chuck Schumer on Nielsen's resignation: "When even the most radical voices in the administration aren't radical enough for President Trump, you know he's completely lost touch with the American people."

Homeland Security Chair Bennie Thompson: "Kirstjen Nielsen's tenure ... was a disaster from the start. It is clearer now than ever that the Trump Administration's border security and immigration policies — that she enacted and helped craft — have been an abysmal failure."

And they still don't know where the children are
Lawyers repping the Trump admin told the judge overseeing the reunification of separated migrant families that it will take one to two years to ID potentially thousands of children it separated before zero tolerance and complete reunification.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/reu...

[Byker28i]

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that congressional Democrats will never see President Donald Trump’s tax returns, arguing that any controversy surrounding the elusive financial statements was “already litigated” during the 2016 presidential campaign.

He claims that because the voters knew trump was lying that his taxes were under audit, that they voted for him anyway, so he doesn't have to show his taxes now.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/07/mulvaney...

So now we know for sure his taxes are a problem for trump.

[Byker28i]

Mueller will be leaving the DOJ in a few days

https://qz.com/1588348/robert-mueller-will-be-leav...

Seems strange as that would make him available to speak, but does also look like Barr forced him out, but he got out a report before he left?

[Bill]

RobDickinson said:

Really depends who gets through the Democrat primaries.

50/50 for now I think

It doesn't matter to his voters what he does.

It could be tight, it could be a landslide either way.

[Eric Mc]

The assumption when referring to "his voters" is, will those who voted for him last time vote for him again in similar numbers to 2016. Democracy is a numbers game at heart.

[Bill]

Absolutely, it's won in the middle ground. Hilary motivated a lot of Republicans to turn out, and demotivated a lot of Dems.

It's up to the Dems to find someone who doesn't revolt the voters.

[arfursleep]

Bill said:

Absolutely, it's won in the middle ground. Hilary motivated a lot of Republicans to turn out, and demotivated a lot of Dems.

It's up to the Dems to find someone who doesn't revolt the voters.

Trump will motivate a few Dems that didn't vote last time due to Hillary and some hubris of "we got this"

[Byker28i]

Bill said:

Absolutely, it's won in the middle ground. Hilary motivated a lot of Republicans to turn out, and demotivated a lot of Dems.

It's up to the Dems to find someone who doesn't revolt the voters.

I think strictly speaking that Comey announcing late on that they were reopening the investigation into her email, along with all the dirt trump threw (and the catchy phrases) was what tipped the floating voters. Bannon's strategy of depicting Clinton as part of the same old establishment worked as part of this also.
Then of course the 3 states that surprisingly swung to trump as Dem voters were turned away because they found themselves not registered, the same three states that trump suddenly visited.
It's alleged by some that this was part of the russian hacking, that they influenced the voting indirectly by not allowing Dems to vote.

Imagine if that's part of the Mueller report. trump hates it he didn't win the popular vote.