45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 6)
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JonChalk said:
Byker28i said:
This is sad news. It's being reported as:
A not-small number of people in rural eastern California love to ride their jacked-up vehicles around the desert & seethe with anger at public lands that don't let them. This is their revenge against what they see as a park service that denies them their fun.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/joshua-tree-national-par...
Page / link gone already, Byker.A not-small number of people in rural eastern California love to ride their jacked-up vehicles around the desert & seethe with anger at public lands that don't let them. This is their revenge against what they see as a park service that denies them their fun.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/joshua-tree-national-par...
As has been pointed out by others, the vast majority of illegals living in the US are doing so by simply flying in and then not flying out again. Shop wisely for a bucketshop ticket and it probably wouldn't be much more expensive than a ladder – plus you don't have to walk anywhere near as far.
Remember that trumps protection agents aren't paid overtime because trump already used up all the funding/budget with his constant trips to his properties, golf kart hires etc.
Now the FBI Agents Association has sent a petition to the White House and Congress, signed by representatives of field offices across the country, warning of the effect of the continued government shutdown on agents and their work.
Now the FBI Agents Association has sent a petition to the White House and Congress, signed by representatives of field offices across the country, warning of the effect of the continued government shutdown on agents and their work.
Morale at the FBI had already been steadily declining for months before the government shut down on December 22, according to current and recently departed agents who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity to discuss their feelings candidly. President Trump’s open warfare on the bureau has made agents’ jobs more difficult, they say, as trust in the FBI wanes among people who identify as Republicans and right-leaning independents. “Part of it is Trump’s constant attacks,” said one agent who left late last year. “Bigger than that, though, is that it seems like a portion of the population believes him. Which makes their jobs harder to do.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/...
Lazermilk said:
It's an awful lot of money to be wasting on a metal fence when $100 or so will get you through it with something like this...
How very prophetic of you...... testing by DHS in late 2017 showed all eight prototypes, including the steel slats, were vulnerable to breaching, according to an internal February 2018 U.S. Customs and Border Protection report.
Photos of the breaches were not included in a redacted version of the CBP report, which was first obtained in a Freedom of Information Act Request by San Diego public broadcaster KPBS.
Responding to the picture from the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday morning, Trump claimed "that’s a wall designed by previous administrations."
While it is true that previous administrations used this design, the prototype was built during his administration.
"It's very, very hard — the wall that we are doing is very, very hard to penetrate," Trump said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna956856
Also that shows a steel wall goes rusty - hows that trump 'beautiful wall'?
EvoDelta said:
Someone should go back to earlier volumes of this thread and drag up all of the posts where Trumpettes said that the wall was not real, and more of a metaphor. I'm pretty sure there were quite a few of them.
There were even more saying there was no collusion, no proof... 
Even Fox News now say there was collusion/conspiracyThis is a very interesting article
Trumps campaign chief pollster was Tony Fabrizio, who Manafort had worked with before, but had also worked with Mitch McConnell, Joni Ernst, and Rand Paul. It was reported that Trump stiffed Fabrizo's company three-quarters of a million dollars for its services on the Presidential campaign
It also highlights how the Trump campaign and Russia’s Internet Research Agency coordinated and focused their efforts on marginal states such as Michigan and Wisconsin, why the data Manafort handed over was vital to this.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-would...
Trumps campaign chief pollster was Tony Fabrizio, who Manafort had worked with before, but had also worked with Mitch McConnell, Joni Ernst, and Rand Paul. It was reported that Trump stiffed Fabrizo's company three-quarters of a million dollars for its services on the Presidential campaign
It also highlights how the Trump campaign and Russia’s Internet Research Agency coordinated and focused their efforts on marginal states such as Michigan and Wisconsin, why the data Manafort handed over was vital to this.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-would...
Trump would never use or even understand metaphor.
Apparently he has blamed the situation at home for his decision to pull out of this year's world economic summit at Davos. Yeah, right. Nothing to do with him being utterly incapable of conversing with other world leaders on any level then.
Apparently he has blamed the situation at home for his decision to pull out of this year's world economic summit at Davos. Yeah, right. Nothing to do with him being utterly incapable of conversing with other world leaders on any level then.
Ok I’m with Trump now. This is a national emergency. So dangerous.
https://twitter.com/acosta/status/1083519584177664...
https://twitter.com/acosta/status/1083519584177664...
Byker28i said:
More bad news for trump:
MICHAEL COHEN, President Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, will testify in PUBLIC before House Oversight on Feb. 7. Expect questions about his involvement in hush money scheme to silence Trump affairs, the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2016 and other controversies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/mic...
ON TV AND UNDER OATH! 7th Feb
“In furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement, “I have accepted the invitation by Chairman Elijah Cummings to appear publicly on Feb. 7. I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired.”
So this the the big one no?MICHAEL COHEN, President Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, will testify in PUBLIC before House Oversight on Feb. 7. Expect questions about his involvement in hush money scheme to silence Trump affairs, the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2016 and other controversies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/mic...
ON TV AND UNDER OATH! 7th Feb
“In furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement, “I have accepted the invitation by Chairman Elijah Cummings to appear publicly on Feb. 7. I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired.”
1St time one of the big guilties gets to have their say in public.
There must be loads of nuggets that he can just drop in during the event. Nuggets that Muller may not be interested in, but that could swamp the orange one with gossip, new threads for investigative journalists to follow. Etc.
If Cohen drops an abortion bombshell, Trump may be on very thin ice.
He is going to need something big to distract from that!
Chimune said:
Byker28i said:
More bad news for trump:
MICHAEL COHEN, President Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, will testify in PUBLIC before House Oversight on Feb. 7. Expect questions about his involvement in hush money scheme to silence Trump affairs, the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2016 and other controversies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/mic...
ON TV AND UNDER OATH! 7th Feb
“In furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement, “I have accepted the invitation by Chairman Elijah Cummings to appear publicly on Feb. 7. I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired.”
So this the the big one no?MICHAEL COHEN, President Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, will testify in PUBLIC before House Oversight on Feb. 7. Expect questions about his involvement in hush money scheme to silence Trump affairs, the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2016 and other controversies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/mic...
ON TV AND UNDER OATH! 7th Feb
“In furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement, “I have accepted the invitation by Chairman Elijah Cummings to appear publicly on Feb. 7. I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired.”
1St time one of the big guilties gets to have their say in public.
There must be loads of nuggets that he can just drop in during the event. Nuggets that Muller may not be interested in, but that could swamp the orange one with gossip, new threads for investigative journalists to follow. Etc.
If Cohen drops an abortion bombshell, Trump may be on very thin ice.
He is going to need something big to distract from that!
t this is going to be insane to watch. He will be talking about a sitting president! Who needs tv series when this exists. p1stonhead said:
Chimune said:
Byker28i said:
More bad news for trump:
MICHAEL COHEN, President Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, will testify in PUBLIC before House Oversight on Feb. 7. Expect questions about his involvement in hush money scheme to silence Trump affairs, the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2016 and other controversies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/mic...
ON TV AND UNDER OATH! 7th Feb
“In furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement, “I have accepted the invitation by Chairman Elijah Cummings to appear publicly on Feb. 7. I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired.”
So this the the big one no?MICHAEL COHEN, President Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, will testify in PUBLIC before House Oversight on Feb. 7. Expect questions about his involvement in hush money scheme to silence Trump affairs, the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2016 and other controversies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/mic...
ON TV AND UNDER OATH! 7th Feb
“In furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement, “I have accepted the invitation by Chairman Elijah Cummings to appear publicly on Feb. 7. I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired.”
1St time one of the big guilties gets to have their say in public.
There must be loads of nuggets that he can just drop in during the event. Nuggets that Muller may not be interested in, but that could swamp the orange one with gossip, new threads for investigative journalists to follow. Etc.
If Cohen drops an abortion bombshell, Trump may be on very thin ice.
He is going to need something big to distract from that!
t this is going to be insane to watch. He will be talking about a sitting president! Who needs tv series when this exists. Cohen: regarding the polling data or the golden showers?
chair: the polling data.
Cohen: really?!?
This months pay checks of Zero amount are starting to be sent today. Air traffic controllers are either getting no pay, or being furloughed
More than 24,000 FAA employees are working without pay, since their positions are considered vital for “life and safety.” Another more than 17,000 have been furloughed, told to stop doing their jobs, including the vital training work needed to bring much-needed additional air traffic controllers into the workforce after years of retirements have thinned the ranks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcom...
More than 24,000 FAA employees are working without pay, since their positions are considered vital for “life and safety.” Another more than 17,000 have been furloughed, told to stop doing their jobs, including the vital training work needed to bring much-needed additional air traffic controllers into the workforce after years of retirements have thinned the ranks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcom...
trumps wall video yesterday is attracting comments
"I know it's sort of passé to fact check the president, but in the video when he says he swore an oath to "protect the country" ... that's not what the oath says"
Correct: the Oath of Office says, "...faithfully execute the Office of President...to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States." DJT has failed his Oath of Office every single day.
"I know it's sort of passé to fact check the president, but in the video when he says he swore an oath to "protect the country" ... that's not what the oath says"
Correct: the Oath of Office says, "...faithfully execute the Office of President...to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States." DJT has failed his Oath of Office every single day.
Byker28i said:
trumps wall video yesterday is attracting comments
"I know it's sort of passé to fact check the president, but in the video when he says he swore an oath to "protect the country" ... that's not what the oath says"
Correct: the Oath of Office says, "...faithfully execute the Office of President...to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States." DJT has failed his Oath of Office every single day.
In his defence (????), "to the best of my ability". He has no ability, so you could read it that he is doing the job as well as he could possible. So the oaf is keeping to the word of the oathe, if not the spirit of it."I know it's sort of passé to fact check the president, but in the video when he says he swore an oath to "protect the country" ... that's not what the oath says"
Correct: the Oath of Office says, "...faithfully execute the Office of President...to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States." DJT has failed his Oath of Office every single day.
Byker28i said:
This months pay checks of Zero amount are starting to be sent today. Air traffic controllers are either getting no pay, or being furloughed
More than 24,000 FAA employees are working without pay, since their positions are considered vital for “life and safety.” Another more than 17,000 have been furloughed, told to stop doing their jobs, including the vital training work needed to bring much-needed additional air traffic controllers into the workforce after years of retirements have thinned the ranks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcom...
I genuinely fear for the safety of people if this continues and training of staff and maintenance of systems etc is compromised. I somehow doubt Trump feels the same though and he will have a go at the staff for failing to maintain his personal achievement of fewest ever accidents in aviation ever. More than 24,000 FAA employees are working without pay, since their positions are considered vital for “life and safety.” Another more than 17,000 have been furloughed, told to stop doing their jobs, including the vital training work needed to bring much-needed additional air traffic controllers into the workforce after years of retirements have thinned the ranks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcom...
If you had put all of his actions as president into a film 5 years ago no one would watch it as it would be completely unbelievable.
p1stonhead said:
Chimune said:
Byker28i said:
More bad news for trump:
MICHAEL COHEN, President Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, will testify in PUBLIC before House Oversight on Feb. 7. Expect questions about his involvement in hush money scheme to silence Trump affairs, the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2016 and other controversies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/mic...
ON TV AND UNDER OATH! 7th Feb
“In furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement, “I have accepted the invitation by Chairman Elijah Cummings to appear publicly on Feb. 7. I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired.”
So this the the big one no?MICHAEL COHEN, President Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, will testify in PUBLIC before House Oversight on Feb. 7. Expect questions about his involvement in hush money scheme to silence Trump affairs, the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2016 and other controversies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/mic...
ON TV AND UNDER OATH! 7th Feb
“In furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement, “I have accepted the invitation by Chairman Elijah Cummings to appear publicly on Feb. 7. I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired.”
1St time one of the big guilties gets to have their say in public.
There must be loads of nuggets that he can just drop in during the event. Nuggets that Muller may not be interested in, but that could swamp the orange one with gossip, new threads for investigative journalists to follow. Etc.
If Cohen drops an abortion bombshell, Trump may be on very thin ice.
He is going to need something big to distract from that!
t this is going to be insane to watch. He will be talking about a sitting president! Who needs tv series when this exists. But before you all slag off Avenatti, if it wasn't for his dogged determination on the Stormy Daniels case, Cohen wouldn't have found himself in trouble, wouldn't have flipped, and an awful lot about trump wouldn't have come out, the NDA's, the illegal payments, the National enquirer etc
Meanwhile Guiliani with a straight face says the President's legal team should be able to "correct" Mueller's report before it's submitted in case "some of it is wrong."
Rudy Giuliani says President Trump’s legal team should be allowed to “correct” special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report before Congress or the American people get the chance to read it.
“As a matter of fairness, they should show it to you — so we can correct it if they’re wrong,” said the former New York City mayor, who is a member of Trump's personal legal team. “They’re not God, after all. They could be wrong.”
He also claimed Manafort did nothing wrong. “Should he have done it? No. But there’s nothing criminal about it,” Giuliani said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/424871...
Rudy Giuliani says President Trump’s legal team should be allowed to “correct” special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report before Congress or the American people get the chance to read it.
“As a matter of fairness, they should show it to you — so we can correct it if they’re wrong,” said the former New York City mayor, who is a member of Trump's personal legal team. “They’re not God, after all. They could be wrong.”
He also claimed Manafort did nothing wrong. “Should he have done it? No. But there’s nothing criminal about it,” Giuliani said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/424871...
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