The thread where we meet to discuss the unfolding Trump administration catastrophe, but end up discussing adoptions from Russia

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If we can get our hands free to type from the constant facepalming, we should be able to post on this topic.

Continuation of the previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2968382-The-one-where-Trump-just-cant-stop-being-Trump

A Beast piece.

Team Trump excuses go from bad to worse

"Captive Nations Week"??

Well, we should certainly be at the top of that list, shouldn't we?

Lost the popular vote.
36% approval ratings.
Asking for our voting history.
Building a wall ( at this point it's probably to keep more of us in than out!)

Yep, sounds like we're being held captive to me.

I didn't realise that the administration's renegotiating 'goals' for NAFTA are expected to be published today.

NAFTA objectives

Expensive business, this president milarky:

www.politico.com/story/2017/07/15/trump-campaign-paid-jr-attorney-240592

So, supporters are paying to keep them out of jail? Or in the WH?

That is a far cry from his claims that he'd pay legal costs for any supporter who got caught assaulting protesters.

NEW: 67% disapprove of Pres. Trump’s use of Twitter, with 65% finding it insulting, new @ABC News/WaPo poll finds: abcn.ws/2uA1jxv

abcnews.go.com/Politics/public-trump-lay-off-twitter-poll/story?id=48641500

Peter Baker
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.@PressSec says “there was nothing as far as we know that would lead anyone to believe” that Don Jr. meeting wasn’t about adoption policy.

I guess a thread of emails released by don jr himself doesn't count then

Not a thread, the thread, that explicitly promised damaging information as supplied by the Russian government in order to favour one presidential candidate over another. But other than that, no, there was nothing to suggest it was about anything than adoptions.

Trump's longtime bodyguard eyed in House’s Russia probe, sources say

abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/house-russia-probe-eyes-longtime-trump-bodyguard-turned/story?id=48341329

.@PressSec says “there was nothing as far as we know that would lead anyone to believe” that Don Jr. meeting wasn’t about adoption policy.

Glenn Thrush @GlennTrush
Except for the part where DON JR. HIMSELF RELEASED EMAILS ADMITTING HE TOOK THE MEETING BECAUSE HE WAS PROMISED DIRT ON HILLARY CLINTON.

From the briefing

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Spicer: There's nothing we know of that'd lead anyone to believe Trump Jr.'s meeting wasn't about adoption policy

So why would any politician have taken that meeting to gain info on the opposition - as Trump said?

I'd add a 'BY RUSSIA' on there.

You need to bear in mind that:

'There's no such thing as a free lunch'.

Spicer: There's nothing we know of that'd lead anyone to believe Trump Jr.'s meeting wasn't about adoption policy

Out of the goodness of their stone cold profit oriented heart?

I don't believe the emails mentioned adoption.
I do know they mentioned information that would be helpful.

Gaslighting?

Goes to Fox to see what they say.

Was Spicey allegedly trying to keep a straight face when he said that? Do you think he's trying to emulate Kushner and hasn't (allegedly) read the email chain?

I think it was Junior who said that he wanted info but all they wanted was to talk adoption. (he should have taken them up on their offer )

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This is the quietest 48 hours I can remember in many months. This is life w/out chaos- storm clouds building b4 the next bombshells break.

Tee hee:

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Dear Trump,

If I gave you 100 Skittles and then said only 36 were not poisonous

Then you would realize how shitty your approval rating is.

On the Secret Service

www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/17/secret-service-contradicts-trump-lawyer-on-russia-meeting.html

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Sekulow defends Don Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
The Secret Service pushed back on a suggestion Sunday from President Trump’s outside attorney that the now-infamous 2016 meeting the president's eldest son took with Russian representatives would not have happened if the Secret Service considered it a problem.

Jay Sekulow had questioned why the Secret Service allowed Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and others into Trump Tower for the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016.

“If this was nefarious, why’d the Secret Service allow these people in?” Sekulow said on ABC’s “This Week.” “The president had Secret Service protection at that point. That raised a question with me.”

But according to the Secret Service, their protection did not extend to the president’s son at that point in the campaign.

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Nugget from our national poll coming out tomorrow- only 45% of Trump voters believe Donald Trump Jr. had a meeting with Russians...

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Trump Jr. posted an email HIMSELF on Twitter describing his meeting w/the Russians & that still convinced less than half of Trump supporters

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Nugget from our national poll coming out tomorrow- only 45% of Trump voters believe Donald Trump Jr. had a meeting with Russians...
2:01 PM - 17 Jul 2017

Someone failed to resist temptation here.

weatherplus.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2017/07/17/tropical-storm-don-forms-in-the-atlantic/

That means that 55% do believe he had a meeting with the Russians. I wonder what else they think?

Sorry. Misread that.