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Has Trump Turned Traitor? Trump thread continued.

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TheClaws · 17/07/2018 11:24

The Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki, coming so soon after Trump’s ally-crumbling display in Britain and at the EU, is still sinking in. Let’s just say: he’s in all kinds of shit. All the kompromat.

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3295445-Our-list-of-allies-grows-thin-Our-list-of-enemies-grows-long-Trump-thread-continued

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Roussette · 20/07/2018 18:29

Last night a mariachi band and bagpipes... and tonight....

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Tonight at the White House there will be a hip-hop & brass band and two dancers joining protestors. 7 PM.

AcrossthePond55 · 20/07/2018 18:30

It seems that there is starting to be some low level grumbling about the future of US/Russia (Putin) relations in the GOP members of Congress. I say 'about the future', because the GOP doesn't want to touch the issue of past election hacking as it endangers their own 2016 results so they aren't going to 'deal' with shit that's gone on in the past.

Our best hope is that Scrotus keeps on with the insane Putin buddy-buddy shit that he's trying to shove down everyone's throat. That 98-0 vote to the Senate resolution regarding turning over Americans for 'questioning' by Russian Intel has got to mean something.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 20/07/2018 18:55

Lurking at the moment and this is my lurky place mark.

Sleipnirthewonderhorse · 20/07/2018 19:04

I assume that now the news has moved onto other things, the US government has rather lost interest in this:

14% of migrant children reunited in US
With only a week before the 26 July deadline, the Trump administration has reunited 14% of the migrant children who were separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border as a part of the "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-44905276?__twitter_impression=true

cozietoesie · 20/07/2018 22:23

Sharpley is resigning?

lionheart · 20/07/2018 23:23

Wow. There is a lot going on ...

lionheart · 21/07/2018 04:33

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"The startling reality for all of us is that we are faced with a situation where our president, the person whom we have entrusted to lead this country, isn't all in for our nation." - Sally Yates, former acting attorney general.

PerkingFaintly · 21/07/2018 05:53

From ohmymimi's link on Sharpley:

Acting CIA watchdog up for top job resigns
www.politico.com/story/2018/07/20/christopher-sharpley-cia-resigns-734956

ASPEN, Colo. — The acting watchdog at the CIA, who has been accused of retaliating against whistleblowers, is resigning, the agency confirmed Friday.

Christopher Sharpley, whose nomination for the inspector general post had stalled in the Senate, said in a memo to employees at his office that he was stepping down.
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Representatives for those ex-CIA employees told The Associated Press last year that there has been discord for several years within the inspector general's office, an independent unit created in 1989 to oversee the spy agency.

The office is charged with stopping waste, fraud and mismanagement and promoting accountability through audits, inspections, investigations and reviews of CIA programs and operations — overt and covert.

Members of the Senate intelligence committee asked Sharpley at his confirmation hearing in October about complaints that he and other managers participated in retaliation against CIA workers who alerted congressional committees and other authorities about alleged misconduct.

Sharpley told Congress that he was "unaware of any open investigations on me, the details of any complaints about me." He said he might not know because there is a process providing confidentiality to anyone who wants to file a complaint against government officials.
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Last November, the two former CIA employees said Sharpley was less than candid when he told Congress that he didn't know about any active whistleblower complaints against him.

GOP Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, delayed a vote on Sharpley's nomination until the committee could find out more about the whistleblower cases.

BolleauxtoBankers · 21/07/2018 06:28

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British journalists got their first taste of Trump’s "fake news" wrath and it was pretty hilarious. #BetweenTheScenes

Hope the link works.

TheClaws · 21/07/2018 06:49

There really wasn’t anywhere else suitable? For example: a location without recent unpleasant racist events tied to the GOP administration? As in, anywhere else in the entire world? Even Moscow?

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Republicans confirm Charlotte, North Carolina, for the site of their 2020 convention cnn.it/2zZ34HY

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ohmymimi · 21/07/2018 07:29

Charlotte has more hotel rooms than Vegas? That's why they discounted Vegas Hmm

An RNC panel earlier in the week recommended Charlotte over Las Vegas, citing the North Carolina city’s large number of hotel rooms, major airport and demonstrated fundraising ability.
www.politico.com/story/2018/07/20/where-is-republican-national-convention-2020-charlotte-734953

ohmymimi · 21/07/2018 07:41

Stone interviewed about this by Anderson Cooper yesterday. Kristen Davis was involved in the Spitzer scandal. Ole Rog. certainly gets about, doesn't he?

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-seeking-to-question-manhattan-madam-in-russia-probe-she-says/2018/07/20/818bb7fc-8c59-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html
www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/roger-stone-connected-manhattan-madam-subpoenaed-by-special-counsel.html

ohmymimi · 21/07/2018 07:46

Weird. Is this a shiny squirrel or a brewing scandal?
www.politico.com/story/2018/07/20/elliott-broidy-jamal-benomar-qatar-734951

Roussette · 21/07/2018 07:51

Shock Shock]
Bearing in mind Trump never has a clue about world affairs and the past history of other countries, this is shocking...

hillreporter.com/putin-says-trump-gave-up-crimea-and-other-parts-of-ukraine-during-private-summit-4097

ohmymimi · 21/07/2018 07:58

Calif. court decision threatens right to counsel (for poor people):
theintercept.com/2018/07/20/sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel-lawsuit-california/

ohmymimi · 21/07/2018 08:02

Not in the headlines anymore:
'IN SOUTH TEXAS, over the last week, chaos has prevailed in immigration detention centers housing parents who were separated from their children in May and June under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” program.'
theintercept.com/2018/07/19/family-reunification-ice-immigration/

annandale · 21/07/2018 08:03

Oh for fuck's sake he's such a weak easily manipulated NOB.

Sorry, not much analysis there. I suppose it is god for us to know that if Russia decides to annex Western Europe, Trump won't lift a finger.

ohmymimi · 21/07/2018 08:41

Ms Maddow, always good, this time extra good value:
The Manafort circus comes to town, jury picking imminent;
Who leaked the (designated privileged) Cohen tape, only two sets of lawyers had it;
Kavanaugh.

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