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The damning Mueller Report is out - but Trump thinks he’s exonerated (Trump thread 93)

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TheClaws · 22/04/2019 04:35

... not only that, he’s threatening treason charges on those who investigated him.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3540624-Mueller-time-for-Trump-and-his-friends-will-they-all-meet-in-a-courtyard-surrounded-by-a-big-beautiful-wall-Trump-thread-92

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lionheart · 26/04/2019 11:40

Impeachments.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 26/04/2019 14:24

Thanks for the impeachment video lion

Connolly threatens to jail Trump officials who won't comply with subpoenas
www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/politics/gerry-connolly-subpoenas-white-house-cnntv/index.html

TheNorthWestPawsage · 26/04/2019 15:16

The Trump administration has detailed its plans to open more than a million acres of public land in California to fracking, continuing their policy of giving away the store to industry at the expense of our environment.

#ShitholePresident
www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-fracking-oil-gas-california-20190425-story.html

TheNorthWestPawsage · 26/04/2019 15:34

So who's the hypocrite now?

Trump Says Mar-A-Lago Can’t Find US Workers To Hire. New Documents Show Dozens Applied.
Trump often says his resorts have no choice but to hire foreign guest workers — there just aren’t any Americans to take the jobs. But government records show nearly 60 US residents applied for those jobs, and only one was hired.
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/mar-a-lago-rejected-dozens-of-americans-in-favor-of-foreign

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 26/04/2019 16:09

I think what I find seriously weird about the post upthread is the assumption that in order to dislike Trump one has to be a Democrat.

I'm not a Democrat, and I have disliked him since I first came across him and his behaviour back in the mid-eighties; my dislike was confirmed in the early nineties during his first divorce.

I regard him as a would-be mobster who was too stupid to be anything but a cats'paw for the Family, and who would not know honesty, decency or probity if any of them were presented to him on a plate with parsley round it.

That he has managed with the help of a genuine and successful mobster to become President of the United States seems to me to be very sad for that country, and for the planet -- he seems determined to despoil it for the benefit of the very rich, and this will hasten its becoming unfit for mammalian life.

Apart from that he is probably fine.

People who support him seem able completely to ignore any of the down-sides to his behaviour or character, which is almost as weird as the assumption that only a Democrat can dislike him; John McCain was not a democrat, nor is Mueller, and nor is G.W. Bush, who made no secret of the fact that he didn't vote for Trump... I think it's safe to say these Republicans were/are not slavish fans of Trump.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 26/04/2019 16:50

Mueller Prosecutors: Trump Did Obstruct Justice
www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/04/26/mueller-prosecutors-trump-did-obstruct-justice/

Prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded last year that they had sufficient evidence to seek criminal charges against President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice over the president’s alleged pressuring of then FBI Director James Comey in February 2017 to shut down an FBI investigation of the president’s then national security adviser, Michael Flynn.

Privately, the two prosecutors, who were then employed in the special counsel’s office, told other Justice Department officials that had it not been for the unique nature of the case—the investigation of a sitting president of the United States, and one who tried to use the powers of his office to thwart and even close down the special counsel’s investigation—they would have advocated that he face federal criminal charges.
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lionheart · 26/04/2019 16:50

It's strange to come across an individual so lacking in redeeming qualities. No wonder HRC had to refer to his children when asked to say something positive about him in the debate (even though the answer doesn't hold up in relation to three of them).

Hearhere · 26/04/2019 17:41

I agree it's very sad that a person such has him has risen to this office, but there must have been a trump shaped space that called to him, or he wouldnt be there!

cozietoesie · 26/04/2019 21:53

Actually, he would,'t be there without some ........help. Smile

Hearhere · 26/04/2019 22:02

Cozie, oh yes I fully appreciate that!
But one assumes that he could 'smell' that help would be available, or to put it another way the fact that help was available is part of what formed the trump shaped hole

lionheart · 26/04/2019 22:18

'Trump shaped hole.' Smile

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TheClaws · 27/04/2019 02:45

He’s said it before, and he really didn’t need to repeat it, but he did.

thehill.com/homenews/administration/440923-trump-reiterates-claim-that-stricter-gun-laws-could-have-prevented

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TheClaws · 27/04/2019 02:58

THEsonofaBITCH if Bill Clinton had done a tenth of what Trump has done - and that is what he has publicly done, in clear sight - he would have been impeached much earlier. That Trump has not is due to people like yourself. Ask yourself this: is Trump truly, really, someone you’d have leading your side in a Third World War? I want someone I can trust. He is not that someone.

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 27/04/2019 09:00

Meddling makes it sounds like something from a ScoobyDoo story.

F.B.I. Warns of Russian Interference in 2020 Race and Boosts Counterintelligence Operations
www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/politics/fbi-russian-election-interference.html

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director warned anew on Friday about Russia’s continued meddling in American elections, calling it a “significant counterintelligence threat.” The bureau has shifted additional agents and analysts to shore up defenses against foreign interference, according to a senior F.B.I. official.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 27/04/2019 09:07

If you give it out, you also have to take it. Smile

George Conway slammed Trump as ‘Deranged Donald,’ and a new nickname was born
<a class="break-all" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/26/george-conway-slammed-trump-deranged-donald-new-nickname-was-born/?utm_term=.4fad6dcf058f#click=t.co/oasIJADTXt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/26/george-conway-slammed-trump-deranged-donald-new-nickname-was-born/?utm_term=.4fad6dcf058f#click=t.co/oasIJADTXt

In President Trump’s world, people may come and go, but nicknames are forever.

Whether they are “Crooked,” “Crazy,” “Lyin’” or “Little,” it appears that Trump has made it his personal mission to saddle his numerous rivals over the years with unflattering monikers, seizing any opportunity to deploy the epithets to the masses.

On Thursday, however, Trump found himself in a rather unusual position in his war of words — receiving a nickname.

In a series of early-morning tweets, prolific Trump critic George Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, once again raged against the president. But instead of using Trump’s name, Conway repeatedly called him “Deranged Donald,” seemingly irked by a Washington Post story about the president promoting a widely debunked accusation that the United Kingdom helped the Obama administration spy on his 2016 campaign. Conway then turned the alliterative sobriquet into a hashtag.
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It didn’t take long for the hashtag to begin shooting up the list of Twitter trends, and it was eventually trending in the No. 2 spot worldwide. By late Thursday, the hashtag had been mentioned hundreds of thousands of times.
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The swiftness with which the hashtag took off marks yet another example of the president’s critics adopting his tactics. In the Trump era, political discourse has become increasingly characterized by public figures, including elected officials from both sides of the aisle, trading barbs on social media and lampooning each other whenever cameras are rolling.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 27/04/2019 09:29

Analysis of WaPo/ABC News Poll

The exoneration that wasn’t: A majority of Americans think Mueller didn’t clear Trump
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/26/exoneration-that-wasnt-most-americans-think-mueller-didnt-clear-trump/?utm_term=.f0dcf40a25e6

lionheart · 27/04/2019 10:01

Yes, 'meddling' doesn't quite cover it. Hmm

That's good news NorthWest--let's hope it translates into a desire to know the truth, whatever route has to be taken to get to it.

Hearhere · 27/04/2019 10:37

I hope to deranged Donald sticks 😂
(although I'm rather fond of Don the con)

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Roussette · 27/04/2019 11:55

#DerangedDonald is absolutely everywhere on Twitter Grin

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‘I’m so young. I can’t believe it. I’m the youngest person. I’m a young, vibrant man.’ — President Trump, 72

There is actually a clip of him saying this. I always knew he was a deluded egotistical idiot but this takes the biscuit! It was in the context of being asked if Biden is too old, he said "I don't know, I wouldn't say anyone is too old but they are making me look very young in terms of age and in terms of energy"
This comes from the man who doesn't start work till 11am and needs hours of executive time to watch telly, tweet etc.

Hearhere · 27/04/2019 12:15

In his mind he is young vibrant and Twitter is his personal stomping ground, it's going to really upset him to see deranged Donald trending
He'll have to go on one of his rallies to soothe himself by bathing in the adoration of the halfwits Who still support him

PerkingFaintly · 27/04/2019 12:17

And the man who skips a memorial at WWII cemetery because it's raining.

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