[Discussion] Hope to Remember The Trump Administration Thread as being 'transparent and honest'

Let's follow and discuss what our newest presidential administration gets up to, the good, the bad, the lawsuits, and the many many indictments.

farley3k wrote:

His current .... oddness....certainly creates interesting headlines

currently on cnn

Aides have no idea where the President sits on stimulus at this moment. But all agree talks are done for now.

I think most of us have no idea where the president sits on a huge range of issues.

I presume he sits as awkwardly as he stands
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I saw someone refer to his particular way of standing as looking like a centaur with the horse part removed. I can't unsee that.

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So what's going on now with the release of the documents concerning Russian collusion? I've been seeing conservatives on other forums today claiming that they are proving beyond a doubt that it was all a hoax that Hillary created against Trump to take attention away from her email server.

My theory- He stands that way to look thinner. If I stand up and suck in my gut and/or throw my butt backwards it pulls my hips back like in that photo and, from the front at least, reduces the size of my stomach.

bekkilyn wrote:

So what's going on now with the release of the documents concerning Russian collusion? I've been seeing conservatives on other forums today claiming that they are proving beyond a doubt that it was all a hoax that Hillary created against Trump to take attention away from her email server.

I'm going to take a wild f*cking guess that they prove no such thing.

bekkilyn wrote:

So what's going on now with the release of the documents concerning Russian collusion? I've been seeing conservatives on other forums today claiming that they are proving beyond a doubt that it was all a hoax that Hillary created against Trump to take attention away from her email server.

Is that a real thing, i thought it was just something his coked up steroid addled brain made up.

The email server thing was real but completely benign.

Trump’s financial debt to the bank of Russia is real. It hasn’t been proven outright, but there is some damning circumstantial evidence which has never been directly addressed.

bekkilyn wrote:

So what's going on now with the release of the documents concerning Russian collusion? I've been seeing conservatives on other forums today claiming that they are proving beyond a doubt that it was all a hoax that Hillary created against Trump to take attention away from her email server.

Were the documents actually released? I saw that Trump had said he was declassifying everything related to Clinton's emails and "the Russian Hoax" but not that anything had actually been released yet.

I did see that Rep. Ted Liu requested that the Justice Department turn over the unredacted Mueller Report per Trump's order. I'm sure that'll happen.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:

So what's going on now with the release of the documents concerning Russian collusion? I've been seeing conservatives on other forums today claiming that they are proving beyond a doubt that it was all a hoax that Hillary created against Trump to take attention away from her email server.

Were the documents actually released? I saw that Trump had said he was declassifying everything related to Clinton's emails and "the Russian Hoax" but not that anything had actually been released yet.

I did see that Rep. Ted Liu requested that the Justice Department turn over the unredacted Mueller Report per Trump's order. I'm sure that'll happen.

That's what I don't know or what's actually in the documents, but I'm hearing talk as if the declassification already happened and disproves the entire Russian collusion thing. I hadn't really seen a lot of discussion here about it, which seemed odd if it happened and there was something to discuss, so I figured I'd ask.

There's currently a big push from all the Usual Suspects of the GOP on Twitter, pushing the "Obama spied on Trump" angle and spreading nonsense about an "attempted coup".

Here's Paul Waldman's take on it.

If you’re a resident of the right-wing media bubble, you’ve been told of late that the thing you should be angry about right now is a convoluted story about 2016, the latest attempt to prove that no one should ever have been concerned at all about Russia’s interference in our election and the Trump campaign’s enthusiastic cooperation with it.

This time it involves a Russian intelligence assessment from that year, in which the Kremlin judged that Clinton was trying to get the American public to believe that Trump and Russia were in cahoots. Which, of course, she was: Clinton talked often in public about how Trump would be Vladimir Putin’s “puppet.” And for good reason: They were indeed in cahoots, at least in their shambling, incompetent way, whether you think it rose to the level of a criminal conspiracy or not.

To believe that this constitutes some sort of new scandal or proves that the FBI should never have investigated the Russian attack on American democracy, you’d have to be a Russian agent (like, say, the one to whom Trump’s campaign chairman was passing confidential information) or a blithering idiot.

But last week, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified this Russian report, so vital was it that it be made public right away. Why? You’ll recall that Ratcliffe’s nomination to the position overseeing all of America’s intelligence agencies was controversial because the former congressman was a notorious partisan hack with almost no intelligence experience. Now he’s turning his own office — like pretty much every arm of the federal government — into a subsidiary of the Trump campaign.

They now want us to believe that the Russia scandal — all the contacts between Trump officials and Russians, the hacking of Democratic emails, the coordination with WikiLeaks, all of it — was invented by Clinton.

JLS wrote:
farley3k wrote:

His current .... oddness....certainly creates interesting headlines

currently on cnn

Aides have no idea where the President sits on stimulus at this moment. But all agree talks are done for now.

I think most of us have no idea where the president sits on a huge range of issues.

I presume he sits as awkwardly as he stands
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She's the only one without an armored vest? Tsk Tsk.

It is pretty clear by now that the big planned October Surprise was going to be the manufactured scandal of Hunter Biden in Ukraine. Trump bet his entire presidency on it. He perjured himself, extorted a foreign ally, and compromised national security to try to make it happen. In the end, it blew up in his face and bought him an impeachment. Had their been four Republicans in the nation with an ounce of decency between them, he would have lost his presidency over it.

Now, he realizes he has nothing but to run on his record. A record that includes a 31% contraction of the nation's GDP, 210k dead Americans, widespread civil unrest, and the rise of white nationalism as a major political force.

So he tries to fish the Hunter Biden "scandal" out of the trash every chance he gets like Gerald O'hara clutching his worthless Confederate bonds in the ruins of Tara.

JC wrote:

At this point, when Biden wins the election, they're going to have to burn down the White House in order to sanitize it.

Just make a call to the north. We have experience with that.

OG_slinger wrote:

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Don't worry. Because the stock market is completely divorced from anything resembling the economic reality of most Americans, stocks closed up today.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Don't worry. Because the stock market is completely divorced from anything resembling the economic reality of most Americans, stocks closed up today.

It is the same every day. A negative tweet one day, a "positive" the next.

Dumb question potentially, but is the First Lady doing okay?

Rat Boy wrote:

Dumb question potentially, but is the First Lady doing okay?

The unsubstantiated word from the surviving members of the White House is yes, but there's been no sign of her since the infection was announced, I think.

Honestly I could care less.

Very close, but the correct answer is:

I really don't care. Do you?

JC wrote:

My theory- He stands that way to look thinner. If I stand up and suck in my gut and/or throw my butt backwards it pulls my hips back like in that photo and, from the front at least, reduces the size of my stomach.

He stands that way because he wears lifts to appear taller and the lifts, coupled with his obesity, make him lean forward.

OG_slinger wrote:
JC wrote:

My theory- He stands that way to look thinner. If I stand up and suck in my gut and/or throw my butt backwards it pulls my hips back like in that photo and, from the front at least, reduces the size of my stomach.

He stands that way because he wears lifts to appear taller and the lifts, coupled with his obesity, make him lean forward.

*sigh* but of course he does....

OG_slinger wrote:
JC wrote:

My theory- He stands that way to look thinner. If I stand up and suck in my gut and/or throw my butt backwards it pulls my hips back like in that photo and, from the front at least, reduces the size of my stomach.

He stands that way because he wears lifts to appear taller and the lifts, coupled with his obesity, make him lean forward.

I don't think the misogynists know their Dear Leader wears heels.

I thought it was frontotemporal dementia...whatever that is.

firesloth wrote:

I thought it was frontotemporal dementia...whatever that is.

It doesn't explain, though, why his sons do it too.

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Wow that is an awkward photo

First day of standing lessons.