***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[Nike Jordan]

McCain talking tough when it's convenient for him.

 

[EddieDoyers]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...an-hacking-commission/?utm_term=.342dc03e7b17

A Republican joins House Democrats’ push to establish a bipartisan Russian hacking commission

 

[IATT]

 

[dathbgboy]

Clark needs to sit down somewhere, Agent Orange isn't gon appoint him to a position, he already got Ben Barson, he filled his quota.

 

[EddieDoyers]

Jeb throwing shade

 

[handullz]

McCain talking tough when it's convenient for him.

My opinion...

Better late than never.

Of course he could've done all of this prior to Trump getting in, AND during the appointees.

But gotta take any type of like mindedness from the Repubs that you can get at this time since the Repubs control everything.

 

[IATT]

 

[jsindaa]

I'm late but my uncle is one of the editors for the AP. He(they) doesn't let ANYTHING get printed before it's been corroborated by multiple primary sources. I asked him about the report. They have the memo. They did call the WH. They have far too much to lose by printing false stories. Not buying anything coming from Spicer on this

 

[EddieDoyers]

 

[EddieDoyers]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-committee-begins-probe-of-payments-to-flynn-210144266.html

House committee probes Russia payment to Flynn

Citing a Yahoo News interview with retired Lt. General Michael Flynn last July, a House committee has opened an investigation into whether President Trump’s recently resigned national security adviser received improper payments from the Russian government for a trip to Moscow in December 2015.

In an unusual bipartisan letter, House Oversight and Government Reform committee chair Rep. Jason Chaffetz and ranking minority member Rep. Elijah Cummings have asked a Washington-based speakers bureau, Leading Authorities, to turn over information on how much Flynn was paid for his attendance at a dinner celebrating the 10th anniversary of RT — the Russian-government funded news organization — where he sat at the same table as President Vladimir Putin. Flynn also sat for a 44-minute interview with RT anchor Sophie Shevardnadze, granddaughter of former Soviet foreign affairs minister Eduard Shevardnadze, as part of the trip.

“We are attempting to determine the amount Lt. General Flynn received for his appearance, the source of the funds, and whether he may have received payments from any foreign governments for additional engagements,” Chaffetz and Cummings wrote in a letter to Mark French, the president of Leading Authorities.

As their basis for asking the question, the congressmen cited the interview Flynn gave to Yahoo News last July during the opening day of the Republican convention. In a testy exchange during the interview, Flynn first acknowledged being paid for the Dec. 2015 event.

“Yeah, I went over there as a speaker, it was a speaking event,” Flynn responded when asked whether he was compensated for the trip. “What difference does that make? I didn’t take any money form Russia, I can tell you that.”

Then who paid you? Flynn was asked.

“My speaker’s bureau. Ask them.”

A spokesman for Leading Authorities did not respond to a request for comment. Flynn, who joined the Trump White House on the day the president was sworn in and resigned late Monday night, is no longer listed on the Leading Authorities webs site. But an archived section of the website listed Flynn’s “fee ranges” as between $35,001 and $55,000 for talks in Europe and $55,001 and $75,000 in Asia.

At the time of the Dec. 2015 talk, Flynn had already been fired from his position as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and was not yet affiliated with the Trump campaign. But the investigators for the House panel have suggested that Flynn’s compensation by a Russian government arm like RT may still have been improper because of Defense Department guidelines advising retired military officers that they are still covered by the “emoluments clause” of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits acceptance of any “present, emolument, office or title of any kind from any King, Price, or foreign government.”

The role of RT in furthering Moscow’s interest was highlighted last month as part of a U.S. intelligence community report on Russia’s attempt to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In an annex to the report, the intelligence community focused on the role of RT, concluding that “the rapid expansion of RT’s operations and budget and recent candid statements by RT’s leadership point to the channel’s importance to the Kremlin as a messaging tool and indicate a Kremlin- directed campaign to undermine faith in the US Government and fuel political protest.”

During his Moscow talk , Flynn sat for an extended interview with Shevardnadze in which he expressed his views that the U.S. should avoid taking a confrontational posture with Russia, describing the U.S. relationship with Moscow as a “marriage.”

“The United States can’t sit there and say, ‘Russia, you’re bad,’” Flynn told the RT anchor during a 44 minute interview. “And Russia can’t sit there and say, the United States you’re bad… This is a funny marriage we have, Russia and the United States. But it’s a marriage. What we don’t need is for that marriage to break up.”

Flynn resigned as national security advisor last Monday night after disclosures that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about conversations he had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak on the possible lifting of sanctions against that country. A source close to Flynn told Yahoo News that he has confided to friends that he had multiple conversations with Kislyak – including about talks aimed at reaching a political settlement to the Syrian civil war. But the former DIA chief doesn’t believe he did anything wrong in those talks and attributed his downfall to political infighting within the White House—an apparent reference to a perceived rivalry with chief strategist Steve Bannon.

“He said he went down fighting for his country,” the source who communicated with Flynn said.

 

[kingkoopa]

My opinion...

Better late than never.

Of course he could've done all of this prior to Trump getting in, AND during the appointees.

But gotta take any type of like mindedness from the Repubs that you can get at this time since the Repubs control everything.

A lot of people are gonna use this time to gain.

Like whenever some celeb calls some one the N word, everyone takes to the soap box.

You not foolin me.

 

[Mark Antony]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-committee-begins-probe-of-payments-to-flynn-210144266.html

House committee probes Russia payment to Flynn

Citing a Yahoo News interview with retired Lt. General Michael Flynn last July, a House committee has opened an investigation into whether President Trump’s recently resigned national security adviser received improper payments from the Russian government for a trip to Moscow in December 2015.

In an unusual bipartisan letter, House Oversight and Government Reform committee chair Rep. Jason Chaffetz and ranking minority member Rep. Elijah Cummings have asked a Washington-based speakers bureau, Leading Authorities, to turn over information on how much Flynn was paid for his attendance at a dinner celebrating the 10th anniversary of RT — the Russian-government funded news organization — where he sat at the same table as President Vladimir Putin. Flynn also sat for a 44-minute interview with RT anchor Sophie Shevardnadze, granddaughter of former Soviet foreign affairs minister Eduard Shevardnadze, as part of the trip.

“We are attempting to determine the amount Lt. General Flynn received for his appearance, the source of the funds, and whether he may have received payments from any foreign governments for additional engagements,” Chaffetz and Cummings wrote in a letter to Mark French, the president of Leading Authorities.

As their basis for asking the question, the congressmen cited the interview Flynn gave to Yahoo News last July during the opening day of the Republican convention. In a testy exchange during the interview, Flynn first acknowledged being paid for the Dec. 2015 event.

“Yeah, I went over there as a speaker, it was a speaking event,” Flynn responded when asked whether he was compensated for the trip. “What difference does that make? I didn’t take any money form Russia, I can tell you that.”

Then who paid you? Flynn was asked.

“My speaker’s bureau. Ask them.”

A spokesman for Leading Authorities did not respond to a request for comment. Flynn, who joined the Trump White House on the day the president was sworn in and resigned late Monday night, is no longer listed on the Leading Authorities webs site. But an archived section of the website listed Flynn’s “fee ranges” as between $35,001 and $55,000 for talks in Europe and $55,001 and $75,000 in Asia.

At the time of the Dec. 2015 talk, Flynn had already been fired from his position as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and was not yet affiliated with the Trump campaign. But the investigators for the House panel have suggested that Flynn’s compensation by a Russian government arm like RT may still have been improper because of Defense Department guidelines advising retired military officers that they are still covered by the “emoluments clause” of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits acceptance of any “present, emolument, office or title of any kind from any King, Price, or foreign government.”

The role of RT in furthering Moscow’s interest was highlighted last month as part of a U.S. intelligence community report on Russia’s attempt to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In an annex to the report, the intelligence community focused on the role of RT, concluding that “the rapid expansion of RT’s operations and budget and recent candid statements by RT’s leadership point to the channel’s importance to the Kremlin as a messaging tool and indicate a Kremlin- directed campaign to undermine faith in the US Government and fuel political protest.”

During his Moscow talk , Flynn sat for an extended interview with Shevardnadze in which he expressed his views that the U.S. should avoid taking a confrontational posture with Russia, describing the U.S. relationship with Moscow as a “marriage.”

“The United States can’t sit there and say, ‘Russia, you’re bad,’” Flynn told the RT anchor during a 44 minute interview. “And Russia can’t sit there and say, the United States you’re bad… This is a funny marriage we have, Russia and the United States. But it’s a marriage. What we don’t need is for that marriage to break up.”

Flynn resigned as national security advisor last Monday night after disclosures that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about conversations he had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak on the possible lifting of sanctions against that country. A source close to Flynn told Yahoo News that he has confided to friends that he had multiple conversations with Kislyak – including about talks aimed at reaching a political settlement to the Syrian civil war. But the former DIA chief doesn’t believe he did anything wrong in those talks and attributed his downfall to political infighting within the White House—an apparent reference to a perceived rivalry with chief strategist Steve Bannon.

“He said he went down fighting for his country,” the source who communicated with Flynn said.

Lock him up?

 

[Nike Jordan]

McCain talking tough when it's convenient for him.

My opinion...

Better late than never.

Of course he could've done all of this prior to Trump getting in, AND during the appointees.

But gotta take any type of like mindedness from the Repubs that you can get at this time since the Repubs control everything.

He's voted for every Bigot[emoji]8482[/emoji] nominee except for one because that guy supported defense budget cuts.

He's toothless as ****. But hey, he said a thing so he's a "maverick".

 

[paulwest1985]

Charles Blow was about to throw hands on Kayleigh McEnany

 

[elpablo21]

trump hitting new lows:



Once it hits 60% disapproval I think there will be political capital for impeachment proceedings to begin.

Obama was at 63% approval at the same point in his presidency.

Per Gallup, number of months to hit sub-40 approval:

Carter 18

Reagan 24

HW Bush 38

Clinton 5

W Bush 58

Obama 31

Trump... less than 1.

 

[gry60]

McCain talking tough when it's convenient for him.

My opinion...

Better late than never.

Of course he could've done all of this prior to Trump getting in, AND during the appointees.

But gotta take any type of like mindedness from the Repubs that you can get at this time since the Repubs control everything.

He's voted for every Bigot[emoji]8482[/emoji] nominee except for one because that guy supported defense budget cuts.

He's toothless as ****. But hey, he said a thing so he's a "maverick".

This. This. This.

That's the jedi mind trick. Vote for the BS you publicly speak against kmowing that the vast majority of voters probably won't check the record about your concerns during the confirmation process or the congressional discussions.

It works because people can't bother paying attention.

 

[Nawzlew]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-rivers-regulation-scrapped-law-a7584916.html

Donald Trump overturns law preventing companies dumping coal mining debris in streams and rivers

 

[ksteezy]

I'm just waiting to see how Trump carries out his life once he's impeached

Dude is gonna end up the most hated man in America, his name is a brand, putting that kind of stain on that name is gonna hit him HARD

 

[RustyShackleford]

He is probably not getting impeached.

The opposition needs to be gearing up for a long fight, not looking for a quick fix.

 

[EddieDoyers]

Pence isn't much of a difference over Trump

 

[kdawg]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-rivers-regulation-scrapped-law-a7584916.html

Donald Trump overturns law preventing companies dumping coal mining debris in streams and rivers

Trump called the stream protection regulation a “job-killing rule” before he signed a measure to overturn it.

But people-killing coal sludge in drinking water is okay?

 

[dathbgboy]

Pence is worst because he actually knows how to work within the system to get what he wants done.

 

[stuntman mike]

He is probably not getting impeached.

The opposition needs to be gearing up for a long fight, not looking for a quick fix.

^that

 

[RustyShackleford]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-rivers-regulation-scrapped-law-a7584916.html

Donald Trump overturns law preventing companies dumping coal mining debris in streams and rivers

Trump called the stream protection regulation a “job-killing rule” before he signed a measure to overturn it.

But people-killing coal sludge in drinking water is okay?

When da OG muscle car era comes back, people ain't gonna care that their water supply is practically poison.

 

[ksteezy]

I mean how many more press conference this old buffoon gonna be able to handle? How much more can Conway and Spicer come up behind him to pick up all the BS he spills with their mouth?...no matter what anyone says these are privileged white people that never really faced any opposition till now, they not built for it....Conway looks like she one interview from jumping out of a window