All Things Trump - Good or Bad

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I like the final statement!

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(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June, but he backed off the order after White House lawyer Don McGahn threatened to resign, according to a report Thursday in The New York Times.

The newspaper reports that Trump demanded Mueller’s firing just weeks after the special counsel was first appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

McGahn said he would not deliver the order to the Justice Department, according to The Times, which cites four people familiar with the request by the president.

Trump argued at the time that Mueller could not be fair because of a dispute over golf club fees that he said Mueller owed at a Trump golf club in Sterling, Va. The president also believed Mueller he had a conflict of interest because he worked for the same law firm that was representing Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.

Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, did not immediately return a call for comment Thursday night. Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer working on the response to the Russia probe, declined comment Thursday night.

The response from Democrats was nearly immediate. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said that if the report in The Times is true, Trump has crossed a “red line.”

“Any attempt to remove the Special Counsel, pardon key witnesses or otherwise interfere in the investigation would be a gross abuse of power, and all members of Congress, from both parties, have a responsibility to our Constitution and to our country to make that clear immediately,” Warner said.

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(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June, but he backed off the order after White House lawyer Don McGahn threatened to resign, according to a report Thursday in The New York Times.

The newspaper reports that Trump demanded Mueller’s firing just weeks after the special counsel was first appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

McGahn said he would not deliver the order to the Justice Department, according to The Times, which cites four people familiar with the request by the president.

Trump argued at the time that Mueller could not be fair because of a dispute over golf club fees that he said Mueller owed at a Trump golf club in Sterling, Va. The president also believed Mueller he had a conflict of interest because he worked for the same law firm that was representing Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.

Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, did not immediately return a call for comment Thursday night. Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer working on the response to the Russia probe, declined comment Thursday night.

The response from Democrats was nearly immediate. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said that if the report in The Times is true, Trump has crossed a “red line.”

“Any attempt to remove the Special Counsel, pardon key witnesses or otherwise interfere in the investigation would be a gross abuse of power, and all members of Congress, from both parties, have a responsibility to our Constitution and to our country to make that clear immediately,” Warner said.

They brought him two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted - and he calmed down

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I like the final statement!

I think he better knows what he's doing than his detractors give him credit for. i.e. His style of governance is deliberate (if compensatory, for not having the intellect to fully understand those pesky details).

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I'll take it if he doesn't want



http://www.smh.com.au/world/trumps-a...25-h0oktl.html

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I'll take it if he doesn't want



http://www.smh.com.au/world/trumps-a...25-h0oktl.html

I love the message!

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[KevinD]

When and if shit actually starts happening, ie: politicians getting brought up on charges. Keep in mind what Warner etc all have publicly stated. Don’t get me wrong, I’m more republican than Democrat, but both side have sucked huge green slimy donkey dicks for decades.

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When and if shit actually starts happening, ie: politicians getting brought up on charges. Keep in mind what Warner etc all have publicly stated. Don’t get me wrong, I’m more republican than Democrat, but both side have sucked huge green slimy donkey dicks for decades.

To be honest, I think that world wide (in democratic countries), the electorate have had an absolute gutful of politicians and major established parties. Independents and minor obscure parties are attracting votes in most elections here be they state or federal. You can get a 6 year seat in our Senate with less than 1% of the vote and we then have to endure nobodies running the country selling their vote to whichever major party crawls to them best....

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"You don't set out to build a wall. You don't say 'I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built.' You don't start there. You say, 'I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall."

-- Will Smith

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Secret Service code names for Presidents.

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bozo
ˈbəʊzəʊ/Submit
noun NORTH AMERICAN informal
a stupid or insignificant man.
"they're really a bunch of bozos"

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