Ew, look at Bigly’s baby hands! Gross. Anyway… Emperor Bigly had such a big day yesterday, I’m surprised his staff didn’t let him play with trucks just to keep him occupied. First off, the Bigly Administration no longer has Steve Bannon as part of the National Security Council. This is a good news/bad news situation – Bannon had no reason to be on the NSC, so it’s good news that he’s out. The bad news is that Steve Bannon still works in the White House and he’s absolutely running things (into the ground).
Because Bigly is a child with all of the nuance of a monster truck rally, Bigly decided to deflect the news about Bannon in two interconnected and very obvious ways. It’s almost like he has a neon sign blaring “DEFLECTION AHEAD” when he speaks. First off, Bigly said that poor Susan Rice is the centerpiece of all of the bigly conspiracies against him. He was asked about Dr. Rice by the NYT, and he said: “I think it’s going to be the biggest story. It’s such an important story for our country and the world. It is one of the big stories of our time.” The NYT asked him if thinks Rice committed a crime and he replied, “Do I think? Yes, I think.” What crime, exactly? The crime of being a woman? The crime of being a black woman with a highly sensitive security clearance? The crime of being a woman doing her job? Dr. Rice’s spokesperson issued a one-sentence statement about Bigly’s comments: “I’m not going to dignify the President’s ludicrous charge with a comment.”
Bigly still wasn’t done. Now that all of the old white dudes of the GOP have their big, scary black lady to blame, they can go about their business. And their business is protecting their own kind from all of those dumb broads who complain about being harassed and assaulted. Case in point: Bill O’Reilly. The NYT published a story about O’Reilly’s history of harassing women over the weekend. Many of the women have been paid off by O’Reilly or Fox News once they complained. Currently, advertisers are fleeing O’Reilly’s time slot and there’s increasing pressure on Fox News to dump O’Reilly. So what does Bigly have to say about that?
“I think he shouldn’t have settled; personally I think he shouldn’t have settled. Because you should have taken it all the way. I don’t think Bill did anything wrong. I think he’s a person I know well — he is a good person.”
Just a reminder: more than 20 women have come forward with their own stories of being harassed and sexually assaulted by Donald Trump. Another reminder: Emperor Bigly declared April to be National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month several days ago. So he thought he would celebrate this special month by A) scapegoating a black woman, blaming her for all of his troubles and insinuating that she had committed a crime (the crime of being a black woman) and B) defending an alleged sexual harasser/predator.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Deflection. Projection. This man is an infection. I can’t wait for his ejection.
Lol. I read this comment with much affection.
I see you, Shambles!!
Nunes just stepped down from House inquiry committee!
Really?!?!?
Yes and no. He still heads House Intell committee but recused himself from (Trump)-Russia inquiry. another dumb Republican will lead it and it lowers odds of getting to bottom of Nunes issue but … we’ll take any chink in the armour, right?
Ryan didn’t like the optics, I guess.
I assume he stepped aside to avoid being fined by the ethics committee. He’s all in until he needs to save his own skin.
Yes, he’s stepped down from the Russian inquiry but is still a member of the House committee. (I should have qualified “Russian” inquiry, but it was breaking news on CNN and their story just had a headline with no meat at that time).
I think that is a very good thing. I never thought he would be punished and totally removed as an intelligence committee member, but removing him from that specific inquiry was incredibly necessary.
Apparently it’s because Nunes himself is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee because of possible disclosures of classified information.
These people are a freaking mess!
Good now that the trash has abdicated, let the investigation carry on!
Aaaaaaannnddd Shambles wins the interwebs today!
Can you tweet this, Shambles, so we can all share it and credit you properly?!?
I so would, but I got off Twitter several months ago. One, I felt like I was doing way too much on social media, so I’m sticking to FB and Instagram. Two, Donald Trump has ruined twitter for me. But thank you!!
I heart you Shambles lol
Hilarious @Shambles, so succinct and so true. I am in such despair over this mess (45 of course, to clarify), just when I think it can’t possible get any worse……. IT DOES! How low are we going to have to sink before this attrocity screeches to a halt? How can this possibly be happening in today’s world? Where are all the sane people? (Most of them are here on Celebitchy these days it seems). Has the voice of reason really been so silenced in this great land of ours? I weep.
I hope the Senate calls Susan Rice to testify. She undoubtedly has plenty of tea to spill on Trump.
Bannon has been replaced by Rick Perry on the NSC so we’re all still going to die.
Sexual predator defends sexual predator. Is anyone surprised?
As a Texan I can verify that Rick Perry is better than Bannon, but that doesn’t mean he’s good. Hopefully he’ll be content to just wear his smart glasses and shut up.
We sorely need Molly Ivins.
Absolutely!
Molly’s buddy, Jim Hightower, is still fighting the good fight.
http://hightowerlowdown.org/
Damn me with faint praise…
Perry is trying to outdistance Bannon on who’s the biggest douche with his pronouncement that the Texas AM college’s student President election was rigged, because the student was gay….
And then it turned out that the student who lost the election had a mother who had raised a lot of money for Perry! So not only did the other guy win, but he had the nerve to be gay.
Perry has better hair than Bannon so, in his mind, he wins everything
perry is scum
his hands look normal size to me
Bannon retains his security clearance, sit in on NSC meetings (as he did yesterday) and can stroll into Oval Office any time he wants. Sometimes they give the appearance of more change than there is.
Still, I keep saying, a chink in the armor. A chink in the armor. A chink in the armor. Someone saw things looked bad.
I still can’t figure out how Steve Bannon ever got a security clearance. There are so many red flags in his history. At least some of his writings and interviews should have disqualified him. For example, he has openly called for destruction of the state in addition to neonazi and white supremacist talk.
so funny how he’s calling for investigation of those who can reveal some damaging info. is there a brain cell left in that orange head? i CANNOT wait for truth and karma to rain down hard on everyone in this administration. in the meantime, I’m just going to put everything he says on mute.
Can I just say “It takes one to know one.”
Yeah. I’m come to the realization that there are no redeeming qualities in 45.
So the defense of Bill O is that he is a person Trump knows? Seriously. Like “oh I know that guy, he’s cool. Ignore all the women who are voicing abuse by him because I personally know him so he is a good guy”.
Sounds like a twelve year old. Sounds like a person so entrenched in narcissism that he thinks his merely knowing and liking Bill O is enough to clear Bill’s name.
Also sounds like an unhinged, demented individual!
Such a tone deaf and idiotic thing to say. He is demented.
He says that a lot; it’s his deflection. When Mr. Khan slammed Trump at the DNC last summer Trump said, “I don’t know this man, I’ve never met him”–so Khan had no right to criticize. He is such a narcissist. Everything is filtered through his “knowing” someone.
The defense is, “He has to be a good man because otherwise these things would make me a bad man too and I can’t be a bad man.”
Emperor Zero translation:
Bill O is a criminal and Susan Rice did her job correctly.
Bingo.
If success were measured by how many deflecting stories one guy can put out, he’d be winning.
Rice has been like catnip to the GOP since Benghazi so they are LOVING this. I feel awful for her to have to defend her integrity and professionalism over an unfounded accusation.
The Repugs really can’t handle a woman, never mind a black woman, having a powerful position, can they? Susan Rice did her job and she won’t cower to their BS. So SAD that they are threatened by her intelligence, strength and badassness as they have none.
Oh absolutely. They hate women in power, but even more so BLACK women in power. It’s really gross to see that pattern of perpetually targeting WoC.
And of course there’s Liz Warren, another fave target of theirs.
Yes!! Racist-sexist undercurrent is impossible to ignore.
This is quite possibly the biggest lie trump has ever told – “Do I think? Yes, I think.”
LMAO!
awesome.
That’s what I picked up on also!! He doesn’t actually say” I think Susan Rice performed a criminial activity.” He is asked do you think she did and he says, Do I think..yes, I think!! LOL
He certainly does NOT think before he speaks, that’s one thing we know for sure!
He said it correctly because it saves his slutty mistress, Sean Spicer, from having to defend that. He doesn’t “outright calls this a criminal activity” but he leaves enough crumbs for people to fill in the blanks. Baby Orangino thinks he’s really smart so now he’ll get rewarded with tonka trucks.
Every time I see him the first thing which comes to my mind is: shut up, Donald, just shut up!
What I particularly love is how he says this shiz while we’re at the beginning of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Of course he defended him. Of course.
*He was asked about Dr. Rice by the NYT, and he said: “I think it’s going to be the biggest story. It’s such an important story for our country and the world. It is one of the big stories of our time.” The NYT asked him if thinks Rice committed a crime and he replied, “Do I think? Yes, I think.” *
He’s like a 10th grader who realized he forgot to do a term paper and is now writing a bunch of sentences with the word “very” in them multiple times in order to get his word count up. The sad thing is that we now live in a country where saying a word over and over again in the same sentence now counts as taking a strong stance on something (see his comment on Syria) or having a plan.
As for Bannon-he likes a cockroach. He’ll pop up again somewhere and make his face seen.
“What I particularly love is how he says this shiz while we’re at the beginning of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.”
Oh my god I know. The irony is almost too much to bear,
His comments on Syria: “This crossed many, many lines.”
LOL Twitter was awesome just throwing in his face all his old tweets criticizing Obama on how he handled Syria. Again, the irony, the utter HYPOCRISY is nauseating.
As Colbert said last night, he’s aware of two sexual assaulters – trump and O’Reilly.
People who settle are guilty. Winners dont settle….didnt he say something like that? Then settled his trump university suit.
I hate him
This is just like that turdball Michael Flynn at the RNC, going on and on about how only people who have commited a crime ask for immunity (with reference to HRC, who DIDN’T ask for immunity, but the Rethugs have long had a zero-tolerance policy for facts of any kind), only to ask for immunity himself a while later. The whole lot of them disgusts me.
ETA: And by the whole lot of them, I mean the entire GOP, not just Trump’s administration of deplorables. As far as I’m concerned, the Republican Party hasn’t had any redeeming ideas/policies in quite some time.
As much as McCain is a war hero and I immensely respect him for that, he is just another talker and not a doer just like Graham. They’re letting these criminals get away with this crap b/c the GOP always puts party over country.These people are all a waste of space.
@Angela82: Yeah, exactly. At the beginning of the dumpster fire that is this administration, I was kind of hopeful that McCain and Graham would actually do something and mobilize some other Republicans against Bigly since they were the sole Republicans to occasionally speak out against Easy D. However, two and a half months in, they are still just twiddling their thumbs. All talk, no action. F-ck them.
Now I’m just hoping that Trump takes down the entire GOP with him. Couldn’t happen to a nicer party.
McCain has always been a gas bag. He talks, and talks, and talks, but that is all he does.
The Senate just passed the nuclear option and McCain, who has been whining about they are changing the Senate forever, didn’t have the courage to vote his convictions. He feel right in line with the rest of the party.
What happened to the man who served his country so admirably in Viet Nam?
I knew they’d go nuclear. It just makes me laugh that McConnell and his ilk are blaming Dems for “politicizing” the process.
LOLOLOL!!! That Mitchy…what a hoot.
My only hope (may be wishful thinking) is that Gorsuch ends up like Souter and pretty much souter the whole idiot party. For those who don’t remember, the Repubs nominated Souter thinking they had a like mind (he pretty much said everything they wanted to hear). However, once he got on the bench he was unpredictable and didn’t rule by party ideology.
He is such a liar and hypocrite. Trump University settled for $25 million. He and his companies have elected to settle numerous cases, to include defamation, discrimination and contract/wage lawsuits. The list goes on…
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-says-i-dont-settle-but-we-found-13-times-he-did-3a7ae4678b22
Maxine Waters speaks the truth yet again.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/327537-maxine-waters-bill-oreilly-needs-to-go-to-jail
Sorry. I love Maxine but on this she is wrong unless she wants to set about writing some new laws. Sexual harassment of coworkers and employees is a civil offense, not a crime, and people do not go to jail for it. When a court rules in the employee’s favor the “punishment” is usually financial damages to cover lost wages, medical expenses, promotions, transfer. That sort of thing. The court will rarely reinstate someone if they are no longer employed there just because that is too stressful for all involved. The employer is supposed to punish the manager or other employee or employees who engaged in the harassment with letters of reprimand, suspensions, transfers or demotions, or if this is a repeat offense, termination. And must train everyone about proper workplace conduct and what to do if you are harassed or see someone harassed. There is no jail time.
The question here is what discipline Fox has handed down to O’REilly and why he still has a job after so many known offenses.
Question Lightpurple, if I may, you’re always knowledgeable.
It seems a bit strange to me – could someone not go to jail for sexual abuse because it happens in the workplace? What’s the line between harassment and abuse?
Question Lightpurple, if I may, you’re always knowledgeable.
It seems a bit strange to me – could someone not go to jail for sexual abuse because it happens in the workplace? What’s the line between harassment and abuse?
(Social anxiety kicking in – please know first sentence is completely sincere)
@mermaid: I want to say that I assume if its something like rape or malicious groping, touching, assault that they could be guilty of a crime and brought to justice if there is evidence. (Maybe its wishful thinking) However, if a coworker is merely flirting, harassing, making sexual innuendos, being verbally abusive or demoting someone b/c the woman spurs their advances, than that would fall into the category that Lightpurple is talking about, i.e. financial damages to cover lost wages, medical expenses, promotions, transfer. At least that’s what I envision happening as a female employee. Again I may be wrong. I know its difficult for women to report assault much less something like harassment.
ETA: I do think DJT is guilty of more than just harassment. Between the underage girls and the grabbing to me that is more assault than harassment.
@Mermaid, Angela82 gives a good explanation. It moves to criminal if it is something that would also be criminal outside the workplace, like an assault, and in that situation, it would involve the state prosecutor and police and be against the individual, not the corporation, although the victim could still retain rights to pursue civil litigation against the employer.
On a totally procedural issue, a civil case has a shorter statute of limitations (less than 1 year under federal law) but takes much longer to resolve.
Trump took an oath of office to defend the Constitution of the United States of America in which there is an “arising under” clause that extends to all statutes and regulations. Among those statutes is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, which prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace. Trump’s job is to enforce that act through the EEOC. Houston, we have a big problem here.
And why is Princess Nagina the Corrupt of the Most Sacred Horcruxed Vagina quiet on this issue of women in the workplace being harassed? Oh yes, COMPLICIT. Don’t let me hear you claim to be passionate about the rights of women in the workforce again, you lying snake.
Yet we are not to conflate silence with … Sorry, I forgot the rest of her bigly word salad.
And she seems to be as ignorant of “conflate” – to combine or blend – as she claims to be of “complicit.” I believe she was searching for “confuse.”
This comment is rich coming from someone who has been sued and LOST or settled several court cases in his entire adult life. Most recently the Trump bans and the stupid “school” he opened and had to close. I think he is still being sued personally and state officials are suing him, too. As I am typing this, I am lol because writing out how much of a tremendous failure Dump is at being a business “man” makes me laugh.
Since everything is opposite world, the best thing that Bill O’Reilly can do is settle the cases, quit his job and go find a conscious. Being a racist, angry, old, and perverted white man must be tiring.
Steve Bannon being demoted is funny as well. I believe he genuinely thought he was going to have his own revolution where he rounded up all the non-whites and thrust us all into a bit to fight it out hunger games style and then bomb the survivors. Turns out that doing something like this is hard- especially when you are a drunk racist abusive bastard who is not as smart as he thinks he is. He and the Mercers are seriously going to implode over this one. At lease I hope so.
To add to your comment, why aren’t we talking about the shitshow that is Fox News? Roger Ailes and his crew of sexist, racist old white dudes appear to close ranks every time a woman comes forward with an allegation of sexual harassment. Fox News has created a protective bubble–a country club– in which these men are allowed and encouraged to sexually harass women without repercussion. It’s f*cking abhorrent and I’m horrified (yet not surprised) that so many Americans continue to support Fox News.
That NYT article was so depressing. Because of course they’ve taken care of all of this quietly and enabled him (and the culture), because he makes them money. Remember when this country had ideals, noble goals, and the (incorrect) sense that we were better than all this?
I didn’t read it do you have link? Or I could not-lazy kitten and just Google.
Ailes, Trump, O’Reilly, Bannon… are all old, live unhealthy lives; they can’t last much longer. Surely? I’d be feeding them lots of full-fat cream, fast food and liquor to hasten the inevitable.
Donald Trump disgusts me. How in the world this awful man was able to deceive so many people into voting for him. How despicable are his enabling supporters. I am blaming Fox News and Friends for the rise of this filthy autocrat to power. I despise Donald Trump and I cannot wait for the day of his impeachment or resignation, whichever comes first.
Bill O’Reilly will not prevail, he will be fired from Fox News.
Nope. O’Reilly won’t be fired from Fox. Fox will stand by him as they always do.
Remember that sexual harassment allegations against O’Reilly is nothing new. Fox has had multiple opportunities to fire him after losing sponsors, but they never do.
Also remember that Fox CFO Roger Ailes sees nothing wrong with this behavior, as he himself is a sexual harasser.
Fox deserves much, maybe most, of the blame, but the Mercers, Breitbart, bannon, James O’Keefe, Alex Jones, Limbaugh, local talk radio, so many others have dirty hands, also. I will never understand how anyone who listens to or reads their fantasies and lies believes a word of it. I suppose it plays into their prejudices and paranoia, but that can’t be the only answer.
So many stories shared here of family and friends who seem brainwashed and the connecting element is always Fox News. Same with my Trumpster aunt and uncle: Fox News ALWAYS on in the background when I talk to them on the phone.
My sister told me years ago that Fox is the only place to get fair and balanced news. My sister!!😱😱😱😱🤢🤢🤢🤢
Ferguson just voted the same white man mayor, over a WOC. Only about 3000 people voted altogether. Americans must get out and vote! People have died and still do for that right.
I was just reading about that. They re-elected the same shit stain who was in charge during Michael Brown’s murder.
It could be an expression of a feeling of hopelessness among the community IDK…maybe they think it doesn’t matter and nothing will change regardless of who is leading. Still, as you said people NEED TO VOTE.
To be fair, I’m inconsistent about voting in mid-terms but not this next year, that’s for damn sure.
Trump is soooo embarrassingly clueless. Every word out of his mouth digs him deeper into a huge mess. I’m so ashamed Americans were so foolish to vote for this jerk
I know it’s not much comfort, but most of us did not.
I’ll always be upset that nice, caring, usually smart people that I love actually fell for Don the Cons lies. I’m so happy when people see him the way I do and didn’t vote for him
In the running for stupidest conversation of the week: a CNN discussion of the Trump defense of O’Reilley in which the idiot K. McEnany insisted that the statements were ” character witness evidence” I choked on my salt-free chips!!
I’m waiting for Spicer to explain away Trump’s remarks as he did about the “wire tapping”. Wonder if quotation marks can be seen in a conversation/interview.
Every time I tuned in to cnn and K McEnary is on or J Lord is on I change the channel. I also change the channel when DT or his VP is on. i am not a person who hate others but I have to say I hate these people with a passion.
Bill O’Reilly may be out of a job in the near future. I wonder if there are any jobs in the current administration for Bill? We all know how Trump likes to have family and friends working for him
Spicer may spontaneously combust during a daily briefing soon so that will open up possibilities.
Can you imagine Bill O’Reilly doing the daily press briefings? Yikes!
Too bad someone never heard the boy who cried wolf fable. Sad!
To hear Bigly Boy insult the integrity of Susan Rice is so enraging. She has been an incredible asset and we have been fortunate that such a brilliant and honorable woman chose government service. Trump and his pal O’Reilly are two of a kind. They think the best position for any woman is on her knees. Here’s to hoping and praying that they both are out of their current jobs very soon.
Interesting insight into the attitude of trump staff. An interest in women peeing is obviously one they share with the boss.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/05/activist-rohan-beyts-loses-case-against-trump-golf-course-over-urination-photographs
Do any of you guys follow Pete Souza (the former WH photographer) on IG? Everyday he posts a picture of Obama related to whatever shitshow is going on in the current WH. Yesterday it was Obama carrying Susan Rice’s bag off a helicopter, both of them are laughing. Pete comments that Dr. Rice is one of the most honorable people he’s ever met.
One of the women, Rebecca Gomez Diamond, called out Trump on Twitter. She said that they were all forced to settle with mediation that Fox writes into their contracts. She told him to change the law that allows this if he wanted it to go all the way in court.
He already did this. From NBC news:
On March 27, Trump revoked the 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order then-President Barack Obama put in place to ensure that companies with federal contracts comply with 14 labor and civil rights laws. The Fair Pay order was put in place after a 2010 Government Accountability Office investigation showed that companies with rampant violations were being awarded millions in federal contracts.
In an attempt to keep the worst violators from receiving taxpayer dollars, the Fair Pay order included two rules that impacted women workers: paycheck transparency and a ban on forced arbitration clauses for sexual harassment, sexual assault or discrimination claims.
His stance on the Syrian gas poisonings doesn’t make sense because he is willing to poison the U.S. by getting rid or EPA regulations and back a healthcare program that covers many fewer citizens than the Affordable Care Act. Quick death versus slow death.
Where is Ivanka in all of this Bill O’Reilly mess? She proclaims that she is going to uplift and support women, and then does nothing as her father supports a man who has a history of harassing women and then paying them to keep silent?
Bannon has been demoted, and now what the press should be asking is what is the WH or HR Mcmaster going to do about Ezra Cohen-Watnick and how he has leaked information to support trumps wiretap lie to Nunes several times? Trump is promising that more information about Susan Rice is going to come out, so we know that Ezra isn’t done leaking fake information to Nunes and the press. The most interesting thing about the Susan Rice incident is that when the press did polls on Tuesday, about 88% believed Susan Rice and 58% think that Trump and his administration have a credibility problem. It’s now time for the press to start reflecting this. Too many times, we are being presented with reporters who go along with what Trump says just because they want that scoop or don’t want to lose their seat in the Spicer press releases. Some reporters were singing Trump’s praises after his speech about Syria, yet many did their job and called out his hypocrisy, how he continued to blame Obama even though he spent 2013 tweeting that Obama shouldn’t do anything about Syria, spewing a word salad, and showing just how unprepared he is to be President. Trump doesn’t tell people what he is going to do because he doesn’t know, he was leaving those jobs to Bannon and Kushner.
I do not know about Ivanka, but one of the disgusting ploys of conservative women is to say “he never treated me that way.” Irrelevant and cowardly!
Well, in Trump’s world, if a woman said “he didn’t treat me that way” would mean she was ugly, a dog.
What I don’t get is that these men – Trump, Ailes, Bannon, O’Reilly – are the ugliest creatures on the planet. Do they not have a mirror nearby?
What would Trump say if Bill O’Reilly harassed princess Ivanka? Would he say he was a good person with good taste in women?
Probably.
He didn’t mind when Stern called her hot. He agreed with him.
Tr*mp also said on Howard Stern, “I think Tom’s [Brady] a great guy, and I think he and Ivanka would make a great combination.” He clearly saw Ivanka as his to use as he saw fit. I have no doubt that he arranged her marriage to Kushner, so they could consolidate mob family power and connections. He sees her as an object, not a person, and if it would have served him to have O’Reilly hit on her, he would have been fine with it. Don’t worry, I’m not feeling sorry for Ivanka. She has decided to stay and work in the family, so she would go along with anything he says, like the Kushner marriage of convenience.
His nasty perv pictures with her when she was a teenager, says it all IMO.
More likely Trump encouraged her relationship with Jared, but if she married him for power and money then I doubt it was because of her father but rather because that’s what she wanted herself. But she also could just have married for love and those dimples. They probably do have similar approaches to life.
Bye Felicia! to Devin NumbNuts Nunes
But now they have Trey Gowdy and three others taking his place. I have no idea why they are keeping this sham going. First of all Ryan should have removed Nunez. I would not believe one word coming out of this committee’s hearing. I will wait for the Senate to complete their findings, or the FBI findings.
I have the faintest hope that Gowdy [already made a fool of on Benghazi] and others may be on notice not to shill for Trump.
Somebody defending Nunes actually said it was ok because he worked for Trump. Ignorance about separation of the legislative and executive branches seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Nobody in Congress is supposed to work for the President.
Trump defending Bill O. is no surprise. I’m surprise he didn’t defend Bill by saying it was just “locker room” behavior.
Throwing Susan Rice to the Republican wolves hoping to distract as usual.
Meanwhile, too bad he doesn’t spend more time defending democracy from Russian interference or children and their parents from destruction in war torn regions. Too bad he doesn’t defend against racism or sexism or defend the environment against greed and stupidity bent on destroying the only human home we have. Bill O’Reilly is definitely more on par with Trump. Superficial priorities for a shallow shallow man.
When Trump finally ticks off Putin, I hope Putin reveals all of Don the Con, Melania and Ivanka. He’s got the goods. Better to disgrace The Trashs instead of starting WW III even if Melania has gone nude more times than she’s been clothed. Once people see these super freaks are thirsty perverts, hopefully the nightmare will end peacefully.
Well Drumpf just bigly shot rockets in Syria, so we’ll see exactly how Putin decides to retaliate shortly.
The idea that Rice committed a crime is so ridiculous. She was National Security Adviser and it was her job to know what was going on. She didn’t reveal the info to anyone not with a need to know and the proper security clearance or else we would have President Hillary Clinton. Obama also zipped his lips about any ongoing investigation of the Trump campaign and Russia during the election. Protocols were clearly followed.
Masking just means names of the incidentals are coded in the transcripts, but the code can be revealed to someone like Rice if needed to understand the conversation or if there is reason to suspect criminal activity. Most likely both reasons were valid in this case. They seem to have seen a suspicious pattern.
I still wonder if it at least partially involved money laundering as payment for services rendered in the hacking and Wikileaks. It’s not unusual for Russia or other countries to hack each other’s private stuff, but it is incredibly unusual for them to publicize the information gathered. I’m sure they hacked Republicans also but just didn’t publicize the information. The attempted and sometimes successful hacking of 22 state voter registration databases has also been traced to Russians. I thought this might have been a test run, but someone recently suggested the plan might have been to target disinformation at such voters. I would think that voter suppression attempts might be more likely based on affiliation.
I am very curious now. Does the US listen in on all conversations of foreign diplomats? Does this mean that if for example Obama decided to work with other countries in some role that all his conversations would be listened to? Do they listen in on ordinary citizens to? I realize that Susan stated she did no leak – but then who did? That is the question. This whole thing is far from over and it so going to bring alot of people down both democrats and republicans.
My favorite part of the day is not listening to him.
Breaking news Trump: do not allow this to become ww3.