All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Tero]

The country is going full steam toward impeachment. And AG Barr is
1 not giving any stuff to Congress
2 chasing a conspiracy theory in Italy
https://www.thedailybeast.com/attorney- ... ation-wapo

[Joe]

Ah,that explains the part of the call memo where they talked about buying oil.

Oh wait, Zelensky brought that up, and Trump didn't pick up on it. He went right back to having Giuliani and Barr contact Zelensky about Biden and Crowdstrike.

It's almost as if Mr Trump thinks this is the normal way to go about getting elected.

Well, after this little bit of megalomania, elections may be the least of our worries.



Best case, someone hacked his phone.

Edit. I see L'Emmerdeur posted this earlier.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Turkey isn't wasting any time. Jerusalem Post reports:

'Turkey Attacks Kurds, SDF in Iraq, Syria as U.S. Withdraws'

Turkish forces carried out attacks against Kurdish forces and the anti-Assad Syrian Democratic Forces militia in Syria and Iraq near the Turkish border on Monday evening.

Turkish forces attacked SDF positions in the city of al-Malikiyah in the Hasakah area in northern Syria, according to Syrian state news agency SANA.

The SDF includes Kurds and others in eastern Syria which the US has helped train, assist and advise during the war on ISIS.

Earlier on Monday, the United States announced that it would be withdrawing from Syria.

Turkey will move forward with its long-planned military operation to create what it calls a "safe zone" in northern Syria and U.S. forces will not support or be involved in it, the White House press secretary announced early Monday morning.

"The United States Armed Forces will not support or be involved in the operation, and United States forces, having defeated the ISIS territorial 'Caliphate,' will no longer be in the immediate area," said the White House press secretary on Monday morning.

[Svartalf]

so they'll abandon the prison camps and let all those ISIS jihadists go free, because erdogan is a frum sized arsehole

[L'Emmerdeur]

Apparently Erdogan was on the phone with Trump after Turkey announced it was going to hit the Kurds, and Trump said that the US would get out of the way.

'Exclusive: Official Who Heard Call Says Trump Got "Rolled" by Turkey and "Has No Spine"'

Donald Trump got "rolled" by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a National Security Council source with direct knowledge of the discussions told Newsweek.

In a scheduled phone call on Sunday afternoon between President Trump and President Erdogan, Trump said he would withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria. The phone call was scheduled after Turkey announced it was planning to invade Syria, and hours after Erdogan reinforced his army units at the Syrian-Turkish border and issued his strongest threat to launch a military incursion, according to the National Security Council official to whom Newsweek spoke on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. withdrawal plays into the hands of the Islamic State group, Damascus and Moscow, and the announcement left Trump's own Defense Department "completely stunned," said Pentagon officials. Turkey, like the United States, wants regime change in Syria. Russia and Iran support the Assad regime.

"President Trump was definitely out-negotiated and only endorsed the troop withdraw to make it look like we are getting something—but we are not getting something," the National Security Council source told Newsweek. "The U.S. national security has entered a state of increased danger for decades to come because the president has no spine and that's the bottom line."

[Tero]

Trump pals meddling with Ukraine gas (propane etc)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 45651.html
while Hunter Biden was a yes man of no consequence to private gas company CEO.

[Seabass]

TRUMP: "When I took over our military, we did not have ammunition. I was told by a top general, maybe the top of them all, 'Sir, I'm sorry sir, we don't have ammunition.' I said, I will never let that happen to another president."

video: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1181310151254532098

[L'Emmerdeur]

So, you're going to tell me you don't remember all those ragged soldiers begging in the streets during the Obama administration? All the hand-written "Will salute for bullets" signs?

[rainbow]

So, you're going to tell me you don't remember all those ragged soldiers begging in the streets during the Obama administration? All the hand-written "Will salute for bullets" signs?

Yes, while the Donald was saving people trapped in the Twin Towers with his bare hands. And Obama was out playing golf with the Bin Ladens at the time. I'm amazed at how people don't remember what really happened.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Dreadfully FAKE NEWS. Something must be done about these treasonous enemies of the people.

'"The Tide Has Shifted": New Poll Shows Nearly 60% of Americans Support Trump Impeachment Inquiry

A new Washington Post/Schar School poll released Tuesday showed a majority of Americans approve of House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, a dramatic jump in support for the proceedings in the wake of the whistleblower complaint over Trump's talks with Ukraine's leader.

The survey found that 58 percent of Americans—including 80 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of Republicans—say House Democrats were correct to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump, who pressured Ukraine's leader to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

The poll also showed 49 percent of Americans believe the House should call for the president to be removed from office, which would require conviction by the Senate.

"The tide has shifted on impeachment," tweeted pollster Matt McDermott.

According to the Post, the survey findings "indicate that public opinion has shifted quickly against the president and in favor of impeachment proceedings in recent weeks."

[Tero]

Trump tweets: I think that Crooked Hillary Clinton should enter the race to try and steal it away from Uber Left Elizabeth Warren. Only one condition. The Crooked one must explain all of her high crimes and misdemeanors including how & why she deleted 33,000 Emails AFTER getting “C” Subpoena!

[Tero]

Trump’s farm bailout has cost taxpayers more than double the auto bailout.
So far, Trump’s direct payments to farmers hurt by his trade dispute with China have totaled some $28 billion — more than twice what the auto bailout cost, according to calculations from Bloomberg Businessweek. And the payments are still flowing with no end in sight to the trade dispute.

The real mother of all bailouts came during the Great Recession when the U.S. government pumped nearly $200 billion into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage security agencies that were awash with bad mortgage debt. But that money eventually was repaid with profits for the government.

There is, in fact, a long history of government bailouts, mostly for failed banks.
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/09/30/ ... o-bailout/

[Seabass]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump’s main political rivals, a group of individuals with ties to the president and his personal lawyer were also active in the former Soviet republic.

Their aims were profit, not politics. This circle of businessmen and Republican donors touted connections to Giuliani and Trump while trying to install new management at the top of Ukraine’s massive state gas company. Their plan was to then steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies, according to two people with knowledge of their plans.

Their plan hit a snag after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko lost his reelection bid to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose conversation with Trump about former Vice President Joe Biden is now at the center of the House impeachment inquiry of Trump.

But the effort to install a friendlier management team at the helm of the gas company, Naftogaz, would soon be taken up with Ukraine’s new president by U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose slate of candidates included a fellow Texan who is one of Perry’s past political donors.

It’s unclear if Perry’s attempts to replace board members at Naftogaz were coordinated with the Giuliani allies pushing for a similar outcome, and no one has alleged that there is criminal activity in any of these efforts. And it’s unclear what role, if any, Giuliani had in helping his clients push to get gas sales agreements with the state-owned company.

But the affair shows how those with ties to Trump and his administration were pursuing business deals in Ukraine that went far beyond advancing the president’s personal political interests. It also raises questions about whether Trump allies were mixing business and politics just as Republicans were calling for a probe of Biden and his son Hunter, who served five years on the board of another Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.

On Friday, Trump told a group of Republican lawmakers that it had been Perry who had prompted the phone call in which Trump asked Zelenskiy for a “favor” regarding Biden, according to a person familiar with Trump’s remarks.

continued: https://apnews.com/d7440cffba4940f5b85cd3dfa3500fb2

[Tero]

Gullible Trump, Crooked Giuliani

[Tero]