We need to talk about Donald – the Nightmare continues

[Scot Dutchy]

It is the way it happened. You dont have a president passing that sort information; he has minions to do that and do it more securely. It really looked as if he was paying his masters.

[Animavore]

Looks like Trump's fascistic scheme is working on some gullible sheep. Attack the press snd undermine it then when they publish your deeds your brainwashed followers won't believe it.

Trump is the Way. The Truth.
Shun outsiders for they do not understand.
The Kingdom of America is nigh.

[pErvinalia]

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[Animavore]

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[Tero]

Republicans still have no clue. Politico:
Even more strikingly, twice as many voters “strongly disapprove” of Trump (38 percent) compared to those who strongly approve (19 percent). A 64-percent majority of Democrats strongly disapprove of Trump, but only 43 percent of Republicans strongly approve. Just 42 percent of self-identified Trump voters in last year's election strongly approve of his job performance, while 70 percent of those who said they voted for Hillary Clinton last fall strongly disapprove of Trump.

Trump’s approval rating overall remains high with Republicans, however, despite the dampened enthusiasm. Seventy-nine percent of GOP voters approve of the job he is doing, while only 16 percent disapprove.

[Brian Peacock]

So if a 79% majority of the 46.1% minority who voted for Trump approve of the job he's doing then that means that 36.5% of the electorate are still with him at the moment. He's lost the approval of c.10% of his support.

[Tero]

What if Trump turns out to be a kind of Bill Clinton? Every error just ends up as the equivalent of a blow job: a character failure. He could make it to the 2020 election. The Republicans would have to run him, as the old fart candidate (Romney) no longer work, you need a popularity candidate. The rank and file would vote for him and the racists outside the GOP for sure.

[Tero]

Robert Mueller, Former F.B.I. Director, Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has appointed Robert S. Mueller III, the former F.B.I. director, to serve as a special counsel to oversee its investigation into Russian meddling in the election, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced on Wednesday.

The appointment of Mr. Mueller dramatically raises the stakes for President Trump in the multiple investigations into his campaign’s ties to the Russians. It follows a swiftly moving series of developments that have roiled Washington, including Mr. Trump’s abrupt dismissal of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and the disclosure that the president urged Mr. Comey to drop the bureau’s investigation into his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn.
Graphic: Why It’s So Hard to Have an Independent Russia Investigation
“I determined that it is in the public interest for me to exercise my authorities and appoint a special counsel to assume responsibility for this matter,” Mr. Rosenstein said in a statement. “My decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted. I have made no such determination.”

While a special counsel would remain ultimately answerable to Mr. Rosenstein — and by extension, the president — he would have greater autonomy to run an investigation than a United States attorney.

Mr. Mueller is expected to announce his resignation from the law firm WilmerHale.
NYTimes

[Brian Peacock]

That is a positive move I think. Now let's see what kind of powers and access Mueller will be granted, along with the Justice Department's determination as to the scope of the investigation.

Meanwhile, snowflake Trump complains he's the most vilified President in the history of the Universe: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/po ... media.html

[L'Emmerdeur]

It looks like Turkey got their money's worth when they bought Flynn: "Flynn stopped military plan Turkey opposed – after being paid as its agent"

One of the Trump administration’s first decisions about the fight against the Islamic State was made by Michael Flynn weeks before he was fired – and it conformed to the wishes of Turkey, whose interests, unbeknownst to anyone in Washington, he’d been paid more than $500,000 to represent.

The decision came 10 days before Donald Trump had been sworn in as president, in a conversation with President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, who had explained the Pentagon’s plan to retake the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa with Syrian Kurdish forces whom the Pentagon considered the U.S.’s most effective military partners. Obama’s national security team had decided to ask for Trump’s sign-off, since the plan would all but certainly be executed after Trump had become president.

Flynn didn’t hesitate. According to timelines distributed by members of Congress in the weeks since, Flynn told Rice to hold off, a move that would delay the military operation for months.

If Flynn explained his answer, that’s not recorded, and it’s not known whether he consulted anyone else on the transition team before rendering his verdict. But his position was consistent with the wishes of Turkey, which had long opposed the United States partnering with the Kurdish forces – and which was his undeclared client.

Trump eventually would approve the Raqqa plan, but not until weeks after Flynn had been fired.

[L'Emmerdeur]

A special treat for all those security conscious RWNJs who were so concerned about Clinton's private server:

"Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago"

Two weeks ago, on a sparkling spring morning, we went trawling along Florida’s coastal waterway. But not for fish.

We parked a 17-foot motor boat in a lagoon about 800 feet from the back lawn of The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach and pointed a 2-foot wireless antenna that resembled a potato gun toward the club. Within a minute, we spotted three weakly encrypted Wi-Fi networks. We could have hacked them in less than five minutes, but we refrained.

A few days later, we drove through the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with the same antenna and aimed it at the clubhouse. We identified two open Wi-Fi networks that anyone could join without a password. We resisted the temptation.

We have also visited two of President Donald Trump’s other family-run retreats, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., and a golf club in Sterling, Virginia. Our inspections found weak and open Wi-Fi networks, wireless printers without passwords, servers with outdated and vulnerable software, and unencrypted login pages to back-end databases containing sensitive information.

The risks posed by the lax security, experts say, go well beyond simple digital snooping. Sophisticated attackers could take advantage of vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi networks to take over devices like computers or smart phones and use them to record conversations involving anyone on the premises.

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, but the Democrats ....

[Animavore]

Can't be long now before the cognitive dissonance breaks.




Ha. Ha. Just kidding. These people are just going to double down on justifying their bad purchase.

[Animavore]

That is a positive move I think. Now let's see what kind of powers and access Mueller will be granted, along with the Justice Department's determination as to the scope of the investigation.

Meanwhile, snowflake Trump complains he's the most vilified President in the history of the Universe: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/po ... media.html