The White House is a dump.New figures come after second failure to repeal Obamacare and during Russia investigation
Claims made while the president is on a round of golf with patrons at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey
Just give him time. He's the most liberal president for 40 years.Animavore wrote:Approval rating even lower. Time for Trump supporters to man up and admit their crazy experiment has failed.
Trump told his advisers that the restaurant, Manhattan’s elite ’21’ Club, had shut its doors for a year and hired an expensive consultant to craft a plan for a renovation.After a year, Trump said, the consultant’s only suggestion was that the restaurant needed a bigger kitchen.
Officials said Trump kept stressing the idea that lousy advice cost the owner a year of lost business and that talking to the restaurant’s waiters instead might have yielded a better result. He also said the tendency is to assume if someone isn’t a three-star general he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and that in his own experience in business talking to low-ranking workers has gotten him better outcomes.
The man in charge of the nation’s military strategy compared the war in Afghanistan to a restaurant remodel.
I watched that this morning on youtube. Acosta was way out of line, and did accuse the administration of wanting to make a racist immigration law, to control immigration so only Brits and Ozzies can come to the US. Acosta was making speeches, and interrupting the answers to argue about it, as if the news reporter is advocating a particular political position. Acosta was way off, and his implications were ignorant and insulting. Yes, he was called ignorant on national television, and that's because he had just got done calling the administration racist.Tero wrote:From Bizzarro White House todayAcosta, the last reporter called on, recited a portion of “The New Colossus,” the poem engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. The sonnet “doesn’t say anything about speaking English or being able to be a computer programmer,” Acosta said. “Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you’re telling them you have to speak English? Can’t people learn how to speak English when they get here?”
Miller replied that speaking English is part of the U.S. naturalization process, and he said the poem Acosta referenced is “not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty” but was added later.
Miller’s defense, Acosta said, “sounds like some National Park revisionism."
"The Statue of Liberty has always been a beacon of hope to the world for people to send their people to this country, and they’re not always going to speak English, Stephen," said Acosta, who said his own father immigrated to the United States from Cuba in 1962. "They’re not always going to be highly skilled.”
“Jim, I appreciate your speech,” Miller shot back. “Tell me what years meet Jim Acosta’s definition of the Statue of Liberty poem law of the land?” Miller demanded, his voice rising.
It wasn’t immediately clear what the “Statue of Liberty poem law of the land” was, but the jab-trading continued. Acosta said Miller's comments seemed to diverge from "what the United States has been about," and Miller said the CNN reporter's ideas were "shockingly a-historical." When Acosta mentioned Trump's proposed wall at the Mexican border, Miller took umbrage.http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/0 ... sta-241260Surely, Jim, you don’t actually think that a wall affects green card policy? You couldn’t possibly believe that, do you?” Miller asked. “I want to be serious, Jim. Do you really at CNN not know the difference between green card policy and illegal immigration? You really don’t know that?”
Acosta returned to the policy's preference for English speakers, saying many immigrants learn the language later in life. "Are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?” he asked.
“Jim, I can honestly say I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English,” Miller responded. "Actually, it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree."
But he took the strongest offense when Acosta said the proposed policy appeared to be an effort to "engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country.”
“Jim, that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things you’ve ever said ... the notion that you think that this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting,” Miller said. (Acosta contended that he never said the legislation was racist.)
“Insinuations like Jim made, trying to ascribe nefarious motives to a compassionate immigration measure designed to help newcomers and current arrivals alike, is wrong,” Miller said.
Finally, things began to wrap up, but the reckoning continued.
“You called me ignorant on national television,” Acosta recalled.
“I apologize, Jim, if things got heated, but you did make some pretty rough insinuations,” Miller said.
He stepped aside for Sanders to take questions on other topics, but he got in one last remark to the assembled reporters: “I think that went exactly as planned.”
“Thank you,” Sanders said when she regained command of the podium. “That was exciting.”
Trump said last weekend that the head of the Boy Scouts had called to say Trump’s speech was the best ever delivered to the Boy Scouts. Trump also said the president of Mexico phoned to tell him that Trump's tough enforcement efforts at the border were paying off.
But the Boy Scouts and the Mexican government said neither phone call occurred. Today the White House conceded that they didn't.
If this were all there was to it, we might just chalk it up to more Trump hyperbole.
But Trump is now way beyond hyperbole. He lies continuously, obsessively, compulsively. He lies about everything.
What’s particularly dangerous for the United States is that the president of the United States has no credibility left. If and when he has some serious fact to convey, no one will believe him.
Beyond Clinton’s email fiasco and her DNC collusion, another bizarre rendezvous had political observers’ ears perked: Bill Clinton’s supposedly impromptu meeting with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a tarmac in Phoenix.
The meeting, which was publicly storied to be a quick hello and a chat about “grandkids”, came at a time in which Hillary Clinton was being actively investigated by the incompetent James Comey during his time as Director of the FBI. Suspicions quickly arose that Bill Clinton’s pow-wow with the nation’s top cop was a possibly clandestine plea, or threat, to Lynch regarding this investigation, spurring even more rumors of collusion among the Clintons.
Now, as the Freedom of Information Act has been employed to retrieve a transcript of this supposedly innocuous meeting, we will finally be able to see just what was said between the two titans of politics…
…or will we?
Oddly enough, it was President Trump’s DOJ that redacted the documents before sending them to Judicial Watch, leading many to speculate about a possible “resistance” infiltration in the department.“Judicial Watch today announced that the Justice Department refuses to disclose the talking points developed by the Obama Justice Department to help it respond to press inquiries about the controversial June 27, 2016, tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
“The Justice Department heavily redacted the documents under Exemption b (5), which allows agencies to withhold draft or deliberative process material. The blacked-out material centers around talking points drafted and used by Justice to respond to press inquiries about the Lynch-Clinton meeting. ...
The incredibly disturbing corruption and collusion of the Clinton Crime Family seemingly continues to this day, months after Donald Trump has assumed control of the American government, leaving no conclusion other than a realistic possibility of a “Deep State” coup on the horizon.
Um... He never had any credibility to begin with.pErvin wrote:From Robert Reich on facebook todayTrump said last weekend that the head of the Boy Scouts had called to say Trump’s speech was the best ever delivered to the Boy Scouts. Trump also said the president of Mexico phoned to tell him that Trump's tough enforcement efforts at the border were paying off.
But the Boy Scouts and the Mexican government said neither phone call occurred. Today the White House conceded that they didn't.
If this were all there was to it, we might just chalk it up to more Trump hyperbole.
But Trump is now way beyond hyperbole. He lies continuously, obsessively, compulsively. He lies about everything.
What’s particularly dangerous for the United States is that the president of the United States has no credibility left. If and when he has some serious fact to convey, no one will believe him.
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