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The Trump Presidency

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The Times has a scary article about how the conservative media works to lie and misrepresent reality to their readers.

Once Mr. Posobiec pushed the send button on Twitter, the conservative media machinery kicked into gear. Later that day, Breitbart News published an account of Mr. Comey’s May 3 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee under the headline “Comey Under Oath: ‘Have Not Experienced Any Requests to Stop FBI Investigations.’”

GotNews.com, a website that often misrepresents media accounts of the Russia investigation to cast Mr. Trump in a more favorable light, repeated the claim but also raised the possibility of a more serious offense. Mr. Comey, the site said, might have perjured himself if he had claimed in a memo — as outlets including The New York Times have reported — that Mr. Trump pressured him to call off an investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn.

The next day, the perjury question was the subject of an article on InfoWars, the home of Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist who has called the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks an inside job and questioned whether the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., really happened. InfoWars had almost five million visitors in the last month.

That afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh was also onto the story, telling his audience, “Comey said, under Senate oath, he had never been pressured to halt any investigation.” As evidence, Mr. Limbaugh read straight from the GotNews.com article. The whole Russia investigation, he declared, is “a political witch hunt.”

That account of the Comey testimony has lived on in the weeks since, with Sean Hannity of Fox News citing it as recently as Tuesday night. “And by the way,” he insisted on his program, “James Comey also said it never happened.”
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The kicker on this:

What actually happened in the Judiciary Committee hearing was hardly an exonerating moment for Mr. Trump. Senator Mazie K. Hirono, Democrat of Hawaii, asked Mr. Comey whether “the attorney general or senior officials at the Department of Justice” had ever tried to halt an investigation. Mr. Comey, then still the F.B.I. director, said they had not.

Never did Ms. Hirono ask Mr. Comey anything about Mr. Trump in that exchange, nor did Mr. Comey volunteer anything about the president’s words to him. (Mr. Posobiec insisted that he had misrepresented nothing, saying Mr. Comey’s comments “certainly could include President Trump, who is the senior official of the entire executive branch.”)
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Cl1mh4224rd said:
Don't be so small-minded. Trump is detrimental to the well-being of the world. ;)
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Thanks for that correction!! On another note, I would love for Trump to testify under oath that Comey lied. In doing so, he will quickly set the stage for impeachment proceedings against him since Trump has a history of lying under oath.

Here’s why ‘100 percent’ means nothing: Trump has long history of lying under oath

In one sworn deposition from 2007, according to the Washington Post, Trump told 30 lies in two days. https://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/he...-lies-in-2-days-under-oath-in-2007-testimony/
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skyeagle409 said:
Thanks for that correction!! On another note, I would love for Trump to testify under oath that Comey lied. In doing so, he will quickly set the stage for impeachment proceedings against him since Trump has a history of lying under oath.
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Yes, but to his followers that doesn't matter.

I want the GOP to rediscover their moral compass.
 
jimbob said:
Yes, but to his followers that doesn't matter.

I want the GOP to rediscover their moral compass.
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Trump supporters have a flawed mindset and I see similarities between them and Hitler's supporters who thought that Hitler would be good for Germany.
 
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IANAL but this seems like terrible advice to give people that aren't your client.

His visits to the White House have raised questions about the blurry line between public and private interests for a president facing legal issues. Mr. Kasowitz in recent days has advised White House aides to discuss the inquiry into Russia’s interference in last year’s election as little as possible, two people involved said. He told aides gathered in one meeting who had asked whether it was time to hire private lawyers that it was not yet necessary, according to another person with direct knowledge.
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Babbylonian said:
I'm trying to think of what could be more terrifyingly destabilizing than the beast playing peacemaker in the Middle East, and I'm coming up blank.
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How about a loose canon in the White House who cannot differentiate between a door knob and the doomsday button?
 
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That's a lot of golfing! Let's do a recap on what Trump criticized Obama for.

The 26 times Donald Trump tweeted about Barack Obama playing golf too much

Between 2011 and 2016, he also tweeted at least 26 complaints, jokes, or scoldings about Barack Obama playing golf while president. Some of the following could be considered retweets, but Trump’s long had a unique Twitter style that blurs the line between tweets about him and those he writes himself.

* We pay for Obama's travel so he can fundraise millions so Democrats can run on lies. Then we pay for his golf.
12:35 PM - 14 Oct 2014

* Can you believe that,with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf.Worse than Carter
5:03 PM - 13 Oct 2014

www.sbnation.com/golf/2017/3/27/15073086/donald-trump-tweets-barack-obama-golf


Trump: 'I would rarely leave the White House'

Real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump (R) says he wouldn’t get out much if he wins the Oval Office next year.

“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump, 69, tells ITK. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/245884-trump-i-would-rarely-leave-the-white-house
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skyeagle409 said:
That's a lot of golfing! Let's do a recap on what Trump criticized Obama for.
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Yes, but Obama was just wasting time and having fun whereas Trump is busy making America great again while he is golfing.

Also Obama was wasting money by mostly playing on courses on military bases - Trump plays on his own courses which as long as you discount the security, travel, green fee and other playing costs are much cheaper :rolleyes:
 
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