The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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Craig4 said:
The problem with this tweet is that idiot wife-beater boy told Kelly that this was going to be a problem. This isn't just an allegation; this is Porter telling Kelly that he knew the whole "wife-beating thing" would be a problem. Remember, Porter isn't contesting that he beat his wife.
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Actually, he is.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/02/07/white-house-rob-porter-domestic-violence/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/...&gwh=91BF781CFAB45303783D8D89820F1C8B&gwt=pay
 
The hypocrisy rolls on. Here is Trump responding to the furor over the abuse allegation involving Rob Porter and the White House's handling of it:

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump
So many positive things going on for the U.S.A. and the Fake News Media just doesn’t want to go there. Same negative stories over and over again! No wonder the People no longer trust the media, whose approval ratings are correctly at their lowest levels in history! #MAGA
10:21 AM - 11 Feb 2018 Link
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Did he forget?
Donald Trump wraps up a year in office with the lowest average approval rating of any elected president in his first year. That is according to polling by Gallup, which shows that Trump has averaged just a 39% approval rating since his inauguration. The previous low was held by Bill Clinton, whose first-year average stood 10 points higher than Trump’s, at 49%. Link
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mgidm86 said:
That Tweet will not hurt Trump. If that quote came from anybody else in any other context it would be applauded.

A few years from now the quote will be all that is remembered. "Wow, people complained about that quote? Must have been some uptight people back in the early century."

I'm glad someone has the balls to say the truth about this issue rather than bend over like every other politically correct douchebag. MeToo could go too far - he is not incorrect to say that we need to be cautious.

Trump says dumb things, this is not one of them.
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Trump wasn't embracing a principle. He was claiming that "false allegations" were being made by two specific, named women who gave sworn accounts of their abuse by their ex-husband to the FBI, supported by photographs, police reports and an emergency order of protection, which the FBI took seriously enough to block his security clearance. His tweet was identical with his defense and endorsement of serial child molester Roy Moore. And of course, he has denied allegations made against himself by more than a dozen women, and his own recorded claims that "when you're a celebrity they let you do anything you want." Trump is openly, plainly contemptuous of women unless they are fawning over him.
 
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I'm sure we've seen or heard that Omorasa (spelling? and I don't care what the spelling might be) kinda threw our commander-in-ept under the bus on Celebrity Big Brother?

The Google results so you can pick your own poison:

https://www.google.com/search?q=omarosa+celebrity+big+brother+trump&oq=omarosa+celebrity+big+brother+trump&aqs=chrome..69i57.7527j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

This happened a few days ago.
I guess "they" have been keeping his phone from him because he has tweet thrown her under the bus.
 
mgidm86 said:
That Tweet will not hurt Trump. If that quote came from anybody else in any other context it would be applauded.

A few years from now the quote will be all that is remembered. "Wow, people complained about that quote? Must have been some uptight people back in the early century."

I'm glad someone has the balls to say the truth about this issue rather than bend over like every other politically correct douchebag. MeToo could go too far - he is not incorrect to say that we need to be cautious.

Trump says dumb things, this is not one of them.
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Except Trump could have ordered Kelly not to accept Porter's resignation (or to not fire him, not sure which happened) in order to ensure due process. We're not talking about a legal due process, we're talking about an employer's due process, and who was in charge of Porter's employment? Trump was, ultimately, so Trump was in charge of that process.
 
Paul2 said:
Except Trump could have ordered Kelly not to accept Porter's resignation (or to not fire him, not sure which happened) in order to ensure due process. We're not talking about a legal due process, we're talking about an employer's due process, and who was in charge of Porter's employment? Trump was, ultimately, so Trump was in charge of that process.
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Of course trump fired him, he was getting far too many headlines for a staffer and that will get you fired. But he can't appear weak on feminism in front of his base so he has to make it seem like he was fighting for Porter. It is really simple you just have to understand trump.
 
So, it seems that there are dozens of staffers in the White House without security clearances.
After a year.

It's widely reported that Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefing but Jared Kushner and others who don’t have security clearances do.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
So, it seems that there are dozens of staffers in the White House without security clearances.
After a year.

It's widely reported that Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefing but Jared Kushner and others who don’t have security clearances do.
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You think the FBI would give kushner a security clearance after he lied about his contacts with the russians on pervious security form? But they can't refuse to give him clearance because it isn't their job to fire him and it ultimately is the presidents call on all security arrangements.
 
ponderingturtle said:
You think the FBI would give kushner a security clearance after he lied about his contacts with the russians on pervious security form? But they can't refuse to give him clearance because it isn't their job to fire him and it ultimately is the presidents call on all security arrangements.
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This is why we elect the executive and don't grant departments like the FBI final authority.
 
ponderingturtle said:
You think the FBI would give kushner a security clearance after he lied about his contacts with the russians on pervious security form? But they can't refuse to give him clearance because it isn't their job to fire him and it ultimately is the presidents call on all security arrangements.
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I know it's just a felicitous misprint, but I suspect that Kushner is more "pervious" than the authors of the form.
 
Does anyone believe Trump could get a top level security clearance if the POTUS was required to get one? :rolleyes:

Of course Trump doesn't give a rip about anyone else's clearance in his admin.
 
Stacko said:
Yowza!


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Not the least bit surprising.

Once again while CNN and MSNBC are going on and on about Kelly's "40 minutes he was out" vs Suckabie's "24 hours", no one is asking, "didn't the FBI see the photo?" Surely they saw the police reports and restraining order.

The reporters never call these people on their lies to their faces. Wusses!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
So, it seems that there are dozens of staffers in the White House without security clearances.
After a year.

It's widely reported that Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefing but Jared Kushner and others who don’t have security clearances do.
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They have temporary clearances. Certainly not a good situation late in the term, but not the sane as having no clearances.
 
phiwum said:
They have temporary clearances. Certainly not a good situation late in the term, but not the sane as having no clearances.
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I expect this is a permanent solution. They would almost certainly fail clearance, which is worse than not having one.

Perpetually renewing temporary clearances is the only way to get around this.
 
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