The Trump Presidency: Sweet/Sweat 16

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The Greater Fool said:
Compare stays at Trump properties before and after he became President. If there is a significant difference then there is a problem, written or not.

Of course, an honest President would have a written policy to NOT stay at properties owned by them. Sadly that ship has sailed.
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An honest president would have divested himself of any business dealings which could have led to even the appearance of a conflict of interest.
 
Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017

Washington (CNN) In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.

A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.

The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.

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The removal happened at a time of wide concern in the intelligence community about mishandling of intelligence by Trump and his administration. Those concerns were described to CNN by five sources who served in the Trump administration, intelligence agencies and Congress.
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The Great Zaganza said:
Disagree.
I do think that the standard order in the White House for arranging any travel is to use Trump companies - even if it was never written down.
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Yes, maybe, but who gave that order? My assertion is that Trump himself wouldn't have to do it, because one of his legion of sycophantic minions would have made sure everyone else understood this rule without Trump having to have mentioned it. Because that's what sycophants do. They go out of their way to find all the ways they can suck up, without prompting.
 
So it looks JPMorgan added a new Stock market tracking index...

Called 'Volfefe Index' (the name combines 'volatility' and 'covefefe', from Trump's famous typo tweet), it tracks stock market changes that have occurred due to Trump's tweets.

From: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/investing/jpmorgan-trump-tweets-volfefe-index/index.html
...analysts found that Trump's tweets have significantly increased volatility. They say the frequency of market-moving tweets from Trump "ballooned" in August, and that US rates markets are paying more attention.
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JPMorgan does not include any specific Trump tweets in its report introducing the index, but identifies a series of trigger words for markets. Those include "China," "billion" and "products." The bank concedes that its model is "hardly a tweet savant" — but maintains that the results it produces are "firmly statistically significant."
 
Horatius said:
And here's the problem we have with people who don't get how the president can "incite" people to do things just by talking about him.

I'm pretty sure Trump never did actually order anyone to patronize his establishments, and yet, it seems that a whole lot of the people working for him figured out that they should patronize his establishments, even without orders. Because anticipating needs or wants before they're expressed as an order is the difference between an okay servant and a great servant.
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No doubt. Trump speaks fluent mob boss.
 
varwoche said:
No doubt. Trump speaks fluent mob boss.
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There was a recent CNN article about how this is exactly what mobsters do to curry favor with their boss.

As a federal organized crime prosecutor, I learned that the mafia uses a practice known as "kicking up" or "paying tribute" to the boss. Essentially, all members of a mafia family must make sure that some of their earnings end up in the boss' pocket. From the member's point of view, "kicking up" is a way to show respect, curry favor, and reinforce the hierarchical power structure. From the boss's point of view, it's a way to get rich.

The "kicking up" model works well for the mafia, and now a political version of it seems to be catching on within the Trump administration. Vice President Mike Pence has decided to stay at Trump's golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland, during an official visit to Dublin (over a one-hour flight away, so not particularly close or convenient). On Tuesday, Pence's chief of staff remarked that the decision was made on Trump's suggestion. The Vice President's office later stated, "at no time did the President direct our office to stay at his Doonbeg resort."

Not to be outdone in the "posterior osculation" category (as Paul Begala colorfully put it), Attorney General William Barr reportedly will spend more than $30,000 of personal money to throw a private holiday party at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC. Barr's defenders argue that he first tried to book two other DC hotels. But, of course, there are dozens of luxury hotels in DC that Barr could have chosen instead of one owned by Trump's company. Apologists can nibble at the margins, but there is no escaping that Barr's choice to patronize a Trump property, like Pence's, will put thousands of dollars in Trump's pocket.
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"Posterior osculation".
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

The Trump Administrations has achieved more in the first 2 1/2 years of its existence than perhaps any administration in the history of our Country. We get ZERO media credit for what we have done, and are doing, but the people know, and that’s all that is important!
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A whole slew of these Tweets smack of someone in the WH kissing up to Dump's ass.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Back in 2014 Trump Tweeted

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
“Donald Trump pledges to make Prestwick Airport 'really successful'”
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/299644-donald-trump-pledges-to-make-prestwick-airport-really-successful/ via @STVNews

“US tycoon Donald Trump in talks with Ryanair to bring more flights back to Prestwick Airport” http://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/tycoon-donald-trump-talks-ryanair-5422340 via
@Daily_Record
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Well well well, another lost memory. Not quite as bad as forgetting you said you didn't know there were cat 5 hurricanes, with 5 different hurricanes, but still not good.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Well well well, another lost memory. Not quite as bad as forgetting you said you didn't know there were cat 5 hurricanes, with 5 different hurricanes, but still not good.
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Yep, every day I remark on the similarities between listening to Trump, and listening to my mother who is gradually going into cognitive decline. She was out to a show with visiting relatives last week, and yesterday she had 3 different versions of how she got to and from the venue. Did she take a taxi, did they all take a taxi, did they give her a ride home? I don't know, all I know is she's home now.

You gotta love your mom, but I'd be damned if I'd let her run the country these days.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

I had nothing to do with the decision of our great @VP Mike Pence to stay overnight at one of the Trump owned resorts in Doonbeg, Ireland. Mike’s family has lived in Doonbeg for many years, and he thought that during his very busy European visit, he would stop and see his family!
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Seemed pretty fishy so I looked.

From CNN:
Pence has roots in the town -- his great-grandmother was from Doonbeg and another distant relative operates a pub in the town...
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Oh yeah, that's roots all right. :rolleyes:

The article goes on describing a whole bunch of really flimsy excuses how the stay at the resort made sense.



Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Why didn't he stay with them, then?
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There were none.

Ladewig said:
I’m trying to figure out why he didn’t stay closer to his meetings and make the 180 mile trip to visit the family. Or. Stay closer to his meetings and have the family come to see him near Dublin. That would have been a **** of a lot cheaper.
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You have to ask?

Segnosaur said:
So, this trip had a personal element, and could be counted as 'vacation'?

If the reason Pence stayed at the Trump resort is just so that he could visit family, ...
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There were no family members to visit. I wonder if he even visited said distant relative that owned the pub.

Pence is much too old to have a great grandmother still living.
 
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Trump Tweets

A lot of Fake News is being reported that I overruled the VP and various advisers on a potential Camp David meeting with the Taliban. This Story is False! I always think it is good to meet and talk, but in this case I decided not to. The Dishonest Media likes to create...

...the look of turmoil in the White House, of which there is none. I view much of the media as simply an arm of the Democrat Party. They are corrupt, and they are extremely upset at how well our Country is doing under MY Leadership, including...

...the Economy, where there is NO Recession, much to the regret of the LameStream Media! They are working overtime to help the Democrats win in 2020, but that will NEVER HAPPEN, Americans are too smart!
 
Trump Tweets

We have been serving as policemen in Afghanistan, and that was not meant to be the job of our Great Soldiers, the finest on earth. Over the last four days, we have been hitting our Enemy harder than at any time in the last ten years!
 
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