The Trump Presidency: Part 17

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Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!
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For those with Twitter, spend a moment scrolling through the comments to that tweet! Hilarious, but hard to discribe!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!
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"It was the 'hypen' -- that's when I knew I had them!" he said, slowly rolling the steel balls through his tiny fingers.
 
uke2se said:
No, that's not correct. The law says that if the Inspector General rules the complaint as urgent it is to be delivered to the Intelligence Committee within a week. That's the nature of whistleblower laws. They are designed to not allow personal latitude.
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The law does not actually say that it's up to the IG to determine whether it's urgent or not. The term "urgent" is defined in the text. Thus, whether the IG says it's urgent or not, there is an independent standard for urgency.

There is not a single statement in that law that says if the IG says it's urgent, then it's urgent.[1]

Those in the administration are bound to follow the OLC's judgment in interpreting the laws that apply to their official work. Obviously, in this case where the AG is mentioned in the complaint, this is not ideal, but Maguire went by the book. When he had questions about how to react to the complaint and the IG's report in this (as he said) unprecedented case, he went to the highest authority in the administration for clarification.

I am not commenting on the OLC's response to Maguire's query, only the appropriateness of turning to the OLC.

[1] I had the same opinion as you expressed. I thought that if the IG says it's urgent, then it's urgent. My wife, who is an attorney, went to the text of the law and pointed out that's just not what it says.
 
Trump Tweets

Rep. Adam Schiff fraudulently read to Congress, with millions of people watching, a version of my conversation with the President of Ukraine that doesn’t exist. He was supposedly reading the exact transcribed version of the call, but he completely changed the words to make it...

...sound horrible, and me sound guilty. HE WAS DESPERATE AND HE GOT CAUGHT. Adam Schiff therefore lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American Public. He has been doing this for two years. I am calling for him to immediately resign from Congress based on this fraud!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!
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Um.

So was the apostrophe an accent ague? Is the totally not misspelled word pronounced "lid-lay"?

Shame on CNN for thinking that the apostrophe didn't make everything just right.
 
phiwum said:
Um.

So was the apostrophe an accent ague? Is the totally not misspelled word pronounced "lid-lay"?

Shame on CNN for thinking that the apostrophe didn't make everything just right.
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CNN should apologize to Trump for overestimating his intelligence by assuming the apostrophe was a typo and not a magical singular "hyphen" that functions as British style quotation marks.
 
I re'eally do'n't se'e wha't th'e b'ig is'ssue i's. Perfectly understandable to me.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!
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If I hadn't actually seen this on The PDJT's Twitter account I would not have believed it. I haven't read the comments yet but am prepared for a morning's amusement. Hopefully enough to replace the feeling of alarm that this was actually presented by our Acting President.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

Rep. Adam Schiff fraudulently read to Congress, with millions of people watching, a version of my conversation with the President of Ukraine that doesn’t exist. He was supposedly reading the exact transcribed version of the call, but he completely changed the words to make it...

...sound horrible, and me sound guilty. HE WAS DESPERATE AND HE GOT CAUGHT. Adam Schiff therefore lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American Public. He has been doing this for two years. I am calling for him to immediately resign from Congress based on this fraud!
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He's totally losing it, isn't he? His handlers should get him out to supermarket openings and baby-kissing to get him away from his television set and his phone. He's going to see a whole bunch of things he doesn't like on the news, so he'll keep up the cray-cray for our entertainment value.
 
It was a blunder for Schiff to have creatively altered the read-out. It wasn't necessary, and it opened him up to this criticism.
 
newyorkguy said:
We're reaching the point where I'd expect the execution might be televised and Donnie himself would pull the switch. Or would he use a bat like DeNiro in "The Untouchables?"

Make America Great Again. :(

(You imagine someone waking up who's been in a coma since 2014 and reading all of this?)

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We've been watching too many episodes of Scandal, so my imagination got a little out of hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandal_(TV_series)
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Trump is free to release the full transcripts of all his calls to disprove Schiff.
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He can't release them, he's being audited by the IRS.

Speaking of which, a rumor is spreading that a second whistleblower is surfacing, encouraged by the first, and this one's IRS. I doubt it's true but I mention it now so I'll look super prescient and smart if it happens.
 
"It wasn’t bad, it was very legal and very good."

He also seems to be doubling down on the 2nd grade vocabulary.The dementia-watchers interpret these as signs of his cognitive decline. If not that, then what? Does he do this purposefully because he thinks he's communicating with simpletons in his base?
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
Why? there's a perfectly good Dambusters movie that will be more true to the events, ethos and spirit of the time than anything Peter Jackson could spew up.
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The SFX in Dambusters are laughable by today's standards. I hear Peter Jackson was inspired to do better when he saw the canyon scene from Star Wars.
 
phiwum said:
The law does not actually say that it's up to the IG to determine whether it's urgent or not. The term "urgent" is defined in the text. Thus, whether the IG says it's urgent or not, there is an independent standard for urgency.

There is not a single statement in that law that says if the IG says it's urgent, then it's urgent.[1]

Those in the administration are bound to follow the OLC's judgment in interpreting the laws that apply to their official work. Obviously, in this case where the AG is mentioned in the complaint, this is not ideal, but Maguire went by the book. When he had questions about how to react to the complaint and the IG's report in this (as he said) unprecedented case, he went to the highest authority in the administration for clarification.

I am not commenting on the OLC's response to Maguire's query, only the appropriateness of turning to the OLC.

[1] I had the same opinion as you expressed. I thought that if the IG says it's urgent, then it's urgent. My wife, who is an attorney, went to the text of the law and pointed out that's just not what it says.
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Having not actually read the law, and relying solely on second hand information, I'll bow to your more informed opinion.
 
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