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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 25

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Captain_Swoop said:
It’s amazing that just today the president said that covid deaths in states that didn’t vote for him don’t really count, he wanted to use a heat ray on protesters, and the lunatic attorney general wanted to arrest the mayor of Seattle and undecided voters still exist.
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Was he going to drive the protestors into the Potomac River that he had stocked with sharks with freakin laser beams?
 
I've put he Cohen book aside so I can read "Rage" by Bob Woodward. The opening pages are a bit of an eye-opener. For all the talk about the China virus and China's lack of transparency, what hasn't been reported is what the deputy National Security Advisor told the president in the famous January briefing. The deputy National Security Advisor,Matt Pottinger is fluent in Mandarin and lived in China as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal during the SARS outbreak. The lack of Chinese openness never mattered at all. He had spoken to a number Chinese medical professionals, academics and government officials who told him, "think 1918 flu". Even if the Chinese weren't transparent with WHO and the CDC, it appears as though they were completely transparent with the president's deputy national security advisor.
 
Aridas said:
And more on the Barr front.

Bill Barr wanted to arrest a city’s mayor for trying to keep police and protesters apart



Yeah... all the more reason to believe that they were actively TRYING to stir up more violence.
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I can only assume and I'm not clear on why that Barr intended this to come out. Barr must know that nearly everyone in DOJ hates him and that such conversations would become public. Is the point maybe to throw red meat to Trump's base? Even he, as incompetent and disloyal as he is must know that a grand jury empaneled in Seattle would never indict their mayor.
 
Segnosaur said:
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While I think there is a good chance the allegation is true (subject to investigation), the timing makes it look... Suspicious. (Wasn't reported to police at the time, nor were the allegations made back in 2016 when other women were coming forward. Even if she had valid reasons for staying silent at the time, it does bring up questions of being just a political stunt.)
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From the link:
Her account was also corroborated by several people she confided in about the incident. They include a friend in New York and Dorris’s mother, both of whom she called immediately after the alleged incident, as well as a therapist and friends she spoke to in the years since. All said Dorris had shared with them details of the alleged incident that matched what she later told the Guardian.
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If she told other people about it at the time, that counts for a lot. Considering what has happened to other women who made similar accusations publicly, it's not surprising that she kept quiet for so long. And considering how Trump has behaved all his life, it wouldn't surprise me if there are hundreds of women with similar stories who chalked it up as just another bad experience with jerk.
 
Craig4 said:
I can only assume and I'm not clear on why that Barr intended this to come out. Barr must know that nearly everyone in DOJ hates him and that such conversations would become public. Is the point maybe to throw red meat to Trump's base? Even he, as incompetent and disloyal as he is must know that a grand jury empaneled in Seattle would never indict their mayor.
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A not 100% sure his message was intended for a hypothetical grand jury empaneled in Seattle.

The "red meat" theory makes more sense. He's chumming the water.
 
Craig4 said:
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Even if the Chinese weren't transparent with WHO and the CDC, it appears as though they were completely transparent with the president's deputy national security advisor.
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"The Chinese" covers a lot of ground. A veteran reporter would develop sources outside the government bureaucracy, just as they do in the U.S. Keep in mind that the Chinese arrested a doctor who tried to warn his colleagues about this weird new disease, and who subsequently died of it himself. Trump preferred to believe his BFF Xi Jinping over his own intelligence officials.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics...virus-whistleblower-public-anger-dissent.html
 
Bob001 said:
"The Chinese" covers a lot of ground. A veteran reporter would develop sources outside the government bureaucracy, just as they do in the U.S. Keep in mind that the Chinese arrested a doctor who tried to warn his colleagues about this weird new disease, and who subsequently died of it himself. Trump preferred to believe his BFF Xi Jinping over his own intelligence officials.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics...virus-whistleblower-public-anger-dissent.html
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In the book Pottinger describes who he talked to. He doesn't mention names but what they told him made anything the Chinese government was trying to silence the doctor from saying, trivial.

When I say Chinese, I mean the government of the PRC not Chinese people generally. I apologize if that was not clear.
 
Segnosaur said:
But Trump put so much effort into preparing for the debates!

From: NBC
President Donald Trump has not held a single mock debate session, and has no plans to stage a formal practice round, as he readies for his first faceoff with Joe Biden in less than three weeks, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions.

Oh, never mind.
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He doesn't need to; he's not going to show up. His excuses will be that Biden is on drugs, or he's too busy, or the moderators are fake news, or have blood coming out their wherever.
 
Trebuchet said:
He doesn't need to; he's not going to show up. His excuses will be that Biden is on drugs, or he's too busy, or the moderators are fake news, or have blood coming out their wherever.
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I disagree, IMO he will show up because he believes he can win any debate and because of ratings. He's not doing any preparation because his performance doesn't depend on anything Joe Biden says or does.
 
The Don said:
I disagree, IMO he will show up because he believes he can win any debate and because of ratings. He's not doing any preparation because his performance doesn't depend on anything Joe Biden says or does.
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He’ll show up because his ego requires it.
 
Trump Tweets

The Democrats are just ANGRY that the vaccine and delivery are so far ahead of schedule. They hate what they are seeing. Saving lives should make them happy, not sad!
 
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President @realDonaldTrump announced that he will sign an Executive Order establishing a commission to promote patriotic education: The 1776 Commission!
 
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Today, we are seeing the results of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools.

No American student should be made to feel ashamed of their history or identity.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
The White House Tweets
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President @realDonaldTrump announced that he will sign an Executive Order establishing a commission to promote patriotic education: The 1776 Commission!
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Ah, yes. The Great Trump Patriotic Youth Education Movement.

 
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