The Trump Administration (just Trump) Thread

[-Akronite-]

Was this purposely vague or would it be too tiring to type them all out?

My WAG is that you are referring to this.

View: https://twitter.com/commondefense/status/920004002087096322

My post was a link to an article about that lie, yes.

 

[Visitor]

Lots of stories out there about how local pols are hoarding supplies and doling them out only to political supporters. Corrupt as fuck, which is basically the same disease that was killing the island even before the hurricane.

I didn't even have to read the quoted text to know this was about PR....zero surprise

 

[Hurl Bruce]

View: https://twitter.com/GrahamDavidA/status/920281400640753664


Some day, Tillerson is going to write a book, and the entire country is going to owe him an endless supply of blowies for all of the messes he's cleaning up.

 

[Hurl Bruce]

My post was a link to an article about that lie, yes.

I just saw the extended video of the reporter calling him out on that lie and Trump backtracking. He really can't help himself in interjecting something that he thinks makes him look better than other people (Obama specifically) whether or not the statements are true or not.

 

[Maximus]

So Comey drafted the conclusion of the investigation memo months before Hillary was interviewed and the investigation was completed? So it was rigged...



COMEY DRAFTED STATEMENT ENDING CLINTON EMAIL INVESTIGATION MONTHS BEFORE INTERVIEWING HER, FBI CONFIRMS
BY MAX KUTNER ON 10/16/17 AT 2:03 PM


In documents it released on Monday, the FBI confirmed that former FBI Director James Comey drafted a statement about the conclusion of the Hillary Clinton email investigation months before interviewing Clinton.

The records show that on May 2, 2016, Comey emailed Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, general counsel James Baker and chief of staff and senior counselor James Rybicki. The subject of the email was "midyear exam," and though the email says its contents are unclassified, the body of the email is redacted in the release.

On Monday, the bureau also released a response to the May 2 email. Rybicki sent the response, dated May 16, 2016, to several colleagues: Peter Strzok, Jonathan Moffa, Baker, Trisha Anderson and E.W. Priestap. He copied McCabe and David Bowdich, the associate deputy director. In the email, which is marked "unclassified," Rybicki wrote, "Please send me any comments on this statement so we may roll into a master doc for discussion with the Director at a future date. Thanks, Jim."

The FBI titled the release "Drafts of Director Comey's July 5, 2016 Statement Regarding Email Server Investigation." That title refers to a press conference Comey held in which he said the bureau had completed its investigation into Clinton's use of a personal email system and that it would not be recommending that the Department of Justice pursue charges, though Clinton had been "careless." The bureau interviewed Clinton on July 2, 2016.

Former FBI Director James Comey speaks before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTY

The release confirms information that Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of that committee, disclosed in a letter to new FBI Director Christopher Wray in August. The senators wrote that they had learned from interview transcripts released by the Office of the Special Counsel that Comey had drafted the statement in advance. (That office is separate from the efforts of Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.) The Senate Judiciary Committee is reviewing Comey's conduct as director and President Donald Trump's firing him in May.

FBI and Justice Department analysts are divided on whether Comey violated rules or broke with tradition by drafting the statement prior to interviewing Clinton and other witnesses. “To me, this is so far out of bounds it’s not even in the stadium,” Chris Swecker, who retired from the FBI in 2006 as assistant director for the criminal investigative division and acting executive assistant director for law enforcement services, previously told Newsweek. “That is just not how things operate.... It’s built in our DNA not to prejudge investigations, particularly from the top.”

Ron Hosko, who served as an assistant director at the bureau under Comey until 2014, has told Newsweek that drafting statements is not unusual, but only if the drafts remain internal and avoid coming to conclusions. “When you have a significant case that is in the public domain and certainly in the public’s interest, in the public’s eye, I think that it could be expected that both the FBI and the prosecutors that they’re working with are beginning to draft a statement of facts that could be used later, as the case is developing,” he said. “I think the content of the statement is going to be important. Did it purport to essentially acquit her actions way prematurely, or was it simply a running statement of what they knew?”

But Matthew Miller, a former spokesperson for the Justice Department, tweeted in September, “The decision is never 'made' until the end, even when there's a 99% chance it is only going to go one way.”

Following the disclosure by Grassley and Graham, President Donald Trump tweeted, “Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over...and so much more. A rigged system!”

The July 2016 press conference earned Comey widespread criticism. In a memo to Trump in May, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein condemned Comey for holding the event. Trump then cited that memo in his initial reason for firing the FBI director.

Lawyers for Trump could use Monday's disclosure in their efforts to defend the president against accusations that he obstructed justice by firing Comey. The Wall Street Journal reported in August that in communications with Mueller, the lawyers had sought to portray Comey as an unreliable witness.

 

[gourimoko]

So Comey drafted the conclusion of the investigation memo months before Hillary was interviewed and the investigation was completed? So it was rigged...

Hoo boy...

 

[Huber.]

Exactly.
Sigh.
Really?

 

[Mr. Orange]

Travel ban blocked.

Obamacare saved.

McCain calls him an idiot.

Canada and Mexico spit in his face on NAFTA.

Drug czar nominee withdraws.

Loses $600MM.

Miami Heat pull their annual golf tournament from Trump resort.

Lots of winning today for Donnie boy.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

View: https://twitter.com/GrahamDavidA/status/920281400640753664


Some day, Tillerson is going to write a book, and the entire country is going to owe him an endless supply of blowies for all of the messes he's cleaning up.

Trump aside, there was a ton of opposition when Tillerson was nominated. He seems to be doing a decent job so far, though.

 

[The Oi]

View: https://twitter.com/GrahamDavidA/status/920281400640753664


Some day, Tillerson is going to write a book, and the entire country is going to owe him an endless supply of blowies for all of the messes he's cleaning up.

You and your blowies.

 

[Cassity14]

Trump aside, there was a ton of opposition when Tillerson was nominated. He seems to be doing a decent job so far, though.

I'll always remember the Tillerson opposition as distracting just enough attention away from the walking disaster that is DeVos to sneak her through by a minimal margin.

 

[Nathan S]

Trump aside, there was a ton of opposition when Tillerson was nominated. He seems to be doing a decent job so far, though.

Guilty as charged on that front...thought it was a travesty when he was nominated, but he's been one of the (few) bright spots so far.

 

[Hurl Bruce]

I know that in joining the military, you realize that there are perils involved.

I just think it's bad form to remind a widow of that as she grieves over her fallen husband's casket.

 

[Sebastian]

I know that in joining the military, you realize that there are perils involved.

I just think it's bad form to remind a widow of that as she grieves over her fallen husband's casket.

The details:

Trump to Widow of Sgt. La David Johnson: 'He Knew What he Signed up For'
Trump faces controversy after U.S. Army deaths in Africa

U.S. President Donald Trump told U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson's widow Tuesday that "he knew what he signed up for ...but when it happens it hurts anyway," when he died serving in northwestern Africa, according to Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami Gardens.

"Yes, he said it," Wilson said. "It's so insensitive. He should have not have said that. He shouldn't have said it."

The president called about 4:45 p.m. and spoke to Johnson's pregnant widow, Myeshia Johnson, for about five minutes. She is a mother to Johnson's surviving 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. The conversation happened before Johnson's remains arrived in a commercial Delta Airlines flight at Miami International Airport.

Wilson witnessed as the widow, who is expecting their third baby in January, leaned over the U.S. flag that was draping his casket. Her pregnant belly was shaking against the casket as she sobbed uncontrollably. Their daughter stood next to her stoically. Their toddler waited in the arms of a relative.

There was silence. Local politicians, police officers and firefighters lined up to honor him for his service and for the efforts and discipline that got the former Walmart employee to defy all odds as a 25-year-old member of the 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Johnson, who participated in a mentorship program Wilson founded in 1993, died during a mission fighting alongside Green Berets. Islamic militants ambushed them Oct. 4 with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns. The team reportedly didn't have overhead armed air cover and were in unarmored pickup trucks. Reuters reported the lack of planning upset the French.

 

[Jack Brickman]

The details:

Trump to Widow of Sgt. La David Johnson: 'He Knew What he Signed up For'
Trump faces controversy after U.S. Army deaths in Africa

U.S. President Donald Trump told U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson's widow Tuesday that "he knew what he signed up for ...but when it happens it hurts anyway," when he died serving in northwestern Africa, according to Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami Gardens.

"Yes, he said it," Wilson said. "It's so insensitive. He should have not have said that. He shouldn't have said it."

The president called about 4:45 p.m. and spoke to Johnson's pregnant widow, Myeshia Johnson, for about five minutes. She is a mother to Johnson's surviving 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. The conversation happened before Johnson's remains arrived in a commercial Delta Airlines flight at Miami International Airport.

Wilson witnessed as the widow, who is expecting their third baby in January, leaned over the U.S. flag that was draping his casket. Her pregnant belly was shaking against the casket as she sobbed uncontrollably. Their daughter stood next to her stoically. Their toddler waited in the arms of a relative.

There was silence. Local politicians, police officers and firefighters lined up to honor him for his service and for the efforts and discipline that got the former Walmart employee to defy all odds as a 25-year-old member of the 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Johnson, who participated in a mentorship program Wilson founded in 1993, died during a mission fighting alongside Green Berets. Islamic militants ambushed them Oct. 4 with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns. The team reportedly didn't have overhead armed air cover and were in unarmored pickup trucks. Reuters reported the lack of planning upset the French.

Makes you long for the halcyon days of Dubya when our president was just dumb, not dumb and an asshole.