Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures

[rareboy]

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This is a pretty chilling look at the person under consideration for Drumpf's [STRIKE]Minister of Propaganda[/STRIKE] Press Secretary....

Laura Ingraham, a close Trump ally currently under consideration to be Trump’s White House press secretary, owns an online publisher called Ingraham Media Group that runs a number of sites, including LifeZette, a news site that frequently posts articles of dubious veracity. One video produced by LifeZette this summer, ominously titled “Clinton Body Count,” promoted a conspiracy theory that the Clinton family had some role in the plane crash death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as well as the deaths of various friends and Democrats.


The video, published on Facebook from LifeZette’s verified news account, garnered over 400,000 shares and 14 million views.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/laura-ingraham-lifezette/

 

[Kulindahr]

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This is a pretty chilling look at the person under consideration for Drumpf's [STRIKE]Minister of Propaganda[/STRIKE] Press Secretary....



https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/laura-ingraham-lifezette/

Ingraham??!!!?!?!?!?!!

OMFG


Ministry of Truth, more like.

 

[rareboy]

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hahahaha

Kellyanne Conway is in deep shit after saying that Trump is betraying his followers by supporting Mittens Romney for SoS.

The battle rages on.

Now it looks like Petraeus could end up with the spot. Yeah. That Petraeus.

The same one.

Petraeus’s government career collapsed after revelations that he had an extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, and shared classified documents with her. He resigned from the CIA in November 2012 and avoided a criminal trial by agreeing to a plea deal in April 2015. It required him to serve two years on probation and pay a $100,000 fine on a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized possession of classified information.

FBI Director James Comey, who oversaw both the Petraeus and Clinton investigations, (said) in a July 7 hearing, he told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that Petraeus’s behavior was worse than Clinton’s, saying that he deliberately “lied” when first questioned by investigators.
“So you have obstruction of justice, you have intentional misconduct and a vast quantity of information” that was highly classified, Comey said. “He admitted he knew that was the wrong thing to do. That is a perfect illustration of the kind of cases that get prosecuted.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...-petraeus-as-contender-for-secretary-of-state


Oh Trump.

 

[Sausy]

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He'd have to get through Congress first, and would be a very hard sell indeed with that baggage.

 

[rareboy]

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^ My suspicion after watching the most craven capitulation by the GOP over the last year is that none of his picks will have a hard time.

Filibuster as they might, the minority Democrats probably won't be able to change the outcome.

And to be honest, I'm not sure that Petraeus is a bad choice...although having a general for SoS is again a kind of third world move.

It is just the rancid hypocrisy that is wafting from Trump Towers these days.............

 

[Kulindahr]

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^ My suspicion after watching the most craven capitulation by the GOP over the last year is that none of his picks will have a hard time.

Filibuster as they might, the minority Democrats probably won't be able to change the outcome.

And to be honest, I'm not sure that Petraeus is a bad choice...although having a general for SoS is again a kind of third world move.

It is just the rancid hypocrisy that is wafting from Trump Towers these days.............

I think the Senate will surprise you.

Oh, and... you mean rancid like dredged from the swamp?

 

[rareboy]

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The Democratic Senate gutted the filibuster rule, so they now die by the sword.

But it appears as though another fox has been put in charge of the henhouse with the appointment of Representative Tom Price of Georgia, an orthopedic surgeon and a fervent opponent of the Affordable Care Act, on Tuesday to be his secretary of health and human services.

Mr. Price, who has focused much of his work in Congress on trying to insulate physicians from the dictates and price controls of agencies that would be under his control if he is confirmed, responded on Tuesday:

There is much work to be done to ensure we have a health care system that works for patients, families and doctors; that leads the world in the cure and prevention of illness; and that is based on sensible rules to protect the well-being of the country while embracing its innovative spirit.

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the incoming minority leader, was not happy:

“Congressman Price has proven to be far out of the mainstream of what Americans want when it comes to Medicare, the Affordable Care Act and Planned Parenthood. Thanks to those three programs, millions of American seniors, families, people with disabilities and women have access to quality, affordable health care. Nominating Congressman Price to be the H.H.S. secretary is akin to asking the fox to guard the hen house.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/politics/donald-trump-transition.html

 

[KaraBulut]

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And to be honest, I'm not sure that Petraeus is a bad choice...although having a general for SoS is again a kind of third world move.

The problem is that after all the hue and cry over the past year about email servers, it's going to be difficult to confirm a former administration official who leaked top secret material to his mistress (i.e. a woman who was not his wife).

Or is it only lock her up?

 

[Benvolio]

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The problem is that after all the hue and cry over the past year about email servers, it's going to be difficult to confirm a former administration official who leaked top secret material to his mistress (i.e. a woman who was not his wife).

Or is it only lock her up?

Having scoffed at Hillary's exposure of thousands of emails , the democrats can hardly object to Petraeus.

 

[rareboy]

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The outrage is all faux.

No one really cares if a man was proven to have leaked official secrets while he was porking his mistress.

But the demonizing of that woman required that everyone buy into the narrative that she actually had somehow purposefully leaked classified information by having the smae private server set-up as her predecessors.

Just more of the rancid GOP hypocrisy.

 

[rareboy]

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Having scoffed at Hillary's exposure of thousands of emails , the democrats can hardly object to Petraeus.

Having accepted that it is okay for Petraeus to have done something which was seen as much, much worse, the Republicans must now admit that the outrage over Hillary's emails was phony all along.

 

[kallipolis]

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^^For Rice, and Powell's similar email indiscretions the matter was considered irrelevant by The Republicans

 

[kallipolis]

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Having accepted that it is okay for Petraeus to have done something which was seen as much, much worse, the Republicans must now admit that the outrage over Hillary's emails was phony all along.

Election campaigning deems such allegations entirely legitimate

 

[KaraBulut]

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Having scoffed at Hillary's exposure of thousands of emails , the democrats can hardly object to Petraeus.

In the alternate reality of false equivalencies, even this is a stretch. I seem to recall about half a dozen [Republican] Congressional investigations and an FBI inquiry that did not result in an indictment over emails that, incidentally, would be available to the public under FOIA.

Petraeus was indicted and he took a plea deal, pleading guilty to a misdemeanor. The deal was offered only because the classified materials in his personal notebooks (that he gave to his biographer, Paula Broadwell) didn't get leaked to the public.

And of course, the investigation uncovered that Petraeus was having an affair with his biographer. Both Petraeus and Broadwell were married to other people- an affair which was a violation of UCMJ. Another distinguished career ruined by OPP.

It's a wonder that anyone does public service anymore. I long for the good old days when people were disqualified for not paying SSDI for their kid's nanny... or not declaring a chauffeur service on one's taxes...

 

[Benvolio]

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In the alternate reality of false equivalencies, even this is a stretch. I seem to recall about half a dozen [Republican] Congressional investigations and an FBI inquiry that did not result in an indictment over emails that, incidentally, would be available to the public under FOIA.

Petraeus was indicted and he took a plea deal, pleading guilty to a misdemeanor. The deal was offered only because the classified materials in his personal notebooks (that he gave to his biographer, Paula Broadwell) didn't get leaked to the public.

And of course, the investigation uncovered that Petraeus was having an affair with his biographer. Both Petraeus and Broadwell were married to other people- an affair which was a violation of UCMJ. Another distinguished career ruined by OPP.

It's a wonder that anyone does public service anymore. I long for the good old days when people were disqualified for not paying SSDI for their kid's nanny... or not declaring a chauffeur service on one's taxes...

Comey said that they found she had committed actd forbidden by the law but decided not to prosecute for unstated reasons.

 

[Benvolio]

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Democrats always want to hold Republicans to a higher standard. What is really happening is that when the Clintons get away with crap it pulls downs the bar for future politicians. Petraeus paid for his violation, Hillary has not. Now the dems want to raise the bar again. Low bar for Clintons, high bar for Republicans.

 

[palemale]

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Suffice it to say that the Trump administration will be the biggest clusterfuck in history. P.S. He chose Mitch McConnell's wife to be his Transportation Secretary. I guess Trump is willing to suck a little Mitch dick to get something done in the Senate.

 

[rareboy]

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Comey said that they found she had committed actd forbidden by the law but decided not to prosecute for unstated reasons.

That is not what he said.

 

[kallipolis]

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That is not what he said.

Correct...

James Comey informed Congress that a review of new emails found in relation to the FBIs investigation into HRCs use of a private email server had not yielded any reason for charges against the Democratic presidential nominee.

 

[rareboy]

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Always a stranger to the truth, Benvolio has been inspired by the new Liar in Chief.

But unlike the gormless followers of der Fuhrer, a lot of us actually read the words as they were spoken or written.