Donald Trump

[jason_c]

Hi Jason,

I have been giving serious thought to responding but I'm tired of responding. Not due to you or your point of view - it's just the subject is annoying and any response by us seems pointless.

So, I have come to the conclusion that I'll read this thread, and if I can explain some point I'll do so. Otherwise, no reason to extend commentary so early in this Presidency on the Donald.

Jeff

Fair enough. I feel as if im occasionally piping up in this thread simply to give an alternate point of view, and I find myself becoming repetitive and tiresome. If I find myself tiresome I can't imagine what others think of my posts. Let's face it we are not going to change one anothers opinion. All I shall say is it's very easy for threads such as this to become an echo-chamber.

[sdreid]

Why can't Democrats figure out that running another lame campaign about being offended is going to give them the same result?

[Svensson]

Seems that trump has been holding meetings with his intelligence and security teams in Public at Mar-A-Lago. Waiters and bystanders were standing behind him while he and Abe were filing through intelligence information from the CIA and the Military. This is all over facebook. People getting their mobile phones out to use the flashlight function (we all hope and not film or photograph) to be able to read the documents in the fading South Florida light.


How excruciatingly stupid is this guy really???


"Lock him up, Lock him up, Lock him up!"

[Pcdunn]

News said White House assures us the President was fully briefed on the North Korean situation in a secure location PRIOR to the dinner, and that no classified material was out in the open at the restaurant.

I think Mr. Trump doesn't realize how a President's public image is so important to how we perceive how he does his job.

[Pcdunn]

Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, has resigned over information that his meetings with Russian representatives prior to the inauguration may have left him liable to blackmail. There is an interim adviser, and others are being considered for his replacement.

[John G]

And President Trump still hasn't released his tax returns, which would determine the extent of any Russian interests he might have. For instance, in 2008 Donald Trump JR stated:

"And in terms of high-end product influx into the U.S, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets." http://www.eturbonews.com/5008/execu...ew-emerging-ma

[Pcdunn]

Mr. Trump says "people don't care" about his tax returns, so he's not going to release them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/22/trump-wont-release-his-tax-returns-because-people-dont-care-top-adviser-says/?utm_term=.016dfe10ba78

Some people are requesting them now, though, while others are blocking the effort.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/14/trump-taxes/97896314/

[Wickerman]

Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, has resigned over information that his meetings with Russian representatives prior to the inauguration may have left him liable to blackmail. There is an interim adviser, and others are being considered for his replacement.

Flynn did not decide to meet with the Russian's all by himself.
He did so because he was advised to, so who advised him to? Who else....

If it is discovered that Trump knew about all this in advance they finally might have something with which to impeached him.

[GUT]

Flynn did not decide to meet with the Russian's all by himself.
He did so because he was advised to, so who advised him to? Who else....

If it is discovered that Trump knew about all this in advance they finally might have something with which to impeached him.

On the radio here that the Don, Don, knew all about at least prior to the election.

[Magpie]

[Svensson]

Flynn did not decide to meet with the Russian's all by himself.
He did so because he was advised to, so who advised him to? Who else....

If it is discovered that Trump knew about all this in advance they finally might have something with which to impeached him.

"Finally"? We are barely three weeks into his term

[GUT]

Major name problem that Spicer bloke.

[sdreid]

It sure is fun to watch the Democrats get their hopes up.

[ChrisGeorge]

"Donald Trump Versus the World" by John Cassidy in The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/donald-trump-versus-the-world

Meanwhile, the latest daily cartoon in the magazine by Tom Toro --

[Pcdunn]

Article from the Associated Press re yesterday's press conference:

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2017/Donald-Trump-confronted-a-cascade-of-controversies-Thursday-angrily-denouncing-the-criminal-leaks-that-took-down-his-top-national-security-adviser-after-less-than-a-month-and-revived-/id-0fe7d29c77d14469b5b5743710dc1881