The Trump Presidency

[Schmelzer]

You have no apparent criteria that I can use within the US, however, that exclude Trump.

What about the possibility not to speculate, in this case, about my criteria? Or have you nothing to tell us about facts, so you have to distribute nonsense about what I think?

It's just a possibility, that's all.

So, it was obviously a good idea that I have not tried to interpret your phrase. The result would have had a similar quality than your guessed about what I think.

But it is not plausible at all. If Trump would owe some Russian oligarch some debt, he could easily pay this back in form of a good state contract paid by the US taxpayer. The greatest problem for corruptionists - how to hide the payment - would not be present at all. A forgotten debt is simply forgotten. If you want to learn what a criminal oligarch will do if he becomes a president, look at Poroshenko in the Ukraine. Yes, he started a war against the Donbass, but this was what Obama wanted, not his own interest. There were three visits of high US politicians, each followed by some escalation of the low level confrontation by the Ukrainian side, only the third one really started the war. (Yes, there was some component of infight between the Ukrainian oligarchs too, the Donbass republics were, initially, inventions of the Donbass oligarchs Achmetow and friends to get a better power position in the negotiations with the Kiew junta. But without the US wanting real war, all this would have remained low level confrontation, similar to what we have seen between Poroshenko and Kolomoisky, who had his own "republic" Dnepropetrowsk but now lost the battle.)

 

[iceaura]

What about the possibility not to speculate, in this case, about my criteria?

I'm not speculating about what you are posting here. I'm reading it. Trump is a globalist, under your criteria, in every respect except not being a Clinton supporter.

But it is not plausible at all. If Trump would owe some Russian oligarch some debt, he could easily pay this back in form of a good state contract paid by the US taxpayer.

Sure.
And one of the easiest ways to arrange that would be to start a war somewhere, and have the contract be a military one. Military contracts during war are far easier to game like that, and the loose money is in much larger piles.

There's a lot of money in war, and Trump has the world's readiest military - more bases all over the planet than Trump has hotels. Some kind of blockade of Iran, say, or trouble with one of its neighbors, could be a cash cow for Russian mob guys with Central Asian connections.

Trump has a lot of options, now, for dealing with cranky Russian investors.

 

[birch]

this is so bad. hilary should have won. this is going back and regressive in so many ways. we needed a woman president too, so many landmarks with that and she is way more intelligent. she had so many good proposals too.

 

[Quantum Quack]

When oh when are people going to stop believing what Trump says?
Listening on the local news today and everything he said was a blatant lie....and proved so by informed testimony...

When is enough enough!?

 

[Schmelzer]

And one of the easiest ways to arrange that would be to start a war somewhere, and have the contract be a military one.

LOL, a US president makes military contracts with main military enemy Russia?

When oh when are people going to stop believing what Trump says?

Why do you think anybody is believing him? People will use the information available to them, and this is reasonable if no better information is available, even if Trump himself is considered unreliable. What would be the alternative? Believing iceaura or so what Trump will do?

 

[Quantum Quack]

Do you know how to pick "poison" when you hear it?
Do you know what clues to look for?

 

[iceaura]

LOL, a US president makes military contracts with main military enemy Russia?

Not "Russia" - Russian investors and international industrialists and so forth. US corporations and military contractors. Capitalists dealing with capitalists, international trade. Of course. If the President is Trump, why not? The US army contractors were buying Chinese-manufactured ammunition for a while under W&Cheney, and Cheney's military contracting corporation Halliburton had various proxy-mediated business arrangements with Iran during the hostilities there. For guys like Trump, that is routine. And he already has business arrangements with the principals involved.

Why do you think anybody is believing him?

You keep estimating and assessing and predicting his presidency based on what he says. That's very naive.

 

[Schmelzer]

You keep estimating and assessing and predicting his presidency based on what he says. That's very naive.

Again, hallucinations? Actually, I do not even care what he says.

My point was simply that even using what he says would be more reasonable than to believe your hallucinations about what Trump thinks.

 

[joepistole]

With each passing day the Trumpster becomes more and more preposterous. Now he claims honesty is too high a standard for his administration. So he might cancel the daily press briefings on the theory that if his staffers don't say anything his administration will not be dishonest.

Unfortunately for Trump, his honesty problem isn’t his press staffers, it’s him. Ending the press briefings won’t solve his honesty problem because a) Trump loves the media attention and he cannot stay out of the limelight and b) Trump is the source of his honesty problem. I seriously doubt the Trumpster will change is stripes. Honesty is too high a standard for The Donald.

And as if that were not bad enough, Trump has now threatened Comey. Apparently Trump is now worried Comey recorded their conversations. Trump’s afraid Comey will begin leaking information. What truths does Trump feel Comey will reveal?

You just can’t make this shit up. The biggest story of Trump’s campaign was dishonesty. The biggest story of Trump’s first 100 days in office was dishonesty. Aside from the Russian intervention, and if Trump doesn’t destroy mankind, the biggest story of his administration might well be dishonesty.

 

[joepistole]

But the question is how do you guys feel about Russians being entertained in the Oval office?
Given the history of and current Russian/USA relationships it must be terrifying? And confusing especially as the domestic media have been excluded...

Surely the CIA and the FBI etc would be involved as they are no doubt in all of Trumps Russian dealings....
In other words let's assume for a moment that the CIA and FBI are in some sort of arrangement with Trump for reasons that they can not make public. (legitimate reasons)

For surely, the security services must be involved...
( for example: I have little doubt that the FBI and CIA etc are well aware of all of Trumps business dealings, tax returns, outstanding loans etc. and the consequences of that knowledge are pretty obvious. None...)

It's more embarrassing than terrifying. The FBI may have Trump's tax returns. I'd be surprised if they didn't, given the overwhelming amount of evidence, and that may be why Trump took action to supress the investigation.

 

[ElectricFetus]

Meanwhile trump just got a trade deal signed with china. "currency manipulator" was never mentioned.

 

[Bells]

And let the threats roll in...

Mr Comey has so far been silent on his sacking, except for an internal note to staff in which he said, “I’m not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed. I hope you won’t either. It is done, and I will be fine.”

Mr Comey reportedly learned of his sacking after seeing a breaking news snap at an event in which he was speaking.

Now, Mr Trump appears concerned about what Mr Comey might say about his removal.

He took to Twitter to warn, “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press.”​

A link to the tweet can be found here: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/863007411132649473

All I can say is.. Wow.. Just wow..

Firing the man in charge of investigating people connected to him and his campaign and then threatening him on twitter..

It's like he is writing his own impeachment document.

On top of this, he is threatening to cancel all daily news briefings, after his underlings were a) caught hiding from the press in the shrubbery and b) flubbing the reasons for Comey's firing..

I kind of hope Comey talks, because that would end Trump. Everything about this stunk. Now he is dragging it even further down the gutter. One has to wonder what he is so afraid of? To the point of threatening him on twitter and risking looking more and more like Nixon, recording conversations?

And what could Comey know, that would warrant such a threat?

 

[douwd20]

And let the threats roll in...

Mr Comey has so far been silent on his sacking, except for an internal note to staff in which he said, “I’m not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed. I hope you won’t either. It is done, and I will be fine.”

Mr Comey reportedly learned of his sacking after seeing a breaking news snap at an event in which he was speaking.

Now, Mr Trump appears concerned about what Mr Comey might say about his removal.

He took to Twitter to warn, “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press.”​

A link to the tweet can be found here: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/863007411132649473

All I can say is.. Wow.. Just wow..

Firing the man in charge of investigating people connected to him and his campaign and then threatening him on twitter..

It's like he is writing his own impeachment document.

On top of this, he is threatening to cancel all daily news briefings, after his underlings were a) caught hiding from the press in the shrubbery and b) flubbing the reasons for Comey's firing..

I kind of hope Comey talks, because that would end Trump. Everything about this stunk. Now he is dragging it even further down the gutter. One has to wonder what he is so afraid of? To the point of threatening him on twitter and risking looking more and more like Nixon, recording conversations?

And what could Comey know, that would warrant such a threat?

I know!! I know!! He is literally running off the rails!! Every morning I awake to find that indeed we as a country have slipped further and further down into the abyss.

 

[douwd20]

And with echos of Watergate swirrling around Washington, Trump threatening Comey with tapes, threatening to cancel press conferences he starts up his twitter battle with Rosie O'Donnell again.

Trump Resumes Feud With Rosie O’Donnell on Twitter

 

[Bells]

Pretty sure that threatening, intimidating and blackmailing who is tantamount to a witness is illegal. Just as I am pretty sure that recording someone without their consent and without a warrant, is illegal and Trump is inferring that he may have tapes of his conversations with Comey. And I am pretty sure threatening and blackmailing someone on twitter is against their ToS..

 

[Schmelzer]

In https://ria.ru/analytics/20170512/1494157287.html the Russian analytic Danilow sees behind the firing of Comey some more serious game, which explains the worldwide hysteria of the globalists. It means that the fight between Trump and the deep state is not over yet. In particular, to fight the deep state effectively, Trump has to control at least one of the real power centers, and the FBI would be a good choice, because many of the people working there would support Trump anyway. So, by replacing the top figure by somebody loyal to him, he has a chance to get real control over the FBI, And with this control of the FBI, he could start a lot of investigations against many of the globalists.

He also claims with a reference to Bloomberg that McMaster has lost Trump's trust. This is the guy who was in favor of the attack on Syria. So, this would be good news for peace worldwide.

 

[douwd20]

It's actually time(again) we really consider Trump is suffering from the early stages of dementia. He is the oldest president to assume office. Under what circumstance would someone state they invented an 84 yr old phrase?

Trump Thinks He Invented the Phrase "Prime the Pump"

2016: “Well, sometimes you have to prime the pump,” he says. “So sometimes in order to get jobs going and the country going, because, look, we’re at 1% growth.”

Late 2016: "We are also going to lower our business tax rate from 35 percent all the way down to 15 percent. That’s going to be big. Going to prime the pump. Got to prime the pump."

Today: "We have to prime the pump....Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just...I came up with it a couple of days ago."
​

George F. Will posed the point last week.

It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either.​

Trump has a dangerous disability

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[Tiassa]

Among other things, is anyone else catching NSA McMaster's press briefing? What the hell?

 

[spidergoat]

In https://ria.ru/analytics/20170512/1494157287.html the Russian analytic Danilow sees behind the firing of Comey some more serious game, which explains the worldwide hysteria of the globalists. It means that the fight between Trump and the deep state is not over yet. In particular, to fight the deep state effectively, Trump has to control at least one of the real power centers, and the FBI would be a good choice, because many of the people working there would support Trump anyway. So, by replacing the top figure by somebody loyal to him, he has a chance to get real control over the FBI, And with this control of the FBI, he could start a lot of investigations against many of the globalists.

He also claims with a reference to Bloomberg that McMaster has lost Trump's trust. This is the guy who was in favor of the attack on Syria. So, this would be good news for peace worldwide.

This makes no sense, because Trump is a globalist. He's a billionaire with investments all over the globe. It makes more sense that he's fearful of what the FBI would find on a possible connection between him and the Russian cyberattack on the US. If there isn't a credible investigation on this, he will be impeached for obstruction of justice. It's far to late to bury this.

 

[Schmelzer]

This makes no sense, because Trump is a globalist.

I use the term "globalist" to name those fighting for a unipolar world. To be distinguished from those ready to accept the shift toward a multipolar world. This has nothing to do with having investments all over the globe - in fact, a multipolar world may be even more attractive to those who have such investments, even if only because of the danger that the unipolar world will end with no tax havens.

Given that the "Russian cyberattack" is fake news, there is nothing to investigate about this. But I have no doubt that the globalist will try hard to invent whatever reasons to impeach him. At least if the victory of the deep state is indeed not so complete as it seemed after the Syrian attack.