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These dudes aren't even trying to be slick anymore :rofl:

@RawStory: Foreign policy insider: ‘No readout of Trump-Putin call because White House turned off recording’ https://t.co/vfaO59rzc9 https://t.co/wx9iiPN6ai

Every other call has been recorded so far
The hell?

Is the house burning yet? Cuz between this, the 19% thing, the lavish praises during the campaign, the silence on the Ukrainian attacks, the "disappearances" of senior FSB officials, it's a lot of smoke.
 
These dudes aren't even trying to be slick anymore
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@RawStory: Foreign policy insider: ‘No readout of Trump-Putin call because White House turned off recording’ https://t.co/vfaO59rzc9 https://t.co/wx9iiPN6ai
Every other call has been recorded so far
 
CNNVerified account @CNN 11h11 hours ago

4 people have been charged with treason by Russia for passing on secrets to US intelligence, a defense lawyer says http://cnn.it/2k1RVMG  pic.twitter.com/gfj0hGaROw
 
USA TODAYVerified account@USATODAY 8m8 minutes ago

U.S. eases some economic sanctions against Russia http://usat.ly/2k4P4T2 pic.twitter.com/mI9tk1rJRS
Just some context to this...
 
Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions were lifted

http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1
Now just last week this happened coincidentally
*Damn see it's already been brought up
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We already knew what time it was once Rexxon got confirmed
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These dudes aren't even trying to be slick anymore :rofl: [QUOTE url="[URL]https://t.co/vfaO59rzc9[/URL]"]
@RawStory: Foreign policy insider: ‘No readout of Trump-Putin call because White House turned off recording’ https://t.co/vfaO59rzc9 https://t.co/wx9iiPN6ai


Every other call has been recorded so far


 
CNNVerified account@CNN 11h11 hours ago
4 people have been charged with treason by Russia for passing on secrets to US intelligence, a defense lawyer says http://cnn.it/2k1RVMG pic.twitter.com/gfj0hGaROw



 


 
USA TODAYVerified account@USATODAY 8m8 minutes ago


U.S. eases some economic sanctions against Russia http://usat.ly/2k4P4T2 pic.twitter.com/mI9tk1rJRS


Just some context to this...

 
[QUOTE url="[URL]http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1[/URL]"]
Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions were lifted

http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1


Now just last week this happened coincidentally
[QUOTE url="[URL]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rosneft-privatisation-insight-idUSKBN1582OH[/URL]"]
How Russia sold its oil jewel: without saying who bought it

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rosneft-privatisation-insight-idUSKBN1582OH[/QUOTE]


*Damn see it's already been brought up :lol:


We already knew what time it was once Rexxon got confirmed :lol: :smh: [/QUOTE]
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Don't forget that Congress just voted to repeal a law that would require oil companies to disclose payments to foreign governments.

The smoke grows thicker
 
These dudes aren't even trying to be slick anymore :rofl: [QUOTE url="[URL]https://t.co/vfaO59rzc9[/URL]"]
@RawStory: Foreign policy insider: ‘No readout of Trump-Putin call because White House turned off recording’ https://t.co/vfaO59rzc9 https://t.co/wx9iiPN6ai


Every other call has been recorded so far


 
CNNVerified account@CNN 11h11 hours ago
4 people have been charged with treason by Russia for passing on secrets to US intelligence, a defense lawyer says http://cnn.it/2k1RVMG pic.twitter.com/gfj0hGaROw



 


 
USA TODAYVerified account@USATODAY 8m8 minutes ago


U.S. eases some economic sanctions against Russia http://usat.ly/2k4P4T2 pic.twitter.com/mI9tk1rJRS


Just some context to this...

 
[QUOTE url="[URL]http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1[/URL]"]
Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions were lifted

http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1


Now just last week this happened coincidentally
[QUOTE url="[URL]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rosneft-privatisation-insight-idUSKBN1582OH[/URL]"]
How Russia sold its oil jewel: without saying who bought it

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rosneft-privatisation-insight-idUSKBN1582OH


*Damn see it's already been brought up :lol:


We already knew what time it was once Rexxon got confirmed :lol: :smh: [/QUOTE]
[/quote]

Don't forget that Congress just voted to repeal a law that would require oil companies to disclose payments to foreign governments.

The smoke grows thicker[/quote]


 
http://www.salon.com/2017/02/02/trump-disrespect-u-s-military_partner/

Trump is already showing signs of major disrespect toward the U.S. military


“I helped get those people freed at Dulles [Airport] last night,” a Washington attorney told me outside a Washington coffee shop on Sunday morning.

“You helped those people get out?” a tall silver-haired passerby interrupted us. He shook the attorney’s hand.

“I just got back from Baghdad,” the man said. “I’m career U.S. Army. They blocked three of my translators with that order. These are Iraqis who have been working for me for years. These are people who have risked a lot, more than many U.S. soldiers. And we’re turning them away? It is unthinkable. It is unacceptable.”

Asked what the effect would be on getting Army translators in the future, the man said, “They’ll never work for us again. And by the way, I’m rock-solid Republican.”

Such dismay is just one part of the public opinion surge that has driven Trump’s disapproval rating north of 50 percent in just the eighth day of his presidency. (Obama wasn’t disapproved of by 50 percent of Americans until the 936rd day of his presidency.)

The U.S. military was a bastion of Trump support on Election Day, but his supporters are fast learning that military values of decorum, order and duty count for little in the calculations of President Trump and his alter ego Steve Bannon.

Defense Secretary James Mattis, a former Marine Corps general, was a bystander in the writing of Trump’s executive order banning refugees from seven Middle Eastern countries. It was Bannon who insisted that the ban include foreign nationals holding green cards, which are provisional acceptance of citizenship.

Mattis was not given a chance to comment on the order, according to the New York Times.

It’s not hard to figure out why. Last summer, Mattis, former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, said Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim visitors was “causing us great damage right now, and it’s sending shock waves through the international system.”

Nonetheless Trump used Mattis as a prop when he signed the executive order on Saturday. By combining Mattis’ swearing-in with the issuance of the executive order, Trump used Mattis to endorse a policy the general had no influence on. And he did so in front of the Pentagon’s Wall of Heroes, honoring soldiers who have earned a Medal of Honor for valor in combat.

Trump exploited Mattis’ reputation for his own political purposes, said Ryan Evans, editor of the War on the Rocks, a military blog. Trump’s order will probably wind up barring translators who served under Mattis, Evans noted.

“It seems difficult to see how this decision squares with the values represented by the Medal of Honor,” Evans wrote. “From the CIA’s Memorial Wall to the Hall of Heroes, Trump seems intent on tarnishing the sacrifices of our heroes.”

Some veterans are now scrambling to carve out an exemption for Iraqi translators. But the shock wave Trump’s order sent through the international system cannot be undone.

The decision showed not only a “sickening lack of empathy,” Kyle Dykstra, former member of the 82nd Airborne told the Chicago Tribune, “but a lack of perspective for how it will complicate the lives of U.S. troops who work with Muslim troops and interpreters.”

The Islamic State is claiming vindication, saying Trump has confirmed the prediction of Anwar Awlaki, the American-born jihadist who said that Western governments would eventually suppress their own Muslim populations as part of the so-called war on terror. (Awlaki was assassinated by a U.S. drone strike in 2011.)

“The effect will probably in some areas give ISIS some more propaganda,” former Navy pilot John McCain said with studious understatement on Sunday.

In short, Trump’s executive order on immigration undermined his Secretary of Defense, abandoned U.S. allies and emboldened America’s most violent enemies. But if U.S. military personnel are having second thoughts about Trump’s carelessness, the White House is not. An unnamed “senior administration official” told White House pool reporters Sunday that the executive order “really is a massive success story in terms of implementation on every single level.”
 
"RawStory? That's fake news!! You snowflakes always making something out of nothing, go to your quiet places. Donald's a business man, he knows what he's doing."
 
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