***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[IATT]

 

[elpablo21]

 

[nawghtyhare]

I really hope they bring this up in court

 

[IATT]

 

[IATT]

.

 

[elpablo21]

uh oh

 

[gry60]

Who's the artist?

 

[Nike Jordan]

Who's the artist?

Eli Valley.

 

[MalcolmNewton]

 

[nawghtyhare]

So like
This means
She knows if there’s really aliens or not???

 

[RustyShackleford]

uh oh

Can't be.

There were dudes in here saying that da WikiLeaks was a bipartisan entity, just worried about transparency

What gives

 

[Cashflow]

How long until Agent Orange attempts to attack North Korea?

 

[whywesteppin]

How long until Agent Orange attempts to attack North Korea?

he's already attacked America and infected 40% of the population.

 

[whywesteppin]

Trump had to cancel the North Korea summit -- We almost lost sight of who we're dealing with

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...ost-lost-sight-who-were-dealing-with.amp.html

lol, how dumb can someone be.

 

[HIM]

Every time something "big" happens I head over to The_Donald and check the temperature. When the Summit was planned they were all about it. Giving him so much credit and proclaiming it a win. Now that it has been cancelled they're giving Trump credit for cancelling and calling it a win.

It's actually astonishing. He really can do no wrong lmfao.

 

[rillo561]

Every time something "big" happens I head over to The_Donald and check the temperature. When the Summit was planned they were all about it. Giving him so much credit and proclaiming it a win. Now that it has been cancelled they're giving Trump credit for cancelling and calling it a win.

It's actually astonishing. He really can do no wrong lmfao.

It's pretty spot on actually, my Trump supporter friend was telling me how 'great' the letter was today, and that NK better get ready for an '*** whipping'. Same guy that was telling me during the campaign that Trump wants to stay out of war and stop the nation building, and Hilary was the warhawk and was itching to start WWIII. These folks flip flop like no other, Trump can take a dump in their mouth and claim it was chocolate, and they'll go along with it.

 

[Belgium]

And it turns out John Kelly was present too. Huckabee Sanders told the press yesterday or the day before that no WH officials would attend. How shocking that she would lie about that.
Trump brazenly sent in 2 of his minions to a congressional briefing that disclosed non-public information about the investigation in which he is a subject.


Straight from the mouth of the president's personal lawyer, Trump personally sent in his minions to this briefing, which can only be seen as a blatant move to listen in on classified non-public information about the investigation in which the president is a subject.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...to-russia-briefings?__twitter_impression=true
Giuliani: Trump asked White House lawyer to go to Russia briefings

A White House lawyer's presence at classified intelligence briefings Thursday on the FBI's tactics in the Russia investigation came at the request of President Trump himself, according to his newest attorney Rudy Giuliani.

Emmet Flood, a longtime Washington attorney who joined Trump's legal team earlier this month, gave brief remarks before a pair of meetings between senior law enforcement officials and key members of Congress at the Justice Department.

"The President personally wanted Emmet there today," Giuliani told ABC News.



The White House said that Flood and chief of staff John Kelly made an appearance before the meetings began to stress the need "for as much openness as possible under the law."

However, the top Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence committees denounced the presence of Flood at the meetings Thursday, which they attended.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said Flood, the White House lawyer handling the Russia investigation, had "no business showing up to a classified intelligence briefing."

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), meanwhile, called it "completely inappropriate" and "entirely improper" for the lawyer to show up at the meetings.

The meetings were brokered by the White House in response to Trump's concerns over an FBI source who contacted several advisers during his 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump has asserted without evidence that the FBI "embedded" a "spy" in his campaign, claiming it was part of a politically motivated effort to hurt his campaign.

Giuliani said that he and the rest of Trump's legal team have yet to receive a readout of the information discussed in the meetings Thursday, ABC News reported.

 

[Belgium]

The irony of this guy, the 'dirty trickster', to complain about his personal life being combed through
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/24/...unsel-mueller-russia-investigation/index.html
Roger Stone's finances examined by special counsel

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has been probing Roger Stone's finances as it summons a series of witnesses to gather more information about one of President Donald Trump's longtime advisers, according to people familiar with the situation.

Mueller's team has questioned associates about Stone's finances, including his tax returns.
The special counsel recently subpoenaed John P. Kakanis, who has worked as Stone's assistant and has insight into some of Stone's business deals, according to a person familiar with the situation. Reuters first reported on the subpoena.

Stone has insisted he played no role in colluding with Russians. Stone also said he has not been contacted by the special counsel's office.

The interest in Stone's finances could be tied to Mueller's charge of investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election and potential collusion, though another possibility is Mueller is pursuing something unrelated that turned up in the course of the investigation.

"The normal thing for a prosecutor in the course of your investigation is if you come across something that is itself worthy of criminal investigation, you don't turn a blind eye to it. You investigate," said CNN legal analyst Michael Zeldin, a former assistant to Mueller.
Whatever the reasoning, the probe into Stone's finances should give him cause for concern, Zeldin said.
Stone appears to recognize that.

"The special counsel having found no evidence or proof whatsoever of Russian collusion, trafficking in allegedly hacked emails with WikiLeaks or advance knowledge of the publication of (then-Clinton campaign chair John) Podesta's emails now seems to be combing through every molecule of my existence including my personal life, political activities and business affairs to conjure up some offense to charge me with either to silence me or induce me to testify against the President," Stone told CNN. "I have no intention of being silenced or turning my back on President Trump."

The questions about Stone's finances have some of his allies claiming that Mueller has overstepped his mandate and is simply looking to take down one of the President's longtime allies.
"They are trying to go after Roger's finances, to get another ridiculous indictment that has nothing to do with Russia," said Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide who worked with Stone on the early stages of Trump's presidential bid and has been questioned by Mueller's team as well as the grand jury.

Nunberg pointed to the charges Mueller's team has brought against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort for alleged financial crimes unrelated to his work on the Trump campaign. He also noted the raid on the home, office and hotel room of Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime personal attorney. The raid and related criminal investigation are being carried out by the Southern District of New York, but were referred there by Mueller's team.

"If they want to continue to go after non-related financial matters where they're picking apart associates of the President, then by all means," Nunberg said. "Because they continue to delegitimize themselves and whatever they ultimately release in their findings."
But Mueller's mandate when he was first appointed specifically gives him the authority to investigate "any matters that arose or may arise" directly from the Russia probe.

So far, Mueller's team has contacted at least eight of Stone's current or former associates, Stone told NBC News on Sunday. He subsequently told CNN "they are all young people who have no knowledge about my personal, political or business activities."

Some of those names are still unknown, and Stone declined to provide them. In addition to subpoenaing Kakanis, Mueller's team subpoenaed Jason Sullivan, Stone's former social media adviser, to appear before the grand jury.
"Jason has done nothing wrong and done everything right, and he's terrific at what he did," said Knut Johnson, Sullivan's lawyer.

The special counsel's office declined to comment. A lawyer for Kakanis did not respond to requests for comment.

The special counsel's office has already interviewed Nunberg and former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo. Both men were pressed for information regarding Stone in their interviews, according to people familiar with the questioning.

Stone has come under public scrutiny, in part, because of a prescient prediction during the 2016 campaign. In a now-infamous tweet, Stone predicted trouble for Podesta, weeks before WikiLeaks began releasing thousands of Podesta's emails. Stone denies having any advance knowledge of the Podesta leaks.

The US intelligence community concluded in January 2017 that Russian intelligence hacked the Democratic National Committee along with senior Democratic officials and provided the stolen material to WikiLeaks as part of Moscow's effort to damage Hillary Clinton and sway the election in favor of Trump. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has denied that the Russian government provided the hacked emails.
"I sleep well at night because I know what I have and have not done," Stone told CNN. "There's no inappropriate activity pertaining to Russian collusion. I obtained nothing from WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. I never passed anything on to WikiLeaks or Julian Assange."

As Mueller's team investigates Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential collusion between Trump associates and the Russian government, people familiar with the probe have expected Mueller to eventually bring charges related to the Russian hacking of the DNC and Democratic officials.
A self-proclaimed "dirty trickster," Stone cut his teeth in politics on Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign and made a career of political consulting and lobbying.
Even after he officially parted ways with Trump's presidential campaign in its early days, Stone remained a staunch supporter and friend of Trump's. During the campaign, he launched a pro-Trump super PAC called Committee to Restore America's Greatness.
Now, the interest in Stone's finances has created a new sense of alarm among his associates.
"The special counsel is going to be woefully disappointed when they find out they have absolutely no proof and Roger Stone did not collude with Russians. But that will not stop them from creating a crime simply because he's close to the President of the United States," Caputo said in an interview. "This is a punishment strategy."

 

[IATT]

Trump had to cancel the North Korea summit -- We almost lost sight of who we're dealing with

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...ost-lost-sight-who-were-dealing-with.amp.html

lol, how dumb can someone be.

Very for $200, Alex

 

[IATT]

https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrant.../ice-plans-start-destroying-records-immigrant

 

[Nike Jordan]

Our tax dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen.

 

[Belgium]

You know he ****** up when a Republican House majority votes to overrule him
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/3...rring-government-from-doing-business-with-zte
Putting pressure on Trump, House passes bill barring government from doing business with ZTE

The House on Thursday voted to cut off Chinese telecommunications company ZTE from U.S. business dealings, putting pressure on the firm and President Trump.

The measure came as an amendment to the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which passed on a 351-66 vote, according to Bloomberg, would bar the federal government from using ZTE-made technology and would prevent the Defense Department from renewing contracts with vendors who do business with the company.

The move follows just days after a Senate panel overwhelmingly approved an amendment to block the president on ZTE. The Senate Banking Committee rebuked Trump's efforts to ease sanctions in an overwhelming and bipartisan 23-2 vote.



“If the president and his team won’t follow through on tough sanctions against ZTE, it’s up to Congress to ensure that it happens," Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement.

"Both parties have come together today to strongly rebuke ZTE and the administration’s soft approach. This critical legislation along with the [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] reforms that it was added to are huge steps forward in our fight against the Chinese, and we should pass this legislation on the floor immediately,” he said.
The tension between Trump and Congress comes weeks after the president declared his support for ZTE, saying that he supported easing restrictions on the firm as he seeks to hammer out a trade deal.

Earlier this month, Trump tweeted that he was "working together" with China's Xi Jinping to find a way for ZTE to get "back into business, fast."

"President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!" he tweeted.

After facing harsh criticism for his comments, the president doubled down on his remarks in support of the Chinese firm, which he said is part of his administration's larger efforts to secure a trade deal with China's government.

"ZTE, the large Chinese phone company, buys a big percentage of individual parts from U.S. companies. This is also reflective of the larger trade deal we are negotiating with China and my personal relationship with President Xi," Trump tweeted a day later.

Republicans and Democrats rallied against the president over his remarks in support of ZTE, pointing out national security concerns with the company, which is known to work closely with the Chinese government.

ZTE and Huawei, another Chinese firm, have faced intense scrutiny since a 2012 report from Congress warned that the companies' technology could be used by the Chinese government to conduct surveillance on the U.S.
“Problem with ZTE isn’t jobs & trade, it’s national security & espionage,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted earlier this month. “We are crazy to allow them to operate in U.S. without tighter restrictions.”

The Commerce Department barred U.S. businesses from selling to ZTE last month after it discovered that the company had lied to investigators probing its business dealings with Iran and North Korea.

 

[stuntman mike]

co-worker got taken into custody when he checked in for his appointment today. officer straight up said that this wouldn’t have happened if donald trump wasn’t in office. dude has no family, nowhere to stay, no job or anything else waiting for him in western samoa where he is being deported to. he was a hard worker that paid taxes and now he’s gone.

 

[elpablo21]

That is ****** up man

 

[elpablo21]