President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[myboynoah]

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[chrisrenrut]

I will say, The withdrawal of Afghan is BY FAR worse.. Watching videos of people falling from the plane as it takes off is disgusting. The fact we lost soldiers during that time from an attack and then turned-tail and ran is all on him.. COVID, Inflation, Massive balloon of our debt (8-trillion), Open Borders and the lack of real procedural reviews of those let in, which has in effect caused the terrible ICE crackdown that will be comparable to Japanese Encampments.. So yeah.. I blame Biden but equally blame GOP for putting him in as the option.

It’s so easy for some to forget that the Afghanistan withdrawal and timeline was negotiated by Trump. Biden was fulfilling that obligation.

Also, blaming Covid and the resulting inflation on Biden? The first and worst year of Covid, along with the first two rounds of relief checks plus all the PPP loans were under Trump in 2020.

Im not giving BIden a pass on some of the stuff he is criticized for. But if you are listing the items above are his worst failures, maybe he wasn’t as bad as you think.

[frank ryan]

It’s so easy for some to forget that the Afghanistan withdrawal and timeline was negotiated by Trump. Biden was fulfilling that obligation.

Also, blaming Covid and the resulting inflation on Biden? The first and worst year of Covid, along with the first two rounds of relief checks plus all the PPP loans were under Trump in 2020.

Im not giving BIden a pass on some of the stuff he is criticized for. But if you are listing the items above are his worst failures, maybe he wasn’t as bad as you think.

Biden was set up on that one. If he reserved course he would have been pilloried. The Afghan gov was set up by Trump. They released thousands of Taliban fighters as part of the deal. It was a set up.

The ICE crackdown is not a result of any admins previous policy. It's completely unneeded. And about protecting our borders.

[dabrockster]

Cont. of the NYTimes article. This one is just shameful. Speechless. No words..

Patel fired Walter Giardina, an agent from the elite public-corruption squad in Washington known as CR-15 that ran Arctic Frost, the investigation into Trump for interference in the 2020 election.

Two months earlier, Grassley had sent Patel and Bondi a letter containing misconduct allegations against Giardina made by unnamed whistle-blowers. They included a claim that Giardina had corroborated the Steele dossier, a set of later-discredited memos about Trump’s ties to Russia in 2016.

Grassley named Giardina in the letter despite the bureau’s standard practice of protecting case agents by asking Congress to redact their names from sensitive disclosures. (Clare Slattery, a spokeswoman for Grassley, said in a statement that it is his “longstanding office policy to leave names unredacted in public document productions” because “Americans deserve to know how their tax dollars are being spent.”)

Giardina tried to meet with Yates, the head of the office of congressional affairs, to contest the allegations and explain that he never had access to the Steele dossier.

Walter Giardina, former CR-15 agent: I took a lot of pride in being trusted with difficult assignments. Until this year, public corruption was the No. 1 criminal priority of the F.B.I. The people you’re going after may be powerful, and they can come after you in asymmetric ways.

When Senator Grassley wrote a letter naming me to the director as the person behind the Steele dossier, that was punching all the way down. I don’t know of any other time that a senator wrote a letter attacking an individual street-level agent. I’m begging my managers and the office of congressional affairs to meet with me to sort out this situation — for me personally, but also for the F.B.I. as a whole. It would take one second to look at the case access history and see that I never even had access to the Steele matter. I had nothing to do with that.

My wife was in and out of the hospital from June 5 to July 15, when she passed away. During that time, I kept trying to meet with the office of congressional affairs about responding to Grassley’s letter. On June 19, we had a meeting set at the Hoover Building. My wife had just started a new chemo medication. She had a terrible adverse reaction, and I said I was having family health concerns and asked to do the meeting via Teams, which would be pretty normal. They immediately canceled it. When I asked why, the answer was that Marshall Yates wanted to do the meeting not as an interview but as a mock hearing.

I didn’t know my wife was about to pass away. I reserved a conference room at the hospital to meet the office of congressional affairs next to her room, so they could interview me. They didn’t show up. She died the next day.

At my insistence, I was finally interviewed two days after her funeral. I said: I don’t want anyone to tell me it’s too soon. I won’t be emotional. I want to get this over with. I knew the interview was messed up because Marshall Yates wasn’t present. I had a prepared statement with all the facts. I gave it to them. They didn’t ask any questions. I sent all the records they asked for. Then it was over. They’d already decided to fire me, so no one was taking the interview seriously except me.

In CR-15, we worked the cases we were assigned. It was not my idea to open Arctic Frost. We were detailed to Jack Smith. The supervisors came to us and said, You’re going to do this. We’re losing the ability for agents to conduct their work without fear or favor because the F.B.I. won’t protect you.

Maria Ricci, former assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office: Walter was one of the most heartbreaking ones, because it was the week after he buried his wife. She had cancer, and then he gets hit with this. I was at a happy hour at the Irish Channel, sitting outside with some other agents. And it was like: Oh, my god. How do we support him? How do we get food to him? Because he’s on his own with three kids.

[dabrockster]

It’s so easy for some to forget that the Afghanistan withdrawal and timeline was negotiated by Trump. Biden was fulfilling that obligation.

Also, blaming Covid and the resulting inflation on Biden? The first and worst year of Covid, along with the first two rounds of relief checks plus all the PPP loans were under Trump in 2020.

Im not giving BIden a pass on some of the stuff he is criticized for. But if you are listing the items above are his worst failures, maybe he wasn’t as bad as you think.

Any President can pass blame and Biden had full ability and control to pull back on the withdrawal. For him, it is an easy buck to pass and place blame on Trump. "I am only fulfilling what Trump had established". Cop-out..

[frank ryan]

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The lack of respect and lack of understanding Trump and a ton of his base display when they talk about NATO is embarrassing. We've talked about the need for stem education but Americans know so little about recent history and the outside world and it has hurt us.

Just because we are the biggest spender and contributor to NATO doesn't mean it's a charity project. Do you think the family of a Danish soldier who died in Afghanistan would appreciate Trump bullying their country.

Article 5 takes every single country invoking article 5. After 911 all 19 NATO countries did. I'm not sure that could happen today with Putin have a stooge like Orban in Hungary (and Trump in the White House) and Erdogan being a wild card.

I'm pretty conservative on foreign policy and realize while America hasn't been perfect it's been far better than Russia/USSR or China.

[myboynoah]

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[Northwestcoug]

We can agree on that. As I have said many times over. I fucking despise Biden for putting Trump back into office. As much as I despise the fucking GOP-idiots for electing him in the primaries.. But, Biden's own arrogance or the puppets who paraded him around for so long caused this to happen. They thought they could get another 4-years out of that walking diaper.. Kamala never would've been the option and would've been skewered by ANY other candidate in the Dem party in the primaries.

In this spirit of openness I will largely agree with you. The perfidy of Biden's inner circle should never be forgotten. It was a conspiracy to hide the truth from the country. In this broken political system of ours it was a big cause of Trump's reelection. If Biden had stepped aside like most people thought he would, a democratic candidate likely would have won, maybe even Harris if she could have proven herself in a campaign. The Democratic Party still hasn't come to grips with what happened, and partly because of that they will be the party that independents and young voters will only grudgingly vote for, if they vote at all.

However, we also can't forget that it is ultimately the voters who are to blame for Trump's reelection. Given a bad choice between a terrible politician and a convicted felon who attempted to overthrow an election, they rolled the dice, again. No matter how bad Harris was, and she was plenty bad, she was clearly the better option than Trump. We thought most of the country understood that after his first term, and his second is even a bigger testament to that. But inconceivably they ignored everything he said in the campaign, since he's pretty much doing everything he said he would. They were either playing taking Trump seriously but not literally, or they were just OK with it. Either way, a damning sentence of the American voters.

[PaloAltoCougar]

In this spirit of openness I will largely agree with you. The perfidy of Biden's inner circle should never be forgotten. It was a conspiracy to hide the truth from the country. In this broken political system of ours it was a big cause of Trump's reelection. If Biden had stepped aside like most people thought he would, a democratic candidate likely would have won, maybe even Harris if she could have proven herself in a campaign. The Democratic Party still hasn't come to grips with what happened, and partly because of that they will be the party that independents and young voters will only grudgingly vote for, if they vote at all.

However, we also can't forget that it is ultimately the voters who are to blame for Trump's reelection. Given a bad choice between a terrible politician and a convicted felon who attempted to overthrow an election, they rolled the dice, again. No matter how bad Harris was, and she was plenty bad, she was clearly the better option than Trump. We thought most of the country understood that after his first term, and his second is even a bigger testament to that. But inconceivably they ignored everything he said in the campaign, since he's pretty much doing everything he said he would. They were either playing taking Trump seriously but not literally, or they were just OK with it. Either way, a damning sentence of the American voters.

To the considerable detriment of our long-term future, a significant portion of the populace shares Trump's ignorance of history, championing what Condi Rice and other conservatives call the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; populism, nativism, isolationism, and protectionism.

[falafel]

Why Congress Can’t Claw Back War Powers From Trump - WSJ

Neocon Don...as they say. Congress is useless at this point and it's embarrassing that it was my own house rep that flew back to cast the deciding vote.

Yes we are all embarrassed by the actions of Eddie's house rep.

[falafel]

We can agree on that. As I have said many times over. I fucking despise Biden for putting Trump back into office. As much as I despise the fucking GOP-idiots for electing him in the primaries.. But, Biden's own arrogance or the puppets who paraded him around for so long caused this to happen. They thought they could get another 4-years out of that walking diaper.. Kamala never would've been the option and would've been skewered by ANY other candidate in the Dem party in the primaries..

I will say, The withdrawal of Afghan is BY FAR worse.. Watching videos of people falling from the plane as it takes off is disgusting. The fact we lost soldiers during that time from an attack and then turned-tail and ran is all on him.. COVID, Inflation, Massive balloon of our debt (8-trillion), Open Borders and the lack of real procedural reviews of those let in, which has in effect caused the terrible ICE crackdown that will be comparable to Japanese Encampments.. So yeah.. I blame Biden but equally blame GOP for putting him in as the option.

Truthfully, sometimes, I just want people to STFU. Yeah it is bad.. But give it a fucking rest.. Yeah, I know. I need to step away. As do some of these dude..

Lots of times we feel the same way. This might be one of those times.

[falafel]

In this spirit of openness I will largely agree with you. The perfidy of Biden's inner circle should never be forgotten. It was a conspiracy to hide the truth from the country. In this broken political system of ours it was a big cause of Trump's reelection. If Biden had stepped aside like most people thought he would, a democratic candidate likely would have won, maybe even Harris if she could have proven herself in a campaign. The Democratic Party still hasn't come to grips with what happened, and partly because of that they will be the party that independents and young voters will only grudgingly vote for, if they vote at all.

However, we also can't forget that it is ultimately the voters who are to blame for Trump's reelection. Given a bad choice between a terrible politician and a convicted felon who attempted to overthrow an election, they rolled the dice, again. No matter how bad Harris was, and she was plenty bad, she was clearly the better option than Trump. We thought most of the country understood that after his first term, and his second is even a bigger testament to that. But inconceivably they ignored everything he said in the campaign, since he's pretty much doing everything he said he would. They were either playing taking Trump seriously but not literally, or they were just OK with it. Either way, a damning sentence of the American voters.

You are going to put this on US? The only two political parties in the United States put forth perhaps the worst candidates of all times, and WE get the blame??

[LVAllen]

You are going to put this on US? The only two political parties in the United States put forth perhaps the worst candidates of all times, and WE get the blame??

Yes. For precedent, see Blame for 2016 Election