Comrade Trump

[Commando]

Drumpf can throw the farmers a few extra subsides and they will be happy. Everyone else will be happy that food is super cheap.

The farmers are really gonna be pissed when they find out what Trump wants to do to their workers...

[BlueK]

This is my #1 complaint about Trump. He's trying to punish China but he's really punishing Farmers and american businesses that import goods from China and consumers who have to pay more for the goods. Sure there is a lot to complain about with Trump and all of his side-shows. But this is one actual policy that is painful to the american people and has no tangible benefit.

which is why states like WI, MI, PA and IA are going to be perhaps surprisingly difficult for him to defend in 2020. And if he can't win those he loses the election.

[Sullyute]

This is my #1 complaint about Trump. He's trying to punish China but he's really punishing Farmers and american businesses that import goods from China and consumers who have to pay more for the goods. Sure there is a lot to complain about with Trump and all of his side-shows. But this is one actual policy that is painful to the american people and has no tangible benefit.

I think this is one of the few areas Trump has done the right thing. China has stuck its nose up at the world for too long.

[creekster]

Lol.

You obviously have no idea who Katrina Vanden Huevel is and what she’s been saying or the book she wrote about this fiasco.

And your point is? Yours is not an argument, as usual. The article I linked stands on its own. The Nation is a progressive publication whose stance on "Russiagate" upset its usual allies because it did not immediately assume Trump's guilt. Moreover, the linked article tacitly undermines some of what KVH has said, enhancing its credibility.

So, if you don't like the article, which you apparently don't, you could ignore it or you could give some reason why you dislike it or you could use it to take a swing at me for posting it. The first two are at least on topic. The latter? Well, I have been called dumb by persons a lot more impressive than you and lived to tell the tale, so have at it.

[creekster]

No he doesn't, she's married to a professional Putin apologist. Here's what her husband said about Putin:



https://www.chronicle.com/article/Is...Putin-s/241777


There's been disquiet on The Nation staff Katrina and her husband's views on this matter.

I also don't give a shit what slimy Glen Greenwald thinks of the Mueller report.

One can make a case that his assessment is correct: there is no evidence. Moreover, neither he nor his wife wrote the article. And I am trying to guess why a magazine's staff's feelings of 'disquiet' over positions taken by the editor-in-chief should make any difference to me or anyone about anything.

[SeattleUte]

I am not sure if this was posted or not, as it is hard to keep up with UT's and Frank's prolific but generally entertaining posts about our dear president.

Even so, this article from The Nation is a pretty fair analysis of the Mueller report from what is usually seen as a progressive and left-leaning periodical.

Holy shit. I'm impressed that The Nation is being honest about this. This is quite a development.

[SeattleUte]

And your point is? Yours is not an argument, as usual. The article I linked stands on its own. The Nation is a progressive publication whose stance on "Russiagate" upset its usual allies because it did not immediately assume Trump's guilt. Moreover, the linked article tacitly undermines some of what KVH has said, enhancing its credibility.

So, if you don't like the article, which you apparently don't, you could ignore it or you could give some reason why you dislike it or you could use it to take a swing at me for posting it. The first two are at least on topic. The latter? Well, I have been called dumb by persons a lot more impressive than you and lived to tell the tale, so have at it.

I don't think fusnik knows what The Nation is.

[Uncle Ted]

The farmers are really gonna be pissed when they find out what Trump wants to do to their workers...

There are plenty of day laborers... They hang out behind the Best Buy just off 75. You just drive back there and four of them will jump in the back of your pickup. You have to pay them in cash, however.

[Commando]

There are plenty of day laborers... They hang out behind the Best Buy just off 75. You just drive back there and four of them will jump in the back of your pickup. You have to pay them in cash, however.

Oh really? What do you call them when nobody's around? Just curious...

[Uncle Ted]

Oh really? What do you call them when nobody's around? Just curious...

Amigos. They are really friendly and nice folks.

[frank ryan]

Ever honest, transparent and cooperative Trump has nothing to hide.

Trump sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to block House subpoenas for his financial information

U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his children and the Trump Organization sued Deutsche Bank and Capital One, in a bid to block the two from responding to congressional subpoenas, according a Monday court filing.

The U.S. House issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank earlier this month and the German lender had said in January that it had received inquiries from Democrat-controlled committees about its links to Trump. In the complaint filed on Monday, the president’s team argued that his political opponents leading the House Intelligence and Financial Services Committees are on a fishing expedition.

“This case involves Congressional subpoenas that have no legitimate or lawful purpose. The subpoenas were issued to harass President Donald J. Trump, to rummage through every aspect of his personal finances, his businesses, and the private information of the President and his family, and to ferret about for any material that might be used to cause him political damage. No grounds exist to establish any purpose other than a political one,” the complaint said.

The filing said the two banks have “long provided business and personal banking services” to the Trumps, and the subpoenas seeking a complete accounting of financial records are an instance of “remarkable overbreadth.”

The Trump team said in its filing that it is requesting the court declare the House subpoenas “are invalid and unenforceable,” and that it issue a “permanent injunction quashing the subpoenas.” Additionally, the complaint calls for a “permanent injunction prohibiting Deutsche Bank and Capital One from disclosing, revealing, delivering, or producing the requested information, or otherwise complying with the subpoenas.”

In a joint statement, House Financial Services Committee Chair Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called the litigation “meritless” and “another demonstration of the depths to which President Trump will go to obstruct Congress’s constitutional oversight authority.” They said the lawsuit “is not designed to succeed; it is only designed to put off meaningful accountability as long as possible.”

The move came following the president and his business’ suit against Democratic House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings last week to block a subpoena seeking information about Trump’s finances.

In that complaint, Trump’s lawyers said that Democrats have “declared all-out political war” against him.

For its part, Deutsche Bank allegedly loaned more than $2 billion to Trump before he became president despite multiple red flags surrounding his businesses, the New York Times reported in March.

In response to the latest development, a Deutsche Bank spokesperson told NBC News: “We remain committed to providing appropriate information to all authorized investigations and will abide by a court order regarding such investigations.”

[frank ryan]

Mueller was not happy with Barr

Mueller complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wrote a letter in late March complaining to Attorney General William P. Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation into President Trump “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of Mueller’s work, according to a copy of the letter reviewed Tuesday by The Washington Post.

At the time the letter was sent on March 27, Barr had announced that Mueller had not found a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian officials seeking to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Barr also said Mueller had not reached a conclusion about whether Trump had tried to obstruct justice, but Barr reviewed the evidence and found it insufficient to support such a charge.

Days after Barr’s announcement, Mueller wrote a previously unknown private letter to the Justice Department, which revealed a degree of dissatisfaction with the public discussion of Mueller’s work that shocked senior Justice Department officials, according to people familiar with the discussions.


“The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” Mueller wrote. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”

Justice Department officials said Tuesday they were taken aback by the tone of Mueller’s letter, and it came as a surprise to them that he had such concerns. Until they received the letter, they believed Mueller was in agreement with them on the process of reviewing the report and redacting certain types of information, a process that took several weeks. Barr has testified to Congress previously that Mueller declined the opportunity to review his four-page letter to lawmakers that distilled the essence of the special counsel’s findings.

In his letter, Mueller wrote that the redaction process “need not delay release of the enclosed materials. Release at this time would alleviate the misunderstandings that have arisen and would answer congressional and public questions about the nature and outcome of our investigation.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.d4e4fddd7c38

[wapiti]

Ever honest, transparent and cooperative Trump has nothing to hide.

Trump sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to block House subpoenas for his financial information

Trump doesn't like blind fishing expeditions into his personal finances? Shocker.

[Walter Sobchak]

Mueller was not happy with Barr

Mueller complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe





https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.d4e4fddd7c38

When Barr pressed Mueller on whether he thought Barr’s memo to Congress was inaccurate, Mueller said he did not [...]

Thank you for posting that article frank.

[Commando]

Trump doesn't like blind fishing expeditions into questions about his personal finances, the answers to which could incriminate him? Shocker.

FIFY