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"I tend to take these stories about the President with a grain of salt. We have seen key details of a number of salacious stories retracted within 48 hours. The media hates the President so much that they'll run a negative story about him without very much provocation. Anti-Trump sources embedded within the administration in the career civil servic...See More"I tend to take these stories about the President with a grain of salt. We have seen key details of a number of salacious stories retracted within 48 hours. The media hates the President so much that they'll run a negative story about him without very much provocation. Anti-Trump sources embedded within the administration in the career civil service, etc. will leak to the press and confirmation bias sets in.
What sets this story apart for me, at least, is that I know one of the sources. And the source is solidly supportive of President Trump, or at least has been and was during Campaign 2016. But the President will not take any internal criticism, no matter how politely it is given. He does not want advice, cannot be corrected, and is too insecure to see any constructive feedback as anything other than an attack.
So some of the sources are left with no other option but to go to the media, leak the story, and hope that the intense blowback gives the President a swift kick in the butt. Perhaps then he will recognize he screwed up. The President cares vastly more about what the press says than what his advisers say. That is a real problem and one his advisers are having to recognize and use, even if it causes messy stories to get outside the White House perimeter.
I am told that what the President did is actually far worse than what is being reported. The President does not seem to realize or appreciate that his bragging can undermine relationships with our allies and with human intelligence sources. He also does not seem to appreciate that his loose lips can get valuable assets in the field killed.
You can call these sources disloyal, traitors, or whatever you want. But please ask yourself a question — if the President, through inexperience and ignorance, is jeopardizing our national security and will not take advice or corrective action, what other means are available to get the President to listen and recognize the error of his ways?
This is a real problem and I treat this story very seriously because I know just how credible, competent, and serious — as well as seriously pro-Trump, at least one of the sources is."
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This is from Erick Erickson -- formerly of Red State.
#IncompetentRepublicanAdministration
http://theresurgent.com/i-know-one-of-the-sources/
For those who complain that Pres. Trump is awful, I offer these segments of the article "Sorry, Folks, But Donald Trump Is Everything We Deserve." I know, you will say that "you" are not like that. But we are talking about the "group personality" of America, which has been described as the personality of a 13 year old boy!
(Quote - reforma...See MoreFor those who complain that Pres. Trump is awful, I offer these segments of the article "Sorry, Folks, But Donald Trump Is Everything We Deserve." I know, you will say that "you" are not like that. But we are talking about the "group personality" of America, which has been described as the personality of a 13 year old boy!
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1. We Americans don't form long queues outside of poetry or literature readings. . . . But we do form long queues outside of Best Buy, beginning at midnight, waiting for the store to open so we can purchase the newest technology. . . . And Trump is a brilliant salesman.
2. We idolize rich people. Because that seems vaguely and uncomfortably "unchristian," we pretend we don't, but we do. . . . And Trump is rich.
3. We idolize TV celebrities, and Trump was a TV celebrity.
4. Unlike much of the world, we Americans despise intellectuals. We pretend we don't, but we do. . . . Arguably, not counting Ronald Reagan, Trump is the most anti-intellectual president since Andrew Jackson.
5. We Americans respect muscle, strength and power, which is to say, we prefer war to peace.
6. We Americans are a narcissistic people. We pretend we aren't, but we are. We don't have to be tied down and water-boarded to blurt out the fact that we think we're the greatest country in the world. . . .
And yet, for all this, we pretend to be surprised that we have elected a shallow, dishonest, narcissistic bully as our president? As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in Mother Night, "We are what we pretend to be. So we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
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by EasTexSteve
May 13, 2017
If you think Trump is losing popularity, then you aren't watching his commencement speech at Liberty University stadium this morning.
From the Fox News political editor:
:::quote:::
REPUBLICANS ARE WEARY WATER BEARERS ON RUSSIA
Politics being what it is, there's almost nothing that Democrats can say about President Trump's handling of the investigation into his 2016 campaign that would matter.
By the time you're talking about impeachment and c...See MoreFrom the Fox News political editor:
:::quote:::
REPUBLICANS ARE WEARY WATER BEARERS ON RUSSIA
Politics being what it is, there's almost nothing that Democrats can say about President Trump's handling of the investigation into his 2016 campaign that would matter.
By the time you're talking about impeachment and criminal abuses of power, there isn't really much left to say.
Now Republicans, on the other hand…
We talked to some GOP lawmakers in the House and the Senate to try to get a sense of their mindsets after two days of being buffeted by Hurricane Comey. The consensus: they're feeling pretty waterlogged.
Trump's inability to leave alone the Russia inquest is proving increasingly frustrating to the very Republicans on whom his success and survival depend.
First there was Trump's disputation of the intelligence findings that Russia was behind the hacking of Clinton campaign emails. Then there was Trump's claim that Obama had tapped Trump's phones. Then there was the weirdness around Rep. Devin Nunes' unmasking allegations. And now, there is the wrathful firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
Taken alone, any of those things can be and have been explained. Less than four months in, though, Republicans are getting tired of having to explain so much and so often when it comes to the Russia mess.
"Even a cat only has nine lives," said one Republican senator.
The reason the opinions of Republicans matter so much for Trump right now is that they are what stands between him and the creation of an independent commission and, potentially, the appointment of a special prosecutor to probe the matter.
So how does Trump reassure Russia-weary Republicans that the end of their ordeal is in sight?
First, pick a replacement for Comey that is beyond reproach. Ideally the nominee would get some Democratic support in the Senate but at the very least some Democratic praise. One name with a nice bit of ironic appeal being floated is Judge Merrick Garland, the Obama Supreme Court nominee that Republicans left at the altar. But that's the idea for whoever Trump picks: cleaner than Caesar's wife.
In the same category of showing that the president has nothing to hide, the White House should be open and accommodating with the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation currently ongoing. Strangeness like that which derailed Nunes' House-side probe could be big trouble.
As one House member told us, Republicans, Democrats, the White House and everybody else has "a lot riding on the success" of the Senate Intel probe. If it doesn't come to a conclusion, whatever it is, the need for a special committee would be impossible to ignore.
One other thing Trump could do to avoid finding the next Ken Starr rooting through the president's back pages is to appoint a special counsel of his own. This step is risky because, of course, it could get away from Trump. But if the president tapped a trusted figure outside of the Justice Department to conduct a thorough review and share publicly his or her findings would do a great deal to reassure anxious Republicans.
Democrats are quite sure that Trump is hiding something and explain all of his actions this way. Most Republicans are at least willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt on the claim that his top aides were canoodling with Putinists.
While there is a great deal that Trump could do to improve their morale and bolster their arguments, one thing stands out among all the rest: stay out of it.
This is probably the last mistake that key Republicans will allow Trump on the Russia stuff. Firing Comey was going to be complicated, whenever it happened. But doing it as a suspicious-looking surprise attack on a Tuesday afternoon deepened and hardened Republican misgivings about the whole affair.
Trump burned a great deal of political capital with the Comey uproar. The president is operating on credit with his fellow Republicans now. But the limit has been reached.
:::end quote:::
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/11/republicans-are-weary-water-bearers-on-russia.html
by EasTexSteve
May 13, 2017
I thought surely colluding with the Russians earlier this week, and then having two scoops of ice cream instead of one would put Rachel Maddow's ratings through the roof and have all the democrat power players calling for impeachment.
by EasTexSteve
May 12, 2017
At the dessert course, he gets two scoops of vanilla ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, instead of the single scoop for everyone else.
Surely this is an impeachable offense!
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