Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

HiLoper!!! wrote:

Hornsby and The Range wrote:

HI HARDLOPER!!!!

or should that be ...

HI JAMIN!!!

Hi Buddy! Yep I may be Jamin, but you're still you HA, HA, HA!!!!

zxcvzxcv wrote:

That is, threatening her in front of her daughter.

Trump has a goon squad that "protects" him. He has seen the movie The Godfather and wants to be just like Vito. The person who threatened her likely works for Trump Associates, or was hired by a Trump associate.

Hi Flagpole [HardLoper] wrote:

HA, HA, HA!!!!

Nope.

"The 2014 effort to provide campaign strategy and messaging advice to Republican candidates came as executives were cautioned by an attorney to abide by U.S. laws limiting foreign involvement in elections."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-cambridge-analytica-workers-say-firm-sent-foreigners-to-advise-us-campaigns/2018/03/25/6a0d7d90-2fa2-11e8-911f-ca7f68bff0fc_story.html

Jose el Plomero wrote:

I don't like Trump but the whole Stormy Daniels thing feels like a nothingburger to me. We already knew the guy was a cad and he stepped out on his wife, er wives, all of them. There's little doubt that there are dozens of these women out there, many of whom were probably paid or given something, we already knew this. She clearly consented to the affair.

I guess maybe this hurts his lawyer, Cohen, if someone wants to prosecute him for the oversized, illegal campaign contribution. Shrug.

Forget about the moral implications, that is not news. What is more important is that Cohen struck the nondisclosure deal using Trump org email and physical address, which makes it very hard for him to deny he represented Trump on the hush payment. This and the fact that it happened two days before election puts Cohen in a tight spot. This looks like a clear violation of campaign financing laws. It amounts to an in-kind contribution from Cohen to Trump’s campaign - around $125k greater than the donation limit, since it was a benefit to Trump to keep the affair a secret. What will happen next? Cohen will continue to maintain he made this payment from the goodness of his heart without Trump knowing. Once an investigation concludes otherwise Cohen will be forced to admit Trump knew and reimbursed him. A reimbursement might possibly get Cohen off the hook but then Trump is in massive trouble. When choosing between incriminating himself or Trump, Cohen will tell the truth. Just one of many looming problems. The question is morphing into WHAT will fvck trump at the end, not IF.

HiLoper!!! wrote:

Hi Flagpole [HardLoper] wrote:

HA, HA, HA!!!!

Nope.

Hi Mod!

Jose el Plomero wrote:

She clearly consented to the affair.

Apparently, this wasn't actually an affair. The godless Trump offered to pitch her as an Apprentice contestant in exchange for sex. This was a business arrangement whereby Trump used his position of power to procure sexual favors.

It wasn't an affair. It was a transaction.

Who knows how many women he slept with after dangling this offer. The president is no different from Harvey Weinstein.

On the legal front, I think the NDA will be ruled invalid. There was a fascinating segment on CNN a few days ago where Stormy's lawyer faced off with Cohen's lawyer. (Yes, Trump's lawyer has a lawyer)

In that segment, they go through the arguments about whether Trump needed to sign the agreement, which he did not. The argument was that Stormy made this agreement between her and Cohen's LLC. Therefore, this did not require anyone else's signature.

But the clincher was that there was consideration in the agreement which could only be fulfilled by Donald Trump personally. The contract has stipulations about Trump and his family staying away from Stormy Daniels. Since the third party LLC can not possibly deliver that part of the agreement, the LLC can not sign for it. Only Trump could agree to those stipulations and therefore, without Trump's signature, the agreement never happened.

Stormy's lawyer is super impressive. I don't think Cohen stands a chance in court.

But I think the big takeaway is that we now have a nationwide manhunt to find the person who threatened Stormy Daniels in that Vegas parking lot.

I think that with enough reporters on the beat, they can narrow down who this might be. It's entirely possible that we will find out who it was and how this person is linked back to Cohen and the godless Trump. If that happens, it is fair to say that it could easily bring down the presidency.

Good morning! How are all you LRC stable geniuses doing this fine am?

Misallocation of campaign funds to pay hush money to a porn star is not nearly as bad as colluding with a foreign government to influence the election. As was pointed out, there are likely dozens of these women , and it was known Trump was an amoral hack way before he even announced his intent to run for president. What's really curious is that they actually paid hush money in the first place. It's not like he wasn't already recorded saying how much he loves exerting his power over women and sleeping around. Stormy Daniels threatens to come forward with this affair? Big deal. Trump was right : he could have shot someone on Fifth Ave and it wouldn't have mattered.

Yes, this Republican budget is out of control.

The deficit ran up early in Obama's time as a response to a fiscal crisis, then receded year-after-year at a steady pace as the economy improved.

We are in good fiscal times right now (growing GDP and low unemployment) and this combination of a Republican president, Republican House and Republican Senate is jumping the deficit over One Trillion Dollars.

How can Republicans possibly call themselves the party of fiscal responsibility?

L L wrote:

Yes, this Republican budget is out of control.

The deficit ran up early in Obama's time as a response to a fiscal crisis, then receded year-after-year at a steady pace as the economy improved.

We are in good fiscal times right now (growing GDP and low unemployment) and this combination of a Republican president, Republican House and Republican Senate is jumping the deficit over One Trillion Dollars.

How can Republicans possibly call themselves the party of fiscal responsibility?

They can’t. Unfortunately all our politicians have failed this country. In any given year it becomes a choice of lesser evils. Sad really.

L L wrote:

Yes, this Republican budget is out of control.

The deficit ran up early in Obama's time as a response to a fiscal crisis, then receded year-after-year at a steady pace as the economy improved.

We are in good fiscal times right now (growing GDP and low unemployment) and this combination of a Republican president, Republican House and Republican Senate is jumping the deficit over One Trillion Dollars.

How can Republicans possibly call themselves the party of fiscal responsibility?

I enjoyed Trump's tweet that said, and I am paraphrasing, "This increased military budget will result in increased job creation."

That sounds an awful lot like a stimulus, which I recall the GOP being opposed to during Obama's first term, in the midst of millions of jobs being lost.

I absolutely think that our military is an artificial jobs program funded by the American taxpayers.

Artificial, in that there isn't a real demand for it and the capacity of the military is way beyond its use.

But I don't have a real problem with that. It's still people working in exchange for money and them spending that money back into the economy. While at the same, providing actual protection, and even more so, perceived protection that extends American influence across the globe. And these people have entire careers in the military and raise their families with this funding.

We don't need a bigger military budget, though.

We could also use more scientists, educators and environmental engineers that would be a good jobs program and provide value at the same time.

And then there are things like, should we feed a family of four for a year or give Ben Carson new furniture?

Should we fund a new homeless shelter or have luxury accommodations for Scott Pruit's travel?

Should we help farmers more or fly Trump back and forth to Florida every week?

Agreed, it's not a bad way to spend money, but I don't think that "it will create jobs" is a good justification for increasing spending. That decision should be made without regard to the economic impact it will have (within reason of course). And there are certainly plenty of other ways that money could be spent in the budget that would also create jobs or increase the quality of life for some Americans. It just seems antithetical to the notion of "small government" in my opinion.

This determination must be very hard to dispute if she agreed to talk last night. Others will now look for similar language in their contracts, there will be other interviews and possible campaign finance implications.

It will be much easier to identify and prove campaign finance laws were violated. This is enough to impeach if he is found to have been directly involved, specially since he will deny and then get caught in a lie. The collusion stuff will probably stick for a couple of the big fish around him, but we won't see anything that puts him directly in the firing line. I believe this will all come down to the volume of illegal engagements. When Mueller presents his case, he is going to shock everyone with the amount of findings. It will be impossible for anyone to invalidate it all, especially when he proves there were patterns and intent in his shady dealings. But if collusion is proven, yeah he's definitely done.

Fat hurts wrote:

Jose el Plomero wrote:

She clearly consented to the affair.

Apparently, this wasn't actually an affair. The godless Trump offered to pitch her as an Apprentice contestant in exchange for sex. This was a business arrangement whereby Trump used his position of power to procure sexual favors.

It wasn't an affair. It was a transaction.

Who knows how many women he slept with after dangling this offer. The president is no different from Harvey Weinstein.

Key word>>>>>Apparently, which equals>>>>I don't know, I'm just making stuff up