Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

Another Congressional Republican bits the dust.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/blake-farenthold-resigns-congress/index.html

It is a good thing Trump has this guy's back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/us/politics/trump-kelly-pruitt-fired.html

AND he got locked out of his $50/night apartment.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/pruitt-trump/index.html

He's made the economy stronger, just a little hiccup to keep you appreciating his greatness. Obama had it easy and screwed it up.

Nothing Burger wrote:

He's made the economy stronger, just a little hiccup to keep you appreciating his greatness. Obama had it easy and screwed it up.

No one could argue that.

And Trump wants this swamp creature to replace swamp creature Sessions as AG.

The Real News wrote:

It is a good thing Trump has this guy's back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/us/politics/trump-kelly-pruitt-fired.html

AND he got locked out of his $50/night apartment.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/pruitt-trump/index.html

2nd World Nation wrote:

Trump is taking the US on a path to second world nation status. China is the new #1 power in the world. That has been slowly coming for some time now. Trump is accelerating it.

I expect Trumpsters to chime in and tell us how the US is still #1 and always remain #1. That have zero knowledge of the history of #1 powers in the world. No country has ever maintained that level forever.

That is an incredibly stupid thing to say.

1) "Forever" has not yet passed so it would be literally impossible for a country to have maintained its #1 position forever.

2) Your implied "The US will not retain its position as #1 forever" is irrefutable not because it is undeniably true but because there is literally no way to test against your position. If the US is still #1 300 years from now your successor can simply state, "just you wait, they cannot retain that position forever". As such your implication is meaningless.

Try not to post such obvious stupidity in the future.

Thanks.

Trollminator wrote:

Thanks Trump for another day of horrendous stock market performance, keep up the great work.

The stock market is only an indicator of how the top 1% is doing not the forgotten men like me. Also some short term pain was expected from the tariffs before the long term gain. It’s really going to come down to who blinks first between Trump and China my money is on Trump. In addition didn’t 45% of your party vote for Bernie Sanders who would have been much more aggressive as far as tariffs are concerned I think this will draw a lot more Bernie supporters over to Trump for the midterms.

GDP will still be 4+% this quarter because of the big league tax cuts. Once Trump is able to get better trade deals for the US the market will soar again and jobs will come back to the rust belt states that trump needs to win again in 2020.

You may not like the tariffs but in fairness he promised to do exactly that when he ran so you have to give him credit for that.

Trump is so screwed. It could end up now that the Stormy Daniels story might be what takes him down. If that's the case, that's a shame, but only if we don't get to know what really happened with Russia. The Russia story is so much more important.

I have no idea how or why the Trumpers are still feeling froggy, but they should not.

Mueller is now looking at phone records. Oh man, it is SOOOOO bad for the Orange One.

I see that a couple of you envision he will go down yelling. I suppose that could be true. I do wonder though if he will try to get sympathy by admitting that Putin was blackmailing him. David Letterman got a lot of sympathy when he was being blackmailed and he just came out with the truth. Definitely a different thing, but we do feel sympathy for people who are blackmailed.

So many ways this can end, but it does not end with Trump being victorious.

Mueller is coming.

The clown is done.

Flagpole wrote:

Trump is so screwed. It could end up now that the Stormy Daniels story might be what takes him down.

When Trump claimed he knew nothing about the $130,000 payoff he made a YUGE mistake. That means there cannot be a binding agreement between David Dennison (Trump) and Stormy Daniels. The only way there could be a binding agreement is if Trump claimed he knew. Stormy is now free to do as she pleases. There is nothing Trump and his legal minions can do to stop her.

What I would see as victorious is that Trump is found guilty of no crimes by the special counsel and he wins re election in 2020 and leaves office in 2024 still found guilty of no crimes. So just to be clear your saying that there is a 0% chance of this happening?

Just want to define how you can be wrong because you seem to be moving the goal posts a lot lately or you’ve just learnt how statistics work which is a step in the right direction I suppose.

Even if Trump is removed from office I’m fine with President Pence or Ryan heck given how good an economy Trump would be handing over I wouldn’t be surprised to see either of them win re election.

Nothing added wrote:

His statement stands as quoted by MSM. He DID teach immigration law to 3- and 4-year-olds. There is nothing that he said that makes that fact go away. It make no difference if it was 1 of ever 10. That there are some is reprehensible; period.

Reading the context makes it even more damning. He admits that these kids really need proper representation. But then he goes on to say that in the absence of council, he takes the extra time to teach immigration law to kids as young as three. What a nice guy.

The whole thing is preposterous.

The testimony only confirms what I've been saying all along and what the MSM has reported.

Our immigration courts are completely broken. We have people forced to represent themselves in court cases with life and death consequences. Even children as young as three are forced to represent themselves.

The Trump administration is making the problem even worse by requiring that judges dispense with at least 700 cases per year in order to get a satisfactory review. I guess that means judges will no longer have the time to teach immigration law to three year olds.

Trump screwed himself wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Trump is so screwed. It could end up now that the Stormy Daniels story might be what takes him down.

When Trump claimed he knew nothing about the $130,000 payoff he made a YUGE mistake. That means there cannot be a binding agreement between David Dennison (Trump) and Stormy Daniels. The only way there could be a binding agreement is if Trump claimed he knew. Stormy is now free to do as she pleases. There is nothing Trump and his legal minions can do to stop her.

Let's say Stormy Daniels wins her case and the NDA is declared null and void. What then?

Stormy releases some compromising photos or videos? Is that the worst thing that can happen for the president?

Given that they only had sex one time, it's unlikely that any of that stuff exists. But even if it does I don't see how it hurts the godless Trump very much. Everyone already knows the story. Melania has already been humiliated.

Sure, this is bad for Michael Cohen. And it's good for Stormy Daniels because she gets to make big bucks off of it. But I'm not seeing how this hurts the president much going forward. Any ideas?

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

Here is a good article about why Trump has trouble finding qualified lawyers for the Russia Thingy.

he reasons top firms and lawyers are giving for refusing to work for Trump include conflicts of interests with current clients, the possibility of alienating sources of future business, the president’s reluctance to follow legal advice, his [Trump's] tendency to ask lawyers to engage in what Ted Boutrous of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher referred to delicately as “questionable activities, and his history of not paying his bills.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/trump-lawyers-elites.html

Can't Find a Lawyer wrote:

Here is a good article about why Trump has trouble finding qualified lawyers for the Russia Thingy.

he reasons top firms and lawyers are giving for refusing to work for Trump include conflicts of interests with current clients, the possibility of alienating sources of future business, the president’s reluctance to follow legal advice, his [Trump's] tendency to ask lawyers to engage in what Ted Boutrous of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher referred to delicately as “questionable activities, and his history of not paying his bills.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/trump-lawyers-elites.html

You emphasized the wrong one. This all has to do with money. There may be a few lawyers who have a legit conflict of interest. However, the real reason top lawyers won't take the case is money.

But the "doesn't pay his bills" problem is easy to solve. This is why lawyers often ask for retainers. You put up a big pile of money that the lawyer then bills against. Now the lawyer is guaranteed to get paid.

So why doesn't the godless Trump just put up a big retainer? After all, he's a billionaire, right? He can easily afford it, right?

Wrong. Donald Trump is flat broke. I see no other explanation for this.

And this is extremely dangerous for all of us. A president in financial trouble is easy to blackmail.

So you finally admit it is true that 3 year olds are forced to act as their own attorney in immigration court. And your defense is now, "What about Hillary?" I get the feeling that you feel a little sympathy for these kids and you can't bring yourself to believe it is really happening. Is this bothering your conscience?

They were investigated by the GOP 20-30 times total. Nothing burger. Only people who still believe Obama and Hillary are criminals are really stupid people who get their info from Infowars, Breitbart, Zero Hedge and the like. If you are stupid enough to lap that sh*t up then you're dickf**ked and everyone knows it. So hopefully you are not stupid, otherwise your brain is an IQ nothing burger. The fact you are stealing handles because you don't have a legitimate argument speaks volumes about your lack of a moral core.

Fat Hurts. wrote:

What about Hillary? Why did she and Obama get away with so much?