Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) – 1998:

"Another abuse of power: The full powers of the White House were on lease to stonewall the process and to attack the credibility of those who investigated him. This White House has perfected the art of stonewalling around the truth. I fear that future White Houses will learn much from these experts and will refine and improve their own truth-fighting arsenals. Truth and openness will be casualties. Last, there is the issue of the poor example the President's actions serve for the Nation, especially for our youth. Is it now OK to lie because the President does it?"

Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) - 1998:

“if this body [Congress] determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role . . . because impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”

Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) - 1998 :

"Committing crimes of moral turpitude such as perjury and obstruction of justice go to the heart of qualification for public office. These offenses were committed by the chief executive of our country, the individual who swore to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. ...This great nation can tolerate a President who makes mistakes. But it cannot tolerate one who makes a mistake and then breaks the law to cover it up. Any other citizen would be prosecuted for these crimes."

Thisthreadisridiculous wrote:

Flagpole, what you just said is why cnn’s ratings are in the tank? The weather and hallmark channel are kicking their rear ends right now.

Okay maybe I was little off with hallmark and weather channel because they were previously losing to them. They are now a whopping 6th.

https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/basic-cable-ranker-week-of-aug-6/373579

Flagpole wrote:

Thisthreadisridiculous wrote:

Flagpole, what you just said is why cnn’s ratings are in the tank? The weather and hallmark channel are kicking their rear ends right now.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/03/donald-trump/trumps-pants-fire-claim-cnn-ratings-are-way-down/

Facts???

Damn, I just HATE those things!

I never claimed to be a journalist and you are not one either.

1. Wrong. You need to include the other indexes, The Dow Jones covers 30 stocks. The SPY, NASDAQ and Russell are at/near all-time highs and gives us the broader picture.

2. The stock market euphoria began after Trump won the election and kept running through and beyond Inauguration Day. Trump is the a pro-business POTUS unlike the Obama era regulation crazy environment that put the clamps on the economy. There is no way the economy would have boomed to this extent if Obama remained in office today. Trump gets the credit.

3. Get this through your liberal bald head, Trump will not be charged, nor impeached. There is no Russian Collusion.

4. Lastly, my coffee is light-years better than yours. I get mine shipped from Colombia direct to my house. You lose.

Mueller never

Clownpole forever

Please review the DOW charts before posting b.s.

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

Lastly, my coffee is light-years better than yours. I get mine shipped from Colombia direct to my house.

So, you are stating, very clearly, that you are failing to buy American.

"There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign" -- Hope Hicks, 11/11/16

I was out for an awesome run today in Villa Pamphili in Rome with my lovely wife and we spent the whole 65 minutes recounting this week’s events. The minutes and miles flew by.

I concluded my input by saying I think the end is very near, probably sooner than the midterms. Yes, he keeps surviving nuclear blasts, one at a time, but this week it feels like the whole North Korean arsenal let fly, and some of them are landing pretty close.

My ignorant opinion aside, my wife made a very good point. I remarked how shocked I was that Giuliani has let his legacy, sealed as an American hero, get flushed down the toilet, abasing himself as Drumpf’s toady mouthpiece. Her simple reply was that it’s obvious Trump must have something on him. I let that sink in and started thinking about it a bit, and in my lizard brain anyway it fits nicely.

If true, what could it be? Mob connection / corruption or worse from when they ran in the same circles in NYC?

Of course maybe it’s simple friendship, loyalty or good money. Those are legitimate explanations I suppose. But to sell out the legacy he has, I dunno, would a good pay check or close friendship be enough?

Discus...

Thisthreadisridiculous wrote:

Okay maybe I was little off with hallmark and weather channel because they were previously losing to them. They are now a whopping 6th.

https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/basic-cable-ranker-week-of-aug-6/373579

If I lean to the right where would I get my right biased news?

If I lean to the left where would I get my left biased news?

If I am dead center where would I get my fact based centered news?

Those answers say a lot about ratings for the various 24 hour news channels.

Alan

Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina): "I am not going to try to get into the mind of Donald Trump, because I don’t think there’s a whole lot of space there. I think he’s a kook I think he's crazy, I think he’s unfit for office."

—Feb 17, 2016 interview with FoxNews.

Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina): "You know what concerns me about the American press is this endless, endless attempt to label the guy [Trump] is some kind of kook, not fit to be President."

— Nov 30, 2017 interview with CNN.

Still didn’t answer the question - really I’m not trying to pick on you, just trying to gauge what it will take for your needle to move even slightly. You answered that indirectly, it would take a miracle. Clinton is irrelevant but you don’t care. You also seem to realize your position is harder and harder to defend so you like most other trumpers fall back on whataboutisms.

Don’t pretend to know how active I am politically, you have no clue. Btw - you would even bother being an activist at all on those issues if you then voted for someone who hasn’t been destroying all those things? You are a contradiction.

Rigged is UnAmerican wrote:

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

Lastly, my coffee is light-years better than yours. I get mine shipped from Colombia direct to my house.

So, you are stating, very clearly, that you are failing to buy American.

I always thought Rigged might be a pimple faces insecure teenager, but maybe he’s in his early 20s... that is just a really stupid thing to say. Clearly he thinks someone is buying it and is impressed. Dumb dumb

In victory for unions, judge overturns key parts of Trump executive orders

A federal judge dealt a victory to federal employees and the unions that represent them, invalidating key provisions of a series of Trump administration executive orders aimed at making it easier to fire employees and weaken the unions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-victory-for-unions-judge-overturns-key-parts-of-trump-executive-orders/2018/08/25/5458e2bc-a880-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html

The friendship goes back a long time, and without doubt both were misfits in Manhattan because of their extreme views. Giuliani gets undeserved credit simply due to being mayor during 9/11. Other than shining during his prosecutor days, there was never anything brilliant from him. It is very possible he protected Trump as mayor and lobbied for him (think massive tax breaks on real estate projects). I doubt Giuliani is doing any favors for Trump because he’s afraid of what he may say about him. Let’s not forget Giuliani thought he was up for the AG pick and that didn’t happen. He’s been desperate to be involved from the beginning. Right now I think he feels lucky to be relevant again. Many others around Trump have taken bigger asymmetrical career risks by affiliating themselves with him. People sell their souls for very cheap - it’s called bottom feeding.

Typical Republican in the age of Trump. Throws his own wife under the bus!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-duncan-hunter-blames-wife-122427631.html

The Republican party is made up of truly disgusting people now. Those with any conscience at all have long since left.

The Republican Party is at a point in which, should it move to the extremes of the POTUS as a Party, it could provide short term gain for the late age white male he appeals (in general as a base) to but provide long range disaster for the Party itself as those exit the voting registry.

Unfortunately for everyone on both sides of the equation I see the current regime retaining power until at least 2024 with the Party moving to more Trump extremism. However, as his base either dies off, flounders or just gets tired of it and potentially become less active for a variety of reasons, the Democrats could take over with more centrist views and end up with a fairly long period of power until the Republicans themselves move more towards the center.

If anything is coming.

That's it.

Your handle fits you perfectly.

The Fokus wrote:

Unfortunately for everyone on both sides of the equation I see the current regime retaining power until at least 2024 with the Party moving to more Trump extremism.

^ This is not happening. Why? Because centrist Republicans are already switching to independent status in droves. Republicans DO NOT all walk in lockstep; regardless of your desperate hope that they do.