NEWT: Trump doesn’t want to drain the swamp anymore
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Newt Gingrich told NPR [NOTE from ME: WHY is Newt on the Liberal site NPR? Aren’t he and DT Conservative?!! **SNORT**] that Trump doesn’t want to drain the swamp anymore. Newt said that Trump even refuses to acknowledge it now:
On Trump’s often-stated promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington
I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore. … I’d written what I thought was a very cute tweet about “the alligators are complaining,” and somebody wrote back and said they were tired of hearing this stuff.
I’ve noticed on a couple of fronts, like people chanting “lock her up,” that he’s in a different role now and maybe he feels that as president, as the next president of the United States, that he should be marginally more dignified than talking about alligators in swamps. I personally have, as a sense of humor, like the alligator and swamp language. … I think it vividly illustrates the problem, because all the people in this city who are the alligators are going to hate the swamp being drained. And there’s going to be constant fighting over it. But, you know, he is my leader and if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator. [NOTE: Blind, slavish devotion is what Dear Leader wants and what Dear Leader gets from his souless, gutless, brain-dead, Commie-Zombie corp.]
Remember how Trump blasted Ted Cruz for going against the grain in Washington? Trump has always been pro-establishment.
Just like other promises Trump made to get elected, draining the swamp clearly wasn’t one he intended to keep.
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Trump Has Republicans Squirming on Russia
By A.B. Stoddard
RCP Staff
December 19, 2016
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The honeymoon between Donald Trump and congressional Republicans was only going to last a while before Russian President Vladimir Putin intervened, and the president-elect’s repeated denials of Russia’s cyber meddling in the election have hastened the first painful test for GOP hawks.
Trump’s pro-Russia stance took center stage last week, forcing fellow Republicans into an untenable position — defy him or downplay their alarm over Putin’s success influencing our presidential election. The quandary was on full display Sunday during Sen. John McCain’s interview on CNN as he insisted there is “no doubt” the Russians interfered in the election, and called for a select committee to investigate. While McCain said that “this is serious business — if they’re able to harm the electoral process, they may destroy democracy, which is based on free and fair elections,” he also strained to avoid criticizing Trump’s dismissal of the cyber attack.
Last week McCain raised concerns over Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon-Mobil to whom Putin has bestowed the “Order of Friendship,” award, saying: “Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this butcher, this KGB agent, which is what he is.” It’s far easier to attack Putin, however, than to defend Trump’s rejection of intelligence he was briefed on months ago.
Indeed, Trump has been contemptuous of the intelligence community he is set to rely upon as commander-in-chief, calling the revelations “ridiculous” and accusing intelligence officials of working on the Democrats’ behalf. “I think the Democrats are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country,” Trump told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”
Trump’s attacks on the intelligence community prompted a rebuke from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said he had “the highest confidence in the intelligence community, and especially the Central Intelligence Agency.” He added a warning about Russia as well: “Let me just speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends. I think we ought to approach all of these issues on the assumption the Russians do not wish us well.”…
…Ryan…issued a statement that said such cyber meddling was “especially problematic because under President Putin, Russia has been an aggressor that consistently undermines American interests.”…Mike Pence in October affirmed Russia’s complicity, saying there was “no question the evidence continues to point in that direction,” adding that “there should be severe consequences to Russia or any sovereign nation that is compromising the privacy or the security of the United States of America.”…
…As long as Trump withholds his tax returns, speculation will continue over whether he’s indebted to Russians, who helped finance his projects long after his bankruptcies lead American banks to stop lending to him…
…Trump has indicated he is open to lifting sanctions on Russia, and to recognizing Russian Crimea. News reports have outlined his business interests in Russia along with developments elsewhere that are financed by Russian investors. Donald Trump Jr. said in 2008: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Trump, working on a deal in Moscow in 2013, told Real Estate Weekly: “The Russian market is attracted to me. … I have a great relationship with many Russians, and almost all of the oligarchs were in the room.”…
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Donald Trump Accused Of Raping 13-Year-Old Girl: Lawsuit From Casey Anthony Attorney Allowed In Federal Court
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A lawsuit claiming that Republican nominee Donald Trump raped at least one 13-year-old girl in 1994 may have its day in court after a federal judge reportedly ordered a status conference to review the case, the Independent reported Tuesday.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of New York, alleges that Trump and financier Jeffrey Epstein raped two underage girls at several parties at Epstein’s apartment in Manhattan. The girls, identified in court documents as “Tiffany Doe” and “Jane Doe,” were allegedly promised money and modeling careers if they attended the parties.
The details described in the document are graphic. At one party, Trump is accused of tying one of the young girls to the bed before raping her while the victim repeatedly plead with him to stop…
…This is not the first time that Trump has been accused of rape. Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump accused the businessman of raping her in a sworn deposition that surfaced after their divorce. She later walked those statements back and said that he did not rape her in a “literal or criminal sense.”…
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Why the State Department Is Worried About Donald Trump and His Tweets
Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump have given the press and the public some remarkable advice: to take “seriously” but not “literally” the words of the next leader of the free world.
This formulation – first articulated by reporter Selena Zito – was originally an effort to explain why so many of Trump’s obviously outlandish statements didn’t seem to bother his supporters (“he doesn’t really mean to build a wall…”). But it’s since become the mantra of Trump’s boosters to justify the mix of half-cocked 3 a.m. Twitter rants, conspiracy theories, half-truths and outright falsehoods that seem to comprise the bulk of Trump’s communications with the public. As Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s first campaign manager, put it: “This is the problem with the media. You guys took everything Donald Trump said so literally. And the problem with that is the American people didn’t.”
It’s one thing for politicians to make grandiose promises on the campaign trail that they’re unlikely to be able to keep (e.g., that wall). It’s another to make statements of “fact” that poison our democracy, worsen political divisions and put vulnerable people at risk. Moreover, the worst of these falsehoods don’t appear to be the “off the cuff” pronouncements of a flamboyant showman. Rather, they reflect a calculated cunning aimed at the amassing and abuse of power. These are the words that Trump does in fact want taken both seriously and literally by his followers – and thus most deserve to be firmly debunked.
The most egregious – and most dangerous – untruths promoted by our president-elect to date are what seem to be the deliberate lies – the ones intended to undermine Trump’s opposition, shore up his base and sow the dissension and chaos that help to consolidate his hold on power. They are red flag markers of his authoritarian tendencies, and they’ve been happening with distressing regularity. So far, Trump has managed to generate at least six such serious untruths in just the first five weeks after his election:
Trump: “The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history.” (Trump transition team statement, Dec. 11, 2016)
Truth: Trump’s electoral college victory ranks 46th out of 58.
Trump: (On the hacking of the DNC) – “They have no idea if it’s Russia or China or somebody. It could be somebody sitting in a bed some place.” (Fox News Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016)
Truth: U.S. intelligence officials know exactly which Russian officials were behind the hacking of the DNC.
Trump: “I will be holding a major news conference in New York City with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” (Twitter, Nov. 30, 2016)
Truth: Trump’s business empire is staying in the family.
Trump: “Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!” (Twitter, Dec. 6, 2016)
Truth: There is no current contract for this amount with Boeing.
Trump: “The President of Taiwan CALLED ME today to wish me congratulations on winning the Presidency. Thank you!” (Twitter, Dec. 2, 2016)
Truth: Trump’s call with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was months in the making with cooperation from both sides.
Trump: “…I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally” (Twitter, Nov. 27, 2016)
Truth: There is no evidence whatsoever of any sort of widespread voter fraud.
What’s most dangerous about these larger lies is that they are embedded in a welter of bombastic attacks, minor untruths and trivial kerfuffles that, in their sum, threaten to lull the public into accepting a new normal of Orwellian doublespeak on every issue. And by breathlessly covering Trump’s attacks on a magazine for trashing the Trump Grill with the same level of intensity as the Russian hacks, the media reduces both incidents to the same level of triviality in Americans’ minds. Yes, Trump should be taken seriously – and his strategy of deploying lies in the service of power should be taken most seriously of all.
[NOTE: For all the detail and evidence for each point follow the link given to the article.]
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AND, LASTLY, FOR NOW ANYWAY-
Key Trump Surrogate Admits Border Wall And Deportations Are A YUGE SCAM
Congressman Chris Collins Speaks At Donald Trump Rally in Buffalo, NY
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Rep. Chris Collins was the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump. Since then he’s become, rather obviously, quite important to the campaign, and is one of their key surrogates in the media. In an interview with the The Buffalo News yesterday, Trump critical ally, first endorser, and top media surrogate told the media outlet that Trump’s big sell items, the “big, beautiful wall” and his “kick them out” policy are just a big show.
“I have called it a virtual wall,” Collins told the paper. “Maybe we will be building a wall over some aspects of it; I don’t know.”
A virtual wall. That is not what the Donald promised. You know what else he didn’t promise? Fake deportations.
“I call it a rhetorical deportation of 12 million people,” Collins said.
He then gestured toward a door in his Capitol Hill office.
“They go out that door, they go in that room, they get their work papers, Social Security number, then they come in that door, and they’ve got legal work status but are not citizens of the United States,” Collins said. “So there was a virtual deportation as they left that door for processing and came in this door.”
Collins added: “We’re not going to put them on a bus, and we’re not going to drive them across the border.”
Virtual wall? Rhetorical deportation? Dude. Actual laugh.
No big beautiful wall. No 12 million deportations. No self-funding. No refusing big billionaire donors. No more trashing of Goldman Sachs. No more opposition to raising the minimum wage. Heck he’s not even standing by his list of SCOTUS nominees from yesterday!
Collins, probably suddenly realizing what his mouth just told a reporter, quickly backtracked saying he doesn’t speak for the Orange and Terrible Majesty, but that’s a bunch of crap.
“I’m not speaking for Donald,” Collins said. Oh I beg to differ. “Those were my opinions.” Sure. And we know why they are your opinions. You’d have to be a total idiot to think that this isn’t based on his own first-hand knowledge of exactly how seriously Donald takes his own campaign pillow talk. Which means of course that Trump fans will definitely think that.
Of course he’s not going to stand by his wall or his deportations. That was never going to happen and he knew it. And Collins knows it. Everybody does. Except for the people who mistakenly trusted him and who he is continuing to betray.
What a mess.
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-Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.
http://therightscoop.com/jerry-falwell-jr-says-social-values-trumps-state-sec-pick-irrelevant/