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Drumpf doubles down on his post-fact candidacy; the Republic be damned.

Donald Trump campaign remodel: Even more conspiracy theory, fewer facts

Bannon is best known for having an antagonistic relationship with the truth and being willing to fake any video, fabricate any number, generate any lie, ruin any life, so long as it serves to feed headlines. A former Goldman-Sachs banker, Bannon championed Sarah Palin before moving to Team Trump. If there’s a Hillary Clinton conspiracy circulating, Bannon created it, funded it, or promoted it.

 

Any other big names tied to this story?

 

I did not realize that it was illegal to do business with Russia

 

The whole for-profit health insurance model is broken, and has been for quite some time.

That's what made Obamacare tripling down on it so stupid.

 

I'll let DOJ make determinations on the legalities involved. For me, the increasing evidence of a too-cozy relationship between Putin and Manafort and Trump raises the question of whether a Trump administration would turn its back on a further incursion of Russian troops in the Ukraine among other things.

Re: ACA, it appears it's having its intended effects.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/upshot/obamacare-appears-to-be-making-people-healthier.html?_r=0

 

Maybe they would actually care about the people of Eastern Ukraine, whom we have turned our back on.

 

Trump says he doesn't trust US intelligence agencies and won't use them.

Trump before classified briefing: I don’t trust US intel

 

I just love that...

Trump's top advisor's business dealings are very serious, and very legitimate campaign issues.

But, if you point out that Hillary Clinton's top political advisor/husband/partner in crime has questionable business dealings, runs a foundation that has ethical issues, and is, well -- you know -- a RAPIST, we're told that's all irrelevant because his name isn't on the ballot.

Convenient how that works

 

LOL.

Hillary was relying on Sid Blumenthal for her intelligence in Libya. Let's make her President!

 

I have more concerns with out govt's dealings with Iran.

 

See, to me, this particular lie is about as minor a lie as there could be. His lie had nothing to do with his official duties, it was a lie about his private life, and the only people his lie directly affected was his family and anyone else who were involved with him on the subject (Lewinsky, Paula Jones for her lawsuit).

If his lie had to do with his official duties ( for example, lying under oath about knowing about an official committing an actual crime like a burglary), that's a different matter entirely. But ultimately, this was a lie about his sex life.

For those who decided this was the issue to take him down, well, that proves my point. They tried to take him down for lying about his sex life.

For those for who, the adultery was the issue, well, to me, too fricking bad. Unless he was someone whose philosophy, or his party's philosophy is to pretend to be holier than thou, what he does in his personal life, as long as it's legal, is none of our business.

 

If there already are prohibitions in place and the professor violated them, and there is proof of this, why would he be suing for unjust termination? It wouldn't even get past the first conference.