President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

To cover for your failures by repeating the same elementary-school level taunting over and over again. Yes, we all realize it.

 

And I'm right anyway.

 

Yeah, that's the part they never seem to get, man.

 

It is odd how often Trump's actions seem to follow something seen on TV. Is it him being influenced by the MSM or leaks from the Oval being used to grease the skids?

 

I fear that the country is essentially being governed by some dart-throwing producer at Fox & Friends.

 

US Attorneys routinely replaced when administrations change, especially if party changes. Interesting part of this is that Trump personally asked Pheet Bhahara, the Southern District of New York attorney, to stay on before he was inaugurated, then Sessions canned him today.

 

The BBC Skype guy could have at least made eye contact with his kid instead of trying to palm her head like a basketball.

 

Sure. But the timing is very odd. Hannity rants about there needing to be a purge at DOJ, less than 24 hours later there is one and the administration doesn't seem to have replacements lined up to fill their gigs.

 

Who knows with Trump, but replacing the U.S. Attorneys is nothing new. Every president gets their own guys in there, and usually a bunch in one wave. By the end of Reagan's first year in office, he'd replaced 71 of 93 attorneys and eventually replaced 89 of 93. Clinton fired all of them in 1993, and eventually replaced 80 of 93 in the first year. George W. Bush replaced 88 of 93 in his first two years.
A few minutes in the Google machine didn't turn up numbers for Obama, but he obviously replaced most of them at some point in his two terms.

 

To that point ...

Last Thursday, as questions swirled around contacts between Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Russian ambassador, a Reddit user posted a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin and New York Sen. Charles Schumer from a 2003 photo op. Two hours later, the blog The Gateway Pundit reprinted the photo with the headline "Where's the Outrage?"

The image careened across the internet from an Infowars editor's post to the Drudge Report to Trump's own Twitter account as he delivered that outrage, demanding an investigation into Schumer's alleged ties to Putin.

That wasn't the only time last week when Trump put the White House stamp on a theory that originated on the edges of the conservative movement. Radio host Mark Levin voiced without evidence the idea that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower. That accusation was picked up the next day by Breitbart News, the site formerly run by Trump's current chief strategist Steve Bannon.

An aide placed that piece in Trump's daily reading pile, said a White House official, who like other aides would not be named discussing the president's private routine. Fueled by that report on Saturday, Trump unleashed a series of jaw-dropping tweets that accused his predecessor of spying on him.

Media the enemy? Trump sure is an insatiable consumer

 

LOL.

 

If you can't conclusively prove a crime happened beforehand, you have no reason to investigate or even question it. /yf