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That's not his job. He gathered the intel and gave it to the FBI, which has several active investigations going. When those come to a conclusion they will discuss collusion, as you've been told a hundred times. I suspect that when you finally do see "evidence of collusion" you'll wish like hell you hadn't.

 

And then he'll go right back into spin mode anyway. I suspect the investigation could produce video of Trump working out the details of the deal with Putin, them promising Russia control over the United States' entire nuclear arsenal in payment and YF would still claim it is a nothingburger.

 

Hannity seems to be pretty unhinged on this stuff and his tweets often look like someone who has had more than a few.

 

Probably a multi million $$ extension. He has done his job, namely to take the heat off the Fuhrer and put something out there that the idiots who voted for said Fuhrer will believe.

 

He's an asshole and an unrepentant troll. But he's not trading a few million a year for $145,000 and 24/7 workdays.

 

LOL. Yeah, I know. I should have put >grin< or J/K or something after that.

 

When it comes to actual breaking news events like that, Fox generally does the best job. CNN and MSNBC seem to always be a step behind, and if it's after hours or on the weekend forget about it. They can't turn the aircraft carrier around to break out of their pre-packaged programming. Not sure if Fox always has a studio crew on standby ready to go live, or just has less of the pre-packaged stuff, but they seem to be on it pretty quickly.

 

Also, why play defense when you can play up the TERRORISM!!! angle. Much more effective at scaring Uncle Jack from changing the channel to Wheel of Fortune.

 

Trump’s Budget Scam

 

I do ok, but I don't make a few million a year.

 

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/23/15680110/trump-budget-accounting-error

This is worth reading. This so-called budget is a joke, from spending the same money twice to being thrown together in a week.

"The underlying issue here, beyond Trump’s habit of overpromising and general disregard for the truth, is the slapdash process through which his tax plan was released. According to Politico’s Shane Goldmacher, Trump’s economic team was busy working on the difficult problem of designing a revenue-neutral tax plan when someone showed him a New York Times op-ed by Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer, and Stephen Moore that argued Trump should forget about deficit neutrality and endorse a big deficit-increasing tax cut like he did on the campaign trail.

“Trump summoned staff to talk about” the op-ed, according to Goldmacher. “His message: Make this the tax plan.”

Then two days later, on a Friday, Trump told the press that his tax plan would be ready by next week, even though his staff didn’t have a plan."

 

Ragu covered this before noon. Try the Algonquin Round Table.