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Trump: Democrats "Want To Raid Medicare To Pay For Socialism" - The Daily Banter

Raid Medicare to pay for socialism?

 

What a garbage headline. Mainly to triggers the right wingers.

 

US sanctions against Ukraine government coming in . . . 3 . . .2 . . .1 . . . Never.

 

Bruce Ohr Was Told Russia Had ‘Trump Over A Barrel’: Report | HuffPost

If this is accurate, it's a big deal, maybe even a smoking gun. If Carter Page met with a senior Russian official and the Trump campaign lied about it and then found itself stuck with the lie, it explains a lot of things. Once the campaign denies it a few times, the Russians don't need a pee tape. They have the Trump campaign on record denying a meeting that they have on video. All the "No Collusion" from there on is the big lie, straight up. The timing looks like this might explain what got Sally Yates fired, too, if she brought some part of it to the White House not knowing what Ohr knew about it and had not told her.

You know who the only one in this mess who comes out looking smart? Jeff Sessions. He saw clearly that he was involved with the campaign to be investigated and recused himself. Maybe that was done as a matter of course, or maybe because this was swirling around. He knew whatever other secrets that he knew, and he built a firewall. Remember he was very much an insider at that point. He recused and cut himself off from further involvement. He might have been smart enough to see that the Page meeting had gotten them into very shaky ground and covered his ass, or he might just have been following normal protocol. Remember that? When there was a certain standard of behavior which was simply expected, and not complying would result in a lot of scrutiny?

He's probably in deep enough that it won't save him, but it helps. It might explain why Trump is so mad with him over the recusal - not only is he not covering Trump's flank, he's hiding from the splatter damage behind the wall of recusal.



"Among the things Ohr said he learned from Steele during the breakfast was that an unnamed former Russian intelligence official had said that Russian intelligence believed “they had Trump over a barrel,” according to people familiar with the meeting. It was not clear from Ohr’s interview whether Steele had been directly told that or had picked that up through his contacts, but the broader sentiment is echoed in Steele’s research dossier."

"Ohr also told Congress that Steele told him that Page, a Trump campaign aide who traveled to Moscow that same month and whose ties to Russia attracted FBI scrutiny, had met with more senior Russian officials than he had acknowledged meeting with."

 

It's pretty obvious he meant the Dems want to give Your Money to Those People. And everyone in that room understood.

 

The guy had a long grudge against the paper. For years, he did nothing. Then as Trump’s attacks intensified, he acted. This is not proof of a direct, causal link. But it is noteworthy.

 

Maybe we'll remember this as when the fever broke.

Say a prayer for John McCain's America

 

The ones who are in favor of Second Amendment Remedies.

 

Just saw parked outside the local packy (Bostonian for liquor store) a bright red '64 Impala SS convertible with a 425 cube engine. That wasn't a boring car.

 

Scruples? No. Rubles? Yes.

 

Given that room was in Southern Indiana: Yes, everyone understood whatever he meant.

 

Ubu agrees!