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Originally posted by lbj:
New nothingburger from the NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...ushner-manafort.html

The mental masturbation in the comments section is a hoot.

The NYT is being discredited by Circa.
It was a setup.

https://www.circa.com/story/20...-but-didnt-follow-up

Nice statement from Bob Dole:

Yes it was.. Just thought about Bob Dole today as he was one of the few republican leadership veterans who went to convention in support of Trump as nominee. Three Cheers for Senator Dole...


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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Nice statement from Bob Dole:

http://i.imgur.com/uUJHaGg.gifv

Trump shaking hands with Putin.

Bob Dole says Bob Dole is pleased with President Trump's progress.

Trump's Leaner White House Payroll Projected To Save Taxpayers $22 Million

If the White House payroll is a leading indicator of the president’s commitment to shrink government then voters have a reason to cheer. Projected four-year savings on the White House payroll could top $22 million. Savings come from President Trump’s refusal to take a salary as well as big reductions in other areas including the absence of czars, expensive “fellowships,” and spending on FLOTUS staff.

On Friday, the Trump administration released their annual report to Congress on White House Office Personnel. It includes the name, status, salary and position title of all 377 White House employees. (Search the recent Trump administration payroll data – and last two-years of the Obama administration - posted at OpenTheBooks.com.)

Here are some key findings:

There are 110 fewer employees on White House staff under Trump than under Obama at this point in their respective presidencies.
$5.1 million in payroll savings vs. the Obama FY2015 payroll. In 2017, the Trump payroll amounts to $35.8 million for 377 employees, while the Obama payroll amounted to $40.9 million for 476 employees (FY2015).
Nineteen fewer staffers are dedicated to The First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS). Currently, there are five staffers dedicated to Melania Trump vs. 24 staffers who served Michelle Obama (FY2009).
Counts of the “Assistants to the President” – the most trusted advisors to the president - are the same (22) in both first-year Trump and Obama administrations. In the Trump White House, Steven Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Omarosa Manigault, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and 17 others make salaries of $179,700. In Obama’s first-year, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and twenty others held the title with top pay of $172,000.
The highest compensated White House Trump staffer? Mark House, Senior Policy Advisor, has a salary of $187,500. Mr. House is “on detail” from a federal agency which allows him to exceed the top pay-grade of $179,700. In Obama’s Administration (2009), David Marcozzi earned $193,000 “on detail” from Health and Human Services.

Our review of the Trump White House payroll confirms five staffers dedicated to First Lady Melania Trump. Highly criticized for her twenty-four assistants, advisors, schedulers, directors, deputies, advance aides, associates, social and press secretaries and other helpers, former First Lady Michelle Obama’s staff was only slightly larger than Laura Bush’s staff of eighteen.

These five White House employees serving First Lady Melania Trump include:

Lindsay Reynolds, Chief of Staff to the First Lady ($179,700);
Stephanie Grisham, Director of Communications for the First Lady ($115,000);
Anna Niceta, Social Secretary ($115,000)
Timothy Tripepi, Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations for the First Lady ($115,000);
Mary-Kathryn Fisher, Deputy Director of Advance for the First Lady ($77,000).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...illion/#fa31a1d57e6d

"The NYT is being discredited by Circa.
It was a setup."

Fusion GPS keeps turning up in the attempts to make the Trump administration look bad.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Powell's attorney Ashley Jones told the court her client, who spent nine years in the Army,

Who cares. . .

Well, I care.

At nine years in you're pretty much wearing the "golden handcuffs". It's very likely that this guy was barred from re-enlisting, or if he was an officer he was simply put out of the service. If that's the case, then there would've been a good reason for that, involving lack of integrity or other serious character flaw, if not a history of nonjudicial action for misbehavior.

Yes, it matters. Speaks to his lack of character. That onion needs to be peeled a little more.

Well done Mr. President...and the bearing on the Marine? Outstanding!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Video will be edited such that the next CNN headline be..."Trump is racist. Knocks cover off black Marine's head".

That recent NYT article about a mtg w Donald Trump Jr and a Russian lawyer is taking on a darker meaning that looks even more like a DEM dirty tricks operation

The mtg was 9 June 2016.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/a...y-in-collusion-2.php

On June 9, 2016, a meeting was held in Trump Tower. Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort attended the meetng. They met “with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times.” The Russian lawyer is identified as Natalia Veselnitskaya

So what did they talk about? As described to the Times, the confidential government records apparently don’t say

Donald Trump, Jr:

“I was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance, but was not told the name of the person I would be meeting with beforehand.”

“It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.”

spokesman for the president’s lawyer :

Ms. Veselnitskaya and the translator who accompanied her to the meeting “misrepresented who they were,”

Ms. Veselnitskaya, in her anti-Magnitsky campaign, employs a private investigator whose firm, Fusion GPS, produced an intelligence dossier that contained unproven allegations against the president

The president’s legal team said Saturday they believe the entire meeting may have been part of a larger election-year opposition effort aimed at creating the appearance of improper connections between Trump family members and Russia

“We have learned from both our own investigation and public reports that the participants in the meeting misrepresented who they were and who they worked for,” said Mark Corallo, a spokesman for President Trump’s legal team.

“Specifically, we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier. ”


In a statement, the firm said, “Fusion GPS learned about this meeting from news reports and had no prior knowledge of it. Any claim that Fusion GPS arranged or facilitated this meeting in any way is false.”

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from Wiki:

In September 2015, a wealthy Republican donor who opposed Trump's candidacy in the Republican primary hired Fusion GPS, an American research firm, to do opposition research on Trump. For months, Fusion GPS gathered information about Trump, focusing on his business and entertainment activities.

When Trump became the presumptive nominee in May 2016, the Republican donor withdrew and the investigation contract was taken over by an unidentified Democratic client

In June 2016 Fusion GPS hired Orbis Business Intelligence, a private British intelligence firm, to look into any Russian connections

The investigation was undertaken by Orbis co-founder Christopher Steele

Steele delivered his report as a series of two- or three-page memos, starting in June 2016

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awfully "coincidental"
Fusion GPS and Steele doing opposition research on Trump. Reports coming out in June 2016.

And a person associated w Fusion GPS arranges a phony mtg w Donald Trump Jr in June 2016

Remember the Okeefe videos of DEM operatives trying to sabotage the Trump campaign?

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Originally posted by 41:
Trump's Leaner White House Payroll Projected To Save Taxpayers $22 Million

If the White House payroll is a leading indicator of the president’s commitment to shrink government then voters have a reason to cheer. Projected four-year savings on the White House payroll could top $22 million. Savings come from President Trump’s refusal to take a salary as well as big reductions in other areas including the absence of czars, expensive “fellowships,” and spending on FLOTUS staff.

On Friday, the Trump administration released their annual report to Congress on White House Office Personnel. It includes the name, status, salary and position title of all 377 White House employees. (Search the recent Trump administration payroll data – and last two-years of the Obama administration - posted at OpenTheBooks.com.)

Here are some key findings:

There are 110 fewer employees on White House staff under Trump than under Obama at this point in their respective presidencies.
$5.1 million in payroll savings vs. the Obama FY2015 payroll. In 2017, the Trump payroll amounts to $35.8 million for 377 employees, while the Obama payroll amounted to $40.9 million for 476 employees (FY2015).
Nineteen fewer staffers are dedicated to The First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS). Currently, there are five staffers dedicated to Melania Trump vs. 24 staffers who served Michelle Obama (FY2009).
Counts of the “Assistants to the President” – the most trusted advisors to the president - are the same (22) in both first-year Trump and Obama administrations. In the Trump White House, Steven Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Omarosa Manigault, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and 17 others make salaries of $179,700. In Obama’s first-year, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and twenty others held the title with top pay of $172,000.
The highest compensated White House Trump staffer? Mark House, Senior Policy Advisor, has a salary of $187,500. Mr. House is “on detail” from a federal agency which allows him to exceed the top pay-grade of $179,700. In Obama’s Administration (2009), David Marcozzi earned $193,000 “on detail” from Health and Human Services.

Our review of the Trump White House payroll confirms five staffers dedicated to First Lady Melania Trump. Highly criticized for her twenty-four assistants, advisors, schedulers, directors, deputies, advance aides, associates, social and press secretaries and other helpers, former First Lady Michelle Obama’s staff was only slightly larger than Laura Bush’s staff of eighteen.

These five White House employees serving First Lady Melania Trump include:

Lindsay Reynolds, Chief of Staff to the First Lady ($179,700);
Stephanie Grisham, Director of Communications for the First Lady ($115,000);
Anna Niceta, Social Secretary ($115,000)
Timothy Tripepi, Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations for the First Lady ($115,000);
Mary-Kathryn Fisher, Deputy Director of Advance for the First Lady ($77,000).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...illion/#fa31a1d57e6d

33% larger is only slightly?

Trump Puts Marine's Hat Back On After Wind Blows It Away

The difference between Trump and a Dim: the thought process.

Trump, upon seeing the hat thinks "I had better grab that for him before it blows away". Most likely this thought occurred instinctively without external considerations. And he picked it up not once but twice.

Had that been Obama or the Hilbot in the same same situation they would ponder the "optics" of a photo or whether picking it up was below their station. Their mental gears would have been grinding calculating the action most politically beneficial to themselves.

It's not hard to discern which party truly respects the military vs. which one considers them hired help for social experiments.

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Originally posted by Audioholic:
It's not hard to discern which party truly respects the military vs. which one considers them hired help for social experiments.

How true.



And let's not forget the coffee cup salute.

I just saw that video and it made my Sunday. Outstanding...

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33% larger is only slightly?

Yes, and reducing increases in projected growth is a cut. DUH!!

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Originally posted by SapperSteel:

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Powell's attorney Ashley Jones told the court her client, who spent nine years in the Army,

Who cares. . .

Well, I care.

At nine years in you're pretty much wearing the "golden handcuffs". It's very likely that this guy was barred from re-enlisting, or if he was an officer he was simply put out of the service. If that's the case, then there would've been a good reason for that, involving lack of integrity or other serious character flaw, if not a history of nonjudicial action for misbehavior.

Yes, it matters. Speaks to his lack of character. That onion needs to be peeled a little more.

My point was it doesn't matter in the sense its no excuse or extenuating circumstance to his behavior. His background is irrelevant when it comes to his illegal behavior.

Saw this on the Sean Spicier twitter parody account and am waiting for the outrage from trolled libs

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Originally posted by SapperSteel:

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Powell's attorney Ashley Jones told the court her client, who spent nine years in the Army,

Who cares. . .

Well, I care.

At nine years in you're pretty much wearing the "golden handcuffs". It's very likely that this guy was barred from re-enlisting, or if he was an officer he was simply put out of the service. If that's the case, then there would've been a good reason for that, involving lack of integrity or other serious character flaw, if not a history of nonjudicial action for misbehavior.

Yes, it matters. Speaks to his lack of character. That onion needs to be peeled a little more.

My point was it doesn't matter in the sense its no excuse or extenuating circumstance to his behavior. His background is irrelevant when it comes to his illegal behavior.

Yes, Ashley Jones is trying to make the dirt ball's nine years of military service into an "extenuating circumstance", thinking it makes him look good, like he's an honorable patriot.

I think his background is relevant when it shows a consistent history of bad acts/misbehavior. And leaving the service after nine years is a hint.

Only those who are completely unfamiliar with the facts of military life would fall for Jones' nonsense regarding his service record. Those who have served know about the golden handcuffs and understand that not many people make the decision to quit when they are only ten years away from retirement unless there is something pushing them out. Those who know this immediately see the dirt ball's nine-year service as a RED FLAG, understand that he is likely a miscreant, see Ashley Jones' subterfuge for exactly what it is.