I think the media sees it. They are just riding the ratings and losing credibility and themselves pushing the dem strategy when it all works out dor trump in the end cause he manipulated it all.

Devin Nunes (Chair of House Intel Committee) sent DNI Coats a letter today.

LTR:

https://intelligence.house.gov...fting_assistance.pdf

The letter says Nunes is drafting legislation to require stricter documented justification for unmasking of names in intel reports.

Previously Nunes focused on Brennan, Rice, and Samantha Power as unmaskers.

In the letter Nunes states "this committee has learned that one official, whose position had no apparent intelligence-related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama Administration. Of those requests, only one offered a justification that was not boilerplate and articulated why that specific official required the U.S. person information for the performance of his or her official duties."

sounds like Samantha Power at the U.N.

"The Committee also understands that Obama-era officials sought the identities of Trump transition officials within intelligence reports.

However, there was no meaningful explanation offered by these officials as to why they needed or how they would use this U.S. person information, and thus, the Committee is left with the impression that these officials may have used this information for improper purposes, including the possibility of leaking.

More importantly, some of the requests for unminimimized U.S. person information were followed by anonymous leaks of those names to the media"

WTF. Obamacare reform fails again. I knew McCain
was going to vote "no". Now what? Start working on tax reform and hope that passes? How are they going to pass funding for the wall too? Dems will vote no on everything and so will a good chunk of Republicans. Fun times.

First, he says he'll vote "Yes", then he votes "No". He needs to go.

He need to drop dead right now.

Trump speaking to police about pathetic mayors who won't let them do their jobs.

http://thehill.com/homenews/ad...ent-jab-at-de-blasio

There is a reason elected politicians are very loath to publicly rebuke each other, criticize someone, even of the other party. You seldom hear one Senator really wind up and cry poor about another Senator. Very few holding any office go very far to alienate a Senator. Bad ju-ju. Eventually there will be a vote, a phone call, a letter to an important constituent, a favor. Like Don Corleone, these guys know how to return a favor, especially for the deserving.

Trump had been in the race for a month when he claimed he "liked people who weren't captured."

quote:

“He’s not a war hero,” said Trump. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

A big flap immediately followed. I don't think McCain particularly liked that.

There was going to be a day of reckoning, and I surmise that was last night.

Maybe McCain would otherwise have been convinced to go along. This was something Trump really, really wanted, had expended yuuuuuge amounts of time, many dinners, no telling how many phone calls, staff time, glad handing, etc.

But maybe, just maybe, he figured it was time for a payback.

What goes around, comes around, it is often said.

Trump's tough talk has been widely admired, but maybe there will come a cost.

Reince is out. Trump just announced Gen. John Kelly as new Chief of Staff.

quote:

Originally posted by oddball:
... the media as well as Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans are rushing to Jeff Sessions's defense. The guy who just a few months ago was a Klansman, a white supremacist, a racist, a bigot, a homophobe is now a victim, worthy of sympathy and support from the left. Where does that leave his fair-weather supporters when he starts enforcing the laws his two predecessors ignored for the past eight years? Trump just led them into a box that will not be easy to climb out of. In six months, how can Jeff Sessions go from being Hitler to a sympathetic victim, then back to Hitler?"[/i]

This is exactly it. Trump had all of the above dems bestowing sainthood on AG Sessions last week. They walked right into it, like Wiley Coyote running off a cliff in pursuit of the Road Runner.



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quote:

Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Reince is out. Trump just announced Gen. John Kelly as new Chief of Staff.

MAGA!



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quote:

Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Reince is out. Trump just announced Gen. John Kelly as new Chief of Staff.

Priebus was there for one reason only - to get legislation passed. That was supposed to be his role as the ultimate insider. He failed, so he's fired.

President Donald Trump tweeted that Ret. Gen. John Kelly is the new White House chief of staff, replacing Reince Priebus in the role.

"I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff. He is a Great American," the tweet stated.

A source close to now former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus says he resigned privately yesterday.

Reince Priebus was the shortest-serving White House chief of staff in American history, edging out Ken Duberstein.

Priebus was supposed to be very helpful with President Trump's legislative agenda due to all of his Republican contacts.

Bama posted while I was logging in to post.

Finding people to achieve success is something the president showed during his campaign.

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Originally posted by Tubetone:
Priebus was supposed to be very helpful with President Trump's legislative agenda due to all of his Republican contacts.

And with all his time dealing with the press i'll bet he helped the press with a lot of the leaking.

quote:

But maybe, just maybe, he figured it was time for a payback.

What goes around, comes around, it is often said.

Trump's tough talk has been widely admired, but maybe there will come a cost.

If such really is the case.....there is going to be more to this issue.

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Originally posted by gw3971:
And with all his time dealing with the press i'll bet he helped the press with a lot of the leaking.

It seems so.

It seems to me that Donald Trump trusts his new enforcer, Ant'ny "Tony the Scarab" Scaramucci, and I think we are moving in the right direction.

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Reince is out

Good.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...-pick-dhs-secretary/

Kelly lost his 29-year-old son, Marine 1st Lt. Robert Michael Kelly, killed while serving in Afghanistan. Four days later he gave a speech about those who serve our country.

“Like my own two sons who are Marines and have fought in Iraq, and until this week, Afghanistan, they are also the same kids that drove their cars too fast for your liking and played the god-awful music of their generation too loud,” he said. “But have no doubt they are the finest of their generation.”

I wonder if they had any evidence that Reince was a leaker? He comes into the oval office, Trump is at his desk. Tony by his side. They show him the evidence, then Tony holds out his hands. In his right is a set of knuckle dusters, in his left Reince's signed resignation. Reince takes the resignation and walks out the door.

I like Gen. Kelly and think he was doing a great job at DHS. Now won't Trump have to appoint another and get him confirmed?