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Originally posted by sdy:
whatever you think of Reince Priebus, his exit interviews have been full of class and praise for President Trump.

He also gave a thumbs up to Steve Bannon.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...-nationalist-agenda/

“I will say that Steve is doing a great job,” Priebus said in a Friday evening CNN interview after Trump tweeted that former Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly would be the new chief of staff. “He is a brilliant guy who only cares about the president’s agenda. He thinks about it 24 hours a day. Never quits.”

Priebus’ characterization of Bannon is consistent with accounts from former Bannon associates who often wondered if Bannon, known for working around the clock for issues he cares deeply about, ever slept because he cared so much about the nationalist-populist agenda that galvanized Trump’s voters and will be key to Trump’s reelection prospects.

Bannon has a whiteboard in his West Wing office with all of the promises—including building the “border wall”—that Trump made to his voters in 2016.

“My hat is off to Steve Bannon,” Priebus said.

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Steve Bannon was the best choice President Trump made when he built his campaign team.

I have never liked Priebus but this says a lot about him.

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Priebus’ characterization of Bannon is consistent with accounts from former Bannon associates who often wondered if Bannon, known for working around the clock for issues he cares deeply about, ever slept because he cared so much about the nationalist-populist agenda that galvanized Trump’s voters and will be key to Trump’s reelection prospects.

Bannon has a whiteboard in his West Wing office with all of the promises—including building the “border wall”—that Trump made to his voters in 2016.

“My hat is off to Steve Bannon,” Priebus said.

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Steve Bannon was the best choice President Trump made when he built his campaign team.

I would agree.
Priebus was always a boot licker. He hitched himself to Trump when it was apparent that Trump would be the nominee. He was the GOPe, the establishment. The same cannot be said of Bannon, though the two became friends.

Jared Kushner has outsize influence because he's the son-in-law of the President. He and Ivanka are Democrats.

I hope Kushner is not successful in pushing Bannon out. It would mark a clear tilt to the left and leave Trump with mostly Democrats and former military advisors.

"Piers Morgan is calling out J.K. Rowling after she hit out at President Donald Trump in a series of tweets where she blasted his apparent refusal to shake the hand of a disabled little boy. …"

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...king-boy-s-hand.html

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...t-trump-ag-sessions/

Prosecutions for illegal gun possession are up 23 percent under President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

According to NRA-ILA, “Charges of unlawful possession of a gun – mostly by convicted felons – are up 23 percent in the second quarter of 2017 from the same time period in 2016.” Moreover, “the number of defendants charged with the crime of using a firearm in a crime of violence or drug trafficking has increased by 10 percent.”

This stands in stark contrast to the way things were done during the Obama administration; a time in which prosecutions against individuals attempting to illegally buy a gun fell by 40 percent while calls for more gun control rose exponentially.

On February 28, 2017, Breitbart News reported that AG Sessions asked the Department of Justice to “increase prosecutions of gun-law violations” so that suspects know they will pay a price for using guns in crime. And just two weeks later he called again for “harsh sentences” for gun crimes as a way to forewarn would-be criminals that they will pay a price if they use a gun in the commission of a crime.

IRA-ILA executive Chris Cox commented on the increase in prosecutions under Trump and Sessions, saying, “The National Rifle Association applauds President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for understanding that prosecuting violent criminals and protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners are not mutually exclusive ideas. ”

You know...the MSM would rather find "sympathy" for a bunch of thug murderers and downplay his message on MS-13 than utter any words of support for President Trump...I wonder if they would stand behind him even if some of their loved ones suffered under these thugs?...

Probably not...

How 'bout it CNN...can you not find anything positive...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017...-lambasts-trump.html

Clearly not news.

It is funny how so many people get worked up about what is going on. I think a shakeup is a good thing. The economy is moving right along nicely.

I never watched "The Apprentice" when President Trump (love saying that) was on it. Is he running his cabinet in the same style? Perform, or "You're fired!"

Are we watching "White House Apprentice?"

I don't mind it at all. I'm 100% happy with the job he's doing. Just curious, that's all.

Tony.

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Originally posted by benny6:
Perform, or "You're fired!"


Tony.

Better be careful. The country has depended on incompetence in government for a couple of centuries to take the edge off all those idiotic campaign promises that get enacted.

Among those promises are a set of laws, rules, regulations that makes it essentially impossible to fire all but a handful of officials.

UPDATE: I was tired of liberals saying "Trump hasn't kept any of his promises," so I went and made a running list of things he has done so far. (self.The_Donald)
submitted 3 months ago * by Trumps_Totsx2
This is a running list of the promises President Trump made on the campaign trail, and has kept in his First 100 Days in office. Barely any of them have been reported on because of this bullshit Russia conspiracy theory that is swallowing the MSM. He has literally "Done more in 97days than Obama did in 8 years." This is not only a running list of promises he has kept so far, but also things he has done that weren't even promised on the campaign trail. MAGA. (I will be updating this as much as I can, whenever a new initiative comes to light)
Edit: Much like our AMAZING president, I have been incredibly busy for the past six months and I apologize for not staying up-to-date. I have gotten many requests to update it and finally have some extra time on my hands, so a big update with many, new YUGE promises kept will be coming soon. The last time I edited it was after his first 100 Days, and this is going to be a six month update. I also noticed that the great creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams, has linked this in one of his most recent blog posts and tells his readers to share it with EVERY liberal they know, and I urge you to do the same. The cognitive dissonance is very real! It has been an incredible 6 months of only his first term, and America has already gotten much greater! (Promises preceded by an asterisk are part of the updated list and have taken place after his first 100 days)
PROMISES MADE AND KEPT SO FAR:
Campaign Promise 1: To replace Antonin Scalia with a like-minded justice from a list of 20
Trump replaced Antonin Scalia with Neil Gorsuch, an incredibly qualified and Constitution-abiding justice

*Campaign Promise 2: To suspend immigration from terror-prone countries
Trump has successfully enacted a Travel Ban that is 100% CONSTITUTIONAL AND is made from the seven (six, now) "countries of concern" outlined by the Obama Administration. This ban is part of President Trump's promise to keep every citizen of the United States safe from radical Islamic terrorism.

Campaign Promise 3: To defund and crack down on sanctuary cities
Trump has implemented a YUGE crackdown on sanctuary cities, threatening to defund them
*- Attorney General Sessions has stated that he is not messing around when it comes to sanctuary cities, and continues in the fight against cities that harbor criminal illegal aliens

Campaign Promise 4: To revive the Keystone Pipeline and Dakota Access Pipeline
The revival of the Dakota and Keystone XL Pipelines creating American jobs

Campaign Promise 5: To pull the US out of the TPP, an Obama-era trade deal detrimental to the US
Trump pulled us out of the TPP which would have been absolutely disastrous for the US

Campaign Promise 6: DONALD TRUMP LOVES WOMEN AND WANTS TO HELP WOMEN!
Trump has signed an Executive Order promoting women in STEM jobs (careers real feminists strive for, not "dance therapy" feminists)
Trump has Launched a Council empowering female leaders and female entrepreneurs

Campaign Promise 7: To renegotiate, or pull out of Bill Clinton's terrible trade deal, NAFTA
Trump met with Justin Trudeau (what a joke) to discuss the tweaking of NAFTA to benefit the US more, after he threatens to leave it
*- The Trump Administration has laid out what he wishes to see in regards to NAFTA reform

Campaign Promise 8: To undo ridiculous Obama-era federal agency regulations
Trump ordered a two-for-one repeal for all new regulations enacted by federal agencies

Campaign Promise 9: To rollback Obama-era regulations on small businesses
Trump has rolled back ridiculous Obama-era regulations that have made it nearly impossible for small businesses to hire employees
Trump has already saved taxpayers $86 Billion by cutting regulations
*- Trump has undone hundreds of Obama-era job killing regulations which has helped cause a significant increase of jobs

Campaign Promise 10: To help America's inner-cities deeply in need of rebuilding
Trump has signed an Executive Order to give major funding to "Historically Black Colleges and Universities," helping out inner-cities immensely

Campaign Promise 11: To protect our policemen, the true everyday heroes
Trump signed an Executive Order protecting our police

Campaign Promise 12: To crackdown on illegal immigration and to BUILD A WALL
Trump has implemented a YUGE crackdown on illegal immigration and he has started the WALL initiative

Campaign Promise 13: To bolster our depleted military
Trump has increased our military budget because we don't want to use our military, but want to be prepared to use it

Campaign Promise 14: To enact a five year lobbying ban on government Officials after they leave office
Trump has placed a five year and lifetime lobbying ban on government officials for when they leave office

Campaign Promise 15: To crackdown on drug cartels and illegal drugs crossing the border
Trump signed an Executive Order cracking down on drug cartels

Campaign Promise 16: To revitalize the dying coal industry in the US
Trump has enacted Joint Resolution 38 putting thousands of coal miners back to work

Campaign Promise 17: To create American JOBS and bring companies back to America
Trump negotiated a deal with Carrier promising to bring manufacturing and jobs back to the US.
Trump has met with CEOs from huge companies to work on bringing jobs back to America
There was an increase of 298,000 jobs in February alone (liberals will say that counts in Obama's fiscal year, but we know the truth)
Trump met with Intel CEO who promised $7 Billion investment and over 3,000 high paying (not "shovel ready" bullshit jobs) in America
Trump met with the CEO of Softbank who has promised 50,000 more American jobs and has already fulfilled 3,000 of those jobs
Kroger has promised over 10,000 new jobs in the era of Trump
The month of March yielded 263,000 new jobs, which passes the month's estimated 185,000 Big League

Campaign Promise 18: Pushing NATO allies to pay their fair share or face the reality of the US possibly leaving
Trump has put major pressure on the members of NATO to pay their fair and equal share because there are only a handful of countries in NATO who currently pay as much as agreed upon

Campaign Promise 19: To make America energy independent, relieving us from our dependence on foreign entities, such as OPEC
Trump has taken major steps towards America's energy independence

Campaign Promise 20: To enact a hiring freeze on government employees to help stop corruption
Trump enacted a hiring freeze to all federal employees, cutting down on the over-bloated bureaucracy

Campaign Promise 21: Trump could be the president that takes us to Mars!
Trump signed a Bill allowing NASA funding, including an exploration to Mars

Campaign Promise 22: To undo many of Obama's unconstitutional Executive Orders
Rescinding (one of) Obama's incredibly unconstitutional actions regarding transgender bathrooms in schools

Campaign Promise 23: The repeal and replacement of Obamacare. The recent GOP fallout of AHCA Plan was no fault of Trump's. The blame solely belongs to Speaker Ryan. He created a shit bill and couldn't even capitalize to get enough votes. Obamacare will crash in 2017 when individual mandates kick in and Democrats will be to blame. That is when Trump will truly work to Repeal and Replace it with a plan he promised us.
Trump got rid of the idiotic penalty in Obamacare that fines you if you choose not to participate in the program

Campaign Promise 24: To "Bomb the shit out of ISIS"
A few days ago, Trump dropped the YUGE MOAB on a group of ISIS militants, killing 90+ terrorists and causing damage to underground tunnels and technology
He called for a drone strike in Afghanistan killing Qari Yasin, a Pakistani Al-Qaeda leader

Campaign Promise 25: To not take a salary as President
He donated his first quarterly salary to the National Park Service

Campaign Promise 26: To reform the VA and make it easier for Vets to get more healthcare opportunities
He signed A Bill allowing veterans to seek healthcare outside of the broken VA system
Trump has created the Accountability Office at the VA, making it incredibly easy to oust incompetent VA employees

Campaign Promise 27: To create a much needed tax reform
Trump has laid out an extremely concise, yet effective Tax Reform Plan to lower taxes for Americans and end things like inheritance tax, and to cut corporate tax rates down to 15%

Campaign Promise 28 (Scroll down to see "School Choice and Education Act"): To fix our country's incredibly broken education system
Trump has signed an Executive Order giving the power of our country's education back to state and local authorities
ACTIONS NOT PROMISED ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, BUT HAVE BEEN PUT IN EFFECT:
(Even though it was Mike Pence) The defunding of clinics that perform abortions. Because no matter whether you are pro-choice/pro-life, the government should not be funding abortions. (Also, if people bring up the Hyde Amendment which is supposed to not let any federal funding go towards abortions, LET THEM KNOW that US taxpayers pay for about 24% of abortions despite of that "amendment")
Huge spikes in the NASDAQ average index and the DOW average index starting November 8th. (This will count for Obama unfortunately, but we know where the real credit belongs.)
He has placed sanctions on Iran after they tested ballistic missiles
He has met with/talked to over 68 foreign leaders
He negotiated down the Price of the new Air Force One one billion dollars in a meeting that lasted just one hour
He issued major cuts to the costs of the F-35 saving billions
He has opened the eyes of the American public to just how unbelievably corrupt (pretty believable to most) the Obama Administration was.
After spending 3 years in a prison in Egypt, and absolutely no help from President Obama, humanitarian and US citizen Aya Hijazi has safely returned home and has given all credit to President Trump
https://imgur.com/a/xdqw1
All edits will be: More examples of MAGAing

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D..._saying_trump_hasnt/


And I would add one other accomplishment of President Donald Trump: Today marks 192 days, and about 22 hours, that Hillary Clinton has NOT been president.

way back on page 1109 of the "Donald Trump is a first-rate ..." thread there was a report on college professor Kevin Allred. He was at Rutgers and sent off to Psych evaluation after comments he made about our first rate President.

Here is an update on Kevin:

Rutgers:

Mr. Allred was slated to join the university’s Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program. He made national headlines last fall for teaching a course about the politics of pop star Beyoncé at Rutgers University.

in November, when Mr. Allred wondered on Twitter whether the Second Amendment would “be as cool when I buy a gun and start shooting at random white people or no …?”

Rutgers referred Mr. Allred for psychiatric evaluation, and he was not retained for the spring semester.

good call Rutgers

now Montclair State University:

In a tweet Friday night, Kevin Allred wished “someone would just shoot” Mr. Trump.
After a backlash ensued, he deleted the tweet and justified it on the grounds that he did not technically threaten the president’s life.

Montclair State scrubbed Mr. Allred’s bio from its website over the weekend

Kevin now tweets:

"so FYI...Montclair State has fired me before I even started teaching there. congrats to the Trump trolls. but you're still not special."


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not as special as you Kevin. keep tweeting cause it is working out so well and all

Joe, great post! I'll be forwarding that to a lot of folks.

Don't forget pulling out of the Paris Climate scam

^^^ Excellent!

Excellent list from 'reddit'!

As it was last updated about three months ago, it does not include Trump's commissioning of a bi-partisan committee to investigate voter fraud.
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According to LawNewz, the Trump administration is now regularly using a term that has rarely been used by the federal government since 2009:

There has been a shift in the language that the U.S. Department of Justice is using in its press releases and official announcements, and it’s not sitting well with some. The DOJ, under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has begun using the term “illegal aliens” to refer to immigrants who do not have the proper paperwork to be in the United States.

Under Obama, the de rigueur term was “undocumented” which sanitized what was going on. As the Chicago Tribune complains:

[I]n the July 9, 2014, announcement, “Department of Justice Announces New Priorities to Address Surge of Migrants Crossing into the U.S.,” then-Deputy Attorney General James Cole chose such language as “migrants,” “asylum seekers” and “unaccompanied minors.”

Naturally, a lot of people who aren’t fans of Sessions are displeased:

“They’re using a legally inaccurate term that’s deployed to unfairly label and scapegoat people who are out of status due to a variety of systemic circumstances,” Xakota Espinoza from the Center for Racial Justice Innovation, told LawNewz.com
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“The i-word is legally inaccurate, politically loaded, dehumanizing to the people it describes and likely unintentionally fuels racial profiling and violence directed toward immigrants,” Espinoza explained.

Department of Justice referring to people here as what they are, illegal aliens, brings a level of clarity to the issue that had been obscured in a cloud of legalese and motivations.

http://www.redstate.com/streif...-uses-illegal-alien/

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“The i-word is legally inaccurate, politically loaded, dehumanizing to the people it describes and likely unintentionally fuels racial profiling and violence directed toward immigrants,” Espinoza explained.

Just how is "the I-word" ("illegal") legally inaccurate? There are laws governing procedures for entering the country, and illegal aliens are non-citizens ("aliens") who did not follow those laws ("illegal"). His other characterizations are purely emotional and devoid of validity. Saying someone is an illegal alien does not "dehumanize" them, merely make them unwelcome and should not be here. If it has the effect of encouraging hostility and discrimination against immigrants (legal ones), perhaps they should do more to refuse to shelter and abet the ones who come here illegally. If we didn't have so many illegal aliens, we'd not be likely to be worried about the ones who are here legally.

flashguy

sounds like a good response by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Trump administration should borrow a page from the DEM playbook - a whole host of Republican and administration players should all sing the same song on this. Keep pointing out the obvious.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...ussia-relationships/

Newly minted White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders flipped Russia conspiracy questions during Tuesday’s press briefing, pointing to a lack of evidence against the Trump Administration and a host of evidence against Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Sanders slammed media questions aimed at showing that there were any “misleading” actions by the Trump campaign or Trump Administration with regards to Russia.

“The thing I see misleading is a year’s worth of stories that have been fueling a false narrative about this Russia collusion. And a phony scandal based on anonymous sources. And, I think if we’re gonna talk about misleading, that’s the only thing misleading I see in this entire process.”

Sanders then accused the media of being focused on a meeting that Trump’s son Don Jr. took, which she characterized as having “no consequence.”

“The Democrats actually colluded with a foreign government like Ukraine,” she pushed back. “The Democrat-linked firm Fusion GPS actually took money from the Russian government while it created the phony dossier that’s been the basis for all of the Russia scandal fake news.”

“Look no further than the Clintons,” for a relationship with Russia, Sanders retorted as reporters attempted to interrupt her statements. She cited the $500,000 former President Bill Clinton accepted to give a speech to a Russian bank. She added that Russian President Vladimir Putin himself thanked Clinton for giving the speech.

She then cited the one-fifth of United States’ uranium that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton allowed to be sold to a Russian firm. Sanders added that the firm’s investors included Clinton Foundation donors.

Evidence of Hillary Clinton’s involvement in selling U.S. uranium to Russian state atomic energy agency Uranium One during her time as Secretary of State is documented in Peter Schweizer’s book Clinton Cash. The book also referenced the New York Times story on the half a million paid to Bill Clinton for the Russian bank speech. An email released through Wikileaks may also be shedding new light on inquiries into links between Hillary Clinton’s opposition to the Magnitsky Act and Bill Clinton’s speech in Moscow.

“The Clinton campaign chairman’s brother lobbied against sanctions on Russia’s largest bank and failed to report it,” Sanders added.

Tony Podesta, the brother of Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta, was paid $170,000 over six months in 2016 to represent Russia’s largest bank and lobby to end economic sanctions against Russia, according to the Daily Caller.

The Press Secretary said the media seemed “obsessed” with discussing Russia relations — and for that the press should look toward the Clintons.

“If you want to talk about somebody who’s actually been tough on Russia, look at President Trump,” she said before stating that Trump wants “more fracking, more coal, more energy, a stronger military, a stronger defense. Those things aren’t good for Russia.”

She accused the media of trying to “create a narrative that just doesn’t exist.”

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REPs have let this fabrication go on for over year because they don't play as a team and hit back. contrast that to the DEMs.

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sounds like a good response by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Trump administration should borrow a page from the DEM playbook - a whole host of Republican and administration players should all sing the same song on this. Keep pointing out the obvious.

I actually like her better than Spicer. She handles herself well. She is a strong new voice for conservatism and has a bright future imo.

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. . . *Campaign Promise 2: To suspend immigration from terror-prone countries
Trump has successfully enacted a Travel Ban that is 100% CONSTITUTIONAL . . .

Just for accuracy's sake, you might want to delete the one saying that the travel ban is 100% constitutional.

Of course, I'm just another lawyer nitpicking the language, but that's what we do.