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Originally posted by Ackks:
I wish there was an alternative to Drudge. He has been so negative lately.

Concur. He and FoxNews have taken a downturn and are no longer worthy.

Take a look at Whatfinger.com as an alternative.

I use Whatfinger and Drudge as my two go-to aggregate news sites. My others are Daily Caller, Breitbart and National Review.

ABCNews led tonights evening news with a slanted piece with a Cohen statement to the effect of that the payment was planned, coordinated and instigated all at the direction of Trump. Makes me wonder who has dirt on Cohen that is directing his testimony.

Trump is right, even if he testifies, there are too many versions of "the truth" out there, and the special counsel is far too hostile.

I think our collective experience reveals that it is not too smart to draw firm conclusions about these events based solely on media reports.

There is an awful lot of conjecture, bias, wishful thinking and, dare I say it, some intentional truth shading, and who can say which is really which.

To draw reliable conclusions, one must know what actually occurred or was said and what law properly and accurately interpreted applies.

We seldom have those luxuries these days.

A good point was brought up - If Trump used his own personal money, paid to his own personal lawyer as hush money to two women of questionable reputations, how is that a violation of campaign finance laws?

I'll admit I don't know the first thing about federal campaign statutes, but it all seems fishy why he plead guilty to these questionable offenses.

The minute Lanny Davis became Cohens lawyer only a blind man couldn’t see Cohen was going to flip on Trump. There are going to be winners and there are going to be losers at high levels in the next coming weeks. Who is going to be on either side we have no way of knowing yet but cards are starting to be played.
If I know Trump it will be scorched earth before the swamp gets him. Historic timed for sure.

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Originally posted by Sr_Bull:
A good point was brought up - If Trump used his own personal money, paid to his own personal lawyer as hush money to two women of questionable reputations, how is that a violation of campaign finance laws?

I'll admit I don't know the first thing about federal campaign statutes, but it all seems fishy why he plead guilty to these questionable offenses.

Since Trump reimbursed the payments out of his own money, there is no violation of campaign law. I guarantee that the prosecution gave Cohen no choice. They sat him down, told him exactly what he was going to say and admit to, in exchange for leniancy or the next time he would see the light of day, with good behavior, might be just in time to attend his own memorial service. I wouldn't be surprised if the prosecution even called Lanny Davis on his behalf and told him that he was going to represent Cohen as part of the "deal".

a Fox interview w President Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuwK1QipDDg

Q: your supporters want the DoJ documents released

DJT: "At the right time I think I am going to have to do the documents"

"they surveilled my campaign"

Donald Trump says he is bothered that Rosenstein signed one of the FISA warrants

"Jeff Sessions was on the campaign. He knows there was no collusion"

Sounds like President Trump is well aware of the details of the dirty tricks going on in the FBI and DoJ.

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Originally posted by Sr_Bull:
A good point was brought up - If Trump used his own personal money, paid to his own personal lawyer as hush money to two women of questionable reputations, how is that a violation of campaign finance laws?

I'll admit I don't know the first thing about federal campaign statutes, but it all seems fishy why he plead guilty to these questionable offenses.

The OP of this current SigForum thread bears directly on that.

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...0601935/m/9110041644

He also said Rosenstein was the one who recommended Wray.
Imagine that.

National Review
Mairead McArdle

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has taken his hardest line yet in the face of what he called Democratic “obstruction” of Trump administration nominees to the judicial and executive branches.

McConnell on Thursday announced that the Senate will stay in session for as long as it takes to approve twelve of Trump’s judicial nominees as well as four executive-branch picks.

“No more obstruction, no more delays. It’s time to confirm them all,” McConnell said. “The Senate will continue to work right through August until every single one of them is confirmed.”

McConnell plans to explode Democratic filibusters on every one of the next 16 nominees, and has scheduled votes on them for this week.

Democrats’ own 2013 amending of the filibuster rule has prevented them from stopping the votes. Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid spearheaded the effort to cancel the filibuster option for most nominations by presidents. Instead of the 60-vote supermajority previously required to confirm administration nominees, the razor-thin Republican majority can confirm them with zero Democratic votes.

So far 110 Trump nominees have had to deal with a filibuster threat from Democrats, McConnell said on Twitter.

Still, the Senate has managed to confirm 26 circuit-court judges and 26 district-court picks as well as Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch.

McConnell organized Senate votes on the twelve judicial nominees as well as nominees for assistant attorney general, assistant security of the treasury, assistant secretary of health and human services, and vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Trump’s nominee for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Kathy Kraninger, advanced to a Senate vote on Thursday after the Senate Banking Committee approved her 13 to twelve along party lines.

Link

Way past time to fire Sessions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/2...-considerations.html

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
National Review
Mairead McArdle

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has taken his hardest line yet in the face of what he called Democratic “obstruction” of Trump administration nominees to the judicial and executive branches.

For asshole Harry, this would be "Reaping what you sow, you front hole." I might just have to start giving a little R-E-S-P-I-C-T [sic] to Mr. McConnell...

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Originally posted by Ackks:
Way past time to fire Sessions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/2...-considerations.html

Probably stating the obvious, but I think Sessions' recusal has pissed President Trump off more than his inaction on anything else. Someone please explain to me EXACTLY what this chair warmer has done since he took his post.

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Originally posted by Ackks:
Way past time to fire Sessions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/2...-considerations.html

Sessions doesn't have control of his own bowels, let alone the DOJ. He is a swamp creature to his very marrow.

Sessions is the single most disappointing pick by Trump for any position. He has set the low bar for expectations and he's failed to even meet those.

He was picked for a reason - I wish we knew why, but he seems loathe to do anything to clean house or restore faith in the judicial system

Again, I wish I knew why he was in the seat - he's done little of consequence, and certainly hasn't been an asset to the administration

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
Sessions is the single most disappointing pick by Trump for any position. He has set the low bar for expectations and he's failed to even meet those.

He was picked for a reason - I wish we knew why, but he seems loathe to do anything to clean house or restore faith in the judicial system

Again, I wish I knew why he was in the seat - he's done little of consequence, and certainly hasn't been an asset to the administration

Fire Sessions. Rosenstein is already the acting Attorney General. Trump and most of America have no faith in Sessions.

Sessions is a coward. He has no business being AG. He has no problem turning a blind eye to monumental corruption and abuses of the law by the left. He will go down as the man who oversaw the absolute collapse of the rule of law and the rise of the two tiered “justice” system.

He is pathetic.

^^^ Funny how we never hear anything anymore from those who tried to convince us that Sessions was a mastermind who was working feverishly behind the scenes to wipe out corruption at the DOJ.

I wonder about the Democrats' desire to impeach President Trump and remove him from office.

If they could succeed, wouldn't V.P. Pence be moved into the Oval Office?

Why do the Dem's think this would advance their progress toward a totalitarian/socialist, God-less America?

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Originally posted by RichardC:
I wonder about the Democrats' desire to impeach President Trump and remove him from office.

If the could succeed, wouldn't V.P. Pence be moved into the Oval Office?

Why do the Dem's think this would advance their progress toward a totalitarian/socialist, God-less America?

i think theyre just super desperate for a win.

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The Demoshits have looked at their pile of chips and decided it was a good bet to go ALL IN on whatever Mueller can dig up. He couldn't dig up a clam at low tide. The Demoshits are going to lose their collective asses on this one bet hoping for 3-of-a-kind on the river card and all they're holding is pocket deuces.

My question has and always will be, "Impeach him for WHAT??" Mueller isn't going to find a thing and "they" are all hedging their bets on this Russia and Daniels bullshit. Ain't gonna come to fruition, sadly, for these idiot front holes.