Trump

[SydneyRover]

Would you buy a used car from either of these two?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/08/25/donald-trump-insists-boris-johnson-right-man-deliver-brexit/

Boris thought bubble: I hope he wore a condom?

[silent majority]

They're like tweedle dum and tweedle dee.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Meanwhile, a tiny insight into the mind of the Liar in Chief.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49587232

This is so achingly sad, you almost feel sorry for him.

[SydneyRover]

Meanwhile, a tiny insight into the mind of the Liar in Chief.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49587232

This is so achingly sad, you almost feel sorry for him.

And again it shows the contempt that he and our own pet liar have for the people.

[BillyStubbsTears]

At it again. The failure of a businessman propping up his failing businesses through corrupt practices.

His Turnberry golf course is haemorrhaging money. £20m loss over two years.

And then whaddya know? The US Air Force start using it as stop-over accommodation for flights which have suddenly started landing at Prestwick for re-fuelling.

It's beyond believe, the stunts this criminal will pull.

[BillyStubbsTears]

This is insane.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49642658

A senior Trump official, calling senior weather scientists and threatening them with the sack for telling the truth and embarrassing Trump.

f**king hell. No comedy, no drama, no novel could have made this up. But it's happening right here and now.

The scientific truth must be discarded to stop the Man-Child-in-Chief from having a tantrum.

[wilts rover]

I see he has sacked John Bolton. I thought my computer had been hacked...

[BillyStubbsTears]

Well at least he's got one up on the FL if he's taken action against Bolton.

[BillyStubbsTears]

But seriously. Imagine how much of a headcase Boulton is, if he's too extreme for Trump.

[BillyStubbsTears]

This.

https://www.bradford-delong.com/2019/09/comment-of-the-day-_rwhttpswwwbradford-delongcom201909aldous-huxley-_brave-new-worldhttpwwwmicroethologyneton.html

I remember reading Brave New World years ago and thinking....but...but...people could never be THAT lacking in interest as the smart folk took their freedom away and told them they were doing it to make them free...

[SydneyRover]

NYT: whistleblower complaint involves 'multiple acts by Trump'

The whistleblower complaint at the heart of an extraordinary standoff between Congress and the intelligence community is said to involve “multiple acts” by the president, according to the New York Times.

Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community, revealed to lawmakers on Thursday that the complaint involved multiple acts, the Times reported, citing two officials familiar with the situation.

Lawmakers said Atkinson declined to discuss specifics during a briefing with the panel and would not say if the complaint involved the president.
The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the complaint involves a “promise” Trump made during a phone conversation with a foreign leader.

Trump on Twitter scoffed at the assertion that he would make such a commitment on a telephone call that he knew might be listened to by intelligence officers from the US and other countries.

Time Magazine is reporting that one of Trump’s phone calls with a foreign leader involved a commitment related to US foreign policy that the whistleblower found troubling.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/sep/19/trump-news-today-live-whistleblower-complaint-democrats-climate-latest-news

[BillyStubbsTears]

I loved that bit.

"Trump on Twitter scoffed at the assertion that he would make such a commitment on a telephone call that he knew might be listened to by intelligence officers from the US and other countries."

That's Trump who inadvertently gave classified intelligence to the Russian ambassador at the White House. And it's the President who tweeted about intelligence issues that led to a mole the Americans had in the Kremlin being exposed and having to be lifted out.

It's the President who said in live TV that he sacked Coney "because of this Trump-Russia thing", thereby admitting an impeachable offence.

So yeah. Who believes he could be so stupid as to commit an impeachable offence in a phone call to a foreign President? Apart from every f**ker who thinks about it for more than 3 seconds.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Here's Trump's tweet.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1174696521914339328

Fascinating.

See, if I were innocent and pushing back on this, I'd say, "Is anybody dumb enough to think that I would say anything inappropriate in a call with a foreign leader?"

It wouldn't dawn on me to add the comment that other people would be listening in. And then to say "not that I'd do anything wrong anyway" as an afterthought.

[SydneyRover]

Donald Chump

[SydneyRover]

Hi this is Don here, I want to make a complete ass of myself, but first I'll deny it then get that idiot lawyer of mine Giuliani dig the hole wider and deeper then I'll claim it's all above board and nothing to see here, signed Donald Chump,

By the way, I love the Ukraine and all the people there, I have great conversations with them, the best, they love me 

[SydneyRover]

Nancy Pelosi intends to announce a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump later today, according to the Washington Post.

The Post reports:

The announcement later Tuesday from Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) comes amid reports that President Trump may have pressured a foreign leader to investigate former vice president and potential 2020 campaign rival Joe Biden and his family.

A growing number of House Democrats are backing an impeachment inquiry as momentum shifts in the Democratic caucus.

Democratic officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak frankly, said she would back the step.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/sep/24/trump-and-johnson-to-meet-amid-impeachment-and-brexit-woes-live?page=with:block-5d8a62d38f084ab84172c72d#block-5d8a62d38f084ab84172c72d

[BillyStubbsTears]

So.

The Democrats have finally hit the Impeachment button.

Not sure it's the best political move as it will only cement those who support Trump regardless.

But

Sometimes you've just got to uphold the law. If he's really been encouraging a foreign country to interfere in the next election ...

...again!

[Bentley Bullet]

......And you don't like him!

[BillyStubbsTears]

He's in a spot of bother now isn't he.

So he's on record as having blocked $400m of military aid to Ukraine at precisely the same time that the Ukrainian president asked him for that aid, and Trump said he needed Ukraine's help digging dirt against his likely election opponent next year.

And then the White House tried to cover that up.

That's as open and shut a case of impeachable offences as you are going to find.

[foxbat]

and that's just the tip of the iceberg

[SydneyRover]

If trump had a brain he'd be a hell of a lot more dangerous

[SydneyRover]

trump should put a stop to these bootleg recordings of his stand-up routine:

Audio of Trump comparing whistleblower's source to a 'spy' is released

The LA Times has released audio of Trump’s event with UN staffers this morning, where the president addressed the release of the whistleblower complaint.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/sep/26/donald-trump-ukraine-live-news-latest-us-politics?page=with:block-5d8d149a8f08fbb0c171c34f#block-5d8d149a8f08fbb0c171c34f

[SydneyRover]

This is now bigger than Ben-Hur and looks likely to drag down many others in the whirlpool, it's such a shame, I like trump he brought a refreshing change to world and US politics. 

White House tried to cover up Trump's Ukraine conversation, whistleblower alleges
Pelosi condemns White House for trying to keep details from public, while Trump compares whistleblower’s source to ‘a spy’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/26/slug-trump-ukraine-latest-whistleblower-complaint-2020-election

[BillyStubbsTears]

The Senate won't pass the impeachment though. I do wonder what he would have to do for the Republicans to turn on him.

[SydneyRover]

I think trump now has the edge on johnson 

Trump has now jumped from the argument that the whistleblower complaint represented “secondhand information,” as he first argued yesterday, to claiming that the information may have been entirely fabricated.

    Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

    Sounding more and more like the so-called Whistleblower isn’t a Whistleblower at all. In addition, all second hand information that proved to be so inaccurate that there may not have even been somebody else, a leaker or spy, feeding it to him or her? A partisan operative?
    September 27, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/sep/27/donald-trump-ukraine-live-news-latest-us-politics?page=with:block-5d8e127a8f08fbb0c171ca33#block-5d8e127a8f08fbb0c171ca33

[scawsby steve]

The Senate won't pass the impeachment though. I do wonder what he would have to do for the Republicans to turn on him.

You're right about the impeachment. It's a dangerous route to go down, because unless it's 100% watertight it won't get through the Senate; and a failed impeachment can hand a sitting President the next election on a plate, as what happened with Bill Clinton.

I'm a bit surprised at Nancy Pelosi, a woman I admire tremendously as both a politician and a person, after the way she continuously held off impeachment during the Mueller report, but has now gone the other way. The opinion of some pundits on last night's news broadcasts was that she may have succumbed to the hard left, which might not be a very wise move.

[BillyStubbsTears]

The Muller Report unquestionably made a case for impeachment but the way that Barr spun it made it easy for the Republicans to push back against it. Muller laid out 10 examples of Obstruction of Justice but because Barr took the lead in saying Muller had exonerated Trump (he 100% had not) that concept took root. You for one have never accepted that was a lie SS, even after Muller published a letter to Barr telling him that Barr had totally misrepresented the facts in the report.

This one is different. It's a slam dunk factual case of impeachable behaviour.

Sometimes, politicians DO have to act to preserve democracy, even if it is not in their party's best interests.

[scawsby steve]

The Muller Report unquestionably made a case for impeachment but the way that Barr spun it made it easy for the Republicans to push back against it. Muller laid out 10 examples of Obstruction of Justice but because Barr took the lead in saying Muller had exonerated Trump (he 100% had not) that concept took root. You for one have never accepted that was a lie SS, even after Muller published a letter to Barr telling him that Barr had totally misrepresented the facts in the report.

This one is different. It's a slam dunk factual case of impeachable behaviour.

Sometimes, politicians DO have to act to preserve democracy, even if it is not in their party's best interests.

There's not much democracy being preserved by many of our politicians, in any of the parties.

[BillyStubbsTears]

See, there you go again SS.

Claiming that everyone is as bad means that you don't separate anyone.

Tell me what Obama did that comes remotely close to the illegality and venality of Trump.

[BillyStubbsTears]

This would be hilarious if it wasn't such a frightening window into the incompetence and childish self-importance of the most powerful man in the world.

He tweeted about Congressman Adam Schiff who is a good few inches shorter than Trump.

For some bizarre reason, he called him Liddle' Adam Schiff.

CNN, understandably thought he meant Little Adam Schiff.

This was the thing that Trump considered THE most important thing to address when he dragged himself out of his pit this morning.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1177539052683309056

So he claims Liddle didn't mean Little. Ok. He's upset because someone questioned his spelling and grammar and whether he is the intellectual giant he claims.

And in petulantly replying, he confuses an apostrophe for a hyphen, and mis-spells "describing".

It would literally be too stupid to laugh at in a comedy show.