The Trump thread: All things Donald

[Jed_]

I’ve seen a few articles where Rep Paul Gosar (R) from Arizona has stated that turd of a memo proves treason at the FBI.  Meanwhile Senator John McCain from the same state and an actual hero says the memo is doing the work of Putin for him.  So I guess we can agree their is treason at the Executive Branch, just not within the DOJ.

[Athos_131]

Trump campaign spent nearly $2 of every $10 on legal fees in 2017

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Inside the FBI: Anger, worry, work — and fears of lasting damage

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Trump’s Unparalleled War on a Pillar of Society: Law Enforcement

Which is it Trumpers, "Blue Lives Matter" or "Fuck Tha Police"?

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[Athos_131]

The Smear Campaign Against Deputy AG Rosenstein Has a New Ad

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[Athos_131]

 "  Russia,  Russia , Russia  "

Carter Page Touted Kremlin Contacts in 2013 Letter

Oh dear.

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[Athos_131]

 "  Russia,  Russia , Russia  "

A Timeline of the House Intelligence Committee Chairman: All the Nunes That’s Fit to Print

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[Athos_131]

  "  Russia,  Russia , Russia  "

Thoughts on the Nunes Memo: We Need to Talk About Devin

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  "  Russia,  Russia , Russia  "

The McGahn Cover Letter in Light of the Trump Tweet

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  "  Russia,  Russia , Russia  "

Nunes ‘abused’ his power on intelligence committee, former CIA director says

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Republican lawmakers distance themselves from Trump on memo

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Lost in memo frenzy, White House passed on punishing Russia for 2016 meddling

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[Lois]

 "  Russia,  Russia , Russia  "

Carter Page Touted Kremlin Contacts in 2013 Letter

Oh dear.

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Yeppers!

Donald Trump’s campaign aide Carter Page boasted he was a “Kremlin adviser” in 2013, years before a dossier about Trump’s Russian connections was prepared during the presidential campaign, Time magazine reported.

Page, a key figure in the the Republican-authored memo released Friday that Trump allies claim shows FBI bias against the president, bragged about his Kremlin connections in an Aug. 13, 2013, letter to an academic publication about a manuscript he had submitted, according to Time.

“Over the past half year, I have had the privilege to serve as an informal advisor to the staff of the Kremlin in preparation for their presidency of the G-20 Summit next month,” Page wrote in the letter.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/carter-page-kremlin-letter_us_5a77bc5de4b01ce33eb43d3a?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

[Athos_131]

Trump thought the British were protesting their health service. They weren’t.

Trump took a swing at Britain’s beloved National Health Service on Monday, tweeting that Britons were marching in the streets because their universal health-care system was financially strapped and dysfunctional, and got a swift rebuke from the British prime minister.

“The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working. Dems want to greatly raise taxes for really bad and non-personal medical care. No thanks!” he wrote.

But the thousands of Britons who took to the streets over the weekend were marching in support of the NHS and calling for greater government funding.

Trump's tweet about Britain’s universal health-care system — once said to be the closest thing that the British have to a national religion — provoked ire from across the political spectrum, including from British Prime Minister Theresa May.

A spokesman for May said that “the prime minister is proud of our NHS, that is free at the point of delivery.” The spokesman said that funding “is at a record high and was prioritized in the budget with an extra 2.8 billion pounds. In the recent Commonwealth Fund international survey, the NHS was rated the best in the world for a second time.”

Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s health secretary, said he is proud to hail from a country where people have coverage “no matter the size of their bank balance.”

Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn of the Labour Party said that Trump was “wrong,” adding: “People were marching because we love our NHS and hate what the Tories are doing to it. Healthcare is a human right.”

The march was called “NHS in crisis: Fix it now” and was organized by the People’s Assembly and Health Campaigns Together. Demonstrators carried placards that read: “NHS: More staff, more beds, more funds” and “Saving lives costs money, Saving money costs lives.”

Responding to Trump’s comments, the march organizers said they were campaigning against a U.S.-style health-care system that they said is “expensive, inefficient and unjust.”

It’s hard to overstate just how proud Britons are of their “free at the point of use” health-care system, established after World War II. Some have pointed out that Britain spends a lower percentage of its GDP on health care than the United States does and that life expectancy is longer in the United Kingdom.

In the opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics, the NHS was celebrated with a dance sequence with nurses and patients. In the lead-up to the Brexit vote in June 2016, the pro-Brexit side famously said that leaving the bloc could mean that an extra 350 million pounds ($467 million) a week could be spent on health care.

“We send the EU £350m a week — let’s fund our NHS instead,” was the slogan plastered on the side of a red campaign bus.

Few things unite the British like an outsider complaining about their universal health care. But within the U.K., there is widespread concern about the financial health of the NHS. Britain’s aging population, the rising cost of new technology and years of austerity have contributed to notable pressures on the system.

Britain has also had, once again, a terrible winter flu season, and hospitals nationwide are struggling to cope with the spikes in demand.

“There is widespread concern that austerity we’ve seen in the last seven years has basically put the NHS on its knees. In an attempt to drive efficiency in the system, to deliver the same for less money, we are now seeing poorer quality of care,” said Harry Quilter-Pinner, a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, a London-based think tank.

“Waiting times for elective treatments, for cancer, for example, have gone up. Waiting times for GPs have gone up. Hospitals are missing targets for how long you wait at A&E [accident and emergency],” he said.

Still, there is no public appetite for privatized health care. “The [British] system is still one of most efficient ways of funding and running a health service, it just needs more money,” Quilter-Pinner said.

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[Athos_131]

Exclusive: U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice - sources

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[Katiebee]

If we are to believe Trump, he is responsible for the high value on the stock market. I guess that means that the 4% drop in value on the stock market today is due to Trump and his policies.

[Katiebee]

Donny boy has his little ego bruised today. He accused Democrats who did not applaud him of treason for not applauding what he said.

[joan1984]

The market goes up, and the market goes down.

What is responsible for the Market being it's highest ever, UP even after this move, over 6000 points since Trump's election, is the HOPE his election represents, for rational regulation, tax reduction, reform, repatriation of overseas Corporate earnings, and general pro America decision making in Washington, DC, for a desired change.

These corrections, from UP 7000+ to UP 6000 plus, are blips, necessary and expected, if not expected by date, then by historical variation. Long term is the key to success in market investment, and diversity in stocks you buy.

Today is a buying opportunity.

How is your 401K doing, Katiebee? Trump effect been good to you, I expect.

If we are to believe Trump, he is responsible for the high value on the stock market. I guess that means that the 4% drop in value on the stock market today is due to Trump and his policies.

[Athos_131]

The instant-gratification president reaps what he sows as markets sink

There are two types of numbers in the world of President Trump: Numbers that prove how good he is as president, and numbers that don’t exist.

During the campaign, this took the form of polling. During the Republican primary, Trump would often bring the latest poll numbers with him to rallies and regale audiences with lengthy articulations of what percentage he had and what percentage Jeb Bush had and so on down the line. It was clear that he enjoyed the validation those polls offered. A candidate insistent on his own excellence could point to polls and, Sally-Field-style, see that America (or Republicans, at least) really liked him.

Had Trump only had to run against Bush for the rest of his career, we’d be hearing about poll numbers still. But winning the Republican nomination meant running against Hillary Clinton, whose poll numbers were consistently better than Trump’s. He was left occasionally talking about questionable polls that showed him with a lead or more reputable ones that showed him closing the gap.

It didn’t get better on Election Day, when he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes. (Instead of talking about that, Trump usually talks about his 304-vote electoral college win, which he has in the passed dubbed an “impossible” feat.) Then, once inaugurated, his approval dropped into the 30s where it has generally stayed. Sometimes he’ll tweet about a less-bad approval poll, but not often.

So most of 2017 was spent celebrating a number that just kept going up and up: The stock market. The Dow was soaring, and Trump was tweeting and all was well. Each day the market was up was a good day for Trump and he missed few opportunities to make that case to the public. The Dow’s gains were even maybe reducing the federal debt somehow, who knows! All was well.

And then it wasn’t.

On Friday, the Dow fell 666 points, the sixth-worst plunge in its history. The Standard & Poor’s 500 fell about 60 points, a smaller drop as a function of its value, but still a bad day for the index. Trump, true to form, was mum about the drop.

On Monday, an even sharper fall. The Dow closed down 1,178 points, the biggest single-day fall in the average’s history. The S&P dropped about 113 points — its largest drop, too. The Dow closed 8.5 percent off its all-time high and the S&P off 7.8 percent. The two-day fall was the worst in Dow history and the fourth-worst in the S&P’s.

More frustrating for Trump? The Dow has now given up a third of the gains its seen since he was inaugurated and more than a quarter of the gains its seen since the election. The S&P’s drop was more severe, losing 37 percent since inauguration and 31 percent since Nov. 8, 2016. Both are still up since Trump took office, but the recent trend does stand out.

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[Athos_131]

Once again the yellow bullshit is trumped by analysis supported by the truth.

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