The Trump thread: All things Donald

[Elizabeth]

I really wonder if those poor secret service guys (sworn to protect the Donald) would "Actually" take a bullet for him at all. I know I would not.

Love,
Liz

[psiberzerker]

I really wonder if those poor secret service guys (sworn to protect the Donald) would "Actually" take a bullet for him at all. I know I would not.

Well, this is getting on toward [Classified] but the "Take a bullet for the president" thing is largely exaggerated.  Most of the modern detail, after Brady has been making sure nobody gets in a position to take the shot in the first place.

Historically, the only person to literally get shot (Multiple times) in a presidential assassination attempt (other than the Presidents, of course) was John Connally Jr.

[Jed_]

I really wonder if those poor secret service guys (sworn to protect the Donald) would "Actually" take a bullet for him at all. I know I would not.

Love,
Liz

I suppose they would ask for a transfer if they thought they couldn’t, but guarding POTUS is as high as you can get in that job.  It could also be they are true believers in the great god Trump like the people that rant, hoot and holler at his rallies, but doubtful those types would pass the psychological testing.

[Athos_131]

First lady Melania Trump’s office calls for firing of White House national security officia

#Resist

[Athos_131]

The White House is changing its tune on why it yanked Jim Acosta’s press pass

#Resist

[Athos_131]

Trump, stung by midterms and nervous about Mueller, retreats from traditional presidential duties

If he doesn't want to do the work, I'll glady accept his resignation.  Then we can get on with bankrupting Trump.

#Resist

[Jed_]

First lady Melania Trump’s office calls for firing of White House national security officia

#Resist

And John Kelly is next to go.  I swear you need one of those cheat sheets to keep track of the characters in this melodrama like they have for Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

[psiberzerker]

You're Fired.

[Athos_131]

I believe it’s a convienent excuse. The Secret Service will not make a public statement about it. I don’t believe someone who has lied consistently about large and small matters for the past two years. If his lips are moving, it is likely there is a lie being said.

#Resist

[Jed_]

First lady Melania Trump’s office calls for firing of White House national security officia

#Resist

And John Kelly is next to go.  I swear you need one of those cheat sheets to keep track of the characters in this melodrama like they have for Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

Wait, isn’t Kelly’s protege Nielsen at DHS likely to go next?  Then Kelly.  The plot twists are so hard to follow.

[Athos_131]

Trump claims an ID is needed to buy cereal and that fraudulent voters simply switch hats

Here’s the first claim Trump made, hoping to bolster his assertion that fraud is rampant: “When people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. Nobody takes anything. It’s really a disgrace what’s going on.”

Here’s the second claim he made, hoping to bolster the idea that photo ID should be required at polling places: “If you buy a box of cereal — you have a voter ID. They try to shame everybody by calling them racist, or calling them something, anything they can think of, when you say you want voter ID. But voter ID is a very important thing.”

Let’s start with that second claim, because it’s funnier.

Amazingly, Trump has made this very odd assertion about needing an ID to buy groceries before. He said something similar in August and, at the time, the media assessed the validity of the claim. It is, uh, not valid. Maybe if you’re paying with a check, if people still do that? But if you want to go into a grocery store and buy some Cheerios using cash or a debit card, go nuts. This is a good example of Trump’s imperviousness to being corrected.

Which brings us back to Trump’s first claim, about people voting, leaving the polling place, changing hats and coming back in.

If you have ever voted, you know how ridiculous this is. While you don’t always need a photo ID to vote, you do need to be registered (in nearly every state) and somehow verify your identity, often by matching your signature against one on file.

Unless you live in a small community in which two people are identified solely by their hat colors, and unless you convince the person at the polling place to ignore your face and just focus on your hat color and unless there are for some reason no other checks to validate your registration, your hat-switching or shirt-changing strategy isn’t going to work.

#Resist

[psiberzerker]

Well, he claimed election fraud when he Won, and nobody took it seriously.  So, yeah. 

[Athos_131]

Conservative Lawyers Say Trump Has Undermined the Rule of Law

#Resist

[Athos_131]

Considering collusion: A primer on potential crimes

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[Athos_131]

Julian Assange has been charged, prosecutors reveal inadvertently in court filing

#Resist

[_priapism]

Best picture of the Trump Administration I have seen yet.

[Athos_131]

Donald Trump wrote own health letter, says physician Harold Bornstein

#Resist

[Athos_131]

Trump denies climate change role in Camp Fire, suggests raking leaves is bigger problem

“I was with the president of Finland and he said, ‘We have a much different —we're a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation, and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things,” Trump said, standing amid crumbled homes and melted cars. “And they don't have any problem.”

“You’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest – very important,” the president said. “You look at other countries where they do it differently and it’s a whole different story.”

#Resist

[Lois]

How did Trump break his leg raking leaves?

He fell out of a pine tree while looking for them ....

Hey, what would an asshole from Queens know about leaves?

[Katiebee]

He heard a rumor from an associate of someone who worked for Putin.