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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Alvin Flummux » Tue Aug 01, 2017 4:20 am

I bet Mueller will be vaguely interested in Trump writing up lies to cover for his son's clandestine Russia meet-up.

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Rightey » Tue Aug 01, 2017 7:35 am

A few years old but still pretty good:

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/ar ... ry/316706/

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Garth » Tue Aug 01, 2017 8:30 am

Someone in the UK fooled White House officials over email by pretending to be their colleagues:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/31/polit ... index.html



:lol:

After all the gooseberry fool they gave Clinton over emails! :fp:

The Homeland Security advisor gave out his personal email account to '[SUSPECTED_SPAM]' :lol:

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The Mooch fell for it twice too:
"I had promised myself I would leave my hands mud free," wrote the fake Priebus, "but after reading your tweet today which stated how; 'soon we will learn who in the media who has class, and who hasn't', has pushed me to this. That tweet was breathtakingly hypocritical, even for you. At no stage have you acted in a way that's even remotely classy, yet you believe that's the standard by which everyone should behave towards you? General Kelly will do a fine job. I'll even admit he will do a better job than me. But the way in which that transition has come about has been diabolical. And hurtful. I don't expect a reply."

The very real Scaramucci responded: "You know what you did. We all do. Even today. But rest assured we were prepared. A Man would apologize."
Fake Priebus wrote back: "I can't believe you are questioning my ethics! The so called 'Mooch', who can't even manage his first week in the White House without leaving upset in his wake. I have nothing to apologize for."

Actual Scaramucci responded: "Read Shakespeare. Particularly Othello. You are right there. My family is fine by the way and will thrive. I know what you did. No more replies from me."

In another exchange, Scaramucci was hoodwinked by the same prankster pretending to be Ambassador to Russia-designate Jon Huntsman Jr.
"Who's (sic) head should roll first?" the bogus Huntsman asked from a Gmail account on Friday, before the Priebus termination had been announced. "Maybe I can help things along somewhat."

"Both of them," responded the real Scaramucci, in an apparent reference to both Priebus and White House Senior Adviser Steve Bannon, about whom Scaramucci has been quite critical.

After a few other nice messages of support from faux Huntsman, Scaramucci wrote, "Are you in Moscow now? If not please visit."

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Victor Mildew » Tue Aug 01, 2017 8:38 am

But but her emails!

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Moggy » Tue Aug 01, 2017 8:43 am

It's all hilarious until you remember these fuckwits have the nuclear codes. :lol:

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Hexx » Tue Aug 01, 2017 8:54 am

Donald Trump personally crafted son's misleading account of Russia meeting – report

President Trump personally dictated the press statement issued in the name of his eldest son that misleadingly downplayed the significance of a 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer, a new report alleged on Monday night.

According to the Washington Post, Trump personally intervened to prevent senior White House advisers from issuing a full and truthful account of the meeting on 9 June 2016 in which Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and then presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort came face-to-face with four Russians. One of the Russian visitors was the well-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

The report, based on multiple though largely anonymous sources that included the president’s own advisers, has the potential to cause political, and even legal, trouble for the White House because it draws Trump himself much closer into the fray over the Trump Tower meeting, which has become a lightning rod in the Russian affair.

Shunning the guidance of lawyers, and overturning the view apparently reached by Kushner and his team of advisers that a full and frank accounting should be made, Trump reportedly dictated a statement on board Air Force One as he was flying back to Washington from the G20 summit in Germany. As would soon become apparent, it gave a very partial and distorted account of events.

In the release the 2016 meeting was presented, in Trump’s own words, as “a short introductory meeting” dominated by discussion of the adoption of Russian children that was “not a campaign issue at the time”.

That statement was presented to the New York Times on 8 July, and duly included in the newspaper’s first account of the meeting. But within 24 hours, highly damaging revelations had emerged that made clear the meeting had been much more charged than that.

On 9 July, the Times revealed that Donald Jr had been lured into talking to Veselnitskaya by the promise of negative intelligence on his father’s presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, and two days after that the email chain was published that showed the younger Trump reveling in the idea of receiving dirt on the Democratic presidential candidate, uttering the gleeful phrase: “I love it”.

The Trump Tower meeting has proved to be one of the most toxic pieces of information to emerge so far in the billowing investigation into possible ties between Trump associates and Russia in the Kremlin’s efforts to skew the presidential outcome in favor of the Republican nominee. The special counsel leading the investigation, Robert Mueller, is understood to be looking closely at the event and has reportedly asked the White House to preserve all documents relating to it.

Until now, the president managed to keep some distance from the 9 June encounter, with his lawyers claiming that he knew nothing about it. But the new report that Trump personally oversaw the issuing of a misleading account of the proceedings raises questions about the president’s role in what could be conceived as a cover-up.

It comes as Mueller has already expanded his inquiry to include the issue of whether or not Trump was engaging in a possible obstruction of justice when he fired James Comey, having tried and failed to persuade the then director of the FBI to back off investigating former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s contacts with Russian officials.

A lawyer for the president issued the Washington Post with a curt statement: “Apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent,” Jay Sekulow said.

The new details of the president’s role in what turned out to be a major communications fiasco come on the day that his current communications chief, Anthony Scaramucci, was dismissed from the White House after barely 11 days. The blunt removal was made on the first day of the new White House chief of staff, John Kelly, who has vowed to introduce the kind of discipline that the West Wing has been sorely lacking.

The day began shortly before 5.30am with Trump tweeting “No WH chaos!” and ended with him saying: “A great day at the White House”. But as the Washington Post’s forensic deconstruction of the framing of the Trump Tower meeting shows, the president himself has the capacity to destroy even the best-laid plans, underlining the task now facing his new chief of staff.

According to the Post, senior White House officials together with the circle around Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, had spent days rehearsing various ways to address the Trump Tower meeting publicly.

Kushner’s team was reported to have decided that it was better to “err on the side of transparency” because the whole truth would eventually come out.

President Trump, however, appeared to have seen things differently.


I can't imagine that'll be of any interest at all to Mueller

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Hexx » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:16 am

The president of Mexico and the Boy Scouts have refuted Donald Trump’s claims that he received calls from them praising his immigration policies and speech-making abilities.

On Monday, Trump claimed that Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, had given him “the ultimate compliment” by phoning to say fewer people were crossing the US-Mexico border.

Last week, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump claimed the “head of the Boy Scouts” had called him to describe his speech at their national jamboree “the greatest speech that was ever made to them”.

But on Wednesday Peña Nieto and the Boy Scouts said they had not made those calls to the president.

Trump claimed on Monday: “The president of Mexico called me. They said their southern border … very few people are coming because they know they’re not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment.”

Asked about the alleged call, Mexico’s foreign relations department said Peña Nieto “has not had any recent telephone communication with President Donald Trump”.

Days earlier, in the WSJ interview, Trump said his speech to the Boy Scouts in Virginia – partisan, disjointed and often rambling – had been praised by the organization.

“I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful,” Trump said.

The Boy Scouts told the Associated Press on Wednesday: “We are unaware of any such call.”

The organization specified that neither of its two top leaders – its president Randall Stephenson and chief scout executive Mike Surbaugh – had called the president, AP said.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders acknowledged Wednesday that Trump did not speak on the phone either with Pena Nieto or with the head of the Boy Scouts. “On Mexico, he was referencing the conversation that they had had at the G20 Summit, where they specifically talked about the issues that he referenced,” said Sanders.


Such an insecure little liar.

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Garth » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:23 am

Maybe White House staff are trying to keep him in a good mood by faking calls praising him :lol:

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Hexx » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:24 am

Garth wrote:Maybe White House staff are trying to keep him in a good mood by faking calls praising him :lol:


That was one of my first thoughts as well :slol:

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Moggy » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:32 am

He’s basically a little kid, if he doesn’t get his own way he has a tantrum and he needs to be constantly told what a good boy he is.

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Garth » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:37 am

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Errkal » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:21 pm

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/893083735633129472



We will just ignore that cold war bit.

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Moggy » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:25 pm

Errkal wrote:

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/893083735633129472



We will just ignore that cold war bit.


All Donny wants to do is cuddle up with Putin and let everyone have healthcare.

Mean old Congress wont let Donny make friends. :cry:

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Garth » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:29 pm

Errkal wrote:

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/893083735633129472


So it's the fault of Congress that Russia meddled with the election?

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Photek » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:32 pm

Ok. What is Donalds obsession with giving Russia metaphorical blowies? Is he really stupid or is he beling blackmailed or something cos its WEIRD!

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Garth » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:38 pm

twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/398887965302091776


twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/250975772083380226


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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Rex Kramer » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:47 pm

There is literally no position he can adopt where he hasn't taken a counter position within the last 8 years. :lol:

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Garth » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:08 pm

Someone let this dead-behind-the-eyes husk of a creature talk argue with the press again:

twitter.com/alivitali/status/892830994167865346


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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Preezy » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:54 pm

I don't like that guy.

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PostRe: US Politics - 'The Mooch' fired after less than 2 weeks as comms director
by Garth » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:17 pm

Someone leaked full transcripts from a few of Trump's January phone calls to foreign leaders :lol:
Trump urged Mexican president to end his public defiance on border wall, transcript reveals
The Post has obtained transcripts of President Trump’s January phone conversations with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

But in his first White House call with Mexico’s president, Trump described his vow to charge Mexico as a growing political problem, pressuring the Mexican leader to stop saying publicly that his government would never pay.

“You cannot say that to the press,” Trump said repeatedly, according to a transcript of the Jan. 27 call obtained by The Washington Post. Trump made clear that he realized the funding would have to come from other sources but threatened to cut off contact if Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto continued to make defiant statements.

The funding “will work out in the formula somehow,” Trump said, adding later that “it will come out in the wash, and that is okay.” But “if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that.”

He described the wall as “the least important thing we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important.”

The Jan. 28 call with Turnbull became particularly acrimonious. “I have had it,” Trump erupted after the two argued about an agreement on refugees. “I have been making these calls all day, and this is the most unpleasant call all day.”

Before ending the call, Trump noted that at least one of his conversations that day had gone far more smoothly. “Putin was a pleasant call,” Trump said, referring to Russian President Vladi­mir Putin. “This is ridiculous.”

But there was little discussion of the substance of those plans or their implications for U.S. relations with Australia and Mexico. Instead, Trump’s overriding concern seemed to center on how any approach would reflect on him.

“This is going to kill me,” he said to Turnbull. “I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country. And now I am agreeing to take 2,000 people.”

Trump spent much of his call with Peña Nieto seeking to enlist the Mexican president in a deal to stop talking about how the wall would be paid for. Two days earlier, Trump had signed an executive order mandating construction of the wall, but funding for it remains unclear.

“On the wall, you and I both have a political problem,” Trump said. “My people stand up and say, ‘Mexico will pay for the wall,’ and your people probably say something in a similar but slightly different language.”

Trump seemed to acknowledge that his threats to make Mexico pay had left him cornered politically. “I have to have Mexico pay for the wall — I have to,” he said. “I have been talking about it for a two-year period.”

To solve that problem, Trump pressured Peña Nieto to suppress the issue. When pressed on who would pay for the wall, “We should both say, ‘We will work it out.’ It will work out in the formula somehow,” Trump said. “As opposed to you saying, ‘We will not pay,’ and me saying, ‘We will not pay.’ ”

Peña Nieto resisted, saying that Trump’s repeated threats had placed “a very big mark on our back, Mr. President.” He warned that “my position has been and will continue to be very firm, saying that Mexico cannot pay for the wall.”

Trump objected: “But you cannot say that to the press. The press is going to go with that, and I cannot live with that.”

Trump also lashed out at Peña Nieto over the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico and the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.

“We have a massive drug problem where kids are becoming addicted to drugs because the drugs are being sold for less money than candy,” Trump said. “I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den.”

Note: Trump lost New Hampshire, and probably won't win it next time :lol:
He described Mexican drug cartel leaders as “pretty tough hombres” and promised U.S. military support, saying that “maybe your military is afraid of them, but our military is not.”

Peña Nieto responded by saying that drug trafficking in Mexico is “largely supported by the illegal amounts of money and weapons coming from the United States.”

Trump also threatened to impose tariffs of up to 35 percent on imports from Mexico, saying that as president he had been given “tremendous taxation powers for trade,” even though tariffs are mainly the province of Congress.

Despite the friction, Trump at other moments sought to sweet-talk Peña Nieto, telling him that “you and I will always be friends,” and that if they could resolve their disputes over the border and trade, “We will almost become the fathers of our country — almost, not quite, okay?”

On refugees to Turnbull:
“I hate taking these people,” Trump said. “I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people” — an apparent reference to U.S. dairy farms.

Trump only became angrier, saying the refugees could “become the Boston bomber in five years.”

“I think it is a horrible deal, a disgusting deal that I would have never made,” Trump said. “As far as I am concerned, that is enough, Malcolm. I have had it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... 37170cfbc0


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