TenuredVulture wrote:You know, I wonder if Russia's ultimate goal was not for Trump to win, but to sow enough doubt in the electoral process to make it basically impossible for Hillary to govern--making her victory appear illegitimate to a sizable chunk of the US population. It seems to me that if Russia's goal was simply to weaken the US that would have been the optimal outcome.

Trump calls Cohen a liar after bombshell BuzzFeed report

thephan wrote:Nancy looked at commercial options to get to Afghanistan, but State said that because of the publicity from the WH that there would be grave security concerns for all involved, and it could not recommend travel at this time.

"In the middle of the night, the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service provided an updated threat assessment detailing that the President announcing this sensitive travel had significantly increased the danger to the delegation and to the troops, security, and other officials supporting the trip," Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said. "This morning, we learned that the administration had leaked the commercial travel plans as well."

TenuredVulture wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:Interesting that the Buzzfeed Michael Cohen story doesn't show up anywhere on the New York times website other than in the "Europe" section where an article by Reuters is included, where it's included obliquely and with a strong disclaimer.

NY Times, despite Trump's complaints, has been very Trump friendly. Look at the Op Ed page. It's gotten to be pretty worthless over the years. One worst offenders of "both siderism" and "but her e-mails".

MoBettle wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:Interesting that the Buzzfeed Michael Cohen story doesn't show up anywhere on the New York times website other than in the "Europe" section where an article by Reuters is included, where it's included obliquely and with a strong disclaimer.

NY Times, despite Trump's complaints, has been very Trump friendly. Look at the Op Ed page. It's gotten to be pretty worthless over the years. One worst offenders of "both siderism" and "but her e-mails".

You’re right, but I think the issue here is more just that the NYT is snobby and is doesn’t want to report stories (not even that they’re true, just that other news orgs have reported) they haven’t independently verified.

IT WOULD BE rather embarrassing for Donald Trump at this point if Robert Mueller were to declare that the president isn’t an agent of Russian intelligence.

THE PATTERN OF his pro-Putin, pro-Russia, anti-FBI, anti-intelligence community actions are so one-sided, and the lies and obfuscation surrounding every single Russian meeting and conversation are so consistent, that if this president isn’t actually hiding a massive conspiracy, it means the alternative is worse: America elected a chief executive so oblivious to geopolitics, so self-centered and personally insecure, so naturally predisposed to undermine democratic institutions and coddle authoritarians, and so terrible a manager and leader, that he cluelessly surrounded himself with crooks, grifters, and agents of foreign powers, compromising the national security of the US government and undermining 75 years of critical foreign alliances, just to satiate his own ego.

In short, we’ve reached a point in the Mueller probe where there are only two scenarios left: Either the president is compromised by the Russian government and has been working covertly to cooperate with Vladimir Putin after Russia helped win him the 2016 election—or Trump will go down in history as the world’s most famous “useful idiot,” as communists used to call those who could be co-opted to the cause without realizing it.

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traderdave wrote:

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traderdave wrote:

momadance wrote:https://www.buildtheborderwall.com/

Send a brick? I thought the wall was going to be made of steel slates? Make up your mind already. And open the fucking government while you are thinking about it.

momadance wrote:

traderdave wrote:

momadance wrote:https://www.buildtheborderwall.com/

Send a brick? I thought the wall was going to be made of steel slates? Make up your mind already. And open the #$!&@ government while you are thinking about it.

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