Posts made by Drwas

@aadam101:

Fake news!  It was a lot more than that although it's hard to tell how much.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/

Funny that none of the repigliKKKlans here seem to want to discuss this.

@aadam101:

No worries.  I'm sure the Russian press will be there.  We can trust them.

I wonder what state secrets traitor tRump will hand over this time?

Is there anyone in this corrupt administration that isn't connected to russia?

@strangeloop:

But like a tumor, I'm sure it will be back.  Signs are already showing with his shameless bumps.

Both conservatives and liberals, do you folks get it now?

If you guys want to turn this into a spam war, hey I'm willing to play that game.  Tomorrow I can link to you all the breitbart and infowars you can eat!  I'm sure you guys will love that!  This is actually pretty entertaining to me lol.

OR, just or.

We can be civil.  We can stop spamming and actually have discussions.

Copy-pasting articles is not a discussion.  It requires no effort of your own whatsoever, so why should anyone put in effort to respond to your spam?

Stop spamming.  Be Civil.  Or we'll fight fire with fire.

Popping into a thread for the sole purpose to flame, is a NO NO.

Popping into a thread for the sole purpose to complain that the thread exists, is a NO NO.

Popping into a thread to complain that the POLITICS section exists, is a NO NO.

@Frederick:

@Drwas:

House Speaker Paul Ryan said it was “obviously” not appropriate for President Donald Trump to ask former FBI Director James Comey for this loyalty while he conducted the bureau’s probe into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The ousted ex-FBI chief said in a written statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee ahead of his Thursday testimony on Capitol Hill that during a Jan. 27 dinner at the White House, the president had said to him, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.”

Pressed on whether he found the comments appropriate during an interview on MSNBC Wednesday, Ryan voiced his opposition.

“Obviously, I don’t think that is,” the House speaker said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/07/paul-ryan-inappropriate-trump-comey-239276

That is what Paul Ryan would say, because Paul Ryan has not been loyal to Trump.
Using Paul Ryan's own word, OBVIOUSLY a president should expect loyalty from the people whom he appointed.  Who appointed Comey?

Traitor tRump will be impeached very soon!

@sammy1023:

Guess you missed this article, wanna know why you missed it?  Cause the media doesn't want you to think like this article.  Go ahead, keep plugged into the Matrix Thomas and keep thinking EXACTLY the way they want you to, never become Neo:

President Donald Trump is by no means popular—compared with his predecessors, his approval rating has been remarkably low during his time in the White House. But there's some small solace for the president this week: His approval rating is, at least for the moment, a hair better than where President Bill Clinton stood at the same point in his first term.

Different polling outfits put Trump at varying levels of approval, but the RealClearPolitics average had him at 39.8 percent Tuesday, while the weighted average from FiveThirtyEight had him at exactly 39 percent. Not great numbers, but still better than Clinton. On Day 138 of his presidency, just 37.8 percent of Americans approved of the job he was doing, according to FiveThirtyEight.

If you compare where each president stood at this point in the Gallup tracking poll, however, the two are deadlocked. The most recent Gallup survey pegged Trump's approval at 37 percent, the exact same figure the polling company found for Clinton in early June 1993.

tRump SUCKS bigly!

@jazuko:

@Drwas:

President Trump's job approval rating has fallen to a new low, according to a poll released Wednesday.

The new Quinnipiac University poll finds Trump has a job approval rating of 34 percent, compared to 57 percent who disapprove of the way the president is handling his job.

In a poll released at the end of last month, 37 percent of respondents approved of the job the president was doing and 55 percent disapproved.

The new poll also finds 31 percent of voters think Trump did something illegal regarding his relationship with Russia.

Another 29 percent of respondents think the president did something unethical, but not illegal, regarding his relationship with Russia. Thirty-two percent think the president did nothing wrong.

Forty percent of voters think Trump's campaign advisers did something illegal in their relationships with Russia, while another 25 percent think they did something unethical, but not illegal.

A majority of voters, 54 percent, think Trump is too friendly with Russia, compared to 38 percent who think he has the right attitude toward Russia.

Nearly 70 percent of voters are "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" about the president's relationship with Russia.

The poll was conducted from May 31 to June 6 among 1,361 voters. The margin of error is 3.2 percent.

According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Trump has a job approval rating of 39.4 percent, while 55 percent disapprove of the job the president is doing.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/336751-poll-trump-job-approval-rating-falls-to-34-percent

did they bother to poll any republicans or did they skew things like with the polling for the election results?

tRump still SUCKS

repigliKKKlans are corrupt SCUM

Lock him up!

@Frederick:

Forget about any obstruction charges against Trump. 
It's a day of mourning for people like Al Green, Auntie Maxine Waters, Chuckie Schumer, et al.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/08/gregg-jarrett-comey-exonerates-trump-so-much-for-obstruction.html

Rubio won't rule out possibility Trump obstructed justice
https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=50397.0

Traitor tRump will be impeached very soon!

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is not ruling out the possibility that President Trump may have attempted to obstruct justice in his interactions with former FBI Director James Comey.

“I’m not prepared to reach a conclusion on that, because we’re not done with all the other pieces that are missing,” Rubio said, according to The Washington Post.

Rubio's comments followed Comey's high-profile testimony on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, of which Rubio is member. In the session, Comey told lawmakers that before he was fired Trump had demanded his loyalty and pressed him to drop the FBI's probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

“I don’t think anybody would leave this hearing and say to you that what the president said in the Oval Office on the 14th of February was appropriate,” Rubio said, referring to the meeting in which Trump reportedly asked Comey to end the Flynn investigation.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/337002-rubio-wont-rule-out-idea-that-trump-obstructed-justice

Retired judge Andrew Napolitano said on Fox News Thursday that former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee makes a "credible and compelling argument" that President Trump lied to the public about why Comey was fired.

“If you look…at the big picture…you get a very, very credible and compelling argument that the president of the United States has not been truthful with the American people," Napolitano said.

The Fox News contributor went on to say that if Trump attempted to shut down the Russian investigation to "preserve Justice Department resources," that would be a "legitimate" order, while doing it to "protect a friend" would be "corrupt."

Comey said in his testimony that before firing him, Trump asked if he could "let go" of the probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/337017-napolitano-credible-and-compelling-argument-that-trump-lied-to

Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) has boasted about how much money he’s made for other members of Congress by tipping them off to an Australia-based pharmaceutical company in which he is the largest stockholder, two GOP lawmakers told The Hill.

Collins, President Trump’s chief defender and unofficial spokesman on Capitol Hill, told a group of House GOP colleagues over dinner earlier this year that he had urged colleagues to invest in Innate Immunotherapeutics and made them plenty of money in the process, said one GOP lawmaker who was present for the conversation.

“He said that he’s made members money,” the GOP lawmaker told The Hill.

“Members of Congress?” a reporter asked.

“Yeah, on his stock tip,” the lawmaker replied.

“If you get in early, you’ll make a big profit,” Collins reportedly told another group of House Republicans last summer, according to a second GOP lawmaker who was part of the same 2012 class as Collins.

Asked if he ever heard Collins brag about making colleagues money, the second lawmaker replied: “I’ve heard those kinds of phrases.”

Collins had already won negative headlines after reporters in January overheard him bragging about “how many millionaires I’ve made in Buffalo the past few months.”

The Buffalo News reported that many in the city’s business elite had bought stock in the drug company after hearing from Collins.

Now the focus is shifting to Collins’s conversations with colleagues on Capitol Hill.

The dinner discussion on Capitol Hill wasn’t the only time Collins brought up the Australian company in Washington.

Half a dozen Republican lawmakers interviewed for this story said they have heard Collins talking up Innate Immunotherapeutics at official meetings and in informal settings on the Hill.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/336842-exclusive-gop-lawmaker-talked-stocks-with-colleagues

On paper, Christopher Wray appears to be an excellent choice to serve as the next FBI director. He has “impeccable” academic credentials (Yale law school) and has had a decades-long distinguished career as a federal prosecutor and high-level official in the Department of Justice.

As the criminal defense lawyer for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the “Bridgegate” investigation, he did raise some eyebrows when it was learned that one of Christie’s “missing” cellphones mysteriously ended up in Wray’s possession, but this is unlikely to derail Wray’s confirmation.

The most troubling issue that Wray may face is the fact that his law firm — King & Spalding — represents Rosneft and Gazprom, two of Russia’s largest state-controlled oil companies.

Rosneft was prominently mentioned in the now infamous 35-page dossier prepared by former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele. The dossier claims that the CEO of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, offered candidate Donald Trump, through Trump’s campaign manager Carter Page, a 19% stake in the company in exchange for lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia. The dossier claims that the offer was made in July while Page was in Moscow.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/06/08/trump-new-fbi-director-chris-wray-russian-ties-rosneft-gazprom-column/102603214/

@Frederick:

Today, Comey ADMITTED having a friend LEAK a memo to the New York Times.
That ALONE is grounds for firing that bastard, and frankly, as a an FBI director with top clearance, committing such an act is TREASON.

In his written testimony, released Wednesday, Comey writes that during a meeting the president the day after Flynn’s firing, Trump indirectly asked him to quash the Flynn probe, telling him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”

With regard to that incident, Senate Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr (R-NC) asked Comey if he thought “the president was trying to obstruct justice or just seek for a way for Mike Flynn to save face, given he had already been fired.”

…

Comey then suggested that the question of whether Trump obstructed justice is part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

“I don’t think it is for me to say whether the conversation I had with the president was an effort to obstruct,” Comey said. “I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but that’s a conclusion I’m sure the special counsel will work toward: to try and understand what the intention was there and whether that’s an offense.”

Comey reportedly cleared his testimony with Mueller beforehand. His comments to Burr are the strongest indication yet that the president himself is now under investigation.

@raphjd:

The Three Stooges were more sensible than any liberal could be.

If you routinely post nothing but childish comments that do nothing to further the discussion, that is a NO NO.

@strangeloop:

Reported for spamming.

Truth hurts I guess!  :cheesy2:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday argued that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had no choice but to recuse himself from the Justice Department's investigation into Russian election meddling, and urged President Trump directly to move past his rift with the top law enforcement official.

"He is very loyal to the President. He loves the law," Graham said on Fox News. "There is no way in hell that Jeff Sessions could preside over an investigation of a campaign that he was part of."

"If President Trump is listening tonight, Jeff Sessions had no alternative, Mr. President, as a lawyer. He had to get out of the way of the investigation because he was so close to your campaign. The American people would not tolerate somebody part of the campaign investigating the campaign. That was obvious to me."

Graham's comments came amid reports that Sessions had offered recently to resign from the Justice Department after Trump became upset with him over his decision in March to recuse himself from the Russia probe.

Tensions between the two men reportedly grew last month when Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

While that announcement is said to have taken both Trump and Sessions by surprise, the president reportedly lashed out at the attorney general, blaming his recusal decision for Mueller's appointment.

Sessions said in March that he would step away from the investigation after it was revealed that he had failed to disclose meetings with Russian Ambassadsor Sergey Kislyak while he was a high-profile campaign surrogate for Trump.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/336863-graham-to-trump-sessions-had-no-alternative-but-to-recuse

House Speaker Paul Ryan said it was “obviously” not appropriate for President Donald Trump to ask former FBI Director James Comey for this loyalty while he conducted the bureau’s probe into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The ousted ex-FBI chief said in a written statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee ahead of his Thursday testimony on Capitol Hill that during a Jan. 27 dinner at the White House, the president had said to him, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.”

Pressed on whether he found the comments appropriate during an interview on MSNBC Wednesday, Ryan voiced his opposition.

“Obviously, I don’t think that is,” the House speaker said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/07/paul-ryan-inappropriate-trump-comey-239276