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I/You would be more ill under Hillary.

I certainly feel we all dodged a bullet under that Crooked one. I mean she could have been President and would have been falling over all the time. She is like on her 90th fall this week. She almost fell arse over tit, falling down some steps in India, she had to be helped down, then we learns she fell in the bath, breaking one of her wrists., she injured herself when she was here in London, not that long ago, again falling/tripping on some steps. IMO she has a serious illness she is keeping from the people, that’s her right now, but she could have been President.

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Yes as much as i have reservations about Trump he is infinitely better then hilary would have been.

Ya I suppose so...........

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Jeepers Mick there's no need to delight at the thought of someone being unwell.

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Why not?

For months the liberals, I'm with her brigade and Fake News Media in the U.S, CNN and MSNBC ran on the 25th Amendment attempt that Trump being medically unfit for office, he had a check up by the same medic who examined Obama and he declared Trump medically fit for office.

Clinton is falling about the place everywhere, had she won, she would be sitting out her term falling about every where.

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Cripes and i thought you weren't serious !

Trump's mental health has got to be in question, which is more of an issue for a President than physical health.

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Because its not a nice trait for a fellow human being to portray perhaps?

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I'm not sure that falling over is a transmittable disease. :D

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I’m more sympathetic to the families of the Benghazi victims, you know the ones Hillary lied to, according to one of their sons mother.

As I said, he has been declared medically fit by the WH Medic. The same one who assessed Obama.

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You’ve suddenly developed a bout of compassion when you did not give a toss when others were doing the same thing to Trump. :rolleyes:

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HR McMaster, national security adviser, believed to be latest in Trump's "firing line"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a8260111.html

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Does he think being President is just an episode of 'The Apprentice' ? :rolleyes:

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Didn't see anyone appearing to be happy that he might be ill, hence no comment.

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Well thank you Dr K; your opinion is welcomed. But after very serious reflection upon this matter, I've decided that I will stick with the official doctor, who got expert medical training, rather than a doctor, like yourself, who got his training via CNN ;)


And, you don't need to be a doctor to know not to wish illness on anyone and hot to rejoice in any that someone may have.

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lol. :D
At least in The Apprentice he had the courage to tell them face-to-face rather than tweet their dismissals. Imagine the poor assistant bringing a print-out to his recently-sacked adviser who was not on social media. Awkward!

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I don't think that's any different from people diagnosing Clinton from a few videos, the glee to which people like watching her slip or break her wrist is a bit sick. :erm:

In other news Mueller apparently has memos from McCabe of his meetings with Trump but no indication of if that gets us anywhere. However it's another sign that this investigation isn't going to end anytime soon. Even if it were to end before then it's unlikely Mueller will do anything before the mid-terms since he seems to be rather professional and will want to avoid impacting them.

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In a non-digital era, it took two years to finalise the Watergate investigations. So potentially we could be less than halfway through now. I'm not prejudging the outcome by referencing Watergate.

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interesting development.
https://www.ft.com/content/7ed1572c-...a-7e7563b0b0f4

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For a start, noones diagnosed Clinton from a few videos. One can only surmise that she keeps falling an injuring herself, something must be underlying as to why, that is not a diagnosis.

Secondly, I take no glee either. I just don’t offer her any sympathy, because I cannot stand the Crooked woman with this apparent “cheating” that’s been done for her, to help her try win an election.

Anyone can say they take notes. There would be no indication of when they written and how accurate they are. One thing is certain, Andy McCabe has appeared to have perjured Comey, the statement he gave when he was fired on Friday, gave the impression, Comey was aware of McCabe talking to the press. Comey was asked under Oath, if he knew of the anonymous sources in the FBI, he answered, “No, never.” Oops.

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Something I have no desire to do. Unless you are a doctor, comments on such things are pointless without a cunsoltation

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Both are rubbish IMO..

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The people who voted for Trump, think they made the right choice, my American friends think he is doing just great, they didn't want another useless Obama, which is what they would have got with Crooked Hillary. But if Trump is so rubbish, in your opinion, I'd love to see him do really well, given that his apparent rubbishness is causing the U.S economy to boom and recover, job numbers are up for women and blacks and he could potentially solve the North Korea crisis, invoking a peaceful resolution in the Korean Peninsula not seen in absolute decades. But yeah, so rubbish is that. :rolleyes:

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Look Mick you are totally entitled to your opinion of Mr Trump , Hilary , Obama etc ,etc but there are many who might not think the same way.

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It's irrelevant what we think on this side of the pond, the evidence is there for all to see, regardless of how much people may hate the man, the U.S is doing extremely well economically, under HIS leadership and that's all those who voted for him care about, they certainly couldn't give a shit what we in Britain thinks.

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The US economy 'recover' from what? It was also doing very well under Obama too. Obama had almost constant growth and he was handed an economy after the 2008 crash.

I am not disputing the US economy has done well under Trump but it's a bit of a double standard to call Obama useless for also growing the economy and claim it's 'recovering'.

As shown here the record of Obama's last year is very similar to Trump's first year: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...on-the-economy

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I had to chuckle at Ned Price's tweet today "This is the first time Russians have had a say in picking a president since November 2016." :D
https://twitter.com/nedprice/status/975375891554545664

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http://thehill.com/homenews/state-wa...g-case-reports https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1GV2BZ This will affect the 2018 mid-term Elections.

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Typical of the pathetic Democrats, changing the goal posts, cheating because they can not win a political race legitimately*. (*These days as per the cheating of Bernie Sanders in the Primaries in 2016, DNC and Hillary campaign paying for Dossier, compiled by Russians).

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I thought that Dossier was a great British export? :D

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Do keep up, Steele got his duff ‘Intel’ from Russians.

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Have you looked to see if it's possible the boundaries are unfair?

FiveThirtyEight, the data site thing, has done a piece on it here: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...c-gerrymander/

Why was the Republican redistricting not moving the goalposts?

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We sold it to the US. A great British export. Like Cambridge Analytica who helped sell them Trump.

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So something that has been approved by the State Supreme Court, a Federal Court, and the US Supreme Court, is "cheating"?

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They're all in on it I tells ya

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Come off it. Just because the Higher Judicial system denies hearings, doesn’t mean they approve of something and yes, the Democrats cheat as per their recent scandals coming to light regarding their actions alleged to have occurred in the U.S Election, the real collusion. (i.e DNC & Hillary campaign paying foreign entities, a former British Spy, who in turn got duff info from Russians).

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There was nothing great about it, the info obtained could not be verified.

I have to ask, this CA issue, wtf would information from UK nationals, help Trump in the U.S win an election in the U.S ?

Makes no sense. Total none story, like it was in 2016 when it was first reported then.

It is the usual bullshit scapegoating for the losers to look for the reasons to why they lost brexit vote and or Hillary losing. :rolleyes:

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If you have the time take a look at the article I posted a bit earlier. It shows this is more of a rebalancing after the court found the Republican redistricting from 2011 was gerrymandering.

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I’ll look at it.

This CA data thing. Trump phased out using them before election other Republicans, Rubio, Cruz used Cambridge Analytics during their campaign. The Fake News Media won’t run with that, where there is a negative headline where there is a slight tenuous link to Trump, media will run with it full steam ahead. I’d say this was more troublesome for Facebook, given it’s market value seems to have tanked overnight.

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The CA thing is worse for Facebook than Trump.

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Thanks Damien, for one swift moment I thought that CA may have had involvement with the alledged "collusion" with the Russians for not just the US election but Brexit and every other election in Europe.

I can take heart that Facebook is the only one to suffer.

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If CA were found to have been somehow involved with the Russian state then the question would change but that's not happening here.

The CA stuff is two-fold. One if the dodgy stuff they were offering to do in the Channel 4 story. That's bad.

But the data and Facebook stuff? It's not a big deal IMO. Targeted campaigns at different demographics online is not new at all. Political campaigns have been using Facebook data to tailor a message to different voter groups for at least 5 years now. In conjunction with information polls have given you can often get a good idea of someone's political outlook from their demographic information and interests. So you send a different advert to a 60 year old man who likes Top Gear in Blackpool than the advert you send to a 19 year old woman in London who loves Harry Potter.

That happens a lot online and with considerably more sophistication than my crude example.

What CA did was use data that had been farmed from public profiles on Facebook by a third party and in-doing so broke many of Facebook's policies and might have broken rules on data protection. I don't know the legalities of that.

But the data use here was not unusual and in fact seems pretty crude compared to what other people did. The Obama campaign did the same the only difference being that users either consented to their data being used or were reached via legitimate Facebook advertising.

Doesn't seem a big deal to me. The way Facebook allows their users to live in a bubble reinforcing their own biases by only showing them stuff that agrees with their world view is worse IMO.

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Fortunately (IMHO) I'm not brain dead enough to use Facebook.

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I rarely use it these days.

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Trump tweeting more about Mueller. He's gonna fire him isn't he?

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https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...9&d=1521630942

It's what he does. :D

Attachment 27349

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Trump is becoming more unpredictable and IMO reckless and yes, that’s me saying this.

If he fires him, he is kissing goodbye to his Presidency. Several of his own party are warning him it will be the beginning of the end of his presidency.

He appalled me yesterday calling to congratulate Putin as did all the other world leaders who sucked up to him, this is a big FU to Britain IMO.

However, I learned from a Washington Post article that Trump WAS advised by his National Security Advisors before his call to Putin... ‘DO NOT CONGRATULATE PUTIN’ this was in caps on the memo and that he needed to bring up the Salisbury poison attack. Well, he ignored both these and did the opposite to what he was advised to do.

I thought last week we would finally get the international community to stand up to Russia, this week we are just accepting more of the same after Putin’s re-Election and Trump has disappointed me on this issue big time.

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Not proving himself the loyal friend of the UK some had believed he would turn out to be.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/b...warn-0w07tjkkb

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Trump has place punitive duty on all steel imports from every country not just the UK.

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Nope, he's exempted countries like Mexico and Canada.

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That’s because of NAFTA which Trump has not yet abolished. Mexico and Canada are the only other member countries.

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Despite what many hoped after Trump won the presidency he is turning into an embarrassment and quite a few of my friends who were huge Trump supporters are backing off from him. The congratulating Putin thing has massively backfired on him with many American's deciding that was wrong and with it coming out he was clearly told not to do it and ignored that has only added fuel to the fire. Being honest as I've said before he doesn't want to serve a whole term as president and is constantly saying and doing stupid stuff hoping he will get kicked out of the oval office i think this whole thing was an ego trip for Trump winning it ended any serious thought he had about the presidency.

I now think it's a case of when he goes not if he goes americans will put up with a lot but if they think your turning the office of president or the country in general into a laughing stock they can be extremely aggressive in their response. Such a shame Trump had a real chance to change the political landscape in the U.S and possibly other western nations but will now be an example of how it goes bad when you don't pick the usual candidates reinforcing the established political structure the man's done more then just affect himself he's screwed a lot of people.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/u...mp-lawyer.html

Matters are getting interesting..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43506098

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IMHO you are correct. By congratulating Putin he's screwed himself. His supporters were quite willing to believe that the accusations of collusion with Russia were nothing more than the Democrats being sore losers and clutching at straws.

With one tweet he may have stuffed himself.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...n-russia-probe Could these two things be connected?

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The Committee on the House Intelligence investigation on Russia Meddling in the U.S Election 2016, releases the following report and recommendations:-

https://intelligence.house.gov/uploa...mendations.pdf

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I find it it interesting that Democrats who to date have been very vocal on my Twitter timeline previously are now suddenly silent since the release of this.

Well done for posing it Mick.

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This was released by the Republican members - all Democrats on the committee voted against releasing it.

The summary says that "none of the interviewed witnesses provided evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government." Not surprising, since they didn't interview Flynn or Papadopoulos, who gave pled guilty, or Manafort, or subpoena Bannon or Hicks to make them answer, rather than stonewalling.

If you don’t ask questions because you don’t want to hear the answers, it’s not surprising you don’t find anything amiss...

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Absolute rubbish Hugh and you know it. Manafort, Flynn indicted on charges not related to any collusion whatsoever and you don’t know what questions they asked Hicks or Bannon, because their testimony’s were behind closed sessions, what was said outside them, was likely to be leaked by the the Dems and usually what they leak is totally inaccurate.

I don’t really care what the ‘cheating’ Democrats want. We know why they did not want it releasing, because it describes the DNC and Crooked Hillary up to no good and them being the ones who this report shows are the actual ones who colluded with Russia by paying Steele, who in turn got his intel from Russians for dirt on Trump, that’s them right there, doing the collusion!

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Spot on Hugh. Your analysis cuts through this nonsense like a wire-cutter through um, wire. "Don't ask, you don't get." sums it up. Let's wait for the results of the investigation.

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These ARE the results of the investigation. If they did not find anything, what makes you think Mueller will?

But not spot on at all. It does no such thing.

I will say to you what I said to Hugh, nobody knows what questions Hicks or Bannon were asked, their testimony’s were in classified settings. What was leaked came more likely came from the pathetic Dems, but what they leaked, was misleading as usually always is.

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Let's wait until Mueller's investigation is concluded and he's spoken to all relevant people before deciding one way or the other. He's likely to be more neutral than papers just from one party.

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*I have no desire to wait 26 years, thanks.

That’s a laugh, his team comprising of Democrats, highly partisan, he appointed disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok on to his team also until his heavy bias was discovered by the Inspector General.

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Not sure where you get 26 years from. Be patient, it took two years for the Watergate Investigation and that was pre-digital.

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Mueller is a registered Republican, appointed by a Republican Attorney General, and when he led the FBI he was appointed by a Republican President.

Also, people are saying because some of his team donated to the Democrats, they must be biased (ignoring the fact that one of them also donated to Republicans as well) - Trump donated to the Democrats...

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Trump and his followers' slurs on Mueller to try and dislodge him from power are counter-productive and have a whiff of desperation about them.

Meanwhile, I see that Trump has appointed an architect of the Iraq War, John Bolton as his new national security adviser. I guess as someone who lied about Iraq's WMD, he shares Trump's passion for fake news! ;)

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And this is why Presidents should never try to take credit for Stock Market rises...

Friday, down 2176 points in a month - if you take credit for the rises, you have to take the blame for the falls...

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Keep calm Hugh, is only a temporary scratch.

Dow Rallies again in a 670 point gain today, one of the largest gains in a single day since 2008. On News that U.S may avert a trade war with China.

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I’m calm - just pointing out if someone take the credit for rises, they have to take the blame for losses (I think it should be neither, as it’s not that simple, and there are so many other factors to be taken into account). It was the biggest one week drop in two years.

The good news is that it looks as if it’s recovering, which is what everyone wants.

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Hopefully a sustained rally will follow, the last couple of months have been brutal.

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I do wonder what the non-disclosure agreement was all about assuming she didn't have an affair with Trump. Was she his tax lawyer, accountant or realtor perhaps?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43549767

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Did anyone see the size of Stormy’s pupils on 60 minutes... ?

Seen lots of comments from folk ‘suggesting’ those are potentially the eyes of someone hooked on cocaine. I don’t trust her either way.

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Sounds like folk are trying to discredit her. I doubt these people are qualified to diagnose drug problem addicts. Anyway it doesn’t matter. Either she has proof or she hasn’t. Everyone else will already have made their mind up otherwise.

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Eyes with pupils that size in high light conditions is not normal and I work in the health care sector to know that for sure!

'If she had proof, it had been shown by now, either Washington Post or NYT would likely paid top whack to share it, this attempt by her lawyers waving a DVD, and threatening the President that ‘We are not playing games.’ Very corny and pathetic.

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If he didn't have an affair, why did his lawyer pay her $130k, and why is his lawyer now threatening to sue her for a breach of a non-disclosure agreement?

What is there to disclose if nothing happened?:confused:

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Why don't you ask him. I really don't care Hugh about a private citizens private life before he became President. :rolleyes:

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I agree
It's not like he was involved with Monica Lewinsky ;)

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Yeah but pupils can dilate for all sorts of reasons other than drugs. Some eye drops can cause it, some legal drugs, if you have issues with your eye height or just general eye issues. Could be drugs but could also be many other things.

Thing is no one watching TV is in a position to diagnose it.

The Post and NYT likely not. Most broadsheets in the UK and US have a policy against paying their sources (for obvious reasons). Maybe someone else though, maybe she was paid for this interview too.

As I said if she has proof, share it. Otherwise this story isn't going anywhere.

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Exactly. Wasn't much Media Derangement back when all that was happening.

Not to mention the rape allegations coming from Juanita Broaddrick and sexual advances to Paula Jones by President Bill Clinton, which in that case an out of court settlement was reached! The Fake News Media didn't appear to give a shit back then about the Crooked Clinton empire.

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I am well aware of that, but pupils that size is not normal and shows an underlying condition, could be drugs, could be a underlying medical condition, I'd put my money on it being drugs. I just don't give a shit either way.

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As has been previously explained, if the payment (which was paid just before the election) could be deemed to have affected the election (by stopping negative news), it is seen as a campaign contribution, and since it wasn't declared as such, is a felony.

It's not the action that gets you, it's the cover-up (see Watergate, etc.).

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Seriously? - it was wall to wall coverage at the time.

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Are you serious? About 13 women came forward accusing him of inappropriate advances, there is the video of him bragging about grabbing women, surely this is negative as it gets and he suppose to have paid off just one woman for having consensual sex years ago..... The story deserves to be treated with the bullshit it exists of. :rolleyes:

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Hugh didn’t say it was a good strategy. Just that if the money was declared its breaking the law.

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Meanwhile, on the latest episode of "You're fired" we wave goodbye to Veteran's Affair's secretary David Shulkin.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8278726.html

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Replaced by his White House doctor.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/u...C435CE&gwt=pay This can only be a good thing - if wrongdoing happened, it can be exposed and those who did it prosecuted/disciplined; if not, it should mean this isn't relevant anymore.

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Oh it’s very relevant. Further text messages from the disgraced FBI Agents. (Makes you wonder what these clowns did all day, texting each other), further texts highlight the real possibility, the Obama White House, FBI, CIA (Under Brennan) were in full collusion with each other to bring down Trump in the event of a Trump Presidency.

The FISA abuses and the heavy bias with the agents wanting a Crooked Hillary Presidency, clearing her email investigation, when there was very clear breaches of the law on classified emails being found etc etc....

A second special prosecutor is needed. The OIG does not have prosecutorial powers and can not force people to testify. He has yet to release his extensive report on Crooked Hillary’s email Investigation and other potential conduct with the DoJ during the Obama Administration.

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I would have thought it more appropriate that the OIG of the Justice Department does what their job is - impartial oversight and investigation of the previous investigations; that's literally its job, as it is a nonpartisan oversight branch charged with detecting and deterring misconduct within the Department of Justice. The FBI and its director answer to the DOJ and its head, the attorney general.

No one, on either side, can then claim bias over the outcomes.

If Strzok was such a big Clinton fan, and so opposed to President Biff, why did he draft the letter about reopening Clinton’s email server investigation, but also supported reopening the investigation just before the election?

And it seems to get overlooked that there were texts that criticized Clinton, Clinton’s team, the Obama administration, Congress and other Democrats.

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Amazon pays sales taxes in all the US States and DC, except the five that don't have sales tax.

Everyone uses the US Postal Service as their Delivery Boy - that is the main reason for their existence, and Amazon, just like everyone else, pays for that service. Package delivery is one of the USPS growth areas, helping keep it in business.

Three top cable news networks cut away from Trump speech
 

Even Fox couldnt stay with that nonsense :D

Three top cable news networks cut away from Trump speech | TheHill

Some lowlights

http://shareblue.com/cable-news-trump-speech-fox-news

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That sounds like the usual Trump speech, trying to blame everyone but himself. I do hope that the US invests more in its infrastructure but the signs aren't good.

More worrying in that article was the corruption it highlighted in the Trump regime, with lobbying rising to a seven-year high. No so much draining the swamp but feeding the crocodiles in it! https://shareblue.com/lobbying-incre...dc-corruption/

Its crazy that there is still as many supporters as there are!!!

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I was under the impression that if DT hotels are making money. Then he is has a 'conflict of Interest' as being President.

I believe he stated that he would pass over ALL his business interest to his family ?

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I think it is crazy that Crooked Hillary has her core supporters still 'with her', despite knowing what we know now, that she cheated Bernie Sanders.... in the debates and funded the Fusion GPS Dossier along with the corrupted DNC, that's the Democrats, compiled by Steele, in which he is alleged to have garnered intel from Russians, intel that was not verified. That to me, right there, is the collusion.

But yeah, it's really bat shit crazy that the U.S economy is doing fantastic, jobs up and social security claimant count lowest it's been since 1973... Jobs up for blacks, Hispanics and women.... and the latest that there could finally be a Peaceful resolution in the Korea Peninsula... all the above happening under a Trump Presidency.

I mean removing yours and others hate aside, which is by far irrelevant, he is enacting practically everything he campaigned on. (Some requires Congress to approve).

I think it's really selfish that because you hate something or someone so much, the haters want that something or someone to fail, bit like those who hate Brexit here, they cannot stand the fact that the UK has done well despite a 'Leave' win result. It's all very pathetic. :rolleyes:

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1Exactly1 ;)

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Brilliantly summarised again Mick.

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Just to clarify here they have been multiple 'deals' that eventually fell though with N.Korea.

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Exactly. Crooked Hillary not jailed. Mexicans not agreed to pay for the wall and no sign of it being funded by the US. Sackings of key staff and advisers every couple of weeks like it's a long-running series of The Apprentice. NRA still omni-powerful despite Trump saying he would take them on. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation hangs over Trump with the latest being that Erik Prince, a close campaign adviser to Donald Trump, met Kirill Dmitriev a Russian financier with direct ties to Vladimir Putin's family in the weeks leading up to Mr Trump's inauguration.

I think it's fair to say that the economy has continued its upward trajectory when Trump took over but many other areas have been somewhat lacklustre. I think the Trump regime is now learning from some of its mistakes. Certainly, his recent talk at the Gridiron Club dinner was largely a triumph. Korea and trade negotiations are big unknowns which he can build a legacy on if either comes off.

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That is very true, but maybe this time...

I think the American Government should take care not to take North Korea at its word before it gives anything significant away. Let's see the nuclear plants being decommissioned before Kim gets anything to shout about.

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Trump has said that is the plan.

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When Kim was in China last week, he was suppose to have been read the riot act by the China President, "Make this work, or else."

It is in China's best interest to not have a failed State, right on it's Southern Border, a State that could be occupied by either South Korea or the U.S, if ever NK decided to not play ball and start a deadly war that it would lose and be utterly annihilated.

BREAKING: Associated Press is running with a report that the Kremlin has stated that Trump invited Putin to the White House, no date has been set.

Should turn some heads in DC as well as heads here in UK, as it should. it is misguided IMO. I understand the need for diplomacy. But you don't throw each others diplomats out of the Country, shut down Consulates and then next day, send an invite for chit chat at tea time. (See, I do criticise Trump when he does things I totally do not agree with).

https://apnews.com/b0229c16ae2148b1be5c8e71bb9f2427

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Maybe The Donald plans to put some nerve agent on the White House door knocker.

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Right now Trump is behaving very erratically and there is clearly a huge disconnect between him and everyone else at the top level and Trump acting as though he's still on reality tv firing anyone who doesn't agree with him is only going to make matters much worse. An invite to putin right now sends the opposite signal that should be sent right now and this will hit him domestically as well as even the most diehard Trump supporters are scratching their heads right now. Even in the military support for him is declining and senior military are getting frustrated by the lack of decisive directions in relation to foreign policy.

As for North Korea having their main supplier of high quality fuel turn off the tap has played a bigger part in their change of attitude then anything else.

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Encouraging to see people are alert to Trump's foreign policy weaknesses.

Hopefully, he is receiving similar feedback from his remaining advisers and will start to make foreign policy more strategically and less driven by early-morning tweets.

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I do not agree he has been weak, the stance on North Korea proved the opposite, if the meeting they have planned works out. Other issues have been misguided. His approach to Russia is troubling. Chucking out 60 Russian diplomats and closing a Russian consulate, is not weak either, his new Security Advisor is not Russia friendly, neither is Mike Pompeo, the new Secretary of State.

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I'm not so sure Trump had much to do with the expulsions to be honest i think that was more likely the state department and Trump gave the invite to Putin as a slap in the face for the state department for the expulsions. I really hoped Trump would rise to the job of president but he hasn't he's still acting as though he's just a businessman with the inability he had to take onboard anyone's opinion or view if it differs from his. There's been a definate attitude change amongst my american friends who voted for Trump and a shortening of patience for his silliness it's all starting to wear a bit thin.