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Maru Kitteh

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February 18, 2017

Leaked Tape: Trump invited club guests to 'come along' during cabinet interviews

Leaked tape reveals Trump invited club guests to 'come along' during cabinet interviews



http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320220-leaked-tape-reveals-trump-invited-club-guests-to-watch-his

Newly leaked audio from a November party at President Trump's Bedminster, N.J., golf club reveals then president-elect Trump touting to guests his scheduled interviews on premises with potential cabinet members and White House staff.

“We’re doing a lot of interviews tomorrow — generals, dictators, we have everything,” Trump says in the tape, obtained by Politico and published Saturday. “You may wanna come around. It’ll be fun. We’re really working tomorrow. We have meetings every 15, 20 minutes with different people that will form our government."


More at link above.

JFC.

February 17, 2017

Trump Unchained: Was his performance a direct result of the weakening of Priebus and Kellyanne?

Trump never seemed too impressed with Priebus to begin with, and several of his inside circle were against bringing the GOP chairman on at the White House, believing that he lacked loyalty to Trump. Priebus is under attack from many sides, even Breitbart recently sported the headline As Flynn Resigns, Priebus Future In Doubt and friends of Trump have given interviews calling Preibus "weak" and "in over his head."

Kellyanne Conway has been greatly weakened, her future called into question and the subject of many rumors in a fall from grace that arguably began in earnest with her announcement that Trump subscribes to a universe governed by "alt-facts." Shortly after her now famous "Bowling Green" gaffe she landed in Dutch with even the House Ethics committee for hawking first daughter-wife Ivanka's Chinese-made wares from inside the White House.

Having considered this for a while today, I think that the moderating influences, the ones who set him on a teleprompter and were even able to take away his Twitter at key times have been steadily weakened since Trump's arrival at 1600. The devil on his shoulder is stoking the flames of chaos, and consolidating his own power within the White House by appealing to the darkest angels of Trump's nature.

Trump has decided that all this "professional" bullshit isn't any fun, and it certainly isn't getting him the love and admiration he wants. His approval ratings are in free-fall. The respect and love he thought would automatically come with "winning" and being a president didn't materialize.

Unhappy and longing for the old days, he's decided not only to schedule himself a rally, but to go back to the openly belligerent, no-holds barred hand-to-hand combat and bellicose hostility of the campaign trail. There is no one there with sufficient strength to moderate him now, to tell him what a bad idea it was, to keep his rage, frustration and ineptitude from blossoming in full public view.

That, I think, is how we ended up with the chaotic and unhinged performance we saw today.









February 16, 2017

So now we have the real skinny on what "FAKE NEWS" means to Trump

It's all about "the tone." If he thinks the "tone" is against him - it's "fake news"

I'll link to transcript here as soon as it becomes available.

This is a shocking and sad display of madness, of his yearning for fascism, of his ignorance of basic facts, of his inability to view any single issue outside of the lens of his own narcissism, of his utter and complete corruption and inadequacy to his task.

WE ARE SO FUCKED.

February 16, 2017

Verified FBI Twitter acct. Tweets on release of FBI investigation into Trump Mgmt

Company from 1972 to 1974.

https://twitter.com/FBIRecordsVault/status/831941156736884737



Trump Management Company

This release consists of FBI materials on an investigation conducted between 1972 and 1974 into allegations that the Trump Management Company had discriminated against applicants for apartment rentals on account of their race.


Link to the PDF available on the FBI website: https://vault.fbi.gov/trump-management-company/Trump%20Management%20Company%20Part%2001%20of%2001/view

February 15, 2017

US Special Operations Command: "The US government is in "unbelievable turmoil"


US Special Ops chief: US government 'in unbelievable turmoil'

Washington (CNN)The head of US Special Operations Command said Tuesday that the US government is in "unbelievable turmoil," a situation that he suggested could undermine US efforts to fight adversaries such as ISIS.

"Our government continues to be in unbelievable turmoil. I hope they sort it out soon because we're a nation at war," Army Gen. Raymond "Tony" Thomas told a symposium in Maryland.

While it wasn't exactly clear what Thomas was referring to, his remarks come less than 24 hours after retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was forced to step down as national security adviser, becoming by far the shortest tenured adviser in history.

more at link http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/us-special-ops-government-turmoil/index.html?sr=twCNN021517us-special-ops-government-turmoil0500AMVODtopLink&linkId=34513692


Well, that projects a pretty clear image to the world . .
February 15, 2017

Nordstrom's victim and faux 'activist' Ivanka poses behind the Oval Office desk



[font size = 5]JFC These people have NO RESPECT WHATSOEVER for the Office!!! She's "playing house" with Daddy![/font]

This woman has the GDF nerve to appropriate the real work that women do to struggle for equality and call herself a GDF activist for women and girls????

Make sure you have a rich white sociopathic daddy little girls, so you too can suffer the slings and arrows of forcing your nannies and butlers to buy your lemonade, grow up, get in a fight with a department store and eventually treat the trappings of the closest thing our country has to sacred ground like your own personal Barbie Dreamhouse.




February 15, 2017

Did Jack Kingston (R-GA) also talk sanctions in his Dec. Moscow visit?






Not just Flynn: Here are 4 more Trump loyalists with troubling ties to Putin’s Russia

1. Jack Kingston:

Former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) was in Moscow in December meeting with American business leaders to discuss what changes are forthcoming in the relationship between the two nations, Raw Story reported.

“Trump can look at sanctions,” Kingston told NPR during his overseas visit. “They’ve been in place long enough. Has the desired result been reached? He doesn’t have to abide by the Obama foreign policy. That gives him a fresh start.”

Kingston served as an advisor to Trump on the campaign and is currently a paid Republican commentator to CNN and in an interview with Jake Tapper, he revealed he works for a law firm that has offices in Russia but claimed he was there as a private citizen.

More at link: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/not-just-flynn-here-are-4-more-trump-loyalists-with-troubling-ties-to-putins-russia/
February 14, 2017

Kellyanne Conway Tweets to White Nationalist, 'Love you back!'

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/kellyanne-conway-tweets-love-you-back-to-white-nationalist-and-then-quickly-deletes-it/

Kellyanne Conway tweets ‘Love you back’ to white nationalist — and then quickly deletes it

President Donald Trump’s White House adviser, Kellyanne Conway, retweeted a Valentine’s Day note from a white supremacist on Tuesday. The user, whose name is “Lib Hypocrisy” with a frog meme — now recognized by the Anti-Defamation League as a hate symbol of the alt-right white supremacist movement — wrote, “Your strength & resiliency in face of vile hatred, bigotry, & sexism of the unhinged Left is a daily inspiration! Love you!”

Conway retweeted the user, writing “Love you back. Happy Day to the Hapless Haters.” Her tweet has since been removed.



More at link with story.
February 14, 2017

Alive or dead?



Not just in the political sense. I mean in the sense that have you ever seen a someone of this man's tender age (31) that looked more like a corpse or a wax figure?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/12/trump-administration-considering-narrower-travel-ban#img-1


I think this artificial life form and friend of Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer will hang on till the bitter end of the Trump reign, which appears to be coming sooner than expected by the most optimistic among us. If Mike Pence is smart, he's already making quiet plans to fill his own cabinet and appointees.



February 14, 2017

On this VALENTINES DAY, I sincerely wish that all our DU family,

has someone in their life who looks at each of us, the way Ivanka looks at Trudeau.

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/831280292379910144





Seriously. Love you guys!



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