Sally Yates

[THE KOD]

Also, the president has repeatedly been accused of cheating at the game.

Before Donald Trump became president, he sent several dozen tweets criticizing then-President Barack Obama for playing golf. ?I just want to stay in [the] White House [and] work my ass off,? he told reporters in February 2016. That November, Trump acknowledged that he would play golf as president, but said he would ?always play with leaders of countries and people who can help us.?


Since becoming president, Trump has played a lot of golf. Specifically, he has made six trips to the golf course in 30 days. This has caused some people to suggest Trump might be a hypocrite. The White House, which seems sensitive to those allegations, has responded by keeping the press and the public in the dark about Trump?s golfing ― sometimes literally, like on Feb. 11, when administration officials made an AP reporter wait in a room with black plastic over the windows while the president played golf.:scared


Trump?s golfing this weekend was similarly secret. Late Sunday afternoon, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a top White House press aide, told reporters Trump had played ?a couple of holes? Saturday and Sunday.

It was more than a couple, and it wasn?t all with world leaders: Trump played 18 holes on Sunday with pro golfer Rory McIlroy, who?s ranked third in the world; sports agent Nick Mullen; and Richard Levine, a Trump friend, donor and frequent golf partner, McIlroy told golf blog No Laying Up.

A McIlroy rep confirmed he spoke to No Laying Up. And a photo of Trump, McIlroy, Yankees great Paul O?Neill, and sports equipment CEO Garry Singer offers more confirmation that McIlroy and the president at least spent time together this weekend:


In a statement on Monday, the White House said the golf outing lasted longer than planned. ?He intended to play a few holes and decided to play longer,? Sanders said of the president. ?He also had a full day of meetings, calls and interviews for the new [national security adviser].?

It should go without saying that the president of the United States is well within his rights to play golf. Many presidents have. But Trump has already spent eight of his first 31 days in office in Florida ― nearly all of it at his golf clubs. So if we?re not getting the whole truth about what happens there, and who he?s playing and meeting with, we?re literally missing a quarter of the presidency.

Maybe there?s a good reason the president doesn?t want the press witnessing his golf outings: He vehemently denies it, but he?s been repeatedly accused of cheating at golf. Boxer Oscar De La Hoya, actors Anthony Anderson and Samuel L. Jackson, and many others have accused Trump of cheating at golf.

Here?s how the president responded to Jackson?s charges:

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
I don?t cheat at golf but @SamuelLJackson cheats?with his game he has no choice?and stop doing commercials!
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Trump is playing more golf than Obama


holy chit.

and not only that but how did we know he would cheat to win at golf


what a piece of shitpile

 

[THE KOD]

President Donald Trump bragged at his recent Florida rally that after a negotiating session of merely an hour he managed to shave a billion dollars off the price of a new Air Force One. The only problem is that the Air Force reportedly has no idea what he?s talking about.

?They were close to signing a $4.2 billion deal to have a new Air Force One,? Trump said Saturday. ?Can you believe this? I said, ?No way.? I said, ?I refuse to fly in a $4.2 billion airplane. I refuse.??

?We got that price down by over $1 billion, and I probably haven?t spoken, to be honest with you, for more than an hour on the project,? he continued. ?I got the generals in, who are fantastic. I got Boeing in. But I told Boeing, it?s not good enough. We?re not going to do it. The price is still too high.?

But Air Force spokesman Col. Pat Ryder told Bloomberg, ?To my knowledge I have not been told that we have that information.? He suggested a call to the White House, which had not responded to requests as of Friday.

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the lies will not stop

what a maniac

 

[Skulnik]

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:lol:

 

[THE KOD]

PARIS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande fired back at Donald Trump on Saturday after the U.S. president remarked in a speech that a friend thought ?Paris is no longer Paris? after attacks by Islamist militants.

Hollande said Trump should show support for U.S. allies.

?There is terrorism and we must fight it together. I think that it is never good to show the smallest defiance toward an allied country. I wouldn?t do it with the United States and I?m urging the U.S. president not to do it with France,? Hollande said.

?I won?t make comparisons but here, people don?t have access to guns. Here, you don?t have people with guns opening fire on the crowd simply for the satisfaction of causing drama and tragedy,?Hollande said, responding to questions during a visit at the Paris Agric fair.

During a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, Trump repeated his criticism of Europe?s handling of attacks by Islamist militants saying a friend ?Jim? no longer wanted to take his family to Paris.

More than 230 people have died in a series of assaults in France since the beginning of 2015, and the country has been under a state of emergency rules since November the same year.

Trump?s comments also drew a rebuke from the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.
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trumpster

what a dumb ass

foreign policy to a ally of ours, one of the few left:0002

 

[THE KOD]

Here?s an idea: Since Donald Trump has announced he?s ditching the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in April, maybe a substitute could take his place. Who better than Alec Baldwin, whose impersonations of Trump on ?Saturday Night Live? are growing ever-more eerily close to the real thing?

Actor Zach Braff came up with the brainstorm. After Trump tweeted that he wouldn?t be attending the dinner, Braff quickly tweeted to Baldwin that it was time to ?suit up.? Other Baldwin fans chimed in.

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Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!
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Yuge opening for Alec Baldwin to get some extra work that evening... https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/835608648625836032 ?
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Yes! Yes! Yes! @AlecBaldwin, please say Yes!!! #resist #trumpsajokeanyway https://twitter.com/mskristinawong/status/835610790145085440 ?

No word yet from Baldwin. Someone who would be extremely unpleased about the substitution would be Trump, who absolutely loathes Baldwin?s impersonations of him and just doesn?t think they?re ... well ... funny.
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haha

hope baldwin gets the gig

Trump would be ballistic

he cant take being talked about

 

[THE KOD]

Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.?

That was President Donald Trump speaking at the White House Monday, and if anything can encapsulate the dilemma facing Republicans as they haltingly try to keep their campaign promises to repeal and ?replace? the Affordable Care Act ― aka Obamacare ― it?s that.

The idea that ?nobody? knew health care is complicated is, of course, nonsense ― as literally anyone who?s ever visited a doctor or used health insurance could tell you. But the realization seems to have come belatedly to Trump.

Perhaps Trump will use his address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday to lay out a detailed plan for how to remake the health care system. But the president?s own shifting and contradictory statements about health care reform suggest that he remains unclear about what to do and how much ownership to take of the consequences of repealing the Affordable Care Act.

At a recent meeting with Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), for example, Trump seemed to be swayed by appeals to keep much of the law?s coverage expansion in place. The governor drew charts on pieces of paper on the president?s desk outlining the potential costs of repeal, an aide familiar with the exchange told The Huffington Post.
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wtf

he has no clue just like the rest of them in DC

 

[THE KOD]

WASHINGTON -- By Wednesday, Eric Trump will have gone to four countries on Trump company business since January 1st, each with Secret Service agents in tow.

In early January, it was a trip to Uruguay for a glitzy party to promote a new property, with a reported $100,000 in hotel bills for Secret Service and other U.S. government personnel.

Then just a few weeks after the inauguration, he flew to the Dominican Republic -- but not before Secret Service agents first went for a routine advance planning trip.

Within weeks, Eric and his brother Donald Jr. flew to Dubai for the gala opening of another Trump property.

And Tuesday night night, it?s Vancouver?s turn: a new Trump hotel that will be the city?s second-largest skyscraper. Both brothers are expected to attend, and their Secret Service protection goes with them.

The Secret Service won?t say how much all those trips cost the agency, but taxpayers are footing the bills.



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The law requires protection for the president, vice president and first lady, but Secret Service coverage for adult children is optional; they could decline it. Ronald Reagan?s son Ron Reagan eventually did just that.

?The taxpayers are stuck,? said Washington University Law Professor Kathleen Clark, who teaches on ethics in government.

?The bottom line on how much it?s costing the taxpayers is absolutely something I think the public and Congress has the right to know,? Clark said.

CBS News asked the Trump Organization?s representatives numerous times if the pace of international travel is expected to slow down or if Donald Jr. or Eric Trump have reimbursed taxpayers for the costs, but received no response.
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where is the outrage from the neocons


Reagans son didnt travel on taxpayers dime.

wtf

 

[THE KOD]

Donald Trump Blames SEAL?s Death On Military: ?They Lost Ryan?
The buck stops with ?them.?

President Donald Trump on Tuesday dodged responsibility for a botched mission he ordered in Yemen last month, placing the onus on the military and Barack Obama?s administration instead.

Bill Owens, the father of Chief Petty Officer William ?Ryan? Owens, the Navy SEAL who died in the operation, demanded an investigation into his son?s death over the weekend. Owens further revealed he couldn?t bear to meet Trump at the airport as Ryan?s casket was carried off the military plane last month.

Asked about the matter during an interview with Fox News? ?Fox ?n? Friends,? Trump repeatedly said ?they? were responsible for the outcome of the mission, in reference to the military.

?This was a mission that was started before I got here. This was something they wanted to do,? he said. ?They came to me, they explained what they wanted to do ― the generals ― who are very respected, my generals are the most respected that we?ve had in many decades, I believe. And they lost Ryan.

?I can understand people saying that. I?d feel ― ?What?s worse?? There?s nothing worse,? he added. ?This was something that they were looking at for a long time doing, and according to [Defense Secretary Jim] Mattis it was a very successful mission. They got tremendous amounts of information.?

"I can understand... I'd feel 'what's worse?' There's nothing worse." -@POTUS on fallen Navy SEAL's father not wanting to talk to him

The raid yielded no significant intelligence, U.S. officials told NBC News on Monday. Earlier this month, however, Pentagon officials said it produced ?actionable intelligence.? So, too, did White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who initially called the raid ?highly successful.?

?I think anyone who undermines the success of that raid owes an apology and [does] a disservice to the life of Chief Owens,? he said earlier this month. ?The raid, the action that was taken in Yemen was a huge success.?
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Trump fucked up the first raid in Yeman. He should be Bengazied for a few years for that one. But noooooooooo..... The military did it.

:scared

same thing will happen when isreal and trump go into Iran to stop a nuke with a nuke.


holy shitfire.

johnny wont be coming marching home from that one boys

 

[THE KOD]

North Korea launches another missile, perhaps one that can reach U.S.



TOKYO ? North Korea may have fired an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland, South Korea?s military said Monday morning after it spotted several unidentified projectiles landing in the sea between Japan and the Korean peninsula.

The launch coincides with annual exercises between the United States and South Korean militaries and is considered another display of Pyongyang?s anger about the exercises, which it views as a pretext for an invasion.

The apparent missile was launched from a known long-range missile site on the west coast, not far from the border with China, at 7:36 a.m. local time. It flew more than 600 miles across the country before splashing into the Sea of Japan, Seoul?s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message to local reporters.

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?We are conducting an analysis on the projectile to determine its type and flight range. It will take a while before we come up with a final analysis,? the joint chiefs said, according to Yonhap News Agency.

South Korea?s national security council convened an emergency meeting to discuss the launch.

In Japan, the government said that it had detected four missiles coming from North Korea and that three had landed perilously close to Japan, splashing down within its exclusive economic zone.

?These missile launches clearly show that North Korea has developed a new threat,? a visibly worried Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters in Tokyo. ?We will collect information and strongly protest to North Korea.?

[Did North Korea just test missiles capable of hitting the U.S.? Maybe.]

North Korea has repeatedly claimed to be working on an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States, and has been making observable progress toward this goal. In his latest New Year?s address, Kim Jong Un said North Korea had ?entered the final stage of preparation for the test launch an intercontinental ballistic missile.?
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Trump will surely do a tweet about this launch by morning. In Capital letters no doubt.


Time to put them on report. N Korea will fall down on their knees if he does that.

 

[THE KOD]

But since a federal judge put a freeze on Trump?s first executive order in early February, it has nevertheless taken his administration 31 days to announce an overhauled ban, undermining his arguments that the first one was both urgent and well thought out.

The new ban, for example, won?t go into effect for 10 days, unlike the initial order, which Trump said at the time needed to be done without notice or else ?the ?bad? would rush into our country.?

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incompatant fools


:mj07:

 

[THE KOD]

Obama on the military:

In the midst of his 2008 presidential campaign, Obama, who didn?t serve in the military, delivered these remarks at a Memorial Day event in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

I speak to you today with deep humility. My grandfather marched in Patton?s Army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you. My grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line, but I cannot know what it is for a family to sacrifice like so many of yours have.

I am the father of two young girls, and I cannot imagine what it is to lose a child. My heart breaks for the families who?ve lost a loved one.

These are things I cannot know. But there are also some things I do know.

I know that our sadness today is mixed with pride; that those we?ve lost will be remembered by a grateful nation; and that our presence here today is only possible because your loved ones, America?s patriots, were willing to give their lives to defend our nation.
Read the rest of Obama?s prepared remarks here.

Trump on the military:

Like Obama, Trump never served in the military. But according to Michael D?Antonio?s book The Truth About Trump, he?s repeatedly lied about how he avoided the Vietnam War. Here?s an excerpt:

?I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number,? [Trump] told a TV interviewer in 2011. ?I?ll never forget, that was an amazing period of time in my life.? In fact the lottery was not a factor in his experience. It didn?t occur until fourteen months after he received his medical exemption [for heel spurs], and eighteen months after he?d left Penn.

[...]

But Trump also insisted that he had actually known military life. In a separate conversation he said, ?I always thought I was in the military.? He said that in prep school he received more military training than most actual soldiers did, and he had been required to live under the command of men such as Ted Dobias who had been real officers and soldiers. ?I felt like I was in the military in a true sense,? added Trump, ?Because I dealt with the people.?

And woman in the military. Says he would just grab them by the pussy.

 

[THE KOD]

Iran shoots off missles again. I think this is the third time now.


Trump is making america looks so week.


Send the B-52s over there . Make a show of force.

drop a small nuke if you have to.

wtf Trump

 

[THE KOD]

Continuing a pattern of provocative actions, Iran this weekend test-fired a pair of ballistic missiles and sent fast-attack vessels close to a U.S. Navy ship in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News.

One of Iran's ballistic missile tests were successful, destroying a floating barge approximately 155 miles away, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the launch told Fox News. The launches of the Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missiles were the first tests of the missile in two years, one official said.

It was not immediately clear if this was the first successful test at sea -- raising concerns for the U.S. Navy, which operates warships in the area, one of which had an "unsafe and unprofessional" interaction with Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. boats on Saturday.

The IRGC boats approached to within 600 yard of the tracking ship USNS Invincible and then stopped, officials confirmed to Fox News. The Invincible was accompanied by three ships from the British Royal Navy and all four ships were forced to change course, Reuters reported.
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America is so weak looking under Trump.

no respect for America\


Iran and N Korea thumb noses at America.

 

[THE KOD]

Repealing the Affordable Care Act is going to be a windfall for America?s wealthiest families, even as it wipes away programs that have allowed millions of poor and middle-class Americans to get health insurance.

A new government report shows just how big that windfall is.

According to that analysis, which the Joint Committee on Taxation prepared this week and which the New York Times obtained, shows households with incomes of more than $1 million will get tax cuts that, over the next decade, would add up to roughly $157 billion.

The money comes from two new closely related taxes that the Affordable Care Act imposed to help finance the law?s coverage expansion. These taxes affect wealthy individuals and families exclusively ― they apply only to households with incomes above $250,000 for joint filers and $200,000 for individuals.

Previous estimates have suggested that 97 percent of Americans do not pay the tax at all, but that for the very wealthiest Americans, including those millionaires, it is worth quite a lot.

In fact, the richest 400 families in America would get an average tax cut of $7 million per year, according an analysis that the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published in January, based on earlier projections of what those taxes cost now.

The GOP repeal legislation, which its sponsors have called the ?American Health Care Act,? would not simply reduce taxes. It would also roll back the law?s expansion of Medicaid and reorient its financial assistance, producing a massive shift of funds away from lower-income Americans.

Initial independent estimates suggest millions would lose insurance as a result. The Congressional Budget Office will release its official estimate next week.
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157 billion



this is the way neo cons resolve health care

how did we already know

 

[Skulnik]

I agree Scott, Sally Yates is going to JAIL

 

[THE KOD]

I think you better worry more about Trump at this point.

Flynn was working as a foreign lobbyist for Turkey and also working on Trump campaign.
and Trump knew. wow. what a wicked web they are weaving.



Trump gets impeached for colluding with the Russians....

bye bye spy guy !

:scared

 

[THE KOD]

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Sunday urged House Republicans not to vote for House Speaker Paul Ryan?s (R-Wis.) Obamacare repeal bill, warning them that a vote in favor of the legislation could haunt them in the 2018 midterm elections.

?I?m afraid that if they vote for this bill, they?re going to put the House majority at risk next year,? he said during an interview with ABC?s ?This Week.?

The Arkansas senator recalled how Democrats lost unified control of government in 1994 after House Democrats voted in favor of President Bill Clinton?s proposed BTU tax. The unpopular tax on energy did not end up getting a vote in the Senate, but House Democrats got stuck with it hung around their necks in the midterms anyway.

The lesson, Cotton said, is to avoid casting a politically suicidal vote on legislation that the Senate or the president may abandon in the future.

?So, I would say to my friends in the House of Representatives with whom I serve, do not walk the plank and vote for a bill that cannot pass the Senate and then have to face the consequences of that vote,? Cotton said.
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its amazing how the neo cons think


instead of towing the party line and trying to work it out, his advice is to not pass it and hope to keep their fucking cush jobs with 25 weeks vacation.

we are doomed

 

[THE KOD]

WASHINGTON ― If President Donald Trump still thinks the unemployment rate is a sham, he?s got lots of company: Most Americans either say they?re unsure about the government?s jobs numbers or actively lack confidence in them.

For years, Trump said the monthly jobs reports put out by the Labor Department were ?phony? and misleading, and that the ?real? unemployment rate was as high as 42 percent. But on Friday, after the department announced a national unemployment rate of 4.7 percent, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump considers the number ?very real now.?

Americans? skepticism hasn?t dissipated so easily, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds.

Just 29 percent of Americans polled say they?re confident that the currently reported 4.7 percent unemployment rate is correct. Forty percent say they?re not confident, and another 31 percent say they?re unsure ― a finding that tracks with the public?s widespread distrust of most major institutions. Among those who lack confidence, 82 percent believe that the real unemployment rate is actually higher.

Sixty-eight percent of Republicans and 72 percent of independents, compared to just 46 percent of Democrats, said they weren?t confident that the federal government correctly reports the unemployment rate, the Politico-Harvard survey found.

On Monday, Spicer elaborated on the president?s view of his own government?s jobs data ― and seemed to suggest that Trump still may not actually believe the numbers are real.

?To look at a number and say we have 4.7 or 4.8 or 5.9 percent unemployment is not necessarily an accurate reflection of how many people are actually working, seeking work or want to work,? Spicer told reporters. ?How you look at the percentage of people working can sometimes be a manipulated number.?
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what a fake shitstorm we are in .


they lie, now they dont, I dont believe it., now I do


wtf

 

[THE KOD]

SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- U.S. special operations forces, including the unit that killed Osama Bin Laden, will take part in joint military drills in South Korea to practice incapacitating North Korean leadership in the case of conflict, a military official said Monday.:0074

The U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six will join the annual Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises between the two allies for the first time, along with the Army's Rangers, Delta Force and Green Berets.

"A bigger number of and more diverse U.S. special operation forces will take part in this year's Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises to practice missions to infiltrate into the North, remove the North's war command and demolition of its key military facilities," the official told Yonhap News Agency asking not to be named.

The Foal Eagle exercise started March 1 and will run through the end of April. On Monday, the Key Resolve computer-simulated command post exercise began and will run through March 24.

Seoul and Washington said the joint drills are purely defensive, but Pyongyang has denounced them as rehearsal for an invasion.
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I thought TRUMP wasnt going to tell our enemies what we were going to do before we do it.

what a buttwipe

 

[THE KOD]

According to Schiff, Trump?s willingness to ?make such an accusation without basis? is a national security concern that could limit the country?s ability to trust him in a time of crisis.

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:142smilie


how do we believe anything he says at this point