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The Trump White House: Adventures in Communications

Started by VDB, July 27, 2017, 06:27:37 PM

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mattstick


Listning to Speaking In Tongues this morning... how apropos is this line from Making Flippy Floppy for 2018?

I can't believe it
And people are strange
Our president's crazy
Did you hear what he said
Business and pleasure
Lie right to your face
Divide it in sections
And then give it away

sls.stormyrider

you can't make this shit up

QuoteD-Day is example of America's 'strong relationship with German government', Trump State Department spokeswoman says
"toss away stuff you don't need in the end
but keep what's important, and know who's your friend"
"It's a 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."

GBL

QuoteFact checking the President is like pissing into a hurricane

If this is love, I'm never going home..

sls.stormyrider

#228
one more scary thing in a long list of scary things.

what is this country becoming?

http://time.com/5346297/donald-trump-security-clearances/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=2018072410am&xid=newsletter-brief&eminfo=%7b%22EMAIL%22%3a%22qUAzO%2f99ZkeeOnaS7jbrreGDsB9HwhooBlQBDbnRRLM%3d%22%2c%22BRAND%22%3a%22TD%22%2c%22CONTENT%22%3a%22Newsletter%22%2c%22UID%22%3a%22TD_TBR_EB3F0F66-5846-441C-97F3-5E0D4F385E72%22%2c%22SUBID%22%3a%2224215319%22%2c%22JOBID%22%3a%22833927%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22THE_BRIEF%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%22018102115%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22%22%7d

QuotePresident Trump Is Considering Revoking Security Clearances of His Critics

President Donald Trump is considering revoking the security clearances for a half-dozen former high-level intelligence and national security officials who have criticized him, the White House said Monday afternoon.

Speaking at the regular press briefing, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump was considering revoking clearances for former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of the National Security Agency Michael Hayden, among others, over their remarks on the Russia investigation.

"The President is exploring the mechanisms because they politicize and in some cases monetize their public service," Sanders said, explaining why Trump is looking at what power he has to revoke the clearance of a former officials.

Speaking to CNN after the press conference, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that the president has the authority to revoke the clearances, but that doing so because of his statements was "a very, very petty thing to do" and an "abuse of the system."

"It's kind of a sad commentary where for political reasons this is kind of a petty way for retribution for spekaing out against the president, which on the part of all of us are borne out of genuine concerns about President Trump," he said.

Read More: Former Intelligence Chiefs Explain How Trump Sows Distrust to His Advantage

Hayden tweeted that losing a security clearance would not affect him much.

"I don't go back for classified briefings," he wrote. "Won't have any effect on what I say or write."

The idea may have come from Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who criticized Brennan on Monday morning, arguing that he was "monetizing his security clearance" with attacks on Trump.

Paul confirmed in a tweet on Monday that he had met with Trump and had urged him to revoke these clearances. "Public officials should not use their security clearances to leverage speaking fees or network talking head fees," he tweeted.

Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University, believes Trump is considering the action to punish former officials who have been critical of him as well as silence officials currently serving in his administration who may consider being critical of him down the road. "It's another example of punitive politics," Zelizer said. Trump is likely sending a "general message" to officials that "he will push hard and not allow them to [criticize him] without retribution.

Sanders argued that the security clearance held by former officials "provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence," adding that Trump believes it is "extremely inappropriate" for former officials to make "baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia or being influenced by Russia."

Clapper and Hayden, both former Republican appointees, have written books arguing that Trump is fueling distrust of U.S. intelligence agencies in order to consolidate his own power, hurting American democracy in the process. They have also been vocal on social media and in interviews about their views on Trump.

Brennan, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, has also been outspoken in his criticism of Trump, arguing after the recent joint press conference with Vladimir Putin that Trump had met the constitutional threshold for impeachment. A spokesman for Brennan did not issue an immediate comment.

McCabe's spokesperson Melissa Schwartz tweeted after the press briefing that his clearance had been terminated when he was fired in March, which they were told was FBI policy. You would think the White House would check with the FBI before trying to throw shiny objects to the press corps..." she tweeted. And Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of the website lawfare and a friend of Comey's, said he texted the former FBI Director after the briefing, who told him he too no longer had one due to longstanding policy – and had declined a temporary one earlier in the year to read the inspector general's report on Hillary Clinton's e-mail investigation.
"toss away stuff you don't need in the end
but keep what's important, and know who's your friend"
"It's a 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."

Buffalo Budd

This is totally a classic Trump deflection of attention from his fall out with the Putin summit.
Everything is connected, because it's all being created by this one consciousness. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe.

Buffalo Budd

I love this recap of Trump's last 2 weeks from Kimmel:

QuoteThe president cancelled the trip to Poland to monitor Dorian from his golf course in Virginia, tweeted 514 times, tried to buy Greenland and threw a fit when they wouldn't sell it, suggested firing a nuclear missile at a hurricane, announced he would be suing people who worked for him for violating confidentiality agreements, attacked Grace from Will and Grace, Debra Messing, predicted Sean Spicer will do great on Dancing with the Stars, congratulated Poland on the anniversary of the Nazi invasion, fired his longtime assistant, who reportedly got drunk and told journalists that Trump doesn't like to be photographed with his daughter Tiffany because he believes her to be overweight, and wished a happy birthday to Regis
Everything is connected, because it's all being created by this one consciousness. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe.

mbw

Quote from: Buffalo Budd on September 04, 2019, 12:55:37 PM
I love this recap of Trump's last 2 weeks from Kimmel:

QuoteThe president cancelled the trip to Poland to monitor Dorian from his golf course in Virginia, tweeted 514 times, tried to buy Greenland and threw a fit when they wouldn't sell it, suggested firing a nuclear missile at a hurricane, announced he would be suing people who worked for him for violating confidentiality agreements, attacked Grace from Will and Grace, Debra Messing, predicted Sean Spicer will do great on Dancing with the Stars, congratulated Poland on the anniversary of the Nazi invasion, fired his longtime assistant, who reportedly got drunk and told journalists that Trump doesn't like to be photographed with his daughter Tiffany because he believes her to be overweight, and wished a happy birthday to Regis

you forgot that he has "never even knew a category 5 existed," "people have never seen anything like that," "one has never hit land," and well, he "never heard of the term category 5, other than I knows its there."

sls.stormyrider

#232
Dear Mr President, White House Council, and Republican members of the House and Senate

What is happening now is an investigation. It is not a trial. There is no requirement for cross examination, representation, or "facing accusers" during an investigation.
If and when there is a trial, you will have a chance for all of that
For now, please review the Constitution that you are supposed to be defending and the laws that you are supposed to be upholding.

and, btw, asking for foreign help with an election is illegal, whether or not there was quid pro quo.

Your friend
sls
"toss away stuff you don't need in the end
but keep what's important, and know who's your friend"
"It's a 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."

mbw


GBL

If this is love, I'm never going home..

Buffalo Budd

Quote from: GBL on October 23, 2019, 08:29:02 PM
I would laugh but nothing is funny anymore

Welllll!
That there is pretty funny though.
Everything is connected, because it's all being created by this one consciousness. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe.

PIE-GUY

Building a wall in Colorado now, apparently. Genius plan if I understand it correctly.
I've been coming to where I am from the get go
Find that I can groove with the beat when I let go
So put your worries on hold
Get up and groove with the rhythm in your soul

birdman

Quote from: PIE-GUY on October 23, 2019, 10:22:24 PM
Building a wall in Colorado now, apparently. Genius plan if I understand it correctly.
three dimensional chess.
Paug FTMFW!

sls.stormyrider

For a moment I thought I would be famous, perhaps being quoted as part of Donald's Tweet on CNN

then I saw who posted the "tweet"

:-P
"toss away stuff you don't need in the end
but keep what's important, and know who's your friend"
"It's a 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."

Buffalo Budd

Quote from: birdman on October 24, 2019, 05:44:49 AM
Quote from: PIE-GUY on October 23, 2019, 10:22:24 PM
Building a wall in Colorado now, apparently. Genius plan if I understand it correctly.
three dimensional chess.

I kid you not, as I was taking my dad to the airport a month ago, he was trying to convey to me how brilliantly strategic this guy is. It took everything in me to not pull the car over and make him hitch to catch his flight home but I took the high road and kept my mouth shut with a smirk on my face.
Everything is connected, because it's all being created by this one consciousness. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe.