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Brother, can you spare a dime?

Aug 29, 2017 3:48AM PDT
Top Trump Organization executive asked Putin aide for help on business deal



A top executive from Donald Trump’s real estate company emailed Russian President Vladi­mir Putin’s personal spokesman during the U.S. presidential campaign last year to ask for help advancing a stalled Trump Tower development project in Moscow, according to documents submitted to Congress on Monday.

The request came in a mid-January 2016 email from Michael Cohen, one of Trump’s closest business advisers, who asked longtime Putin lieutenant Dmitry Peskov for assistance in reviving a deal that Cohen suggested was languishing.


One year BEFORE he was President?

Gee...I hope TheRUMP didn't feel beholdin' to Putin.

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You could make this suggestion
Aug 29, 2017 4:03AM PDT

that any and all candidates for high office should display their seriousness at the same time as they announce they are running. At that same time, they must divest themselves of all that would be required of them should they win. They must immediately cease any and all business activity that would be in conflict (or come under scrutiny) with the office they sought to hold. If they don't win...tough luck, chump. Yep. That will surely weed out a lot of people.

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RE:They must immediately cease any and all business activity
Aug 29, 2017 5:52AM PDT
They must immediately cease any and all business activity that would be in conflict (or come under scrutiny) with the office they sought to hold.

How 'bout requiring them to REPORT any/all business activity?
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Pending business activity only??
Aug 29, 2017 7:25AM PDT

There's already a requirement to disclose a lot of stuff. Maybe a candidate should also disclose any vacation plans as well. Maybe a candidate should disclose any plans for closed door meetings with White House interns. But, if you like to dig and compare, you can look here something that looks suspicious in Trump's disclosure...other than that his list is 5x longer than that of anyone else. Certainly no one can juggle this many plates.

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Forgot link
Aug 29, 2017 7:25AM PDT
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RE:Certainly no one can juggle this many plates.
Aug 29, 2017 7:39AM PDT

You juggle the plates that you know people are award of....and/or you pretend there are NO plates.

Pending business activity only?.

At least the pies they've already had their fingers in.....

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Fingers in pies....like hilLIARy?
Aug 29, 2017 10:29AM PDT

At least Trump's fingers were all legit business dealings...........and Russian 'interference' didn't come up until 8 months later (after the Jan 2016 date mentioned) according to BO himself, who did NOTHING until AFTER his candidate lost. Trump still, at the Jan date, had the right to continue his normal business since he wasn't going to be required to walk away from it until the November election handing him the keys to the WH.

Fake accusations, JP???? Still trying to make mountains out of molehills?

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RE: hilLIARy
Aug 29, 2017 5:39PM PDT

Hillary WHO?

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The problem with liberals, JP
Aug 30, 2017 4:28AM PDT

Is that either they have very selective memories or their revisions of real history becomes truth to them......Even her new book "What (the hell) Happened(?)" still blames everyone/everything but herself..........

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YOU don't get it, do you?
Aug 30, 2017 5:09AM PDT

Why don't I keep bringing up GWB?

WHY am I not still raving about GWB?

He's history....so is she.....

Time move on.....Obama is gone...So is Hillary...


DEFEND TRUMP...IF you can.

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You don't bring up GWB
Aug 30, 2017 7:13AM PDT

because HE had/has CLASS and stayed out of BO's ridiculous and destructive presidency.......BO and hilLIARy don't know the meaning of the word. YOU are the one, along with the rest of your liberals, who can't seem to be able to move on, JP.

Trump doesn't need to be defended....he's already PROVEN he's better at the job than either one of YOUR favorites were or could have been.

When your liberal buddies can finally put down the whining, crying, puppies, and violence, maybe YOU can stop defending THEM??????????

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REYou don't bring up GWB
Aug 30, 2017 7:41AM PDT
You don't bring up GWB because HE had/has CLASS and stayed out of BO's ridiculous and destructive presidency..

Wasn't GWB BEFORE Obama?

It's difficult to complain about future events...Yet here HE is, GWB complaining about Obama....He couldn't complain about future events so he complains about past events?

Classy?

In rare public comments about his successor, George W. Bush slammed President Obama’s foreign policy in a speech over the weekend.

The former president, addressing a meeting of Jewish Republican donors at The Venetian hotel in Las Vegas Saturday night, railed against Obama’s decision to ease sanctions on Iran, scoffed at his handling of ISIS and mocked his perceived indecisiveness, Bloomberg News reported.

“You think the Middle East is chaotic now?” Bush said while discussing a possible nuclear deal with Iran. “Imagine what it looks like for our grandchildren. That’s how Americans should view the deal.”

Trump doesn't need to be defended

Well, that works out good for you then (in YOUR mind)...because YOU can't/won't defend him.

Like shooting fish in a barrel.
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Has he kept to this?
Aug 30, 2017 8:57AM PDT
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RE:held any criticism to private events rather than openly.
Aug 30, 2017 12:28PM PDT

"rather than openly"

Because he HAS...TONI H just didn't know about it....She's not traveling in the right circles.


That's why it's not good to make "blanket statements" using the words never/didn't/hasn't...

SHE/WE don't know what goes on behind closed doors

She makes a claim...I shoot it down....

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RE:Has he kept to this?
Aug 30, 2017 12:41PM PDT

I think so......It seems he said he'd keep silent UNLESS something HE THOUGHT wasn't right....

So Obama said...from your link

"I want to be respectful of the office and give the president-elect an opportunity to put forward his platform and his arguments without somebody popping off in every instance," Obama told reporters at an economic-cooperation summit in Lima, Peru.

But Obama warned that he wouldn't remain silent if he felt Trump's administration were attacking American values.

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OK...I get it
Aug 30, 2017 2:51PM PDT

Obama said he'll dummy up as long as Trump does everything in a manner of which the former president approves. What a swell guy.

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RE: OK...I get it
Aug 30, 2017 3:52PM PDT

You're welcome.

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Actually, I'm not that sure
Aug 31, 2017 7:57AM PDT

Your post said he'd remain silent as long as he saw no attack on "American values". I wasn't aware that Obama was in charge of defining what those values are. Perhaps he should have changed the wording to indicate that he'd keep silent as long as there was no attack on what he (Barack Obama) felt that those values should be.

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RE: in charge of defining what those values are.
Aug 31, 2017 8:11AM PDT

Values....like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.....

And when a person has different values than the rules of law....Some give out pardons....

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And BO had a FISTFUL of those, JP........
Aug 31, 2017 10:44AM PDT

Count up all the criminals HE let go back into society........and then come back and talk about the ONE pardon Trump put out. I didn't hear you complaining about BO's pardons and commutations, including Manning, a complete national security traitor. Nor have I heard you mention BO's refusal to enforce the immigrations laws that are already on the books.

"And when a person has different values than the rules of law....Some give out pardons...."

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What a hypocrite.......
Aug 31, 2017 5:40AM PDT

"without somebody popping off in every instance," Obama told reporters "

How many times did BO actually DO that when it came to issues like Cambridge, Trevon Martin, OWS, BLM, etc.?????

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RE:How many times did BO actually DO that
Aug 31, 2017 7:03AM PDT

So, you're NOT saying TheRUMP doesn't do "that", you're saying Obama did "that".

Like I said, you won't/can't DEFEND TheRUMP.

The "other side did it" is NOT a good defense...

And the other sides are hypocrites...and your side aren't hypocrites.

And YOU voted for "change",

BUT you can't point out any "changes/defense of TheRUMP"...all you've been doing for months is complaining about what YOU claim others have done.

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why do you keep bringing up Obama?
Aug 31, 2017 8:10AM PDT

You accuse others of doing that, but you can't seem to get over him, bringing his name up all the time.

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RE: why do you keep bringing up Obama?
Aug 31, 2017 10:18AM PDT

MOI?..."bring up" Obama?

As I've said...Time move on.....Obama is gone...So is Hillary...

On the contrary, I don't "bring him up"...others bring him, I've tried to kick them of the habit...Lord knows...they keep flogging Obama...I'll keep responding....

IF I had anything better to do...I'd be doing it.

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You should spend more time....
Aug 31, 2017 8:17AM PDT

....being upset over that silly young punk you have for a Prime Minister. Would someone please change his diaper, and give him his teddy bear?

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(NT) RE: teddy bear?
Aug 31, 2017 10:18AM PDT
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(NT) PS...TheRUMP has the same physique of a teddy bear
Aug 31, 2017 10:19AM PDT
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See??????
Aug 31, 2017 10:50AM PDT

WE bring up your PM, and you bring in Trump..........YOU bring up Trump, and we bring in BO and the LIAR.

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RE:WE bring up your PM, and you bring in Trump
Aug 31, 2017 12:56PM PDT
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people like "teddy bears"
Aug 31, 2017 4:02PM PDT

Makes me think of Radar on MASH.

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(NT) TheRUMP doesn't make me think of Radar
Aug 31, 2017 4:15PM PDT