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Repubs lose a big hammer

Jul 2, 2019 6:58PM PDT

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Risk
Jul 8, 2019 6:56AM PDT

I was not born into a family of wealth.
A family that hid me from the draft.
A family that gave me millions.
A family that taught me how to play the business game.
Legal and not.

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(NT) Other than jealousy, what's your point?
Jul 9, 2019 3:37AM PDT
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My point
Jul 9, 2019 10:20AM PDT

From day one the Don had the winning hand.

He bumped that up a notch by learning to be a conman.

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If you want to see REAL
Jul 9, 2019 2:38PM PDT

conmen, look no further than BO, Biden, and the Clintons...

Show me where Trump has conned the American people....

As for a winning hand, how many people from your neighborhood have made a success of their lives without help from somewhere or someone. Are you of the same belief that BO had of 'YOU didn't build that'?

Jealousy seems to be at the bottom of most of your tripe....

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Jealous?
Jul 9, 2019 7:37PM PDT

Of the Don?
Not a chance.

Who could be jealous of someone with a head that fat.

Conned.....where's that wall that Mexico is going to pay for?

BO was too far left for me but he's not driving the bus.

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What a crock
Jul 8, 2019 5:01AM PDT

Trump isn't screwing the taxpayers....but the new DEM candidates PLAN to. THAT's 'here and now' so how do you feel about the freebies they are all planning on giving away using OPM, including health care for illegals on top of what they are already getting (education, housing, attorneys, et al)?

Was anybody interested in 'revisiting' BO's past when HE was president and all the radical underground activists and killers HE was associating with when he was coming up in the world? Of course not...because he was 'your' guy.

You guys are so hypocritical when it comes to what you complain about...…….

Trump DID repay a good majority of HIS debts by selling off personal properties he owned....he wasn't responsible to repay ANYTHING that OTHERS owed after they bought HIM out and filed for bankruptcy on their own. You keep forgetting that part but his life has literally been an open book for over 40 years and you are just now getting around to acting as if it's all brand new. Revisit all you want....it's OLD NEWS.

What 'past habits' are you talking about? Be specific in your complaint.

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RE:Trump isn't screwing the taxpayers.
Jul 8, 2019 5:49AM PDT
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divert and deflect
Jul 9, 2019 3:33AM PDT

Has he raised taxes on the people in order to do it? Nope....he's using funds right now that are ALREADY available, including the military funding that he's legally allowed to use. Unlike the DEMS who are proposing raising taxes across the board and do away with the tax CUTS in order to fund THEIR PET PROJECTS that NOBODY but THEY want.

FOCUS YOURSELF, JP.....talk about how your accusation of how Trump's bankruptcies screwed the PEOPLE since that is where you BEGAN. Stop scrambling to justify your crap cuz it's not working...…...

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RE:including the military funding that he's legally allowed
Jul 9, 2019 4:36AM PDT

including the military funding that he's legally allowed to use

Judge bars Trump from using $2.5B in military funding to build border wall

OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico.

Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended that the money transfer was unlawful and that building the wall would pose environmental threats.


That was easy...it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

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Oakland, CA???
Jul 9, 2019 8:48AM PDT

Does anybody in the USA expect any other decision from those courts? It'll be overturned as usual since it's already being appealed, and Trump will get the money....as usual.

Yep...like shooting fish in a barrel. All that this keeps proving is that liberals are using judge shopping to keep 'resisting' and hope to slow him down long enough for 2020 elections ad HOPE one of their radical candidates will beat him. That won't happen......

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RE:Trump will get the money.....as usual
Jul 9, 2019 10:19AM PDT

In a previous post YOU said HE is legally allowed to get the money...I provided a LEGAL ruling showing he wasn't allowed.

Them's the FACTS....

Stick to your guns TONI...keep firing blanks, or use "live ammo" and keep shooting yourself in the foot.

Why don't you go "judge shopping"...DJT has packed the court with your/HIS kinda' people.

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Gillam has ruled against Trump before
Jul 9, 2019 2:26PM PDT

and had it reversed.....to quote from your article "But the fight is far from over. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to take up the same issue of using military money next week."

The 9th Circuit could easily rule against him as well since most times it's a 3 judge panel of liberals who are more activists than judges, but occasionally we get lucky and the Conservatives are paneled instead. If it goes against Trump again, it will be reversed by SCOTUS because the LAW written into the Pentagon funding is in his favor.

My guns aren't filled with blanks, but yours definitely are, JP.

How many lawsuits do you think liberal Dems and groups have filed against this President already? Hell, one Bio-environmental group alone has filed 15 against him over the Keystone Pipeline. This is ALL about trying to discredit his win as President and 'resist' 'obstruct' and 'harass' has been the liberal lefts ONLY agenda since day one. NONE of you care that the taxpayer is paying to defend his policies in court EVERY SINGLE TIME....money wasted that COULD be going toward something constructive that even THEY want but are willing to do without to the detriment of their constituents.

He keeps winning his cases on appeals, JP.....wake up and smell the coffee.

HE isn't the one who has packed the courts....BO left almost five hundred judgeships open....because he never needed them filled. Ones in place were more than willing to accommodate his needs. As for SCOTUS....HE didn't will Scalia to die before he was elected, and he didn't push Kennedy into retirement. He had already, during his campaign, put out the list of judges he would pick from if he had the opportunity....no one else in history had ever done that, so it's not like the voters didn't know ahead of time. Now, there's a year and a half to see what happens with the old biddy on the court that hates his guts publicly and everything conservative, but even SHE has voted in his favor a couple of times.

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Re: Gillam has ruled against Trump before
Jul 9, 2019 5:21PM PDT
Gillam has ruled against Trump before and had it reversed

IF/WHEN it is....get back to me....until then....

A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico.

Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended that the money transfer was unlawful and that building the wall would pose environmental threats.
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RE:he's using funds right now that are ALREADY available,
Jul 12, 2019 7:13AM PDT
ALREADY available?

By going further in debt (spending OPM/Other Peoples Money)?


U.S. deficit rises 23% in past year as spending rises

Tax cut reduced revenues

The surge in deficits reflects a variety of factors including a $1.5 trillion tax cut President Donald Trump pushed through Congress in late 2017 and billions of dollars in extra spending Congress approved in early 2018.
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RE: doctor shopping.....
Jul 8, 2019 4:00AM PDT

That's what DJT did also...he kept looking until he found one that said he had "bone spurs"....he is now looking for a doctor that will agree with HIS diagnosis that HE is: “I'm an extremely stable genius. OK?”

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RE:He doesn't have a 50 year history of doing this often,
Jul 6, 2019 5:58AM PDT
He doesn't have a 50 year history of doing this often, but as a businessman, he IS entitled to get his money's worth out of people he hires, doncha think?

doing it often?

As "often" as he has replaced/or left vacant the "best people" have been replaced or positions left open in his administration.

Can he pick 'em or what?
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You're mixing apples with oranges
Jul 7, 2019 3:23AM PDT

He doesn't have a businessman history of not paying people/contractors more than a handful of times over 50 years. As president he doesn't have all of his administration in positions because DEMS have blocked many of his appointments and they've been very public about doing it deliberately.

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RE:he doesn't have all of his administration in positions
Jul 7, 2019 5:48AM PDT
he doesn't have all of his administration in positions because DEMS have blocked many of his appointments

OR because

1. He fired the people that he had in the position and didn't replace them, no one is performing the work. (it ain't getting done)

2. They are in jail serving time, because they followed his orders.

3. They quit and he didn't replace them.

4. He thinks he can do a better job and didn't bother to replace them.
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Let's go in the order you posted them
Jul 7, 2019 7:24AM PDT

1. He's ALLOWED to fire people (every president does it) and Dems haven't allowed a vote on new nominees for the appointments.

2. NONE of his administration has gone to jail so you're lying now....name them if you can.

3. People quit administrations all the time (BO had plenty of them as well) and the DEMS haven't allowed a vote on new appointees.

4. He probably CAN do a better job, but most STILL need a vote that DEMS won't allow to happen.

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Just sayin'
Jul 8, 2019 7:00AM PDT

1. He's ALLOWED to fire people

After he claims to hire the "best people" only to be fired or jailed after a couple months?

2. NONE of his administration

Where does "administration" begin and cohorts/partners in crime end?

3. People quit administrations all the time

trump Admin has more 'turnovers' than a bakery

Mr. Trump “has the record for White House staff turnover, for cabinet turnover and now for the highest turnover within a single department,” said Ms. Tenpas, who wrote a presidential staff turnover study.

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You're grasping at straws again
Jul 9, 2019 3:41AM PDT

And NOBODY, even cohorts, went to jail because of work they did or didn't do for HIM...…..

Keep trying to lie your way out of what you've already said by switching it up now.....it still isn't working for you.

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RE:And NOBODY, even cohorts, went to jail
Jul 9, 2019 7:50AM PDT
And NOBODY, even cohorts, went to jail because of work they did or didn't do for HIM..

How many of Donald Trump's advisers have been convicted?

Cohen, 51 pleaded guilty to a number of charges, most notably making an “excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate or campaign”, ie Trump.

Papadopoulos, 31, was a foreign policy adviser to Trump during the election campaign and became the first of his advisers to plead guilty in Mueller’s investigation when he confessed to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russians during the campaign.

That was easy...like shooting fish in a barrel.
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Cohen
Jul 9, 2019 9:02AM PDT

had also admitted in Congressional hearings before he headed for jail that Trump didn't do anything wrong so was he lying then or was he lying in his guilty plea in order to get a lighter sentence? It's already been pointed out on numerous occasions by various attorneys that the FBI/prosecutors of his case would NOT have given him that plea deal on HIS OWN PERSONAL CRIMES that they COULD PROVE he did UNLESS he ALSO pled guilty to the LESSER crime of Campaign Finance Law breaking AND IMPLICATED Trump (although not naming him outright in it). Have you noticed that the FBI and/or prosecutors have NEVER even HINTED at charging Trump with the SAME crime???????? Ever wonder WHY????

As for Papadopoulos, he is appealing his conviction because it's been discovered that the people he was accused of speaking with OVERSEAS were actually CIA operatives who COULDN'T have done what they did in the USA without breaking USA laws and he was LURED there on the pretext of giving some type of speech. He was set up with a 'sting' situation and has demanded the tapes of his conversations wit them to prove that what they said happened and was said didn't happen at all now that he knows tapes exist. Exculpatory evidence was never presented or known to exist until recently.... and along with Carter Paige, he is suing the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ. The jury on whether Flynn will retract his guilty plea or not or whether he will also sue is still out, although there are hints of it happening.

Got anything else? If you're gonna toss out crap, at least try to get updated material to throw.....

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RE:Got anything else?
Jul 9, 2019 10:22AM PDT

You said NOBODY went to jail...I showed SOMEBODY went to jail.....

Them's the FACTS.

You make wild claims....DJT makes wild promises....a match made in heaven/hell?

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Cohen wasn't part of his administration
Jul 9, 2019 2:30PM PDT

and neither was Papadapolous….so you are still wrong. He was a short term, low level member of his CAMPAIGN.

NO member of his ADMINSTRATION has gone to jail or even been charged with a crime, JP....

YOU are the one who makes wild claims with nothing to back them up.

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RE:Cohen wasn't part of his administration
Jul 9, 2019 5:43PM PDT

Your claim was

And NOBODY, even cohorts, went to jail because of work they did or didn't do for HIM..

NO mention of "part of his administration".

Cohen was a "cohort" AND he "went to jail because of work they did or didn't do for HIM.

Keep it up TONI H I'm gonna' have to go buy more ammo....

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It's only HIS plea deal
Jul 10, 2019 3:02AM PDT

that HE implicated Trump, without mentioning his name, and because of FORCE by the FBI/prosecutors that that part of HIS plea deal be included....otherwise no deal. Cohen ORIGINALLY denied that Trump told HIM to pay her....and HE was never a 'cohort'...HE was Trump's ATTORNEY. How many ATTORNIES have their offices, homes, and storage areas raided by the FBI looking for dirt on a political opponent....not to mention others just because they were even SLIGHTLY associated with a Presidential candidate?

You keep making my case for me.....

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RE:Cohen ORIGINALLY denied that Trump told HIM to pay her.
Jul 10, 2019 3:30AM PDT
Cohen ORIGINALLY denied that Trump told HIM to pay her.

THAT is what "cohorts" do....they lie for their "cohorts".

The Defense rests Your Honour.
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So which time do you
Jul 10, 2019 3:43AM PDT

believe he was lying....in his original statement or the one later AFTER the prosecutors threatened to take away his plea deal if he didn't implicate Trump or the one even later when he testified in front of Congress just before going to jail in order to get an even better deal?

Keep trying...…….his original testimony was that HE took out a personal loan to pay her and that Trump didn't know about it, and bragged about his being a 'fixer' for Trump. AND he was begging Trump and others in the campaign to have him put on the WH payroll as Trump's WH lawyer.... People will say anything to make themselves seem important and then look for ways to get their revenge. Just ask Mueller, who was begging for the FBI job a DAY before being put on as special council and was turned down by Trump and who also had a personal history with Trump from years ago....and made up a 'hit list' in the last 200 pages of his 'report' as his parting shot.

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RE:As for Papadopoulos, he is appealing his conviction
Jul 9, 2019 10:42AM PDT

As for Papadopoulos, he is appealing his conviction

AND he is doing this appeal while in JAIL?

Another person that didn't go to JAIL?