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President Donald Trump personally dictated his son Donald Trump Jr.’s initial, misleading statement on his June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer and lobbyist in Trump Tower, The Washington Post reports. The president reportedly drafted the statement while aboard Air Force One, after The New York Times first contacted Trump Jr. over allegations that he met with a Russian lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. The president’s advisers reportedly feared the Times learning more about Trump Jr.’s meeting and argued for transparency with the paper. But Trump reportedly overruled them, crafting a statement that was later attributed to Trump Jr. “We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up,” the statement read. The Times later reported that Trump Jr. agreed to the meeting because he believed he would be provided with compromising information on Clinton.

Zack Morris wrote:Haha. Still a true believer in the Competent Business Man myth, I see.

Dinesh D’Souza: What Hitler Learned from the Democrats

Zack Morris wrote:All Nazis in America are right wingers. They love Trump.

Zack Morris wrote:Haha. Still a true believer in the Competent Business Man myth, I see. If it's one thing the Trump Presidency has shown, it's that the man really knows how to play the long game, right?

Typhoon wrote:Godwin's Law invoked.

This mod has had it with Nazi analogies.

Any further comparisons between the US today and Nazi Germany will be summarily deleted.

Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.[9][10] Similar criticisms of the "law" (or "at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes") have been made by American lawyer, journalist and author Glenn Greenwald.[11]

Typhoon wrote:Perhaps. Perhaps not.

Mr. Perfect wrote:

Zack Morris wrote:Haha. Still a true believer in the Competent Business Man myth, I see. If it's one thing the Trump Presidency has shown, it's that the man really knows how to play the long game, right?

And to imagine, you lost in totality to this man and he destroyed your party. That must really hurt, to be destroyed by a moron. What would that make you?

Mr. Perfect wrote:

Zack Morris wrote:All Nazis in America are right wingers. They love Trump.

Could be. All 100 of them. But the spirit of Nazism lives on in you and your people. Rioting against democratic elections, physically running contrary opinions off campuses, assaulting and threatening assaults on citizens for their mainstream legal political views, attempting to slaughter elected officials (the very fruit of Democracy) and riddling them full of bullets and of course working to overturn a free and fair election illegally and ultimately desiring the murder of a duly elected head of state. You own the spirit of the Nazi 100%. You are an enemy of democracy, and you will not win.

Three months into the job, however, it's not clear what, if anything, investigators may uncover about the president, who has repeatedly denied any improper contacts with people in Russia and has called the special counsel probe "a witch hunt."

He told Cooper that Trump had pushed away his allies including high profile business people, CEOs, his top aide and confidante Steve Bannon and a “good percentage of Congress”.

“We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.”
And the presidential advisor turned alt-right loose cannon says he is not the only one abandoning the presidency. “There’s about to be a jailbreak,” he says, of congressional Republicans away from the Trump camp.

noddy wrote:http://www.news.com.au/world/north-amer ... 894948015c

The Art of the Deal ghostwriter Tony Schwartz says Donald Trump’s presidency ‘is effectively over’

He told Cooper that Trump had pushed away his allies including high profile business people, CEOs, his top aide and confidante Steve Bannon and a “good percentage of Congress”.

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:

noddy wrote:http://www.news.com.au/world/north-amer ... 894948015c

The Art of the Deal ghostwriter Tony Schwartz says Donald Trump’s presidency ‘is effectively over’

He told Cooper that Trump had pushed away his allies including high profile business people, CEOs, his top aide and confidante Steve Bannon and a “good percentage of Congress”.

Problem with the Tony Schwartz character is he has none. Every few months he shoots off his mouth and maybe collects a cheque or two for an article/appearance.

The way the media rediscovers old news by republishing it every few months or so-- usually a purview of science/lifestyle sections-- it could be a new repackaging of something he said in March.