Yashar Ali, a contributor to New York magazine said on Twitter: “It’s Jared Kushner. Have confirmed this with four people. I’m not speculating.”
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White House officials have previously acknowledged contacts between Russian officials and Mr Kushner, as well as with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of State Rex(xon) Tillerson.
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I thought I read somewhere (I think it was another thread on this board) that the White House Counsel wouldn’t get involved in an impeachment process. Their job is to comment on the legal details of proposed policies and laws; anything having to do with impeachment or charges against Trump would have to be handled by his personal attorney.
I don’t know if that distinction is mandated by law or if it’s just tradition. The fact that they’re doing it wrong almost makes me more inclined to believe it’s happening.
Not to get my pick all up in your nit or anything but when your tremendous President, a really great President, the best ever, really, gets on that Cessna then it becomes AF1 by definition. Best Defintion Ever! And besides, he’s going to make them expand Red Square, they’re going to do this, make it much longer, so long, wait till you see this, it’s going to be great, Red Rectangle they’re going to call it, and we’re not going to take any terrible deals, so it’s going to get built, we’ll build it if they don’t and he’ll make them pay for it. He’s going to be able to land the greatest planes there. Because I can tell you this - with great surety - that Trump won’t use some tiny, little Cessna. His Cessna will be huge. Really huge. I mean, trust me on this, people are saying it will be the hugest Cessna ever. Big time. No politician in history has ever had a Cessna as huge as Trump’s will be. You can ask anybody, like Roger Ailes who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice. Ask him. They’re all saying it because nobody respects Cessnas more than he does. No body. It’s the fake media spreading these hateful made-up lies about the size of his Cessna. And honestly he’s making America Great Again by repealing and replacing that tiny so-called Cessna that Obama left him with. It’s a total disaster (pathetic!). Just the Worst, most over-rated Cessna ever. And he’s the only one who could fix this. Nobody else even has the guts to talk about it. Thank God he won the election in a landside against that crook Hillary, who should be locked up by the way, so he could Make America Great Again by bringing back jobs to build that absolutely huge Cessna. In fact, and this is true, every poll, the real polls, not those horrible rigged liberal polls like the failing NY Times that are all phony, have his Cessna winning bigly. Bigly. Even though, we all know this is true, there were over three million illegal votes cast. But he’s still winning.
It depends. If it’s a civilian aircraft, it gets the call sign Executive One when the President is on board. I suspect Bayard was referring to Mathias Rust, who flew a Cessna 172 from Helsinki and landed near Red Square in 1987. The U.S. Air Force does operate a small number of T-41s (a military derivative of the 172) and other small Cessnas, but they’re vastly outnumbered by the civilian versions. Sad.
Not sure if it’s been mentioned here yet – been busy these past few days – but one interesting comment I’ve heard is pointing out that Trump simply will not say an unkind word about Flynn, who is arguably the source of all his problems, but he’s more than willing to drag Comey’s name through the mud.
And in unrelated weiner news – there’s been a conviction of the Weiner who was into sending pics of his weiner to young women. The investigation found unrelated gov’t emails from Clinton to his wife which opened up Clinton to attack by Agent Orange et alii. Gotta love American politics, with so many dicks running about.
Fourthly, when he puts his underpants on his head during the state dinner, if you want the “deal” (whatever it is) to go through, just act like it’s a perfectly normal thing. Because for him, it is.
I have to admit that one thing I’ve underestimated or misjudged is just how many people in this country are disconnected from fact-based reality. Not trying to insult anyone here but in my experience – including conversations with pro-Trump family members and friends – people who support Trump live in a world in which their own perceptions are real, and facts from official sources aren’t to be trusted. It’s as if they truly believe that the traditional institutions of the government and of the free press are conspiring to take their culture and livelihood away from them. A majority of these people are white and either rural or suburban, though a good many are city dwellers as well. This is why I am not optimistic about the future of this country. These people have real power and they’re not going away. They won’t be convinced of the dangers of a right wing government as more educated progressives are until they are the ones who find themselves screwed by their policies, which is why I’ve felt that we are inevitably headed for financial ruin sometime in the coming decade – not like 2008 but like 1931 (or worse)
Yes, and it’s not just the right wing.
I’m not trying to make a false equivalency; the American right bathes in ignorance right now. It’s their home, while others merely visit.
But one feature of our time is that the cynical theory always wins. It “Trumps” other theories, if you will. The one good thing I can say about Trump is he tapped into that perfectly.
I’m also not optimistic. A year or two ago I was looking forward to a technological and societal evolution in my lifetime. So many possibilities seemed round the corner. But now I see it’s not going to happen; the US in particular, but also sizeable chunks of other countries, have taken a massive, inconceivable, step backwards.