U.S. Politics

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Politics
Book describes Mike Pence's evolution into Trump's bootlicking `Bobblehead'
USA TODAY Maureen Groppe

OH WELL

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Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

Very disappointed in Prime Minister Stefan Löfven for being unable to act. Sweden has let our African American Community down in the United States. I watched the tapes of A$AP Rocky, and he was being followed and harassed by troublemakers. Treat Americans fairly! #FreeRocky

Does this idiot realy thinks he can tell the Swedish justice what to do. This is not the US, this is Sweden.
I'm not from Sweden by the way

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SCOTUS greenlights military funding for border wall construction.

The ACLU said they would fight on in 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

STEADY WINNING. BUILD THE WALL.

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Democrats move forward with impeachment anyway.

They don't have the ballz to impeach, it's not politically beneficial to them, but they will use this as a political tactic up through the 2020 election IN SEARCH OF A CRIME. Quite Stalinesque.

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DiGenova substantiates the report that those who lied to IG Horowitz are asking to be reinterviewed because the Horowitz report will be turned over to Durham. He also lists some lies told by Mueller and accused Weissmann of being the firewall to protect Spy Gate and the Clintons. DiGenova has said from the beginning that Brennan is going to be a major player in the weaving of the beginning of Spy Gate.

DiGenova also provides the reasons why Trump did NOT have to interview with the Special Counsel: there was no crime described in the investigation. It was a hunt for crime. Mueller/Weissmann knew they would lose in court.

VP Pence has confirmed that he was approached by the FBI to spy on Trump, which helps to prove that Comey had a separate spying effort going against Trump and lied to Trump about him not being under investigation.

It was all GET TRUMP BECAUSE TRUMP.

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Former Congressman and US attorney Trey Gowdy explains why "exoneration" is NOT part of the duties of ANY prosecutor. Prosecutors are charged with the mission to investigate and either charge or not -- based on evidence. If there is not enough to charge, then nothing goes to court. It's over.

It's apparent that Mueller didn't spearhead the investigation, didn't write the report or read the report.

All political.

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Since Democrats won't work with Trump to fix the immigration problems on the southern border, Trump has gone to yet again another country to assist with preventing the caravans and accepting returned migrants.

Guatemala has stepped up and has given its blessing to the US to return their migrants to Guatemala without any delays regarding travel documents.

Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan:

On Friday, we will be repatriating single adults and family units, about 135, that did not have to wait for travel documents from the Guatemalan consul. We expect to make this a routine practice that will limit time in custody, accelerate repatriations, and create a deterrent impact. It will save two to four days, on average.

McAleenan stated that both Guatemala and Honduras have come on board to assist the US.

MORE PROGRESS on the border!

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^^ Thank you for providing an excellent and well articulated assessment of the Mueller group debacle.

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300 US companies providing training for 12 million new jobs.

STEADY WINNING for both Main Street and Wall Street!

[Doodoo]

"300 US companies providing training for 12 million new jobs."

Once again its time to Play "Lets Fiddle with Numbers"
In 2018 the NEWJOB gain was 2,600,000 better than 2017 at 2.2 million and 2.7 million in 2016

So if we asume the annual New Job growth at 2.6 million x 5 years that would give us 13,000,000 New Jobs over the commitment that the Blonde one is talking about
If I am not mistaken New Jobs need Tarining to begin with even if it is "That's the chip frier and that's where you get a Burger"
So what is the whoopla all about? Is it that we will have 13,000,000 New Jobs minus 12,000,000 New Jobs who get trained equals 1,000,000 New People in Jobs with no training?
This might not be good if one of those people were sitting at a Nuclear Launch Site with a General on the phone saying "Now Son I know the training was a bit light but please please Do Not Push the RED Button!!!"

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Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 3b2f8e3ac6

He's a disgrace. The US has in effect surrendered to Russian interference in its elections. I doubt Putin has any perverse sex videos of McConnell. So find a spine McConnell.

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International traders just don't get it. If they do things to harm free and fair trade with the US, Trump will retaliate.

This time it's France.

From the White House:

The United States is extremely disappointed by France’s decision to adopt a digital services tax at the expense of U.S. companies and workers. France’s unilateral measure appears to target innovative U.S. technology firms that provide services in distinct sectors of the economy. It also demonstrates France’s lack of commitment to the ongoing OECD negotiations. The Trump Administration has consistently stated that it will not sit idly by and tolerate discrimination against U.S.-based firms. The U.S. Trade Representative has already launched a Section 301 investigation into France’s digital services tax, and the Administration is looking closely at all other policy tools.

Trump:

France just put a digital tax on our great American technology companies. If anybody taxes them, it should be their home Country, the USA. We will announce a substantial reciprocal action on Macron’s foolishness shortly. I’ve always said American wine is better than French wine!

Another so-called ally.

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The problems for Joe Biden, aka Jorack Obiden, are piling up.

First, he's got to walk back his healthcare claim. Uncle Joe admits days later that what he said was incorrect. You probably WON'T get to keep your doctor. That's a kill shot right there.

Then it got worse.

As has happened throughout much of the Black community, while they don't readily admit it because of skin color and all that, Bayrack didn't exactly do anything to improve their lives. Bayrack talked, but was a weak when it came to action.

Two of main leadership within the Black community in South Carolina has rejected Uncle Joe after years of support. Fletcher Smith and Brandon Brown, who supported Biden in 2008, are supporting other candidates this time.

All of this isn't that important to the general election. South Carolina will vote Trump. But it's important in the early primaries for Democrats, and especially the Black vote there.

In hindsight, Biden's time may have been 2016, but the Dem establishment wasn't going to have it. It was Hillary's turn to be queen bee. Watching Mueller last week in congressional hearings reminded me of Biden stumbling and fumbling around for answers. Age has crept up on him. Like Mueller, Biden isn't the guy he was 6 years ago.

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Larry Kudlow comments on the markets, trade, and the monetary policies. The US is growing at a 40%+ improvement against the trend line. Retail sales and consumer sentiment is still very strong, which is a big driver of the economy.

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There has been quite a bit of talk regarding Mueller's likely uninvolvement with much of the investigation and the report after his testimony last week. Because of the track record of his lead team member, Andrew Weissmann, and his more than visible conflicts of interest, it's easy to see that there was a Hillary/Democrat axe grinding in all of this. The selection of the biased team, the investigation and the report (especially part 2) is being attributed now to Weissmann.

Along with this, and specifically regarding the timeline of the investigation, there is now talk that the investigation learned early that there was no evidence of collusion/conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and Russians. Weissmann was privy to ALL of the behind-the-scenes Spy Gate goings on (another of his conflicts of interest). Those studying this timeline believe that long before the 2018 midterm elections, the team knew there was no conspiracy/collusion. This is also when the investigation then attacked the "obstruction of justice" angle -- when they couldn't find a crime.

Rep. Andy Biggs:

He (Mueller) didn’t realize he was saying this. He said, at some point, ‘We shifted our investigation from collusion to the obstruction of justice.’ Well, you don’t shift your investigation to obstruction of justice unless you know there was no collusion.

So, when I heard that, I’m placing that back a good six or seven months. Which, by the way, probably puts it in front of the midterm elections — it would have been very important for the country to know that there was no collusion, or cooperation, or coordination, or conspiracy.

There's no question that the cloud created by the Mueller/Weissmann team kept a cloud over politics during the 2018 election. There is just no date to pinpoint as the "shift" in focus.

Mueller made the claim often that many things were not in the purview of his investigation, which was to investigate Russian influence in the election. They investigated NY City taxi medallions and personal income tax returns of Trump allies, but were totally disinterested in the role of Fusion GPS, Russians and the Steele dossier, and other matters that tied Democrats directly to Russians. The purview now, more than ever shows that it was to GET TRUMP. Nothing else.

AG Barr and Durham and the IG report will ferret out what Mueller's biased team ignored.

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^^ Thank you for providing an excellent and well articulated assessment of the Mueller group debacle.

Thanks for the hat tip.

Since the NY Times, the Washington Post, CNN and the big three network news organizations were all complicit in the leaks and propaganda involving the Coup Cabal, it is very difficult to find facts regarding all of this. If those news organizations decided to report on it, they'd have to tell on themselves.

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Rep. John Ratcliffe Shreds Volume II Of Robert Mueller's Report

Ratcliffe is also a former US attorney. He does an excellent job of laying out the false narrative regarding "exoneration". Those under investigation are either guilty or not. Prosecutors/Investigators do not exonerate.

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Another US district judge appointee of Trump's was confirmed last week. Brian C. Buescher will serve as a US District Judge in Nebraska.

Buescher had been attacked by Democrats for his Catholic faith and for his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic charitable organization. Crazy Mazie from Hawaii and Kamasutra Harris led the charge against Buescher.

The US Constitution bars the use of a religious litmus test for federal appointees.

Article VI of the Constitution prohibits the government from considering a person’s faith when assessing fitness to hold federal office. This clause is part of the original Constitution and has been a bedrock principle since the founding of the Republic.

Mitch McConnell:

My goodness. Imagine that, in the United States of America: a person of faith, serving in government.

I look forward to the continued confirmation of Originalist judges to the federal bench. Trump is on pace to set a record for judicial appointments.

STEADY WINNING.

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U.S. to push for 'reciprocal tax' on trade partners: Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would push for a “reciprocal tax” against countries, including U.S. allies, that levy tariffs on American products, but officials did not provide details on how such a tax would be structured or what goods it would apply to.

When it comes to taxing others it will be Tit for Tat it never will end. Mean while the governments are just taxing the consumer as usual but in a different way.
Allies or not its all about CASH

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It's looking more and more like China is just playing a waiting game and stalling the trade negotiations. Personally, I don't think anything will happen and that Trump will increase the tariffs as he promised.

I ran across a study conducted by Jeff Ferry and Steven Byers of a group called Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA). In their study, they concluded that if the US increased the tariffs against China and left them on permanently, that the US would create more than a million jobs by 2024.

The tariffs would effectively do what they call "reshore" jobs back to America to beat the tariff.

Specifically, their study projected 1.05 million US jobs and a GDP boost of $167 billion.

The tariff would stimulate domestic production, beginning with small increases in US manufacturing and escalating over time. The certainty of a permanent tariff would be more effective than today’s tariffs and speed up business decisions to move production out of China, with a portion of that production coming back home.

The CPA study contends that over 5 years there would be approximately half a trillion dollars that could be invested in the US economy to escape the tariffs.

A permanent across-the-board tariff against China would be pro-growth and would be effective in preventing the further erosion of U.S. wealth and power.

The US lost over 5 million manufacturing jobs since NAFTA and China's entry into the WTO. This had a profound effect on depressing US wages along with the trade deficits that increased over 500% since then.

The wishcasters and Cheerleaders for Failure continue to predict tariff destruction for the US economy, but it never comes.