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You are absolutly right...i find her beautiful and very attractive...et très bonne dans les débats. Faut dire que CNN a plusieurs belles femmes soit comme animatrices ou analystes MAIS je dois avouer que KIRSTEN est ma préférée.....suivi par Pamela Brown.
Oui, Pamela Brown est une beautee. J'aime aussi Hallie Jackson d'MSNBC. En plus elle fait un excellent travaille et pose de superbes bonnes questions durant les 'press briefings'.
Donald Trump: The Lying King
Donald Trump keeps on lying; now even the White House is acknowledging his lies
by Chris Cillizza
WASHINGTON---On Wednesday, the White House acknowledged that President Donald Trump told two lies.
The first came when he claimed, at a Cabinet meeting on Monday, that the President of Mexico had called him recently. Said Trump: "Even the President of Mexico called me. Their southern border, they said very few people are coming because they know they're not going to get to our border, which is the ultimate compliment."
The second came last week in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the transcript of which was published Tuesday night. In the interview, Trump boasted: "I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful."
Neither of those phone calls actually happened, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted in her daily press briefing Wednesday.
When Trump said the President of Mexico had called him, he was referencing a conversation the two men had at the G20 meeting in Germany, which ended July 8.
As for the Boy Scouts "call," what Trump meant was that "multiple members of the Boy Scouts leadership following his speech there that day congratulated him, praised him and offered quite powerful compliments following his speech," Sanders explained.
Despite those admissions, Sanders blanched at the idea Trump had purposely misled. "I wouldn't say it was a lie," she said. "That's a pretty bold accusation.
The conversations took place, they just simply didn't take place over a phone call."
But, here's the thing: This is not so easily dismissed as Sanders would like.
Why? Because this is a pattern of conduct with Trump. Throughout his candidacy -- and his presidency -- he has said things that are not provable, at best, and not true, at worst.
He saw Muslims celebrating on the rooftops in northern New Jersey on September 11, 2001. Evidence that President Barack Obama might not have been born in the United States had been brought to his attention. Three to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election. His inauguration crowd was the largest ever recorded. Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
And those are just the falsehoods that have drawn the most attention. The Washington Post's Fact-Checker counted 836 false or misleading claims in Trump's first six months in office, an an average of more than four a day. The New York Times' "Trump's Lies" database shows that the President lied or made a false claim in each of his first 40 days in office.
Against all of that untruth, telling two fibs about phone calls seems minor. In both cases, Trump was exaggerating to the point of lying to make himself look good.
Trump's border policies are working so well that even Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, no friend of Trump's, had to acknowledge it. That, in Trump's mind, is proof positive that all the chatter about him not being able to make good on his campaign promises is, to coin a phrase, fake news.
Trump's claim that the head of the Boy Scouts called him to tell him how amazing his speech was came after the Wall Street Journal reporters and editors interviewing him suggested the reception Trump had received at the Jamboree last Monday was somewhat "mixed." Trump can't have that image; he is cheered, loudly, wherever he goes. Period.
In both cases, it's possible that Sanders' version of events is right. That Trump may have made up the phone calls but that the idea he meant to convey in each situation was fundamentally accurate.
It's also possible, of course, that it isn't true. That Trump heard what he wanted to hear or made it up entirely in order to make himself look or feel better.
The broader point here is that these misstatements, while minor as compared to something like, say, what role Trump played in the crafting of his eldest son's statement responding to the reporting of a meeting with a Russian lawyer, still matter.
They matter because they reveal -- or maybe re-reveal -- that Trump views the truth as a very subjective thing. On matters small and large, he bends reality to fit how he wants it to be. The Boy Scouts DID love him and so he said the head of the group called him to tell him he was the best ever. Whether it actually happened or not is, to Trump, not all that important. It felt like it happened. He was telling the truth as he sees it.
Of course, the truth as you might see it isn't the same thing as the plain, old truth. And if Trump is willing to lie about something so minor as phone calls, what else is he willing to stretch -- or break -- the truth about?
That's why the deceptions revealed Wednesday matter. And they (should) matter a lot.
Trump continues to lie
Donald Trump keeps on lying; now even the White House is acknowledging his lies
by Chris Cillizza
WASHINGTON---On Wednesday, the White House acknowledged that President Donald Trump told two lies.
The first came when he claimed, at a Cabinet meeting on Monday, that the President of Mexico had called him recently. Said Trump: "Even the President of Mexico called me. Their southern border, they said very few people are coming because they know they're not going to get to our border, which is the ultimate compliment."
The second came last week in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the transcript of which was published Tuesday night. In the interview, Trump boasted: "I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful."
Neither of those phone calls actually happened, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted in her daily press briefing Wednesday.
When Trump said the President of Mexico had called him, he was referencing a conversation the two men had at the G20 meeting in Germany, which ended July 8.
As for the Boy Scouts "call," what Trump meant was that "multiple members of the Boy Scouts leadership following his speech there that day congratulated him, praised him and offered quite powerful compliments following his speech," Sanders explained.
Despite those admissions, Sanders blanched at the idea Trump had purposely misled. "I wouldn't say it was a lie," she said. "That's a pretty bold accusation.
The conversations took place, they just simply didn't take place over a phone call."
But, here's the thing: This is not so easily dismissed as Sanders would like.
Why? Because this is a pattern of conduct with Trump. Throughout his candidacy -- and his presidency -- he has said things that are not provable, at best, and not true, at worst.
He saw Muslims celebrating on the rooftops in northern New Jersey on September 11, 2001. Evidence that President Barack Obama might not have been born in the United States had been brought to his attention. Three to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election. His inauguration crowd was the largest ever recorded. Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
And those are just the falsehoods that have drawn the most attention. The Washington Post's Fact-Checker counted 836 false or misleading claims in Trump's first six months in office, an an average of more than four a day. The New York Times' "Trump's Lies" database shows that the President lied or made a false claim in each of his first 40 days in office.
Against all of that untruth, telling two fibs about phone calls seems minor. In both cases, Trump was exaggerating to the point of lying to make himself look good.
Trump's border policies are working so well that even Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, no friend of Trump's, had to acknowledge it. That, in Trump's mind, is proof positive that all the chatter about him not being able to make good on his campaign promises is, to coin a phrase, fake news.
Trump's claim that the head of the Boy Scouts called him to tell him how amazing his speech was came after the Wall Street Journal reporters and editors interviewing him suggested the reception Trump had received at the Jamboree last Monday was somewhat "mixed." Trump can't have that image; he is cheered, loudly, wherever he goes. Period.
In both cases, it's possible that Sanders' version of events is right. That Trump may have made up the phone calls but that the idea he meant to convey in each situation was fundamentally accurate.
It's also possible, of course, that it isn't true. That Trump heard what he wanted to hear or made it up entirely in order to make himself look or feel better.
The broader point here is that these misstatements, while minor as compared to something like, say, what role Trump played in the crafting of his eldest son's statement responding to the reporting of a meeting with a Russian lawyer, still matter.
They matter because they reveal -- or maybe re-reveal -- that Trump views the truth as a very subjective thing. On matters small and large, he bends reality to fit how he wants it to be. The Boy Scouts DID love him and so he said the head of the group called him to tell him he was the best ever. Whether it actually happened or not is, to Trump, not all that important. It felt like it happened. He was telling the truth as he sees it.
Of course, the truth as you might see it isn't the same thing as the plain, old truth. And if Trump is willing to lie about something so minor as phone calls, what else is he willing to stretch -- or break -- the truth about?
That's why the deceptions revealed Wednesday matter. And they (should) matter a lot.
Trump continues to lie
I don't think New Hampshire's tourism office can be very happy with Trump labeling the State a "drug infested den." Back when I was a kid we took some vacations to New Hampshire and it didn't seem so bad. I guess now it is considered the armpit of New England. Bridgeport was historically considered the New England armpit because that is the historical point through which drugs are imported into New England. But I guess that has changed and the stench has migrated north.
Percentage of Americans "proud" that Trump is the President: 26% (CNN)
Percentage of Americans who think the Sun orbits the Earth: 26% (NSF)
So it's official, the Earth is flat and the sun rotates around the earth, finally the truth is out.
And I miss my ATF au grand yeux.
Percentage of Americans who think the Sun orbits the Earth: 26% (NSF)
So it's official, the Earth is flat and the sun rotates around the earth, finally the truth is out.
And I miss my ATF au grand yeux.
As to Trump's changing of White House personnel, President Barack Obama, over his two terms, had five chiefs of staff. One "interim" chief of staff lasted less time than did Reince Priebus. Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, two-term presidents, had four each.
Obama had four secretaries of Defense, more than Clinton and Reagan. In the case of Obama's first three, upon departure, they had significant policy differences with the boss.
Leon Panetta, Obama's second secretary of Defense, complained about what he considered Obama's poor leadership, one that "avoids the battle, complains and misses opportunities." On Iraq, Panetta felt that Obama "kind of lost his way" when he pulled out all the troops over Panetta's objection.
On Obama's deliberation over whether to intervene in Libya, Robert Gates, his first secretary of Defense, a holdover from the George W. Bush administration, wrote: "I was running out of patience on multiple fronts, but most of all people blithely talking about the use of military force as though it were some kind of video game." White House staff, said Gates, were "talking about military options with the President without Defense being involved."
He even said that Hillary Clinton and Obama both admitted that when they were in the Senate and opposed the Iraq "surge," they did so for political, not technical, reasons. Gates was shocked that they so candidly admitted it during a meeting he attended: "Hillary told the president that her opposition to the (2007) surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. ... The President conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying."
Gates dismissed the then-pending Iran nuclear deal as a "hope" that Gates called "unrealistic": "The pursuit of the agreement is based on the President's hope that over a 10-year period with the sanctions being lifted that the Iranians will become a constructive stakeholder. ... That as their economy begins to grow again ... they will abandon their ideology, their theology, their revolutionary principles, their meddling in various parts of the region. And frankly, I believe that's very unrealistic."
Speaking of dysfunction, Obama's secretary of Defense No. 3, Chuck Hagel, said the Obama White House tried to "destroy" him even after he submitted his resignation, with some administration officials maligning him in anonymous comments to the media during his last days in office. "I don't know what the purpose was," he said. "To this day, I'm still mystified by that." Hagel reportedly battled the White House's micromanaging of the Pentagon. He claimed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs complained, "White House staffers were calling generals 'and asking fifth-level questions that the White House should not be involved in.'" These were serious criticisms by ex-secretaries of Defense about an incumbent president during wartime. Yet the media did not foam at the mouth.
This is not to say that there haven't been missteps, pullbacks and recalibrations at a dizzying rate in Trump's new administration. This stems from the top, and the recent personnel changes make it clear that Trump knows he needs discipline. Business and politics are two different creatures, as a frustrated President Trump has, no doubt, discovered. Building an ice rink in Central Park under budget and ahead of schedule is one thing. Getting a consensus on political issues like "repeal and replace" is quite another.
But few remember the tumult of the early Clinton months. If Trump succeeds in getting the economy humming at about 3 percent growth, the musical chairs of today will be a distant memory.
Obama declared a "red line" in Syria, that the U.S. would strike if Syria used chemical weapons. Panetta criticized Obama's flip-flop, which left the decision to Congress, which, Panetta says, was, "as he well knew, an almost certain way to scotch any action." This hurt America's credibility, Panetta said, because "the power of the United States rests on its word, and clear signals are important both to deter adventurism and to reassure allies that we can be counted on."
Obama had four secretaries of Defense, more than Clinton and Reagan. In the case of Obama's first three, upon departure, they had significant policy differences with the boss.
Leon Panetta, Obama's second secretary of Defense, complained about what he considered Obama's poor leadership, one that "avoids the battle, complains and misses opportunities." On Iraq, Panetta felt that Obama "kind of lost his way" when he pulled out all the troops over Panetta's objection.
On Obama's deliberation over whether to intervene in Libya, Robert Gates, his first secretary of Defense, a holdover from the George W. Bush administration, wrote: "I was running out of patience on multiple fronts, but most of all people blithely talking about the use of military force as though it were some kind of video game." White House staff, said Gates, were "talking about military options with the President without Defense being involved."
He even said that Hillary Clinton and Obama both admitted that when they were in the Senate and opposed the Iraq "surge," they did so for political, not technical, reasons. Gates was shocked that they so candidly admitted it during a meeting he attended: "Hillary told the president that her opposition to the (2007) surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. ... The President conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying."
Gates dismissed the then-pending Iran nuclear deal as a "hope" that Gates called "unrealistic": "The pursuit of the agreement is based on the President's hope that over a 10-year period with the sanctions being lifted that the Iranians will become a constructive stakeholder. ... That as their economy begins to grow again ... they will abandon their ideology, their theology, their revolutionary principles, their meddling in various parts of the region. And frankly, I believe that's very unrealistic."
Speaking of dysfunction, Obama's secretary of Defense No. 3, Chuck Hagel, said the Obama White House tried to "destroy" him even after he submitted his resignation, with some administration officials maligning him in anonymous comments to the media during his last days in office. "I don't know what the purpose was," he said. "To this day, I'm still mystified by that." Hagel reportedly battled the White House's micromanaging of the Pentagon. He claimed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs complained, "White House staffers were calling generals 'and asking fifth-level questions that the White House should not be involved in.'" These were serious criticisms by ex-secretaries of Defense about an incumbent president during wartime. Yet the media did not foam at the mouth.
This is not to say that there haven't been missteps, pullbacks and recalibrations at a dizzying rate in Trump's new administration. This stems from the top, and the recent personnel changes make it clear that Trump knows he needs discipline. Business and politics are two different creatures, as a frustrated President Trump has, no doubt, discovered. Building an ice rink in Central Park under budget and ahead of schedule is one thing. Getting a consensus on political issues like "repeal and replace" is quite another.
But few remember the tumult of the early Clinton months. If Trump succeeds in getting the economy humming at about 3 percent growth, the musical chairs of today will be a distant memory.
Obama declared a "red line" in Syria, that the U.S. would strike if Syria used chemical weapons. Panetta criticized Obama's flip-flop, which left the decision to Congress, which, Panetta says, was, "as he well knew, an almost certain way to scotch any action." This hurt America's credibility, Panetta said, because "the power of the United States rests on its word, and clear signals are important both to deter adventurism and to reassure allies that we can be counted on."
Obama approval ratings, 09/29/11 = 39%. 01/20/14 = 41%. 12/12/15 = 45%.
Besides getting your panties in a knot over Trump what is your point? 7 to 12% difference is a huge deal? If not for the CNN type media who we know made shit up his ratings would be better. Just looking at the frenzy here you can tell that the media controls a few people.
Me, I am probably going to grab some pussy today and have a few cocktails and not worry about what happens in the states.
And not that I give a fuck but why is it that when a Liberal / Democrat gets a different point of view the mud slinging starts, protests start, violence starts. Can you not accept that others have a different opinion, you need to justify yourself with being arrogant, pitiful actually.
Like I have said, also think Trump is not fit to be president but neither was HRC and Obama did not do a good job either.
Besides getting your panties in a knot over Trump what is your point? 7 to 12% difference is a huge deal? If not for the CNN type media who we know made shit up his ratings would be better. Just looking at the frenzy here you can tell that the media controls a few people.
Me, I am probably going to grab some pussy today and have a few cocktails and not worry about what happens in the states.
And not that I give a fuck but why is it that when a Liberal / Democrat gets a different point of view the mud slinging starts, protests start, violence starts. Can you not accept that others have a different opinion, you need to justify yourself with being arrogant, pitiful actually.
Like I have said, also think Trump is not fit to be president but neither was HRC and Obama did not do a good job either.
I also find CNN's Ana Cabrera to be very hot. So with her, Kirsten Powers and Pamela Brown to look at it's no wonder it's my favorite news channel, followed by MSNBC. :thumb:
Too bad the orange haired wonder does not have the power to push the button, the little dwarf does though.
Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch who also acts as an unofficial adviser to Donald Trump recently told him during dinner that he has to get rid of Bannon.
Here's my take on this:
I've pretty much figured out that Trump usually will do the opposite of what the media will predict will happen. It's okay, i'm the same way. When people tell me i should do this and that, i often do the opposite and have done so for most of my life. What can i say, i'm stubborn. And i've realized that Trump is somewhat similar to me in that aspect.
We've also learned from Anthony Scaramucci that Steve Bannon is likely one of the White House insiders who's been leaking to the media since he started working there. My theory is that Bannon found out that Murdoch and others have been suggesting to Trump that he fire him. Bannon is one smart cookie and i actually would be surprised if he's not the one who leaked this to the media, believing that once the media reported it Trump will do the opposite.....meaning he'll keep him on board for now.
If people around Trump were smart & they wanted to get rid of Bannon, they'd tell Trump to keep him on board. Even better, they should leak to the media that Trump likes Bannon and has decided to keep him on board until the end of his presidency.
By the way, Steve Bannon isn't the only problem at the White House. He's their biggest problem and as long as he'll be there chaos will be the norm. But the likes of Stephen Miller & Sebastian Gorka should not be working there either, among others including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Word from WH leakers is that General John Kelly is exasperated tonight after the fucking idiot so-called president's performance earlier today. During Trump's meltdown in front of the media today, Kelly spent the entire time standing in the back with his head down, staring at the floor. He's ashamed of Trump, ashamed of working for a piece of garbage like him and it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't resign. For the sake of the country and the world, i truly hope he doesn't resign and remains as chief-of-staff. Same thing with H.R. McMaster.
Trump's two business councils were disbanded this morning. More executives jumped ship this morning and more were to come later today and tomorrow. So Trump disbanded them ahead of time in order to save face.
Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the council members themselves decided this morning to disband the two councils. Trump later decided to take credit for disbanding them. Easy considering there wasn't anyone left. The top CEO's in the country have all decided to run away from him.
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