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Are you implying that one of those Second Amendment retards may decide to have his/her name in the history books? I'm only mentioning this since Trump already mentioned it in regards to HRC.
Big Oil in the Cabinet?
EXXON Mobile CEO leads list for Secretary of State, sources say
WASHINGTON -- ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson is the leading candidate for Secretary of State in a Donald Trump administration, multiple sources familiar with the transition process tell CNN on Saturday.
The final announcement is expected to be made in the middle of next week, according to a source close to the campaign. A source also said Mitt Romney is still in the running, at the urging of Reince Priebus, who will be Trump's chief of staff.
Tillerson, who met with Trump in New York Saturday, is considered one of the faces of Big Oil globally.
Tillerson has told the President-elect he would be honored to have the job of secretary of state and left Saturday's meeting believing he will be the pick, according to two sources familiar with his thinking.
One said Tillerson was told the President-elect will formalize his choice next week -- as in extend an official offer.
Both sources shared information on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the issue for the record. Trump's spokesman Jason Miller tweeted Saturday that there would be "no announcements on Secretary of State until next week at the earliest."
Tillerson was originally considered a long shot to be America's top diplomat, but Trump is reportedly intrigued by the oil man's view of the world.
"He is much more than a business executive. He is a world class player. He is in charge of, I guess, the largest company in the world," Trump told Fox News' Chris Wallace in an interview airing Sunday. "And to me, a great advantage is that he knows many of the players. And he knows them well."
"He does massive deals in Russia. He does massive deals -- for the company, not for himself, for the company," the real estate mogul added.
As head of the world's most valuable oil company, Tillerson could be a controversial pick due to concerns about climate change and his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Sen. John McCain told CNN on Saturday that he had concerns about Tillerson's relationship to Russia and wants to hear his answers to such during his would-be hearing before making up his mind.
"What about all the other things -- right now, the targeting of hospitals by Russian aircraft with precision weapons in Syria, in Aleppo?" the Arizona Republican asked ahead of the Army-Navy football game. "Those are the kind of questions that we need to ask about the relationship with Vladimir Putin."
In 2011, Exxon signed a deal with Russian oil giant Rosneft to provide access to lucrative oil resources in the Arctic.
Rosneft's largest shareholder is the Russian government. Putin attended the Exxon signing ceremony and later awarded Tillerson the country's Order of Friendship.
Other contenders for the secretary of state position include former CIA Director David Petraeus; Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker; and former UN Ambassador John Bolton.
Bolton could become the #2 at the State Department, but no offer has yet been extended. The transition wants to announce the secretary of state nominee and deputy as a package deal next week.
Big Oil in cabinet?
Doc says: "Drain the swamp!" :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
EXXON Mobile CEO leads list for Secretary of State, sources say
WASHINGTON -- ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson is the leading candidate for Secretary of State in a Donald Trump administration, multiple sources familiar with the transition process tell CNN on Saturday.
The final announcement is expected to be made in the middle of next week, according to a source close to the campaign. A source also said Mitt Romney is still in the running, at the urging of Reince Priebus, who will be Trump's chief of staff.
Tillerson, who met with Trump in New York Saturday, is considered one of the faces of Big Oil globally.
Tillerson has told the President-elect he would be honored to have the job of secretary of state and left Saturday's meeting believing he will be the pick, according to two sources familiar with his thinking.
One said Tillerson was told the President-elect will formalize his choice next week -- as in extend an official offer.
Both sources shared information on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the issue for the record. Trump's spokesman Jason Miller tweeted Saturday that there would be "no announcements on Secretary of State until next week at the earliest."
Tillerson was originally considered a long shot to be America's top diplomat, but Trump is reportedly intrigued by the oil man's view of the world.
"He is much more than a business executive. He is a world class player. He is in charge of, I guess, the largest company in the world," Trump told Fox News' Chris Wallace in an interview airing Sunday. "And to me, a great advantage is that he knows many of the players. And he knows them well."
"He does massive deals in Russia. He does massive deals -- for the company, not for himself, for the company," the real estate mogul added.
As head of the world's most valuable oil company, Tillerson could be a controversial pick due to concerns about climate change and his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Sen. John McCain told CNN on Saturday that he had concerns about Tillerson's relationship to Russia and wants to hear his answers to such during his would-be hearing before making up his mind.
"What about all the other things -- right now, the targeting of hospitals by Russian aircraft with precision weapons in Syria, in Aleppo?" the Arizona Republican asked ahead of the Army-Navy football game. "Those are the kind of questions that we need to ask about the relationship with Vladimir Putin."
In 2011, Exxon signed a deal with Russian oil giant Rosneft to provide access to lucrative oil resources in the Arctic.
Rosneft's largest shareholder is the Russian government. Putin attended the Exxon signing ceremony and later awarded Tillerson the country's Order of Friendship.
Other contenders for the secretary of state position include former CIA Director David Petraeus; Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker; and former UN Ambassador John Bolton.
Bolton could become the #2 at the State Department, but no offer has yet been extended. The transition wants to announce the secretary of state nominee and deputy as a package deal next week.
Big Oil in cabinet?
Doc says: "Drain the swamp!" :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Not at all no. I am simply following Michael Moore's recent outbreak
I think Moore firmly believes Trump won't last the entire 4-year term. I partly agree with him. The White House and the Presidency will make him feel like a prisoner. Plus he's very old and could die any time.
Wow.... It will happen, the sun will come up each day and there is a good chance that the US will be a better place in a couple of years. He may even grab a pussy along the way and say fuck a couple of times.
Before someone posts that the C.I.A. says that the Russians planted bad news about Clinton and not Trump, remember that they were the same people that said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. They are also sore losers. It will be interesting to see what a non-politician can do for a country.
Kremlin defers to Trump on the CIA assessment that Moscow helped him win
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...t-moscow-helped-him-win/ar-AAlp3l2?li=BBnb7Kz
MOSCOW — This time, the Kremlin didn’t even bother to deny the allegations that it helped Donald Trump win.
It let the president-elect’s team do the talking.
“Some in the United States are still trying to challenge the election,” a Russian state television host said Saturday, introducing a report by The Washington Post that the CIA concluded Russia intervened in the 2016 election on the Republican’s behalf. “But Donald Trump’s team has sarcastically dismissed the latest effort.”
The program cut to an enlarged translation of the Trump team’s statement, which a reporter read aloud in Russian.
On Saturday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on The Post’s article.
Moscow has regularly denied interfering in the elections, especially after U.S. intelligence agencies in October said the Russian government helped provide WikiLeaks with hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign staff.
President Vladi*mir Putin dismissed the allegations as “hysteria” intended “only to distract the attention of the American people from the substance of what hackers had put out.”
BEHIND THE SCENES: Donnie Dumpster was sharing a celebration drink with his good ole buddy and controller Valdimir Putin. Both were very satisfied with the election but Donnie still felt something was missing.
Donnie: You know Puuty, I want to thank you for all you've done to help get me elected with Wikileaks.
Putin: No problem. I'm happy to do it.
Donnie: You know I'll continue to deny everything against you and protect your regime.
Putin: Yes, that's the deal you swore to.
Donnie: Christmas is coming and I was hoping for one more little favor.
Putin: Okay, you've been great doing as I tell you. What is it?
Donnie: Can I have my balls back?
Putin: Ummmmm, well, you have been a perfect puppet so...I'll consider it.
Donnie: I'd continue to be grateful and very obedient.
Putin: Just remember Donnie, no matter what, I still own your ass.
Donnie: Thanks Puuty. You're the best.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...t-moscow-helped-him-win/ar-AAlp3l2?li=BBnb7Kz
MOSCOW — This time, the Kremlin didn’t even bother to deny the allegations that it helped Donald Trump win.
It let the president-elect’s team do the talking.
“Some in the United States are still trying to challenge the election,” a Russian state television host said Saturday, introducing a report by The Washington Post that the CIA concluded Russia intervened in the 2016 election on the Republican’s behalf. “But Donald Trump’s team has sarcastically dismissed the latest effort.”
The program cut to an enlarged translation of the Trump team’s statement, which a reporter read aloud in Russian.
On Saturday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on The Post’s article.
Moscow has regularly denied interfering in the elections, especially after U.S. intelligence agencies in October said the Russian government helped provide WikiLeaks with hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign staff.
President Vladi*mir Putin dismissed the allegations as “hysteria” intended “only to distract the attention of the American people from the substance of what hackers had put out.”
BEHIND THE SCENES: Donnie Dumpster was sharing a celebration drink with his good ole buddy and controller Valdimir Putin. Both were very satisfied with the election but Donnie still felt something was missing.
Donnie: You know Puuty, I want to thank you for all you've done to help get me elected with Wikileaks.
Putin: No problem. I'm happy to do it.
Donnie: You know I'll continue to deny everything against you and protect your regime.
Putin: Yes, that's the deal you swore to.
Donnie: Christmas is coming and I was hoping for one more little favor.
Putin: Okay, you've been great doing as I tell you. What is it?
Donnie: Can I have my balls back?
Putin: Ummmmm, well, you have been a perfect puppet so...I'll consider it.
Donnie: I'd continue to be grateful and very obedient.
Putin: Just remember Donnie, no matter what, I still own your ass.
Donnie: Thanks Puuty. You're the best.
Trump appears to be a healthy 70 year old man and I don't think there is any basis for saying this other than anyone can drop dead at any time.
I could see Trump not running for re-election depending on how things play out. That could bring Pence into play as becoming the next GOP nominee for President. Not much is known about Pence.
He's fat. Being fat often leads to strokes and heart attacks. Especially for someone as old as he is.
Putin: Trump's most dangerous best friend
by Daniel Treisman
In the 1962 political thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," a hostile government uses covert measures and secret agents in an elaborate plot to get its favored candidate elected president of the United States. The scenario seemed fanciful even at the height of the Cold War.
Today, the idea seems strangely topical.
To be clear, nobody has suggested that President-elect Donald Trump and his team are secretly working for Moscow. Law enforcement officials who investigated the campaign's Kremlin ties last summer said they found no conclusive evidence of a direct link between Trump and the Russian government.
Indirect links are another story. Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, resigned last August after his work helping a Putin-connected billionaire buy Ukrainian television assets attracted scrutiny. According to Newsweek, "American and European intelligence" investigated another campaign adviser, Carter Page, who was allegedly channeling messages from the Kremlin—a charge he denies.
Trump's pick for national security adviser, Lt. General Michael Flynn, boasts of having made a high-level briefing to Russia's military intelligence staff (GRU). He was paid to be interviewed live at a gala dinner marking the 10th anniversary of RT, the television channel that is Russia's main international purveyor of propaganda.
Rex Tillerson, the Exxon Mobil CEO reported to be Trump's favorite for Secretary of State, has no public diplomatic experience. But he does have an "Order of Friendship" medal awarded him by Vladimir Putin. Five years ago, he signed an energy deal with Russia that is expected to bring in $500 billion.
Tillerson told reporters in 2014 that he and colleagues had lobbied in Washington against the sanctions placed on Russia over its actions in Ukraine. Lifting those sanctions would mean a bonanza for his company. It would also give Putin a green light—so many experts believe—for potential further aggression against Russia's neighbors.
Trump's own business dealings in Russia remain a mystery, in part because he has refused to publish his tax returns. His son, Donald Trump, Jr., said to a reporter in 2008 that he'd made six work trips to the country in the preceding 18 months. "We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia," he claimed, particularly into the group's holdings in Dubai and New York.
The same year, Trump made an unusually profitable real estate sale. Having bought and renovated a 17-bedroom mansion in Florida for $41 million, he was having trouble finding a buyer. His salvation came in the form of the Russian fertilizer tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev, who paid $95 million for the beachfront estate.
Rybolovlev was apparently not the last Russian to come to Trump's aid. According to the Washington Post, CIA officials have concluded that the release of hacked emails by individuals tied to the Kremlin last summer aimed not just to undermine faith in US elections but specifically to help Trump win.
Meanwhile, Trump has stunned foreign policy experts—both Democrats and Republicans—with a series of pronouncements that echo or applaud Kremlin positions. He has said that Putin "is doing a great job" and has pledged to "get along very well with" him. Rather than Putin being behind the cyberattacks disrupting the US election, Trump has suggested the culprit may be "some guy in his home in New Jersey."
He assured an interviewer that Putin would not "go into Ukraine," only to be told that the Russians already had. He has said he'd "take a look at" recognizing Russia's annexation of Crimea, and has cast doubt on whether he would assist NATO members if attacked. No act by Moscow could have done more to undermine confidence in the alliance.
All this is quite unprecedented. No previous incoming president has had such a dense and murky network of indirect ties to leading circles in a power hostile toward the US. Potential conflicts of interest need to be thoroughly examined during Senate confirmation hearings for Trump's cabinet appointees, and law enforcement must investigate suspicious leads whenever the evidence merits.
Still, the greatest concern about Trump's relationship with Russia is not that he is being secretly influenced by the Kremlin. Two other issues are taking greater precedence.
First, even if he wishes to bargain hard for US interests, Trump enters the contest with Putin at a disadvantage, having given away his strongest cards. He has already granted Putin's first goal—to be brought out of isolation—without asking anything in return, and has shown that he has little stomach to continue sanctions. On Syria, he has backed away from demanding Assad's ouster.
By making unrequited concessions and raising expectations of rapprochement, he has placed Putin in the driver's seat. The Russian leader will likely view him as naïve and seek to exploit his inexperience, vanity and desire for quick results. The danger is that Trump will concede even more US interests in return for insignificant gestures.
The second danger arises from Trump's famed temperament. Putin, who has lately cultivated a reputation for unpredictability, may have finally found his match in this regard. With two leaders improvising recklessly, the risk of miscalculations rises.
Not only are both leaders prone to gamble, each has surrounded himself with colleagues with a conspiratorial view of the world. Putin's intelligence service aides are known to exaggerate the influence of the CIA in world events. Trump's national security advisor designee, according to several news organizations, has used social media to push fake news stories.
The combination of inaccurate information and impulsive decision making is deeply troubling when found in a single leader. In two, it is downright dangerous.
Trump's most dangerous best friend
Doc says: "The history books may one day show that Donald J. Trump was one of America's most dangerous persons in its entire history. He very likely is the "Manchurian Candidate."
by Daniel Treisman
In the 1962 political thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," a hostile government uses covert measures and secret agents in an elaborate plot to get its favored candidate elected president of the United States. The scenario seemed fanciful even at the height of the Cold War.
Today, the idea seems strangely topical.
To be clear, nobody has suggested that President-elect Donald Trump and his team are secretly working for Moscow. Law enforcement officials who investigated the campaign's Kremlin ties last summer said they found no conclusive evidence of a direct link between Trump and the Russian government.
Indirect links are another story. Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, resigned last August after his work helping a Putin-connected billionaire buy Ukrainian television assets attracted scrutiny. According to Newsweek, "American and European intelligence" investigated another campaign adviser, Carter Page, who was allegedly channeling messages from the Kremlin—a charge he denies.
Trump's pick for national security adviser, Lt. General Michael Flynn, boasts of having made a high-level briefing to Russia's military intelligence staff (GRU). He was paid to be interviewed live at a gala dinner marking the 10th anniversary of RT, the television channel that is Russia's main international purveyor of propaganda.
Rex Tillerson, the Exxon Mobil CEO reported to be Trump's favorite for Secretary of State, has no public diplomatic experience. But he does have an "Order of Friendship" medal awarded him by Vladimir Putin. Five years ago, he signed an energy deal with Russia that is expected to bring in $500 billion.
Tillerson told reporters in 2014 that he and colleagues had lobbied in Washington against the sanctions placed on Russia over its actions in Ukraine. Lifting those sanctions would mean a bonanza for his company. It would also give Putin a green light—so many experts believe—for potential further aggression against Russia's neighbors.
Trump's own business dealings in Russia remain a mystery, in part because he has refused to publish his tax returns. His son, Donald Trump, Jr., said to a reporter in 2008 that he'd made six work trips to the country in the preceding 18 months. "We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia," he claimed, particularly into the group's holdings in Dubai and New York.
The same year, Trump made an unusually profitable real estate sale. Having bought and renovated a 17-bedroom mansion in Florida for $41 million, he was having trouble finding a buyer. His salvation came in the form of the Russian fertilizer tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev, who paid $95 million for the beachfront estate.
Rybolovlev was apparently not the last Russian to come to Trump's aid. According to the Washington Post, CIA officials have concluded that the release of hacked emails by individuals tied to the Kremlin last summer aimed not just to undermine faith in US elections but specifically to help Trump win.
Meanwhile, Trump has stunned foreign policy experts—both Democrats and Republicans—with a series of pronouncements that echo or applaud Kremlin positions. He has said that Putin "is doing a great job" and has pledged to "get along very well with" him. Rather than Putin being behind the cyberattacks disrupting the US election, Trump has suggested the culprit may be "some guy in his home in New Jersey."
He assured an interviewer that Putin would not "go into Ukraine," only to be told that the Russians already had. He has said he'd "take a look at" recognizing Russia's annexation of Crimea, and has cast doubt on whether he would assist NATO members if attacked. No act by Moscow could have done more to undermine confidence in the alliance.
All this is quite unprecedented. No previous incoming president has had such a dense and murky network of indirect ties to leading circles in a power hostile toward the US. Potential conflicts of interest need to be thoroughly examined during Senate confirmation hearings for Trump's cabinet appointees, and law enforcement must investigate suspicious leads whenever the evidence merits.
Still, the greatest concern about Trump's relationship with Russia is not that he is being secretly influenced by the Kremlin. Two other issues are taking greater precedence.
First, even if he wishes to bargain hard for US interests, Trump enters the contest with Putin at a disadvantage, having given away his strongest cards. He has already granted Putin's first goal—to be brought out of isolation—without asking anything in return, and has shown that he has little stomach to continue sanctions. On Syria, he has backed away from demanding Assad's ouster.
By making unrequited concessions and raising expectations of rapprochement, he has placed Putin in the driver's seat. The Russian leader will likely view him as naïve and seek to exploit his inexperience, vanity and desire for quick results. The danger is that Trump will concede even more US interests in return for insignificant gestures.
The second danger arises from Trump's famed temperament. Putin, who has lately cultivated a reputation for unpredictability, may have finally found his match in this regard. With two leaders improvising recklessly, the risk of miscalculations rises.
Not only are both leaders prone to gamble, each has surrounded himself with colleagues with a conspiratorial view of the world. Putin's intelligence service aides are known to exaggerate the influence of the CIA in world events. Trump's national security advisor designee, according to several news organizations, has used social media to push fake news stories.
The combination of inaccurate information and impulsive decision making is deeply troubling when found in a single leader. In two, it is downright dangerous.
Trump's most dangerous best friend
Doc says: "The history books may one day show that Donald J. Trump was one of America's most dangerous persons in its entire history. He very likely is the "Manchurian Candidate."
As of the CIA can be trusted to tell the truth. Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, sure. They are Hillarys henchmen.
Today would be a great time for Donald Trump to release his taxes and show the world that he's not a crook and in cahoots with Russia.
Bipartisan group of senators calls for probe of Russian role in 2016 US elections
by Eric Bradner and David Mark
A bipartisan quartet of high-profile senators said Sunday that "recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American," as President-elect Donald Trump sharpened his unprecedented attacks on US intelligence agencies.
The group -- two Republicans and two Democrats -- called for an investigation into American intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russian hacking was intended to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.
"Congress's national security committees have worked diligently to address the complex challenge of cybersecurity, but recent events show that more must be done," said Sens. Chuck Schumer, the incoming Senate Democratic leader, Sen. John McCain, the Armed Services Committee chairman, fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, and Sen. Jack Reed, the top Armed Services Committee Democrat, in a Sunday morning statement.
"While protecting classified material, we have an obligation to inform the public about recent cyberattacks that have cut to the heart of our free society. Democrats and Republicans must work together, and across the jurisdictional lines of the Congress, to examine these recent incidents thoroughly and devise comprehensive solutions to deter and defend against further cyber-attacks."
The letter is an implicit rebuke of Trump, who has questioned whether Russia actually interfered with the election, including with hacks of Democratic operatives. The President-elect on Sunday morning blasted the intelligence community anew, calling its assessment that Russia interfered in the election "ridiculous."
"I think it's just another excuse. I don't believe it," Trump said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
Two days earlier Trump sided with Russia over the CIA and attacked the US intelligence assessment of Russia's role.
"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," Trump's transition team said in a terse, unsigned statement targeting the CIA on Friday.
"The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It's now time to move on and 'Make America Great Again.'" Trump won 306 electoral votes, a comfortable margin above the 270 necessary but in the lower percentage of presidential victories over two centuries.
The transition team's reference to the agency's most humiliating recent intelligence misfire -- over its conclusion that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction -- threatens to cast an early cloud over relations between the Trump White House and the CIA, whose assessments he'll need to make monumental decisions.
The top leadership of the agency that presided over the Iraq failure during the Bush administration has long since been replaced. But the comments from Trump's camp will cause concern in the Intelligence community about the incoming President's attitude to America's spy agencies. CNN reported last week that Trump is getting intelligence briefings only once a week. Several previous presidents preparing for the inauguration had a more intense briefing schedule.
The sharp pushback to revelations in The Washington Post, which followed an earlier CNN report on alleged Russian interference in the election, represented a startling rebuke from an incoming White House to the CIA.
Trump has also been highly sensitive to any suggestion that he did not win the election fair and square, including claiming that he is only trailing Clinton in the popular vote because of a huge trove of illegal votes -- a claim for which he has provided no evidence.
On Sunday Schumer said his requested probe should reach beyond Russia.
"The goal is to find out how extensive it is, how deep this is, what countries are doing this -- it won't be limited to just Russia and then to come up with conclusions on how to stop it," Schumer told reporters in New York City. "Our intel property in the government and some of our most important companies that employ tens of thousands of people in good paying jobs are hacked regularly. We have to look at all of this."
Bipartisan group of senators calls for probe of Russian role in elections
Doc says: "It's about fucking time that they wake up and find out once & for all if Trump was in cahoots with his good friend Putin."
by Eric Bradner and David Mark
A bipartisan quartet of high-profile senators said Sunday that "recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American," as President-elect Donald Trump sharpened his unprecedented attacks on US intelligence agencies.
The group -- two Republicans and two Democrats -- called for an investigation into American intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russian hacking was intended to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.
"Congress's national security committees have worked diligently to address the complex challenge of cybersecurity, but recent events show that more must be done," said Sens. Chuck Schumer, the incoming Senate Democratic leader, Sen. John McCain, the Armed Services Committee chairman, fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, and Sen. Jack Reed, the top Armed Services Committee Democrat, in a Sunday morning statement.
"While protecting classified material, we have an obligation to inform the public about recent cyberattacks that have cut to the heart of our free society. Democrats and Republicans must work together, and across the jurisdictional lines of the Congress, to examine these recent incidents thoroughly and devise comprehensive solutions to deter and defend against further cyber-attacks."
The letter is an implicit rebuke of Trump, who has questioned whether Russia actually interfered with the election, including with hacks of Democratic operatives. The President-elect on Sunday morning blasted the intelligence community anew, calling its assessment that Russia interfered in the election "ridiculous."
"I think it's just another excuse. I don't believe it," Trump said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
Two days earlier Trump sided with Russia over the CIA and attacked the US intelligence assessment of Russia's role.
"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," Trump's transition team said in a terse, unsigned statement targeting the CIA on Friday.
"The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It's now time to move on and 'Make America Great Again.'" Trump won 306 electoral votes, a comfortable margin above the 270 necessary but in the lower percentage of presidential victories over two centuries.
The transition team's reference to the agency's most humiliating recent intelligence misfire -- over its conclusion that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction -- threatens to cast an early cloud over relations between the Trump White House and the CIA, whose assessments he'll need to make monumental decisions.
The top leadership of the agency that presided over the Iraq failure during the Bush administration has long since been replaced. But the comments from Trump's camp will cause concern in the Intelligence community about the incoming President's attitude to America's spy agencies. CNN reported last week that Trump is getting intelligence briefings only once a week. Several previous presidents preparing for the inauguration had a more intense briefing schedule.
The sharp pushback to revelations in The Washington Post, which followed an earlier CNN report on alleged Russian interference in the election, represented a startling rebuke from an incoming White House to the CIA.
Trump has also been highly sensitive to any suggestion that he did not win the election fair and square, including claiming that he is only trailing Clinton in the popular vote because of a huge trove of illegal votes -- a claim for which he has provided no evidence.
On Sunday Schumer said his requested probe should reach beyond Russia.
"The goal is to find out how extensive it is, how deep this is, what countries are doing this -- it won't be limited to just Russia and then to come up with conclusions on how to stop it," Schumer told reporters in New York City. "Our intel property in the government and some of our most important companies that employ tens of thousands of people in good paying jobs are hacked regularly. We have to look at all of this."
Bipartisan group of senators calls for probe of Russian role in elections
Doc says: "It's about fucking time that they wake up and find out once & for all if Trump was in cahoots with his good friend Putin."
Trump's lies worse than Nixon's
by Jessie Hellman
Carl Bernstein, whose reporting broke open the Watergate scandal that led to former President Nixon's resignation, said Sunday that Nixon's lies were nothing compared to Donald Trump's.
"Trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment. No president, including Richard Nixon, has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in the way this president-elect does," Bernstein said.
Bernstein also slammed what he called a "growing sense of authoritarianism" from Trump and his campaign.
"Richard Nixon was nothing, in terms of lying, compared to what we have seen from Donald Trump," he said.
Trump's lies worse than Nixon's
Doc says: "Donald Trump is definitely one of the biggest lying scumbags in the entire history of the United States."
by Jessie Hellman
Carl Bernstein, whose reporting broke open the Watergate scandal that led to former President Nixon's resignation, said Sunday that Nixon's lies were nothing compared to Donald Trump's.
"Trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment. No president, including Richard Nixon, has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in the way this president-elect does," Bernstein said.
Bernstein also slammed what he called a "growing sense of authoritarianism" from Trump and his campaign.
"Richard Nixon was nothing, in terms of lying, compared to what we have seen from Donald Trump," he said.
Trump's lies worse than Nixon's
Doc says: "Donald Trump is definitely one of the biggest lying scumbags in the entire history of the United States."
Trump is 6'3" and 198 pounds, how is that fat? For a 70 year old man that is a reasonable weight.
He cannot be 198. That is a lie or just false. And just by looking at him, it cannot be. His doctor recall he was 236. But that may be a bit to low as well.
Cheers,
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