Walker88

You nailed it. The only US Person in the room was Marina Gross, an interpreter employed by State. She was not allowed to take notes, nor speak with reporters or even then-SecState Mike Pompeo. trump emerged ashen faced, and putin had a cheshire cat grin. trump that proceeded to claim he believed putin more than the agency. I know how putin threatens, and I suspect he read trump the riot act in that meeting. Some of what is known remains classified. Of course if trumpers knew, they would fabricate an excuse for trump's behavior. Note that Presidents virtually never go into any meeting with any foreign leader, neither friend nor foe, without someone like the DNI or SecState or National Security Adviser, so as to fill in details the President might lack, or stop a President from revealing things he shouldn't. trump specifically told Pompeo and other to stay away. Then DNI Dan Coates was shocked, and resigned after. trump did the same thing when he held that infamous Oval Office meeting with Lavrov and Kislyak, when trump burned an Israeli penetration of an Islamic terror group by mouthing off. NOBODY from the US was allowed in the room. There was only a GRU agent acting as cameraman, who took the famous shot of trump laughing with the two Russians, and who leaked word of what trump had told the two, against the admonition of Israel when it had shared that intel.

Anytime somebody mentions George Soros as some sort of bogeyman, I instantly know two things: 1) I'm reading the rants of someone sitting a std dev or two left of the mean on the IQ Bell Curve 2) I've found an antisemite. I'm going to guess you know nothing about Mr Soros, but get your "research" from places like Stormfront or Alex Jones. Come on, pork, give us a laugh, tell us some tall tales about George Soros and Bill Gates.

1) As is all over the news today, donny has informed his sycophants in the R Party to not do a border deal and not restore the funding the House slashed when Repubs retook the majority. Surprising as it may seem to the trump brigade who largely survive on Social Security Disability Insurance, border agents do not want to work for free. Had the cultists in the House not slashed funding, Border Patrol might have enough agents to do the job. 2) Silly about 'reinforcing Dem voter base. Do you have data proving that (I know you don't; you just heard it on Comedy Central like OAN or Fox, and they made it up.) Most of the people who try to cross the border actually want to work. Even donny fatboy knows that, as he has hired undocumented workers in both his NJ golf club and at Mar-a-Lago. You've just bought into trump's typical racist drivel. Clearly the vast majority of folks crossing the border are much better people than the violent cult of trumpists, who attacked the Capitol, threaten election workers and judges, even jury members. Even the FBI and HOmeland Security under trump, when they issued their report on terrorism in the US, noted that over 70% of all terror attacks in the US since 9-11 were carried out by White Supremacists. There are not "good people on both sides". Here's an idea: send the trump scum to Guatemala and bring in people who want to work. Heck, we could clear out States like KY, TN, WV and some other Red States where the major "employer" is SSDI and most are trumpers. Those States also have the highest % of opioid addicts, so we'd kill two birds with one stone.

If somehow trump wins, or the R House cheats and refuses to certify his loss, this is one thing I know we can expect: Foreign intelligence services with which the US has liaison relationships will stop sharing intel. They cannot risk that any source or covert program might be compromised by someone as idiotic and self-serving as trump. (Most people know trump gave away a penetration Israel had of a ME terrorist group by mouthing off to Lavrov and Kislyak; what most do not know what the outcome of his big mouth.....death.) Friggin idiot. Also, existing clandestine sources might call it quits and stop cooperating with US intelligence agents. Potential clandestine sources will also refrain from recruitment, fearing exposure and retribution to themselves and their families. I know what it's like to recruit and to manage clandestine assets. I know what it's like to do 2am clandestine meetings or perform dead drops. I know the fears and concerns I had when carrying out my work, which not only had to do with my own safety, but also the safely of the assets I handled. For me, if a government apprehended me, I would just have had my fingernails pulled out. If a terrorist group got me, I likely would have lost my head. EVERY clandestine asset I recruited or handled, however, faced torture and death, as well as death to family members. I know full well how people like putin, as well as al Qaeda, deal with discovered foreign assets. The idiot trump stole documents classified HCS (Human Clandestine Sources), and that has not gone unnoticed worldwide. People now fear exposure by a clown like trump. Lack of intel means the US becomes more vulnerable, both to events like December 7th and September 11th. Yes, NORAD would know if there's an incoming ICBM, but it's much better to know before the missile is armed and fired. The US will lose that capability.As for terrorism, I do not know the exact number of terrorist attacks prevented by intel received from clandestine sources or liaison, but I do know there are many. trump's idiocy puts us at risk. If there is any justice and fairness in the Universe, then if attacks come as a result of lack of intelligence data, the harm will come to trump or those who support his reckless and dangerous behavior.

Do you mean like Fox parroting trump and Sidney Powell's lies about Dominion and Smartmatics voting machines? That cost lying and slanderous Fox $787 million so far, and Fox attempts to get the Smartmatics case dropped failed, so Fox is looking at $2.7 billion if they lose. Maybe you still believe the late Hugo Chavez, while dead, programmed an Italian satellite to alter the count in Dominion voting machines, as Powell alleged (though she was at least aware of enough not to argue that in court, as lies like that would have gotten her disbarred.) Perhaps you have lists of lies other media has reported---and not retracted.

I wonder if the trump fans here call the terrorists who attacked the Capitol on 1-6-21, people who set up a gallows to hang the VP, injured 140 cops, smashed windows, stole things, and <deleted> on the floor and wiped their feces on the Capitol wall “hostages”, or maybe “typical tourists”? I wonder if someone like me had played Kyle Rittenhouse, grabbed my AR-15, and went there to ‘help law enforcement’ by gunning down some terrorists? Would I be applauded and have my legal fees paid by donations from so-called evangelicals? I wonder if the trump fans support trump’s stated intent to pardon all the terrorists if re-elected? Trump’s defense grows more bizarre by the day. Of course he pleaded innocent to his 91 felony indictments, but everyone from Al Capone to Jeffrey Dahmer pleads innocent. Another plank of his defense is: “if you convict me, there will be bedlam”, which rather sounds like a threat, more than a defense. I suspect trump would call his goobers to violence. Another plank is he deserves immunity because, he was like, you know, President, and how could a President act, if not immune from criminal prosecution? SOMEHOW, 44 Presidents before him seem to get things done without having immunity, and only one needed a pardon (which says President’s do not have immunity). Perhaps trump’s most outrageous defense is what his crack legal team filed in Georgia: trump is innocent because he simply did not know trying to overthrow a free and fair election was illegal. (Bank robbers and murderers take note how that works in the GA courts.)

And speaking of patriotic, how are the trumpers 'patriotic' when they are blocking a border security Bill because---as Moscow Mitch said this week---"we cannot interfer in an election issue on which trump is running"? The Dems compromised. They took 'path to citizenship' and 'dreamers' out of the Bill. Old style Repubs like Romney, Lankford and Tillis fully support the Bill, which not only will fund border security, but also fund aid to Israel, Gaza and Ukraine. The trumpian cult doesn't want anything good to get done, as it might hurt trump...the guy who also wants the economy to crash. So let's see...is it patriotic to stand in the way of border security, hope people lose their savings, become unemployed, have their 401Ks obliterated, help an invader take over a country in Eastern Europe, and let more people suffer in the Middle East? Only in the bizarre and totally self-serving world of trumpistan could anyone think such madness is 'patriotic'.

Funny stuff. You can look this up, too, or if you have a friend in Deutsche Bank, ask them trump inherited $412 million from his dad. He also began receiving an allowance of $200,000 from the age of 3 until his dad died. Hardly self made. He also had to have his dad co-sign all his loans until dad died. trump declared 6 bankruptcies. And in casinos, where addicts throw money at you. The public record of those bankruptcies is amusing. He issued junk bonds and took a loan from a bank syndicate made up of 72 banks. He pledged the land and property as collateral. They ended up with 30 cents on the dollar (the taxpayer picked up the rest). He also stiffed the subcontractors. Now here's something interesting....he had bank loans in NYC at that time, but they had personal guarantees, so he could not afford to stiff those banks. SO what he did was pay himself a huge salary as CEO of his NJ casinos, and also funnel junk bond funds from NJ to NYC to service his NYC bank loans. His father helped him make one debt payment in NYC by buying $3 million in chips in one of his casinos. (You can Google Fred trump $3 million casino chip purchase if you want). Yea, trump is a real "self-made" guy. As we now know from his bank and insurance fraud conviction in NY, he wasn't exactly above board. Oh, and Dems blocking your vote? Did Dems put together a fake elector scheme? Did Al Gore call his supporters to DC to stop the certification in 2000? Did Gore hold a rally on the Mall and tell his people to "fight like hell" and "march to the Capitol"? Did Gore call the SecState of Florida and tell him to "just find me...11,780 votes"? To people not sniffing the trumpian vapors, it sure looks like it isn't Dems trying to block your vote. Heck, Dems would even allow outsiders to provide water to folks waiting in line for hours to vote, as most polling stations in their area had been shut down (as Repubs have done in several States like GA).

Perspective, fella. Maybe you're afraid one of those women who carried her kids 1000 miles is going to take your gas station job? A roaring economy, low unemployment, a record stock market, and a full recovery from the trump carnage is a lot more important than the border. Or maybe you think trump's wall, which he did not build (even when he had an R House and R Senate), and which Mexico did not pay for, will stop the flow? Hamas on 6 October kind of proved the security value of a wall. Now if the House repubs had not slashed the Border Patrol budget, which means BP could not hire more agents, maybe the flow would be stopped. They won't even fund it now, because they WANT it to be any issue for trump. Curious if you served in any way, or if you have bone spurs or maybe think people who served are 'suckers and losers' as your messiah says.

Perhaps it's a difficult difference to appreciate for those sniffing the vapors blowing out of trump's bloated backside, but the both Biden and Pence, when it was found classified documents were found in their homes cooperated fully with the authorities and allowed the FBI to search and remove anything classified. In contrast, trump specifically chose TS, SCI, SAP, Codeword, HCS and RD documents, kept them in his home, initially refused to hand them back, lied about declassifying them (there would be a paper trail; there is not, so lying is obvious), lied and said he'd returned everything when he hadn't, and according to witnesses, told his tech people to erase CCTV video which had staff---staff without clearance, by the way---move and hide docs so FBI might not find them. NO PRESIDENT retains any HCS docs, not even when in the White House. Rarely are identities revealed to POTUSs, instead they are told something like, "a long term asset whose previous reporting has proven highly reliable". trump had to have been given these docs by the two lackeys he appointed as DNI (Grenell and Ratcliffe), because no way would Gina Haspel nor trump's first DNI Coates violate rules and give trump such sensitive material. In any event, trump's possession of identity-revealing docs in his country club puts brave men and women in harm's way. And for what purpose? My opinion is trump fully intended to monetize those docs. Perhaps you have another excuse; I'm sure trumpian media has made up one. Oh, and trump ordered the DoD to draw up a plan for attacking Iran before the election, believing it might help him win in Nov 2020. He stole that DoD report and even showed it to members of his NJ golf club (it's on tape). trum also asked---but was rebuffed---to plan a nuclear attack on China after Nov 2020, hoping he could declare a national emergency and stay in power. Gen Milley, then Chief of the Joint Chiefs, told counterparts in China to ignore anything trump might say and not take it seriously. trump then claimed that is treason (it's not, since no war had been declared by Congress) and said Gen Milley should be executed. Additionally, what does coke in the WH have to do with Biden? Have you ever been i the WH or West Wing? It's pretty large and thousands of people are in t every day. A POTUS doesn't do individual security checks. Now witnesses who worked in trump's Administration did testify (it's in the indictments you refuse to read) that trump flushed classified documents down the toilet on several occasions. THAT is illegal and a security violation. As for Bill Clinton, is he running in 2024? I think not. Your are not distinguishing yourself with your posts. Multiple convictions already, and 91 felony indictments put trump on a whole different level than all previous Presidents combined. He is the only convicted criminal who has ever been, or run, for POTUS.

I have to apologize and correct something I have written over time. I have written that trump ran up $7,800,000,000,000 in new National Debt while POTUS, or over $24,000 for every man, woman and child in the US, and that it was that profligacy that created---along with his tariffs that are not "paid by China" but are passed on to the US Consumer---inflation. According to this article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-added-8-4-trillion-182637129.html the number is actually $8,400,000,000,000, or over $25,000 for every man, woman and child in the US. Since when trump took over, the US National Debt, built up under the first 44 Presidents was $19.3 trillion, trump alone added an additional 44% to what had accumulated under the 44 previous Presidents. In any event, that debt increase dwarfs the change in GDP during his term, so even his meager growth was debt fueled.

Do you know how to use the internet? The New York City court records are available online. I will let you find them. I'm not your teacher. The mods here know full well all of what I write is freely available from recognized and authorative sources. You can also just Google things like "trump charity fraud trial" or even things like "Judge Engoron" or "E Jean Carroll" and you will read evidence of trump's various convictions. While you're at it, you can read the indictments related to his 91 felony accounts. They are public records, too. I hope you are not going to try to argue---in the truly slam dunk case of trump's theft of stolen classified documents---that trump 'declassified with his mind', because you would be facing the wrong person. I am a former member of the clandestine services holding a TS/SCI clearance, who had classification authority, know full well what each classification means, and know intimately well the process involved in declassification, plus all of the rules required when handling classified documents. Mere possession of such documents in a non-SCIF is a violation, and willful possession is a felony. As I have asked trumpers repeatedly, what possible use does a guy with no security clearance (POTUSs never have a security clearance, just have the privilege of seeing classified docs while in office), and who runs a place that is a club and engages in wedding planning, need HCS, RD, SAP and other docs whose disclosure can get people killed and harm national security? I guess I'm a responsible type as well as patriotic. It outrages me that anyone, much less a former POTUS, could be so reckless and cavalier with documents who genesis is often from people who puts their lives on the line obtaining the intelligence. That never-served, bone spurs POS is so self-centered, he couldn't care less if he exposes clandestine assets and puts them and their families in mortal danger. Such identities are what is in documents classified as HCS (Human Clandestine Sources).

You can access BOTH the court records where trump was convicted (they are publicly available) and also the 91 felony indictments (also publicly available). Of course each is longer than a trump Tweet and unlike comic books, there are few pictures. Go educate yourself.

Well, I happen to like the low unemployment, strong economic growth and record stock prices the US is experiencing under the Biden Presidency. It sure beats the disastrous 6.8% UE and Recession trump left behind. Maybe it's just me, but I also rather like not being from a country that was the laughing stock of the world for 4 years. It's rather nice that the US is respected again. Of course I suspect you are going to blame Biden for things like Ukraine. I suppose that war would have been over if trump were POTUS, since he likely would have supplied putin, not Zelenskyy, with weapons so putin could slaughter millions more innocent Ukrainians. As for the Middle East...correct me if I'm wrong, but those two sides have been at each other's throats since at least 1945, despite the occasional period of peace. Tough to foist that on Biden, as he is neither Jewish nor Palestinian/Moslem. Might as well blame Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama. Heck, toss in Harold Stassen and Pat Paulson, too.

Obviously you haven't listened to any recent speeches by President Biden, or perhaps as you've aged, your ears no longer work well. You can find his recent Valley Forge speech online. Beautiful delivery and powerful message. Clear as can be, too, though admittedly my youthful ears function quite well. OTOH, you can also find your favorite snowflake claiming he beat Obama and will beat him again, that Nikki Haley was Speaker of the House on 6 January 2021, that Jeb Bush got the US into Iraq, that trump beat George W Bush in an earlier New Hampshire primary, that trump won the Iowa caucuses in 2016, and even that he fears President Biden might get us into WWII (Maybe Biden uses the Time Travel machine that one of trump's former Attorney Generals named Whittaker used to schlepp before trump appointed him AG?)

"Come on, donny, let's see what you've got"---Nikki Haley Goodness! A woman, and a minority woman at that, hitting trump where it hurts most. Expect The First Snowflake to go apoplectic. Ought to be oodles of childish rants, IN ALL CAPS, flowing on his (Truth Isn't) Truth Social.

You left out Mt St Helen's, Krakatoa, the War of Jenkin's Ear, and the expulsion for Eden Has to be Biden, at least in Maga-stan among the forlorn and brain addled.

If you have even an ounce of proof of any corruption by Biden, you should show it. If you cannot---you cannot---then you are making stuff up and engaging in slander. On the other hand, the clown you favor is: ---a convicted sex offender ---a convicted charity fraudster ---a convicted bank fraudster ---a convicted insurance fraudster ---a thief of highly classified (TS, SCI, SAP, Codeword, HCS and RD) ---a liar who claimed he returned what he stole, but did not return it ---a self-serving crybaby who was intimately involved in trying to overturn a free and fair election (still under adjudication, but with witnesses who testified in front of a grand jury under oath and who were part of his Administration) ---a guy on tape trying to interfere and overturn the election results in the State of Georgia ("Look, just find me...11,780 votes") It seems you made a new account simply to engage in slander and hyperbole.

Here's some remedial work for you: ---How many oil leases are approved and just sitting idle, despite anybody---even you if you had money---being allowed to begin drilling today? (Hint: the # is---to use a word from trump---BIGLY) ---Name the President under whose tenure more jobs have been created than any other? (Hint: it begins with a "B" and it isn't a Bush or a Bachelor or even sound Dutch) ---What was the latest GDP number? ---What is the unemployment rate today vs 20 January 2021? ---Of the two apparent candidates for President in 2024, which one believes in democracy, actually goes to work each day, rather than run up $176,000,000 in Taxpayer expense playing golf (OMB number), Tweeting "UNFAIR!" and "SAD!" like a giant snowflake, and calling in for hours to Fox news? Also, of those 2, who had a Godot-style "Infrastructure Week" and who got a bipartisan infrastructure Bill passed?

I'm already as wealthy as anyone needs to be, so I neither need the career nor the fame. As for comedy, House Repubs are providing that, refusing to pass any Bill that would allow Border Patrol to hire more agents. They slashed the funding once they retook the House, and then moaned about border crossings. They need a mirror to see who is responsible. Obviously they want to keep the issue front and center, believing it will help their cult leader. Want to know just how comical those House Repubs are? More than 140 refused to certify Biden's landslide victory over trump...yet they were perfectly happy to certify their own election victory on the exact same ballots.

You obviously have access to that thing called the internet. You can search, and maybe learn something. trump and his kids were banned for life from running a charity, because he was convicted of using donations for personal purposes, which is defraudung donors. Since his children were accessories, they, too, are banned. The two cases ongoing in NYC are finished, save for determining damages. In the bank and insurance fraud case, trump was allowed to choose either a jury trial or a bench trial. He chose bench trial, which means only the judge hears the case and arrives at a verdict. Judge Engoron found trump guilty of both bank and insurance fraud. In the defamation case---a civil case---trump was first found guilty of sexual assault. He subsequently defamed E Jean Carroll, according to the jury, and they awarded her $5 million. He continued to defame her, so Carroll filed new defamation charges and is now awaiting the jury to declare guilt and award damages. Thus, trump is a convicted charity fraudster, a convicted bank fraudster, a convicted insurance fraudster, and a convicted sexual offender.

Are you feeling fearful? I understand those maga types are particularly violent people. Look what they did to police at the Capitol. Too bad only one of them got a double tap. I wonder where Kyle Rittenhouse was? I thought he was big on protecting cops. He could have gone to DC and gunned down those maga terrorists.

Perhaps if the House Repubs hadn't slashed funding for Border Patrol, more agents could have been hired. Of course they know the maga crowd is fearful of losing their gas station and truck driver jobs to immigrants, so Repubs think the border issue helps trump. By the way, did Mexico ever pay for a 10-20 miles of walls put up under trump? After Oct 7, perhaps the idea of a wall as any sort of barrier to entry will be quashed. Maybe it stops mothers with kids who walked 1000 miles, but Hamas certanly found ways to subvert a wall.

putin's invasion of Ukraine just maybe impacted oil prices? Oh, and when Covid hit the world kind of slowed down and didn't do as much driving, so the decline isn't because trump did anything positive. By the way, there are some 9000 oil leases in the US currently approved and allowing drilling and exploitation. Comapnies are choosing not to drill. That is not Biden's fault.

Yes, if trump is jailed and Biden re-elected, the good times (+3.3% GDP just announced) will continue and gold price will drop.