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And you know, if we put all the fact checks correcting Trump into a book it would have to be at least 12 volumes.
No surprise at all re blind trust will not be blind. Therefore, rather useless.
Trump will not appropriately divest and that is still not the very most worrying of issues (though probably in top three).
And here is some other food for thought.
Note that there are other articles on previous pages here, but I have to leave for work.
These links usually lead to other articles, not just one person's opinion.
Anyway, check a variety of sources. There is plenty of research on Trump and Russia - and not the made up stuff, not just funny memes - to be found.
Lots of other concerns aside from Russia, mind you. But it is of importance.
The biggest concern is USA continuing to drop bombs and kill people all over the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy?CMP=share_btn_tw
But feel free to believe in everything MSM serves.
Take Russia out of the equation entirely. Go ahead. The other issues about Trump and the GOP are of grave concern for Americans. Our civil rights, education, health care, science, environment, fair labor laws, the Supreme Court - all of that. So ignore Russia. There is plenty to focus on with the incoming administration. At least we are getting some clear warnings.
Sadly, true.
Here is info on bill the GOP just passed, in broad strokes: (bolding is nine)
Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill in the House of Representatives that touched on nearly every step U.S. agencies take in creating and applying new rules, continuing their blitz to radically reform "abusive" federal regulation of areas from the environment to the workplace.
In a 238-183 vote, the House passed the "Regulatory Accountability Act," which combined eight bills aimed at changing how the vast government bureaucracy runs. Only five Democrats voted for it.
The legislation would give President-elect Donald Trump tools "to wipe out abusive regulation," said Bob Goodlatte, the Judiciary Committee chairman who is among the many House leaders calling for lighter regulation and saying the costs to comply with federal rules are too high.
Republicans say there is little accountability for regulations that apply to almost every aspect of American life because they are created by appointed officials and not elected representatives. Federal agencies operate either independently or under the president's authority.
The current reform push is part of Trump's campaign promise to "drain the swamp," House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Wednesday.
As House Republicans push for reform - last week they passed bills requiring Congressional approval of major rules and giving Congress power to kill dozens of recently enacted ones - Democrats are fighting back.
Democrats have said the many extra procedures required by the reform bills would stall agencies' work, making it impossible to create needed regulations on the environment, financial markets and other areas. Democrats contend that slowing down rulemaking is intended to help big businesses escape oversight.
The accountability act would jeopardize the government's capability "to safeguard public health and safety, the environment, workplace safety and consumer financial protections," the Judiciary Committee's senior Democrat, John Conyers, said before the vote.
"Worse yet, many of these new requirements are intended to facilitate the ability of regulated entities - such as well-funded corporate interests - to intervene and derail regulatory protections they oppose," Conyers said.
The guardian is MSM. And you conveniently left out that article's warning: the fear that Trump will make matters worse.
I mean, if dropping bombs is the biggest concern, then Trump's connection to Putin is very much a serious, serious concern. Don't moralize about bombs and then embrace Putin. Make no mistake: what Trump and Tillerson want to do is ultimately STRENGTHEN the Russian economy and thus strengthen their military might. And Putin makes no qualms about killing innocent people, even those aboard a commercial jetliner.
Obama has to walk a very fine line here. While his ultimate goal is to promote peace in the Middle East, he also has to exhibit strength against Al Qaeda and ISIS. He inherited a mess from W, with no easy way out. I think he has responded as well as could be expected. Critics can't possibly think that a Republican in office would have dropped fewer bombs. It sure is odd that the far left views Obama as a "war monger" while right seem him as a soft, Muslim-sympathizer. Well...which is it?
As progressive as I am, I am also a realist, with friends and family who were only blocks from the WTC when it went down on 9/11. I had one who was in one of the towers just the day prior. There were children on board those airplanes, including one who was going on her first trip to Disneyland. I can't imagine the horror that the parents must have been in, holding their child, somehow trying to tell her that they were going to be OK.
Golda Meir once said, "“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”
There ya have it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/11/fact-checking-president-elect-trumps-news-conference/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_fact-checker-3pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.3c164874c3de
says his entire team. Like every day. Facts do get in the way, sure.
All of this will be spun this way and that way. Which is politics, yes. But we just get so much more of this with Trump.
From the L.A. Times, on Trump's press conference:
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MADE CLEAR
Conflicts of interest
Trump will not sell his major assets to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
"President-elect Trump should not be expected to destroy the company he built," his attorney Sheri A. Dillon said.
The Trump Organization will make " no new foreign deals " during Trump's presidency, but new domestic deals will be allowed, Dillon said.
Trump has "relinquished leadership and management" of his company, but plans to resume running the company after his presidency.
"I hope at the end of eight years, I'll come back and say, 'Oh, you did a good job.'" Trump said. "Otherwise, if they do a bad job, I'll say, 'You're fired.'"
He's not releasing his tax returns . "I'm not releasing the tax returns because as you know, they're under audit," Trump said.
Since the IRS routinely audits each president's tax returns, that would seem to rule out disclosure for the duration of his presidency.
Intelligence agencies
He blames the nation's intelligence agencies for leaking derogatory information about him.
"It was disgraceful — disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out. I think it's a disgrace, and I say that — and I say that, and that's something that Nazi Germany would have done and did do," he said.
LEFT UNCLEAR
Border wall
Trump said he wants to move ahead quickly with building a wall along the Mexican border, but did not explain how it will be paid for.
Taxpayers "will be reimbursed" by Mexico, he said, but it's "less likely that it's a payment" from the Mexican government. Maybe "a tax" would be involved, he said, without specifying what that might mean.
Obamacare
He doesn't like the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare now and replace it later, Trump said. But he provided no clue on what his administration's own Obamacare replacement plan would look like.
Trump said he would submit a plan after his Health and Human Services secretary pick, Rep. Tom Price, wins confirmation, something that's not likely to happen until next month at the earliest.
Big drug companies are Trump's latest target, and he revived the idea of having the government negotiate drug prices for federal programs like Medicare. But he said nothing about how he would convince congressional Republicans to approve negotiated drug prices, something they have staunchly opposed for years.
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And this also: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-policy-20170111-story.html
I do. And it would be wise if you buy it too. The responsible British MI-6 agent Chris Steele is already hiding in a secret safehouse as we speak. The respected research journalist Carl Bernstein worked on this case. Moreover, what interests do you support actually? Western interests? Or Russian interests?
Exactly, that's why you support the findings of Carl Bernstein from yesterday's CNN article. We just can not have a president who once got pampered by the Russians in the Moscow Ritz-Carlton by a bunch of prostitutes. So I fully agree, we need to have human decency back. Thank you Carl Bernstein for another great piece of factual research journalism. Thank you ex-MI6 secret agent Christopher Steele for uncovering all this. You are the true heroes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/12/christopher-steele-ex-mi6-officer-named-as-author-of-trump-dossier
That is pure utter bullocks. Just like Wikileaks..........this file got leaked as well. And I do admit much of the dirt from the leaked DNC files and Hillary Clinton are true. But when it's about Trump suddenly it's all vile dirt no? By the way it wasn't made up. That's a lie. Fact. Ask Carl Bernstein.
You should have seen Trump yesterday during the press conference. His sickening autoritarian style of fingerpointing, his harsh "NO! Not you! You're CNN!". It turned my stomach.
The fact that you call CNN and BBC 'a propaganda machine' and not RussiaToday and SputnikNews, shows how little you know about the very definition of 'propaganda'. And probably you even think Breitbart is much more neutral, nuanced and balanced than CNN.
Also, the fact that more and more people are lambasting domestic news agencies and not foreign Russian news agencies, shows how little they care for the status quo representative democracy in which free press/journalism is sometimes called the '4th power' or 'guardian of the Checks and Balances System........the legislative (Congress, Senate), judicial (Courts) and executive branch (Government with President/PM). And I go one step further. The more people like you and others keeep destroying our own institutions while at the same time glorifying Putin more and more, the more you are in my eyes a person who betrays your own country. A traitor so to say.
Make no mistake. In Russia there's no Checks and Balances and free press. But hey, this is falling more and more on deaf ears. A clear sign to what extend western representative democracies are slowly being hollowed out. Because once the trust in the system falls apart (in for instance the USA, the UK or The Netherlands), which is the case with you @Thunderfinger, the actual system will slowly fall apart with it.
You can quote me on that in 25 years from now.
It's time you look into that in greater detail, before you start making despicable acusations about our own Western institutions.
I haven't left out anything. If you read my post again, you'll see that's exactly what I said. Along with the fact that, as we speak, Obama's bombs and drones are killing people in 7 different countries, which makes him a war monger and a MIC controlled puppet. Quoting Golda Meir or anyone else doesn't make him less of a killer.
You did read that Guardian article, right?
Steele's dossier includes unverified allegations that the Russians have compromising info on Trump. There is no fact about any of it as far as we know. And until that information is verified, you can stop acting like a nincompoop.
Also, there is division among journalists as to whether this information should have been presented to the public:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unverified-dossier-trump-russia-divides-journalists-n705926
EDIT: Surprise, surprise. There are holes in Steele's report:
"The operative’s reports also included multiple other claims that are now in question: One of the operative’s reports alleges that Michael Cohen, a top lawyer in the Trump organization, had met with Russian officials in Prague involved in hacking the election. On Wednesday, Cohen denied he had ever been to Prague and produced his passport to prove it. Another of Steele’s reports, first reported by Yahoo News last September, involved alleged meetings last July between then-Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page and two high-level Russian operatives, including Igor Sechin — a longtime associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin who became the chief executive of Rosneft, the Russian energy giant. After initially declining to comment, Page wrote a letter to FBI Director James Comey after the story was published denying that he had ever met with Sechin; the Trump campaign, however, cut its ties to him."
(https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier-was-former-british-spy-004221154.html)
Almost half of the voters voted for Trump.
Are they evil? No, this is not possible. Evil on this scale would result in continuous & bloody anarchy.
Are the intelligent? No, else they would not have voted for Trump.
Are they happy? Based on rally footage from across the country, decidedly not.
Are they Liberal? No, being liberal generally requires not being in or near poverty.
What's left?
Being in poor economic conditions, being not very well educated, and being open to authoritarianism as well as all the other usual 'isms' associated with fascist mentalities.
There are of course a smattering of hardcore KKK types that see Trump as their vehicle towards White Supremacy and the hopeful wishfuls that see Trump as some sort of 'outsider business guy' that can set things right, but they aren't the majority IMO.