The Trump Cabal — Page 4

In all fairness, I should make one correction to my previous post. British PM Theresa May has rebuked US Sec of State John Kerry for his recent remarks concerning Israel and those contentious settlements. Perhaps I'm paranoid but it appears that the remaining world powers are out to make Trump their useful idiot. Both Putin and Netanyahu already have him in their pockets and now Theresa May's seemingly calculating how to squeeze the most juice out of him. He reassures his base via Twitter that's he's large and in charge but I see an individual who's completely out of his depth, more so than any incoming President-elect in recent memory. I'm left wondering whether May's stunt was coordinated with the Obama White House. The Brits have always done cloak-and-dagger very well.

Theresa May Scolds Kerry for Focus on Israel Settlements (By Steve Erlanger, NY Times)

Updated On: 12/31/16 at 11:24 AM

Confirmation hearings for Jeff Sessions, white supremacist, racist, homophobe, and xenophobe begin this morning. Senator Corey Booker will become the first Senator to testify against another sitting Senator.

Petralicious said: "The Democrats havent been this against a Republican President and his cabinet before he took office since Lincoln had to come to the White House in secret and under darkness because of assassination threats by Southern Democrats



No "president elect" has offered a cabinet this unqualified before, either.

madbrian said: "adamgreer said: "Confirmation hearings for Jeff Sessions, white supremacist, racist, homophobe, and xenophobe begin this morning. Senator Corey Booker will become the first Senator to testify against another sitting Senator."

Quite proud to call Cory Booker my senator.



Before I moved to Florida, where I'm now represented by the disgraceful Marco Rubio, I was very proud to call him my Senator, too.

I like that he is for Charter Schools and educations reform.

So nobody's going to mention how non-homophobic and antiracist Sessions has proved to be in this hearing?

There's a big difference between one's personal policy/voting preferences and the responsibilities and policies one is prompted to uphold as Attorney General. This hearing has made it evidentially clear that Sessions is able to separate these two.

"There's a big difference between one's personal policy/voting preferences and the responsibilities and policies one is prompted to uphold as Attorney General. This hearing has made it evidentially clear that Sessions is able to separate these two. "

No, this hearing has only shown that he knows how to lie and dissemble when questioned. And that he's able to fool the more gullible members of our community.

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SOCIALIST! ELITIST! WHINER!

CURRENT-CONSERVATIVE-HYPOCRITICAL-NONSENSE-BUZZWORD-INSULT!!!!

ErikJ972 said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "There's a big difference between one's personal policy/voting preferences and the responsibilities and policies one is prompted to uphold as Attorney General. This hearing has made it evidentially clear that Sessions is able to separate these two. "

That seems incredibly naive.



Consider the source.

This hearing has made it evidentially clear that Sessions is able to separate these two.

Oh, I've no doubt he has the ability. Whether he'll actually use that ability is doubtful based on his track record.

He's likely moving the White House Press Corp out of the White House and into the OEOB next door. Ostensibly because they have a larger space, but please. Shutting the press out of the White House because they provide unfavorable coverage of his pathetic "administration" is just the beginning. The idea that he wants to allow access to more news outlets simply means he wants alt right organizations like Breitbart to have a seat at the table. It won't be long before Klanswoman Barbie herself, Tomi Lahren, is asking questions at press briefings.



http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-team-move-press-briefing-room-white-house/story?id=44777903

Updated On: 1/16/17 at 09:16 AM

It seems that the press has been under fire for 8 years now and would have been under Ms Rodham-Clinton as well.

When Hillary Clinton headed for Reno, Nev., to make a big speech attacking Donald J. Trump on Thursday, her campaign used two planes. One was for the candidate and her entourage. The other was for the reporters, photographers and videographers assigned to follow her every move — which, of course, is impossible when she’s not physically on the same aircraft.

This is Mrs. Clinton’s standard air travel arrangement, and it represents a departure from how presidential candidates (including Mrs. Clinton in 2008) have dealt with their dedicated press corps since at least the early 1960s, by which point journalists were regularly traveling with them on their planes.

Even Barry Goldwater, the hard-right, press-fighting Republican nominee of 1964, flew with the reporters who covered him. He wound up enjoying it so much he rewarded them with “Eastern Liberal Press” lapel pins.

Right now, every signal from Mrs. Clinton is that should she win, her administration would continue the tradition of being still more secretive than the one before it; the Obama White House has achieved just that with its abysmal record on fulfilling Freedom of Information Act requests and its record of prosecuting whistle-blowers who have shared national security information with the press.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/business/media/plane-rides-and-presidential-transparency.html?rref=business/media&_r=0