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WaspInWales wrote:

Digby wrote:

morepork wrote:
and probably drunk. What a role model.

Isn't he a non-drinker having observed his brother die of being very much a drinker?

Yep, supposedly tea total and doesn't touch drugs. Quite how his brain has become so addled is anyone's guess.

Mellsblue wrote:Ha, yeah. It’s a bit like getting a dog from a rescue centre, being told your new pet hasn’t been properly trained or taught to socialise and then getting home and deciding “fuck it, let’s put the dog in charge”.

Which Tyler wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42231806

After 11 months, and 3 drafts, Trump finally gets his racist 3 month (?) Travel ban through the courts.

WaspInWales wrote:

Which Tyler wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42231806

After 11 months, and 3 drafts, Trump finally gets his racist 3 month (?) Travel ban through the courts.

Yep, and in other news he has been shrinking national monuments:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42226752

Giving them back to the people...so that oil companies can drill there.

No doubt he'll be Tweeting about the winning again.

morepork wrote:

WaspInWales wrote:

Which Tyler wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42231806

After 11 months, and 3 drafts, Trump finally gets his racist 3 month (?) Travel ban through the courts.

Yep, and in other news he has been shrinking national monuments:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42226752

Giving them back to the people...so that oil companies can drill there.

No doubt he'll be Tweeting about the winning again.

There are areas of profound cultural and environmental significance in these places. Fuck me.

Which Tyler wrote:Can someone please explain WTF is going on with Paul Manafort today.

My understanding just has to be wrong.
My understanding is that he's currently accused of treason, and is out on bail. And has thought this the perfect time to co-author editorials alongside a member of Russian Intelligence

morepork wrote:

WaspInWales wrote:

Digby wrote:
Isn't he a non-drinker having observed his brother die of being very much a drinker?

Yep, supposedly tea total and doesn't touch drugs. Quite how his brain has become so addled is anyone's guess.

He just seems so incredibly insulated from experience that shapes a normal well-rounded human being. He is clearly poorly educated, seems to not have had any experience of life outside of his father's business world, and this lazy unsophisticated diet is something you'd expect from a complete shut in of a personality.

In short, the cunt is fucked up.

Which Tyler wrote:Can someone please explain WTF is going on with Paul Manafort today.

My understanding just has to be wrong.
My understanding is that he's currently accused of treason, and is out on bail. And has thought this the perfect time to co-author editorials alongside a member of Russian Intelligence

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was ghostwriting an op-ed while out on bail last month with a Russian who has ties to the Russian intelligence service, Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Muller's team said Monday.
In a new filing Monday afternoon, Mueller's investigators said Manafort was working on an editorial in English as late as last Thursday and that it related to his political work for Ukraine, which factored into his money-laundering and foreign lobbying criminal charges.
The filing asks for the court to revisit a bail agreement Mueller's office and Manafort's lawyers made jointly last week. The court had not yet approved a change to his $10 million unsecured bail and house arrest.

"Even if the ghostwritten op-ed were entirely accurate, fair, and balanced, it would be a violation of this Court's November 8 Order if it had been published," prosecutors wrote. "The editorial clearly was undertaken to influence the public's opinion of defendant Manafort, or else there would be no reason to seek its publication (much less for Manafort and his long-time associate to ghostwrite it in another's name)."

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The Trump administration is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal — to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the White House with a global, private spy network that would circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials and others familiar with the proposals. The sources say the plans have been pitched to the White House as a means of countering “deep state” enemies in the intelligence community seeking to undermine Trump’s presidency.

The creation of such a program raises the possibility that the effort would be used to create an intelligence apparatus to justify the Trump administration’s political agenda.

“Pompeo can’t trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to create this thing that reports just directly to him,” said a former senior U.S. intelligence official with firsthand knowledge of the proposals, in describing White House discussions. “It is a direct-action arm, totally off the books,” this person said, meaning the intelligence collected would not be shared with the rest of the CIA or the larger intelligence community. “The whole point is this is supposed to report to the president and Pompeo directly.”

Oliver North, who appears frequently on Trump’s favorite TV network, Fox News, was enlisted to help sell the effort to the administration. He was the “ideological leader” brought in to lend credibility, said the former senior intelligence official.
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morepork wrote:Erik Prince and Oliver North...fuck my days.

WaspInWales wrote:I'm really struggling how some people are defending Trump's decision on 'modifying' the monuments.

The misinformed seem to be suggesting that Obama and Clinton carried out illegal land grabs, seemingly missing the point about preservation. Then they go on to suggest that people will be able to roam the parks...conveniently missing the fact that they already could roam.

Strangely no mention of private drilling though...