Rikkitic:

 

McCabe: 'I think it's possible' Trump is a Russian asset

 

Well, he's certainly not a US asset  ...   😕

I think some already said this but reality is that Trump is more of a symptom of the current environment in the USA than the problem itself.

People voted for him and not a small number. Not the majority but their rules are like this.

freitasm:

 

I think some already said this but reality is that Trump is more of a symptom of the current environment in the USA than the problem itself.

 

People voted for him and not a small number. Not the majority but their rules are like this.

 

Even if Trump is "a symptom, not the disease", this does not excuse him - he is totally incompetent, totally self-obsessed, and totally corrupt.   🤒

It doesn't excuse him, but it makes a more serious point: even if Trump goes away, the circumstances that lead to him being elected have not. Who comes after Trump? Someone just as toxic and evil but actually competent enough to get things done?

SaltyNZ:

 

... Who comes after Trump?

 

Someone just as toxic and evil but actually competent enough to get things done?

 

Like Pence?   🤒

The New York Times - Trump’s Idea of a Middle East Nuclear Deal

By The Editorial Board

The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.

Feb. 20, 2019

An interim report from the House Oversight Committee paints a familiar picture of Trump associates skirting the law to curry favor with people who can make them richer.

 

This time, the dealing doesn’t involve Russians but Saudis, and it is not about a lavish tower in Moscow but the sale of nuclear power reactors.

 

Negotiations were conducted by people who would stand to gain millions, in apparent disregard of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which sets out explicit procedures and criteria for nuclear cooperation agreements and is intended to thwart proliferation of atomic weapons.

 

Their conflicts of interest “could implicate federal criminal statutes,” according to the report.

 

By ramming through the sale of as much as $80 billion in nuclear power plants, the Trump administration would provide sensitive know-how and materials to a government whose de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has suggested that he may eventually want a nuclear weapon as a hedge against Iran and has shown little concern for what the rest of the world thinks.

 

The report also warned, “Within the United States, strong private commercial interests have been pressing aggressively for the transfer of highly sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia - a potential risk to U.S. national security absent adequate safeguards.” ...

 

Multiple reports on different news services that Mueller investigation is wrapping up and will be concluded within days. Stay tuned.

Rikkitic:

 

Multiple reports on different news services that Mueller investigation is wrapping up and will be concluded within days. Stay tuned.

 

and ...

The Washington Post - Michael Cohen to testify before House panel on Feb. 27

February 20 at 8:21 PM

 

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, will testify before the House Oversight Committee next week, the panel announced Wednesday night.

 

Cohen will testify at 10 a.m. on Feb. 27, the committee’s chairman, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), said in a statement.

 

“I am pleased to announce that Michael Cohen’s public testimony before the Oversight Committee is back on, despite efforts by some to intimidate his family members and prevent him from appearing,” Cummings said.

 

“Congress has an obligation under the Constitution to conduct independent and robust oversight of the Executive Branch, and this hearing is one step in that process.” ...

 

kingdragonfly: Alec Baldwin: Trump On SNL. National Emergency press conference

The New York Times - In North Carolina, Investigators Find Ballot ‘Scheme’ in House Race

Feb. 18, 2019

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina elections regulator said Monday that “a coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme” potentially involving more than 1,000 absentee ballots or request forms took place last year in the state’s Ninth Congressional District. ...

 

The New York Times - New Election Ordered in North Carolina Race at Center of Fraud Inquiry

Feb. 21, 2019

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina election authorities on Thursday ordered a new contest for Congress in the state’s Ninth District after the Republican candidate, confronted by days of evidence that his campaign underwrote an illegal get-out-the-vote effort, abandoned his defense and called for a new vote.

 

The unanimous ruling by the North Carolina State Board of Elections was a startling - and, for Republicans, embarrassing - turn in a case of political chicanery that convulsed North Carolina.

 

“It’s become clear to me that the public’s confidence in the Ninth District’s general election has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted,” the Republican candidate, Mark Harris, said from the witness stand on Thursday afternoon.

 

Mr. Harris’s announcement represented an abrupt collapse of the Republican effort to stave off a new vote in the Ninth, which includes part of Charlotte and runs through much of southeastern North Carolina.

 

But the evangelical pastor’s political surrender came only after a damaging 24 hours for Mr. Harris and his allies; just before Mr. Harris called for a new election, he acknowledged that some of his earlier testimony had been “incorrect.” ...

 

Another white Evangelical bites the dust ...

The New York Times - New Election Ordered in North Carolina Race at Center of Fraud Inquiry

 

...  the evangelical pastor’s political surrender came only after a damaging 24 hours for Mr. Harris and his allies; just before Mr. Harris called for a new election, he acknowledged that some of his earlier testimony had been “incorrect.” ...

 

It just keeps on getting worse ...

 

... Harris’s testimony came the day after his son, John Harris, a federal prosecutor, testified that he warned his father in phone calls and emails that he believed a political operative named Leslie McCrae Dowless had broken the law in a previous election and should not be hired for the 2018 campaign. Mark Harris hired Dowless anyway. ...

 

Sideface:

 

... Harris’s testimony came the day after his son, John Harris, a federal prosecutor, testified that he warned his father in phone calls and emails that he believed a political operative named Leslie McCrae Dowless had broken the law in a previous election and should not be hired for the 2018 campaign. Mark Harris hired Dowless anyway. ...

 

Um, don't evangelicals believe in things like not coveting, not stealing, and not lying?

Rikkitic:

 

Sideface:

 

... Harris’s testimony came the day after his son, John Harris, a federal prosecutor, testified that he warned his father in phone calls and emails that he believed a political operative named Leslie McCrae Dowless had broken the law in a previous election and should not be hired for the 2018 campaign. Mark Harris hired Dowless anyway. ...

 

 

Um, don't evangelicals believe in things like not coveting, not stealing, and not lying?

 

 

 

Great sense of humour, R.

But if it's for the Big Man in the sky, anything goes.

Rikkitic:Um, don't evangelicals believe in things like not coveting, not stealing, and not lying?

Yeah, but these are American evangelists...