Play Nice 45th President of the United States - Donald Trump (continued in Part 2)

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I have been having the same thoughts for a while.

Lets be honest if they took Twitter off of him then half , well 90% of his problems would minimize. He would be seen as a President struggling to get people nominated who has made some EOs , but I don't think there would be half this outrage and derision for him
Do his tweets cause outrage? Plenty of derision. Lots of laughter and/or bewilderment as well.

Trump lives in a cocoon, he doesn't think he has any problems.
 

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I think the challenge here for Trump is that he's pushing either Watergate 2.0 or a false narrative.

It's outside the powers of the President to 'order' a tap. FISA warrants have to be approved by a judge. For a FISA warrant to be approved in October against a Presidential nominee the standard of evidence would have to be extraordinarily high. What's more, Trump can actually release the warrant anyway - the President has declassification authority. For Trump to shoot his mouth off like that is extraordinary.
Yeah, directly calling out Obama is a big call. I'm leaning more toward him shooting off @ the mouth too, whether it was sloppiness or a deliberate attempt to change the narrative - but we'll see.
 

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There has been zero anything but vague innuendo regarding Russia

But you War mongering zombies couldn't care less. The Democrats could be caught on tape murdering children and this threat would by concess decide it was doctored. If they confessed - it would decide the confessor was paid off to lie.
Your ability to carry water for Trump never ceases to amaze me.
 

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There has been zero anything but vague innuendo regarding Russia

But you War mongering zombies couldn't care less. The Democrats could be caught on tape murdering children and this threat would by concess decide it was doctored. If they confessed - it would decide the confessor was paid off to lie.
He should have just released those tax returns, after that never ending audit.
 

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I think yebiga is the only one left drinking the kool-aid
He seems to have started to move away, there are posts critical of trump (but does focus on the failings of the non trump side) more the view that all of them are useless liars/ warmongers. There are others more mindless than yebiga IMO
 

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He should have just released those tax returns, after that never ending audit.
There's no law that says one can't release their tax returns while being audited by the IRS. Trump saying he cannot release his returns while he is being audited is a lie.
 

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This all hinges on whether the FISA applications by the Obama team is true. All the rest is obfuscation
This whole thing is obfuscation from the fact the Trump government are a Russian resource.

Dont be surprised if Pauline has been compromised either and a small army of Russian hackers pull a 'fake news' at the next Aussie election.

KGB are killing democracy all over the place. Europe weakened. USA weakened. Australia about to get shirtfronted...

We celebrated winning the cold war more than a little prematurely.
 

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This all hinges on whether the FISA applications by the Obama team is true. All the rest is obfuscation
We know Obama's team didn't direct it. It's been flatly denied by many people in different areas (including Comey who holds no love for Obama), and there has been absolutely zero evidence produced to suggest he did.

That's not to say that there wasn't a tap under a FISA warrant as part of an ongoing investigation by someone. It's been widely reported that the FBI were investigating Trump/Russian connections last year. I'll bet you as much as you're prepared to bet though that it wasn't done by Obama or his direct team.
 

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This whole thing is obfuscation from the fact the Trump government are a Russian resource.

Dont be surprised if Pauline has been compromised either and a small army of Russian hackers pull a 'fake news' at the next Aussie election.

KGB are killing democracy all over the place. Europe weakened. USA weakened. Australia about to get shirtfronted...

We celebrated winning the cold war more than a little prematurely.
And I get called a space cadet
 

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We know Obama's team didn't direct it. It's been flatly denied by many people in different areas (including Comey who holds no love for Obama), and there has been absolutely zero evidence produced to suggest he did.

That's not to say that there wasn't a tap under a FISA warrant as part of an ongoing investigation by someone. It's been widely reported that the FBI were investigating Trump/Russian connections last year. I'll bet you as much as you're prepared to bet though that it wasn't done by Obama or his direct team.
You're jumping the gun, at least re: Comey. He hasn't made any public statements or taken any public actions yet. & from what I can tell the law is a bit fuzzy re: the President ordering a wire tap-- he may be able to do it via his A.G. I'd still bet against it, but it's gonna be a pretty exciting week.
 

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This all hinges on whether the FISA applications by the Obama team is true. All the rest is obfuscation
Think this makes it pretty clear that Obama is in the clear.

The director of national intelligence at the time of the US election has denied there was any wire-tapping of Donald Trump or his campaign.

James Clapper also told NBC that he knew of no court order to allow monitoring of Trump Tower in New York.
 

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Think this makes it pretty clear that Obama is in the clear.

The director of national intelligence at the time of the US election has denied there was any wire-tapping of Donald Trump or his campaign.

James Clapper also told NBC that he knew of no court order to allow monitoring of Trump Tower in New York.
Just how trustworthy is James Clapper?

On March 12, 2013, during a United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Senator Ron Wyden quoted NSA director Keith B. Alexander´s keynote speech at the 2012 DEF CON. Alexander had stated that "Our job is foreign intelligence" and that "Those who would want to weave the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people, is absolutely false…From my perspective, this is absolute nonsense." Wyden then asked Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" He responded "No, sir." Wyden asked "It does not?" and Clapper said "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."

When Edward Snowden was asked during his January 26, 2014 TV interview in Moscow what the decisive moment was or why he blew the whistle, he replied: "Sort of the breaking point was seeing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress. … Seeing that really meant for me there was no going back."
 

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You're jumping the gun, at least re: Comey. He hasn't made any public statements or taken any public actions yet. & from what I can tell the law is a bit fuzzy re: the President ordering a wire tap-- he may be able to do it via his A.G. I'd still bet against it, but it's gonna be a pretty exciting week.
You're right, not publicily yet, but reporting seems to indicate his position pretty clearly.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/...ne-share&_r=0&referer=https://t.co/NWyFkB8nKW
 

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Just how trustworthy is James Clapper?
"Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" He responded "No, sir." Wyden asked "It does not?" and Clapper said "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."
Maybe he thinks that the bold gives him an out but we all know that it happens, what did you really expect him to say?

I have no doubt that it is happening in Australia right now.

Is it right? Not sure that our opinion matters sadly.

However, keep in mind that Trump has worked to raise doubts about the legitimacy of the courts, the CIA, the FBI, Congress, the electoral system, all regulatory agencies, and, not least, the media that might inform the public about his concerted and continual efforts to undermine all authority--with the exception of his own.

What would we think if we saw the leader of another western nation (UK, Canada, NZ, etc) deploying this strategy?
 
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