Courtesy of TPM:Trump just literally blew a kiss to James Comey at a WH reception for law enforcement pic.twitter.com/HwVq9DNdZd
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) January 22, 2017
President Donald Trump will retain FBI Director James Comey to lead the law enforcement agency under his new administration, according to reports published Tuesday.
Comey told top agents that Trump asked him to stay in his post, according to a New York Times report citing people familiar with the matter.
The Washington Post also reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Comey told people he was asked to retain his job.
Representatives for the White House and FBI declined to comment to the publications.
Gee, who could possibly have seen this coming?
I guess if you break protocol to alter an election outcome in one candidate's favor, once that candidate takes the office you helped them win they will reward you with stable employment,
Who knew?
Oh by the way let me go ahead and predict the outcome of the FBI's investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
They're not going to find any.
Isn't he on for like another decade? That's his job, not Trump.
ReplyDeleteComey still has about six more years in his term so it was unlikely he would be fired. The blatant air kiss is far more disturbing to me.
ReplyDeleteThe kiss may be normal for trump? I think he might be alternative flirting with his new Beau.
DeleteTrump is one sicko.At least appears so?
Maybe not. Maybe KellyAnne knows?
Maybe he will enlighten us in Tweeters?
Comey bent to receive Trump's kiss.
DeletePolitics are too deep for me. I prefer the shallows of English literature.
IF Comey had any integrity, he would resign. He is a disgrace to the entire group he supposedly leads. He fits in well with tRump, though, neither has any CLASS.
DeleteTruth as to term, and one of the things President Obama did that floored me in hiring him. His record is easily researched.
ReplyDeleteMe too. This is exactly what Democrats get when we play fair or are "too nice". Because the right never ever has!
DeleteOne thing about this election is that it will unite us. Too bad this is what it took. We all have to suffer through it.
Just wait till they piss off the uneducated by hitting them in their wallets!
Trump's misc environmental moves today were horrific. Every day he is doing damage. Screw the heart attack. I hope someone takes him out. He is destroying this country at a record pace. Every move he makes is a fuck-you to everyone who has a brain and cares about this country.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you, 5:25!
DeleteNot sure if he just wants to stick it to President Obama, or if he wants to stick to all of US who did not adolate him and vote for him.
That would be more than fine by me.
DeleteThere has to be at least one within the myriad alphabet agencies that believe in 2nd amendment solutions...
DeletePLEASE OH PLEASE YES!
DeleteHere are 17 departments, that the orange a$$hat is cutting 'to save money':
ReplyDeletePresident Trump Wants to Kill These 17 Federal Agencies and Programs. Here's What They Actually Cost (and Do)
http://time.com/money/4639544/trump-nea-sesame-street-budget-cut/
I think you're wrong about this Gryph. I think Comey has Trump by the balls and the clock is ticking. Here's something everyone should read MI6 info and Fisa requests, that may explain what's about to happen here.
ReplyDeletehttps://patribotics.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/dear-mr-putin-lets-play-chess-louise-mensch-trump-russia/
Wow. I want to believe this. It's either true or someone is writing a jolly good screenplay!
DeleteLouise Mensch is an investigative reporter for The Guardian with top level contacts at GCHQ
DeleteLouise Mensch to launch rightwing site for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/16/louise-mensch-rupert-murdoch-news-corp-heat-street
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Louise+Mensch+
1"Hillary Clinton correctly noted that Putin rigged his own election in 2011. This, apparently, is when he started to hate her." only I reported, correctly, that the FBI’s Counter-Intelligence division in Connecticut had obtained a FISA warrant for ‘any US persons’ relating to the two banks involved in the Trump Tower server; Alfa Bank and SVB Bank"
Delete2" He knew the moles had effective kompromat – the emails your hacker Nikulin planted or woke – and that were he not to revise his testimony in the light of new evidence, his far more important natsec investigation into the traitor, Donald Trump, would be discredited. He then worked around the clock to clear Mrs. Clinton."Trump can commit crime after crime in plain sight, socializing with the FBI’s most wanted mobsters, and never get charged with a damn thing."The FBI Field Office in New York wasn’t just infiltrated by your agents to scupper Hillary Clinton, Mr. Putin. It was there to guard the money of your billionaires and to cover the tracks of your handlers in the Russian embassy and consulates."
3 You, Mr. Putin, have relied on big data and on propaganda you used Twitter’s database to create a bot army."RT and Sputnik are not merely spy centers, but money-laundering tools; and that you have used ‘Big data’ of Cambridge Analytica (personality types plus propaganda from SCR) to poison the minds of Americans and indeed voters across the West. You have your hackers sitting on 4 Chan"
https://antidotezine.com/2017/01/22/trump-knows-you/
More of this has to get out. Looks like it is still a chess game Putin's move to leak the Trump stuff or Comey's.
DeleteEnlighten me if I am wrong.
@1:33 "Looks like it is still a chess game Putin's move to leak the Trump stuff or Comey's."
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"Enlighten"?
Forget your weather channel. Forget being warned about blizzards or hurricanes or tornadoes. Forget about being warned about flooding/mudslides/road closures because of rock slides.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/heres-what-we-actually-lose-when-scientists-cant-talk-to-the-public/
Gee, I guess I better not be tweeting how disappointed I am about meddling in the election to Comey or the FBI anymore. Cheetolini will mandate that anyone who criticizes anyone he appoints can be charged with a crime!
ReplyDeleteNow that may sound silly but I actually would not be surprised at all. Free speech will be restricted and/or intimidated.
Nope, after criminalizing criticism of Fuhrer Drumpf, next on the list will be Putin.
DeleteComey will get what he deserves.
ReplyDeleteAnd I predict it will be sooner rather than later.
Let’s not give up all hope, the CIA also has info. They can’t all be traitors like Comey.
ReplyDeleteSee trump is doing good things, he has even got people reading again :)
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'1984' sales soar after 'alternative facts,' Trump claims
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) George Orwell's "1984" has hit No. 1 on Amazon.com following incorrect or unprovable statements made by Republican President Donald Trump and White House aides.
Orwell's classic dystopian tale of a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of "newspeak" was first published in 1949. It topped the Amazon best-seller list Tuesday.
The sales bump comes after the Trump administration's assertions his inauguration had record attendance and his unfounded allegation millions of illegal votes were cast against him last fall.
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway coined an instant catchphrase Sunday when she called Trump's claims about crowd size "alternative facts," bringing comparisons on social media to "1984."
Orwell's book isn't the only cautionary tale on the Amazon list. At No. 46 was Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel about the election of an authoritarian president, "It Can't Happen Here."
I've been quoting from that book ever since Drumpf started pulling his gaslighting sh*t during the campaign. Now they are doubling down (at least!) on it.
DeleteThis is pathetic and pathological:
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The newly minted president also continued his war of words against CNN on Tuesday night by taunting the network for being bested by Fox News in terms of inaugural viewership.
"Congratulations to [Fox News] for being number one in inauguration ratings," Trump said in a partially-congratulatory tweet. "They were many times higher than FAKE NEWS [CNN] - public is smart!"
Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump
Congratulations to @FoxNews for being number one in inauguration ratings. They were many times higher than FAKE NEWS @CNN - public is smart!
9:16 PM - 24 Jan 2017
"Surprise, Surprise" , said Gomer Pyle.
ReplyDeleteI say it now with ultimate sarcasm.
I actually think, that the CIA and other intelligence officials are scared sh*tless of the orange a$$hat. They are worried that he will tell the Ruskys about all their secrets and their agents.
ReplyDeleteSo... they will try to not cooperate with him at all, and will try their darndest to eliminate him.
trump is already a problem because foreign countries do not want to share their info because they believe he will send it to the russians.
DeleteThat will be a big problem for us.
OK, now let’s see what Congress intends to do about this, if there is anything they can do:
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‘It’s day 4 and it’s already happening’: Maddow sounds the alarm on Trump’s science gag order
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday sounded the alarm about Donald Trump’s imminent crackdown of federal agencies—including the Environmental Protection Agency—warning, “it is day four, and it is already happening.”
Maddow was referring to reports that the new administration issued a gag order to workers at the EPA, even as hearings are currently underway for Trump’s pick to head the agency, climate change denier Scott Pruitt. She said the EPA has essentially been “brought to a halt,” pointing out that the only reason we even know about the gag order is because an employee managed to surreptitiously “tip somebody off inside a Congressional office on Capitol Hill.
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“The work of the agency is frozen, all existing contracts and grants are suspended immediately, and no EPA employees are allowed to make any public statements, including any online postings, social media—anything,” Maddow said, aghast. “They can’t even make public appearances that were previously scheduled.”
Maddow said while the Trump administration mulls over ways to “formally” close the EPA, it has successfully “bound and gagged the EPA.” The MSNBC host noted this is “not a solitary case,” adding “multiple federal agencies” have received similar orders.
Maddow then referred to reports shortly after Trump’s election indicating federal agencies—particularly those involved with scientific research—were actively backing up public-facing information in preparation for Trump’s presidency.
“Now we know, not paranoid,” Maddow said. “Now we know, day four of the new administration, those people were not wrong to be freaked out. And they probably, in the interest of science, were not wrong to be downloading and trying to save data privately.”
“Because the data is disappearing,” she continued. “The scientists are already being told they are not allowed to speak or publish. It is already happening, it is day four, and it is already happening.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/its-day-4-and-its-already-happening-maddow-sounds-the-alarm-on-trumps-science-gag-order/
Trump Can't Shut Federal Agencies. But He Can Turn Them Off.
ReplyDeleteMany Republicans hope, and many Democrats fear, that Donald Trump’s administration will close or shrink a variety of federal agencies and offices. Both the hope and the fear are justified -- even without a supermajority in the Senate, there’s a lot Republicans can do to restrict the actions of the executive branch.
Let’s start with what Trump can’t do: Acting on his own, could he disband an agency or department -- say, the Department of Energy? Absolutely not. He would need Congress for that, and almost certainly 60 votes (and it’s not going to get close to that). But his administration could work to cut staff, if only by refusing to fill vacancies, and it could certainly work with Congress to reduce appropriations.
Far more important, Trump could do a lot to reduce agency activity.......
..... But without going to Congress, does a president really have the authority to impose a moratorium?
Insofar as we are speaking of executive agencies -- defined as those headed by people the president can fire whenever he likes -- the answer is mostly yes. The Department of Treasury falls in this category (as do most federal agencies). Under a controversial court of appeals ruling (which may be overturned), so does the CFPB.
Through a presidential memorandum or an informal communication (perhaps via incoming Chief of Staff Reince Priebus or the new administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs), the administration could grind the rule-making activity of such agencies to a near-halt. It could do the same for the many executive agencies not involved in financial regulation, such as the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Agriculture.
But for any such slowdown, the new administration will face two serious obstacles. The first consists of legislative mandates. Some laws, including those in the financial and environmental areas, require agencies to issue rules by specified dates. No president can lawfully ignore legal deadlines, and a court is likely to insist that he comply with them.
The second obstacle is that most financial regulators, including the SEC and the Federal Reserve, count as “independent” agencies, which means that their heads do not serve at the president’s pleasure. (The Federal Communications Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Federal Trade Commission are also independent.) By tradition, presidents have been reluctant to meddle in policy making by such agencies -- though the Supreme Court has yet to say whether they have the legal authority to do so.......
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-22/trump-can-t-shut-federal-agencies-but-he-can-turn-them-off
Newt Gingrich, Trusted Trump Advisor Demands Federal Workers Who Voted For Clinton Be Fired
ReplyDelete"Those bureaucrats overwhelmingly voted for Clinton. There won’t be any real cooperation until we change federal law so we can fire them.”
...His solution, “perhaps the most nakedly political argument for mass firings of federal employees,” is summarily terminating every single federal worker who voted for Hillary Clinton. He said, “all those bureaucrats overwhelmingly voted for Clinton. There won’t be any real cooperation until we change federal law so we can fire them.” (author bold) It is vindictive and it is also a shamelessly racist attack on the Black community. Gingrich, like the malcontent conservatives at the Heritage Foundation, is well aware that African Americans make up about 20 percent of the “overall federal workforce.” It is not enough satisfaction for Republicans to kill off federal jobs for sheer sport, they have to make sure a very large percentage of those jobs are held by African Americans; it is so typically Republican racist.
But just firing federal workers who voted for Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only Trump vengeance Gingrich called for. He also demanded summarily abolishing the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for not rubber-stamping fiscally detrimental Trump-Republican policies. He took a page out of deceitful Donnie’s book and lied saying,
“The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is simply incompatible with the Trump era. It is a left-wing, corrupt, bureaucratic defender of big government and liberalism.”
Gingrich is fuming that the non-partisan CBO revealed that repealing the Affordable Care Act would “increase the number of uninsured Americans by 18-million in the first year,” and increase insurance premiums for the “non-group” market by 20 to 25 percent, also in the first year. Like Trump, Gingrich subscribes to the philosophy that anyone in any agency that doesn’t praise a Trump-Republican policy or agenda as “god-sent” is Satanic and has to be deleted from existence.
Gingrich claims that the Republicans and Democrats serving in the CBO are not only dirty liars, he says they are indefensible, wrong and they are “clearly corrupt.” It is worth reiterating again that the only reason Gingrich and the Trump believe the CBO is corrupt is because it didn’t give its glowing approval of a fiscally disastrous and inhumane action called for by Trump Republicans.
...Any American who still believes Trump or Republicans have any regard for the people or the government that exists to serve and protect them is an idiot. Maybe in the Trump era today Republicans will only target Clinton voters, women and minorities, but like any tyrannical regime, the autocracy will eventually get around to terrorizing the entire population like Iraq under Saddam Hussein, North Korea under Kim Jong-un, Germany under Hitler and rapidly developing America under the Trump.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/24/trusted-trump-advisor-demands-federal-workers-voted-clinton-fired.html
Gingrich is much like tRump, a bloated asshole. He uses big words, so the uneducated think he is "smart" He is not. He is STILL trying to repay the Clintons because he failed to get Bill impeached, and was exposed as the womanizer he was and likely still is.
DeleteDoes Gingrich realize that no one knows how another person voted. We vote by "secret ballot," Newt. Who we vote for is no one else's business. I can just imagine the chaos if the only federal employees were those who voted for Trump! The IQ would tumble by a "yuuuge" amount per federal employee. What keeps things running more or less smoothly is the fact that federal employees know what they're doing and do their jobs.
DeleteBeaglemom
Remember> "who did you vote for?"
DeleteAlison Lundergan Grimes
P.s.>FUCK TRAITOR m mcCONnell & his Koke dealer Taiwan wife... 1st CALL?
@ 4:21 I was going to write something similar and exactly how does he plan to find out who voted for Clinton.
DeleteThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is simply incompatible with the Trump era.
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This is true, trump doesn't want the public to find out the truth. the amount of money they are wasting just getting rid of Obamacare is disgusting.
Trump Complains Negative Press Means He Can't 'Enjoy' White House
ReplyDeletePresident Donald Trump thinks that unfavorable media coverage of his first weekend in office has not allowed him to "enjoy" the White House, according to a Tuesday report by the Associated Press.
Trump believed that the media would cover him more favorably after he was inaugurated, according to an Associated Press report citing two anonymous sources close to the President, but instead believes it has worsened.
The President said that the negative press has not allowed him to "enjoy" the White House on his first weekend in office, according to an anonymous source who spoke with him also cited in the report.
http://forums.talkingpointsmemo.com/t/discussion-report-trump-thinks-negative-press-has-not-allowed-him-to-enjoy-white-house/50188/54
http://forums.talkingpointsmemo.com/t/discussion-report-trump-thinks-negative-press-has-not-allowed-him-to-enjoy-white-house/50188/54
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-negative-press-means-he-cant-enjoy-white-house
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/24/donald_trump_s_best_ideas_appear_to_come_from_watching_tv.html
DeleteTV Junkie needs a fix.
What happened to little orange Donnie, did he have to cancel his Russian hookers? He will turn the WH into the second version of the Las Vegas Bunny Ranch, only with the superior Russian hookers. Vlad said theirs are "the best"
DeleteISIS Hacker Says Trump’s Twitter Use Makes Him Top Target For Account Breaches
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/24/isis-hacker-trumps-twitter-top-target-account-breaches.html
The bad press over the weekend has not allowed Trump to “enjoy” the White House as he feels he deserves, according to one person who has spoken with him.
ReplyDeleteThe President seems to think that the White House is some sort of vacation getaway. The President Of The United States doesn’t get to “enjoy” the White House. He was sent there to do a job, and I am sure that the millions of Americans who protested on Saturday aren’t sorry at all that they disrupted Trump’s enjoyment of his weekend.
Trump was blaming the media for the “bad press,” but the protests were at the heart of why he was so outraged. The protests drew bigger crowds and got more coverage than he did one day after taking office. While Trump was blaming the media coverage, the reality is that the protests got so much coverage because they were massive and well organized.
Donald Trump isn’t grasping the fact that he is working for those millions of people who protested on Saturday. They are his boss. The White House isn’t a vacation spot. Trump is not entitled to enjoy his weekend.
The President wants the protesters to stop protesting, and the media to stop covering any protests that happen.
All Trump has accomplished with his most recent outburst was to guarantee that there will be more loud protests and the nation’s television cameras will be covering them.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/24/trump-american-people-stop-protesting-enjoy-white-house.html
Well, there are already forces in play in several states that want to make protesting illegal...
DeleteMrs. tRump enjoyed HER weekend, she left him there and returned to New York.
DeleteAnon at 8:52 pm. Just in time to make us a little more like a cookie-cutter Russia.
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Gryph a used copy of this book sells on Amazon for $1,101.89 and no it is not a Sarah Palin book
ReplyDeletePublication date
August 11, 1989
Best Sellers Rank
1,389,579
Read the Amazon review that was written on January 17, 2011 (remember the book was written in 1989):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/0586210059/R3FDORFU4QVVRL/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_rvw_2?ie=UTF8&cursor=2
The book cover:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0586210059/168-7978960-3813120?vs=1
This book was published
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Bye, Bye FBI investigation (and thanks for helping Trump out). Read how Trump defeated Obama and Clinton, "KEK: The Rise of Donald Trump" (released 1-7-2017)
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Maybe there is a reason Comey was kept in his position. Maybe he informed the previous administration about where the investigations into tRump was leading?
DeleteAMERICAN HERO
ReplyDeleteWashington Post:
Secret Service agent may face disciplinary action over her anti-Trump Facebook posts
A senior official with the U.S. Secret Service may face disciplinary action after posting comments to Facebook suggesting that she would not "take a bullet" for President Trump....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/24/secret-service-agent-may-face-disciplinary-action-over-anti-trump-facebook-posts/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_secretservicepost-1037pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Good for her. I said if I were in their place, I would refuse to take a bullet for Dumbya, either. tRump, well he has so many layers of FAT a bullet would not do any damage.
DeleteTrump’s disregard for the truth threatens his ability to governIn the first five days of his presidency, Trump has put the enormous power of the nation’s highest office behind spurious — and easily disproved — claims....
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-disregard-for-the-truth-threatens-his-ability-to-govern/2017/01/24/945c81aa-e272-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html
The entire republican party is disgraceful along with their liars. Our Ancestors would have physically removed and thrown the treason bums out the door.
ReplyDeleteThrow the nasty pussy grabber out the door.
ReplyDeleteLoud mouth giant head morning tea is donnies friend. Yep. mental illness and lies lies lies for spies.
ReplyDeleteSo who did lady Kelly con way punch on Friday nite? Such a classy bunch. Time to get the trash out of the wh, its piling up.
ReplyDeleteThe media and evil liberals have blood on their hands in how they've abused the Palins.
ReplyDeleteLoL!
DeleteAnd thus endeth any investigation of the Russian connection to 2016's election. And thus continuity the nonsensical investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails from her tenure as secretary of state, which will continuity until January 20, 2021, at least. And thus beginneth the investigation into the reason why 5 million illegal immigrants voted in the November, 2016, election.
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"A provocation between China and Russia was not listed as one of those issues, though the organization noted "a deliberate or unintended military confrontation between Russia and NATO members, stemming from assertive Russian behavior in Eastern Europe," could be a "top tier conflict" in 2017."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/china-sends-nuclear-missiles-to-russian-border/
The CIA won't find any either. Not with their new Trump Asskisser in charge.
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