We used to have standards -- specifically to filter out the bogus stuff. — GRWelsh
Mind you, this ‘skill’ without the likes of Bannon and Murdoch, would probably not have taken him far. — Tom Storm
Trump's an idiot, wouldn't be surprised to find forum members who like his style though. — Vaskane
Well, Trump went to the Ivy League. — RogueAI
The New York attorney general sued the company, accusing it of scamming students. Two class action lawsuits alleged the school defrauded students through misleading marketing and aggressive sales tactics.
Trump initially denied the allegations, but he agreed to pay a $25 million settlement to those who attended Trump University in 2007, 2008, 2009, or 2010. Of the thousands of students who attended Trump University between 2005 and 2010, 6,000 are covered for damages under the settlement agreement. — Source
The Republicans of the Blue state of Colorado had a Centennial Celebration Dinner and did a poll on presidential candidates. Trump won in a landslide. — jgill
The notion that Trump called for the termination of the constitution or that he was going to indict political opponents is nonsense. — NOS4A2
A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.
If I happen to be president, and I see somebody who is doing well and beating me very badly, I'll say, 'go down and indict them.'
This is true. — NOS4A2
He was explaining why it was wrong to weaponize the justice department, because doing so sets the precedent. — NOS4A2
But you thought he was saying it allows him to terminate the constitution, which is an absolute lie. — NOS4A2
False. He was explaining why it was wrong. — NOS4A2
He's literally saying that.
He wasn't just explaining why it was wrong. He was explaining that he would commit that very same wrong that he is falsely accusing others of.
He’s literally not. — NOS4A2
All I have to do is look at the preceding context (which you suspiciously leave out) and see that you’re wrong.
“They have done something that allows the next party — I mean, if somebody, if I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say ‘Go down and indict them.’ They’d be out of business, they’d be out of the election.” — NOS4A2
Exactly. He’s saying that because he is being indicted then if he wins the election then he will indict his opponents if he sees that they are doing well and beating him.
And you think he’s going to do this in the 2028 election, even though he can’t and won’t run in 2028? Utter nonsense. — NOS4A2
Eric Swalwell asked Durham about how Trump “tried and concealed from the public a real-estate deal he was seeking in Moscow.” This was a deal, described in the Mueller report, in which the Russian government promised Trump several hundreds of millions of dollars in profit at no risk to himself to license a tower in Moscow. The proposed payoff, and Trump’s public lies at the time about it, gave Russia enormous leverage over his campaign. Durham replied, “I don’t know anything about that.”
When Adam Schiff asked Durham if the Russians released stolen information through cutouts, he replied, “I’m not sure.” Schiff responded, “The answer is yes,” to which Durham reported, “In your mind, it’s yes.”
When Schiff asked Durham if he knew that, hours after Trump publicly asked Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails and release them, Russian hackers made an attempt to hack Clinton emails, Durham replied, “If that happened, I’m not aware of that.”
When asked if Trump referred to those stolen emails more than 100 times on the campaign trail, Durham answered, “I don’t really read the newspapers and listen to the news.”
And when Schiff asked Durham if he was aware that Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, passed on polling data to Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian intelligence agent, at the time Russia was conducting both a social-media campaign and the release of stolen documents to help Trump, Durham replied, “You may be getting beyond the depth of my knowledge.”
David Corn reacted incredulously to the last profession of ignorance. “The Manafort-Kilimnik connection — which the Senate Intelligence Committee report characterized as a ‘grave counterintelligence threat’ — is one of the most serious and still not fully explained components of the Trump-Russia scandal,” he writes. “It is inconceivable that Durham is unaware of this troubling link.” — Jonathan Chait
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