“THIS IS A COUP!” – Mark Levin responds to Mueller grand jury leaks and FBI leaks

[calfoxwc]

[calfoxwc]

[calfoxwc]

[MLD Woody]

 

Except one thing you conveniently overlook. That article I just posted is what they were doing the "Buy American, Hire American" week which was just a couple of weeks ago or so. They were doing the minimum at Mar-a-Lago so they could hire foreign. Some day you'll understand he's a lying fraud.

 

Oh, and the "Make America Great" hats? Most made in China, Bangladesh or Vietnam. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-hats-idUSKBN1542YL

 

"From this moment on, it's going to be America First," he said. "We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American."-Donald Trump's inaugural speech

 

Did you mean to reply to me there?

[MLD Woody]

Those were a lot of Obama memes guys. I'm not sure how you can compete with that.

 

All definitely legitimate counterpoints. Definitely not just falling apart and a flailing attempt to defend Trump

[TexasAg1969]

There's some good ole boys down here you might fit real well with cal. You'll need a flag though.

 

[calfoxwc]

Funny you should mention that, TexAg. lol

 

We went to the Deerassic Classic event in Ohio last Sat.

Thousands and thousands of rednecks. Hunters, country music

fans, the giant field area for pop up tents was like looking at Lake Erie,

and the rows of hundres and hundreds of chairs in front the stage was

amazing.

 

They gave away gun safes, campers, trucks, guns, hunting trips, etc etc etc.

 

They even had a 50/50 drawing. There were so many people there, they sold

254,000 thousands bucks in 50/50 tickets. The winner got 123,000.

We were in most all the major drawing and didn't win anything....

 

til about 7 PM, I got a text that said I won !

 

I won a life-size plastic foam 3-D coyote target for arrows.

 

Better luck next year. We had fun people watching. I went and picked up

my coyote, and we were texting friends about it. LOL. We explained that

where we were, was very much exactly like a redneck woodstock.

That got some big laughs from people around us.

We aren't very redneck, just a good bit country, in a suburb kind of way.

[Tour2ma]

What was the Grand Jury leak Levin no doubt ranted about?

[Westside Steve]

I wouldn't be at all surprised with financial dealings with Russian institutions and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. The United States of America does business each and every day with Nations that might have something other than our best interest at heart. But now Russia is the Boogeyman.

And of course that situation will probably never come up with most politicians from either party since so very few of them have had any success in business to begin with.

WSS

[TexasAg1969]

LOL Cal!!

 

Are you sure this wasn't first prize? :lol: :lol:

 

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[OldBrownsFan]

After the Coup, What Then?

Pat Buchanan

 

 

That the Trump presidency is bedeviled is undeniable.

 

As President Donald Trump flew off for August at his Jersey club, there came word that Special Counsel Robert Mueller III had impaneled a grand jury and subpoenas were going out to Trump family and campaign associates.

 

The jurors will be drawn from a pool of citizens in a city Hillary Clinton swept with 91 percent of the vote. Trump got 4 percent.

 

Whatever indictments Mueller wants, Mueller gets.

 

Thanks to a media that savages him ceaselessly, Trump is down to 33 percent approval in a Quinnipiac University poll and below 40 percent in most of the rest.

 

Before Trump departed D.C., The Washington Post ran transcripts of his phone conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia.

 

Even Obama administration veterans were stunned.

 

So, it is time to ask: If this city brings Trump down, will the rest of America rejoice?

 

What will be the reaction out there in fly-over country, that land where the "deplorables" dwell who produce the soldiers to fight our wars? Will they toast the "free press" that brought down the president they elected, and in whom they had placed so much hope?

 

My guess: The reaction will be one of bitterness, cynicism, despair, a sense that the fix is in, that no matter what we do, they will not let us win. If Trump is brought down, American democracy will take a pasting. It will be seen as a fraud. And the backlash will poison our politics to where only an attack from abroad, like 9/11, will reunite us.

Our media preen and posture as the defenders of democracy, devoted to truth, who provide us round-the-clock protection from tyranny. But half the nation already sees the media as a propaganda arm of a liberal establishment that the people have rejected time and again.

 

Consider the Post's publication of the transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexico's president and Australia's prime minister.

When reporter Greg Miller got these transcripts, his editors, knowing they would damage Trump, plastered them on Page 1.

The Post was letting itself be used by a leaker engaged in disloyal and possibly criminal misconduct. Yet the Post agreed to provide confidentiality and to hide the Trump-hater's identity.

 

This is what we do, says the Post. People have a right to know if President Trump says one thing at rallies about Mexico paying for the wall and another to the president of Mexico. This is a story.

 

But there is a far larger story here, of which this Post piece is but an exhibit. It is the story of a concerted campaign, in which the anti-Trump media publish leaks, even criminal leaks, out of the FBI, CIA, NSA and NSC, to bring down a president whom the Beltway media and their deep-state collaborators both despise and wish to destroy.

 

Did Trump collude with Putin to defeat Clinton, the Beltway media demand to know, even as they daily collude with deep-state criminals to bring down the president of the United States.

And if there is an unfolding silent coup by the regime Americans repudiated in 2016 -- to use security leaks and the lethal weapon of a special counsel to overturn the election results -- is that not a story worth covering as much as what Trump said to Pena Nieto?

 

Do the people not have a right to know who are the snakes collaborating with the Never-Trump press to bring down their head of state? Is not discovering the identities of deep-state felons a story that investigative reporters should be all over?

 

If Greg Miller is obligated to protect his source, fine. But why are other journalists not exposing his identity?

 

The answer suggests itself. This is a collaborative enterprise, where everyone protects everyone else's sources, because all have the same goal: the dumping of Trump. If that requires collusion with criminals, so be it.

 

The Justice Department is now running down the leaks, and the ACLU's Ben Wizner is apoplectic: "Every American should be concerned about the Trump administration's threat to step up its efforts against whistleblowers and journalists. A crackdown on leaks is a crackdown on the free press and on democracy."

That's one way to put it. Another is that some of these "whistleblowers" are political criminals who reject the verdict of the American electorate in 2016 and are out to overturn it. And the aforementioned "journalists" are their enablers and collaborators.

 

And if, as Wizner asserts, protecting secrets is tantamount to a "crackdown on the free press and democracy," no wonder the free press and democracy are falling into disrepute all over the world.

 

By colluding, the mainstream media, deep state, and the special prosecutor's button men, with a license to roam, may bring down yet another president. So doing, they will validate John Adams's insight:

 

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

[TexasAg1969]

I prefer this conservative writer who actually uses his brain and not just knee jerk "poor Donald" stuff. Oh, I know you have to actually read "big words" to understand the importance of what he says vs the easy targeting verbal style of a Pat Bucannan, but it's worth looking them up if you don't get it.

 

When a Diminishing President Is a Good Thing

George Will · Jul. 30, 2017

Looking, as prudent people are disinclined to do, on the bright side, there are a few vagrant reasons for cheerfulness, beginning with this: Summer love is sprouting like dandelions. To the list of history’s sublime romances — Abelard and Heloise, Romeo and Juliet, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy — add the torrid affair between Anthony Scaramucci and Donald Trump. The former’s sizzling swoon for the latter is the most remarkable public display of hormonal heat since — here a melancholy thought intrudes — Jeff Sessions tumbled into love with Trump. Long ago. Last year.

Sessions serves at the pleasure of the president, who does not seem pleased. Still, sympathy for Sessions is in order: What is he to do? If dignity concerned him, he would resign; but if it did, he would not occupy a Trump-bestowed office from which to resign. Such are the conundrums of current politics. Concerning which, there is excessive gloom.

“To see what is in front of one’s nose,” George Orwell wrote, “needs a constant struggle.” An unnoticed reason for cheerfulness is that in one, if only one, particular, Trump is something the nation did not know it needed — a feeble president whose manner can cure the nation’s excessive fixation with the presidency.

Executive power expanded, with only occasional pauses (thank you, Presidents Taft and Coolidge, of blessed memory), throughout the 20th century and has surged in the 21st. After 2001, “The Decider” decided to start a preventive war and to countenance torture prohibited by treaty and statute. His successor had “a pen and a phone,” an indifference to the Constitution’s Take Care Clause (the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed”) and disdain for the separation of powers, for which he was repeatedly rebuked by the Supreme Court.

Fortunately, today’s president is so innocent of information that Congress cannot continue deferring to executive policymaking. And because this president has neither a history of party identification nor an understanding of reciprocal loyalty, congressional Republicans are reacquiring a constitutional — a Madisonian — ethic. It mandates a prickly defense of institutional interests, placing those interests above devotion to parties that allow themselves to be defined episodically by their presidents.

Furthermore, today’s president is doing invaluable damage to Americans’ infantilizing assumption that the presidency magically envelops its occupant with a nimbus of seriousness. After the president went to West Virginia to harangue some (probably mystified) Boy Scouts about his magnificence and persecutions, he confessed to Ohioans that Lincoln, but only Lincoln, was more “presidential” than he. So much for the austere and reticent first president, who, when the office was soft wax, tried to fashion a style of dignity compatible with republican simplicity.

Fastidious people who worry that the president’s West Virginia and Ohio performances — the alpha male as crybaby — diminished the presidency are missing the point, which is: For now, worse is better. Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it. There will be 42 more months of this president’s increasingly hilarious-beyond-satire apotheosis of himself, leavened by his incessant whining about his tribulations (“What dunce saddled me with this silly attorney general who takes my policy expostulations seriously?”). This protracted learning experience, which the public chose to have and which should not be truncated, might whet the public’s appetite for an adult president confident enough to wince at, and disdain, the adoration of his most comically groveling hirelings.

Speaking of Scaramucci, and in his defense: His love interest, the president, was elected for his persona rather than his principles. Hence there is a vacuum at the center of the person who is at the center of the country’s absurdly president-centric conception of government. Therefore, loyalty (BEG ITAL)inevitably manifests itself as sycophancy. Nevertheless, the smitten Scaramucci is himself evidence of something encouraging: Upward social aspiration is still as American as Jay Gatsby.

When plighting his troth to Trump, Scaramucci repeatedly confessed his “love” for his employer, thereby exceeding Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s comparatively pallid testimonial to the president’s “superhuman” health. Scaramucci grew up in Port Washington, the Long Island community that is East Egg in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Gatsby lived in West Egg, yearning to live across the water, where shone the beckoning green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Scaramucci’s ascent to a glory surpassing even that available in East Egg shows that the light on the lectern in the White House press room is, at last, something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

© 2017, Washington Post Writers Group

 

 

My favorite from the article:

 

"Fortunately, today’s president is so innocent of information (HaHa ) that Congress cannot continue deferring to executive policymaking. And because this president has neither a history of party identification nor an understanding of reciprocal loyalty, congressional Republicans are reacquiring a constitutional — a Madisonian — ethic. It mandates a prickly defense of institutional interests, placing those interests above devotion to parties that allow themselves to be defined episodically by their presidents.

Furthermore, today’s president is doing invaluable damage to Americans’ infantilizing assumption that the presidency magically envelops its occupant with a nimbus of seriousness."

PS-Of course you need to notice that the Presidents "loyalty" to the Mooch did not last long past the publication of this article.

[OldBrownsFan]

Big words have nothing to do with something being right or wrong. You like what Trump hater George Will writes because it lines up with your views on Trump. You could say the same about me using Buchannan but the truth is what it is no matter who says it. The truth is this president was duly elected by the people and the remedy for those who hate this president is to fight hard to defeat him in 2020 and not conduct a coup to take him down.

[Westside Steve]

And it's hilarious to see those on the left with a new set of Champions on the right, those so-called conservatives who don't think Trump is conservative enough. People that you would hate under any other situation.

WSS

[DieHardBrownsFan]

[TexasAg1969]

Big words have nothing to do with something being right or wrong. You like what Trump hater George Will writes because it lines up with your views on Trump. You could say the same about me using Buchannan but the truth is what it is no matter who says it. The truth is this president was duly elected by the people and the remedy for those who hate this president is to fight hard to defeat him in 2020 and not conduct a coup to take him down.

 

George Will has been a rational voice for conservative politics far, far longer than Trump has been president or even Republican. And I've read him for decades, not just a fad. And if you notice in the article he does not call for removal, but quite the contrary, "This protracted learning experience, which the public chose to have and which should not be truncated, might whet the public’s appetite for an adult president confident enough to wince at, and disdain, the adoration of his most comically groveling hirelings."

 

EDIT: And I've made it no secret that my view diverges from Will's in that I think this president is 25th amendment material, far more dangerous in his current position than most of his ardent voters ever realized. Yesterday's foolishness just verified that long held opinion. His generals are pulling out their hair right now I guarantee. And his Republican Senators are now thinking more seriously along 25th amendment lines.

[OldBrownsFan]

 

George Will has been a rational voice for conservative politics far, far longer than Trump has been president or even Republican. And I've read him for decades, not just a fad. And if you notice in the article he does not call for removal, but quite the contrary, "This protracted learning experience, which the public chose to have and which should not be truncated, might whet the public’s appetite for an adult president confident enough to wince at, and disdain, the adoration of his most comically groveling hirelings."

 

Trump has some character flaws. One of which he wears his emotions on his sleeve which was never more obvious than when he publicly went after his own appointed attorney general Jeff Sessions. It made absolutely no sense to me that he did that but that is just Trump. He doesn't hide anything, if he has something to say he says it. Now in Sessions case I think he was wrong but in general I would rather deal with someone like Trump where you know where you stand than 99 percent of the sneaky politicians in DC who instead of dealing head on and honest will backstab like we see now with the criminal leakers.

 

I had a superviser once who was like the latter. She would look you in the face and you would think things were alright but she was just biding her time and waiting for the time to ambush you. She started hypocritically nitpickicking me on my job performance. I finally had enough and went to her office and had it out with her. She seemed to respond well and for a number of months the nitpicking stopped and I thought all was over. She was just biding her time to nail me on my yearly job performance review. These reviews are done yearly and for 17 years I got A + reviews but now she was bringing up things against me from 3,4 5 years prior up to 10 years. During these years I had gotten stellar yearly reviews but now she had issues with those years where I had already been evaluated. I quit on the spot and left as I wasn't going to deal with a snake like that any longer.

 

If I have a choice to deal with a Trump personality where I will know where I stand as compared to the sneaky ones give me Trump any day. I'm not saying there are times Trump would be better off not to say anything but at least you know where you stand with him.

[calfoxwc]

TexAg, wish you were here during the eight psycho obamao people years. You would have

had a field day.

 

A lot of people hate Trump because he is undoing what WE want undone. That is why we voted for him.

 

Undermining our Constitution, our Supreme Court, our God-given rights, obamao from Columbia.....

so were the professors Cloward and Piven.

 

Liberal marxists use economics as a weapon. That is exactly who obamao is. That is exactly who Trump is not.

He's hated because he doesn't give our country away, and give out free stuff like obamaophones, and free

and open borders, where ms-13 crossed, the drug cartels cross...

 

obamao did serious damage to our country. Now, I don't care who hates Trump's putting our house back in order.

 

I love that we got out of the stupidass climate deal, etc etc etc. I love that they are FINALLY going after the gangs

obamao invited in, and kicking them OUT.

 

The flooding of our American voter demographics with illegals had to stop.

 

I just think criticizing Trump, where some looooved obaMao for eight years on the board is a

great big barge of rhino crap.

[TexasAg1969]

 

Trump has some character flaws. One of which he wears his emotions on his sleeve which was never more obvious than when he publicly went after his own appointed attorney general Jeff Sessions. It made absolutely no sense to me that he did that but that is just Trump. He doesn't hide anything, if he has something to say he says it. Now in Sessions case I think he was wrong but in general I would rather deal with someone like Trump where you know where you stand than 99 percent of the sneaky politicians in DC who instead of dealing head on and honest will backstab like we see now with the criminal leakers.

 

If I have a choice to deal with a Trump personality where I will know where I stand as compared to the sneaky ones give me Trump any day. I'm not saying there are times Trump would be better off not to say anything but at least you know where you stand with him.

 

Ask James Comey where he thought he stood after the glad-handing he got in the WH followed by the ice pick in the back. Ask the Mooch who only said what Trump wanted him to say and then had to extricate the ice pick. Or Jeff Sessions who just smartly ignored the ice pick and said, "Over my dead body." And one thing I will predict right now is that we have not seen the end of ice picks in the back. Make for a good GEICO commercial, "It's what he does!"

 

And to quote Will again from the article, "And because this president has neither a history of party identification nor an understanding of reciprocal loyalty..."

PS-just a little tidbit out of diagnostic manual concerning narcissistic personality disorder, "they are often envious and even angry of others who have more, receive more respect or attention, or otherwise steal away the spotlight.

[calfoxwc]

[calfoxwc]

[calfoxwc]

[calfoxwc]

[OldBrownsFan]

 

Ask James Comey where he thought he stood after the glad-handing he got in the WH followed by the ice pick in the back. Ask the Mooch who only said what Trump wanted him to say and then had to extricate the ice pick. Or Jeff Sessions who just smartly ignored the ice pick and said, "Over my dead body." And one thing I will predict right now is that we have not seen the end of ice picks in the back. Make for a good GEICO commercial, "It's what he does!"

 

And to quote Will again from the article, "And because this president has neither a history of party identification nor an understanding of reciprocal loyalty..."

PS-just a little tidbit out of diagnostic manual concerning narcissistic personality disorder, "they are often envious and even angry of others who have more, receive more respect or attention, or otherwise steal away the spotlight.

 

Do we know the back story on all this? Maybe Trump found out some things about Comey afterwards? What kind of FBI Director illegally leaks information to the media? As for Mooch wasn't he his own worst enemy with his profanity laced rants? I personally think when it comes to loyalty Trump is better than most politicians on this issue.

 

I have no doubt Trump is a narcissist but so was Obama every bit but for some reason Obama's narcissism didn't worry you Tex like Trump's. The things that concern you about Trump we saw Obama do time after time by trying to get around the constitution and legislate by executive order. 13 times under Obama the supreme court (unanimously) ruled that his administration had gone against the constitution.

 

The bottom line is no matter who is president they all are constrained by the limits of the constitution so nobody will ever become a dictator president as long as the constitution is in place and followed.

[TexasAg1969]

 

The bottom line is no matter who is president they all are constrained by the limits of the constitution so nobody will ever become a dictator president as long as the constitution is in place and followed.

 

Which is exactly why I have no problem with the Republican Senate pushing back to educate this ignorant man on how that works. But now they have to take back the war powers that were given up to the presidency or we're............................wait for it.........................in deep kimchi. I just could not pass that one up.

 

PS-cal-very funny! You must be clairvoyant because I was looking for a picture of that classic look right next to Donald's down the nose look. All peas in the same brotherhood.

[OldBrownsFan]

It usually took the Supreme Court to slap down Obama trying to get around the limits of the constitution. I don't believe the democrats ever cared enough to try and stop him.

[OldBrownsFan]

What Trump said off the cuff to North Korea has everyone hand wringing. They seem OK with all the threats of annihilation to the United States from North Korea but let Trump respond as to the consequences to North Korea and he has gone too far. No he hasn't. Appeasement to North Korea has gotten us where we are at. It is about time we quit listening only to everything North Korea is going to do to us and not tell them the consequences if they try it.

[OldBrownsFan]

Trump's warning to Kim justified, say experts, as Dems blast 'reckless' talk

 

Top Democrats called President's Trump's harsh warning Tuesday to North Korea "reckless," but intelligence and military experts said the commander-in-chief's promise of "fire and fury" was justified given Kim Jong Un's continued threats and disdain for diplomacy.

 

Confirmed reports that Pyongyang could put nuclear weapons on the tips of missiles - and thus possibly make good on repeated threats to attack U.S. cities - prompted Trump's unusually dire threat. But the message had to be delivered, said former CIA station Chief Daniel Hoffman.

 

“Deterrence is really important,” Hoffman said on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.” “It’s important for the United States to lay out very clearly how it would act in response to a North Korean attack.”

 

Kim's belligerence and continued testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles prompted the United Nations this past weekend to vote unanimously to impose sanctions on the rogue nation. But Kim responded to the global condemnation with more threats to the U.S.

 

"It’s important for the United States to lay out very clearly how it would act in response to a North Korean attack.”

- Former CIA station Chief Daniel Hoffman

Even after Trump said Tuesday that North Korea faces “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” Kim responded by threatening to create an “enveloping of fire” around the U.S. island of Guam, which has a large American military base.

Key Democrats were quick to find fault with Trump's warning.

 

“We need to be firm and deliberate with North Korea, but reckless rhetoric is not a strategy to keep America safe,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said after Trump’s message late-Tuesday afternoon.

 

California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a member of the Senate Intelligence committee, also criticized Trump’s words but acknowledged that isolating North Korea, through sanctions and other measures, has failed to stop the country’s nuclear pursuits.

“Isolating the North Koreans has not halted their pursuit of nuclear weapons,” Feinstein said in a statement. “And President Trump is not helping the situation with his bombastic comments.”

 

Sebastian Gorka, Trump's deputy adviser on national security affairs, said politicians should not publicly second guess the president on such a grave matter.

 

"Anybody, whether a member of Congress or a journalist, who thinks [their] politics trumps the national security of America, that's an indictment of you," Gorka said Wednesday on "Fox & Friends." "You need to ask yourself: what's more important? My political party or America. There's only one correct answer to that."

 

Conservative Review's Chris Pandolfo said the criticism of Trump was misdirected.

 

"It’s a funny thing when the American news media and other blue checkmarks on Twitter are more concerned with President Trump’s words than they are with North Korea obtaining nuclear ICBMs," he wrote. "But here we are."

 

Former CIA operative Mike Baker told “Fox & Friends” said diplomacy and sanctions are not enough, and a much stronger message must be sent.

 

“We’ve allowed this to get to here for years. …Now we have no options," Baker said. "Past (imposing) sanctions, we have to think about what are our military options short of war.”

 

Heritage Foundation fellow Bruce Klingner said Wednesday that the president’s statement was good but "the verbiage is concerning."

 

"The reaction of many was critical of the words, though not necessarily of the intent," he told Fox News. "Of course there’s always the political game of supporting or criticizing statements based on the political party that they came from."

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/09/trumps-warning-to-kim-justified-say-experts-as-dems-blast-reckless-talk.html

[TexasAg1969]

What Trump said off the cuff to North Korea has everyone hand wringing. They seem OK with all the threats of annihilation to the United States from North Korea but let Trump respond as to the consequences to North Korea and he has gone too far. No he hasn't. Appeasement to North Korea has gotten us where we are at. It is about time we quit listening only to everything North Korea is going to do to us and not tell them the consequences if they try it.

 

I'm more into the Teddy Roosevelt mode of thinking, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

 

Kind of like Mueller has just done with Manafort.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-conducted-predawn-raid-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-manaforts-home/2017/08/09/5879fa9c-7c45-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html?utm_term=.9d02dbfb5cd3

[DieHardBrownsFan]

You'll notice the raid was in July. It's just another dead end you can bet on it. If anything was found it would already have been 'leaked' to the press.