Donald John Trump: The 2nd Greatest President of the USA (by volume)

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Trump lawyer's firm steered millions in donations to family members, files show

More than 15,000 Americans were losing their jobs each day in June 2009, as the US struggled to climb out of a painful recession following its worst financial crisis in decades.

But Jay Sekulow, who is now an attorney to Donald Trump, had a private jet to finance. His law firm was expecting a $3m payday. And six-figure contracts for members of his family needed to be taken care of.

Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow that month approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses.

Telemarketers for the nonprofit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (Case), were instructed in contracts signed by Sekulow to urge people who pleaded poverty or said they were out of work to dig deep for a “sacrificial gift”.
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Trump's kinda guy, naturally.
 
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OrbitalDawn said:
You might as well just skip ahead and claim that collusion isn't actually bad, as the Fox News toadies have started doing.
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You might just skip ahead and accept that there is no there there. Millions of dollars already spent investigating a hoax.
 
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Garson007 said:
You might just skip ahead and accept that there is no there there. Millions of dollars already spent investigating a hoax.
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So now that Trump has made some public statements blasting Obama for his inaction over Russian election meddling with the purpose of making him win, what do you think he will do to Russia? I should imagine he will take some strong actions against Russia to clear his good name, and order an investigation into the real impact it had on the election. He certainly won't just proceed to take no measures against Russia, because that would look awfully like he was compromised.
 
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So now that Trump has made some public statements blasting Obama for his inaction over Russian election meddling with the purpose of making him win, what do you think he will do to Russia? I should imagine he will take some strong actions against Russia to clear his good name, and order an investigation into the real impact it had on the election. He certainly won't just proceed to take no measures against Russia, because that would look awfully like he was compromised.
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I think you've hit the deep state's nail on the head. Too bad it's six months after most of us realised that the narrative was to fend off any kind of rapprochement.
 
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Ah the deleterious deep state, the alt right narrative. Something, something, boy who cried wolf.
 
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Three resign from CNN after Russia story retraction

Three CNN staffers resigned after the network retracted a story tying a top President Trump ally to a Russian investment bank.

Thomas Frank, the author of the story, Eric Lichtblau, an editor in the CNN investigative unit that ran the story and Lex Haris, who oversaw the unit, have all left CNN, the network reported Monday.

The story connected Anthony Scaramucci, a top proponent of Trump, to a Russian investment fund run by a bank controlled by the Kremlin.

"In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story's publication," a spokesman said Monday.

An internal CNN investigation reportedly found that normal editorial processes weren’t followed in the story’s editing and publication. Only one anonymous source was used in the story, and typical parts of CNN’s workflow, such as fact checkers, were reportedly not utilized before publication.

Those filled in on the results of the internal investigation were reportedly told that the facts of the story weren’t necessarily wrong, but that the piece wasn’t strong enough to run as is.

CNN, which Trump has frequently derided as "fake news," added strict rules for its Russia coverage following the retraction.

“On June 22, 2017, CNN.com published a story connecting Anthony Scaramucci with investigations into the Russian Direct Investment Fund,” the news organization said in a statement.

“That story did not meet CNN's editorial standards and has been retracted. Links to the story have been disabled. CNN apologizes to Mr. Scaramucci.”

A source close to CNN told BuzzFeed that the story’s publication was a "massive, massive f--- up and people will be disciplined."
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Senate Republicans Put Off Health-Care Vote

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bowed to mounting opposition and abandoned a vote planned for this week on legislation to overhaul Obamacare.

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Senate Republican leaders have abandoned plans to vote on legislation overhauling the Affordable Care Act this week, bowing to opposition within their own party and demands from several senators for more time to consider the bill.

According to multiple reports, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republicans during a lunch meeting Tuesday that he would put off a vote until after a weeklong July 4 recess. The move is an abrupt retreat for McConnell, who had been pushing to pass the bill this week just days after releasing it to the public.

GOP leaders had argued that more time would not help the public perception of the bill, which is broadly similar to legislation the House passed last month that polls show is deeply unpopular. McConnell also wants the party to be able to move on to tax reform, which it cannot do procedurally until it passes a health care bill or gives up on the issue. Critics of the bill, who had feared a rushed push to enact it into law, will now have at least two more weeks to pressure senators in their home states and marshal even broader opposition. Yet it would be premature to consider the bill dead. House Republican leaders were also forced to put off a vote on their bill earlier this year only to work out a compromise that allowed it to pass weeks later.
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Unhappy438 said:
Ah the deleterious deep state, the alt right narrative. Something, something, boy who cried wolf.
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As David Frum points out if you substitute "deep state" with "rule of law" you can translate some of the gibberish.
 
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