Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
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Trump moves to punt three political problems until after the midterms
THE BIG IDEA: Responding to the pleas of Republican congressional leaders, President Trump appeared willing on Wednesday to temporarily back off three of his top priorities in a bid to save GOP majorities in the midterms.
The president moved to de-escalate his unpopular trade war, signaled that he’s no longer committed to shut down the federal government in October if the border wall isn’t fully funded and reluctantly relented on his rapprochement with Russia. After inviting Vladimir Putin to visit Washington in the fall with fanfare last week, the White House announced yesterday that he won’t come until 2019.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/07
/26/daily-202-trump-moves-to-punt-three-political-problems-until-after-the-midterms/5b5935271b326b1e6469555c/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6b834a45903f
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Hey T - I found the publisher to be incredibly naive in his questions for Trump. Trump doesn't care a wit for his journalists. In fact, it seems to me the 'Times publisher only reinforced that Trump's plan was working as hoped for.
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A Brief History of 'Lügenpresse,' the Nazi-era Predecessor to Trump's 'Fake News'
Used in World War I to attack enemy propaganda, the phrase 'lying press' resurfaced under the Nazis and during the 2014 anti-immigrant movement in Germany is now staple of Trump's rhetoric.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/the-ominous-nazi-era-precedent-to-trum
p-s-fake-news-attacks-1.5438960
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dodged questions from lawmakers Wednesday asking for specifics on how North Korea. Secy. Pompeo was also pressed on President Trump's statements and if they were policies.
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This is unbelievable. Can you say huge fucking hypocrite?
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While a radio host in the 1990s, Mike Pence wrote two columns about Bill Clinton's admission of an affair, arguing the president should be held to the highest moral standards, according to new reporting.
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Senate passes resolution defending press as 'indispensible' to democracy
The Republican-controlled United States Senate late Thursday unanimously passed a resolution declaring that the press is not the enemy of the American people, as President Donald Trump constantly declares.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/senate-passes-re
solution-defending-press-as-indispensible-to-democracy/article_e21883ef-7a38-5e5e-8914-9b65aa3242f1.html
"The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being"
Thomas Jefferson
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Trump just had his Katrina Brownie moment. He tweeted all the Puerto Rican deaths are the fault of the democrats. Wow, hey you guys who still support Trump, when will you tire of him making you look like a bunch of morons?
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Originally posted by THG:
Trump just had his Katrina Brownie moment. He tweeted all the Puerto Rican deaths are the fault of the democrats. Wow, hey you guys who still support Trump, when will you tire of him making you look like a bunch of morons?
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I had to look this up since you didn't cite it. Here were the tweets in question...
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3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000...
.....This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!
He didn't say that 3,000 Puerto Rican's died because of Democrats. The very first line in the tweet said "3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico."
The average death rate in Puerto Rico is 8.6 per 1,000 as of 2017 (0.0086%): https://www.indexmundi.com/puerto_rico/death_rate.html
The population of Puerto Rico is 3,658,163: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/puerto-rico-population/
This would mean that in any given year, roughly 31,460 people will die in Puerto Rico. It's been only 11 months, so let's call it 28,838 people.
What Trump said is that when he left the island there were no more than a dozen and a half deaths.
He didn't blame any hurricane related deaths on Democrats. He said that the MSM has taken a smaller pool of the number of people who die on average every year (particularly old people) and mis-attributed it to the hurricane.
Don't die on this hill, T. This is the type of bad reporting that leaves you with no argument, and just makes people who read past the headlines even more skeptical of the blatantly left leaning MSM.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Trump just had his Katrina Brownie moment. He tweeted all the Puerto Rican deaths are the fault of the democrats. Wow, hey you guys who still support Trump, when will you tire of him making you look like a bunch of morons?
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I had to look this up since you didn't cite it. Here were the tweets in question...
Quote:
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000...
.....This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!
He didn't say that 3,000 Puerto Rican's died because of Democrats. The very first line in the tweet said "3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico."
The average death rate in Puerto Rico is 8.6 per 1,000 as of 2017 (0.0086%): https://www.indexmundi.com/puerto_rico/death_rate.html
The population of Puerto Rico is 3,658,163: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/puerto-rico-population/
This would mean that in any given year, roughly 31,460 people will die in Puerto Rico. It's been only 11 months, so let's call it 28,838 people.
What Trump said is that when he left the island there were no more than a dozen and a half deaths.
He didn't blame any hurricane related deaths on Democrats. He said that the MSM has taken a smaller pool of the number of people who die on average every year (particularly old people) and mis-attributed it to the hurricane.
Don't die on this hill, T. This is the type of bad reporting that leaves you with no argument, and just makes people who read past the headlines even more skeptical of the blatantly left leaning MSM.
Do Right, Be Right. :)

This, folks, is why we need to properly fund our schools. We've got people like 6 slipping through the cracks.
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/13/647377915/trump-denies-death-toll-in-pu
erto-rico-falsely-claims-done-by-the-democrats
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