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Maine lawmaker threatens to make Trump 'half term president'

A Maine state lawmaker made his opinion of President Trump crystal clear in a social media post Tuesday, calling him a "joke," a "rapist" and a "pussy" before wrapping up his screed with what could be interpreted as a death threat.

In a Facebook exchange, State Rep. Scott Hamann posted a rambling diatribe using profanity and explicit language to refer to Trump and his supporters.

"Trump is a half term president, at most, especially if I ever get within 10 feet of that pussy," Hamann wrote on Facebook.

He also called 63 million Trump voters “dumb fucks.”

A screenshot of the post, in which Hamann writes that Trump was “installed by the Russians” and seethes against the president, his supporters and Republicans more generally, was widely circulated on social media beginning Tuesday evening.

In the Facebook post Hamann also draws a negative comparison between Trump and President Barack Obama — including a reference to the “Trump crime family” — blames Republicans for stymying the former president and taunts supporters of the current one.

“You’re a ******* pussy. And you people are destroying America,” Hamann wrote. “100% of intelligent Americans agree that Trump is a complete loser.”

The screenshots of Hamann’s statements were first circulated on Facebook by conservative radio host Keith Hanson, who said he received them from a New Hampshire state representative.

On Tuesday night, Hanson, who hosts shows on FOX News affiliate radio stations WNTK in New Hampshire and WUVR in Vermont reached out to Hamann and Good Shepherd Food Bank over Facebook regarding the posts.

Hamann responded by saying he would pursue legal action against the radio host if the statements hurt his career, according to screenshots of their conversation provided by Hanson.

“And if anything negative comes from your attack on my employment, my attorney will be in touch,” Hamann wrote. “Cease and desist.”

I sincerely hope Hamann sues Hanson. I will happily contribute to any fund intended to cover his legal expense.

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

maporsche wrote:

Not bullshit. The republicans are actually, in fact, holding closed door meetings with just 13 white republican men.

What special significance do you believe there is in them being "white men?"

It's all a matter of perspective, I think. It probably looks more suspect to those of us that aren't white men. I'm sure that if 13 Black Democratic Congressmen (and I know this is a tall hypothetical) were holding closed door meetings about how to manage one-sixth of our country's GDP, you would observe the whole thing and not wonder once about the make up of the group. Wouldn't you?

Oh poor you trumpautist snowflakes... You're buthurt because some dude was not politically correct, huh?

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

I sincerely hope Hamann sues Hanson. I will happily contribute to any fund intended to cover his legal expense.

Yeah. By "his" I assume you are referring to Hanson, not Hamann.

Democrats intentionally used disinformation from Russia to attack Trump, campaign aides

While the mainstream news media hunts for evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, the public record shows that Democrats have willfully used Moscow disinformation to influence the presidential election against Donald Trump and attack his administration.

The disinformation came in the form of a Russian-fed dossier written by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. It contains a series of unverified criminal charges against Mr. Trump’s campaign aides, such as coordinating Moscow’s hacking of Democratic Party computers.

Democrats have widely circulated the discredited information. Mr. Steele was paid by the Democrat-funded opposition research firm Fusion GPS with money from a Hillary Clinton backer. Fusion GPS distributed the dossier among Democrats and journalists. The information fell into the hands of the FBI, which used it in part to investigate Mr. Trump’s campaign aides.

Mr. Steele makes clear that his unproven charges came almost exclusively from sources linked to the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He identified his sources as “a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure,” a former “top level Russian intelligence officer active inside the Kremlin,” a “senior Kremlin official” and a “senior Russian government official.”

As first reported by The Washington Times on April 25, Mr. Steele filed a document in a sealed court case in London acknowledging that a major dossier charge about hacking Democrats’ computers was unverified. The entire dossier never should have been made public and Fusion GPS should not have passed it around, Mr. Steele said in a filing defending himself against a libel charge.

No Democrats have embraced the Russian-sourced dossier more than members of the House intelligence committee, which is investigating Moscow’s interference in the election.

Mr. Schiff read from the dossier extensively at a March hearing featuring Mr. Comey and Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, who leads the National Security Agency.

As Mr. Schiff and other Democrats were bemoaning Kremlin activities against Mrs. Clinton, they were more than willing to quote Kremlin sources attacking Mr. Trump during the election campaign.

“According to Steele’s Russian sources, the campaign has offered documents damaging to Hillary Clinton, which the Russians would publish through an outlet that gives them deniability like WikiLeaks,” Schiff said.

Mr. Schiff also said: “According to Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, who is reportedly held in high regard by U.S. intelligence, Russian sources tell him that Page has also had a secret meeting with Igor Sechin, CEO of the Russian gas giant, Rosneft. Sechin is reported to be a former KGB agent and close friend of Putin’s.”

Meanwhile, Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas, another Democrat on the House committee, lauded Mr. Steele’s Kremlin sourcing.

On MSNBC in March, Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, said she believed the dossier section on Mr. Trump and supposed sex acts with prostitutes in Moscow were true.One person who says he knows it is a fabrication is Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev.

The dossier quotes Russian sources as saying Mr. Gubarev’s technology company, XBT, used botnets to flood Democratic computers with porn and spying devices.

Mr. Gubarev is suing Mr. Steele for libel in London and is suing BuzzFeed in Florida.

It is in the London case that Mr. Steele acknowledged that his memo on Mr. Gubarev was unverified.

My butt feels just fine thanks

I can't abide an obnoxious, loud mouthed asshole;

I tend to point out assholes when I see them. It's gotten me into a few fights in my life and explains why my nose tilts markedly to the left (ironic, I know), but I can't abide an obnoxious, loud mouthed asshole; especially when they start spouting tough guy talk about kicking someone's ass, and the reality is they would **** themselves if ever put in the position of having to make good on their claims.

I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. It's true. ... I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you.

The Supreme Court would NEVER hold that this statue prohibits the communication of information.

Even if it did find that this was the only possible interpretation, it would then just be forced to declare the statute unconstitutional, for violating the First Amendment and for due process reasons.

He's a disgrace to his office and the State of Maine.

Vice President Pence shared advice Wednesday with a group of students in Chicago on how to be a leader like President Trump, saying a leader must be humble and exercise self-control.

During a speech at the National Student Leadership Conference, Pence said in order for a leader to be like the president, they must listen, be humble, have a character people respect, work to serve others and learn from other leaders.

"I truly believe that to reflect humility is to approach leadership every day as a learner and as a listener," Pence told the students, according to a White House transcript of his speech.

"It was a great G20. We had 20 countries."

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He's a disgrace to his office and the State of Maine.

Those words are usually seen referring to our governor, who offically represents the entire State of Maine. Hamann only represents his district in South Portland. You may have missed our State Senator Michael Willette's contributions to the ever-lowering standards of political speech.

Actually it's kind of quaint that people will support Mr. Trump and still claim to be outraged about violations of political decorum. It might be worth pointing out that, "In the case of Watts v. United States (1969), the United States Supreme Court ruled that mere political hyperbole must be distinguished from true threats."