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Spicer is a weak, punk-ass bitch who should have been fired months ago.

Donors have come back with a "no-confidence" vote against the Democratic party, eh? They aint plumb stupid:

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Democrats still struggling to raise money under Trump

The DNC raised nearly $4.3 million in May, its worst May since 2003 and after a bleak fundraising effort in April.

The Democratic National Committee raised $5.5 million in June, less than half the $13.5 million accumulated by its Republican counterpart, according to Federal Election Commission data released Friday.

The Democrats' poor fundraising numbers are the latest in a string of weak performances by the party.

The RNC has nearly six times as much cash on hand as of late June. The DNC reported $7.5 million in the bank and the RNC reported $44.7 million.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-still-struggling-to-raise-money-under-trump/article/2629329

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There's already a short clip circulating showing Scaramucci in 2015 saying Trump is an "Inherited money bully".

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@layman,

layman wrote:

They aint plumb stupid:

Please look up the definition of 'plumb'. You stupidly invented a double negative....but that aint what's plumb stupid ...it's not even the sort of double negative in regular use by the individuals you are attempting to mock. Perhaps English isn't your first language, eh comrade pissy pants.

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Sean Spicer ✔ @PressSec
It's been an honor & a privilege to serve @POTUS @realDonaldTrump & this amazing country. I will continue my service through August
10:44 AM - 21 Jul 2017

It seems that "honor" has come to mean utter debasement of self, publicly, such that one's reputation is destroyed and one becomes a worldwide laughing-stock.

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@blatham,

The new communications director Scaramucci said he hopes Spicer continues on to do well and make lots of money.
A job as presenter at Saturday Night Live?

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@snood,

Scaramucci is sort of answering questions at the press conference as I type. He has declared his deep love and admiration for Donald at least 4 times, he also has been flinging around superlatives strangely reminiscent of the cabinet meeting where each appointed member groveled and effusively praised Herr Trump and utterly debased themselves.

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@Walter Hinteler,

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Scaramucci said he hopes Spicer continues on to do well and make lots of money

These people have the ethics level of a truck load of pig ****.

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@glitterbag,

glitterbag wrote:

layman wrote:

They aint plumb stupid:

Please look up the definition of 'plumb'.

Why would I wanna do that? What do you think it means, fool?

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@layman,

I hear-tell that the Clinton Foundation aint gittin no more donations neither, for some strange reason, eh? Worse yet, foreign countries and rich private donors who pledged tens of millions have all reneged.

It's bad enough to lose an election, but when it puts your sorry ass plumb outta bidnizz, that's, like, adding insult to injury, eh?

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@oralloy,

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...and it is perfectly reasonable for him to defend himself from this witch hunt.

oralloy, you keep repeating this phrase, almost as often as your line about outlawing the Democratic Party. What exactly makes this a "witch hunt"? Are you just using Mr. Trump's choice of words out of loyalty? Would "fishing expedition" work? (I believe that "witch hunt" is culturally loaded and tends to paint any potential victims as innocent.)

The reason I'm bringing this up is because the president's "Commission on Election Integrity" resembles a classic "fishing expedition" a lot more than Mueller's investigation. The number of people close to Mr. Trump who have repeatedly lied and changed their story about their meetings with Russian agents is out there for all to see. Whether or not laws were broken will be determined by the investigators. On the other hand, claims of widespread voting fraud have been debunked again and again and the only "evidence" seems to be anecdotal.

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@Olivier5,

Olivier5 wrote:

That's not my understanding. Do you have evidence?

All I have is what is reported in the news. I've heard plenty of conclusions on the news that none of the hacking went so far as to change vote tallies. And the Time article that you linked had some pretty specific information about what the hackers actually did.

The reporting sure makes it sound like they have a handle on what the hackers did and didn't do.

It might be nice if we could have a deep and thorough investigation into the hacking, but in order for that to happen we'd have to fire Mueller and instead set up an investigative team devoted to finding out the truth. I doubt that the Democrats will go along with that. All they want is for Mueller to damage Trump regardless of the facts.

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@ehBeth,

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Anthony Scaramucci‏Verified account
@Scaramucci

Last year a true statesman @mittromney said that Russia was a legitimate threat to our interests. Anyone questioning that now?

3:22 PM - 2 Aug 2013

Scaramucci has been busy trying to scrub his twitter account for a few hours now.

http://rs162.pbsrc.com/albums/t272/King_Davids_Photos/Animals/doglaff.gif~c200

Darn. The internet is forever

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@hightor,

hightor wrote:

What exactly makes this a "witch hunt"?

It is abusing the law to try to convict an innocent person of imaginary crimes.

hightor wrote:

Are you just using Mr. Trump's choice of words out of loyalty?

I am, as always, using my own words.

hightor wrote:

Would "fishing expedition" work?

That would only describe part of the problem. The Democrats are certainly digging to see if they can find any crimes, but in addition to that also they mean to cause harm even without a crime being found.

hightor wrote:

(I believe that "witch hunt" is culturally loaded and tends to paint any potential victims as innocent.)

That makes it the appropriate term to use in this case.

hightor wrote:

The reason I'm bringing this up is because the president's "Commission on Election Integrity" resembles a classic "fishing expedition" a lot more than Mueller's investigation.

Not really possible to resemble it *more*. At the most it could equal it at 100%.

hightor wrote:

The number of people close to Mr. Trump who have repeatedly lied and changed their story about their meetings with Russian agents is out there for all to see.

That does not change the reality that it is not a crime to receive information from Russians.

hightor wrote:

Whether or not laws were broken will be determined by the investigators.

Investigators do not have the power to alter reality. The things that Trump and his family have been accused of are not crimes.

hightor wrote:

On the other hand, claims of widespread voting fraud have been debunked again and again and the only "evidence" seems to be anecdotal.

Debunked is a rather strong term. All I've ever seen is a claim that there is no evidence of such fraud, with the people who make that claim fighting tooth and nail to prevent any investigation from ever looking into the matter. The current opposition to the Commission on Election Integrity appears to be yet another fight to prevent any investigation into the question of voter fraud. Obviously if the Democrats prevent the issue from ever being examined, no one is ever going to find any evidence.

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Good for Burr

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Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) on Friday accused his counterpart in the House, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), of creating a false narrative about Obama administration national security adviser Susan Rice.

Speaking to CNN after Rice was interviewed by the panel in closed session, Burr said he asked no questions about whether she improperly requested and revealed the identities of U.S. individuals swept up in intelligence reports—an accusation Nunes has made repeatedly.

“The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes, and I’ll wait to go through our full evaluation to see if there was anything improper that happened,” Burr told CNN.

TPM

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

Good for Burr

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“The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes, and I’ll wait to go through our full evaluation to see if there was anything improper that happened,” Burr told CNN.
TPM

Not surprising that you left out the next sentence, eh?

CNN wrote:

"But clearly there were individuals unmasked. Some of that became public which it's not supposed to, and our business is to understand that, and explain it."

The unmasking was never an issue, in and of itself. The question is how the information unmasked got from Rice to the NYT. A serious felony is necessarily involved in that process.

Edit: Well, maybe I overstated it when I said it was never an issue, standing alone. She is prohibited by law from seeking unmasking for political motives, so that's it's own issue.

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Even though Trump is, in fact, the current president, he only stopped running for a brief few hours on Inauguration Day. As soon as Trump filed for re-election, at 5:11 pm on January 20, his campaign officially sprang back into action. That means Trump can legally continue to funnel funds from donors back into his own businesses. According to the Trump campaign's self-reported FEC filings, this has amounted to about $600,000 spent at Trump-owned properties in just the first six months of his presidency.

Wired

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@layman,

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Spicer is a weak, punk-ass bitch who should have been fired months ago.

Trump is a weak, punk-ass bitch who should have been fired months ago.

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@hightor,

hightor wrote:

. . . your (oralloy's) line about outlawing the Democratic Party.

Outlawing a political party in this country would be declared un-Constitutional. (Well, duh!) Only dictators outlaw political parties. You may draw your own conclusion about the repetitive oralloy's mindset.

I shouldn't have to say this, but I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm not a member of any political party. I haven't been a Democrat since the 1980s.

Our nation's political culture is in a state of decline that is possibly irreversible.

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If I had commited criminal fraud, I would too, ya know?:

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Co-founder of firm behind Trump-Russia dossier to plead the Fifth

Glenn Simpson, whose Fusion GPS firm has been tied to anti-Trump efforts and pro-Russian lobbying, will not talk to lawmakers in response to a subpoena, the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committe said Friday.

"Simpson’s attorney has asserted that his client will invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in response to the subpoena," Grassley and Feinstein said.

Grassley and Feinstein also noted that both Trump Jr., who took a meeting with Veselnitskaya in June of last year, and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, had agreed to be interviewed by committee.

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