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I have come to the conclusion tRump avoids Russia because of the most nefarious of reasons, he is one of Putin's agents!

He has thumbed his nose at the people that could of protected him.

I'm still wondering how an entrepreneur with zero political experience can even nominate for election to the highest office in the land.

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

The qualifications for the office as spelled out in the constitution aren't that restrictive:

President Trump and his admirers are not just putting forth an agenda; they are littering the civic arena with deception and cruelty. They are discrediting even the good causes they claim to care about. They are condemning the country to durable social division. In Trump’s GOP, loyalty requires corruption. So loyalty itself must be reconceived.

What would weaken the grip of Trump on the GOP? Obviously not moral considerations. The president has crossed line after line of decency and ethics with only scattered Republican bleats of protest. Most of the party remains in complicit silence. The few elected officials who have broken with Trump have become targets of the conservative media complex — savaged as an example to the others.

and I assure you that I will never start a thread because a clown like you tells me to.

There is already a long-running thread on politics in your sad, little country

I am not a Canadian

Party leaders in the United States are chosen by the voters at large, not a pack of self-interested party members. Your ignorance is monumental.

Senior executives at Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox corporation are alleged to have agreed for millions of dollars in bribes to be paid to South American soccer officials to secure major broadcast deals, according to US prosecution documents unmasked by sworn testimony.

The documents form part of the sprawling US investigation into corruption in world football, and for the first time reveal the executives’ alleged role in the scheme.

How much further evidence is required for people to understand that Rupert Murdoch runs a criminal organization?

Other nations call it vulture capitalism, but the US likes to put their own spin on narcissism.

Vulture capitalists are investors that acquire distressed firms in the hopes of making them more profitable so as to ultimately sell them for a profit.

That's not the way the term "vulture capitalism" is normally used.

In 27 years, Republicans have passed one popular conservative law and spent most of that time voting against things that clear majorities of Americans wanted. If they weren’t serving Americans, whom were they serving? And how have they gotten away with it?

The answers to both questions, alas, are depressingly familiar. They are serving their megarich donors and the most extreme elements of their base. And they get away with it because of the way they’ve gerrymandered House districts, because of an ideological right-wing media that obfuscates facts and because the one thing they’ve done astonishingly well is to make a big chunk of the country hate liberals.

DOJ: Release of FBI agents’ controversial texts wasn't authorized

The Justice Department said on Thursday that the release of text messages between two former investigators in the federal probe into Russian election meddling, in which President Trump was referred to as an "idiot," was not authorized.

"As we understand now, some members of the media had already received copies of the texts before that — but those disclosures were not authorized by the department," DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement to Politico. 

Flores said the messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok were given to certain members of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday before Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein publicly testified before the committee on Wednesday.

The Justice Department's inspector general came across the texts during an assessment into the FBI's handling of the Clinton investigation, however, Flores' statement did not say whether the office approved the release of the texts to the media.

The text messages appear to show Strzok and Page openly criticizing Trump during the election, and appearing to support former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Strzok referred to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as "an idiot like Trump," while Page called Trump "a loathsome human."

God, Hillary should win 100,000,000 — 0," Strzok said in one message to Page.

Strzok was removed from his assignment after special counsel Robert Mueller learned of the text.

Republicans have since pounced on the text messages, saying they show a bias on Mueller's team toward Trump.