I was a bit out of country when McCain died. Did the White House just NOT fly the flag at half mast because Trump had a hard-on for the senator??
Was a reason posted??
@wmwcjr,
You're listening to extreme right wing propaganda. What happened was that there was institutional failure, first the police were reluctant to appear racist and didn't put things together the way they would normally, second the victims were well chosen, with chaotic family lives. Professionals, (not progressives!) initially didn't believe the girls most of whom didn't even consider themselves to be victims at first. It was a cock up.
What's important is that those perpetrators are now in jail, and lessons have been learned. That's something the Nazi press doesn't mention. They also miss out the real scandal, that high profile paedophiles like Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith were able to act with impunity and were never punished for their crimes, the extent of which only emerged after they were dead.
@coldjoint,
I agree completely with Dominik Tarczyński. The Poles would be foolish to give in to Saudi Arabia. That country still has a problem with allowing women to drive cars!
@coldjoint,
flag was at half staff over Congress and the SUpreme Court. The White House had theirs at Full staff all day on Mon, then went to hallf staff on Tues (I assume it was because of pressure on the pres)
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
I was a bit out of country when McCain died. Did the White House just NOT fly the flag at half mast because Trump had a hard-on for the senator??
Was a reason posted??
Yes, Donald Trump is the most vainglorious old man ever. He thinks McCain died just to take the spotlight off Trump for a nanosecond.
@farmerman,
Quote:flag was at half staff over Congress and the SUpreme Court.
Even the "rule of law" SC defends a vicious US war criminal. Do they fly the flag at half staff every year on Hitler's birthday?
@wmwcjr,
wmwcjr wrote: The Poles would be foolish to give in to Saudi Arabia. That country still has a problem with allowing women to drive cars!
but no problem with the US
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/29/trump-mbs-saudi-arabia-yemen-middle-east-foreign-policy-219617
The Orthodox Christian Bosnian Serbs operated rape camps, where adolescent girls were kept after being gang-raped, so that they would be forced to carry a fetus to term. So much for CJs bullshit. As for Wmwcjr (?), he assumes someone with whom he disagrees is "progressive." How convenient to his confirmation bias. I do have to wonder, though--if he hates the place, what is he doing here?
Bill Clinton railed against Most Favored Nation status for China when he ran for president, and then immediately assumed the position when he was elected.
Every president has lookedthe other way on Saudi Arabia, too.
Obama signed an anti-lawsuit bill for Monsanto on a holiday.
THEY ARE ALL CROOKS GETTING PAYOFFS. PLEASE DONT FOOL YOURSELF AND TRY TO THINK ANY DIFFERENT.
White House lawyer who may have incriminated Trump in extensive Mueller interviews is leaving the administration
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The White House counsel, Don McGahn, is leaving the Trump administration this fall, President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
McGahn is said to have cooperated extensively with the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible criminal wrongdoing by Trump.
McGahn has reportedly clashed with Trump and may have incriminated him during 30 hours of interviews with Mueller's team.
After the news of McGahn's conversations with Mueller went public, Trump tweeted that McGahn was not a "RAT" like the White House counsel John Dean in the Watergate scandal.
The White House counsel, Don McGahn, is leaving the Trump administration in the fall, President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
His planned departure comes after he cooperated extensively with the special counsel's investigation into possible criminal wrongdoing from Trump.
Trump said McGahn would "hopefully" leave the administration after the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
"I have worked with Don for a long time and truly appreciate his service!" Trump said.
Trump was said to have clashed with McGahn after Trump openly pondered a pardon for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman whom a jury last week found guilty of financial crimes unrelated to the campaign.
Vanity Fair reported on Monday that McGahn refused to participate in the pardoning process and that Trump considered bringing on a new lawyer.
McGahn was already reported to have extensively cooperated with the special counsel Robert Mueller in a way that could have incriminated Trump in the investigation into whether he obstructed justice in connection to the Russia investigation.
The New York Times reported earlier in August that McGahn had given 30 hours of interviews to Mueller over the past nine months. The report said that during those talks, McGahn and his lawyer focused on absolving McGahn of wrongdoing while candidly discussing inner-circle conversations with Trump related to the investigation.
These discussions reportedly touched on Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey and his focus on putting loyal officials in charge of the investigation, such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Trump called The Times' story "Fake" because he said it implied that McGahn had become a "RAT" like John Dean, the White House counsel who cooperated with prosecutors in the Watergate scandal that helped end Richard Nixon's presidency.
Trump insisted that he actually allowed McGahn and others to cooperate with Mueller because he had "nothing to hide" and wanted to get to the end of the investigation.
More quietly, away from the scandals that dominate news coverage, McGahn helped Trump select a record number of conservative federal judges in what may prove to be one of Trump's more consequential moves as president.
Emmet Flood, a former Clinton administration official who joined the White House in May to help with the Russia investigation, is a likely replacement for McGahn, the news website Axios reported.
@Lash,
Quote:THEY ARE ALL CROOKS GETTING PAYOFFS. PLEASE DONT FOOL YOURSELF AND TRY TO THINK ANY DIFFERENT.
Not to mention that they are all war criminals, purveyors of genocide, terrorists, and other assorted sundry evils.
@neptuneblue,
Quote:... Trump tweeted that McGahn was not a "RAT" like the White House counsel John Dean in the Watergate scandal.
Highly illustrative of just how amoral Trump is. His is an idea that most Americans seem to share, to fully embrace - don't tell on any American prez, military, government officials, police [to a slightly lesser degree] no matter how heinous is their crime.
It appears that Trump has an intention to block Google in imitation of China:
After blocking, Trump News and Real News would be equivalents.
