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Equally classy. Although at least he waited for a couple of years.

Then Sen. Barack Obama pledged in January 2006 he would not run for president in 2008. By October of that year he was walking back his promise and ultimately won the White House.

Poll By Leftist Outlets Show Major Shift In Border Wall Support

At the same time last year, the poll claimed that only 34 percent of voters supported a wall, but now, support President Trump’s wall has soared to 42 percent overall.

Most notably, swing voters are switching the support, as a means to control illegal invasion.

“Last year, less than 30 percent of swing voters said they supported the wall. Today, their support has soared to 40 percent, an 11 percent increase in support year-to-year.”

“Likewise, now 67 to 87 percent of Republican voters and conservatives support building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.”

And, even more interesting, democrats haven’t increased their opposition by even one percent. So basically, the same old haters want open migration, while people with the ability to think logically are changing their minds—which many argue is something democrats fear more than anything.

“Among midwest voters, college educated voters, men, and white Americans, the border wall has jumped in popularity since last year.

“For midwest voters, the poll claimed only 35 percent supported the wall last year. Today, midwest support for the wall is up to nearly 50 percent, a 14 percent increase.

So people who've never had a public service job are exempt from any ethical considerations?

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In the past 40 years, every other president has either sold his businesses or put them into a blind trust, in which an independent trustee is named to manage the businesses and the president is barred access. That includes Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Carter even sold his family’s peanut farm to avoid raising ethical questions.

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A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a pair of lawsuits claiming that President Donald Trump’s failure to divest himself of his real estate empire and other business holdings violated the Constitution’s provision banning receipt of foreign “emoluments” while in public office.

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'I will serve my six-year term in the Senate': Kirsten Gillibrand vows she WON'T challenge Trump in 2020 if she wins reelection this year

classy

U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels ruled that the two suits were fatally flawed because the plaintiffs failed to show injury directly related to the use of Trump’s properties by foreign officials and governments.

Daniels, who sits in Manhattan and is an appointee of President Bill Clinton, also said the issue was one that Congress should police, not the courts.

Who the hell was clamoring for Gillibrand to get in the race?

What's your goal here?

And in Obama's case, there was quite a big groundswell of people asking him to run. Who the hell was clamoring for Gillibrand to get in the race?

US soldiers have been killed in an apparent suicide bombing in northern Syria claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, the US military says.

IS said a militant had detonated an explosive vest next to a US patrol in the Kurdish-held town of Manbij.

Three US soldiers, two local security officers and 13 civilians died, a Kurdish news agency reports.

US forces are in Manbij to back Kurdish and Arab fighters who have driven IS out of almost all of eastern Syria.

Wednesday's attack took place at a restaurant near Manbij's main market.

The US troops were at the restaurant to meet members of the Manbij Military Council, a witness told Reuters news agency.

CCTV footage from a nearby shop shows a large fireball engulfing several people standing on the street outside.

The US soldiers were subsequently evacuated by a helicopter that landed on a playground, the Syrian Kurdish Hawar News Agency reports.

It cited the head of Manbij's health committee as saying that 18 people had been killed, including three of the soldiers, and that another 18 had been wounded.

Later, a spokesperson for the US-led multinational coalition against IS tweeted: "U.S. service members were killed during an explosion while conducting a routine patrol in Syria today. We are still gathering information and will share additional details at a later time."

Reuters cites a US official as saying four soldiers died and three were wounded.

Last month, President Donald Trump announced that the US would begin pulling out all its 2,000 troops from Syria because IS had been "defeated".

Opponents of the withdrawal stressed that although IS now controlled only 1% of the territory they overran five years ago, the group had not disappeared entirely.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who has previously criticised Mr Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, said on Wednesday that the move could encourage IS attacks and "set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting".

Separately, US Vice-President Mike Pence defended Mr Trump, declaring the "caliphate has crumbled and [IS] has been defeated".

A recent US report said there were still as many as 14,000 IS militants in Syria and even more in neighbouring Iraq - and that they were expected to shift to guerrilla tactics in an attempt to rebuild their network.

Syrian Kurds also fear that Manbij and other towns they control near the border with Turkey might come under attack by the Turkish military, which wants to clear them of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia.

The Turkish government considers the YPG an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for three decades. However, it denies any direct organisational links to the group.

I don't know why the fact that Trump never had a public service job is so important. It doesn't confer him with some sort of exclusive right to make money off of his being elected to high office.

Coming from the public sectore, most politicians have had time to divest themselves of the trappings of the private sector.

Becoming President should not require a citizen to give up all their worldly goods to hold the office.

But sure, let's just knock HER down for stupid reasons, despite other people doing all the time.

Gillenbrand is a chameleon. She will reflect whatever you shine on her.

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Gillibrand is a chameleon. She will reflect whatever you shine on her.

Like Trump then?