@hightor,
Quote:Donald Trump's senior White House adviser once again abandoned government normalities during an official state trip to Saudi Arabia, reportedly discussing US-Saudi cooperation with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a meeting that lacked representation from the US Embassy in Riyadh.
What exactly is the problem? I'm sure he has the full confidence of the President.
@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:
What exactly is the problem? I'm sure he has the full confidence of the President.
I'll save this quote for the next Democratic president.
@maporsche,
That'll be some time in the future. We're just at the start of a twenty year period of Republican rule.
@oralloy,
I've done it many times already and you could never ever understand what I was talking about.
Some people just cannot see any fault in their views, ever; they're not wired the right way to do that. You're one of them.
@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:I've done it many times already
No you haven't. You're bluffing. If you could point out any place where I was wrong, you would.
You can't.
Olivier5 wrote:and you could never ever understand what I was talking about.
I always understand what you are talking about.
Olivier5 wrote:Some people just cannot see any fault in their views, ever; they're not wired the right way to do that. You're one of them.
Nonsense. I always admit that I am wrong when it is demonstrated that I am actually wrong.
But it is proper for me to point out that I am correct when I am actually correct.
@Olivier5,
Quote:Some people just cannot see any fault in their views, ever; they're not wired the right way to do that.
He denied that white supremacists in Charlottesville chanted "Jews will not replace us" and when I provided video evidence to the contrary he called
me a liar. He's not interested in conversation or dialog and he's not worth seriously engaging — reminds me of someone who writes his own movies and stars in them. He's in his own world.
@hightor,
hightor wrote:He denied that white supremacists in Charlottesville chanted "Jews will not replace us"
I have a thing for telling the truth.
hightor wrote:and when I provided video evidence to the contrary
You didn't provide video evidence to the contrary. You presented a dishonest and misleading video that captioned untrue words over their chant.
hightor wrote:he called me a liar.
You lied. Shame on you.
hightor wrote:He's not interested in conversation or dialog
I'm fine with discussion and dialog. But I'm not going to disregard reality just because you suck your thumb and throw a tantrum.
hightor wrote:and he's not worth seriously engaging
It frustrates leftists that I present facts that they wish were not true.
Leftists should really learn to cope with reality. Doing so would serve them better than their temper tantrums do.
hightor wrote:reminds me of someone who writes his own movies and stars in them. He's in his own world.
I'm in the real world. That's why you can't point out anything that I am wrong about.
Great, now we have a "Pat-trashian" tv show, most probably a Faux Channel product...
Lynne Patton, a Trump housing official, says she has presidential OK for reality TV
By Ray Sanchez and Rene Marsh, CNN
Updated 10:19 PM ET, Thu March 7, 2019
(CNN)Lynne Patton, a longtime Trump family associate who made a controversial appearance at last week's House hearing with Michael Cohen, says she has the President's blessing to follow in his footsteps as a reality TV star, even as she serves as a high-ranking federal housing official.
Patton's appearance on a still-developing show about black Republicans would come during her tenure as the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's regional director for New York and New Jersey, which provides rental assistance to more than 800,000 vulnerable households and homeless services to more than 80,000 people.
Asked if she has Trump's approval, Patton said, "Yes."
"I would never have even asked HUD if I hadn't first asked the Trump family," said Patton, who planned Eric Trump's wedding, in an interview with CNN.
Patton has signed an agreement to work with the show's production company, said Leslie Oren, a spokeswoman for Truly Original, the New York-based creators of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" and other reality TV and documentary series.
"We are in very early development on this and part of that process is figuring out creatively what the show will be," Oren said. "It has not yet been pitched to networks but we expect that to happen soon."
Patton told CNN that HUD lawyers "had no problem with me filming after work hours."
"Look, they know I tend to put my foot in my mouth. They were a little concerned that maybe with some alcohol I might be a little too freewheeling on a show like this," said Patton of the Trump family.
"I think that's what everybody hopes for on a docuseries or reality show. But they were very supportive," said Patton, who has spoken openly about her former struggles with drug addiction.
Trump hosted NBC's "The Apprentice" for 14 seasons, and last hosted "Celebrity Apprentice" in February 2015 before his presidential run.
The White House referred questions about Patton's appearance on the show to HUD.
HUD spokesman Raffi Williams said, "With respect to Ms. Patton's participation in a reality show, the Ethics Office provided her with advice on outside employment while working at the Department. The Ethics Office neither supports nor opposes things -- it simply advises as to what is permissible within the bounds of the law."
Patton served as vice president of the Eric Trump Foundation and worked as an event planner for the Trump family. In the Trump administration, she was HUD Secretary Ben Carson's senior adviser and director of public engagement before being appointed as a regional administrator in June 2017.
Patton was catapulted into the national political stage during a surprise appearance at last week's House Oversight Committee hearing with Cohen last week. Her show of support for Trump prompted a tense exchange late in the hearing, with a Democratic member suggesting she was used as a prop.
"I was not there to represent my race as a black woman," Patton told CNN.
"I was there to represent somebody who knows Michael Cohen, knows him probably better than I know the Trump family."
She said she appeared at the invitation of Republican Rep. Mark Meadows after attending two days of HUD meetings in Washington. Patton did not attend a third day of meetings, was not paid by HUD for the day and covered her travel expenses back to New York, she said.
"I opted to go to support my President," she said.
Her boss, Carson, one of the most prominent African-Americans in the administration, expressed reservations about her being at Cohen's hearing, saying he "did not think my presence would necessarily help," she said.
She was introduced to the first family by Cohen, and became ingratiated in Trump's world. She was among the speakers at the Republican National Convention in 2016 and was a campaign surrogate. After the election, Patton began working at HUD, where her tenure has been marked by outspoken and controversial personal tweets. Patton called White House correspondent April Ryan "Miss Piggy" on Twitter, for which she later apologized.
This week, after TV news cameras scrambled to keep up with Patton during a tour of dilapidated apartments in the nation's largest public housing project in Queens, Patton seemed surprised that the reality show had become such "a big deal."
She said she turned down the offer when first approached by the production company shortly after the 2016 election. In August, she was approached again and decided to reconsider.
"They convinced me that this was not a hair pulling, table flipping reality show," she said.
Patton said HUD ethics officials told her "they had no problem with me filming after work hours." She said she wants to complete her work to improve conditions in public housing before doing the show and needs to maneuver around federal rules capping a secondary income at $28,000 a year.
"They're trying to pay me more than that per episode," she said.
At the hearing, Patton was introduced by Meadows and stood up as he began questioning Cohen, particularly when he refuted the former Trump lawyer's claim the President is a "racist."
Near the hearing's end, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib suggested that Patton, a black woman, was used as a prob. Meadows accused Tlaib of breaking decorum. The chairman of the committee, Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, intervened. Tlaib said she only meant to describe the actions as racist, not Meadows himself.
Patton said she was not rattled by the drama that followed her appearance.
"I went and I have no regrets," Patton said.
As for Cohen, not only does she not think his description of Trump as a racist was accurate, she said she knows first hand he wasn't truthful in his denials when Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the committee, pressed him on his White House aspirations. Cohen has said he was offered White House jobs but had no interest.
"He told me personally that he wanted to be chief of staff," Patton said of Cohen. "When he didn't get that job, he then lobbied for chief counsel. When he didn't get that job, he crumbled into a shell of a man that I could not recognize."
I don’t have any comments on the anti-sematic accusations levied against Omer.
What I do find hilarious though are house republicans complaining that the bill that was passed was watered down to condemn all hateful comments and not just the ones they accuse Omer of making.
Anti-Sematic negative comments matter
All negative comments matter
Black lives matter
All lives matter
Like I said. Hilarious. Maybe they understand the differences now.
@maporsche,
maporsche wrote:
I don’t have any comments on the anti-sematic accusations levied against Omer.
What I do find hilarious though are house republicans complaining that the bill that was passed was watered down to condemn all hateful comments and not just the ones they accuse Omer of making.
Anti-Sematic negative comments matter
All negative comments matter
Black lives matter
All lives matter
Like I said. Hilarious. Maybe they understand the differences now.
I’m certain they are very comfortable in their arrogant accusations, and quite immune from any sense of their own hypocrisy or of the irony you point out.
@snood,
Like the left is immune from any sense of
their own hypocrisy? They throw a tantrum over "All Lives Matter" but are happy to toe the neonazi line when it comes to hating Jews.
I've approved of other people's use of All Lives Matter once or twice, but I much prefer to confront BLM goons head on about their disgusting ideology instead of merely using word games to diminish their claims.
@hightor,
Quote:He denied that white supremacists in Charlottesville chanted "Jews will not replace us" and when I provided video evidence to the contrary he called me a liar. He's not interested in conversation or dialog and he's not worth seriously engaging — reminds me of someone who writes his own movies and stars in them. He's in his own world.
I am totally bamberfloozled that people don't get this. The trolls here want to "own libs". It's why they are here. They aren't going to concede your point or recognize your evidence because that's directly contrary to why they are here.
And the way one identifies a troll is if they behave in that manner. There definitely are right wing folks here who don't behave that way and they are the ones worth engaging.
@blatham,
Don't be silly. You get pwned because your political position is based on delusion.
Those of us who post the truth are not out to get you, and are not trolling. We simply believe in telling the truth.
@blatham,
Got any evidence of this alleged wrongdoing by Trump?
I didn't think so.
I guess you just got pwned again.
As usual, it's your fault for spouting delusional nonsense, not my fault for pointing out the truth.
@blatham,
I'll be voting for Trump in 2020. He protects our civil liberties from leftists who want to violate them for fun.
Other voters will look on Trump more favorably once the Democrats nominate a Stalinist nutcase to be their next presidential candidate.
This man is a sociopath.
Quote:If Donald Trump is an innocent in the Russia scandal as he claims, it’s odd that he keeps lying about the ways in which he’s been exonerated.
On Twitter this morning, for example, the president wrote that the judge in the Paul Manafort trial “stated loudly and for the world to hear that there was NO COLLUSION with Russia.” Soon after, during a brief Q&A on the White House’s South Lawn, Trump repeated the claim, insisting that the “judge said there was no collusion with Russia.”
That’s plainly false.
Quote:Before announcing Manafort’s sentence Thursday, Judge T.S. Ellis reminded the court that the longtime political operative’s crimes were not related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s chief mandate – Russian election interference and whether Trump campaign officials colluded with the Kremlin.
In Trump’s mind, there’s no difference between a judge saying, “This case is unrelated to Russian collusion,” and, “This case proves there was no Russian collusion.”
It’s as if the president hears a sentence and then mentally edits it, adding and subtracting words, so that the comments reinforce what he wants to believe.
And while that’s unsettling, what makes it significantly worse is that it keeps happening.
In March 2018, Trump claimed that the House Intelligence Committee had completely exonerated him in the Russia scandal. That wasn’t true.
In June 2018, Trump said the Justice Department inspector general’s office had “totally” exonerated him in the Russia scandal. That was both wrong and kind of bonkers.
In February 2019, Trump claimed that the Senate Intelligence Committee had also exonerated him in the Russia scandal. That also wasn’t true.
Also in February 2019, after Michael Cohen’s public congressional testimony, Trump said his former fixer agreed that there was no collusion. In reality, what Cohen testified was that he didn’t have any direct evidence of cooperation between Russian operatives and the Trump campaign, though Cohen added that he believes Trump is “capable” of having committed the crime.
Now, in March 2018, he’s convinced himself that Judge T.S. Ellis has exonerated him, too. That didn’t happen in reality, and doesn’t even make sense since Ellis never even considered evidence on the matter.
I can appreciate why the president is scared of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, but he may want to consider how much better off he’d appear if he stopped lying so frequently about an exoneration that hasn’t happened.
Benen: evidence backing all claims above are linked in the piece
In the moment, most Americans seem reluctant to admit or honestly face that Trump is a sociopath. That's understandable as it stands in stark contrast with the American myth story where such a thing - a sociopath President - is simply impossible. Fox and right wing media generally have taken on the task of excusing anything Trump does or says because they are working as propaganda agents for the administration and the Republican Party. They'd be behaving the same way if Rubio or Bush was President but it is the extremity of Trump's corruption that makes this propaganda role utterly transparent.
