The Official "Damned Trump" Thread

[Foxaèr]

What Trump fans believe about the Russia probe doesn’t matter

Dave Boucher described widespread indifference to the Russia issue. “Talk of Russia, special prosecutors and election tampering won’t change his mind,” Boucher wrote of one voter.

“In Trump country, Russia scandal doesn't resonate,” his article was headlined.

Vox sent a reporter to Michigan. The headline of the resulting article should suffice: “I asked Trump voters in Michigan about the Russia investigation. They said it's fake news.”

“Anyone who thinks the Republican base will abandon President Donald Trump over the latest Russia revelations is sorely mistaken,” concluded Politico after interviewing county-level Republican leaders across the country.

“It’s just all noise to people on the ground here,” a Republican official in Nevada told Politico’s Gabriel Debenedetti and Jake Lahut. “People on the ground are just concerned about job security. It’s almost embarrassing for the media from my perspective.”

Does it matter what people in rural Pennsylvania think? Yes, of course, though reporters should also check in with the residents of housing projects in Memphis, undocumented immigrants in Tucson, even those supposed coastal elites in New York and California who haven’t a care in the world except for where to have brunch.

The more interesting question is why many Trump supporters believe the Russia investigation is a “nothing burger,” when it’s looking every day more like a fatty triple-decker of collusion, conspiracy and obstruction, slathered in enough greasy deception to give our body politic a heart attack.

Turn on Fox News, and you’ll have the answer, with Sean Hannity railing against Deep State plots to take down the Trump presidency and Tucker Carlson suggesting that Trump’s overtures to Russia are reminiscent of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s collaboration with Josef Stalin during World War II. Alex Jones, the obviously deranged Infowars conspiracy theorist, has suggested that Donald Trump Jr. was engaging in masterly spycraft by meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower. Republicans say they distrust the media for peddling “fake news,” then turn to Breitbart News, where blatant pro-Trump propaganda is varnished with a thin sheen of journalism.

Whether initiated by Russia or not, fake news is seeded at the fringes of the all-too-fertile right-wing media ecosystem. Having planted its roots in the soil of 4chan, the misinformation migrates to Reddit, then World Net Daily or Breitbart, eventually making it to the desk of Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade or one of his colleagues at the network. Trump, a devoted viewer, sits by, ready to tweet. You know the rest.

It’s no wonder, then, that people in Tennessee don’t believe the Russia investigations are relevant. Trump is the benefactor of an international misinformation campaign. Many of the honest, hard-working Americans who voted for him are its victims.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/what-tru...nt-matter/

[Foxaèr]

Secret Service smacks down Trump lawyer: Russia meeting was never cleared with us

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/secret-s...d-with-us/

[vorlon13]

Sekulow even is getting a rough time on Fox these days. When interviewed, it is being noted he frequently is offering an answer that does not pertain to the question asked.

[GUBU]

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I'm always sceptical of the political acumen and historical knowledge of people who uphold Burke as a politician to aspire to. While he was an important philosopher and wrote many fine things, in practice he ditched all his principles in favour of the one iron law of conservatism: "Keep the plebs sordid".

[Minimalist]

[I_am_not_mafia]

Alex Salmond: ‘Donald Trump rang to call me a has been’

Seriously tempted to go to his show during the Edinburgh fringe.

“Donald is one of those people who sees his development as the most important thing on earth. But anyone else’s development is an inconvenience...He went to court three times in order to delay it and lost three times.

“I probably didn’t help things by texting him, once, twice, three times a loser. I got one of these two am in the morning tirades about being a has been and a nobody – and that was before I lost my seat.”

[Foxaèr]

Trump whines about fact checkers: ‘I don’t like Pinocchios’

“We’ve signed more bills, and I’m talking about through the legislature, than any president ever. For a while Harry Truman had us and now I think we have everybody. I better say ‘think,’ otherwise they’ll give me a Pinocchio. I don’t like Pinocchios.”

Trump was referring to the Washington Post’s fact-checking column, which uses a scale of one to five “Pinocchios” to rate the truth of a statement. The publication gave Trump four Pinocchios earlier this year for claiming that “no administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/trump-wh...inocchios/

[Cecelia]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/president-t...ns-per-day

Trump has already almost surpassed Obama in number of civilian casualties. Over his ENTIRE 8 years.

...didn't a lot of people say "At least Trump's not a warmonger!"?

[Foxaèr]

Trump vows to protect ‘Made in America’ products

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/trump-vo...-products/

To be honest, I cannot remember the last time I ever saw anything labeled Made in America.

[Cecelia]

The good thing about Made In America Week though is that he can't showcase anything from the Trump Brand or his daughter's brand either.