SHUT IT DOWN.
Dirty cop Robert Mueller is now investigating President Trump’s tweets in a wide-ranging obstruction of justice inquiry.
What the hell does this have to do with supposed collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign during the 2016 election?
Where is AG Sessions??
The New York Times reported:
For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself.
Those concerns now turn out to be well founded. The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is scrutinizing tweets and negative statements from the president about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, according to three people briefed on the matter.
Several of the remarks came as Mr. Trump was also privately pressuring the men — both key witnesses in the inquiry — about the investigation, and Mr. Mueller is examining whether the actions add up to attempts to obstruct the investigation by both intimidating witnesses and pressuring senior law enforcement officials to tamp down the inquiry.
Mr. Mueller wants to question the president about the tweets. His interest in them is the latest addition to a range of presidential actions he is investigating as a possible obstruction case: private interactions with Mr. Comey, Mr. Sessions and other senior administration officials about the Russia inquiry; misleading White House statements; public attacks; and possible pardon offers to potential witnesses.
The special counsel’s investigators have told Mr. Trump’s lawyers they are examining the tweets under a wide-ranging obstruction-of-justice law beefed up after the Enron accounting scandal, according to the three people. The investigators did not explicitly say they were examining possible witness tampering, but the nature of the questions they want to ask the president, and the fact that they are scrutinizing his actions under a section of the United States Code titled “Tampering With a Witness, Victim, or an Informant,” raised concerns for his lawyers about Mr. Trump’s exposure in the investigation.
The President of the United States has full authority to fire the Director of the FBI if he wishes to do so.
President Trump is allowed to criticize James Comey if he wishes to do so, but since King Mueller is roving around with unchecked power, he believes the President should be held to account for his tweets.
So like with Popadopulus they are going to get him on a thought crime? Not anything he has actually done, something he might think about doing or what they think he is thinking. Maybe what he was thinking about they were thinking he was thinking, I think so.
They know he has seen the unredacted non evidence it is making them insane.
No they are seeing the trap they themselves set and are being forced to walk right into. Let er ride, bring it on, Trump can and is multi-tasking, the EU will drop their 10 % tarriffs on our cars and we will drop our 2 % tarriffs, in fact all tarriffs and subsidies are being considered, hey China hows that going to work for your economy wanna do a deal?
We’re winning, this is a crap distraction…what if Trump declassifies all the garbage the deep state pulled in October..SURPRISE.
Our words can sometimes reveal something about our intentions. What a novel concept.
@Greg: Sticks and stones,This is an attempt to silence the POTUS so we need to rely on the corrupted MSM to truthfully report what is happening, no longer do they get to rule the narrative they dont get to tell us what to think about anything.
33 million are expected to cut the cord by the end of this year, cable is expensive and dying.
The mainstream media isn’t corrupt. Corruption is what they’re reporting about.
Finally. At long last. These phonies have run out of inventions of investigation-worthy fantasies and pretty much come out and admit it.
The one and only, whole and complete purpose of the “investigation”.
@Greg:
No, the media is TOTALLY corrupt and believe it is their JOB to cover up liberal corruption.
@Deplorable Me: Greggie doesnt read well I said corrupted, as in contaminated, they hire liars and leakers and expect us to believe them. Thing is he believes all of that bovine scatology.
Greggie Goebbels says:
The media has been corrupt since Walter Lippmann. Lippman decided, as a journalist, that a journalists job was to create opinion, not report facts. Lippmann said:
“It is a problem of provoking feeling in the reader, of inducing him to feel a sense of personal identification with the stories he is reading. News which does not offer this opportunity to introduce oneself into the struggle which it depicts cannot appeal to a wide audience. The audience must participate in the news, much as it participates in the drama, by personal identification. Just as everyone holds his breath when the heroine is in danger, as he helps Babe Ruth swing his bat, so in subtler form the reader enters into the news. In order that he shall enter he must find a familiar foothold in the story, and this is supplied to him by the use of stereotypes. They tell him that if an association of plumbers is called a “combine” it is appropriate to develop his hostility; if it is called a “group of leading business men” the cue is for a favorable reaction.
It is in a combination of these elements that the power to create opinion resides. Editorials reinforce. ”
Add to Lippman, the corrupt Walter Duranty and Walter Cronkite. Both men, acclaimed journalists, believed in the Lippmann philosophy.
So yes, the “mainstream media” has been corrupt for decades, and remains so today.
Such bullshit is a standard means whereby cult members are inoculated against any information sources that might contradict their approved dogma.
We each have a brain of our own. Use it. Listen critically to all sources. Fact check their claims and draw your own conclusions. If you find that someone is lying constantly, they obviously can’t be trusted. The moment you let someone else make up your mind for you about that, or tell you who you should and shouldn’t listen to, you become a puppet.
@Greg: Show us the incriminating tweets, is there a super secret code in them. Mueller is scraping the bottom of an empty barrel, a barrel that never had any contents.
@Greg:
Acutally, Greggie, you are a classic example that belies your comments.
And you are a puppet. Clear and simple.
Now, let me tell you what a true journalist does: they report the facts, and the facts only. They do not taint their facts with personal opinion. They do not try to sway opinion. That is true journalism and what was intended for a free press.
We no longer have true journalists. We have opinion piece authors who subscribe to the Lippmann philosophy (which I provided to you in detail). They attempt to sway opinion, which works quite well on puppets like you.
Frankly, I cannot name on honest, unbiased journalist that is well known today. All the mighty have fallen and have wasted their journalism degree on becoming nothing more than op-ed writers.
True journalism died with Walter Duranty. He lied when people died. And for those lies, he received the Pulitzer Prize.
Lippman believed that the average American was just too damn stupid to be told the truth and consequently, they had to be swayed into believing what he (as a journalist) wanted them to believe. He also was awarded the Pulitzer.
You, Greggie, are the very kind of person that brought every mass killing dictator to power. You. Someone who can be swayed with pretty words that many are above your power, or intellect, to comprehend.
You’re an idiot.
@retire05, #10:
That you’ve embraced the likes and lies of Donald Trump suggests you’re a reliable judge of neither intelligence, nor character, nor truth.
@Greg: You embrace Mueller with his past record or you choose to accept his form of kangaroo, gonna get me a scalp style of prosecution says much about you as well.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/19/revealed-robert-muellers-fbi-repeatedly-abused-prosecutorial-discretion/
Its a good thing he is totally incompetent cause what ever he concocts a good and decent lawyer will shred. Thats why we dont care if it rides on, thats why the President hasnt fired him. The latest thing with tweets is just a comedy show.
@Greg:
The fact that they HAVE to be fact checked (and the fact checkers fact checked) confirms the point. NEWS shouldn’t have to be fact checked, but today it does. It does because most of it is liberal propaganda.
Yesterday, NBC was reporting on the booming economy and the 4.1% GDP growth. Then, Chuck Todd came on to explain that this was a ploy by Trump to direct attention away from the other liberal-invented “problems”. In other words, while the economy is responding beautifully to Trump’s policies, Todd wants to make sure the focus remains on the seditious attempts to unseat Trump (obviously irregardless of the fact that Trump is doing exactly what he promised to do and the nation is benefiting).
You not only believed and embraced the abundant lies of Obama and Hillary but you continue to defend them long after they’ve been exposed and proved to be lies.
@Deplorable Me:
That is correct. True journalism standards require fact reporting (that is why they are called “reporters), and only fact reporting, not the opinion of some talking head (they are not referred to as opinionators).
@Greg:
Um, Greggie, you’re projecting again.
You have bought into the whole Socialist mantra, hook, line and sinker. You judge not on actions, or results, but on what one of your talking heads on some left wing site is telling you what to think, ala Lippmann style. Hell, you bought into the whole “We are what the world has been waiting for” line.
Shall I remind you of what a pathetic excuse for a president Obama was?
The Trump phenomena will probably be discussed in future textbooks as an example of some sort of mass delusion disorder. The man is liar and a con artist. You’re being led around by a string of loony Twitter posts. To an outside observer, it looks both pathetic and dangerous. You’ll unquestioningly follow this man into any folly that pops into his head. He’s clueless about the complexity of the world. He’ll speak and act simply to protect his own vain glorious ego, and has minimal insight into his own motivations. He covers it all up by way of ceaseless self-promotion.
@Greg:
Just as it was revealed that JFK was not only a drug addict who couldn’t keep his pants on around hookers, it will also be revealed that Obama was a fraud. But don’t expect to find that in any textbook. Textbooks are written by the liberal cabal.
Since I don’t do Twitter, how do you surmise that little bit of fantasy?
Show a little self respect, Greggie, and quit proving what an idiot you are. Better to keep your fingers idle and be thought an idiot than to continue to post here and confirm you’re a idiot.
@Greg: That would depend upon who writes the record, as we now have history and rewritten liberal history. Liberals try to rewrite history even while it is still in living remembrance, their regard and respect for the truth is so low.
Since he isn’t done yet, we can’t know how the TRUE history of Trump’s administration will be recorded, but when Obama’s record is written, it will be of deceit, corruption, failure and division.
@retire05: The liberal MSM gets most of its “news” from social media, ie twitter, to gin up some weird rage and Greg says we are led by it.
All of our warriors remains being returned home from NK isnt that news. No sanctions have been lifted no cash on a plane at midnight. The UN is running low on money, http://www.theweek.co.uk/95394/why-is-the-un-running-out-of-money 193 members all with equal representation and the US pays 1/5th of their budget. $5.4bn.
Ah, but I do. I was brought up with the understanding that self respect involves showing respect to others—a lesson that Donald Trump apparently missed. He has earned my heartfelt contempt, where he might have simply had respectful disagreement.
@Greg:
And all he had to do was defeat a proven liar, incompetent, corrupt criminal.
@Greg:
You have shown no respect here for those you disagree with. But then, that is the m.o. of the left wing, isn’t it?
Ah, you’re projecting again, Greggie.
Contempt? See that is the difference between the left and the right. While the right did not agree with Obama, we did not resort to name calling (Nazi, for one) disgraceful portrayals of him beheaded, we did not violently protest, we did not hold contempt for the man who was the most unqualified person to ever hold the Office of President. No, we tolerated him knowing that 8 years would come and go and he would never be able to do damage to this nation again.
You have no reason to hold Donald Trump, or anyone else for that matter, in contempt when you have shown yourself to be nothing more than contemptible.
To disagree is not a show of disrespect; personal insults, on the other hand, are nothing else. Trump has lowed the bar on that like never before. Many of his supporters seem to follow his lead. Many don’t seem to understand the difference between disagreement and contempt.
@Greg: Its all sticks and stones, someone was mean to me on the internet totally pathetic. How about those unemployment numbers for minorities, seems Trump has really helped them so much more than Obama ever did.
@Greg: Hillary called EVERYONE that did not agree with her “deplorable”. Obama called EVERYONE that did not agree with him “enemies”. Al Sharpton, one of the foremost racists in the United States, visited the White House over 80 times, an insult to every non-racist in the country. I don’t recall you being too very upset about such disrespect.
@kitt, #24:
Obama’s policies reversed the most rapidly rising unemployment rate the nation had seen in decades. He inherited an economy that was literally in danger of a total meltdown. He left office 8 years later with 75 consecutive months of economic growth behind him.
Now we have fiscally irresponsible tax cuts stimulating an already-recovered economy, that are locking us in to one-trillion-dollar-per-year deficits beginning this coming year. For that , we got a 4.1 percent spike in the GDP in the second quarter of 2018.
Brief 4.1 percent GDP spikes are no rarity. Obama had 3 separate quarters of GDP growth in excess of 4 percent during his second term, long after stimulus spending had ended. In fact, the GDP growth rate during the second quarter of 2014 actually exceeded 5 percent.
Trump is selling a quarterly GDP spike the same way he pitches anything else. As usual, the televised sales pitch is not quite the same as the no-stick skillet that actually turns up on your doorstep. Escalating inflation will result from fiscally irresponsible tax cuts. Inflation is an inevitable result when you show complete disregard for needless trillion-dollar deficits. There was a time when republicans realized this, and cared about it.
@Greg: I agree the government spending is out of control this cannot go on, we need to drastically slash the size of government, duplication of duties, a very conservative standpoint for you. I have no use for non conservative Republicans and watch who is rising to power by checking voting record. I see no effort by the other side of the aisle in reducing government or excessive spending. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/senate-vote-rescissions-package/index.html Not a single democrat vote
@Greg:
Ha. He promised after he spent a trillion dollars on “shovel ready” stimulus, it would never get to 7.9%; it went to 10.2%. Obviously, despite Obama’s best efforts, the economy made a slow, laborious recovery based on the inherent power of capitalism.
I already showed you that tax revenues are HIGHER than they were before the tax cuts. Do you think no one else saw that?
Obama had a consistent flat-line GDP growth with occasional seasonal spikes. In the end, it was still lethargic and suffering. Your little chart shows how consistently pathetic his economic policies were.
@Deplorable Me: The 2 senators that voted against the spending cut bill both scored big fat Fs in liberty score the “Rino bitch from ME has a score of 11 out of 100, there are Democrats with higher scores, Nancy Pelosi just to name one.
@Deplorable Me, #28:
And I responded by pointing out that the article you referenced bases their claim on data cherry picked from a very narrow span of time, which corresponds to a period of increased sales activity ahead of the date the tariffs go into effect. Economic activity will decline afterward, for the same reason that it increased before.
This is much like claiming that a single guarter’s GDP growth spike indicates Trump has performed some sort of economic miracle. As with anything plotted on a graph, it’s the long term trend that matters, not the short-term ups and downs.
Do you think he’ll be able to claim 75 consecutive months of economic growth, like Obama can? I’ll believe it when it happens. Trump’s private sector business history includes 6 separate bankruptcies. He has a tendency to move on with a pile of loot, and leave somebody else holding the empty bag.
@Greg: Its not Trump its the policies, it wasn’t Obama it was the policies. Resistance or what is good for the country for fear Trump will get credit is insane. He will take credit for every bit of good news, he is already running for 2020, big deal those who have a basic understanding know better.
@Greg:
Wow!!! I guess Obama can also walk on water. But let’s do a little truth telling, shall we? Obama’s economic recovery plan actually, like FDR’s, delayed recovery. The unemployment rate, based on his stimulus plan, dropped no lower, nor any faster, than had he not passed the stimulus plan. When Obama took office, the unemployment rate was 7.8%. Two years after he took office, it was 9.1% but of course, you will excuse that with “but, but Bush”. It took 3 years and 10 months to decrease to that 7.8% again (October 2012).
So I guess you disagreed with JFK when he did the same thing? And oh, my, how you love to talk about the deficit but never, never mention the national debt which Obama took from $10 trillion to $19 trillion at a time when we were, for all intent and purposes, not on a war footing.
Whoo-hoo!!! How impressive. Never mind that while you brag that Obama hit the 4% mark THREE times out of his 32 quarters in office, you fail to mention that under Obama, the GDP failed to hit 2% 13 times, failed to hit 1% 8 times and was below zero at least twice. Never mind that Obama is the ONLY president in history that never saw a year with 3% GDP growth.
And you got your Economics degree where? Or did you buy Economics For Dummies now making you an economic guru? Never mind that Austan Goolsbee, Obama’s economic brain, said that Trump had reason to be proud of the 4.1% and he thought it could continue. Ooooops.
Go away, Greggie Goebbels, no one believes you anymore. You are simply a parrot of the left. And an idiot.
@Greg:
Uh, no. You didn’t. You argued the additional revenue wasn’t as much as the article cited, which still left intact the fact that the tax cuts are paying for themselves.
Except that he’s had outstanding growth EVERY quarter. Keep on mind, Obama said it couldn’t be done, that the pitiful growth he provided was going to be “the norm”. In other words, he didnt know what he was doing, so he gave up.
The future will tell, but unforeseeable events aside, I believe Trump will have not only continuous growth, but LARGE growth, not the 1 and 2% Obama produced. Your own graph: 2.9%, and i bet that was generous.
Nope, but he did what he did. There were the economic conditions that existed before Obama, and those that he left behind after 8 years in office. After was vastly better.
There’s what Obama inherited from his predecessor, and what Trump found the day he walked into the Oval Office. What Trump inherited was definitely far, far better.
The effing republican congressional majority most definitely had nothing to do with any of this, because they resisted Obama’s efforts every step of the way.
Those are the plain, simple facts. You deal with them the same way you deal with all inconvenient facts and truths—by way of blame-shifting and denial.
@Greg: How about little victories that may affect you like veterans choice program not perfect but it can be a first step for our warriors to get what they deserve.
@Greg:
Wow, Greggie Goebbels, that’s deep.
And again, Obama NEVER saw one year, out of eight, that saw an annual GDP of 3%, a distinction only to him. Even Roosevelt saw a increase in GDP coming out of the Great Recession faster than Obama did.
Obama didn’t “inherit” anything. He spent millions of dollars begging for the job. He also begged for the job knowing that the nation was still reeling from the worst attack ever seen on American soil, a war with radical Islam, and a housing market bust created by both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton with the CRA.
Funny, the GDP became more stable AFTER the Republicans took the House in 2014. How do you explain that? I’m sure you have some b/s excuse you want to proffer.
I’m not blaming anyone. That is your mantra. Shite happens that affects the GDP, Pearl Harbor, 9-11, etc. But Obama really did nothing to make it any better, just coasting along spending money and doubling the national debt by almost $9 trillion.
You are such a pathetic excuse, Greggie. You have been brainwashed and you don’t even know it. Obama will be recorded in the annuals of history as one of the worst, if not the worst, president this nation has ever seen.
@retire05: To take credit for “reducing the deficit”, he first had to jack it up to $1.4 trillion a year and THEN (thanks to sequester, which he suggested but later hated) cut it down to $750 billion… still more than Bush’s deficits, except for that last year with TARP… which was paid back.
Donald Trump’s job average job approval rating hasn’t been positive since he took office. It’s presently minus 9.8 percent. Which, no doubt, is why you’re still obsessing about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton a year-and-a-half they left the stage. Anything is better than a close inspection of current circumstances.
From Business Insider, 07/30/2018 — Giuliani: ‘Collusion is not a crime,’ hacking is the real crime, and Trump ‘didn’t hack’
What about treason, Rudy? Treason is defined as the betrayal of one’s one country. Is treason a crime?
@Greg: When was Obamas? In the NBC/WSJ poll, only 37 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of foreign policy, while only 34 percent approve of his handling of ISIL. The poll also found that 73 percent say they want the next president to take a different approach than Obama has taken. 2015 numbers after a string of victories such as same sex marriage 90% positive news coverage
Did you see the same spread on jobs with the lowest unemployment n decades? TDS
And Hillary had an over 90% chance of winning.
Never solid proof of any hacking those emails were leaked, most likely by a Bernie bro inside the DNC.
Hey the EU is in a negotiating mood…
@Greg:
Do you think the 93% negative (lying and under reporting all the POSITIVE news) has anything to do with that? Meanwhile, Obama had 98% positive (burying failure and scandal while slobbering over every word) and had the same approvals.
It most certainly is and that is what Obama, Hillary,Comey, Brennan,McCabe, Strzok and the rest of the sedition circle are guilty of.
Trump is doing a fine job and it scares the SHIT out of you liberals because it proves what damned liars the left has representing it… and following.
@Deplorable Bill: And ond the lighter side https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1023980522853281793/video/1
Pathetic rude bastid cant think of 1 question to ask about our foreign relationship with Italy
@kitt: Acosta represents those attention-whore liberals who seek the congratulations from fellow whiners if they get to blurt out something rude, obnoxious and false. It’s practically all they have to live for.
@kitt, #39:
Obama’s historical job approval poll results were also up and down. His second term ended with a 57.2 favorable approval rating—not so bad, considering the level of political polarization these days. He made his share of mistakes. Few people who voted for him actually expected him to walk on water.
Some people might argue that 93 percent negative is fairly accurate representation of his performance. I don’t consider breaking things you don’t like, with no clue how to replace them with something better, to be a positive activity.
What we’re afraid of are the long term consequences, which his supporters seem not to be the least bit worried about. If there’s another serious economic downturn there will be no tools left to deal with it. We’ve already cut taxes so much that we’re looking at trillion-dollar-per-year deficits, so that’s out; nor could interest rates be pushed much lower; we couldn’t increase the money supply as a stimulus without risking hyper-inflation. The toolbox is empty. And that’s only one serious concern.
You seem to enjoy the idea that your political enemies—which would include everyone who isn’t a gung-ho Trump supporter—are all quaking in their boots, and utterly dismayed at his miraculous accomplishments. Feeding that childish pleasure seems to be a big part of how he maintains his popularity. It’s one of the buttons he’s constantly pushing.
How many memes can the man get into a single Twitter post?
@Greg: #39 Why do those polled disapprove of low unemployment? Something tells me if Trumps name wasn’t on the poll the numbers would be different, if thats the case it is TDS with complete lack of critical thinking or logic.
@Greg:
Yeah, well those people are partisan morons. What’s worse, they KNOW it.
There was no coverage of Obama’s lies about Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, lies about Benghazi, responsibility for the spread of ISIS or the perpetually weak economy. Yet, the media follows relentlessly every rumor, innuendo and accusation leveled against Trump and, when those run out, helps invent new ones.
There is no comparison. The coverage of Obama was carefully coddled while coverage of Trump is bitter, vicious, biased and deceitful.
Those “consequences” are the total exposure of left wing abuse of power, corruption, failure and a long term loss of power because of the success of Trump’s policies. THAT is your one and only fear, for if hesucceeds, liberalism will be exposed for what it is; an abject failure. And those spreading such unwarranted fear and hatred will be exposed for the lying, seditious anti-American slime they are.
@kitt:
If Trump’s name was not on the poll, he wouldn’t be President, we would still have low paying, part-time jobs, 1.3% growth and rampant corruption.
@Greg:
Not good, considering he had a fawning, sycophantic media hiding his failures and promoting the myth that less than 2% growth was a booming economy.
He was a total failure. Standing by while a consulate is sacked and 4 Americans, including the Ambassador are murdered, then lying about it is not a “mistake” (or “bump in the road”). Using the IRS to target political opponents wasn’t a “mistake”; it was a willful attempt to use the power of the federal government to affect an election. Using the FBI to spy on an opposition part campaign wasn’t a “mistake”, either; it was election tampering. Giving ISIS the green light wasn’t a “mistake”, particularly when he was warned about doing so by all the experts. Yet, indeed, the ignorant left DO think he walks on water and hang on his every lying word.
There are few things sadder than victims defending a swindler because they’re in denial about having been swindled.
@Greg:
So true. But some people were swindled on the cheap. All for the price of an Obama phone.
Well, that was predictable. I should have made a bet with myself.