Bob Ness Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 6 hours ago, Jeff Carter said: John Bolton is also a vicious war-monger and many of the claims in his lauded new book are proving to be either false or exaggerated. signed The Reality Based Community Jeff you protect Russia so much I begin to wonder if you're a stringer for RT or something. Who is lauding Bolton or his book? Most everyone thinks Bolton is a war monger and I don't think anyone thinks otherwise. .At least not around here. I hadn't heard the Skirpal thing is now under a cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Trump tweet dog-whistles for a Biden assassination. "Corrupt Joe is shot." https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-promotes-video-of-his-supporters-yelling-white-power-great-people/amp/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 2 hours ago, Ron Ecker said: Trump tweet dog-whistles for a Biden assassination. "Corrupt Joe is shot." https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-promotes-video-of-his-supporters-yelling-white-power-great-people/amp/ Let me hazard a guess. When the excrement hits the oscillating device on this one, Trump will say that he was only joking about Biden being shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Donald Trump calls Joe Biden corrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said: Let me hazard a guess. When the excrement hits the oscillating device on this one, Trump will say that he was only joking about Biden being shot. W,. “The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!!” I wonder if the Secret Service is now investigating Donald Trump for threatening the life of a Presidential candidate. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-russia-putin-bounty-us-soldiers_n_5ef80417c5b612083c4e9106 "Critics erupted Saturday after an explosive New York Times story asserting that Russian President Vladimir Putin secretly offered a bounty to Afghanistan militants for American soldiers they killed — and that Donald Trump knew about it. Both the White House and Putin denied the story Saturday,..." Trump: Putin strongly denied Russia meddling in 2016 election By White House July 16, 2018, 12:46 PM https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article214959765.html During the summit in Helsinki, a reporter asked President Trump about United States agencies concluding that Russia meddling in the U.S. 2016 presidential election. Trump revealed that Vladimir Putin strongly denied interference in their talks. Intelligence professionals are trained to look for patterns. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Trump has deleted the retweeted video (and his tweet, I guess?) WH claims he "didn't hear" the Trump supporter yelling "White power" in the video. CNN has been reporting on the retweeted video all day, but not a word about the "Corrupt Joe is shot" in Trump's tweet, or at least I haven't heard it. Maybe they feel that it's best left alone if the tweet is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Varnell Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, Ron Ecker said: Trump has deleted the retweeted video (and his tweet, I guess?) WH claims he "didn't hear" the Trump supporter yelling "White power" in the video. CNN has been reporting on the retweeted video all day, but not a word about the "Corrupt Joe is shot" in Trump's tweet, or at least I haven't heard it. Maybe they feel that it's best left alone if the tweet is gone. Trump’s credibility is shot. Why not accuse him of threatening Biden? Except he didn’t mean it that way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 10 minutes ago, Cliff Varnell said: Trump’s credibility is shot. Why not accuse him of threatening Biden? Except he didn’t mean it that way... In a way to accuse Trump of threatening Biden would just be doing Trump's dog-whistling for him, especially since the tweet itself is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 48 minutes ago, Cliff Varnell said: Trump’s credibility is shot. Why not accuse him of threatening Biden? Except he didn’t mean it that way... Cliff, If God forbid something like that were to happen, remember Larry Hancock's, Someone Would Have Talked. The inevitable end result of our last 56 years Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Donald J. Trump is informed that Russia has engaged in a murder for hire scheme. His response? "Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us....." Oh well, in that case... Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 On 6/27/2020 at 1:12 PM, Ray Mitcham said: If he is remembered on Mount Rushmore it will probably be like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 On 6/27/2020 at 8:50 AM, Steve Thomas said: Donald Trump is going to Mt. Rushmore for July 3rd. The Sioux nation will be protesting his visit to the Black Hills. (Shades of George Armstrong Custer). Clouds of tear gas will be wafting over the protesters under the watchful gaze of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. In the background will be plumes of smoke rising from the wildfires set off by his fireworks in the middle of drought season. *sigh* Steve Thomas Another cliffhanger at Mt. Rushmore. Where's Cary Grant when you need him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Schwartz Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 more on Russia bounty gate that fatboy claims to never heard of.. By Ellen Nakashima , Ellen Nakashima National security reporter Email Bio Follow Karen DeYoung , Karen DeYoung Associate editor and senior national security correspondent Email Bio Follow Missy Ryan and Missy Ryan Reporter covering the Pentagon, military issues and national security Email Bio Follow John Hudson John Hudson National security reporter focusing on the State Department and diplomacy. Email Bio Follow June 28 at 8:00 PM Russian bounties offered to Taliban-linked militants to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan are believed to have resulted in the deaths of several U.S. service members, according to intelligence gleaned from U.S. military interrogations of captured militants in recent months. Several people familiar with the matter said it was unclear exactly how many Americans or coalition troops from other countries may have been killed or targeted under the program. U.S. forces in Afghanistan suffered a total of 10 deaths from hostile gunfire or improvised bombs in 2018, and 16 in 2019. Two have been killed this year. In each of those years, several service members were also killed by what are known as “green on blue” hostile incidents by members of Afghan security forces, which are sometimes believed to have been infiltrated by the Taliban. The intelligence was passed up from the U.S. Special Operations forces based in Afghanistan and led to a restricted high-level White House meeting in late March, the people said. The meeting led to broader discussions about possible responses to the Russian action, ranging from diplomatic expressions of disapproval and warnings, to sanctions, according to two of the people. These people and others who discussed the matter spoke on the condition of anonymity because of its sensitivity. The disturbing intelligence — which the CIA was tasked with reviewing, and later confirmed — generated disagreement about the appropriate path forward, a senior U.S. official said. The administration’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, preferred confronting the Russians directly about the matter, while some National Security Council officials in charge of Russia were more dismissive of taking immediate action, the official said. It remained unclear where those discussions have led to date. Verifying such intelligence is a process that can take weeks, typically involving the CIA and the National Security Agency, which captures foreign cellphone and radio communications. Final drafting of any policy options in response would be the responsibility of national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien. The CIA assessment took some time, and coincided with the scaling back and slowing down of a number of government functions as the coronavirus pandemic began to take hold, two people said. Asked to comment, John Ullyot, an NSC spokesman, said that “the veracity of the underlying allegations continue to be evaluated.” The CIA and the Defense and State departments declined to comment. Russia and the Taliban have denied the existence of the program. Among the coalition of NATO forces in Afghanistan, the British were briefed late last week on the intelligence assessment, although other alliance governments were not formally informed. The New York Times first reported the existence of the bounty program on Friday evening. But as more details have unfolded, the primary controversy in Washington over the weekend revolved around denials by President Trump and his aides that the president was ever briefed on the intelligence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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