Ah, yes, the nebulous and mystical "The Russians Did It!" claim, founded upon nothing but the lies and deceit of people like Peter Strzok, James Comey, Christopher Steele and, oh yeah, seventeen, Seventeen I Say, All Seventeen Intelligence Agencies!, as often cited here on these very forums as proof positive Trump was a Russian Spy as reported by the New York Times!
Yes, "seventeen" was wrong however, it does not effect the facts that are known and come forth...even by the republican led intelligence committee.
"The Intelligence Community was correct in its assessment of Russian meddling in the lead-up to the 2016 elections, a bipartisan report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday concluded."
Bipartisan Senate report reaffirms intelligence findings that Russia meddled in 2016 elections
"The investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome," the Mueller report said, adding that President Donald Trump's campaign "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts."
Mueller Report Confirms Intelligence Findings About Russian Meddling
The statement by H.R. McMaster at the Munich Security Conference stood in stark contrast to Trump’s oft repeated claim that Russian interference in his election victory was a hoax.
“As you can see with the FBI indictment, the evidence is now really incontrovertible and available in the public domain,” McMaster told a Russian delegate to the conference.
Trump adviser: Russian meddling 'incontrovertible'
Another intentional distortion. What Trump has stated is his obvious and completely justified lack of trust in and for the machinations of the Democrat Party Machine. Stealing elections is what the Democrat Party machine does. Quote:
Yes, as noted by a republican president, and a republican senate...and a few years ago president, house, and senate...what an effective machine! FBI Director Wray: "We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherwise."(time to bring out the "deep state" nonsense!)
And FEC commissioner -
FEC commissioner: 'No basis' for Trump claims voting by mail leads to fraud
Top US election officials say mail-in voting doesn’t lead to widespread voter fraud
"One of the fullest investigations on this theme came out of Iowa. In 2012, the Republican Secretary of State Matt Schultz revealed that more than 1,000 registered voters had indicated at some point that they were not citizens yet nevertheless, had still voted.
A
full criminal investigation followed. It produced one guilty verdict, involving a Bosnian who as a felon was doubly ineligible. When the state issued its final report in 2014, six cases were still in process.
That’s one guilty verdict — involving a felon — out of nearly 2.2 million registered voters in 2012. Even if the additional six were found guilty, it would be a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of 1 percent."
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"The Heritage Foundation (very much right leaning!) maintains an online database of election fraud cases in the United States and reports that there have been just over 1,200 cases of vote fraud of all forms, resulting in 1,100 criminal convictions, over the past 20 years. Of these, 204 involved the fraudulent use of absentee ballots; 143 resulted in criminal convictions."
"One hundred forty-three cases of fraud using mailed ballots over the course of 20 years comes out to seven to eight cases per year, nationally. It also means that across the 50 states, there has been an average of three cases per state over the 20-year span. That is just one case per state every six or seven years. We are talking about an occurrence that translates to about 0.00006 percent of total votes cast."
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There have been many threads here at CF on voter fraud, and it seems that in the final analysis what is true is that widesread voter fraud remains a myth...even debunked by those states (with Republicans at the helm) that rely heavily on mail-in. Now, election fraud seems to have been a republican "machine": Simple to look up -Leslie McCrae Dowless or Cheryl Hall....Sorry, parroting false claims about mail-in fraud is a non-starter...well, based on current evidence!
Perhaps you should think about that.
So? If they refused to disperse or relocate at the request and/or order of the Police then their status as peaceful protestors ceased to exist.
"Sen. Ben Sasse (R–Neb.) was
exactly right in observing this morning that "there is a fundamental—a Constitutional—right to protest, and I'm against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop."
*I know another RINO...anyone who disagrees with trump is a RINO! A reasoned solution would have been to forego the PHONEY photo op...which was meaningless except to his supporters and schedule another time for such photo op for pandering to his base.
Clearing Out Lafayette Park for Trump's Church Photo Op Was Wrong, Even If Cops Didn't Use Tear Gas
A lie. He disparaged drug runners, child traffickers, and rapist. You know, a significant percentage of the Democrat Party base.
Yes, which by any considered interpretation is the vast majority of Mexicans ... "I assume, some...".
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're not sending you, they're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems," Trump said in a speech at Trump Tower in New York. "They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some,
I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're getting."
A simple look at the statement exposes trump..."Mexico sends its people" - is there evidence that there exists a policy of sending the "dregs" to the US? Of course "They aren't sending you" - those addressed don't live in Mexico. Telling - "...and some, I assume, are good people".
"The Texas research is consistent with the finding that
crime along the Mexican border is much lower than in the rest of the country,
homicide rates in Mexican states bordering the United States are not correlated with homicide rates here, El Paso’s
border fence did not lower crime, Texas criminal
conviction rates remain low (but not as low) when recidivism is factored in, and that
police clearance rates are not lower in states with many illegal immigrants – which means that they don’t escape conviction by leaving the country after committing crimes."
Illegal Immigrants and Crime – Assessing the Evidence
Do Mexican Immigrants "Cause" Crime? | Department of Criminology
Oh, lets not forget the trump tactic when he simply spews whatever he feels like saying, most often without evidence:
"Women are tied up, they're bound, duct tape put around their faces, around their mouths," he told reporters. "In many cases, they can't even breathe. They're put in the backs of cars or vans or trucks."
Then again he stated: "I mean, you have hundreds of miles of open space, and they go out there, and they're loaded up with drugs or they have women in the backseat of the cars with duct tape all over the place," he said at a meeting on trade policy.
Now, the border patrol or other agencies such as Homeland Security could provide no such evidence...interesting isn't it?
Fact Check: No evidence for Trump's tales of duct-taped women, prayer rugs at border
Do you understand a bit why "Until then, I have no more time for you ...", is appropriate. Such feckless remarks as "You know, a significant percentage of the Democrat Party base." only demonstrates what a pointless effort to engage. "I believe most people here intelligent enough to translate this line on their own." ... true, so even this response is pointless but the info was readily available!
This is, again, an absolute lie, and confirmed as such by those who were actually present at the event. This list of people includes John Bolton.
This is what Bolton said too:
"But Bolton, who published a book earlier this year that was heavily critical of his former boss, said the alleged remarks
sounded accurate."
“I have not heard anybody say, ‘Oh, that doesn’t sound like the Donald Trump I know,’” Bolton said in the interview. Bolton said the remarks may have stemmed from Trump’s skepticism of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“He was prone to say from time to time: ‘What did they get out of it? What was the worth of the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan?’” Bolton said. “That is a kind of
insensitivity that Trump does have, there’s no doubt about it.”
And you do know that the Goldberg article was confirmed in part by other sources including Griffin from Fox news.
Then you should be able to quote the exact words which Trump supposedly spoke in regard appointing a new Justice to the Supreme Court.
"I think this will end up in the Supreme Court, and I think it's very important that we have nine Justices," Trump told reporters after discussing election issues with a group of Republican state attorneys general.
“I think this scam that the Democrats are pulling — it’s a scam. This scam will be before the United States Supreme Court and I think having the four-four situation is not a good situation if you get that,” Trump told reporters during an event in the White House Cabinet Room.
“I don’t know that you’d get that. I think it should be eight-nothing or nine-nothing. But just in case it would be more political that is should be, I think it’s very important to have a ninth justice.”
So as always anything trump says or does requires an interpreter or translator thus the huckabee sanders (though at least sanders admitted she lied about Comey/FBI) playbook with trump supporters parroting -
1. He didn't really say that.
2. He didn't really mean that.
3. It was a joke or satire, of course. Don't you know about jokes, don't you underrstand satire?
4. That's the exact opposite of what he meant.
5. He never meant that to be taken literally.
6. You've got to stop listening to the words, that's not what this is all about.
7. You are just interpreting the statement to exploit your left wing bias
8. He is the president, so whatever he says is all the truth you need.
9. All people lie or have you never lied?
11. Donald Trump is certainly a different kind of Politician
12. Who am I to judge...
13. The voters have spoken ...
14. Its just trump being trump...
20. Its the left wing media
22. You can find negative things to say about anyone.
23. When I vote I'm not voting for the Pastor of my local church, I'm voting for someone who can do the job being voted on.
24. Attack the messenger not the substance of the charge
25. The democrats are just sore losers because of the 2016 election.
26. If you disagree you are a "Hater".
As noted I appreciate that in your view any republican who speaks against trump is a RINO. Also, much of what you post is quite open to debate regarding his comments on soldiers, McCain - Veterans Choice, etc. so not appropriate perhaps to argue such at present. However, one understands the merit of A_Thinker in "Until then, I have no more time for you ...".