The Donald J Trump: SHITSHOW IN A DUMPSTER FIRE Thread

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[zeeblofowl_1969]

Those other four could buy and sell the oompah loompah.

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75% chance right now that he wins reelection. Change my mind

#StraightShooter

Didn’t win the first time.
America said no but then the fine print....

 

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[Supafly]

The Don is slowly but surely unraveling in plain sight

 

[Straight Shooter]

Job layoffs surge 35% to highest level to start a year in a decade
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/04/job...ighest-level-to-start-a-year-in-a-decade.html

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

The Don is slowly but surely unraveling in plain sight

He can’t handle the truth

 

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The Clan is busy in shady biz

 

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Thank you for bumping this thread, I've been so busy the last four or five weeks I just haven't had time!

 

[Supafly]

What in Trumpworld is called an "Attorney General". This is just an abomination.

He can't even handle the softball, about what to do, if a foreign advisory offers campaign help

 

[Johan]

Trump Overrules Navy, Reinstates USS Truman, While Cybersecurity Remains Neglected


Back in March, the United States Navy released a comprehensive 80-page cybersecurity report, warning: “In prior eras, for good or ill, navies shifted their definition from wood to steel to wing, or from sail to steam and beyond. This time technology, not the naval service, or its opponents, have imposed a definition of what navies will be for the rest of the 21st century. Navies must become information enterprises who happen to operate on, over, under, and from the sea; a vast difference from a 355-ship mindset.”
The Navy believes that the era of traditional kinetic warfare is coming to a close and that cyberwarfare will be every bit as important in the years ahead. As such, the Navy wanted to vastly expand spending on cybersecurity and warfare.


President Donald Trump, however, reversed the Navy’s decision to retire the aging aircraft carrier USS Truman. The reversal is expected to cost the Navy $20 billion over the next two decades in upkeep and other costs.
The decision is at odds with the Navy report, which warned that the United States is falling behind China and Russia in regards to cyberwarfare. If and when the next war comes, the United States will almost certainly have a kinetic advantage, but Russia, China, or another foe might be able to leverage cyberwarfare to negate that advantage. The Navy has warned that many of America’s systems, such as satellites, could be taken offline through cyberwarfare.

It’s not just the Trump administration that’s overruling the Navy, however. Many members of Congress urged the Trump administration to cancel the Truman’s retirement, threatening Congressional action if he failed to act.

https://www.opslens.com/2019/05/__trashed-3/

We can't stay 'stagnant': Navy chief defends decision to decommission aircraft carrier


Adm. John Richardson defended the Pentagon’s plan to decommission the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier Monday, arguing the move is crucial to keeping the Navy moving forward with new technologies.
“One thing that characterizes success and failure, I think, is our ability to just move,” said Richardson, the chief of naval operations, in a speech to the Future Security Forum in Washington, D.C. “The most mortal sin we can have right now is to stay stable or stagnant.”
Decommissioning the Truman two decades early was a budgetary decision, according to Richardson.
“So, we're trying to move, and that is exactly the decision dynamic with respect to what’s more relevant for the future,” said the admiral. “Is it going to be the Harry S. Truman and its air wing where there’s a lot of innovation taking place, or is it something else?”

That something else, in Richardson’s view, are new technologies like unmanned and autonomous technologies, artificial intelligence, and, in particular, directed-energy weapons, which he believes are going to be “very decisive” in future warfare.
“Think lasers, high-powered microwaves. Electromagnetic energy in a focused way that can deliver kinetic or nonkinetic effects,” he said.

The Navy has been a trailblazer in directed-energy technologies and plans to deploy a laser on an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer by 2021. HELIOS, the High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance, is a 60-watt weapon tailor-made literally to burn small boats out of the water, making it an ideal countermeasure to the boat swarms being developed by adversaries like Iran and China.

Richardson has made adopting new technologies a priority since taking charge of naval operations in 2015. While making sure the fleet stays modern is uncontroversial in Washington defense circles, the measures being taken to get there are not, with the decision to decommission the Truman chief among them.
Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, expressed his disapproval of the decision during a committee hearing in March. “I am a little disturbed by the idea that we will be taking the USS Truman out of the system, and I wonder how this will work in our sheer numbers,” he said.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan defended the decision at the time, noting decommissioning the Truman will save the Pentagon $3.4 billion.

The early decommissioning of the Truman will drop the number of carriers available to the fleet from 11 to 10. Several members of Congress have expressed concern over what this might mean for warfighting capabilities, but there is also a legal requirement that the Navy maintain 11 carriers in the fleet. Critics have also questioned why the Pentagon would decommission a carrier as President Trump is trying to increase the Navy fleet to 350 ships from 272. Congress is likely to bring up the issue again when it returns from its spring recess.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...nds-decision-to-decommission-aircraft-carrier


Even on Defense, Republicans are still living in the '50

 

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Robert Mueller’s dead man switch appears to be kicking in

Earlier today, international operative George Nader – best known for his role in the Trump-Russia election conspiracy – was arrested on charges of child pornography. As more information comes in, it turns out a grand jury indicted Nader on this charge more than a year ago, and federal prosecutors have kept it under seal until now. This paints Robert Mueller’s endgame in a very different light.

George Nader had been cooperating with Mueller in the Trump-Russia investigation, in exchange for what the New York Times described a year ago as “limited immunity” – though the scope of that immunity was never specified. According to the Washington Post, Mueller – or a federal prosecutor coordinating with him – had a grand jury secretly indict Nader on the child pornography charges in April of 2018.

Nader has been out of the country for some time, finally returning to the United States just now. He surely didn’t know there was a sealed indictment against him, or he’d never have come back here. So while Mueller and the Feds may have used this evidence to push Nader into cooperating to begin with, his immunity must not have covered this kind of thing – and they appear not to have told him that they’d already indicted him for it.

Some political analysts are going to frame George Nader’s arrest as a final coda to the Mueller probe. They’ll argue that it only took this long to bust Nader because he’d been out of the country. But remember when William Barr told us that there were no sealed indictments in the Mueller probe, and that there would be no more indictments coming? Now we have proof that Barr was, as per usual, lying. Are we supposed to believe that there was only one sealed indictment in place, and that Barr took the trouble to lie about it?

This is starting to look like Robert Mueller and his cooperating prosecutors have had sealed indictments in place across the board for quite some time. They indicted Nader fourteen months ago and didn’t tell him he’d been indicted, even as he was cooperating with them. How many more sealed indictments did Mueller put in place along the way, in case he didn’t get to finish his work? We’d guess the Nader indictment was unsealed early, because the SDNY wanted to make sure to nail him before he left the country again – and that the other Mueller indictments are still being held back for strategic reasons. It sure sounds like Mueller had a dead man switch all along, and it’s just started to kick in.

Trump's ass is fried fucking chicken.

 

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All these motherfuckers will be in prison.

 

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Yes just like Hilarry Clinton will be in prison too!

I'm so sick of reading about it's only matter of time before they're in prison!

 

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Yes just like Hilarry Clinton will be in prison too! I'm so sick of reading about it's only matter of time before they're in prison!

Manafort is in in prison. Flynn is heading to prison. Cohen is in prison. Roger Stone goes to trial in November. Rick Gates is waiting to be sentenced. George Papadopoulos sent to prison. Alex van der Zwaan sent to prison. Litigation takes time. I don't fucking care what you are sick of.

 

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Trump or Hillary won't be in prison.

I don't care what you always gotta quote and try too hard about.

 

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Trump or Hillary won't be in prison. I don't care what you always gotta quote and try too hard about.

That's amusing, considering I don't bother with you until you start squawking. Since you, "don't care", and and are, "sick of" whatever, feel free to keep scrolling, solves all your issues, innit.