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jlf1961 -> RE: Nothing to see here.... (6/14/2017 9:43:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: BoscoX
Could leftists be any more insanely hateful and enraged
"deliberately surrounding himself with incompetents and idiots to try to make himself look better"
They really believe this stuff
The actual situation is that the members of President Trump's staff actually know what they are doing. The problem is when the President, despite their best efforts goes and tweets or says something contradicting what they have been saying.
And bosco, before you start screaming about how this is bullshit, may I point out the most recent example:
The memo firing Comey clearly stated that it was because of the way he handled the Clinton email investigation, didn't matter that Trump and the GOP praised his releasing the fact he was reopening the investigation in October, which clearly impacted the election results.
However, when President Trump was talking to the the visitors from Russia, he stated he was already thinking of firing him BEFORE the memo because of the Russia investigation.
His staff immediately went into action to make sure that was just part of the issue, and he had not made a decision to fire Comey until AFTER the memo was received.
Then in a televised live interview he stated he had already decided to fire Comey because of the investigation into the Russian election tampering AND due to the investigation of Flynn before he got the memo from the justice department.
In other words, he basically called his staff liars after they had spent four days trying to shut the thing down saying he had not decided to fire Comey until after the memo.
He has done this a few times, and frankly, it makes his staff look incompetent and like idiots, which they are not. In fact many of them have been part of successful campaigns, staffs and are tops in their fields.
The problem is the President. While stating what he thinks and rampant tweets might have been a good thing when he was in business and not in politics, he needs to learn when to shut his mouth and let his staff, people he chose because they know how to work with in the political world, do their jobs.
I have said it before and I will say it again, even if Trump did nothing wrong, and considering he fired Bannon from the national security council, his own actions, misguided as they may be, will get him in more trouble.
Considering what Democrats and former colleagues of Flynn have said about the man.
Dems have repeated talked up his honesty, his integrity, and many have used the term 'stand up guy."
His former military colleagues have said the same thing, and used the term 'upstanding officer,' men who served under his command have said basically the same thing.
All agree on one point, a very important point, Flynn would never knowingly do something unethical, dishonest, and if it was something critical, he would never act without some directives from his superiors, unless the situation was such that he had no time to do so.
Flynn has said on a number of occasions he answered to Bannon during the campaign and transition, and not Trump.
One of the complaints about Bannon, according to anonymous sources within the white house is that Bannon often acted without directive from Trump or without authority, which angered people when he crossed the line into someone else's job.
Now, with all of that known, I have to think that it is entirely possible that Flynn did what he did completely without President Trump's knowledge, but under the directives of someone else.
Now, while everyone is screaming about the integrity of Donald Trump, I must point out that, while in business he made some questionable decisions, including taking a loan from his father who made the loan by purchasing a few million in casino chips he never used (the New Jersey gaming commission nailed Trump on that and he admitted it was wrong after the incident.)
However, when Donald Trump was caught doing something that was technically illegal or against regulations, there is one over whelming fact that speaks to his integrity, he never tried to pass the blame to someone else. He accepted he was ultimately responsible and never threw anyone under the bus to save his own ass.
By the same token, he is loyal to his closest friends, to the point where he will try to protect them any way possible.
If that is the case, President Trump may be shooting himself in the foot out of some misguided attempt to protect someone who, in all honesty, should be thrown under the bus.
In which case, Trump may end up in deep trouble for something he did not actively have any knowledge of.
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