Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

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LinekersLegs said:
Fair point. Although Liz Goodwin is a political reporter for the Boston Globe she is probably not a household name so I should have made that clear and also the full context that Trump was referring to visa lottery winners rather than those immigrants like Melania who did not use the lottery system - my revulsion at his comments resulted in cheap snark!

Fwiw here is an article from the Washington Examiner discussing the comments
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-horrendous-cpac-speech/article/2649875
President Trump's speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference started out as a relatively tame performance touting signature accomplishments such as tax cuts and judicial nominations, but it took an ugly turn as he moved to the topic of immigration, broadly painting those who come here as a result of the lottery system as "horrendous."

The context was that Trump was lambasting Democrats for not agreeing to his terms as part of an immigration deal. Though they're willing to give him funding for the wall, he said, they won't budge on other issues, such as chain migration and ending the visa lottery. "Think of a lottery," Trump then said. "You have a country. They put names in. You think they're giving us their good people? Not too many of you people are going to be in the lottery." He then pointed out to the CPAC crowd and continued. "So we pick out people. Then they turn out to be horrendous. And we don't understand why."

Now, it's one thing to say, it would be preferable to decide immigration based on merit than by random chance, as Trump went on to argue. But it's another thing to speak of lottery winners as a group as bad people. Now, I'm getting some blowback from Trump supporters on Twitter, arguing that Trump was merely calling the lottery a horrendous system. Go back and reread what he said or watch it again. He was not referring to the lottery as horrendous. He wasn't even saying when you have a lottery, there's a risk that some people being let in won't be as deserving as others who happened to lose out, thus making a merit-based system superior.

He said, mockingly of other countries, "You think they're giving us their good people?" Then he said, "We pick out people. Then they turn out to be horrendous." Key point — not some of them turn out to commit crimes, but, "they" — broadly speaking — "turn out to be horrendous."
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Do you reckon the people in that crowd KNOW they’re being lied to about the visa lottery, and just don’t care, or do you think they actually believe it works the way he’s claiming.
 
Ruairi77 said:
I would hope that if trump pardons Manafort, he'll be impeached and stand trial himself.
There's also the theory that Mueller could have enough information from Gates and doesn't need Manafort to flip. Maybe bringing out the Virginia charges yesterday is just a way of ensuring a Trump pardon cant save him
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With my cynical hat on I'd say
1) you have more faith in Paul Ryan and Senate Republicans than I do
2) Arpaio's pardon was done to try to establish a precedent that Trump could refer back to and say "yes, I pardoned him but it was nothing to do with Russia, he was just a good man caught up in a liberal witch-hunt same as my friend Sherrif Joe".

BirkenheadBlue said:
Do you reckon the people in that crowd KNOW they’re being lied to about the visa lottery, and just don’t care, or do you think they actually believe it works the way he’s claiming.
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I hope it is the latter, I worry that it is the former.
 
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CLANCY OVERELL | Editorhttps://www.betootaadvocate.com/hea...elink-call-waiting/editor@betootaadvocate.com

After meeting with sufferers and the families of those lost to America’s type 2 diabetes epidemic, President Trump has called for ‘something to be done about this horrible situation that is going on’ – and has already floated the idea of arming American schoolteachers with type 2 diabetes themselves, so as to prevent any more students dying from diabetes.

With left-wing politicians calling for stricter control on selling 1 gallon soft drinks to children, and the right wing arguing to let people do exactly what they want whenever they want unless they are Muslim or Hispanic, Mr Trump has had to find a solution that not only starts a whole other debate, but also keeps his core happy.

Mr Trump sat in the middle of a semi-circle in the White House State Dining Room, listening intently as survivors and parents wept and delivered emotional appeals for change.

“We’re going to do something about this horrible situation that’s going on. We’re all going to figure it out together,” he said.

“We’re going to be very strong on lunchbox checks, we’re doing very strong lunchbox checks, very strong emphasis on the sugar levels.

“If you had a teacher … who had type 2 diabetes themselves, it could very well end the seizure very quickly,” said Mr Trump, who acknowledged the idea would be controversial.

“They’d go for special training and they would be there and you would no longer have a sugar-free zone.”
 

This is true but it probably helps if the crackee is dumb enough to email pdf/word docs with known falsified info as detailed below. However I welcome Ms Ingram’s newfound skepticism about the legal plea process and look forward to her demonstrating it when a non-white immigrant without a fancy attorney pleads guilty to a crime.

From the indictment -
Manafort and Gates made numerous false and fraudulent representations to secure the loans. For example, Manafort provided the bank with doctored [profit and loss statements] for [Davis Manafort Inc.] for both 2015 and 2016, overstating its income by millions of dollars. The doctored 2015 DMI P&L submitted to Lender D was the same false statement previously submitted to Lender C, which overstated DMI’s income by more than $4 million. The doctored 2016 DMI P&L was inflated by Manafort by more than $3.5 million. To create the false 2016 P&L, on or about October 21, 2016, Manafort emailed Gates a .pdf version of the real 2016 DMI P&L, which showed a loss of more than $600,000. Gates converted that .pdf into a “Word” document so that it could be edited, which Gates sent back to Manafort. Manafort altered that “Word” document by adding more than $3.5 million in income. He then sent this falsified P&L to Gates and asked that the “Word” document be converted back to a .pdf, which Gates did and returned to Manafort. Manafort then sent the falsified 2016 DMI P&L .pdf to Lender D
 
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