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President Trump Misses 90-Day Deadline To Appoint a Cybersecurity Team After Alleged Russian Hacking (politico.com)
From a report: President-elect Donald Trump was very clear: "I will appoint a team to give me a plan within 90 days of taking office," he said in January, after getting a U.S. intelligence assessment of Russian interference in last year's elections and promising to address cybersecurity. Thursday, Trump hits his 90-day mark. There is no team, there is no plan, and there is no clear answer from the White House on who would even be working on what. It's the latest deadline Trump's set and missed -- from the press conference he said his wife would hold last fall to answer questions about her original immigration process to the plan to defeat ISIS that he'd said would come within his first 30 days in office. Since his inauguration, Trump's issued a few tweets and promises to get to the bottom of Russian hacking -- and accusations of surveillance of Americans, himself included, by the Obama administration.
I guess "the Cyber" is actually hard, huh? Kind of like Health Care, or North Korea?
Who knew?
He's gotten so much done... Filling his pockets from Federal coffers and his fooled foolish followers.
Trump got into power by nothing but bluster. He isn't going to be able to deliver on more than 5% of what he promised on the campaign trail. With a Republican majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives he STILL couldn't repeal Obamacare. With the deck stacked entirely in his favor he still can't deliver.
America, you've been had.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
ffs
Did some actually think he would?
There is not a single person, anywhere, who actually expected him to even begin to deliver on this promise. He says whatever the hell he feels like saying in the moment and has absolutely no interest whatsoever in actually doing the work of running a country--then or now.
Please stop pretending otherwise. Things are bad enough without this layer of affectation.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
You should all get a " I'm with Stupid" T-shirt.
“No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/18/remarks-president-trump-buy-american-hire-american-executive-order
You really expected these people to keep their promises? Does everybody vote for them just so they can have something to complain about? Don't expect to be taken seriously when you consistently reelect over 95% of them. You reward them for lying, so I hope you don't expect them to stop doing so.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Continuous behaviors of ineptitude in the highest office of this land. With precedents like this being put in place, all of our future POTUS' don't even need to worry about lifting a finger in Washington.. You can just work on your golf game for four years on the taxpayer dime.
At last, we finally have undeniable proof that Donald J. Trump is a deep cover Russian agent sent here decades ago to hand the U.S. over to Russia! And to think, they called us all delusional, hysterical crackpots, with zero critical thinking skills, all throwing childish temper tantrums because our candidate lost a close election. The fools! Vindication is now ours!
Get me that egghead Bill Gates on the line.
this is best miss, it's stupendous
This Russian stuff is a complete waste of time. We already know they phished email account passwords from dems...what else is there to know? How much money should we spend on this?
We don't ordinarily allow criticism of a republican on the front page here; could this be from someone who is trying to get us to like Mike Pence in case he ascends to POTUS after Trump resigns?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
He would have appointed Rudy Giuliani, who doesnt own a personal computer save his phone, to be cybersecurity czar, That way, like all of his other appointments, nothing would get accomplished.
Oh wait, he did.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article126417814.html
In case you thought it went away after November, the Russian teams (which operate all over, not just in Russia) are still hacking physical machines and networks in US elections.
This past week.
Still going on.
Machines don't just "happen" to "break" in precincts with black and brown voters in a massively higher percentage by "accident".
But, hey, not like this is important. If you don't mind living in a police state.
The only thing that works is paper ballots mailed in and counted on non-networked optical scanners (humans are ok too, but not as accurate, and yes, I've participated in multiple human recounts).
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#winning
It was once called "Taxation without representation."
Now I'm paying to enrich a "billionaire" playboy narcissist pretend to be religious or care about anything but himself.
I'll care because - and this is not an affectation - We the People once fought for things we believed in. Now we're fighting to believe in anything as we're being suffocated by bullies trying to suck up all the oxygen on the planet with their vapidity while their backroom oligarch orchestrators ensure that the masses will forever remain struggling and at each others' throats instead of sharing the wealth of spoils that they're stealing from under our noses.
No one sent him a tweet reminding him of his promise. Not that he'd read it, or care.
Is very very sorry...
Trump? Plan? Surely you jest.
Table-ized A.I.
I say you're probably a troll.
For every dollar spent investigating a corrupt oligarch-led culture that has successfully compromised the integrity of the world's most powerful nation we buy a small semblance of continuity with the ideals to which we should adhere whether a con-man usurper has taken the highest seat in the land or someone who merely sent emails.
When T proclaimed, "Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated", I could hear the sound of 100-million face-palms. Foreheads all over had finger marks the next day.
Table-ized A.I.
to Russia. We're in good hands, comrade! :)
I say for every dollar wasted on this whole Russia BS, two dollars get used for obummer and Hitlery investigation of corruption.
So considering all the money spent investigating Hillary (Benghazi, email, et. al) We should only need to spend another 2 billion or so by your math investigating trump.
Show of hands, who's actually shocked by this news?
Trump is full of all talk, little action, and most of that is misguided. He doesn't seem to have the first clue as to what he's doing, and his administration is either following that lead, or following Trump's only other plan, which is loot as much as possible before leaving office.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Did you forget to log in?
There is no team, there is no plan, and there is no clear answer from the White House on who would even be working on what.
I get the feeling that we're going to hear this alot over the next four years
The guy is no longer president, what administration are they talking about? To the best of my knowledge, since leaving office, Barack Obama seems to be taking a bit of a breather from politics for at least the time being. Sounds like baseless finger-pointing, if you ask me.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Trump wouldn't have needed Congressional approval, Senate confirmation, even a budget hearing. Just ask his Chief of Staff to hire some people. That's it. Done. Simple, promise kept, cross it off the list (uhh, is there a list?) Instead, he tweeted a lot of nonesense, rubber-stamped a bunch of stuff from Ryan and the Generals, and played golf at his estate on weekends at taxpayer expense.
Ok, I get it that some people just hate Dems, foam at the mouth and all. But this guy is doing a lot of nothing, all the while his hotels and other properties mop up the bucks (STAY at the "official" Hotel of the Prez-Z-Dent!!! Sweet Deal! Get a Free Hat if you book the PrezeeDential Suite!) while he gives his entourage free miles on Air Force One (plus secret service details). I guess none of that counts, as long as you keep hating Dems?
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
You're using words that no one outside of extremist websites use in real life. That leads us to a couple possible conclusions, neither of which speak very highly of your character.
More like news for people who aren't paying attention.
The administration is way behind on filling much more important positions than this. Last month suddenly reversed themselves on the US attorneys staying on until there are replacements... fine, but as of today there aren't any nominees for any of the 93 prosecutor positions, because they haven't filled the undersecretary level positions that do that. Justice is also missing a number of key appointees for national security positions.
There's the same story at state, where over half of the high level appointees have yet to be named, including officials to oversee the Middle East or nuclear anti-proliferation.
The confusing situation with the USS Vinson might well have something to do with the fact that a number of important second and third tier DoD positions haven't been filled, and the same at the Executive Office of the President. A lot of what those people a teir or two below the top do is make sure the right hand knows what the left is doing.
Cybersecurity is an important issue, but the administration doesn't have the people in place to set up and run such a team yet.
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They seem to share the same pro-nationalist, religious, homophobic values.
Mind you they each share them for a different religious team, but watching that war take place should be good for plenty of popcorn munching moments :)
- Society to Ship All Republicans to Russia or Turkey.
This is one of the last places we can read technology without the empty vessels making noise about their political views. They don't belong here. There are plenty of places to voice political opinions - slashdot is not one of those. @slashdot - political vitriol should not be allowed.
when he bombed Syria & Afghanistan. "Look the other way everyone" was the answer. Now stop asking questions. We've always been at war with Eurasia.
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right up until "Deep Cover". Nobody in Deep Cover would be this obvious about it. My 4 year old could hide stolen cookies better than Trump hides his Russian ties.
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always wondered what it would be like under a dictatorship.
It allows us all to signal our virtue. Hooray.
That (a series or network of tubes) was actually a pretty good analogy to describe internet and its data flow to lay people.
Bandwidth, latency etc can be well understood with this analogy.
I think the people who laughed at this description of the Internet are severely imagination-deficient. And no, I have no idea what political side the guy who described the net thus is on, so I have no axe to grind either way.
Explaining by good analogy is actually an intellectual skill and a gift. Kind of like a box of chocolates...
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Cutting red tape to ribbons is an intrinsically easier job than building up effective layers of regulation that prevent the public interest being bent over a barrel, while the longest of all possible rubber gloves rummages around for the better part of a trillion dollars.
Evidently, no money was harmed in the operation.
The job, as I see it, is a little harder to accomplish, once you concede that there is such a thing as effective regulation, though it's yet far from a science; science also being a discipline where time after time ones best efforts fall short, and yet one perseveres.
In the best case scenario, even after regulation becomes more of science, it will still be double hard: hard to do and hard on the ego.
Kind of makes a guy want to double down on only caring about money, setting oneself up on a lavish private beach, and watching the glorious Egos soar.
Thank you, America; way to take one for the team. With Brexit the world was looking to the UK as the dumbest nation on the planet. With Trump as President, the rest of the world sees the US as a bunch of dribbling simpletons, easy marks whose opinions are created out of whole cloth by a couple of Russian hacking cells.
Maybe he hasn't appointed a task force to look into Russian hacking because he can't find anyone who can lie convincingly about the subject to actually fool anyone?
Meanwhile there's an ongoing independent investigation into possible Russian tampering with the November election. Oh, and by the way: Russian has also been tampering with elections in other countries, too, and Russia appears to be where much of the cyber-hacking in the world originates from. Not like this idea came out of nowhere.
Worst case scenario: Trump and/or his staff are discovered to have been complicit in tampering with the election, and the election is declared null-and-void, Trump is removed from office. Where, then, do we go from there? Is Pence then installed as President, or is he tossed out on his ear, along with the rest of the Trump Cabinet? If this were a TV show, that'd be damned interesting to watch, but here in the Real World, I can't see it as anything other than a complete disaster for the United States. The last thing we need in this country right now, considering the socio-political climate of the entire planet, is a power-vacuum. However if that's what the conclusion of the investigation revealed, what else could we do?
It's just bad all around. None of this should have happened. Trump never had any business being elected President. Hillary Clinton should never have been the Democratic candidate. Vladimir Putin should never have been allowed to rise to power in Russia. North Korea. China. Islamic State. It's just bad all over, none of it is funny, not before, not now, and in the end everybody loses in one way or another. Many Conservatives who voted for Trump are now regretting it, seeing what it is they've bought into. There is now a greater chance of getting into an armed conflict with North Korea, and Kim Jong Un is batshit-insane and would use a nuke if you poked him enough. The world is painting itself into a corner and I don't know how or if we'll manage to fix all this.
Well there were a few holidays, weekends and trips to Mar-a-lago in there, so maybe it was 90 working days.
It's the losers who want this. Obviously an insult to the intelligence of those who voted against Hillary. The people who voted for Trump are not asking for this. It wasn't the damn Russians who voted for him after all.
In the original context, it's quite clear that the "series of tubes" guy had no idea WTF he was talking about.
Original poster gets +1 imaginary point for being snarky, and you get -1 for being tiresomely pedantic.
Democrats aren't going to persecute themselves genius.
Did you just call Chaffetz a democrat?
Yeah, "series of tubes" wasn't a a bad analogy in itself, but there were many terrible analogies and hilarious falsehoods in the rest of the infamous rant surrounding it.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Interrupt his golf game for something as nebulous as cybersecurity? You must be joking.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
... They had moles in the FBI, DoJ as well as the White House. Hence the meet between Clinton & Lynch on the airport tarmac when the two don't even know each other. Coincidence? Not likely. Rigging/payoff...
I think Comey's sudden announcement of more Emails to investigate nearly on the eve of the election, on a Friday Afternoon, seems way more influential and suspicious than the crap fake news you quoted. You could see a 10 point swing in the polling numbers after that.
to head that team is Jared Kushner.
It's not like he has anything better to do.
Should be the the Society to Hand All Republicans to Russia or Turkey:
S.H.A.R.T.
Well, that'd be a compliment to him. He's a waste of space.
but the more I think about it, I believe you're closer.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Wait, what? A mole? I don't think that word means what you think it does.
And the result of Mable program, perhaps?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4367746/WikiLeaks-says-CIA-disguised-hacking-Russian-activity.html
Show of hands, who was sitting on their hands, waiting for the incoming administration to ramp up a cyber security team to help democrats secure their private, non-government email servers? In providing guidance to geniuses like Jpn Podesta to NOT use 'password' as the password on your work GMAIL account?
Seriously, Democrats ignored warnings from FBI that they were being targeted by hackers, the Republicans heeded the warning, with predictable results in both cases.
Ken
So he does [something] and people complain.
Now they're complaining because he didn't do [something].
Poor guy can't catch a break!
You do realize the Russia thing was an attempt by Obama to cover up his spying on a political opponent's campaign? While attempting to prove it they couldn't find anything.
Susan Rice unmasked all conversations between Trump people and any foreigners they talked to. It was even mentioned she told spy agencies to spy specifically on Trump known associates to help her out.
They requested a FISA warrant on Trump in June before the election, so blatant it was the 11th ever turned down in the 27 years of the FISA court.
They GOT a FISA warrant on Carter Page, a Trump advisor, just before the election on evidence that failed to produce any kind of prosecution, showing that they lied to get it or found a corrupt judge.
No, the Russia thing is an EMBARRASMENT for Obama and showed his spying on campaigns. You are supposed to drop the issue, in case you haven't noticed all the news agencies dropped the issue like a hot potato once it was obvious Obama's administration was breaking the law by spying on US citizens, specifically political campaigns.
Now tell me again, what did Nixon do that people didn't like? I can't seem to find a liberal that can answer that one any more.
Well the team and the evidence exist in the same state.
i.e. they don't
Is your pencil broken or are you too illiterate to write 'Vermin Supreme'
You're right about the SoS. But the current head of Exxon is asking the former head of Exxon for a waiver of sanctions so they can make money with Russian oil companies.
But I'm sure you don't think that is corruption. Unless it was Hillary, then ITS THE WORST!
He's been a Democrat before he was a Republican?
He promised to pay back loans and contractors and then didn't?
He was for virtually everything until he was against it?
I mean, he's been sooo consistant and open throughout his life that this New Trump must be some sort of aberration.
The one thing that has never wavered is Trump does what is best for Trump and screw the rest of you.
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
to know what all this influence was. Do they mean something like Radio Free Europe...
A 400 pound teenager in his Mom's basement!
That's because it's Ctrl-Left, not Alt-left. Deserved it for trying to tie those nutters to the Alt-Right master race.
As of this posting I cannot find
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On the basis of this information I conclude that there are more intelligent people on Slashdot than on most internet forums. Though if I had wanted a floating box docked to the top right of the screen obscuring what I was reading I would have fcuking asked for it.
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
Trump meant 90 _working_ days. Once you take off weekends, Mar-a-largo holidays, golf days and campaigning for 2020 days he is up to about day 12 now.
You will see that in his first 100 days (working days) he will have done more than any President has done in their whole term. Of course he may never get to 100 days if he isn't re-elected in 2020.
BENGHAZI!!!!11!!1!!11!
At least no more than usual, certainly none that had any direct influence in the US election. No evidence has been found, the narrative is being pushed by the Hillary camp and MSM.
And this, folks, is the perfect illustration of why conspiracy theorists are morons.
Is there no evidence that the theory is true? That just proves the conspiracy is Even Bigger! The coverup goes to another level!
There is no end to this logic, and no way of disproving it. Anyone who believes it - is completely unequipped to understand science, or anything else for that matter.
I'm not a fan of the guy, but it's not like he's been unencumbered. He's had literally everyone and everything against him/fighting him/doing everything they can to slow him down.
At least call it what it really is.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/14/election-marks-end-americas-racial-detente/
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7268
(Apologies for the mangled characters. I just don't care enough to fix them today. Click the links if they bother you.)
See that "Preview" button?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/p...
Jill Stein and husband together: 302,258
http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/0...
It takes "at least $389,000 to make the club".
It's funny to think that in 50 years trolls are still going to be shouting that while their eyes whirl around in their heads.
You think Republicans don't have moles in those origanizations?
Republicans-in-power tend to be less for-the-people and more pro-company / pro-money. They tend to be fine with companies throwing shit into the water (see coal mining regulations, trying to throw out FDA's report due to chemical company lobbying) and letting companies get away with it.
I would expect MORE Republicans to be in higher positions since they're usually the ones with the money, and have less scruples as long as it makes them rich and powerful.
The fact that nothing has come about from "leaks" by replublican aligned agents indicates there's nothing here.
Unless, of course, you're saying republicans are shit at this political stuff, because the democrats have all the power for some reason =P
As long as there isn't a "cyber plan," there probably isn't much of anything else (other than panic) in that department. And as long as it continues in parallel with Wikileaks and other whistle blowers, everyone will benefit. This is because intelligence agencies hate encryption and love backdoors, which that attitude puts us all at risk. If the U.S. has the hacking tools, then so does RU. Ergo, the weaknesses and negligence at a gov level in conjunction with leaks are actually allowing security improvements at the more basic levels for all of us, or at least for now. Heaven forbid anyone takes the time to be more self-involved with their privacy practices.
"President Trump Misses 90-Day Deadline To Appoint a Cybersecurity Team After Alleged Russian Hacking"
That's because he's an imbecile, and because he doesn't want anyone looking into Russian hacking connections, because who knows what they might find.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
The polling numbers didn't tell the election. The Democrats were using the polling numbers up until the very end to assume they would win. So why do these wide polling number swings you reference have anything to do with the additional emails found on Tony Wanker's laptop?
"You know, I'm going to appoint a Russian commission to investigate the Russian hacking. Which just so you know, didn't happen! This will be the Best, Bigliest, Most Awesome commission, you won't believe! It will be 100% independent and impartial, and as long as they agree with me that no Russian hacking occurred, will be successful like you wouldn't believe.
We have a general I know, a great guy. We have a businessman, the best. I know them. I don't know Putin but I assume he is a great guy.
The commission is on hold since, as you know, I am under audit by the IRS. I have the best legal advice and I am told I can do anything I want. Therefore I am putting the commission on hold because I am under audit. As soon as the audit is over I will hold the commission.
Some of you know that I am a successful businessman, the Best. The Most Awesome. As a result I am always under audit by the IRS. It's nothing and I will win.
Once the never-ending audits end, this Russian investigation will begin. It is my highest priority, believe me. I am Bigly. Giggity!"
It goes hand in hand with evangelical Christianity which employs/features the same sort of thought trap: "people who don't believe what I say are wrong, therefore they can't be right"
But how can we trust anyone in the FBI, CIA, NSA, DoJ? They're all corrupt. There's only one man with the insight, intellect and forensic skills to get to the bottom of this swamp, that fearless investigator, the Man with the Golden Tan, Agent Trump!
Why not actually crack a history book before yapping nonsense, or at least use your noggin. Here is a question for you: When someone gets fired at your company do you immediately hire the first hobo walking down the street to fill the job, or do you find candidates and follow an interview process?
You do realize that when Obama took office, ALL of the attorneys from Bush were fired? Right? You do realize that it took months to fill all those positions right? How about when Clinton fired all 93 Republican appointees in a single day, remember that? Those were not immediately filled either.
Fuck you liberals are stupid.
I find your theory both believable and very likely true. How do chemtrails and cuthulu tie into this again?
Trump is too busy being re-tailored by his new masters (who got bored with the "my little hillary" goll they were going to use). Once they are sure that he is benign and properly trained these appointments will be made. War is peace and long live the oligarchy.
Trump got in to office by being lucky enough to run against Hillary Clinton. A huge part of the FULL electorate (Dems and Republicans) would vote for a ticket of Kim Jong-Un with Mahmood Ahmedinejad just to keep someone named Clinton out of the white house..
Democrats voted in overwhelming numbers for a full out Socialist over Clinton.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I also liked being told the internet was "not a big truck". And it took over 4 hours to send "an internet" to his secretary.
He is not mocked for the analogy but his obvious hallucinogenic drug use.
You wanna talk influence and suspicion, explain why a sailor was being prosecuted by the DOJ for taking unauthorized photos of a submarine on his cell phone at the same time it was letting Hillary off for her unauthorized email server, which stored a vastly larger amount of classified information.
Democrats, far from hating on Comey, should be giving him free blow jobs for the rest of his life for not charging their Dear Leader with mishandling classified evidence and obstruction of justice, when she deleted 30,000 pieces of evidence, again without authorization.
Buy your knee pads and get busy.
Except he wasn't making an analogy. Thus the mocking.
Whoa whoa whoa!
Democrats aren't going to persecute themselves genius.
Did you just call Chaffetz a democrat?
He ain't a democrat until he's been accused of pedophilia! Then the (R) mysteriously becomes (D) on the Fox TV crawler. Not before.
Broadly, I'm guessing because the sailor was still in active duty at the time and subject to more regulations thank former DoD staffer. It be her lizard queen mind powers too though, based on the web sites making that shit up.
BHENGHAZZZZZZIIIIIIIIII!
Also, what's the super critical intel we got for the active duty American soldier that died? I don't give a fuck about military contractor mercenaries that were in it for the money.
The former is a zionist conspiracy to cover up their worship of the latter. Duh. You can read all about it in my web manifesto, "Tin foil hats and Electroshock: Better Together!"
Trump lied?
Really?
Isn't that something that you people said was the reason to never vote for Hillary?
It's amazing how partisan this place became last year.
The same reason Powell, Rice and all the others were not prosecuted.
Different rules for people in the office versus people in the field.
It sucks, but it's been entrenched for a long time and it's kind of funny how it was blown up into a massive thing by the same people who suggested that it was OK for Petraeus to swap secrets for sex.
Nope. Mishandling classified evidence is mishandling classified evidence - just ask any whistleblower prosecuted for it, or former high level officials like Sandy Berger or David Petraeus.
You going to give Trump a free pass on everything, because there's even less to the Russian conspiracy theory than there is for anything on Benghazi (aside from a CIA black site, of course) using the same reasoning? The story that Russia hacked power companies fell apart within a day, so Trump didn't really say he liked grabbing women by their private parts. Because....reasons.
Make sure that the Cyber Team consists of 81% Linux Professionals with a combination of BSD Professionals.
Linux Professionals helped build the Internet ie. there is lots of Linux Servers. There! 10 points added to your I.Q.
More trolls critiquing you.
Alternatively, maybe just the new version of nazis we've bred through faux news.
NM comments chains are just terrible on mobile.
Oh, wait, there's MORE work to do? Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work. (Hey, come to think of it, Governor LePetomane would probably do as good a job . . .)
Agreed that comey fucker should rot in jail until he dies
News for nerds or news for really dumb shits? There was no hacking, if anyone would know, that's nerds. Breaking into Podesta's account using the password of password isn't hacking. There is nothing to show anything was done with any election process in any state to help Trump. We know thanks to Stein that Trump is very likely missing votes because when she did a recount he ended up with a lot more. We know from Obama's own best help he had that there was no Russian connection. In fact we know his people didn't take that bait. On the other hand we know Hillary received money from Russia, gave them around 1/3 of our Uranium while she was Scty of state and Podesta receive hundreds of thousands of bucks from them, as an illegal unregistered foreign agent. Lots of ties from Russia to the Democrats.
Again - what hacking?
Not even a talking point, it's just outright lies.
So you actually think Trump in showmanship mode is "proof" that he is not able to form complete thoughts?
Where I am we had a politician up until the late 1980s who spoke like Trump. It was a tactic of speaking utter nonsense (eg. "you can't walk on both sides of a barbed wire fence") for long enough to confuse a journalist and at that time keep it up until a film change was needed (only a few minutes with the small portable cameras used for TV news) and the journalist needed to start again. Others use tricks along those lines.
He's a creature of "reality TV" these days. Postures and sound bites instead of anything concrete. I don't think he ever had his mind in a better state so I don't think you have Trump being declared non compos mentis and a President Pence to look forward to.
Stevens said "it's like a series of tubes". That is exactly what an analogy is.
As I remember it, Comey didn't "announce" that, he wrote a letter to clarify/update his testimony under oath. This is something an extremely honest person would do, to avoid being accused of hiding information.
It was Chaffetz who decided to go public with that letter.
Okay. I am convinced now. Impeach Trump.
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
Yes,because Obama was also a warmongering neoliberal freakshow, and didn't want to prosecute the previous administration least he be prosecuted himself for his own war crimes and criminality.
Who was actually prosecuted for mishandling classified evidence - which just reinforced the point that Comey should be thanked by Hillbots for being her BFF, not thrown under the bus.