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Always interesting to me that those who focus on the legal technicalities still firmly believe Mr. Trump is totally and undeniably guilty of colluding with the Russians regarding the election.

Beware of semantics tactics

Is she also "innocent" from an ethical and moral standpoint?

If she is subjected to the same legal process to which Mr. Zimmerman was subjected, then your comparison might make sense.

Big Girl, is Susan Rice innocent?

Sorry Dove, but read about that some time ago.

hadn't heard about this. Is there a link?

There is no need for these activities. Love and an apology tour are the answers.

If I have no business spying on you but am able to do so by getting a warrant to spy on someone you know, then whenever you interact with that someone, I am essentially spying on you.

Thank you- This is much more serious than saying " I found out about the IRS scandal in the newspapers, just like the rest of you"

Can you give me a couple of outrageous examples?

And anyone who thinks the top man was unaware of all of this is extremely naïve.

The left- experts at "victimology"

No No No- We can't give Trump credit for anything positive

I wonder if NewTobie respects Rush.

WASHINGTON—Russia has been carrying out a “disinformation campaign” to try to cover up for the suspected Syrian chemical attack last week, senior White House officials said Tuesday, adding the U.S. has concluded the Syrian military used banned sarin gas in the assault. As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow for high-level talks, White House officials on Tuesday added to pressure against Moscow by questioning Russia’s role in the attack and suggested that it may have known that its ally Syria was preparing to use sarin. Officials said there is no U.S. intelligence consensus on whether Russia had advance knowledge of the attack. But they also said it seems implausible that Moscow wouldn’t have known given the close military cooperation between the two countries. Russian and Syrian forces work side-by-side at the airfield used to launch the attack, raising suspicions among White House and Pentagon officials that Russia may have known what was coming. “We do think that it is a question worth asking the Russians about: How is it possible that their forces were co-located with the Syrian forces that planned, prepared and carried out this chemical weapons attack at the same installation and did not have foreknowledge?” said one of the officials. The chemical attack April 4 killed at least 85 people. Syria repeatedly has denied using chemical weapons in the attack, and Moscow has suggested that the Syrian airstrike hit a chemical weapons depot used by rebels. On Tuesday, the White House dismissed the Russian allegation as baseless disinformation meant to obfuscate Syria’s culpability in the attack. “It’s clear that the Russians are trying to cover up the attack,” said one senior White House official. U.S. officials say a Syrian SU-22 warplane dropped one bomb filled with sarin gas on the rebel-held village of Khan Sheikhoun. After the attack, Pentagon officials said they saw a Russian drone flying over the area, then a second Russian-made plane carried out an airstrike on a field hospital where many victims were taken for treatment. It is unclear if a Russian or Syrian pilot carried out the second attack, White House officials said. After seeing graphic images of children killed in the chemical attack, President Donald Trump ordered a cruise missile attack Friday on the Shayrat airfield, believed to be home to the pilots who carried out the airstrikes. The U.S. military launched nearly 60 missiles in an attempt to deter President Bashar al-Assad from using chemical weapons again. The strike didn’t damage the airfield runways or target suspected sarin gas storage sites at the base, making it possible for Syria to keep using the banned chemicals. White House officials said Syrian personnel associated with the regime’s chemical weapons program were at Shayrat airfield in late March, and on April 4. On the day of the American cruise missile strikes, U.S. officials warned Russians that an attack on Shayrat airfield was coming, giving them an opportunity to get their personnel at the base to safety. The U.S. didn’t strike parts of the base where Russians work, an intentional move designed to focus attention on Syria. White House officials said there was no evidence to back up Russia’s contention that a rebel chemical weapons storage site was hit in the strike and called on Moscow to stop obfuscating, work with the U.S. and ensure that Syria follows through on its commitment to get rid of all of its chemical weapons, sometimes known as WMDs, or weapons of mass destruction. “This is an opportunity for the Russians to choose to stop the disinformation campaign…and eliminate WMDs together,” said one of the White House officials.

Do you think that the lies that you have of Mr. Trump have done more harm to the American public than the lies of Susan Rice?

Tobie- what do you think about the article?

President Obama left his successor many time bombs—think chemical weapons in Syria and the collapsing Affordable Care Act. But a burning fuse that gets less attention showed its first signs of the explosion to come in Friday’s Congressional Budget Office budget review for March: Rising net interest payments on the national debt. CBO reported that the federal budget deficit rose $63 billion in the first half of fiscal 2017 (October-March) to $522 billion from a year earlier. But here’s the especially bad omen: Net interest payments rose $7 billion, or 30%, in March from a year earlier. If that seems small, consider that interest payments rose $28 billion for the six months of fiscal 2017 to $152 billion. That’s a 22.2% increase, among the biggest in any single spending item highlighted by CBO. The increases reflect the growing debt but in particular the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates after years of near-zero rates. While Mr. Obama was doubling the national debt over eight years, the Fed’s monetary policies spared him from the fiscal consequences. The Fed’s near-zero policy kept interest rates at historic lows that reduced net interest payments even as the overall debt increased. The Fed’s bond-buying programs also earned money that the Fed turned over to Treasury each year, reducing the size of the federal budget deficit by tens of billions of dollars. This not-so-free Fed lunch is starting to end. CBO estimates that $160 billion more spending will be required each year over the next decade if interest rates are merely one percentage point higher than in its current projections. As interest rates rise, the Fed will also have to pay banks more to keep excess reserves parked at the central bank. After its latest rate increase in March, the Fed now pays banks 1% on reserve balances or about $20 billion a year, and that will go up. Fed officials are also now hinting that this year they may finally stop buying new securities when the current bonds on its balance sheet come due. This is necessary and long overdue, but it will mean smaller Fed contributions to the federal budget than the more than $90 billion the Fed has turned over in recent years. (See the nearby chart.) All of this is set to explode on President Trump’s watch, and it will complicate the task for Republicans as they try to reform the tax code within tighter budget constraints. Mr. Obama didn’t expect a Republican to succeed him but we doubt he regrets this result. He was able to live off the eight years of accommodative Fed policy while seeding the federal fisc with ever-higher spending from interest payments and the Affordable Care Act after he leaves office. Mr. Trump is stuck with the bar tab. It’s one more mess Mr. Obama left others to clean up.

How racist of you!!!!!

Future votes

Perhaps I was wrong. Go ahead and substantiate that by stating that you have no hate and or disrespect for Mr. Trump and are very willing to give him a reasonable time in office before passing judgement on him.

Be careful, you may be accused of being an" idoit".

Do you mean like your attitude toward Mr. Trump?

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