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Not really. Trump never released his taxes so some of his sources of income weren't made known until some investigative reporting was done. I think at that time it would've been a stretch for a presidential candidate to be implicated in money laundering as is the case now with Russian oligarchs washing money through his companies. If you don't cheat on your taxes they'll show all that stuff which is why Nixon didn't show his before he was pressured and given a several hundred thousand dollar fine.

Justification? It's called precedence. Like that thing the Supreme Court sometimes uses while writing opinions. Lol, Obama paid money we OWED since Reagan was in office. Reagan GAVE Iran guns that I'm sure ended up in the hands of the Revolutionary Guard. By the way, paying off a debt if morally better than giving someone guns that celebrates killing you. If you don't think that than maybe you're the one that graduated from Acorn's Community Organizer training class, I actually graduated from Texas A&M.

You know how when Obama gave Iran that cash for the release of the hostages they also knew Iran's uranium enrichment capabilities had been compromised? We contracted Israel to infiltrate Iran's underground nuclear facility and install malware called stuxnet to destroy their centrifuges for the time being. Better read up, it's not all yarmulkes and kosher diets for the Hanukkah people.

Smh, dude Reagan gave Iran guns while we had an arms embargo against them to secure the release of the seven hostages during the Iran contra crisis. In 1979 the Shah of Iran was overthrown, prior to that they gave the US $400million to buy weapons. We froze $12billion in Iranian assets and only paid them back $3billion in 1981 when the issue was resolved for them taking over the US embassy. The case went to court in the Hague and eventually moved into private settlement talks between the two nations. Iran wanted upwards of $10billion in the settlement, the US ended up getting off the hook for $1.7billion. The first payment of the $1.7billion was $400million that Obama had delivered in Euros, Swiss Francs and other foreign currencies. True he used it to leverage the release of the Americans but let's put it in context. Obama gave money we owed for the release of hostages, Reagan gave Iran, who often chants "death to America" millions of dollars in weapons for the release of hostages. What's sad about Benghazi is how republicans exploited the deaths of those four people to the tune of $20+million but barely talk about operations Trump has botched in his five months in office leading to multiple deaths of our special ops. soldiers like the Yemen raid he tried to blame on Obama. Eight years and all y'all can produce on Obama is his secretary of state's private email server like the one Colin Powell also had. It hasn't been eight months for Trump and you're already hearing words like treason and impeachment. We don't need to go back to 2016, we can just start January 20th.

Why would I celebrate burning Israel. We basically contract Israel out to handle out dirty work around the region so we can keep our hands clean. Much like Obama I see them as a necessary evil. They get a pass because of the Holocaust and the fact that they're the people of Jesus. Reality is that they consistently terrorize the Palestinians, they continuously build new settlements which work directly in opposition to peace in the region, are often involved in cyber attacks around the world and every time they get hit in the mouth for one of the problems they caused they punk out and call us to save them. Obama saw Netanyahu for the far right idealist he is, the idiot in the White House now had to be told the difference between a one and two state solution.

I see we're a day behind on this forum. I know it's hard to keep up with all the tomfoolery but I thought we would've already moved on to Drump trying to pressure Comey to end the Russia investigation into Mike Flynn the day after he was fired. The existence of Comey's memo has already been verified but the script hasn't been authenticated. If proven to be true as written it will be stronger evidence of obstruction of justice than the Nixon tape from the Oval Office where H.R. Adelman and Nixon were caught talking about how to suppress the investigation of the break in. When this information does come out I hope there's a republican with the gall of Barry Goldwater that will go to the White House like he did with Nixon and tell him his time is over.

Man y'all crack me up. President Bush actually had Vladamir Putin come to his ranch in Crawford, TX and sit in on the president's daily briefing which is the most classified briefing the chief executive receives. The difference with what Bush and Obama did is that they had all the information that was going to be shared vetted through national security agencies as to not compromise any sources or operations. To the shock of the intelligence community agent orange spouted this highly classified information off in a bragadocious manner to the two Russian agents, which is why the White House is in damage control mode right now. What's even more disturbing about these reports is the information the president revealed may have been collected through the Israeli Mossad which is probably the only intelligence agency on par with our CIA in the world. No matter my thoughts on Israel, there's a good chance the president just burned our only true ally in the middle east. You can rest assure Russia's best friend Iran will find some way to thwart the collection techniques of Israel due to our president's mouth.

LMAO, we don't even have 1000 total people in congress dude. Maybe you should introspect some research. Yes though, I do find it weird that our great country is the only democracy where you don't have to have the most votes to win. That's like Ted Cruz's senate seat going up and him getting the most votes but we give the seat to Julian Castro because you won the most counties. It's bass-ackwards but that and gerrymandering is the only thing that gives the republicans a breath of life in a country that will eventually wipe their party out.

Everybody except people that are real billionaires unlike tRump. Buffet wouldn't blink at having to couch up $1billion in Berkshire-Hathaway stock, he lost 10 times that in the recession.

That's lawyer speak so it can be defended at a later time. What he doesn't implicitly state is that "President Trump did not disclose classified information to the Russians". That should have been the statement. Not "we didn't tell them how we got the information". Like I've already said, if it was no big deal H.R. McMaster would not have left directly out of the meeting and informed three intelligence agencies what the president had just told a foreign adversary. Since the president can declassify information anything that comes out of his mouth is legal. What's illegal is revealing a classified source which is what McMaster saying didn't happen. Doesn't matter if he gave up the "source" of the information though, he gave them the information itself. That information can be traced back to the "source", which is believed to be in Syria, and "source" will most likely be compromised or executed due to the president's mouth. Not only that, what allies will trust us with their intel. from now on when you have president who arbitrarily gives it out to adversaries?

Lol, republicans requested a closed hearing with Comey so when he aired out the president for asking him to be loyal to him it would be a he said she said while they tried to do their spin job about inevitable leaks. Comey refused and wants to testify in an open hearing so he can't be misquoted. Why hasn't this open hearing been schedule yet? You're right though, it's some straight up BS.

Lol, tRump got less votes than any winning republican president I can think about in my lifetime. Me, as well as majority of the country was smart enough to realize electing somebody so incompetent could potentially jeopardize our democracy. The only thing the left has been proven(oddly enough), is right.

That's because he showed them and has always been a proponent of "paying a higher tax rate than my secretary". The real issue is that if tRump or his company had to pay $1billion worth of anything he/they would file for chapter 11 bankruptcy like he has six times already. I wouldn't want anybody who calls themselves the "King of debt" and has filed for bankruptcy several times running my business, much less having anything to do with economic policy.

He's right, they basically just echo what the White House says. Then after they're proven liars like they were with Flynn, Yates, Comey, Rosenstein, the aircraft carrier, etc., they'll just move on to the next story and have somebody like Shep Smith do a correction on a Saturday night when nobody is watching like they had to do when tRump said he got the Obama wiretapping claims from a Fox interview with Judge Napolitano.

When are y'all going to learn that those financials mean nothing? You need federal income tax filings and returns. Financial records are equivalent to the disclosures they had to file before the election. I really think this is a Nixon type situation where tRump doesn't want to release his tax because much like Nixon being his with $400k in penalties after he did so, tRump will be proven to be a cheat and also be fined which would lead to impeachment. Put the taxes out. The IRS already said there's no reason they can't be released, even if they are currently under audit like Warren Buffet's.

I know. You can go do an interview with a random person from the foothills of Kentucky or West Virginia where the opioid crisis is in dire straits and ask them if they want to repeal Obamacare and they tell you "Well heck yeah", then ask them how they're going to pay for the medication for their son's drug addiction and they tell you "We have the Affordable Care Act". The IQ level on the right is spread so thin dRump had coal miners thinking they were going to get their jobs back, lol. Our Gulf Coast refineries create more fuel energy from bottoms off our coker units in one day than you can mine in a week in West Virginia. The stuff the right buys hook, line and sinker would be comical if it wasn't so sad.

Man, how freaking funny is this thread now? LMAO! You have the top republican in the senate wanting to nominate Merrick Garland because he has conceded the White House and DOJ are so inept they can't pick an FBI director. By the way, democrats don't want to block the FBI director's nomination just to block it. They first want Comey to testify in an open hearing as to the reasons he believed he was fired, then make a judgment based on that information as to who they should vote for. The problem the democrats have is the same problem the Alabama state legislature had with their governor. The person under investigation will get to appoint the person that will continue the investigation into their wrong doing. Again I just ask, imagine if this was Obama appointing someone to investigate him? The right would want to impeach him for obstruction of justice.

There are four in my department and they all told me they vote republican. Two of them even went to Prarie View A&M. Wow, so you think Carson had a legit point when he said slaves were immigrants coming to a land of dreams. That's a perfect encapsulation of the right's mindset.

That's an odd statement. What's not to stand? That's like me saying conservatives couldn't stand it if somebody white won and was a democrat. Pretty odd.

You have to have them out there, kind of like the Omarosa lady. It's like making Ben Carson head of the HUD department, then in his first address to them he refers to slaves like "Immigrants coming to a land of dreams and opportunity". You can't make this stuff up man, smh. By the way, all the black bosses at my job vote republican and I'm sure relay that to their kids. It has zero to do with conservative values though, it has everything to do with tree-huggers not liking the oil industry in which the work and in a round-a-bout way effecting their salaries.

Smh, the corrupt Haitian government was given 10% of the something like $9billion that was donated to Haiti's recovery. What you didn't add in was countries like the US billing our own state department hundreds of millions of dollars for soldiers to hand out water to the people effected by the earthquake. The bulk of the money went to the UN, international aide groups and charges the donor countries levied for their military's involvement. I will say there should have been more vigilance in handing out the private reconstruction contracts though.

The foundation used the money to stop the spread of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and provide life conserving medication to kids like the one in the picture who may have been born with the disease. You can see from his expression he thinks dRump is full of s*** too though.

Un-named source? H.R. McMaster was in the meeting with Drump, Tillerson, Lavrov and Kislyak and is the one who went to the NSA, CIA and DNI to let them know what tRump had just done. THE RUSSIANS ARE THE ONES WHO RELAYED WHAT dRUMP LEAKED FROM HIS OWN MOUTH!!!! There was no American media present in the meeting, White House claimed they were tricked into letting the Russian media in. Smh.

Once again you must do better. Drump bought a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida for $41million. Four years later he sold it to a Russian oligarch, who had once been arrested on charges he hired an assassin, for $100million if you include the brokerage fees. The Russian oligarch never lived in the house and tore it down. We now know FinCen is investigating the Russian oligarch and tRump's organization for money laundering as is often the case for Russian officials to move their stolen money out of the country. You don't have to do 6 degrees of separation with Drump, he does all the dumb s*** himself. By the way. We sell weapons to any and everybody who doesn't blatantly state they want to kill us like ISIS, Hezbollah, AQAP and the Muslim Brotherhood. What you should be asking is why the White House is taking Putin's position on arming Ukrainian rebels to defend themselves against the Russian invasion.

LMAO! This is what you came up with? I thought you would at least bring up the issues with the Saudi's or the United Arab Emirates. This is nothing and was looked into by the Treasury Department several years ago. Obama had the largest inauguration ever, Trump had one of the smallest. Obama raised $53million to cover his inauguration with something like 1.6million people, Trump had about 200,000 at his inauguration and raised $107million. Donors don't get their money back, what the administration won't confirm is that about $90million of that is for paid access like foreign diplomats getting a chance to meet him down at Mar-a-Lago. Nevermind the access to the Oval Office Drump gave to state spies because "what was I supposed to do, tell Putin no I wouldn't meet with Lavrov?" Lol, you have to come better than that dude. Agent Orange's corruption during the campaign and first four months in office is already on par with 35 years of Hillary's deeds.