Trumped

[red321]

That's almost as good as the I'm bad at taking polls option

[Adam]

LMFAO

[Glen]

He's a deal maker, that's what he does.

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/23/521239749/in-major-blow-to-trump-gop-health-care-bill-vote-delayed?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170323

[Taylor]

The Dems did a much better job at passing their overstuffed, convoluted healthcare bill. 

[red321]

On 3/22/2017 at 1:33 PM, Make Angels Great Again said:

So...it looks like Trump was indeed being monitored. The House Intelligence Committee chair briefed him on it.

 

 

Holy shit...this dude is certainly a clown. Within a day of holding two press conferences, and running to tattle to the president*...Nunes can't actually confirm...well anything. And this is the dude (who was part of Trump's transition team) who is supposedly leading an independent investigation of this whole shit show.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intel-chair-devin-nunes-unsure-trump-associates-directly/story?id=46325928 (warning...autoplay video)

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nunes-now-unsure-trump-associates-incidental-collection

The office of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) now concedes that the House Intelligence Committee chair is not sure that the intelligence community ever incidentally collected communications from President Donald Trump or members of his transition team.

"He said he'll have to get all the documents he requested from the [intelligence community] about this before he knows for sure," a Nunes spokesperson told ABC News on Thursday.

This lack of certainty did not stop Nunes from holding two press conferences Wednesday and briefing the White House on the “dozens” of intelligence community reports he said showed U.S. intelligence agencies “incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition," independent of the FBI's investigation into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials.

[Blarg]

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

The Dems did a much better job at passing their overstuffed, convoluted healthcare bill. 

They skipped the reading portion of the job. 

[Thomas]

18 minutes ago, red321 said:

Holy shit...this dude is certainly a clown. Within a day of holding two press conferences, and running to tattle to the president*...Nunes can't actually confirm...well anything. And this is the dude (who was part of Trump's transition team) who is supposedly leading an independent investigation of this whole shit show.

Yep. Trump is totally going to get busted and lose office...

[red321]

Republicans have certainly made it clear they put party in front of the country

[RallyMo]

2 hours ago, Blarg said:

They skipped the reading portion of the job. 

Yet somehow they were able to come up with something better, and in 7 fewer years of crafting. It's astounding.

[Thomas]

14 minutes ago, RallyMo said:

Yet somehow they were able to come up with something better, and in 7 fewer years of crafting. It's astounding.

The legislation is better. What you mean is that the legislation isn't better for the American public.

[Spirit]

But we won the WBC, people!   We're winning again!

 

 

 

[Blarg]

46 minutes ago, RallyMo said:

Yet somehow they were able to come up with something better, and in 7 fewer years of crafting. It's astounding.

Deficit spending is astounding for a program that was to pay for itself. The ACA was never going to work, it was a Ponzi scheme.

[m0nkey]

52 minutes ago, Geoff said:

But we won the WBC, people!   We're winning again!

 

 

 

USA! USA!

[Tank]

8 hours ago, calscuf said:

It's funny because Bob Dole used to always refer to himself in the third person.

norm macdonalds impersonation of him on SNL was terrific.

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Geoff said:

But we won the WBC, people!   We're winning again!

 

[the dude abides]

Literal lol when I read this.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-supporter-my-husband-is-being-deported-friday-193439132.html

 

[Taylor]

15 hours ago, red321 said:

Holy shit...this dude is certainly a clown. Within a day of holding two press conferences, and running to tattle to the president*...Nunes can't actually confirm...well anything. And this is the dude (who was part of Trump's transition team) who is supposedly leading an independent investigation of this whole shit show.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intel-chair-devin-nunes-unsure-trump-associates-directly/story?id=46325928 (warning...autoplay video)

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nunes-now-unsure-trump-associates-incidental-collection

The office of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) now concedes that the House Intelligence Committee chair is not sure that the intelligence community ever incidentally collected communications from President Donald Trump or members of his transition team.

"He said he'll have to get all the documents he requested from the [intelligence community] about this before he knows for sure," a Nunes spokesperson told ABC News on Thursday.

This lack of certainty did not stop Nunes from holding two press conferences Wednesday and briefing the White House on the “dozens” of intelligence community reports he said showed U.S. intelligence agencies “incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition," independent of the FBI's investigation into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials.

Make Angels Great Again:

*crickets*

[Spirit]

“I understand when you’re a criminal and you do bad things, you shouldn’t be in the country." said Beristain’s wife, Helen

She gets that her husband is a criminal, right? 

 

 

 

[Make Angels Great Again]

45 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Make Angels Great Again:

*crickets*

 

The whole story is based upon that single quote by the spokesperson, which seems to conflict with what Nunes himself was saying. I'll play the wait and see game.

[Glen]

Maybe Nunes also should have played that game.

[Make Angels Great Again]

Perhaps.

But maybe the source who gave him this info urged him to go straight to the media with it. Nunes doesn't know the whole situation as well as his source, so he listened.

Just guessing.

[red321]

Nunes is the head of the committee investigating this stuff...it's not his job to "make the president feel better", it's not his job to run to the press...especially if he doesn't know the whole situation. His job is to provide oversight, his job is to determine what is and isn't real.

The situation, as you outlined it, would actually make Nunes look worse. 

 

[UndertheHalo]

There needs to be an independent investigation.  The thing with Nunes couldn't possibly make that more clear. 

[red321]

Apparently his spokesperson did a fantastic impression, costume and all, of Nunes this morning

 

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nunes-backs-down-assertion-trump-was-monitored-n738151

The chairman of the House intelligence committee has backed down from his dramatic assertion that Donald Trump and his aides were "monitored," by U.S. spies — a claim the Republicans have cited this week in fundraising emails.

Rep. Devin Nunes told reporters Friday he can't be sure whether conversations among Trump or his aides were captured in the surveillance that has become a source of controversy since Nunes made it public in two news conferences this week.

"He said he'll have to get all the documents he requested from the (intelligence community) about this before he knows for sure," his spokesman, Jack Langer, said earlier.

Nunes continued to refuse to say how he had learned about the surveillance, including whether his source was in the White House...

 

 

And for shits and giggles...

 

As for Trump's assertion that Obama wiretapped him, Nunes repeated Friday what he has said previously, telling reporters, "That didn't happen."

[Make Angels Great Again]

Nunes stated today that the two primary issues are the unmasking of names and the actual content of the reports.

 

Pretty vague stuff, i'll admit I don't know a lot about how this surveillance is supposed to work (does anyone?). But I think unmasking of US names is supposed to have a pretty good reason, and i'm guessing the names he saw were Trump people. Combined with the content of the reports, maybe it looks like they're being monitored for political gain, but can't say for sure without seeing more?