NM11046 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Found this interesting and would love to hear people's thoughts on it. It was detailed in a WaPo article that detailed 4 different bills he signed without fanfare or press, when he's been making a big production about having people into the oval, cameras and etc for most signings. Some of the four he didn't publicize are not surprising (taking away transgender protections, allowing mentally ill to purchase guns) and people were looking for them, and then there is this. Not sure how calculated it may have been or what it means - who is this Boente? Why would she get so much attention from both sides of the aisle? CHANGING THE DOJ LINE OF SUCCESSION: On the same day that Jeff Sessions was sworn in, Trump quietly signed an executive order to change the order of succession at the Justice Department if the attorney general resigns. It was significant because the president had just fired Sally Yates as acting AG after she wouldn’t defend his travel ban. As he was entitled to do, Trump went outside the official order of succession to elevate Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to replace her. A week before his term ended, Barack Obama had (also without fanfare) changed the order of succession to remove Boente from the list. Because the Senate hasn’t yet confirmed Trump’s nominee for deputy AG, Boente is now serving in that role on an acting basis. Sessions’s recusal himself from overseeing the FBI’s Russia investigation means it will be handled by Boente. In an indication that they didn’t want to draw attention to this, it’s worth noting that Trump signed three other orders in front of reporters immediately after Sessions was sworn in. Each was noncontroversial: One would "break the back of the criminal cartels that have spread across our nation and are destroying the blood of our youth,” the president told the assembled press pool. The other would create a "task force on reducing violent crime,” he said. And the third would instruct DOJ to implement a plan to stop crime against law enforcement officers. Basically no one noticed Trump’s fourth order. A USA Today reporter noticed that it was dated on a Thursday but didn’t appear on an official web site that lists such actions until Friday. The White House didn’t explain the discrepancy. Article In Full: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/03/03/daily-202-what-trump-didn-t-want-you-to-see-him-signing/58b923fae9b69b1406c75d33/?utm_term=.21bc5130afd3 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Who is left? Once again busted in a lie. Either that, or he just expects to be able to slide his candidates through without them meeting the prerequisites. Trump's shtick is really old already. As is the weird, dystopian language he uses in EOs like the cartel one above. Fear mongers gonna fear monger. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Fox and Friends anchor hired as State Department spokeswoman. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Just a taste of Mr. Trumps' past consultant's twitter meltdown on Twitter last night: Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 What the heck caused that? Link to comment
NM11046 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 What the heck caused that? Booze. Lots of booze. Link to comment
RedDenver Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 What the heck caused that? Stone is amongst the worst humanity has to offer. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Good Lord these people are bad at this. Link to comment
Fru Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I'd rather let Scott Strasburger operate on me than Ben Carson Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Kellyanne Conway was pulled off TV for a while because her reputation was in tatters after all her lies and BS-spewing. That time off has done wonders. She's back, and she's clearly learned her lesson. Wait, clarifying that quote: Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 She was horrible on CNN this morning. It was very clear that she was in full spin mode. She would not even touch the question that was asked repeatedly about why the President doesn't release the evidence he has that he was wire tapped. She spun it off into la la land about the congressional investigation and people taking her comments out of context......bla bla bla.... Link to comment
commando Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 time for another load of tin foil hats on the way to the whitehouse. Link to comment
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