Discussion: Report: WH Asked Pentagon For List Of Gold Star Families After Trump's Claim

Live by grievance politics, die by same.

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Was there ever any doubt? Besides being a pathological liar, the man is textbook NPD.

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Kelly’s a big pile of dog poo!

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I guess lying about previous presidents’ interactions with members of the armed forces does not instill respect. Who could have known?

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If the reason these four Green Berets died was because Chad pulled out of joint actions, then the next logical step would be to find out who denied Chad’s request for an extension because the passport paper they use was on back order.
Is this why they keep this disgrace going? Is it because the whole Niger operation was screwed up by some one who was petty and didn’t have the experience to make this decision?

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At the time the latest version of the travel ban became policy, multiple reports flagged Stephen Miller and Elaine Duke, acting secretary of DHS, as the advocates for Chad to be listed. Their push came despite concerns from State and Defense officials.

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My thought too. But how weak are our vaunted democratic institutions if this is the primary (and still generally under-reported) mode of attack? Trump wasn’t the cause of that weakness even if he does take full advantage of it (and exposes it too which the only sliver lining on the cloud I see at present).

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Some of us have invoked Karma I’m ready to invoke the Furies.

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Trump: My administration believes very strongly in grieving period for all those killed in action in Obama’s war. Obama is free to call them as its really on him

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I wonder if he’ll sell the Gold Star Families’ contact info for needed revenue?

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Absolutely correct. Trump believes that he won the week because his base is all riled up about that uppity black woman and Kelly making libtard heads explode. That’s all he cares about.

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But making calls would cut into his tweeting time and interfere with his teevee watching

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More lies from Trump. No surprise. He found a target in Rep. Wilson and his base follows along with reverence to their leader.

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I’d be fine with some tar, a few feathers, and a rail.

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Strangely enough, the people in Britain (with the exception of ukky/prissy) may be more disgusted with Trump than many in this country. There is hardly a day when there isn’t at least one Trump story on the BBC news front page, seldom, if ever, a positive one.

One that hasn’t (yet) gotten much attention here is a tweet about the crime rate in the UK:

Choice nuggets:

The Labour MP, Yvette Cooper, said the statement was “inflammatory and ignorant”, while ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband said Mr Trump was “a moron”.

The Home Office declined to comment.

Conservative backbencher Nicholas Soames, grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, called the US president a “daft twerp” who needed to “fix gun control”.

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You get the idea.

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There are weak institutions but I wouldn’t say the IC and military are the problem—they’ve been resisting stoutly, and so have many elements of the executive branch IMHO. In some respects the Senate as a whole has too. The institutions that glaringly failed us so far IMHO are the Republican Party, many elements of the media, and the voters themselves. The GOP is irredeemably corrupt, radical, and nihilistic at this point. If they were legitimate public servants with a particular approach to and philosophy about governance we wouldn’t be in this mess.

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Who didn’t already figure this out? IT was obvious the way they scrambled.

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The first paragraph of this article is very ambiguous and confusing. At first read, it appeared to indicate that the White House had asked for the Gold Star family list after the Inauguration.

The main point was that the White House had asked for the list only after President Anusmouth-Putindickholster and that lying sack of sh*t Kelly had both lied about it.

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And his golfing weekends.

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