Discussion: Trump Doubles Down: 'We Do Not Pay Ransom In This Country'

“We do not pay ransom in this country,” Trump said.

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Turkey is also frustrated by the refusal of the U.S. to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a Pennsylvania-based Muslim cleric accused by Turkey of engineering the failed coup.

Treasony treasonists are notorious for not being able to follow through after they plead guilty to federal crimes.

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https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1051124100930957314

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1022722693798551553

‘balls and strikes’.

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october surprise

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But Donnie boy, we all know you lie constantly. We also know when you’re going to lie and we know what you’re going to lie about.

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This was a love fest like no other.

Trump asked Brunson and his family which candidate they voted for in 2016, saying he was confident they had gone for him. “I would like to say I sent in an absentee ballot from prison,” Brunson quipped, before praying that God grant Trump “supernatural wisdom.”

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What do you imagine the surprise will be unless it’s the news that Kemp in GA resigns? Muller’s not going to act until after the midterms.

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Yep, Mueller is in a wait hovering mode, but always looking for new leads.

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I just read something at the US edition of the Guardian where the story is that Rs are today predicting his re-election. All I could think was what of the indictments that will be handed down sooner than later, and even barring SCOTUS ignoring his lawlessness, every opponent from either party will focus on his crimes nonstop. His hardcore base makes a lot of noise, but there are fewer in that cohort than we realize.

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Brunson like all Evangelicals says " I love Jesus" yet Never ever says one word Jesus preached never. he wouldn’t know Jesus Christ if he tripped over him. but sadly Jesus does not know him. Eangelicals preach from the Old Testament. Jesus Christ is NOT in the Old Testament its as simple as that folks

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Hell he doesn’t even pay his workers or contractors in his private life.
But I’m pretty sure this deal cost us taxpayers something big so he can bloviate all over himself.
It will come out someday

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The news is all over the place lately. I read on Rawstory that the Republicans are panicked over the amount of money the Democrats have raised and are throwing at the midterms and that a red district in W. Virginia is flipping to D.

sigh

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The timing of his release -coming less than a month from the midterms -is certainly suggestive of a deal being done.

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Bloomberg’s going to pitch in $100M and Adelson’s going to spend close to that on Congressional races. It’s obscene. But a caveat

Still, this last-minute infusion of cash from the Adelsons to the Congressional Leadership Fund and the Senate Leadership Fund, both of which have close ties to party leaders in Congress, is not a panacea. President Trump’s unpopularity is a drag on Republican candidates in many of the most competitive House districts, especially those with more affluent and well-educated electorates. And advertising rates have been skyrocketing in the final weeks before Election Day, meaning that $20 million can buy only a fraction of what it could have a few months ago when the Adelsons gave their initial donations.

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I do appreciate Bloomberg’s money. hahahahahaha

It seems the media cannot decide who to believe all of a sudden. One place I read we’re teetering on the brink of losing it all, according to polls, in another it looks like we are still doing ok.

Horse race journalism. It’s interesting to read that the price of ads goes up like that. hahaha

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Esattamente. It’s part of the new industry that’s risen up in the few decades where year round campaigning is a money maker. Polling, advisers, the ad industry, cable talkers, etc.

Bloomberg’s also talking vaguely, for now, of running in 2016 as a Democrat but with his banking interests intact. However, gun safety is a primary interest of his with the group he founded Everytown for Gun Safety.

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Bloomberg has zero chance of being president. He’s too short. I know that’s crazy but it’s also true - people will vote height.

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I don’t understand that. The repugs have cheated, lied, stolen, kidnapped kids, and broken all the accepted D.C. rules and traditions; why must Mueller follow them now? They aren’t the LAW after all, just customs that the repugs defy every day.
Does he want the GOP to remain in power forever? Or what?

I don’t believe god would grant him supernatural wisdom because he has already been gifted with monumental stupidity.

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