Yep, that HAS to be the best and most obvious explanation for all we see.

It couldn’t possibly be a man who seems obsessed (and gets baited himself) by the personal and petty, who is willing to lie (big and small) his way out of things?
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The “everyone here knows” appeal falls flat when one looks at trump’s approval ratings… they are in the tank.

Evidently, far more people “know” that it is NOT really “trump is baiting the dems / msm”.

That seems fine on the surface but for a few things:

1) That is PRECISELY what we hated about the dems and their blind support of obama – they’d cover every obvious and outlandish error or foolishness of his.

2) It is not merely that the left, msm, dems are out for trump, (which, of course, they are), but that it is trump’s own behavior that is creating and perpetuating much of what we see.

3) trump hired some excellent folks (and some not so), but seems h*ll bent on ignoring their advice, or worse (repeatedly) undermining them (or throwing them under the bus) even when they are going to bat for him.
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It is far from clear that trump’s behavior is going to get us what we want, and perhaps might end up worse in the long run.

Certainly, cheering him on and/or excusing it all seems to embolden more of the same behavior.

Be it children or employees, without some kind of consequence or feedback loop, there won’t be a change in behavior.

trump may be the GOP POTUS we have, but it is not a good excuse to accept what he is doing if we think it is not getting us where we need to go, for getting anywhere close to the kinds of changes we need, or perhaps stumbling into something worse.

We’ll see.

Turns out Russia did meddle with the election. This story keeps morphing. No idea where it will end up.

You pull out a pistol and point it at the thief.

“Is that gun loaded,” the thief asks. “It doesn’t look like it’s loaded.”

What do you tell him? What is your moral obligation to tell the mugger the truth?

Trump is getting mugged.

They don’t.

And you don’t have to be a liberal to wonder if Trump is lying…

Memories are short. I think Palin had it worse than anyone (certainly her kids did) , Bush was routinely compared to a chimp or Hitler (sometimes at the same time). Trump will be fine. But the question is not whether he’s justified in his impulsive tweeting and reckless statements. The question is whether it’s smart. You are in favor of it because you’re in favor of him. But you’re not the ones he needs to convince to support his agenda.

He didn’t win this round. At least not yet. Comey did. And it was all so needless.

I am asking a legitimate question, Bill. What part of Comey’s testimony from 2 weeks ago damaged Trump? All I saw was basically a clean exoneration- Comey said Trump supported the investigation into Russian meddling, even if it involved some of his staff- Comey confirmed that he did tell Trump on three occasions that he wasn’t under investigation- Comey admitted that Trump only asked if it were possible to let Flynn go after he had been fired- Comey admitted that Trump never broached the subject of Flynn again- Comey admitted that he was the one who leaked the memo- Comey admitted that the various stories about how the investigation into Russian meddling had turned criminal and involved Trump associates were almost a complete fabrications.

All I see in Comey’s testimony is vindication for Trump and his team, and I strongly suspect that Comey and his “team” were the sources for the stories that Comey himself denigrated at the hearing. Indeed, when you look at Comey’s behavior before he was canned, it really does look like a deliberate and conscious effort to cast Trump under a cloud of suspicion- a cloud Comey could have dispelled at any time, but chose not to.

You want to know what I think Comey would have done if Trump didn’t hint he had recordings? I think Comey would have gone before Congress and told them Trump pressured him repeatedly to close the investigations and threatened to fire him if he didn’t. However, if there are recordings, Comey ends up in prison if he does that. He can’t do it now because he is committed to the testimony given.