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"In the late 1980s, Jack O’Donnell, one of Donald Trump’s Atlantic City casino executives, devised a special strategy for talking to the in-and-out owner. “I would know Donald was coming to town,” O’Donnell said in a recent interview from his home in Arizona. “And if you were going to pitch him something, you would say”—and here he sped up his cadence, as if he were hitting a verbal fast-forward button—“‘Oh-hey-Donald-good-to-see-you-hey-I-wanted-to-run-something-by-you.’ Boom. That was it. Because if you hit him too late in the conversation, he might say, ‘Let’s talk about it later’—and he was gone.” In the early ‘90s, Barbara Res, a project manager on Trump Tower who was a vice president in the Trump Organization, attempted to prepare him for a deposition for a court case pitting a Trump-led group against the Los Angeles school district in a battle for a coveted piece of property. “He said, ‘No, I don’t need to be prepared,’” Res said last week from her home in New Jersey. Finally, she persuaded him to give her, an associate and an attorney two hours in his office. “In the two hours, he kept taking phone calls,” Res said. Unprepared, he did “poorly” in the deposition, she said; his group lost the case, and the deal fell apart. “He was so distracted,” she said. “He really couldn’t stay focused.”... The question of Trump’s attention span recently has leapt from a longtime employee complaint to a meaningful national issue. Res, O’Donnell and others like them have long collected stories of their exasperation over Trump’s impetuous nature as a boss. But this one personal attribute has become a subject of more widespread concern as voters consider how Trump’s habits and personality might translate to the presidency—a job that demands uncommon focus, with life in the West Wing often feeling like a control panel of perpetually blinking emergency lights." http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/donald-trump-attention-span-214223 http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.741098 "Well, The Donald is not manic, nor psychotic, nor autistic. He could have some ADD (attention deficit disorder). He is bored easily, easily distracted, not known to concentrate for long on any problem, uninterested in detail, and, in a sense, quite creative. He also speaks as a teenager with ADD. Seldom can he start a sentence and bring it to logical closure without an insert or two, these inserts often derailing the original intention of the sentence." https://dawsonross.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/the-unfiltered-mind-of-donald-trump-a-tentative-psychiatric-evaluation/

Do the interests of a country, the Constitution, the safety of the public. Make it permissible for intelligence and security services to leak information to the public/journalists? I'd say yes. Because coverup is almost a pastime of politicians. A SOP so to speak.

I was wondering why "Royreader8812" had gone on a rant about Mr. Soros a while back. Now after reading Breitbart News I understand where you and Roy are coming from. Below from "Nonprofit Quarterly" "The interesting thing about the article is a passing observation about the father. In reviewing the “generational shift in the philanthropic and political efforts of the Soros family,” the Forward noted that George Soros has made grants worth $8 billion over the past three decades through his Open Society Foundations (OSF), promoting democracy and human rights, among other issues. Soros’s foundations give out hundreds of millions in philanthropic support every year, dwarfing his personal contributions, as big as they are, to politically active (c)(4)s, 527s, and PACs. For example, he was the nation’s top giver to outside political groups in the 2004 election cycle, at $23.7 million, but in the 2008 cycle, he gave only $5 million, and it isn’t clear how much he has donated in the current electoral cycle. Soros is primarily a philanthropist, with significant contributions in Eastern Europe to help the former Soviet bloc countries transform themselves into democracies. Like his father, Alexander has obviously been active with political donations, but has just announced the creation of the Alexander Soros Foundation, with interests that appear to be similar to the humanitarian goals of the father’s Open Society Foundations. A Soros daughter, Andrea Soros Colombel, founded and heads the Trace Foundation, which supports Tibetan culture in China." Soros is using the money he earned doing the same thing "Wall Street" does to promote democracy and support independent democracies in Europe. Which explains Royreader8812, and Soros supports liberals in the world, the US, which explains your thinking. That labels him the most evil person in the world. Makes perfect sense. https://www.philanthropy.com/factfile/gifts_detail?GiftDonorJoin_a_DonorID=PGDON1533 The financier George Soros has pledged $50-million over five years to Millennium Promise Alliance, in New York, to support the Millennium Villages Project, an effort to fight poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. This project works in 79 villages in 10 countries to ease hunger, advocate women's rights, improve education and health care, and achieve other goals aimed at improving living conditions in Africa over the next five years. George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, a New York firm that manages hedge funds, and founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute, in New York, has pledged $100-million to his newly established Fund for Policy Reform to support advocacy related to climate change. The Open Society Institute (New York) has received a pledge of $10 million from George Soros to make grants to organizations that combat hate crimes in the United States. Mr. Soros is the chairman of Soros Fund Management, a New York firm that manages hedge funds, and founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute. George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, a New York firm that manages hedge funds, has pledged $10-million to the Open Society Institute, a network of foundations that Mr. Soros founded in New York in 1993. The money will be used to help cities with more than 250,000 residents develop systems to treat drug addicts. George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, a New York firm that manages hedge funds, and founder of the Open Society Institute, in New York, has pledged $50-million to Central European University, in Budapest, Hungary. The money will be used to establish the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Mr. Soros, who helped establish the university, will pay $5-million annually over the next 10 years. donald trump used the money donated by others to his charity to buy a painting of himself to hang in a business that he owned. " The fabled portrait of Donald Trump that he reportedly used $20,000 in charity money to buy was finally revealed Tuesday. And it’s very orange. The Washington Post, which first reported the allegations that Trump may have used Trump Foundation money to buy the picture, obtained a photo which shows the six-foot painting by "speed painter" Michael Israel. Israel cranked out the portrait in less than six minutes during a 2007 gala at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. It's done in Israel's brash impressionistic style with bold orange colors and Trump's wife Melania bought it afterward with a $10,000 bid that the auctioneer convinced her to double, the paper reported. Israel, who supplied the photo, got half the proceeds from the auction and the other half was earmarked for the charity that hosted the event, the Children's Place at Home Safe. "But then Trump paid for this painting with money from the Donald J. Trump Foundation," Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold told MSNBC. "His foundation isn't allowed to just go buy things that are going to decorate the walls of his house, or decorate the walls of his businesses." http://www.nbcnews.com/card/six-foot-portrait-himself-trump-bought-charity-money-revealed-n676461 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2012/04/25/soros-family-giving-more-focused-on-philanthropy-than-politics/

Just for Ron: "The challenge is that most leaders have networks full of people who think and act like them and many fail to seek out diverse opinions, especially in highly charged situations. Instead, they hunker down with people who have similar beliefs and values. This can lead to particularly dire consequences in cross-cultural environments. To overcome this, you need another core emotional intelligence competency, empathy, which allows you to learn how to read others and truly understand what matters to them and what they care about. This will, in turn, help you connect with people and gather their thoughts, opinions, and help when you need them." https://hbr.org/2016/12/what-you-can-do-to-improve-ethics-at-your-company Lots of free reading at this site. I don't think its "fake". Although trump university labeled it "elitist". I heard about a book that teaches empathy.Quote from the book. "“And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass? It is the freeing of a slave, or feeding on a day of severe hunger, an orphan of near relationship, or a needy person in misery. And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.” http://productivemuslim.com/empathy-transform-life/

What about the loss to the CIA of a secure phone tap into the Russian ambassadors phone that these disclosures laid bare. Presumably without the "leak" to the Washington Post the methodology of the tap would still be useful. For certain that mechanism is now lost because the WH defaulted to coverup after a secure direct disclosure of Flynn's actions. Disclosures that should have resulted in appropriate, immediate, termination of Flynn. Leaving the need for public disclosures unnecessary. trump and his gang of three need to learn that the national interest will supersede their efforts to hide, obstruct and ignore. The rule of law, precedent and the constitution. That barring the three of them hiding under the covers in the Lincoln bedroom and whispering. Corruption will be laid bare sooner or later.

Makes sense. Natural fit.I'm sure bannon, miller and trump should be bosom buddies forever.

That says more about the view you have and how it agrees with trumps thinking than anything else. The goal of business is to be fair first and then make a profit from that fair transaction. Thats why business give refunds when customers are not fully satisfied by the deal. Knowing that they will lose money on ALL of those refunds. Its not about winners and losers. Its not a zero sum game. Its not winner take all, like poker. Business like life is a partnership whereby each party comes out ahead. trump goes to court allot. Some business and business-people are almost never in court. When they are wrong they admit it and make the other party whole. Whey they make a mistake they make it right, without a court. trump has the business attitude of "sue me" if you don't like it. "Prove it" if he failed to deliver what was promised. "See you in court" is almost a byline and blame the judges when he loses. Or more typically settle out of court when he gets caught in a sham enterprise. You think that all foreigners want to take advantage of the US. That they hate the US, but want to emigrate to the US at the same time. SAD

Are you posting this as satire or real news? Because if it's satire you should label it as satire. This country is going down the shitter because of people's inability to be skeptical... Most will believe anything if it fits their particular world view. At a time when most people have in their pocket a device that gives them access to all the information ever known to man, this world is getting dumber and dumber. Did Fox news report it that way?

Trump has no problem firing people. He makes a big deal out of it because it makes him feel strong. If he had fired Flynn he would have bragged about it on Twitter When trump gets caught with his hands in the cookie jar there is a deafening silence. No tweets. No statements. No questions from journalists that ask tough questions. The standard is to change the subject, throw out misinformation and fake facts. Sooner or later a Senate committee will find out what the exact conversations were. Find out what trump knew and when he knew it. We know already that coverup was the ordered response.

Trump promised to release his tax returns. He promised that several times. Waiting. He promised to "immediately" repeal and replace Obamacare. Waiting. He promised to reveal secrets about Russian hacking. Waiting. He promised to appoint a special prosecutor on his first day in office. Waiting. He promised to drain the swamp and reduce the influence of Wall St. Then he packed his cabinet with Wall St. insiders. Clearly you have a deficient concept of doing "what's been promised". trump promised his family that he would do and say whatever is necessary to line the trump family pockets.

If anyone thinks Trump didn't know every single detail of Flynn's conversation with the Russians is a fool. I'm sure Flynn did it at Trumps request, I'm surprised this question hasn't been asked. For certain. Minimally, Pence knew what was going on weeks ago. Pence knew he made false statements regarding the phone calls to US Sunday talk shows. Then failed to correct them. The only logical conclusion is that trump gave instructions to Flynn. That Pence was informed of this weeks ago if not when Flynn was told by trump to make the contacts. Why would Flynn have done this on his own undertaking without trump's approval? That he personally is going to give such a commitment to the Russian ambassador on his own!! A commitment to strike the sanctions without trumps approval in advance? Makes no sense.

"Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, officials say" The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail, current and former U.S. officials said.' https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-warned-white-house-that-flynn-could-be-vulnerable-to-russian-blackmail-officials-say/2017/02/13/fc5dab88-f228-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?utm_term=.a8a4f3905a41 So the CIA, FBI and WH knew Flynn was a liar a month ago and the trump WH covered it up to see how the wind was going to blow. Seems obvious Flynn was acting on instructions from trump. Obvious that the CIA and FBI must view the trump administration with inherent distrust. Of questionable loyalty. Not only that but the CIA knew it when trump visited the CIA headquarters as they were monitoring the actual phone calls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piDrE29OQd4

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/mar-a-lago-membership-fee-doubles-to-200000.html Just more trump delivering what he promised.

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/leisure/1.771163 The Big Fan ... Neck and neck with Netherlands.

May 2016 http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1456:the-mass-dumbing-down-of-america-donald-trump-as-the-canary-in-the-cave-of-ignorance&Itemid=642 July 2014 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201407/anti-intellectualism-and-the-dumbing-down-america Oct 2016 http://www.salon.com/2016/10/09/stupid-and-contagious-what-if-donald-trump-is-not-dumbing-down-and-actually-is-this-dumb/ Jan. 2017 https://phys.org/news/2017-01-trump-info-shutdowns-science-agencies.html

Imagine the laughter and mocking in the halls of the CIA.

Lack of money?

If Senator Daylin Leach from Texas can call Trump a "...fascist, loofa-faced shit-gibbon!" I think I'm probably okay. Source: http://usuncut.com/politics/pennsylvania-senator-shit-gibbon/ The tweet: https://twitter.com/daylinleach/status/829041688186335232 Imagine being a poor secretary in a senator's office be it republican or democrat. Between the trump family trying to line their pockets. International politics. Domestic issues. Trying to overhaul the ACA. Defend the ACA act. On and on. Opening the in-box of e-mail and seeing 1000 new messages. For those who say that people don't care about whats going on. Is to ignore the obvious. For anyone to attend a single protest there would be a 1000 e-mails and phone calls. Its like the crashing of the ethics website because of traffic. Then there is another stupid tweet and another ten gallons of gas is poured on the bonfire. Imagine the daily briefings of the Secret Service agents who have to protect trump. Double Yikes!

What is seldom discussed by the media is all the Republicans that didn't vote for trump because of his views. Add them to the mid-west voting equation and there would have been a republican pop vote win. Then there is the Christian right. There was a Montana church minister on some program a week ago. He was discussing how Muslims want to institute Shara law in the US. Then they want to take advantage(rape) of US women!!!! That red blooded US men need to protect women from Muslims. Thats like saying the Christian right wants to reintroduce the inquisition. Then go to the Mosques to ravage female followers of Islam. Is it possible for the holy water in some US churches to have been contaminated by brain-logic eating microbes? Do they honestly believe that the Imams in western Mosques want Shara law? That that's what they teach there? That US followers of Allah would tolerate that? Yikes!

Some psychologist was suggesting that women playing bannon and trump would have the greatest effect at the WH. Is it possible to go too far? Perhaps moderators and everyone needs to tone it down some? After all its widely known that bannon has the suitcase codes. He got them when trump confessed that four digits was too hard to remember. What happens if bannon goes postal and takes it out on SFO?

Your pain is duly noted three weeks in. In todays news cycle the trump brand takes another hit: http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/bipartisan-letter-rebukes-kellyanne-conway-for-explicit-endorsement-of-ivanka-trump-products/ Michael Flynn Caught Lying http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-flynn-russia-sanctions_us_589d6c69e4b0ab2d2b13e518 and the republican base finally gets through to the senate: ""The Russia Sanctions Review Act of 2017," http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-congress-idUSKBN15N2BX IMO six months more.

They have been working on revisions of ACA. But they have to think of the party. To separate the party from trump. trump is not going to reach out to them. Thats not in his dna. With trump there is no middle ground.

I've been warning about the Mail for years now. www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=search_results&search_forum=forum_35&search_string=daily+mail+&search_type=AND&search_fields=sbjbdy&search_time=&search_user_username=kallend&sb=score&mh=25 Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is. Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun? Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits. I have to admit I enjoy the British tabloids from time to time. You can have a laugh and put the brain in park at the same time.

Who cares? Trump cares! Trump says playing golf instead of concentrating on the USs problems makes Trump worse than Carter. Of course.

Well, in his defense, Tubby Trump needs exercise a lot more than either GWB or Obama. I also have to come to trumps defense. First, who cares, secondly, perhaps bannon doesn't follow him around the course with a bunch of EO's to sign.