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Trump Is Winning His War on Washington
The National Interest ^ | June 12, 2017 | Conrad Black

Posted on 06/14/2017 6:12:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 06/14/2017 6:12:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One can only hope...


2 posted on 06/14/2017 6:21:43 PM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Makes complete sense and means utterly nothing.

The Dems do not work on “credibility”. They work on “repeat it enough times and it becomes the story regardless of any credibility”.

There is no story that is “dead”. What makes “dead”? No longer worthy of repeating, of bringing up, as if all prior efforts to settle the issue are instantly void because these jerks had a bad pastrami sandwich for lunch that day? As long as there are Maxine Waters and Brad Sherman types and ten others I can’t name at the moment around who think they can get onto TV for yakking their mouths, there is no penalty for bringing up what has been settled. Again. And again. Hell, there isn’t any penalty for bringing up Russian hotel piss stories. There isn’t any penalty for making up a story about the FBI having a scarcity of funds for investigations. These are all free shots available to any democrat ready to articulate two consecutive assertive sentences and then claim they have to uphold the Constitution. And it doesn’t matter if they were refuted mere hours ago. Just bring it up again.

These stories are over for anyone with enough mental capacity to sort out the crosscurrents and they are instantly renewable for anyone whose attention span cannot recall the last time the matters were settled. And those people watch MSM news and their interest is instantly peaked as long as the BS is repeated in dramatic tones because they are “interested” in stimulation, not information.


3 posted on 06/14/2017 6:25:49 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mueller may think so, but he is never going to separate Trump from his supporters.


4 posted on 06/14/2017 6:27:17 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: JustTheTruth

Trump should announce that he’s going to fire Muller. No timeline. just announce it and let the hysterics play drama queen. Every first question will have to do with his action. This will allow Muller to consider quitting first. Next just wait for health care to pass with no Democrat support. THEN fire him-double whammy time!


5 posted on 06/14/2017 6:27:50 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: JustTheTruth

We had a long dry spell without hope. I’m still mystified that I am filled with hope and prayers for of all people, Donald Trump. He’s not perfect, but hot damn, I have hope.


6 posted on 06/14/2017 6:29:40 PM PDT by King Moonracer (I wish I had the Tantulus field, but I'd probably wear it out.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think Trump senses the Dims and media (redundant) will overplay their hand and he is giving them enough fuel to keep this stuff in the news. If all the stuff turns out to be a nothing burger, I believe the blow back will be severe in the next election.

I hope that is the case anyway.


7 posted on 06/14/2017 6:36:41 PM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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Trump approaches this job with the same enthusiasm and zany humor that he’d bring to a pro wrestling event. I think he loves this attention and controversy because he knows he’s going to be vindicated in a big, public way.


8 posted on 06/14/2017 6:42:06 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: King Moonracer
"We had a long dry spell without hope. I’m still mystified that I am filled with hope and prayers for of all people, Donald Trump. He’s not perfect, but hot damn, I have hope."

I want to be hopeful, but am often discouraged by the growing level of ignorance, debasement and willful blindness of so many Americans... It makes it harder to pray with faith in their behalf...

9 posted on 06/14/2017 6:43:10 PM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: Gahanna Bob

The key in 18’ will be the Senate. Rats are defending 25 seats, 10 in red states Trump won. WE can knock them out big time. Will it happen? Hopefully we won’t just sit back and wait for him to do the heavy lifting.


10 posted on 06/14/2017 6:43:13 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: JustTheTruth

I’m conflicted, but I don’t pray for them. They kill babies.


11 posted on 06/14/2017 6:55:02 PM PDT by King Moonracer (I wish I had the Tantulus field, but I'd probably wear it out.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was a huge Trump supporter, but have to admit he’s taken a LOT more punches to the gut than he’s given out. Firing Comey was the right move, but the timing was late, and the clumsy rollout was poorly executed.

But primarily, he simply hasn’t lived up to his pledges to drain the swamp, and investigate the crimes of the Clintons. In fact, the exact opposite has taken place, with Clinton cronies now investigating him.

I trace it back to 2 early things, first when he said was wasn’t interested in pursuing Clinton after all, then when he asked Flynn to resign which put the first blood in the water. He tried to play nice guy all of a sudden and immediately lost his footing, and has been seemingly bamboozled ever since.

If he wants to recover, he needs to go back to campaign mode, and have his own press conferences every day, where he speaks about how lost this country clearly is, and how he is actually going to deliver on his original promises, including building the wall and bringing jobs back from overseas which we never hear about anymore.

Else he’s going to start to lose even folks like me, who wanted a fighter, not someone who seems to just be stuck on the ropes taking punch after punch. Sorry but that’s what I’m seeing, what I’m watching of it anymore. Maybe there’s no one who can take on the Deep State, if this is all we’re going to get from Trump. If it’s all not just Kabuki theater to begin with, which I’m starting to wonder.


12 posted on 06/14/2017 6:57:59 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (In God We Trust)
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Sunshine soldier


13 posted on 06/14/2017 7:11:01 PM PDT by statered ("And you know what I mean.")
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To: King Moonracer
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14 posted on 06/14/2017 7:13:43 PM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m bored with the special counsel stuff already...


15 posted on 06/14/2017 7:18:52 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Geez-O-Pete, man!

He hasn’t even been in office a year! The swamp has been around for decades - damn near a century? And the swamp critters ain’t gonna go quietly.

Why don’t you light a fire under your swamp dwelling Congress critters and tell them to back the President’s agenda or retire.


16 posted on 06/14/2017 7:18:59 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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Not if they don’t repeal Obamacare. I won’t vote.


17 posted on 06/14/2017 7:19:35 PM PDT by steve8714 (My wife calls me Dr. Smartacus. This makes me happy.)
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To: statered

90% of the blame for this mess obviously belongs on the corrupt politicians (both democratic AND republican) and the seditious media. But we have to be honest, Trump has been pretty feeble compared to his campaign promises to take the fight to them.

He better pick the sword back up soon, else some of us are going to believe his campaign was simply bluster, that he never intended to follow through with. That we were used, and our energy during the election is being squandered. Because from where I’m from, if you’re going to talk the talk you need to walk the walk. We put him there to fight, not fold. And 20 character posts on Twitter are hardly a fight.


18 posted on 06/14/2017 7:26:31 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (In God We Trust)
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Does not look like he’s winning to me. Mueller is building an Obstruction case. Now the Senate is going to investigate Comey’s firing instead his leaking and collusion with Lynch. No it Does not look like winning to me.


19 posted on 06/14/2017 7:29:17 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Golden Eagle

If Trump is going to lose you just because he doesn’t meet your delusional expectations of him, then perhaps it’s a good time to get off FreeRepublic and find something else to do with your time. There are plenty of good reasons to be critical of him, but there’s hardly any substance in your post.


20 posted on 06/14/2017 7:29:27 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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