I would like to see PDJT have a OANN Sunday show interview instead of Faux.
I would like to see someone ask Elijah Cummings why he and the other 8 black Demoncrats voted against his prison reform bill and why their hate for PDJT trumps logic. Over 1,000,000 black men are in prison in the U.S....why did they vote to make their road back to society more challenging? Hate. Nothing more, nothing less.
A really horrendous line-up this week. The Truth Departments are out in full force giving it to us good and hard with their version of Tokyo Rose B.S.
former Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md.
Gerald Seib of The Wall Street Journal
Jonathan Swan of Axios.
These there are the re-incarnation of Lenin's original dis-information brigades
Floriduh checking in this morning. Ironic that the ballot machines were overheating for the recounts with our chilly weather. Then we learned a rep from the ballot machine company witnessed Palm Beach County workers jamming a paper clip into the machine to short it out because the machine was counting too fast. Can't make this stuff up.
Solid GOP represented for the talk shows today. Good to see.
FNS is must watch today... Our President is on...
Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.
Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Let us read the commentary of this week’s commenter, acapesket, and learn from the wisdom.
And so they continue to count ballots in Florida’s Palm Beach and Broward counties.
And they continue to FIND ballots all over the place in school cafeterias, in Avis Rentacars.
But not to worry, good old Sheriff Israel, that brave guy who stayed outside at Parkland while kids inside were being systematically murdered .old Sheriff Israel is finding bombs in airports that, coincidentally, contain Avis rentacars filled with ballots.
It this stuff doesn’t stop America will never trust an election again.
And how about they fire that Broward county Supervisors of Elections? She’s been corrupt since 2001 when she began choosing who should win.
Rumor has it that -DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will soon be removed by President Trump.
Seems she is doing a lousy job on immigration as the President sees it.
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Seems she’s going a lousy job on immigration.
AND more rumor -Michelle Obama’s new book. She doesn’t mention Trump but she says that the current First Lady never took up her offer of help.
Finally HILLARY’S RUNNING AGAIN!!!
I can’t wait.
Thursday Date-11/15/18
So let me share, once again, my acquaintance with Nancy Pelosi.
Indeed, she and I were childhood, well we were childhood acquaintances.
My father was a carpenter, often employed by the Baltimore politicos and often participated in the “zapping” of the voting machines.
But I digress.
Mayor D’Alesandro hired my father to renovate his house, then a row home in Baltimore’s Little Italy.
Sometimes my father would take me and my brother, mostly to help out. I was only 9 at the time. Nancy was about 15 or so.
She never said Hi or anything to us peons as my brother and I cleaned up sawdust and carried wood.
She wouldn’t remember me if you held a gun to her head.
We here other bit cities across the fruited plains are NOT happy.
8.3 million votes were cast in Florida and as of this writing, it’s down to a hand recount.
Florida, a state evidently populated by very stupid people who obviously can’t run an election, is going to go over what they call the “undervotes” and the “overvotes”.
Whatever.
Anybody remember “hanging chads” and/or “pregnant chads”?
Florida, they deserve all the mockery they get.
Seems Stacey Abrams, running for Governor of Georgia, has lost on first county by over 17,000. Now she, and Hillary Clinton God bless that woman will she ever go the hell away .are demanding a recount.
It’s a joke people.
And ANYTHING Hillary Clinton is involved in is definitely corrupt.
Stacey Abrams did not win that election but they say she did.
So the world waits and bows down to Queen Hillary.
Judges passing laws, a new and intriguing thing here in America.
But President Trump can cut out the press conferences completely.
No rule says they’re mandatory.
“Mr. Trump has regularly attacked CNN, and Thursdays ruling was a setback for the White House. Government lawyers acknowledged in court they knew of no other situation where the White House had revoked a press pass under similar circumstances.”
State Treasurer elect Colleen Davis caught on suspended license driving
And oh my goodness she’s had her license suspended many times prior .WHY???
Davis just defeated Ken Simpler, incumbent state Treasurer that I myself met and interviewed once.
Last week she got ticketed for doing 72 in a 55 mile zone, on 113 by Shockley Rd.
But there’s many more, going way back.
And for the record, I don’t believe she beat Simpler for a minute.
But then who cares about fairness in blue states?
Colleen Davis needs to be denied a license forever and thrown in jail.
But no, now she’s taking care of our state money.
Son-in-law is having major cancer surgery this Weds. Poor granddaughter, in the JRROTC of her high school, although she is doing well and yesterday read me the “drill march” as she stood on the assigned “deck”.
“right, left, left .Right left, left ..”..to that effect.
Father has a very severe form of Colin cancer and her mother has Muncheussen’s, living with the crazy people and having walked away from this gorgeous child.
She will be living with me someday .trust.
And she and I will write a book about Muncheussen’s and how the gubmint lets these people get away with it.
Your prayers are always welcome.
Oh Noes! Wallace grills Trump!
And Chris Wall-ass is being his usual ass self...
Smarmy Democrat Chris Wallace is being an ass. As usual. I despise this betamale buffoon.
Wallace is trying to pull a Me-Again Kelley and somehow trap Trump or make him look bad. Arguing. As if he is a prosecuter. What an asshole.
Checking in from Oregone....
Trump interviewing with Chris Wallace who is a WEASEL.
Trump handles this weasel with aplomb. How does Trump do it?
Trump does it by getting up every day looking forward to the fight ahead. He loves it. I love it. Trump isn’t scared of anyone and can take weasels in stride because he’s fully prepared.
What a great President we have.
Who do we get in 2024? THAT is the question. Not Establishment Pence - another Bush.
We need someone who will carry the torch and the fight to MAGA by RESTORING OUR FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC and dismantle the 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the feds.
Hope he appears soon.
POTUS, Donald J. Trump will hold two “massive” political rallies, supporting Cindy Hyde-Smith, just prior to the Senate Run-off election between Democrat, Mike Epsy & Republican Senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith on Monday, November 26, 2018 in Tupelo, MS (5:00PM CST) & Biloxi, MS (8:00PM CST). The run-off election will be held on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
Just in case you good folks in Mississippi have not reviewed the POTUS, Trump “victory” success rate in election support rallies, here is a listing you will not see or hear from the “Fake News” & “Never Trumpers” like Paul Ryan, etc.
- Ted Cruz - Texas
- Mike Braun - Indiana
- Josh Hawley - Missouri
- Kevin Cramer - North Dakota
- Marsha Blackburn - Tennessee
- Ron DeSantis - Florida
- Mike Wine - Ohio
- Rick Scott - Florida
- Doug Ducey - Arizona
- Brian Kemp - Georgia
- Henry McMaster - South Carolina
- Bill Lee - Tennessee
- Greg Abbott - Texas
You might care to know that the Magnificent team of Democrat High Powered Party Campaigners, Obama, Obama’s wife, Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Joe Biden, etc. came up with “ZERO” wins compared to POTUS, Trump!!!
Mississippi Voters, all of you, Turnout and vote for Republican, Cindy Hyde-Smith on Election Day, Tuesday, November 27, 2018 and give POTUS, Trump his “53rd” Republican Senator. Do it!!
Go, Trump, Go, Ms. Hyde-Smith, Go GOP, GO, GOTV, Go, Trump MEGA rallies, go, Trump MAGA rallies!!!
Criticizing the BP oil spill was valid.
Criticizing a press that's biased and careless with facts IS valid too.
President Trump AND most of the 65 million people who voted for him understand that a free press is necessary for a free country and a safe world. Our complaint is about the quality of the work, the bias, the carelessness and the willingness to publish fake news.
Your Trump interview this morning that touched on the ongoing 'journalists pity party' with Trump and American is a case in point. It's no different than if BP was pretending people who objected to their carelessness that caused a large oil spill (destoying many Gulf ecosystems) was an attack on all energy companies... and NOT a valid complain about BP.
Trump's complaint that the way the press does their job is acting as the enemy of the people of United States is correct.
Criticizing the BP oil spill was valid.
Criticizing a press that's biased and careless with facts IS valid too.
President Trump AND most of the 65 million people who voted for him understand that a free press is necessary for a free country and a safe world. Our complaint is about the quality of the work, the bias, the carelessness and the willingness to publish fake news.
Your Trump interview this morning that touched on the ongoing 'journalists pity party' with Trump and American is a case in point. It's no different than if BP was pretending people who objected to their carelessness that caused a large oil spill (destroying many Gulf ecosystems) was an attack on all energy companies... and NOT a valid complain about BP.
Trump's complaint that the way the press does their job is acting as the enemy of the people of United States is correct.
"I come the most ethically diverse states in America."
I know he meant "ethnically" and the closed caption had ethnically, but I watched it a half dozen times and there wasn't an "N" in that word.
Pres. Trump Interview on FNS today, part 1:
CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Mr. President, thank you for talking with us.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you Chris, very much.
WALLACE: Lets start with the state of Donald Trump.
TRUMP: Right.
WALLACE: There are a number of stories out there that youre angry about the mid-terms, about your treatment in the media, about the way you were treated when you were in Paris. One story even said that you were in a cocoon of bitterness and resentment.
TRUMP: Right.
WALLACE: Well get in to all the details later but how dark is your mood?
TRUMP: Its very light, its fake news, its disgusting fake news. I read a front page story in the Washington Post, they never even called me, nobody ever calls me. You know, they hear I dont even think they have sources I think they just make it up like its fiction. And I will tell you Im extremely upbeat, the White House is running like a well-oiled machine, its doing really well, I have great people. I will make some changes but not very many. Im very happy with my cabinet, other than, you know a couple of exceptions and even there Im not unhappy. And I will tell you that its so wrong, the reporting about me is so wrong. Im loving what Im doing, I did well in France, I did have a problem where I wasnt able to go to a cemetery because the Secret Service would not let me do it.
WALLACE: Well get in to all of this sir—
TRUMP: No, but Im just saying the Secret Service would not let me do it and they made it a big deal.
WALLACE: Youve said a lot of things there, lets try to unpack them. Theres a lot of talk about staff changes, your deputy national security advisor was moved out after your wife did something Ive never heard of a first lady doing before: publically calling for her removal. Are you comfortable with the way that went down where it kind of looked like your wife was firing one of your advisors?
TRUMP: Well I didnt know the advisor well, really, and I know they had a lot of problem. My wife did a great job in Africa and she was not treated properly by the press, she really worked so hard. They came to me. They wanted to go a little bit public because thats the way they felt and I thought it was fine. I met with Mira two days ago and were going to move her around. She was with me for a long time, although I dont know her. Shes really somebody I dont know very well. But were going to move her around because shes got certain talents. But, frankly, she is not — shell never be put in the United Nations, let me put it that way.
WALLACE: Meaning shes not too diplomatic?
TRUMP: Shes not too diplomatic, but shes talented.
WALLACE: Are you happy with Kirstjen Nielsen at DHS?
TRUMP: Well, I like her a lot. I respect her a lot. Shes very smart. I want her to get much tougher and well see what happens there. But I want to be extremely tough.
WALLACE: What are the chances shell be DHS Secretary—
TRUMP: Well theres a chance. But theres a chance everybody — I mean thats what happens in government you leave, you make a name, you go. The people that have left have done very well. The people that have left have done very well — from my White House. I like her very much, I respect her very much, Id like her to be much tougher on the border — much tougher, period.
WALLACE: Back in July you said that Chief of Staff John Kelly will be here through 2020.
TRUMP: Well—
WALLACE: Can you still say that?
TRUMP: We — I wouldnt — look, we get along well. There are certain things I love what he does. And there are certain things that I dont like that he does — that arent his strength. Its not that he doesnt do — you know he works so hard. Hes doing an excellent job in many ways. There are a couple of things where its just not his strength. Its not his fault, its not his strength.
WALLACE: Such as?
TRUMP: But I havent even thought about John in terms of this. But John, at some point, is going to want to move on. John will move on.
WALLACE: So 2020 is no longer written in stone?
TRUMP: It could happen. Yeah, it could — I mean it could be. But lets see what happens. I have not — look, I have three or four or five positions that Im thinking about. Of that, maybe its going to end up being two. Maybe, but I want to—I need flexibility.
WALLACE: You have already made at least one big change, naming Matt Whitaker as your acting—
TRUMP: Yeah.
WALLACE: —Attorney General. He has a long record of speaking out against the Special Counsel and his probe.
SOT: MATT WHITAKER: I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesnt fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces the budget so low that his his investigation grinds to an absolute almost a halt.
WHITAKER: The truth is there was no collusion with the Russians and the Trump campaign.
WALLACE: Did you know, before you appointed him, that he had that record and was so critical of Robert Mueller?
TRUMP: I did not know that. I did not know he took views on the Mueller investigation as such.
WALLACE: And when you found that out?
TRUMP: I dont think it had any effect. If you look at those statements those statements that can — they really can be viewed either way, but I dont think it will have any impact—
WALLACE: Well, he said theres no collusion, he says—
TRUMP: Chris, Ill tell you what—
WALLACE: —he said you can starve the investigation—
TRUMP: Hes right. What do you do when a persons right? There is no collusion. He happened to be right. I mean, he said it. So if he said there is collusion, Im supposed to be taking somebody that says there is? Because then I wouldnt take him for two reasons, but the number one reason is the fact that he would have been wrong. If he said that theres no collusion, hes right.
WALLACE: He is going to have to make or could potentially make a lot of big calls in the Mueller investigation. If Mueller decides that he wants to subpoena you, the Attorney General Whitaker can block that. If Mueller issues a final report, he can decide how much goes to Congress or doesnt go to Congress. You tweeted this week about, quote, Bob Mueller and his gang of Democrat thugs.
TRUMP: Right.
WALLACE: If Whitaker decides in any way to limit or curtail the Mueller investigation, are you OK with that?
TRUMP: Look he — its going to be up to him. I think hes very well aware politically. I think hes astute politically. Hes a very smart person. A very respected person. Hes going to do whats right. I really believe hes going to do whats right.
WALLACE: But you wont overrule him if he decides to curtail—
TRUMP: I would not get involved. And all these people that say Im going to end the investigation, you know, theyve been saying that now for — how long has this witch hunt gone on? Its gone on for, what?
WALLACE: Since May of 17.
TRUMP: OK, but how long have I been looked at? You know when Ive been looked at? From the day I
WALLACE: Since July of 2016.
TRUMP: From the day I announced. I was looked at as a candidate with nothing, no proof, with phony people like McCabe and Strzok and his lover — you had Lisa Page, his lover. These people were looking at me, they wanted an insurance policy just in case I won or Hillary lost, and this was the insurance policy. Its a scam. There was no collusion whatsoever, and the whole thing is a scam.
WALLACE: Your team is preparing written answers to questions about—
TRUMP: No, no, no, not my team. Im preparing written answers. My — I — Im the one that does the answering. Yes, are they writing them out?
WALLACE: Yes.
TRUMP: Yeah. Theyre writing what I tell them to write.
WALLACE: Are they going to be submitted?
TRUMP: At some point very soon, yes. Ive completed them.
WALLACE: So youre — you are submitting-—
TRUMP: And it wasnt a big deal. By the way, it wasnt a big deal. The answers — the questions were asked and answered. It wasnt a big deal. You know, they make it like I had meetings for many, many hours — I got the questions, I responded, we wrote them out, I read them once, I read them a second time, we made some changes, thats it. Theyre very simple.
WALLACE: OK.
TRUMP: You know why? I did nothing wrong.
WALLACE: Heres my question, though. You are submitting written answers—
TRUMP: Yes.
WALLACE: —to the special counsel about the issue of collusion but not on obstruction of justice?
TRUMP: Well there was no obstruction of justice.
WALLACE: I — Im — let me — if i might, sir, just ask—
TRUMP: I think theyd probably agree with me.
WALLACE: If I may ask the question—
TRUMP: And all you have to do is look at Article II.
WALLACE: Is that your final position, that theres going to be no sit-down interview and nothing written or in person on obstruction?
TRUMP: I would say probably. Probably. I mean, I can change my mind, but probably. I think weve—
WALLACE: No interview?
TRUMP: I think weve wasted enough time on this witch hunt and the answer is probably, were finished.
WALLACE: What are the odds? One in a hundred? What—What?
TRUMP: I dont do odds, I gave very detailed—
WALLACE: You ran a casino sir.
TRUMP: Youre right, and very successfully actually. We gave very, very complete answers to a lot of questions that I shouldnt have even been asked and I think that should solve the problem, I hope it solves the problem, if it doesnt, you know, Ill be told and well make a decision at that time. But probably this is the end.
WALLACE: Turkish President Erdogan says that he has shared a tape with the U.S. and other countries that is of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
TRUMP: Right.
WALLACE: Have you one, either heard the tape yourself or been briefed on it and if so, to your mind what does it show?
TRUMP: We have the tape, I dont want to hear the tape, no reason for me to hear the tape.
WALLACE: Why dont you want to hear it sir?
TRUMP: Because its a suffering tape, its a terrible tape. Ive been fully briefed on it, theres no reason for me to hear it, in fact I said to the people should I? They said: you really shouldnt, theres no reason. I know exactly I know everything that went on in the tape without having to hear it.
WALLACE: And what happened?
TRUMP: It was very violent, very vicious and terrible.
WALLACE: A month ago you said you had spoken with Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman and that he had told you directly that he had no knowledge of this.
TRUMP: Thats right, thats right and still says that.
WALLACE: But we now know that some of the people closest to him, some of his closest advisors were part of this. Question, did MBS lie to your sir?
TRUMP: I dont I dont know, you know who could really know but I can say this hes got many people now that say he had no knowledge.
WALLACE: What if the Crown Prince speaking to you, the President of the United States directly lied to you about—
TRUMP: Well, he told me that he had nothing to do with it, he told me that I would say maybe five times at different points.
WALLACE: But what if hes lying?
TRUMP: As recently as a few days ago.
WALLACE: Do you just live with it because you need him?
TRUMP: Well, will anybody really know? All right, will anybody really know? But he did have certainly people that were reasonably close to him and close to him that were probably involved. You saw we put on very heavy sanctions, massive sanctions on a large group of people from Saudi Arabia. But at the same time we do have an ally and I want to stick with an ally that in many ways has been very good.
WALLACE: So, if Congress were to move to either try to cut off any U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen or to block any arms sales you wont go along with it?
TRUMP: Well I want to see Yemen end but it takes two to tango. Iran has to end it also. And Iran is a different country than it was when I took over, its far weakened because of what I did with the Iran — so-called Iran deal, Iran nuclear deal, which was one of the great rip-offs of— of all time. But I want Saudi to stop but I want Iran to stop also.
WALLACE: When Democrats flipped the House back in 2006 and picked up 30 seats, President Bush 43 had a news conference the next day and said, We had a thumping. Last week, in this election, the House picked up, so far its 36 seats, it may be on the way to 40 seats and your reaction was that it was almost a complete victory.
TRUMP: I won the Senate, you dont mention that.
WALLACE: But, well I—
TRUMP: Excuse me, I won the Senate.
WALLACE: I understand that but—
TRUMP: I think they said 88 years.
WALLACE: But this was a — this was a historically big defeat in the House. You lost 36, maybe 40 seats. Some would argue that it was a thumping. And I want to talk about some of the ways in which you lost. You lost in traditionally Republican suburbs, not only around liberal cities like Philadelphia and D.C. but also red-state big cities like Houston and Oklahoma City. You lost among suburban women. You lost among independents and, in three key states that I think you remember pretty well — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan — you lost both the governor seats and the senate seats.
TRUMP: Are you ready? I won the Senate, and thats historic too, because if you look at presidents in the White House its almost never happened where you won a seat. We won — we now have 53 as opposed to 51 and we have 53 great Senators in the U.S. Senate. We won. Thats a tremendous victory. Nobody talks about that. Thats a far greater victory than it is for the other side. Number two, I wasnt on the ballot. I wasnt—
WALLACE: Wait — wait a minute you said — you kept saying—
TRUMP: I said look at me — I said look me.
WALLACE: You said, Pretend Im on the ballot...
TRUMP: But I have people and you see the polls, how good they are, I have people that wont vote unless Im on the ballot, OK? And I wasnt on the ballot. And almost everybody that I won — I think they said it was 10 out of 11. And I won against President Obama and Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama in a great state called Georgia for the governor. And it was all stacked against Brian and I was the one that went for Brian and Brian won. Look at Florida. I went down to Florida. Rick Scott won and he won by a lot. I dont know what happened to all those votes that disappeared at the very end. And if I didnt put a spotlight on that election before it got down to the 12,500 votes he would of lost that election, OK? In my opinion he would have lost. They would have taken that election away from him. Rick Scott won Florida. Youd have to say, excuse me, a man named Ron DeSantis is now your governor — your new governor of Florida. A wonderful man named DeWine is your governor of the great state of Ohio. Remember what they used to say before my election? You cannot win unless you win Ohio. I won Ohio. We had a tremendous set of victories. You look at the victories—
WALLACE: But if you cant carry — and you certainly didnt carry it two weeks ago — Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — youre not going to get reelected.
TRUMP: I didnt run. I wasnt running. My name wasnt on the ballot. There are many people that think, I dont like Congress, that like me a lot. I get it all the time; Sir, well never vote unless youre on the ballot. I get it all the time. People are saying, Sir, I will never vote unless youre on the ballot. I say, No, no, go and vote. Well, what do you mean? As much as I try and convince people to go vote, Im not on the ballot.
+++PART 2
WALLACE: A federal judge who you appointed has just ruled that you must give CNN reporter Jim Acosta his press pass back. Your reaction to the ruling, sir.
TRUMP: Its fine, I mean its not a big deal. What they said, though, is that we have to create rules and regulations for conduct et cetera, et cetera, were doing that. Were going to write them up right now, its not a big deal. And if he misbehaves, well throw him out or well stop the news conference. Actually
WALLACE: What are your rules going to be? What what is it that youre saying this is over the line and you lose your press pass —
TRUMP: Yeah, theyre doing them now. I mean, well have rules of decorum, you know, you cant keep asking questions, you have we had a lot of reporters in that room, many, many reporters in that room and they were unable to ask questions because this guy gets up and starts, you know, doing what hes supposed to be doing for him and for CNN and, you know, just shouting out questions.
But but I will say this, look, nobody believes in the First Amendment more than I do and if I think somebodys acting out of sorts, I will leave, Ill say thank you very much everybody, I appreciate you coming and I will leave. And those reporters will not be too friendly to whoever it is thats acting up.
WALLACE: Why did you call on Acosta in the first place? I mean, it seems to me theres a simple solution here, just dont call on him.
TRUMP: Actually I like to do it, but in many cases I dont. Hell stand up, hes unbelievably rude to Sarah Huckabee, whos a wonderful woman, unbelievably rude and I see that and I actually ask her the same. Why do you call on these people that are so nasty?
I think one of the things well do is maybe turn the camera off that faces them because then they dont have any air time, although Ill probably be sued for that and maybe, you know, win or lose it, who knows. I mean, with with this stuff you never know whats going to happen.
WALLACE: Lets get to the bigger issue. In 2017, last year, you tweeted this, and I want to quote it accurately, The fake news media is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people.
TRUMP: Thats true, 100 percent. Not the media.
WALLACE: I —
TRUMP: Im glad youre finally quoting it correctly because they like to leave the fake news out
—
WALLACE: OK, but thats what you said.
TRUMP: The fake news so
WALLACE: But heres heres
TRUMP: The people that are supporting me in particular, theyre very smart people. Theyre hard working, brilliant, great people. They know when the news is fake and they get angry when they see all of the fakeness —
WALLACE: But but —
TRUMP: At, frankly, the networks
WALLACE: But there have been people who have been critical of other presidents, theyre theyre — no president has liked his press coverage. John Kennedy, in your Oval Office, canceled the subscription to the New York Herald-Tribune. Nobody called it the enemy of the American people.
TRUMP: Chris, Im calling the fake news is the enemy — its fake, its phony.
WALLACE: But a lot of times, sir, its just news you dont like
TRUMP: No its not, no. No. I dont mind getting bad news if Im wrong. If I do something wrong like, for instance, the cemetery. I was not allowed to go because of the Secret Service. Because they expected to take a helicopter
WALLACE: OK.
TRUMP: They had zero visibility. They said, Sir, we are totally unequipped for you to go. In addition to that, the cemetery was far too far away from Air Force One, which is sort of like a control center, where you had to be near.
Not one paper that I saw wrote it that way. They said I stayed out of it because of the rain. And yet, the following day, I made a speech at the American cemetery —
WALLACE: I understand.
TRUMP: It was pouring. It wasnt even really raining the first day but the fog was tremendous. OK?
WALLACE: But, sir leaders in authoritarian countries like Russia, China, Venezuela, now repress the media using your words.
TRUMP: I cant talk for other people, I can only talk for me. I will tell you —
WALLACE: But youre — but youre seen around the world as a beacon for repression, not for —
TRUMP: The news — Chris — Chris, Im not talking about you, but you sometimes maybe. But Im not talking about you.
The news about me is largely phony. Its false. Even sometimes theyll say, uh, Sources say. There is no source, in many cases in many cases there is —
WALLACE: But — I understand you dont like your coverage —
TRUMP: No, no, no. Its not a question —
WALLACE: Can I just bring the — can I just bring the bigger issue
TRUMP: Ninety-four percent negative.
WALLACE: Can I bring the — the bigger issue up —
TRUMP: Yeah.
WALLACE: Bill McRaven, Retired Admiral, Navy Seal, 37 years, former head of U.S. Special Operations —
TRUMP: Hillary Clinton fan.
WALLACE: Special Operations —
TRUMP: Excuse me, Hillary Clinton fan.
WALLACE: Who led the operations, commanded the operations that took down Saddam Hussein and that killed Osama bin Laden says that your sentiment is the greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime.
TRUMP: OK, hes a Hilary Clinton, uh, backer and an Obama-backer and frankly —
WALLACE: He was a Navy Seal 37 years —
TRUMP: Wouldnt it have been nice if we got Osama Bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldnt it have been nice? You know, living think of this living in Pakistan, beautifully in Pakistan in what I guess they considered a nice mansion, I dont know, Ive seen nicer. But living in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everybody in Pakistan knew he was there. And we give Pakistan $1.3 billion a year and they dont tell him, they dont tell him —
WALLACE: Youre not even going to give them credit —
TRUMP: For years —
WALLACE: for taking down Bin Laden?
TRUMP: They took him down but look, look, theres news right there, he lived in Pakistan, were supporting Pakistan, were giving them $1.3 billion a year, which we dont give them anymore, by the way, I ended it because they dont do anything for us, they dont do a damn thing for us.
TRUMP: Im totally in favor of the media, Im totally in favor of free press, got to be fair press. When its fake —
WALLACE: But but the President [doesnt] get to decide whats fair and whats not.
TRUMP: I can tell whats fair and not and so can my people and so can a lot of other people.
WALLACE: I understand that but but —
TRUMP: When you do something very good and they write it badly and this is consistently when you as an example, rarely do they talk about —
WALLACE: Barack Obama whined about Fox News all the time but he never said we were the enemy of the people.
TRUMP: Well, no, he didnt talk about the news, he didnt talk about anything, Im only saying it very differently than anyones ever said it before, Im saying fake news, false reporting, dishonest reporting, of which there is a lot, and I know it. See, I know it because Im a subject of it. A lot of people dont know it. But when I explain it to them, they understand it.
And, Chris, you know that better, you dont have to sit here and act like a perfect little, wonderful, innocent angel, I know you too well, I knew your father too well, thats not your gene. But let me tell you —
WALLACE: I look I think
TRUMP: Fake news —
WALLACE: I think some of the coverage of you, sir and Ive said it on the record is bias, but I dont think that there is
TRUMP: Most of it is bias, most of it is bias.
WALLACE: I dont know, but the idea that you call us the enemy of the people.
TRUMP: Im not calling you that.
WALLACE: Im talking about, were all together.
TRUMP: Im not calling you you dont understand it.
WALLACE: Were all together.
TRUMP: No, no, no, Im not calling you —
WALLACE: It doesnt matter whether you call, but when you call CNN and the New York Times and we, were in solidarity, sir.
TRUMP: I am calling fake news, fake reporting, is whats tearing this country apart because people know, people like things that are happening and theyre not hearing about it.
WALLACE: Where do you rank yourself in the pantheon of great Presidents? Theres Lincoln and Washington, theres FDR and Reagan, do you make the top 10?
TRUMP: I think Im doing a great job. We have the best economy weve ever had.
WALLACE: So where do you rank yourself?
TRUMP: Were doing really well. We would have been at war with North Korea if, lets say, that administration continued forward.
TRUMP: I would give myself, I would look, I hate to do it, but I will do it, I would give myself an A+, is that enough? Can I go higher than that?
WALLACE: Can you envision a situation, you talk about six more years. Can you envision a situation well into your second term where you think that youre so good for the country and so essential for the progress of the country that you would try to amend the Constitution so you could serve a third term?
TRUMP: No, no.
WALLACE: Why not?
TRUMP: Just wont happen, its not I think the eight year limit is a good thing, not a bad thing.
WALLACE: Youve talked a lot already about the cemetery and the fact that you didnt go because it was a security concern and you did go the next day. Heres the thing
TRUMP: No, excuse me. Not security concern they wouldnt allow me to go
WALLACE: I understand.
TRUMP: They said, Sir, Secret Service said, Sir, you cannot go. We are not prepared. You cannot go. Because it was supposed to be helicopter, but the helicopter couldnt fly because of zero visibility. So —
WALLACE: OK. But, let me —
TRUMP: They said, Sir, you cannot go.
WALLACE: But heres the question, youre back in Washington on Monday, Veterans Day, why dont you go across the river to Arlington for that ceremony? Barack Obama went every year he was here in D.C.
TRUMP: I should have done that. I was extremely busy on calls for the country, we did a lot of calling, as you know
WALLACE: But this is Veterans Day
TRUMP: I probably, you know, in retrospect I should have and I did last year and I will virtually every year. But we had come in very late at night and I had just left, literally, the American cemetery in Paris and I really probably assumed that was fine and I was extremely busy because of affairs of state doing other things.
WALLACE: Why havent
TRUMP: But I would have — I would have done it.
WALLACE: Why havent you visited our troops serving in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan in the two years youve been in office as Commander-in-Chief?
TRUMP: Well, I think you will see that happen. There are things that are being planned. We dont want to talk about it because of — obviously because of security reasons and everything else.
But there are things that are planned. As you know, I was very much opposed to the war in Iraq. I think it was a tremendous mistake, should have never happened —
WALLACE: But this is about the soldiers, sir.
TRUMP: Youre right.
I dont think anybodys been more with the military than I have, as a president. In terms of funding, in terms of all of the things Ive been able to get them, including the vets. I dont think anybodys done more than me.
Ive had an unbelievable busy schedule and I will be doing it. On top of which you have these phony witch hunts. On top of which — I mean, weve just been very busy. But I will be doing that.
WALLACE: Just before the midterms you said your biggest regret is that perhaps you should have had a softer tone in your two years as president. But since then, some could argue, youve been on a tear.
At the press conference the day after the election you mocked some of the Republican congressmen who lost not embracing you.
[TAPE: President Trump: Mia Love gave me no love and she lost. Too bad. Sorry about that Mia.]
You went after two African-American reporters and basically said that they were dumb.
[TAPE: President Trump: The same thing with April Ryan. I watch her get up. I mean, you talk about somebody that’s a loser, she doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing.
QUESTION: Do you want him to rein in Robert Mueller?
President Trump: What a stupid question that is. What a stupid question. But I watch you a lot. You ask a lot of stupid questions.]
WALLACE: Question. I was in Saint Joes, Missouri this last week and I was talking to a lot of loyal Republicans. They love what youve done to the economy. They love the fact that you have basically put ISIS out of business. The one thing they say is, why do you have to be so divisive? Why dont you do more to bring the country together?
TRUMP: I think that if I was very different I wouldnt have gotten what we had to get. We got the biggest tax cuts in history, we got ANWR approved, we have — we got rid of the individual mandate, which was the most unpopular thing you can imagine — health care — I got rid of it, everybody said it would be impossible to get rid of it.
And many many — you know, the regulations. I think if I was a more modified, more moderate, in that sense, I dont think I would have done half of the things that I was able to get completed.
With that being said, other than you have to have a certain ability to fight back and, as you know, people have — you know, they take strong stands on me both ways, you know, love and hate. Id like to see it a little bit, maybe, more right down the middle.
But tone is something that is important to me. But a lot of times you cant practice tone because you have people coming at you so hard that if you dont fight back in a somewhat vigorous way youre not going to win. And we have to win. This country has to win.
We have a lot of victories coming and I think if I — if I go too low-key were not going to have those victories.
WALLACE: Mr. President, thank you.
TRUMP: Thank you. Thank you very much, Chris.
WALLACE: Very much appreciate it, sir.
+++PART 3
WALLACE: So have you gotten comfortable with the place yet, sir?
TRUMP: I have, I feel very comfortable. It took me a little while. You know, its sort of incredible. You say youre the President of the United States, and I say, wow, and it takes a little while to get over that.
WALLACE: I was going to ask you, the first time
TRUMP: Yeah.
WALLACE: — that youre in the Oval Office —
TRUMP: Right.
WALLACE: — by yourself, everybodys gone, youre looking around the room, the — the iconic room, the most famous
TRUMP: Here we are, you know Ive had people come into this the biggest people in the world, presidents, prime ministers, the heads of the biggest companies in the world and they always stop and they say, this is the Oval Office.
WALLACE: Yes.
TRUMP: This is the Oval Office. There is nothing like it in the world. This is the Resolute Desk, very famous. This is where John John, at the time, right?
WALLACE: Right.
TRUMP: John Kennedy was right here, thats a little door that opens up and that was the famous picture, I could show you that picture, in fact, Ill give it to you. But this is a very important desk FDR, John Kennedy, you know, we have seven desks and as president you can choose any one of the desks. This is to me, I think the most beautiful, in terms of its carving. I also think in many respects its just some people that I respect.
WALLACE: How, when youre sitting at the desk, how do you make decisions? I mean do you agonize over them, do you second guess yourself? How does
TRUMP: I dont think about it, I dont think about, you know, how I make them. I make what I consider the right decision, I have great people working at the White House, they dont get enough credit. I have some tremendously talented people and I will talk to them and sometimes Ill have them go at each other, I do like that, you know let them go at each other. And they do. Theyve very competitive people and at the end I make a decision and its certainly on the economy, a lot of things weve been weve made a lot of good decisions and I want to keep it that way.
WALLACE: Do you ever second guess yourself? Do you ever —
TRUMP: Yes, oh, all the time.
WALLACE: And do you sometimes change your
TRUMP: Ive done things where I wished I went a different route but then what you do is you change course and you—you bring it back, you stabilize it out. But
WALLACE: Toughest decision youve had to make as President?
TRUMP: Well, I think North Koreas been very tough because you know we were very close. When I took that over President Obama right in those two chairs, we sat and talked and he said thats by far the biggest problem that this country has. And I think we had real decision as to which way to go on North Korea and certainly at least so far Im very happy with the way we went. I have a very good relationship with
WALLACE: Even though there was talk that they putting up new sites?
TRUMP: Maybe they are, maybe theyre not, I dont believe that, I dont. And you know could which is if thats the way it goes, thats the way it goes. You know, I go with the way we have to go but so far its been good, we have a very good relationship. Weve made I think some great decisions for the people of this country and I do, you know I put America first and other countries should put themselves first. Its not like we should put and everybody else should be second to us, no. Other countries are proud of their countries and their leadership put their countries first. But we were putting our country in many cases last. We were more worried about the world than we were worried about the United States, thats not going to happen with me.
The Sunday political talk shows 11/18/18
Below the FreeRepublic Sunday talk show thread link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3706734/posts
The major talking points of the day
the “journalist” killed in Saudi Arabia got some mention. Mostly it was all about elections and the Republicans who try to steal them away every damn election cycle
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): President Donald J. Trump. The panel will be former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah; former Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md.; Gerald Seib of The Wall Street Journal; and Jonathan Swan of Axios.
Highlight of Fox News Sunday:
President Trump is interviewed-link to that interview only below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmn98ViEUoA
Link to Fox News Sunday Below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmn98ViEUoA
Highlight of Meet the Press:
Lindsay Graham discusses dead Saudi princes and those who he will never support.
Link to Meet the Press show below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW2NfpUIZR0
Highlight of Face the Nation
California Governor Moonbeam blames the California burns on global warming
Below the link to Face the Nation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNWm7HLv7sI
THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. A panel with incoming congresswomen Deb Haaland, D-N.M.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa,; Donna Shalala, D-Fla.; Abigail Spanberger, D-Va.; and Lauren Underwood, D-Ill. A panel with former Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J.; Democratic strategist Stephanie Cutter; Mary Jordan of The Washington Post, and Reihan Salam of National Review and author of Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders.
Highlight of This Week with George Stephanopolous
Adam Schiff discusses California fires, almost seems normal
Link to This Week below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVx9YrAxdFQ
Highlight of State of the Union
Georgia almost-Governor, Stacey Abrams, explains absolutely nothing, casts aspersions on her election, a 92 year old was removed from voting roles for not voting three years. He claims he did vote. This is voter fraud according to Stacey.
Link to This Week below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CBhiD5eirc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJwUJ4bL4Hg