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Would it be possible to change the Title to : How bad a President will Trump be?
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Cute that you believe her "correction" of a Freudian slip, friend.

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What is your source for "Evidence last year showed some "journalists" are working directly for political parties."
tl:dr: Podesta was used as a go-between for DC media to take orders for the Hillary campaign.

For the purposes of the focus here, let's take a look at three things: Politico's specific policy on the issue, contrition by the reporter and accountability from management.

First, Politico precedent: Last summer, another Politico reporter (Ken Vogel) was shown in another Wikileaks email dump sharing a story in advance with a DNC national press secretary Mark Paustenbach.

“Vogel gave me his story ahead of time/before it goes to his editors as long as I didn’t share it,” Pasterenbach, ignoring Vogel's request not to share the story, wrote DNC Communications director Luis Miranda. “Let me know if you see anything that’s missing and I’ll push back.”


http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blo...podesta-emails

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...s-press-214367

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016...lary-advisors/
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Re: Will Trump be a Good President?

Some people have no sense of humour. Of course! He's a Trump fan!
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Opinion piece today

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Maybe Dan can write a new piece about Trump's Air National Guard service?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killia...ts_controversy
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Some people have no sense of humour. Of course! He's a Trump fan!
Not really friend, we were ed no matter what. I'm just tired of people either portraying Bush, Obama, and Clinton as saints for whatever reason. We haven't had a real President in this country since Kennedy, and he was elected through electoral fraud. Call me a cynic.

http://articles.latimes.com/1997/nov/09/news/mn-51973
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis openly differed with his commander in chief over North Korea on Wednesday, the latest example of a once-rare public display of disagreement by top U.S. aides that has become more frequent under President Donald Trump.

Mattis was also among the senior aides, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, who implicitly criticized the Republican president’s response to violence at a rally organized by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month.

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Maybe Dan can write a new piece about Trump's Air National Guard service?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killia...ts_controversy
But Trump was a draft dodger
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Not really friend, we were ed no matter what. I'm just tired of people either portraying Bush, Obama, and Clinton as saints for whatever reason. We haven't had a real President in this country since Kennedy, and he was elected through electoral fraud. Call me a cynic.

http://articles.latimes.com/1997/nov/09/news/mn-51973
Mafia, Russia, everybody is happy to step up to the plate and assist Presidents get elected
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Mafia, Russia, everybody is happy to step up to the plate and assist Presidents get elected
I like that, but this I believe Russian stuff is all fiction. In fact even if it was true , it shows the seventeen or so intelligence services were impotent to protect the nation during an election from outside sources. I don't know why they would want to admit that to the world if it was true.
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I like that, but this I believe Russian stuff is all fiction. In fact even if it was true , it shows the seventeen or so intelligence services were impotent to protect the nation during an election from outside sources. I don't know why they would want to admit that to the world if it was true.
But the Mafia stuff you quoted is non - fiction?
Do you know the expression "cherry picking"?

Carry on

" I don't know why they would want to admit that to the world if it was true." Presumably because, unlike Trump, they believe truth is important?
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Maybe Dan can write a new piece about Trump's Air National Guard service?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killia...ts_controversy
If you do not like Rather then you will hate this!
Rather: Trump 'seized with fear' over Mueller investigation

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Of course there are a lot of unfounded conspiracy theories circulating about Trump's business activities in New York with tenuous links to the firing of Preet Bharara, former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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Cute that you believe her "correction" of a Freudian slip, friend.
No, unlike you I do not believe anything she says
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William C. Bradford, a Trump administration appointee who heads the Energy Department's Office of Indian Energy, resigned Thursday after claiming this week inflammatory comments that appeared to have been made by him online were the result of hacking.

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Probably a good decision otherwise he would have faced difficult questions about why he had not noticed that his account had been hacked and was making inappropriate comments "over several years"¨without, for example, changing his password!

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Re: Will Trump be a Good President?

Interesting twist on the possible Prez pardons relating to the Russian scandal. Article from August 31st.

"Robert Mueller Has Just Neutered Trump’s Pardon Power In Russia Probe"


http://secondnexus.com/politics-and-...-russia-probe/
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Better to neuter Trump himself. He does not them anyhow.
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Interesting twist on the possible Prez pardons relating to the Russian scandal. Article from August 31st.

"Robert Mueller Has Just Neutered Trump’s Pardon Power In Russia Probe"


http://secondnexus.com/politics-and-...-russia-probe/
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Daily Show: Did Team Trump Reveal Their Middle Man to Moscow?
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Better to neuter Trump himself. He does not them anyhow.
Well if you believe the rumours Trump's ex-doctor was spreading about the side effects of the medicine he takes to keep his hair luxuriant....
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Interesting twist on the possible Prez pardons relating to the Russian scandal. Article from August 31st.

"Robert Mueller Has Just Neutered Trump’s Pardon Power In Russia Probe"


http://secondnexus.com/politics-and-...-russia-probe/
Sounds like the correct approach to me.
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Ooopppsss

Employers added only 156,000 jobs in August as the pace of hiring slowed, according to the Labor Department report Friday.
The unemployment rate crept up to 4.4% from the 16-year low of 4.3% reached last month, as fewer adults reported that they had a job during the month.
The Labor Department also revised down earlier estimates for job growth in both June and July by a total of 41,000 jobs, suggesting that the labor market is not quite as strong as it appeared to be a month ago.
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Re: Will Trump be a Good President?

Anybody else notice how nuclear plants kept working and providing full power in areas effected by Harvey while fossil fuel and chemical plants had to shut down.

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Wind farms automatically shut off when winds exceed ca. 55 mph (say 90 Kmh) and then need manual checking before restarting which is not so easy when many employees are blocked by flooding and other hurricane after effects.

So which form of energy is safest
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