This nothing burger is turning into a Nunes ham handed own goal.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Friday that the release of a controversial memo by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee does not discredit or undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election "in any way"!

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Ex FBI Director;
According to the memo released Friday by House Intelligence Committee Republicans the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump campaign officials had improper contacts with Russia was triggered by information the bureau obtained about George Papadopoulos, a former adviser to the campaign,

Allies of President Trump have claimed the Russia probe began with the so-called Steele dossier that was paid for in part by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

But the memo states that FBI opened the investigation in July 2016 based on "information" about Papadapoulos, rather than the dossier.

Sounds good but Trump seems to have given up that dangerous course of claiming credit for Stock Exchange rises.

Possibly due to the US Exchanges crashing this week; Dow already down 1,000+ points this week; worst week for two years.
Mainly due to inflation fears based on "Average earnings up 2.9%"!

Economy? You do know the US stock markets had their worst week for over two years?
The Dow Jones hit 26,600 on Monday and finished today at 25,500

When the market drops suddenly like that, it means some have raked in profits. Its a good thing. We need those market drop corrections to signal even more buys.

I read something like $7 or $8 trillion have been added to the stock market since Trump took office and strings of record breaking growth in the past year.

Phew, imagine the inverse effect of this without Trump. If Hillary Clinton would have been elected, the only thing we would see growing exponential are tax rates, government programs and the number of Americans in poverty.

We are so grateful to have dodged a bullet and Trump got election.

MAGA!

US stock futures are pointing down again today; looks like more people will be raking in profits.

Whether this is just a short term drop or long term correction waits to be seen.

If Hillary Clinton had been voted in then, like Trump, she would have benefited from the sound economy handed over by Obama and seen the same continued growth as in Obama's time

The slightly creepy sycophancy building up through the thread to this faintly orgasmic post would probably make even Trump himself go off for a shower, and start looking over his shoulder in fear of the weird guy in Switzerland.

I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for the guy now. It's not many steps off a pit in the ground, a bottle of moisturiser and a basket on a rope.

Interesting. My impression was that we've had full-on sycophancy from day one .

Not sure sycophancy is entirely the correct word.

Anybody who believes Hillary would have increased taxes in spite of a GOP Senate and House has a more serious condition

Hillary stated it was her mission to raise taxes.

It doesn't seem like anyone on this thread understands what is going on in the US. Consider it a public service on my part. Its just so fun to show you guys how wrong you are. It's been over a year now, and you're still wrong.

You might get it someday.

Thanks Obama

Markets fell by more points last Friday than they lost on Black Monday

Unfortunately like most public services it is cr#p

To be fair though, due to the nature of EF, there is almost bound to be a level of cosmopolitan bias; such people will never understand Trump's agenda nor the people that support it.

No, what you see going on in the US through your lens is a lot different from what I see. We talk to different people, look at different metrics. Don’t presume everyone here is clueless. But, there are a lot of different perspectives. I don’t think you’re necessarily right, either. Arrogant, perhaps. But do carry on.

But Trump's agenda is extremely clearly presented - MAGA (Make America Great Again) so it is very easy for us EFers to understand.

So Trump has now completed his first year as US President and we are all interested to know how far along is his realization of his MAGA target.

Now we run into the problem that MAGA (like most political slogans) is unfortunately, or cleverly, not defined, so how do measure it?

To give a silly example; my goal is to plant 100 rows of seed potatoes in a field in one month. After two weeks I can visit the field, count the rows planted and know how far along to the target of 100 I am.

Problem is that we do understand what is going on on the US.

The US President does not accept he is the President of all Americans, he foments divisions, supports White Supremacists, seeks confrontation not diplomacy, attacks and discredits the legal institutions he owns all to increase his support from the "deplorables".

This is not the path to MAGA

Positive interpretation of this tweet is that Trump has accepted the probe will continue and he cannot stop it

Paul Ryan is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2015.

Who needs an opposition when the GOP incumbents are so clueless?


This is the same GOP who are running ads complaining about Pelosi who has said that the middle class is getting crumbs from tax reform compared to the "bonanza" that shareholders are receiving.

Piggin' hell! We're cosmopolitan now! Can tell kk has never been to my neck of the woods in the UK

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