Roger Stone indicted. Arrested in an early morning raid, very big raid too seems quite heavy handed.


What will this mean for Spanky??? apart from needing a replacement for a soon to be broken phone.

Trump wins again!
Nobody from Obama's White House or Campaign was convicted while Trump's score is eight convictions plus a number of open indictments and likely ever more to come!

Cost of this investigation is now reported to be $25 million and assets seized of $48 million; so profitable for the Govt.!

President Trump said Friday he will back a short-term funding bill to reopen the government that does not include funds to construct a wall along the southern border.

"I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and re-open the federal government," Trump said.

Source

So Trump has backed down!

Maybe Trump has learnt shut downs do not provide a solution; on the other hand?

Very smart of Trump to reopen the government so that planning the wall can continue. There is no more time to waste.

I've outtrumped Trump

Even Fox News are falling out of love with Trump!
Source

Trump is very good at fast and strong reactions.

But he is outclassed by Pelosi who thinks several moves ahead.

In the televised Trump, Pelosi and Schumer meeting before Christmas Pelosi challenged Trump to have the House pass a Govt. funding Bill including money for the Wall.
She knew Trump could not ignore the challenge and would pressure the House to do this.
She also knew the Senate would not pass a matching Bill with wall funding so she surely hoped Trump would dig himself into this big hole frantically trying to show he was managing the wall funding; exactly as he did

In one paragraph of the published Stone's indictment "Mueller alleges that an unnamed individual gave instructions to a senior unnamed Trump campaign official to get in touch with Stone “about any additional releases and what other damaging information” WikiLeaks was holding about Clinton’s campaign.

After getting those orders, Stone allegedly told the Trump campaign “about potential future releases of damaging material” that WikiLeaks was holding."

So who is senior enough to give instructions to a senior Trump campaign official?
WikiLeaks is a foreign entity that was seeking to meddle in the presidential election who, allegedly, the Trump campaign was in touch with!

Steve Bannon is suspected to be this person.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/25/stev...ndictment.html

Edit: Unrelated to the above, but also have a look at Lindsey Graham's Twitter https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/...93892462809088.

I hope they do find a bipartisan solution.

Nevertheless if I was a Federal employee or contractor with limited savings then I would be seriously looking for another non Federal job!

Trump wins again, highest disapproval level of any President after 2 years in office



BTW, I did some research on the poll that showed 50% of Latinos approved of Trump; they had only interviewed 154 Latinos so the results are too few to draw any general conclusion on Latino views.

So Pelosi is now up 2 - 0, wonder when will be the next rematch!

This wasn't a wall, it was a cave.

From the Huff Post.

TRUMP CAN'T FIND THE WALL DOUGH

Nevermind Trump, it's interesting that the favorability of every Prez since JFK is steadily declining. The nation used to be more united and rallied around the leader. But it's been slowly getting split into two camps at war with each other...


...anyway, back to the regularly scheduled Trump bashing...

They are in popularity order, not date order.

A triple win in a single stroke:
He's the first, the last, and the only one to give in.


ETA:
While I'm at it:

No ! Pelosi is a grandmother she knows how to handle minors

For anybody that thinks Trump has no conflicts of interest with his business

Did Trump really tweet America already has "not the “smartest person.” "

Quite neat. That claim is its own proof.

Meanwhile in the real world on the next Stock Market day;

"Dow falls 209 points as Caterpillar and Nvidia reinforce slowdown fears with downbeat earnings results"

Source

Lateral Thinking

U.S. drops in global corruption perception index, it's not just Spanky's reputation that's tanking, he's dragging the U.S. down too.


https://www.bloombergquint.com/polit...ex#gs.5JMLac1E


'Good' president? aye right son.