What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Eddie Teach]

What is a liver-caller?

[Oexmelin]

It's the wake-up call when you realize you're an alcoholic.

[jimmy olsen]

What is a liver-caller?

A typo

[mongers]

It's the wake-up call when you realize you're an alcoholic.

[jimmy olsen]

[The Larch]

Wonder if this will get somewhere...

Democrats launch inquiry into White House's use of security clearances

    Trump officials accused of 'grave breaches of national security'
    Questions over Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Rob Porter

A powerful House committee now led by Democrats has launched an investigation into the Trump administration's use of security clearances, accusing the White House and the 2016 presidential transition team of "grave breaches" in the process that awards access to some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets.

The inquiry by the House oversight and reform committee, announced on Wednesday, takes direct aim at some of those closest to the president over the past two years, including the former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and former White House aide Rob Porter.

Trump appointee 'overruled' rejection of Jared Kushner's top security clearance

President's son-in-law was turned down by two White House officials over his family's businesses and his foreign contacts


A new report that a White House official appointed by Donald Trump overruled the advice of two specialist adjudicators to award top security clearance to the president's son-in-law has raised fresh questions about the way the White House is conducting top security matters.

Jared Kushner was awarded top security clearance giving him access to highly sensitive national security intelligence last May after a prolonged delay in his FBI background checks. Kushner had lost his full clearance a few months before, after it emerged that he had failed to disclose adequate information.

The NBC News report, published on Thursday night, suggests new intrigue within the White House over the clearance process. Two career White House officials specializing in assessing individuals for their security risk turned Kushner down for the sensitive "top secret" category, the report states.

Unnamed sources told NBC News that the adjudicators based their rejection of Kushner on FBI background checks that raised red flags over Kushner's family's businesses as well as his foreign contacts.

Having rejected Kushner for the clearance, the decision was reversed by Trump appointee Carl Kline, a former official in the department of defense who was put in charge of the personnel security office at the White House four months after Trump took office.

Kushner is married to Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter. He holds the role of special adviser in the White House with responsibility over the Middle East, criminal justice reform and innovation in government.

The NBC News report is likely to generate fury over the way the White House is conducted because it suggests a drastic reduction in security standards in order to benefit members of Trump's entourage. NBC News reports that not only did Kline grant Kushner a top secret pass, he also overruled security specialists and approved clearance for other Trump appointees in at least another 30 cases – vastly more than the norm in recent presidencies.

[Syt]

Are we sure Mike Pence isn't a robot?

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1088841090394812417?s=20

[crazy canuck]

New York Times has a story on the growing chance Trump will face a Primary battle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-rnc-2020.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[Tamas]

New York Times has a story on the growing chance Trump will face a Primary battle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-rnc-2020.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

He will win it.

[11B4V]

Are we sure Mike Pence isn't a robot?

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1088841090394812417?s=20

No, but what we are sure of, he's a wack-a-doodle.

[jimmy olsen]

New York Times has a story on the growing chance Trump will face a Primary battle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-rnc-2020.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

He will win it.

Yeah, but a serious primary battle is a really bad sign for a general reelection campaign.

[Tamas]

New York Times has a story on the growing chance Trump will face a Primary battle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-rnc-2020.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

He will win it.

Yeah, but a serious primary battle is a really bad sign for a general reelection campaign.

2016 tends to disagree.

[Savonarola]

Yeah, but a serious primary battle is a really bad sign for a general reelection campaign.

2016 tends to disagree.

It's a bad sign for an incumbent president.  In our system of government the incumbent almost always wins unless he faces a serious in party primary challenge (Ford, Carter) or a major third party challenger (Taft, Benjamin Harrison, George H. W. Bush).  In every other case since 1888 the incumbent has won, with the sole exception of Herbert Hoover.

[chipwich]

Lbj was primaried out dude.

[Caliga]

 

I thought he withdrew before the Primaries started, because he was afraid he would be 'primaried out' (I like that expression btw)?