Emergency Powers on the table a,I’d shutdown talks

[CitizenBBN]

He equally could be aware. Our intelligence is very good. Electronically they would have foot prints for this likely or taped conversations if no phone or email wasn’t involved...likely. That’s why I can’t accept him not knowing. If intelligence has record of this and didn’t inform Obama, the problem is far bigger than imagined.

There's no doubt our intelligence apparatus knew things that were going on, and if nothing else it clued them in when a whistleblower went to the FBI over the deal.

I imagine Obama knew the broad situation, and chose to not know more. Obama is slick. he's not dirty, he just makes deals with a ton of people who are dirty to get their support. He won't help bring the suitcases full of money but he'll put them in position to recoup their investment and then look the other way when they do.

[suncat05]

That may be one of the reasons WHY he was not very interested in attending his daily intelligence agencies briefings.
Which makes him derelict in his duties as POTUS. Which makes him unfit to hold his office, because he wasn't leading as the CinC, he was allowing one of his appointees to run wild with no accountability in matters of national security to fill her and her husband's pockets with the fruits of ill gotten gains.
And Obama is wrong if he thinks that maybe because he didn't know that he wasn't responsible. He was the one sitting in the big chair in the Oval Office. If he knew (and I wholeheartedly believe he did!) then did nothing to stop it, then that makes him an enabler and a co-conspirator in a criminal enterprise.

[suncat05]

And, maybe it's just me, but I fully believe that when you have an armed criminal enterprise moving drugs, arms, and illegal aliens across our sovereign borders for any reason other than the good of the United States of America, then it should be considered an armed incursion into our nation, therefore making it an invasion, and a danger to our national security, and it should be met with military action.
But that's just me. I'm kind of "old school" when it comes to a foreign entity of any sort doing harm to or attacking my country.

Don't whizz down my back and then tell me it's raining. 😠

[UKHistory]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuP2wvTAj0E

But not as smart.

[UKHistory]

Far and away one of Trumps most thoughtful and strongest speeches. He came across much better than normal.

[kingcat]

Far and away one of Trumps most thoughtful and strongest speeches. He came across much better than normal.

"Texas has been a second chance for me. I expect that might be true for many of you as well. It has been a chance not only for land and riches, but also to be a different man. I hope a better one"

[CitizenBBN]

Far and away one of Trumps most thoughtful and strongest speeches. He came across much better than normal.

He's shown flashes of that the last 2 years, but then falls back into what he perceives as his "street brawler" mode. I don't think anyone, even his closest supports, woiuldn't like to see more of this version of Trump than the brawler.

It would be smart politically IMO, but I think he thinks the latter is to his political advantage, not just with his base (and I disagree with him here) but b/c it usually gets an equally silly response from the opposition in some way.

[Doc]

He's shown flashes of that the last 2 years, but then falls back into what he perceives as his "street brawler" mode. I don't think anyone, even his closest supports, woiuldn't like to see more of this version of Trump than the brawler.

It would be smart politically IMO, but I think he thinks the latter is to his political advantage, not just with his base (and I disagree with him here) but b/c it usually gets an equally silly response from the opposition in some way.

Exactly. He does that stuff and looks foolish but the replies look even moreso so he sees it as a win. Just look at the left reply last night. I haven't seen that such stiffness since the last bachelor party I want to. Nancy and Chuck looked like my parents when I got busted in HS for having a keg of beer in my car. So Trump might look foolish, just less foolish. That isn't a very high standard but it works for him.