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The Donald's wiring is evidently not the most sound schematic. It was okay when he was piddling around in his own private world where he could bully and take overwhelming legal action against anyone who crossed him. Now he is on the big stage, trying to "manage" something which is tens of thousands of times larger than anything he has ever dealt with, and he is just melting in the face of it. He'll be in the loony bin before long at this pace. Each weekly melt down is progressively worse than the one from the previous week. This week was particularly harsh on his psyche after he thought he had done a good job on his address to the joint session of Congress. People inside his organization are NEVER going to let up on him until he breaks. You can't go around fowl-mouthing everyone and then expect them to trust you or help you in any manner. He is an island of one by his own doing. You can expect that he has told so many lies he is going to forget more and more before they put him in the white room.
LOL,LOL,LOL The countdown has begun! Not long to go now.
Trump is dangerously incompetent for the job of President, the clueless nature of his lemmings are responsible for installing an incompetent buffoon as President of the USA.The rest of the world i imagine is laughing and shaking their heads in amazement that the once great America could be so easily duped.
Trump is dangerously incompetent for the job of President, the clueless nature of his lemmings are responsible for installing an incompetent buffoon as President of the USA.
Better an incompetent buffoon then an intentional buffoon.
He's paranoid. That's why he didn't just ask the Intel community for answers.
Probably because he is in the beginning stages of dementia and most DEFINITELY because he's not used to the world of politics and he hasn't really made any friends in Washington.
So, like the average old guy who thinks the "big gubmint" is out to get him, Trump reads Breitbart and listens to Limbaugh because he thinks they know something he does not know.
When, in reality, all he has to do is use the powers of his office, as President, to get the info firsthand.
Excuse me if what I'm about to say seems impertinent, but once I present the following articles, if you were in His position would you not appear paranoid. The information isn't from outliers news but such as BBC etc...
BBC NEWS 6 March 2017 Did Obama really wiretap Trump Tower?
Mr Obama's team have outright denied any involvement, saying Mr Trump's tweets are "simply false".
A warrant, if it existed, would most likely have been ordered by the Department of Justice independently of the White House.
On Sunday, former press secretary Josh Earnest told ABC: "This may come as a surprise to the current occupant of the Oval Office, but the president of the United States does not have the authority to unilaterally order the wiretapping of an American citizen.
"If the FBI decided to use their wiretapping authority in the context of the counterintelligence or criminal investigation, it would require FBI investigators, officials at the Department of Justice going to a federal judge, and making a case, and demonstrating probable cause to use that authority to conduct the investigation. That is a fact."
John McCain passes dossier alleging secret Trump-Russia contacts to FBI
McCain is not thought to have made a judgment on the reliability of the documents but was sufficiently impressed by the source’s credentials to feel obliged to pass them to the FBI.
The Senate armed services committee, which Senator McCain chairs, launched an inquiry last week into Russian cyber-attacks during the election.
McCain was reluctant to get involved, according to a colleague, for fear the issue would be dismissed as a personal grudge against Trump. He pushed instead for the creation of a special Senate committee to look into connections between campaign staff and Moscow, but the proposal was blocked by the Republican leadership.
A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump
The former intelligence officer says the response from the FBI was "shock and horror." The FBI, after receiving the first memo, did not immediately request additional material, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates. Yet in August, they say, the FBI asked him for all information in his possession and for him to explain how the material had been gathered and to identify his sources. The former spy forwarded to the bureau several memos—some of which referred to members of Trump's inner circle. After that point, he continued to share information with the FBI. "It's quite clear there was or is a pretty substantial inquiry going on," he says.
"This is something of huge significance, way above party politics," the former intelligence officer comments. "I think [Trump's] own party should be aware of this stuff as well."
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment regarding the memos. In the past, Trump has declared, "I have nothing to do with Russia."
The FBI is certainly investigating the hacks attributed to Russia that have hit American political targets, including the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, the chairman of Clinton's presidential campaign. But there have been few public signs of whether that probe extends to examining possible contacts between the Russian government and Trump. (In recent weeks, reporters in Washington have pursued anonymous online reports that a computer server related to the Trump Organization engaged in a high level of activity with servers connected to Alfa Bank, the largest private bank in Russia.
On Monday, a Slateinvestigation detailed the pattern of unusual server activity but concluded, "We don't yet know what this [Trump] server was for, but it deserves further explanation." In an email to Mother Jones, Hope Hicks, a Trump campaign spokeswoman, maintains, "The Trump Organization is not sending or receiving any communications from this email server. The Trump Organization has no communication or relationship with this entity or any Russian entity.")
This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren’t expecting.
The researchers had initially stumbled in their diagnosis because of the odd configuration of Trump’s server. “I’ve never seen a server set up like that,” says Christopher Davis, who runs the cybersecurity firm HYAS InfoSec Inc. and won a FBI Director Award for Excellence for his work tracking down the authors of one of the world’s nastiest botnet attacks. “It looked weird, and it didn’t pass the sniff test.”
The server was first registered to Trump’s business in 2009 and was set up to run consumer marketing campaigns. It had a history of sending mass emails on behalf of Trump-branded properties and products. Researchers were ultimately convinced that the server indeed belonged to Trump. (Click here to see the server’s registration record.) But now this capacious server handled a strangely small load of traffic, such a small load that it would be hard for a company to justify the expense and trouble it would take to maintain it. “I get more mail in a day than the server handled,” Davis says. “I’ve never seen a server set up like that.”
Christopher Davis of the cybersecurity firm HYAS InfoSec Inc.
That wasn’t the only oddity. When the researchers pinged the server, they received error messages. They concluded that the server was set to accept only incoming communication from a very small handful of IP addresses. A small portion of the logs showed communication with a server belonging to Michigan-based Spectrum Health. (The company said in a statement:
“Spectrum Health does not have a relationship with Alfa Bank or any of the Trump organizations. We have concluded a rigorous investigation with both our internal IT security specialists and expert cyber security firms. Our experts have conducted a detailed analysis of the alleged internet traffic and did not find any evidence that it included any actual communications (no emails, chat, text, etc.) between Spectrum Health and Alfa Bank or any of the Trump organizations. While we did find a small number of incoming spam marketing emails, they originated from a digital marketing company, Cendyn, advertising Trump Hotels.”)
EXCLUSIVE: FBI ‘Granted FISA Warrant’ Covering Trump Camp’s Ties To Russia
HEATSTREET -- 10:18 pm, November 7, 2016
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By Louise Mensch | 10:18 pm, November 7, 2016
Two separate sources with links to the counter-intelligence community have confirmed to Heat Street that the FBI sought, and was granted, a FISA court warrant in October, giving counter-intelligence permission to examine the activities of ‘U.S. persons’ in Donald Trump’s campaign with ties to Russia.
While the Times story speaks of metadata, sources suggest that a FISA warrant was granted to look at the full content of emails and other related documents that may concern US persons.
The FBI agents who talked to the New York Times, and rubbished the ground-breaking stories of Slate ( Franklin Foer) and Mother Jones (David Corn) may not have known about the FISA warrant, sources say, because the counter-intelligence and criminal sides of the FBI often work independently of each other employing the principle of ‘compartmentalization’.
If in fact Trump Tower was wiretapped during the 2016 presidential campaign, as President Trump claimed in several tweets Saturday morning, he can do much more than say so on twitter: Presidents have the power to declassify anything at any time, so Trump could immediately make public any government records of such surveillance.
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However, the BBC’s report says, the FISA court turned the application down.. The Justice Department then asked again in July with a more narrowly drawn request, which was again turned down. Justice then made a third request for a warrant on October 15, which was granted.
None of this involves wiretapping Trump Tower. However, it is possible that Trump picked that up from a Breitbart article that in turn relied on a Heat Street piece that claimed the warrant was issued because of evidence of links between a “private server in Donald Trump’s Trump Tower” and a Russian bank. In fact, the server in question, set up by a marketing company hired by Trump, was physically located in Philadelphia.
It seems most people regurgitate news from Fox, MSN, CNN but you seem open to reading articles from a variety of sources which is why I respond to you.
Imagine you being President Trump knowing all that is presented to you here, would you not appear paranoid to a regular non reading citizen?
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He's paranoid. That's why he didn't just ask the Intel community for answers.
Probably because he is in the beginning stages of dementia and most DEFINITELY because he's not used to the world of politics and he hasn't really made any friends in Washington.
So, like the average old guy who thinks the "big gubmint" is out to get him, Trump reads Breitbart and listens to Limbaugh because he thinks they know something he does not know.
When, in reality, all he has to do is use the powers of his office, as President, to get the info firsthand.
Yep, it really could have been that easy. He's the president. Why not use that power that he loves so much to demand through the proper channels that his gov't get to the bottom of this issue.
But nah, he'd rather tweet about it while taking his morning dump. The guy has the maturity level (and vocabulary) of a 13 year old kid.
Is Trump a liberal? He's the one self-destructing. Quite of few of his die hard followers here on C-D are also self-destructing. Mostly it's because they parrot everything Trump says. They are upset and paranoid and are lashing out at the Democrats who are sitting back and enjoying "The Trump Show".
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Is Trump a liberal? He's the one self-destructing. Quite of few of his die hard followers here on C-D are also self-destructing. Mostly it's because they parrot everything Trump says. They are upset and paranoid and are lashing out of the Democrats who are sitting back and enjoying "The Trump Show".
Ain't that the truth! It's ever so satisfying watching this man implode. Hope he and his family are left in disgrace following this fiasco. He's clearly paranoid and lashing out at everyone for failing to help him cover it up.
Ain't that the truth! It's ever so satisfying watching this man implode. Hope he and his family are left in disgrace following this fiasco. He's clearly paranoid and lashing out at everyone for failing to help him cover it up.
I am not getting any satisfaction watching him implode. I did not vote for the guy but I don't want the US to go down in flames which this guy can easily do. And I certainly don't wish any ill will on his family. It would be perfect if he resigned for some reason and took his family back to NY.
As Trump stumbles from one disaster to the next, his follower defend their guy with, "Give him time. It's bound to get better."
You all need to up your game.
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