They ran out of Obama propaganda money

Republicans block bill to end underage marriage for children under 16

Fucking pedophile Republicans

Republicans have no issues with children 10+ years old marrying old men in arranged marriages where they aren't allowed to give consent or reject the marriage.

Which is my point. Woods is another Hollywood scumbag who now thinks he's special because he is a conservative and people aren't bowing down to him.

Anyone who tries to fuck underage people is a scumbag Polanski among them.

The only reason Coen's testimony was needed, was as a starting point to the chain of evidence in congress. Headed for Trump's financial ties that will most likely explain it all beyond doubt. But I don't expect you to understand the importance of it. You are not capable.

A headline of the accused is just that.
If he did additional wrong, I'm sure the republican DOJ will prosecute. I will welcome that also. Why worry.

Worry about the state secrets Kushner has, that can, and probably will be sold or even given away.

Mueller was not tasked with proving collusion... it is not even a offense. It's not in the books.
Conspiracy is...

He was tasked with finding influence of outside entities to our elections.
Only Trump made it about Trump.... I wonder why he was so nervous about it ???

Congressional oversight/inquiry will put this in perspective by following the money.
Nothing from Mueller or anyone else is going to change that.

First off...the Democrat's didn't "need" Cohen's testimony. They worked with him to put on the show while our President was in Vietnam trying to help get nukes off the Korean peninsula. They could have waited 72 hours and then did it. But nope...they wanted to embarrass him in front of the world. They don't give a damn about our country.
Shameful right there.

Second...the govt. ALREADY KNOWS all of Trump's finances. It's called the IRS. The IRS has every tax return ever from Trump.
If he were "colluding", they would already know it.

Would Adam Schiff know it? Nope. But the IRS would. And Federal agents would have arrested Trump long ago.
And you best believe that the NSA and even Mueller know everything Trump has done or said over the last 5 decades.

He has been investigated both legally...and probably ILLEGALLY (FBI lying to the FISA courts to spy on his campaign) for years now.

The only thing shocking to me is that they have not found anything. Lol
I've never seen anyone spied on and investigated so hard as they did to our President.

The Democrats are looking to embarrass Trump. And hopefully impeach him too. It's really that simple.

Robbie

I like you a lot, minus your politics. Hopefully we'll all get through this Trump shitstorm and hang out like normal pornographers on the Fringe of society in the future.

Robbie, you disappoint me.

A investigation must follow the dots.
Cohen is the first dot.
Congress can not just look at Trumps taxes without cause.
They are building that cause. One witness at a time.
It's a simple law procedure that even Mueller must follow the evidence. He did not go there because for his task, the evidence did not lead him to question it, or we should presume until the report comes out, if we get to see it. And there sits the reason for the congressional oversight. All this investigation may not lead to the obvious, a report that is released tot he public.

I don't doubt that both parties are set to embarrass each other.

I'm more worried about state secrets in the hands of folks that will sell us out.
You should be also.
The only way to find if anything is there is to look. that is their job.
But, like anything else, there is a legal proceedure and they seem to be following the evidence chain as they are suppose to.
If you don't believe that than why don't they just get it and release it to the press ?
because it does not and can not work that way.

The first dot? They've been investigating the man since 2016.
They already KNOW everything he has done in his entire life. They have all of the phone records, interviewed dozens of people, and threw everyone in jail for anything they could find.

Still no Russian Spy.

The only dots they are following are political ones. They want to impeach him. They have said so since day one. And I believe them.
And since impeachment won't get him out of office...they do everything in their power (which is substantial) to keep people distracted.
They don't want people to focus on the economy and foreign policy. You know, the things that are important.

They want us all to look at the shiny objects (Trump's money, Cohen, Pornstar/Escorts) and make him look bad so they can win the election in 2020.

That should be obvious to anyone who has watched them go after him since the day he announced.

Hell, he went from being friends with Hillary and Chuck...and a darling of the media...to suddenly being "racist" and "Hitler" and "senile" and an "evil genius" all in one fell swoop. lol

right out of the paid shill play book

you are nothing. remember that.

They decided to investigate Cohen. The Republicans didn't seem to want to investigate the Republican party, so they made a lame attempt and accomplished nothing. How is it the Mueller investigation has turned up hundreds of indictments against dozens of people while the Republican led investigation has turned up.... Nothing. Okay, well, now it's time for the Democratic party to led the way and uncover the truth. Hold your beer, we got this.

As for the President "saving the world from nuclear war" with a dictatorship that just made a complete ass out of Trump (for a second time), we have two countries armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons who are shooting down each other's planes. Yet not a fucking peep about that from Trump or the White House.

I understand. The White House is busy meeting with their legal teams. They are too busy to deal with nuclear war breaking out.

No, the government does not "already know" about Trump's taxes. The IRS has it, but no one else. Congress doesn't have copies, nor does the DNC. Or anyone else outside of the IRS.

You really think the IRS reviewed his tax records and decided it's all good and he is in the clear? That's really not how it works Robbie. The IRS reviews his taxes, but let's face it... His taxes are complicated and he has a staff of accountants, tax people and attorneys to make it look legit while hiding everything. The IRS doesn't have the staff to devote to one person to match the amount of people Trump has working his taxes. But no worries, now that we have discovered Trump deflated the value of multiple properties her owns, the IRS will be forced to look over his taxes to see if he did anything illegal. And you know he has.

They haven't found anything? If they haven't found anything, why is the investigation still going on? Why are people being indicted left and right? Why are people pleading guilty? Why are people going to prison?

You mean you've never seen anyone investigated so hard.... other than Hillary Clinton. Which in fact turned up not a single crime.

You mean... Like the Republicans did with President Clinton?

I'm sorry Robbie, but this started as a perfectly legal and proper investigation into if Trump had worked with the Russian government and got help from them to win the election. Since then it seems we have turned up all kinds of crimes. This is not a witch hunt; If it is we have discovered a coven o witches, most of which have pleaded guilty or been found guilty and are going to prison.

^^^mueller is a republican. He's just a real one, not one of these rightard republicans.

So if you think about it... We have a Republican investigating a Republican president, and a Republican Congressman attacking a high ranking Republican official.

The problem here seems to be too many fucking Republicans.

I feel like both parties have leaned towards extreme tardism. They keep it up, the other parties might start coming up. Could be very interesting.

But for now it's the leftard rightard show.

Nope, that's why they are feeding both sides.. To keep the 2 party system alive.

If you guys keep destroying yourselves with extreme tard-politics, the inevitable will come. The duopoly will crumble.

And I'm cool with that.

Who is 'THEY'
Congress may never see the Mueller report.
The NSA and the FBI have both sounded the alarm bells.
Congress is the only body that can conduct a investigation that is free from influence of the executive branch of governement. Because the executive branch is the one charged with executing the law.
The target of their investigation is not the same as Muellers. his is limited scope and target.

I really don't care to play any politics when our national security is at stake.
And I want all of those guilty of crimes to actually pay for them on both sides.
Anything less would be inviting more of the same.

From where I stand, it is easy to see the how and why that so many folks can be bamboozled because they do not know how the government works.

But the most irritating part of this is how far members of both the previous and present congress will go to 'PROTECT' these probable wrong doings.
They are no better than they claim Cohen to be. They have sold their sole and our national security and for what ?

The Republicans allowed a known fast talking conman to run on their platform, and not only that but a conman with an active federal consumer fraud class action case against them (the Trump University lawsuit).

Common sense would be not letting anyone with open federal cases run for president on your platform right? Maybe a class action lawsuit is a sign the person is corrupt? Yes, definitely. The Republicans let him run on their platform anyway. Why?

All this drama & destruction we're going through in this country is because a political party had no standards for who they let run on their platform. Trump hired a Russian organized crime felon to be his advisor (Felix Sater) anyone doing a simple background check of Trump would know that he is a corrupt criminal that lost hundreds of civil lawsuits, went bankrupt 4 times and run dozens of successful businesses into the ground. So why did the Republicans still let him run?

You do realize that all the high ranking FBI people who sounded "alarm bells" have since either been fired and/or resigned and are under investigation by the Inspector General for possible criminal charges for what they did to the President?

Look, I get it. If you really think that Pres. Trump and his family are national security risks, and you really think his economic policies are bad, and his foreign policy is bad...then I don't blame you for your point of view.

I am of the 100% opposite view on this.

I have seen nothing but politics. I have seen the previous administration first weaponize the IRS against his political opponents, have the NSA tapping the phones of our allies leaders, had the spy agency's hack the accounts of journalists and put them under surveillance, and then during a a political campaign weaponize the FBI against their opposition (Trump).

You don't see it that way. But I sure do.
You think I've been misled. And I think you have.

That's pretty much the political argument in this country. Everyone thinks they have it right and that other people are brainwashed.

I'm trying not to have that mindset anymore.

I do believe that this is all political. Probably the dirtiest political shit I've seen in my lifetime.

But I also voted for the policy's that Pres. Trump is doing. Trump himself? I like him. I think he's funny and quick and can get shit done.
But I didn't vote for that. I voted for his vision: Job growth by creating a pro-business environment which leads to a roaring economy.

All of this other stuff and ENDLESS investigations is just politics to me. The Federal Govt. already knows everything about Donald Trump. Hell, the public knows everything about the man. For fuck's sake he's been on the Howard Stern show for decades TELLING us all the crazy shit he's pulled and what he thinks about things.

I don't and never did for one second buy into the "Trump is a Russian Spy" nonsense.

And I also don't buy into the "We must investigate Trump's personal life and business to make sure he's not working with other countries"
For fuck's sake...his freakin' mantra is "America First".
There are no country's that are getting the sweetheart deals they got from previous administrations.

He's definitely not helping Russia. Not helping China. Not Iran. He has cracked down on all these country's in major ways.

Just the energy policy he has championed has hurt the Russian economy in a major way.

BUT...this is a free country. And everyone is entitled to see it the way they want to.
I just disagree with what you are saying. I think it's all political. And I believe the Democrat Party is so desperate at this point that they WANT the country to go down hard.

They genuinely believe (in my opinion) that it would be acceptable for the economy to crash and to get no deal with North Korea in order to defeat Trump in 2020 and they believe that THEY could turn it around (with the same tired and failed policy's of the past).

That's my political view on the whole thing.

And since there's nothing I can do to influence how things will shake out...all I can do is hope that the President prevails. And in the meantime try to make as much money as I can while he is in office and the economic and business climate is good.

Who knows? By 2020 we could have a "Democratic Socialist" President-Elect and this will all be gone.

Bro... You're a coke snorting professional cuck who willingly admits you play Russian roulette with HIV and you want the Obama's investigated for being able to afford living in a nice neighborhood while you admit you commit crimes every weekend and don't think you should be punished.

That's cool and all for yourself, but you ain't no type of rolemodel or somebody that should be giving any kind of advice on anything.

You are the epitome of a bad influence.

Not only that,... but Obama mocked the very idea of Russians influencing the election, all the nations intelligence agencies said time and time again that the Russians did not affect the outcome of the elections and that there was no evidence of the Trump campaign working with the Russians in any way to affect the outcome of the elections.

It was also quickly forgotten that it was Trump himself that was calling into question the integrity of the elections and Russian meddling to which Obama told him to "stop whining".

It was only after Hillary lost did the FBI (i.e. Obama law enforcement, not intelligence agencies) suddenly launch an investigation, did the Russians suddenly become the master manipulators of US elections in the media, that the Russians made Trump President and that Trump and Russia "colluded" with Russia to win according to CNN and MSNBC.

Over 2 years later and absolutely zero proof to refute what all the nations dozen+ intelligence agencies said, there is no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the election.... so now the narrative is changing all of the sudden to "Trump is a criminal"... since the "Trump is Putins puppet" narrative fell apart.

Semantics? Kind of like, "I lied, but I am not a liar?"

That's your alternate facts.

The real facts are, the investigation ain't over yet, hence "no evidence" (they don't ruin investigations to satisfy tards with drip info).

And a shit ton of indictments, with a bunch of lies about dealing with russians among a plethora of other criminal activities.

Nobody "won" yet. Shits still in full swing. I pray Russia didn't have an influence on the election or trump, but it's ain't looking good and none of us will know till Mueller wraps it up.

It's almost as if he didn't know Obama was a millionaire before running for the presidency or that he's written three best selling books that raked in tens of millions of dollars or that Michelle Obama has two best selling books that made her millions. Not to mention making millions doing speeches around the world.

Couple of months later??? The media and the Democrats are screaming the election was rigged. And then the FBI reveals that while Obama was busy saying that on television...he had his FBI spying on the Trump campaign TRYING to "rig" it.

Do you not understand what this means?

During his testimony Cohen said "I did not defraud my bank". Cohen was charged with multiple crimes, but not one of them was bank fraud. Specifically, Cohen was charged with income tax evasion, false statements to a banking institution, unlawful corporate contribution, one count of excessive campaign contribution, and one count of making false statements to Congress. He was, in fact, not charged with bank fraud. Making a false statement to a bank is not bank fraud. The definition of bank fraud is "the use of potentially illegal means to obtain money, assets, or other property owned or held by a financial institution, or to obtain money from depositors by fraudulently posing as a bank or other financial institution".

Another issue the filing has is if Cohen WANTED a job in the White House. They failed to provide any truth he said that. They have all of his texts and I would guess his emails; Why don't provide them as proof? The only proof they offer is that he "EXPECTED" to have a job in the White House. Expecting to be offered a job in the White House and WANTING a job in the White House is two different things.

The next issue was the Twitter account. Cohen did not set that up. He named the person who set it up. Cohen did not physically sit at a computer and create the account.

The "government entities".... He worked for a bank and an airline, not a government organization.

Republicans are now grasping at straws... It's gotten so bad that they attacking the personal attorney for the president, the Vice President of the Trump company itself, AND a high ranking member of the RNC.

Again, let's investigate further. Please. Let's have a dozen investigations into Cohen.

Dems avoid facts like the plague.

I don't have a issue with investigating the investigators, but the investigations should continue.

With any luck, all of those who broke the law on both and any side will be going to PRISON, but the politicians have somewhat exempted themselves.

But to get them all, we have to investigate them all. While you can't just do that, you must investigate wrong doings by a chain of evidence.

I'm quite sure the congressional investigation is going to shed some light on what we think we know and should be able to tell us if we are just overly suspicious.
But none of that can happen without investigation.

One only has to look back at Nixon to understand it. Some are either ignorant to history or just ignoring it as far as processes go.

But absolutely none of what has happened since trump has entered our lives has passed the smell test.

I am more concerned that we take measures to prevent much of what has happened from happening again.

Tax releases for POTUS should be mandatory for 4 years leading up to the run.
Revisions need to be made to AG's handleing of any investigation within the executive branch and that includes the FBI.
To my knowledge, the NSA only reports to the House and Senate 'Intel Committees' and POTUS. But how do you handle intel that may be damaging to POTUS himself ?

We have seen Trump ignore a lot of intel from our best intel services that makes all of it suspicious all by itself.

AND SOME OF YOU PRETEND THIS IS LESS OFFENSIVE THAN SEX WITH A INTERN IN THE WHITEHOUSE.

They're calling it The retail apocalypse and Trump is still doing nothing about it two years in.

4,500 total planned store closures this year. Tens of thousands of jobs lost and out of work. Trump's tarrifs cut into these retailers small profit margin and now they're closing stores to compensate. Sad

465 store closures in 48 hours; Gap, JCPenney, Victoria's Secret & Foot Locker

FOX NEWS - The 'retail apocalypse' is alive and well this week with major chains such as Gap, JCPenney, Victoria's Secret and Foot Locker all announcing massive closures, totalling the death of more than 465 stores over the last 48 hours.

All four companies reported its fourth quarter results this week during the critical holiday period, with three of them (Gap, JCPenney and Victoria's Secret) reporting declining in same-store sales, while Foot Locker reported growth that more than doubled expectations.

Still, despite the good news. Foot Locker announced Friday that it plans to close around 165 stores across the country, during its investor call.

That comes less than 24 hours after Gap announced it would close 230 of its namesake stores over the course of the next two years after the brand's same-store sales fell 7 percent during the holiday quarter. It also announced that it will separate its sister company Old Navy into its own publicly-traded company and create a new firm to house its remaining brands.

To top that off, earlier that day on Thursday, JCPenney announced it too will shutter 18 of its department stores this year, including the three it already announced in January.

Additionally, it said it plans to close nine of its home and furnitiure stores to coincide with its previous announcement to discontinue selling major applicances and furniture at all of its stores by the end of February.

However, Bob Phibbs, CEO of New York-based consultancy the Retail Doctor thinks JCPenney will be forced to announce more closures down the road.

“It is mind boggling that JC Penney still thinks they have time when the clock has run out and there’s no real plan. Closing 18 stores is barely a drop in the bucket of JC Penney’s more than 850 stores. If this was a big, bold effort to reinvigorate the brand, they would have announced they were closing hundreds of stores and investing in an outstanding experience at their other locations," Phibbs told FOX Business.

He added that JCPenney "still desperately" needs an inspiring vision for its brand as more and more customers head to Target, Walmart and Amazon.

Lastly, late Wednesday, L Brands' Victoria's Secret also reported its same-store sales fell during the holidays, dropping 3 percent and it will have to close 53 stores this year.

According to a Business Insider report, these announcements will bring the number of planned stores closures this year to well over 4,500.

March 2019, Dept of Labor.

Facts.

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