Commander in Cheat

[Anonymous]

In his book, Reilly says Trump also lacks good golf etiquette, writing that the president doesn’t remove his hat when shaking hands with players.

Why haven’t the dems impeached over this yet?

OuTRAgEoUs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In his book, Reilly says Trump also lacks good golf etiquette, writing that the president doesn’t remove his hat when shaking hands with players.

Why haven’t the dems impeached over this yet?

OuTRAgEoUs.

Obviously it's not impeachable, but it's an embarrassing lack of awareness of basic social graces. He's just an oaf.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm anti-Trump but don't gaf about how he plays golf.

I'm pro-Trump and anyone with any sense would see constant negative stories like this are complete BS.

...except for his lawyer, who wouldn't let him testify because he'd perjure himself.

That's what the FBI was hoping for. And would have set up.

An honest person wouldn't be "set-up-able." Geez.

Asking the same question in two different ways and it's pretty easy to "get" someone to 'lie'.

No, it's actually not. In order to establish perjury, one of the elements you have to prove is intent. When you have two statements framed two different ways that produce two somewhat different answers, that the answers are different isn't enough, you have to prove not only which one is false, but also that the person knowingly and intentionally made a false statement. That the person told you the truth in response to a different version of the same question would actually undermine a perjury accusation because once someone has told you the truth about something, what motive is there to lie about it later? The willingness to admit would directly undermine a showing of intent to lie.

Easy to do when you want it to happen.

You must have a background expertise in lying.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm anti-Trump but don't gaf about how he plays golf.

I'm pro-Trump and anyone with any sense would see constant negative stories like this are complete BS.

News stories aside, do you think he lies and cheats?

Why is that no Trump supporter is ever willing to answer this simple question?

They haven't been told what party line to parrot.

Apparently.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm anti-Trump but don't gaf about how he plays golf.

I'm pro-Trump and anyone with any sense would see constant negative stories like this are complete BS.

...except for his lawyer, who wouldn't let him testify because he'd perjure himself.

That's what the FBI was hoping for. And would have set up.

An honest person wouldn't be "set-up-able." Geez.

Asking the same question in two different ways and it's pretty easy to "get" someone to 'lie'.

No, it's actually not. In order to establish perjury, one of the elements you have to prove is intent. When you have two statements framed two different ways that produce two somewhat different answers, that the answers are different isn't enough, you have to prove not only which one is false, but also that the person knowingly and intentionally made a false statement. That the person told you the truth in response to a different version of the same question would actually undermine a perjury accusation because once someone has told you the truth about something, what motive is there to lie about it later? The willingness to admit would directly undermine a showing of intent to lie.

Easy to do when you want it to happen.

How gullible are you? Do you ever think critically about what Trump and Fox News tell you, or do you just follow along like a lemming?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm anti-Trump but don't gaf about how he plays golf.

I'm pro-Trump and anyone with any sense would see constant negative stories like this are complete BS.

...except for his lawyer, who wouldn't let him testify because he'd perjure himself.

That's what the FBI was hoping for. And would have set up.

An honest person wouldn't be "set-up-able." Geez.

Asking the same question in two different ways and it's pretty easy to "get" someone to 'lie'.

No, it's actually not. In order to establish perjury, one of the elements you have to prove is intent. When you have two statements framed two different ways that produce two somewhat different answers, that the answers are different isn't enough, you have to prove not only which one is false, but also that the person knowingly and intentionally made a false statement. That the person told you the truth in response to a different version of the same question would actually undermine a perjury accusation because once someone has told you the truth about something, what motive is there to lie about it later? The willingness to admit would directly undermine a showing of intent to lie.

Easy to do when you want it to happen.

How gullible are you? Do you ever think critically about what Trump and Fox News tell you, or do you just follow along like a lemming?

Conservatives these days have gotten so mindless. I remember back in the day even Reagan said trust, but verify.
Conservatives today just blindly trust all the right wing media spew and never bother verifying any of it.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/03/13/lara-trumps-claim-that-trump-has-appointed-more-women-than-any-other-president/?utm_term=.f37fafc4bb42

As of a year ago Trump lagged behind other administration in percent of women appointed.

Knight-Ridder News Services found in 1993 that 37 percent of the first 512 appointees in the Bill Clinton administration were women.
The Brookings Institution determined that 26 percent of George W. Bush’s first 264 nominations were women.
The New York Times found about 43 percent of Barack Obama’s appointments were women at the start of his second term. Some departments, such as Health and Human Services, Education, Labor, and Housing and Urban Development had 50 percent or more female appointments under Obama.
As for Trump, we have two measures, indicating a range of 22 percent to 27 percent for female appointments. But the trend line may be getting worse.

A Bloomberg analysis, using data obtained by ProPublica, found 27 percent of administration hires through March of 2017 were female.
The Washington Post appointment tracker, run with the Partnership for Public Service, shows that 22 percent of Trump’s Senate-confirmed nominees so far are women. The tracker was updated as of March 9, 2017.

Finally, let’s just look at Cabinet heads. For the Fact Checker, the Partnership for Public Service compiled data on the first appointments of Trump, Obama and George W. Bush.

Bush had three women in his Cabinet (Agriculture, Labor and Interior), plus one other woman with Cabinet rank. Total: Four.
Obama had four women in his Cabinet (State, Homeland Security, Labor, and Health and Human Services), plus four others with Cabinet rank. Total: Eight
Trump had two women in his Cabinet (Education and Transportation), plus two others with Cabinet rank. Total: Four.

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It is a feat so great that President Barack Obama was unable to accomplish it.

President George W. Bush did better than his republican predecessors, but still fell a bit short.

Even President Bill Clinton came under fire from women's organizations for his shortcomings on delivering a cabinet that "looks like America."

The unattainable feat?

Hiring an astounding number of women for senior-level positions in the White House.

Luckily for women everywhere, in 2018 it has finally been accomplished.

Naturally, Vogue has written about it. Cosmopolitan has shouted it from the rooftops, as has MSNBC and every other liberal news outlet.



If only that last part were true.

Despite impressive hiring practices during his first year in the White House, President Donald Trump has received little to no credit for his choice of women for the most senior positions on his cabinet, as well as the West Wing.

His list of female appointees is long: Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the United Nations (not only a woman but also child of Indian American Sikh immigrants); Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation; Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Dr. Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force; Sarah Sanders, White House Press Secretary; Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President; Linda McMahon, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration; Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education; Jovita Carranza, U.S. Treasurer (also a minority and first-generation Mexican American immigrant); Neomi Rao, Regulation Czar (also a minority and daughter of parents from India); Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (also a minority); Heather Brand, Associate Attorney General; Kelly Sadler, Director of Surrogate & Coalitions Outreach; Mercedes Schlapp, Senior Communications Advisor (also a minority whose father was once a political prisoner of Fidel Castro); Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the President; Hope Hicks, Communications Director; Jessica Ditto, Deputy Director of Communications; and Dina Powell, Deputy National Security Adviser who according to White House sources will remain in her position through the end of January and will likely be replaced by another woman after Powell completes her first year in office.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/white-house/369112-trumps-first-year-in-office-was-the-year-of-the-woman%3famp

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As of March 2018

an Atlantic analysis of 2,475 Trump appointees shows [that t]he White House has named twice as many men as women to administration positions. This gender skew is both broad and deep: In no department do female appointees outnumber male appointees, and in some cases men outnumber women four or five to one. Moreover, men significantly outnumber women in low-level positions as well as in high-level ones, with Trump’s Cabinet currently composed of 19 men and five women. Overall, 33 percent of Trump’s appointees are women, compared to 47 percent of the national workforce and 43 percent of the 2 million workers across the executive branch.

The Republican Party and Trump officials have touted the number of women named to top government posts. The president “has appointed more women to senior-level positions than previous administrations,” the GOP has argued. “He’s empowering ALL Americans with his winning agenda.” But the analysis—the biggest and broadest look at Trump appointments conducted thus far—shows that by some measures the White House has assembled the most preponderantly male team since the Reagan administration. Until Haspel, Trump also had not named as many women to top positions as his most recent predecessors, as the GOP has claimed.

Aside from Haspel, though, Trump has not put women forward for any top positions that were not previously held by a woman, meaning that large spans of the glass ceiling remain unbroken. “You’ve never had a female secretary of defense, and you’ve never had a female secretary of the treasury,” said Michele L. Swers, who studies women and government at Georgetown University. “These are two positions that are seen as the most prestigious in the Cabinet, and the most central to the functioning of American national-security and economic policy. And President Trump did not renew Janet Yellen in her term as [the chair of the Federal Reserve].” Obama also had more top-level female appointees from the outset, contrary to Republican claims, naming seven such officials in 2009.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-very-male-trump-administration/556568/