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More and more leaks are coming out now, this time by name. The President has lost his bark, it seems no one is afraid of him anymore. Likely due to his often hypocritical nature, and lies which always seem to contradict themselves on an hourly basis. If at one moment you think you can't talk, just wait a few hours and the President or his legal team will say that you can:

And there was another ominous sign. Obama’s staff had spent months preparing voluminous transition briefs, thick binders designed to help the next administration get up to speed on subjects ranging from Iran to Cuba to climate change. Every previous incoming team had studied such volumes with care. But as the inauguration drew near, McDonough realized that the binders had not even been opened: “All the paperwork, all the briefings that had been prepared for their transition team, went unused,” he said. “Unread. Unreviewed.”
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From the beginning, Priebus would face a challenge unique to this presidency: how to curb the commander in chief’s tweets. “We can get thrown off our message by tweeting things that aren’t the issues of the day,” he told Trump. At first Priebus thought he had succeeded in wresting Trump’s phone from him. “I talked about the security threat of having your own cell in the West Wing and got the Secret Service to go along with me to mothball his phone.” Priebus had managed to silence one device. But it turned out Trump had another.

Early on, the staff wrote daily tweets for him: “The team would give the president five or six tweets every day to choose from,” said Priebus, “and some of them would real*ly push the envelope. The idea would be at least they would be tweets that we could see and understand and control. But that didn’t allow the president to be fully in control of his own voice. Everybody tried at different times to cool down the Twitter habit—but no one could do it. . . . After [last year’s] joint session [of Congress] we all talked to him, and Melania said, ‘No tweeting.’ And he said, ‘O.K.—for the next few days.’ We had many discussions involving this issue. We had meetings in the residence. I couldn’t stop it. [But] it’s now part of the American culture and the American presidency. And you know what? In many ways, the president was right. And all of us so-called experts might be totally wrong.
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Priebus soon became a target of Trump’s ritual belittling as the president took to referring to him as “Reincey.” At one point, he summoned Priebus—to swat a fly. Priebus seemed to have been willing to endure almost any indignity to stay in Trump’s favor.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/201...s-up-about-his-six-months-of-magical-thinking

This is a really long read but fascinating nonetheless.
 
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NeverTrumpGOP said:
More and more leaks are coming out now, this time by name. The President has lost his bark, it seems no one is afraid of him anymore. Likely due to his often hypocritical nature, and lies which always seem to contradict themselves on an hourly basis. If at one moment you think you can't talk, just wait a few hours and the President or his legal team will say that you can:





https://www.vanityfair.com/news/201...s-up-about-his-six-months-of-magical-thinking

This is a really long read but fascinating nonetheless.
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I read this last night but I'm going to read it again. I remember something in there about Trump, while Reince was on the outs with him, being called in to swat a fly.

As I read the entire thing I couldn't help but be repulsed by how childish Trump's behavior is, and how much Steve Bannon dislike Jared Kushner. That's about the only good thing I can say about Bannon.
 
tres borrachos said:
I read this last night but I'm going to read it again. I remember something in there about Trump, while Reince was on the outs with him, being called in to swat a fly.

As I read the entire thing I couldn't help but be repulsed by how childish Trump's behavior is, and how much Steve Bannon dislike Jared Kushner. That's about the only good thing I can say about Bannon.
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Yup I just quoted it:
Priebus soon became a target of Trump’s ritual belittling as the president took to referring to him as “Reincey.” At one point, he summoned Priebus—to swat a fly. Priebus seemed to have been willing to endure almost any indignity to stay in Trump’s favor.
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:lamo
 
Trump got his wish, he's turned the office of the presidency into a god damn reality show.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
More and more leaks are coming out now, this time by name. The President has lost his bark, it seems no one is afraid of him anymore. Likely due to his often hypocritical nature, and lies which always seem to contradict themselves on an hourly basis. If at one moment you think you can't talk, just wait a few hours and the President or his legal team will say that you can:







https://www.vanityfair.com/news/201...s-up-about-his-six-months-of-magical-thinking

This is a really long read but fascinating nonetheless.
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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/vanity-fair/
 
tres borrachos said:
What the **** is wrong with you?

Open the link and you will see that these are Reince Priebus' own words.
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I don't read stuff from biased sites. If it's real and true it should be able to be found on sites that aren't biased.
 
Moderate Right said:
I don't read stuff from biased sites. If it's real and true it should be able to be found on sites that aren't biased.
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Okay, well, that's good. Why read the man's own words when you can whine about Vanity Fair? It's a far better way of staying ignorant to the ugly reality of your game show host hero.
 
Moderate Right said:
I don't read stuff from biased sites. If it's real and true it should be able to be found on sites that aren't biased.
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Everything that doesn't agree with you is biased and you don't read anything that is biased. Explains alot.
 
tres borrachos said:
Okay, well, that's good. Why read the man's own words when you can whine about Vanity Fair? It's a far better way of staying ignorant to the ugly reality of your game show host hero.
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His own words, as printed in Vanity Fair, a biased media. How do we know they are his own words? Vantiy Fair tells us so?
 
Moderate Right said:
His own words, as printed in Vanity Fair, a biased media. How do we know they are his own words? Vantiy Fair tells us so?
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Because if you had taken two seconds to pay attention to this thread and the link in the OP, you would know that Vanity Fair was given permission to post an entire chapter from a book that is being released in paperback on March 6, and that entire chapter is an interview with Reince Priebus, in his own words.

But instead you opted to parrot Trump and therefore made yourself look ridiculous.
 
roughdraft274 said:
according to that site, politifact and factcheck.com are "least biased" which is there best rating. You agree?

I can't believe you need a website to tell you who's biased.
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I need a website to tell you lefties who is biased.
 
tres borrachos said:
Because if you had taken two seconds to pay attention to this thread and the link in the OP, you would know that Vanity Fair was given permission to post an entire chapter from a book that is being released in paperback on March 6, and that entire chapter is an interview with Reince Priebus, in his own words.

But instead you opted to parrot Trump and therefore made yourself look ridiculous.
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All I know is that the link was for Vanity Fair and Vanity Fair is biased.
 
Moderate Right said:
All I know is that the link was for Vanity Fair and Vanity Fair is biased.
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All you know on this subject is nothing, because you didn't even read the OP. Like I said, stay ignorant of Reincey's words. They don't make your hero look good.
 
tres borrachos said:
All you know on this subject is nothing, because you didn't even read the OP. Like I said, stay ignorant of Reincey's words. They don't make your hero look good.
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The OP had a link from a completely biased website. I don't read crap like that from the left or from the right.
 
Moderate Right said:
I don't read stuff from biased sites. If it's real and true it should be able to be found on sites that aren't biased.
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Which means that you don't "read stuff," since all sites (sources) are biased in some way.
 
Moderate Right said:
I don't read stuff from biased sites. If it's real and true it should be able to be found on sites that aren't biased.
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It's called an exclusive. You people really need to take journalism 101 classes


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Moderate Right said:
The OP had a link from a completely biased website. I don't read crap like that from the left or from the right.
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Youve created threads based on articles from sources that are biased according to your website. You couldnt be any more laughable if you tried.

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roughdraft274 said:
Youve created threads based on articles from sources that are biased according to your website. You couldnt be any more laughable if you tried.

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That would require him knowing how bias he really was but the username vs his posts says otherwise.


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