sadmanbarty
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How has Trump measured up to your expectations so far; better, worse, the same?
How has Trump measured up to your expectations so far; better, worse, the same?
A fox news poll last week showed that Trump is more trusted than the media as a whole, however polling also suggests that the American public do place much more trust in specific outlets:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-08/new-poll-ranks-credibility-mainstream-media-outlets
Now Trump's accusing Obama of wiretapping him, based on zero evidence.
What a yuuuge embarassment.
But still: her emails!
"The president just has a great nose for these things," the official said. "It's the bureaucratic leaks — the deep state — that bother him most. Even if it turns out not to be true that they surveilled Trump Tower, he will have a very good point to make about the level of sabotage coming from Obama holdovers."
Those facts help explain Trump's high-stakes decision to ask Congress to add Obama abuse of "executive branch investigative powers" to its Russia investigation. For Trump spokespeople, it's a handy punt: Now they don't have to defend or explain Trump's tweets, and just refer questioners to Congress.
But the risk is that there'll be a day of reckoning — perhaps after documents are subpoenaed and testimony demanded — when a Republican Congress embarrasses the White House by saying the president was flat wrong when he accused his predecessor of a crime.
Towergate is a fascinating test of Trump's great gamble that he can do the job of president in a totally new way: largely improvisational, driven by whims, moods and obsessessions; thinly staffed, like his campaign, and with poorly enforced process, not taking advantage of the massive safety net available to him; heavily reliant on family; and unconstrained by manners, rituals or precedent.
A Democratic theory is that if Trump believes problematic transcripts of recorded calls with Russians may dribble or gush out, why not discredit them in advance as a political dirty trick? Then when they emerge, you can say "Aha!" rather than being on the defensive.
But a Republican close to the White House said that's overthinking it: That "view is quite plausible. But I do not believe they are playing chess. I think they are playing Trivial Pursuit."
DONALD TRUMP’S WORST DEAL
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
(Though doubtless they or others could easily say the same about me in my liberal complacency, and be correct!)