Politics Trump - What has he done now???

Where is The Donald* going to start the next war?
Will it be another Korea or Vietnam, or will he manage to start WWIII?

*I only recently became aware that a group of Trump supporters is using this name. I use it sarcastically, going back a few of decades when Trump had his wife, Ivana IIRC, refer to him as The Donald. Which shows how long he has been filled with inflated self-importance. If I tried that with my wife, she'd call me The Asshole.

 

I'd say he is sparring for fight with with either North Korea or China.

That said I think he far more likely to get pulled into something he isn't ready for, the way Bush II was pulled into Afghanistan.

 

I'm honestly not seeing a proper war with China happening.

The realistic scenario is a trade war sometime in this term (possibly timed with midterm elections to boost Republican numbers against a common enemy), if Trump actually sees his rhetoric through. And at the very most I would expect military skirmishes involving air and navy forces in very limited numbers.

What I wouldn't be surprised to see, is Trump being dumb enough to think of Iran as Iraq 2.0.

 

Chicago?
Trump says he'll send in feds

 

I'm not sure what will happen between the religious conservatives and rational Republicans and the angry anti-liberal alt-right Tea Party if Trump gets impeached though. Pence might have enough clout with the alt-right nationalists to pass, but I feel that the hateful conservatives and the compassionate conservatives will be attacking each other for years to come. Especially when the lesson they will take away is that McCain and Romney lost for being too moderate, even though the policies would have been similar, the agenda would have been much more covert with the "RINO" Republicans. Although they do fall in line and vote for (R) no matter who is on the ticket.

 

I'm not sure that is too far off though. Pence wouldn't have run the dirty campaign that the alt-right wanted. And while I would bet that Pence would have been able to win over Clinton, I think he would have had a hard time beating Cruz in the GOP primary. Pence might have seemed too much like Romney, where as Cruz would have been just as bad as Trump, if not more when gutting the government and letting the rich do what they want.

Now the big question is if Russia would have helped anyone else in the GOP, because they knew that Clinton wouldn't have lifted sanctions or helped Russia develop and sell their oil.

 

View: https://twitter.com/BettyFckinWhite/status/837161733848510468


Betty F#!*ing White FTW!

Although I think the talks were more about helping Russia figure out it's oil exporting issues and lifting sanctions if Trump won rather than what wikileaks was going to release, overt collusion to form a new global white nationalist alliance against Islam, and political intelligence help from the FSB/GRU.

 

Does anyone here know if the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 would have applied to Paul Manafort's lobbying firm taking contracts from Ferdinand Marcos and Mobutu Sese Seko in the 80s? These two dictators happen to be the second and third most corrupt world leaders according to Transparency International's estimates of alleged embezzlement. Was the FCPA not enforced well enough before GWB to prosecute this? Is it now past its period of prescription?

More recently, Manafort has lobbied for the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, the extent of whose corruption has yet to be so formally assessed. If it is determined that Yanukovych indeed embezzled vasts sums of money for features of his estate such as the private zoo, golf course, vintage automobile museum, and floating banquet hall, will Manafort be subject to FCPA violation this time around?

 

Sort of related to the news story in the link:

If I was driving and saw Sean Hannity trapped in a burning car,
I'd stop.
To watch.

 

The taxes... I don't think it told us much that we didn't already know.

I am much more interested in what the sources were for the money he earned.

Also, much is being made of the 25% he paid without really seeing that if the law on the books ensuring a minimum is paid he would have only paid about 5%. All legal of course. But I have two thoughts:

1. he's trying to kill that minimum tax law.
2. Maybe the US shouldn't have so many exemptions from paying tax.