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[bobabode]

'The Deep State Takes Out the White House’s Dark Clown Prince'

(Jared Kushner had a very bad terrible no good day. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.)

If you’ve ever filled out a form SF-86 for a U.S. government security clearance, you’ll know the hassle of dealing with the sheer volume of information it entails. Listing contacts, personal, financial, and travel information in enormous, painstaking detail isn’t trivial, and even small errors will get the form kicked back to you or your clearance rejected. Applicants are required to spell out in great detail the specifics of foreign travel and overseas contacts.

Investigators need to know where you’ve made your money and to whom you have debts.
I did it in my early twenties when my life was relatively uncomplicated, and it was still a pain in the ass. It’s not easy, and it’s not supposed to be.

It’s even harder when you’re a corrupt, entitled snake who repeatedly lies about your finances to federal investigators and serves as a living, breathing poster child for privileged venality. It’s even harder when you’ve rather clumsily attempted to use both your familial relationship and proximity to the president of the United States to save your family’s failing real estate empire.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-de...rince?ref=home

I love it when a conservative pundit gets up a good head of steam and lets it rip like there's no tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by bobabode

'The Deep State Takes Out the White House’s Dark Clown Prince'

(Jared Kushner had a very bad terrible no good day. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.)...

The stench of his venality and desperation hangs around him like stripper perfume, cloying and obvious. Jared all but hiked up his sassy pink petticoats while whistling “Hey, sailor!” to the Chinese, Israeli, Arab, and Russian investors he begged to invest in his failing 666 Fifth Avenue white elephant.


Bada bing!

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(CNN) - During closed-door testimony that stretched roughly nine hours Tuesday, White House communications director Hope Hicks was pressed about whether she had ever lied for President Donald Trump -- and acknowledged she has had to tell what amounted to white lies, according to a source with direct knowledge of her testimony.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/polit...tee/index.html

I guess it's part of the job description for Trump's staff - lie as needed to protect the Dotard.

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The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud) has agreed to spend $165,000 on “lounge furniture” for its Washington headquarters, in addition to a $31,000 dining set purchased for housing secretary Ben Carson’s office.

The revelations on Tuesday of Carson’s expensive decor spending come as Donald Trump’s administration has proposed a cut of $6.8bn to Hud’s annual budget, or roughly 14% of its total spending, which would lead to reductions in programs aimed at poor and homeless Americans.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e-table-bought

[Chicks]

Lauren Duca
@laurenduca
Can't believe they're treating Jared Kushner like this after all that peace he brought to the Middle East
2:35 PM · Feb 27, 2018

[barbara]

Why does he need a dinning set in his office, anyway. 😟

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Originally Posted by barbara

Why does he need a dinning set in his office, anyway. 😟

Reports are that Carson's wife pressure HUD employees to find ways around the law.

[Rajoo]

From Ms. Rubin's column today:

Three Democratic congressmen — Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Reps. Ted Lieu (Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (Md.) put out a written statement:

It’s about time that the security needs of our country were put ahead of the nepotism of President Trump and his willingness to have unqualified individuals in the White House. The fact that, for over a year, unqualified individuals around the President were permitted high levels of classified information access is astonishing, and we will continue to press the Administration for answers to these and other national security questions. While downgrading Jared Kushner’s security clearance is a good first step, it does not go far enough. Mr. Kushner should not have any type of clearance so long as his application remains under review for security concerns.

Keep up the pressure guys, this guy needs to be gone. Unqualified and up to his eyebrows in debt is a bad combination and an easy target for blackmail, even from 'friends' of the US.

We also see the consequences of Republicans’ refusal to take their oversight responsibilities seriously with regard to massive conflicts of interest for the entire Trump clan. In the end, Republicans’ indulgence of Trump and his family may prove to be the president’s undoing. Had Trump at the outset been forced to separate himself from his financial holdings and require Kushner to do the same, Trump might have avoided what we now have — the appearance of a corrupt family more akin to a Third World autocracy than a democratic government.

It's more than an appearance now since Trump has refused to do anything at all to protect or punish Russians from continuing to meddle in our elections.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.8514baabd5ce

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Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump’s longest-serving advisers, said Wednesday that she was resigning...

Her resignation came a day after she testified for eight hours before the House Intelligence Committee, telling the panel that in her job, she had occasionally been required to tell white lies but had never lied about anything connected to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/u...-director.html

The rats continue to bail from the sinking ship.

[Chicks]

Who’s next? Hopefully Jared...