Outgoing John Kelly defends Trump but not on border wall

Chief of Staff John Kelly will soon be leaving the White House and he gave his opinions about the president to "reporters/"

In an interview with the left leaning LA Times, Kelly told reporters that the President routinely consults multiple sources of information before making a decision, even if it often seems like Trump acts without regard for consequences, which is something the LA Times reporters didn't want to hear.

But while the outgoing White House Chief of Staff took aim at the president's border wall in his "exit interview" with the newspaper, he still defended Trump, countering empty claims by the media that the president often acts without knowing the consequences of his decisions. The media seems to make that stuff up as they go along in their hatred for Trump.

"It’s never been: The president just wants to make a decision based on no knowledge and ignorance,” Kelly said. “You may not like his decision, but at least he was fully informed on the impact.”

Kelly, however, took credit for whipping the White House into shape and imposing a sense of order on the Trump Administration's central organizational hub.  Kelly said that this was clearly missing when he first entered the job in 2017.

He added that he feels his tenure was successful because he helped the President view his actions through a lens that wasn't tainted by politics, a benefit, Kelly says, of his own military training.

Kelly also defended the President from claims that he's uncontrollable, because the President still Tweets, even amid political strife. Again, this pissed of the interviewer who was hoping Kelly would be angrier at Trump and say things that would berate him.

Being an honest broker, Kelly wasn't willing to defend every action of the Trump White House. He was critical of Trump's signature anti-illegal immigration effort, the border wall -- his biggest campaign promise and an issue currently at the forefront of national politics. It is also at the crux of Trump's current budget stalemate with Congress.

“To be honest, it’s not a wall,” Kelly told the LA Times, upending an ongoing talking point from the White House that billions are needed to construct a massive, physical wall on the border between the United States and Mexico.

“The president still says ‘wall’ — oftentimes frankly he’ll say ‘barrier’ or ‘fencing,’ now he’s tended toward steel slats. But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it," Kelly continued.

Members of the media, rubbing their hands together like witches around a cauldron, were quick to pounce on Kelly's comments, taking them as critical of the Administration's plan.

Bwah-ha-ha!

“To be honest, it’s not a wall,” John Kelly told the LA Times in an interview. The last time Kelly went on Fox and said the president was “uninformed” on the wall during the campaign, Trump shouted at him so loudly it could be heard outside Oval. This time, Kelly is out.— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) December 30, 2018

"To be honest, it's not a wall," John Kelly tells the LA Times. "The president still says 'wall' — oftentimes frankly he'll say 'barrier' or 'fencing,' now he's tended toward steel slats. But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration." https://t.co/rMxBqfKDPp— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 30, 2018

But Kelly's assessment of the "wall" isn't nearly as critical as the left-leaning media, particularly on social media, might have readers believe.

In fact, Kelly is clear that the White House -- particularly the Department of Homeland Security -- worked directly with members of the Customs and Border Protection force, to determine what the best design for a so-called "border wall" might be.

"When Kelly led Homeland Security in early 2017, one of his first steps was to seek advice from those who 'actually secure the border,; Customs and Border Protection agents who Kelly calls 'salt-of-the-earth, Joe-Six-Pack folks,' the LA Times reports.

“They said, ‘Well we need a physical barrier in certain places, we need technology across the board, and we need more people,’” he added.

The White House is still in the midst of a battle over funding for the border wall, which is expected to pick up Wednesday, when Congress returns to Washington, D.C. after their holiday. By then, Kelly will be gone.

He is due to depart from his position as Chief of Staff the same day, and I, for one, will miss him.

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Trump may go the nepotism route: they all did it

President Trump is possibly considering appointing his son-in-law Jared Kushner as White House Chief of Staff, according to the Huffington Post.

Current Chief of Staff John Kelly is leaving the position by the end of the year, or possibly early next year, and the president is currently in search of his replacement.

“John Kelly will be leaving — I don’t know if I can say ‘retiring.’ But, he’s a great guy,” Trump said earlier this month. He says that about all the people he hires at first, but if they pull a "Michael Cohen" on him, well, not so much. [See Rex Tillerson; see Omarosa M. Newman.]

Kelly initially joined the Trump administration as Department of Homeland Security secretary. He replaced former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as chief of staff in July 2017, Fox News reported.

According to the Huffington Post, a “top Republican close to the White House” leaked that Kushner is interested in the chief of staff position.

If he does select his son-in-law, don't let the cries of nepotism fool you--JFK did it with Bobby as his AF, Bill Clinton, because nepotism goes back to the Founding Fathers of this country.

On Thursday, the president told reporters Thursday that he has his list of potential candidates down to five finalists. Perhaps he plans to trot them out in front of the cameras and have the studio audience guess which one is his choice, to add to the drama.

“We are interviewing people now for chief of staff,” Trump said, according to the Post.

Nick Ayers, who is the current chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence, was also believed to be at the top of Trump’s list but he announced on Twitter that he plans to leave the White House and return to Georgia at the end of the year to have a life.

Ayers tweeted:

Thank you @realDonaldTrump, @VP, and my great colleagues for the honor to serve our Nation at The White House. I will be departing at the end of the year but will work with the #MAGA team to advance the cause. 🇺🇸 #Georgia
— Nick Ayers (@nick_ayers) December 9, 2018

The president debunked claims that Ayers had been chosen for the position on Twitter in order to seem as if no one ever turns him down. He tweeted:

“I am in the process of interviewing some really great [aka: tremendous] people for the position of White House Chief of Staff,” Trump wrote. “Fake News has been saying with certainty it was Nick Ayers, a spectacular person who will always be with our #MAGA agenda. I will be making a decision soon!”

Despite the Huffington Post’s [often fake news] report, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said she was not aware of Kushner’s consideration for the position, the Washington Examiner reported.

Well, it's anyone's guess as to who will be Trump's pick. Will it be Jared? Ivanka? Ben Shapiro?

Who do you think will take the White House Oscar? Please comment below.

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First lady's office seeks firing of deputy security adviser

The office of first lady Melania Trump said on Tuesday that Mira Ricardel, the deputy national security adviser, a position just below that of John Bolton, should be given her walking papers. This is a rather bold move coming after President Trump is contemplating further firings of his Cabinet after the attorney general Jeff Sessions was forced to resign.

Stephanie Grisham, Melania's communication director and not related to writer John Grisham as far as we can tell, said in a statement, "It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that [Ricardel] no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House."

Why?

Because it is alleged by the Wall Street Journal that Ricardel and Melania Trump's staff had a dispute over seating arrangement on a plane during the first lady's trip to Africa last month. The Journal also added that Grisham's office suspects Ricardel of leaking negative stories about Mrs. Trump and her staff.

"If so, she should be waterboarded and fired thereafter," an anonymous source told CNN's Jim Acosta.

It was further reported that Ricardel fought with Defense Secretary Mad Dog Mattis over policy differences, staffing decisions, and the best way to kill someone to neutralize the threat.

Ricardel assumed the deputy national security adviser in May, one month after POTUS appointed John Bolton as national security adviser to replace Henry McMaster.

The angst over Ricardel comes at a time Trump is considering changes to his Cabinet that might include the firings of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and first lady Melania Trump, although that's somewhat doubtful at this time.

WJS reported Tuesday that Trump is "resigned" to the possibility of a Kelly canning if Nielsen is made to resign.

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Schumer threatens Trump over firing Rosenstein

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer flared his enormous nostrils and warned President Trump that just because Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested wearing a wiretap in order to record the president to secure an impeachment, is no reason to fire him. If Trump dares to do that, there will be hell to pay.

"This New York Times report must not be used as a pretext for the corrupt purpose of firing Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein in order to install an official who will allow the president to interfere with the Special Counsel's investigation," Schumer tweeted.

Schumer also alleged that other Trump administration officials have supposedly said negative things about him, but they weren't fired.

Perhaps that is because Trump didn't believe they actually did and that the reports about the allegations were fake news.

"Generals Kelly, Mattis and numerous other White House and cabinet officials have been reported to say critical things of the president without being fired," Schumer added.

But saying critical things about Trump is not the same as threatening to undermine him by wearing a wire.

Schumer's tweets come amid a New York Times article claiming the pencil-neck Deputy AG suggested secretly recording the president's conversations with officials at the DOJ and FBI after former FBI Director James Comey was fired.

If The Times report turns out to be fake news, it will be the first time in recorded history of the Trump administration that a mistake was made in favor of the president.

After Rosenstein was caught, he said he was only kidding, of course.

The blockbuster report also said that Rosenstein talked about invoking the 25th Amendment with Cabinet members to remove Trump from office based on his being unfit for duty. But of course, Rod was just joshing.

Rosenstein denied the accuracy of The Times report, describing it as "inaccurate and factually incorrect" and suddenly the "Gray Lady" had become a lying old whore.

"I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda," he wrote in a statement to Fox News. "But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment."

He said in another statement: "I never pursued or authorized recording the president, and any suggestion that I have ever advocated for the removal of the president is absolutely false,"

Good save, Rod.

So we can now assume that everything The New York Times reports should be considered fake news. Yet somehow I don't believe the left will agree with me when it goes against the GOP.

Do you believe Rosenstein? Feel free to comment.


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Starbucks and Amazon go full frontal conservative

Mayor Jenny Durkan

Socialist, Seattle-- So how's that social justice thingy working out for you, Starbucks and Amazon? Not so good, eh?

You guys pretend to be staunch believers in social justice but when it comes down to actually participating in the deal, well, not so much. 

You Starbucks, you flaunt your leftist agenda to the point where you make your entire company staff take a full day to provide them with racial sensitivity training because one store in the entire freaking nation followed procedure properly and asked two black men to leave because they weren't buying anything. They were just hanging out and using the restroom, which was against company policy. But they complained, went public and you caved like a Hamas cave along the Gaza border after being discovered by Israel.

But the far left city of Seattle's socialist policies have done the same thing to them that socialism has done to Venezuela, and now the city wants you guys to fork over some of your money, pay your "fair share" and you don't like that idea. It's really, really funny, never mind how ironic it is.

Yes, Seattle decided to raise taxes on their corporate residents in order to support their socialist programs of affordable housing and "homeless services."

Starbucks VP Drew Herdener lambasted the city for failing to practice fiscal restraint, and are punishing businesses for what is ultimately the city's failure.

No, it's socialism's failure and, like a good leftist company, you should be proud and happy to be able to contribute for "the cause" (aka, socialist programs).

"The city does not have a revenue problem--it has a spending efficiency problem," Herdener whined. "We are highly uncertain whether the city council's anti-business positions or its spending inefficiency will change for the better."

Welcome to the left-hand side of the aisle, Drew.

Amazon went in front of the city council complaining that Seattle was trying to push its responsibility for their homelessness problem onto corporations. Council member Lorena Gonzalez, in a moment of self-righteous indignation and false virtue signaling, tongue-lashed Amazon for their lack of compassion. 

Neither Amazon nor Starbucks said that they wanted Seattle to deal with their self-inflicted homeless problem on its own, but said they were trying to explain to the local government officials that the proposed "head tax," which charges all Seattle-based corporations a $275 surcharge per employee per year, would ever lower the cost of Seattle housing to an "affordable" level for those living on the street. Also, the tax doesn't do anything to solve Seattle's transient problem as it was caused by the same socialistic policies that caused the problem in the first place (see Venezuela for more details).

In fact, in 2009, Seattle had to repeal a similar "head tax" when businesses went elsewhere to make their fortunes and Seattle got its collective head out of its collective nether regions. The city spent more on fighting a gun tax lawsuit than it collected in taxes.

Starbucks' CEO John Kelly, said in a statement to the media that the city can't even manage to care for the homeless it currently has. "If they cannot provide a warm meal and safe bed to a 5-year-old child, no one believes they will be able to make housing affordable or address opiate addiction," he warned. 

The city had wanted to steal $500 per person for the "head tax." They've been planning this for about a year and on Monday night passed this taxation without representation bill and settled on $275 per person. 

The mayor, Jenny Durkan, is a progressive Democrat [did you have any doubts?] and a big fan of taxing. She had previously announced that she will used the "revenue" (aka taxes) from Seattle's guns and ammo tax to fund research into the health issues around guns.

Guns don't have health issues. 

Anyway, the "head tax" will supposedly raise $48 million per year, but only if large corporations agree to be part of this socialistic strategy that has a long history of failure, or if they refuse to add to the cost of doing business when they can easily go elsewhere.

Perhaps Seattle, like California, will attempt to celebrate the birthday of Karl Marx, but hopefully, large corporations will see through the fog of progressive policies.

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Tillerson dumped while dumping, Kelly says

According to John Kelly,  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired as he sat on the throne, if you get my drift. Reporters at the White House were stunned when Chief of Staff John Kelly shared the embarrassing story.

One thing for certain, Kelly was pleased that Tillerson didn't raise a stink when he heard the news. He took it in stride and knows he'll bounce back from being dumped.

Kelly did his best to convince reporters that the administration wasn't planning to "clean house" or do any serious purging, but Tillerson kind of sucked as Secretary of State and tended to counter Trump's decisions and free wheeled on the Iran nuclear deal.

According to sources who remain anonymous because they don't want to become a notch on Trump's rather large belt, Kelly had a very awkward conversation with the now former secretary of state whereby he told Tillerson that President Trump would very likely can his sorry butt. The content of the conversation was mostly awkward not for the words, but for the fact that Tillerson was "dropping a deuce" at the time.

Kelly told reporters that Tillerson was suffering from a stomach bug during a diplomatic trip to Africa and was shooting hot rockets into the Delaware when Kelly broke the news to him.

Sources couldn't believe that Kelly would make such a scatalogical pun, even off the record, to a room filled with reporters and White House leakers. [Did I just say 'leakers'?]

Tillerson will officially leave the State Department at the end of the month.

Some people go out with a bang. Some go out with a whimper. Tillerson will go out with the flushing sound of a commode forever in everyone's mind.


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Omarosa 'physically dragged' from White House

Photo: Seth Wenig/AP

Omarosa Manigault Newman supposedly "resigned"from the Trump administration. But is that all there is to it?

Probably not.

The White House announced on Wednesday that Omarosa, the "Apprentice" star who became a White House aide, will leave the Trump administration. However, the Wall Street Journal reported that her departure was abrupt and her exit confrontational.

An anonymous White House official told the Journal that Omarosa was "physically dragged and escorted off the campus" late Tuesday.

It isn't clear what exactly happened and when asked by Fox News if she was fired, they danced around it and told them to read the brief statement from the White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, whose job it is not to clearly answer any significant questions about any significant issues.

Sanders' statement said: "Omarosa Manigault Newman resigned yesterday to pursue other opportunities [like selling cell phone subscriptions]. Her departure will not be effective until January 2018. We wish her the best in future endeavors and are grateful for her service."

Do they really wish her the best? It isn't January and she's gone. 

Supposedly she has been drawing scrutiny from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. This past spring she brought a 39-person bridal party inside the White House for a photo session in the Rose Garden. 

It isn't known if she had permission, but if she didn't, you can bet Kelly gave her hell for it and she was banned from posting any of the photos online by White House officials citing security and ethical concerns.


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Cowpoke Wilson wants Kelly to apologize

Wilson demonstrates 
how to dress like a transgender cowboy

Rep.ulsive Frederica Wilson (D.ummy--Fla.) rehashed her feud with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Saturday. The failed rodeo clown said that Kelly owes the nation an apology.

It all began when Wilson said President Trump was insensitive when he spoke in a condolence call to the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson which she was privy to as she sat with the widow. Johnson was one of the four soldiers killed in an October ambush in Niger.

Ms. Johnson has supported Wilson's interpretation of the phone call, which probably was due to Wilson coaching her because it makes no sense for a president to call a widow of a fallen soldier and be intentionally insensitive. In fact, to make this a political issue at all, is insensitive not only to Ms. Johnson, but to all the families of the fallen. 

I don't blindly stand by Trump for everything he does, but in this case there is not a shred of doubt in my mind that his intentions were good and those of the borderline rodeo clown were political.

Kelly, a Gold Star father, defended President Trump and criticized Wilson for listening into the call and claiming she was "instrumental" in securing funding for an FBI office building in Miami. 

Wilson waited for the coast to be clear, when all the bulls were gone before emerging from her protective rodeo barrel to deny Kelly's account and demanded he apologize to every single person in America. In person.

Last week, Wilson thanked another clown, the not so Rev. Al Sharptongue, for helping her community "heal",after the death of La David Johnson. And he did it for only a nominal fee.

Sharptongue has been quoted as saying such intelligent things as (watch the short video):

                                 
Wilson has been a leading yodel in demanding answers about the circumstances surrounding Johnson's death. 

The U.S. Army announced that it notified the family members of the four soldiers killed that the investigation of the incident will likely conclude in January 2018.

Unfortunately, as long as Wilson can get political traction out of it, she will continue to accuse everyone associated with the GOP as being responsible for his death. 

And one fine day, the Fluffernutter from Florida will ride off into the sunset on her Democrat donkey.


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Maxine Waters does a Frederica Wilson

So we heard from a Democratic congresswoman from Florida, Rep. Frederica Wilson and how she attacked John Kelly, a Gold Star father and Marine Corps General, for being a racist simply because he referred to her as an "empty barrel" making the most noise.

Wilson claimed to have looked up 'empty barrel' in the dictionary and said that it was a "racial slur."

She clearly lied about this because it isn't in the dictionary and it isn't a racial slur. For more on this moron Wilson, go here.

Trump was trying to comfort the widow of a soldier killed in Niger, Wilson attacked Trump for being insensitive, and Kelly, Trump's Chief of Staff, defended him.

Now we hear from another empty barrel, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who couldn't leave politics out of an event that is not political--the AIDS Walk in Los Angeles. 

That's really insensitive.

She used the venue to call for President Trump's impeachment.

The walk was held to raise awareness of the work being done to fight AIDS but Waters' speech wouldn't have you believe that:

"We face unprecedented challenges today in our struggle against HIV and AIDS and I want you to know those people in Congress on the opposite side of the aisle from me control every branch of our federal government. And we have, unfortunately, an unstable, erratic person in the White House."

"We don't know what this president will do, or say, or tweet from one day to the next. Don't forget, this is not a political event, but I'm heading toward impeachment,"

Yes, it is not a political event but she makes every public speaking engagement a political event. At the funeral for comedian Dick Gregory in September, Waters spoke of impeachment during her eulogy.

Greater hatred for Trump hath no other congresswoman, but obviously, Wilson runs a close second. It goes beyond normal political discourse--it's vile hatred and perhaps it's even racist.

Calls for impeachment of the president are pretty weird in a legal sense. But the call for impeachment during a funeral is sick.

Both Wilson and Waters need serious treatment for their mental states.




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John Kelly responds to rodeo clown Rep. Wilson

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said he was "stunned" and "brokenhearted" by rodeo clown and congresswoman Frederica Wilson's comments about President Trump's call to a grieving widow of a slain soldier and making the call a public discussion. Wilson, who had no business listening in on the call, turned it into a political spectacle.

Kelly was clearly emotional as he lost his own son, 2nd Lt. Robert Kelly in 2010 fighting in Afghanistan.

The former Marine Corps General in a rare and emotional instance spoke from the White House briefing room podium condemning Wilson for listening to the phone call the president made to the widow and then criticized him for his tone in the media.

"I was stunned when I came to work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what I saw a member of Congress doing--a member of Congress who listened in on a phone call from the president" to the widow, he told reporters.

"It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation, absolutely stuns me . . . I thought at least that was sacred," he said in a clearly emotional tone.

He added that he was so shocked by the escalation of events the Florida rodeo clown of a congresswoman created, that he went to Arlington National Cemetery to walk among the fallen.

To use an American warrior's death for a political ploy is not just unconscionable, it's totally disgusting. 

The call President Trump made was to the widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson. He was one of four Americans killed in an ambush in Niger on October 4th. 

Wilson within hours went to the press in one of her ridiculously stupid-looking undersized cowboy hats to criticize Trump for allegedly saying on the call that "he [Johnson] knew what he signed up for," saying the remark was insensitive. 

Making Johnson's death a political issue is what's insensitive in this case, and it was made by a Democratic Congress Clown who never displayed any political support for the military in the past. She voted against benefits for military widows and widowers and voted against VA funding issues.

Kelly assured the public that Trump's words were not only private, but were also taken out of context, and that Wilson should not have listened to the conversation at all. 

He added that Trump was trying to say something along the lines of what Gen. Joseph Dunford told him when his own son died: That "he was doing exactly what he wanted to do . . . he knew what he was getting into."

Wilson responded to Kelly remarks soon after he spoke. 

"Let me tell you what my mother told me when I was little. She said 'The dog can bark at the moon all night long, but it doesn't become an issue until the moon barks back,'" the clown told reporters.

After President Trump also responded and denied Wilson's words, she later gloated about how she's now famous for getting the President of the United States to react.

How wonderful that Wilson was so happy about the public exposure--I wonder how Mrs. Johnson felt about her big smiling face under the shiny rodeo clown hat.


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Trump's 'tweet-off' with Sen. Corker

In a Tweet-off on Sunday, President Trump went after the escalating vocal critic of his administration, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). 

Trump said Corker gutlessly dropped his re-election bid after begging him for an endorsement in which he said 'no.'

"Corker 'begged' me to endorse him," Trump said in a salvo of tweets. "I said 'NO' and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement). He also wanted to be secretary of state, I said 'NO THANKS.' . . . Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda. Didn't have the guts to run!"

Corker returned fire a few minutes later and tweeted: "It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning."

This attack by the president comes after Corker saying last week, that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will resign. He also said that Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly "are those people that help separate our country from chaos."

It wasn't always this way. Early in Trump's term the couple played golf together along with retired NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, another Tennessee native. 

Nobody saw it coming between Don and Bob (which also happens to be the name of a great hotdog joint in Rochester, NY).

But the relationship went south, at least publicly, in August, when Bob criticized Trump for how he handled the violent Charlottesville, Virginia protests, in which an alleged white supremacist plowed his car into the crowd and fatally struck a young woman.

Corker said the president has not demonstrated "the stability nor some of the competence" needed to be successful.

"You just put your lips together and blow"

On Sunday, Trump argued that Corker supported the Iran nuclear deal brokered by the Obama administration that Trump claims Iran is violating. Trump tweeted: "He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal!" ending his sentence with his signature exclamation point.

In an August 2016 opinion piece in The Washington Times, Jed Babbin says that Corker "has a problem" when it comes to the Iran deal and that he basically caved in to the Obama administration when he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 

So Trump is correct when he tweeted about Corker's involvement with the Iran deal. Whether or not Corker asked for his endorsement is a moot point--he probably did but we cannot know for certain.

What we know is that Corker has a belly-full of sour grapes and Trump is the cause. Like Hillary Clinton, Corker needs to bow out gracefully, but grace is beginning to seem like a very rare commodity in Washington D.C.



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Omarosa grounded from White House

Omarosa Manigault has been put on Santa Kelly's 'Naughty List' and now has limited access to former "Apprentice" star and current President of the United States, Donald Trump.

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former U.S. Marine Corps general, is trying to bring discipline to an apparent chaotic West Wing. He put Omarosa on a "no-fly list" that he keeps on White House aides he sees as unfit to attend serious meetings, The New York Times reported.

Her name is the most prominent on the list, which describes her as a former "Apprentice" star with an ill-defined job in the White House. 

Can you imagine, John Kelly has the gall to limit the number of people attending Trump's meetings just because their jobs don't require they attend.

According to the Gray Lady, Omarosa's habit of stepping into meetings to which she wasn't invited is what got her on the no-fly list, and the person who then must enforce the ban is Kirstjen Nielsen.

Nielsen's appointment was announced at a staff meeting Wednesday as part of Kelly's effort to enhance a more disciplined environment and perhaps put a finger in the proverbial dyke, to stop the leaks that have been flowing out.

But The Times said Kelly's new move has angered people who already hate him and now they may be plotting and complaining to the press.

It sounds as if they need a safe space . . . poor dears.



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The Gorkster is gone

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's national security aide, has either resigned or was fired from his position late Friday.

In a purported resignation letter obtained by the Federalist, Gorka said the "best and most effective way" he could support President Trump "is from outside the People's House."

Which makes perfect nonsense but it sounds plausible.

White House officials told Fox News that Gorka didn't actually 'resign-resign', they just said that he "no longer works" at the White House.

A Trump adviser told Fox News that Gorka recently had a tense phone conversation with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. Apparently, Kelly asked "The Gorkster" why he was on vacation in the middle of so many national national security events.

Gorka was asked about his leaving the White House and texted Fox News a one word response: "Liberating."

He also later told the network that Kelly "never mentioned it [his vacation] for a millisecond," which can be interpreted more than one way: a) he never once mentioned it; or b) he mentioned it far longer than a millisecond and reamed him an entirely new anal sphincter.

The Gorkster's version is that he called Kelly on Friday and told him he was resigning and wanted to come into the office on Monday to hand-deliver his resignation letter to President Trump. Kelly told him there was not need for him to come back to the White House. 

Gorka's letter expressed dissatisfaction with where the Trump administration was heading, saying that "given recent events, it is clear to me that forces that do not support the [Make America Great Again] promise are-for now-ascendant within the White House."

He added that apart from Trump, "the individuals who most embodied and represented the policies that will "Make America Great Again," have been internally countered, systematically removed, or undermined in recent months."

Gorka was depicted by the left as a controversial figure with ties to white supremacist groups. He was also buddies with Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist, who was fired and has since gone back to Breitbart News.

Schiff's shahada finger
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Last week, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said that both Gorka and policy adviser Stephen Miller should be fired in the wake of a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in which scum crumpet leftists from Antifa, neo-Nazis and KKK had a violent encounter. Schiff also called for the Washington Redskins to change their name immediately and suggested they be called the U.S. Capitol Football Players.

Schiff is a schmuck and has a photo of Hillary Clinton with Maxine Waters above the toilet in his washroom.


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UPDATE: Bannon is in!

Tally Ho, Steverino

UPDATE: It has just been reported that Bannon has returned to Breitbart News and has already headed a staff meeting.

DEVELOPING: Steve Bannon, the Trump administration's chief strategist, is gone, according to my secret source, Vinny Boombots.

The New York Times, also reported today that Trump told his aides that he has decided to remove "Steverino" but it wasn't clear if that was going to be done.

The former head of Breitbart News joined the Trump team a year ago when he was asked to join the team as chief executive of the campaign. After Trump beat "Crooked Hillary" in the presidential race, Bannon was appointed to a senior advisory role as Reince Priebus was named chief of staff.

The Drudge Report first reported of Bannon's exit, adding that he might return to Breitbart, but that's currently just speculation.

Bannon had been treated like an Ebola patient within the White House once John Kelly became chief of staff, Vinny Boombots said. He was isolated and his demise appeared a sure thing.

Earlier in the week, he gave an interview to a leftist magazine and verbally attacked some of his adversaries within the Trump administration.

President Trump was asked about Bannon's employment situation in his administration and said, "I like Mr. Bannon [calling him "Mister" was a sure kiss of death], he's a friend of mine. I like him. He's a good man. He's not a racist . . . but we'll see what happens with Mr. Bannon."

Bannon's departure has been confirmed by the White House saying that Friday will be his last day.

In a statement, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said: "White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve's last day."

The Stock Market is just fine with his departure.



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Trump admin. to weigh expanding expedited deportation

The Trump administration is considering a new policy to give the Department of Homeland Security a lot more power to speed up deportations of certain illegal immigrants.

Under the proposal, the DHS would be empowered to seek the expedited removal of illegal immigrants apprehended anywhere in the country who can't prove they've lived her continuously for more than 90 days. Since 2004, the DHS could only bypass immigration courts for those who've been living here illegally for less than two weeks and were caught within 100 miles of the border.

If enacted, these new guidelines would be a major increase in the agency's authority to speed up deportations.

The proposed new policy wouldn't need congressional approval, according to two administration officials, who wished to remain anonymous in order to let us guess as to whether or not this should be considered 'fake news.'

One anonymous official said that the memo was circulated at the White House and the DHS is reviewing comments on the document from the Office of Management and Budget.

Joanne F. Talbot, a DHS spokesperson, said she hasn't seen the memo and describes it as a draft and emphasized that no final decisions have been made by DHS's John Kelly.

This proposal may give an entirely new meaning to the term: 'Adios.'

Illegal immigration rights advocates denounced the proposal saying it would strip illegal immigrants of due process rights that don't apply to them.


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H.R. McMaster says there's more than 1-way to go with NoKo's threat

President Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster said Wednesday that the administration is considering additional strategies on how to deal with North Korea. The military option is still very much on the table.

In a security conference along with Homeland Security Chief John Kelly, McMaster said that "The threat is much more immediate now and so it's clear that we can't repeat the same approach--failed approach of the past."

Using Einstein's famous quote in paraphrase he said it would be insanity to continue to do the same thing the U.S. has done for years and expect a different result.

McMaster's words come just a day prior to Trump meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The new South Korean leader vowed to stand firmly with President Trump against North Korea, mainly because he'd be a fool not to. Moon downplayed his past desire for a softer, gentler, weak approach toward the hermit nation.

"Together we will achieve the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program, peace on the Korean Peninsula and eventually peace in Northeast Asia," Moon said, as he took a deep drag off a fat one.


The talks between Tweetin' Trump and Moonbeam Moon begin tonight and then there will be formal talks tomorrow, Friday.

China wants Trump to negotiate with Kim. That's about as likely as Kim doing a TV ad for Nutri System in spandex biking pants. Trump is frustrated with China's anemic effort to pressure the North with economic pressure.

And corpulent Kim is showing no signs that he wishes to restart talks on giving up his nuclear aspirations. He'd sooner give up his favorite testicle than give up his nuke program.

Moon told liberal newspaper The Washington Post that North Korea's Kim Jong Un is "unreasonable" and "very dangerous." The Washington Post didn't know that.

Moon believes that North Korea needs to be pressured to get compliance from them and bragged that he got a B+ in Political Science, which was obvious when he delayed the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system the U.S. was going to deploy to the South. It would protect the citizens of South Korea as well as the 28,000 U.S. forces on the peninsula from ballistic missile attacks by the North Koreans.

No big deal, right Moon?

Moon ordered an environmental review before allowing additional launchers for THAAD because not only is he an idiot, he is also worried that shooting off a missile disturbs the hearing of some species of frogs.


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BREAKING: Another White House intruder caught

A man who is probably not a big fan climbed a White House fence on the south side, and gained access to the grounds before being arrested, the Secret Service reported to CNN shortly after noon on Saturday.

The incident occurred "at the end of the day," Friday, around 11:38 p.m. officials told Fox News.

It is believed President Trump was asleep in the White House when the incident occurred.

The intruder remains unidentified and it's anyone's guess what his motive might have been. He scaled the outer-perimeter fence on the complex's southeast side and was arrested without incident. An officer in the agency's Uniformed Division made the arrest.

The man was carrying a backpack and was able to get close to the White House's south portico residence entrance on the Washington Monument side of the complex.

There was no hazardous material found inside the backpack and a search of the complex grounds resulted in "nothing of concern to security operations," the Secret Service said.

The intruder has no "previous history" with the agency, according to the Secret Service.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was briefed on the incident.

There is currently no status update regarding the individual, and he will likely be handed over to local police as is standard procedure. 

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