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Home Front: Politix
Beltway Party Senator Bob Corker: 'White House in downward spiral'
2017-05-16
[The Hill] Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) says President Trump’s White House must reverse the "downward spiral" it finds itself in.

"The White House has got to do something soon to bring itself under control and in order," he said Monday, according to Bloomberg. "It’s got to happen."

Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made his remarks following a Washington Post report that Trump revealed highly classified intelligence information in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
Corker relies on the WAPO for his intelligence reporting and political insights ?
"Obviously they’re in a downward spiral right now and they’ve got to figure out a way to come to grips [with] all that’s happening," Corker said.

Current and former U.S. officials told The Post that Trump relayed information from a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The information was provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement. The partner did not give America permission to share the information with Russia.

A U.S. official with knowledge of the meeting said Trump "revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies."
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Violence, propaganda lies, election fraud, anti-free speech/anti-constititionalism and segregations via race. This is Maxism, Communism, Socialism on the move with considerable energy and financing. An all out coup attempt is ongoing, and indeed people on the left need to be sued, imprisoned. This dangerous effort against basic freedoms and liberties needs to be identified as all of the above, demonized and destroyed, ASAP.
Posted by: Nero White 3083   2017-05-16 19:40  

#10  So, McMaster, who was there, publicly says "didn't happen". But we should believe unnamed "sources" by the WaPo

*snort*
Posted by: Frank G   2017-05-16 12:01  

#9  Corker relies on the WAPO for his intelligence reporting and political insights ?

Yes. And so, it seems, do a lot of other people. It is the new lead story all over the MSM with overtones of something very bad having been done but without any evidence that there were any violations of law. It just sounds bad because of the tone in which it's delivered.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-05-16 11:48  

#8  Trump is Antichrist

Wait, what? OK, so *that* is an impeachable offense, right? It's gotta be in the Constitution somewhere!
Posted by: SteveS   2017-05-16 10:48  

#7  Spot on Mr. B. Trump made some off-hand remark or joke during the campaign about Russia releasing Hillary's missing emails. Some Demoncratic operative(s) saw opportunity and ran with it. The meme was thus created. No one have been able to provide names, cite any instances of collusion or the illegal exchange of information by people on the Trump team or by Trump. There is no Russia scandal. It is trial by innuendo, libel, lies, smear, and disinformation by the Donks. It is a matter of putting the big lie in the MSM echo chamber and turning the crank endlessly as did Dr. Joseph Goebbels. The left does not like Trump and they will do anything to take him down. He threatens the cozy UniParty arrangement in D.C.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-05-16 10:39  

#6  Except, Besoeker, who - barring people who already think Trump is Antichrist - pays attention to MSM on Trump?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-16 10:30  

#5  Trump revealed highly classified intelligence information in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.

The WAPO story as a fiction and classic disinformation, cultivates several key democratic initiatives:

1. Sows chords of distrust within the Trump administration and advisory team.

2. Promotes the alleged Russian connection to the Trump administration.

3. Distills and pushes further into history the previous classified email violations of Hillary Clinton.

4. Creates Dem talking points and fills the media [to include FOX every 3 minutes] with negative news on POTUS.

5. Provides additional fodder for the 'high crimes and misdemeanors' impeachment crowd.

6. Throws a wet blanket over POTUS' foreign relations accomplishments, and raises questions regarding future meetings with foreign officials.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-05-16 09:40  

#4  
[advertisement courtesy of The Washington Post.]
Posted by: Bobby   2017-05-16 07:54  

#3  Excellent point g(r)om and we must also keep in mind that POTUS is the ultimate DECLAS authority. Alluding to intelligence derived from 'foreign partner sources' as some sort of exemption carries no water in this regard.

This WAPO conspiracy story appears to be bombshell whilst Clinton's open network 'homebrew' server containing highly classified data is no big deal.

The hypocrisy is absolutely astounding, unless you consider the leftest media and democratic sources.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-05-16 03:26  

#2  I'm sure Trump disclosed some information that Russians found extremely useful*. As well as conveying some warnings that Russians can't ignore. And, possibly, received some useful information in exchange.
That's the nature of a dialog. That did they expect him and Lavrov to do - hurl insults at each other, the way they conduct political "arguments" in DC?

*IMO, mostly confirming Russian perception that Americans know little & understand even less about ISIS and ME in general.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-16 03:16  

#1  The Washington 'swamp' is doing everything it can to destroy Trump. He is not one of them. He does not belong.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-05-16 02:31  

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