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What will the computers say about Trumps economy and stock market tomorrow.?

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A little palace intrigue about Trumps desire to put a group of “killers into his administration. Trumps wants people like Rudy, Christie and Miller in Administration. You get the feeling Sessions and Tillerson aren’t exactly on Trumps team.

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After the much-hyped Nunes memo failed to deliver the narrative reset that the White House hoped for, Donald Trump is discussing a shake-up to his West Wing, three sources familiar with the president’s thinking told me. These people say the president is increasingly frustrated that members of his administration aren’t going to war for him, and he’s being encouraged by his daughter Ivanka to bring in new blood. “The president’s view is that allies on the outside are doing a better job defending him than his political shop,” one Republican close to the White House told me. Another outside adviser who regularly speaks with Trump said that the president is regretting some of his Cabinet choices. “He’s saying he should have put Rudy [Giuliani] at State and Chris Christie at Justice.”

Trump has recently told advisers he wants a “killer” to steer the White House’s response to Robert Mueller’s investigation and craft a midterm election message for him to stump on this fall. For Trump, there’s a growing urgency to fill the role. His efforts to stymie Mueller’s probe have so far failed, and the specter of impeachment looms if Democrats win back the House in November. Ivanka, who’s been frustrated with Chief of Staff John Kelly, has told her father that he needs people around him that will put his interests above their own. “She wants to clean house,” a Trump friend told me. “Her view is J.F.K. had Bobby there to have his back.”

The president’s top choice for the strategist position is Jason Miller, who served as communications director for Trump’s presidential campaign. “He wants a killer, and Jason is a killer,” an outside adviser to the White House told me. Trump had wanted Miller to join the administration during the transition, but Miller withdrew after it was revealed he had an extramarital affair during the campaign with former Trump aide A.J. Delgado.

In Miller, Trump sees an aggressive operator who could potentially fill a vacuum created last August by the departure of former chief strategist Steve Bannon. Trump hasn’t forged a close relationship with Bill Stepien, the current White House political director. “Stepien is more of an introvert, he’s a tactical guy,” one outside Trump adviser said. Current White House Communications Director Hope Hicks primarily functions as Trump’s gatekeeper (and is now deeply embroiled in the Russia probe). In recent weeks, Trump has publicly clashed with Chief of Staff John Kelly after Kelly took a more active role in White House policymaking and messaging. One Republican close to the White House described Trump’s frustration with Kelly, who came to the office with zero political experience, this way: “It’s like Kelly views Trump as a mushroom. He wants to keep him in the dark and feed him a bunch of shite.”

Without a close confidant on the inside with whom he can plot strategy, Trump has turned to outside advisers for counsel. According to sources, Trump speaks regularly by phone with a braintrust that includes Sean Hannity, Jason Miller, Corey Lewandowski, Reince Priebus, and R.N.C. Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel. According to sources, Miller has advised Trump to push for an immigration deal that shows real progress towards building the Wall, the theory being that getting a win on immigration will mobilize the base in November. Instead, they want him to sign an extension for DACA so that immigration is a midterm election issue (the theory being that putting immigration on the ballot will mobilize the base). Miller also has told Trump that he performs best when he can draw a stark contrast with his opponent. Miller wants Trump to make the midterms a choice between the Trump agenda and Nancy Pelosi, a race that mirrors the 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton.

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You don't even know him. The new batch of DU goobs is hilarious.

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I’ve never posted a day in my life on DU

You don’t even know me

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You're not very good at this...

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Coming from you that means I’m hitting a nerve but that’s not why I posted the article. I genuinely think this board is either naive or ignorant to the harm Mueller could do here. This is about as dangerous as it gets for an administration.

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I think you start a thread every time you read something on du. I don't read your posts anymore.

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Man, I never even noticed you there. You could of simply left the thread alone instead you felt the need to be heard. You’re processed now.

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Did HRC campaign collude with Russians?

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It appears they did through a 3rd party.

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Very interesting to see Ryan hedge with Gowdy on the memo. Indictments can come down at any minute and the GOP brass know this. I particularly like this article because it admits this entire memo release was staged at this moment to try and undercut Mueller. Ryan won’t give Trump a lifeline if he tries to fire Mueller.

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You can’t hear the reporter’s question where the clip picks up but apparently it was “Over the weekend, the president claimed total vindication. Was he vindicated in any way?” That’s a trap, as there’s been a sharp break between Trump himself and many Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee over the Memo’s import. Trump, with backing from Devin Nunes, claims that the Memo shows that Russiagate is a witch hunt, rotten with partisanship from the start. Trey Gowdy — and Will Hurd and Chris Stewart and Brad Wenstrup — argue the opposite, that the Page investigation is just a rotten branch in a sturdy many-limbed tree. “He put the memo in one tranche and put the Russia investigation in another tranche, and I think one doesn’t cancel out the other,” said Tim Scott of Gowdy’s appearance on “Face the Nation” last weekend. Exactly right. So which team is Ryan on with respect to the Memo’s significance, Team Trump or Team Gowdy?

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I wish he was Team Trump, though. Not because I think the Memo was a blockbuster but because it’s cynical of Ryan to hand Trump a political bludgeon which he himself seemingly doesn’t believe should carry much weight. Gowdy and Ryan have made the best possible case for the Memo, that Congress has every right to oversee federal agencies (correct) and that FISA abuses are serious business (correct), but it’s pathetic to harrumph that the document does nothing to undermine Mueller when Trump coveted it for precisely that reason. Having declined to fire Mueller on his lawyers’ advice, POTUS is building a heat shield around himself and his intimates. The Memo is that shield, something he can point to as proof that the entire probe is illegitimate if and when Mueller ends up indicting any Trumps or Kushners. Ryan and Gowdy know that and enabled it but they refuse to own it by signing on to Trump’s conclusion. We’ll see what they say if and when those indictments come down and suddenly they’re under nuclear heat from their own base to back Trump up and deride the charges as a “witch hunt.” Given Ryan’s concerns about staying on the right side of Republican voters before the midterms, how could he oppose Trump on that?

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Of course he did. Everyone knows this.

Adam Schiff is very untrustworthy.

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Nunes is the one politicizing the intelligence here.

Talk about untrustworthy

Interesting you’re the wannabe administrator that’s too dumb to know the rules around here. You claimed I double posted a story and tried to act big only to be proven wrong. Don’t even talk to me. :lol:

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This talking point is asinine.

1 majority and 1 minority member of the HIC was allowed to review it. Nunes as chair chose his most seasoned and qualified member to review it. That member attests to the accuracy of the memo.

The memo is not the work product of nunes, it is the work product of the HIC.

You degrade your credibility using such ridiculous arguments.

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You are a liar or just ignorant on this issue

Nunes is sending out a request to read FISA court transcripts. LINK

Nice try numb nuts