President Trump nominee for OMB Director Mick “Cantalopes” Mulvaney Senate Confirmation hearing – Ongoing:
The Office of Management and Budgets is a key role for any administration. Mulvaney represents Paul Ryan’s favorite nominee. Previous discussion on Mulvaney below:
For the past six weeks I have been staring at an index card stuck in the middle of our research white board which simply states: “Why Mulvaney?” It’s been nagging at me, because choosing Mick “Cantalopes” Mulvaney for OMB director just didn’t make sense.
Then a friendly cow walked up and licked me square on the face.
My friendly bovine asked three questions:
♦ 1.) “What makes you think President Donald Trump wasn’t aware of the Mulvaney housekeeper issue“? ♦ 2.) “Remember how candidate Trump shot the arrow into the Achilles heel of Bush and Rubio’s Wall Street alignment“? and ♦ 3.) “Isn’t Paul Ryan quite literally, and similarly, attached to the Mulvaney pick”?
After an ah-ha moment I grinningly wiped the slobber from my noggin, and I must now apologize for my one-dimensional-chess, shallow thoughtlessness and previously expressed position.
While it is prudent to hide the smile and wait for the predictably toxic OMB confirmation hearing. In the interest of belaying concern, we might point out the Dem side of the confirmation hearing is not accidentally being led -quite loudly- by Senator Chuck Schumer who would like nothing more than to have a notch on his partisan anti-confirmation belt.
The Senate minority leader needs a win.
Schumer being a New Yorker n’ all – nudge-nudge, wink-wink,.. say no more, say-no-more.
Oh, how the media would gleefully play up such a defeat, and how President Trump would be protesting the loss, almost pearl-clutchy if done just right. The optics of political opposition toward other cabinet appointments necessarily decreases; the dems already carrying a scalp to prove their oppositional bona-fides.
Additionally, considering all the angles, the first Trump budget is due by constitutional requirement to congress by March 31st. The media never held Obama accountable for this deadline, and he missed it in six of the eight years in office. Not a single Obama budget ever passed congress even though Dems controlled the House and Senate for two of those proposals.
Heck, after year #5 in office the media quit even mentioning the absence of an Obama budget, and worse yet the last two fiscal years Obama never even presented a proposal that mattered. Boehner, then Ryan, went along with CR’s, totally eliminated the debt ceiling and passed record setting Omnibus bills.
However, we can easily predict EPIC media protestations if a Trump budget doesn’t meet the legal deadline for submission; and we can only imagine how the media will SCREAM about Trump not having one.
♦ Phase Two – Walking out the play…. brings the OMB Director (Mulvaney or other), and the Paul Ryan budget approval process, immediately into play. If Ryan doesn’t get the Trump budget from fellow consort Mulvaney’s architecture, Ryan’s going to get it from a lesser ideological aligned, non GOPe, OMB director. Interesting paradox.
♦ Phase Three – Most predictably meaning a Trump budget proposal more likely at loggerheads with what Ryan would prefer. Where “loggerheads” is most likely defined as President Trump not spending enough on the stuff which will make Ryan’s Wall Street UniParty lobbyists happy etc.
♦ Phase Four – The above back-and-forth leads to a potential continuing resolution, or impasse of sorts. Which could ultimately mean Trump is in the same non-budget position as Obama, at least in the short-term.
In that “short-term” the president gets to prioritize what aspects of government are funded…. Oh, hurt me. Please don’t throw me in the Briar Patch, please.
…see where this is headed?
Tell me where President Trump loses in all of the assembled variables?
Either Mulvaney is confirmed albeit usefully damaged goods, and as OMB Director complies with Trump’s construction priority, setting up friction with Ryan…. which ends with Trump in control of spending prioritization anyway….. Or, Mulvaney doesn’t pass confirmation, Schumer is happy, and by direct extension Mulvaney’s primary advocate, Paul Ryan, is usefully wounded in the process…. which ends with Trump in control of spending prioritization.
Shouldn’t that first line read “President Trump nominee”???
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Someone’s paying attention!
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Mick is a good guy and never backed the gang of 8 immigration legislation. His concern was for the peach farmers not being able to find the help they needed during peach season. American’s won’t do the work and not just in the Aig field. My husband’s contractors have had the same problem for years, because we raised a bunch of wimpy youngsters… that and our Education System. Know one knows how to do anything anymore. Not all but many. We don’t always agree with Mick on all issues, and he hears from us, but some of the things on this website are just not true about Mick. Mick will make a great Director of the OMB.
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….”Mick is a good guy and never backed the gang of 8 immigration legislation”…
Patently, provably and demonstrably FALSE ! Go sell your crazy BS someplace else.
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WoW
Nice video Sundance, right to the point , and crushed the other guys argument into the ground.
Hopefully the Trump Team hires you for research or media manager or some other job where Trump can use your Wisdom and Chess playing politcial skills to good purpose, for our country.
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So Libertarians are absurd, outrageous, and stupid according to Mulvaney? The majority of Libertarians voted for Trump.
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No, no, no. He was calling the representative that made the comment about cantaloupe calves on illegals absurd. Mulvaney wants to pander to groups to get votes instead of have an real conservative/pro America principles. He’s more worried about tone and having the black or hispanic caucuses mocking him than keeping illegals out of the country.
In reality, he was insulting almost every person in that room.
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What an ass. Mulvaney sounds like a JEB! CONservative that doesn’t give a damn about the country, just winning elections. But, in truth, we know they do these things to please Wall Street and K Street. Hopefully, Mulvaney is the one whose head meets the chopping block and lets Schumer “feel like he’s in charge”.
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Sundance, while I am not a significant commenter I have followed TCT for more than a year. You are an amazing talent and I thank God that He put you here for this time. I am certain that He is smiling for your well done work. I know I am.
Your Friend,
Hoosier
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Thanks sundance. I finally get the cantalopes, ha!
Hey Mick, what’s wrong with cantalopes? Not to toot my own horn, but as someone with pretty nice calves, I’d be flattered if someone compared them to cantalopes!
After seeing that video, I see where you’re coming from sundance. Now, Secretary of State was too important a position to fool around with, so Trump was content with just dragging Mittens’s name through the mud by dangling him out there as a possibility. Congress clearly hasn’t taken the budget seriously in years, though, so of course OMB would be a good position for Trump to use to throw Mulvaney to the wolves and let Schumer hang his hide on his wall.
We should arrange to get Mick some cantalopes for a care package, for when his career crashes and burns.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/26/pbs-documentary-house-freedom-caucus-founder-key-paul-ryan-luis-gutierrez-open-borders-effort/#disqus_thread
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I know, I know it’s Mark Levine. But this was before, Mark nailed him. Mulvaney betrayed his constituents.
http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-responds-to-rep-mick-mulvaneys-facebook-post-defending-vote-for-boehner/
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Mulvaney deleted his Facebook page when Trump picked him. I’d screen shot stuff had I’d known but anyways, Sundance is spot on about Mulvaney.
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What a shameless RHINO panderer—pandering to Hispanics by ignoring illegal immigration and selling a fallacy to constituents. The GOPe’s narrative “we can’t win elections without kowtowing to illegals” has been de-bunked by Trump’s election.
SD, how will Mulvaney be damaged if he manages to be confirmed? Do you mean in the consciousness of the electorate?
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Which things are not true? care to comment on this ? https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/10/27/wow-breitbart-article-reveals-depth-of-amnesty-immigration-trickery-by-gope/
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Paula Daly – “American’s won’t do the work and not just in the Aig field. My husband’s contractors have had the same problem for years, because we raised a bunch of wimpy youngsters…”
BULL F@#$ING S#%T
Finish the sentence… Why don’t you EVER finish the F’ING sentence???!!!! I’ll tell you why, because you’re not making an honest argument.
American’s won’t do the work AT THOSE SLAVE LABOR WAGES… which is to say, American’s won’t do that work for the piss-poor wages the illegals accept for doing that work..
We’ll do it for an appropriate wage. What wage? I dunno, you have to let the market decide that. A market WITHOUT a deluge of cheap-ass slave labor.
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“American’s won’t do the work and not just in the Aig field. ”
Why should they, with an over the top reservation wage in the form of social services? It’s an easy fix, turn the tap off (welfare keeping Citizens lazy and dependant) – (stop the flow from the undeveloped world) and drive traffic of Citizens to the employment lines.
You actually want me to believe that you can’t understand this scenario, or are you just that dependant on the gov tit, albeit indirectly? Your way of thinking is just part of the problem, not the solution…. Let’s get together and solve our Countrys probs, not add to them.
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That’s crap, Paula….there are plenty of H2B visas….getting farm workers doesn’t require amnesty, which is what Mulvaney has pimped…anybody will do anything at the right WAGE. .Why come to CTH and flat out lie?
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The peach farmers and you husband’s contractors will find workers, if the price is right. In a healthy labor market, if you can’t find anyone, raise your wages until your offer becomes attractive to someone. The farmers will need to start doing this once the glut of cheap labor dries up when the illegals go back to their countries.
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Everybody is looking at wages here. How many commenters have picked anything in a field? I have… for a few hours, then I just couldn’t take it any more – too hard. Back hurt. Hands dirty and sticky with fruit juices, arms/wrists scratched with thorns or branches.
Exhausted from walking back and forth from where you are to where the produce is being collected, carrying heavy containers full of the produce you picked or cut. I was young and, I thought, strong, but I couldn’t do the work for more than half a day. Farmers and vineyard owners tell me with is common with Caucasian ag workers.
Furthermore, laws need to be changed to allow kids to pick and cut – they love it and get used to it. Skilled ag labor like running some of the complex harvesting and planting and spraying, does get higher wages. Loyal, skilled, trustworthy workers get even more pay, plus non-cash benefits – the farmers look after them.
Problem for our farmers – worker pay is so high, the kids in the families can afford to get more education and they don’t come back to the fields. So, there is a constant search for skilled, loyal and trustworthy workers. Farmers in Oregon ALL use e-verify, but they are not allowed to question any ID that is presented to them. Yeah, crazy, I know.
When wages do go up, due, for example, to union efforts, mechanization comes in to only the biggest and richest farmers’ fields. No work for crop workers any more. No workers for smaller, poorer farmers who turn to grains, animal feed and other easy crops.
Many of the fruits and vegetables we buy now come from south of the border. The salt of the earth, the backbone of America, the number of family farmers is shrinking every year. Is this what you want? I won’t even bring up the politically fraught term Food Security!
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It’s not a job for everyone, for sure. Doesn’t mean there are no Americans (there are Americans who are not Caucasians too) who won’t do the work. Yes, wages will go up but not from isolated events like union negotiations, but from market-wide forces resulting from the elimination of artificially cheap labor, artificial because the wages in the farming labor market reacted to policies allowing illegal immigrants to work. If Oregon farmers were allowed to question e-verify IDs, wages would go up too because of the reduced labor supply. I don’t buy the arguments that farmers can’t find any Americans who can do the work. Everybody is talking about wages because that is what it boils down to. If the illegals go, the next thing farmers will push for is to allow kids to pick, not because kids love it, but because kids would also be cheap labor.
Sending the cheap labor south of the border doesn’t necessarily mean the food will follow. Food imports can be negotiated in trade deals too.
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This woman’s stroll down climate change lane was incredibly asinine.
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Office of Mo Better
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I swear Sundance…I sometimes regret using Ga. slang here, for the risk of exposing my Clyattville Edukation.
But “wipe the slobber from my noggin'”, kraxz
me up!!
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Dang…I mizspelled krax’ez!
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No, das rite!
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No, daz rite! The second spelling is plural.
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Dat funny 😂.
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Y’all ain’t got no sense.
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if this traitor is deeply concerned, it is a good pick. The more I watch these hearings, the more I think that 80% of congress belongs behind bars.
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Or standing in front of a wall.
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Wait, is this is the same Senator McCain who’s AZ VA is the worst in the country and hasn’t gotten better even after being exposed? Hahaha shut up shadow Prez Johnny.
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rolls eyes Even for McCain that was a stupid comment to make.
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Oh, the very President the Military supported in such numbers? The one who gave them Secretary Mattis? The one who stood up for the military from day one in his campaign?
And “Songbird” says “lack of support for our military?”
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KBR: I had the most fascinating conversation with a 30 year Navy guy, former Seal and had a lot of things to say about Benghazi. When I asked him what does he think about his new Commander In Chief, he was guarded for a second (until he could read me) and then we both expressed alot of joy — and he confidence. He’s very excited and in parting we also agreed it is going to be long and painful for –>Her. Karma.
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😂😂😂! NH Voter thanks for posting that! Best laugh I had since Nov 8th and I have been laughing a great deal. McCain is delusional!
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Interesting theory…
If Mulvaney doesn’t get confirmed, any ideas on who Trump would pick next?
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Hopefully someone the Dems and RINOs hate even more.
And just keep doubling down. So they know what’s coming with the Supremes.
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Robert Rector. That would put the dems into cardiac arrest for sure.
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I seem to recall Sundance saying that is win-win for our President. If his guy goes through, President Trump wins. If not that function of what gets pic defaults to….President Trump
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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. In the final analysis, Trump wins on both accounts. I haven’t gotten to point of saying, “Oh Mr. President, we are winning so much I can’t stand it anymore!!” I want more dag nabbit!! 👍😎😛
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McCaskill is insufferable. Please vote her out.
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Oh my goodness: I just watched McCaskill’s questioning — and I am compelled to ask: What kind of an ignoramus would vote for this harridan?
Her state’s people should hang their collective heads in shame — just as we do here in Arizona for permitting the nefarious twosome McCain and Flake to represent us!
It’s disgusting beyond words.
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You just coined Flakeykain!!
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Arizona Cain Flakes. Tastes like dried cactus with a dash of sand.
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All natural! Cactus spines for those who lack the regular kind.
Seriously, these hearings are like some perverted game show: How Trivial Can YOU Be?
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Not ‘What’s My Line’ but ‘Waste My Time’.
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😂that’s hilarious
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McCaskill was on her way to oblivion in 2012 when the media jumped all over Todd Aiken on the rape abortion comment. The media made sure McCaskill won even though Missourians had had enough of Claire by then. The media used to decide who could run and who couldn’t – until Trump came on the scene. I can only hope Americans have learned the lesson of never trusting the media. Hopefully we will get rid of Ms. McCaskill at last in 2018. We need strong candidates who are for the people and all will be well.
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darcy – trust me, in Missouri, most of us do hang our heads in shame. I don’t know how she got where she is. McCaskill and Eliz Warren could be sisters joined at the hip. I can’t stand either one of them. Both are crazy liberal nutjobs.
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That reminds me , the state of MA is thinking maybe it is time to give someone other than Warren a chance.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/01/23/hope-polls-shows-massachusetts-voters-are-ready-to-move-on-from-elizabeth-warren-n2275582
Which led to to peak at her favorability ratings. I never knew they were so bad.
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/elizabeth-warren-favorable-rating
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Which led me to peek at ……………
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Sen Merkley is asking the OMB nominee about inauguration crowd size. How completely idiotic.
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Democrats: Office of Management and Budgets…..WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ?
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It obviously hasn’t been working very well. Do we need it?
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He’s My Senator… Completely Full of-Shit 100% of the time…just like every other politician in this Useless state !
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As a fellow Oregonian, I concur, Snail.
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I saw a clip of that ridiculous episode. Unfortunately the Trump communications team failed to push back effectively on this crowd issue so it still has legs.
The other night on the open thread I posted a screen cap from the CBS broadcasts showing sparse crowds on the Mall. The time-stamp on the CBS broadcast was 8:20AM!!
Clearly the picture was not taken at 11:59 AM as claimed by ABC. The New York Times used a screen grab from the CBS broadcast but it cropped out the Time-stamp.
I suggested that the Trump team should demand a public apology from ABC and the New York Times since they obviously manipulated their coverage in an effort to make Trump look bad. It doesn’t look like this is going to happen. I wonder if the Trump team is even aware that the infamous picture of the Mall was broadcast at 8:20AM in the morning? Instead of conceding that the 2009 crowd was larger I wish Mulvaney would have asked Merkley “what times were the pictures taken”?
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I got into that with my lib relatives “but we saw it live” and managed to get a concession with the CNN Gigapixel thing. There’s also a Brit Hume twitter around where he admits the sparse field was earlier. There’s also an old Obama inaug. picture from the Washington Monument looking toward the Capitol. That one makes it clear that there was a lot of open space up around the monument.
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Democrats are FRAUD!!!
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NHV: Merkley isn’t as ugly as Wyden, but he is equally as stupid.
Wasn’t that a clever gotcha?
He should have asked Merkley if Nordstrom and Nike Town have taken down their boarded up windows in downtown Portland yet from the protests. It would be about as relevant to this hearing.
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Dems are showboating All of this will bear fruitation next year mid terms Working people see Trump busting his ass and these snowflakes doing nothing but FIGHTING
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Absolutely agree for this will come back and bite them in the azz big time
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” the senate minority leader needs a win…”
yeah, so he can wield it like Pelosi waved that giant novelty gavel around.
Too much emphasis on trophies these days…
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I am sick of the everybody gets a trophy meme just for participation. They used to be for winners.
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Wow
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That is slander per se and made in a context that allows no other purpose or inference than it was maliciously intended. Drop a suit on her! That is not political speech, it is just nasty slander.
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If Senator Murray made that remark from the Senate floor, she cannot be sued; she has immunity. That is why when Reid lied, he always did it from the Senate floor. No doubt the same will hold true for Schumer.
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What every one conveniently overlooks in the infamous Access Hollywood tape is that Trump says “when you are famous women let you…” LET=CONSENT
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Groupies let you.
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Bingo!
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Let me be clear: This activity of the Dem’s and loony-tune lefties, will help the President and the loyal Republicans as time moves along. I expect big R wins in 2018.
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Patty might be one of those who consents and gets none. That’s because MCPs have standards.
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I’m concerned about McCain.
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LMBO
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Who wants an Obama nominee? I would assume President Trump would want his own nominee who would be in line with his budgetary needs.
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The MSM doesn’t stand a chance , NOW!
Trump will roast them and butter them, and show the world how FAKE CNN and Washington post, NYT, and other garbage media is.
Trump is putting a Big Picture of the crowd in upper and lower floors of Press Room tomorrow. Should be fun.
I’m sure Trump will ask the FBI, Justice , and other depts to investigate media manipulation and if other countries are directing how MSM covers the stories. The public wants to see the TRUTH, so , post the TRUTH and show the lies of the MSM.
Go Trump Go!
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Oh boy, more winning! I can’t wait to see those pictures. And don’t forget True The Vote is still working on the votes state by state.
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What are we doing there? That’s what I am thinking.
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