US Election & Presidency

So. Impeachment or invoking the 25th amendment? Place your bets!


I'm beginning to suspect that Trump is a Trojan horse chosen to get Mike Pence into a position to take over....

(01-02-2017 16:18 )wackawoo Wrote:  ^ Very interesting, so for all the excuses by the anti Trump who wrote that article, Trumps policey is just an extreme version of an already existing one singling out the same countries.

If anyone was to appreciate the meaning of a ban, I thought it would be you.

(01-02-2017 20:41 )Tumble_Drier Wrote:  {snip}

I'm beginning to suspect that Trump is a Trojan horse chosen to get Mike Pence into a position to take over....

A few people have been saying that, some thinking that Pence will be even worse, as Trump changes his mind all the time, Pence is strict in his beliefs, some of which are old fashioned (to put it politely).

(01-02-2017 19:21 )skully Wrote:  They're not remotely the same, people may not agree with everything Sturgeon says, but she is an intelligent women, Conway is a moron.
An equivalent would be whoever is the most ridiculous spin doctor.

Malcolm Tucker?

Funny twitter account @TrumpDraws

https://twitter.com/TrumpDraws

(01-02-2017 20:55 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  If anyone was to appreciate the meaning of a ban, I thought it would be you.

And I'm still here, policy changes, right will out.

Wasn't this called 'collateral damage' under previous Presidents and not mentioned at all under Obama?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/eig...li=BBoPOOl

Drone strikes are well known for collateral damage, which is why many people oppose them, but ground troops killing civilians is a little different. The fact is though, throwing up a 'what about Obama' doesn't really work in Trumps defence on anything much, as Obama made informed decisions which in some cases ended badly, Trump will stick his signature on anything to try and show they are keeping campaign promises, they are rushing into things without a second thought. Which is why...

''A former official said the operation had been reviewed several times, but the underlying intelligence was not judged strong enough to justify the risks, and the case was left to the incoming Trump administration to make its own judgment.''

This doesn't help.

''On the campaign trail, Trump endorsed killing relatives of terrorist suspects, which is a war crime. “The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” he told Fox News in December 2015.''

I mean of course it wasn't intentional, fire fights in places where civilians are often end in tragedy, but the tone used in the above and other statements cast a shadow. This incident was tragic all around, civilian deaths, military death and injury

Quote:U.S. military officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations.

As a result, three officials said, the attacking SEAL team found itself dropping onto a reinforced al Qaeda base defended by landmines, snipers, and a larger than expected contingent of heavily armed Islamist extremists.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-tru...KKBN15H07K