US Election & Presidency

^ It certainly seems to be very dysfunctional at present and the number of leaks seems to back that up.

The fact that a friend of Trumps was on tv yesterday saying he had spoken with Trump in the last few days and then going on to criticise Preibus his Chief of Staff for "being in over his head' smacks of poor leadership by Trump.

I also see that the US press are counting down the days until Flynn either resigns or is sacked for his contact with the Russian Ambassador before Trumps inauguration on the day Obama announced new sanctions against Russia for interfering in the election. Flynn at first denied talking about sanctions and said he'd only had one conversation that day. Unfortunately the US security services monitor those calls and have the transcripts! Seems under US law he's probably committed a crime. Lying about it to Pence is also a problem.

^So much for all the talk of a new way to do politics.

Found it, it was a Gizmodo article, referencing a New York Times piece, so I guess it has some legitimacy :

https://gizmodo.com/report-national-secu...1792283346

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/us/po....html?_r=2

^ Oh it's definitely a new was to do politics - its just that its incompetent.

Just been reading that he did his security briefing on Saturday night about the North Korean missile test in the public restaurant of his golf club in Florida with Bannon and others using their phone torches to illuminate the briefing papers he'd been given!

I'm now thinking if he had pulled out of the race at the first opportunity that he had the presidency wouldn't be in this mess it is in right now with him at the helm

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38965557

now that Flynn has quit I'm wondering how much longer we have to wait for a really key and possibly damaging resignation and one that could possibly make his presidency one of the shortest on record

Trump has been giving himself credit for the deals struck with Ford in the last weeks of Obama's presidency in time it will come to light he had nothing to do with it or he acted illegal.

''If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.'' W. C. Fields.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2...ing-214775

And there's DEFFO a lot of that coming out of the white house atm!!