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Scandal be damned, Republican base defends besieged Trump
Yahoo! 7 News ^ | May 21, 2017 | Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse

Posted on 05/20/2017 11:23:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Altamahaw (United States) (AFP) - While many see Donald Trump's presidency as a slow-motion car crash, the core voters who elected him are standing by their man, shrugging off the scandals and thrilled he is sticking it to Washington's establishment.

That was a common view at the auto races at Ace Speedway in rural North Carolina, where America's stock car racing tradition was born.

"I think the Democrats are trying to make things hard for him," Robin Hall said as she sat in the grandstands on Friday.

The 53-year-old daycare worker dismissed the chaos cascading into the White House in recent weeks as sour grapes from critics still shocked that Trump's populist revolt thrust him into the top job.

"They've got their so-called panties in a wad right now," she said. "They're not in control."

Exactly four months into his administration, Trump is by most accounts a leader under siege.

Democrats accuse him of obstructing justice by urging FBI director James Comey to halt an investigation into an adviser, then firing Comey -- the very person overseeing an investigation into his team's possible collusion with Russian meddling during last year's election campaign.

Reports have since emerged that the president passed secret intelligence to Russian officials during a recent meeting, and that the FBI has identified a senior White House official as a "significant person of interest" in its probe into Russian interference....

(Excerpt) Read more at au.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Parties; Polls; State and Local
KEYWORDS: benjaminwittes; hillaryclinton; second100days; tamarawittes; trump; wittes
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1 posted on 05/20/2017 11:23:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every bit of “scandal” surrounding President Trump is pure fabrication by the MSM. Why on earth should I stop supporting him over that?


2 posted on 05/20/2017 11:28:50 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
> Democrats accuse him of obstructing justice by urging FBI director James Comey to halt an investigation into an adviser, then firing Comey -- the very person overseeing an investigation into his team's possible collusion with Russian meddling during last year's election campaign.

The source behind the New York Times Comey memo article is the husband of a Clinton advisor. Source Benjamin Wittes is married to Clinton advisor Tamara Wittes. Tamara Wittes was a senior advisor to Secretary of State Clinton and a senior advisor to the Clinton campaign.

He is not a credible source.

3 posted on 05/20/2017 11:29:08 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats accuse him of obstructing justice...

I accuse the Democrats of obstructing the will of the voters.

4 posted on 05/20/2017 11:30:25 PM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Phony Scandal be damned


5 posted on 05/20/2017 11:34:36 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: exDemMom

[Every bit of “scandal” surrounding President Trump is pure fabrication by the MSM.]

That is ABSOLUTELY correct.


6 posted on 05/20/2017 11:49:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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We Deplorables have ALWAYS been quicker to notice a new existential threat from The Deep State, the forces of evil. I think at some point Trump, who just wanted to make the US a better place realized that he had been chosen by some unknown force to lead the fight against the forces of evil. He talked about the swampthings, but has let some of them in his WH and he has been too willing to hope that the sick polluted things can be brought around. He has assumed that people's word means something to them in DC.

Our only chance is if he comes back to a DC where the traitors and their enablers have been brought away in handcuffs. Then, surround himself with 100% loyalists, maybe drop all but a handful of staff. Bring in the likes of Rick Santorum, Sara Palin and Mike Huckabee, maybe even Dan Quayle. Why? The capacity for 100% loyalty.

If President Trump doesn't fight like civilization is on the line, nothing is left.

7 posted on 05/20/2017 11:55:52 PM PDT by grania (only a pawn in their game)
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After scandal after scandal from a lawless democratic party, and their collusion with corrupt federal law enforcement and a lying media for 8 years, Trump has got to do more than jip white house guests out of an Ice cream scoop or put Russian dressing on his salad to loose support from his base... what a bunch of idiots these press people are!
8 posted on 05/20/2017 11:56:56 PM PDT by seastay
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Trump is under siege by the demonic forces on the left, but the only scandals are of their own doing. The only way Democrats can win is if enough people believe their lies.


9 posted on 05/21/2017 12:03:18 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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There is no scandal.

Its insane what is happening.


10 posted on 05/21/2017 12:03:51 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We didn’t vote the way they wanted so they’re making it clear that our vote doesn’t matter.


11 posted on 05/21/2017 12:09:53 AM PDT by JohnyBoy
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My view - even if the 'scandals' were 100% true, as long as President Trump gets to add one to two MORE Conservative Supreme Court Justices, then it is worth it. If that happens, he'll have done more to help Conservatism than the last two Republican presidents, and will have been more than worth it. Even if all the various 'scandals' are true. President Trump just needs to ensure that they are relatively young, and definitely Conservative. He does that, and in my book he has done his job well. Definitely better than a President Hillary would have dons.

When I make comparisons, I compare what what the alternate reality would have been (President Hillary Clinton) rather than why the desired fantasy could have been (a second coming of Ronald Reagan). President Trump will never be President Reagan, but he is definitely better than Hillary would have been (and in my opinion, he will be better than any of the Bushes). To reiterate, if President Trump adds one or two extra Conservatives to the Supreme Court, then he will really have done his job to help Conservatism. He will have added a 'generational airbag' that will be in place even if Democrats gets the presidency for two to four more terms.

12 posted on 05/21/2017 12:21:42 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe we aren’t willing to “burn this bitch down” on account of some “unnamed source.”


13 posted on 05/21/2017 12:26:37 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is quite plain to any honest observer the news media is colluding with the democrats in an all-out assault against Trump.


14 posted on 05/21/2017 12:31:29 AM PDT by No Whey Jose (What's a tagline?)
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as long as President Trump gets to add one to two MORE Conservative Supreme Court Justices, then it is worth it.

You've nailed it. That was the terrifying specter looming over the President Hillary horizon -- the final nail in our nation's coffin -- an unbreakable liberal majority on the Supreme Court ensuring a permanent left-wing tyranny.

Trump has apparently done well with his first pick (these things take time to determine.) A couple conservatives replacing retiring liberal justices would be like manna from Heaven.

15 posted on 05/21/2017 12:42:55 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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I will still support Trump if shown indisputable evidence that every scandal and the dossier are true.

The left is full retard, and I want nothing to do with them.


16 posted on 05/21/2017 1:43:42 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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President Trump has violated no laws. The Left thinks that they can try and convict President through the media knowing that their evidence requires you prove a negative. It is like a kid saying there is a ghost in his closet. When you look in the closet and tell him there is no ghost, he tells you, “Even if you don’t see a ghost, that does not mean there I don’t see a ghost.” This situation is so insane, I think the strategy was derived from actual childish behavior. Psych-ops from the Left.


17 posted on 05/21/2017 1:43:46 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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Small correction:

President Trump has violated no laws. The Left thinks that they can try and convict President through the media knowing that their evidence requires you prove a negative. It is like a kid saying there is a ghost in his closet. When you look in the closet and tell him there is no ghost, he tells you, “Even if you don’t see a ghost, that does not mean that I don’t see a ghost.”

This situation is so insane, I think the strategy was derived from actual childish behavior. Psych-ops from the Left.

18 posted on 05/21/2017 1:47:13 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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I accuse the Democrats of obstructing the will of the voters.

with the help of alot of establishment Republicans...
they are all fighting change because they are afraid of losing their power and that extra hidden $$ stream.

19 posted on 05/21/2017 2:18:10 AM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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[Its insane what is happening.]

Yes, yes it is.

Insanity barged through the door with the election of the fraud Obama. insanity reigned with the “rainbow” White House. Insanity further expanded with making The StoneWall Inn a “national monument”.

Now, as usual, lies are the weapon of the DNC. Just like the previous 8 years (especially).

What the Democrats are afraid of, is that if a Special Prosecutor looked into the REAL Russian connection, they’d find The Clinton Foundation. And if a Special Prosecutor looked into The Clinton Foundation, found all the foreign lobbies, payments, etc. for a Pay-to-Play that Jesse Jackson Jr. could not dream of, Hillary and Bill would be in prison just like Jesse Jackson Jr. did but for far longer.

That is the REAL story the MSM AND the DNC are hiding with their fake “news”.


20 posted on 05/21/2017 2:19:55 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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