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In Iowa, Trump Voters Are Unfazed by Controversies
New York Times ^ | January 12, 2017 | TRIP GABRIEL

Posted on 01/12/2017 3:50:17 PM PST by iowamark

MONTICELLO, Iowa — The Table of Knowledge was delving into President-elect Donald J. Trump’s plans to upend government, and marveling at how he had forced his fellow Republicans in the House to reverse themselves on gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics.

“He’s getting responses; things are happening,” Jerry Retzlaff, a retiree, said. “He got Congress to turn themselves around with one tweet.”

“There’s no secret the press doesn’t like him, and neither does a lot of the leadership,” he added. “And that’s because he’s planning on making a lot of changes.”

The eight men around a rectangular table, sipping coffee from a hodgepodge of mugs donated by customers, meet daily for breakfasts of French toast, eggs and bacon at Darrell’s diner, all while solving the world’s problems, hence their gathering’s nickname.

Washington may be veering from one Trump pre-inaugural controversy to another: unproved reports of Russia’s holding embarrassing information against him, possible ethical conflicts, the donors and billionaires of his cabinet, his pushback against intelligence findings on Russian hacking in the election. But there does not seem to be much angst in Iowa among those who voted for Mr. Trump, including some Democrats and independents.

(Excerpt) Read more at nyti.ms ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: fakenews; flyovercountry; ia2016; insidergames; middleamerica; trump; trumptransition; washington
NY Times sneers at ignorant white people.
1 posted on 01/12/2017 3:50:17 PM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark

So goes Iowa, so goes most of the nation.


2 posted on 01/12/2017 3:51:33 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: iowamark

I could not care less about what the liars are accusing Trump of doing. I would not care if it were true. I would not care if he personally got up the bed a p*ssed all over it. I voted for Trump for a lot of reason, none of which are where or how he urinates or who has urinate where. as long as he gets this nation straighten out.

I am starting to really dislike liberals


3 posted on 01/12/2017 3:55:03 PM PST by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men (people) to come to the aid of their country. NOW!!!)
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To: iowamark

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>> “Unfazed by Controversies By” <<

Translation ???????
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4 posted on 01/12/2017 3:56:05 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: iowamark

Proving that Darrell’s diner has more intelligence than the entire “intelligence community”.


5 posted on 01/12/2017 4:20:21 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: iowamark

Most real Americans don’t care what the MSM thinks, are thrilled that bureaucrats are crapping themselves, and will not allow the Progressive cretins to steal the victory.


6 posted on 01/12/2017 4:21:24 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Dan Rather, a 60 Minutes Investigative Reporter for CBS, invented "Fake News"-fake but accurate.)
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To: iowamark; 2ndDivisionVet

Washington may be veering from one Trump pre-inaugural controversy to another: unproved reports of Russia’s holding embarrassing information against him!

The NY Slimes deserves the following:

Only hookers in this story are the cheap, lazy journalists who ran with fake Trump sleaze!

The London Daily Mail ^ | January 11, 2017 | Piers Morgan
Posted on 1/12/2017, 3:56:12 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

It’s bulls**t.

President-elect Donald Trump didn’t pay prostitutes to urinate on his bed in the presidential suite at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow, three years ago.

Neither did Trump do this to deliberately defile a bed that had been used by Barack and Michelle Obama.

And nor did Vladimir Putin secretly videotape the whole thing to use as blackmail against Trump at a later date.

It’s all complete baloney....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


7 posted on 01/12/2017 4:25:44 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The deadliest Islamic terror cell America has ever faced is leaving office, 20 Jan 2017!)
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To: iowamark

Middle America doesn’t give a chit for insider Beltway games.

People know Washington’s priorities are the opposite of theirs.

I couldn’t be bothered by Fake News.


8 posted on 01/12/2017 4:27:49 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: editor-surveyor

Translation: anyone who supports Trump is an ignorant racist homophobic dolt.


9 posted on 01/12/2017 4:29:57 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: bigbob

IA voted in a landslide for Trump.

So that’s what the sophisticated think of cornhuskers.

No one gives a damn what they think.

Processing...


10 posted on 01/12/2017 4:32:22 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: iowamark
As a friend of mine told some Dems in his small-town Iowa diner before the election, "You are all really Republicans, but you couldn't figure it out until now." Obama got them to figure it out. Barack F-ing Obama. Take a bow, Barack.

Now just pack your bags and get out.

11 posted on 01/12/2017 4:42:03 PM PST by niteowl77 (Don't need no Bushes. Don't need no Clintons. Don't need no fooling around.)
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To: iowamark

This is what is driving them crazy. The whole DC/NY/LA/SF media freakout is just one big tempest in a teapot to the folks out there in flyover country who delivered the election to Trump. They’re not paying attention to it.


12 posted on 01/12/2017 4:59:18 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

The MSM ratings and readership go lower and lower and they seem to have no idea how many people just don’t watch the news or read papers because the news is not the news any more. Now we have talking head personalities that push an agenda. People are just fed up with their games.

They seem to not have a clue that people are far more concerned about the economy and security of this country than we are concerned about tabloid rumors.


13 posted on 01/12/2017 5:12:02 PM PST by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: iowamark

Iowa is back home as a solid red state now. Good news.


14 posted on 01/12/2017 5:59:48 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: Hugin

;-). proud to be an Iowan!


15 posted on 01/12/2017 6:29:45 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: LongWayHome

Not quite solid red. There’s a Johnson County sized hole in it keeping me from having a decent Cogressman.


16 posted on 02/07/2017 4:12:52 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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