obixcel:
Of course they didn't come to play, they did and will continue to do what they are best known for - obstruct and stall the process as much as they can but by and large it's a lost cause. Republicans hold the aces, Na only shovel Democrats carry come
Only few seconds into the opening statement of the chairman, they start acting like petulant children backed up by their hired screaming protesters.

You got this spot on, all those disgraceful protesters were just hired shills who have no clue what they are protesting about, they were just there for the money. You really need to read this article to see how desperate and disgraceful these idiots are;

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/09/04/texas_doctor_i_saw_people_handing_out_cash_to_protesters_in_the_line_for_kavanaugh_hearing.html

stanech:
Did you know:

Mueller Russian witch hunt has cost taxpayers at least
$20 million

What has America gotten for it’s 67 week, $20 million investment?

0 indictments for collusion, hacking, meddling, or obstruction

1 indictment in a 20 year old tax fraud case and a divided country

As usual half truths and outright falsities. Don't you get tired of lying?

God bless President Donald Trump!!!
Americans are very lucky to have such a great man as their president at a time like this

All loser democraps can go to hell!!

LordReed:


As usual half truths and outright falsities. Don't you get tired of lying?

That's their regular trade mark like Legendary Fela sang. Whoever lies down with a dog definitely will come up with fleas. Nov 6 on my mind.

Kophschmerzen:
Y'all go get fear by Bob Woodward. It's an explicit account of the fvckery going on in the white house.

LOL...Another nothing burger, made up sh*t. Last I checked, a book isn't used as an admissible evidence in Court. Comey wrote, Omarosa wrote...oh wait!! Hillary started this! She also wrote

Sen. Lindsey Graham wrecked Democrats over Kavanaugh: ''If you want to pick Judges, Win an election''

obixcel:
Sen. Lindsey Graham wrecked Democrats over Kavanaugh: ''If you want to pick Judges, Win an election''

Hush your mouth. Your life is going down the sewage in Nigeria and you are obsessed about a country that doesn't give a hoot about you. All this years of your foaming in the mouth, you are still unable to get a visa.

itchie:

Another completely B.S book, only deranged liberals will fall for the nonsense so called book. Everybody quoted in that book have come out to deny the rubbish in that book from john Kelly to Mattis to Haley to Sanders they've all called the book a total B.S, just another bunch of lies by deranged liberals. What a shame

...do remember that a well-researched investigative journalist like Bob Woodward will have tapes (7.20 of the tape below) to back up most of the information contained in the book...now for Trump's WH team to call the book as rubbish is absurd...this is one of the journalist respected by Donald Trump...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/04/transcript-phone-call-between-president-trump-journalist-bob-woodward/?utm_term=.115f5ca1e907

...amazing that Donald Trump or any of his WH aides can come out to say they never talk with Bob Woodward or even know him...




The tape of phone between Donald Trump and Bob Woodward
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/can-he-do-that/exclusive-phone-call-between-president-trump-and-bob-woodward/?utm_term=.22e67fd09438

...i think when this book is released on September 11, it will just back up other books which have been written about Donald Trump and his presidency...i expect more high level resignations and dismissals to follow between now and the time of the mid-term elections...

TheShopKeeper:
...i think when this book is released on September 11, it will just back up other books which have been written about Donald Trump and his presidency...i expect more high level resignations and dismissals to follow between now and the time of the mid-term elections...

Shopkeeper, Nov 6 is going to be the beginning of the end of this nightmarish POS that's trying to ruin a beautiful country. Everything Bob Woodward wrote in his book is backed up by tapes and couple of the tapes the Washington Post released was the contradictions between Trampy and Conway. Nothing about Trump amazes me any more because he's not only a pathological liar, he's a sociopath liar who doubles down on his lies when he get called out for his numerous lies.

Lucasbalo:
Shopkeeper, Nov 6 is going to be the beginning of the end of this nightmarish POS that's trying to ruin a beautiful country. Everything Bob Woodward wrote in his book is backed up by tapes and couple of the tapes the Washington Post released was the contradictions between Trampy and Conway. Nothing about Trump amazes me any more because he's not only a pathological liar, he's a sociopath liar who doubles down on his lies when he get called out for his numerous lies.

...here is the link to the tape recording of the phone conversation between Donald Trump and Bob Woodward..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/can-he-do-that/exclusive-phone-call-between-president-trump-and-bob-woodward/?utm_term=.22e67fd09438

TheShopKeeper:



...here is the link to the tape recording of the phone conversation between Donald Trump and Bob Woodward..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/can-he-do-that/exclusive-phone-call-between-president-trump-and-bob-woodward/?utm_term=.22e67fd09438

Good. That's a good one my man. Imagine that everyone dealing with the lying pig has to tape him in case he wants to discredit them. What's gonna happen is that when the Blue wave comes on Nov 6, a lot of jittery republicons are going to be distancing themselves from these raging semi despotic lunatic pretending to be a President.

itchie:

Another completely B.S book, only deranged liberals will fall for the nonsense so called book. Everybody quoted in that book have come out to deny the rubbish in that book from john Kelly to Mattis to Haley to Sanders they've all called the book a total B.S, just another bunch of lies by deranged liberals. What a shame

Idiot Bob Woodward is credible, even your loser Lord even admitted that in the leaked tape.

Kophschmerzen:


Idiot Bob Woodward is credible, even your loser Lord even admitted that in the leaked tape.

Don't mind those worthless okrika wearing scum. They are full of shiiit like the garbage dispensing Klannish buffoon they idolize.

Whoelse have seen the anoynoms white house senior staff op-ed on the times.

...a senior aide within the WH wrote the an article published in the New York Times about Donald Trump...

The New York Times on Wednesday published an anonymous op-ed attributed to a senior Trump administration official who writes that there is a group of officials working within the administration for the express purpose of thwarting what the author said are dangerous tendencies on the part of the president.

“I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations,” the anonymous individual writes. “…We believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.”

The author claims to support the president's policies but not the president's temperament, painting a portrait of an unfocused president with rash tendencies and poor decision-making abilities.

“Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back,” the anonymous official writes.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nyt-op-ed-anonymous-trump-admin-senior-official/story?id=57630582

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/wh-official-pens-anonymous-ny-times-op-ed-calling-trump-anti-democratic-petty-and-ineffective.html

The full essay as published by New York Times:

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.

In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.

Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.

But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.

From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.

Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.

“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.

The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren’t for unsung heroes in and around the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by the media. But in private, they have gone to great lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing, though they are clearly not always successful.

It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.

The result is a two-track presidency.

Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.

Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.

On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.

This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.

Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.

The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.

Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell letter. All Americans should heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of uniting through our shared values and love of this great nation.

We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example — a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr. Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should revere them.

There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans.

TheShopKeeper:
The full essay as published by New York Times:

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.

In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.

Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.

But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.

From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.

Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.

“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.

The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren’t for unsung heroes in and around the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by the media. But in private, they have gone to great lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing, though they are clearly not always successful.

It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.

The result is a two-track presidency.

Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.

Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.

On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.

This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.

Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.

The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.

Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell letter. All Americans should heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of uniting through our shared values and love of this great nation.

We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example — a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr. Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should revere them.

There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans.

What an indictment from a senior WH staff. That's really sad for America to be in this situation. Now the famous pig is foaming in the mouth telling NY Times to reveal the author of the damning article against him. In America, it's country first and that's what Trampy doesn't understand.

I dey laugh o

Lucasbalo:
What an indictment from a senior WH staff. That's really sad for America to be in this situation. Now the famous pig is foaming in the mouth telling NY Times to reveal the author of the damning article against him. In America, it's country first and that's what Trampy doesn't understand.

White house staff that has no name? You liberals are a bunch of liars being led by the nose by other liars. Has it ever occurred to you to ask that if indeed the supposed senior white house staff is disgusted with Trump, then why hasn't he or she resigned?

Lucasbalo:
What an indictment from a senior WH staff. That's really sad for America to be in this situation. Now the famous pig is foaming in the mouth telling NY Times to reveal the author of the damning article against him. In America, it's country first and that's what Trampy doesn't understand.

Now I see the reasons why Jeff sessions refused to resign despite the barrage of insults trump throws at him..He knows whoever trump puts in will be nothing but a puppet for him..Trump is nothing but a dictator..He wants the United States to do the things third world countries like us dare not do to the Judiciary..

He is a Thug,a complete Idiot and a Fool..

TheShopKeeper:
The full essay as published by New York Times:

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.

In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.

Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.

But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.

From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.

Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.

“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.

The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren’t for unsung heroes in and around the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by the media. But in private, they have gone to great lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing, though they are clearly not always successful.

It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.

The result is a two-track presidency.

Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.

Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.

On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.

This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.

Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.

The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.

Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell letter. All Americans should heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of uniting through our shared values and love of this great nation.

We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example — a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr. Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should revere them.

There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans.

Another fairytale bullshit from the junk, fake news, liberal MSM. Trump was right, the fake news media is the enemy of the people, all they do is lie without shame

Oh wouldn't you know it? The crazy lunatic liberals are here whipping themselves into a frenzy over nothing as usual. What a brood of pathetic clowns! a fake news NYT concocted tale with their usually convenient Anonymous or unamed source? pathetic clowns!!
What got me cracking was when their imaginary white house staff said he agrees with Trump's policies but he doesn't agree with his temperament. What a jerk!!! Didn't you elect him to execute right policies? Did you elect him to have the best temperament? You claim you agree his policies are right then why are you whining? These liberals are the dumbest collection of human beings that ever existed on earth, yes, dumber than stone age cavemen

Thunder fire the failing New York Times!!!
Thunder Fire Bob Woodward!!!
Thunder fire all stupid liberals on Nairaland!!!

God Bless President Donald John Trump!!!

happney65:


Now I see the reasons why Jeff sessions refused to resign despite the barrage of insults trump throws at him..He knows whoever trump puts in will be nothing but a puppet for him..Trump is nothing but a dictator..He wants the United States to do the things third world countries like us dare not do to the Judiciary..

He is a Thug,a complete Idiot and a Fool..

What's happening now is cascading effect that the pig is losing his mental ability to govern. The walls are closing in on him and the semi despotic fool can't bear the outrage of Americans who are now seeing him for what he really is. Mark this down my Buddy. After the midterm shellacking coming up on Nov 6, you will see more Republicons coming out boldly like Omarosa, Flake and co openly critiqueing the pig because our country is bigger than any one man or woman especially for a man that is in his early stage of dementia that took the life of his Father and Grandfather. The Rooster is finally coming home to Roost.

happney65:

My man, you are spot on. Leave the KKK water carrier from the mud filled cave to keep wetting their pants in their stinking cave. Trampy is on the way to give the cave pigs their independence. They will wait for eternity.

Anduku:
Thunder fire the failing New York Times!!!
Thunder Fire Bob Woodward!!!
Thunder fire all stupid liberals on Nairaland!!!

God Bless President Donald John Trump!!!

Go cure your hunger first.

itchie:

White house staff that has no name? You liberals are a bunch of liars being led by the nose by other liars. Has it ever occurred to you to ask that if indeed the supposed senior white house staff is disgusted with Trump, then why hasn't he or she resigned?

You and your fellow subhuman species don't count. Your barking do not go beyond nairaland. Nov 6 on my mind .

LoL, it's amazing how after all of these things the only thing Trump supporters can say is fake news? No introspection? No evidence to the contrary? SMH. They have gone insane it seems, utterly insane.

Lucasbalo:
You and your fellow subhuman species don't count. Your barking do not go beyond nairaland. Nov 6 on my mind .

Wonderful!! We are subhuman because we live in Nigeria? What is the difference between you and Adolf Hitler's claim of Aryan superiority? That's the more reason why Americans will vote GOP on November 6. You liberals especially the stupid black ones like you are nothing but racists in black skin. Your best is worse than the worst of Donald Trump

itchie:

Wonderful!! We are subhuman because we live in Nigeria? What is the difference between you and Adolf Hitler's claim of Aryan superiority? That's the more reason why Americans will vote GOP on November 6. You liberals especially the stupid black ones like you are nothing but racists in black skin. Your best is worse than the worst of Donald Trump

At least foools like you and your fellow Nazi worshippers won't have a say about it. The titanic is sinking.