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For a guy who has the best words, he really butchers them.
NEW RULE: If you’re cool with Russia meddling with our election because your candidate won, you don’t get to call yourself a patriot.
Indiana’s Attorney General has been accused of groping women in a bar. He is spending campaign funds to pursue a campaign against these women and to try to show an unfair investigation. Looking mighty guilty.
Kim Jung-Un says me too. I meant “wouldn’t” denuclearize.
The definition of “cringeworthy”: Watching Donald Trump explain that when he said “would” he actually meant “wouldn’t.” Wordsmiths like Trump often get slightly dazed when expressing their incredibly complex thoughts.
Obama haters please note: Obama had a thousand times more spine in his confrontations with Putin than Trump does.
Trump says why would we go to war if Russia attacked Montenegro. This ignorant man doesn’t know anything about NATO. He doesn’t read the morning briefings, or pay attention to his advisors. No wonder he bowed down to Putin.
At first, Trump tried to blame the media for his disastrous behavior in Helsinki. We don’t need the media to tell us what we watched live, from start to finish. Your tweets are fake news, full of lies. Please note—a liar is never believed, even when they try to tell the truth, because of their past history.
Maria Butina was arrested after infiltrating the United States Republican political organizations on behalf of high-ranking Russians, with the help of the NRA. Things are about to get very interesting.
If the left keeps getting outraged this way every week, they’re going to be exhausted by the time the election rolls around.
President Obama was the first black president. President Trump was the first blackmailed president.
Pro-lifers in Ft. Wayne have forced the closing of a Planned Parenthood clinic that provided women’s health services, but not abortions. Anti-abortion groups said that they were delighted anyway.
Trump thinks that NATO is one of his country clubs and all of the allies are late at paying dues. He acts like these countries personally owe him money. He doesn’t seem to understand any aspect of NATO.
My father, my uncles and my grandfather didn’t go to war to defend this country to have this useless leader stomp on our democracy. Our leaders should all be required to have served in the military.
It took more than 24 hours for the president to offer the weakest possible excuse for his unprecedented display of un-American behavior at the press conference with Putin. In other words, it took his staff that long to talk him into making a statement of apology.
Stop writing divisive things on Twitter. Everything comes back to haunt you at some time. It might sound cute and snarky today, but at some time in the near future, you will be judged by that smart comment and it will interfere with your future. Count on it.
Twenty-seven hours, that is the time between Trump’s debacle in Helsinki and his pathetic attempt to walk it back. He has the resources of the entire executive branch and the best they can come up with in 27 hours is “I meant to say Wouldn’t. God help us.
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