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To: longnshort who wrote (1061902)	3/23/2018 9:13:59 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577019

Oh hell, he hires people who disagree with him all the time. He hires on the basis of how they look and sound on the shows. He and Bolton will eventually clash the same way he did with McMaster, Tillerson, Cohn.

To: longnshort who wrote (1061902)	3/23/2018 9:14:34 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577019

Fact check: Trump says spending bill starts work on his border wall. It doesn't.The money earmarked for border security can be used only to repair and build previously approved fencing.act check: nbcnews.com

To: longnshort who wrote (1061902)	3/23/2018 9:16:50 PM
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Stormy Daniels's lawyer posts photo of mystery disc in a safe BY MAX GREENWOOD - 03/23/18 07:32 AM EDT Stormy Daniels's attorney hinted on Thursday that he may have hard evidence that the adult-film actress had an affair with President Trump, posting a photo on Twitter of what appeared to be a compact disc in a safe. "If 'a picture is worth a thousand words,' how many words is this worth?????" Michael Avenatti tweeted. Michael Avenatti@MichaelAvenatti If “a picture is worth a thousand words,” how many words is this worth????? #60minutes #pleasedenyit #basta 9:52 PM - Mar 22, 2018 While not explicitly stated, Avenatti appeared to suggest that the disc may contain photographic or video evidence of Daniels's alleged affair with the president. Avenatti has previously declined comment on whether such evidence exists. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is currently suing to void a nondisclosure agreement that she says blocks her from speaking publicly about the alleged affair with Trump more than a decade ago. She was paid $130,000 by Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, in 2016, just weeks before the presidential election. That payment, she has said, was intended to buy her silence on the alleged affair. Cohen has acknowledged making the payment, but has insisted that it came from his own personal funds. The White House has denied that Trump ever had an affair with Daniels. In court papers filed last week, Trump's attorneys accused Daniels of repeatedly violating the nondisclosure agreement, arguing that doing so exposed to her to paying $20 million in damages. Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model, has also come forward with allegations that she had an affair with Trump years ago. The White House has also denied that affair. thehill.com

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3/23/2018 10:27:13 PM

From: Brumar89

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Trump: I Think Campus Bias Against Conservatives Is Highly Overblown

ALLAHPUNDITPosted at 8:41 pm on March 22, 2018

This was unexpected.

He’s being questioned here by Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, a group founded in part to fight “intolerance and bias against conservatives in higher education,” as The Hill notes. Kirk is in the traditional Hannity role, leading the witness with his questions to come to the conclusion the right-wing audience wants to hear. “It’s harder than ever to espouse support of your presidency” at American colleges, he begins. “What advice do you have for young patriots and conservatives on campus that support your agenda that are being ridiculed and silenced because of administrators that are clamping down on free speech?”

That’s the alley-oop pass and Trump is alone under the basket. All he has to do is catch it and dunk: “Stand strong, young patriots! Don’t fear the liberal fascists who are forever harassing right-wingers on campus with ‘free-speech zones’ and BS ‘security fees’ for lectures by conservative guests and sometimes outright violence to try to intimidate them into staying away. Have the courage of your convictions. They despise you only because they despise the truth.” You know the answer Kirk wants. Even if Trump didn’t want to go the whole nine yards in alleging persecution of campus conservatives, he could have acknowledged the plain fact of ideological bias that keeps academia more or less devoid of right-wingers at the faculty level.

But no:

“I think the numbers are different than people think,” the president responded. “I think we have a lot of support. If they have one campus or two campuses and we know what they are, they get all the publicity.”…

“We have campuses where you have a vast majority of people that are perhaps like many people in the room,” POTUS declared. “You call it conservative, you call it whatever you want, but there are people that want free speech.”

He added, “If you look at what is going on with free speech, the super-left, with Antifa, with all of these characters. They get a lot of publicity. You go to the real campuses and you go all over the country, you go out to the Middle West, go out to the coast in many cases, we have a tremendous support. I’d say we have majority support. It’s highly overblown. Highly overblown.”

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But it sure as heck wasn’t the answer Kirk was looking for. It’s not the sort of answer you’d hear, ever, from a right-winger on Trump’s favorite network, Fox News. So why this unusual moment of grievance-deflation by him?

I think it’s this: Presented with a scenario that would require him to admit that he’s unpopular somewhere, he couldn’t pull the trigger. To accept the premise of Kirk’s question, that there’s a pernicious bias against right-wingers in broader academia, would require him to admit that he’s a highly disliked figure in some important segment of the American population. He just can’t do it. He said elsewhere today that someone told him to add nine points to any poll of his job approval in order to get the “real” number. He’s said before that even the hated media, which treats him so unfairly, will eventually support him if only in their own self-interest, to keep the ratings coming with another Trump term as president. Asked about being a drag on the party in the midterms, he insisted that *he* was popular but that his own success might not be transferable to congressional candidates.

You cannot ask this guy to concede that a meaningful population of Americans dislikes him, even for the very limited purpose of scoring an easy point on the dastardly campus left. For fark’s sake, he still hasn’t accepted that he lost the popular vote, preferring to believe that millions of illegal immigrants cast fraudulent ballots for Hillary. More than a year into his presidency he remains nominally at odds with all of his intelligence chiefs about whether Russia interfered in the 2016 campaign because he can’t stomach being denied any credit for his glorious victory. The people love him, everywhere. That’s that.

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/22/trump-think-campus-bias-conservatives-highly-overblown/