John Miller

So Trump really is more of a Russian agent? I have been hearing a lot of people say that.

Donald Trump "seems to be morphing" into the very politician he "railed against," former primary opponent Jeb Bush said Thursday, digging into Trump's latest pivot on immigration, which political observers have noted most closely resembles the former Florida governor's own position on the issue.

“Well, I can only say that whatever his views are this morning, they might change this afternoon, and they were different than they were last night, and they'll be different tomorrow," the former governor told WABC Radio's Rita Cosby in an interview Thursday.

Bush, whose own campaign hands have expressed similar sentiments, remarked that he could not specifically comment on Trump's views because "they seem to be ever, ever changing, depending on what crowd he's in front of."

"Sounds like a typical politician, by the way, where you get in front of one crowd and say one thing, and then say something else to another crowd that may want to hear a different view," Bush continued. "All the things that Donald Trump railed against, he seems to be morphing into — it’s kind of disturbing.”

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“I don’t know what to believe about a guy who doesn't believe in things. I mean he doesn't ... this is all a game,"

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/jeb-bush-trump-immigration-morphing-227418#ixzz4IQWEA2Ue

What do you know? Trump's campaign CEO is a wife beater. How fitting.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/steve-bannon-domestic-violence-case-police

I disagree with the header. It's not 'Trump's Hot Air Balloon'. It's 'Trump, the Hot Air Balloon'. Either way, it's ripping and that is a good thing. Fun to watch, too.

Trump's Hot Air Balloon is Ripping

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's supporters can pretend otherwise, but deep down they must know the truth: Trump has been playing them for fools all along.

All that bluster about creating a "deportation force" to round up 11 million undocumented immigrants and kick them out of the country? Forget about it. Trump is now "softening" that ridiculous pledge, which he could never have carried out, into a new policy in which "we work with them."

Hmmm. Work with them how?

All we know of the details, so far, is what Trump said Wednesday at a town hall hosted by Sean Hannity of Fox News: "Now, everybody agrees we get the bad ones out. But when I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I've had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and they've said, 'Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who's been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it's so tough, Mr. Trump.' I mean, I have it all the time. It's a very, very hard thing."

Trump talked about how such families will "pay back-taxes, they have to pay taxes," and claimed that "there's no amnesty, as such." If this is indeed Trump's revised policy, he now advocates the same basic approach as the one laid out in the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" reform bill passed three years ago by the Senate -- which immigration hard-liners derided as amnesty.

Attempts by allies to explain the complete reversal have been comic. My favorite came from Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, who said this on CNN: "He hasn't changed his position on immigration, he's changed the words that he is saying."

That absurdist formulation sounds like something from the experimental writings of author Gertrude Stein -- who, come to think of it, gave us the perfect blanket description of the entire Trump campaign: "There is no there there."

There never was any "there" in Trump's wild promises, many of which were not just impractical but impossible. No, he was never going to be able to roust millions of people from their homes. No, he was never going to be able to ban all foreign Muslims from entering the country.

Trump continues to claim that, if elected president, he will build a wall along the entire southern border and get Mexico to pay for it. This, too, would be logistically and politically impossible, but I believe he'll keep saying it until the bitter end. He seems to think he can get away with betraying supporters on the deportation issue by hiding behind his "artistically beautiful" imaginary wall.

I realize that most of Trump's ardent fans do not take kindly to being lectured by the likes of me. But it is with a certain degree of genuine sympathy that I say what has to be said: Your candidate is a flake. A fraud. A bag of air. A con man. A joke.

I understand the frustration that made the Republican base such fertile ground for the Trump phenomenon to flourish. The GOP leadership spent the entire Obama administration making promises it knew it could not keep -- on immigration, the economy, fighting terrorism, repealing Obamacare and so on. This was good short-term politics, especially in the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, but many voters became disillusioned with politics and politicians. Enter Trump, a non-politician with zero scruples, who quickly identified which buttons to push -- and pushed them like crazy.

I also understand that for some voters, Hillary Clinton is basically, as Trump called her, "the devil." There are those who will vote for Trump just to keep his opponent from becoming president.

But no one, at this point, should cling to the illusion that a vote for Trump is a vote for any specific policy on any given issue. Having said all kinds of outrageous things to win the nomination, he is now trying -- clumsily -- to say more moderate things in an attempt not to get crushed in November. I wouldn't take his new, "humane" immigration stance any more seriously than his earlier draconian pronouncements.

In a sense, spokeswoman Pierson was right: Trump doesn't actually have positions. He only has words.

There is anger, bigotry and ignorance behind many of those words. But mostly, where substance ought to be found, there is just arrogance and ego. Trump thinks his supporters are suckers who will line up to buy deportation one day and amnesty the next. Some champion.

Someone disagree with Trump. This is scandalous.

Having a hard time ascertaining what the issue is? It's not a matter of agreement or disagreement. Obviously, Chicago isn't going to be fixed in a week but that's not really the point. The point is that Trump lied once again. I guess Trump's minions don't even notice anymore.

Trump said in an interview Monday that he believed Chicago's violence could be stopped using "tough police tactics," telling Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that he met a "top" Chicago officer who reportedly said he could "stop much of this horror show that’s going on" within a single week.

The reality being that

"No one in the senior command at CPD has ever met with Donald Trump or a member of his campaign."

No way.

You are correct Maves, the pic is from a Trump rally held in Baton Rouge LA last Feb. But hey no need for the truth when it comes to the Donald.

The Donald doesn't do facts or truth or anything of that sort. It's just not his style. His minions have adapted accordingly.

Could you please keep Herr Farage over there please?

We don't really want him back

I have a better idea. We'll send him back and send The Donald along.

Trump might turn red states blue.

Well, at least he seems to be doing something worthwhile. Kudos to The Donald!

Can nobody say that I don't have a first bit of praise for the man. I give credit where credit is due.

Is that related to Hillary Hysteria Syndrome?

You mean Killary Hysteria Syndrome.

Now we know how Donald Trump manages to write so-called bestsellers. He buys up thousands of copies himself.

Still ripping off his supporters.

It's all he knows. It's all he does. It's all he's ever done and it's certainly all he'll ever do.

Hillary is linking The Donald to the alt-right? I think he did that all by himself. He's trying to loosen that linkage right now but America has got his number alright.

The Donald flip-flopped on everyone and everything. He flip-flops all the time. He is always for everything before he is against everything. If you ever find yourself looking for an alternate term for 'empty suit', just use 'Donald J Trump'. Everyone will know exactly what you're talking about.

Sounds like you are coming over from the dark side.

Seems like you need your sound receptors checked.

No blame on the religion of peace ... got it .

Knowing the fate of gays in Saudi Arabia, exposing one is signing a death warrant. That's what Assange did. He's an arsewipe.

Of course all an audit does is certify you are keeping the books correctly according to GAP, General accepted Acounting Practices. It's a great talking point for the Clinton Mafia which means nothing, but the low information voters eat it up.

Kind of like having something notarized. I could sign my name King George and get it notarized

If you must use big acronyms, it's GAAP.

GAP deals in apparel and has no place in this conversation.

No doubt many crooks have accurate accounts.

Just not The Donald, unfortunately, which is why he is hiding his tax returns.

That Saudi man whose death sentence Assange essentially signed is a liberal cockroach? You know him personally, lib?

The Obama administration did the exact same thing because apparently it didn't have any legal way to pay its ransom money to Iran.

More innuendo and still no facts. And just to clear up the "ransom" BS: Iran was or is owed 1.7 billion dollars. There's a judgement to that effect. Paying that money to Iran is not paying a ransom. It is money that already belongs to Iran.

So they flew in the rest of the 1.3 billion in cash also ?

I don't know. I don't even know where the money went. Neither do you. You made a specific claim as to how the money when where but you actually do not know whether you had the means of the destination correct, All you have is just speculation, assumptions and innuendo - the usual.

Yes, Assange is such a considerate guy.

Rumour has it he has a deal with Trump...fellow NAMBLA members and all...just saying...waiting for wiki leaks to show Trump's tax records...lots of people are talking...SAD;)

That's what a lot of people are saying. Believe me.

Directly putting the life of others in great danger for nothing but personal gain - what a #######. Assange is an arsewipe - makes him a Trump a great team.

06:05] “and the only bit of news that is relevant on this, is the fact that we paid cash. Which brings me to my last point.

The reason that we had to give them cash is precisely because we are so strict in maintaining sanctions, and we do not have a banking relationship with Iran, that we couldn’t send them a check; and we could not wire the money.

And it is not at all clear to me why it is that cash, as opposed to a check or a wire transfer has made this into a news story”.

two days later, January 19th 2016, the U.S. Treasury wired Iran 13 individual payments for $99,999,999.99 , each with an independent MICR, totaling $1,299,999,999.87.

The Kenyan lies and the media covers it up ....

Treasury wired the funds to Iran? Where exactly did you get that information? The article certanly doesn't make that claim. It expressively left open how funds were paid to wherever they were paid- Lert us be clear that there's no certainty that these funds actually went to Iran. That's an assumption that is being made - it's certainly plausible but it's an assumption nonetheless. As to the mans of the fund transfer to the final destination, you find this:

It does say, as a general matter, that “Defendant Agency Name is the same as the Responsible Agency Name.” It leaves open the question of whether it was State rather than Treasury that determined by what route and in what form the funds would reach their final destination.