Trump's Team

Kellyanne Conway: "He's a businessman. He is accountable, he delivers, he produces."

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Accountability to one's bankruptcy trustee isn't an accountability to be proud of.

 

As someone who has made hundreds of Bankr Court appearances, I fear it not. I actually even like the Bank Code (although the preceding one was better than the current one). Both versions are vastly superior to the IRS Code.

 

Just the fact that there are bankruptcies to be faced means he is more accountable than HRC.

 

I don't deny that, but the bar is awfully low.

 

I am not a fan of bankruptcy except that it is better than any other approach. Just think of it like the death, or, in some cases, the rehabilitation, of an injured person, since corporations are afforded that status. We could go back to the days of debtors prison and unlimited liability, but that would kill the risk taking in our economy, and our standard of living would be much lower.

 

Banks and investors price their debt and equity assuming a certain amount of bankruptcy risk/default rate. They also wrap their securities with insurance. If investors and banks really feel burned by him, how does he get the capital to build that Trump International in the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Ave or that new golf course in Scotland. It's like the restaurant business.

This isn't Saban giving a kid a scholarship and then cutting him his sophmore year.

 

You guys do know I was making a joke, right? I wasn't commenting on the merits of bankruptcy.

 

Well....I do now!

 

The heads of the Pentagon and the nation’s intelligence community have recommended to President Obama that the director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, be removed.

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The news comes as Rogers is being considered by President-elect Donald Trump to be his nominee for director of national intelligence, replacing Clapper as the official who oversees all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. In a move apparently unprecedented for a military officer, Rogers, without notifying superiors, traveled to New York to meet with Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower. That caused consternation at senior levels of the administration, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...de6ea6-adff-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html

 

^^^^

How long until he is branded a racist? Or sexist.

 

"The Wall"

 

Looks like Trump is considering Sanders backer and former DNC official Tulsi Gabbard for a defense or foreign policy position. Link.

She has a background in foreign policy and military affairs. Oh yeah, and she's hot.

 

Oh yeah

Right person for the job no matter political party?

 

Jungle love in Hawaii.

 

I approve of how quickly you get to the important stuff

 

3-page Forbes piece on son-in-law -- "How Jared Kushner Won Trump The White House"
Gives quite a bit of insight into the campaign
I liked the early part when it was a shoestring operation (example below)
Sort of a David-Goliath tale, where Davis outsmarted the opponent

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenb...shner-won-trump-the-white-house/#aec25752f50f

",,,,, “I called some of my friends from Silicon Valley, some of the best digital marketers in the world, and asked how you scale this stuff,” Kushner says. “They gave me their subcontractors.”

At first Kushner dabbled, engaging in what amounted to a beta test using Trump merchandise. “I called somebody who works for one of the technology companies that I work with, and I had them give me a tutorial on how to use Facebook micro-targeting,” Kushner says. Synched with Trump’s blunt, simple messaging, it worked. The Trump campaign went from selling $8,000 worth of hats and other items a day to $80,000, generating revenue, expanding the number of human billboards–and proving a concept. In another test, Kushner spent $160,000 to promote a series of low-tech policy videos of Trump talking straight into the camera that collectively generated more than 74 million views.,,,,,"

 

I like that he's reaching out to a Sanders supporter, and I think Gabbard is principled and means well. However, her foreign policy is not what I'd want to see. She is significantly more dovish and more liberal on foreign policy than the Obama Administration is. In other words, she's a lot like Sanders.

 

Trump suggested Farage as UK ambassador to the US
Brits were not amused

 

Maybe like Ali's rope a dope?

 

this part cracked me up

"...... This wasn’t a completely raw startup. Kushner’s crew was able to tap into the Republican National Committee’s data machine, and it hired targeting partners like Cambridge Analytica to map voter universes and identify which parts of the Trump platform mattered most: trade, immigration or change. Tools like Deep Root drove the scaled-back TV ad spending by identifying shows popular with specific voter blocks in specific regions–say, NCIS for anti-ObamaCare voters or The Walking Dead for people worried about immigration. Kushner built a custom geo-location tool that plotted the location density of about 20 voter types over a live Google Maps interface......"

 

She supported Rubio
And she also famously tried to stand up to illicit Democrat/Union corruption