117 pages are enough, it's been fun.
Ironic, it seems because
Trump’s base turns on himSteve Bannon’s downgrade is just one of many complaints. ‘We expect him to keep his word, and right now he’s not keeping his word,’ says one campaign supporter.
Donald Trump’s true believers are losing the faith.
As Trump struggles to keep his campaign promises and flirts with political moderation, his most steadfast supporters — from veteran advisers to anti-immigration activists to the volunteers who dropped their jobs to help elect him — are increasingly dismayed by the direction of his presidency.
Their complaints range from Trump’s embrace of an interventionist foreign policy to his less hawkish tone on China to, most recently, his marginalization of his nationalist chief strategist, Steve Bannon. But the crux of their disillusionment, interviews with nearly two dozen Trump loyalists reveal, is a belief that Trump the candidate bears little resemblance to Trump the president. He’s failing, in their view, to deliver on his promise of a transformative “America First” agenda driven by hard-edged populism.
"Donald Trump dropped an emotional anchor. He captured how Americans feel," said Tania Vojvodic, a fervent Trump supporter who founded one of his first campaign volunteer networks. "We expect him to keep his word, and right now he's not keeping his word."
With Trump failing to live up to his word and his tendency to marginalize the very people who supported and voted for him,
Trump Nation is starting to worry about the horse they hitched their wagon to. It's really tough to keep up the support of somebody who so consistently disappoints and fails to live up to expectations. I suspect there will continue to be an erosion to Trump's support and it's starting to look like the mid term elections by be yet another sea change. Something that will be giving the GOP heartburn till the elections :~)
And while Trump & Crew are hoping the whole Russia thing goes away (you remember, the Russians screwed up the election to help Trump) it seems foreign intelligence agencies had been getting Trump campaign people talking with Russians as far back as the end of 2015.
I'm thinking that the "
Dodgy Dossier" as Carter Page refers to it, may end up being less dodgy...lest we forget:
Trump Russia dossier key claim 'verified'. Oh, and that FISA warrant on Carter Page? Uh ho...
FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter PageThe FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.
The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials.
This is the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe during the 2016 presidential campaign that a Trump campaign adviser was in touch with Russian agents. Such contacts are now at the center of an investigation into whether the campaign coordinated with the Russian government to swing the election in Trump’s favor.
That "bombshell" comes on the tail of additional information that Page had met with Russian agents as early as 2013.
Three years before Page became an adviser to the Trump campaign, he came to the attention of FBI counterintelligence agents, who learned that Russian spy suspects had sought to use Page as a source for information.
In that case, one of the Russian suspects, Victor Podobnyy — who was posing as a diplomat and was later charged by federal prosecutors with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government — was captured on tape in 2013 discussing an effort to get information and documents from Page. That discussion was detailed in a federal complaint filed against Podobnyy and two others. The court documents in that spy case only identify Page as “Male 1.’’ Officials familiar with the case said that “Male 1’’ is Page.
Hum...makes sense why Trump left Thurs for a long Mar-a-lago weekend huh?
So...Flynn has dinner with Putin in 2015 and is paid by RT for "speaking" and registers belatedly as an agent of a foreign government after getting fired. Manafort is being investigated by
Ukrainian Prosecutors, and
After Campaign Exit, Manafort Borrowed From Businesses With Trump Ties and is now also belatedly registering as an agent of a foreign government and Carter Page is being investigated by the FBI.
Interesting people Trump surrounds himself with, huh?
#MAGA/MOAB
