You don't get to decide which issue is far MORE important.

Obama via spokesman

How Russia sold its oil jewel: without saying who bought it
it won't leak because only top Russians know

And that's being very generous with the numbers used to compare.

How in the hell is it possible the press did not slam Spicer on his defense of Trumps statement that if they had announced the ban earlier people would have rushed into the country???

There is pretty much a 0% chance that a refugee gets through the screening process that quickly as all reports are it takes 12-24 months?

What in the world

Am fairly confident that a deal of this size needs some other people to be in the loop to move all the resources and shares around. Or at least enough in the loop that they know 99% what happened but don't have the "100% smoking gun".

everyone in this thread knows. The smoking gun is the problem.

LOL right. Hank says "Despite the Soros funded protests"

Wookie - "you have to show that the majority of the protests are funded by Soros"

Worse case he really just needs to show that Soros provided funding for more then 1 protest.

super cool article

The purpose of Russia's privatization program is to attract overseas money to cover a budgetary shortfall caused by low oil prices and Western sanctions. Putin has therefore banned Russian state-owned banks from participating in the financing of privatization deals, which would defeat the aim of bringing in foreign capital.

But public records in Singapore show that Russia's second-largest bank, state-controlled VTB, loaned the Singapore vehicle QHG Shares the full 10.2 billion euros that it paid to the Russian state last month to buy the stake.

well that was easy

This, plus the endgame of:

Large peaceful protest -> Trump lackeys called to arms by either him on Twitter or his surrogates -> Trump lackeys inciting violence on protesters -> Widespread condemnation of violence after protesters post pics of themselves bloodied/beaten on social media -> Continued outrage/possible work strikes/business interruption and instability fueled by attitude of "**** this, gloves are off" among protesters et al -> Loss of key R support and all that comes with it -> Prezzy Pence

is one of the easiest ways everyone gets out of this alive. Maybe Trump would be dumb enough to try it. He probably is. But it's a losing move.

Obviously I cannot prove that a majority of the protests are funded by Soros. Since you took this as my meaning, I withdraw the comment. I intended no anti-Semitism.

you cant even prove 1 protest is "funded by" soros, gtfo here

like how the **** would he do that anyway? he gonna cover people's travel expenses? hotel rooms? incidentals?

you're full of ****, you ****ing ****poster

Four years is a long time. Even if the fantasy of the President being impeached happens, Pence will like the guy who is appointed too. Sooner or later the Dems are going to want something in the Senate and a deal will be made where they agree to confirm in exchange for it.

Either he eats a ban, or makes a game saving post. Good luck finding proof of Soros conspiracy theories. This way no one can say Hank wasn't given time to set things right (someone could argue he doesn't deserve an opportunity to admit deviousness/wrongdoing), but I think this way is more thorough, and funnier. The potential troll has to take the stand, or be banned.

but you do believe a lot of these protestors are paid actors

this depends. Sure, in a normal deal like this lots of people would know because it would be talked about and more efficient to pull more people in, but I'm confident that the money could be moved and the ownership transferred into shell companies with no more than a half dozen people having access if the primary concern was secrecy and not efficiency or timing. If the money is clean and the transaction legal it also doesn't matter if someone's assistant sees some paperwork or emails or fields a phone call. How many people were actually involved just depends on:

1. how many people they trust
2. how much of a priority speed was
3. how secretive they needed to be

Its not really harder from an operational standpoint to put $10B of shares into an account than it is $10MM.

The thing is that worked in the civil rights era with the Selma march and other events I might not be aware of. In today's media there would just be enough different takes on who instigated what and who committed what atrocities to confuse everybode and make it far more difficult to get the majority of Americans and especially Republicans to agree that Trump et. al. are to blame.

do you realize how deep in delusions you have to be to believe that massive protests around the country with millions of people are funded by one guy?

There are frickin protests in EUROPE over Trump for chrissakes

You better start trying to cite at least a few Soros led Trump protests.

At which point the Rs will renege on whatever they were offering, having gotten what they wanted, playing the Ds for fools yet again.

I can't even conceive of what could be offered to that would be sufficient to confirm anyone Trump could bring forward, in any event.

Paid actors thing is 1) hilarious 2) a much better example of "WHY TRUMP WON!%%!@!" then liberals sipping lattes or whatever.

These guys will believe literally anything told to them by their masters. Trump won bc old people are addicted to fear, Fox News, and being exploited. Sad!

Oh sure, Soros pays for the whole thing for just anybody who wants to show up, and the really amazing part is he somehow vets these people and makes sure none of them go to the press with proof that they're paid protesters.

I'm sure plenty of Trump supporters have been trying to get on the payroll to blow this thing wide open but ol' Georgey boy's too clever for them.

Yes, you did you blithering coward.
On Friday there was spontaneous protests in over 60 cities in the USA alone. Your president is deeply unpopular. His issues are deeply unpopular. Just like with those who opposed civil rights, you are on the wrong side of history. The only problem is we're 50 years past that and you still are against civil rights.
Every major Canadian and most European cities have had anti trump protests in the last two weeks. Amazing job by Soros.

Disagree. Consider the starting circumstances - everyone thinks the left is a bunch of hippies and pussies and wants to see Trumps people as tough guys. So even if the media tried to spin it, people would see through an old man biker gang showing up and beating on a bunch of yuppies. Not gonna be too hard to see who started it there. And again, you can't expect people to give up everything for DJT.

My uncle is a retired cop, 25 years on the force, proudly voted DJT, texted me teasing me for going to the women's march and asking me if I burned my bra. He thinks I am a "left wing nut job." But if I get my ass beat by some thug while peacefully protesting, he is going to pause. People have things they care about beyond politics, which most honestly see as just a game. Once violence is introduced it becomes a different story and would likely be a reality check for many.

It is wrong and unjust, but like Fly said, you can't come for the middle class white kids in USA. Kind of like how Trump's worst moment during the campaign was when he was perceived to have wronged white women, despite having already acted atrociously towards other demographics. The second the narrative goes from "look at all these pussies complaining about immigrants, don't they care about 'Murica?" to "holy ****, a white kid got killed for protesting the president" it's game, set, match politically.