I have friends that support/ed Trump, they are good enough friends that we can mess with each other about opposing views and still remain friends. I recently started asking them to set aside the FOX news rhetorical positions and tell me what they really think. My query is about setting aside collusion, it's pretty clear that even if Russia was involved in tampering with the election the right says so what, it didn't affect the election so who cares?

So, let's say Trump has dirty hands on selling his condos as a means of money laundering. Let's say the evidence clearly points to any combination of tax fraud (I know, how can you prove he intended to file fraudulent claims?), he could have made a mistake. How was he supposed to know that the reason condos were being purchased at inflated prices and sold at losses?

So the question is, and be honest not rhetorically RW obtuse, Admit that you have to know that Trump played loose with Russians and money laundering. That said you don't care, you are damn glad Hillary wasn't elected because she was far worse. So if you can admit that common sense will tell you that Trump played loose with the law and knew he was working with Russians to launder money on a large scale, this honest admission leads us to other realities...

If he was guilty of money laundering, and Mueller has documents and evidence proving it, he deserves to go to jail. Nobody including the president can be allowed to get away with breaking the law.

Another big denial right now is whether Trump and his family members tried to make loans happen that might not have had Trump not been president. The right is giving Trump a free pass on deals, either loans, purchases of property at inflated rates, deals and permits on hotels, etc.

The question being, do you really think it is okay for Trump or family to use positions of government power to make countries feel like they should approve hotels and even provide the funding for them, is that okay? Answer that honestly and then look at whether that has been happening or not.

So far the right responds to anything and everything with the automatic answer that this is all fake news made up by the left. Well, when the evidence is there, those involved with Trump start pleading guilty to their own charges of money laundering and long term involvements with Russia and Russian money, do you have the ability to see that when those around a person are involved it is very likely that the others in the circle are doing the same things.

The stage has been set very arduously to discount everything Mueller comes up with. You need to keep in mind that Trump was being investigated by the FBI long before he decided to run for election. Yes, we had an idea, and apparently the right didn't pay attention. If evidence is proven to show that Trump did anything that he can be charged with, he does not get a retroactive free pass for crimes.

More to the point, if he is impeached based on clear evidence, the right has no business objecting and trying to keep a criminal in office. Trump ran on the idea of cleaning the swamp, and any criminal needs to be removed including Trump. His lesser crimes than what Hillary did are no better.

Putin promises to follow suite...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/13/trump-floats-the-idea-of-creating-a-space-force-to-fight-wars-in-space.html

Trump introduces idea of 'Space Force' Trump introduces idea of 'Space Force'
6:33 PM ET Tue, 13 March 2018 | 01:44
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his new national security strategy recognizes that space is a theater of war, and he floated the idea of creating a Space Force, a branch of the military that would operate outside of earth's atmosphere.

"Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea," Trump told a an audience of service members at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. "We may even have a Space Force, develop another one, Space Force. We have the Air Force, we'll have the Space Force."

The president described how he'd originally coined the term as a joke, while discussing U.S. government spending and private investment in space. "I said, 'maybe we need a new force, we'll call it the Space Force,' and I was not really serious. Then I said, 'what a great idea,' maybe we'll have to do that," Trump told the crowd of Marines.

"So think of that, Space Force," Trump continued, "because we are spending a lot and we have a lot of private money coming in, tremendous. You saw what happened the other day, and tremendous success. From the very beginning, many of our astronauts have been soldiers and air men, coast guard men and marines. And our service members will be vital to ensuring America continues to lead the way into the stars."

It was unclear whether the president was still joking by the time he finished his off script remarks about a Space Force. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

But Trump is not the only political leader in Washington who is mulling the idea of a Space Force. In June of 2017, a contingent of House lawmakers proposed dividing the Air Force into two separate branches, one dedicated to aviation and a second, new branch dedicated to space ventures.

Language to create a new military branch called the Space Corps did not make it into the final national defense authorization bill in November, but there were several new directives included in the legislation that could facilitate the Space Corps plan in the future.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., the biggest backer in Congress of a military space branch, said these directives represent progress. "This is just the first step," he said in a statement at the time. "We will not allow the United States national security space enterprise to continue to drift toward a space Pearl Harbor."

--52kH.,b26--— March 9, 2018
The Trump administration is promising to release the documents pertaining to that scandal that were withheld by former Attorney General, Eric Holder.
We may finally get some answers to the high-level Obama administration’s gun-running scandal dubbed “Fast and Furious.” The Trump administration is promising to release the documents pertaining to that scandal that were withheld by former Attorney General, Eric Holder.
Operation Fast and Furious was the Obama-era operation in coordination with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in which the federal government allowed criminals to buy guns in Phoenix-area shops with the intention of tracking them as they were transported into Mexico. But the agency lost track of more than 1,400 of the 2,000 guns they allowed smugglers to buy.
“For over six years, the House Oversight Committee has fought for additional documents related to Operation Fast and Furious. Today, the Committee finally reached a conditional settlement with the Department of Justice,” Amanda Gonzalez, spokeswoman for the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement to Fox News. “The Committee seeks all relevant facts so we can learn from the mistakes made by the Justice Department. We have a responsibility to uncover why they worked so hard to hide this information from the Committee, the family of [slain border patrol agent] Brian Terry, and the American people.”
Brian Terry was killed in 2010 by an illegal immigrant with a weapon used in the botched Operation Fast and Furious. Terry died in a gunfight between Border Patrol agents and members of a six-man cartel “rip crew,” which patrolled the desert along the U.S.-Mexico border looking for drug dealers to rob. The cartel member suspected of killing Terry was apprehended in 2017.
Terry’s brother, Kent Terry also wants the scandal investigated.
“We need to find out the truth, exactly what happened, how it happened, why it happened,” Kent Terry said on Fox & Friends Tuesday. “We need Mr. Trump, President Trump, to unseal the documents, reverse executive privilege so that we know what happened, and that we can hold the people accountable that are responsible.”
According to Fox News, the Justice Department entered into a conditional settlement agreement with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The settlement agreement was filed in federal court in Washington D.C. and ends six years of litigation arising out of the previous administration’s refusal to produce records requested by the committee.
“The Department of Justice under my watch is committed to transparency and the rule of law,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement Wednesday. “This settlement agreement is an important step to make sure that the public finally receives all the facts related to Operation Fast and Furious.”
SOURCE- u.s. news--Mac Slavo-TERRY, KENT