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There needs to be some sort of watchdog, a sense of who is keeping track of what the president is saying and just how true those statements are.

There is. And here it is:

http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/?list=speaker

Continually updated with new statements daily and curated with the facts behind the assessment of just what is being said, you can track, with complete confidence, just how truthful POTUS is being when he makes whatever pronouncement he suggests.

Try it! It's fun. Well, not really "fun," but at least it has an feeling that you aren't the only one noticing this.
penpusher: (Trump)
The disaster of this presidency just keeps getting bigger. If you haven't read the so-called Nunes Memo, the Washington Post has you covered.

I wanted to say something cogent, something logical, something meaningful about this moment in history, about how this president is so self-interested he would put the very security of our country at risk to get what he wanted, but that is self-evident. Still, it's difficult to do, under the circumstances.

What this memeo does is two things. It is obviously attempting to undermine the elements of the Mueller Trump/Russia investigation. And with some people, I presume it has done.But the secondary thing this memo does is make whatever findings the investigation reveals questionable, because it attempts to make it appear that there is a "partisan" element to it.

The roiling, stomach-turning, cover-upping, grasp for power, a "my way or no way' at all costs sense about how this government runs is horrific. The question now is, can we get through this in a way that won't damage our government even further?

At this point, I really don't know.

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