Controversies pile up for White House, alarming GOP

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 02/21/18 06:00 AM EST

President Trump’s White House is consumed by controversies on several fronts, putting the administration on the defensive at a time when Republicans are increasingly worried about their electoral prospects.

Republicans would be content to spend every day between now and Election Day focused on the GOP’s tax-cut bill and the economy. But those efforts are complicated by the sheer volume of controversies the White House is juggling.

“Every day they are working on another crisis is another day lost for pushing their agenda,” said one former White House adviser. “At the same time, they’ve been doing this since day one, so it’s not too unusual that they are engulfed in another crisis.”

The growing list of controversies dogging the White House touch on everything from the Russia investigation to allegations that Trump has not been faithful to his wife.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/374780-controversies-pile-up-for-white-house-alarming-gop

[Dave Starsky]

1. "Controversy" implies two different, though valid, opinions.

These people are just plain fuck-ups by any objective measure. There's no "controversy" about that.

[riversedge]

2. Agree, the word waters down what is going on-all the Corruption including with Trumps Cabinet

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. This thing is so watered down I can't even taste it.

I have to check the date on some of the articles on the GOP opinion about their scandalous White House. This could, and should, have been written this time last year.

Twilight Zone

[csziggy]

17. The GOP is only worried because it is an election year

Otherwise, they would just shrug and ignore all the corruption - like they usually do.

[ananda]

4. *Truth*

GOP is just fucked up beyond all recognition.

Let the young people take over. They seem
to be the adults in all this mess !!!

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. We should be so lucky.

Greed and graft are destroying this country.

[lagomorph777]

20. "Controversy" ... or "Scandal"?

Most of the WH crap is more like "Scandal" than "Controversy"

[Iliyah]

3. Alarming GOP?

Is this a joke.

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[riversedge]

16. Sad to say--I really do not know what it will take for GOP Congress to wake up!!

[lagomorph777]

21. They will wake up the day after the election. And they will be sad.

Very sad.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "The growing list of controversies"

He had a HUGE list of "controversies" before he ran for office, as he was running for office, and after he was elected. It's not like any of this is "new".

[NewJeffCT]

8. I was just about to say similar

he's had a huge list of controversies dating back to the end of 2015. Nothing has changed.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. His list of "controversy" and illegalities go back 45+ years

Looking Back
1973 | Meet Donald Trump
By David W. Dunlap July 30, 2015 2:20 pm

Some Americans are just getting to know Donald Trump. Readers of The Times have known him for 42 years.



They first met him, on the front page no less, on Oct. 16, 1973. Then 27 years old, Mr. Trump was the president of the Trump Management Corporation, at 600 Avenue Z in Brooklyn, which owned more than 14,000 apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

“Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City,” the headline stated. The Department of Justice had brought suit in federal court in Brooklyn against Mr. Trump and his father, Fred C. Trump, charging them with violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968 in the operation of 39 buildings.

“The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color,’ ” The Times reported. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.”

https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2015/07/30/1973-meet-donald-trump/?_r=0

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html


https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plagued-by-decades-old-housing-discrimination-case

[BigmanPigman]

18. I like how the article is next to one about Agnew resigning to belp Nixon

Last edited Wed Feb 21, 2018, 02:02 PM - Edit history (1)

by restoring trust in the country. I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Heh

And people forget about Agnew and what forced him to resign! Nowadays, they idjits refuse to leave.

[dalton99a]

10. Exactly.

[TeapotInATempest]

11. Well, luckily for them there's a remedy built right into the Constitution.

Impeach him, you bunch of cowards.

[Nitram]

12. The WH welcomed the Parkland shooting because it distracted attention from their scandals.

Now they are in a lose-lose situation because backing even watered-down gun regulations will depress the wingnut vote, while gaining no undecided votes.

[SonofDonald]

26. I'm so disgusted by the entire puke response

To the killings in Florida, banning bump stocks doesn't stop the weapon from being used, it comes with a stock.

And that video making the rounds of an Ar-15 owner cutting the barrel off his weapon?.

Buy a new barrel, remove and replace, ready to fire, cutting the barrel off did not hurt the weapon in any way.

If he cut through the reciever where the main mechanicals are it would have destroyed the weapon, but he didn't.

[getagrip_already]

13. Has anyone been keep a list?

That would be impressive!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

27. needs a scandal book

It would likely resemble the old phone books.
And that's if you only listed headlines. Add summaries and it would need multiple volumes.

[turbinetree]

15. The GOP and the sexual predators white house controversies piling up

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/pile-of-shit?sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=pile%20of%20shit



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[SWBTATTReg]

19. Alarming just the gop?

I think a lot more than the gop is alarmed w/ this idiotic person who proven beyond all doubt of his inability to govern.

I pray as well as concentrate with all of my meager mental abilities that tRUMP and his ilk will be zapped to the planet called 'Constitution', where they will be subject to 24 hour broadcasts of the Preamble to the US Constitution, as well as the Bill of Rights and Amendments to the Constitution. Nonstop.

For that matter, perhaps all the gop needs to go there too?

One day soon, this will be simply remembered as a bad nightmare!

[lagomorph777]

22. I hope they do spend every day until the election promoting their Tax Scam.

They should keep reminding voters to look at their paystubs and see the ripoff.

[sinkingfeeling]

23. Well, this is certainly heart breaking.....not.

[Paladin]

24. You and the Russians made your bed, GOP.

Continue getting fucked in it.