Replies to post #431308 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

YOU make no sense. Trump hasn't smiled from ear to ear since the first month of his 'special operation' in Ukraine.

[arizona1]

Trump if I recall did not negotiate with terrorists,

trump released 5K taliban fighters. What are you talking about? And then there's this: Are you saying Iran isn't a terror state?

American freed by Iran in prisoner exchange

“Our family is complete once again,” Xiyue Wang's wife, Hua Qu, said in a statement.

Updated: 12/07/2019 02:06 PM EST

An American graduate student detained in Iran for more than three years has been freed after the Trump administration agreed to a prisoner exchange with Tehran.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/07/iran-prisoner-swap-077661

[DesertDrifter]

Trump if I recall did not negotiate with terrorists

No, he did everything but fellate Kim Jong Un, and Un is certainly a terrorist. He loves terrorists, he said so. So your recall sucks as bad as your reasoning.

[sortagreen]

"Trump if I recall did not negotiate with terrorists"

I guess the Doha accords don't count? Releasing 5000 Taliban prisoners? No? Nothing, Cletus?

A February 2020 agreement between the Taliban and the Trump administration called for the release of 5,000 Taliban members who were in Afghan prisons. Afghanistan’s government has said that the 5,000 Taliban prisoners were released. A Congressional Research Service report said the release was completed in September 2020.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2021/09/01/trump-taliban-peace-deal-afghanistan-prisoners/5673035001/

[BOREALIS]

Opinion: Trump’s terrible week sends a message to GOP

Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst
Published 5:28 PM EST, Thu December 8, 2022

CNN - The price of supporting Donald Trump to the Republican Party keeps getting higher.

The former president has gone through one of the most tumultuous weeks possible, with fresh evidence of why the party’s connection to him – and his potential nomination in 2024 – could be extraordinarily damaging.

A Manhattan jury found two of the companies in the Trump Organization guilty of criminal tax fraud and falsifying tax business records on Tuesday, though Trump and his family were not charged in the case

And in Tuesday’s Senate runoff election in Georgia, Trump’s handpicked candidate, former football star Herschel Walker, lost to Sen. Raphael Warnock, giving Democrats a 51-seat majority in the Senate. That was also the day Trump posed for photos with a prominent QAnon conspiracy theorist at Mar-a-Lago.

On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that a team of investigators hired by the former president’s lawyers, under a federal judge’s order, found two documents with classified markings in a Florida storage unit.

Add it all up, the news is not good for those who argue that Trump is still the best option for the GOP’s hopes of recapturing the White House

It is now fair to say that the former president has cost Republicans political power in three election cycles – 2018, 2020 and 2022 – and the heavy baggage of controversy that he carries with him just became much heavier.
And there seems to be no end in sight.
. . .

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/opinions/trump-terrible-week-message-republican-zelizer/index.html

[blackhawks]

Jeff Tiedrich@itsJeffTiedrich

hey dipshits: Donald Trump had two years to bring Paul Whelan home and he didn't do shit and you didn't say shit, so fuck straight off with your performative-nonsense bullshit

[BOREALIS]