Sometimes it's just too easy. Same is true about all your precious mainstream bullshit harryarsehat
I can't wait to read the tweets....Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 4m4 minutes agoMore
I’ve had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced that I would be running for President. Now I have to put up with a Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author. Ronald Reagan had the same problem and handled it well. So will I!
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Afterwards, trump twittered....
Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 25m25 minutes agoMore
Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!
Trump's response...
Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 28m28 minutes agoMore
Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!
Been rather amused at all the Trump supporters on social media dissing Wolfe. Seems he got quite connected to what was going on in the White House during his year of wandering around there.
awesome revelations, not that we didn't know already
after tapper ended the interview, miller had to removed from the set by security.
Stephen Miller escorted off CNN after interview with Jake Tapper - Business Insider
everyone in that administration is loathsome to a certain degree, but this guy is top-tier.
The OBOMBA DRONE RANGER was a pretty loathsome piece of shit as well. Murdering civilians left right and center seemingly just for kicks!
Naw, it's the spineless sycophants directed to go out and spread the word...Miller obviously drew the short straw and was told to go to CNN to reaffirm his loyalty.
One thing that will be remembered about Miller is how he shamelessly abandoned his moral integrity to support trump.
"I was a good student. I comprehend very well, OK, better than I think almost anybody," - President Trump comparing his legal knowledge to a Federal judge.
Did he grab your pussy?
Dead me - I wish Hillary had won. Imagine it. Less crying from the flag wavers. We'd have been at war in Iran already so no bothering about that. Slick Willy would be back on the LURVE island with his little girls, Trump would be creaming it is anyway, and Snubb would remember that she is evil where as now he thinks she is ok.
2020 Trump v Oprah, WTF has happened to America? I love it.
Were I running a modestly sized whelk stall, let alone the White House, the very last person I would allow behind the scenes to observe and report on its secrets would be Michael Wolff.
Please understand: the author of Fire and Fury, the book that has rocked Donald Trump’s presidency, is a brilliant journalist. Having commissioned and edited his work in the past, I can vouch for his terrier-like pursuit of the truth and his diffident charm when handling his subjects.
That’s precisely why no remotely competent adviser would have given Wolff a backstage pass to the working life of a president who knew nothing about politics or policy, had expected (even wanted) to lose, and had no intention of reining in his blowhard, bullying persona. It says so much about the amateurism of the team around Trump that Wolff was allowed to be, in his own words, a “constant interloper”. The very existence of this book by this author tells a story in itself. It is a case of form perfectly matching content.
Of course, we are all beneficiaries of this spectacular failure to exercise due diligence. Do not be distracted by those who are scouring the book for minor errors. The big story is what matters, and Wolff has nailed it.
For a start, he has scotched once and for all the nonsensical claim that we should take Trump seriously but not literally. The figure described in Wolff’s pages is indeed an arch fantasist, but also capable of more or less anything. He cannot comprehend that firing the FBI director James Comey will compound his problems (“He doesn’t necessarily see what’s coming,” was the laconic reaction of Steve Bannon, formerly his strategy director, now his mortal enemy). Trump talks often of sacking Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating his connections with Russia.
The president’s staff struggle in vain to keep him from making wild threats against North Korea. On his Marine One helicopter, he tries to rationalise membership of the Ku Klux Klan. He is literal-minded in the manner of a toddler – with the difference that, as he warned Kim Jong-un in a tweet last week, he has a nuclear button.
The milieu described by Wolff more closely resembles the court of a crazed medieval monarch than a traditional West Wing. Access is all, faction is all, expertise is eclipsed by animus. Bannon, Reince Priebus (until last July his notional chief of staff), his son-in-law Jared Kushner, his daughter Ivanka, and others, vie with scant dignity for the role of gatekeeper and high chamberlain. Bannon calls Ivanka “a fucking liar” in front of her father – who only remarks: “I told you this is a tough town, baby.”
At times, Trump roars in the manner of the world’s stupidest King Lear, as Ivanka stumbles behind him, a clueless Cordelia. Bannon makes a fine Iago, alongside a rep company of useless aides rotating as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
The trouble is that the metaphor is not really a metaphor. Essentially, Trump has annexed the presidency to the world of show business, the starring role of a performance career that has stretched from the WWE ring via numerous film cameos to the Oval Office. He perceives the public as an audience consuming entertainment rather than a civically engaged electorate.
Not surprisingly, the book has turbo-charged the allegation that the president is experiencing psychiatric problems, or is suffering from a neurological disorder.
This is sensitive terrain: there are few qualified clinicians in the political and media class, and none who have examined Trump professionally. Yet the president himself has made his psychiatric condition an issue by insisting – again, via Twitter – upon his “mental stability” and claiming to be “like, really smart” (a verbal formula that undermines the very point it is trying to make). It is fair to assume that a person who feels the need to claim he is “a very stable genius” is no such thing.
One is reminded of the (possibly apocryphal) story about an early campaign by Lyndon Johnson, who instructed his team to allege his opponent had a taste for bestiality. “We can’t get away with calling him a pig-fucker,” said his campaign manager. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.” To which Johnson replied: “I know. But let’s make the son of a bitch deny it.” By denying he is mad, Trump has given the claim the widest possible circulation.
Wolff has performed a significant democratic service by quashing definitively the always-ridiculous notion that Trump would be “normalised” by office.
But alas, I do not share the author’s confidence, expressed on the BBC’s Today programme, that “we will end this presidency now”. To remove a president from office, the House of Representatives must vote to send the case to the Senate – where the US constitution requires “the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present” for a conviction. The alternative route is the 25th amendment, which allows vice-president Michael Pence and the other 15 cabinet members to declare Trump “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”.
The constitutional means are there. But is the political will or the arithmetic? True, the 2018 mid-terms may change the balance of power in Congress. Bannon could be right that the Russia scandal is all about money laundering and will provide Mueller with a “path to fucking Trump”.
But, for now, there is little evidence of a taste for impeachment, or a readiness to put the interests of the republic first.
It is even less likely, at least at this stage, that Trump’s executive appointees, led by Pence, will depose him. The 25th amendment is only half a century old, and has never been invoked against the wishes of the incumbent president. Does anyone seriously believe that Trump, declared psychiatrically or neurologically incapacitated by his own cabinet, would shuffle meekly from office? Such a threat would trigger all his most brutal attributes: his belief that the establishment is against him and his proven ability to mobilise great swaths of the American electorate in a common hatred of Washington. Now, that really would be fire and fury.
Which leads to the most alarming contemplation of all: that, far from decaying into seething obsolescence, this president may just be getting started; and that Wolff’s book, for all the mania it reveals, might only describe the first, appalling stage of a journey into the wasteland.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ael-wolff-book
“If we stop testing right now we’d have very few cases, if any.” Donald J Trump.
Tom Barrack, a 30-year Trump buddy, allegedly observed: “He’s not only crazy … he’s stupid.”
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