Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

lol....did Nunes seriously not think the sources would get out anyway

after reading the article, it's fairly clear that the White House found an opportunity to make the multiple controversies subside, and leaned on Nunes to go to the press to muddy the waters. which didn't work as well as either of them hoped.

sounds like there may have indeed been unmasking issues (though none of that is verified for sure) but even so, hardly the bombshell Trump alleged and kind of proves they're interfering in the investigation.

the source has history http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-national-security-mcmaster-overrule-236065

so obv Nunes briefed the WH on what it already knew making it pure theatre as suspected. yeah this will go well.

time to ramp up the recusal calls. other networks haven't gotten it yet but Schiff needs to be on this like Mark Sanchez on an offensive lineman's butt

lol because of Nunes' repeat refusal to ever divulge his sources, his spokesman's reply to the NYT story a minute ago was "he will not confirm or deny" the sources, so now he's not able to actually say the story isn't credible or else he'd be going back on his word.

Was this clip linked here?

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/03/30/trump-russian-measures-clinton-watts-sot.cnn

wow

It's a Rick Wilson tweetstorm, but it's worth a read:

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/847502433546665985

tweetdump

When nature calls

"second tweetstorm of the day. sorry"

lol

daddy, can i have a national security clearance for my birthday?

still waiting on wilson's oppo dump that's going to turn the tide of the election

it's coming, he's just gotta time it right - be patient dude

If there's one thing I've learned from all of this, it's that I hate tweetstorms.

reps all over Twitter calling for Nunes to resign from the committee now (though I think most are Dems like Ted Lieu)

xpost seriously, just write a damn blog

Amash having further fun:

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/847488739521609730

GOP Rep. @justinamash on Trump's tweet: “It may allow a child to get his way, but that’s not how our government works.”

What Were Once Blog Posts Are Now Tweetstorms

yeah I feel like as much as we talk about if there's any 'there there' the trump administration is doing its goddamned hardest to convince us that there is.

Also, re the two people leaking to Nunes:

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/847504180772253696

Trump personally intervened to keep one of the two Nunes leakers, 30 yr old Ezra Cohen-Watnick, in the NSC, against NSA McMaster’s advice.

lol spicer saying "all of president obama's nominees past with republican support" re gorsuch

*passed

merrick garland was just the name of barry soetero's dungeons & dragons magic user he played back home in kenya

I'm down.

https://twitter.com/nick_rothert/status/847508482941112320

I have a feeling that the name of this movie is gonna be "All the President's Incredibly Inept and Stupid Men."

lol spicer saying "all of president obama's nominees past with republican support" re gorsuch

― marcos, Thursday, March 30, 2017 1:48 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf, no he did not

I cannot wait until the day when their ability to reshape anyone's conception of reality sputters out completely.

Democratic Senators asking for Trump/Azerbaijan investigation:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senators-ask-for-an-investigation-into-trump-dealings-in-azerbaijan?mbid=social_twitter

Rubio on the hacking charges today:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/30/marco-rubio-was-targeted-by-russian-infowar-ex-fbi-agent-reveals.html

"In July of 2016, shortly after I announced I would seek reelection to the United States Senate, former members of my presidential campaign team, who had access to the information of my presidential campaign, were targeted by IP addresses with an unknown location within Russia," Rubio said. "That effort was unsuccessful. I would also inform the committee that within the last 24 hours, at 10:45 a.m. yesterday, a second attempt was made against former members of my presidential campaign team… again targeted from an IP address from an unknown location in Russia. That effort was also unsuccessful."

And Carter Page, still not quite getting it down right:

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/847531310960840704

Carter Page interview on Fox, airing 6pm. From preview:

FOX: Were you paid by the Russians?
PAGE: Last year, I was not paid by the Russians

Oh and:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/spicer-announces-new-information-intelligence-committees

White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced Thursday that it would invite the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to review information discovered “in the ordinary course of business” related to a request two weeks ago.

The announcement came minutes after the New York Times reported that two White House officials provided House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) with material that purportedly showed that information related to President Donald Trump and his associates was incidentally collected by U.S. intelligence officials.

Good plan, turn an awkward situation into an opportunity to meddle with the Senate committee too.

OMG

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-almost-certainly-james-comey-s-twitter-account-1793843641?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gizmodo_twitter

ya rly

if it was a White House person the twitter handles would be

BeveStannon

Scott Dourque

By senior year, Comey was a double major in religion and chemistry, writing a senior thesis on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and televangelist Jerry Falwell and on his way to the University of Chicago Law School

"Great men both!"

Anyway I like Wittes's thing at the end the best.

@jamestracker-notfbi

Ivan Gottasecret

"Great men both!"

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, March 30, 2017 3:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They both influenced MLK to some extent, so I think there's an argument to be made that Comey is basically MLK.

Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

By senior year, Comey was a double major in religion and chemistry, writing a senior thesis on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and televangelist Jerry Falwell and on his way to the University of Chicago Law School

he could've said "Teillhard de Chardin and TV game show host Bob Barker" and it would've made as much sense

xpost Oh shit, I was thinking of Billy Graham (and then only in terms of organization). Evangelical zealots are so interchangeable in my brain.

Graham was yuge in the religion biz in the '50s

Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, except for homos, abortionists, and feminists.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQacnto7wAM

lol I was just thinking I would love to see what Comey had to say about Falwell, and then the "influenced MLK" post came up and I almost did a spit take.

resign away, mr. wayward president

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVD5iqAcIbQ

What in the fuck, never link that again, anywhere.

Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:17 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

of course! i mean MLK would've been a republican today

party of lincoln etc

Lincoln was tough on emigration, he wouldn't let those other states leave