Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Reality Leigh Winner is one of those neural network generated names right

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i meant that i may be overreacting, sorry, not that anyone was saying i was. but i fear for the worst, definitely

This is heavy news that they finally have someone to trot out. Trump is gonna have her waterboarded live on Fox & Friends.

Ah. Yeah I think she is going to be aggressively prosecuted. It will look bad for Trump & co though--prosecuting someone who leaked a single document to journalists looks worse than going after someone who gave a ton of unsortes data to wikileaks imo.

*unsorted

The trick will be in successfully characterizing her prosecution as a consistent w/ the coverup.

It's kind of a bummer that the same intel people who are offended by trump and very much want him out are also super-serious about secrets and will advocate making an example out of her.

xp but trump already sent that certified letter

On the one hand the President of the United States is destroying all your hard work, on the other hand it's possible that the only way to stop him is to compromise your career principles. A lot of people must be losing sleep right now.

Of all the people to be the face of the "deep state", this isn't that bad for optics. Poor Reality, though.

indeed

NSA is full of idiots to allow a contractor linguist access to counterintelligence reports on GRU election meddling, Ms. Winner was a idiot to contact The Intercept from her work computer, the anonymous reporter at The Intercept was an idiot to show the NSA the leaked document, and anyone who ever risks their career to leak to The Intercept in the future is an idiot.

Sessions might be in trouble: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/us/politics/trump-discontent-attorney-general-jeff-sessions.html?_r=0&referer=

fuck the writers of this shitty, hackneyed satire - i can just about believe that the mental-midget host of the apprentice bumbles his way into the presidency but fuck you if you think i'm going to swallow the idea of a whistleblower called 'reality winner'

how do i cancel my subscription

yeah reading this thread last night i thought you'd all had mini-strokes.

I thought it was an internet nom de plume until I looked it up. Sounds too much like a made up name like Edna Bucket or something.
Is Reality a common name anywhere. You hear names like Verity as legacy of Puritan ethics etc,, but not come across that before.

Reality usta be a friend of mine

Another example of Trump being full of shit...and mainstream journalists not bothering to check before reporting the story.

Last month, President Trump visited Saudi Arabia and his administration announced that he had concluded a $110 billion arms deal with the kingdom. Only problem is that there is no deal. It’s fake news.

I’ve spoken to contacts in the defense business and on the Hill, and all of them say the same thing: There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many are offers that the defense industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday. So far nothing has been notified to the Senate for review. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales.” None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.

honest to god if this ends up with trump locking up reality then we will have to conclude that we're living in a matrix-style simulation and we're being trolled hardcore by the forces which run it

Her name is cool and what she did was cool too. It's important that the public knows exactly what the intelligence community thinks happened this past fall. Without this kind of information it is impossible to evaluate whether Democrats are taking the right tack with this Russia story or just trying to hurt Trump.

Fuck the intercept for being so careless with a person's life.

The right-wing / trumpoid line was already "the government is full of moonbat liberal Democrats who hate the president and want to sabotage hashtagMAGA! The Deep State leakers are the REAL criminals!"

And lo, how convenient for their narrative that they quickly found a Democrat who works for the government to prosecute/persecute.

yeah, the intercept have done a fantastic job of playing right into trump's stumpy hands, good job guys

honest to god if this ends up with trump locking up reality then we will have to conclude that we're living in a matrix-style simulation and we're being trolled hardcore by the forces which run it

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/did-the-oscars-just-prove-that-we-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation

Primary Elections today in New Jersey, says twitter. So... anyone know anything worth looking out for? Any good leftist candidates trying to primary centrists?

I’ve spoken to contacts in the defense business and on the Hill, and all of them say the same thing: There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many are offers that the defense industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday. So far nothing has been notified to the Senate for review. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales.” None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.

He'd have never got it past the Dragons in "Dragon's Den"

Primary Elections today in New Jersey, says twitter. So... anyone know anything worth looking out for? Any good leftist candidates trying to primary centrists?

Just voted. I had been thinking about voting for one of the leftier candidates, but when the whole Paris accord thing happened, and the governors of CA, WA and NY all teamed up in their "Climate Alliance," I looked on every NJ candidate's website in the days that followed to see which of them had promised to sign on if elected, and the only one who did was Phil Murphy, the guy every other Democratic candidate was busy calling a corporate shill in their TV ads. The guy I had specifically thought about voting for? The only news releases on his site were "Phil Murphy must apologize for this" and "Phil Murphy did that." So I voted for Murphy.

Can't wait to see how Spicer, Conway etc. explain THIS one.

The FAKE MSM is working so hard trying to get me not to use Social Media. They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2017

"Don't take that seriously, it's not the real message. Help me."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQmKkR62jo

I used to think he was just stupid and mean as a snake, but I suspect dementia now.

today in "things I did not expect from the NYT op-ed page"

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/opinion/american-communism.html?_r=0&referer=https://t.co/lLGJngAFOq

Also, a slightly counterintuitive thought re the NSA/Reality Winner story (though frankly in this entire mess I'll defer to Tomboto, obv.) -- everyone's been focused on Comey testifying on Thursday, but there's another public hearing tomorrow of interest -- Mike Rogers, who heads the NSA. By virtue of the fact that this story broke and then, with Winner's arrest, was confirmed, seems like a convenient way to ask Rogers a little more about it.

Whenever I become less steadfast in recognizing the profundity of Trump's stupidity, I can always trust that he'll come along to nudge me back onto the right path. Just the dumbest fucking human I've probably ever been aware of. It's astounding.

I used to think he was just stupid and mean as a snake, but I suspect dementia now.

I keep resisting dementia as an explanation just because I'm wary of that being either a justification or an excuse, depending on what side you're on. But since it's increasingly clear his lawyers seem to have no control over what he's choosing to post, one wonders.

The other factor I'll note as well is the question of how involved Dan Scavino, his social media director, is with any of these tweets.

Some good stories for the morning, first:

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks

President Donald Trump has a plan. It’ll be ready in two weeks.

From overhauling the tax code to releasing an infrastructure package to making decisions on Nafta and the Paris climate agreement, Trump has a common refrain: A big announcement is coming in just “two weeks.” It rarely does.

On Feb. 9, Trump boasted that his administration was “way ahead of schedule” on a tax overhaul.

“We’re going to be announcing something I would say over the next two or three weeks that will be phenomenal in terms of tax and developing our aviation infrastructure,” Trump said while meeting with airline executives.

Eleven weeks elapsed before the White House released a one-page outline of the tax plan.

In an April 29 interview on “CBS This Morning” Trump said of his promised $1 trillion infrastructure construction program: “We’ve got the plan largely completed and we’ll be filing over the next two or three weeks -- maybe sooner,” Trump said.

No legislation has been filed. The White House has yet to outline the plan, beyond broad principles described in Trump’s proposed budget.

Next

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/05/trump-russia-war-room-239170

The White House’s Russia investigation “war room” may have been killed before the battle.

Just days before former FBI director James Comey’s Senate testimony about his firing, President Donald Trump decided that all inquiries related to the scandals engulfing his administration should be handled by his outside lawyer in New York instead of by a team based inside the White House, according to four advisors close to Trump.

The so-called “war room,” similar to a Clinton administration crisis operation created to deal with Monica Lewinsky-related inquiries, was taking shape as of last week, with plans for two former campaign aides to take over rapid response on Russia questions, according to a person with knowledge of the conversations.

Former deputy campaign manager David Bossie was being considered to join the West Wing in a senior position. Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager who was fired in June 2016, was scouting office space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building last week for a White House team.

The president decided that Bossie and Lewandowski would be “more valuable on the outside than on the inside fighting back against the Russia narrative specifically,” said a person with knowledge of the conversations.

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While the Clinton White House integrated lawyers into a larger rapid response operation, the Trump team has so far relegated all inquiries related to the Russia scandal to Trump’s long-time attorney in New York Marc Kasowitz.

There’s still debate over whether Kasowitz will be aided by an outside public relations team to handle media inquiries. Bossie and Lewandowski may assist in that effort to defend the president from the outside, according to the person with knowledge of the conversations.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9v-33jcEDk4/maxresdefault.jpg

Phil Murphy is your next Goldman Sachs Democrat guv of NJ (maybe)

And finally for now, the WSJ editorial board finally going "What the fuck is WRONG with you?"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-buck-stops-everywhere-else-1496705412

If this pattern continues, Mr. Trump may find himself running an Administration with no one but his family and the Breitbart staff. People of talent and integrity won’t work for a boss who undermines them in public without thinking about the consequences. And whatever happened to the buck stops here?

Mr. Trump is also sabotaging the legitimate legal basis for the travel ban, and the stakes are bigger than the ban itself, which we think is counterproductive and unnecessary. He is exercising core presidential powers over foreign affairs that the courts may restrict if Mr. Trump keeps daring them to do so.

Two appellate courts have ignored the order’s text and cited legally irrelevant campaign statements to rule that the ban is really intended to discriminate against Muslims. And now President Trump has given liberal judges Twitter evidence to conclude that his motives may be suspect. At the very least he is making it harder to corral a Supreme Court majority.

In other words, in 140-character increments, Mr. Trump diminished his own standing by causing a minor international incident, demonstrated that the loyalty he demands of the people who work for him isn’t reciprocal, set back his policy goals and wasted time that he could have devoted to health care, tax reform or “infrastructure week.” Mark it all down as further evidence that the most effective opponent of the Trump Presidency is Donald J. Trump.

(Also, speaking of lawyers)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-top-law-firms-turned-requests-represent-trump-122423972.html

Before Kasowitz was retained, however, some of the biggest law firms and their best-known attorneys turned down overtures when they were sounded out by White House officials to see if they would be willing to represent the president, the sources said.

Among them, sources said, were some of the most high-profile names in the legal profession, including Brendan Sullivan of Williams & Connolly; Ted Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Paul Clement and Mark Filip of Kirkland & Ellis; and Robert Giuffra of Sullivan & Cromwell.

The lawyers and their firms cited a variety of factors in choosing not to take on the president as a client. Some, like Brendan Sullivan, said they had upcoming trials or existing commitments that that would make it impossible for them to devote the necessary time and resources to Trump’s defense.

Others mentioned potential conflicts with clients of their firms, such as financial institutions that have already received subpoenas relating to potential money-laundering issues that are part of the investigation.

But a consistent theme, the sources said, was the concern about whether the president would accept the advice of his lawyers and refrain from public statements and tweets that have consistently undercut his position.

“The concerns were, ‘The guy won’t pay and he won’t listen,’” said one lawyer close to the White House who is familiar with some of the discussions between the firms and the administration, as well as deliberations within the firms themselves.

Primary Elections today in New Jersey, says twitter. So... anyone know anything worth looking out for? Any good leftist candidates trying to primary centrists?

Just voted. I had been thinking about voting for one of the leftier candidates, but when the whole Paris accord thing happened, and the governors of CA, WA and NY all teamed up in their "Climate Alliance," I looked on every NJ candidate's website in the days that followed to see which of them had promised to sign on if elected, and the only one who did was Phil Murphy, the guy every other Democratic candidate was busy calling a corporate shill in their TV ads. The guy I had specifically thought about voting for? The only news releases on his site were "Phil Murphy must apologize for this" and "Phil Murphy did that." So I voted for Murphy.

― grawlix (unperson), 6. juni 2017 15:31 (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, thanks, didn't realize the gubernatorial primary is today as well. That's interesting! Is there any info on the prospects for November at this point?

That's the thing, the people who own the earth share our interest in the earth not being destroyed

Also Trump seems to be tweeting about Qatar being horrible. Pity about the huge US military base there.

The Saudi Orb is passing him instructions.

Orbo Ordus Seclorum

Dan Scavino, his social media director

he has a social media director?

Trump treating his little memo issuance yesterday like a major bill-signing is the Trump-est thing ever.

At an East Room event that was choreographed like the elaborate ceremonies for enacting major legislation, Mr. Trump signed a memo and letter to Congress outlining his principles for overhauling the nation’s air traffic control system. He handed out pens to lawmakers who had been invited to attend, and reveled in several rounds of applause.

But Mr. Trump’s announcement did not have any binding effect, and Democrats quickly denounced the proposal.

as would-be despots go, he's closer to a Lewis Carroll version than anything

It's not about Reality, it's all about a salary