Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Trump really gave himself participation trophies 3 yrs in a row at his own club. He doesn't acknowledge winners not named Trump in later yrs pic.twitter.com/fsqldIhqjk

— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) June 6, 2017

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I wonder what Ivanka thinks about her brother stealing from children with cancer. It must be hard to balance love and loyalty with principles in situations like that.

probably cheesed that she didn't get cut in on the action

unless you don't actually care and are equally vacuous and evil as the rest of your family xp

'super senior club' suggests that trump is competing against nonagenarians, which seems entirely in character

Has there been any concrete speculation about why trump is so keen to get Flynn off the hook? He seems to be showing an unusual amount of loyalty to an employee.

flynn knows how tight vlad and don are dollar/ruble-wise

And if he's got a torture background even less so

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, June 7, 2017 7:23 AM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tombot how would you characterize non-CIA IC attitudes towards the torture program

Coats is very tight lipped atm

xxxpost It's almost like the unusual amount of deference he shows to one particular world leader above all others. Isn't it ironic? Don'tcha think?

Trump is just the guy to figure this out

JUST IN: Iran's revolutionary guards say Saudi Arabia was behind deadly attacks in Tehran - statement pic.twitter.com/WiYtd5ypVH

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 7, 2017

clearly the answer is 'bomb qatar'

I was reading a washington post article that was guessing that the only reason for usual care on Trump's part for another's well-being and protection (Flynn) must be cover up otherwise he'd let him hang

unusual

It begins: McConnell initiates the "Rule 14" process of putting the House-passed AHCA on the Senate calendar for fast-track consideration.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 7, 2017

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

I lol'd

This is amazing. Not sure who is responsible. pic.twitter.com/4LUi5C11zj

— Mike Denison (@mikd33) June 7, 2017

"clearly the answer is 'bomb qatar'"

and let exxonmobil and saudi arabia split up their oil and gas reserves....

Breaking: Aborted muppet that fell out of hairpiece's saggy fleshballoon states that "Democrats aren't people"

that ancillary benefit would i'm sure be entirely coincidental xp

More fun from Wittes again

tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick pic.twitter.com/I7JZo73aKj

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) June 7, 2017

Meantime Coats and Rogers were, how you say, 'cagey' in testimony today. Best cogent guess I've seen:

Coats and Rogers see what happened to Comey. They won't tell the public whether Trump tried to use the IC to rein in the FBI's Russia probe.

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 7, 2017

Wray is like Harriet Myers, where the doofus nominating people is a lazy schmuck who just picks whomever they can think of off-hand

Enjoyed this (kinda)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-staff-congress-blindsided-by-fbi-pick-announcement?via=twitter_page

Testimony this morning was more like testy-mony.

Couple of those guys were pretty pissed that they would not answer yes or no questions for no good reason.

obvious attempts to run the clock too

wait so what was the 'tick tick tick' post from yesterday about then? those are getting kind of annoying

Yesterday's was the 'don't leave me in the room' story.

if they are not claiming executive privilege, how can they just refuse to answer?

it will be cool as hell to see how much money they're able to scam out of state and local governments before they bolt.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/local/the-901/2017/06/07/9-01-trump-mid-south-intersections-city-budget-music-food-and-more/376793001/

"The Trump Organization is eyeing “little-known towns in Mississippi” for its new brand of American-themed hotels."

I bet the Klan will get a great convention rate.

they'll con those clowns in the MS legislature into paying to have recently removed Confederate participation trophies "re-homed" to the hotel parking lots. they'll charge guests to take pictures of their kids climbing on them. and then they'll auction them off to white nationalist groups when they file Chapter 11.

DNI Chief refuses to address past conversations with Pres. Trump, says "I'm not sure I have a legal basis." https://t.co/agmdWMVZiH

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 7, 2017

pierce is coming round the mountain

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a55514/end-of-trump-presidency/

McCain: So in a *closed* session you’ll discuss what’s already published in the Washington Post?

DNI Coats: I hope so.

McCain’s eyebrows: pic.twitter.com/fkP8qVMtmy

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 7, 2017

McCain is such a joke

maybe i'm wrong but i honestly cant imagine Bush getting a pass like this from his own party with this level of bullshit in his first 150 days.

The Bush White House had a spectral efficiency in those early months pre-9/11 and for a year afterward. It didn't start being stupid politically until after the reelection.

A buddy still pokes fun at me for concluding in January '01 that, from the looks of Rumsfeld, Powell, Cheney, etc, that we were fucked.

agreed. but i just don't think half of this batshittery would have flown with many in the GOP back in the early oughts. i believe they would have feared for the future viability of the party. i guess you've got to really give it up to fox/ rightwing rage media for untethering half of america from reality.

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🚨 Comey's opening statement for Senate Intel tomorrow: the President said, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.” https://t.co/p81KvVBPhi

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 7, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEUX-HYRtUA

Would further bug Trump is Comey ultimately gets Time's Man of the Year.

A few moments later, the President said, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.” I didn’t move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. We simply looked at each other in silence.

The President signaled the end of the briefing by thanking the group and telling them all that he wanted to speak to me alone. I stayed in my chair. As the participants started to leave the Oval Office, the Attorney General lingered by my chair, but the President thanked him and said he wanted to speak only with me. The last person to leave was Jared Kushner, who also stood by my chair and exchanged pleasantries with me. The President then excused him, saying he wanted to speak with me.
When the door by the grandfather clock closed, and we were alone, the President began by saying, “I want to talk about Mike Flynn.”

Jeez, that whole document. One way or another, Trump is totally fucked.

yeah, how is that not obstruction of justice?

lol how did that leak prior to the testimony tomorrow?

Comey will enter the word “hookers” into the record tomorrow. https://t.co/7FUrhaaDoQ pic.twitter.com/PJVCHSucgw

— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 7, 2017