US Politics, May 2018: How Broke Is He?

white foods only
i bet the salad was egg

Nah, that’s a 12-year-old from flyover land going to Olive Garden with Mom when they are on daughter’s first junior high school shop in the nearest metro area and Mom says ‘no banana split’

i assumed it was just a reference to jar jar binks's pathetic blue-dog #DINO track record in the Galactic Senate

― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, May 1, 2018 10:47 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

played a key role in normalizing Palpatine as military strongman. he-sa is #complicit

On my plate, I had found a large cream-colored card describing the entire four-course menu in cursive script. Salad, shrimp scampi, chicken parmesan with pasta, and vanilla ice cream. The president began by admiring his own menu card, which he held up. “They write these things out one at a time, by hand,” he marveled, referring to the White House staff. “A calligrapher,” I replied, nodding. He looked quizzical. “They write them by hand,” he repeated.

L-R: Comey, Trump, Eric

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S09E12/801233.jpg?b64lines=

Gotta love those returning cast members.

NEW: Exclusive: Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer "raided" his office, took medical files. https://t.co/U4CW0Xv2H5

— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 1, 2018

xpost

Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer 'raided' his office, took medical files

In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice and took all the president's medical records.

The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a "raid," took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.

In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt "raped, frightened and sad" when Keith Schiller and another "large man" came to his office to collect the president's records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump's bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.

...

Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records and signed by the president —known as a HIPAA release — which is a violation of patient privacy law. A person familiar with the matter said there was a letter to Bornstein from then-White House doctor Ronny Jackson, but didn't know if there was a release form attached.

Bornstein said the original and only copy of Trump's charts, including lab reports under Trump's name as well as under the pseudonyms his office used for Trump, were taken.

The world can never know just how intensely healthy the man is. We aren't ready for it.

(Dollars to donuts this was to prevent news of Trump's Kuato getting out.)

• What was the purpose of your May 12, 2017, tweet?

After The Times revealed the president’s private dinner with Mr. Comey, Mr. Trump responded on Twitter.
James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017

HAHHA - REGRET

That bit with Bornstein is just so fucking small and so predictable. The world may be falling to pieces but Trump needs to make sure nobody knows what he actually weighs.

From the outside and on TV Trump is a clown and so are his henchmen but to people like this pathetic doctor, the Playmates, the contractors, etc. they are legit criminals who are pro's at scaring people. Anybody who doesn't think that the President of the United States hasn't in his decades of mafioso real estate business been on the ordering end of a physical beating (or worse) is kidding themselves. These guys are straight thugs.

We’ve never had a president with actual hired goons before, how novel.

Love a thuggish playmate

One of my lib friends is advocating for the return of the Fairness Doctrine.

I cant even

xp Seriously, how many people out there—not just Playmates or the doctor from Cannonball Run—are trembling about what they know and what they've been told might happen to them if they tell anybody? I'm sure we're seeing only a very small sample.

https://i.imgur.com/veod9.jpg

it's a real simpsonsy news day

what does "lib" mean?

Asked how he could justify saying Trump would be the healthiest president ever, Bornstein said, "I like that sentence to be quite honest with you and all the rest of them are either sick or dead."

is this the real life is this just fantasy

scaramucci, scaramucci

I hope all of our ailing ex-presidents are receiving nothing but the best hospice care.

lol was wondering why Propecia was trending

thuggish Playmate

thuggish, ruggish, boned

irl lol

We’ve never had a president with actual hired goons before

#morbzbait

I almost took a swing at that one myself tbh

*cough* Nixon *cough*

What do you know, not only does a new report note how fast the uninsured numbers are rising, especially among Republicans, but Tom Price just said the Republican tax cut will lead to ACA price hikes as well. Who knew?

thanks obama

This wouldn't be happening if we didn't have Obamacare.

Ah, what a follow-up.

.@KaciSokoloff just spoke w Dr. Harold Bornstein, who refused an interview but said that NBC's piece was "a pretty good story." Bornstein also said that he spoke to the NBC reporter “in the bathroom” of his office. He signed off with: "Sweetheart, this is watergate, goodbye!"

— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) May 1, 2018

Here's a bit.

Wow from Dep AG Rosenstein just now: “There have been people who have been making threats privately & publicly against me for quite some time & I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.” @Newseum

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 1, 2018

dammit Ned

wow

xpost Back from vacation and here to provide the 'what the' moments once more.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on @freedomcaucus members considering his impeachment: "They can't even resist leaking their own drafts." He also says, "The Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.”

Question from @lauraajarrett. pic.twitter.com/puEnP3thgA

— CSPAN (@cspan) May 1, 2018

how many nothingburgers does it take to feed a witchhunt?

"Sweetheart, this is watergate, goodbye!"

we named the thread too soon

it's been getting more Chinatown than Watergate for a while now

It's collusion! (slap) It's obstruction! (slap)

He's back!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/the-professor-at-the-center-of-the-trump-russia-probe

I feel like Joel Cairo is involved in this somehow.

i know it's wrong but i want to call captain combover "propecian caesar"

The Propecian Sensation!

i know it's wrong but i want you to stop posting every dumbass unfunny nickname that occurs to you xp

for every unfunny nickname i post a million occur to me. it's like a hydra of epithets

That would be a good reason to stop, though.

Young Reg, post free tonight
I am on your side
Don't let 'em shake you down, don't let 'em push you around
Don't ever let them make you stop asking for the tax returns

It gets better!

"He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter," Bornstein said on Tuesday of the letter he signed saying Trump would be the “healthiest” person ever elected as POTUS. "I just made it up as I went along." https://t.co/JfegHrQAdP

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 1, 2018

i mean duh

The constant emergence and re-emergence in the Trump saga of people who look like character actors I can't quite place does nothing to dispel the sense that this is all a big put-on.

why do presidential pardons exist

fear of bureaucracy -- but faith in the decisions of the elite electorate -- in the constitutional religion

Pardons For Everyone At The Goat Rodeo!

We’re all stars in the dope rodeo

i believe that some of these things happened as described, and i believe that some of these things some did not happen as described

“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.

“Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

“Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” he said.

“I feel like Michael Corleone. I almost got out.”

When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.

“What else did you expect from McConnell?” he asked. “He won’t even give us a hearing on Merrick Garland.”

“I talk about it every time I’m asked,” he responded. “What else are we going to do? We’ve warned folks.” [about Russia]

He noted that Mr. Trump was already claiming that the election would be manipulated if Hillary Clinton won. “If I speak out more, he’ll just say it’s rigged,” Mr. Obama said.

The next day, Mr. Obama focused on cheering up his despondent staff. At one point, he sent a message to Mr. Rhodes saying, “There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth.”

“I don’t know,” he told aides. “Maybe this is what people want. I’ve got the economy set up well for him. No facts. No consequences. They can just have a cartoon.”

He added that “we’re about to find out just how resilient our institutions are, at home and around the world.”

Afterward, Mr. Obama called a few aides to the Oval Office to ruminate on the encounter. “I’m trying to place him in American history,” he said.

“He peddles” bull, Mr. Rhodes answered. “That character has always been part of the American story. You can see it right back to some of the characters in Huckleberry Finn.”

“Maybe,” Mr. Obama answered, “that’s the best we can hope for.”

June thread.