Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

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

Best of all, this is coming out now! So Trump will be running his mouth.

yeah, how is that not obstruction of justice?

because the GOP congressional majority will say it isn't

xp

Meanwhile trump delivers prepared remarks

Here is the transcript of the president's brief break to wave to a distant boat. pic.twitter.com/RzC5mq5Bfx

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 7, 2017

"Good Morning, Captain"

Toobin: if that isn't obstruction of justice, I don't know what is.

When the door by the grandfather clock closed, and we were alone

https://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/thejoyofsect11.png

"Look! A boat!"

lol how did that leak prior to the testimony tomorrow?

Not a leak at all -- hosted on the committee site, etc. Prepared remarks released in advance are standard; it's the Q/A where things will get interesting on the day.

Trumps gonna spend the whole day talking about how he is not under investigation.

Whereupon John Ashcroft rose from his hospital bed, pointed at Comey, and said to Trump in a firm voice, "At any rate, he is the attorney general." After which he collapsed on the bed.

then they all made out

I see Comey's statement also confirms Trump's claim re: Comey telling Trump he was not personally under investigation

yeah that stuck out to me, too

I mean this Is going to be the FOX narrative now, "FBI Director confirms Trump's innocence"

the classic Comey "impartiality" god I hate this guy

so much integrity, the best

I said the White House Counsel should contact the leadership of DOJ to make the request, which was the traditional channel. He said he would do that and added, “Because I have been very loyal to you, very loyal; we had that thing you know.” I did not reply or ask him what he
meant by “that thing.”

I like how this is a Word document.

haha I was about to quote that bit

First of all, he asked if he was under investigation then. Who knows what the status is now. Also, there is I assume a legal difference between Trump personally and the Trump campaign. First you get the people under him, then you work the way up. Big fish is last to be caught.

He said he would do that and added, “Because I have been very loyal to you, very loyal; we had that thing you know.” I did not reply or ask him what he meant by “that thing.” I said only that the way to handle it was to have the White House Counsel call the Acting Deputy Attorney General. He said that was what he would do and the call ended.

That was the last time I spoke with President Trump.

yeah this guy doesn't sound like a NYC gangster con artist POS at all.

ha xp

I did not reply or ask him what he meant by “that thing.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6QKqFPRZSA

Beat me to it,

"You know the thing about the thing we talked about? Well, I appreciate your loyalty, but I'm going to need you to do another thing for me. And maybe, one day, you'll need a thing from me. And I will be loyal to you."

the whole thing reads vaguely like the first person account of an abuse survivor

Daddy Long Arms is one!

Don Corleone: Bonasera, Bonasera. What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you'd come to me in friendship, then that scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you.

Bonasera: Be my friend. Godfather.

(Bonasera bows toward the Don and kisses the Don's hand.)

Don Corleone: Good. Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter's wedding day.

yeah "that thing" is total organized crime talk lol

is releasing his opening statement wise? or is this mostly journalists going "exert executive privilege all you want, here's what he would have said"

also reminds me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGjPCOpbv0

"did you talk to our friend about that thing"

is releasing his opening statement wise? or is this mostly journalists going "exert executive privilege all you want, here's what he would have said"

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal),

He's preempting social media wars. Daddy Long Arms is a media pro.

Comey didn't release it, it's on a government site. Comey is a private citizen.

in all honesty though, Trump's inner circle is a pretty tough bunch of dudes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4EQWag2Aw

True. But it's a way to stop rumors from spreading about testimony.

My fave online comment right now:

Also, the pee tape is real. He's obsessed with it. Bringing it up, unprompted, 3.5 months after he was briefed on it to Comey for no reason.

Got a point.