Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

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.

Good news everyone!

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2462

How the hell did short attention span Trump remember that Comey had said he wasn't under investigation on three separate occasions?

2-1 opposed to pulling out of Paris Accords, overall approval at new low (34%), over half believe Trump did something either illegal or unethical re: Russia

xp

How the hell did short attention span Trump remember that Comey had said he wasn't under investigation on three separate occasions?

he remembers when people say his name

Even if this Comey account was not considered proof of obstruction of justice, the Coats and Rodgers and McCabe and maybe Rosenstein (probably) closed door testimony will further establish a pattern.

It's like what they say about actors: If they're listening, you're talking about them. xp

there are no closed door sessions currently scheduled for any of those guys

xp

bathroom stall

Even if this Comey account was not considered proof of obstruction of justice, the Coats and Rodgers and McCabe and maybe Rosenstein (probably) closed door testimony will further establish a pattern.

lol none of this matters, Paul Ryan is never going to allow articles of impeachment to be drafted let alone introduced, in the House.

otm imo

Right wing media already spinning this as a huge win for Trump.

http://images.tritondigitalcms.com/6616/sites/115/2017/04/26202750/thing.jpg

Right wing media already spinning this as a huge win for Trump.

― frogbs, Wednesday, June 7, 2017 7:54 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but this is different from everything else exactly? rw media has spun everything as a trump win, they'll spin his death as an epic escape from the losers of earth.

Well...it kinda is. For all of us.

fwiw

A congressional aide with direct knowledge tells @KenDilanianNBC that Comey's prepared testimony was released today at Comey's request

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 7, 2017

Perhaps related

By releasing his prepared remarks, Comey just ensured that Trump can't change his mind at the last minute & try to invoke exec privilege.

— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 7, 2017

New favorite short story writer.

lol none of this matters, Paul Ryan is never going to allow articles of impeachment to be drafted let alone introduced, in the House.

― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Wednesday, June 7, 2017 6:52 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm imo
― sleeve, Wednesday, June 7, 2017 6:53 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So do you believe there is practically nothing Trump could do to get him impeached?

murrrrder

maybe.

Maybe shoot Paul Ryan

man this is the best these guys Got?

If Dems hadn't wildly overplayed the notion that Trump colluded with Russia in 2016, Comey testimony would hurt him. They did. So it won't.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 7, 2017

Surely he will become an obvious liability to the GOP at some point. And almost as surely they will fail to recognize this until it's far too late to repair the damage he's done to the GOP.

xxxp veto a tax cut bill

So do you believe there is practically nothing Trump could do to get him impeached?

it would have to be a dead girl/live boy scenario or as Morbz says "murrrrder"

https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-10-at-2.02.19-PM.png

It’s hard to express to people who are not steeped in federal law enforcement just how inappropriate these inquiries are, particularly when they involve an investigation in which the President has such deep and multifaceted personal stakes. No, they are not illegal. The President, after all, has constitutional authority to ask for whatever information he wants from his subordinates in the executive branch. But of course, the President also has the authority to give the State of the Union address in Latin and have it consist entirely of obscenities directed at the Speaker of the House. To people who know the norms of federal law enforcement, the conduct described here is closer to that end of the spectrum of presidential behavior than it is to the normal range.

https://lawfareblog.com/initial-comments-james-comeys-written-testimony

Shade level = EXPERT

Inauguration-sized crowds for Trump in Ohio today. https://t.co/pFYuG34DUr

— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) June 7, 2017

Not talking about the most devout among his flock here (who would surely continue to kiss his feet as he showered himself with the arterial blood of their young) but how long is it going to take for the average GOP voter to start realizing that Trump & co. have done nooooothing for them since gaining complete domination of the nation? Because that's when these rallies might start to get interesting.

the obstruction thing is getting the headlines but to me this basically confirms the pee tape

When did the average GOP voter start realizing that Reagan & co. had done nooooothing for them?

^^^

they don't care about the "noooooooothing" they care about the librul tears, "shaking up the system", "telling it like it is", not being "politically correct" etc. these people have no policy goals.

or principles for that matter. it's strictly oppositional game theory shit.

the (very slow) erosion we're gradually seeing in GOP support has less to do with any policy differences or failures and more to do with Trump's public image increasingly reflecting what he actually is, a deranged loser. And the GOP only loves a winner.

Well, at the very least, the richie riches seem to be recognizing that Trump isn't going to be spurring the financial stimulus that anyone with a half dozen brain cells could've easily seen as baseless magical thinking.

I mean, there was always gonna be a bounce, but Trump was always gonna rebound that shit into the bleachers.

Wall Street has realized they aren't going to get their tax cut or infrastructure bill, yes. But those people aren't party loyalists, they are capitalists, and they aren't Trump's base of support.

the GOP clearly doesn't even care about policy achievements -- they want to troll libs.

Policy matters insofar as it placates grassroots back home.

I mean, it goes without saying, but the idea of putting someone else's agitation over my own well-being is just...well, the phrase 'mass sterilization for the good of the species' springs to mind for reasons I can't quite put my finger on.

the (very slow) erosion we're gradually seeing in GOP support has less to do with any policy differences or failures and more to do with Trump's public image increasingly reflecting what he actually is, a deranged loser. And the GOP only loves a winner.

hence the industry devoted to keeping Ivanka's image aloft. she's the heir apparent, it's just a matter of whether she runs in 2024 or Daddy steps aside to let her take the reins in 2020.

that makes no sense,why would she want to be president

power, ego, the same reason as anyone else

Why in the world did Trump want to be president?

She's a tough one, I have no idea what I would think of her running for president. I mean, I'm against it, and don't like her, andI'm sure she is a horrible person, but so are most presidents, probably. I have no idea what her political beliefs are. I can imagine her being a lot like Clinton, ironically, but it would also mean more Trump forever.

power, ego, the same reason as anyone else

does she seem happy being first daughter to you? this is going to destroy her father. it's so much easier for them in the private sphere.

also think the reductive take on motivations is kind of gross. Obama, for ex. (and Hillary too!) actually wanted to get shit done, they had goals and policies and principles in mind.

I think this really is the first president we've had where the *sole* motivations are power and ego

also: revenge

Ah, so everything's okay then.

Chris Christie tells @NicolleDWallace Trump's comments to Comey were "normal New York City conversation" he didn't realize was inappropriate

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) June 7, 2017