Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Roy Blunt's opening question "if the president had not terminated your service, would you still be the head of the FBI?"

"if you hadn't worn a red tie, would you have worn a tie at all?"

i wonder who comey's friend at columbia law is

Missourians, why the fuck do you keep electing this tree stump?

the whole line of questions seems desperate to find inconsistency, but is going nowhere. am quite sure Trump supporters will see it as exposing inconsistency

if that was the best blunt had ...

I think this is gonna play well to anyone who has been pissed beyond belief after getting fired for something dumb. kinda the ultimate revenge scenario.

daaaamn

otm

the whole line of questions seems desperate to find inconsistency, but is going nowhere. am quite sure Trump supporters will see it as exposing inconsistency

I suspect a point of attack will be that in one instance Comey takes the President at his word but doesn't know what the President is thinking; in another place he says he can't read the President's mind. However at the same time he says he readily understood the "I hope..." line not as a statement of hope but rather one of command. If I were cross-examining him I'd ask whether his mind-reading ability has an on/off switch, or something like that.

Don't really care, I'm just glad all this is keeping the story on the front page.

who will rid me of this meddlesome pee tape?

every bureaucrat knows what "I HOPE..." means coming from a superior.

otm

and every business person and military person knows it too.

Conservative line so far: this looks worse for Sessions and Flynn than Trump.

and how does that not look bad for Trump, he's going to end up nominating his diet pill doctor for AG if Sessions goes

"when the president said 'i hope you saved some turkey for me' - did you take that as a threat?"

no fuzz

"yes, because considering the person we're dealing with, I felt he would cook and eat me if I didn't"

Comey being literary: I took Trump's "I hope" you can end the Flynn investigation as a "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 8, 2017

lol

The most well done, driest turkey you can find, slathered in megalomania and ketchup.

https://www.twitter.com/max_read/status/872843342207479809

https://mobile.twitter.com/max_read/status/872843342207479809

Dammit

can you impeach a president for having absolutely no interest in an attack on the country by a foreign foe?

When I finally see the pee tape someday pic.twitter.com/wm66FVEWw9

— Jake Cole (@notjustmovies) June 8, 2017

shining city on the hill! release the tapes!

so bummed that Trump isn't live tweeting this

"I can only hope there are tapes, the President truly knows if he taped us"

nice one

I think it's Dan Drezner who's been doing a running series of posts saying that Trump's flacks/lackeys talking about him like a child is the worst thing, and now, behold.

BREAKING: Speaker Paul Ryan says FBI director needs to be independent, says Trump unfamiliar with protocol, `just new to this'

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 8, 2017

yeah, how could he know that he shouldn't try to shake down an FBI director for loyalty?

Well, there it is

Cotton: "Do you think Donald Trump colluded with Russia?"

Comey: "That's a question I don't think I should answer in open session."

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 8, 2017

i'm listening now from the other room and its cool that they let a robot ask comey questions.

Do you think that Trump has ever encountered that many situations with actual rules that he thought about?

By all accounts, he had a handful of people who worked directly with him for business stuff and any new contact was a friend-of-a-friend type of thing. When his employees didn't mitigate things, he got sued for all kinds of random shit, his personal negotiating in construction was all signing contracts and then saying he wouldn't pay when work was done. No social graces, he just interrupts people and grabs women and doesn't give a shit. I don't think he's driven a car in years and has no occasion to do the million other things that people get in legal trouble for.

Leaving aside the whole 'ignorance of the law excuses not' argument against Ryan's bullshit comment, I'd like to focus on the 'just' part of the 'just new to this'. So it's 'just' that he's new, and we honestly still expect that when he's no longer new that he's going to learn and grow and develop into a seasoned statesman? Really?

I doubt he's even learned his lesson in this particular instance after getting in 'trouble' for breaching protocol. Dude never fucking learns, willfully.

maybe he should have done a POTUS internship first

what does the president know, and does he know he knows it?

being president is not easy, you should give it a try yourself if you think it is!

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On what day did God create Donald Trump, and couldn't he have rested on that day too

the idea of the President calling up Comey to say "hey, I thought about it some more, and the pee tape is definitely not real" is hilarious to me

Keep trying, Sarah

.@SHSanders45: "No, I can definitively say the president is not a liar. It's frankly insulting that that question would be asked."

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 8, 2017

oh cool more questions about Lynch

FINALLY we're getting to the important topic at hand, Hillary Clinton's emails

has Trump pissed in the drinking fountain at the white house

Ok Fine I'll be Potus if its what everyone wants

what if he's confused and all this stuff about piss and surveillance is because he did and he's afraid someone has it on video

Hahah well then

Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked again if there is any recording system in the Oval office, doesn't say no: "I have no idea."

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 8, 2017

Comey shouldn't have said "I'll see what we can do" but I'm impressed that he is admitting that he said that.

Rubio why are you being so pointed - Trump is no friend of yoru he called you sweaty and crazy