Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

it's been an Infrastructure Week to remember, that's for sure

Omg Romanian president just called out Trump for lying

— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) June 9, 2017

Trump said there was no discussion of visa waivers... Romanian counterpart looks at him, says there was https://t.co/am4vbT5xLT

— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) June 9, 2017

Lying might be the charitable explanation.

Cannot wait for the release of the Comey Tapes

Trump: Jim, hi, come in and sit down.
Trump, in a high-pitched and annoying voice: Oh, hi, Mr. President. You are looking great today, bigly. It makes me look very, very much like a loser, which I am. It's true.

Oh BTW

Romney reveals in Park City that HILLARY encouraged him to consider Sec State job

— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) June 9, 2017

Cannot wait for the release of the Comey Tapes

Trump: Jim, hi, come in and sit down. Gosh you're so big, so strong

Whoops!

Poll: View of the American Health Care Act. pic.twitter.com/CZqCGrJfsE

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 9, 2017

yeah. surprisingly even republicans seem to know what's up with this issue. it would be catastrophically dumb for the republicans to proceed further.

Trump says he would "100 percent" be willing to dispute Comey's testimony under oath.

The obvious conclusion is that Trump knows (or perhaps assumes) there are no tapes of these conversations. One only has to look for motives. Comey had zero motive to fabricate this stuff, but Trump has every motive to deny the truth of what Comey said.

maybe he knows he's backed into a corner and is just trying to stall. keep the party rolling as long as possible.

Trump will 100% testify. After America is great again. And after his taxes are released. And after his lawyers say it's ok. And after he's dead.

it would be catastrophically dumb for the republicans to proceed further.

gee WILL THEY?????

yeah was gonna say I'd be stunned if this is anything more than bluster

Trump testifying, that is. ACHA is gonna plow ahead full stream obv

Comey's motive is that he's a SHOWBOAT

talking to Mueller /= "testifying" in the sense that Comey just did

A. He's bluffing

B. He's lied under oath in depos REPEATEDLY, but this ain't some NYC real estate kerfuffle.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 9, 2017

but yeah it's just bluster, he isn't going to do that

yeah I feel like the President of the United States lying repeatedly lying under oath might even shake the GOP a little

he's basically guaranteed to have to testify to mueller at some point right?

just remembering when Hillary sat there for hours under oath

trump testifying under oath would be the biggest TV event ever, i mean you'll never have seen such huge ratings

this is true

Bluff called

House Intel to White House — hand over Trump's Comey tapes if they exist pic.twitter.com/EsjgcFg9qO

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 9, 2017

Trump hasn't been a Washington DC politician, so he doesn't grasp that the coverup always ends up putting you in worse trouble than the original infraction. You might be able to spin the infraction to limit the political damage, but when you lie repeatedly and keep on lying and they are proved by the facts to be sheer bald-faced lies, you're dead meat.

Because how many Republican members of Congress are going to step up and tell the media and their constituents, "Hell, for all I care, he can do whatever shit he wants to and then lie his head off, as long as he signs this big tax cut for my millionaire contributors. Shoot, I'd do the same stuff if I thought I could get away with it."

uh, all of them?

I think that's what Ryan is blinking in Morse code.

None of 'em will say it on camera, even if all of 'em think it.

You might be able to spin the infraction to limit the political damage, but when you lie repeatedly and keep on lying and they are proved by the facts to be sheer bald-faced lies, you're dead meat.

And when you're caught on tape bragging about sexual assault, your days as a politician are over.

sleeve otm

Trump isn't gonna hand over shit to the House Intel committee and there's nothing they can do about it

Also of note

Senate Judiciary calls on Comey's friend to provide any memos Comey shared with him pic.twitter.com/RFesVcS0tH

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 9, 2017

None of 'em will say it on camera, even if all of 'em think it.

you're right, they will say this is all "very concerning" and maybe "inappropriate" and they will "get to the bottom of it" and then will do the exact opposite

Mo Brooks of Alabama loves appearing on Chris Hayes to flaunt his affection for killing sick people.

i desperately hope there are tapes, because everything i've learned about trump would suggest that what would scan to him, even on review, as a completely normal and appropriate conversation would strike anyone else as being very much the opposite (cf his "locker room talk"). and since he seems to be able to run roughshod over his own counsel, we might be treated to the spectacle of trump proudly and boastfully incriminating himself under oath and on television

wishful thinking to assume that the republicans would find their conscience or that the dems would capitalize but dare to dream

If there's one thing Trump knows, it's television ratings. Sorry, Arnold.

If the tapes exist (they don't) literally the only thing that would account for them not making an appearance so far is that they're being doctored/fabricated. And then Trump could feign shock - OMG, if these tapes are fake, what else could be fake? - and everyone would look at him like he's an idiot.

The New York attorney general, which has been investigating the Donald J. Trump Foundation for months, is now looking into the Eric Trump Foundation, after a report in Forbes exposed practices that seem to violate state laws.

GOP/right-wing media is already making the argument that asking Comey to stop the investigation and then firing him is not a crime. FBI director reports to the President, and the President can do whatever he wants.

I'm not sure the courts agree, but this is their angle and they are pushing it aggressively and it will be used as cover to GOP Congress.

also yeah come on guys this is the 21st century/digital era, there are no "tapes"

I know it's wrong but would get even more feelings of joy if ET ended up behind bars than if his old man did.

mp3s

Field recordings mixed by Avey Tare.

Remixes with guest verses from Kanye

The most fire mixtape

EVER!

Trump, confused by the request, hands over his entire collection of Girls Gone Wild

I know it's wrong but would get even more feelings of joy if ET ended up behind bars than if his old man did.

I do think that's wrong, I have come to see the adult sons as villains who were made so, who were broken by growing up with Trump, of whom there is nothing left but the unsatisfiable need to be asshole ENOUGH to prove themselves to dad. Nothing would satisfy Trump more than to see the sons in jail -- SEE? I TOLD YOU YOU WERE A PUSSY

yeah trump's not going to suddenly break down and cry, "you massacred my boy!" as he watched Eric driven off to a minimum security country club prison for a six month stretch.

Someone (here? elsewhere?) told that story of Eric - or Don Jr? - being picked up at his U Penn dorm by dad to go to a baseball game, and when his dad saw him in sweatpants he allegedly slapped him and told him to put on a suit.

Nov. 3:

As many of you know, I attended the University of Pennsylvania with Donald Trump Jr. I feel compelled to share this story before the election, in the hopes that it will shed a bit of light on the kind of person that Donald Trump is, and the kind of son that he raised.
I was hanging out in a freshman dorm with some friends, next door to Donald Jr.'s room. I walked out of the room to find Donald Trump at his son's door, there to pick him up for a baseball game. There were quite a few students standing around watching, trying to catch a glimpse of the famed real estate magnate. Don Jr. opened the door, wearing a Yankee jersey. Without saying a word, his father slapped him across the face, knocking him to the floor in front of all of his classmates. He simply said "put on a suit and meet me outside," and closed the door.
Donald Jr. was a drunk in college. Every memory I have of him is of him stumbling around campus falling over or passing out in public, with his arm in a sling from injuring himself while drinking. He absolutely despised his father, and hated the attention that his last name afforded him. His nickname was "Diaper Don," because of his tendency to fall asleep drunk in other people's beds and urinate. I always felt terrible for him.
I am voting for Hillary Clinton for a number of reasons, her opponent notwithstanding. However, in light of what I saw that day, it is clear to me that Donald Trump lacks the temperament and basic social decency to run our country.

Yeah this made a big impression on me, I find it almost impossible to disbelieve