Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

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

Meanwhile, I think all those movies Mnuchin's had a hand in are going to his head

Treasury's Mnuchin: U.S. won't default on its debt https://t.co/TWW69j5Txo @donnaborak pic.twitter.com/E8vHvJZM69

— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) June 9, 2017

When asked what those backup plans would be, Mnuchin referred to them as "Treasury secretary super powers." https://t.co/K59V5iJAjg

— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) June 9, 2017

Post-Comey Day life is kind of hard to adjust to. Everything else seems sort of lackluster...

It's like watching bowling on T.V. the day after the Super Bowl.

I could have watched that all day.

Whomp whomp

FreedomWorks: 2015 "House bill sucked and [Senate] fixed it. We thought they were going to do the same" this time https://t.co/eMvwCg5jvj

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) June 9, 2017

planting these quotes in the press is Lee and Paul maneuvering for leverage

Natch.

Osoff up 7 points in GA

He might win but he won't win by 7

yeah there's no way he'll notch a margin that wide but its encouraging to see him picking off independent and GOP votes

Uh...

#BREAKING: Justice Department lawyers argue Trump can accept payments from foreign governments https://t.co/FSZzg7vT91 pic.twitter.com/wMAMF4Hwcx

— The Hill (@thehill) June 10, 2017

What a great leader. He sets a great example for all the federal employees required to follow the hatch act

Fucking asshole

Granny D spake truth, alas. Pussy tape didn't sink this dude; likely no he-said/he-said inside-baseball shit will either. We need bushels of rubles in a car trunk / boxes of upper-Midwest ballots in a dumpster. We'll get neither, but I like that this is distracting and diverting energy.

Meanwhile

find spending cuts to pay for a tax overhaul... I’d like to find some spending cuts. We’re spending us into oblivion."

Yeah you can cut Big Bird and Meals on Wheels all day and it doesn't get you shit, because the convenient bogeyman of "government spending" is something like 65% geezers and 30% military. If you're not cutting either of those you're not serious about cutting spending, you're just looking for Culture War zings about how you killed a poetry grant program.

a DISABLED LESBIAN poetry grant program.

fulla poetry about SPOTTED OWLS