Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Everyone's favorite, but an interesting claim

🐦[A little bird tells me that a certain White House staff member whose name rhymes with Beeve Stannon is crapping diamonds over Parscale.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2017🕸]🐦

🎵SHITE BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND🎵

I'm pretty bored of Rick Wilson's wink-wink smarm.

Kasowitz suddenly seeming not entirely up to snuff...

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/16/trump-new-lawyer-john-dowd-fbi-investigation-239651

He should lawyer up.

Good times

https://www.apnews.com/amp/0172a576e8124251b5478818d1944632

Trump advisers and confidants describe the president as increasingly angry over the investigation, yelling at television sets in the White House carrying coverage and insisting he is the target of a conspiracy to discredit — and potentially end — his presidency.

Rick Wilson is a parasite xp.

Dude has just randomly inserted himself into the middle of the Russia scandal with these "hints" and he never seems to have much to contribute.

insisting he is the target of a conspiracy to discredit — and potentially end — his presidency.

Pick up Robert Ludlum's newest political thriller, The Self-Own Conspiracy, at your local B. Dalton today!

damn Rick I used Beve Stannon in a tweet yesterday I want my intellectual property back

One of the very few people who've mastered the trick of being photographed with Trump (and Melania!) without looking like an a-hole:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10104845083081603&set=a.10100500849450623.2619447.14227719&type=3&theater

the more Trump calls this a witchhunt, the more I think "dude you're speeding past Congressmen on a broom"

god this is tragic

Great news! #MAGA pic.twitter.com/pirHR7lAyT

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2017

trump looks like he's about to start crying ffs

Is Pence just going to pardon everybody once this whole thing comes to a supposed climax. Or how far down do you have to go before the likelihood of whoever the next Republican incumbent undoing all the detective work by rendering it moot outweighs the work done?

JUst heard that Bush pardoned most of the people found guilty over the Iran-Contra affair. Quite revolting.

omg that tweet

chad kroger hooked up w ben sasse's wife

― nice cage (m bison)

well maybe ben sasse shouldn't have fucked avril lavigne

xp If people lose power because of the obstruction charges alone, they'll likely all get pardoned. If there's actual provable collusion with Russia to manipulate the election, and people go to jail, I imagine they'll have to stay there for a minute.

Am I reading things wrong, or did Trump do just enough w/r/t Cuba to say he did something? It seems like a lot of the major Obama moves - establishing a US embassy, etc. - are staying in place. I mean, I hate the fucker (and Rubio just as much), but this actually seems like a weak, desperate-to-have-his-name-on-something-besides-an-investigation move to me. It's not like we've suddenly declared war on Cuba.

Seems like it's left business interests alone and fucked with individual citizens -- S.O.P.

you don't say

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-proving-too-stupid-183116604.html

yahoo: experts on stupid since the 1990s

Foreign Policy is the original source, so even better. (And Max Boot is...odd.)

Meantime, seems like shifting to this guy from Kasowitz is a lateral move:

Trump's newest lawyer, John Dowd, sent this email to a WSJ reporter during the Raj Rajaratnam trial. https://t.co/YeEfWAiP2C (@PreetBharara) pic.twitter.com/m25aYZcJVu

— Peter Lattman (@peterlattman) June 17, 2017

BTW this bit from the Georgia race yesterday is kinda amazing. That's not a Photoshop, Handel really did convey this with a 'doy?' expression.

Karen Handel tells mom of lesbian: ‘My faith calls me’ to stop your daughter from adopting a child https://t.co/6NDuDfnFH3 pic.twitter.com/hzmeWP6p1e

— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 17, 2017

It kills me that I live one district away from that race and, thus, cannot vote in it, because I have a sick feeling she's going to eke out a win.

That wacky Ben!

Ben Carson breaks with Trump: Give Mueller a chance in Russia probe https://t.co/hspsnoJmrP pic.twitter.com/KnZBkJn5ad

— The Hill (@thehill) June 17, 2017

Sad

Even sadder, this ad

Trump is running low budget Facebook ads fundraising off Russia investigation: pic.twitter.com/VemEDxJexu

— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) June 17, 2017

I wonder if he needs glasses or if that's his version of Blue Steel.

Thank u for the helpfully labelled picture of a witch hunt, didn't know what one looked like before.

So the fight against corruption by the corrupt is taking donations. Lovely.

He looks like he's crying yet again...

That Rasmussen tweet deserves some photoshopping and posting to his feed when it regress to its 43-45% mean.

I rather hope this is the signal of full bus underthrowing that I think it is.

Gingrich: Someone's going to jail in Russia investigation, but it won't be Trump https://t.co/L2bt2PfmpC pic.twitter.com/7F6GcmROX6

— The Hill (@thehill) June 17, 2017

He means Hillary

Amazing!

IN A NEW YORK MINUTE

OOOH OOOHH OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

they're not supposed to quit -- mr. trump is supposed to fire them!

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-doesnt-care-about-hiv-were-outta-here-626285

Whoops!

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke will not take Trump Homeland Security job https://t.co/MnJpnJSM46

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 17, 2017

i wonder if mr. trump will resign soon :(

A remarkable and plausible story from March which we missed:

Why FBI Can't Tell All on Trump, Russia (whowhatwhy.com)
https://whowhatwhy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/image06.jpg

That's so cartoonish but hey here we are. Also I think about Mailer's Kennedy theory that the FBI couldn't really get into Oswald because hey couldn't NOT prove that they didn't have a hand in it

Good NYT plunge into Flynn and his business world.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/us/politics/michael-flynn-intel-group-trump.html

It beautifully complemented my morning coffee a couple hours ago.

A useful peek behind the curtain

Sen. Angus King (I-ME), part of Senate Intel, tells @chucktodd collusion/coordination aspect of their invest. not over. "We are 20% into it"

— Kailani Koenig (@kailanikm) June 18, 2017

King adds Senate Intel's investigation is complex, involving thousands of pages of intel docs, lots of witnesses, etc. https://t.co/nAjF8C67MW

— Kailani Koenig (@kailanikm) June 18, 2017

Separately, a hilarity

Jake: So Trump said "I'm under investigation" even though he isn't?

Trump lawyer: The president isn't under investigation. It's that simple pic.twitter.com/BakMGggjFq

— David Mack (@davidmackau) June 18, 2017

we just tell him he is because it gets him aroused

laurence tribe has been compromised

Endorsement and validation of the conspiracy theories continue. Especially dangerous because, to public, it carries the Harvard imprimatur. pic.twitter.com/Hb2IAVMhcC

— Andy Grewal (@AndyGrewal) June 17, 2017

And with Ailes gone, Gabriel Sherman has a new white whale (and why not)

Source close to the WH told me other day that Bannon and Priebus have all but stopped trying to get Trump to stop tweeting insane things 1/2

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) June 18, 2017

Advisers stopped raising tweets with Trump because he lashes out when he's feeling controlled by staff. Legal team is pulling hair out 2/2

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) June 18, 2017

I honestly had wondered

For those wondering if Sheriff Clarke ever actually received a job offer, I've obtained a copy of the letter from DHS Human Resources pic.twitter.com/RIcZgDfThb

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 18, 2017

Well, of COURSE when you campaign explicitly against Federal employees, even the admins and mail-room ppl will hate you and work to thwart you.

I can't parse what I'm supposed to think about that lawrence tribe thing. is the level here "there's people who buy into false conspiracy theories that might help unseat the president OR that might not pan out and thereby strengthen the president's position?" or what, can somebody break this shit down for me

Serious question: why do reports on these urban/rural studies ONLY EVER TALK TO THE RURAL PEOPLE? https://t.co/azzwQ1qtmB

— Roy Edroso (@edroso) June 18, 2017