Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Law professors at Dartmouth and U-Iowa are stupid assholes, that's my takeaway.

― El Tomboto, Sunday, June 18, 2017 2:46 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*whispers* dartmouth doesn't have a law school

Is the president not not not not under investigation?

Well whatever the guy teaches that Grewal was tweeting @

Steely-eyed Trump laywer guy's media blitz is really amazing to watch. Both the CNN and Fox clips linked above... I mean it's two entirely different versions of a deranged non-answer. I guess I give the edge slightly to the CNN version where, when Trump Tweeted "I am being investigated," what he meant to type was "I am not being investigated" or maybe "The Washington Post says I am being investigated," but those would have taken him over the 141-character limit. Tapper, who can be forgiven for not anticipating this line of argument, has not run the numbers and thus cannot point out that the the actual tweet in question tops out at 111 characters so actually both of those would have fit just fine.

Also none of this matters because the tweet's implied argument is facile nonsense anyway but man, it's good to be reminded once again of just what cynical hacks high-paid lawyers can really be. Imagine the long billable brainstorming hours coming up with wtf he was going to say about this crap, then the moment of crystallization around this line of defense, and the deep breath of determination to bark it out, over and over and over and over. We're live in five, four... Game face on, reminder to self to mention the five ANONYMOUS SOURCES?!?!?!! as often as possible in a two-minute span. It's go time.

I saw that guy on Meet the Press this morning. My head was swimming trying to follow him--it reminded me of O.J. writing a book that explained how he would have done what he almost certainly did except he didn't really do it.

Lmao at that Fox clip.

"Let me be crystal clear..." <-- people who are never crystal clear after saying they will be amirite

Copyright:

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"Chuck, I think you're reading more into that tweet than what's there" (brain explodes)

To think that Chris Wallace is by far the best FOX anchor.

How is this real

Every thing Trump and his associates say or do is like the dumbest thing they could possibly do in that situation.

To think that Chris Wallace is by far the best FOX anchor.

Does Shepard Smith no longer work there?

it's a symptom of affluenza, is my latest theory. we need to raise taxes to help these fools

xpost

weird Rosenstein memo

Twitter rumor is that some European intelligence agency has some kompromat (but not the one mentioned from the Steele dossier) and is deciding whether and how to release it. Hence the odd wording about identifying the country of a source.

nice

Those of you who weren't obsessed with TBN in the 80s, Jay Sekulow is a longstanding evangelical dude. used to appear on PTL Club all the time with his legal take on stuff that, at the time, was quite fringe. He has decades of experience and is really dogged and focused in his goals, he's a real-deal ideologue. He also plays in a band with John Schlitt from Petra and John Elefante from Kansas, they do a mix of reactionary CCM & classic rock covers eg Boston.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om-oM-gXPEs

maybe you think you don't love CSNY but I guarantee this will make you feel bad for the violence done to a perfectly fine CSNY song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VfQricEyT4

sorry, not Y, just CSN, mea culpa mea culpa mea profunda culpa

wow, just wow

he was co-counsel for ISKCON before the Supreme Court in '92, defending their right to distribrute Krishna-conscious literature at the Port Authority; he prevailed. Over the years he has followed in the footsteps of his TBN peers and shown himself a man with no ethical mandate higher than "stay close to the action and never concede ground" - a good fit for his current boss. A very interesting article about him here: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/oldspeak/the_secrets_of_jay_sekulow

More on lawyers

NYT colleagues scoop that Kushner is looking to expand legal team, and reached out to Menendez lawyer Abbe Lowell https://t.co/Ovout9kctZ

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 19, 2017

it's getting to the point where these assholes are no fun anymore

can't they all just have a massive collective stroke

man it was cool hating this guy when he was just a blithering trump legal flack, but seeing him put his dirty fingers anywhere near "long time" just made it all too real

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/help-wanted-why-republicans-wont-work-for-the-trump-administration/2017/06/17/61e3d33e-506a-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html?utm_term=.acc770aadfc2

"Republicans say they are turning down job offers to work for a chief executive whose volatile temperament makes them nervous. They are asking head-hunters if their reputations could suffer permanent damage, according to 27 people The Washington Post interviewed to assess what is becoming a debilitating factor in recruiting political appointees.

"“I have people knocking down my door to talk to the presidential personnel office,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer. “There is a huge demand to join this administration.”"

Detail from that article: Senate has 25 work days left before recess. Any articles that has looked at the bare minimum of days they need to get the AHCA through, so we know the deadlines?

other people are asking the same question, frederik

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/06/can_republicans_really_pass_the_ahca_by_june_30.html

america is run by sociopaths

Thanks qualmsley, that's exactly what I was looking for!

If McConnell's deadline is June 30th then... There's less than two weeks to do it already, and that includes a CBO score, which, ok, they say could take just one week. But does anybody really know that? Or are they just hoping. Even so, it better come out today or tomorrow, I would think.

Did anyone write about it this weekend, because... They kinda needed to do a heck of a lot of meetings over the weekend, I would have thought, to ensure that they were close enough to 50, and... I don't get how anything then doesn't get leaked, what with congress members then needing to check with advisors, etc.

I don't wanna jinx it, but I'm beginning to doubt McConnell can do it.

I mean, by June 30th. The September reconciliation deadline probably unfortunately still achievable, and hell, they could just take another year and try again. Though I doubt they would wait for their tax cut that long.

"“I have people knocking down my door to talk to the presidential personnel office,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer. “There is a huge demand to join this administration.”"

That's actually called a protest- note their signs

I saw Chris Hayes refer to the idea of appending a substitute amendment to a bill which would be changed at the last minute in order to get the AHCA passed without being seen at all as a new strategy. I could swear I've heard this attempted somewhere before.
I watched a load of Colbert Reports and Daily Shows from the start of 2013 over the last couple of months, so wonderi9ng if it was there. Or was it tried somewhere else earlier this year?
Either way sounds like a revolting thing to try to do. Gosh do these people have no fellow feeling for those effected by the results of this bill?

I thought once they have their Mystery Bill, they plan to pass it in TWO days?

Gosh do these people have no fellow feeling for those affected by the results of this bill?

they sure do! they're excited to end the theft-by-taxes afflicting our blessed *job creators*

I thought once they have their Mystery Bill, they plan to pass it in TWO days?

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), 19. juni 2017 13:53 (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But they still need a CBO review. Which takes at least a week. Which means... this Thursday to the CBO at the very very latest, in order to get it passed by June 30th.

This seems like exactly the sort of thing they should rush in secret.

Pushback was pretty significant and effective last time. How in the world does anybody defend their vote on anything assembled in secret with no public debate? Last time they boasted they hadn't read the bill. This time, dozens of people haven't even seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Q72qYWxKQ

"Either way sounds like a revolting thing to try to do. Gosh do these people have no fellow feeling for those effected by the results of this bill?"

If there are enough loopholes and procedural wonky BS then basically there are in effect no rules at all and they can do whatever they can scheme up in their Legion of Doom HQ

just saw a report that the Republicans are considering cancelling a chunk of their summer vacation to work on their agenda. Summer school!

a whole party of irmfried eberls

But they were supposed to have their agenda done by now... Things aren't going according to plan, not for McConnell either, is all I'm saying. He will still do a fuckton of damage, of course.

According to an article I read last week (VOX?), keeping the bill out of sight has also quashed domestic opposition – or so the GOP hopes.

How hard can it be to hammer out an agenda that was so neatly summarized by Axl in the chorus of 'Civil War'?

Well, even with all the secrecy, CBO guidance, and a House bill to work from, they've been working for a month and a half and it has to be done really really soon.

and it will be! never fear! the kochs, the mercers, the scaifes, the bradleys, the de voses -- all the real people, represented by ALEC -- want tax cuts, and tax cuts they shall get! if 20,000,000 people lose healthcare, if 1,000,000s are subject again to medical bankruptcy, oh well -- small price for freedom and progress!

Hahahah Jason Chaffetz suddenly feels bold all of a sudden as he preps the exit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jason-chaffetz-slams-trump_us_59475dc5e4b01eab7a2eacc0

"almost as bad as obama" lol fuck that asshole, can't even get a dig at donald trump without being a piece of shit about it

he needs to fire the IRS chief, see

Gotta keep that sweet gig at Fox News (I assume).

https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files oooof