Former President and Convicted Felon Trump Thread

figmentPez

figmentPez

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The infighting among Republicans is heating up. The ship is sinking, and they've realized there aren't enough life rafts to go around.

Chief of staff John Kelly describes Trump as an "idiot" and "unhinged," Woodward reports. Defense Secretary James Mattis describes Trump as having the understanding of "a fifth or sixth grader." And Trump's former personal lawyer John Dowd describes the President as "a fucking liar," telling Trump he would end up in an "orange jump suit" if he testified to special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn saw a draft letter he considered dangerous to national security on the Oval Office desk... "I stole it off his desk," Cohn told an associate. "I wouldn't let him see it. He's never going to see that document. Got to protect the country."
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Former staff secretary Rob Porter worked with Cohn and used the same tactic on multiple occasions, Woodward writes. In addition to literally stealing or hiding documents from Trump's desk, they sought to stall and delay decisions or distract Trump from orders they thought would endanger national security. "A third of my job was trying to react to some of the really dangerous ideas that he had and try to give him reasons to believe that maybe they weren't such good ideas," said Porter, who as staff secretary handled the flow of presidential papers until he quit amid domestic violence allegations.
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ScytheRexx

ScytheRexx

Really, we are watching a man whose entire life was built around using strong-arm business tactics, backroom deals, secrecy, and false statements. To him the truth has only ever been what he said it was. Who was going to tell him otherwise? His employees? Maybe if they wanted to be fired, as his old catchphrase used to say. They say old habits die hard, and he simply can't adapt to the scrutiny he is under, so he just keeps lying in the hopes it might work someday like it did in the past.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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GasBandit said:
Maybe it was a draft letter the president was penning himself, and Cohn hoped he'd forget he was writing it if it disappeared.
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That might not be far from the truth. I imagine it was a draft from some staffer, ordered to write it because Dolt45 had one of his "brilliant" ideas, which he probably forgot about moments after ordering the draft written.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

I juat went cross eyed reading that transcript. I can't imagine being on the other side of the phone for...whatever that was? Trying to de-legitimize the book before it even comes out?
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

How terrifying is it that cheetos lawyer argued that it was in the interest of national security not to expose him to the world as a fucking moron.

And Mueller, "I understand."
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

He has the best tweets. I think you'll find in the history of tweets, no other president has..and by the way, there was no collusion! Where's the collusion? The economy is great, unemployment is better than, like ever. Sessions never did take control of the justice department. SAD!
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Tinwhistler said:
He has the best tweets. I think you'll find in the history of tweets, no other president has..and by the way, there was no collusion! Where's the collusion? The economy is great, unemployment is better than, like ever. Sessions never did take control of the justice department. SAD!
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I think it's gonna take more than a claim of Seasonal Affective Disorder to explain away what he's been doing.

--Patrick
 
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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

White House official, identity withheld by New York Times, writes op-ed about resistance to Trump in the White House.

He worded it in a way to throw suspicion on Pence.

Trump not only had another Twitter tantrum, but a press conference about it which was largely nonsense.

I'm tired.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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I'd be a lot more entertained by all this infighting among the Republican party, if I didn't worry that they'll take down the whole country with them. Or, worse, the Trump faction will impose some sort of martial law and just start executing anyone who dissents.
 
Gared

Gared

figmentPez said:
I'd be a lot more entertained by all this infighting among the Republican party, if I didn't worry that they'll take down the whole country with them. Or, worse, the Trump faction will impose some sort of martial law and just start executing anyone who dissents.
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Well, he did say that this amounts to Treason - and he should know.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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I think we've moved from "ass covering" to "throwing people under the bus" and I'm honestly worried there may be people literally pushed out in front of busses (or some other form of suspiciously coincidental "accident").
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

HCGLNS said:
It is just ghinly veiled cover your assing for after the eventually cheeto demise.
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It really is. This exists so the Republican Party can go "But look! We TRIED to stop him!", despite showing no evidence of it. If anything, it's evidence of a coup; we have unelected officials and... random White House staffers making decisions on national policy by controlling what Trump gets access to.

There is nothing noble about any of this. It's just another form of subversion.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

If secret service agents have to do the whole "enemies both foreign and domestic" oath, then every day they don't shoot trump in the back of the head is a day they fail it.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

blotsfan said:
If secret service agents have to do the whole "enemies both foreign and domestic" oath, then every day they don't shoot trump in the back of the head is a day they fail it.
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Trump isn’t an enemy, exactly. He’s just grossly inadequate for the position.

—Patrick
 
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