there’s a part of the book by
@lachlan
& me that probs won’t get excerpted anywhere, but i have a soft spot for it: President Trump would repeatedly derail WH/policy conversations he was having w/ Reince Priebus to ask him if Wisconsin badgers were mean to people & what they ate
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Sean Hannity being a client of Michael Cohen’s while also doing a bunch of segments on the raid, etc. without disclosing he’s been a client of Cohen’s is honestly not even cracking the top-3 most professionally/journalistically problematic things Hannity has been doing since 2016
Are we just gonna breeze past that trump and Giuliani and others on the re-election effort spent weeks talking about how Biden must be on drugs, only to shortly after have Trump apparently fucked up on steroids while leading the country
When President Trump has literally been shown data and charts by senior officials showing what year(s) the debt is expected to explode, Trump has referenced the first year & said “yeah, but I won’t be here.” That’s a direct quote
NEW: Trump has told aides he doesn’t care about the national debt in part because when it becomes truly untenable he will be out of office.
Via
@swin24
and
@lachlan
THERE IS NO NEW TONE, LITERALLY HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO DO THIS, THERE HAS LITERALLY NEVER BEEN ONE TIME WHERE HIS PREWRITTEN FORCED READINGS EVER STUCK WHAT ARE YOU DOING
Sources with direct knowledge tell me that the Mueller report is expected to be sent to DoJ sometime between this afternoon and when the sun eventually forms into a red dwarf and engulfs the planet in its entirety
all he had to do was keep the site up and running. even the most hysterical predictions of what could happen did not include "he would potentially kill the whole thing in two weeks"
interesting how Justice Thomas left Loving off of the list of decisions he’d like to reconsider/obliterate, wasn’t it based on the same or similar principles as the others and at roughly the same stretch of time…
WONDER WHY
Donald Trump got no one killed. He took all of Tony’s advice and pushed for three vaccines and bought 800 million doses.
In fact his shutdown endorsement helped destroy the economy.
American politicians were the victims of Communist China
In excerpt of a
@CBSSunday
interview to air tonight on
@CBSEveningNews
, former UN Amb
@NikkiHaley
ridicules notion of impeaching Pres Trump. "On what? You're going to impeach a president for asking for a favor that didn’t happen and – and giving money and it wasn’t withheld?"
let me drag my infected body down to the Oval Office and around other living beings so I can Work, says president whose administration has spent four years saying he can work from anywhere including any golf course in the world
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says President Trump wants to resume working from the Oval Office and they now have precautions in place to allow for that. Any staff coming in contact with him will wear gowns, gloves, mask, eye protection
This is 1 of the weirder stories I’ve reported on on this WH: a WH meeting between Trump & war veterans devolved into a bizarre debate where the president wouldn’t stop arguing to vets, including Vietnam vets, that it was Agent Orange not napalm in the famous APOCALYPSE NOW scene
Early on in the Trump administration, the president and Omarosa met with veterans organizations at the White House, only to end up fighting with them about napalm, "Apocalypse Now," and Agent Orange. “It was really fucking weird,” said one attendee
"According to three people familiar with events, Pruitt would not take out the trash during his time staying at the townhouse believing that a cleaning service would do it for him. There was no cleaning service that came with the apartment, however. And the garbage bags piled up"
when was the last time President Trump rage tweeted about the failure of mostly white politicians to solve the problems of crime and rodents in certain parts of Appalachia, thus suggesting that their other work was invalid because of their failure to fix generation-spanning ills
The hurling migrants at liberal cities and towns thing is narrowly funny in a meta way only because it’s premised on the assumption that everyone is as xenophobic and cold hearted as the governors and officials doing the hurling, and I don’t think they’ve once been proven right
why isn’t mr. Biden doing a post yet on how “sloppy Rudy Giuliani is in big trouble. Raided! He was so nasty to me and my beautiful boy (innocent! Check tape). Too bad!”
I just talked with a 'dead' voter. She's alive & well, charming & sharp at 96. The president's campaign said James E. Blalock had voted even though he died in 2006. It wasMrs. James E. Blalock. She voted legally against Trump. She first voted for FDR. Intvw shortly
@11AliveNews
Trump repeatedly muttered “fake news...” in the background next to Pence and Navarro as Kushner, at the mic, started answering
@GeoffRBennett
’s question about recent reports that Jared has been running a “shadow” coronavirus task force that’s been bumping up against the actual 1
insane part about the Mulvaney walk-back is that there were multiple reporters in the briefing room who you could tell were curious if Mulvaney ACTUALLY MEANT what he just said and several people gave him explicit chances, repeating what he'd said back to him, to walk it back…
a reason Team DeSantis people are incredibly funny because they envision a path to the guv routing Trump in a GOP primary & then they… think Trump will just fall in line, set aside primal ego, and do something for the good of the party because the Dems are their shared enemy
RAND PAUL: If we're going to investigate Giuliani, then we should investigate Hunter Biden.
@SRuhle
: Does that mean we should investigate how Kushner's family got foreign money? Ivanka's Chinese trademarks?
RP: If we want to go down the road of self-destruction, we can do that.
NBC, please just release a statement now saying Trump can do The Apprentice again, you might immediately stop the single dumbest coup attempt in modern history with a single press release
All that stuff about Obama appeasing dictators because they did negotiations with Iran is extra funny today, right after the WH says on the record that Trump is appeasing a dictator and regime with an even shittier human rights record because he personally is fond of the dictator
The McCarthy audio is another reminder of how virtually every major Republican player knew how historically, monumentally, uniquely bad Jan. 6 was when it happened, and they were gaming out damage control for a totally reasonable set of consequences. Funny what happens when…
Republican leaders for decades have constantly & very publicly been calling Dems “socialists” and “communists,” which they also like to say is just as historically bad as fascism, but the moment a Dem leader “semi” does it to them, it’s time for conservative pundits to lecture…
Karl Rove goes after Joe Biden for calling the MAGA philosophy "semi-fascism":
"He was not talking about people who assaulted the Capitol ... he was attacking the entire party ..."
(Juan Williams *correctly* points out to Rove Biden was not hitting "conservative Republicans.")
Kissinger wrecked the 1968 peace talks so that he could help candidate Nixon win the WH for his first term. Most of the years of McCain’s imprisonment and torture occurred after Kissinger, one of the worst people who’s ever lived, carried out that grotesque act to extend the war
some personal news: after 7 years at
@thedailybeast
, I’m taking a position as senior correspondent at a new Fox News primetime show titled, “The Calvin Candie Phrenology Hour.” The new job pays a high six-figures each year, and all I have to do is measure one skull a week
Wow. These
#JamesGunn
tweets are just horrible. Child rape is no laughing matter. As Texas SG, I handled far too many child sexual assaults. Truly evil. I’m glad Disney fired him, but if these tweets are true, he needs to be prosecuted.
I want to be incredibly generous for a second and ask in good faith:
How do you listen to a monologue like the Laura Ingraham one from last night (not at all dissimilar from what’s been blasted all around Fox News for years predating Trump, but w/e), and not hear visceral racism
I agree with professor Dershowitz’s legal argument that on Purge night, all violent crime is legal for a 12 hour period, and that calling 911 won’t help u for those 12 hours
Trump spent the night worrying and asking advisers if he’d pissed off his supporters with his stupid fucking video last night and if reactions to it were “good," per sources with direct knowledge, new per
@willsommer
and me:
Wow! Congratulations to Greg Gutfeld, a one time Trump Hater who has come all the way home. His Ratings easily beat no talent Stephen Colbert, nice guy Jimmy Fallon, and wacko “last placer” Jimmy Kimmel. Greg built his show from scratch, and did a great job in doing so.
@FoxNews
Can the people who, to pick just one thing, presided over what happened to so goddamn many americans in Puerto Rico a few years ago shut the fuck up about how they would have handled an ongoing crisis
WH Pool reports are supposed to be the most unbiased, dry facts reports on daily movement at the White House.
The Old Boys at WHCA giving radical leftist tabloid “THE DAILY BEAST” free leash to snake in not so subtle editorialized feelings into “official” WH updates.
Michael Cohen had told friends privately in the initial aftermath of the news of his role in the Stormy Daniels payment was, and I quote, “bullshit” and “fake news.” He is admitting to Maggie here that he was lying to close friends. Surprise!
“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly."
msnbc has been MATT LAUER MATT LAUER MATT LAUER all morning. Remember that the next time someone tries to spin you on, “oh it’s not weird Fox News isn’t covering O’Reilly or Ailes much. It’s not a network’s job to cover its own turmoil!”
If you grew up with the war on terror being force fed to you as a kid by adults, media, & insane national politics, it doesn’t stop feeling surreal that the country is basically on board with “oh yea after all that, the taliban likely just wins anyway. Ok, next”
We gave you, your lawyer, & Fox more than a day to respond to this reporting. You sent a statement, as we included, refusing to confirm or deny what we *actually* reported. We followed up repeatedly to get u to address what we’re reporting. You didn’t.
Neither does this tweet <3
Headline is a total and complete lie. Fake news strikes again!!
You have to read till the very last paragraph to get to the truth.
At least they printed my accurate quote, which contradicts their inaccurate headline unlike the NY (toilet paper) times.
it is increasingly funny to me that Sidney Powell was ejected by the Trump legal team and campaign for being too extreme, only to stay in touch with the president, and now start cucking the legal team
Rewatched that presser, from almost a year ago, where then-president trump stares for a moment at a chart in front of the WH press pool showing the possibilities for hundreds of thousands of covid deaths. It’s incredibly clear in that moment he’s going to let many people...
I am sorry for all the mean tweets about Elliott Abrams, it is incredibly unprofessional of me to think that disemboweling a brown peasant family and dancing around in a heap of their entrails, chortling as the lone survivor watches at gunpoint, is bad foreign policy
If you have unpleasant feels about someone who “supported dictators who murder children” then boi do I have some news for you about that name in your twitter handle, you might want to sit down for this
No, we are not, unlike your support for a communist, we did not support Trump in 2016, but against Bernie we will walk over glass for him.
You support a communist who supported dictators who murder children.
If you actually think Trump is doing a good job today and aren’t admitting even privately that you'd lose your shit if Obama between meeting shooting victims tweeted like “NASTY John Boehner did a great interview on Leno last night—NOT REALLY!!” then u have cat food for brains.
The U.S. believed the Colombian military was behind a wave of assassinations of leftist activists and yet spent decades deepening its relationship with the Colombian armed forces, newly released documents show.
Objectively speaking Corey Lewandowski is the biggest liar I’ve ever interacted with in Trumpworld, & that is saying something. I’m extremely confident a lot of others, including prominent Trump folks, would agree but yes fine call him to testify to curry Trump’s favor on live tv
For the vast majority of people wearing a mask is among the easiest, least offensive things to do, the fact that it became a partisan culture war during a pandemic is indicative of the health of the country. It’s like having a culture war over clipping finger nails
The “shithole” vs. “shithouse” and the “I” vs. “I’d” are both equally fucking dumb debates and potential differences without distinctions and if you’re wasting time on this, retire
Instead of filing your piece on is the resigning Nikki Haley now the smart anti-trump Republican, fill your bathtub with dirty water, throw your computer into the bathtub, and announce your retirement from society
I was standing right there and the reporters question was clear despite minimal “crosstalk.” It was clear to me and other folks in the room I’ve spoken to that he was addressing her Q, I heard him say “no” very clearly, then he proceeded to further address the question.
Former Trump lawyer, and current informal Trump adviser, John Dowd just called me unprompted, and repeatedly said or asked for “Jim Baker,” and it took me like half a dozen tries to convince him I wasn’t Jim Baker.
After I finished reporting this out and actually sat down to write it for a couple hours I could not get over how stupid everything is; just objectively, a uniquely stupid stupid time