Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

McCain’s conduct during the Senate vote also raises red flags. In the C-SPAN video of the vote, McCain can be seen in heated discussion with John Cornyn, R-Texas, the number two man in the Senate leadership, along with John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and an unidentified Senator with his back to the camera. After yelling at them for close to a minute, McCain goes over to the Senate clerks and gives a thumbs down to record his vote. He then storms out of the chamber, as Cornyn raises his arms in mild protest.

heh

xp: that is the best typo

no wrestlemania caterers!

holy fuck re that methane vote

http://vz.cnwimg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/pasta.jpg

also McCain is the dude who apparently inflicted Sarah Palin on us in a fit of pique because he couldn't get the VP he wanted, so I 100% believe that reading of events

the video is fun

SOURCE: Trump demanded that all grand juries end or Comey would be fired.

Comey told Trump to fire him.

— Resistance DB (@davebernstein) May 10, 2017

this seems pretty implausible

Don't you trust SOURCE?

Comey though it a late April Fool's joke.

Trump is grappling with the harsh reality of governing and media scrutiny, which he has told friends he hoped would eventually abate, per R

didn't he give an interview where he mentioned he thought the media would stop going hard on him after he got the nomination? the man is...not very bright

the most amazing part of this is how Trump apparently was sure this was gonna be a slam dunk for him given that the Dems didn't like Comey either, completely oblivious to how this was going to come off

“Tell him, you know, it’s a think piece about a middling intellect struggling with his own limitations in the harsh face of power. He’ll wet himself.”

the most amazing part of this is how Trump apparently was sure this was gonna be a slam dunk for him given that the Dems didn't like Comey either, completely oblivious to how this was going to come off

― frogbs, Wednesday, May 10, 2017 12:58 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is probably the most unbelievable part to me -- like i know he's so, so dumb, but thinking dems/liberals would applaud this is delusional in the extreme

lol milo z

President Brainstem: 'People don't like taxes so we should just get rid of taxes. Everyone will love me and there's no downside.'

(shits pants)

yeah this is probably the most unbelievable part to me -- like i know he's so, so dumb, but thinking dems/liberals would applaud this is delusional in the extreme

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, May 10, 2017 2:05 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think he's that dumb. i think he thought this was his least bad option.

he might be that dumb

Trump apparently was sure this was gonna be a slam dunk for him given that the Dems didn't like Comey either

Yeah, if your house were burning down, you'd want all the available firefighters to show up. Even Kenny, who's on probation for public drunkenness.

Doesn't mean you like Kenny or think his indiscretions should be excused.

Fuckin' Kenny.

Sen. Mark Warner says he and Chmn. Burr have invited James Comey to testify before the Senate Intel Committee on Tuesday. — via @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/4zmnh8vQWs

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 10, 2017

Yes, I am currently enjoying how even after you've been fired, you can still be called to testify. And now you have less to lose.

Wonder if the "best people" in the WH have gamed out how that might go.

he might be that dumb

it's the classic question

i'm on the fence myself, but a point in favor of "he is that dumb" is that they were completely unprepared to handle criticism in the hours after the announcement. they had to scramble to get talking points out to their dumblings in time for their hastily arranged media appearances. if it truly was choosing the least worst option, you'd think they'd have at least the semblance of a communications gameplan.

Meantime...

Mark your calendar: CBO score on #AHCA coming May 22 https://t.co/wA596Dhywv

— Jeremy Pelzer (@jpelzer) May 10, 2017

Their entire MO is based on the idea that planning is something ineffective people do, which I think is more than adequate proof that Trump is dumb and is infecting everyone around him with his stupidity.

Guys, let's fire Comey.

We're gonna be legends!

the magic of the market will take care of everything

xpost

If he does testify on Tuesday I'm not sure I'd want to be sharing a plane with Comey before then.

lol PK

If he does testify on Tuesday I'm not sure I'd want to be sharing a plane with Comey before then.

― pickety third (stevie), Wednesday, May 10, 2017 2:16 PM (eighteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah he plays bejeweled on his phone with the volume way up

Man, Sarah Huckabee is sounding incredibly peevish as she explains to the press why we should all be ecstatic about Comey's firing.

"We're gonna be legends" is the new "hold my beer"

tbf they are now legends

Trump meeting with the Russian ambassador today, because of course he is

Huckabee, like her father, is both very stupid and constantly angry. He at least attempts to mask it with transparently phony jocularity. She doesn't bother.

and then dinner with Tricia and Julie

i'm just trying to envision how this guy would _handle_ a reichstag fire situation. he'd have people on the news networks but they'd have no talking points and no preparation and they'd get more of the big eye-rolls. then at five in the morning he'd start making a tweetstorm blaming the whole thing on whoever he doesn't like at that particular moment, like comey for some reason. and make a couple of tweets claiming loudly that he had nothing whatsoever to do with it and that accusing people of "false flag" operations was unpatriotic and unamerican. within five minutes hundreds of people would have tweeted back to him his own tweets accusing president obama of "false flag" operations. in the meantime ivanka would have accidentally retweeted a message laying out the case for the fire being a false flag operation.

five days later, on a friday afternoon, he would put out an executive order roughly paralleling the reichstag fire decree. the executive order would be suspended by the courts over the weekend. another 5 am tweetstorm follows. in the meantime some journalist would be arrested for asking nosy questions and fined fifty dollars.

too bad planning is bad i was hoping they planned to reopen hilary investigation before weekend. i know the perfect candidate for that job!

Trump meeting with Russian ambassador in oval office AND American press not invited in, only the Russian press!

xxpost You forgot the White House website selling American flags with the logo "This Flag Ain't False" until they have to be pulled when it's discovered the ink is 70% fetus blood.

Rumblings, unsurprisingly:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/inside-the-fbi-stunned-agents-wonder-about-future-of-russia-inquiry.html?smid=tw-share

Agents were stunned that Mr. Trump would fire Mr. Comey in the midst of an F.B.I. investigation into whether any of the president’s associates had conspired with Russia to swing the election in favor of Mr. Trump. Some said in interviews that news of the firing felt like a gut punch. Others wondered whether they would be able to continue the inquiry.

One senior F.B.I. official said that the president had severely damaged his standing among agents, many of whom are conservative and supported Mr. Trump as a candidate. Agents were angered by the way Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey, who learned of his dismissal from television reports while he was in Los Angeles. They called it disrespectful.

the president had severely damaged his standing among agents, many of whom are conservative and supported Mr. Trump as a candidate

sounds like some real bright guys

oddly the FBI was probably the *one* intelligence agency in his corner, no? now they'll hate him too. Comey probably thought he was doing some Hoover-level shit and just couldn't pull it off/misread Trump.

Now I weirdly want to hear rushomancy game out a Trumpoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident

Who knows what was happening with that investigation. I don't get the impression Comey was friendly toward Trump tbh, email letter aside

Worth noting (maybe mentioned earlier)

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/10/russia-probe-senate-requests-documents-from-money-laundering-watchdog-agency.html

The Senate panel has requested information about President Donald Trump and his top aides from a financial intelligence unit in the Treasury Department that imposed a $10 million civil penalty on Trump Taj Mahal in 2015 for multiple violations of money-laundering laws.

The Senate Intelligence Committee wants to see any information relevant to its Russia investigation the Treasury agency has gathered, including evidence that might include possible money laundering, according to a committee aide who spoke on condition of anonymity. Also at issue: to what extent, if at all, people close to Vladimir Putin have invested in Trump's real estate empire.

...

Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has assisted in the ongoing FBI counterintelligence investigation into Trump administration ties with Russia, multiple U.S. officials have said. A former senior Treasury official said that agency would have the authority to demand from any bank with a U.S. branch, including foreign banks, relevant records of transactions by Trump, his family members or his associates. FinCEN also maintains databases of reports of suspicious and cash transactions.

I don't get the impression Comey was friendly toward Trump tbh, email letter aside

I don't think he was friendly, but the handing-him-a-victory while potentially-having-dirt-on-him is such a Hoover scenario. The problem is Trump is crazy and stupid, so whatever leverage Comey may have thought he had over Trump obviously didn't work.

Ah that's what you meant.

Maybe.

this has to actually result in something, right? right? I mean this is so much worse than Nixon at this point barring the ordering of a physical break-in but seriously

this is just like comically bad and awful

nah gop will burn this all to the ground before you take away their tax cuts and 40 year old fed judges