Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

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WH did not consult with NSA before letting Russian state media org TASS into Oval Office, per NSA Director Rogers

— Jessica Schulberg (@jessicaschulb) May 11, 2017

lmao

Rubio doesn't rule out special prosecutor but says after Intel acts. "Maybe that will eventually happen. Maybe not."

maybe fuck yourself, Marco!

"Good afternoon, Mr. American President. Please, accept normal microwave."

lol

Rubio doesn't rule out special prosecutor but says after Intel acts. "Maybe that will eventually happen. Maybe not."

awwww yeah I hadn't seen evidence of the Plankton with a Hairpiece's existence in months!

FBI staffed by grunge/alt-rock revival bands:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/10/new-fbi-boss-could-be-more-controversial-than-comey

It’s unclear if McCabe will be able to say anything to comfort FBI agents. One veteran agent in the FBI’s criminal division responded to a message from The Daily Beast this way: “Who cares, nothing matters, no one knows anything, everything sucks.”

*power chord*

.@POTUS is slated to meet with the Belgian prime minister & King of Belgium during his visit to Brussels later this month, per source

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) May 11, 2017

"You shake his hand first."

"No, you."

Over/under on the likelihood that the Oval Office is now bugged or that one of yesterday's visitors secured classified intel that was just lying around between like some takeout menus or that they swapped out Trump's phone with a replica that gives Russia a direct video feed of Trump's toilet tweeting seshes.

It’s unclear if McCabe will be able to say anything to comfort FBI agents. One veteran agent in the FBI’s criminal division responded to a message from The Daily Beast this way: “Crawling in my skin; these wounds, they will not heal.”

It’s unclear if McCabe will be able to say anything to comfort FBI agents. One veteran agent in the FBI’s criminal division responded to a message from The Daily Beast this way: http://33.media.tumblr.com/853c30dd79f1204b4bb071f414ea2649/tumblr_nnelqzIjOJ1qc3ju8o6_400.gif

Update on that earlier bit:

Meeting now in the Senate SCIF: Burr and Warner with ROSENTEIN and DANA BOENTE

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 11, 2017

(Boente being the temporary deputy AG handling Russian probe matters until Rosenstein arrived, and presumably still involved.)

SCIF referring to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Information_Facility

learned that from one of the last episodes of the americans!

Surely it's about time Jack Bauer had a crack at the top job

McCabe stated for the record today that they will not be updating the WH on the investigation. he'll probably get fired now

live look in at the senate SCIF

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Get_Smart-Cone-of-silence.jpg

the lack of sophistication on display in that economist interview is really something. he's even worse when he's pretending to know what he's talking about.

Maybe they're meeting about John Schindler and Rick Wilson's dump?

his insistence that he be recognized for using the phrase "priming the pump", like what a clever boy he is. i mean really...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address#Contemporary_sources_and_reaction

In a letter to Lincoln written the following day, Everett praised the President for his eloquent and concise speech, saying, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."[61] Lincoln replied that he was glad to know the speech was not a "total failure"

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/11/nyu-accidentally-exposed-military-code-breaking-computer-project-to-entire-internet/

This reminded me about Tombot mentioning the need for air-gapping systems

h'ray for me alma mater

Surely it's about time Jack Bauer had a crack at the top job

too left-wing iirc

Any guesses?

NBC News says it will break into programming with a special report in a few minutes, based on interview with POTUS.

— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) May 11, 2017

Ah, here we go

Lester Holt breaking: Trump says he'd decided to fire Comey before he met with Rosenstein and Comey, contradicting the official explanation.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 11, 2017

Trump on Comey: "He's a showboat, he's a grandstander." (The principled policy explanation is totally out the window.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 11, 2017

Trump: "Regardless of (the) recommendation, I was going to fire Comey."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 11, 2017

The big thing here: Trump is not even *pretending* that his own written lie, repeated over and over by his administration, is the truth.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 11, 2017

Also fun

"I know that I’m not under investigation. Me personally -- I’m not talking about campaigns," @realDonaldTrump tells @LesterHoltNBC today.

— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) May 11, 2017

NEW: Pres. Trump tells @LesterHoltNBC he specifically asked former FBI Dir. Comey if he was under investigation during a phone call

— Monica Alba (@albamonica) May 11, 2017

Waive that privilege you dumb fuck xp

There's no point in firing a guy to show your dominance and intimidate others if you can't claim credit for firing him! Hence, today.

— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 11, 2017

Guess the 'showboat' line basically confirms comey got shitcanned because trump was jealous of comey's screen time

jesus wept

reality has turned into the world's hackiest political satire

Some video!

BREAKING: I was going to fire Comey anyway, Pres. Trump tells @LesterHoltNBC in exclusive interview at White House https://t.co/MAmo1PE1RL

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 11, 2017

this decision probably weighed as much on him as one of these:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*8ha75MedBgIMIHgD16Rvjw.gif

I kind of which he'd said "He's a showboat, he's a grandstand."

his lack of self-consciousness is almost tasteful – this is why he'll never lose his base of support

I'm guessing Trump is lying as he does about everything, but Comey personally telling him that he wasn't under investigation would be...really unusual, right?

okay lol:

remember the obama era scandals pic.twitter.com/4DgHbt67Xt

— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) May 10, 2017

(self-replying before Morbs can go "HAHA HE KILLED CHILDREN WITH DRONES OH MY SIDES")

lol

we all know that's not scandalous, freedom aint free

comey got shitcanned because trump was jealous of comey's screen time

Yam's Razor indeed

Josh Marshall:

Last night came word that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly threatened to resign Tuesday night when he realized that the White House was making him the key decision-maker in the firing of James Comey. This tells us a lot, but not necessarily what it might appear on first notice. The main significance is that no more than 30 hours in, the White House’s absurd cover story about firing Comey over his misdeeds toward Hillary Clinton – a lie that virtually everyone at the White House has now publicly repeated and vouched for – is coming apart at the seams. We can also see the staggering fact that after no more than two weeks on the job, Rosenstein’s public reputation, which was formidable, has been destroyed. He now joins a legion of Trump Dignity Wraiths, men and women (though mainly men) of once vaunted reputations or at least public prestige who have been reduced to mere husks of their former selves after crossing the Trump Dignity Loss Event Horizon.

full piece here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-wraithing-of-rod-rosenstein

can we poll the Trump Dignity Wraiths

Lol trump dignity wraiths

Wraiths on wings!!!!!

https://cdn20.patchcdn.com/users/65079/20160718/033527/styles/T600x450/public/article_images/christrump-1468102400-1528-1468870523-1391.jpeg

Could mean anything but

Developing: FBI confirms agents are executing a search warrant at the office of GOP Fundraiser/Consulting firm in Annapolis

— Jayne Miller (@jemillerwbal) May 11, 2017

I hate to admit it but I am 100% in favor of what Trump did to Christie and am sad he hasn't had a chance to do it to Cruz and Rubio.