Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

usual CW applies to Trump via his advisors. I grant he is capable of blowing them off, but I think he'll go, then undermine himself further through ill-considered tweets and veiled remarks during photos ops

Well the saudi regime absolutely is to blame for the rise of Salafism.

Hello.

Post reports memo was shared w/ DOJ. If Sessions & Rosenstein knew this when they signed off on his firing, their positions aren't tenable. https://t.co/2Sb7eQtJIU

— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) May 16, 2017

But whatever.

No more Trump. I'm going to be able to sleep at night. *knocks on wood.*

Oh and

@jaketapper More from @jaketapper source: Trump asked Sessions and Pence to leave before saying this https://t.co/ePgZGUmq0M https://t.co/otqDNoVn5F

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) May 16, 2017

their positions aren't tenable

perhaps under the old rules. we'll be seeing soon what rules apply as of today. but sessions "recusal" seems more phony all the time.

man a bunch of people are going to go down over this, it really is Watergate x 10

TPM:

With the latest revelation – that President Trump straight up asked James Comey to end the Flynn investigation – this is starting to feel like a prize fight where one boxer just took three straight punches to the head. It’s hard to know how much longer this can go on. But I suspect the answer is this: a lot longer.

at least until 2018!

I just asked @DarrellIssa abt the Comey news and he flicked me off -- literally gave me the middle finger -- and kept walking. Said nothing

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 16, 2017

Just saw that! Beautiful.

xp: Finally reading Lawrence of Arabia's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and he goes off on how crazy and generally despised the Wahhabis are.

about time for Flynn to get squeezed hard by the FBI or a prosecutor. you know he's got some goods on trump and it's time to make him cough them up.

fuckin Issa

he asked for immunity like 90 days ago lol xp

POO: 'flicking off' vs 'flipping off'

people still follow rick wilson huh

I'll admit to dipping back in last week when they were advertising some new development that turned into a blog post of failure by louise mensch

House Republicans are ducking right now. BIG time.

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 16, 2017

Add it to the list: Nunes, no comment. Conaway, no comment. lobiando, no comment.

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 16, 2017

I just love how two months back Nunes was acting like the center of the universe and now...

re rick wilson god he's such a prick. like cool you hate trump but stop telling everybody how the dems would so totally win if they'd just all just become pro-life and stop trying to 'take all the guns'

Schumer moments ago: “The country is being tested in unprecedented ways. I say to all of my colleagues in the Senate – history is watching.” pic.twitter.com/zVXFzpSI4X

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 16, 2017

i'm enjoying this

when is he supposed to go on that trip? today? tomorrow? i love that he's "dreading" it

Friday.

*Nelson laugh*

.@FoxNews reporting on the air now that they can't get a Republican member on the air right now to defend Trump

— Sarah Westwood (@sarahcwestwood) May 16, 2017

lmao

Apparently Burr has had some second thoughts...

.@jimsciutto reports that Sen. Burr, chair of Senate intel committee, is "not ruling out subpoenaing" Comey docs and tapes if they exist.

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 16, 2017

Rep. Steve Knight (R-Palmdale) said Tuesday it is time for a special prosecutor to take over the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“It is time for an investigation of Russia’s intervention in the U.S. election. There is too much at stake at home and abroad to not take this step. There is so much conflicting information from many sources; Americans deserve the opportunity to learn the truth," Knight said in a statement. "As stated before, I continue to support any efforts done by the House Intelligence Committee and join many of my colleagues in supporting the assignment of a special prosecutor to take over the ongoing FBI investigation.”

Knight joins two fellow California Republicans -- Reps. Darrell Issa of Vista and Tom McClintock of Elk Grove -- who have previously said that a special prosecutor, rather than the Justice Department, should be in charge of the ongoing investigation into how Russia sought to interfere with the election and what, if anything, the Trump campaign knew about it.

Knight and Issa both represent districts Hillary Clinton won in 2016, and are on the Democrats' early list of targets in 2018.

A full-throated defense! Uh.

Republican @RepCharlieDent to @AlexNBCNews: "If that's the case, it's a very serious matter, and we're going to have to deal with it." pic.twitter.com/EPyMRYb0Sc

— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) May 16, 2017

Me: hi Congressman have you seen this NYT story

GOP member: no

Me: ok I'll summarize it

GOP member: [frantically pushes elevator button]

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) May 16, 2017

there's been an argument made that a special prosecutor isn't the best way to go, that an independent commission would be better because more free-ranging, but I'm not sure what to think about that

Is it too much to hope that Bade has video? I know I'm feeling spiteful, but I fervently hope this turns in to a slow and painful losing battle filled with shame for Trump, Pence, all of the plutocrats in the cabinet, Ryan, McConnell and every other spineless, soulless republican in house and the senate. They deserve nothing less

FOX Panel sez media is overreacting.

Well let's look into more of that Israel trip planning and

Sources in Israel tell me officials are concerned that if POTUS & First Lady visit Kotel together (on the men's side) it may spark protests.

— Jake Turx (@JakeTurx) May 16, 2017

To clarify: Israeli sources claim POTUS, FLOTUS & Ivanka plan to visit men side of Kotel, a very sensitive issue for many Orthodox Israelis. https://t.co/1iDfr98u5S

— Jake Turx (@JakeTurx) May 16, 2017

I'm enjoying the schadenfreude as much as anyone else but the options are still continued chaos in the White House vs President Pence. Not good from any angle

to be honest, the public doesn't understand the difference between an independent counsel (the law would have to be renewed to revive this position), special prosecutor, and independent committee.

I want a prosecutor because I'll admit to feeling quite Javert right now.

special prosecutor is preferable imo

to be honest, the public doesn't understand the difference between an independent counsel (the law would have to be renewed to revive this position), special prosecutor, and independent committee.

i sure don't!

this is the chaos ballet

President Pence as a sympathetic noble figure is a fucking nightmare. Anyone wishing for that is a fool.

Trump continually bumblefucking and ruining GOP poll numbers is the best thing you can hope for before 2018.

― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Tuesday, May 16, 2017 5:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg if one more person posts this insane shit ITT

CNN quotes anonymous sources that @realDonaldTrump had 3 scoops of ice cream and called it an ice cream Comey.

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 16, 2017

9-11 Commission = independent committee

Ken Starr - independent counsel

Patrick Fitzgerald = special counsel

Dying. (Hurd: another GOP House member.)

Will Hurd is mad at me for following him during his fake phone conversation

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) May 16, 2017

Oh hey, look who's all rough and tough now!

.@GOPoversight is going to get the Comey memo, if it exists. I need to see it sooner rather than later. I have my subpoena pen ready.

— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) May 16, 2017

"If it exists!" What a fool.

I can see his pen!

Fuck you weasel

Comey doesnt seem like the lying type to me. Trump though

It's gonna be a long month.

breaking news american national anthem has been changed to the fast music that plays when you're running out of time in super mario bros

— Clark Kent (@CK1Blogs) February 2, 2017

I can see it now.

Chaffetz: Fork over that memo, Comey! Sooner rather than later. You see this pen?

Comey: (sheepishly) O, nevermind. I was just foolin' around.