Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

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.

Minor details:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/trumps-disclosure-endangered-spy-inside-isis-israel-officials/story?id=47449304

The life of a spy placed by Israel inside ISIS is at risk tonight, according to current and former U.S. officials, after President Donald Trump reportedly disclosed classified information in a meeting with Russian officials last week.

The spy provided intelligence involving an active ISIS plot to bring down a passenger jet en route to the United States, with a bomb hidden in a laptop that U.S. officials believe can get through airport screening machines undetected. The information was reliable enough that the U.S. is considering a ban on laptops on all flights from Europe to the United States.

The sensitive intelligence was shared with the United States, officials say, on the condition that the source remain confidential.

“The real risk is not just this source,” said Matt Olsen, the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and an ABC News contributor, “but future sources of information about plots against us.”

It's such a stupid theory that Comey made it up

god Chaffetz is going to be hilarious on Fox's idiot hour

Not that comey is beyond reproach -- far from it -- but come on. It wouldnt be his style at all

Bald guy on cnn making a case that if this were true comey should have gone public on the spot. He "has a credibility problem."

😕

who knows wtf is going to happen, but if Sessions goes down with all of it i'll be ecstatic

my daughter was asking me what if Pence was also implicated/guilty of something involving Trump and I wasn't sure how that would work (can the vice president be impeached?) Shit, maybe if they both go down we'll finally get PRESIDENT RYAN

These people are so stupid that Krauthammer comes off a smart man merely by pointing out that job preservation and naked self-interest are precisely why Comey might not have resigned.

can the vice president be impeached?

yes. The discussion arose when Agnew was caught with money in the drawer. He resigned before anything happened.

ah thx yeah I knew Agnew resigned and why but I didn't recall any impeachment talk

I assume Pence will resign too. He was shown to have been untruthful about what he knew about Flynn.

President Ryan would suck but I don't imagine a shamed Republican Party will be able to advance their agenda.

Pence was at least untruthful about knowing about Flynn way before he admitted to.
Not sure what else he's done but hoping he goes too, though President Ryan would not be good.
Hoping all of the Trump appointees spend long years in jail or die painfully. Though dragging out the pain would be so much better, innit?

lol what if proceedings begin > Dems win House in 2018 > Trump and Pence both impeached = PRESIDENT NANCY

I would think the odds of impeachment proceedings coming to fruition before the 2018 election are p slim

but who knows shit is moving super-fast!