Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

"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!

Ryan is deeply unpopular. He'd be an embattled, despised president for three years -- our country could weather if better than we can a maniac with a cult following.

Didn't Pence tell Trump he thought he should fire Comey? I guess that in and of itself doesn't make him an accessory, unless he knew the intent was to stifle the Russia thing?

PRESIDENT NANCY

jfc that's horrifying in a whole nother way

Of note:

Source close to Comey on why he didn't report to Congress about that convo w/Trump in which he asked him to stop the Flynn investigation:
1/

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 16, 2017

“Because it wasn’t a very successful effort and he thought he’d pushed back on it. ..
2/

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 16, 2017

"He was very sensitive to how difficult this was going to be to work with this president; he also thought he could do it.”
3/

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 16, 2017

Pence is only where he is bc trump picked him. It would be idiotic for him to stay on.

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

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 6:23 PM (twenty-five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the ultimate argument for the GOP to cut bait immediately.

heh

President Nancy would be a dream compared to any of the Republican goons.

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Disheartening Line of Succession

1 Vice President Mike Pence (R)
2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R)
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch (R)
4 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R)
5 Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R)
6 Secretary of Defense James Mattis (I)
7 Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R)
8 Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke (R)
9 Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue (R)
10 Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (R)
11 Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta (R)
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price (R)
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson (R)
– Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao (R) Not a natural-born citizen, ineligible for the Presidency.
14 Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (R)
15 Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (R)
16 Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin (I)
17 Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly (I)

or Trump gets impeached, fires Pence and appoints ... Eric Trump!

Comey and team are flooding the zone. Over at Politico

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/trump-comey-flynn-shutdown-238467

"It's very rich in detail and hopefully it will come out soon,” the friend of Comey, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told POLITICO. "There are other memos about his meetings too. He wrote down every word Trump said to him as soon as he could."

I assume Pence will resign too.

haha no way. they'd have to drag him out of there. which, fuck, they just might.

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

they'd keep trucking on like nothing happened (as long as they have a majority). those guys do not give a fuck. and Ryan would be "clean".

During the election someone mentioned Trump's little known identical twin brother "Ronald"

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Disheartening Line of Succession

jesus goddamn christ that is a fucking horror show

Grasp any straw in the wind...

An emerging, consistent line coming from Trump defenders outside admin tonight: Trump’s comments to Comey don’t constitute a “request”

— Will Rahn (@willrahn) May 16, 2017

Haha

or Trump gets impeached, fires Pence and appoints ... Eric Trump!

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 7:30 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ wld have to be ratified by both houses but... WHY NOT!? xp

As of 7:15 pm - there is still no lid at the White House.

— Joshua Hoyos (@JoshuaHoyos) May 16, 2017

Lid meaning:

@Bristy @maggieNYT When the WH press office tells the press that there won't be anymore news for the day - essentially the you can go home for the night

— Joshua Hoyos (@JoshuaHoyos) May 16, 2017

So like who is the source of these leaks? Did Comey greenlight them himself?

the best case scenario is Trump serves the full term imo

Seeing more and more folks (Amash, etc.) saying Comey needs to testify in open session. Which...is exactly what Comey wants.

http://www.outrightgeekery.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/sexy-picard.jpg comey, as i imagine him at this moment ^

Simon, no

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.

why would you assume any of this? no one is resigning without being forced out. you think mitch mcconnell cares that you think he's a hypocrite? neither do any of these other dudes

Ryan would actually be the wettest dream for GOP POTUS

assuming the repubs hold the line no matter what - which is looking pretty likely, given how good they are at it - I see nothing good coming from President Ryan or Pence, whereas the sheer shame of 4 years of Trump would help to more effectively tarnish the repub brand for a long time. plus it trashes the sanctity of the office and other commonly held assumptions about "electability" or whatever which is also good and helpful imo