Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

is America great again yet

president hatch will be the greatest president yet

good [unintelligible]!

president hatch will be the greatest president yet

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full of promise, fails to deliver - sounds presidential alright

Charlie Dent said on CNN moments ago that of course Kevin McCarthy was making a joke -- "he's a funny man, a facetious guy."

The "joke" is among the least damning things in there. LOL at "we never said that." "But we have you on tape." "Oh in that case I was just joking, man, where's your sense of humor."

Has "I was just joking" ever held up as a defense in court?

i remember it not coming across brilliantly in the dahmer trial

doubling back a bit I will go on record as thinking it would be a bad development for us all if donald trump started carrying on a secret double life as an airline pilot. maybe just lock him up in a very elaborate flight simulator in the white house basement, where he can go "vrrrrroooom!!!'' and press all the colorful buttons at no risk to anyone. for the next three and a half years, say.

There have been a number of documented shots of him sitting behind the wheel going "vroom."

And we're off!

With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special councel appointed!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2017

This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2017

'special councel' ffs

Just let Trump be Trump.

yeah man keep on tweeting

after a couple of days of suspiciously uncharacteristic activity on trump's twitter he's presumably managed to find his phone's hiding place, presumably tucked away somewhere he'd never think to look, like the bottom of bowl of fresh salad or tucked inside a folder of briefings

ps4 is a special console

I am certain that the people among his people who know anything explained in great detail the seriousness of the appointment of a special councel (sp?) and the importance of reining in any extemporaneous public statements. I'm surprised he made it through the night before his narcissism pinched off an upper decker into his toilet of self-governance.

sometimes metaphors can be too vivid

Yes I remember that about the Clintons: the conspicuous lack of investigation into their crimes.

(Remember when a talking point at the Republican debates was "We're awesome because none of us is under investigation by the FBI"?)

Roger Ailes is dead, @DRUDGE_REPORT announced with statement from his wife pic.twitter.com/TGeMZQD0xA

— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) May 18, 2017

The world was never made for one as disgusting as you

It begins.

(Forgive me if I get a little Shakey, but I'm not exactly shedding a tear.)

death: the time-honoured method of escaping justice

seriously though, hillary's goons must have finally got to him

good fucking riddance

i'm going to write it into my will that when i die my wife will give the news to matt drudge as an exclusive

Podestaaaaa! What'd you do this time, you rascal!

Worth noting this

By the twitching of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.

tick tick tick tick tick tick tick

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) May 18, 2017

Again, Wittes (Lawfare guy) and Comey are close friends, and he tweeted something similar shortly before news of the Comey memo broke, so something's up.

Meanwhile, Alfred's congressman again

GOP @RepCurbelo says "we need this independent counsel," Congress "also has to allocate additional resources" & "appoint a select committee"

— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) May 18, 2017

xpost I think he's just worried about lyme disease

(Forgive me if I get a little Shakey, but I'm not exactly shedding a tear.)

When things like this happen, WE ARE ALL SHAKEY.

haa xp

Separately, but of course

Fox News seems to have made brief mention of Ailes' death, but is now doing a human interest story on a woman who married her surgeon.

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) May 18, 2017

I think he's just worried about lyme disease

Especially when Shakespeareans get bit!

Je suis Shakey

BTW this also dropped overnight

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-contacts-idUSKCN18E106?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters.

The previously undisclosed interactions form part of the record now being reviewed by FBI and congressional investigators probing Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election and contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russia.

Six of the previously undisclosed contacts described to Reuters were phone calls between Sergei Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States, and Trump advisers, including Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, three current and former officials said.

Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak accelerated after the Nov. 8 vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current U.S. officials said.

brace yourself ;;

now think "President Paul Ryan "

then RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN

PPRX workout plan

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One last scoop from Gabriel Sherman

Several days ago, Ailes called a friend and said, "Well, if you want to know if I'm suicidal the answer is no."

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) May 18, 2017

Sounds like the opening line of a Cole Porter song

Statement from Roger Ailes’ wife Elizabeth on his death pic.twitter.com/lQYmI96ROK

— leon (@leyawn) May 18, 2017

BTW this also dropped overnight

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-contacts-idUSKCN18E106?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

ok this seems pretty significant

if significant findings around this issue were dollar bills i'd have uh about $78 i guess

Was thinking about Trump's tweets this morning, and man, his utter inability to shut the fuck up is yet another indication that anything good that has ever happened to him in his entire life has happened despite him, not because of him. No wonder he thinks he's some sort of negotiation genius. He's like Grizzly Man, hanging with his buddies the bears until one day one eats him.

So not a fan of current streams of drip-drip hints and intimations. So much shit is happening every day that it's a bit like predicting warm weather in summer and darkness at sundown.

I should develop a Trump prediction app. It's just a big red button, and when you press it it says "yes."

another beautiful voice silenced, RIP

who WASN'T Flynn a mole for ???

RIP, you fucking asshole.
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there's a madcap comedy to be made about flynn's efforts to keep so many masters happy

i'll say one thing for him, the guy had a work ethic