US Politics January 2019: we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger

you hafta put more body English into it, treesh

I’m not sure if readers of this website are clamoring for more words f

*from me tbh

When I’m falsely accused of a crime, I also like to lay low and mostly ignore it for a day, and then when a third party says they don’t have proof that’s when I go fully nuts

— Hayes Davenport (@hayesdavenport) January 19, 2019

STOP INTERRUPTING, LET TREEZY SPEAK

ahem

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Anyway it’s annoying mueller is throwing ice water on the buzzfeed story. And it’s annoying trump is touting it as a victory. It’s not like he was forthright about trump tower moscow—he lied to voters about it. he is bragging that there might not be ironclad evidence of him ordering cohen to lie to congress about it.

I thought for sure we had him this time. Well, next time for sure for sure. Without a doubt.

Relax, he's got a big speech to fuck up tomorrow...

Sorry, had to repost

Well, I'd like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

— jf (@BronzeHammer) October 2, 2016

Not so much a wriggle as an ooze.

Mueller seems like the type who wants the narrative, when it emerges, to be airtight, by-the-book, and beyond caviling. Of course, once it is released into the wild, the narrative will quickly flow downhill toward a more easily assimilated simplification, and each side will compete to direct it to the most convenient resting place for their purposes.

Sorry, had to repost

no

I just heard that Trump sent Melania to Florida on a government plane on the same night he refused Nancy Pelosi her flight. & he used a Boeing 757 not a C37 so it cost tax payers >$35,000, lovely.

https://m.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/01/18/trump-tried-to-withhold-federal-disaster-relief-funds-from-puerto-rico-report-says

well this mueller news really sucks

Yeah... most logical takeaway is that the story was flat wrong given Mueller actually responding at all.

Or maybe Whitaker made him release the statement?

good morning

Mueller better have something good coming.

I’m mad at him now.

send him an email

Riiigggghht now

I’m seeing him tonight at Barcade. I’ll let him know then.

so what’s up is r/The_Donald et al on some “Mueller is good now” tip?

Lol, big if true

Q Anon has been saying mueller and trump are secretly working together for over a year now

Wonder if Mueller leaked that to get in Trump's good graces and then willrelease the report that says "lol jk he totally did it just didn't want to take the edges off my report with leaked spoilers"

I just read that weird WaPo piece about the reporter in Paris who randomly got put on the line with the Pres. No shock, but I guess Trump still asks "Are you Hillary or Trump?" of people he meets?

https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/01/19/peter-carr-speaks/

Reportedly ready to offer temporary protection for Dreamers in return for border money. Fuck that. Temporary is worthless.

fuck temporary protection, but more importantly, fuck ANYTHING AT ALL in exchange for the wall. if you criticize the offer because it's temporary, that leads to possible concessions that it would be better if it were permanent, which would be a compromise that trump could try to negotiate toward. then he could claim victory on two counts - getting his dumbass border wall, and getting democrats to concede to a deal that was offered a year ago. it would also reinforce the idea that establish budgets and policy via hostage showdowns is a good thing to try. that's why they have to just stand strong on the NOTHING for the wall, open the government now you childish loser strategy

Open the government and we will be happy to talk about whatever proposals the executive may have. But risking health and safety, hurting the economy, and delivering pain to families can never be the start of a fruitful negotiation. So, open the government, and let’s talk.

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) January 19, 2019

^^^

looking forward to some guy from Denmark explaining why we're all wrong here

did Sasour and Tamika Mallory poison the appetite for the women's march this year? I've seen and heard much less about it.

sure looks like it

It’s been at the top of every story I’ve heard on the topic

It’s been at the top of every story I’ve heard on the topic

Pelosi isnt gonna take some bullshit deal she didnt have a hand in negotiating, this is just a PR stunt

xp i just heard the front end of a local march speech by someone i think is good, and right off she had to thank the crowd for standing up in the face of 'rising anti-semitism and rising anti-immigrant rhetoric' (she was talking abt immigration issues)

Dems say no thanks. pic.twitter.com/ijbUggUFcV

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 19, 2019

Last sentence of that statement is what I want to hear.

Hey, full morning already!

“but be careful Nancy!” This is the language of a hostage-taker pic.twitter.com/Ys4th5TQ2Z

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 20, 2019

dems can now point to this tweet and fairly argue that by holding the line they’re preventing mass deportations of 10M people

— Women For Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 20, 2019

Also

Rudolph Giuliani tells @CNNSotu that Trump may indeed have spoken to Michael Cohen about his congressional testimony beforehand. "And so what if he talked to him about it?" Denies Trump told Cohen to lie.

— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) January 20, 2019

.@GStephanopoulos: "Did Donald Trump know that Michael Cohen was pursuing the Trump Tower in Moscow into the summer of 2016?"

Rudy Giuliani: "According to the answer that he gave, it would have covered all the way up to... November of 2016." https://t.co/kEzanELn3I pic.twitter.com/kxSUAXFhtk

— ABC News (@ABC) December 16, 2018

💥BAM! Rudy just said: "Collusion is not a crime; it was over with by the time of the election." That's some goal-post-moving confession right there.

He also said Trump told the special counsel that he pursued Trump Tower Moscow deal all the way to November 2016. https://t.co/TIuXX2NOJX

— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) January 20, 2019

Buzzfeed guys were on CNN a few minutes ago and they were pretty adamant their story was sound.

^^^

BuzzFeed News is strongly standing by its Michael Cohen story. BF reporter @a_cormier_:“I have further confirmation that this is right. We are being told to stand our ground…The same sources that we used in that story are standing behind it, as are we.”
pic.twitter.com/f0asZFEDFK

— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 20, 2019

one obvious thing about the special counsel's statement on the buzzfeed story that i haven't heard anyone say: what the fuck is with the placement of the second comma? for such an important, carefully worded statement, wtf happened there? it's impossible to read out loud without sounding like a mistake was made

"BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate."

looks like two hours ago trump retweeted the father of really dumb teenage fartknocker jacob wohl, who claimed he knew of someone with a claim that mueller sexually assaulted her before holding a disastrous press conference in a holiday inn in front of a couple dozen angry journalists and several thousand confused people on periscope, whose tweet begins "Journalism is DEAD."

good mourning!