US Politics April 2019 Thread: 'I find that pretty hard to believe'

Risk for Dems here is that the public narrative has already been formed and they look like sore losers in keeping the story going. https://t.co/W2HVGIRcWM
— Katty Kay (@KattyKayBBC) April 4, 2019

I hate this take so much. Is there really even a single voter out there thinking "man, I think Trump is alright, but if he colluded, I'm out"?? Takes like this seem to forget that Trump is also embroiled in a dozen other scandals, he was just implicated in a felony a couple weeks ago, he's acted extremely guilty the whole time and nearly everything he does turns out to be fraudulent. If he's innocent, so what. There's so much else. And vice-versa, if he's guilty, so what, just one more piece of shit for the right to swallow. Are we really acting like Trump wouldn't accept a quid-pro-quo if he was offered one, or wouldn't try to set one up himself if his brains weren't constantly trying to escape through his ears?

Secondly (as mentioned here), the Republicans literally won a presidential election thanks to years of BENGHAZI! and EMAILS! and, by the way, I don't seem to remember the fawning NYT headline "HILLARY CLINTON EXONERATED OF ALL EMAIL CRIMES". And of course this is nothing like either of those, how braindead do you have to be to just accept a 4-page summary of a 300-page report written quickly by Trump's hand-picked stooge and think, "wow, that's enough for me!!", as though Trump didn't clearly admit to obstruction of justice on live television (and then 100 more times on Twitter), as though Trump's son didn't *literally* leak an email where he tried to set up a quid pro quo but was too stupid to actually pull it off. Did the Barr thing swing the polls at *all*???

mueller has proven that he surrounded himself with criminals. his lawyer was a criminal. his campaign manager. etc. this isn't hard

I never understood why mueller hired a campaign manager, but I was especially shocked when he proved that he was a criminal. But hey he’s probably playing the long game

i can see now that my subconscious avoidance of using trump's name has its downsides in the ol' comprehensibility department

lol

as though Trump didn't clearly admit to obstruction of justice on live television (and then 100 more times on Twitter), as though Trump's son didn't *literally* leak an email where he tried to set up a quid pro quo but was too stupid to actually pull it off.

way too much smoke everywhere from actual, enormous gun that is smoking to locate “smoking gun”

I heard a very core bland resistance-style discussion on kushner, so hmm i doubt uncited sourcing, but i dunno he seems v v v bad not good.

Who has done reliable work on kushner, sauds, qatar and netanyahu? because the allegations were super involved, and seemed way unlikely given what i take for trust levels in that ME space. like actual trump shit, it seems impossible to get away with.

Enjoyed teh Trumpcast on Kushner taht I listened to this afternoon. Came out over the last couple of days i think.
ties in with the book Kushner inc which i'll probably now discover means it isn't worth it .
But interview sounded good at the time. & Kushner sounds like a total scumbag who should have never been allowed anywhere near the Whitehouse. & Ivanka sonds like they're a finely matched couple.

Kushner should fall face first into a woodchipper on national TV.

Stevende that is what i heard but when the starting props are “we BOTH worked for tina brown who taught us all about ACCESS,” i’m, uh

Have the feeling I’ve seen some real bad takes on twitter from one of the Trumpcast people but I’m inclined to believe awful things about Kushner.

So Neal is the one the Dems are sending into the fire to bring back the evidence of tax evasion

Have the feeling I’ve seen some real bad takes on twitter from one of the Trumpcast people but I’m inclined to believe awful things about Kushner.

― JoeStork, Friday, April 5, 2019 4:08 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just beyond awful centrist ninnies. quick look at heffernan's tweets sees her call joe biden "a nice guy" a week ago but worry that he might "do something stupid and promote putin"

Hefferman is a loon.

Possibly it's just prudish centrists—formerly "Americans"—who think any of l'Affaire Russe is a disgrace.

I'm with them, but I definitely see the fun of the lefty thing; I'm just too old for a romance with Russia and a rebel inversion of American values & common sense.

— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) March 31, 2019

jesus

https://news.yahoo.com/why-im-a-creationist-141907217.html

^ Reading that does not inspire my confidence in Heffernan's ability to think through complex ideas.

Wow that was a waste of bandwidth.

whoa that is awful. my question remains as to legit summaries of kushner. the person she interviewed was ward, the author of the recent book, ahe seemed credible but ay the company you keep...

Kirstjen Nielsen quits.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen submitted her resignation to President Donald Trump Sunday night, in an unexpected move that appears related to the president’s ongoing rage over the number of Central American families and asylum-seekers coming into the United States.

Kevin McAleenan, the head of Customs and Border Protection, will serve as acting DHS secretary. It’s not yet clear whether Trump will formally nominate a successor to Nielsen in the near future.

Nielsen, the sixth head of the Department of Homeland Security and Trump’s second appointee (she was confirmed in December 2017 after mentor John Kelly left to become White House chief of staff), has arguably been the most aggressive secretary in the department’s short history in cracking down on immigration — with her legacy likely to be defined among progressives by the “zero tolerance” prosecution policy of late spring and early summer 2018 that resulted in the separation of thousands of families at the US/Mexico border.

None of it appears to have been enough for Donald Trump.

Seems timed to coincide with T. torpedoing his own ICE head nominee to go "in a tougher direction."

Okay, Don, good luck finding the reanimated Vlad the Impaler who would be tough enough to signal manliness to your base.

Was reading in Washington Post that 45 said he relies on Stephen Miller for all immigration matters. Miller was reportedly unhappy with Nielsen and the Ice Director nominee.

Seems like whoever it is that runs against him in 2020 needs to focus some of their campaign reaching out past Trump and putting advisors/appointees like Miller/DeVos/Bolton on blast.

looking out for the little guy

New: Trump overtime pay rule will cost workers $1.2 billion a year in wages they would have made under a more expansive Obama proposal stalled in court, @EconomicPolicy says. https://t.co/DeeQApFCot

— Chris Opfer (@ChrisOpfer) April 8, 2019

good morning!

well, yeah

Hi. The president wants to shoot people at the border. pic.twitter.com/nV6ZLjr9GA

— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) April 7, 2019

Well, not JUST at the border, tbf.

BREAKING: President Trump fires director of Secret Servicehttps://t.co/EocncAVWhY

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) April 8, 2019

Hmm, that seems odd, esp. for a guy that never fires anyone.

should never have caught that Chinese lady, there’s your big mistake

he should fire the whole secret service

so basically Stephen Miller is just running the entire government by himself now, right?

xp During a parade, from the backseat of a convertible

xp j kush is co-running it with him

buddy comedy with kush and miller but it's only funny because they die painfully.

in Maine, it's 2001 anthrax nostalgia

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/04/08/burlington-woman-charged-with-mailing-threat-powder-to-susan-collins/

Hmm, that seems odd, esp. for a guy that never fires anyone.

Don't worry, he didn't this time either.

when guys named "Tex" get fired, it's a paradigm shift

presumably this is because "tex" blamed the maralago security stuff on ... maralago

The statement said: “The Secret Service does not determine who is invited or welcome at Mar-a-Lago; this is the responsibility of the host entity. The Mar-a-Lago club management determines which members and guests are granted access to the property. This access does not afford an individual proximity to the President or other Secret Service protectees.

lolmg

So the Secret Service stuck Zhang's thumbdrive into their computer. https://t.co/0T6LAfOtEl pic.twitter.com/RSfUgw4I4n

— Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond) April 8, 2019

"I wonder what would happen if..."

hahahahahahaha ok sounds like he maybe deserved to be fired

wow

Trump gonna hire the Best Buy Geek Squad to handle all the cyber.

BARRON

Forgot about Barron. Where's he at?

he's in training to be an adult trump

basically they have him cordoned off, and they ask him what he wants every 2 minutes and then give it to him, and if he doesn't respond with "i have been treated so unfairly" they slap him

That was fast, Trump just hired new head Secret Service guy:

https://hotcorn-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/05/02104734/ToLiveDieLA_S819483_007-758x501.jpg