I have posted this before but it seems pertinent after Trump’s attacks on our allies. It was a satire when it was released but it sure sounds like Trump.
Month: July 2018
Judicial nomination withdrawn
Where does Trump find these people? Don’t they vet them or don’t they even care what they have said?
I will vote NO on Ryan Bounds for a lifetime appointment to the 9th Circuit. Some backstory: breaking with a 100-year-old Senate practice, Republicans moved his nomination forward over the objections of both Senators who represent the state that Bounds will be appointed to.
— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) July 18, 2018
Facing opposition from some GOP Senators, the judicial nomination for Ryan Bounds was just withdrawn.
Here’s a May WaPo story about some of his writings while a college student that led to some of the the opposition. https://t.co/W02rM8EjsN
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 19, 2018
McConnell withdraws nomination nomination of Ryan Bounds to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit after concerns about racially insensitive writings from his past, GOP senators say — amounting to a significant loss for the White House.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 19, 2018
IMPORTANT: Republicans are taking another step to destroy the judicial nominations process as we know it by confirming Ryan Bounds without approval from home-state senators @RonWyden & @SenJeffMerkley. The Congressional Research Service says this has never happened. #CourtsMatter
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) July 18, 2018
Tim Scott, in his quiet disapproval of Ryan Bounds today, has done more to check the President than Jeff Flake or Bob Corker have done with all of their speeches and soundbites.
— Sam Rubinstein (@Sam_Rubinstein) July 19, 2018
Nunes used political contributions for tickets, tours and trips
Corruption
Report: Rep. Devin Nunes used political dollars for $15K in Celtics tickets, winery tours and Vegas trips https://t.co/egWlhb6BHH
— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) July 20, 2018
Walk Back Week
Worst week for Trump since Charlottesville comments. Pathetic.
Trump is a Russian stooge and pathological liar. He is totally incompetent.
Inside Trump’s tumultuous “Walk Back Week.” Behind-the-scenes with a WH staff trying to manage, cajole, and placate an angry president. by @AshleyRParker, @PhilipRucker, @jdawsey1, and @CarolLeonnig, w/ an assist from me. https://t.co/nJtCMcspDU
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) July 21, 2018
Fmr. W.H. official: "You have a lot of people who are just a bunch of small-timers and clowns, so when they fuck up a response, you almost can’t blame them because you knew what you were getting, you know?" https://t.co/WSYjxdbZXH
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 21, 2018
Trump digs into a familiar playbook of digging in. @katierogers and me https://t.co/YlqJ9izSlA
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 19, 2018
Trump complained about the coverage being “so negative.” But by late morning today, he knew he needed to course-correct, and Stephen Miller drafted a statement was repeatedly revised. W @MarkLandler https://t.co/9HF3upE9Pc
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 18, 2018
“By the time he arrived home, the parade of critical statements had become a stampede, leaving Trump the most isolated he'd been in the White House since last year's controversy over white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville” https://t.co/ofyibI8c3P
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) July 21, 2018
Russia has targeted at least three 2018 candidates
The same Russian intelligence agency charged with hacking Democrats’ emails in 2016 has targeted at least three candidates running for election in 2018, a Microsoft executive said https://t.co/RrtJDyUBtl
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 20, 2018
Kompromat
This is the week where it became impossible to laugh off the idea that Russia has "kompromat" on Trumphttps://t.co/zNAbOivWHv pic.twitter.com/a6ZDthDv3k
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 20, 2018
Biggest impact of Helsinki so far: the big wigs and respectable folk are starting to think Putin has something on Trump. https://t.co/yKAC4c77RM via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 20, 2018
Former CIA senior analyst Ned Price: “Vladimir Putin has leverage over Donald Trump and as we saw this week, he’s going to exact that any way he can.” https://t.co/PziKMmdbmr
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 21, 2018
Does Putin have kompromat on Trump?
It is WAY worse than that.
Trump is trapped in a massive system of compromise and corruption that he fears and barely understands. https://t.co/BX0EkefLPg pic.twitter.com/eXOgTJ3F76
— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) July 21, 2018
A reminder that the idea of any"kompromat" anyone has on Trump has to be financial or legal because his personal life already contains enough to bring down entire generations of other politicians. https://t.co/XAjow2YBLN
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) July 20, 2018
Pelosi and Schumer move closer to a “kompromat” theory of Donald Trump: https://t.co/m38Jtf0a2a pic.twitter.com/IxwRFpNNi9
— Slate (@Slate) July 18, 2018
Ask: WHY would the President be afraid?? Looking for somebody to give me a reasoned response against the analysis that it’s kompromat. I’m hoping there is one. https://t.co/TftAAuCM3u
— Steven L. Hall (@StevenLHall1) July 21, 2018
Trump is so bad, a conservative misses Obama!
Just 18 months ago — can you believe it was so recently? — we had a president with whom I could disagree without ever doubting his fitness to lead. We can have one again. My latest in @PostOpinions: https://t.co/agWLMw3REE
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 21, 2018
Yet another reason I miss Obama. I don’t recall so much open anti-Semitism and racism online when he was in office. https://t.co/N0wc88LTCY
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 21, 2018
It's slowly dawning on the right that Barack Obama was not actually a race-baiting demagogue. @JonathanChait writes on how Republicans convinced themselves of their own propaganda https://t.co/W8NhuCGIBt
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 21, 2018
Trump administration says veterans program can’t be funded without budget cuts
But it was alright to give rich people massive tax cuts.
TYPICAL: After Massive Tax Cuts For Rich, Trump Says U.S. Can’t Afford To Expand Veterans’ Health Care https://t.co/LTxZyoP97x via @NYMag @2HawkEye2018 @ToConservatives @StarryEyed48 @democracynow @NoFascistLies @lipsoneric @gdtrble @shondi99 @NeverMorebush @AKADonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/99t0LqV8Sh
— Allan Margolin (@AllanMargolin) July 21, 2018
Trump can always appeal to his base by attacking the NFL players
Of all weeks, the president is the last person who should be lecturing anyone on patriotism or respect for our country. https://t.co/FigmDuLQ2a
— Nancy Armour (@nrarmour) July 21, 2018
“Trump has struggled with low approval ratings since entering the Oval Office and must keep the support of his base to maintain the numbers he currently has. Appealing to their cultural anxieties reminds them of why they supported Trump in the first place.” https://t.co/c9f4Nz05zG
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) July 21, 2018
When #Trump tries to resurrect the #NFL issue in the middle of the baseball season, you know he's in trouble. https://t.co/NrVMjEpTof
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) July 21, 2018
when people hate your new album so you go back to your greatest hits https://t.co/SiYr9ak9Ro
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) July 20, 2018
no one is protesting the anthem https://t.co/ikiTgEgO9p
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) July 21, 2018
Trump lies again about FBI and Michael Cohen
Multiple outlets (MSNBC, CNN, Buzzfeed) are now reporting that the Trump/Cohen tape was deemed privileged by the special master but then Trump's team waived the privilege, supporting my change-the-topic-from-Russia theory. 1/ https://t.co/5nSgr8Q3vK
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) July 21, 2018
UPDATE: The Cohen-Trump tapes seized by FBI were among the items shielded by attorney-client privilege. But it was Trump side that waived the privilege, not Cohen. Not sure I understand this strategy; seems to have backfired on WH.
— Anthony Cormier (@a_cormier_) July 21, 2018
"The (Cohen) tapes matter, but not as much as what is happening with Russia and I don't think the timing of the tapes is a mere coincidence. The President would rather have his playmate peccadillos in the air than have Russia on your mind. … Don't fall for it." – @ChrisCuomo pic.twitter.com/LpzYFGWLxt
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) July 21, 2018
So many lies, so little time.
1. The FBI had a search warrant.
2. A judge approved the search warrant.
3. No office was “broken into”
4. The subject of search said the FBI was professional and courteous.Everyone knows you’re lying.
So why lie, Duplicitous Don? https://t.co/uh7bbXMMR2— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) July 21, 2018
After learning about the tape, the Times approached Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer. They chose not to assert attorney-client privilege over the recording. https://t.co/2bhGqWxuvf
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 21, 2018
When I texted with Michael Cohen earlier today, he declined several opportunities I gave him to disagree with the way friends were characterizing his thinking. https://t.co/6kx1UMex8s
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 21, 2018
Former U.S. attorney Harry Litman on the possibility of the existence of a Trump-Cohen tape: “Tapes are always the strongest kind of evidence. To hear the president contradict his previous public statements really matters.”https://t.co/AdqWEp2Lhs
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 21, 2018
Sad! 