The 84th Weak of the DC Disaster That is Donaldd

[JackLuis]

The 84th Weak of the DC Disaster That is Donald

We start the 84th Week with a summery of last Weak:

MSNBC FiIed this.

Bob is bobbing and weaving his case and the Atty Gens of several stats are taking notice.

And

Trump managed to botch a photo-op with Ohio kids by coloring his American flag wrong

That is your President Boxlicker.

 

[JackLuis]

Paul Manafort chose Mike Pence as Trump’s running mate — and now the VP is facing heightened scrutiny

It was Paul Manafort who chose Mike Pence as Donald Trump’s vice president, with the president reportedly preferring Chris Christie for the role.

The link between Manafort and Pence is leading to additional scrutiny for the vice president, as people ask just what Pence knew about Manafort and his connections.

Many are also curious about Pence’s involvements with former adviser Mike Flynn, questioning if he lied to protect the general in January of 2017 when he declared that Flynn had not discussed, “anything having to do with the United States’ decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia” with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Check his campaign funds for Rubles, Bob!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Trump is nuts’: Ex-White House official says president spent the weekend ‘calling people and screaming’

A former official at President Donald Trump’s White House has told Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman that the president this weekend blew a gasket after watching both his former campaign chairman and former personal attorney become convicted felons.

The official revealed to Sherman that, even though Trump was fairly subdued and depressed during his big West Virginia rally shortly after the conviction of Paul Manafort and the guilty plea of Michael Cohen, he was back to being angry and vengeful by the time the weekend rolled around.

“Trump is nuts,” the former West Wing official explained. “This time really feels different.”

Sherman also cites a former White House official who claims that Trump “spent the weekend calling people and screaming” about his situation.

I hope the LSM keeps pushing his buttons!

 

[JackLuis]

‘You get to Stupidland by getting on the Trump Train’

“The inclination [is] to just dismiss Ward and Arpaio because they are just out in Stupidland,” Steele explained.

“How do you get to Stupidland?” Jackson asked.

“You get to Stupidland by getting on the Trump Train,” Steele replied. “It takes you directly there, baby, non-stop. It’s not even a coach fair. It’s first class all the way.”

“And they’re on that train,” he added. “You cannot dismiss them in a primary. You cannot walk past that — that reality — because we don’t know how that vote is breaking down.”

 

[JackLuis]

Speaking of 'Stupidland'?

Donald Trump falsely claimed to ‘remember Pearl Harbor’ as he ranted at Japanese PM:

onald Trump bizarrely claimed to remember the start of World War II in a tense phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Washington Post reports.

In the tense June call, Trump told Abe that “I remember Pearl Harbor,” referring to the attack that brought the United States into the Second World war, which concluded before Trump was born in 1946.

Abe has to hold Trump’s hand throughout conversations where he rages, the story says.

“During heated exchanges, Japanese officials say Abe waits for Trump to make his point, and finds an opening later on in the conversation to rebut him,” the story says, because Abe “understands if he categorically denies what the president says, it might hurt the president’s pride.”

Yep, Stupidland.

 

[JackLuis]

Why It Can Happen Here

Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a friend of mine — an expert on international relations — made a joke: “Now that Eastern Europe is free from the alien ideology of Communism, it can return to its true historical path — fascism.” Even at the time, his quip had a real edge.

And as of 2018 it hardly seems like a joke at all. What Freedom House calls illiberalism is on the rise across Eastern Europe. This includes Poland and Hungary, both still members of the European Union, in which democracy as we normally understand it is already dead.

***
Don’t tell me about “economic anxiety.” That’s not what happened in Poland, which grew steadily through the financial crisis and its aftermath. And it’s not what happened here in 2016: Study after study has found that racial resentment, not economic distress, drove Trump voters.

The point is that we’re suffering from the same disease — white nationalism run wild — that has already effectively killed democracy in some other Western nations. And we’re very, very close to the point of no return.

Right Wing or Riech WIng?

 

[JackLuis]

Secret recording catches Trump instructing pastors to campaign for Republicans from the pulpit

In a secret recording taken after media left the White House’s “state dinner” for evangelicals on Monday night, President Donald Trump urged pastors to campaign for Republicans from the pulpit.

The recording by The New York Times depicts the president warning the group of about 100 evangelical Christian leaders that if their congregations don’t vote for GOP candidates in the November midterms, they’ll be “one election away from losing everything you’ve got.”

“I just ask you to go out and make sure all of your people vote,” Trump said at the dinner. “Because if they don’t — it’s Nov. 6 — if they don’t vote we’re going to have a miserable two years and we’re going to have, frankly, a very hard period of time because then it just gets to be one election — you’re one election away from losing everything you’ve got.”

56% of America hopes you do lose everything Donald.

 

[JackLuis]

What about Mike?

Mike Pence dumped his college fiancee for being a ‘sinner’ and narced on his beer-drinking frat bros

After he was indoctrinated in college, he became a dick and has been getting worse!

Pence’s classmates say he was a “cruel” Christian who alienated former friends with his judgemental attitude.

“He was rigid, condescending and exclusionary,” said classmate Linda Koon in an interview. “You had to fit into his little pocket of Christianity, and I didn’t fit.”

Why didn’t Koon fit? Because she “couldn’t recount a dramatic come-to-Jesus tale of Christian conversion.”

“He acted like he had been struck by lightning,” Koons said. “I had just grown up in the Lutheran Church and had always been a Christian. That wasn’t good enough. He told me that wasn’t good enough, ‘God doesn’t want your kind.’ It was a very narrow view of an infinite being.”

Pence also humiliated a gay classmate who came out to him. The classmate, who spoke anonymously to CNN, “considered him a mentor” and therefore made Pence the first person he ever discussed his sexuality with.

“I went to him because I respected him. Mike told me that who I was was an abomination, and that I had to change. He also stopped being my friend,” the man said.

Pence also had issues with his fiancee, the man said.

“He told me that he needed to forgive her because she had been married before and wasn’t a virgin,” the source said. “It had taken a while for him to get there, but he had forgiven her. He couldn’t forgive me in the same way and it was a long time before I came out to anyone else.”

Some time you just need a retroactive abortion!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump reignites CNN feud by calling Carl Bernstein a ‘sloppy degenerate fool’

Who is the 'Fool'?

The battle is over a report by Bernstein and CNN chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto that reported something incorrectly. The story from July said that Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen was willing to tell special counsel Robert Mueller that Trump knew about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

The information came from Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis, who apologized for incorrectly giving the information to CNN. Trump, however, isn’t holding Cohen or Davis accountable, he’s going after Bernstein and CNN.

 

[phrodeau]

Trump reignites CNN feud by calling Carl Bernstein a ‘sloppy degenerate fool’

Who is the 'Fool'?

All messengers will be shot.

 

[JackLuis]

Joe Biden takes shots at Trump and Washington political culture in eulogy for McCain

Biden shared a few warm anecdotes about his relationship with the veteran senator, including a trip to Greece where McCain and Jill Biden wound up “dancing on top of a cement table drinking Ouzo.”

But it wasn’t long before Biden grew serious, taking digs at both an unnamed President Trump and the toxic political culture in Washington D.C.

Noting that many acted as if “John came from a different age, lived by an ancient antiquated code where honor, courage, character integrity, duty — were obvious because that’s how John lived his life. The truth is John’s code was ageless, is ageless.”

“It wasn’t about politics” for McCain, Biden said. “He could disagree on substance, but it was the underlying values that animated everything John did, everything he was. You could come to a different conclusion, but where he’d part company with you is if you lacked the basic values of decency, respect.”

If you lack decency and respect, YOU might be a Trumpanze!

 

[JackLuis]

Trade talks with Canada collapse after off-the-record Trump insults leaked

Trump added, that he was “scaring the Canadians into submission by repeatedly threatening to impose tariffs.”

“Off the record, Canada’s working their ass off. And every time we have a problem with a point, I just put up a picture of a Chevrolet Impala,” Trump said, according to the source.

The report notes that the Impala is produced at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario.

Such a "Stable Genius", should stay in the stable.

 

[JackLuis]

‘The walls are crashing in on him’: Ex-DNI Clapper explains Trump’s latest frantic attacks on Mueller

“You looked at the president’s statement last night,” Berman began. “You have seen his tweets in the last few days, some of the language, the interview with Bloomberg, and you think this shows it is starting to get to him. How? Why?”

“I just think the volume and the — to me — the irrationality of some of the things he is saying in his tweets, at least tell me that, you know, the walls are kind of crashing in on him,” Clapper replied. “When you think about the sequence of events in the last week or so, when you have the [Paul] Manafort guilty plea and Michael Cohen plea bargain, and the revelations about the past misdeeds the National Enquirer has been suppressing, I think that more and more, he is legally thinking that he feels like he is in jeopardy.”

“I think what he is trying to do, using a military expression is prepping the battlefield and undermining the credibility of the investigation,” Clapper continued. “I guess it is a rhetorical ratcheting up here from a hoax to something illegal. The fact that he has not used that adjective before is pretty significant.”

Does Pecker's flip include the contents of the safe at the National Enquirer?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump, foundation seek dismissal of New York ‘self-dealing’ lawsuit

In a Thursday night court filing, the defendants said the lawsuit by Attorney General Barbara Underwood targeting the Donald J. Trump Foundation contained “fundamental legal and factual deficiencies,” and was politically motivated, reflecting her office’s “antipathy” toward the president.

“Relief is sought based on the NYAG’s appearance of partiality; its overwhelming conflict of interest; and its resulting unwillingness to resolve this matter without litigation,” Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for the defendants, wrote.

Amy Spitalnick, a spokeswoman for Underwood, said on Twitter: “As our lawsuit detailed, the Trump Foundation functioned as a personal piggy bank to serve Trump’s business and political interests. We won’t back down from holding President Trump and his associates accountable for their flagrant violations of New York law.”

 

[JackLuis]

It's Friday, What has Trump stepped in this week?

Manafort associate funneled money to Trump’s inauguration committee through shady foreign bank account

Prosecutors on Friday charged Patten with allegedly failing to register as a foreign agent despite doing lobbying work on behalf of a Kremlin-friendly Ukrainian political party.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether Kremlin allies made illegal contributions to Trump’s inauguration committee, which raised a record $106.7 million after his election.

 

[JackLuis]

‘We lost two mavericks within a week’: Washington Post columnist eulogizes Lindsey Graham after he caves to Trumpism

“We lost two mavericks within a week. On Saturday, we lost the legendary John McCain. On Tuesday, we lost his loyal sidekick, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham,” Milbank writes, as the South Carolina senator, “buried whatever remained of his own reputation for iconoclasm even before his partner’s funeral.

Graham even told Fox that Hillary Clinton likely committed some sort of crime and should be investigated.

Graham, as Milbank notes, once described Trump as a “jackass” and “unfit for office.”

“No longer protected by McCain, he seems to have lost that famous McCain courage. It is difficult to avoid the impression that, since McCain’s illness, he has found a new patron,” Milbank writes.

Ms Lindsey proves he's just a pussy without John to lead the way.