Trump's media friends lie for him

[bodysong]

Trump's media friends lie for him

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Trump says in impromptu press conference that
he can't work with Democrats on infrastructure
while they're investigating him

9:09 AM - 22 May 2019

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@jaketapper

Angry Trump holds impromptu speech
in response to Pelosi's 'cover-up' accusation
@CNN

8:52 AM - 22 May 2019

David Neiwert
@DavidNeiwert

Impromptu my fucking ass.
This was an immaculately planned setup.
They even had a preprinted prop at the
"impromptu" event. Trump did this to
humiliate Pelosi and fire up his base.

Hopefully, she has finally learned her lesson:
This man will never, ever, ever deal in good faith.

9:10 AM - 22 May 2019


David Neiwert
@DavidNeiwert Replying to @DavidNeiwert

To be clear: My frustration here is with the reportage.
"Impromptu"? Seriously? What kind of hopeless saps
do we have as national correspondents?

9:32 AM - 22 May 2019

(I dunno...
Trying to see who said "impromptu, first.
saps, in a highly competitive field working for
the media that is owned by behemoth media companies,
run by billionaires, that bully their employees ?
Trump Outrage Syndrome is spreading!
People are outraged that media has
decided not to report the news, truthfully.
That is getting attention.
Not the for the first time.



*cough*)

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@AndyOstroy

Only a pathetic pathologically-lying buffoon
like #Trump could have an ‘impromptu press
conference’ with pre-printed signs…

9:12 AM - 22 May 2019

And Beautiful Charts!

Domenico Montanaro
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@ DomenicoNPR

Washington, DC

"Congress shall make no law respecting
an est. of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom
of speech, or of the press..."

NPR dot org


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Pelosi opens the door to impeachment during panel:
"In plain sight, this president is obstructing justice
and is engaged in a cover-up.

And that could be an impeachable offense."


10:06 AM - 22 May 2019

 

[bodysong]

Impromptu cabinet members,
impromptu staff,
impromptu directors,
impromptu media heads

Oh, Hopey!
Hope Hicks, he loved what you did for him.
But, you had to go.
Your are a temp!

May 22, 2019

When the New York Times learned about the meeting in July 2017, you wrote a misleading statement for your son Donald Trump Jr. to provide the paper in response. Your attorneys later admitted to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that you’d written the initial, obviously incomplete statement.

Why offer a statement that was easily undercut by emails exchanged between Trump Jr. and his associate Rob Goldstone? According to Mark Corallo, a former spokesman for your legal team, a member of your communications team, Hope Hicks, insisted that those emails would never come to light. That was during a phone call in which you and Hicks allegedly chastised Corallo for giving an honest description of the meeting to another media outlet.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/22/various-coverups-donald-i-dont-do-coverups-trump/

"Sort of coverup-y."

- Philip Bump

National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics

Washington Post



May 22 at 2:53 PM

Trump's Preference for Acting Officials Puts National Security at Risk


Trump's hatchet men and hatchet women complete their tasks, and move on.

There is nothing impromptu about it.

The Trump operatives do not last long.

Long game, but immediate responses.

They did not wait long, to repond to Joe Biden.

They did not wait long, to respond to Nancy Pelosi.

Immediate response, and immediate attack.

It is a fucking joke.

Borrowing from GOT-

"Of course it's a joke. Just not a very funny one."

-Tyrion

No one is official, in tRump's circle, but Trumpypants, himself.
(His family and in-laws wanders in and out.)

They are all temprorary "acting" appointees.
All weapons in a war on America itself.

President Trump appoints a staffer to a position,
lavishing the person with praise and often implying
that no better person could have been chosen.
Over time — sometimes a lot of time, sometimes not
— cracks start to appear.

Reports of Trump growing frustrated with the person
and/or reports of other administration officials growing
impatient. Often Trump will come out and rebut those
claims, but, inevitably, there’s then a tweet.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...presidents-its-not-an-accident/?noredirect=on

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Democrats went to the White House with a clear goal:
making progress on an infrastructure deal #ForThePeople.
It would appear that @realDonaldTrump, on the other hand,
was aiming to hold this widely-supported bipartisan effort
hostage in an effort to double-down on his cover-up.

10:40 AM - 22 May 2019

(Trumpypants cries out for his a Roy Cohn (a very corrupt and lawless lawyer) of his very own, after men that have a limit of how deep into the shit-pile in the sewer, that they will venture. Bill Parr magically appears, when he is most needed.)

Meanwhile,

Attorney General’s claim that, “as the Special Counsel’s report acknowledges, there is substantial evidence to show that the President was frustrated and angered by a sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency,” which is the core of Barr’s excuse for the President’s obstructive acts: the President was frustrated and so it’s cool that he totally undermined rule of law.

Barr is largely wrong about what the report says about the President’s anger and frustration, though, and to the extent he’s not, he’s basically arguing it’s cool for the President to be angry that the system worked as it should.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/05/...e-investigation-out-of-frustration-and-anger/

 

[bodysong]

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Trump’s meltdown in the Rose Garden today was a ruse.

2:14 PM - 22 May 2019

"President went into a scheduled Oval Office meeting with
Democratic congressional leaders, lost his shit, and
walked out after three minutes and then convened an
“impromptu” Rose Garden press statement.

I put impromptu into quotes, because someone
had printed handouts for the White House Press Corps ready."

- Adam L Silvermanat 12:41 pm on May 22, 2019

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2019/...s-thrown-a-semi-choreographed-temper-tantrum/

Why did Trumpypants want to run away ?
Ben Carson is a laughing stock, today.
Too soon, for Trumpypants to make a fool of himself ?

The Democrats would have nailed him with pointed questions.


Closed meeting.

People that are not under tRump's control.

No benefit to tRump.

So, he and his tRump minions decided to thow everything, and the kitchen sink into the newsfeed.

Everything, and the kitchen sink will be headed toward every particpant of tRumpy Crimes, if the dam ever breaks.

Big crack in the dam-

Judge's ruling allows banks to hand over Trump's financial records to Congress

22 May 2019

Deutsche Bank Can Release Trump Records to Congress, Judge Rules


Wells Fargo and TD Bank - two of the nine financial institutions
subpoenaed by the House financial services committee for documents
related to their dealings with the Trump Organization -
have already turned over some records

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...mpeachment-mueller-report-2020-latest-updates

Mother Jones
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Another judge rules that Trump has to obey the law

(link)

4:28 PM - 22 May 2019

Kevin Drum
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Another Judge Rules That Trump Has to Obey the Law

Donald Trump has lost another one:
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected President Trump’s
request to block his longtime lender, Deutsche Bank, from
complying with congressional subpoenas.

Judge Edgardo Ramos of United States District Court
in Manhattan issued his ruling after hearing arguments
from lawyers for Mr. Trump and his family, as well
as two Democratic-controlled congressional committees

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/05/another-judge-rules-that-trump-has-to-obey-the-law/

2:47 PM - 22 May 2019



@igorbobic Replying to @igorbobic

Schumer: “We came prepared...we were interested,
it’s clear the president isn’t” in doing infrastructure,
accusing Trump of looking for excuses Schumer says
Trump walk out was “pre-planned,”

noting curtains were closed, and President had a place to stand.

9:07 AM - 22 May 2019


April
@speakout_april Replying to @igorbobic

Important to note, Nancy Pelosi also revealed at the
beginning of the meeting, Trump threatened if
Democrats didn’t pass the USMCA he wasn’t
going to negotiate an infrastructure bill.
Wow.

Trump didn’t mention that in the Rose Garden.
Sounds like Trump’s using excuse after excuse

9:11 AM - 22 May 2019

(People with a sense of conscience, and concern
for the people of the United States, take issue with
tRump's United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
(USMCA)


tRump's plate is full of unpleasant items that he does not want to deal with.

No plan, and no money provided for infrastructure...

(Is it a secret that tRump only wants to spend money on his supporters ?)

Distraction, to draw eyes away.

Another immigrant child is dead.

Graham Kates and Angel Canales
CBS News May 22, 2019, 6:20 PM

A 10-year-old migrant girl died last year in government care, officials acknowledge
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migran...xclusive/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=67929241

 

[bodysong]

Blocking Congress from seeing what tRump has planned
(Congress should peek behind the curtains, next time!)


After labeling Trump's feigned aggravation at Pelosi's
statement as a "preplanned excuse" not to deal with a
realistic infrastructure bill, Schumer brought the receipts.

"'It's clear that this was not a spontaneous move on
the President's part," Schumer said. "It was planned."

"When we got in the room, the curtains were closed,"
Schumer told reporters. It wasn't immediately clear
why this was important, but it was because the
Rose Garden was visible through the windows.
And as Schumer went on to explain, there was a
place in the room for Trump to stage his little
tantrum and refuse to deal with any infrastructure bill
before he would walk out...again, just as he has in the past.

Schumer dropped the final receipt. "And, of course,
then he went to the Rose Garden with prepared signs
that had been printed up long before our meeting."

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/05/sen-schumer-unmasks-white-house-charade

Was it a WTF moment ?
Trumpypants shouted at everyone,
stopped for a moment, to pout,
and exited the room.

jawdropping ?

nope

He pulled the same act, during the Trump Shutdon.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Rupert Murdoch has someone embedded in the white house.

 

[bodysong]

There has been much discussion of news media outlets not pushing back on propaganda spread by Trump's minions.


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Rupert Murdoch, Purveyor of Fantasies and Extraordinary Tales.

(link)

11:01 AM - 30 May 2019

Republican Justin Amash Stands In Position to Start Impeachment Proceedings Despite Criticism

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...chment-proceedings-despite-criticism-n1011176

Fox News viewer surprised that Mueller hadn’t exonerated Trump on obstruction

Garnaat, a Republican who supported Amash and the president said she was upset about Amash’s position but wanted to hear his reasoning. She said that she will definitely support Trump in 2020 but that Tuesday night was the first time she had heard that the Mueller report didn’t completely exonerate the president.

“I was surprised to hear there was anything negative in the Mueller report at all about President Trump. I hadn’t heard that before," she said. “I’ve mainly listened to conservative news and I hadn’t heard anything negative about that report and President Trump has been exonerated.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...t-exonerated-trump-obstruction/?noredirect=on

New York Times Deletes Tweet After Liberals Complain it Didn’t Call Republican Quotes ‘Lies’ Enough

(New York Times, resorting to click bait and outrage triggers ? Say it is not so!)

In the original tweet, saved for posterity by Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher, a short version of that portion of the article was included.

The New York Times deleted a tweet of one its articles published Thursday, after receiving complaints on Twitter from liberals who felt the headline didn’t make it clear that the quotes from Republicans were “lies.” Although in the article Republican messaging is referred to as “misinformation,” “absurdity”, and even as “false,” the tweet that had the link to the article did not.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/new...-it-didnt-call-republican-quotes-lies-enough/