To the surprise of no one, it happened via tweet.
McGahn did not know about Trump's tweet before it was sent and had not previously discussed his departure plans with POTUS, though it was open secret in the WH. He was surprised, though attitude was "of course it happened this way." https://t.co/csLnGJ4agm
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) August 29, 2018
Open thread
chopper
womp womp.
Yutsano
Huh. For a moment I thought comments were off here.
I wonder if McGahn is trying to save his skin here. Maybe he exposed something to Mueller that will have Dolt45 out for his head anyway.
germy
back to his rock band
Waynski
Well, I’ll give Trump one thing. He’s awfully consistent. Awfully, awfully, awfully consistent. Never misses the chance to do the wrong thing. He’s a wee man.
schrodingers_cat
I don’t care, do you?
TaMara (HFG)
@Waynski: I think you mean wee-wee.
EBT
This happened one munchunit since his cooperation became known.
Steeplejack
I don’t want to see McGahn skate for his part in all the evil that has gone down. He seems to have done a much better job of covering his tracks than the other Trumpists, but I hope that doesn’t shield him.
Also, could Trump get pushback on this from the Republicans because McGahn is their guy in the White House shepherding the whole “pack the federal judiciary” scheme? Is that far enough along that his guiding hand is no longer needed?
Starfish
@Yutsano: You are giving these people too much credit.
This is happening because Trump was pissed about the article the NYT wrote about McGahn talking to Mueller.
Waynski
@TaMara (HFG): I thought of it, but I figured I’d throw you all a lay-up. Good on you. That didn’t take long.
Major Major Major Major
Thank god, a thread for something other than Bernie and Franken discussion.
I got a cheap flight to Tokyo and Taipei in March!
Lee
Did anyone see Sen Grassley’s tweet of ‘U should not let this happen’.
What a &$*$&$#* dumbass. Do your &$(*$ job and this wouldn’t be an issue.
NotMax
Oh my. Who will fetch coffee now? The horror, the horror.
:)
MisterForkbeard
Personally, I think it’s amazing that no one can stand to work with Trump for longer than a year or two. He’s just such an awful and transparently evil person that even awful people like Don McGahn are running for the hills.
Jamey
McGahn: Another disillusioned former member of the “Leopards Eating Faces Party.”
EBT
@Steeplejack: McGahn got to pick the SC nominee basically, so what else can he do?
TaMara (HFG)
@Waynski: I think was funnier when done in two-parts…thanks for the softball.
MisterForkbeard
@Major Major Major Major: I know, right? The fact that the conversation morphed into a “Let’s relitigate all the dumb things said during Franken’s resignation” is just… so typically ‘left’ and self-destructive.
Of course, I engaged in it too. :P
Jeffro
Think of all the people that have already come and gone – in some cases, long gone – and we’re only 19 months into this maladministration. Wow. It’s almost like for the first time in American history, working for the president* is a bad thing, something to be avoided.
Brachiator
If McGahn is gone, the Manafort pardon will be coming soon. McGahn was adamantly against it.
Steeplejack
@EBT:
There is a truckload of federal judge seats still to be filled with hard-right apparatchiks.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Somebody call Lara trump. She handles these things for the old lech, right?
Didn’t Tad Devine tell Manaforth he wanted $10,000/day to come to Ukraine? I wonder how much (other people’s) money the trumps are going to give McGahn?
boatboy_srq
@Waynski: At this rate the US will declare war (against somebody) by tweet before 2020.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
What was up with that tweet of Gasbag Grassley freaking out and saying McGahn couldn’t be allowed to leave the White House Legal Counsel?
Lee
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Honestly he is just jumping up & down yelling ‘Hey I’m a dumbass!’
Other than that I’m not sure the point of that tweet.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Those tens of millions still in the inauguration account are collecting dust and becoming a health hazard, don’tcha know.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
isn’t march around the time of Japan’s major holiday season?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jeffro:
I keep hoping the day will come when the Executive Office of the President will organizationally collapse.
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
So many hookers. So few Newsweeks.
TenguPhule
@boatboy_srq:
The Canadian war will last 30 minutes. 25 after the commercials are taken out.
TenguPhule
@Brachiator:
If Manafort wants to live, he’ll not accept it.
SRW1
For a dude whose signature statement is ‘You’re fired!’ the Trumpster has an awfully hard time to actually fire people face-to-face? It’s almost as if his bravado is all show to cover up his manly deficits..
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
There are no former Trumpers. It’s like the mob. Once you’re in you’re in for life. I even view someone like Cohen a bit skeptically. He may have split with Trump or he may be playing a role.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SRW1: I think Omarosa’s most interesting revelation was hearing the tape of trump’s wheedling, two-faced cowardice in the face of…. one of his fellow reality-tee-vee performers
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: yep
NotMax
@SRW1
What’s the past tense of tweeted?
“He was twatted?”
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@boatboy_srq:
Trump will announce the crushing defeat of the Islamic country “Mamba” by tweet proclaiming you can’t find it on the map anymore.
FlipYrWhig
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: You joke but it happened to Nambia.
Cheryl Rofer
O.M.G.
I don’t have time to put up a post on this now, but will later unless Adam beats me to it.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
by then you’ll have to fly from NY to SF to make the connection?
Cheryl Rofer
@Cheryl Rofer: Suffice it to say, for now, that this is what happens when you have an ignorant negotiator who doesn’t allow notes to be taken during the meeting.
oldgold
This move puts the Mueller investigation in greater peril.
Hopefully, this week Mueller moves bigly – time and timing!
NotMax
@FlipYrWhig
Poor Normay, we hardly knew ye.
randy khan
@Waynski:
Awfully consistent, consistently awful, take your pick.
tobie
@Cheryl Rofer: I hope you’ll have time for a post later. This is unbelievable.
EBT
@Steeplejack: But if the be all end all deciders are already loaded for your side…
Это курам на смех
When Trump goes to prison, where will they put his Secret Service detail? In the same cell, or the next one over?
MattF
In Trumpworld, lawyers are disposable. You keep firing them until you get one who tells you what you want to hear (e.g., Giuliani).
sukabi
@Waynski: Hmmmm, I hear he’s a wee wee man?
A Ghost To Most
@chopper: The classics never go out of style. Even new ones.
Amir Khalid
@Yarrow:
Makes me think of Corey Lewandowski’s but-not-really firing.
A Ghost To Most
@germy:
Wait, what? He’s in a rock band? Moaning Ho and the Skeevy Shysters?
TenguPhule
@Cheryl Rofer:
Will Trump realize he’s signed a declaration of surrender to North Korea before its too late?
rikyrah
“Bob McCulloch delivered a speech so offensive to his audience that an entire county’s worth of Oregon prosecutors walked out and later shunned his subsequent keynote address.”
Just how racist do you have to be for a bunch of PROSECUTORS to walk out?https://t.co/CLFa65n9zU
— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) August 29, 2018
Yarrow
@Amir Khalid: Also Scaramucci.
TenguPhule
@MattF:
Do they go in the Burnables or Recycling?
Mary G
Dog bless Fahrenthold. He’s probably #1 on the FAKE NEWS TO BE JAILED FOR LIFE list:
MattF
@Cheryl Rofer: So, Koreans– both North and South– imagined that Trump would keep a promise? I’d expect Chinese and Japanese now dealing with Trump to both back off several steps now.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: Oh dear.
TenguPhule
@Это курам на смех:
The next government will revoke it from him and his family and let the chips fall where they may.
Doug R
@Brachiator: Yup McGahn refused to write up a pardon for Manafort, that’s the precipitating incident.
laura
@Major Major Major Major: I got a cheap flight to Tokyo and Taipei in March!
You know that’s just going to egg on lahm36 -the other travellingest jackal…..
The only question will be if it’s before, during or after her Master’s Program.
(Yes, im jealous)
Uncle Cosmo
@oldmold: STFU, you superannuated shitheel. I’d accuse you of having a one-track mind but I have yet to see evidence of a mind behind your whines.
Doug R
@TenguPhule: Canadians have been inserting sleeper agents since Mary Pickford. Why do you think Errol Flynn died in Vancouver. Liquor and whores was the cover story.
There’s about a million Canadians in greater Los Angeles alone.
James E Powell
@Brachiator:
Kinda sorta my sense of this, too. Either he will get another attorney who will issue justification and go on TV to defend it, or he may just let Rudy continue doing his fine work. We will learn later – most likely from Maggie Haberman – that Ivanka was against it.
Doug R
@Yarrow: The “mooch” was fired before his official start date.
James E Powell
@Mary G:
One of the few journalists who came out of 2016 not looking like an asshole.
MattF
@James E Powell: …And with Manafort out of prison, Vlad can arrange the defenestration. Sounds good to me.
EBT
Personally I am assuming he names Noun Verb 9/11 as new WH council.
debit
@James E Powell: So, if Manafort is pardoned, doesn’t that work against Trump? I mean, than he can be compelled to testify, yes? And doesn’t it then open up obstruction of justice charges against Trump too? I just don’t see how a pardon does anything but make this worse.
MattF
@debit: Yes, but… that assumes Manafort survives. He’s got lots of enemies.
FlyingToaster (Tablet)
@oldgold: Concern troll is concerned.
@Uncle Cosmo: One-note Johnny; FSM help us all if any of these morans get a clue….
Ninedragonspot
@Major Major Major Major: I spend a few months every year in Taipei. Let me know if you are interested in seeing Taiwanese, Beijing, Kun or Hakka opera while you there or have questions about the city.
catclub
@debit:
I would think that the compelled testimony is only on things related to the pardon. I guess this is assuming that many other crimes still have to be hidden.
Those by Manafort as well as Trump.
Humdog
@debit: Just how does compelling to testify work? You cannot plead the fifth, but how do you make true words come out of someone’s mouth. Can’t Manafort just go with old tried and true, I do not recall?
A Ghost To Most
Per rawstory; Sarah Palin not invited to McCain funeral.
MisterForkbeard
@Humdog: If he’s lying or un-cooperative, he is jailed through contempt of court IIRC. Though the Judge would probably need to justify it, and I have no idea what the requirements there are.
rikyrah
@A Ghost To Most:
BWA HA HA HA HAH A HA HA HA HA
raven
@Ninedragonspot: I went there on R&R 50 years ago. Why do I think it’s changed?
debit
@catclub: Okay, I can see that. But now that he’s been convicted of lying on his federal taxes, aren’t the states planning on charging him for those years too? Those can’t be pardoned. Either way, no matter what, he’s going to be in jail.
Lulymay
@sukabi:
I thought I just read elsewhere that he’s better known as the “2 minute wonder”. That would fit…..so to speak.
debit
@Humdog: Well, I assume they gave some corroborating evidence. And the old “I don’t recall” thing doesn’t actually work, according to previous lawerly discussion here and there. So if he fibs or fudges, then he’s suddenly guilty of lying to a federal agent and that’s a whole new charge.
opiejeanne
@debit: There’s a weird catch in NY state laws, that preclude someone from being tried for the same crime in NY if the Feds have already tried them. They’re in a rush to change that law so that he is not exempted. But the Feds haven’t tried him for NY tax fraud, and if he was guilty of fraud on his IRS filing, he’s certainly guilty of the same for state taxes.
debit
@rikyrah: I echo your laugh and add a mean, Nelson Muntz HAH HAH at the end of mine.
opiejeanne
@debit: @rikyrah: I know! I love it!
TenguPhule
@debit:
New york law apparently has a loophole involving double jeopardy on similar federal charges..
debit
@opiejeanne: They have all those counts that one juror held out on. Those qualify for trial at the state level. That’s if Manafort doesn’t retry. There was a Slate article I can’t get to ATM, but it laid it out pretty well how New York, Illinios, Virginia and California (IIRC) could all get a piece of the Manafort pie.
TenguPhule
@A Ghost To Most:
Having the mistress and the wife at the same event would be a social disaster.
efgoldman
@Brachiator:
Evidence?
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
People who live in Southern states don’t always realize that their particular brand of racism doesn’t always fly outside of those states. Oregon has its issues with racists and white supremacists, but they’re not as casual about this stuff as Missouri is:
Doug R
@Lulymay: Stormy says two minutes is generous.
opiejeanne
@TenguPhule: I read that they introduced a bill two days ago to fix that loophole, but I think their state leg is on recess. At least one lawmaker came back from vacation to propose the bill.
cain
@Major Major Major Major:
Somebody looked at Scott’s Cheap Travels or something. I saw something like that as well from Denver!
opiejeanne
@TenguPhule: Let’s not go down that road.
rikyrah
@opiejeanne:
MISTRIALS DO NOT apply to Double Jeopardy statutes. So, all the charges from the Mistrial can be refiled – BY STATES – and, they can even use the Government’s evidence in those trials.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Heh. I always figured the McCain family hated her for making Daddy look bad by accepting his offer of the Veep slot. NOKD.
A Ghost To Most
@TenguPhule:
Hey, even McCain had standards.
MisterForkbeard
@rikyrah: Very true, but I think the discussion here is about pardons. I suppose this still applies if Trump pardons him for the 8 counts, and NYState goes after him on the remaining 10…. but given that several of the 10 were about conspiracy to commit the 8 pardoned crimes, I’m not sure how that would go.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@opiejeanne: @rikyrah: as I understand it, the concern is that if he’s convicted and pardoned, he skates on that double jeopardy thing. Rachel Maddow speculated, and Chuck “Old Sobersides” Rosenberg even seemed to agree that it was plausible, that their strategy might be to plead guilty, take the pardon, and run away into whatever kind of witness protection program Putin offers.
rikyrah
@debit:
Yep, someone here was the one who linked to the article, but that was the bottom line. Multiple states could charge Manafort, and the MISTRIAL verdicts DO NOT apply to Double Jeopardy, and those prosecutors didn’t even have to come up with their own evidence. They could use the fed’s evidence..LOL
Yarrow
@A Ghost To Most:
Oh, that’s hilarious. He gets the final say. So sad, Snowbilly Snooki.
TenguPhule
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
This plan may need more work.
TenguPhule
@A Ghost To Most:
Did he ever tell you how he met his second wife?
Dorothy A. Winsor
Is McGahn going right away? I thought he was staying around until after the Kavanaugh hearings.
Amir Khalid
@TenguPhule:
1) Sarah Palin was never John McCain’s mistress, unless you know something the rest of us don’t.
2) Francois Miterrand’s widow and mistress stood together at his coffin during his state funeral, so it’s not unheard of.
Calouste
@TenguPhule: Didn’t stop François Mitterand from inviting both to his own funeral. And his lovechild as well.
TenguPhule
Elon Musk doubles down on ‘pedo’ claims against UK cave diver
Asshole gotta asshole.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and the international relations professor goes for the coldest shot
opiejeanne
@TenguPhule: Yes, he met her at a party in Hawaii while he was still married to Carol. His first marriage may have been on the rocks at the time. Not nice but not that unusual*. Cindy strikes me as a typical trophy wife.
*Compare and contrast with our current Resident.
Ruckus
@debit:
I was sure you were paying attention. Making things worse is the shitgibbon’s only skill.
You can always bet on worse with him.
opiejeanne
@Calouste: They’re French, dear.
Amir has it right, there is no evidence that she was ever his mistress.
oldgold
@Uncle Cosmo:
That’s not fair! At times I whine about Pelosi.
opiejeanne
Mmmm, pie! I think those apples on the tree are about ready.
debit
@Ruckus: I just assumed that someone so self absorbed would take it to heart if his legal team was telling him “Don’t do it, it’ll hurt you.” If he had even a shred of some redeeming quality I could almost feel sorry for him; his desperation is palpable. As it is, all I can do a sort of evil Renfield laugh as I think of his coming ordeals.
TenguPhule
@Amir Khalid: *shrug* poor taste, I know.
No evidence that Sec Kelly is bonking his former protegee either, but it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
TenguPhule
@opiejeanne:
I believe there is still an ongoing debate between cinnamon and nutmeg.
Yarrow
@TenguPhule: But, but, we were assured that St. Elon had apologized and besides the guy was a jerk and an asshole.
Ruckus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Vlad’s witness protection scheme is that dead men tell no tales.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Ruckus: we always assume the Russians want to keep things quiet. I’ve always thought that when it suits him, when it simply amuses him, Putin will release little dribs and drabs. Or big ones. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if Russia were the source on leaks about trump tower, if they were yanking Cohen around.
Ninedragonspot
@raven: There’s much more bubble-tea now. Possibly still the same batch of stinky tofu, though.
rikyrah
Donald Trump Does Not Want That Smoke From Andrew Gillum
By Damon Young
Admittedly, I do not know much about Andrew Gillum. I know he won the Democratic nomination in Florida’s primary race for governor, beating heavy favorite Gwen Graham. I know he’s the mayor of Tallahassee. I know he graduated from Florida A&M—which is why every FAMU grad I’m Facebook friends with had 22,000 word-long status messages this morning about Rattlers. I know he met his wife there. I know, without knowing him, that he frequents a black barbershop. (Which is very important.)
I also learned, earlier today, that he possesses that smoke. Perhaps he doesn’t possess much of it.
………………………………………….
I do know, however, that he has some smoke for the president. And Donald Trump, the simp-ass, mark-ass, trick-ass coward that he is, wants none of it. If Donald Trump went to a restaurant, and Smoke From Andrew Gillum was featured on its menu—perhaps accompanied with chorizo Benedict—he’d leave and go to Steak n’ Shake.
TenguPhule
@Ninedragonspot:
Zimmerman confirmed that. They probably recycled his batch after the Travel Channel left.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@TenguPhule: Pretty misogynistic, IMO. Would you make the same jokes about two male politicians? I know we’re talking about evil Republicans, but women in public office don’t deserve this generalized disrespect.
West of the Rockies
@rikyrah:
And yet I can see her showing up with a six-pack of PBR and a bag of pork rinds.
A Ghost To Most
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Drezner wins. I need a jacket from that shade.
Ruckus
@debit:
Personally, right now, I’m just hoping that the shit hits the fan soon. I like the smell of legal shit hitting the fan. And besides I’ve reached my snarky limit in this matter. And that pisses me off, that something this snark worthy is also so bad that the bad has won.
TenguPhule
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
1. Uh, you do realize the ones who came up with the Kelly speculation are women?
2. Yes. And then I was promptly accused of being anti-homosexual.
A Ghost To Most
Slobberbone, “Shoot you dead”
debit
@Ruckus: As the walls close in and he gets more and more desperate, he’s going to do something so awful, so egregious that it will finally answer the question, “What does Trump have to do in order to have the GOP establishment turn on him?” I don’t know what it is, but he’ll do it. Either that or stroke out while he’s taking a shit.
sukabi
@TenguPhule: Musk doubled down one time too many, libel suit has been prepared. link
TenguPhule
@debit:
The answer always has been “nothing”.
The only possible road to survival for the GOP is to go all the way with Trump.
Anything less leads to prison and/or death.
Ruckus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Nothing in this shitscape surprises me.
But it’s either dead man walking or a parade through every Russian city big enough to have a police station. Which may end in the same way.
TenguPhule
@sukabi: Musk obviously has more money then common sense.
This imbalance must be corrected.
chopper
@Yarrow:
looks like going with the assumption that his ‘apology’ to the guy was insincere AF was a smart move.
A Ghost To Most
@TenguPhule:
The answer is, and has been, mushroom clouds.
debit
@TenguPhule: Man, and I thought I was a cynic.
p.a.
@debit: ‘B’. The party will never turn on someone while they still have their hands on the levers of power.
Stroke while trying to suck a shake through a straw.
Ruckus
@debit:
What ever it is, he will fuck it up and make it worse, because, no matter how bad it gets the one thing we know, he can only make it worse
TenguPhule
@A Ghost To Most:
GOP: “We need more information to come to a decision”
TenguPhule
@debit:
They’re complicit in high treason. There is only one way out.
A Ghost To Most
McConnell: The time had come to make a change.”
Yutsano
@A Ghost To Most: “Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked…”
A Ghost To Most
@Yutsano: We have always been at war with humanity.
Fair Economist
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
My speculation is that McGahn was picking the judicial nominees and Grassley is afraid that with him gone he’ll be getting Trump’s cronies as judicial nominee rather than Federalist Society members.
TenguPhule
@A Ghost To Most:
And we’re winning! So tired of the winning.
Mnemosyne
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
Actually, I’m pretty convinced that Kelly is fucking Nielsen and the press refuses to report it. Why do the White House chief of staff and the DHS secretary travel together when only one of them has business at the destination? ?
The fact that she’s a proven incompetent (see her Katrina record) as well as a Fox-ready blonde only adds to the impression.
TenguPhule
Nobody could have predicted….oh wait.
It has begun.
A Ghost To Most
@Mnemosyne: Ewww! Makes sense. Ewww!
Mnemosyne
@sukabi:
If the suit is being filed in Great Britain, Musk’s ass is toast. Their libel laws are much less loose than ours are.
TenguPhule
Wapo Fail. George Bush the lesser has been purged from the media’s memory.
Mnemosyne
@TenguPhule:
This has been a problem since at least post-9/11, and lots of asshole politicians have been insisting that if one or two midwives were convicted of faking birth certificates, they must ALL be fake.
And very few Latinos of that generation would have been born in hospitals because of segregation — Texas applied “Juan Crow” segregation laws to Latinos in the state.
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
Trump has done the usual and escalated it into something completely worse.
Anonymous At Work
@EBT: No, it’s that McGahn’s job of protecting the President becomes unnecessary with 5 solid Republicans on the Supreme Court.
Why aren’t people leading with that??
Ella in New Mexico
@rikyrah: begs the question : Who the fuck invited the scumbag in the first place? It’s not like his despicable performance was some sort of mystery.
rikyrah
This thread is hilarious ? ?
The Angry (@NY_Wiseass) Tweeted:
Michael Jackson was an asshole in “Remember the Time” https://twitter.com/NY_Wiseass/status/902616252476256256?s=17
Baud
@TenguPhule: They know the Dem haters will send that article to each other if it’s written that way.
rikyrah
Washington Post (@washingtonpost) Tweeted:
U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question https://t.co/7qsHTLW1Ce https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1034900007923707904?s=17
TenguPhule
@rikyrah: See me at @147
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@TenguPhule: @Mnemosyne: Apparently I’m not paying enough attention…
rikyrah
John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) Tweeted:
Speaker Ryan’s PAC is trying to link a Democratic Congressional candidate to terrorism because she briefly taught English at an Islamic school in suburban Washington while waiting for the security clearance she received to become a counter-terrorism agent for the CIA https://t.co/9yJnluivLm https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1034644785326436354?s=17
A Ghost To Most
Adam, is this something, or nothing?
Martin
@Mnemosyne:
The fact that one DA walked out isn’t really news. The fact that the rest stayed is.
TenguPhule
@A Ghost To Most:
The Pentagon hired Baghdad Bob?
rikyrah
@rikyrah:
A reply says that it is a phucking lie
John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) Tweeted:
info about the teaching job came from candidate’s application for a security clearance, which she received. security clearance applications are highly-confidential. PAC says US Postal Service gave it to GOP operatives in response to records request https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1034653191336599552?s=17
rikyrah
@rikyrah:
felicia bawolek (@nevbav) Tweeted:
@JohnJHarwood that is a complete lie.
2C security clearance records 4 someone in counter terrorism, one would have 2 have security clearance, & a PAC doesn’t have the clearance,GOP “operatives” do not have the clearance!
her application being”leaked”,is a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 798 https://twitter.com/nevbav/status/1034689294168932352?s=17
debit
@TenguPhule: Stop. You’re making me have fantasies about Trump hiding from the US Army in some stinking little shithole after he’s been driven from power. On second thought, don’t stop.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Yeah, why would the USPS have a copy of her SF-86.
Mary G
Didn’t read the article due to paywall, but this is amusing:
rikyrah
President Obama told y’all (@num1_fan) Tweeted:
Andrew Gillum’s strategy was about voter turnout. His FAMU family, wife and surrogates fired it up! He didn’t worry about gaining the handful of remorseful Trump voters. https://twitter.com/num1_fan/status/1034616509136609280?s=17
debbie
Someone on NPR reported that despite Trump’s approving words about McGahn, he hated him because he represented the presidency not the president. They speculate that Flood will be appointed to replace him. I’m not familiar with Flood other than he defended Bill Clinton, but I wonder if Trump expects he will defend Trump instead of the presidency?
tobie
@rikyrah: Mr. tobie and I heard Andrew Gillum on Chuck Toddle’s show on Sirius radio. Chuck was being an aggressive ass and Gillum masterfully parried every attack line he threw at him. At the end of the interview, mr. tobie and I turned toward each other and said simultaneously, “Wow, he’s good.” I was hard on him yesterday because of the FBI investigation but listening to him convinced me I was wrong. I spoke too soon and made a false judgment. Gillum handled, among other things, the FBI question beautifully. Talked about his transparency and compared it to De Santis’ opacity. It was all done well with a certain levity to boot.
tobie
@debbie:Yet another norm will fall if Trump appoints his personal attorney to the post of White House attorney. If Flood accepts the post, frankly it means he, like Trump, believes that when it comes to the President, “L’etat, c’est moi.”
MomSense
Twitter toddler having another tantrum. He needs a long time out – in prison.
I don’t care a bit about McGahn. He’s another monster but I hope he provided some more evidence to take down the Mandarin Menace.
EBT
@TenguPhule: They have been refusing passports and revoking passports from trans folks for months now.
rikyrah
PragmaticObotsUnite (@PragObots) Tweeted:
RT @hellofasandwich: GOP bloodbath in Oklahoma tonight: Six incumbent state legislators have lost primary runoffs: Dunlap (#HD10), Clevelan… https://twitter.com/hellofasandwich/status/1034637481935872000?s=17
Kathleen
@MomSense: The Toddles is a fascist fluffing fecal fragment. As are most of the media, and all of the FTFNYT political stenographers.
B.B.A.
@tobie: It fell under Bush. Miers was his personal attorney before she became WH Counsel (and then failed to be appointed to SCOTUS).
geg6
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
They wouldn’t. Paul Ryan (it’s his PAC that handed it to her opponent) is a traitorous mother fucker. And he or his buddy Nunes can easily get those records.
tobie
@B.B.A.: Thanks for the correction. I forgot that.
geg6
@geg6:
And it’s Dave Brat who is her opponent. I don’t put anything past that asshole.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@geg6: I know, it’s just a really, really dumb excuse.
Brachiator
@opiejeanne:
Cindy is a wealthy heiress. John McCain could have been her typical trophy husband.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
If you don’t like the current excuses, they have others.
Gelfling 545
@A Ghost To Most: I feel reasonably certain that the entire McCain family blames Palin for the loss of the presidency.
J R in WV
@Cheryl Rofer:
Pretty sure Trump would need to get a few others to sign a peace agreement in Korea, as it was United Nations police action, not a war between the US and DPRK and China. That might be difficult for him, as he’s pissed off many of our traditional allies at the UN.
What a dork, doesn’t even know other nations are involved with Korea besides ours. His in his world…
Waynski
@TaMara (HFG): De nada.