Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We still have time to mess this up!

Saul Alinsky is my co-pilot

It’s a tarp!

Women: They Get Shit Done

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

This Blog Goes to 11…

Peak wingnut was a lie.

This is a big f—–g deal.

We can agree to disagree, but I’m right.

Naturally gregarious and alpha

We are aware of all internet traditions.

This blog will pay for itself.

Screw the Judaean People’s Front. Splitters.

Verified, but limited!

Also, too.

How has Obama failed you today?

A snarling mass of vitriolic vicious jackals

Mission Accomplished!

We Survived Breitbartpocalypse!

This blog is Obama’s Katrina.

We have all the best words.

Word salad with all caps

An army of rabid, anonymous commenters

Technically true, but collectively nonsense.

You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Dolt 45 / Ah, The Evening News Dump

Ah, The Evening News Dump

by | 38 Comments

This post is in: , , ,

This morning, Donald Trump said that it would be fine with him if China investigated Joe Biden, thereby confirming that he wants other countries, including the authoritarian ones, to do his dirt-digging for him.

Lo and behold tonight!

Trump raised Biden with Xi in June call housed in highly secure server. That was back in June. Also Elizabeth Warren. Trump isn’t taking any chances. Speaking of her, he also doubled down on his “Pocahontas” attack and said he would have to “hit her again.”

Also, a conversation has surfaced between Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland from July about a statement Sondland drafted for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to sign saying that Ukraine would investigate Joe and Hunter Biden. The conversation ends with an admonition that text message may not be the best medium for it.

And, no surprise, Trump ordered Marie Yovanovich removed as Ambassador to Ukraine because she wouldn’t play along with his games. But now what we suspected is confirmed.

Sometimes it’s just hard to write about this stuff. It’s painful that the President of the United States is doing stuff like this. Even Chuck Todd is feeling it.

Open thread!

 

Reader Interactions

38Comments

  1. 1.

    Another Scott

    Are there any “unsolved” shootings on 5th Avenue? Maybe someone at a newspaper in NYC could look into that.

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  2. 2.

    Elizabelle

    Good for Chuck Todd. One tiny quibble: did you notice he said “the President’s party” in talking about those who will not lift a finger. Cuz he still can’t say “Republicans” in the lead of his piece.

    Anyway, watching the clip of Trump: I don’t see how Hillary Clinton keeps any weight on at all. It is so goddamned sickening seeing him anywhere near the White House. He is abhorrent. And illegitimate.

  3. 3.

    zhena gogolia

    Good for Chuck Todd. Finally I hear someone in the MSM who seems to be feeling the gravity of the situation.

  5. 5.

    zzyzx

    Perhaps the weirdest part of this whole insanity is the attempt to sell Joe Biden – the politically boring moderate who is mainly known for not having enough of a filter – as some sort of evil, corrupt mastermind. It’s proof that if you have control of a news source and your fans don’t watch anything else, you can prove anything.

  6. 6.

    Kent

    The really sad thing about this is that he has been doing this since day one and so many people in government and the media have known about it all along. Maybe not the whole picture. But parts of it. And they have all just gone along with the “normalizing” of all of it.

    The blame for Trump goes far and wide.

    Yet when it all collapses just wait, all the blame will be laid on a few MAGA hat Cletuses in Wisconsin diners.

  9. 9.

    hilts

    Trump may have lived in a penthouse apartment before entering the White House, but he’s always acted like someone who just crawled out of a sewer.

    With each successive news cycle, he acts more and more like a mental patient. He deserves to be strapped in a straitjacket and placed in the lock down unit of a psych ward.

  10. 10.

    FelonyGovt

    It feels like maybe, just maybe, things are beginning to turn. If the media stops holding back it will make a huge difference.

  14. 14.

    Elizabelle

    Maybe the FTF NYTimes glances in on Balloon Juice. Cuz here’s a headline they have up, as of 19 minutes ago.

    Trump, the Self-Impeaching President
    Now he wants China to investigate the Bidens and help his re-election bid. Give him this, he’s not subtle.

    Mistermix has them beat by hours.

  15. 15.

    joel hanes

    @hilts:

    Trump is a danger to _us_, not to himself.

    He belongs in a prison.

    But what I expect is:
    – impeached and convicted and removed (the levee broke yesterday, and the water’s rising fast)
    – spends about a year in court contesting state charges
    – decompensates to the point that his kids have him declared, and institutionalized in a very expensive sanatorium

  19. 19.

    Ken

    @joel hanes:

    institutionalized in a very expensive sanatorium

    – Mysteriously found dead in his room, while the security cameras malfunctioned and the attendants took a smoke break

  21. 21.

    sdhays

    @schrodingers_cat: If someone tells him Kamala is half-Indian, I expect him to call her “Pocahontas 2” and be pretty satisfied with himself. At least until she starts to look like she’s going to win.

  22. 22.

    catclub

    @Elizabelle:

    Now he wants China to investigate the Bidens and help his re-election bid.

    I really want somebody to ask what he would give China if they DO come up with dirt on Biden.

  24. 24.

    Uncle Omar

    The best outcome of all this is that Trump is so distracted that he’s forgotten–at least temporarily–about the Saudi refinery fire and his plan to attack Iran. On the other hand wiser hands in the gov’t may have pointed out that such an attack would result in Iran finishing off the refinery just before closing the Straits of Hormuz. Of course the idea that “wiser hands” might have access to Trump and influence enough to persuade him of anything is improbable at best given what we’re seeing these days.

  25. 25.

    Bill Arnold

    @rikyrah:

    I knew that there was a China call on The Server

    FTFY. :-) The word “server” has been deliberately conflated with “container of evidence of nefarious activity” in weak right wing minds by right wing propagandists for years. Good that we’re taking advantage of this priming.

  26. 26.

    Bill Arnold

    @schrodingers_cat:

    I bet there is some underhanded deal with Modi as well.

    How was the Houston event treated in the Indian press/media? The parts I watched went pretty smoothly from an American point of view excepting perhaps the high hand holding as they were walking.

  28. 28.

    Zinsky

    It’s becoming more and more clear that Mike Pence and Mike (Pompous) Pompeo are in this scandal up to their warty, turkey gizzard necks and should probably be impeached as well.

    By the way, whatever happened to the allegation that a Russian oligarch had co-signed one of Trump’s loans through Deutsche Bank? If that turned out to be true, that might drive a stake through the dark heart of this foul man…

  29. 29.

    karen marie

    I wrote the following and sent it to my representative earlier tonight:

    Dear Representative Schweikert:

    I do not need you to tell me about impeachment. I have already watched two. Well, one given Nixon resigned in order to evade being found guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. We all know the impeachment of Bill Clinton was utter bullshit from start to finish. A blowjob – spare me your dishonest morality.

    Donald Trump, however, is an existential danger to this country. He is completely unfit. He is using the office of the president to enrich himself, his family, friends and hangers-on. To keep that gravy train going, the loudmouth-in-chief is extorting help from other countries (Ukraine, and now China, Australia and the UK, and likely more) in destroying Americans’ confidence in their government (a goal of the Republican party going back to Ronald Reagan, if not earlier) and – the only thing Trump really cares about – his reelection in order to postpone the day of reckoning when his two-bit “empire” will come crashing down.

    It is unacceptable that US foreign policy – and governance of the country generally – should be conducted in such an appalling, immoral and unconstitutional way. I am not at all surprised that as a Republican you are comfortable with this happening, because your sponsors are getting what THEY have paid for – tax cuts, deregulation, courts packed with lifetime appointments of people who are utterly without morals or an understanding of justice.

    You are an embarrassment to Scottsdale, to Arizona, to this country, and to the office you hold. You may not care that people have inadequate access to health care, safe food, water and air, that people have to fear that going to school, work or the grocery store may be their last trip because you and your political party refuse to put a stop to weapons of war being available to anyone who wants one, or that asylum seekers are being savagely abused, children stolen from their families and brutalized, but history will judge you harshly for standing by and doing nothing. That is small comfort to those suffering now, and I am sure you could not care less – as demonstrated by the bullshit you’ve expressed in your response to me as well as everything you have said and done while in the House – but I will personally strive to ensure your name is permanently associated with all of these crimes against America.

    Do not correspond with me again unless it is to let me know you have come to your senses and will not just vote for impeachment of Trump but actively work to move the impeachment process forward and remove Trump from office.

  33. 33.

    Bonnie

    I am an American Indian and every time he brings up Pocahantus, he offends me and many of our tribal members. I guess he isn’t trying to get the American Indian vote.

  34. 34.

    Suzanne G. (aka SG)

    @chris:

    This may be the bigger news than the mention of Biden (whose context is unclear in the piece): “In that call, Trump also told Xi he would remain quiet on Hong Kong protests as trade talks progressed.” t.co/hc7lSft1Zu— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) October 3, 2019

    This actually brought tears to my eyes. These people in Hong Kong are literally risking their lives for liberty, and they are waving American flags. There are no words to describe the depths of Trump’s betrayal. Here we are, throwing our liberty and honor down the sewer by not rising up to drag that filthy tin-pot dictator out of the White House (not to mention letting him get close enough to steal the election in the first place), while the land of the free and the home of the brave has moved to Hong Kong.

  37. 37.

    Zinsky

    @karen marie: Nicely done, Karen Marie, and thank you for writing this letter. If more Americans took the time to do this and to be more actively engaged in the political process, we wouldn’t end up with human sewage like Trump in the White House.

    FLUSH HIM DOWN! FLUSH HIM DOWN! FLUSH HIM DOWN! FLUSH HIM DOWN! FLUSH HIM DOWN! FLUSH HIM DOWN!

Comments are closed.