pacino wrote:Trump basically took 'credit' for the Qatar/Saudi Arabia friction

i'm speechless

would not be surprising if they were emboldened by things he said on the trip.

JUburton wrote:

pacino wrote:Trump basically took 'credit' for the Qatar/Saudi Arabia friction

i'm speechless

would not be surprising if they were emboldened by things he said on the trip.

Who was?

thephan wrote:The NYT wants us to believe thatTrump has a grows discontented with Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Where the article states that his tweets point to his feelings that the Justice Department is letting him down, I want to be on record that I do not think the Trump knows that the AG is the head of Justice.

I wholly believe that he is PO'd that Sessions’s decided to recuse himself, because it make Trump look bad, and that is all that matters.

Nice try MSM. Bannon still loves Sessions.

NYT wrote:In private, the president’s exasperation has been even sharper. He has intermittently fumed for months over Mr. Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s election, according to people close to Mr. Trump who insisted on anonymity to describe internal conversations. In Mr. Trump’s view, they said, it was that recusal that eventually led to the appointment of a special counsel who took over the investigation.

The article agrees with you. It all stems from the recusal.

thephan wrote:

JUburton wrote:

pacino wrote:Trump basically took 'credit' for the Qatar/Saudi Arabia friction

i'm speechless

would not be surprising if they were emboldened by things he said on the trip.

Who was?

the saudis/emeratis. i mean how easy would it be to corner him, say when youre touching an orb, tell them that qatar is financing terrorism, him completely believe them as they shower him with compliments and he says he agrees something needs to be done. then they do this and he backs them on twitter. i would bet he didnt, maybe still doesnt, know that our largest middle east military base is in qatar.

slugsrbad wrote:

thephan wrote:The NYT wants us to believe thatTrump has a grows discontented with Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Where the article states that his tweets point to his feelings that the Justice Department is letting him down, I want to be on record that I do not think the Trump knows that the AG is the head of Justice.

I wholly believe that he is PO'd that Sessions’s decided to recuse himself, because it make Trump look bad, and that is all that matters.

Nice try MSM. Bannon still loves Sessions.

NYT wrote:In private, the president’s exasperation has been even sharper. He has intermittently fumed for months over Mr. Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s election, according to people close to Mr. Trump who insisted on anonymity to describe internal conversations. In Mr. Trump’s view, they said, it was that recusal that eventually led to the appointment of a special counsel who took over the investigation.

The article agrees with you. It all stems from the recusal.

I wrote poorly as I was agreeing with the article that he might be PO'd at Sessions, but was diverging on the reason. Moreover, Sessions is Bannon's lapdog per that interview he gave to Terri Gross a few years back, so I do not see Ol' Jeff being sent anywhere, no matter what the political temperament is for firings, as long as Bannon has any say. Bannon understands the depth and breadth of power of the AG to turtle flip the structure of the US Government. If anything, we see Trump taking his cues again from the shadow president.

JUburton wrote:[the saudis/emeratis. i mean how easy would it be to corner him, say when youre touching an orb, tell them that qatar is financing terrorism, him completely believe them as they shower him with compliments and he says he agrees something needs to be done. then they do this and he backs them on twitter. i would bet he didnt, maybe still doesnt, know that our largest middle east military base is in qatar.

You know it was that easy too. Magic glowing ball for donald trump to touch that makes donald trump part of a spacial secret club for donald trump. donald trump, you know that the qataris are bad for donald trump and donald trumps new friends, right? what would you do donald trump?

Donald: Fire them.

There it is, history made.

If I were Reality Winner, I might be looking for a new lawyer with the free time she now has on her hands.

Winner's attorney Titus Thomas Nichols, said she has yet to enter a plea, and remains jailed in Lincoln County with a hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

"A week ago today she was living her life," he said. "Now she’s in the middle of a political whirlwind."

Hmmm, just living her life and found her way harmlessly into a political fiasco? Such an over simplification. How about, 'a week ago she was a nobody who stole and leaked information, and now she is jailed wondering what happens next, and if she will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law.'

Robert Costa reporting that WH sources say Trump will live tweet Comey's testimony

oh dear, this will not end well

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Robert Costa reporting that WH sources say Trump will live tweet Comey's testimony

oh dear, this will not end well

That cannot happen. He has to have something to do to run the country. Right. Just the littlest thing, right?

Is this part of the plan to make the government crumble from within through gross incompetence?

Rubio and Cotton are having dinner tonight with Trump

couldn't have anything to do with the fact that they are questioners in the Comey hearing, right?

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Robert Costa reporting that WH sources say Trump will live tweet Comey's testimony

oh dear, this will not end well

MAY live tweet, and let's give the President credit, he is one to show great self-restraint.

Haters just don't want him spitting truth!

he's literally counter-programming Comey's testimony with a speech at a Ralph Reed event

the idiot press will probably show it

The Sean Spicer Show is on! Leads off with touting all the Trump victories since he has ascended to demi-god. If a reporter gets a questions and say, 'Thank you Sean", then just laughs for a full minute, then asks for a response to that, would they get tossed? #SoSoSad

Wow, glad that I had the moment to spend hearing the first question about Trumps Tweets, to which he sort of said that 'Trump tweeted during the election and it worked out pretty well'. Had to skate after that or risk concussion via head slap.

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Rubio and Cotton are having dinner tonight with Trump

couldn't have anything to do with the fact that they are questioners in the Comey hearing, right?

They're having dinner with the President the night before they question the fired FBI director who is expected to testify that the President invited him to dinner and asked him to drop the investigation?

What could possibly go wrong there?

Or maybe it's Rubio playing the longest of long games after his trouncing in the primaries.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Rubio and Cotton are having dinner tonight with Trump

couldn't have anything to do with the fact that they are questioners in the Comey hearing, right?

They're having dinner with the President the night before they question the fired FBI director who is expected to testify that the President invited him to dinner and asked him to drop the investigation?

What could possibly go wrong there?

Or maybe it's Rubio playing the longest of long games after his trouncing in the primaries.

I hope they enjoy nice platefuls of blanched stool of leprous opossum

Now they've scheduled Trump to give a speech during the Comey testimony, just to keep him away from live tweeting

The President is a toddler that needs constant safeguards and distraction so that he doesn't stick his finger in the electric socket

Perhaps the speech will be sort of a dramatic real time leading of the tweets that he is sending while watching the testimony on the big screen behind him. It would sort of be like a poetry slam, or maybe some kind a free rap thing, or perhaps just a descent in to hell.