Cont: The Trump Presidency Part IV

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Cl1mh4224rd said:
Trump's really nervous about Wolff's book: Trump: Wolff book 'full of lies,' author had 'zero access'
"I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don't exist. Look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!" the President tweeted.​
The tweet.
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I'm gonna guess it's somewhat beyond "really nervous." They may need to sedate him.
 
BobTheCoward said:
Can you provide a citation for this? Is it true that if I lie about my activities, claiming they are true, and the lies relate to my activity under NDA, that I am not violating NDA?
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Sorry, just noticed this.

How would a tweet from very much a legal expert Ronald Klain do? https://twitter.com/RonaldKlain/status/948999792272736256

Free legal advice to the WH: An ex-staffer's statement cannot both be (a) an inappropriate disclosure of a confidence, and (b) wildly false. No one is violating a contractual non-disclosure provision if they are disclosing things that you say didn't happen. So, pick a theory.
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Shouldn't there have been rules and procedures in place for dealing with an embedded reporter?
What should and shouldn't be said or discussed with or in front of him?

Isn't that a basic PR thing?
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Shouldn't there have been rules and procedures in place for dealing with an embedded reporter?
What should and shouldn't be said or discussed with or in front of him?

Isn't that a basic PR thing?
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In a competent administration, yes.

The chaos the book describes is the reason it was possible.
 
Morning Mix
Rebekah Mercer: The billionaire backer of Bannon and Trump chooses sides

I was struck by this description of her father:

Robert and Rebekah Mercer’s rise as Republican power brokers was unique.

Robert Mercer is a former IBM computer scientist who made billions later in life by applying complex programming techniques to financial trading as the co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, Bloomberg reported. Quiet and socially awkward — he once told a friend he preferred the company of cats to people, according to the Wall Street Journal — Mercer has an extreme views on small government and wealth.

“Bob believes that human beings have no inherent value other than how much money they make,” a colleague told the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer. “If someone is on welfare they have negative value. If he earns a thousand times more than a schoolteacher, then he’s a thousand times more valuable.”
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So a socially awkward guy who made billions by inventing clever trading algorithms thinks that the value of a human being is directly proportional to the amount of money they earn.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Shouldn't there have been rules and procedures in place for dealing with an embedded reporter?
What should and shouldn't be said or discussed with or in front of him?

Isn't that a basic PR thing?
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Trump is nothing but a stupid, idiotic, greedy liar, therefore Trump does not know how to properly deal with such a person.

In fact, even after this sobering experience I doubt that Trump has figured out how to properly deal with such a person.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
You asked for a citation, not an analysis. I'm not sure an analysis of such a thing would exist.
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Normally when something is cited, it is supposed to be something good. It is nothing personal against the argument ot the person. The writer of that tweet is also far too busy to entertain a more detailed answer. Twitter is just not a great medium for these types of things.
 
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BobTheCoward said:
Normally when something is cited, it is supposed to be something good. It is nothing personal against the argument ot the person. The writer of that tweet is also far too busy to entertain a more detailed answer. Twitter is just not a great medium for these types of things.
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It's the only medium in which I can find it being discussed. I'm happy to believe that legal experts know about the law, especially something as ubiquitous as NDAs. Sans contradictory evidence, I'm happy to accept it as true. You, of course, are entitled to your own opinions.
 
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