White House Survivor

Firestone said:
"This may be the strangest day yet at the Trump White House. Rod Rosenstein was summoned to the WH to meet with John Kelly this morning. He expected to be fired. He wasn't. And now Rosenstein is attending a previously scheduled cabinet-level meeting (filling in for Sessions)"

https://twitter.com/jonkarl/status/1044261344562884610
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I liked this from Liverpoolmiss on badscience

Oh. Not fired, resigned or saved. A meeting on Thursday instead.

I'm not entirely convinced this White House is smooth-running machine.
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Squeegee Beckenheim said:
FWIW, there's a spreadsheet here of every departure from the Trump administration. 387 to date.
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Oh for crying out loud!

Are there positive reasons for working for Trump?

So far, about the only positive aspect that I have seen in working for Trump is that one may be able to make a small fortune by writing some sort of kiss-and-tell book about the experience.
 
Firestone said:
"This may be the strangest day yet at the Trump White House. Rod Rosenstein was summoned to the WH to meet with John Kelly this morning. He expected to be fired. He wasn't. And now Rosenstein is attending a previously scheduled cabinet-level meeting (filling in for Sessions)"

https://twitter.com/jonkarl/status/1044261344562884610
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Sacking him now would be catastrophic for the Republicans in the mid-term elections and yet I find it hard to believe trump would pay any regard to that if he wanted Rosenstein gone.
 
Garrison said:
Sacking him now would be catastrophic for the Republicans in the mid-term elections and yet I find it hard to believe trump would pay any regard to that if he wanted Rosenstein gone.
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But he would pay attention to Seah Hannity....

From: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...p-not-to-fire-anybody-after-rosenstein-report
Fox News host Sean Hannity late Friday urged President Trump not to fire anyone following a New York Times report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had proposed secretly taping conversations in the Oval Office last year...“I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody,” Hannity, a vocal ally of Trump, said during his program. "They are hoping and praying that the president does just that, that he gets mad, that he gets sick and tired of it” and turns it into a scandal, Hannity added.

Given the fact that Trump regularly communicates with Fox news personalities (with them serving as advisers/controllers), a warning from Hannity not to fire Rosenstein would go a long way.
 
If one thing comes out of this it will hopefully be the ability of pundits to pronounce "Rosenstein" correctly. (ends like "Frankenstein".)
 
Segnosaur said:
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Given the fact that Trump regularly communicates with Fox news personalities (with them serving as advisers/controllers), a warning from Hannity not to fire Rosenstein would go a long way.
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Given the frequent "pillow talk" phone calls... in 50 years this will be known as "the Hannity Administration".
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Segnosaur said:
But he would pay attention to Seah Hannity....

From: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...p-not-to-fire-anybody-after-rosenstein-report
Fox News host Sean Hannity late Friday urged President Trump not to fire anyone following a New York Times report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had proposed secretly taping conversations in the Oval Office last year...“I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody,” Hannity, a vocal ally of Trump, said during his program. "They are hoping and praying that the president does just that, that he gets mad, that he gets sick and tired of it” and turns it into a scandal, Hannity added.

Given the fact that Trump regularly communicates with Fox news personalities (with them serving as advisers/controllers), a warning from Hannity not to fire Rosenstein would go a long way.
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An easy call for Hannity and Trump: it appeared in the NY Times! My god, it must be part of some devious liberal/communist plot.

Donald: don't fall for the bait! Promote Rosenstein.

I am curious and probably relevant: what does Putin recommend?
 
Trebuchet said:
Certainly the former, probably the latter. Diverting attention from the current stupidity with even more stupidity is something the administration has been remarkably good at.
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Yep.
Scheduling the Trump-Rosenstein meeting on Thursday, the same day Dr. Ford testifies before the Senate judiciary committee, is probably no coincidence.
 
Firestone said:
Yep.
Scheduling the Trump-Rosenstein meeting on Thursday, the same day Dr. Ford testifies before the Senate judiciary committee, is probably no coincidence.
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So the expectation is that if the testimony of Ford goes well for Kavanaugh, Rosenstein is safe, and if it looks bad for Kavanaigh, Rosenstein will lose his job?

what a mess.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
So the expectation is that if the testimony of Ford goes well for Kavanaugh, Rosenstein is safe, and if it looks bad for Kavanaigh, Rosenstein will lose his job?

what a mess.
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I don't think so. Rosenstein is getting either fired or is resigning over the "record Trump/25th amendment" cherry on the cake allegations. Nothing to do with Kavanaugh. The timing, though, is no coincidence. He's trying to divide the coverage on Thursday.
 
There is zero chance that Rosenstein was serious about the 25th/getting wired
up thing. For one, unless they lock Trump in a room until 2020, there would be no way to make the 25th stick, and Rosenstein knows this. He is also way too close to the Mueller probe to allow himself to be a direct witness.
This looks very much like a hatchet job by Trump supporters.
 
Has anyone heard any word yet on the disposition of Rod Rosenstein?

After all, just the other day, Trump was talking about axing him. But then Trump got distracted when the UN laughed at him and by the Kavanaugh hearings so I was just wondering if Trump had decided to "flip" or "flop" about the Rosenstein issue.
 
Crossbow said:
Has anyone heard any word yet on the disposition of Rod Rosenstein?

After all, just the other day, Trump was talking about axing him. But then Trump got distracted when the UN laughed at him and by the Kavanaugh hearings so I was just wondering if Trump had decided to "flip" or "flop" about the Rosenstein issue.
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The meeting was delayed until next week.
 
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