The Trump Presidency 13: The (James) Baker's Dozen

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Emptywheel article categorising the requests

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1102660360782442496

NEW: The 81 people/entities House Judiciary sent document requests to this morning is "just the first wave," a committee source told me. Another source described it as just the "first steps."
"The committee will continue to make news as the weeks go on."

In other words, don't read too much into the fact that certain names--like Ivanka and Tillerson--aren't on this particular list.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Whitaker has left the DOJ

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1102711736371687424

Senators *again* left briefing on Khashoggi killing feeling frustrated, this time with Treasury officials:

Sen. Graham: “A complete waste of time"
Sen. Murphy: “Nothing you wouldn’t know from the press reports”
Sen. Merkley: “Not a drop” of new info

 

[Belz...]

I know what you mean. That was nasty!

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That's already a disrespectful thing to do, and more than once, but there's something particularily creepy about Trump in particular hugging the American flag. It's like he's smothering it to end its suffering.

 

[Belz...]

Whitaker has left the DOJ

McDonalds has a lower turnover rate than the White House.

 

[Belz...]

Man, what an idiot. He says he doesn't have white hair, and right there you can see the white hair growing back on the side of his head.

 

[alfaniner]

looks like he is doing something to the flag with the bottom half of his body there...

It wasn't just the hug that was crude, it was the wriggling up against it with his entire body.

 

[Andy_Ross]

He's screwing America.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Whitaker has left the DOJ

is he trying to wiggle out of having to testify to the House again for his lies the first time around?

 

[Crossbow]

looks like he is doing something to the flag with the bottom half of his body there...

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Another 'Me Too' moment for Trump, however this one involves the flag.

 

[Bob001]

It wasn't just the hug that was crude, it was the wriggling up against it with his entire body.

Is there something genuinely weird about Trump's face? If you didn't know who he was and you just looked at the guy's facial expressions, would you be creeped out?

 

[TragicMonkey]

Is there something genuinely weird about Trump's face? If you didn't know who he was and you just looked at the guy's facial expressions, would you be creeped out?

He seems to be thinking that's he's doing the flag a big favor by letting it be photographed with him.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Republican Approval Rating just hit 93%. Sorry Haters! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

“HIV Is Cured In 2nd Patient, Doctors Report.”
@nytimes Such great news for so many. Tremendous progress being made!

 

[Mumbles]

Trump Tweets

“HIV Is Cured In 2nd Patient, Doctors Report.”
@nytimes Such great news for so many. Tremendous progress being made!

Well, I'll be. The idiot managed to quote a scientific achievement, as reported by the NYT, without adding his own brand of stupidity.

 

[Segnosaur]

Trump Tweets
“HIV Is Cured In 2nd Patient, Doctors Report.”
@nytimes Such great news for so many. Tremendous progress being made!

Of course, this is after:

- Trump has done everything he could to sabotage Obamacare, resulting in thousands of extra people who now have no health insurance. So even if they do find a cure many won't be able to afford it

- Trump sought to cut finding for AIDS programs

- Fired people on his AIDS/HIV advisory council (after several had already resigned because they thought Trump was ignoring the issue.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/15/heres-how-trump-hobbled-obamacare-and-drove-enrollment-down.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/05/bono-to-congress-thanks-for-ignoring-trump-on-aids-funding.html

https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/paqkb7/trump-just-fired-the-rest-of-his-hivaids-council

 

[Trebuchet]

To reactionaries, it means anything that results in their tax dollars going to support lazy non-white bums. Even if socialized medicine were cheaper for them, they'd oppose it on those "ideological" grounds.

Fixed that for you.

 

[ferd burfle]

It wasn't just the hug that was crude, it was the wriggling up against it with his entire body.

From Colbert: https://youtu.be/l0at__kgEmQ

"FILF"

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1102978495490203653

BREAKING NEWS (MSNBC): Democrats Preparing to Issue Demand for Ten Years of Trump Tax Returns

 

[Horatius]

Is there something genuinely weird about Trump's face? If you didn't know who he was and you just looked at the guy's facial expressions, would you be creeped out?

It's not just you. I think this is the result of his lifetime of being surrounded by servants and sycophants. No one in his entire life has ever had the guts to tell him how stupid he looks with these expressions, so he's never felt the need to learn to not look like a weirdo.

And this isn't the first time he's done this with a flag. He did it several times before, and clearly didn't figure out from any of those times how creepy he looks.

And it's not just his flag molesting. How many times have we seen him in some kind of pouting position? Arms folded, scowling, two-year-old "Don't Wanna!" kinds of poses that any other leader would know right away made them look like a petulant child. And his creepy grin-and-thumbs-up pose he does in pictures all the time.