The Trump Presidency: Part 21

[Bob001]

No. Here the politician would be invited to an interview on tv, and saying no is usually not an option. The public won't respond well to a politician who refuses to face hard questions.

I can't remember the last time I saw an American politican go through that. Whenever I see an American politician go through an extended interview, it's more cosy than tough.

Trump "submits" to interviews on Fox almost every day. He has no reason to meet anybody else. He knows others wouldn't be so adoring. There might have been a time when Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley could maybe compel an interview, but that goes back decades to a time when there were only three TV networks.

 

[Armitage72]

His name was Darth Continent, but he drifted.

It's a reference to an old comedy video.

Darth Vader - Invader. Darth Sidious - Insidious.

Therefore, Darth = In.

Darth Continent - Incontinent

 

[TragicMonkey]

It's a reference to an old comedy video.

Darth Vader - Invader. Darth Sidious - Insidious.

Therefore, Darth = In.

Darth Continent - Incontinent

Yes, I got it. My reply was a reference to something even older: a famous remark by a much more powerful Sith by the name of Mae West.

 

[SezMe]

Trump Retweeted

Michael Nöthem
@mikandynothem
Remember the picture of @BarackObama holding an American flag like @realDonaldTrump Me neither...

He says that as if is a bad thing.

 

[SezMe]

Will this hurt Obama's chances for the 2020 Presidency?

And here I diudn't even know Michelle was running.

 

[SezMe]

Your politicians just wouldn't meet them. The public here doesn't accept that. I think that's the difference.

I don't accept it but what the hell can I do about it?

 

[Stacyhs]

No. Here the politician would be invited to an interview on tv, and saying no is usually not an option. The public won't respond well to a politician who refuses to face hard questions.

I can't remember the last time I saw an American politican go through that. Whenever I see an American politician go through an extended interview, it's more cosy than tough.

That depends on who is doing the interview. You can bet if the reporter if from Fox, he gets soft balled.

 

[SezMe]

I think it's all of them. But exactly what IS "Obamagate"? According to The Independent, O-gate is.

From one of those links:

The theory also maintains that Mr Comey, the allegedly corrupt FBI director who was supposedly a leader of the conspiracy against Mr Trump, wrote a letter to Congress just weeks before the 2016 election announcing the bureau’s continued probe into Ms Clinton’s email server as a false flag to throw people off the scent of his real intentions to harm Mr Trump.

That's ludicrous. If anything, Comey's violation of FBI protocol by releasing that letter in the final days of the campaign was the final straw that broke HRC's campaign. If he was trying to harm Trump then I'm one of the Cottingley fairies.

 

[a_unique_person]

What is all this "Obamagate" crap about? Is it his response to Obama's criticism the other day? His latest attempt to direct attention away from Covid 19? Introducing his new 2020 campaign rhetoric?



I think it's all of them. But exactly what IS "Obamagate"? According to The Independent, O-gate is

















Trump's nuts, people. But that doesn't stop his Republican congressional cronies from backing this nonsense or his supporters from swallowing this nonsense. They want to believe soooooooo badly.

But they are dangerous nuts. Trump is out for revenge and the conservative media, his administration, the senate and his supporters want blood.

 

[zorro99]

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, intends to tell the Senate that Americans would experience “needless suffering and death” if the country opens up prematurely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/...action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

 

[Blue Mountain]

Drama queen Trump just stormed off stage from his press conference, because of "nasty" questions from a journalist. He refused to answer, and told the female Asian journalist to go ask China.

I'd prefer not to have to view the press conference if I don't have to. What was the question he took umbrage at?

 

[EvilBiker]

I'd prefer not to have to view the press conference if I don't have to. What was the question he took umbrage at?

From vox.com:

His meltdown began when Weijia Jiang of CBS asked him to explain why he seems to be fixated on competing with other countries while 2,000 or so Americas continue to lose their lives each day from the coronavirus. Trump fired back by telling her to “ask China.”

“Don’t ask me — ask China that question,” Trump said.

Jiang, who is Asian American and who previously said that a White House official referred to the coronavirus as the “Kung-Flu” to her face, followed up by asking Trump, “Sir, why are you saying that to me, specifically?”

“I’m telling you,” Trump said, “I’m not saying it specifically to anybody. I’m saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that.”

Trump followed that seconds later up by throwing a tantrum when Kaitlan Collins of CNN tried to ask him a question, then storming away.

What I found funnier is this bit:

“In one of your Mother’s Day tweets, you appeared to accuse President Obama of ‘the biggest political crime in American history, by far’ — those were your words. What crime exactly are you accusing President Obama of committing, and do you believe the Justice Department should prosecute him?” Rucker asked, during a news conference that was ostensibly about the coronavirus.

Trump had nothing.

“Uh, Obamagate. It’s been going on for a long time,” he began. “It’s been going on from before I even got elected, and it’s a disgrace that it happened, and if you look at what’s gone on, and if you look at now, all this information that’s being released — and from what I understand, that’s only the beginning — some terrible things happened, and it should never be allowed to happen in our country again.”

 

[Mojo]

From one of those links:

That's ludicrous. If anything, Comey's violation of FBI protocol by releasing that letter in the final days of the campaign was the final straw that broke HRC's campaign. If he was trying to harm Trump then I'm one of the Cottingley fairies.

It’s a defining characteristic of a conspiracy theory that everything is evidence for it, even if the evidence is directly contradictory.

 

[Lurch]

I wasn't aware "Obamagate" was listed as a crime in any US jurisdiction.

 

[Nessie]

Watching a Trump press conference is like rubber necking a car crash.

 

[TheSupermeerkat]

Has anyone else noticed that in the Trump daily rants, the microphones at a quite a low level, so the person asking the question almost has to bow?

 

[Ladewig]

The president sent out a tweet advertising his L.A. golf course.


“Don’t worry,” they said, “he is going to pivot.”

“Don’t worry,” they said, “there will be adults in the room.”

We don’t hear much from them anymore.


I’m going to go beat my head against a wall.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: In spite of the FBI terminating Steele as an FBI informant for misconduct in 2016, his FBI handler Michael Gaeta disclosed in declassified doc: "I know at one point there was a discussion that some investigative team was going to go reach out & speak with him [in 2017]"

BREAKING: Between July 2016 and October 2016, Christopher Steele provided as many as six reports regarding Trump and Russia directly to the FBI as its paid informant

DEVELOPING: "A few months" after Steele in November 2016 was abruptly terminated as an FBI informant, his partner at Orbis, Christopher Burrows, made contact with Steele's FBI handler Michael Gaeta. What role did Burrows play, if any, in the investigation of Trump?

DEVELOPING: Did top brass at Obama DOJ in August 2016 task a key department conduit for Christopher Steele to make sure the FBI was investigating his dossier allegations against Trump? What pressure was the NSD & the AG's office exerting on the FBI to take the dossier seriously?

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
It’s clear from recent revelations that President Obama & his holdovers had a morbid fear of Lt. Gen. Flynn, an anti-Islamic terror hawk, and were gunning for him early in the transition, long before rumors he was involved in any alleged Russian conspiracy

BREAKING: Steele's FBI handler Michael Gaeta swore under oath that tho Steele told him in July 2016 that Glenn Simpson & a political law firm backed Steele's dossier, Gaeta didnt know Simpson or law firm worked for Clinton campaign, which contradicts Steele's own recent testimony

BREAKING: In declassified doc, FBI agent Michael Gaeta testified that he asked dossier fraudster Christopher Steele in July 2016 "if it was unverified. He said he had no independent corroboration from any other sources." Still, Gaeta forwarded the dossier to higher-ups at the FBI

BREAKING: FBI HQ agreed to pay Steele a large undisclosed sum on Oct 3, 2016 "for his work on the dossier," his handler FBI Agent Michael Gaeta revealed in declassified transcript. Meeting took place as FBI scrambled to gather evidence to support FISA warrant to spy on Trump camp

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

The Lamestream Media is truly out of control. Look how they work (conspire!) together. They are the Enemy of the People, but don’t worry, we will WIN in November!

OBAMAGATE!