Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Breccia]

Hmm, that's not what I heard on CNN ... they said he pled guilty to EVERYTHING, but they are only pressing charges on those 2.

It's this one.

In 60 days, they'll be back in court to discuss how things are going. As @cubby pointed out, if Manafort isn't helpful, those other charges aren't gone, they're just stealthed.

But that should be discussed in the First Charges thread.

[Pazazu]

It's this one.

In 60 days, they'll be back in court to discuss how things are going. As @cubby pointed out, if Manafort isn't helpful, those other charges aren't gone, they're just stealthed.

But that should be discussed in the First Charges thread.

Blarf, my fault, posted in the wrong one.

[Breccia]

Trump Jr accuses Vanity Fair of buying Twitter followers.

"You mean, like, the proven number of Russian bots that Trump interacted with during the campaign?"

Well, no, those were a gift from a hostile foreign power, making that illegal. What you should have said is "like the 15 million fake accounts Trump's twitter has, over three times the total number of total followers VF has".

[some guy]

I wonder if team Trump ever gets tired of doing the exact shit they accuse everyone else of?

[Gestopft]

Mexico might agree to $20 million, seeing as how it's pretty small in their $315US billion budget. Unlike the $10-25 billion Wall. But all that would prove is Trump is a bully, trying to squeeze what used to be a strong ally for every penny he can get. Mexico caving doesn't make Trump any less deplorable.

I don't think accepting $20 million from the US is considered 'caving'

[Breccia]

I don't think accepting $20 million from the US is considered 'caving'

SHIT I read that backwards. Ah fuck it, I'm getting a nothingburger. Leaving original post to shame myself.

[Gestopft]

SHIT I read that backwards. Ah fuck it, I'm getting a nothingburger. Leaving original post to shame myself.

And it makes the optics absolutely hilarious: we’ve gone from “Mexico is going to pay for the wall” to “there’s still no wall, and now we’re paying Mexico.”

To be fair, it’s still a positive development for those who are onboard with Trump’s goals on immigration, but it’s still really, really funny.

[Edge-]

So we've got a projection that Republicans will lose 60 seats in the House in the midterms, giving Democrats a solid majority (they're currently 43 down, so that would place them at 253 vs. the Republican 176, though there are currently 6 vacant seats not accounted for). What liberal rag predicted this? Matt Drudge. I'm not kidding.

https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/1040653420930060293



And he's citing Rasmussen as his polling source who - as a reminder of the obvious - routinely skew a few points towards the right.

I'm assuming his "unless..." is a reference to getting conservatives out to vote, but who knows.

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics...rnment-scraps/

And in today's installment of, "The Republican party totally doesn't have a racism issue with their candidates...", we have Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel.

McDaniel made the remarks during a live recording of MSNBC’s Morning Joe at Ole Miss. Interview panelist Eddie Glaude Jr., a Mississippi native and chairman of African American studies at Princeton, noted McDaniel’s history of defending the display of the Confederate flag and blaming rising gun violence on a “hip-hop” culture.

“How do you convince black folk in this state that you’re not a danger to them?” Gaude asked, noting that 38 percent of the state’s population is African American.

McDaniel responded, “I am going to ask them, after 100 years, after 100 years of relying on big government to save you, where are you today? After 100 years of begging for federal government scraps, where are you today?” The audience booed.

The comment is not out of character for McDaniel, a longtime state senator, who made news for addressing a neo-Confederate conference during his run for U.S. Senate in 2014.

https://twitter.com/PhilBryantMS/sta...13661386567682

Republican Mississippi governor Phil Bryant rejected the comment "in the strongest possible terms", which is great! If it weren't for the Republican officials (hello Steve King) and candidates (WE HAVE AN ILLINOIS NAZI!) that keep intentionally or "accidentally" making overtly racist comments all of a sudden.

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http://www.columbusceo.com/news/2018...ty-affiliation

And now the richest Ohioan has left the Republican party and is not an "Independent".

“I’m an independent. I won’t support this nonsense in the Republican Party.”

[Breccia]

And he's citing Rasmussen as his polling source

Does he have a choice? 538 has him at 40% and dropping.

[Thekri]

Does he have a choice? 538 has him at 40% and dropping.

In other good news, Mueller is going up pretty substantially over the last month. The more people see what Mueller is doing, the higher his approval goes. Which makes it a lot more scary for republicans to side with getting rid of him. It would be hard to imagine a more perfect disaster for republicans then they are facing this midterms. 2020 isn't going to be any better for them either.

[cubby]

So we've got a projection that Republicans will lose 60 seats in the House in the midterms, giving Democrats a solid majority (they're currently 43 down, so that would place them at 253 vs. the Republican 176, though there are currently 6 vacant seats not accounted for). What liberal rag predicted this? Matt Drudge. I'm not kidding.

https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/1040653420930060293



And he's citing Rasmussen as his polling source who - as a reminder of the obvious - routinely skew a few points towards the right.

I'm assuming his "unless..." is a reference to getting conservatives out to vote, but who knows.

- - - Updated - - -

https://www.motherjones.com/politics...rnment-scraps/

And in today's installment of, "The Republican party totally doesn't have a racism issue with their candidates...", we have Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel.



https://twitter.com/PhilBryantMS/sta...13661386567682

Republican Mississippi governor Phil Bryant rejected the comment "in the strongest possible terms", which is great! If it weren't for the Republican officials (hello Steve King) and candidates (WE HAVE AN ILLINOIS NAZI!) that keep intentionally or "accidentally" making overtly racist comments all of a sudden.

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http://www.columbusceo.com/news/2018...ty-affiliation

And now the richest Ohioan has left the Republican party and is not an "Independent".

I'm caught in a really weird location, waiting for a hopelessly delayed plane, and I'm laughing my ass off at this fantastic post. Thank you Edge.

60 seat swing?!?!?!

And publicly losing rich donors can have a cascading effect. Hello Blue Ohio.

[Adam Jensen]

And he's brought up the "57 States" Obama gaffe from 2008 now . . .

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...99409670377472

It's just pure ranting from this guy, pure incoherent ranting.

[Breccia]

And he's brought up the "57 States" Obama gaffe from 2008 now

Honestly surprised he hasn't mentioned Obama being Muslim or Kenyan again. Fucker has got to be desperate for good news...on a day a record-breaking hurricane dropped to tropical storm. Seriously why not go with that?

[Dacien]

And he's brought up the "57 States" Obama gaffe from 2008 now . . .

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...99409670377472

It's just pure ranting from this guy, pure incoherent ranting.

I think he seemed to get the message after his horrendously ghoulish argument over body counts in Puerto Rico and focused back on what's happening here, but I think he kind of had it gnawing at the back of his mind that he was being wronged, and went back at it later a few hours ago.

It's just ghoulish, unnecessary, petty, and disappointing that he's arguing about the death toll in Puerto Rico.

He's at his best when he's punching back justifiably and at an appropriate time. These tweets about Puerto Rico check neither of those two boxes.

[Felya]

He's at his best when he's punching back justifiably and at an appropriate time. These tweets about Puerto Rico check neither of those two boxes.

Who did he punch at appropriately? Over a year and a half in... I dare you to say “lock her up”...

[Breccia]

Once again, Trump only wants the attention if it's fawning praise. Not, say, the truth.

Such as another lawyer turning on him in the form of a book.

Trump asserted in a phone interview with The Wall Street Journal that his former lawyer Jay Goldberg is bitter over not being hired to a position in the White House.

“I’ve had nothing but victories

Hahahahahahaha

*deep breath*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*even bigger deeper breath*

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

so it’s sad that somebody you can’t take to Washington for obvious reasons wants to write a book,” Trump said, citing economic gains and a bolstered military.

Goldberg represented Trump in his two divorce cases and is releasing a memoir in December called “The Courtroom Is My Theater.”

“There’s lawyer-client privilege here. You can’t do that,” Trump told the Journal.

A spokeswoman for Goldberg said he is cognizant of the issue and will not reveal anything to violate attorney-client privilege. She also maintained that Goldberg "never wanted to go to Washington," despite Trump's claim.

The lawyer says in an excerpt of the book that he rejected an offer from Trump to work in Washington providing legal advice, according to the Journal.

Goldberg also criticized Trump’s personal legal team over its handling of his former longtime fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen, who implicated Trump last month in campaign finance violations related to payments he made to buy the silence of two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump in 2006.

Goldberg argued in an interview with the Journal that alternate praise and condemnation of Cohen from Trump's personal legal team did the president a disservice.

So, yeah, of course the lawyer knows about confidentiality. It's like saying Manning knows how many points a touchdown pass is worth, Alton Brown knows how to boil water, or Trump knows how to buy sex.

[szechuan]

From Sandy Hook is a hoax to 3k Puerto Ricans didn't die. Good Job Trump and Trump Fans.

[Dontrike]

He's at his best when he's punching back justifiably and at an appropriate time.

Woah woah woah woah. Woah! When the fuck does he ever do THIS? What fanfiction are you writing?

[Masark]

When the fuck does he ever do THIS?

Never. Therefore, he's never at his best.

[Travis B]

And he's brought up the "57 States" Obama gaffe from 2008 now . . .

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...99409670377472

It's just pure ranting from this guy, pure incoherent ranting.

Has Obama ever misspoke besides that one time? If so, I haven't heard it. It's hilarious how they have to constantly bring that one up because there are no others.

Meanwhile, you could create a miniseries out of Bush Jr's gaffes. And Trump's gaffes are a 24/7 shitshow.