All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Joe]

I think they have a better case than Trump does for "vindication".

Journalists Were Right

The Mueller report reads as a 400-page confirmation of years’ worth of reporting on Donald Trump.

From the dawn of his presidential campaign, and especially since Robert Mueller was named special counsel, President Donald Trump has waged war on professional journalism. He has maligned the press as a den of liars and fabulists. He has applied the term “fake news” to any story or outlet that he dislikes—or that he thinks dislikes him. He has mocked “the failing New York Times” and the “Amazon Washington Post.” He has tweeted an edited video of himself wrestling and overpowering a figure with a CNN logo for a head. He has called the media the “enemy of the people.”

Trump has been adamant about discrediting the media because the media has discredited him. “I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you,” Trump told Lesley Stahl in 2016. His scorched-earth tactics have worked, to a point. Trump’s war against journalism has energized his base and has powered his efforts to preemptively undermine the Mueller report. Now, the Mueller report is out, and the journalists who’ve spent the past several years reporting on Trump’s conduct are looking a lot better than Trump himself.

If Mueller’s report feels familiar, it’s because so many of the incidents it documents have already been reported....more

It's interesting that our mutual friend has gone rather quiet since he apparently went off to read the Mueller report. Coincidence?

If he is reading it, he's probably finding that more than the journalists are vindicated. However, I have complete faith he's dreaming up new lines of obfuscation, whataboutery, and so-whatism to amuse us.

He's generous that way.

[Tero]

Mueller will testify to Congress. Because Barr mishandled summary. Letter to Justice came out in NYT.
https://twitter.com/P_Lepinkainen/statu ... 5693345792

[Tero]

Barr, Trump's personal Attorney General and lackey testifies tomorrow. We have a preview.

[Seabass]

Wtf is wrong with him?? Why does he stand like that? One would think he'd have to lean back to counter the weight of his big paunch, but instead he leans forward. How is he not tipping over? He defies the laws of physics...

[JimC]

Physics?

Fake news!

[Animavore]

If he is reading it, he's probably finding that more than the journalists are vindicated. However, I have complete faith he's dreaming up new lines of obfuscation, whataboutery, and so-whatism to amuse us.

He's generous that way.

I don't get how he doesn't understand that whataboutism is a both tacit admission of wrong-doing and an indication they know and understand perfectly well the wrongness.

[Tero]

Barr holding back Mueller
https://hillreporter.com/trumps-doj-app ... rats-33639

[rainbow]

Wtf is wrong with him?? Why does he stand like that? One would think he'd have to lean back to counter the weight of his big paunch, but instead he leans forward. How is he not tipping over? He defies the laws of physics...

He has a golden dildo up his arse?

[Joe]

If he is reading it, he's probably finding that more than the journalists are vindicated. However, I have complete faith he's dreaming up new lines of obfuscation, whataboutery, and so-whatism to amuse us.

He's generous that way.

I don't get how he doesn't understand that whataboutism is a both tacit admission of wrong-doing and an indication they know and understand perfectly well the wrongness.

Yeah, it seems pretty basic to me that it's faulty reasoning. Maybe it's a Trump voter thing.

[Seabass]

Wtf is wrong with him?? Why does he stand like that? One would think he'd have to lean back to counter the weight of his big paunch, but instead he leans forward. How is he not tipping over? He defies the laws of physics...

He has a golden dildo up his arse?

That thing would have to be the size of a small child to provide enough counterbalance...

[Tero]

Barr you are an asshole!
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/05/01/politi ... cnn.com%2F

[Seabass]

Barr you are an asshole!
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/05/01/politi ... cnn.com%2F

Lol. Just so others have context, this is the letter Mueller sent to Barr to protest Barr's whitewash of the Mueller report...

[Sean Hayden]

Wtf is wrong with him?? Why does he stand like that? One would think he'd have to lean back to counter the weight of his big paunch, but instead he leans forward. How is he not tipping over? He defies the laws of physics...

He is tipping over, constantly in fact. That's why he's so agile. 5d flight.

[Joe]

Well, you gotta understand what Trump thinks the Attorney General is there for. From footnote 297, Volume II of the Meuller Report on page 51.

Bannon said the President saw Robert Kennedy and Eric Holder as Attorneys General who protected the presidents they served. The President thought Holder always stood up for President Obama and even took a contempt charge for him, and Robert Kennedy always had his brother's back. Bannon 2/14/18 302, at 5. Priebus recalled that the President said he had been told his entire life he needed to have a great lawyer, a "bulldog," and added that Holder had been willing to take a contempt-of-Congress charge for President Obama.

That's why he was so pissed off at Sessions, who seemed to think he was supposed to enforce the law or something.

It looks like Barr is just what Trump was looking for.

[Tero]

Barr you are an asshole!
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/05/01/politi ... cnn.com%2F

Lol. Just so others have context, this is the letter Mueller sent to Barr to protest Barr's whitewash of the Mueller report...

yeah I summarized it rather well!