Our list of allies grows thin! Our list of enemies grows long! Trump thread continued.

[TheClaws]

The above is a quote from The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, said by Lord Elrond. At this stage, with POTUS practically pissing off every ally the US has while cosying up with several dictators, it seems quite apt.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3283037-trump-puts-kids-in-cages-because-he-wants-his-wall-how-low-can-he-go-the-authoritarian-shitshow-continues

[TheClaws]

This is apt too (you know how I love my Trump images!):

[Lweji]

Ooh, fresh thread while not being able to sleep.

I wonder if the FART act was discreetly named by a fifth column member while nobody was paying attention.
It can't have been an accident.

[ohmymimi]

Thank you for the new thread, Claws .

[ohmymimi]

David P Gelles
@gelles
CNN has found Scott Pruitt and his aides have kept "secret" calendars and schedules to overtly hide controversial meetings or calls with industry representatives and others, according to Kevin Chmielewski, Pruitt's former deputy chief of staff for operations
mobile.twitter.com/gelles/status/1013952129659260928

[ohmymimi]

Trump has embraced the big-money donor world he once lied he had shunned

www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/trump-has-embraced-the-big-money-donor-world-he-once-shunned/2018/06/30/0ef53478-7630-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?__twitter_impression=true

[ohmymimi]

'How Amy Coney Barrett vaulted onto Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist'

'A testy exchange with Dianne Feinstein helped make this former Notre Dame law professor a favorite of conservatives.'

www.politico.com/story/2018/07/02/justice-barrett-amy-coney-feinstein-692199

[Quantumblue]

Thank you Claws.
Nice bromance developing between Trudeau and Andres Obrador, new Mexican President.

[ohmymimi]

'Some administration officials are so optimistic about making progress with North Korea's Kim Jong-un that they hope a Round 2 with President Trump can be held in New York in September, when world leaders pour into Trump's hometown for the U.N. General Assembly.'
www.axios.com/north-korea-kim-jong-un-donald-trump-second-summit-new-york-city-united-nations-628e47de-e62e-41b6-99de-d01c91c8c94b.html

[ohmymimi]

'Russian charged with Trump's ex-campaign chief is key figure'

' During the special counsel's Russia investigation, Konstantin Kilimnik has been described as a fixer, translator or office manager to President Donald Trump's ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

But Kilimnik, an elusive figure now indicted alongside Manafort on witness tampering charges, was far more involved in formulating pro-Russia political strategy with Manafort than previously known, according to internal memos and other business records obtained by the AP.'
By JEFF HORWITZ and MARIA DANILOVA
apnews.com/amp/f498ec3fec8c4100b5751beb3bf9b2d0?__twitter_impression=true

[ohmymimi]

'Anti-abortion rights groups and activists have been quietly lobbying senior White House officials against possible Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and instead are arguing in favor of Amy Coney Barrett, two senior White House officials and people close to the selection process tell ABC News.'
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/anti-abortion-rights-groups-quietly-lobbying-supreme-court/story?id=56330232&__twitter_impression=true

[ohmymimi]

You are not alone on that limb:

David Freedlander
@freedlander

Yea I’m going to go out on a limb and say I don’t think this is actually happening

'President Trumpspent Saturday engaged in a deep dive into the backgrounds of the top prospects to fill an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court but hasn’t begun interviews with the finalists.

Trump is at his Bedminster, New Jersey, private golf club. He’s been studying the rulings, judicial philosophies and temperaments of his short list, said an administration official familiar with the process.'

mobile.twitter.com/freedlander/status/1013835850784731136

[Lweji]

I'm sure he's deep diving into what could bring more benefit to him personally. I'll go out on a limb and risk saying that abortion per se is less important than views on collusion or quid pro quo deals. Keeping in mind that he'd be a fool to trust anyone to keep to a deal any more than he keeps to one.

[lettuceWrap]

Thanks for the new thread Claws.

[ohmymimi]

'No ‘Trump Bump’ for Pro-POTUS Authors—Sean Spicer Is the Latest to Fizzle'

'According to NovelRank, which tracks book sales figures, today The Briefing is number 2,611 on Amazon’s American bestseller list. Only 68 people have purchased the book since the Trump tweet.'

'And in the United Kingdom, not one person has pre-ordered Spicer’s book.'
observer.com/2018/07/donald-trump-books-sean-spicer-twitter/

[ohmymimi]

Not so much a smoking gun, more a water pistol:

www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/here-are-the-documents-recovered-from-michael-cohens?utm_term=.eoA0EO1k4#.joOwaeM3m

[lionheart]

Thank you Claws.

[lettuceWrap]

After experiencing the chaos of working in Trump’s White House, Spicer wrote a pro-Trump book?

[Roussette]

Thanks for thread claws you're a star!

Trump is at his Bedminster, New Jersey, private golf club. He’s been studying the rulings, judicial philosophies and temperaments of his short list, said an administration official familiar with the process.'

This made me laugh. Can anyone in the US honestly think he can study anything? Does it have pretty pictures and bullet points?!

[ohmymimi]

www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/ice-family-separation-bond-denial-1/
Maddow on this about 10 mins in:

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Thank you for the new thread :)

[ohmymimi]

It's not 'interesting', it's normality in the Trumpiverse:

Ken Dilanian Retweeted
@hardball
"What's interesting here is that Donald Trump does not appear to acknowledge any of this." @KenDilanianNBC on the White House's response to North Korea increasing nuclear production.
mobile.twitter.com/hardball/status/1013928777385209856

@KenDilanianNBC
“Don’t bother us with your reporting on what the intelligence actually says.”
Andrea Mitchell
@mitchellreports
Asked about @NBCNews report that North Korea is expanding nuclear program and commercial satellite evidence of increased activity at nuclear sites @PressSec says "there is great momentum right now for positive change and beyond that I have nothing further for you."
mobile.twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1013905165370494977

[ohmymimi]

Amazing:
Deadline White House
@DeadlineWH
"What we found ...was not just that North Korea was not decreasing its production of uranium, but that at least one location was increasing it ... U.S. intelligence was confident N.Korea was already looking to deceive the U.S." - @ckubeNBC w/ @NicolleDWallace

mobile.twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1013887591295410176

[ohmymimi]

Missed this from the wannabe dictator. There's danger alright, this is incendiary and inciting careless talk:

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-says-critics-are-dangerous-for-the-country_us_5b394da1e4b0f3c221a1d9e0

[PerkingFaintly]

Now there's a horrible new meaning for The One Ring, The Claws...

[ohmymimi]

Punctuation fail: This is incendiary, and inciting, careless talk.