Trump 2018: Resistance is Never Futile

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To pick up on the Star Trek motif.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that whenever anyone starts getting too close to Trump's filth for comfort he starts attacking Hillary. Considering what is going on with Mueller and Bannon it's hardly a surprise the 'but Clinton's emails...!' defense has been wheeled out again.

Not surprising, but troubling that sessions has caved and allowed the branches of government to be even less separate, with the president now explicitly with his thumb on the scales of justice

Another instalment of Wolff:

How Donald Trump's White House team handles his giant ego

Soon after the inauguration of Donald Trump on 20 January 2017, GQ columnist Michael Wolff was granted special access to the White House. Over seven months, in more than 200 interviews with the president and his staff, he sought to understand the motivations of the most peculiar presidency in history. Here, with an exclusive excerpt from the Micheal Wolff book on Trump, Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump White House, we look beyond the rhetoric, ego and dissimulation to expose the truth about the Commander in Tweets’ first breathless year

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/michael-wolff-book-trump

I imagine he has a team of Oompa Loompas who stroke him gently with peacock feathers and fur gloves whilst making whale song noises.

That's how the deal with him on my mind.

It’s not far off fekko, from wolff’s account anyway.

7th man who controlled Clinton media coverage ousted for predatory behavior

shareblue.com/7th-man-who-controlled-clinton-media-coverage-ousted-for-predatory-behavior/#.Wk55RM2wl8A.twitter

The Aftermath becomes ever more daunting.

SHB presser live now. She is a little rattled because the press pack will not drop the book

Lordy me... she is talking bollocks today. She says the American people only want to hear about the booming economy and they aren't the slightest bit interested in this book.

Wrong!!!

She's lost her confidence.

It's fascinating how many things pp speculated about seem to be confirmed in this book, like the fact Trump is semi literate! Explains a lot...

www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/michael-wolffs-withering-portrait-of-president-donald-trump/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Every picture tells a story

Oh dear.

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So I was one of the 6 guests at the Bannon-Ailes dinner party in January 2017 and every word I've seen from the book about it is absolutely accurate. It was an astonishing night...

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Incredulous, I often asked Michael about his near-weekly visits to roam the White House unsupervised:

Me: 'So what do they THINK you are doing?'

Him (typing, typing): 'I have no idea. No one asks'

It gets better and better...

Huckleberry worries that she might yet be outsmarted by Bannon. She's become much more tentative and..........avoiding.

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Despite threat from Trump, publisher of Michael Wolff’s book announces that it will move up publication from next Tuesday to tomorrow at 9 a.m.

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Sen. Cory Gardner: "I will be putting today a hold on every single nomination from the Dept. of Justice until Attorney General Jeff Sessions lives up to the commitment that he made to me" on legalized marijuana in Colorado. abcn.ws/2hFejwL

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Pres Trump making statement at WH briefing about the economy, his tax cut bill and companies giving bonuses to employees. By doing it this way - not subjected to reporters questions.

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Interesting that he made his statement on large screens,to avoid questions.

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Sarah Sanders says she doesn't know if Trump was ever "particularly close" with Steve Bannon, the man who ran his campaign, was his chief strategist and fed his nationalist instincts.
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There are jokes all over Twitter about how soon he'll be saying "Don Jr Who??"

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House Intel aide tells me Democrats are working with R's and the administration to review the documents Nunes is set to receive from the DOJ.
"In this case specifically, we expect it to be an equal review," Democratic aide says.
www.businessinsider.com/house-intelligence-democrats-access-nunes-doj-documents-2018-1 …

Ouch.

Where is SecDef today, by the way?

Not sure. Not seen,to my knowledge.

Oh.

The tweet storm Friday night will likely be impressive.

The book launch has been brought forward to tomorrow.