Even if you subpoena us, we won't turn up on the Trump threads

[PerkingFaintly]

Oh whoops, here we are.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3180160-Trump-talk-HOW-MUCH-for-that-inauguration?pg=1

So McEntee is fired for 'serious financial crimes' and is then hired by TRUMP 2020?

Forgive my cynicism.................

That was to be expected, Pain.

Eep just saw that Berezovsky lives pretty close to me. Was already feeling a bit overwhelmed at the amount of news today and that hasn't helped.

He died nearly 5 years ago.

Sorry, not Berezovsky but his friend that was found dead yesterday, Nikolai Glushkov.

Good luck to us all

Maggie Haberman
‏*@maggieNYT*
The narrative of Trump unglued is not totally wrong but misses the reason why - he was terrified of the job the first six months, and now feels like he has a command of it.
So now he is basically saying “I’ve got this, I can make the changes I want.”
This is not to say his perception of self/confidence is in line with others’ perceptions of him. But it is part of why he is less able to be swayed.
Meanwhile, the campaign continues to be the truer, purer version of Trumpland, where people who couldn’t clear the normal government systems but who he wants around go.

And

Andrea Mitchell
‏*@mitchellreports*
.@costareports: I'm hearing the POTUS is looking at this moment as a return to Trump being Trump...he wants to surround himself with people who understand his campaign mentality. A turning point was that weekend rally in Pennsylvania. He doesn't want constraints. #AMR

He's having a meltdown. Everything is coming at once and he has nobody to haul him out of the fire. So he's taking action - of sorts. (To make himself feel better.)

Hello! Popping my head above the parapet- thank you so much for all your continued (academically referenced coverage!). Just wondering if anyone remembers anything about tillerson’s pact where if he, mnuchin or kelly were ever fired, the other two would resign. Does anyone remember anything about this and, if so, do you think it still stands?

As you were everyone, thank you again #persist

This one?

That was backaways. (2017)

I've been busy and I've just seen it on the news!

Tillerson gone.

John McEntee, personal assistant (?), escorted out and his coat left in his office?

Bloody hell.

(I'll read the thread on the way home)

And to answer your question. No. If it ever stood, I don't think it would now.

That would be John ex-footballer-and-straight-from-Central-Casting McEntee, Lweji.

His Wikipedia page is very interesting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McEntee_(political_aide)

Must go.

Joyce Alene
Joyce Alene
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If Russia's goal is to destabilize the NATO alliance, forcing the Article 5 collective defense principle, with Trump making the call about whether the U.S. would come to Britain's aid against Russia if requested, would be one way of going about it.

Tillerson to make an on camera final press statement in 5 minutes

Judge tells Manafort that he ‘faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison’

www.rawstory.com/2018/03/judge-tells-manafort-faces-real-possibility-spending-rest-life-prison/

Politico reports that a new ruling by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III that was made public on Tuesday reveals that the judge believes Manafort is a significant risk to try to escape custody because the weight of evidence against him appears to be so strong.

“Given the nature of the charges against the defendant and the apparent weight of the evidence against him, defendant faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison,” wrote Ellis, who recommended that Manafort be kept on “24-hour-a-day lockdown” at his residence in Alexandria, Virginia.

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JUST IN: Under Secretary of State Steve Goldstein is being fired for contradicting the account of Rex Tillerson’s dismissal, White House official tells @PeterAlexander

Hello also to Medicinal and thecat.

Once again, I've run out of words.

I think my face looks like Wallace (off of Wallace and Gromit) when I am reading this thread. My expressions say it all!

Lordy but Tillerson was annoyed. I don't recall him mentioning 45 once.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/rex-tillerson-donald-trump-state-department

It's like a runaway train.

On Pompeo

Stephanie Ruhle
@SRuhle
REMINDER-Pompeo was the single largest recipient of campaign funds from Koch Bros in 2010.
He came out of the same Wichita,Kansas, biz community where Koch family’s oil-and-gas conglomerate is headquartered.
Pompeo built his own company with seed money from Koch Venture Capital.

And

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Reminder: Mike Pompeo repeatedly cited WikiLeaks to attack Clinton, Democrats during the campaign. (link: cnn.it/2FANftl )

And

Stephanie Ruhle
@SRuhle
If you connected these dots, what we see
10/2017: CIA forced to walk back Pompeo's false claim "US intel concluded Russia effort to influence 2016 election were unsuccessful"
1/2018: Pompeo met w/sanctioned Russian spies
3/2018 TRUMP:Pompeo &I are "always on the smame wavelength"

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/02/01/politics/pompeo-russian-spies-meeting/index.html

Mike Pompeo’s Disturbing Friendships with Anti-Muslim Bigots
amp.thedailybeast.com/mike-pompeos-disturbingly-consistent-friendships-with-anti-muslim-bigots

Is he honouring the pact or being forced out (if true)?

Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
More changes expected include a McMaster departure soon, as NBC recently reported. Among replacements, Tillerson had expressed concerns about working with Bolton.

Tillerson looked absolutely furious. Well.. I suppose you would be if you hard you were sacked by your aide telling you it was on Twitter..

45 is a coward