We stand at a tipping point: do we fire up the popcorn maker or start digging a fallout shelter in the garden? (Trump cont)

[boatyardblues]

Old thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3207431-When-a-nation-s-children-marched-and-their-President-ignored-them-Trump-cont

I’m all out of inspiration for the rest of this opening post. Send the St Bernard with the brandy please.

NYT

www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/12/17228546/lyin-comey-rnc-fbi

I won't go to that website. Don't want to give it any clicks.

But I think it's vile and disgusting to try to smear anyone like that. Says more about them than it does about him.

I don't think Trump likes Comeys book...

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and.....

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
....untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!
1:17 pm · 13 Apr 2018

Don't hold back there, Donnie-boy. C'mon, tell us how you really feel. 🙄

That’s some serious projection going on there. As a summary of Trump’s performance in office to date, its spot on.

To be fair, it does sound like comey was just a little bit unflattering-

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/04/13/politics/donald-trump-james-comey-book-revelations/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

He painted Trump as a relentless liar who is obsessively unethical, devoid of humanity and a slave to his ego, who is clueless about his job and unconcerned about a Russian assault on American democracy.

Jabbing the President in a strikingly personal way, Comey noted the size of Trump's hands, said his skin looked orange and described white rings around his eyes from tanning goggles.

Good grief those tweets from him Have we sunk so low that the supposed leader of the free world calls his Director of FBI a 'slimeball. Just shocking.

The thought of Sunday night's chat with Comey is obviously getting to him...

www.lawfareblog.com/what-i-learned-briefing-robert-mueller

Wow, those tweets are a disgrace.

Comey May have been unflattering, but that’s irrelevant IMO. Trump, POTUS, tweeting in this way is so beneath any Presidential “normal” that it’s almost unbelievable- his twitter account is a parody of itself

Does anyone know why this Trump business is referred to as 'L’Affaire Russe'?

Totally agree lettuce ... there are a number of parody accounts out there, same pictures as on Trumps twitter a/c, I actually have to check closely when I see tweets like this because I can't believe what I'm seeing

"The Russian Affair"?

Probably because Vladdy and his laddies (and lassies) are up to their necks in it in one way or another.

He painted Trump as a relentless liar who is obsessively unethical, devoid of humanity and a slave to his ego, who is clueless about his job and unconcerned about a Russian assault on American democracy.

Comey noted the size of Trump's hands, said his skin looked orange and described white rings around his eyes from tanning goggles

But it's all true. No one said the truth shouldn't be remarked upon simply because it's unflattering.

Just so.

Has the judge ruled on Cohen's attempt to suppress material?

I(I realise that it would have been an extremely fast decision.)

You missed the comparison to a Mob family.

I meant with the French translation, Across although now I come to think of it I wonder what the Russian affair would be in Russian.

I can't tell whether the French is an affectation or a reference to something else.

nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/andrew-sullivan-a-democracy-disappears.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1

I think it's just an affectation - although it does encompass everything to do with Russia in a fairly memorable way.

Ugh! (Video as well )

Here she is, our new Secretary of State, @IvankaTrump repping us in Peru. This is an international disgrace. Congress didn’t confirm her for the gig. She isn’t qualified. Has zero true diplomatic experience. America is a laughingstock. #TrumpResign #AMJoy
twitter.com/funder/status/984803698667909121?s=21

Appalling. It's like some sort of TrumpTV reality show. Who does she think she is

Up is down.

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