Democrats win the House, and he’s already fired Sessions: Trump thread 87

[TheClaws]

We start this new thread on a brighter note: the mid-terms were a win for the Democrats, securing the House of Representatives and further seats in the Senate. This means more scrutiny for POTUS and the GOP, and bargaining power.

He’s still a feckless, vain bully, oddly admired by some varieties of Christians - enjoy the cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Renato Mariotti
‏Verified account @renato_mariotti

Renato Mariotti Retweeted

I’ve never heard a public official speak this way before Trump. This sounds like something the criminals I used to prosecute would say. twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1069619316319035392

This just came up in my Twitter feed, somehow.
Sarah Sanders
‏Verified account @SarahHuckabee

Sarah Sanders Retweeted Taegan Goddard

When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing

Sarah Sanders added,
Taegan Goddard
Verified account @politicalwire
‘The FBI Is Trumpland’ politicalwire.com/2016/11/03/the-fbi-is-trumpland/ … via @politicalwire
11:12 PM - 3 Nov 2016
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PastASobbingFlores
‏Verified account @sschreiber13
11 May 2017

Replying to @SarahHuckabee

This tweet has aged very, very well.
263 replies 2,761 retweets 37,456 likes

This too.
Damien Owens
‏ @OwensDamien
16m16 minutes ago

Hey, I've got a term for Trump's angry witness-interference tweets: a tamper tantrum.
2 replies 3 retweets 22 likes

George Conway (kAC’s husband) and retweeted trump’s tweet with:

George Conway
@gtconway3d
File under “18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1512”

Which Kyle griffin helpfully points out is:

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
18 U.S. Code § 1512. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant.

I've just realised I've got Kellyanne Conway confused with the Republican poison dwarf from "The West Wing". (Ainsley?)
As you were.

Oh I had a soft spot for Ainsley – the lawyer? There were actual poisonous characters, like the Speaker, but Ainsley was just someone I disagreed with.

Love that retweet by Sanders.

Just like Trump, a previous Tweet for every occasion...

I liked Ainsley too, especially at her first meeting with Potus.

With all of this debate about the numbers, does anyone actually have a new thread ready?

I'll pop this scary thing here.

www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/03/david-attenborough-collapse-civilisation-on-horizon-un-climate-summit

Trump has been to too many beauty pageants, IMO.
I'm surprised he didn't show up on the G20 stage on a bathing suit.

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Well they all - bar one - signed up to dealing with climate change. Guess who the 'one' was?

I think I thought of Ainsley (yes, a lawyer, stuck down in the boiler/pipes room?) as a poison dwarf because she looked like a bit like the original, Lucy Ewing, in Dallas. I could say lots more but don't want to derail the thread!

As good as it gets - for stocks?

2018

Julia Davis
‏

@JuliaDavisNews

'Apparently, Putin wasn't satisfied with his little #G20Summit2018 chat, because today #Russia's state media is still roasting Trump: he is "clumsy," "morose," "defensive," "brought dissonance to the #G20Summit," "wasn't prepared for a meeting with Putin," "had nothing to say."'

www.lawfareblog.com/donald-trumps-tweet-about-roger-stone-witness-tampering

www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/03/save-paris-climate-agreement-from-trump

'There was an exodus of climate experts from the White House after the 2016 election – but they still turn up to UN talks.'

www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-autos-idUSKBN1O22D4

www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/which-investigations-will-the-dems-launch-first/

thehill.com/policy/international/419282-mattis-russia-interfered-in-2018-midterms

Interesting statements made by SecDef.

New thread (or Watergate revisited):

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3442038-But-When-the-president-does-it-that-means-it-is-not-illegal-Trump-thread-LXXXVIII?watched=1