Oh dang âŚ
Iâd be so sick of this ass already âŚ
if he didnât present such an opportunity to share material ⌠
Unlike Bannon, to whom Giuliani said, âDrink the fifthââŚ
Edit: Upon further reflection the line should have been:
Giuliani told Trump to take Fifth but Bannon already drank itâŚ
Thank you so much Giuliani for giving the expectations of Trumpâs likelihood of being interviewed by Mueller and team!
I hope news stations will show campaign Trump saying the 5th amendment is only for mobsters and guilty people on a constant loop. The hypocrisy is staggering.
And Iâd like to give Ty Cobb a shout-out. Inadvertently or not, he kept Trump from firing Mueller with the Tom âsix monthsâ Friedman strategy, until itâs become way too late for that to accomplish anything.
Will we have to place the âCobb unitâ alongside the âFriedman unitâ in the annals of history?
Giuliani fails to understand that he is now part of Trumps defense team. He is not to be providing entertainment on TV, what he says now is relevant to his clientâs case. Talking nonsense or without really knowing was fine when Fox News booked him to give an opinion, that is no longer the case he is going to get Trump impeached.
Giuliani had said earlier that he wasnât prepared to have Trump answer Muellerâs questions, ânot after the way theyâve acted.â
âTheyâ?? âTheyâ?? After the interviews youâve been giving??
Yâall clearly arenât prepared, period.
I think one factor is these are all people who live their lives in front of a camera, saying stuff generally without consequences, just blather to entertain idiots, and theyâre suddenly thrust into a world where it matters a lot and they just canât adjust. Thatâs Trump and the people he feels comfortable withâshadow puppets. More and more thatâs who heâs turning to. Out goes Cobb, in comes Giuliani. Out goes Cohn, in comes Kudlow. The real-world types bore and annoy him with their warnings and such. He wants confident, hard-hitting nonsense, the more superficial and het-up the better.
Dr. OzâŚ
YesâI think of Trumpâs understanding of the media as being in large measure a product of the tabloid press he was so desirous to make regular appearances in. And so now, when he says that the media want him to run and win a second term because their ratings and sales depend on it, he doesnât quite get that the reason he gets the coverage he does is that heâs the president. The media have to cover him. But gosh darn it, now the media cover things about him heâd rather they not cover and that he canât just bluster away.
ânot after the way theyâve acted.â
The way they acted? You have that backwards. Itâs been your actions along with your clientâs that have been rude and improper. I donât know how else to say it. My head feels like a bobblehead. It continually bounces around at the volume of nonsense coming from the White House and his team of âbestâ people.
Doonesbury, today: "I must say that as a reporter, I wish the president would stop referring to himself as a âwitch.â (the Sam DONaldson character)
One thing that I think is helpful to remember with Trump is his seemingly off-the-scale ADD. It makes him pretty much incapable of any form of learning. Heâs too incurious, too attention-impaired, too ignorant, and too slow-witted and crude in his thinking to realize the situation has changed. He keeps doing what worked for him once, in a different situation, not realizing it wonât work always or in a new one.
Refuse subpoena or plead the fifth?
More popcorn, please. At least a truckload
Hereâs a question I never thought Iâd be asking: Is pleading the Fifth grounds for presidential impeachment?
Iâd have to say yes, because I donât think impeachment and prosecution impinges on the Presidentâs right to take the Fifth - it doesnât put him in jail, it just fires him from the job of POTUS.
What do the rest of you think?
Friedman Unit (F.U.) = Six Months
Cobb Unit (C.U.) = By the end of the year