It wasn’t improper, but I hope he doesn’t do it again. Got it.
Amazing how Trump can make seemingly intelligent people sound like complete morons.
Kudlow says “I suppose I hope”?
Are you kidding me?
The wheels to impeach Obama would be greased and in motion and sure to pass in the GOP Congress if he had ever done anything like this.
Whatever happened to loyalty? Sad!
Kudlow is talking like a raging coke addict again. One can trade on such early numbers, so knowing them and transmitting them to your unscrupulous friends (Carl Icahn etc) can corrupt behavior and make profits illegally. Kudlow knows this but can’t bring himself to be honest and logical about it. What Trump did was wrong for the obvious reasons.
That’s pretty fucking weak. Better be careful Larry, you might get called to the principal’s office and be forced to supplicate yourself in front of your Lord and Master, Pres*dent Cheetos and ask for forgiveness for that kind of talk.
Way to stand up for your principles there, Larry.
“Has he done anything wrong? Of course he hasn’t. He didn’t put the numbers out. Other presidents have done this before. Someone reminded me, President Obama once—”
“He did it before he got the numbers,” Wallace interjected, correcting Kudlow’s reference to Obama.
“Look, Presidents can say what they are going to say,” Kudlow continued. “If he’d put the number out, that would have been a much more difficult proposition. Will he do it again? Chris, I don’t know if he will do it again. I suppose I hope he doesn’t.”
“But, you know, just saying let’s look at the jobs numbers, all of America is looking at the job numbers. That’s a harmless tweet.”
Number of reasons to believe Trump would not make trades or otherwise use advance knowledge of financial data for his or his pals’ benefit? Zero.
Kudlow is trafficking in bull shit and it seems he knows it.
He supposes…that he hopes…that everything was totally fine and appropriate in the first place.
Good thing there’s a guy with a backbone of steel like this in those white house meetings, not afraid to stand up to his boss. Hah.
How dare you question Trump.
Pickup you final check on the way out.
For Trump, I presume that we can be pretty sure that he will do it again (as long as he thinks the numbers look good for him and his ego)
Shorter Kudlow: “Whatever. What are you fornicators going to do about it?”
Or, as two scoops lawyers are putting it, the President cannot lie.
Now this does mean that he is prohibited from lying, it means that whatever he says is true.
Just like he cannot have conflicts of interest nor can he obstruct justice because he IS justice incarnate.
Profiles in courage.
And remember, if the President does it, it’s not illegal according to the Gospel of Rudy.
No way Kuflow and you know it!
If President Obama tweeted a message before actual publication of job numbers, you would have been all over him, and you know it!
Every single one of you would have called foul and screaming Obama is manipulating the markets!
We knew the markets were falling, upon the dotard announcing his imposed tariffs on supplies and goods our allies sends our way each and everyday.
And the fact the dotard twit message indicating huge jobs numbers made the markets move upward and possibly artificially and prior to the markets opened!!! Economics 101!!!
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