I find this information completely unsurprising. We have had a “national emergency” since January, 2017.
So, the book contains nothing we didn’t know already?
McCabe echoes others’ accounts of Trump’s utter inadequacy in the face of the job: lack of interest in security briefings, inability to sift fact from fiction, scapegoating immigrants, minuscule attention span if a meeting covered multiple topics.
And all this just confirms what seems pretty much readily apparent based on what we see in public and in twitter bs.
I’m a little surprised by the sessions thing. The drunken-irishman bit was more my parents’ and grandparents’ generation. But then again, so was the bred-in-the-bone racism. Just an old-fashioned southern gentleman, I guess.
McCabe says that Sessions also had a xenophobic streak, and would often ask where a criminal was from during meetings.
Jefferson Beauregard “The Last of the Genteel Race-Warriors” Sessions is xenophobic??
It’ll be good to have the details, but everybody on the planet – Democrat and Republican – has known Jeff Sessions is thoroughgoingly racist & xenophobic for a long time.
But Sessions is part of our parents’ or grandparents’ generation. At least for most people here on TPM. Or am I so wrong about the age distribution here? In terms of physical age, he is my parents’ generation, but culturally he is more my grandparents’. (I am in my early fifties, so not that young either.)
I’m a little older than you, and I knew people in my parents’ generation who would have said something like that, but it was already on the way out. I’d have to go back to my grandfather, born in the south not that long after the Civil War, or a relative from another country where casual racism was way more prevalent. (In which case my generation would be right there too, alas.)
No kidding! Nothing we have not seen by the ounce and by the pound more and more for 757 days. The Great Orange Pretender was something of a mystery as to how completely ill-suited to the job he was for the first few hours. But Sessions had a record and a long one going back years.
History will dutifully and somberly report that America knew what she had been sold between November 2016 and January 2017. Every hour beyond the Inauguration has proved who and what the infection in the Oval Office is, and his choices of henchman and enablers only prove the bitter and acidic toxicity of what the current “Administration” has set out to do.
All one needs to do by way of proof is watch the heart-wrenching scenes of children taken by force and treachery from their parents at an international border to understand what these two men are, and hopefully how History will single them out for the everlasting ignominy they have crafted out of hatred, ignorance, and moral turpitude.
As a drunken Irishman myself I am greatly offended!
Does anyone else get the feeling that cable news and the publishing industry will be very sad indeed when Trump is finally tossed out of office? I mean a scandal free Harris administration is going to be a huge drop in ratings and book sales.
sure…it is well known…but more important is who believes it.
certainly not the 30% of white racist americans which make up the repiglicon base…
what part of the remaining population…those who spend a few minutes a day if that…following the news…understand what is really going on inside the white house…
why doesnt the media do their job…alerting the people that today!..we are closest to nuclear war than at any time in history and…the illegal overthrowing of foreign governments is overtly being run by complicit mass murderers and EVIL loons…like bolton… pompeo… and worst of them all…elliott abrams…who btw…has facially morphed into exactly what someone who supported decapitating babies and placing their heads on a table directly in front of their posed headless body seated in a chair for their mother to find…WOULD LIKE LIKE.
only bernie sanders has the courage to speak to the people about the pathologies of the donald…all other “leaders”…in the party prefer finding common ground so not to antagonize the rich owners both of them continue to shill for…
well…when you wake up to war in Iran…war in Venezuela…post false flag provocations…be prepared for rising and new found support for the reelection of the guy to incapable of even reading intelligence briefings…because the pelosis and the chuckles…have supported such endeavors their entire corrupt careers…THEY…will do the cheer leading…for the donalds 2020 victory.
Or any meeting that took more than 2.2 minutes.
unfortunately they are…it is all about the Benjamin’s…and I did that on purpose.
“…because the pelosis and the chuckles…have supported such endeavors their entire corrupt careers…THEY…will do the cheer leading…for the donalds 2020 victory.”
i seriously doubt Bernie would agree with you. i am calling BS.