Havenât we been told by the White House that if it comes on Trumpâs twitter feed it comes FROM Trump? So, a) nobody believes anyone other than Trump writes and posts his tweets, and b) Trumpâs personal lawyer needs to brush up on his Constitutional knowledge AND the Articles of Impeachment drawn up against Nixon (as many others have said in other threads).
I canât be the first person to suggest that Dowd could be guilty of obstruction if lied and Trump did author the âfired Flynnâ tweet? Certainly if Dowd makes such a false statement to the FBI.
tRump organization Rule #5.
âAll tRump lawyers must use either my doctor or Putinâs Rasputin for all health mattersâ
Only he can make you hole again.
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Every time I see this guy Iâm reminded of Dr. Leo Spaceman (Spa-ceman).
I remember all those lifetimes ago when Michael Cohen said you canât rape your wife and the entire legal community in the nation slapped its collective head in disbelief at how stupid one of their own could publicly be. One of the early-on hints at the kind of person Trump likes to be surrounded with.
Surely there must come a point when the frog realizes that the water is getting hotter.
Shorter Preet: âJohn Dowd is a past-his-prime blithering eedjit who shouldnât be taken seriouslyâ
âŚOnly the best people
Someone on Twitter has already called that out⌠If he did make that tweet he should be disbarred, if he didnât but is willing to tell Mueller that he did, then he can go to jail for 5 years.
Excerpt from Salon, gives a good account of how most are interpreting this obvious blunder.
"Normally, if a lawyer made such a mistake they would be fired, particularly if the client was the president of the United States. Moreover, nobody believes that anyone but Trump wrote that tweet, because nobody but him would be stupid enough to think that tweet should be written in the first place. The idea that his lawyer would think it was a good idea to tweet anything about the case is simply absurd. It was a foolish admission, right up there with Trump going on TV with Lester Holt and admitting that he fired Comey over the Russia investigation.
Unfortunately for Trump, Dowd went on to confuse the matter even more by telling The Washington Post that Trump âknew in late January that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had probably given FBI agents the same inaccurate account he provided to Vice President Pence about a call with the Russian ambassador.â In other words, Trump knew that Flynn had lied, since lying to Pence was supposedly the reason he was fired."
It isnât that these are the people he likes to be surrounded with, though that may be true, itâs that these are the ONLY type of people who will be near Trump. Any normal, competent individual, with even a scrap of self-esteem, walks away from that Orange Urine-Stain as fast as their feet will carry them. Corey Lewandowskiâs book just made that quite clear.
So, next we can expect Mike Pompeo to jump in and say that the Tweet was necessary for an ongoing CIA extremely sensitive, classified counterintelligence investigation. It is one of those Donald Trump Tweets that is helping the CIA in countless beneficial ways. They are so brilliant. We wish we could tell you how brilliant but classified. But abso fucking lutely brilliant. Like an Akeem Olajuwon Dream Shake.
I feel the resurrection of âNot intended to be a factual statementââŚ
I think this is a good example of the game Trump and those around him play every day. They will lie to the public about the color of the shirt they are wearing, but they wonât lie under oath or to law enforcement
(mostly). Brian Beautler and others have pointed out that Trump is very good at not lying under oath in depos which contradicts the notion that he is a compulsive liar.
We saw this too with Karl Rove and a lot of the people surround GW Bush, but they were too conventional of politicians to take this pattern of lying to the extreme that Trump, Conway and others, apparently including Trumpâs personal lawyer.
I doubt Mueller will care much about this particular tweet (he has bigger evidence) but Congress might and probably should. Conway says there is a paper trial so one subpoena should clear this up, right?
Well, sure, it works both ways, but there are plenty of people who admire Trump for precisely the things in him we find most repellent.
This particular âsomeone on Twitter,â Walter Shaub, was director of Obamaâs Office of Government Ethics.
Yes, quite true, and the psychological description for such people is: âwounded.â
cf.: Omarosa Manigault, et. al.
Perfect analogy, well played!
As Iâve said out here before, instead of the Gang That Couldnât Shoot Straight, in Watergate, now we have the Gang That Canât Get The Gun Out Of The Holster Without Shooting Itself In The Foot.