By being Fox News’ most dedicated content consumer, Donald Trump is under the mistaken impression any Democrats give two flying shits about Tony Podesta.
Some pretty weird tail-wagging-the-dog shit going on here. Used to be that Fox News mostly took the White House’s talking points, not the other way around.
He’s desperately flailing; I hope Mueller has another big bucket of cold water to throw in his face. Keep telling yourself that everything is all right, Donald; denial is such a healthy response to reality.
In fairness, one could get the same impression reading the WaPo yesterday.
My read of the WH is that despite Bannon’s exhortations for everyone to commit conspiracy against the US and obstruction of justice, the Mueller investigation will not be messed with. Cobb seems to have convinced Trump that Mueller has a lot more than maybe Trump even knows, and therefore all of it could get released and damage him no matter what he does. Better to string this along. Cobb’s strategy of letting others take the fall while he finds a way to shield Trump from OOJ prosecution and impeachment still holds true. Where Cobb has erred is that he never took the conspiracy or money laundering tracks seriously enough. Trump’s meeting with Sessions and Pence also seems to have been inconclusive. It doesn’t feel like the meetings he had the weekend before he fired Comey. Everyone seems to be looking out for themselves. We’ve reached that stage of the mob story plot line.
The absence of GOP cover for Trump plus the lack of commitment to protect Mueller makes it a bit of a wildcard though. However, my view is that if the Dems follow through on the polling and deliver a beatdown to the GOP in VA and NJ that the GOP will crack a bit. It will demonstrate that the Democrats’ share of the white vote will be higher than the Obama years while the minority support for Dems stays at Obama like levels. That would spell wipe out for the GOP in 2018. GOP would definitely lose control of the Senate and likely the House if Dems across the country get the type of internals that Northam is getting in recent Q polls (polls are mixed to be fair, so that’s why I’m waiting on the actual result, but if Dems are pulling over 40% of the white vote in a southern state, the GOP is done).
They want those tax cuts, but like the health care debate, the proposal is fundamentally unpopular and there isn’t a consensus for an alternative, and no desire on the part of the GOP to go bipartisan with the Dems. I don’t have a great feel for the GOP’s commitment here, because there is no fleshed out proposal. They could easily settle for a modest tax cut but that’s not what the billionaires want. So I think the GOP is screwed and we may be headed to a protracted government shutdown that is rudderless.
The Orange One has never been much on generating original content. He has always been more of a re-tweet kind of guy. His trick in not sourcing his content. He wants folks to think these are his ideas. Most right-wing populist fascists have followed this model.
Tony Podesta? What next, Colonel Mustard and his candlestick???
Phew boy…all this winning sure is tiring…
I can’t count the number of times that Bullshit Mountain substituted “Ukraine” for “Russia” when talking about Manafort’s indictment… and then pivoted to “and he was there to promote democracy well before becoming tapped to assist the Trump campaign in a limited role for the convention”.
None of the trumpsters seems to know what the significance of the Saturday Night Massacre was or even that it happened, and most important how it ended. It’s only Sargent’s opinion, but something I think most of us could have forecast months ago.
Lacking any chance of obtaining a truncheon, even a few straws gives one a sense of security.
That’s behind a paywall,could you summarize please?
Dump’s Hail Mary is to deflect and deflect and stir his base in an attempt to hold congress in 2018. With help from Russia of course. May he fail.
A couple of paragraphs, and it’s strictly an opinion, but one we’ll agree on.
Let’s be clear on what’s happening in our politics right now. President Trump and his media allies are currently creating a vast, multi-tentacled, largely-fictional alternate media reality that casts large swaths of our government as irredeemably corrupt — with the explicitly declared purpose of laying the rationale for Trump to pardon his close associates or close down the Russia probe, should he deem either necessary.
Trump’s trafficking in this stuff [distractions] should be seen as another sign of his fundamental unfitness to serve as president. Similar efforts by his media allies should be labeled as a deliberate effort to goad Trump into sliding into full-blown authoritarianism, and to provide the air cover for him if he does do so.
The Associated Press reports that people who have spoken to Trump say that he has recently revisited the idea of trying to remove Mueller, now that Mueller appears to be digging into Trump’s finances. Meanwhile, CNN reports that former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon is privately urging Trump to try to get Republicans to defund Mueller’s probe.
I love when people like Trump respond to allegations of their criminality by citing alleged wrongdoing by Podesta, Clinton, etc. As if those people are my friends or relatives. Whatever happens to them, happens to them, no skin off my nose. Now, face the music, you guilty rat-bastard.
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Who’s Tony Podesta?
If your browser has a private mode you can try opening the link in that and, at least for WP, it usually gets you past the blocker.
And depending on your browser, if you’re on a mac you can go up to the View tool and click on reader’s view and it will take you past the pay wall too.