Discussion: Trump Says He Didn't Fire Comey Over Russia Probe, Contradicting Past Claim

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Ah yes, that makes total sense. Let’s all move on.

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And, of course, when Spanky finally blows his stack and fires Mueller, it won’t be because of the Russian investigation either.

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Well, that should clear it up.

But seriously folks, Jim Newell wrote a good piece in Slate yesterday about how all this talk of end stages is premature if you can’t say how the Trump presidency actually ends, what the steps are and how you figure they’re happening in the foreseeable future. He’s got an excellent point. But Jesus, this stuff, it’s just sad. No snark, I mean it, it’s just pathetic and sad. It feels like an end stage, like there’s no way back or forward from this pathetic wallowing in obvious guilt. Newell’s astute so he’d have a good comeback to that. Maybe he’d say we’re just in a weird place right now, like when Wilson had his stroke, and it’ll be over when it’s over.

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where, by the way, there was NO COLLUSION

:bell::bell::bell:

Never can resist deploying the LOOK OVER HERE, LOOK RIGHT HERE, HERE IS THE COLLUSION beacon.

I wonder if he really understands what would and would not constitute collusion with the Russians, or if he’s just internalized it as a bad thing that therefore (because Donald Trump does not do bad, Donald Trump cannot coexist with bad, badness and Donald Trump are mutually exclusive) he did not do.

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Conclusion: Trump is a liar.

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For many purposes, aren’t we already kind of there? The once all-powerful executive branch is shouting at a bush in the corner and the country has, miraculously, mostly gone on as usual.

Just so long as there are no major international incidents or an economic collapse, we might survive all four years (in a state that will be diminished for at least a generation) just teetering on the precipice.

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I don’t know about collusion but I think they’ve finally pounded through that skull a beginning of an understanding that obstruction is a no-no.

In terms of incapacity, no doubt. But the end-stage talk was about resolution, I think. Certainly that’s how I read the Davidson piece in The New Yorker. Obviously we all hope and pray the midterms will move us away from that precipice a bit.

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Trump: Who ya gonna believe. Me now? Or me yesterday?

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LOL. Like Kang and Kodos. It’s a two-party system! You have to pick one of us!

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I think Freud called this one out specifically.

ā€œIt’s not broken.ā€
ā€œIt was broken when you lent it to me.ā€
ā€œYou never lent it to me in the first place.ā€

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Idiot who would perjure himself every two seconds says what?

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Geez, that tweet stacks up so many of Trump’s favorites
–[unflattering adjective] name of person
-worst _______ in history
-phony investigation
-no collusion
-Democrats are evil

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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So he’s lying again… Hoping people will forget his earlier statements?

Or does HE forget? And he’s just cognitively deteriorating, on a gradual basis?

God, what an awful scenario. Either the POTUS is decompensating, and likely to be in the ā€œMemory Wingā€ of the rehab facility… Or he’s a colossal, dangerous liar with only his own interests at heart.

–> Choose your poison.

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I guess trump missed his interview with Lester Holt.

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ā€˜Wait. Wait! I’ve had ANOTHER thought! It’s different than the one before? FK IT. This one is better…I’ll repeat it and repeat it and EVERYONE will believe it. It’s the best one YET!’

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he really needs to write for WWE creative.

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Too bad we have him on video with Lester Holt, and have the transcript of his meeting with Sergei Lavrov where he said, ā€œā€œI just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job; I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.ā€

Oops.

Ranting about Stormy, ranting about Comey, talking to Hannity several times a week. Kelly not a factor anymore. Very quiet on the Trump kids/Jared front – too quiet. Cabinet members more or less looting the Treasury when they aren’t taking dynamite to institutional foundations.

There is no control here on any front. It’s like the merry-go-round is going at warp speed and those who haven’t been flung off are just clinging on for dear life.

I am sad for my country. Worried for the future, for the world my kids and grandkids will be trying to live in.

These people have got to go.

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Jesus, this man is stupid. Comey and Avenatti are hitting him back and forth like a ping-pong ball.

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