Discussion: Trump Spox Threatens To Blackball NYT Reporter For Asking About David Duke

That is one incredibly low bar to clear.

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Politicians have spokesmen. Con artists have shills. They do have different ways of getting the job done. If being nice doesn’t work, knuckles.

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Trump is a full-blown psychopath. He’s only a sociopath to the extent that sociopath is an LIO of psychopath.

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Everyone complains about the KKK thing. He’s not doing that anymore, he stopped. It’s like his thing with goats. He screwed one goat, and all of a sudden he’s a ā€œgoatfuckerā€. Is that fair? This is a waste of time, and the American people are not interested.

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Somehow I am not relieved that he may be only psycho.

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Trump will soon figure out there ain’t no media like state-run media.

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I have never understood some in the Press who take insult after insult from Grump and still go back for more. Let them try something different: ignore Drump for a week. Don’t take his calls; don’t interview him, don’t ask his staff any questions. And see what happens: he will only gas away on Fox and Sludge. But the folks in the Press and TV are heavily invested in there own egos and pay checks to do that. But… just cover HRC for 3 days, ignore Frump and see what happens. But…what will Mika and Morning Joe do??? Maybe just concentrate on their budding romance??? Time well spent, says on ad!

Inquiring minds want to know.

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/289241-george-will-raises-possible-trump-link-to-russian-oligarchs

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It’s weird that the pigs and, more so, that the decapitated chickens never got any traction.

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You know, I think federal officials would want to be insanely sure of their ground before they bring any charges or like that, but that goddamn Manafort looks like he’d slither up a tree and steal fledglings out of their nests to eat. It’s hard to imagine there’s any traitorously slimy trick he wouldn’t pull for a client, and it’s extremely, extremely hard to believe his prints aren’t all over this.

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Yes, because blackballing the WaPo worked out so well.

BTW, what is the point of the WH press association if the press are such cowards? It seems to me that if the press corps went on strike and refused to cover Trump until the WaPo and others blacklisted were restored, things would change quickly.

And add to the list of demands an end to the press being corralled in pins.

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I renamed the mute button on the remote the Trump button
There is absolutely nothing emanating from his facial orifice that is worthy of consideration

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Thank goodness I still have my Pravda subscription.

Believe me, it reads better when you don’t know any Russian.

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Good luck getting Chuck Todd or one of the other pukes to ask your questions even if they cleaned them up.

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Fitting, a pretend journalist to interview a pretend politician.

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I think you missed your ideal career.

Todd or any of the other TV clowns, no. But Maggie Haberman could manage. And if you established a quid-pro-quo between a Presidential candidate and the President of the Russian Federation you could just go ahead and clear a space on a shelf in the living room for your Pulitzer Prize medal. I’d put some effort in on that one.

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Gotta love the ā€˜we only want to answer questions we LIKE’ aspect of the Trump campaign…

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Actually that’s what I did for a number of years. And unfortunately just asking questions isn’t good enough. You need confirmation, without which you can ask questions all day every day and not accomplish anything. This thing doesn’t pass any kind of smell test but it’s so incredibly explosive that you have to absolutely nail the people involved. Indictments would be helpful. It’s going to be an interesting few months going forward, one way or the other. It would kind of rock to see Trump marched off to Allenwood.

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This shows just how crazy obsessed Trump and his people are with attacking and dominance. They could have laughed it off, they could have given a straight answer, but no, they had to threaten the reporter. It’s like the DC Conventional Foreign Policy playbook, only on meth.

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