It borders on , no exceeds pathetic. Which brain trust in the west wing thought that the walk back was believable
Real Americans would have condemned him and quit.
Power corrupts
Party and Trump before all else
They have no shame
National security adviser John Bolton reportedly thought the comments unwise, but felt that it would make Trump look weak and silly if he retracted them.
Unlike licking Putin’s balls on the international stage?
OK, Kudos for the title, but don’t do it again !
“Kelly reportedly told Trump that the comments would get him in hot water with Special Counsel Robert Mueller”
Oh, that ship sailed the day Mueller took the job.
So nice of Kelly to voice concern about Trump’s legal woes rather than, oh I don’t know, our country’s security, its relationships with allies, a lack of leadership. But they are Republicans. I expect too much of them.
One wonders when the Trump minions will get sick of “walking things back” and cleaning up his messes. Have they no morals or ethics?
Rhetorical question, right?
There’s no “walking back” this stuff, Fuckface. You said exactly what you felt at Helsinki, before a worldwide audience, to the international humiliation and shame of yourself and our country. Any attempt to undo it will look like the transparent bullshit is clearly is.
Maybe they’ve been using Mueller as a kind of boogeyman to get Trump to behave. He must realize Mueller’s people are working back to the Eighties and forward again to piece together the whole conspiracy. I’m sure they note Trump’s public statements for whatever relevance to the whole they might have, but it’s not like backsies on dumbly inculpatory ones are going to have much influence on the outcome.
As expected, “walking it back’” and “retracted” are the media buzzwords today, e.g., NPR radio did not mention Trump’s "Could be other people also. There’s a lot of people out there” or the series of anti-US statements in Helsinki.
(sigh)
I may be in a minority here, but Trump has yet to make a historic avoidable error on the level of the Iraq war, which left probably 2+ million Iraqis dead, 10,000+ americans killed or permanently injured and cost upwards of 4 trillion dollars. Plus rearranged power in the region to benefit Iran and Russia.
Everyone else can quit, but I really hope Kelly and Mattis stay to keep the US out of a major military disaster. i bet NATO allies also want Mattis to stay. Probably their only sane contact to the administration.
Silly insiders… they think they actually matter.
More evidence that he did not misspeak and say the opposite of what he meant to say. If he had, there would be no need to ‘use capital’ to convince Trump to retract his statement.
Bolton was right. The Dotard’s effort to walk back his statement with that lame and unbelievable claim that he said “would” when he meant “wouldn’t” did make him look weak and foolish.
Kate, “disembark” is when you exit a vessel like Air Force One. I think Trump walked up the ladder to Air Force One thinking he had done a great job. By the time he disembarked in Washington everybody on the plane was fully aware they had a full blown crisis on their hands.
It’s all going according to the usual script. After enough noise was made, Trump issued a lame “clarification”. His cheerleaders promptly jumped up to say that everything was cleared up. The toadies who made a show of disagreeing have either dutifully shut up or indicated that they accepted his “walk back” (despite its lack of credibility or substance). On to the next spectacle!
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. Trump behave?
Yet
Bolton, Miller et al
Not if
When
I hope everyone is reflecting on our Dear Leader’s profound insight that “there’s a lotta people out there.” Only a person at the higher ends of intelligence would realize that. But it’s so true.
Like you’re dealing with a child, which in terms of emotional maturity you are. You scare him with stuff that isn’t really going to happen, like saying if you don’t brush your teeth the dirty-tooth monster will come in the night and pull them out. I think anyone who has to deal with Trump eventually learns to treat him like a naughty child. Just a theory for why Kelly would threaten him with something that really couldn’t matter much.