Porter:
suggesting materials from Trumpâs desk were âstolenâ to prevent the president from taking action âmisunderstands how the White House document review process works.â
Technically correct, the materials were just taken for review during times Trump was in the oval office, and returned to his desk when he had âexecutive timeâ
A number of folks both here and elsewhere have commented that they all claim âinaccuracyâ but wonât give details.
Betcha theyâre busy spinning it to Spankee that stuff was all âtaken out of contextâ while hoping and praying that Woodward wonât get fed up and choose exactly that tape in which their words are given the damning context.
This is why they wonât give specifics: they donât want to piss Woodward off and providing specific pushback may only give Woodward an opening to playing their words on TV. They all live in deadly fear of this happening.
@lizzymom
The non denial denial
You have to look at the big picture.
Everyone who comes into contact with Spanky knows he is fucking crazy
Woodward was on Mourning Joe and the more you hear the scarier it gets .
The scariest is that the Republican party is using him to run up the deficit to over 1 Trillion and they donât give a fuck. Donât get me started on the Russians
We may not recover from the next crash even with a Dem pres and Congress
The line from Christie cracked me up - in that his whole sycophancy towards Trump has been akin to "Call me!?!â - and here again is that line.
Sums up the line I hope becomes synonymous with his name and his political career from the moment he left the Governship of NJ while still officially having more than a year left of his term and still claiming the title (aka when he left his campaign and joined the Trump Train." Mr. âCall Meâ (said with an attempted to hide pleading voice).
Letâs see, you talk to someone that you know is a journalist researching a book he intends to publish, and then when that book is published you are horrified to discover he quoted you? Sounds about right for this bunch of knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers.
Denying facts and recollections over and over must be like telling the tide to not come in.
Is anyone here planning on reading this? I feel like it was old news already. And that was before a few weeks of steady coverage. You know there WILL be a new scandal in a week or so anyhow. I think I will just save the $20 and wait for that one.
"Fear" Most aptly named book ever in GOP literary circlesâŚ
Yep, waiting for it to arrive.
Not really expecting a journalistic gem, but for $20, itâs worth pushing up the sales number up to further enrage / embarrass Dotard.
I donât think that Christie has ever contradicted Trumpâs claim that NJ Muslims were celebrating 9/11 en masse. He really wants a national job very very badly.
Kimmel thinks he knows who Woodward got a lot of his info from. Of course I tend not to believe that person so maybe it is all fake!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jimmy-kimmel-donald-trump-woodward-book_us_5b98dfffe4b0cf7b00450df4
Yes, âstolenâ does not mean illegal, against regulations, etc. A baseball pitcher might have a home run âstolenâ from him due to an outfielder making a great leaping catch as the fence. It seems the term âstolenâ is saying it was taken off his desk to prevent him from seeing/signing it. It was perhaps mischievous in nature, so stolen is a fine term to use.
And the punches keep coming for the Great PlumpkinâŚ
October surprise: Stormy Daniels to release tell-all book on Trump
will also be followed by the aptly named
âŚAnd Loathing
by some other GOP toady in 2020
I get what you are saying. And with any other administration this book would be a bombshell. But now it is like a repeat of an old show that was the remake of an older show.
The scandals come too soon to focus on last weekâs!
Porter said that suggesting materials from Trumpâs desk were âstolenâ to prevent the president from taking action âmisunderstands how the White House document review process works.â Porter, who exited the White House after allegations of domestic violence became public, says he was tasked with ensuring that âpros and cons were evaluatedâ on policy proposals and other decisions.
Bullshit. Cabinet members and the White House Chief of Staff make sure that âthe pros and cons are evaluatedâ on policy proposals and other decisions. Rob Porter, the son of a Mormon Harvard Professor was Mike Leeâs and then Orrin Hatchâs office staffer. Then he was WH secretary. He was being groomed for political office. He has neither the expertise nor the experience to be an integral party to policy deliberations across the board. This largely self serving quote shows that he and his backers are intending to stage a political comeback for him down the road.
One of the many excellent lines in the BBC political comedy âYes, Prime Ministerâ is from Jim Hacker rather than Sir Humphrey: âNever believe anything until itâs been officially denied. First rule of politics.â
I just hope itâs not illustrated or a pop up book, although I suspect it need not pop very far.