Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) argued that President Trump’s many connections means that the recording of the President telling Rudy Giuliani associates to “take [Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch] out” is not a big deal.
The Senator just wants Der Leader to know that he (the Senator) is a good and obedient Party member.
The president doesn’t ask a lot of people to take out a US ambassador.
I hope.
Mobsters gotta mob.
It’s very simple “I find that conversation concerning” and move on. Susan Collins has the gig down. The problem is that Trump wants people to actively go out and defend the indefensible.
Vying to get to the front of the ring kissing line.
Surely the senator knows that the president has a great brain and the best memory, and would have no problem recalling everyone he met. As well as everything he said.
Yes, the President meets with lots of people. It goes with the job. But why does this President meet and talk with so many slimy, scummy, criminal characters?
Those are the people most Presidents avoid. He seems drawn to them. And they to him.
More like ass-kissing line.
…he meets many people-
but he only hangs out with the crooks and mobsters.
When Tapper said that the recording demonstrates “more than a picture and a 90-minute phone call talking about the ouster of Yovanovitch, Lankford said “there’s a lot of things he talks about in that same tape” such as “Germany not paying their fair share.”
Just another example of why this orange is a threat to our national security, and has no rightful place as our Commander in Chief or POTUS. He is a danger to our Republic regardless of who he visits with.
“It’s hard to say to the President who meets a thousand people a day, ‘OK do you know this person who was at a dinner with you a year and half ago?’ and to say you have a relationship — it is the same argument people said that you had your picture made with him.”
One of Jack Nicklaus’ kids was at that dinner. Trump gushed about Jack’s medal of freedom speech.
OK, then, why is Trump asking some random person at a fundraising dinner to take out a U.S. ambassador instead of simply firing her as he has the authority to do? Hmm?
When I get hauled into court, my attorney is going to invoke the “he meets a lot of people” defense.
You can’t combat this kind of willful, willing, passive aggressive ignorance with any rational argument. I’m just gonna say that Lankford and his colleagues are a bunch of vocalizing cloacas.
Lying is an art, like everything else. He does it exceptionally well. He does it so it feels like hell. He does it so it feels real. I guess you could say he has a cause. (H/T to Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus).
Trump is just the mushroom. The greater part of the GOP fungus, the mycelium, has spread through and rotted out the body politic. The GOP is the threat. Goopers could vote to remove him in the next week or so if they wanted.
“It’s hard to say to the President who meets a thousand people a day, ‘OK do you know this person who was at a dinner with you a year and half ago?’
Fuck this shit.
Sure, Donnie poses with a lot of people; but, on how many of their words does he order a U.S. ambassador fired?
If strangers have that much influence on him, or he’s that suggestible, I can’t see how anyone can argue he has any business being president of Vanuatu, let alone the United States.
I knew I saw Lankford in another role.
Hitler was a big dinner guy too. Schmoozed with oodles of people.
Yes, I said it.