Meadows: I ‘Would Not Have Recommended’ Giving Woodward So Much Trump Access

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows asserted on Wednesday night that allowing Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward to speak to President Donald Trump, who subsequently told the reporter he was downplaying COVID-19 on purpose, was probably not a good idea.


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What magic does Meadows think he has that would have mattered to Trump?

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a new book about the President titled “Rage.”

I hope someone on live TV asks Trump whose rage the title referred to.

Or better still, whose rage Woodward said it referred to.

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What a show off.

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Your job is to kiss ass and lie not recommend.

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I’d say the horse has already left the station on that there markie

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An associates degree.
(see the second paragraph, fourth sentence at the Wikipedia link)

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The recordings sounded like they may’ve been made over the telephone, thus Meadows wouldn’t have a chance in hell of limiting Cockholster’s conversations. Moreover, talking on the phone with perceived bigwigs or, in Woodward’s case, an abettor to mass murder, is ego candy he can’t resist.

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Wow, y’think?

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But he just wants to keep the nation calm.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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The Democrats never even mentioned the words LAW & ORDER at their National Convention. That’s where they are coming from. If I don’t win, America’s Suburbs will be OVERRUN with Low Income Projects, Anarchists, Agitators, Looters and, of course, “Friendly Protesters”.

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I also recommend locking the barn door after the horse is stolen.

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Shorter Mark Meadows: It’s Jared’s fault.

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Puff yourself up Meadows…ESPECIALLY after the fact. Trump still wouldn’t have listened to you because he considers himself the ‘smartest boy in the room’. Please.

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“Rage” against the regime

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Prepare the underbus!

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They pretty much admit they know he is bad.

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Damned fool, Meadows! He actually thinks Donnie would have listened to him?? God Almighty, Meadows is now part of the stain. Not that he wasn’t already…

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“We can’t know what’s in his heart.”


Eric Boehlert
@EricBoehlert

“The latest revelations pull the curtain back on how the press has covered the pandemic. Relentlessly giving him the benefit of the doubt, the press has stressed Trump was “slow” to respond, and “missed” the Covid-19 warnings” All false

5:19 AM · Sep 10, 2020

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This’d be funny but…

Kim Jong Un’s letters to Trump: “Even now I cannot forget that moment of history when I firmly held Your Excellency’s hand at that beautiful and sacred location as the whole world watched with great interest and hope.”

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I might be naive, but I hope that the average Fox viewer can see that Meadows’ comments are irrelevant, and revealing.

To paraphrase, Meadows is saying, “Had I been there, Trump would not have spoken the truth.”

What Meadows really thinks about Trump’s flip-flops, saying one thing to Woodward and another thing to the public, is, of course, not what Meadows is saying. He’s dancing around the issue, which is just about all he can do at this point. He can’t say Woodward is a liar because it’s all on tape, and Trump isn’t denying it.

Trump didn’t want to cause a panic. Wow. But for Biden to say it’s “disgusting” seems a bit reserved.

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