President Donald Trump couldn’t keep his predecessor’s name out of his mouth on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters at the beginning of a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Trump fielded questions about Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to dig up dirt abroad on Trump’s political enemies.
“I have special fillings in my teeth, and I’m picking up radio messages from many people saying that Obama pried the DNC server from Seth Rich’s cold, dead hands and flew it to Ukraine in Air Force One, where the Ukrainians used it to write up the ‘black book’ on Paul Manafort. That great Ukrainian prosecutor who Joe Biden fired tells people that Marie Yovanovitch has hidden the server in the Chernoble containment structure.”
This was one of the most unhinged press conferences ever. Not only did Trump promote this baseless conspiracy theory, he continued to misstate the issue of NATO country pending (they do not owe money to NATO, they are spending less that 2% of their GDP on their own defense), foreign countries do not pay the tariffs (the US consumers do), the Kurds are our allies (and have lost >10,000 fighters on our behalf in fighting ISIS)… I wish someone in the press would just ask Trump if he does not understand these issues that he keeps lying about.
You have to admire the guy’s messaging discipline. Say the word “corruption” as often as possible in relation to your enemies. That kind of subliminal repetition sinks in.
Trump then baselessly claimed Obama was behind the “corruption of the 2016 election” again during a press conference with Mattarella after their meeting.
“There was a lot of corruption. Maybe it goes right up to President Obama,” Trump said. “I happen to think it does.”
I understand we’re way into old man shouting at clouds territory, but it’s still amazing to think how many maga-teers will hear this and run with it instead of demanding evidence from (allegedly) the chief law enforcement officer of the country.
Benadick Donnie two scoops again hit the replay button in his brain that has recorded the “deep state” adjective randomly juxtaposed next to everything he fears or hates.
I think it was remarkably restrained. My only quibble would be that you have at least 5 tweets worth of info there, since there’s no way he could keep all that in the fatty tissue sloshing careening around his skull. Also, he probably can’t spell “containment.”
You know, if you put a thought bubble above Obama’s head in that photo with “geez, is this guy a pompous bag of wind” it would match his facial expression. (Of course “what a dickhead” would work as well and may be closer to his actual thought at that moment…)