Trump Responds To Assistant Firing | Talking Points Memo

In the midst of sharing GOP senators’ tweets, Hurricane Dorian updates and jabs at former FBI director James Comey Saturday morning, President Donald Trump took a moment to address the drama that has unfolded since his personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout was fired Thursday.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1245785

Well, I, for one, am so very relieved to hear that. (Now, can we get back to plans to bomb hurricanes?)

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Once again as far as i understand she talked about how drump disses his daughters not that she dissed them, is it really that hard to write a better headline? They way the headline written its like she was talking bad about his kids and thus got fired, rather then her talking about what a shitty dad he is.

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“Soul Drain”

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You have to want to write a better headline.

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This is easily the most benign thing that has happened during Trump’s administration. There doesn’t appear to be any seedy sexual or criminal activity here. No abuse of power, no vindictive retaliation, no cheating, no treason.

This is it, folks: the high point, his best moment.

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Has anyone noticed? End of story.

OT and of no particular interest, the Hurricane Hunters found sustained winds of 145 MPH in Dorian.

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He just cannot shut up! Needy and compulsive career criminal.

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If there was no non-disclosure, she probably could bank some serious coin ‘telling tales’.

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OT

Well at least the Trumpists didn’t give them blankets contaminated with smallpox.

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It’s summer. Plenty of time for that.

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POTUS suing to enforce NDAs seems to me to raise profound First Amendment
Issues. Also there is no indication that his assistant lied, so how about that Dad of yours, Tiffany? So much for unequivocal parental love.

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It can lead to sterility, also encephalitis. 80% were exposed while in detention. 33 officers also got mumps. But let’s not provide flu vaccination.

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Before criticizing the headline, you might want to proofread your post. Right? Write. Your post does not seem very coherent.

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Trump is lying about this, believe it or not, or even more astonishingly is ignorant of the fact that in most federal government jobs a nondisclosure agreement would be unenforceable.

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I must say, the destructive capabilities of access “journalism” have done a few things:

  • Severely devalued the fine and courageous work done by real journalists. Hint to Boomers: That’s why Lois Lane’s life was just a tad less dangerous than that of a soldier or organized crime detective

  • Normalized Trump for the mentally feeble, who look at wrestling exactly like they look at affairs of domestic and foreign policy

  • Enriched people who should be tried by International Law as collaborators of a dangerous regime which is just a hairsbreadth away from environmental catastrophe, foreign disasters and a reign of domestic terrorism.

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Are WH confidentiality agreements valid? He isn’t paying their salary - we are.

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I don’t get paid to have my grammar be correct, and I think its pretty clear that that I think the headline does not convey the content of the article correctly. Also yes my dyslexia does tend to have me do things like that when I don’t go back and proofread. Better to swap at right write than right a headline that misleads from the content of the story.

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Oh, and the dotard is golfing today, because, well, the hurricane may hit NC instead of mar-a-grifto I suppose.

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Seth agrees with you.

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