jimnyc
05-14-2017, 03:39 PM
Was a very bad week, no matter what angle you're looking at it from. I'll be watching to see how the administration goes forward from here. They need to get a new FBI director this week and move on. The best thing to do, IMO, is get someone in there that is loved all the way around. Then simply move forward quietly.
I actually like Trump having Twitter. I like the idea of seeing the president straight forward like that. I like the fact that he can say things without the media spinning it. I like the fact that he doesn't need to be politically correct. But dang, Trump takes it too far with what he has in his hands. Too much weird crap. Too many unfounded things. Anyway, after appointing a director this week, he needs to straighten himself out on there. Or maybe see 'Twitter Anonymous' for people that have twitter obsessions. :(
But stop with the media circus altogether. These bastards are obsessed with him and finding anything negative, just as he is obsessed with twitter. So this administration needs to effing lay low and do their jobs and not allow for this circus. They've shown that they have many positives - and the majority of the negatives are of these idiots own doings. So fix that shit.
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Donald Trump's disastrously bad week in Washington
(CNN)Donald Trump's week started with Sally Yates' damning testimony about Michael Flynn and ended with a series of wild tweets and an ever-changing story about exactly why he chose to fire FBI Director James Comey.
Even by Trumpian standards, the wild swings, erratic messaging and general chaos was beyond the pale -- raising real concerns about whether Trump was losing control of the ship of state.
Start with the testimony of Yates, the one-time acting attorney general, to a Senate subcommittee Monday. She made clear that on two occasions -- once on January 26 and then again on January 27 -- she sought out White House counsel Don McGahn to warn him that national security adviser Michael Flynn had been compromised by the Russians and was a blackmail risk. Trump didn't fire Flynn until 18 days later -- a seemingly inexplicable amount of time given the allegations against him.
On Tuesday -- even as Trump's White House was trying to find an explanation for that 18-day gap -- Trump stunned the political world by firing Comey. He did so by having his former bodyguard deliver a hand-written letter -- in which Trump asserted that Comey had told him on three occasions that he wasn't under investigation(!) -- to the FBI. Comey was in Los Angeles at the time, finding out of his firing the way the rest of us did: on TV.
Trump's White House was entirely unprepared for the firestorm that erupted -- likely because they, like the rest of us, had no idea it was coming. The initial spin offered by the White House, from Vice President Mike Pence on down, was that Trump had acted "decisively" after reading a memo from deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that hammered Comey for his conduct in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
Rest here - http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/politics/worst-week-donald-trump/index.html
I actually like Trump having Twitter. I like the idea of seeing the president straight forward like that. I like the fact that he can say things without the media spinning it. I like the fact that he doesn't need to be politically correct. But dang, Trump takes it too far with what he has in his hands. Too much weird crap. Too many unfounded things. Anyway, after appointing a director this week, he needs to straighten himself out on there. Or maybe see 'Twitter Anonymous' for people that have twitter obsessions. :(
But stop with the media circus altogether. These bastards are obsessed with him and finding anything negative, just as he is obsessed with twitter. So this administration needs to effing lay low and do their jobs and not allow for this circus. They've shown that they have many positives - and the majority of the negatives are of these idiots own doings. So fix that shit.
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Donald Trump's disastrously bad week in Washington
(CNN)Donald Trump's week started with Sally Yates' damning testimony about Michael Flynn and ended with a series of wild tweets and an ever-changing story about exactly why he chose to fire FBI Director James Comey.
Even by Trumpian standards, the wild swings, erratic messaging and general chaos was beyond the pale -- raising real concerns about whether Trump was losing control of the ship of state.
Start with the testimony of Yates, the one-time acting attorney general, to a Senate subcommittee Monday. She made clear that on two occasions -- once on January 26 and then again on January 27 -- she sought out White House counsel Don McGahn to warn him that national security adviser Michael Flynn had been compromised by the Russians and was a blackmail risk. Trump didn't fire Flynn until 18 days later -- a seemingly inexplicable amount of time given the allegations against him.
On Tuesday -- even as Trump's White House was trying to find an explanation for that 18-day gap -- Trump stunned the political world by firing Comey. He did so by having his former bodyguard deliver a hand-written letter -- in which Trump asserted that Comey had told him on three occasions that he wasn't under investigation(!) -- to the FBI. Comey was in Los Angeles at the time, finding out of his firing the way the rest of us did: on TV.
Trump's White House was entirely unprepared for the firestorm that erupted -- likely because they, like the rest of us, had no idea it was coming. The initial spin offered by the White House, from Vice President Mike Pence on down, was that Trump had acted "decisively" after reading a memo from deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that hammered Comey for his conduct in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
Rest here - http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/politics/worst-week-donald-trump/index.html