"You bootlickers aren't defending me enough! I'm going to defend myself!"
Please please please no one talk him out of this.
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US PoliEra 2019 |OT10| Go Absent Yourself
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"You bootlickers aren't defending me enough! I'm going to defend myself!"
Please please please no one talk him out of this.
We need the media to keep showing Hillary testifying, and raising the question that if she can do it, why can't Donald? What is he hiding? Him testifying in person would be all-time peak ratings too.
I swear there was video footage of Trump giving a testimony for some lawsuit before he was president, and he was pretty awful. Arms folded in classic defensive posture, rambling answers, self-congratulating. I'll see if I can find it, though I don't relish the idea of listening to him speak.
Edit: Found a CNN report on it, with some of the footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyJcncq-6A0
I genuinely think the republicans would take extreme actions to prevent the president from testifying, like literally locking him in the white house if necessary.
I think I've seen this. He lies the entire time.
I wonder if he's capable of ever not lying.
Trump is not taking the bait. This is him trying to appear reasonable while stringing idiots along.
In a 1992 deposition, his own lawyers say they met with him in pairs because of his constant lying.
"We tried to do it with Donald always if we could because Donald says certain things and then has a lack of memory," attorney Patrick McGahn said during the deposition in transcripts obtained by BuzzFeed. As McGahn explained, "It's always been our practice to make sure that two people are present, and we don't have a problem of people lying." He added that Trump is an "expert at interpreting things. Let's put it that way."
Guys, if he testified it would be like Clinton in 98, it would be in the White House, in front of a small group, and would be taped. I don't believe Clinton's testimony was a live broadcast, though I could be wrong.
Still, Trump would fuck it up. We need this to happen.
Still, Trump would fuck it up. We need this to happen.
I'm still at awe that in the conference he gave about the leader of isis dying, he said that ISIS was only second to him in terms of knowing how to use computers. He's not a normal person, is incapable of being honest about anything, and he's for sure not going to be allowed to testify.
Tell him he can have all the McDonalds he can carry afterward.
For a minute I'm going to allow myself to daydream about the clusterfuck it would be if he did testify before Congress. He would be eaten alive by the Democrats and the Media, and the Republicans would come across as nothing but sycophants in front of the cameras.
Honestly, Trump probably let out a sigh of "Oh, thank God they said I can do written questions."
There's zero chance at all he'd ever appear in person and humiliate himself. No amount of coaching or lawyers prep will get him to where he needs to be. He would sabotage himself within the first 5 minutes of questioning.
There's zero chance at all he'd ever appear in person and humiliate himself. No amount of coaching or lawyers prep will get him to where he needs to be. He would sabotage himself within the first 5 minutes of questioning.
Every question would be a leading question to get him to clarify something damning he had just said. It'd be humiliating.
There is the remote chance that he would be so insane, so out of control, that he could do a double reverse, go on the attack, and keep everyone so off balance that he actually scores some points. The truth is, you wouldn't be able to cross examine him like a normal witness, he's a rabid animal and pretty hard to predict. All you'll know for sure is that he's going to lie, but he's going to lie so much (about things big and small/ relevant and irrelevant) that in your short 5 minute window you may not be able to keep up with his insanity. He's going to interrupt you, demean you, attack the process, and mug for the cameras. He won't be brought to heel, and his status as President is going to make it tough to really slap him down.
Maybe it's best that he doesn't testify. There are too many unknowns and we already have enough to hang him with. He could shit himself in front of Congress, Republicans will still protect him, so there may not be much of a practical upside other than getting him on the record and embarrassing him.
Maybe it's best that he doesn't testify. There are too many unknowns and we already have enough to hang him with. He could shit himself in front of Congress, Republicans will still protect him, so there may not be much of a practical upside other than getting him on the record and embarrassing him.
Remember this episode from before Trump provided written testimony to Mueller (in which he still managed to lie), recounted in Woodward's book:
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Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollinsGraham promised Senate Judiciary would "look long & hard" into how the investigation into the campaign's interactions w Russia began. He then repeated it was necessary to probe the origins, but such hearings haven't materialized, @oliverdarcy reports. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/18/media/lindsey-graham-right-wing-media/index.html …
10:37 AM - Nov 18, 2019
10:37 AM - Nov 18, 2019
I'm going to buy this book the day Trump leaves office so I can laugh and cringe guilt-free
Buy Fire & Fury instead, it's a better read and (I believe) captures the environment of the Trump Administration better than Woodward's very clinical observations/reporting.
Nothing is topping them from investigating Biden/Burisma, is there?
Michael Wolff? Really?
That's true. Think Kavanaugh at his most unhinged during his testimony, but amplified, and without the interviewee respecting the norms and procedures of their station for most of the time, and with the interviewers having no ability to stop him (and even if they did have means, that part would be all that Fox News would play every day until the election). As much as I'd like to see him dismantled and humiliated on TV, it would probably backfire. This once again shows the cracks in the system. The Founders probably never envisioned that someone with zero respect for the Office and zero respect for procedure would ever get it, and that coupled with the shield of the Office is a big problem.
Yes really. I mean, go ahead and read both, you should. Fear confirmed just about everything that Wolff said in Fire & Fury. I'm not saying the guy is free from fault, but nothing that we've heard/read since his book was released has contradicted any of his main points. Woodward's book comes across like Mueller, "It looks and sounds like an animal, but I don't have 10 sources telling me it's a duck, so I can't say anything about it", whereas Wolff's book basically says "Yo, these guys are crazy. I have one source that I took notes on a napkin when we got drunk together, but seriously, I'm 80% sure the story I'm about to tell you happened something like this." As companion pieces Fear and Fire & Fury are great.
I think the issue is that a lot of Yang's policies seem like they will make a people's lives worse.
Unlike you libs, I think Trump could clear his name by testifying and he'd get great ratings while doing so. What's not to love about that?
If you didn't like Michael Wolff before, I don't think this book is going to change your mind.
I personally did not enjoy it.
Manu Raju @mkrajuHouse tells court it is now probing whether Trump lied to Mueller. "Did the President lie? Was the President not truthful in his responses to the Mueller investigation?" House General Counsel Doug Letter said, explaining why they want Mueller grand jury material, per @kpolantz
11:24 AM - Nov 18, 2019
The source is bizarre (to me)
Will he get deposed?
Quite honestly, I feel bad enough about how much I let myself indulge in this reality show via twitter. I'm not lining the pockets of authors who are profiting off this shit show and of whom I have dubious confidence.
Man, I don't know about going back down the Mueller road. The Ukraine story has stuck, and it isn't like we don't have enough possible articles of impeachment available to us. By going back to Mueller I'm afraid we're diluting our attack.
It's all the same thing. All of Trump's most corrupt actions in office are just different facets of the same story.
Get him on that perjury article as well.
Like I said before, I would be disappointed if there are fewer than 5 articles.
Eamon Javers @EamonJavers
A White House official tells me this morning's Fed meeting took place in the White House residence - the president's personal quarters- not in the West Wing, where the Oval Office is. I am told the president has not yet been in the West Wing today.
11:08 AM - Nov 18, 2019
A White House official tells me this morning's Fed meeting took place in the White House residence - the president's personal quarters- not in the West Wing, where the Oval Office is. I am told the president has not yet been in the West Wing today.
11:08 AM - Nov 18, 2019
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Not really
It's a side track that isn't going to be pursued in an open setting - like 0.01% of the population follows shit like this.
It's a side track that isn't going to be pursued in an open setting - like 0.01% of the population follows shit like this.
He's either still in bed or he really did have a heart attack or a stroke
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