What's not? He released a list of nominees, Cotton and Cruz were on it.
Trump releases list of Scotus nominees
What's not? He released a list of nominees, Cotton and Cruz were on it.
Trump releases list of Scotus nominees
The "I didn't want to create panic" excuse is such blatant dogshit because you can just compare the US's "let's not create panic by lying about the seriousness of the virus" response to a lot of countries that took it seriously from the start and find that there was no mass panic in any of those countries.
These fucking reporters need to team up and all have real follow up questions. I hate that he can get a shit response and the next is reporter is about their own shit. KEEP THE LINE OF QUESTIONS GOING!
This is like writing a Christmas list, it's got nothing to do with what actually happens. He might as well put the Easter Bunny and Santa on the list.
Look. I get all this in terms of cold hard political machinations.If Woodward went public as he got the interview tapes, what would it have even changed? Anyone with any sense knew Trump was lying and downplaying the pandemic. Hell you can find countless posts here and online from way back then saying as such and also talking about how serious this virus was. Releasing it now does the most damage to Trump politically and actually has an impact on getting him out of office. He had just successfully shown he was invincible from removal after beating impeachment thanks to Republicans, I don't get the notion that a journalist releasing a recording of what the President basically already was saying and doing in public with his actions would have changed much. Even now Republicans are acting like they don't care what he said after almost 200k+ dead, so what would hearing this in March have changed in regards to COVID 19?
Yep. It's straight up poison, and because it's accomplished by saying nothing but the country's name repeatedly (and with the venom I mentioned earlier), it slips by largely unchallenged.The casual sinophobia that Trump exhibits is so dangerous to the Overton Window in this country.
What's not? He released a list of nominees, Cotton and Cruz were on it.
Trump releases list of Scotus nominees
In another conversation, on June 19, Woodward asked the president about White privilege, noting that they were both White men of the same generation who had privileged upbringings. Woodward suggested that they had a responsibility to better "understand the anger and pain" felt by Black Americans.
"No," Trump replied, his voice described by Woodward as mocking and incredulous. "You really drank the Kool-Aid, didn't you? Just listen to you. Wow. No, I don't feel that at all."
ITS TOO BRUTAL
Guys where do we rank the gravity and severity of this story in terms of Susan Collin's concern scale? Very concerned? Deeply concerned? Finger wagging concerned?
Exactly, it can be both. Nearly 200,000 Americans have died due to Covid. Trump knew in February that it was really bad. Woodward knew that Trump knew it was bad. He then proceeded to do precisely nothing except for sit on this information for his book. If this news was published back in February who knows how many lives could have been saved.This is a bizarre take. If someone tells you they're going to shoot up a school, you are partly to blame if you wait until after it happens to tell anyone. And that's not an outrageous comparison because both situations result in people dying. Trump downplaying the virus has killed far more than a school shooting does. It's possible to say Woodward deserves blame without taking the heat off Trump as the main culprit.
Ding ding ding!You can also compare it to 95% of the shit Trump says about immigrants and Democrats about how they're going to MURDER THE COUNTRY.
OK. Here's what I don't get... Woodward already did a book on this administration back in the first year. Who in their right mind would let him anywhere near the White House let alone talk to Trump? Did they seriously expect this to end better than the last time? Or are they expecting to pick up royalties or something in the process?
Like I don't care for Trump and looking forward to hopefully voting him out in less than 2 months, but this sure feels political suicide lately with the way they are not handling things.
OK. Here's what I don't get... Woodward already did a book on this administration back in the first year. Who in their right mind would let him anywhere near the White House let alone talk to Trump? Did they seriously expect this to end better than the last time? Or are they expecting to pick up royalties or something in the process?
Like I don't care for Trump and looking forward to hopefully voting him out in less than 2 months, but this sure feels political suicide lately with the way they are not handling things.
OK. Here's what I don't get... Woodward already did a book on this administration back in the first year. Who in their right mind would let him anywhere near the White House let alone talk to Trump? Did they seriously expect this to end better than the last time? Or are they expecting to pick up royalties or something in the process?
Like I don't care for Trump and looking forward to hopefully voting him out in less than 2 months, but this sure feels political suicide lately with the way they are not handling things.
I feel like the drink the Kool-aid part is important to showcase how dismissive he is, too.The Woodward book has so many new quotes... ffs. From Aaron Rupar on Twitter:
Condensing this down into the synthesized version:
Woodward: "Do you have a responsibility to better understand the anger and pain felt by Black Americans?"
Trump: "No. No. Wow. No, I don't feel that at all."
The only reasonable answer is they thought the cover of Woodward's book made Trump look badass, and didn't actually read the damn thing.OK. Here's what I don't get... Woodward already did a book on this administration back in the first year. Who in their right mind would let him anywhere near the White House let alone talk to Trump? Did they seriously expect this to end better than the last time? Or are they expecting to pick up royalties or something in the process?
Like I don't care for Trump and looking forward to hopefully voting him out in less than 2 months, but this sure feels political suicide lately with the way they are not handling things.
I wonder if hes more a monster than an idiot?
Maybe it serves him to seem like a moron?
I dunno, he's probably just a bit of both