the rich asshole Calls Democrats Jealous Because They Don’t Have A Crazy Leader Like Him
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In a typo filled rant, some rich asshole claimed that his mental instability is him changing tones and that Democrats are jealous because they don't have a crazy leader like him.
In a typo filled rant, some rich asshole claimed that his mental instability is him changing tones and that Democrats are jealous because they don’t have a crazy leader like him.
the rich asshole tweeted:
Someone at the White House saw the rich asshole’s typo, deleted the original tweet, and replaced it with:
the rich asshole literally believes that changing tones means changing the tone of your voice, because, at the Afghanistan and American Legion speeches, the rich asshole used his serious softer inside teleprompter voice. At his rally, he was the unhinged screamed that the nation has come to know and not love.
some rich asshole has two gears. He can read from a script, or he can rant like a lunatic.
Democrats are happy that they don’t have a crazy person destroying their party with infighting, petty squabbles, incoherency, and paranoia. If the rich asshole had tried to run as a Democrat, he wouldn’t have made it through the door. Only a weak party full of desperate individuals who are caught in the midst of ideological civil war could be hijacked by the rich asshole.
Republicans aren’t lucky to have the rich asshole. He is a bomb throwing anchor that is dragging them down.
Kellyanne Conway says journalists should be “forced” to report favorably on the rich asshole
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the rich asshole's White House counselor thinks the problem with the media is that "they are not compelled" to report things that make the rich asshole look good.
It is no secret that some rich asshole resents the media’s constant pushback on his lies, corruption, and bigotry. His allies and surrogates constantly make the rounds on TV to complain about it.
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, who famously proclaimed that the rich asshole is simply using “alternative facts,” is particularly bothered.
On Thursday, during an appearance on Fox & Friends, host Steve Doocy asked Conway about former CIA director James Clapper questioning the rich asshole’s fitness for office in the wake of his openly pro-Confederate speech in Phoenix. Conway pivoted to an attack on the media, and finished with a stupefying claim about press freedom:
CONWAY: It’s such an absurd analysis, playing armchair psychiatrist. It’s not just him. It’s a lot of people on TV. I remember — I’m old enough to remember when news stations reported the news. And didn’t just have a parade of pundits going out there and opinionating and rendering their opinions and pontificating and conjecturing. And I think it leads to analysis like this, because people end up with very little to say. They are not compelled. They are not forced. Nobody demands that they actually report facts and figures. […]
You know, the media and other opinion figures — they were way too afraid of President Obama and his administration. They’re not afraid enough here.
Conway is saying the media should be “forced” to report the news in a way that is favorable to the rich asshole. She is lamenting that America does not have full-blown government control of media content and that reporters are not sufficiently “afraid” of the rich asshole and his White House.
the rich asshole has repeatedly bullied reporters covering him and even shown his support for violence against the media.
Authoritarian, anti-press impulses are nothing new from this administration. Conway has previously threatened to revoke Chuck Todd’s interview access if he kept criticizing former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, and said pundits who “talk smack” about the rich asshole should be fired.
Terrifyingly, though, some corners of the media appear to be moving in the direction Conway wants.
Ousted white supremacist adviser Steve Bannon is back at Breitbart and prepared to wage “war” against any politician who questions the rich asshole, even members of his own White House — a plan that has the rich asshole’s tacit blessing.
Meanwhile, the rich asshole’s FCC is rewriting broadcasting laws to advance the merger of Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media, creating a kind of “the rich asshole TV” that will reach 72 percent of U.S. households. Sinclair, which owns hundreds of local news stations around the country, is infamous for forcing journalists to air “must-run” segments against their wishes, most of which praise the rich asshole, attack Democrats, and promote the right-wing agenda. Even some right-wing media companies worry about what this could do to news markets.
On the face of it, Conway’s demand for journalists to be “forced” to praise the rich asshole may sound so ridiculous and un-American that it could never become reality. But it is deceptively easy to erode a nation’s fundamental rights over time. Americans should take Conway at her word that the rich asshole’s allies dream of dismantling the Fourth Estate, and hold the line to protect our democracy.
Trump Reeling As The American People Say They’d Be Better Off Under Hillary Clinton
A new Quinnipiac University Poll found that by a 49%-40% margin the American people believe that the country would be better off with Hillary Clinton as president.
A new Quinnipiac University Poll found that by a 49%-40% margin the American people believe that the country would be better off with Hillary Clinton as president.
At first pass, the numbers look like the 2016 election with only white people, non-college educated whites, and Republicans thinking that they would be worse off under Trump, but a look at the age breakdown shows that all age groups think that the country would be better off under Hillary Clinton. By a small margin, Independents also believe that the country would be better off under Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote by 3 million votes, so the finding that more people in the country think that the US would be better off if she had won is unexpected, but the trouble for Trump is that the idea that his election was a mistake is setting in with voters. Trump squeaked by on election day because the Russians and his campaign were able to manipulate the media coverage to take attention away from Trump and thrust it onto imaginary Clinton scandals.
Since Trump has taken office, the American people have realized that Trump and Clinton were not equally bad choices as Republicans and the Russians wanted voters to believe. The country is waking up and realizing that Trump’s election was a terrible mistake that they will seek to correct first by taking out the GOP Congressional majority, and then getting rid of Trump in 2020.
some rich asshole's 57 most outrageous quotes from his Arizona speech
Updated 1416 GMT (2216 HKT) August 23, 2017
the rich asshole predicts NAFTA termination
I went through the transcript of the rich asshole's speech -- all 77 minutes -- and picked out his 57 most outrageous lines, in chronological order. They're below.
1. "And just so you know from the Secret Service, there aren't too many people outside protesting, OK. That I can tell you."
This is, literally, the first line of his speech. the rich asshole is obsessed with the idea that the opposition to him is overstated while the support for him is understated. (They won't turn the cameras around and show the size of my crowds!) CNN's Saba Hamedy, who was on the scene of the protests, said that thousands of people were on the streets of Phoenix.
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2. "A lot of people in here, a lot of people pouring right now. They can get them in. Whatever you can do, fire marshals, we'll appreciate it."
So many people love me -- it's hard to fit them all in the building! But, try!
3. "You know I'd love it if the cameras could show this crowd, because it is rather incredible. It is incredible."
For the record: The cameras always show the crowd. Have for months and years.
4. "We went to center stage almost from day one in the debates. We love those debates."
The election ended 287 days ago, as of last night.
5. "Our movement is a movement built on love."
For a second, you might have been tricked into thinking that the rich asshole was going to return to the message of unity and justice he laid out at the start of his Afghanistan speech on Monday night. Spoiler alert: He wasn't.
6. "We all share the same home, the same dreams and the same hopes for a better future. A wound inflicted upon one member of our community is a wound inflicted upon us all."
The second sentence of this is verbatim from his speech on Monday. But as the rest of the rich asshole's speech shows, these are just words to him. He reads them but doesn't understand them. Or believe them.
7. "I see all those red hats and white hats. It's all happening very fast. It's called: 'Make America Great Again.'"
the rich asshole conflates a call to unity and an end to divisiveness with supporting him. The country is coming together because lots of people at a campaign rally have "MAGA" hats on!
8. "Just like (the media doesn't) want to report that I spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry and violence and strongly condemned the neo-Nazis, the White Supremacists, and the KKK."
[narrator voice]: He didn't.
9. "So here is my first statement when I heard about Charlottesville -- and I have a home in Charlottesville, a lot of people don't know."
9. "So here is my first statement when I heard about Charlottesville -- and I have a home in Charlottesville, a lot of people don't know."
Follow this logic: The media says I didn't condemn the white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. I did -- because I have a house there, which many people don't know.
10. "So here's what I said, really fast, here's what I said on Saturday: 'We're closely following the terrible events unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia' -- this is me speaking. 'We condemn in the strongest, possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence.' That's me speaking on Saturday."
This is what he actually said (italics/bolding mine): "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides. It's been going on for a long time in our country. Not some rich asshole, not Barack Obama. This has been going on for a long, long time."
Which is not the same thing. At all.
11. "I think I can't do much better, right?"
No, you could have done much, much better. Just ask your own party -- the vast majority of which condemned your Charlottesville comments. Also, the rich asshole is always doing great!
12. "I hope they're showing how many people are in this room, but they won't"
[narrator voice]: They were.
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13. "I call them anarchists. Because, believe me, we have plenty of anarchists. They don't want to talk about the anarchists."
Believe me, I know anarchists. The best anarchists. Bigly.
14. "If you're reading a story about somebody, you don't know. You assume it's honest, because it's like the failing New York Times, which is like so bad. It's so bad."
I have no idea what the rich asshole's point is here. But MAN, the New York Times is failing, right?!?!?
15. "Or the Washington Post, which I call a lobbying tool for Amazon, OK, that's a lobbying tool for Amazon."
Amazon doesn't own the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos does.
16. "Or CNN, which is so bad and so pathetic, and their ratings are going down."
17. "I mean, CNN is really bad, but ABC this morning -- I don't watch it much, but I'm watching in the morning, and they have little George Stephanopoulos talking to Nikki Haley, right? Little George."
A few things: 1. the rich asshole watches TV constantly. 2. "Little George": the rich asshole as bully-in-chief.
18. "I didn't say I love you because you're black, or I love you because you're white, or I love you because you're from Japan, or you're from China, or you're from Kenya, or you're from Scotland or Sweden. I love all the people of our country."
19. "How about -- how about all week they're talking about the massive crowds that are going to be outside. Where are they? Well, it's hot out. It is hot. I think it's too warm."
It was warm! (105 or so.) But, again, multiple media reports -- including CNN's -- show that there were thousands of protesters.
20. "You know, they show up in the helmets and the black masks, and they've got clubs and they've got everything -- Antifa!"
My favorite line of the speech -- especially "Antifa!" which the rich asshole shouts. (Also, you must watch this until the end. Trust me.)
21. "Then I said, racism is evil. Do they report that I said that racism is evil?"
[narrator voice]: They did.
22. "Now they only choose, you know, like a half a sentence here or there and then they just go on this long rampage, or they put on these real lightweights all around a table that nobody ever heard of, and they all say what a bad guy I am."
This was the second paragraph of CNN's story about the rich asshole's August 14 statement on Charlottesville:
"Racism is evil -- and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans," the rich asshole said in response to the attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
23. "But, I mean do you ever see anything -- and then you wonder why CNN is doing relatively poorly in the ratings"
See #16.
24. "But with me, they wanted me to say it, and I said it. And I said it very clearly, but they refused to put it on."
The issue was that the rich asshole said -- on Saturday, August 12, and then again on Tuesday, August 15 -- that the violence and hate on display in Charlottesville was "on many sides" and then that "both sides" were responsible for it. And, the news media didn't condemn the rich asshole for that; it was his own party who did that.
25. "I hit him with neo-Nazi. I hit them with everything. I got the white supremacists, the neo-Nazi. I got them all in there, let's say. KKK, we have KKK. I got them all."
This is revealing in a way the rich asshole doesn't mean it to be. He views the naming of the KKK and the neo-Nazis who were responsible for this violence as a box-checking exercise. I said their names -- so what's the problem?! (Of course,the rich asshole didn't call out these groups in his initial statement on Saturday, which was the problem.)
26. "So then the last one, on Tuesday -- Tuesday I did another one: 'We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. It has no place in America.'
the rich asshole was actually quoting from his Saturday remarks in these Tuesday comments. And, in that same August 15 press conference, he said this: "I think there's blame on both sides. You look at -- you look at both sides. I think there's blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either."
27. "So that was my words."
Over 2,000 of them in fact. All dedicated to rewriting what he actually said about Charlottesville.
28. "Now, you know, I was a good student. I always hear about the elite. You know, the elite. They're elite? I went to better schools than they did. I was a better student than they were. I live in a bigger, more beautiful apartment, and I live in the White House, too, which is really great."
Always remember this fundamental truth about the rich asshole: He has always felt like the guy on the outside looking in, the guy people wouldn't accept in their social circles and wouldn't let into their club. Stuffing it in all of their faces is the primal motivation for everything in his life. Hence all the bragging about what he has and what he's done. Related: Trump and Ric Flair have a lot in common -- including the hair.
29. "The words were perfect. They only take out anything they can think of, and for the most part, all they do is complain. But they don't put on those words. And they don't put on me saying those words."
the rich asshole is not sorry. Not ever. He has convinced himself that what he said initially about Charlottesville was "perfect." And, I realize this may be getting repetitive, but the media reported every word the rich asshole said about Charlottesville. Period. The end.
30. "And yes, by the way -- and yes, by the way, they are trying to take away our history and our heritage. You see that."
This is demagogic language from the rich asshole about the media. "They" are trying to rob us of "our history and our heritage." You don't have to look very hard to see racial and ethnic coding in that language.
31. "I really think they don't like our country. I really believe that."
the rich asshole's claim that the media doesn't "like" America is hugely offensive. Offensive and dangerous. Imagine ANY other president saying anything close to this -- and what the reaction would be.
32. "Look back there, the live red lights. They're turning those suckers off fast out there. They're turning those lights off fast."
[narrator voice]: They weren't.
33. "CNN does not want its falling viewership to watch what I'm saying tonight, I can tell you."
See #16.
34. "If I don't have social media, I probably would not be standing."
Same.
35. "They'll say, 'some rich asshole is in a Twitter-storm.' These are sick people."
Your guess is as good as mine.
36. "You would think -- you would think they'd want to make our country great again, and I honestly believe they don't. I honestly believe it."
The media, in the rich asshole's telling, is rooting against the country. Let me say again: Rhetoric like this is offensive, dishonest and dangerous.
The media, in the rich asshole's telling, is rooting against the country. Let me say again: Rhetoric like this is offensive, dishonest and dangerous.
37. "The New York Times essentially apologized after I won the election, because their coverage was so bad, and it was so wrong, and they were losing so many subscribers that they practically apologized."
[narrator voice] They didn't.
38. "I must tell you, Fox has treated me fairly. Fox treated me fairly."
"I am watching two clown announcers on @FoxNews as they try to build up failed presidential candidate #LittleMarco. Fox News is in the bag!" -- some rich asshole, March 2016
39. "How good is Hannity? How good is Hannity? And he's a great guy, and he's an honest guy. And 'Fox and Friends in the Morning' is the best show, and it's the absolute, most honest show, and it's the show I watch."
Simple truth: the rich asshole likes Hannity and "Fox and Friends" because they say nice things about him. He likes people who like him.
40. "Oh, those cameras are going off. Wow. That's the one thing, they're very nervous to have me on live television."
[narrator voice] They weren't. And, they aren't.
41. "I'm a person that wants to tell the truth. I'm an honest person, and what I'm saying, you know is exactly right."
According to the Washington Post, the rich asshole has made more than 1,000 misstatements since being sworn in as president on January 20.
42. "You've got people outside, but not very many."
He is obsessed with crowd size. Obsessed.
43. "So, was Sheriff Joe convicted for doing his job?"
44. "He should have had a jury, but you know what? I'll make a prediction. I think he's going to be just fine, OK?"
The "pardon" tease! Make sure to stay tuned for next week's episode!
45. "It was like 115 degrees. I'm out signing autographs for an hour. I was there. That was a hot day."
It was hot. But I am still very popular. Extremely popular. Believe me.
(And for what it's worth, CNN White House reporter Kevin Liptak emails: "It was 106 degrees and he spent no more than 25 minutes shaking hands.")
46. "But believe me, if we have to close down our government, we're building that wall."
"Let me say it again, no more government shutdowns." -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, August 2015
47. "'Extreme vetting' -- I came up with that term."
...he says proudly.
48. "And we have to speak to Mitch and we have to speak to everybody."
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49. "But, you know, they all said, Mr. President, your speech was so good last night, please, please, Mr. President don't mention any names. So I won't. I won't. No I won't vote -- one vote away, I will not mention any names. Very presidential, isn't' it? Very presidential."
This is the rich asshole taking a shot at John McCain, who is currently battling brain cancer, for voting against the repeal and replace health care legislation. It's also the rich asshole showing how closely he reads press coverage and how he likes to openly flout suggestions of being more "presidential."
50. "And nobody wants me to talk about your other senator, who's weak on borders, weak on crime, so I won't talk about him. Nobody wants me to talk about him. Nobody knows who the hell he is."
Jeff Flake is a sitting Republican senator. the rich asshole is running him down in his home state at a campaign rally less than a week removed from touting one of his primary challengers on Twitter.
51. "Did you see Gruber got fired yesterday? He got fired because he defrauded somebody or something. Something very bad happened. Check it out. Something happened."
Jonathan Gruber didn't get "fired." The Vermont attorney general's office settled a case with him after a two-plus year investigation into whether he had committed billing fraud.
52. "One vote -- speak to your senator, please. Speak to your senator."
McCain cast one of the deciding votes on health care. But he's not going to name names!
53. "I think we've gotten more than anybody, including Harry Truman, who was number one, but they will tell you we've got none."
This claim is -- wait for it -- not entirely true.
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54. "But Kim Jong Un, I respect the fact that I believe he is starting to respect us. I respect that fact very much. Respect that fact."
Respect. That. Fact.
55. "I don't believe that any president has accomplished as much as this president in the first six or seven months. I really don't believe it."
the rich asshole believes that by saying things, he wills them into existence and truth.
the rich asshole believes that by saying things, he wills them into existence and truth.
He doesn't.
56. "They're trying to take away our culture. They are trying to take away our history."
[dog whistle]
57. "So I think we'll end up probably terminating NAFTA at some point, OK? Probably."
Way to throw a major policy pronouncement into the end of a speech while negotiations are ongoing!
Way to throw a major policy pronouncement into the end of a speech while negotiations are ongoing!
the rich asshole Flies Into Wednesday Morning Tantrum About Filibusters Like A Damn Fool
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some rich asshole seems to believe that he is the CEO of the entire government. Earlier this month, he and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got into a screaming cursing match on the telephone, because 45 thought the senator did not have his back on Congressional committee hearings. the rich asshole wanted Congress’ investigations into the rich asshole-Russia connection halted. Now, he is telling McConnell how to do his job once again.
The president believed he had a simple solution to getting his way. He wanted the Senate leader to “get rid of the Filibuster Rule,” which means it would just take 50 votes plus the VP swing vote to pass a bill instead of the check-and-balance 60 votes:
‘If Republican Senate doesn’t get rid of the Filibuster Rule & go to a simple majority, which the Dems would do, they are just wasting time!’
There were several problems with the rich asshole’s words. First, this was no suggestion. The president has been treating McConnell and the rest of Congress as if they were simply his directors, not an equal branch of the government. Of course, the senator did not take kindly to 45’s condescending attitude.
Second, if Democrats had the majority they would not erase the filibuster because they know that it would only be a matter of time until they lost the majority. Killing off the filibuster would mean giving up a huge amount of power to the opposing party.
Third, the president does not really appear to care about the contents of a bill. He simply wants a win, any win.
Fortunately, the country’s citizens are smarter than the leader of the free world. Their tweets were hilarious. Check them out below:
‘If Republican Senate doesn’t get rid of the Filibuster Rule & go to a simple majority, which the Dems would do, they are just wasting time!’
the rich asshole & McConnell Explode Into All-Out Shouting Match During Heated Encounter
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell and President the rich asshole have finally butted serious heads according to an article released Tuesday night from the New York Times. This butting of heads eventually led to an all-out screaming match on August 9th. The two men have not spoken since.
The report reveals that the rich asshole reamed McConnell for unsuccessful attempts to repeal Obamacare, and for failing to “protect him from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.”
According to The Times:
“What was once an uneasy governing alliance has curdled into a feud of mutual resentment and sometimes outright hostility, complicated by the position of Mr. McConnell’s wife, Elaine L. Chao, in some rich asshole’s cabinet, according to more than a dozen people briefed on their imperiled partnership. Angry phone calls and private badmouthing have devolved into open conflict, with the president threatening to oppose Republican senators who cross him, and Mr. McConnell mobilizing to their defense.”
The president is now threatening his own party during a very important time, as they are expected to meet a deadline next month to approve a raise to the statutory limit on the amount of borrowing the country can do. If the rich asshole refuses to lend assistance by way of sabotaging the Republican Party out of spite, it could be “disastrous” for the entire party.
the rich asshole and McConnell have been doing a bit of bickering at each other on the social media platform Twitter, and now, the real reasons have been revealed. The two men are literally refusing to take calls from one another.
NYT says that the rich asshole “berated him [McConnell] in a phone call that quickly devolved into a profane shouting match.”
Within that call from his golf course in New Jersey, the rich asshole apparently “accused Mr. McConnell of bungling the health care issue. He was even more animated about what he intimated was the Senate leader’s refusal to protect him from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to Republicans briefed on the conversation.”
McConnell has spoken out strongly against the president, something the rich asshole is not used to. According to NY Times, McConnell:
“..fumed over some rich asshole’s regular threats against fellow Republicans and criticism of Senate rules, and questioned some rich asshole’s understanding of the presidency in a public speech. Mr. McConnell has made sharper comments in private, describing some rich asshole as entirely unwilling to learn the basics of governing.”
Lindsey Graham insists that the rich asshole lacks the understanding of how government works, saying: “When it comes to the Senate, there’s an Article 5 understanding: An attack against one is an attack against all.”
the rich asshole is a loner, however. He’s not a team player, and he has no true friends. He has associates and employees who take his orders without argument because he’s some rich asshole. Having to stand up to questioning in his role as POTUS has left the rich asshole engulfed in rage as he mean-tweets almost daily.
the rich asshole has alienated himself from his own party, leaving him exactly where he wants to be. On his own.
the rich asshole Just Got An Unexpected Surprise At His Rally In Phoenix
The mayor of Phoenix, Greg Stanton, had previously called for the rich asshole to delay the rally, claiming that his presence in Phoenix would further fan the flames of unrest following the rich asshole’s widely condemned response to the tragic events in Charlottesville. Rather than denounce the neo-Nazis and white supremacists in attendance, the President went so far as to blame “both sides” for the violence that left 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead when a deranged neo-Nazi plowed his car into a group of counterprotestors.
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“I am disappointed that President the rich asshole has chosen to hold a campaign rally as our nation is still healing from the tragic events in Charlottesville,” Stanton said. “It is my hope that more sound judgment prevails and that he delays his visit.”
Since his widely-criticized remarks, the rich asshole has been likened to the white supremacists that he failed to adequately condemn. While the presence of an enormous Ku Klux Klan-clad the rich asshole float may seem extreme, so is the prospect of an American president failing to condemn Nazis marching through the street. And he will rightfully be reminded of it everywhere he goes.
the rich asshole shown photo of Afghan women in miniskirts: report
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National security adviser H.R. McMaster showed President the rich asshole a black-and-white photo of Afghan women in miniskirts from 1972 in an effort to convince him to keep U.S. forces in Afghanistan, according to The Washington Post.
The photo was meant to show that Western culture had once flourished in the country and that they could once again with new U.S. efforts against the Taliban, the Post reported.
The black-and-white photo was just one element in the effort that McMaster and other members of the national security team made to convince the rich asshole to keep U.S. forces in Afghanistan, despite his campaign promises to remove them.
the rich asshole announced Monday evening that he would not be pulling U.S. troops from Afghanistan as part of a new strategy he insisted would win the longest military conflict in U.S. history.
the rich asshole’s decision was seen as a victory for McMaster and Defense Secretary James Mattis, who warned the rich asshole that Afghanistan could revert to a breeding ground for terrorism if U.S. forces were pulled from the country.
the rich asshole did not give details on how many troops would be added or any timetables on when they would be deployed, though it is expected between 3,000 and 5,000 new troops will be added to the 8,400 now in the country under the strategy outlined on Monday night.
"The American people are weary of war without victory. I share the American people’s frustration," the rich asshole said. “In the end, we will fight and we will win.”
McConnell, in Private, Doubts if the rich asshole Can Save Presidency
The relationship between President the rich asshole and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has disintegrated to the point that they have not spoken to each other in weeks, and Mr. McConnell has privately expressed uncertainty that some rich asshole will be able to salvage his administration after a series of summer crises.
What was once an uneasy governing alliance has curdled into a feud of mutual resentment and sometimes outright hostility, complicated by the position of Mr. McConnell’s wife, Elaine L. Chao, in some rich asshole’s cabinet, according to more than a dozen people briefed on their imperiled partnership. Angry phone calls and private badmouthing have devolved into open conflict, with the president threatening to oppose Republican senators who cross him, and Mr. McConnell mobilizing to their defense.
The rupture between some rich asshole and Mr. McConnell comes at a highly perilous moment for Republicans, who face a number of urgent deadlines when they return to Washington next month. Congress must approve new spending measures and raise the statutory limit on government borrowing within weeks of reconvening, and Republicans are hoping to push through an elaborate rewrite of the federal tax code. There is scant room for legislative error on any front.
A protracted government shutdown or a default on sovereign debt could be disastrous — for the economy and for the party that controls the White House and both chambers of Congress.
Yet some rich asshole and Mr. McConnell are locked in a political cold war. Neither man would comment for this story. Don Stewart, a spokesman for Mr. McConnell, noted that the senator and the president had “shared goals,” and pointed to “tax reform, infrastructure, funding the government, not defaulting on the debt, passing the defense authorization bill.”
Still, the back-and-forth has been dramatic.
In a series of tweets this month, some rich asshole criticized Mr. McConnell publicly, then berated him in a phone call that quickly devolved into a profane shouting match.
During the call, which some rich asshole initiated on Aug. 9 from his New Jersey golf club, the president accused Mr. McConnell of bungling the health care issue. He was even more animated about what he intimated was the Senate leader’s refusal to protect him from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to Republicans briefed on the conversation.
Mr. McConnell has fumed over some rich asshole’s regular threats against fellow Republicans and criticism of Senate rules, and questioned some rich asshole’s understanding of the presidency in a public speech. Mr. McConnell has made sharper comments in private, describing some rich asshole as entirely unwilling to learn the basics of governing.
In offhand remarks, Mr. McConnell has expressed a sense of bewilderment about where some rich asshole’s presidency may be headed, and has mused about whether some rich asshole will be in a position to lead the Republican Party into next year’s elections and beyond, according to people who have spoken to him directly.
While maintaining a pose of public reserve, Mr. McConnell expressed horror to advisers last week after some rich asshole’s comments equating white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., with protesters who rallied against them. some rich asshole’s most explosive remarks came at a news conference in Manhattan, where he stood beside Ms. Chao. (Ms. Chao, deflecting a question about the tensions between her husband and the president she serves, told reporters, “I stand by my man — both of them.”)
Mr. McConnell signaled to business leaders that he was deeply uncomfortable with some rich asshole’s comments: Several who resigned advisory roles in the the rich asshole administration contacted Mr. McConnell’s office after the fact, and were told that Mr. McConnell fully understood their choices, three people briefed on the conversations said.
some rich asshole has also continued to badger and threaten Mr. McConnell’s Senate colleagues, including Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, whose Republican primary challenger was praised by some rich asshole last week.
some rich asshole was set to hold a campaign rally on Tuesday night in Phoenix, and Republicans feared he would use the event to savage Mr. Flake again.
If he does, senior Republican officials said the party’s senators would stand up for their colleague. A Republican “super PAC” aligned with Mr. McConnell released a web ad on Tuesday assailing Mr. Flake’s Republican rival, Kelli Ward, as a fringe-dwelling conspiracy theorist.
“When it comes to the Senate, there’s an Article 5 understanding: An attack against one is an attack against all,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who has found himself in some rich asshole’s sights many times, invoking the NATO alliance’s mutual defense doctrine.
The fury among Senate Republicans toward some rich asshole has been building since last month, even before he lashed out at Mr. McConnell. Some of them blame the president for not being able to rally the party around any version of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, accusing him of not knowing even the basics about the policy. Senate Republicans also say strong-arm tactics from the White House backfired, making it harder to cobble together votes and have left bad feelings in the caucus.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told colleagues that when some rich asshole’s interior secretary threatened to pull back federal funding for her state, she felt boxed in and unable to vote for the health care bill.
In a show of solidarity, albeit one planned well before some rich asshole took aim at Mr. Flake, Mr. McConnell will host a $1,000-per-person dinner on Friday in Kentucky for the Arizona senator, as well as for Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, who is also facing a the rich asshole-inspired primary race next year, and Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska. Mr. Flake is expected to attend the event.
Former Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, a Republican who is close to Mr. McConnell, said frustration with some rich asshole was boiling over in the chamber. Mr. Gregg blamed the president for undermining congressional leaders, and said the House and Senate would have to govern on their own if some rich asshole “can’t participate constructively.”
“Failure to do things like keeping the government open and passing a tax bill is the functional equivalent of playing Russian roulette with all the chambers loaded,” Mr. Gregg said.
Others in the party divide blame between some rich asshole and Mr. McConnell. Al Hoffman, a former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee who has been supportive of Mr. McConnell, said Mr. McConnell was culpable because he has failed to deliver legislative victories. “Ultimately, it’s been Mitch’s responsibility, and I don’t think he’s done much,” Mr. Hoffman said.
But Mr. Hoffman predicted that Mr. McConnell would likely outlast the president.
“I think he’s going to blow up, self-implode,” Mr. Hoffman said of some rich asshole. “I wouldn’t be surprised if McConnell pulls back his support of the rich asshole and tries to go it alone.”
An all-out clash between some rich asshole and Mr. McConnell would play out between men whose strengths and weaknesses are very different. some rich asshole is a political amateur, still unschooled in the ways of Washington, but he maintains a viselike grip on the affections of the Republican base. Mr. McConnell is a soft-spoken career politician, with virtuoso mastery of political fund-raising and tactics, but he had no mass following to speak of.
Mr. McConnell, while baffled at some rich asshole’s penchant for internecine attacks, is a ruthless pragmatist and has given no overt indication that he plans to seek more drastic conflict. Despite his private battles with some rich asshole, Mr. McConnell has sent reassuring signals with his public conduct: On Monday, he appeared in Louisville, Ky., with Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, for a discussion of tax policy.
Mr. McConnell’s Senate colleagues, however, have grown bolder. The combination of the president’s frontal attacks on Senate Republicans and his claim that there were “fine people” marching with white supremacists in Charlottesville has emboldened lawmakers to criticize some rich asshole in withering terms.
Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee rebuked some rich asshole last week for failing to “demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence” required of presidents. On Monday, Senator Susan Collins of Maine said in a television interview that she was uncertain some rich asshole would be the Republican presidential nominee in 2020.
There are few recent precedents for the rift. The last time a president turned on a legislative leader of his own party was in 2002, when allies of George W. Bush helped force Trent Lott to step down as Senate minority leader after racially charged remarks at a birthday party for Senator Strom Thurmond, Republican of South Carolina.
For the moment, Mr. McConnell appears to be far more secure in his position, and perhaps immune to coercion from the White House. Republicans are unlikely to lose control of the Senate in 2018, and some rich asshole has no allies in the Senate who have shown an appetite for combat with Mr. McConnell.
Still, some allies of some rich asshole on the right — including Stephen K. Bannon, who stepped down last week as some rich asshole’s chief strategist — welcome more direct conflict with Mr. McConnell and congressional Republicans.
Roger J. Stone Jr., a Republican strategist who has advised some rich asshole for decades, said the president needed to “take a scalp” in order to force cooperation from Republican elites who have resisted his agenda. Mr. Stone urged some rich asshole to make an example of one or more Republicans, like Mr. Flake, who have refused to give full support to his administration.
“The president should start bumping off incumbent Republican members of Congress in primaries,” Mr. Stone said. “If he did that, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan would wet their pants and the rest of the Republicans would get in line.”
But Mr. McConnell’s allies warn that the president should be wary of doing anything that could jeopardize the Senate Republican majority.
“The quickest way for him to get impeached is for the rich asshole to knock off Jeff Flake and Dean Heller and be faced with a Democrat-led Senate,” said Billy Piper, a lobbyist and former McConnell chief of staff.
NYT Bombshell: the rich asshole And McConnell Not Speaking; McConnell Questioning the rich asshole’s GOP Future
some rich asshole has never been Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) favorite person. That uneasy relationship deteriorated further in recent days and weeks, as the rich asshole proceeded to openly mock and humiliate McConnell, blaming him for everything from the failed attempts to repeal Obamacare to the entire situation of the fractured GOP’s stalled agenda. Now, since the rich asshole had such a disgraceful response to the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville that resulted in the death of anti-racism activist Heather Heyer and the injuries of countless others, it seems that the rich asshole and McConnell are engaged in what the New York Times is calling their own little, quote, “cold war.”
According to the new bombshell report, the rich asshole doesn’t even talk to McConnell – the one most important man in the legislative branch when it comes to getting his agenda passed. The New York Times reports:
The relationship between President the rich asshole and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has disintegrated to the point that they have not spoken to each other in weeks, and Mr. McConnell has privately expressed uncertainty that some rich asshole will be able to salvage his administration after a series of summer crises.What was once an uneasy governing alliance has curdled into a feud of mutual resentment and sometimes outright hostility.
The article further suggests that when the rich asshole and McConnell were speaking, the rich asshole didn’t just keep his taunts to the usual juvenile derision via Twitter. No, apparently, on August 9th, McConnell and the rich asshole had some kind of conversation, and the rich asshole could not help going after McConnell to his face. There are no details regarding exactly what was said, but knowing the rich asshole, it was likely pretty scathing and humiliating for McConnell, who seems to consider himself your typical dignified grown man. He is likely simply done with the rich asshole’s playground bully behavior and is no longer going to dignify the rich asshole’s ignorance and taunts with responses.
It also doesn’t help that McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, is the rich asshole’s Transportation Secretary. She is an immigrant, and arrived from Taiwan as a child, speaking no English. Under the rich asshole’s new immigration plans, she would never have been allowed into this country. Further, to top it all off, Secretary Chao had to be humiliated standing next to the rich asshole during his Charlottesville tirade, in which he defended white supremacists. Think about that – how it must have made McConnell feel to see his wife being used that way in such a despicable, bigoted, and unhinged the rich asshole rant.
All of this has resulted in much more criticism than one would expect from Mitch McConnell in public, but, according to the Times, McConnell is much more angry with the rich asshole than he is letting on, and he is even wondering if the rich asshole will be the GOP’s leader for much longer, given his recent behavior. Again, from the New York Times:
Mr. McConnell has fumed over some rich asshole’s regular threats against fellow Republicans and criticism of Senate rules, and questioned some rich asshole’s understanding of the presidency in a public speech. Mr. McConnell has made sharper comments in private, describing some rich asshole as entirely unwilling to learn the basics of governing.In offhand remarks, Mr. McConnell has expressed a sense of bewilderment about where some rich asshole’s presidency may be headed, and has mused about whether some rich asshole will be in a position to lead the Republican Party into next year’s elections and beyond, according to people who have spoken to him directly.
All in all, those two might never speak again. The thing is, though, some rich asshole has severely underestimated Mitch McConnell’s power. The GOP took a chance and hitched their wagon to this ignorant, incompetent orange fool because their voters left them no choice. However, they now clearly regret it — and said regret just might be inching toward hastening the rich asshole’s removal from office.
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With Bannon back in charge, Breitbart is crushing Trump for his Afghanistan speech
It's officially on.
Breitbart News, with former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon back in charge, is ripping mad at President Trump after Monday's Afghanistan speech foreshadowed an increase in ground troops.
Just look at this homepage:
That's five incredibly critical headlines from a website that cheered Trump to victory. The accompanying articles might be even tougher. Here are key excerpts from the stories, numbered clockwise, from left:
Article 1: The speech was a disappointment to many who had supported his calls during the campaign to end expensive foreign intervention and nation-building.
Article 2: Using many of the same vague promises that previous presidents had used, including a repeat of Obama’s promise not to give a “blank check” to Afghanistan and a pledge to finally get tough on Pakistan, it was a far cry from the “America First” foreign policy he laid out in the months before Election Day.
Article 3: This isn’t about changing his perspective on the war. POTUS is a remarkably astute and stubborn individual. This was about the swamp getting to him.
Article 4: I voted for Donald Trump because he promised change. I may have made a mistake.
Article 5: In Donald Trump’s old gambling houses, no player doubled down on a six. In Donald Trump’s White House, the president looks to double down on his soft hand in Afghanistan. That’s a bad bet.
In the hours before the president delivered his prime-time address, I wrote that the speech would be a test for the next phase of his relationship with Bannon, who left Breitbart a year ago to become chief executive of Trump's campaign and then served as his top strategist in the White House until Friday. I figured that Bannon wouldn't like what Trump had to say and that his displeasure would show up in Breitbart's coverage.
But wow. I was not prepared for this level of fury.
What's striking about Breitbart's coverage is the way its writers took direct aim at Trump, instead of his advisers.
The best example is the headline that refers to “President H.R. McMaster,” Trump's national security adviser. It's a play on a memorable New York Times editorial headline from January: “President Bannon?” (A Times editorial published on the day of Bannon's ouster read, “Farewell, President Bannon.")
Bannon knows better than anyone how deeply the perception that someone else is calling the shots wounds Trump's pride. By suggesting that McMaster is the “president,” Bannon is trolling Trump. Hard.
The other thing that stands out in Breitbart's coverage is zero tolerance for Trump's spin, which the site typically amplifies. Trump did his best on Monday to paint his reversal on sending more troops to Afghanistan as a result of gaining a better understanding of the situation than he had before his election.
“My original instinct was to pull out — and, historically, I like following my instincts,” he said. “But all my life I've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office; in other words, when you're president of the United States.”
Breitbart isn't buying it. As Raheem Kassam put it, “this isn’t about changing his perspective on the war. … This was about the swamp getting to him.”
Contrast that take with what Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) wrote on Twitter Monday night.
Everything is backward. Rubio — Trump's primary rival, whom Breitbart attacked mercilessly — is defending the president's evolution, using the same argument as the president himself. Meanwhile, the “commentators” Rubio is calling out include the writers at Breitbart, who are now slamming Trump.
None of this means that Breitbart is jumping off the Trump Train permanently. But it sure looks like the feud between Bannon and his former boss is real — and ready to flare up whenever he thinks the president is betraying a campaign promise.
Secret Service ‘at the end of their rope’ after being ‘treated like servants by the rich asshole’: report
President some rich asshole’s lavish travel habits are putting a major financial strain on the Secret Service — and Center for Public Integrity reporter Christina Wilkie says that the president himself is a major source of stress as well.
On Twitter Monday morning, Wilkie wrote that “multiple sources” have told her that “Secret Service agents are at the end of their rope, sick of being treated like servants by the rich asshole.”
One of Wilkie’s sources compared the rich asshole’s treatment of Secret Service agents with the treatment given them by past presidents — and the comparison did not reflect well on the current president.
“Clinton treated USSS agents like friends,” the source told her. “Bush treated them with great respect. Obama, like family. the rich asshole treats them like servants.”
Specifically, Wilkie’s sources tell her that the rich asshole expects agents to regularly “fetch” things for him and be available to serve him at all times, regardless of when their shifts start or finish.
On Monday, USA Today reported that the rich asshole’s frequent trips to his own properties have severely strained the Secret Service’s budget, to the point where the agency no longer has enough money to pay its agents.
Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles told the publication that more than 1,000 of his agents have already hit federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances, as they have had to expend significantly more time and resources protecting assorted the rich asshole properties.
‘Art of the Deal’ ghostwriter gets an angry voicemail after predicting the rich asshole will resign soon
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Posted with permission from Newsweek
The man who ghostwrote Trump’s bestselling book The Art of the Deal 30 years ago has received a blistering voicemail message from one of President Donald Trump’s ardent supporters last week.
THE MESSAGE TO AUTHOR TONY SCHWARTZ, WHO IS THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF THE ENERGY PROJECT—A HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTANCY FIRM—HAS A TRUMP SUPPORTER EXPLAINING IN HER OWN WORDS WHY MANY MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENT’S BASE CONTINUE TO STAND BY HIM.
Pundits say that President Trump's popularity is falling after his response to the alt-right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia which erupted in violence. But GOP polling shows that fervent support among Trump’s base is holding strong. The voicemail details a couple of reasons why.
Schwartz received the voicemail, which he posted on Twitter Saturday, after tweeting his belief that Trump will resign soon.
Schwartz spent hundreds of hours with Trump so that he could learn his business philosophy and accurately write about it in the memoir. The author thinks he knows the president well and says the 71-year-old president hasn’t changed much over the years. But one of Trump’s supporters wanted to set him straight.
“I read his little article on the Yahoo! about how Trump is going to resign in a couple of months. Well let me tell you something. Trump would never resign,” the woman, who doesn’t identify herself, says in the six-minute-long message.
“All you CEOs … what we did was bail you out. Obama funneled money to you,” she said referring to the $700 billion in taxpayer money that was used to bail out America’s largest banks during the 2008 financial crisis. The bill was signed by George W. Bush and endorsed by then presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.
“You stole it from the American people,” she said. “You wrote yourself a check, you stole everything, gave it away to everybody and used the United States of America like a parasite to fund your own agenda.”
“We fed you for 100 years. We fed you. You took all your businesses and went other places: Indians running all over the place over here,” she added.
“You corrupted the system, and don’t think that we don’t know that George Bush was set up and that was intentional by Barack Obama. And don’t forget Mr. Soros, John Kasich, all the usuals,” she said.
In 2013, five years after the financial crisis, about 8 in 10 Americans told pollsters that not enough bankers were prosecuted for the financial crisis. It's a view held by many Americans to this day. There is also a deep dissatisfaction among many people in the U.S. that manufacturing jobs have been moved overseas by companies during the past 30 years.
Trump campaigned on bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States. While he has made some inroads, many of those jobs will never return on account of increasing levels of automation—a trend that Trump has little control over.
The president’s supporters, however, “will never leave him for anything in this world. Do you understand?” the caller said, referring to herself and Trump’s base of supporters.
At the beginning of the month Trump’s support among white Americans—especially white Americans without a college degree—began to show signs of faltering after Republicans failed to pass their large health care bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. Polls published last weekend also show Trump losing ground in key states that won him the presidency.
However, the Republican National Committee, raised more than twice as much money in July than the Democrats, pulling in $10.2 million to their $3.8 million.
Republican pollsters say that Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, in he said "both sides" were to blame, has energized his base.
“All Obama gave us is Eboli [sic] on American soil. He disappeared in the greatest oil spill in American history, which I think he caused intentionally. He gave us transvestites that we look like a national freakshow out of a side show of a circus,” the Trump supporter said in her message to Schwartz. “Immigrants all over the place. All terrorists running all over everywhere you could imagine, all because of him.”
The caller also expressed frustration with the Republican leadership and Congress, calling Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell “so corrupt that I don’t even know how he looks at himself in the mirror.”
In May, nationwide support for Congress in a Gallup poll stood at 20 percent—more than ten percentage points lower than Trump’s historically low approval rating.
“DON’T GIVE US NO GODDAMN LECTURE ABOUT WHAT TRUMP IS GOING TO DO,” THE CALLER FINALLY TOLD SHWARTZ IN HER VOICEMAIL. “HE’LL NEVER LEAVE HIS COUNTRY. HE’LL NEVER BETRAY HIS COUNTRY, HE’LL NEVER LEAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND WE’LL NEVER LEAVE HIM. DO YOU GOT THAT STRAIGHT?”
‘Howling manchild’ the rich asshole can still be contained even if the GOP refuses to impeach him: Robert Reich
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With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, it’s unlikely the rich asshole will be impeached or thrown out of office on grounds of mental impairment. At least any time soon.
Yet there’s another way the rich asshole can be effectively removed. He can be made irrelevant.
It’s already starting to happen. The howling manchild who occupies the Oval Office is being cut off and contained.
the rich asshole no longer has a working majority in the Senate because several Senate Republicans have decided the hell with him.
Three Republican Senators voted against repealing the Affordable Care Act, dooming his effort. Almost all voted to restrict his authority over Russian sanctions.
They’re also pushing forward with their own inquiry into the rich asshole’s Russian connections. Republican senators Thom Tillis and Lindsay Graham have even joined Democrats in introducing legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired.
Republicans in the House won’t fund his wall. Many refuse to increase the national debt in order to pay for his promised tax cuts.
After Charlottesville, many more are willing to criticize him publicly. Last week Tennessee’s Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, even questioned the rich asshole’s “stability” and “competence,” saying the rich asshole hasn’t shown he understands “the character of this nation” and that without that understanding, “Our nation is going to go through great peril.”
The Washington Post’s Dan Balz reports that GOP leaders are “personally wrestling with the trade-offs of making a cleaner separation with the president.”
It helps that Republican patrons in big business are deserting the rich asshole in droves. Last week, CEOs bolted his advisory councils. Many issued sharp rebukes of the rich asshole.
These are the people who raise big bucks for the GOP. Their dumping the rich asshole makes it easier for elected Republicans to do so, too.
Even James Murdoch, the 21st Century Fox CEO whose media outlets include Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Post – among the loudest mouthpieces for the rich asshole – is ditching him.
Last Thursday Murdoch wrote “what we watched last week in Charlottesville and the reaction to it by the president of the United States concern all of us as Americans and free people,” and pledged $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League.
This doesn’t mean Fox News or the Wall Street Jounal will call for the rich asshole’s ouster. It does mean their commentators and editorial writers now have clear license to criticize him.
Hey, America as a whole is abandoning him. the rich asshole’s approval hit an all-time low of 34 percent last week.
Even parts of his base are dropping him. A new News/Marist poll shows his approvals have fallen below 40 percent in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – three states that were key to his election, which he won by a whisker.
Inside the administration, there are moves to contain and isolate the manchild.
On foreign policy, the Axis of Adults – Chief of staff General John Kelly, national security advisor General H.R. McMaster, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – are asserting tighter control, especially after the rich asshole’s tweetstorm over North Korea.
Reportedly, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner are stepping up attempts to constrain him as well.
“You have no idea how much crazy stuff we kill,” another White House aide told Axios’s Mike Allen.
Plus, Stephen Bannon is gone.
All this means that, although the rich asshole will still hold the title of President, he’s on the way to being effectively removed from the presidency. Neutered. Defanged.
We’re not out of danger. the rich asshole will continue to rant and fume. He’ll insult. He’ll stoke racial tensions. He could still start a nuclear war.
But, hopefully, he won’t be able to exercise much presidential power from here on. He’s being ostracized like an obnoxious adolescent who’s been grounded.
When the media stop reporting his tweets, his isolation and irrelevance will be complete.
Republican lawmaker says it is ‘completely plausible’ Obama staged racist Charlottesville rally
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A Republican lawmaker in Idaho recently shared a conspiracy theory on Facebook that claims former President Barack Obama may have orchestrated the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“I’m not saying it is true, but I am suggesting that it is completely plausible,” Idaho Falls Rep. Bryan Zollinger wrote on Facebook, according to the Idaho Falls Post Register.
His post linked to an article published at the American Thinker that claimed the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville could have been staged by Obama, with the help of the mayor of Charlottesville and billionaire George Soros.
“The conflagration in Charlottesville is beginning to feel like a set-up, perhaps weeks or months in the planning,” the author wrote. “We know that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C. home to plan and execute resistance to the rich asshole administration and his legislative agenda.”
After being contacted by the Post Register, Zollinger admitted that sharing the conspiracy might not have been wise.
“In hindsight, maybe it was a mistake to post it,” he said. “I didn’t mean for it to ruffle any feathers.”
But Zollinger reiterated that it was “plausible.”
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