January 8th, 2017 - January 8th, 2017. 420-420 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election of some rich asshole, no.45, and 350-350 days since the Jan 20th inauguration.

There are more crazy allegations about the rich asshole and women in Michael Wolff's explosive book on his presidency

· Eliza Relman

· Jan. 8, 2018, 2:21 PM

· In a controversial new tell-all book about the rich asshole White House, author Michael Wolff alleges that President some rich asshole habitually attempted to have sex with his friends' wives.

· Wolff wrote that the rich asshole would manipulate his friends into disclosing details of their sex lives and encourage them to cheat on their wives.

· The story echoes a claim the rich asshole made in the 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape, in which he recounted attempting to seduce a married woman.

President some rich asshole habitually attempted to have sexual affairs with his friends' wives, manipulating his male acquaintances into disclosing details about their sex lives and encouraging them to cheat on their spouses, according to a controversial new book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the rich asshole White House."

Author and journalist Michael Wolff wrote that the then-real estate mogul "liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends' wives into bed."

"In pursuing a friend's wife, he would try to persuade the wife that her husband was perhaps not what she thought," Wolff wrote, alleging that the rich asshole would invite his male friends to his office and engage in "more or less constant sexual banter" while the friend's wife was secretly on speakerphone, listening in on the conversation.

"Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better f— than your wife? Tell me about it." the rich asshole would allegedly say. "I have girls coming in from Los Angeles at three o'clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise."

Wolff does not say who told him about the rich asshole's alleged behavior, and some of the accounts in his book have been questioned by reporters, some of whom are skeptical of Wolff's journalistic standards.

Last week, the rich asshole tweeted that Wolff's book is "full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don't exist," echoing White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who called the book "trashy tabloid fiction filled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the White House."

Wolff's story of the rich asshole's alleged sexual affairs echoes a claim the rich asshole was recorded making in the 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape, in which he recounted an instance in which he attempted to seduce an unnamed married woman.

"I did try and f--- her," the rich asshole told TV host Billy Bush of the woman. "She was married. ... And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, 'I'll show you where they have some nice furniture ... I moved on her like a b----, but I couldn’t get there."

Fox host smacks down ‘expert’ for claiming the rich asshole will defeat Oprah Winfrey ‘with 70 percent of the vote’

DAVID EDWARDS
08 JAN 2018 AT 15:11 ET

Herbert London speaks to Stuart Varney (Fox Business /screen grab)

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Although President some rich asshole lost the popular vote by millions in 2016, a conservative pundit argued to Fox Business on Monday that the president would defeat Oprah Winfrey with “70 percent” of the vote if she runs in 2020.

After Winfrey’s Golden Globe speech sparked reports that she could run for president, Herbert London was quick to throw cold water on her alleged presidential ambitions.

While speaking to Fox Business host Stuart Varney, conservative think tank founder London predicted that the rich asshole’s approval ratings would skyrocket past the 30s where they were for the first year of his presidency.

“If you were looking an Oprah vs. President the rich asshole,” he continued. “I mean, there’s no doubt in my mind. President the rich asshole wins with 70 percent of the vote.”

“He would trounce her,” London said.

“What?” Varney exclaimed. “Oprah vs. the rich asshole?”

Slightly backing off his claim, London rephrased his comment to mean the rich asshole would win 70 percent of the Electoral College.

“He got 57 percent in the last election,” he said. “He’d get 60-70 percent this time.”

Varney wasn’t buying that either.

“Well, Oprah Winfrey would win California and New York and New Jersey and Illinois and Connecticut and Massachusetts,” Varney laughed.

“I mean, there’s no doubt if you run Dumbo in those states, the blue state candidate is going to win,” London said.

Sensing that his remarks could be taken the wrong way, London backtracked again: “I’m referring to an elephant, by the way. And that is a Republican symbol.”

Watch the video below from Fox Business.

How Stephen Miller Got What He Wanted From CNN

If people are laughing at the White House aide’s debate with Jake Tapper, that’s just fine with him.

DAVID A. GRAHAM
JAN 8, 2018

I thought about that debate on Sunday, when Miller, now a senior adviser to the president, appeared on CNN’s State of the Union opposite Jake Tapper to discuss Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury. The debate ended with the host cutting Miller off, saying, “I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time. Thank you, Stephen,” and Miller reportedly had to be escorted off set. Miller’s debate tactics haven’t changed in the last 12 years: Come with a few talking points. Accuse your opponents of bad faith and deliver ad hominem attacks. Shout over your opponent to make a point. But while the consensus was that Tapper destroyed Miller, I’m not convinced. Miller’s old tactics have finally found a forum and audience in which they can thrive, and he seems to have achieved exactly what he wanted from this interview. If he seems silly to many progressives and some conservatives, that’s never bothered him in the past.

The segment began with Tapper asking a question, which Miller happily ignored in favor of a meandering, long riff. Tapper let Miller go for a minute and a half, and Miller happily took it, running through a series of talking points that sounded carefully workshopped.
“It’s tragic and unfortunate that Steve would make these grotesque comments so out of touch with reality and obviously so vindictive,” Miller said. “The whole White House staff is disappointed with his comments, which were so grotesque.” (There was a lot of “grotesque” and “tragic” in the interview.) Miller went on that “the book is best understood as a work of very poorly written fiction,” a line which might have landed better if he hadn’t followed it with a poorly written, juvenile jab: “I also will say that the author is a garbage author of a garbage book.”

From there, things devolved. Tapper kept trying to ask questions, but Miller would talk over him and refuse to answer, saying that CNN had 24 hours a day to attack the rich asshole and that he, Miller, deserved a chance to reply to this. When Tapper tried to interject, Miller accused the host of being condescending. This was a neatly laid trap, like accusing someone of being defensive—Tapper had no choice but to dispute it, but his incredulity was condescending, and indeed Miller’s comments were deserving of condescension. Also condescending, but also probably true, was Tapper’s accusation that Miller was playing for an audience of one, the president. (A laudatory tweet from the president confirmed Tapper’s suspicions that the rich asshole was watching.)
But the audience wasn’t just the rich asshole—it was his supporters, too. In that demographic, it’s likely Miller scored well by calling out Tapper’s condescension and refusing to back down. Miller’s demand for time to simply ramble makes little sense in the real world—why should CNN give an aide to the president carte blanche to launch ad hominem attacks on Wolff and on the network itself?—but if one believes that CNN makes up facts to take down the president, then why shouldn’t Miller be allowed to say what he wants, too?
Miller accused CNN of offering nothing but anti-the rich asshole attacks, and in the process baited CNN into cutting his mic, which just validated his point. Getting cut off was a better outcome for him than having to actually debate the substance of Wolff’s book or anything else. He got what he wanted.
Miller’s tactics didn’t work in the languorous setting of a campus panel discussion, where Hardt could just wait Miller out, allow him to exhaust his talking points, and then rebut them. Nor was an audience of college students all that sympathetic to Miller’s “academic freedom crusade.” But things are different now. First, Tapper has to control his airtime—it’s limited and valuable—and so he couldn’t roll his eyes and let Miller talk nonsense. Second, there’s now a substantial audience for Miller’s ideological bluster. While progressives may have viewed Miller’s CNN appearance as a train wreck, I suspect that the president wasn’t the only person fired up and excited about it.
There is an important caveat to this. Miller’s performance rallies the rich asshole base, but that group, while still energetic, is shrinking. Simply holding the line isn’t enough for the rich asshole. At some point, he needs to start rebuilding his support, and any day the White House is debating Fire and Fury, the rich asshole is not doing that. But failing to understand the way Miller’s contretemps with Tapper appeals to a certain swath of the electorate is failing to understand how the rich asshole gathered support in the first place.

some rich asshole's Legal Team Has a Laughable Plan to Avoid an Interview with Robert Mueller

One U.S. attorney puts the odds of it working "between infinitesimally small and zero."

By Travis Gettys / Raw Story

January 8, 2018, 5:51 AM GMT

President some rich asshole’s lawyers are mapping their strategy for an expected interview request by special counsel Robert Mueller.

The president’s outside legal team are discussing a range of potential options and compromises in hopes of avoiding a face-to-face interview, reported NBC News.

Three sources told the network that the rich asshole’s lawyers are seeking clarification on legal standards covering when and where the president can be interviewed, and for how long.

One source said the discussions began shortly after former campaign manager Paul Manafort was indicted in late October for money laundering.

the rich asshole’s lawyers met with the special counsel’s office in late December, but they either declined to respond or declined comment about the meeting and what topics they discussed.

A second source told NBC New that the president’s lawyers are considering whether the rich asshole could avoid the interview by signing an affidavit affirming his innocence and denying any collusion with Russia during his election campaign.

It’s not clear what specific wrongdoing the president would deny, and whether it would cover his firing of FBI director James Comey in May as he oversaw the Russia investigation.

The president told NBC News’ Lester Holt two days after the firing that Comey’s handling of the Russia probe factored into his decision to remove him as FBI director, and Mueller is believed to be investigating the possibility that the rich asshole obstructed justice.

Justice Department veterans said Mueller would almost certainly want to interview the president directly in the probe, which has so far resulted in two indictments and two guilty pleas.

“Prosecutors want to see and hear folks in person,” said Chuck Rosenberg, former U.S. attorney and former Comey chief of staff. “They want answers directly from witnesses, not from their lawyers. The odds of prosecutors agreeing to written responses are somewhere between infinitesimally small and zero.”

some rich asshole’s approval ratings show he is very unpopular

NEWSWEEK
08 JAN 2018 AT 23:04 ET

January 8, 2018

Cristina Silva

Posted with permission from Newsweek

President Donald Trump is the most unpopular president and it's not even a close fight.

Presidents generally have had an average approval rating of 53 percent since 1938 to 2018, according to historical comparisons compiled this week by Gallup. But Trump's approval rating dropped to 37 percent this week, down from 39 percent in December.

The president was at his most popular shortly after taking office in January 2017, with 45 percent approval, but as his popularity has tanked after 12 months in office, he has fallen far behind other presidents' approval ratings.

Trump's successor, Barack Obama, had a 49 percent approval rating in the January of his second year in office in 2010. George W. Bush was extremely popular after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, with an approval rating of 84 percent in January 2002. Bill Clinton had high marks in comparison, too, with a 55 percent approval rating in January 1994.

George H.W. Bush wasn't as popular as his son, but he was way up there, with 80 percent approval in January 1990. Ronald Reagan, seemingly every Republican's favorite president, had a 48 percent approval rating in January 1982, while one-term President Jimmy Carter had a 54 percent approval rating in January 1978. Richard Nixon, who went on to be impeached, had an approval rating of 63 percent in January 1970, while John F. Kennedy was backed by roughly 79 percent of Americans in January 1962.

Trump is the least popular president in modern history, according to FiveThirtyEight. "Trump’s early-term unpopularity is unusual. In the decades since World War II, the average first-term president before Trump had an approval rating of 62 percent on his 175th day in office," the site wrote in July, when Trump's approval rating was 39 percent.

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

....to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!

7:30 AM - Jan 6, 2018

Gallup's most recent poll results are based on telephone interviews with roughly 1,500 adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The poll was conducted as Michael Wolff’s book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” was released last week with embarrassing stories alleging to reveal the internal politics of Trump's administration. Trump has said Wolff is a “fraud” and called it a “fake book.” Amid reports that he is mentally unwell, Trump said on Twitter over the weekend that he was a "very stable genius."

Wolff said Monday both current and former top White House officials were told "to cooperate" in interviews with him. "Everybody was told to speak to me," Wolff said in an interview slated to air on CNN's Tonight with Don Lemon. "[Stephen] Bannon told people to cooperate, Sean Spicer told people to cooperate, Kellyanne Conway told people to cooperate, Hope Hicks."

WATCH: Internet loses it after ‘very stable genius’ the rich asshole appears to forget the words to the national anthem

ELIZABETH PREZA
08 JAN 2018 AT 20:36 ET

some rich asshole (screengrab)

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some rich asshole on Monday took the field at the 2018 NCAA Football National Championship during the singing of the national anthem—and appeared not to know all the words.

the rich asshole, who received boos from the crowd during his appearance at the Georgia vs. Alabama game, has made the national anthem a staple of his presidency, leading the charge against sports players who take a knee during the tune.
 
The irony of the rich asshole’s apparent inability to sing the very anthem he claims to champion was not lost on the Internet.

 Read some of the best reactions below:

‘Tone deaf enabler’: Internet gangs up on Ivanka the rich asshole for touting Oprah’s ‘inspiring and empowering’ speech

NOOR AL-SIBAI
08 JAN 2018 AT 22:14 ET

Ivanka the rich asshole speaking to Dr. Oz (Photo: Screen capture)

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On Monday night, First Daughter Ivanka the rich asshole tweeted that she’d just seen Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes speech — and lauded the icon for her “empowering” speech some think may mark her intention to run against President some rich asshole.

“Just saw @Oprah’s empowering & inspiring speech at last night’s #GoldenGlobes Let’s all come together, women & men, & say #TIMESUP,” the eldest the rich asshole daughter tweeted.

Naturally, Twitter jumped on it immediately.

“Time’s up for who?” The Nations‘s Dave Zirin tweeted. “Your predatory father?”

Check out the best responses below.

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Ivanka Trump

✔@IvankaTrump

Just saw @Oprah's empowering & inspiring speech at last night’s #GoldenGlobes. Let’s all come together, women & men, & say #TIMESUP! #United https://twitter.com/goldenglobes/status/950209620030627840 …

Consensual President Kevin Allred

✔@KevinAllred

IVANKA YOUR DAD IS A SEXUAL PREDATOR. the call is coming from within the house and you need to go answer it.

10:12 PM - Jan 8, 2018

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