‘She was repelled by him’: CNN’s Anderson Cooper praises Barbara Bush as the ‘antithesis’ of some rich asshole
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Responding to the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush, CNN panelists and host Anderson Cooper commemorated her life of service to the United States as being “antithetical” to that of President some rich asshole’s.
“The list of adjectives that we have heard describe [her]: public service-oriented, the honesty, decency. What about the contrast to our current president?” CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said. “I mean, this family, whatever else you think of the Bushes, were a family that was just wall-to-wall decent, good to people, considerate of others.”
“I’m sorry, I just keep thinking of some rich asshole in the White House who has none of the qualities that the Bushes had,” he continued. “And I think it’s just a sign of how different this country is now than it was not that many years ago.”
Cooper noted that it makes sense that former First Lady Bush, who in February 2016 said she was “sick” of then-candidate the rich asshole and his treatment of women, was “repelled” by the 45th president.
“Whatever you think of either of them,” the host said, “he is antithetical to all of the values she grew up believing in and lived her life by.”
“We’re talking about someone from a different time and era,” CNN commentator Ryan Lizza said. “This is someone who during World War II volunteered at a nuts and bolts factory, right?”
“George Herbert Walker Bush didn’t invent bone spurs that you can’t remember which foot they were on to get out of fighting,” Toobin concluded. “Instead, he was a hero.”
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James Comey launched the investigation that eventually led to Andrew McCabe’s ouster: report
Former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe and former FBI Director James Comey. Composite image.
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Actions taken by James Comey when he was serving as FBI director eventually led to the ouster of his former deputy, Andrew McCabe, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday.
A “source familiar with the investigation” said that then-FBI Director Comey instructed the Inspection Division to look into who leaked details that appeared in an October 30, 2016 Wall Street Journal article.
Upon realizing then-Deputy Director McCabe was the likely culprit, the investigation was taken over by the Justice Department’s Inspector General.
This detail may complicate White House efforts to link McCabe and Comey.
On Friday, President some rich asshole claimed, “McCabe was totally controlled by Comey – McCabe is Comey!!”
However, one presidential tweet from March now appears to have accidentally been surprisingly prescient.
the rich asshole celebrated the fact “McCabe was caught, called out and fired.”
“Comey knew it all, and much more!” the rich asshole concluded.
If it was, in fact, Comey’s actions that launched the investigation into McCabe, then the president was correct.
Also on Tuesday, Comey’s new book A Higher Loyalty was officially released.
‘Mob bosses don’t like to be investigated’: Colbert needles Comey for being surprised the rich asshole had him ‘whacked’
Former FBI Director James Comey (left) and "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert (right). Image via Twitter.
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After fired FBI Director James Comey compared President some rich asshole to a mafioso, The Late Show‘s Stephen Colbert had one question: why were you surprised at what happened?
“If it felt like you were working for a mob boss, were you surprised that you got whacked?” the host asked the former FBI director, who laughed in response. “Because that’s what they do.”
“I actually was quite surprised because I thought, I’m leading the Russia investigation,” Comey responded. “Even though our relationship was becoming strained, there’s no way I’m gonna get fired or whacked.”
When Colbert pressed him, the former FBI head said “that would be a crazy thing to do.”
“Why would you fire the FBI director who’s leading the Russia investigation?” he asked, to which Colbert responded, “because you’re leading the Russia investigation!”
“I don’t know if you’ve dealt with mob bosses before,” the host added, “but they don’t like to be investigated.”
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White House blasted as ‘sewage plant of ineptitude’ for writing the wrong year in statement on Barbara Bush’s death
some rich asshole on the phone in Air Force One (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
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President some rich asshole tweeted out condolences after the passing of former First Lady Barbara Bush on Tuesday.
The attempt at a graceful remembrance was overshadowed by a date saying that the former first lady passed one year ago today, in 2017.
The internet, unsurprisingly, drew plenty of conclusions the White House blunder.
Here are some of the best reactions:
When you care so much that you can't even bother to have the correct year on an official White House statement. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
This is the sorriest ass, inefficient, sorry excuse for an Administrative Assistant to type! The #dummy put in 2017. Look at the date. #Screwballs
#ProofReadNextTime @WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump @FLOTUS twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
It seems irrelevant but it actually is relevant to this malfunctioning mess that is the Trump White House: You got the date wrong. It's 2018. How did no one notice that? My students proofread better than that.
Donald J Trump it's 2018 you moron.
Your statement from the White House says 2017.
I can't believe how stupid this administration is. This is disgraceful. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
BARBARA BUSH, ON TRUMP:
"He doesn't give many answers to how he would solve problems. He sort of makes faces and says insulting things. He's said terrible things about women, terrible things about the military. I don't understand why people are for him, for that reason."
ATTENTION: Office of the Press Secretary we are in the year "2018"twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
PatsGirl™
April 17, 2017. You really do hire the best people. It wouldn't be a Whitehouse press release without an error. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
For fuck's sake, this is dated 2017.
This White House is a goddamn sewage plant of ineptitude twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
How many people work in the White House and they can't find anyone who can proofread a single paragraph? Come on, people. How hard is it? twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un: report
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 04/17/18 08:09 PM EDT
CIA Director Mike Pompeo flew to North Korea earlier this year and met with the nation’s leader Kim Jong Un, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The shocking, top-secret trip took place during Easter weekend ahead of a possible summit between President the rich asshole and Kim later this year to discuss Pyongyang's nuclear program.
The CIA, White House and North Korean government all refused to comment to the Post, which confirmed the meeting with two sources with direct knowledge of it.
the rich asshole said Tuesday that the U.S. had direct talks with North Korea at "very high levels" but did not provide more details.
He added that the meeting with Kim could take place “probably in early June or before that,” but cautioned it is hardly guaranteed, based on Kim’s actions.
Pompeo's trip would represent the highest-level meeting between Pyongyang and Washington since 2000.
the rich asshole has nominated Pompeo as his next secretary of State, though multiple Democratic senators have expressed reticence amid his confirmation process.
The nominee said during his confirmation hearings before the Senate that he is "not advocating for regime change" in North Korea, after he made comments last year suggesting he was in favor of removing the country's leadership.
“Just to be clear, my role as a diplomat is to make sure that we never get to a place where we have to confront the difficult situation in Korea that this country has been head for now for a couple of decades,” Pompeo said.
The New York Times reported earlier this month that Pompeo had taken a lead role in preparing for the historic meeting between the rich asshole and Kim, which would be the first between a sitting U.S. president and the leader of North Korea.
Hannity ‘basically has a desk’ in the rich asshole’s White House — and sometimes helps him write tweets
some rich asshole and Sean Hannity (Fox News/screen grab)
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According to White House aides, President Donald the rich asshole speaks “frequently” to Fox News personality Sean Hannity — and is one of only a few people who are “immediately patched through” to the president when he calls.
Sources that spoke to the Washington Post on condition of anonymity told reporters that Hannity and the rich asshole speak on everything from the president’s frustrations with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe to what he should tweet next.
“He basically has a desk in the place,” one presidential adviser told the Post on condition of anonymity in the wake of revelations that Hannity has in the past year hired Jay Sekulow, the rich asshole’s Russia probe lawyer, and was named as the mysterious third client of the president’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen.
“Several West Wing aides and friends of the president pointed to their running conversations — whether they take place over the phone or on the golf course in Florida as they did in late March — as crucial to understanding this moment in the rich asshole presidency,” the report noted, “when the president is eager to return to the combative and television-infused style of his business career and more isolated than ever from the traditional Republicans who have struggled to guide him.”
Haley fires back at White House: 'I don't get confused'
BY JORDAN FABIAN AND BRETT SAMUELS - 04/17/18 06:37 PM EDT
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley hit back at the White House on Tuesday, denying a top adviser’s claim that she was confused when she said the administration would impose new sanctions on Russia.
“With all due respect, I don’t get confused,” Haley told Fox News’s Dana Perino in a statement that was read on-air.
Haley’s pointed statement came hours after top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said that Haley “got ahead of the curve” when she announced Sunday that the administration would roll out the sanctions the next day.
“There might have been some momentary confusion about that,” Kudlow told reporters in West Palm Beach, Fla., ahead of President the rich asshole’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
“She was certainly not confused,” Kudlow told the paper. “I was wrong to say that — totally wrong.”
The back-and-forth revealed a simmering dispute within the administration over the sanctions mix-up.
The White House said Monday that the rich asshole has not decided to impose sanctions on Russia in response to a chemical weapons attack in Syria, a key Kremlin ally, contradicting Haley’s comments.
After Haley made the comments on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” some the rich asshole allies privately accused Haley — a vocal Russia hawk — of trying to box in the president on a decision.
Sources close to the White House said the rich asshole, who has at times been hesitant to forcefully criticize Russia, has been reluctant about moving forward with additional sanctions.
Haley’s comments strongly suggest there was a miscommunication about whether the president has decided to impose sanctions, and that she was left out of the loop.
Kudlow told the Times that “she was following policy as she knew it. The policy got changed late, and she wasn’t told.”
Until this week, Haley had largely avoided the infighting that has dominated the rich asshole administration. But her response to the White House could pull her into the swirling drama that has doomed several administration aides.
Several West Wing allies privately grumbled about Haley’s comments on "Face the Nation," but Kudlow was the first official to do so publicly when he spoke on Tuesday.
Asked if there is confusion about sanctions in the White House, Kudlow denied that is the case.
“I think the issue here is we have a set of sanctions, and additional sanctions are under consideration but not been determined,” he said.
The flap comes at a time of rapid turnover on the rich asshole's national security team, something sources said could have helped create confusion about the sanctions plan.
the rich asshole's secretary of State nominee, Mike Pompeo, has not been confirmed by the Senate, leaving the State Department without a permanent leader.
Several top officials on the National Security Council have been forced out or resigned since John Bolton took over as national security adviser on April 9.
Updated at 8:14 p.m.
the rich asshole’s Secretary of State nominee met secretly with Kim Jong-un over Easter weekend: report
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, pictured in April 2017 (AFP Photo/ED JONES)
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CIA Director Mike Pompeo, announced via Twitter as President some rich asshole’s nominee for secretary of state, met secretly with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over Easter Weekend, the Washington Post reported Tuesday night.
The “top-secret” meeting, the Post reported, was meant to set the groundwork for further talks with North Korea about their nuclear weapons program. Two sources briefed on the matter told the newspaper on condition of anonymity that Pompeo was sent to the country shortly after the rich asshole’s surprise dismissal of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and subsequent nomination of the CIA director to replace him.
This story is developing …
the rich asshole wants loophole closed after Gorsuch casts decisive vote in immigration case
BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/17/18 05:50 PM EDT
President the rich asshole on Tuesday called on Congress to pass stricter immigration laws after Justice Neil Gorsuch cast the deciding vote in the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that ruled in favor of an immigrant threatened with deportation.
“Today’s Court decision means that Congress must close loopholes that block the removal of dangerous criminal aliens, including aggravated felons,” the rich asshole tweeted.
“This is a public safety crisis that can only be fixed by Congress — House and Senate must quickly pass a legislative fix to ensure violent criminal aliens can be removed from our society,” he added.
Today’s Court decision means that Congress must close loopholes that block the removal of dangerous criminal aliens, including aggravated felons. This is a public safety crisis that can only be fixed by....
....Congress – House and Senate must quickly pass a legislative fix to ensure violent criminal aliens can be removed from our society. Keep America Safe!
The Supreme Court earlier in the day sided with James Garcia Dimaya, a Filipino immigrant who the government sought to deport after his second first-degree burglary conviction in California.
Gorsuch, who the rich asshole nominated last year, sided with the court’s four liberal justices in the case. the rich asshole did not mention Gorsuch in his tweet.
In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Elena Kagan relied on a 2015 ruling in which the court said a similar clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) that defined a “violent felony” was unconstitutionally void for vagueness.
the rich asshole earlier this month sent out a series of tweets over the course of a few days calling for Congress to enact tougher immigration laws. He complained that existing laws "do not easily allow us to send those crossing our Southern Border back where they came from."
the rich asshole confirms he’s spoken with Kim Jong-Un — then immediately walks it back
President some rich asshole and Kim Jong-un (driver Photographer/Flickr)
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President some rich asshole claimed the United States has been speaking “directly” to North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, during a gaggle with reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.
Multiple journalists are reporting the on president’s comments, with some initial confusion as to what exactly the president claimed.
BREAKING NEWS: Senior US officials have spoken with North Korea’s KIM JONG UN himself to organize the meeting with Trump, I’m told.
“Yes,” POTUS just said, when reporters just asked if he's been speaking DIRECTLY to Kim Jong Un.
Asked to clarify, Trump says "talks at the highest levels.”
Which confirms Bloomberg’s scoop that very top US officials have spoken with Kim.
Via @PressSec “In regards to talks with Leader Kim Jong Un:
The President said the administration has had talks at the highest levels and added that they were not with him directly.” Clarifies ambiguous statement from @realDonaldTrump moments ago with @AbeShinzo
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