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btchpls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl6NnfiYrwQ

Papadopoulos has stuck to his deal with Mueller too now.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/weeks-uncertainty-papadopoulos-decides-accept-plea-deal-mueller/story?id=57483474

The insanity.

As are the tone police police. o/

And the Bob Woodward (Watergate) book is looking mental

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Trump answering questions in an actual court of law would be epic.
Any decent prosecutor would shred him to bits.

Woodward taped the call with Trump where he told him about the book

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/2018/09/04/transcript-phone-call-between-president-trump-journalist-bob-woodward/?__twitter_impression=true

More on the Woodward book

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodwards-new-book-reveals-a-nervous-breakdown-of-trumps-presidency/2018/09/04/b27a389e-ac60-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html

That’s an uncomfortable read!

He should be pretty chuffed with his sick burn at the end:

I believe in our country and because you’re our president, I wish you good luck

Savage

Just got round to reading that. Hilarious (and obviously ridiculous/depressing at the same time).

Amazing how that just descends into bickering about who did what to request a meeting with Trump. All the petty finger pointing and arse covering about something so minor.

Can you imagine that kind of stuff being pretty much every second of your working day?

(Actually, probably too many people can given how some places operate...)

Conway trying to extract names so she can blame them is lol

If its not your natural instinct then it must be exhausting.

"Cohn, a Wall Street veteran, tried to tamp down Trump’s strident nationalism regarding trade. According to Woodward, Cohn “stole a letter off Trump’s desk” that the president was intending to sign to formally withdraw the United States from a trade agreement with South Korea. Cohn later told an associate that he removed the letter to protect national security and that Trump did not notice that it was missing."

I can't help having this image of all West Wing staff scurrying around, installing stair-gates and fireguards, keeping sharp knives in draws, etc. just to stop the orange baby from causing chaos and harm.

Or some Carry-On like farce, where one guy whips a letter off his desk to stop its being signed, followed by an amusing interlude of a second trying to get hold of the letter again and putting it back on the desk.

Then a third comes in and replaces it with a separate document and so on.

*Kenneth Williams face.jpg*

So last night Trump tweeted 7 times attacking Woodward.

Hope that's right.

He's transparently unhinged, totally amoral and a disaster for America, but he's actually quite charming in his own way. He should have just stuck to his stupid show and enjoyed his comfortable old age. He would have got away with a lifetime of grifting. Winning the presidency was his biggest mistake, he must know that deep down.

Jesus, do you think he demanded those statements from Mattis and Kelly attacking Woodward so he could tweet them?

Almost definitely.
And don't forget the worst bit of propaganda, the statement from Sarah Sanders.

He thinks the biggest mistake was to condemn white supremacists.

"Donald Trump has been criticized for lukewarm condemnation of neo-Nazi groups, the KKK, and white supremacists in general. Now an investigative journalist is releasing a book that says the president wishes he had never condemned those groups at all. In fact, Trump reportedly called it “the biggest [expletive] mistake I’ve ever made.”

HillReporter

He didn't condemn them. He called them 'fine people'.

And then it took 3 days of pressure by everyone around him to give a (half arsed) condemning statement.

sadly... https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1037112278229966850

As for that call, freaking glorious as Trump and Conway's plan to avoid engaging with the book back fires