Wednesday Reads: Lies Lies Lies
Posted: July 18, 2018 Filed under: 2018 elections, 2020 Elections, Main Stream Media, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Russia, the GOP, Trump, U.S. Politics, Voter Ignorance, We are so F'd, Wednesday Hump Day Cartoons 16 Comments
About that ridiculous shit show from tRump yesterday:
‘Did the dog eat his homework too?’ CNN’s Erin Burnett slams Trump – Business Insider
In a scathing opening monologue on Tuesday, CNN anchor Erin Burnett slammed President Donald Trump’s explanation that he misspoke during a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Damage control, the president claims he misspoke once in his disastrous summit with Putin,” Burnett said on CNN. “Did the dog eat his homework too?”
During his press conference with Putin in Helsinki, Finland, Trump initially said he did not “see any reason why” Russia would be responsible for meddling in the 2016 US Presidential election. When asked if he would condemn Russia for its election interference, Trump refused to back the US intelligence community’s assessment, and instead, railed against the FBI and his political opponents.
“My people came to me … They said they think it’s Russia,” Trump said at the summit on Monday. “I have President Putin. He just said it’s not Russia.”
“I will say this,” Trump added. “I don’t see any reason why it would be.”
After a wave of critics from both parties criticized his remarks, Trump backtracked his comments and said in a tweet that he had “GREAT confidence” in the US intelligence community.
“How stupid does Trump think we Americans are?,” Burnett said in her monologue. “The president’s excuse for his embarrassing press conference where he sided with Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence chiefs does not add up.”
Trump’s handwritten notes spotted on Russia statement – YouTube
President Donald Trump couldn’t help but add one of his favorite phrases to staff-prepared remarks today.
When trying to convince the world that he actually meant to say he saw no reason it “wouldn’t” be Russia who interfered in the 2016 elections rather than “would,” the notes written in the margins of his prepared remarks – in all caps and in big, black Sharpie – read “THERE WAS NO COLUSION.”
Now, given how many times the president has seen and spat the word “collusion,” you’d think he’d know how to spell it at this point. Even more than the flimsy-at-best explanation of his remarks, perhaps this ought to alarm us, as it indicates beyond a doubt that no matter how familiar Trump appears to be with something, he refuses to absorb correct information about it.
One more thing about the statement tRump made yesterday:
Gloria Borger: Trump looked like he was in a hostage tape – YouTube
She is not the only one to bring up that point, that tRump looked like a hostage reading off a prepared document…I thought the same thing when I saw the tape.
And just a couple more tweets:
Yeah, curlygramma is right…Maddow’s show was awesome last night.
So simple and very true, why not hold hearings on all those questions that we ask daily here on the blog?
Then there was this horror news breaking on The Last Word:
Read the alert at the bottom of the screen on the picture in this tweet:
Fucking hell…let me say that again…fucking hell!
Cartoons, if you please:
07/17/2018 Cartoon by Nate Beeler
CONSISTENT PRES: 07/17/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
07/17/2018 Cartoon by Bob Gorrell
Helsinki Summit: 07/17/2018 Cartoon by Mike Keefe
Clay Bennett editorial cartoon: 07/17/2018 Cartoon by Clay Bennett
Helsinki Summit: 07/17/2018 Cartoon by Rob Rogers
07/17/2018 Cartoon by Jimmy Margulies
07/17/2018 Cartoon by J.D. Crowe
07/17/2018 Cartoon by Joel Pett
07/13/2018 Cartoon by Joel Pett
07/14/2018 Cartoon by Joe Heller
Check out the date on that one.
Trump meeting with Vladimir Putin ventriloquist: 07/17/2018 Cartoon by David G. Brown
Summit Gift: 07/17/2018 Cartoon by Paul Fell
07/16/2018 Cartoon by Matt Wuerker
HELSINKI “SUMMIT”: 07/16/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
07/15 Mike Luckovich: Cozy time.
07/17 Mike Luckovich: Advanced puppetry
07/18 Mike Luckovich: What I really meant.
Bashing our Allies: 07/16/2018 Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
Those lies are gonna get ya!
This is an open thread.
We are drowning in lies and hypocrisy. Day after day we are at the mercy of this man and his enablers. There are days when it is just too much to absorb.
He insists that the football players “kneel” for the National Anthem while he praises the enemy who interfered with our election because of “patriotism”. Can you believe this?
We have an imbecile in the White House. A dangerous ignoramus eager to sell out this nation for whatever reason. And the GOP does nothing!
God knows what went on behind closed doors for 2 hours but somehow this man must be stopped.
Now!
Pat, there is talk about using legal ways to get the interpreter to testify about what was said at the meeting between Putin and tRump.
Damn. I was so pissed off about Kushner and that shit about the secret service…that I forgot to write an intro.
it happens … the other trump tool of a Louisiana Senator thinks most of us are dumb ass crackers … maybe in Monroe … but, sheesh …
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/kennedy-says-trump-got-a-little-tangled-up-with-his-words/289-574849467
I set the phone banks to stun … folks are calling him right now to say BS and we have an action planned tomorrow in front of Scalise’s office in Metarie. No way for me to get out there but it’s better off if it’s his constituents.
I think it was interesting that the private meeting was supposed to be 40 minutes, then it went to 2 hours! that is a long time to be private away from advisors!
‘Trump’s son should be concerned’: FBI obtained wiretaps of Putin ally who met with Trump Jr.
Michael Isikoff
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-son-concerned-wiretaps-show-trump-jr-met-putin-ally-231215529.html
Here we go with tales of old white Republican pervs …
Prosecutors: Butina is flight risk, should stay in jail until trial
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/butina-hearing-flight-risk-trial/index.html
and we’ll take old white republican pervs for 1000 Alex
Jaysus Christ on a cracker!
Trump was just asked if the Russians were still tampering with our system and his answer was “no”.
What the hell is it going to take to rid us of this traitor? He continues to deny our intelligence agencies, tries to destroy NATO, starts unnecessary trade wars, pulls us from the Paris Accord, gets played by North Korea, lies, lies, lies and nothing is done.
What is wrong with these people?
I ask that question every day. When are we to be rid of tRump.
When the Democrats take back the House (Goddess, please) and not a moment sooner.
National security experts warn Trump is behaving more and more like a ‘controlled spy’
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-acting-like-russian-asset-experts-say-2018-7?utm_source=facebook&utm_content=top-bar&utm_term=desktop
D’oh! Of course he’s a controlled Russian spy. What I don’t understand is why nothing can be done to contain him.
“The Russians need to know that there are a lot of us who fully understand what happened in 2016, and it really better not happen again in 2018.” – Mitch McConnell
This is the leader of our Senate, muckity muck in the Repug party and he ‘understands what happened in 2016’ but has not helped clear it up? Has not done anything about the fool playing in the Oval Office? The whole lot of them should be thrown out of office.
And what the heck is wrong with the Democrats? Why are they sitting on their hands? I just get more dang emails from Kirsten sooooo eager to run.
I am so angry at both parties for allowing this travesty. He kept telling us that the election was rigged but we all seemed to think he was pointing to Hillz as the ‘rigger’ when in fact it was him and his ‘gang’