"Perjury trap." People get so creative with spin
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/558992/?__twitter_impression=true
I was very amused by this writer and his curt, blunt responses to some of Trump's ramblings.
- People don't realize, if you go back to the Civil War the Republicans really did the thing. Lincoln was a Republican,” he said, citing an extremely well-known fact.
Even better, prosecutors can use Trump's insistence that Cohen handled "a tiny fraction" of his legal work as justification for accessing Trump-related records seized in the Cohen raid. Also, the VA nomination debacle was pretty funny. And somewhere on capitol hill, Pruitt is pooping his drawers right about now. Another A+ week.
Consider the Ottoman Empire, or Louis of Spain. The Pasha may be corrupt, the king may be an enfeebled idiot, but if you have influence in the court your fortune is bright. Until the shit hits the fan, at least. Then it's a matter of who can assassinate whose children first, and who can tack their sails the quickest when the wind shifts. We are witnessing what happens to the orbits of opportunists when their sun goes red giant, contracts and forms a collapsar.
Dude, I watched the entire 30 minutes earlier today. It was really weird. If I had to guess, it was about 27.5 minutes of Trump ranting/raving. The best theory is that the interview was eventually terminated because someone in the Fox control booth decided that POTUS was increasingly incriminating himself with each sentence. I can't recall an instance where an interviewer had to tell POTUS that POTUS was probably busy (on FLOTUS's birthday, nonetheless), after fidgeting like mad during the whole spectacle. Trump was yelling into his phone microphone towards the end of the interview. So weird! Edit: yeah basically this
Any legitimate, balanced, news organization would have let him speak for as long as he wanted, because what he was doing was NEWS. Faux News, being a Trump propaganda organization rather than a news company, did what was best for their "product" - The President - and pulled the plug. Propaganda at its finest. ... the interview was eventually terminated because someone in the Fox control booth decided that POTUS was increasingly incriminating himself ...
My best guess is that there is a personality type that really takes the 'all publicity is good publicity' thing to heart. This type of person looks at the current situation in the white house and sees opportunity. Not for long term growth and development, but if they play a few good hands and bail fast, a relative nobody could suddenly find themselves moving in the same circles as real movers and shakers. High risk, also potentially super high reward if you can collect the right level of salary for a few weeks/months, get some big titles on your resume and manage to dodge criminal charges or at least the most grievous criminal charges.
Good point. You've got to wonder who these ass-clowns are that keep working for him. People that have nothing better going for them but to become tools as part of the Trump Machine. Trump is the Burgess Meredith version of The Penguin with his inexplicable swarm of henchmen. Each one ready to take an ass-whoopin' for the boss.
Barry Zuckerkorn told associates he expected to be Trump’s first chief of staff: report OK, I slightly editorialized the title. But wow, the guy's an absolute moron.
