When the word police come for me, I already have my argument: I haven’t been writing about Donald Trump, I’ve been writing about some guy named Emperor Baby Fists this whole time. You know him, he also goes by Bigly, Agent Orange, Easy D and Rancid Sack of Garbage. My inane nicknames for that guy will be my saving grace when they abolish the first amendment and America becomes a banana republic where citizens and journalists can be thrown in jail for criticizing the emperor. This is Emperor Baby Fists’ dream scenario. Reince Priebus, the White House Chief of Staff, appeared on one of the Sunday morning political shows. He got into an exchange with journalist Jonathan Karl, and read what happened:
KARL: I want to ask you about two things the President has said on related issues. First of all, there was what he said about opening up the libel laws. Tweeting “the failing New York Times has disgraced the media world. Gotten me wrong for two solid years. Change the libel laws?” That would require, as I understand it, a constitutional amendment. Is he really going to pursue that? Is that something he wants to pursue?
PRIEBUS: I think it’s something that we’ve looked at. How that gets executed or whether that goes anywhere is a different story. But when you have articles out there that have no basis or fact and we’re sitting here on 24/7 cable companies writing stories about constant contacts with Russia and all these other matters—
KARL: So you think the President should be able to sue the New York Times for stories he doesn’t like?
PRIEBUS: Here’s what I think. I think that newspapers and news agencies need to be more responsible with how they report the news. I am so tired.
KARL: I don’t think anybody would disagree with that. It’s about whether or not the President should have a right to sue them.
PRIEBUS: And I already answered the question. I said this is something that is being looked at. But it’s something that as far as how it gets executed, where we go with it, that’s another issue.
As TPM correctly points out, Priebus is confirming that this White House is seriously considering taking some action on… the First Amendment. Emperor Bigly does not understand the First Amendment (much less the entire Constitution) and he has his team “looking at” ways to change the constitution. To limit the free press, to change the libel laws. Because the emperor is a small, petty, thin-skinned moron who hates to be criticized. Come at me, word police.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
His skin is so thin it’s peeling back to show the lizard he is underneath.
Slow clap
Aside from this being ridiculous, un American, and wrong, wont this backfire with the trolls and deplorables who rely on the First Amendment to exist??
Yeah, it’s funny how he talks about all the “fake news” out there with no sense of irony. What a bunch of morons if they think they can get any traction on this whatsoever.
And that’s where Hassan Minhaj killed it on Saturday. When he pointed out that the president will never defend the amendment that allows him to lie on Twitter.
I think they assume that their free speech rights will not be abridged.
Just like they thought that “entitlements” only applied to “criminal aliens” and their social security benefits, medicaid, medicare, ACA, unemployment, etc. would not be affected by Bigly’s policies.
They need to be careful what they wish for. These things work both ways and they would basically be declaring open season on Breitbart, Limbaugh, Howie Carr, Fox & friends and on and on and on
This is just the WH attempting to change the news cycle from Trump has done nothing in a 100days to another Trump vs the press story. He knows the press goes crazy when attacked. They should be happy about how well their correspondence dinner went without Agent Orange and not fall for his cheap tricks. It also gives his voters an enemy to focus on. This like everything coming from the WH is just more hot air.
He did a pretty good job of turning the story to the “fake news” at his rally on Saturday.
This is so true. He always tries to distract from his failures by saying something horrific and irresponsible. It always works, because a President saying something horrific and irresponsible SHOULD be a something he is held accountable for. However, in this reality, it actually helps him get away with things that are worse, because he pulls the focus.
@Tiffany 🙂
+1000000
A New York reporter who used to cover Trump was trying to explain this to CNN reporters a few weeks ago. He said that Trump mastered how to manipulate the press in NYC, ignore his tweets, taunts, and crazy, focus on the substance of what he is not getting done legislatively.
But the reporters were like “he is the president how can we ignore his tweets and comments?”. They just won’t listen. Plus let’s face it, this type of coverage gets higher ratings.
What the actual f***k?!?!
Exactly! WTF?
IKR. I mean, really, what can any of us say? The shit never stops.
What the fuck? And they thought the women’s march was massive? Imagine the protests if they try to mess with the first amendment.
The only comfort I have here is that Reince Priebus is saying it, and I don’t think he’s mentally sound at this point.
From the twitter folks I read, he’s involved with the treason. It can’t be a comfortable few weeks waiting to see what you’re being indicted for, much less the fear of someday going to prison, basically forever.
I doubt that “mentally sound” does exist in this administration.
Yup. Anyone who would agree to work for Donald Trump is already losing points. I don’t want to say they’re all mentally unsound, but they’re all shitty, shitty humans.
As for Reince himself, I do think he’s losing it a little bit, what with the stress of being a spineless, treasonous fuck.
This isn’t as far fetched as it sounds. The far right and big biz have teemed up push for a constitutional convention. For far, 28 of the necessary 34 states have passed resolutions to convene a convention. With 33 states currently controlled by Republicans, we are dangerously close to something that was previously unthinkable.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/19811/constitutional-convention-of-states-alec-balanced-budget-corporate-america
Exactly! This is a real possibility, and that’s utterly frightening. Please vote in your state elections.
Yes, this is horrifying.
That is terrifying. My internal scream is so loud I am afraid my co-workers will hear.
Come on, this guy is not Putin, he’s in a temporary position of power. Everyday he undermines his own credibility and alienates more Americans. This will not turn out well for him or his cronies. He can dream of torching the 1st amendment and he can dream of being in charge forever but neither will happen. When he goes down, he will go down bigly and Reince and every other douche will be looking to distance themselves from his flaming funeral pyre.
I hope you’re right that people will protest. However, most voters are complacent and uninterested in details. Media fails to educate the masses.
There should be a lot more outrage about the Russian interference but very few Republicans are concerned. People don’t seem to realize that democracy is not a spectator sport.
This election has shown how dictatorships come about in third world countries and how it happened in Turkey that people’s rights have recently been diminished. Come to think of it, in Turkey there were protests but sadly it had all gone too far, maybe there was cheating, and marches couldn’t help.
Be very careful with this kind of thinking. Totalitarian regimes don’t become obvious overnight. It starts with small changes to basic rights that don’t directly affect individuals, and then the populace is either properly brainwashed or oppressed, they begin eating away at the rest of our liberties. Control of the media is no joke – if the president can legally undercut journalism, he can effectively erase opposing views.
I just can’t with these people.
Also, I refer to Reince Priebus as “Reince ‘the dishes’ Priebus” in my head. He’s got the name of a Hunger Games villain.
Lol! His name sounds like pig-Latin to me. I keep calling him prince rebus in my head.
I’ve often wonder why his parents would give him such a pretentious-sounding name. “Reince” looks close to “Reine” a Royal-sounding title and “Priebus” does sound vaguely old Latin. Either way he looks horrible. I wonder if he regrets hooking up with the Raging Orange Menace.
Well there goes the “Priebus is the reasonable mainstream conservative guy” narrative. The GOP, alleged lovers of constitutional originalism, are proposing a change to the First Amendment because they’re butt hurt. Rather rich that they want to change libel laws now after their use of Cambridge Analytica’s data mining and faux news to win an election.
Rancid Penis sold his soul a looooooong time ago. He’s got an IV of the kool aide in his arm.
Rancid Penis…omg…yassss. That is his new name. Thank you, Shambles!
Zero credit to me!! That nickname has been floating around for a while.
Came here to call him by that name, too…. Couldn’t resist! I think I first read it here in a post by Eric? Whatev – it should be invoked whenever possible!
Fortunately Trump alone can’t “change” libel law or the First Amendment, and RP knows that.
Yeah, lots of luck passing that through 2/3 of the states ALTHOUGH, say, come to think of it, the number of Republican-controlled states is just 1 or 2 shy of the ability to pass an amendment, yes?
However, libel laws are not federal laws, yes (help me out, legal beagles). They may be predicated on the First Amendment but the executive branch and Congress can’t go after them as a whole. However, a state case could make its way up to the Supreme Court and set a precedent for all others.
Much as I’d like to say they’re just ‘throwing it out there’ for ‘the base’ and trying to intimidate the press and this is all about soothing POTUS hurt fee-fees about the WH Correspondents Dinner(s), there is conceivably a thin wedge in.
And, of course, armed force could be intimidating should it come to that.
Dictatorship is coming.
They will certainly try.
Sadly yes .
Like Christian Bale said,Trump presidency is like watching Trump reading “Dictator for dummies”
This is the garbage trump’s stooges spout all the time in interviews. They are always “looking at” some nonsense or other. No one, including the few sensible Republicans left, would be a party to this.
You know, on the 2017 Press Freedom Index, the US is 44th in the world. The UK is 40th.
I honestly think it’s long past time both our countries stopped banging on about our so-called exceptionalism and mythical freedoms. Truth be told, we ain’t shit.
“Truth be told, we ain’t shit.”
Cheers to that, Sixer.
*glugs a morning beer*
The US ranks 44th because so much media is owned by publicly traded parent companies, not because journalists are being tried, killed, or disappeared. There is a big difference between concern about ownership bias and actual suppression of a free press.
If the end result is the same – suppression of accountability and pluralism – the structural problem IS the same. Less of a problem for individuals since they aren’t shot or disappeared or gulaged. But y’know – the US is the worst liberal democracy in the world for prosecuting whistleblowers, so individuals ain’t doin’ too well stateside either.
@Sixer that was JFS’s finding in 2016, but they left out the context that very specif crimes were being prosecuted by the Obama administration. It was not a wholesale round up of whistle blowers.
I don’t think we need to go full-on propaganda model to accept that the US (and the UK) has a problem with press freedom. As I say below, I think the real problem is the refusal to acknowledge it by mitigating the evidence. I myself find it hard to accept that I’m not as free as I like to think I am, but sadly, I’m not.
@Sixer Nor do we need to perpetuate misleading facts to undermine confidence in American institutions.
Like I say, Megan, if the end result is the same, the route to that result is immaterial.
@Sixer No country is perfect, but the methodology of JSF does not always reflect the situation on the ground.
There are many thousands of media outlets in America that operate free of business or government influence. They greatly shape public discourse in America. Let’s not forget, Mother Jones was the media outlet that brought the Flynn story into the mainstream.
SIXER WINSSSSSS AGAIN!!!!!
THIS
No, we aren’t particularly “shit,” but what makes it so frustrating is that the ideals are there in the Constitution (that wholly offensive “three-fifths” crap reminds us that Trump was basically ever with us). We are supposed to be better than this. And hopefully more people get active. I know so many who are so, so complacent.
I’ve been to two “marches” (really they’re more like rallies) the past two Saturdays (Science March & Climate March) since the Women’s March at the beginning of the year. A few town halls as well.
I can’t speak for other parts of the country, but at least here in Boston, people are very, very organized and very involved in the Resistance.
@Kitten Citizens are making their voices heard and it is working … the House did not get to change its ethics rules, that disaster of a healthcare bill went nowhere, Nunes recused himself, Chaffetz is working out his exit plan, Charlie Cook has the Ossoff race in a dead heat. Every victory will be hard won, but they are still victories.
We need to clean up our act.
Just looked this up. Scandinavia wins again. At least Canada is higher than UK and US lol.
Canada dropped from 18 to 22 in the rankings. For our liberal democracy, that’s not good.
We also have had a lot of media consolidation, and local papers are dying off fast.
I’ve never believed we were sh*t but glad to see other people waking up to that fact
See, this is what I am increasingly coming to believe is the problem. People genuinely believe in their western liberal democracies but the fact is that they haven’t been very liberal or very democratic for a long time now. On the well-regarded Economist Democracy Index, the US isn’t even a full democracy any more, it’s a flawed democracy. The UK isn’t in there in a stellar position either. Our freedoms have been evaporating for many years.
Trump (and Brexit) aren’t diseases. They are symptoms of longstanding diseases. Perhaps they are the last symptoms to appear and they will be the symptoms that catapult us into full-blown crises, but they aren’t the root causes.
I don’t think we can find any sensible cures before we face up to that.
Once again, context is everything. The EIU measures confidence in democracy, not actual democratic policies. On a scale of 1-10, the US score is 7.98. The threshold for full confidence democracy is 8.0.
The corruption of the Bush administration and the hyper-polarization during the Obama administration has eroded public confidence in democratic institutions, but to suggest America is no longer a democracy is misleading at best.
Right. So we agree that the slippage is longstanding and not a consequence of Trump. This is my point: resisting Trump per se – or Brexit per se – is not the point. And making it the point or clinging on to national myths of superior freedoms will simply delay the solutions arriving.
@Sixer A lose of confidence is not a lose of rights. And, frankly, American does have superior freedoms. What other democracy allows citizen to build their own arsenals?
Honestly Megan, I think you are being dangerously complacent. Sorry!
@Sixer you are being dangerously histrionic. I live in DC. I work with Democrats, progressive advocacy groups and charities. I have a front row seat in Washington. I speak from a position of knowledge.
I have been an activist since the 1980’s and never once have I heard someone scream “the sky is falling,” and seen a positive result.
I’m not being histrionic. I’m suggesting that people take a long, hard look at their democratic deficits and understand what the problems are so that they can be fixed. Clearly, I can speak with better accuracy and detail on the UK as I’m British but I think the structural problems are the same even though the manifestations are different..
Here’s the thing: the US has democratic issues just as the UK has democratic issues. Freedoms are declining. There are problems with press freedom (even if you want to argue over the detail), there is voter suppression on an industrial scale, a pay-to-play justice system, militarised and unaccountable law enforcement, Princeton studies that find the country to be an oligarchy, civil liberties curtailed in the name of the war on terror, etc ad infinitum.
I think it’s brilliant that so many Americans are organising and resisting. I wish Britons would get better at this. But the end game shouldn’t be saying goodbye to Trump. Saying goodbye to Trump should be the first step in restoring a full and free participatory democracy.
When the US and the UK are coming near to the bottom of all developed economies on almost every single freedom and democracy indicator there is, then sure, you can nitpick methodology on one or two of them, but the sheer consistency means there is a bigger problem than one presidential election or referendum result.
I just feel like we are watching America become dictatorship and there is nothing we can do about it. It seems this kind of talk is now normal.
Please don’t worry about it, Cynthia. They talk out of their asses day 1, retract on day 2 and pass nothing into law a week later. The Donald ended his 100 days into office signing one piece of legislation: a one week stop-gap funding bill. That’s it.
Switching from spectator mode to participant and protester mode will reduce those feelings of helplessness. Any time we in our family get down in the dumps, we pick up the phone and call elected officials, and urge others too as well. We try to stay informed about the immediate fires to put out while keeping an eye on the big picture (Trump-Russia, corruption).
We are not a dictatorship, and as long as we refuse to capitulate to corporate interests, we never will be.
Here they go again, trying to kill us with their stupidity. Usually they say these things to deflect from what they are actually doing (they don’t have the brains or inclination to actually mess with the constitution) so It makes me wonder, what they’re trying to cover up this time…..
Comey and Sally Yates testify this week!! Comey on Weds and Sally Yates on Friday. And yes, I have it on my calendar.
…and there it is! Thanks, I’ll be putting it on my calendar as well.
Open or closed hearings?
I so enjoyed Comey stressing the logic of wanting Trump to win because it would mean Hillary would lose. “It’s the logic.” He seemed genuinely baffled by stupidity.
Shouldn’t we all be. So much of it in Congress and the White House now.
Update:
Comey & Rogers testify in a closed hearing in the House on May 2
Yates & Comey testify in a closed hearing in the Senate on May 8
My calendar has been updated as well. With these closed hearings, it is always interesting to see what each House does. The Donald is going to nut up all week. Paranoia is real, folks.
So, I’ll attempt to translate this. Agent Orange doesn’t like it when people disagree with him publicly or say mean things about him. So he orders his minions to re-write the first amendment. They advise him, this cannot be done. So he stomps his feet and has a toddler tantrum. So they tell him, we’ll look into it. Then come back and tell him, it’s BIGLY complicated and cannot be done. Agent Orange gets his pacifier and blanket and takes a nap while Ivanka strokes his hair. He doesn’t like complicated things.
+1 Exactly so…
I mean, yeah, he’s a big baby, but he’s a media-savvy toddler and he knows this kind of BS provides excellent distraction to the media.
This is scary. As a Brit can amendments be made to the constitution and what is the process? What would need to happen for that to take place?
Its not just Emperor Bigly here, its the whole republican party? They are running scared about the Russian campaign links? They want to control the media to stop the people finding out what illegal things they are doing or have done.
Its Turkey 2.0 who blocked Wikipedia (WTF???) from the country over the weekend. Turkey who has in the past blocked access to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Hi Digital Unicorn—
It’s not happening. You would need TWO THIRDS of BOTH houses or TWO THIRDS of ALL THE STATES to just propose an amendment. You need THREE FOURTHS of ALL THE STATES to ratify/approve it.
In short – It’s. Not. Happening.
Here is the officially wording (from The Donald’s favorite night time reading–The Constitution)
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
34 states are needed to propose a constitutional amendment. Republicans control 33 states. That’s too close for comfort.
The Republicans do not control 33 states when it comes to a constitutional amendment.
There are two methods, both are lengthy. One method is through a constitutional convention called for by 2/3s of the state legislatures. This method has never been used. The other method, used 27 times, requires a 2/3s majority vote in both the House and the Senate on a joint resolution. The Office of the Federal Register then sends notice of the joint resolution to the governors of all 50 states. Depending on how the resolution is written, the states must ratify it either through a convention or a legislative vote and certify the results back to the Office of the Federal Register. Currently, 38 states must ratify any amendment. Sometimes there are time limits by which they must do so. The President can voice favor or opposition to a proposed amendment but has absolutely no role in passing one. His signature is NOT required. Amendments usually change out antiquated rules or clarify something that isn’t easily understood, expand suffrage, or address completely new issues that the framers never envisioned. I suspect it would be extremely difficult to change the First Amendment.
It would be. At the same time we have to remember the importance of political action in home states, and electing more Democrats to state office, due to the very high number under Republican control.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/12/these-3-maps-show-just-how-dominant-republicans-are-in-america-after-tuesday/
Thanks for this information. It is a sad fact that I love the geekery of political process!
Either congress can propose an amendment, or 2/3’s of the states can call for a constitutional convention. Then 3/4’s of the states have to vote for any proposed amendments. The constitution has been amended 27 times. First 10 amendments are called the bill of rights and were adopted together. The rest came later, dealing with things like elections, slavery, alcohol prohibition, and the most recent was ratified in 1992 and changed they way congress could give itself a pay raise.
Thanks for the explanation ladies, very informative.
This is a union and the control of the federal government if through the agreement and cooperation of the states, the states can and do defy the federal government all the time. This conflict lead to our Civil War, but fundamentally, the federal government is not in a position to defy the will of the states.
This is just one of the many alarming pieces to building a fascist police state. Not surprised since I saw this coming but still scary af
Hey, do you remember when Banana Republic was a place to shop for overpriced work clothes. Yeah, me too.
I do remember Banana Republic! *waxes nostalgically*
Very nice, thick T-shirts and other fun pieces.
Hehehe, so subtle !! You have a very good sense of humour !
Humor is what is needed sometimes. Or lately, all the time.
I bought a couple of pants at the outlet the other day. I’m so fancy!
I saw this story yesterday and couldn’t believe it. This hypocritical, misogynistic, pathological liar and fraud wants to limit one of the bedrocks of our society!! He’s losing it, he’s really not playing with a full deck. The delusion is so strong with this one that he doesn’t realize that no matter what he will never be universally accepted or admired. This need for approval and the need to be the center of attention (no one else can be more admired and be in the spotlight but him) is so needy like a black hole of need.
Hmmm, so I guess it’s perfectly fine for the damned president to spew lie after lie and not be held to the same standards that he wants to hold the press to. He is a disgrace.
NBC fired Billy Bush for the Access Hollywood tape. The standards are below a gossip show.
WaPo has a fact-checker article today that puts the count at 488 “false or misleading claims” in 100 days. But the writers admit they cannot possibly keep up.
I might be frightened about this except that Bigly is being thwarted on the Muslim ban, healthcare, the Wall…he’ll never be able to effect changes like this. His incompetence is what is saving us from his malevolence, to paraphrase Jon Lovett at Crooked Media
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It’s true an authoritarian like Trump would want to giggle with the systems that dampen his rule in any way. However, I heard a theory that this, too, is meant to distract for some new Russian information coming out soon.
We keep waiting and waiting for that Russian information, don’t we. : (
I don’t know if they “distract” so much as follow his impulses whereever they lead.
Of course he was going to after the press the weekend of the White House Correspondents Dinner – where he couldn’t take being roasted. He had performed so miserably against Hillary Clinton at the Al Smith dinner and didn’t want to take a chance. Then he tried to pull focus with his dipshit rally.
Remember:
Obama discussed this at his last presser.
Time to kick ass and take names, Barry!
I think it’d be a mistake for either Obama or Hillary to be vocal.anri-trumpers. That would feed the whole”Dems just can’t get over their loss” theory that Trump’s been peddling. The Dems need to find a new opposition leader. And it’s not out of touch Bernie Sanders, either.
I’m sorry but f*** the democrats. They are just as much a part of the problem as the Republicans and emperor baby-fists. Both parties need to be torched. The two party dynamic need to be eviscerated and the dems need to stop pretending they’re doing anything to protect us from a corporate take-over.
Have they even looked into what it takes to change the Constitution? Even if they could get something thru 2/3 of both Houses of Congress good luck getting ratified by 3/4 of the states.
They couldn’t even get their Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill thru the Republican-controlled House. I think the First Amendment is safe.
All I can say is, this administration is bat s@@t crazy. Now he’s inviting the murderer from the Philippines to the White House. As whoopie would say, “what the….” I just can’t with this crazy man, I’m done. Just hoping for a miracle to get us out of this s@@t stew.
The right already believes that democrats/liberals are trying to kill free speech by not allowing hate mongers/lunatics like Ann Coulter/Milo Yaniopolous speak at places like Berkeley. Many of them support withholding funding for “persecuting” the free speech of conservatives. They are convinced that everyone on the left is attacking them and their rights. I see Trump easily getting support for amending the Free Speech laws. His supporters are tired of the left using their free speech to point out how racist, sexist, and dumb they are. Fortunately, I think they’ll be enough outrage to prevent any actual changes to the 1st Amendment.
Yep. I’m sure the Deplorables would have no problem with this.
I love you kaiser lol.
So the right wing nutbaggers are all of a sudden no longer “originalists?” Okay, I get it. We only interpret the Constitution in a way that conforms with our views. Um huh.
BTW, Princess Horseteeth was just on the morning show doing her horseteethy thing.
While an administration official even saying this out loud is terrifying beyond belief, it’s also par for the course with Trump and his Trumpettes who say and do so many outrageous, atrocious, mind-blowingly-awful things every single day it’s literally impossible to muster a suitable level of incensed terror for all of them.
Changing the Constitution in 2017 is considered essentially impossible. We can’t get a single-party-held congress to successfully pass legislation most of them campaigned on, so getting both houses to approve an ammendment and then have 2/3 the states ratify it is, in the current political climate, a Don Quixote-like pipe dream at best, for either party. Heck, you couldn’t get all those entities — house, senate, 2/3 of states — to agree the sky generally presents as blue or that it’s traditionally dark at midnight.
Our “most recent” amendment, which specifies how congress can give itself raises, did pass in 1992, but was originally introduced in 1789. This is not a typo. It took 202 years from proposal to adoption. Even from revival to ratification was a full decade, and this for a fairly small, completely obscure technical change in the way government does normal, everyday business that has zero effect on most Americans.
Before that, it was in the Vietnam-era ’70s where the national voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 to go hand-in-hand with military service and the draft. If you’re old enough to die, you’re old enough to vote, was a pretty compelling sell. Also, this amendment superseded a popular federal law that some states had, had overturned in the Supreme Court, saying the federal gov’t couldn’t dictate state election policies.
It’s why we’ll never rid ourselves of the electoral collage or add DC or Puerto Rico as states despite fairly strong popular support.
This is coming from the same man who said that Obama wiretapped him and then tried to walk it back by claiming that he meant “wiretap” as in surveillance and not Obama specifically but his administation, tried to target Evelyn Farcas, and then when all that didn’t work, he went on a mission to reverse engineer support for his lie using Devin Nunes. 3 of his staffers, and the NSA, which included targeting Susan Rice and claiming that she committed a crime. Trump has told lies about Obama, Susan Rice, Ted Cruz, and many other public figures and he has never apologized for lies and the damage they have done. Trump has trashed talked Elizabeth Warren, the wives of republican leaders, and world leaders. Will these libel laws apply to Trump, Spicer, and Kellyanne? Trump is always slamming the press for lying, but what about all the lies he has told? If the press wants to stop Trump’s fake news nonsense, all they have to do is start labeling him as the fake president. It would be very helpful if these interviewers started having factcheckers sitting right next to Trump and his people when they give interviews. The press is doing a great disservice to us, just like Ivanka, they are willing accomplices in Trump’s lies.
When is enough going to be enough for these GOP members? Trump is destabilizing this country(removing regulations on banks, loan companies, environment, education, employment that were put in place to protect us from these institutions abusing their power) at an alarming rate and the people who have the power to stop him, won’t because they have put party above the people. With every interview, Trump shows that he is not qualified for this job. He now doesn’t understand why there was a Civil War. It makes you wonder how Trump even graduated from high school. All it takes it just one GOP member to say enough is enough.
I said this on Twitter but I’ll say here again.. I cannot with how hard i’m bracing every morning , or say, specifically Monday Mornings for what B*llshit Await for us in the news from this Administration… I think we’ll become Gilead in record time and come under budget while at it. This sh*t is wrecking my mental health.
Also AGAIN YA’LL BETTER DONT EVER EVER LET REPUBLICANS IN YOURS OR YOUR KIDS LIFETIMES FORGET THAT THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE SAYING, THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING, THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE COLLUDING WITH, THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT THE OTHER WAY, For their own benefit they will let the country collapse/enter a war or flat out excise the constitution as they see fit to accommodate themselves
ANother court case…which he will lose. Bring it on. What an ugly sack of $–t.
Go to hell Reince! You and your ilk are going to be run out of DC on a rail! This has gone way, way, way too far!
So I guess the part of the oath of office that said, “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution” was interpreted by this administration as more of a guideline then?
It looks like the ACLU will be getting more of my money in the very near future.
And Sebastian Gorka, that Nazi-wannabee, is OUT!
Bigly SAD!
I can’t take anyone seriously who has a name that sounds like a lost Death Eater.