Yesterday, we discussed the story about Donald Trump sociopathic lack of empathy for a fallen American soldier and his pregnant widow. After lying to the press about being the only president who ever called the families of fallen soldiers, Trump went on to make an ass of himself on a call to a widow, telling her that her late husband “knew what he signed up for.” That quote was revealed by Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who listened in on the call because the widow put it on speakerphone. Trump then denied, on Twitter, that he ever said that. I honestly hoped that would be the end of it. I mean, how much f–king further can fall? So much deeper. First, he denied it on camera:
Pres. Trump denies lawmaker's account of call with fallen soldier's family: "Didn't say what that congresswoman said. Didn't say it at all." pic.twitter.com/3im4BzfQdr
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 18, 2017
Well, guess what? The aunt of the fallen soldier confirmed that Trump said “he knew what he signed up for.”
The aunt of an Army sergeant killed in Niger, who raised the soldier as her son, said Wednesday that Trump had shown “disrespect” to the soldier’s loved ones as he telephoned them to extend condolences as they drove to the Miami airport to receive his body. Sgt. La David Johnson was one of four American soldiers killed nearly two weeks ago; Trump called the families on Tuesday. Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Florida Democrat who was in the car with Johnson’s family, said the president told the widow that Johnson “knew what he signed up for.”
She said the president told them something along the lines of “you know this is possible when you sign up but it still hurts.”
Cowanda Jones-Johnson, who raised the soldier from age 5 after his mother died, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Democratic congresswoman’s account was correct.
“Yes the statement is true,” she said. “I was in the car and I heard the full conversation.”
At the airport, widow Myeshia Johnson leaned in grief across the flag-draped coffin after a military guard received it. “She was crying for the whole time,” Wilson said. “And the worst part of it: When he hung up you know what she turned to me and said? She said he didn’t even remember his name.”
Yes. I believe Cowanda Jones-Johnson. I do not believe U BUM. I also do not believe Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who had the f–king audacity to try to blame the media and Congresswoman Wilson for the fact that Donald Trump cannot even feign sympathy towards a pregnant widow for a few minutes.
Sanders says Rep. Wilson's comments on Trump's condolence call are "appalling", despite Johnson's mother confirming Wilson's remarks. pic.twitter.com/q36vB2Pffz
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 18, 2017
Sanders: Trump's remarks to Johnson's widow "taken very far out of context by the media", wants "frustration" to be focused on the media. pic.twitter.com/KqvdaDFBP3
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 18, 2017
You know what’s appalling? The Neo-Nazi-in-Chief and all of his enablers, minions, sycophants and apologists. End of. The White House spent a full 24 hours criticizing a gold-star family – including a fallen soldier’s pregnant widow – for being offended by his crass and disgusting words. The White House spent a full 24 hours criticizing a congresswoman because she was there with the gold-star family, and she heard the call and remembered it accurately. The White House spent a full 24 hours criticizing the media for accurately reporting all of the above.
Incidentally, the AP also got in touch with the families of other soldiers who were killed in action this year, during the Trump presidency, and four of the families said they never received a letter or a call. So much for needing to stand for the National Anthem because of the troops and veterans, huh? And finally, the pièce de résistance of this sh-t show: on a call to another gold-star family, Trump offered a personal check of $25,000 to the fallen soldier’s grieving father. The family accepted Trump’s offer but the check was never sent… until the story was reported yesterday, which is when the check was finally sent. And then the White House blamed the media for reporting a gold-star father’s confirmation that he had yet to receive the check
Per @kaitlancollins the $25k check Trump promised to the family of a fallen soldier over the summer was sent today.
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) October 18, 2017
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
Every day holds a new low for our American President. Middle America this is what you voted for…Are you still happy that Hillary isn’t President?
I believe they are still perfectly happy. If Hitler had run against Hillary, they’d have voted for Adolph.
Pretty much this. It doesn’t matter what Trump does, as long as a liberal isn’t on the White House.
Yes, sadly Jerusha is right. As someone said somewhere recently, this is the GOP’s long con and Trump is the end game.
I hate to say it, but since we do not have national service, the vast majority of our troops come from poor-to-working class whites and minorities. That means the suburban middle class has no skin whatever in this game and other than some mile-wide, inch-deep social media outrage they don’t give a good g-ddamn.
He’s knows hatred of HRC is his bread and butter. That’s why he talks about her so much. He’s tweeting about that uranium deal this morning. It’s pretty much all he has.
I wonder if all of the coal miners who supported him feel? Are they enjoying the nonexistent jobs of shoveling “clean coal” that Trump promised? I bet the ones with black lung disease who depend on Obamacare to live are probably freaking out, but still pretend to support all of Trumps cruel decisions. They still say he’s better than Hillary
Hate to say this but black lungs or not, if hose coal miners knowingly voted in an unqualified bigot, they deserve to have their health care taken away by their orange hero. They deserve to be punished for what they have brought onto the 3 million voters who voted for the other candidate…you know the woman with the emails…who’s known to be sane and experienced…
About COAL – but one thing first. No, two.
1. The electoral college is something EVERYONE needs to understand – It’s a States’ Rights issue and not obsolete. HOWEVER, only two States award their electoral college votes based on the popular vote. Every other state is Winner-Take-All. If the electoral college were based on the popular vote, Florida wouldn’t have been an issue for Gore. We were living out of the country then and everyone we met was trying to understand this then. And no, you can’t do away with the electoral college, unless of course you’re willing to cede control of all federal elections to the federal government – things just keep getting scarier.
2. In the late 70’s gerrymandering laws made huge strides in democratizing our Republic. And the republicans have been brutally beating back those laws ever since. Keep an eye on Pres. Obama on this one. That other world deplorable live in? They control WAY more local government than you want to know.
Want to make it better? Get thee to your State’s capitol. And make noise!
Back to COAL, and a part of the issue they don’t like to share: Less than 20 cents of every dollar spent on coal is for coal. The rest is transportation (mostly rail). Coal’s carbon footprint is so much more than you’ve heard.
God! I’m sorry. I’m putting away my soapbox, going back to escapism. Forgive my singing to the choir.
Charlie, what are your thoughts on The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929? It capped the number of representatives at the level set by the 1910 census. The result in 2017 is that the electoral votes are totally not proportional.
For example:
Wyoming:
Population = 586,107
Electoral Votes = 3
Voters per electoral vote = 195,369
California:
Population = 39,250,000
Electoral Votes = 55
Voters per electoral vote = 713,636
I am not against the electoral college, but it must be made proportional in order to have integrity. As it stands, voters in large states are being disenfranchised. If CA had 1 electoral vote for every 195,369 voters, they’d have 200 electoral votes.
Tiffany: I think you and I will need a whole lotta Pinot to break this down.😉
Ending WTA is absolutely less than the least that needs to be addressed, but getting more people to understand the mechanics of all this has to come first. But that won’t happen while so many States and BofEd let Texas write, or rather unwrite our history.
Federal voting day holidays, compulsory voting (I know, but we manage selective service, or did – the .gov site is apparently gone), limited campaign restrictions start, stop, airtime and $$$$. What else, oh yeah, corporations aren’t people.
I feel like we could raise a kind of hybrid Celebitchy / PTA mom committee and handle this shit in a couple of months.
This is where my head’s been for a week or so:
Those women who were being called out about Weinstein “I know she knew” – we all have to take responsibility for that. It’s mean girls, It’s southern belle, It’s coastal elite… It’s the reason that WOMEN put Trump in the White House. We’ve been pitted against one another for so long that Donna f***ing Karan blamed HW’s victims for asking for it in the way they dress! So yeah, too many women still think (I’m gritting my teeth) that a black man or an orangutan can accomplish more in the White House than a woman. It breaks my heart.
And – where the hell are the democrats? Why aren’t they out front everyday having this conversation? Why aren’t they out there fighting the good fight? Imagine if they actually made the sort noise the Reps make. Imagine!
I’m going to go open another bottle now…
Cheers, Charlie! 🙂
“I feel like we could raise a kind of hybrid Celebitchy / PTA mom committee and handle this shit in a couple of months.”
Yes. Let’s get to planning!
Tiffany, since you mentioned California’s #s – I’m a 5th gen. native Californian. An Orange County brat from what the Republican Party used to refer to as ‘behind the Orange curtain’. I used to joke – half joke – that I’d never met a Democrat until I went away to University. I grew up knowing what Republicans look like – States’ rights and pro business but generally receptive to health care, educational, and environmental oversight (happy healthy work-force🤗). I remember when Republicans wanted nothing to do with what went on in your bedroom, your doctor’s office, etc. They may have laughed at ‘Governor Moonbeam’, but they respected the hell out of Jerry Brown. Then came Ralph Reed and his ‘Christian Coalition’. Politics began really descending into bizarro world in the 1990’s and I don’t know what they are – but these are no Republicans I knew (those all look like Dems now). Anyway…
There are so many good, strong voices in this country still, but man, do we need some choir practice!!!
A couple of days ago, I got stuck listening to Rush Limbaugh and they live in a distorted reality where Trump is doing a great job and the mean media won’t report it. He actually said that Americans are feeling really empowered and hopeful because of all the great changes Trump is making.
I think about this all the time — how do we combat that? It feels like such a hopeless battle.
@Esmom, I think we need to motivate the people that didn’t vote in the last election to vote in the next. we may need to give up on actual Trump supporters.
I blame Democrats for a great deal of this. They didn’t take people like Limbaugh seriously until it was too late. The right wing has perverted the left’s message and made the Democratic brand so toxic f*cking Donald Trump was elected.
After getting their asses handed to them the Dems elected the same leadership that has failed us over and over. Doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity.
So their mantra is everything I don’t like is fake news. Yesterday a bunch of Trump supporters commented fake news all over stories about his call to the widow. They also say the media is corrupt and trying to tear us all apart. A lady yesterday said that the fact the family spoke to CNN told her it was fake because CNN is a lying corrupt liberal outlet trying to make the president look bad. Someone asked what she would consider a legit news outlet, Fox? Breitbart? InfoWars? and this woman said she researched things carefully but wouldn’t really answer the question. And this was on the Scary Mommy fb page, not even a news page. I think people did underestimate the power of people like Rush and Alex Jones (barf barf) and Bannon.
@Megan….I totally agree with you. If the Democratic leadership think they are going to benefit from the Frump chaos, they are mistaken. Many, many people are frustrated and disgusted with the Democratic Party. Most of the young people I know are registering as Independents and are looking for third party options such as the Working Families Party to,throw their support behind. The Dems are in deep trouble and too blind to know it. Personally, I registered as an Independent years ago though I still support and vote Democratic. But I no longer donate or give to the Democratic Party. My donations go directly to candidates who share my beliefs and whom the National Party has written off and refuse to support. And others I know do the same thing. The National Dem Party will never get another dime of their money.
@Moonbeam. People don’t realize that Sinclair Broadcasting reaches a third of Americans homes through local news and many people receive a very partisan conservative message:
“The country’s largest owner of local TV stations, the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which reaches over a third of homes across the nation, wants to get even bigger by merging with the Tribune Media Company. But Sinclair is raising concerns among media watchers because of its practice of combining news with partisan political opinion.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/sinclair-broadcasting-puts-partisan-tilt-trusted-local-news“
@Megan and IlsaLund
I am an Independent too. I have been for years. I vote Democrat, but the party irritates me with their complete ineptitude. Pelosi and Schumer have done what? Please, someone, tell me what great strides have been made under them? I wish HRC would have won, but the Dems are out of touch and seem to think this is 2005 or something. In the eight years, Obama was our POTUS every single year, new voters became eligible so by 2016 these were 26-27-year-olds and then add the ones who began to vote, and we get up to 30 or so.
They both need to sit down.
We don’t effing make freaking deals with a Nazi. Oh look he backed out!
Quelle surprise!
actually, they are. on facebook, following a thread, the trumpers were not even trying to deny any of what transpired over the past few days…just saying “still better than Hillary”. there is no convincing them. they’re still saying stuff like “investigate her emails and lock her up!” like, WTF, what reality do they live in?
ETA notice the defensive posture he has when he’s denying. he’s so easy to read.
further note: it took him two weeks to even COMMENT on the four deceased American soldiers, but less than 24 hours to “punch back” at the Dem FEMALE rep who criticized him. this is the epitome of his persona. F everyone else, it’s always about HIM and how HE is affected. I loathe this turd.
Yes, I’ve noticed his body language, too. It’s so telling and also just so unprofessional and unpresidential. He looks like a sullen, bratty kid.
It concerns me deeply that so many adults lack the ability to recognize or acknowledge inappropriate behavior or extrapolate the potential causes and consequences of said inappropriate behavior. Are people really this dumbed down? It’s very upsetting.
And maybe just maybe people need to consider that their own personal shortcomings could be having a direct effect on their lot in life, rather than uppity women or encroaching POC. Wild, I know.
McCain is hinting at a cover up. I hope he calls for a Congressional Hearing over this.
Pretty much guys. They still post meme after disparaging meme about Hillary even though Trump is president. He literally could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. It would still be Hillary’s fault.
It’s so damn embarrassing. Literally every single day he spews something vile from his tiny brain and out of his big mouth.
@denise. You can cut the Middle America crap because there were states on opposite coasts that he won the electorate. I am sick of hearing this. Stop thinking east and west coast is above it all.
Unless you count Alaska and its whopping 3 electoral votes, no state that touches the Pacific Ocean went for Trump. Looking at the east coast states that swung for Trump, his margin of victory there was much smaller than the Middle America states. We coasters aren’t perfect, but it’s hard not to be bitter when most of us voted for Hillary in droves and yet we’re stuck with the other guy.
This is a really cool map that shows margin of victory vs. total number of votes. http://metrocosm.com/election-2016-map-3d/ The only points on the graph that have a high number of both are blue.
I can understand your frustration Tiffany! My state went blue, and has gone blue consecutively more than any other state…and we’re smack dab in middle america. Minnesota does have a lot of red around the Twin Cities, but Minneapolis is a very liberal city and a population center. We’re not all backwoods Trumpettes out here.
I want to call him every filthy, horrible, worst name in the English language, or any language, but none would come close to describing how much I detest this piece of garbage. And that last pic… I want so much to stuff one of my uncle’s massive salamis into that anusgob.
All those ignorant idiots who scrutinized Obama’s every word and rallied for Trump nonstop are suddenly very quiet on their own pages, they don’t post constant memes or support for him anymore. I’m seeing them on Facebook news pages talking about other things that have nothing to do with how awful Trump is, like the NFL and abortion issues, which tells me outlets like Fox and conservative sites are probably doing some major distraction pieces, and of course they still talk about Obama and Clinton. Anytime I dare to challenge them I get told I’m a snowflake or need a paci, no actual thought out arguments, lol, it’s their go to statement because they’re too fkng stupid to think for themselves.
A condolence letter has been sitting on his desk for about 10 days. Trump just didn’t deal with it. Some one in the WH leaked it to Politico and there was an article yesterday.
He is awful.
He is a vile pig. I’m disgusted in him, all who voted for him and all his pathetic minions. This time will be looked back upon with shame and disgrace. I love my country but right now I’m angry and afraid. Shame on you Trump. Shame on you Republicans. Shame on you America.
I’m not sure that I love my country anymore. Look at what we’ve become and how quickly and easily we became it. The past year has really lifted the curtain on some deeply disturbing problems with our country.
I just wish those of us who didn’t vote for this ahole could take our country back. Deport the Trumpsters already.
I haven’t loved this country since Ferguson. That’s when my active activism really kicked in
Remember when John Edwards said there were two Americas? He sure was right.
I live in very blue Maryland. I keep hoping the blue states somehow secede even if its not realistic. So tired of the Midwest and Florida deciding our fate every 4 years.
@ Nicole – How could you possibly love a country that treats black Americans with such disregard? It is enraging and appalling. The only thing worse than the way we treat our citizens of color is the sheer number of us who turn a blind eye.
I don’t even know what to say anymore.
We are disgusting.
@Megan-YES I do remember that quote from Edwards. IIRC he was referring to unequal distribution of wealth. Sadly, the economic gap will inevitably become greater in the next three years. We are so f*cked.
@Angela82 – I’ve said the same about New England but I’d be MORE than willing to take Maryland with us. Hell, New York too…Cali…every sanctuary city. How can we make this happen?
Its like loving an abuser…until you wake up and realize what it is
Kitten, you and all non-trumpers are welcome to join Canada. We’d be happy to have you guys. You’ll pay higher taxes but you’ll get healthcare, control over your reproductive rights, less racism (not perfect, we’re working on things) and a PM who makes us Liberals proud (yes, the conservatives hate him, but whatever.) What do you say?
@Kitten: I curse this country every day and I’m so tired of people telling me I have to love America or I should leave it. First off I think part of trying to love something is to be critical of everything wrong with it. And America has a lot of wrong with it. Secondly, it isn’t as simple as “leave”. Another country would have to accept me and then I would have to try to find a job among millions who have lived in that country all their life and have paid taxes. I doubt I could ever get any type of refugee status or benefits. I am perfectly fine saying I don’t like America and that is just how it has to be until some radical changes occur but I am not holding my breath. Part of this being a free country (if it even is these days) is being allowed to feel how I want to feel. I am sick of folks being ok w/ police brutality and (yes) flat out murder of POC and now Orange Hitler who is so inept he can’t even fake empathy for dead soldiers, but heaven forbid someone kneels. We also have a congress that doesn’t give a rats a$$ about its own citizens. What happened to having a government that served the people??? Fox News has done a number on at least 1/3 of the population.
@vauvert: That is my back up plan as a dual citizen (I am lucky). I told my mom if we even make it the 4 years and he gets re-elected I’m leaving. I am barely holding it together right now. About the only thing keeping me from following through as a dual Canadian citizen is my cushy Fed job and retirement. That being said I have been shopping around a bit to see if any Canadian gov’t jobs are available for when I depart lol.
@ Kitten, I get what you are saying totally. But the majority didn’t vote for him. His opponents giving up is what the minority of his supporters want. I know how frustrating it is but yet I have no clue how truly frustrating it is for African Americans. I know it is so disheartening & exhausting, but we can’t give up.
I like your comments on this site & just trying to give a little moral support & group *hug*.
Hai guys. Sorry to be the wet noodle of the day, but I really don’t like all the secession talk, even if it’s kind of a joke. That scares the sh!t out of me, to be honest, because what about those of us that live in red states but have blue hearts? I was born in GA, I’ve lived here all my life, and I’m still in my early twenties without the financial stability to just up and move to a new state if I need to. I’m terrified of being stuck in the Republican States of America if something like that ever did come to pass. I know there are plenty of ass-backwards people here that would LOVE to secede and become their own little red country and just let this chaos continue to drag us further into the bowels of hell. What about those of us that didn’t vote for Trump but get caught up in that, hypothetically? Plus, it feels weird to talk about secession with people still waiving real-life confederate flags and believing everything that stands for. I just don’t think we should go there, jmo.
And really… even if this country is kind of sh!t and breaking our hearts every which way (climbs up on soapbox), if we really do believe in what we say we believe in, don’t we have to fight like hell for that? I don’t know if I know the right words for what I mean, and I’m honestly kind of emotional typing this so I hope it makes sense. But if we do hold ourselves to the standard of being kinder, more compassionate, and more human than the toxic leeches that have invaded our leadership right now, don’t we have to fight like hell to keep this country, this whole country, moving in a more positive direction? Even if, right now, that simply means doing everything we can to keep us from regressing too far backward until we can vote in better leadership and move forward again? Isn’t that what we think America is? Idk. Maybe I’m naive. But I’m just feeling a lot of feels this morning and you guys are my people, so this is where I let it out. Hugs.
Right now I am disgusted with America. My fellow citizens literally make me sick to my stomach. But I am an American because this country gave refugee to persecuted religious minorities on both sides of my family. Frankly, I feel obligated to keep working to make America a better place.
Right now I am more beat down and discouraged than I have ever been, but my mom assures me when she was a young civil rights worker there were more dark moments than light moments, but they knew their cause was right and they soldiered on.
I don’t love America anymore. I am ashamed of this country. I tried to believe that the good nature of Americans would win out, and then they voted for him.
Sure there was cheating blah blah, but the blame is squarely on the shoulders of Trump voters. I don’t want to hear about people not voting, or Bernie bros or Russian bots or HRC didn’t go to Michigan. The fault is that 60 million people went to a voting booth and chose a man who has been an insane, vile, corrupt butt boil his whole life.
Blame them. It is their fault.
I don’t want to hear a single dolt say they didn’t know he was like this. BS he came down the escalator spouting racist garbage with his ridiculous wife in that tacky, trashy tower. WhoTF said OH THAT GUY LOOKS LEGIT! Who in their right mind would look at that idiot and think he would make a great POTUS. Dumbass Americans that is who. I rebuke every single ashole who voted for him. I don’t care if you suffer. I don’t care if you have an opioid crisis. I DGAF if you can’t get your medications. I DGAF if you can’t get a job. I DGAF if their lives are cesspools of misery. They are all dead to me.
That isn’t even my nature. I prided myself on being an empathetic person who cared about people and could see the good in everyone. I used to think surely the majority of Americans know when things are unjust and want a peaceful, prosperous country. I didn’t realize how rotten to the core this country is and how many maggots like it that way. I tried. I gave my time and money to causes and had been fighting for equality along with my parents since I was a toddler. Seriously there are pictures of me with my parents at events and protests as a baby. My passionate causes such as the environment, animals, feminism, racism, bigotry, justice, poverty, gender issues, healthcare, and peace are gleefully spit on and handled with such cruelty that it takes my breath away. I didn’t believe in these things for myself, I wanted it for everyone all over the world and thought America’s heart was in the same place.
I am not who I used to be anymore, and I tried to cling to hope, but I am changed, and there is bitterness in my soul now. I think a little of my innocence and optimism died when they allowed George Zimmerman to go free. I think about Trayvon Martin every day, and I still cry about him. He represents for me the moment I began to recognize that there was something very ugly in this nation beyond what I ever imagined.
I see them all now. I hate them. I hate 60 million people who live in this country who voted for 45 and his cohorts. I don’t mean dislike. I mean hate, and I refuse to let it consume me, so I direct it where it belongs. No one who voted for him is welcome in my life, and that includes family. The only person I have ever hated like I hate 45 is Adolph Hitler for murdering 6 million of my people and the 3 million others who went down with us. It is a black deep endless loathing that I have to categorize mentally, or it will consume me.
My heart is all in for everyone else who tried and keeps trying. The good of this I have grown and want to keep growing. But I may have to grow in another country if it gets much worse. I don’t owe this country my taxes or the futures of my children so if it doesn’t turn around I am determined to live elsewhere, probably Canada.
So every voter who threw our country under the bus is responsible for every last thing that happens to us. Every Tweet. Every Nazi march. Every disrespected soldier. Every baby and child that dies from lack of healthcare. For every citizen who died in the wildfires. Every citizen who died in PR and the Virgin Islands. Every immigrant who is deported back to violence. Every black man killed by cops. Every person who dies lack of medical treatment or from reckless deregulation, gun violence, and injustice. It is all on them.
@Megan: Exactly – sadly my own family disgusts me. Well those who voted for this a-hole and continue to devolve into right wing racist Christian extremists. I don’t care if they are my elders. If you voted for someone like Trump (and worse haven’t regretted) that’s all I need to know about you. I really hate feeling this way about America. I had my dark periods during W, but nothing like I feel since Nov 9. I never felt deep shame to say I live here.
That being said I am going to continue to press on. I think living in a blue state has helped my mental state some. I feel bad for those who are blue and live in chronically red states. I honestly couldn’t do it. I tell my boyfriend all the time I wouldn’t mind leaving DC/MD but there is no way I am going any further South.
@magnoliarose: You have summed up my feelings perfectly. I told my mom I may skip out on Thanksgiving this year. I don’t want to interact with my psycho aunt who voted for this orange creature. Her hate and faux Christianity (that masks racism) is not welcome in my life. Its bad enough Thanksgiving is all about American Indians being slaughtered.
Lately I find it hard to not go on a “I hate America” tirade. My parents expect me to differentiate b/w this administration and their evil and America itself. And obviously more people voted for Hillary. But like you said there are 62 million who were ok voting for someone who is the definition of evil and inhumane. Honestly this America is the reason he is there and I cannot separate it.
@Angela82 I live in DC and it is a bastion of liberalism. City council is currently discussing the decriminalization of sex work.
yeah, trump voters are the ones to blame for him getting in, but the Rs in congress are to blame for him still BEING in.
they have plenty of reasons to remove him from office but they choose not to because they want to pass their agenda…which they can’t even do while holding both the senate and the house. party over country. and it’s sick.
YES this really should not be overlooked and cannot be stated often enough. The GOP is making this happen and the 2018 mid-terms have never been more crucial.
I hate, loathe, despise, revile this subhuman waste of flesh. If my Roget’s were handy, I’d have more words.
I think I’ve run out of words to describe the lowlife douchbag occupying the W.H. And a hearty f**k you to all his enablers who help keep him there. Will there ever come a time when McConnell, Ryan, and other Republicans put their country ahead of their blasted party?
You guys are doing great with the descriptions. I like the conclusions reached yesterday on, I believe, Nicole Wallace’s show. Will Trump ever reach an ultimate low? The unanimous answer was NO.
I watch Nicole and her disgust soothes me sometimes.
This nightmare is intolerable. Mueller needs to work faster.
Agreed! Haven’t heard anything lately either. Between 45, NK and the constant attacks on health care I’m a mess of anxiety and fear. Not even being dramatic. I think about it daily. Especially NK. How is all of this going to end???
Really? Mueller just interviewed Sean Spicer, all day on monday. Yesterday, Sessions testified and it was a doozy.
Not that anything will happen, he committed perjury, again, but it will just be glossed over.
Then there is this, which is certainly not getting enough air time:
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/920052036120596480
and if you don’t follow Seth, I suggest you do. Excellent information, easy to read and understand.
I loathe him. I watched Rachel Maddow’s show last night. Something is really going on here. What really happened in Niger? Trump is desperate not to draw attention to it. I was crying watching the video of Myeisha Johnson greet her husband’s casket and the look on her daughter’s face. Someone said it reminded them of the JFK Jr saluting his father’s casket and that really resonated with me.
We need a full investigation into the Niger situation. Why are we even there? But our troops there were put at greater risk when Chad pulled out. And why did Chad pull out? In retaliation for being on Orange Voldy’s Muslim Ban list. Trump’s bigotry got those four troops killed and then he disrespected them and their families.
Maybe then we can add little Niger 4 ribbons to our Twitter pictures, make little poems called The Boys of Niger, call Trump the Butcher of Niger, make bumper stickers saying Trump lied and four died… Remember Niger, have shirts saying The Niger Four and have Trey Gowdy launch a full investigation.
Moon Beam, you might be joking but honestly that’s how all this anti-Hillary stuff became so incredibly pervasive. People don’t even know what they’re supporting, but as long as it’s packaged neatly into a multitude of easily digestible and sharable bits like that it works. I really think you might be onto something, when it comes to combatting the right’s garbage.
LP – I believe the soldiers were meeting with local leaders in regards to information on Boko Haram. There are reports from surviving soldiers that the leaders delayed them when they were done – they believe they were set up to be ambushed.
French soldiers/air support had to come in and pull out the wounded & killed. I believe the article I read said they were leading the investigation into what happened and why things went bad.
I think the biggest Qs are why was Sgt. Johnson the only one separated from his group and why did it take 2 days to find his body. Did they leave him behind?
@ archiegoodwin what was the tweet? It got taken down I think
It was a pop up, maybe it just didn’t load for you? anyway, here is the article
https://newrepublic.com/article/145323/donald-trump-installing-mole-mueller-probe
I hadn’t heard of this source, but Seth is right on target so if he reposted it, I trust it.
Yes, follow Seth. The tweet still exists. Sometimes, removing the s before the : helps.
@archiegoodwin thank you! That is a very concerning article. I hope Muller has his game plan in motion and is staying 2 steps ahead.
I know but I’m thinking more and more that we can’t count on Mueller. The scary fact is nothing may come of his work. The only way to get rid of Trump is to win at the polls.
Have hope. Watergate took awhile.
Yes I made peace with this very likely outcome months ago. This is all so disheartening and depressing but we need to keep resisting however we can.
We shouldn’t be putting all our hope and faith in Mueller because there is no certain outcome at this point.
I have more faith in Mueller than I do in the polls.
It’s like the worst person you went to elementary school with became president…at that age!
I said early in his campaign he’s like that kid who wants to be class president so badly they claim all the vending machines will be free.
He cannot even lie convincingly. We see through you, U BUM.
I’ll say it now…f*ck trump supporters and enablers. Screw the NFL for pretending that standing for the anthem is more important than black lives. And screw trump for being the biggest POS in charge of this so called great nation.
I’m frankly embarrassed to even call myself American
He’s mentally ill and as mean spirited a bully as Harvey Weinstein. His cavalier, cruel attitude toward the wife of a fallen soldier (and given his previous racist behavior it most definitely is because the soldier was black ), and the lying to Gold Star family member that he is sending money is appalling.
dump’s twitter raging against NFL players not being patriotic is a projection, deflection, a dump game that has wasted our time as a nation and is being orchestrated by Putin.
Don’t even get me started on evil Koch and Mercer puppet Pence.
We are living in a very dangerous time.
Everything is awful. I can’t think of anything else to say.
Yep that about covers it. No need to elaborate. Life is shit.
I have always been proud to be an American, but not anymore. My government is such an embarrassment to me, I just don’t have the words to describe how disheartened I feel. I NEVER thought we’d ever go back in time to a place where such blatant racism and discrimination was able to thrive so visibly and enthusiastically. It just appall me; I am truly filled with horror that, as a daughter of a Holocaust survivor, who thought blatant prejudice was on the wane, and that, in 2017, our country was making strides towards acceptance of ALL people, that we are literally drowning in this shitstorm that is Trump.
I am truly ashamed to admit I am an American. This is NOT what I believe in; this is NOT what I stand for. I awake every day and look at my phone’s news alerts wondering what fresh hell this incompetent a$$hole has started. And I will continue to fight with everything I am to oppose him/this.
To the rest of the world/the rest of you: I am truly sorry for my fellow citizens who voted in this horror show.
Every time he talks I try to imagine the same words coming out of Obama’s mouth.
Would NEVER happen!!!
and yet imaging the apoplectic rage if they ever had. it would be 24/7 on Faux news.
I play that game alot. What if Obama had done or said such things? What if Hillary had won but was this incompetent day in and day out? His supports do Olympic Gold worthy mental gymnastics to justify the things he says as OK.
Sanders range of expressions-sullen to I smelled a fart. But don’t worry, Sarah, after you’re gone from our lives I’m sure you’ll be able to get a job shilling for a tobacco company or an assault rifle company.
I can easily envision her selling assault weapons with a ciggie dangling from her grimacing mouth and in a Arkansas gun shed that passes as a store. Muttering incomprehensibly.
This is mean and trivial of me. But Aidy Bryant is far too adorable to play Sanders on SNL. I demand Zach Galifinakis. I have seen him nail that accent in several films. I want him to scream “It’s Infrastructure week, ya’ll.” Jersusha, I don’t have to tell you Sanders is a disgrace to our part of the world.
@third ginger. Latest poll in Alabama-Jones 42%, RacistHomophobicMisogynistic Pig 42%. In ALABAMA!! You’d think the RHM Pig would be eight points ahead, at least.
Vote Doug Jones! @GDouglasJones should anyone care to help out.
No, I agree with you, Aidy is beautiful and can’t dim the sparkle in her eyes enough to really capture the cruelty of dead-eyed Sarah.
Sanders is really appalling. As well as the awful contents of what she says, she is charmless, monotone, inarticulate, humourless, and is wearing too much eye make up. That’s it.
I call her, Sarah gets-uglier-with-every-word Hucabee Sanders.
That makeup leftover is courtesy of Scaramouche, who loved the MUA who did him for his press conferences, and had the her do Sullen Sanders as well. Apparently, she kept her on the payroll.
I never truly realized before this, you really CAN’T put lipstick on a pig and expect any change.
Oh Jesus. These people! We’re in Germany, most of us are sceptical of our military and our soldiers – for the obvious reasons. All hell would break lose if our Chancellor – any official, really – would be this disrespectful to the family of a fallen soldier. No one would come out in his defense, no one! I’m so sorry for the Johnson family. They should not have to put up with this!
Seriously. Next time I hear a Trumpster preach about patriotism and respecting our troops I will seriously lose it.
Kitten, Kitten… don’t realize… it’s only WHITE troops that count!! Not any men/women of color. Silly you! (sarcasm)
To those miscreants, that’s all that matters.
It’s still hard processing last year we had Obama who was a decent, kind and patriotic man who truly respected this country and its people, even those that didn’t like him or his politics. Now we have a venal, man baby that hates anyone who didn’t vote for him or disagrees with him.
This disgusting monster needs to go, and his enablers need to go just as fast. Yesterday, I watched all of this online all day and night, (still have no cable) and cried. How can anyone, his family, supporters or politicians, think this is okay for him to do? The leader of our country should have a heart and manners, not be so cold, thoughtless, and rude. Enough is enough!
There never really is a low with this man, is there. Not for him and certainly not for the people slavishly following him STILL. The latest defense is that “well, he’s just awkward and didn’t really know what to say, IS THAT A CRIME? LIBERALS WILL PICK ON ANYTHING”.
He’s the godd*amn PRESIDENT. How f*cking hard is it to simply stick to “I’m sorry for your loss. The country supports you and your husband La David’s sacrifice will not be forgotten”. Write it down on a f*cking piece of paper if you don’t think you can remember that much. Not to mention, I’m pretty certain that every single military family is all too aware of what they signed up for every single time a loved one is called up. There was absolutely zero need for this remark, but it’s like he has to make sure you know that nothing can in any way be blamed on him.
Obama was excoriated for among other things, not wearing a flag pin on his lapel. Can you imagine the unending howls if he had done this?
And then to double down on such a ridiculous, cruel lie even when there is proof that he has done so. And calling in his press room harpy to chime in.
What an evil, soulless man.
Obama was excoriated for eating Dijon mustard and wearing a tan suit. I long for the days of such “scandals”
He was excoriated for existing.
I still hear people commenting on a pair of”mom jeans” that he wore one time. There’s nothing bad to say about Obama, so they’re desperate enough to say he’s terrible for eaing mustard and a couple of outfits he wore
And don’t forget, Michelle had the nerve to show her arms! Although it was perfectly fine with the R’s when Melania wore that tight white top about ten days ago that clearly showed her nipples.
Giddy, please remember that MO has the Constitutional Right to bare arms! Thank you, I’ll be here all week.
How hard is it to just sign a ffin Hallmark card and mail it? If he’s that inept he should not be allowed to speak.
Military personnel who have to break the news to the families are actually trained not to say such things. That’s common phrasing at events for the military themselves, but it doesn’t go over well with the civilian survivors. Vets have been saying this was a bad thing to say, and of course he should have at least learned the man’s name. Referring to her husband as just “your guy” really upset his widow.
I’m very disappointed with Kelly once again. He actually defended the Orange Maroon and apparently only said Obama hadn’t called him (the father) when he knew very well that Obama followed the proper protocol of calling his son’s widow. He also made it sound as though there was nothing wrong with saying he knew what he was signing up for. Kelly should have taken the training course for people who have to make such calls and visits. He should know how inappropriate and anger-inducing that sounds to a civilian who has just lost someone so important to them. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised, considering the awful things Kelly ordered when with Homeland Security. He didn’t know or care about how refugee and immigrant families felt, either.
They had the congress woman call on the View yesterday. I literally cried in front of my son. That poor family. I cannot fathom the pain and terror of navigating a pregnancy as you bury your beloved.
Sick. Just sickening. Please stop the world, I want to get off.
On MSNBC yesterday, the anchor was narrating the film of the widow leaning over to kiss her husband’s casket. I think the anchor was Stephanie Ruhle, and she became overwhelmed and started crying. That’s because she’s kind, and empathetic , and has real human emotions. The sociopath in the WH has no idea why people are upset.
I could feel my heart turning over when I watched it..
Today Stephanie Ruhle is trying to give the Dotard the benefit of the doubt. I just don’t understand why the press keeps catering to the Dotard and trying to make excuses for him. She even went so far as to state that even Obama didn’t call all of the families.
I did too. I cried and I couldn’t even post on that thread yesterday. I have no words but only tears for that family. Gofundme raised money for the family but it will never erase their loss and treatment from that lunatic in DC.
I’m happy about the gofundme. Their account is up over $600,000. I’m so glad his widow will have the finances to help her be there for her children. It’s one of the only decent thing to come out of this. Condolences to Myeshia Johnson and her children. (The 13 thousand+ contributors to the gofundme are amazing and decent people too)
This is all a defective game. Go back and watch the Sessions hearing. Not only is he in contempt of congress but he admittedly perjured himself.
At least watch Maddow’s show from last night.
Yep. All distraction. I wonder if that’s what took him so long to respond?
I’m so glad that Rachel brought up the fact that no one seems to be investigating what actually happened in Niger.
John McCain is. He says the White House is not being “up front” about the attack and giving him the documents his committee needs to investigate.
The French are. Their troops and air support were the ones to go in an pull out the wounded and the killed. Not sure what that means for us but at least some government branch somewhere is saying hold on a minute…
The Dotard and WH spent 24 hours attacking a gold star family because there are no adults in the WH and the GOP are too afraid of what the Russians have on them to stop the Dotard.
The Dotard seems to think that everyone, including gold star families simply exist to stroke his ego. This was supposed to be about the gold star families, but the Dotard wanted it to be another praisefest like the one he received from the governor of Puerto Rico and Jennifer. This is why the Dotard is upset. He called the families and he wanted the families to then give interviews praising him just like he made the officials in Puerto Rico sit around a table and praise him during his visit to PR. This needs to stop. The Dotard treats this presidency like it’s one big reality tv show. He tells lies because no one is making him pay for the consequences of his actions. He bullies because the systems put in place to discipline him have given him a pass. The press gave the Dotard way too much credit, he wasn’t deflecting by attacking gold star families yesterday. The Dotard is scared because Mueller is getting close( I hope that Mueller doesn’t fall into the same complicity trap that we saw Burr do) and upset because this presidency is not going the way he played it out in his head. He thinks about one thing and that’s himself.
The most disturbing thing, were the people outside of the WH who were defending the Dotard’s comments to the gold star family. Chris Matthews has done many segments on how the Dotard tells half-truths(he refuses to call the Dotard’s lies lies) and his lack of empathy, but yesterday Chris Matthews decided that compared to the 2 congresswomen and the soldier’s mother, that the Dotard was the virtue of honesty.
Republicans aren’t afraid of what Russia has on them, they are ride or die for Trump.
Trump will hurt as many people as he has to, in order to create a smokescreen of outrage to hide his crimes.
You’ve said it. This pattern is so evident.
Insane twitter ranting this morning about: the budget & taxes; the media not paying attention to that ridiculous story of Hillary selling all the US uranium to Russia & keeping the money for herself; and who paid for the dossier with the pee tape?
And retweeting Fox and Friends.
SMDH it’s hard to believe that it’s a real person tweeting this bullshit.
This is Russian bot-level nonsense.
Because he is vindictive and petty, he lets his bitterness against Obama overshadow his life and ends up worsening situations.
Get this motherfucker out of the White House by any means necessary. He is an abomination and a dangerous one at that.
The most disturbing thing is the article that Politico wrote. A source(Ivanka) leaked the “draft” of a sympathy letter that the WH staff(Ivanka) supposedly wrote on Oct 5 about the fallen soldiers. There are many red flags with Politico’s story.
Why were we just hearing about this letter on Wednesday? Sarah didn’t say anything about this letter on Monday or Tuesday. It was only after the backlash continued to build against the Dotard that Sarah and a WH source(Ivanka) announced the existence of the draft letter.
Sarah was asked about the soldiers weeks ago and she didn’t mention this draft letter once. If the draft letter existed on Oct 5 like Politico’s source claimed, then why wasn’t it read that very same day the WH reporter first brought up to fallen soldiers to Sarah? Possibly because the letter didn’t exist until yesterday.
According to the WH source, the draft was never released or given to the Dotard because the WH staff all agreed that it would sound better coming from Sarah. See the problem with Politico’s article? Why would a statement about the 4 fallen soldiers sound better coming from Sarah, the WH spokesperson who SNL labeled as full of nonsense? How stupid does Politico think we are? This should have been an indication to them that the source who showed them the draft letter is conning them.
Then there are the Dotard’s own statements. He said that he didn’t write the letters to the families until the day of the press release in the garden. Why would he have to write letters, if that draft letter already existed because according to the source it was written on Oct 5?
Politico said that the person who wrote the draft letter hung up on them when they called. Why?
“46% of Americans think the Media is inventing stories about Trump & his Administration.” @FoxNews It is actually much worse than this!”-The Dotard
Yesterday it was revealed that an account that had been retweeted by the Dotard and his supporters was a Russian bot. How many times does this have to happen before the press wakes up? The majority of the Dotard supporters are bots. It would be interesting if the press were able to determine what percentage of the 30% and the 98% of the GOP voters who still support the Dotard are actually bots. You can watch them in action as they attack anyone who the Dotard targets. First there won’t be any negative comments about the person and then within minutes the timeline is full of negative comments about the person. The real focus should be on what percentage of the “Americans” who took that poll were really Russian bots. Another thing about this poll is that it greatly contradicts previous polls that said that people believe the press over the Dotard and that the Dotard is very dishonest and tells lies.
I don’t believe the polls for a second. Once they revealed how many of his followers were fakes I believe nothing.
After the election I’ll never believe or be confident in the validity of a poll again. I commented the other day – i have not put my strongly disapprove vote in any poll about approval and I know at least 10 other people who haven’t so I hold out hope those stats are missing a lot of people.
No online poll should be believed. It is easy to use software to quickly load them up with false responses.
There is a similar problem with online petitions, actually. Not sure how seriously they are taken as a result.
Why do you think Ivanka was the leak?
Also, Politico’s article wasn’t about personal condolence letters. It was a statement, cleared by Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, meant for the general public to address the fact four Special Forces soldiers were killed in action, where it happened, express the President’s condolences to the families of the fallen. It is pretty boiler plate and sadly way too routine. If Donald Trump decided not to use this prepared statement why would Sarah bring it up? Why tell the press of the existence of such a statement if it will never be released? I can see some one as illiterate as Donald Trump thinking something said on TV at the podium carries more weight than something written. He was wrong. We needed to hear something from our President, even if only a written statement, not something from Sarah. I’m sure a draft of the standard statement for these types of situations was written for him and vetted by the appropriate agencies the day it happened. This inept White House chose not to use it. Leading to the bad optics of the president not talking about the death of these four men for twelve days, leading to his bizarre lie about Obama and his treatment of Gold Star Families to change the narrative.
I am torn on if this is idiocy or a cover up of something about Niger. It wouldn’t have been much of a story if he had issued that prewrittten, vetted statement. There is a little surprise we have troops there but it mostly would have been sad and ended. Then because he went twelve days he was asked about it. The question was asked in a way that made the President feel criticized and he doesn’t respond well to that. So he did what he does lied and compared himself favorably to his favorite punching bag, Obama. He didn’t answer the question but he built himself back up. That is the case for stupidity.
The case for cover up is the White House knew whatever Sarah said October 5th in a press briefing would carry way less weight and get much less attention as opposed to even a written statement from the President. They wanted to keep this quite. For reasons we don’t know they had failed to recover Sargent La David Johnson’s body by this point. Something went terribly wrong and they were ambushed in Niger and this administration decided the best way to keep it quite is go against protocol and not have the President talk about it. When he was asked a question he diverted the national conversation from Niger to how he treat Gold Star Families. He had to know he was less than perfect when it came to how he has handled Gold Star Families for the time he has been in office but still would rather talk about that than Niger. Plus, now he/The White House are stonewalling John McCain from looking into it. So something could be fishy.
Ivanka’s job in the WH is to make her and her father look good. In this instance she is trying to shift the blame. They want us to think that the blame lies with the person who decided that Sarah, not the Dotard, should deliver the sympathy message. If this letter existed, Sarah would have said something about it on Monday and Tuesday, not Wednesday.
That’s just it. The “source” told Politico that the letter was drafted by someone at the NSC , but if that was the case someone would have said something much earlier instead of on Oct 18 when the backlash against the Dotard was building. They said that they tried to contact the person who supposedly wrote the letter, but he hung up on them. They also said that the letter had been widely circulated, but then again, it would have leaked back then and not yesterday. I think that someone(Ivanka and Sarah) wrote that letter yesterday, sent it to Politico yesterday, and falsified the dates to make it look like it was written on Oct 5. The Dotard couldn’t refer to the letter when he spoke in the garden on Monday because the letter didn’t exist until Wednesday.
I also agree that they don’t want anyone to know what they were doing in Niger. Could it have something to do with their statement about how they defeated ISIS by taking back Raqaa? They didn’t want to report the negative stories because it would kill the buzz they were trying to get from the positive stories?
I read on a website that has been at times correct and at times hyperbolic (so take the following with massive grains of salt), that Russia entered a military cooperation agreement with Niger in August (I have fact checked this, and it is true). This was an area where the US had dozens of missions previously, and they never encountered combatants, much less enemy fire. They were in an unarmored truck. They said this ambush was really suspicious and incredibly surprising.
The article suggested that it was perhaps Russia that targeted our troops. Trump is in a bind to hold them accountable.
Additionally, Chad pulled hundreds of their troops from Niger. They were upset at being placed on Trumps travel ban, so they were no longer willing to help in the fight against Boko Haram. This could also have contributed to our troops being more vulnerable.
What is so hard about saying they still don’t know the complete story and are investigating and so can’t comment right now except to express their sorrow for the loss of lives and condolences to the families? Instead, Trump made it all about himself again and called good people liars.
And why would the letters be delayed anyway? Those would be boilerplate, the President just has to sign them.
Did you see who was pushing Russian propaganda prior to the election?
Yep…Jr. and KellyAnne.
Deflect!
Preibus and Spicer interviewed by Mueller for hours each?
Distract!
yes, I read that too. And Jared’s investments/borrowed money? like that. are coming due, something like 1.32 billion, and he doesn’t have it.
Oh, that’s juicy and I didn’t know it!! Do you have an article where I can read more?
Yet these two “headlines” get maybe one minute mentions last night, while the Gold Star issue (created by Tweeter) gets most of the air time. He knows exactly what he’s doing to shift the focus.
The press also missed another disgusting part of The Dotard’s statement in the garden. The Dotard asked why the families don’t call him first and why does he have to be the first to call. So you see, the Dotard seems to think that he should be celebrated and praised under any and every circumstance. Hurricane in Puerto Rico. What’s the proper response according to the Dotard? Praise him. 4 soldiers are ambushed and killed. What’s the proper response according to the Dotard? The families of the fallen soldiers have to praise him. This isn’t about deflecting or creating a diversion. The Dotard is upset because he isn’t being praised. Where are the adults in the WH?
That’s absolutely DISGUSTING. Why would they call him?????
Mueller is closing in, and faster than anyone anticipated. That’s why Donnie Two Scoops tweets about the Steele Dossier and implying the FBI is corrupt.
It’s going to be a great Christmas season!
I admire your optimism so much, Eric, and I truly hope you’re right.
Because this cannot continue.
WE cannot continue like this.
Kitten.
I and 65 million Americans and an untold number of world-wide resistors have your back!
Right back atcha, Eric.
You have that awesome bench in Cali doing great work, too.
You should be very proud of your state. ♥
I really hope you are right, Eric.
Yeah I guess it’s not too bad having Schiff, Harris, Brown, Feinstein, Lieu and an awesome AG.
But Rorhbacher and Nunes have to go! Jesus!
Monster surrounded by minions. It’s not about political affiliation. This man is just a monster. Heartless.
Sarah Suckabee Slanders in particular annoys me. How does the good Christian justify all the blatant lies on behalf of her hateful, incompetent, dangerous, train wreck of a boss?? How is this ok? Is this what Jesus would do? It’s pure shameless evil.
Kitten. Where on the globe are you?
Boston, Mass. We have some good peeps too with Warren, Moulton, AG Healy etc.
I have fam out west in Simi Valley, San Diego, San Fran.
I usually go out there to visit every couple of years but it’s been a while so I’m due. Probably drag the BF with me so he can meet everyone. But I think we will skip San Diego as my family there are the only Trumpsters, the rest are liberals.
Kitten.
Nice!
Have to admit we do resist hard on the coasts! We are working on a sea of blue states here on the west side.
Stay strong (Boston Strong!)
Yesterday was such a low day. Maybe the lowest since this piece of orange garbage took office. Watching La David’s widow and little girl by his coffin was just it for me. I don’t how people can actually stomach that this POS is our president 🙁
The Dotard is still self congratulating himself about his “response” to Puerto Rico. Just as I suspected, the governor of Puerto Rico is still failing Puerto Rico by using this opportunity to praise the Dotard. The last time the governor was interested in praising the Dotard, he purposely under reported the death toll(he claimed that it was 16) just because the Dotard gave an interview and said that the death toll was very low. The death toll may be much higher than what Rosello is reporting(he claimed that it was 34 once the Dotard left Puerto Rico), before the Dotard’s visit to appear Puerto Rico it was reported that he was trying to manipulate the death toll numbers to make it appear lower.
Rosello called for equal treatment, but he refuses to be honest with the Dotard. Why does Rosello keep praising the Dotard for a job that he didn’t do? Rosello sat there and did nothing as the Dotard told more lies and said more horrible things about Puerto Rico. Rosello’s complicity is causing more harm for Puerto Rico.
When the Dotard asked Rosello if he and his administration did a great job, Rosello said that the Dotard responded immediately. Rosello says that he wants equal treatment for Puerto Rico and instead of confronting the Dotard’s lies, he helps to facilitate them. We know that the Dotard didn’t respond immediately to Puerto Rico because he was too busy tweeting about the NFL and take a knee.
I’ve literally spent 2 months not reading/watching any news regarding ol’ poophole mouth. It’s been the most peaceful, blissfully ignorant 2 months of my adult life. I only commented on this threat because the header pic is poopholier than I’ve seen him in a while and, well, 14 Hands.
Can he just… you know, go? Go to hell, Donald.
Once again, John Kelly proves that he is just as complicit and unstable as everyone else in that WH. John Kelly is not the adult in the WH, he is just another one of the Dotard’s puppets who has a bad habit of leaking positive stories about himself to the press. When the Dotard said that John Kelly was his proof against the congressman, what the Dotard meant was that John Kelly was going to give a press release attacking the congresswoman.
Kelly allowed The Dotard to use his son’s death to support the lie he told about Obama on Monday, and John Kelly claims that he was so mad about what the congresswoman said about the Dotard’s comments MJ that he had to take a walk in the cemetery?
Kelly said that he was stunned that a member of congress would listen in on the conversation with the president, but wasn’t he in the room and listening to the Dotard as he talked with the widow?
John Kelly also confirmed that Obama didn’t call him when his son died, so for all those press who felt sorry for Kelly when the Dotard used his son’s death, the Dotard only used Kelly’s son’s death because Kelly allowed and okayed it.
Kelly also said that he told the Dotard to say, “He knew what he was getting into”. Didn’t the Dotard say that he never said those words to the widow? Kelly is taking the fall for the Dotard. It’s not the first time Kelly has done this. When the Dotard rolled out the first version of his Muslim Ban, Kelly told Congress it was partly his fault that the roll out was so chaotic.
Kelly also said that he was the one who told the Dotard not to call the families. So why didn’t the Dotard just say that on Monday instead of spreading lies about Obama?
Kelly also said that he might get rid of calling the families.
Kelly also repeated the Dotard’s claims that Obama and other presidents didn’t always call the families.
Because of his words and actions today, people feel like they were dubbed by John Kelly. One person wrote that today we learned that Kelly won’t save us from the Dotard. Many are directly saying that John Kelly is definitely not the adult in the WH. If the press had did their job, people would have come to this conclusion about John Kelly a long time ago. Kelly was never the adult in the WH, that was the just the stories that Kelly leaked to make himself look good. The bots are very active praising what Kelly did today.
Yes. F*ck John Kelly. He has shown his true colors. He admits he was not in a position to know what Trump actually said, because he advised him ***BEFORE*** the call on what to say, but still tries to act like he knows what Trump did or did not say????
He ignores the fact that Obama called the WIFE of Kelly’s son, even if Obama didn’t call the parent.
Screw John Kelly for serving up propaganda and misrepresenting the truth.
I’m more disappointed in Nicole Wallace and Peter Alexander who fell for Kelly’s con, they tried to depict Kelly as a hero. She even tried to use Kelly’s words to justify the Dotard’s lie about Obama and other presidents not calling the families. Even her guests were walking on eggshells and refusing to call Kelly out for what he did and said about the congresswoman. Kelly uses the death of this son to defend the Dotard’s actions and to prevent the press from criticizing him.
Jake Tapper also fell for Kelly’s con.
The press had one job to do and today they failed. They shouldn’t be letting Kelly hide behind the death of his son like this. It would be interesting if they take a look at how the public are responding to Kelly’s speech before they praise him as a hero. People are disappointed and upset. I can’t believe how the press are fawning over and praising Kelly’s speech. This is just like all the times the press call the Dotard presidential after he reads from a teleprompter or drops a bomb.
I just got home from work and have been floored to hear the news of Kelly supporting Trump in this and doubling down on the politicization of his son’s death. As Tiffany said, F him. And F Trump and the deplorables and their faux patriotism and faux outrage on behalf of our troops.
This is a really good article, it highlights all of horrible things that Kelly did and said during his speech. I don’t understand why the public can see through Kelly’s con without any problems, but press people like Nicole Wallace, Jake Tapper, and Peter Alexander fell for it 100%.
“John Kelly’s Press Briefing Should Put an End to the Lies People Are Telling Themselves About Him”-Splinter
Silver lining: Kelly accidentally confirmed that Trump was lying when he claimed to have never said what she reported.
And why shouldn’t a Congressional Representative who is a close friend of the family be in that car and listen when the widow put the conversation on speaker? I imagine a lot of people would do just that if the President called. Inconvenient for Trump because there are witnesses. But she had every right to do it.
John Kirby on CNN commented about Kelly’s speech and he didn’t try to defend or support what Kelly said about the congresswoman. He also called out Kelly for blaming the congresswoman when The Dotard was the one who initiated this. He also stated that Kelly was misleading people. The congresswoman wasn’t listening in on the call like Kelly lead everyone to believe because the family had the phone on speakerphone and the congresswoman wasn’t the only one to hear what the Dotard said. Another reporter stated that the congresswoman had every right to be there with the family because LD had gone through her mentoring program.
Now the reporters are now trying to blame the congresswoman for exposing what the Dotard did by claiming that she was making it political. How? She said that the Dotard said something very inappropriate.
Nicole Wallace and Peter Alexander are failing us. This was their time to call out Kelly for what he did, but instead they decided to normalize Kelly and treat him like a hero. This is wrong. MSNBC is walking on eggshells refusing to criticize Kelly for his horrible behavior towards the congresswoman today.
Now the bots and conservatives are aggressively attacking the congresswoman. When will the press wake up, they need hold John Kelly accountable for his attacks on the congresswoman today.
Some people are calling out Kelly’s hypocrisy.
Why was Kelly stunned about the congresswoman listening in on the call when it was reported many times that he too was listening in on the call with the Dotard?
The congresswoman was invited to be with the family because she was LD mentor.
The family had the phone on speakerphone, so everyone who was in the car with the widow heard what the Dotard said.
How can Kelly say that women were sacred when he works for the Dotard who has harassed, groped, and said horrible things about women.
Kelly contradicted The Dotard, who said that he didn’t say “he knew what he was getting into but it still hurts the same” and that the congresswoman lied.
Kelly lays all the blame on the congresswoman, when this all started when the Dotard claimed that Obama and other presidents didn’t call the families.
Yeah, this is a pretty awful turn of events. I was hoping to hear that Kelly had resigned. To those who say he’s the only one keeping order in the WH, think again. He’s enabling Trump as mush as anyone else in their despicable administration.
I don’t trust anyone (no exceptions) who would willingly go to work in this environment. He knew what he was signing up for, and he’s clearly completely supportive of his “leader”.
And as someone who lost a son, one would think there would be simply displaying more empathy towards the soldiers’ families instead of furthering four days of haggling over calls and their content. Truly an enabler.
Keith Olbermann tweeted a comment pointing out that the Congresswoman was a family friend. The “nice” guy on Nicolle’s show today, tweeted back that Keith is not fit to lick Kelly’s boots.
I’m just so sad for America today. On one hand I respect John Kelly’s service, and my heart breaks for him as a parent losing a child. The first part of his speech brought me to tears, but then he politicized it. I can’t with his attacks on women, especially women of color. But I will never attack or demean Gold Star families no matter their politics. We have to be better than that. And they need to clue 45 into that BIGLY.