Trump’s longest-serving Chief of Staff did not realize they made men at Trump’s level of stupid.
I wrote a 12,000-word biography of John Kelly that looks at his history and his time working directly for Trump,” Schmidt said. “It tells the story of someone who came in as chief of staff thinking that Trump needed to have better processes around him. He needed to be staffed better. There needed to be a better system in the West Wing that would keep Trump on track.”
But then John Kelly realized something about Trump that even a blind and a deaf person could figure out.
“Hours and just days into Kelly’s tenure, he realized that the problem was far greater than that,” Schmidt said. “The problem was Trump. And Trump was stupider, more impulsive, more limited than he ever thought he would be. Kelly later told someone who I talked to that that he didn’t know they made human beings like that. And the biggest issue that Kelly was concerned about was whether Trump was using highly incendiary language about North Korea at the time, publicly and privately, was going to set off a massive military conflict.”
All of those on the inside understood that Trump was a clear and present danger to the entire country. Yet, the 25th Amendment was never considered seriously until he almost overthrew the country with his failed coup attempt.
America must stop flirting with disaster. We need media that is engaged without false restraints. The paradigm has changed, and the style of media reporting must change with it. Reporters must stop accumulating information solely for their books and grow a patriotic spine.
Everything insulting Trump complains about other people is what he is doing himself.
’He’s a terrorist — his wife hates Trump!’ Former president spits new venom at special counsel
During an appearance on Mark Levin’s show, Trump demanded that Smith resign from the case and accused him of being unfairly biased against him.
“The prosecutor should resign, he’s got a conflict,” Trump complained. “He is a terrorist. He is a Trump hater. His best friends are [former Mueller prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann and all of these characters, Lisa Monaco at the Justice Department, one of the top officials. This is a disgraceful situation. He should resign!”
As further evidence of Smith’s purported corruption, Trump then launched attacks against the special counsel’s wife.
“His wife hates Trump, probably even beyond him!” he fumed. “And his wife has a sister who openly hates, like a level that you can’t even believe.”
Trump has routinely attacked the integrity of attorneys who are investigating him, as he referred to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of his campaign’s contacts with Russian agents during the 2016 presidential campaign as a “witch hunt.”
GOP congressman displays Christian nationalist flag outside his congressional office
U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman has a Christian nationalist flag connected to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol displayed outside his congressional office.
On Friday morning, Grothman posted a picture of the flag — which shows an image of a pine tree and the phrase “An Appeal to Heaven” on a white background — to his Twitter account with a message inviting people to visit him in the Longworth House Office Building.
Indiana lab worker fired for threats against Eric Swalwell’s family
A lab worker in Indianapolis has been fired after sending graphically detailed threats and death fantasies to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), The Daily Beast reported. On Friday morning just after midnight, Swalwell posted the threatening message to Twitter after it was direct messaged to him, complete with a link to the perpetrator’s LinkedIn, which led to him being identified as Jonathan Reeser, an employee at Patients Choice Laboratories.
House Republicans slap down Trump’s boasts that he influenced McCarthy speaker vote
As former President Donald Trump’s influence over the Republican party continues be drained by poor election results and a growing amount of pending state and federal criminal cases, his attempt to take credit for the passing of Kevin McCarthy (R-California) into the role of Speaker of the House has been quickly rebuffed by several in the GOP. “President Trump had no influence on the votes, myself or any of my colleagues,” Bob Good (R-Virginia), one of the last holdouts from the Freedom Caucus, told ABC News. “Saturday morning, it became clear that it was inevitable that Mr. McCarthy was going to become speaker, and I saw no reason to prolong that through the weekend.”
‘Are You Done?’ Lawyer Reacts to Trump’s Angry Rant During Deposition
Carroll’s lawyer asked the former president why he posted the statement. Trump replied by ranting against Carroll while also threatening to sue her and her defense team:
Q. Why did you decide to issue the statement on Truth Social on October 12th?
A. Because I was offended at this woman’s lie. Because I was offended that she could just make up a story out of cold air, refuted by her testimony on CNN, but that she could make up a story just out of nowhere and that I get a phone call asking me about this ridiculous situation. The woman — there’s something wrong with her in my opinion. Okay. But it’s a false accusation. Never happened, never would happen. And I posted and I will continue to post until such time as — and then I will sue her after this is over, and that’s the thing I really look forward to doing. And I’ll sue you too because this is — how many cases do you have? Many, many cases, and I know the statements that were made — that you made. Keep Trump busy because this is the way you defeat him, to keep him busy with litigation. So I will be suing you also, but I’ll be suing her very strongly as soon as this But I’ll be suing you also.
Q. Are you done?
A. Yeah.
Q. Is there anything in particular that prompted you to make this statement last week?
A. Yeah. Her false story and that I have to waste a whole day doing these ridiculous questions with you.
“The current status of this trio of lie-and-liar descriptors is this: both bold-faced and bald-faced are used, but bald-faced is decidedly the preferred term in published, edited text. Barefaced is the oldest, and is still in use, but it’s the least common. To report otherwise would be a bald-faced lie.” —https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Right wingers lie about everything all of the time.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Trump’s longest-serving Chief of Staff did not realize they made men at Trump’s level of stupid.
I wrote a 12,000-word biography of John Kelly that looks at his history and his time working directly for Trump,” Schmidt said. “It tells the story of someone who came in as chief of staff thinking that Trump needed to have better processes around him. He needed to be staffed better. There needed to be a better system in the West Wing that would keep Trump on track.”
But then John Kelly realized something about Trump that even a blind and a deaf person could figure out.
“Hours and just days into Kelly’s tenure, he realized that the problem was far greater than that,” Schmidt said. “The problem was Trump. And Trump was stupider, more impulsive, more limited than he ever thought he would be. Kelly later told someone who I talked to that that he didn’t know they made human beings like that. And the biggest issue that Kelly was concerned about was whether Trump was using highly incendiary language about North Korea at the time, publicly and privately, was going to set off a massive military conflict.”
All of those on the inside understood that Trump was a clear and present danger to the entire country. Yet, the 25th Amendment was never considered seriously until he almost overthrew the country with his failed coup attempt.
America must stop flirting with disaster. We need media that is engaged without false restraints. The paradigm has changed, and the style of media reporting must change with it. Reporters must stop accumulating information solely for their books and grow a patriotic spine.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Everything insulting Trump complains about other people is what he is doing himself.
’He’s a terrorist — his wife hates Trump!’ Former president spits new venom at special counsel
During an appearance on Mark Levin’s show, Trump demanded that Smith resign from the case and accused him of being unfairly biased against him.
“The prosecutor should resign, he’s got a conflict,” Trump complained. “He is a terrorist. He is a Trump hater. His best friends are [former Mueller prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann and all of these characters, Lisa Monaco at the Justice Department, one of the top officials. This is a disgraceful situation. He should resign!”
As further evidence of Smith’s purported corruption, Trump then launched attacks against the special counsel’s wife.
“His wife hates Trump, probably even beyond him!” he fumed. “And his wife has a sister who openly hates, like a level that you can’t even believe.”
Trump has routinely attacked the integrity of attorneys who are investigating him, as he referred to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of his campaign’s contacts with Russian agents during the 2016 presidential campaign as a “witch hunt.”
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Trump is the template for evil republican lies.
martens over 1 year ago
A very good rendition of Bolsonaro.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
GOP congressman displays Christian nationalist flag outside his congressional office
U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman has a Christian nationalist flag connected to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol displayed outside his congressional office.
On Friday morning, Grothman posted a picture of the flag — which shows an image of a pine tree and the phrase “An Appeal to Heaven” on a white background — to his Twitter account with a message inviting people to visit him in the Longworth House Office Building.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Indiana lab worker fired for threats against Eric Swalwell’s family
A lab worker in Indianapolis has been fired after sending graphically detailed threats and death fantasies to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), The Daily Beast reported. On Friday morning just after midnight, Swalwell posted the threatening message to Twitter after it was direct messaged to him, complete with a link to the perpetrator’s LinkedIn, which led to him being identified as Jonathan Reeser, an employee at Patients Choice Laboratories.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
House Republicans slap down Trump’s boasts that he influenced McCarthy speaker vote
As former President Donald Trump’s influence over the Republican party continues be drained by poor election results and a growing amount of pending state and federal criminal cases, his attempt to take credit for the passing of Kevin McCarthy (R-California) into the role of Speaker of the House has been quickly rebuffed by several in the GOP. “President Trump had no influence on the votes, myself or any of my colleagues,” Bob Good (R-Virginia), one of the last holdouts from the Freedom Caucus, told ABC News. “Saturday morning, it became clear that it was inevitable that Mr. McCarthy was going to become speaker, and I saw no reason to prolong that through the weekend.”
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
‘Are You Done?’ Lawyer Reacts to Trump’s Angry Rant During Deposition
Carroll’s lawyer asked the former president why he posted the statement. Trump replied by ranting against Carroll while also threatening to sue her and her defense team:
Q. Why did you decide to issue the statement on Truth Social on October 12th?
A. Because I was offended at this woman’s lie. Because I was offended that she could just make up a story out of cold air, refuted by her testimony on CNN, but that she could make up a story just out of nowhere and that I get a phone call asking me about this ridiculous situation. The woman — there’s something wrong with her in my opinion. Okay. But it’s a false accusation. Never happened, never would happen. And I posted and I will continue to post until such time as — and then I will sue her after this is over, and that’s the thing I really look forward to doing. And I’ll sue you too because this is — how many cases do you have? Many, many cases, and I know the statements that were made — that you made. Keep Trump busy because this is the way you defeat him, to keep him busy with litigation. So I will be suing you also, but I’ll be suing her very strongly as soon as this But I’ll be suing you also.
Q. Are you done?
A. Yeah.
Q. Is there anything in particular that prompted you to make this statement last week?
A. Yeah. Her false story and that I have to waste a whole day doing these ridiculous questions with you.
cmxx over 1 year ago
Fascinating!
“The current status of this trio of lie-and-liar descriptors is this: both bold-faced and bald-faced are used, but bald-faced is decidedly the preferred term in published, edited text. Barefaced is the oldest, and is still in use, but it’s the least common. To report otherwise would be a bald-faced lie.” —https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced
ShadowMaster over 1 year ago
The T Man could certainly teach such a course.
Treedodger over 1 year ago
That’s “Bald Faced Lies”. Always has been, always will be.
Carthago delenda est over 1 year ago
“Bald-faced.” Not “bold-faced.” “Bald” used to mean “white.”