Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

"We're in Crazytown."


The new Bob Woodward book on Trump, "Fear."


Below are excerpts from the Woodward book. Read these jarring statements from people who work closest to #45. 

They're horrifying. 

Yet #45's cultists refuse to see him for the ignorant lying wreck of a human being that he is. No doubt that is why they're referred to as "cultists," for only brainwashed or braindead followers would continue to support this morally diseased pig.



Report: Everybody in the White House Considers Trump an Idiot







Josh Marshall:

"[Trump] certainly shows the abusive, aggressive behavior so pervasively that it amounts to his brand. He is an habitual, compulsive, comical liar. He lacks any moral compass. He is thoroughly, indeed militantly ignorant.

I say all these things merely to make the point that it is astonishing that the country has allowed this clownish hustler to remain President for almost two years. Even if President Trump were somewhat normal in policy terms, whether on immigration, civil rights, trade, alliances, etc and even if he hadn’t conspired with a foreign government to get elected he still wouldn’t be remotely equipped to be President. And yet here we are. Some will act surprised."


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"White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly frequently lost his temper and told colleagues that he thought the president was “unhinged,” Woodward writes. In one small group meeting, Kelly said of Trump: “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.”





What’s the old saying? “If you’re explaining that you didn’t call your boss an idiot, you’re losing”?





[snip]

"Few in Trump’s orbit were protected from the president’s insults. He often mocked former national security adviser H.R. McMaster behind his back, puffing up his chest and exaggerating his breathing as he impersonated the retired Army general, and once said McMaster dresses in cheap suits, “like a beer salesman.” 

 Trump told Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a wealthy investor eight years his senior: “I don’t trust you. I don’t want you doing any more negotiations. … You’re past your prime.”



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A near-constant subject of withering presidential attacks was Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump told Porter that Sessions was a “traitor” for recusing himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, Woodward writes. Mocking Sessions’s accent, Trump added, “This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner. … He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.”

[snip]

"At a dinner with Mattis and Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others, Trump lashed out at a vocal critic, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). He falsely suggested that the former Navy pilot had been a coward for taking early release from a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam because of his father’s military rank and leaving others behind. 

 Mattis swiftly corrected his boss: “No, Mr. President, I think you’ve got it reversed.” The defense secretary explained that McCain, who died Aug. 25, had in fact turned down early release and was brutally tortured during his five years at the Hanoi Hilton.


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"Woodward describes several instances where Trump administration officials - chief economic adviser Gary Cohn and White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, in particular - removed documents from the president's desk to keep Mr Trump from signing them. 

It was all part of a larger effort to insulate the administration, and the nation, from what they saw as Mr Trump's more dangerous impulses. Documents that would have allowed the president to withdraw the nation from the North American Free Trade Agreement and a trade deal with South Korea were hidden - and the US has since committed to renegotiating the pacts. Woodward describes these acts as "no less than an administrative coup d'etat".

[snip]


"I'm not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot," Dowd [Trump's lawyer] is quoted as telling Mueller. "And you publish that transcript, because everything leaks in Washington, and the guys overseas are going to say, 'I told you he was an idiot. I told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. What are we dealing with this idiot for?'" 

 Later that month, Dowd reportedly told Trump: "Don't testify. It's either that or an orange jumpsuit." 

 When Trump protested Dowd's concerns, claiming he would be a "real good witness," Dowd reportedly contradicted that and said, "Mr. President, I'm afraid I just can't help you." 

Dowd resigned the day after that exchange, according to the book.




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There it is. The "president's" closest advisors, counselors, and aides have to keep him from harming our country because Donald J. Trump is a galloping idiot who hasn't a clue about governance or even being an American. 

And he's the POTUS?

If there were a Hell (and I don't believe in one) I would condemn all of #45's supporters to suffer there for eternity for refusing to see Trump for what he is and for allowing this travesty to continue to destroy our country. 





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21 comments:

Lee Arnold said...

His tweet over the holiday weekend chastising Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, for the Justice Department’s recent indictments of two Republican congressmen because it could cost the party seats in November crossed lines that even he had not yet breached, asserting that specific continuing criminal prosecutions should be decided on the basis of partisan advantage.

Shocking as many legal and political figures found it — one Republican senator compared it to “banana republic” thinking — the message by itself might not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors required for impeachment because it could be construed as commentary rather than an order. But legal scholars and some lawmakers said it could be one more exhibit in trying to prove a pattern of obstruction or reckless disregard for the rule of law in a future impeachment proceeding.

“I think it was appalling,” Senator Susan Collins of Maine, another Republican, told reporters asking on Tuesday about the tweet. “It’s unbelievable. It’s unbelievable.”
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island and a former United States attorney, said “rare is the case that you make with one item of evidence,” but the president’s comment could be “potentially additional evidence of corrupt intent in an obstruction of justice prosecution.”

Ray Cranston said...

Jeebus H. Crackers! Everyone but Trump's base knows he's an idiot, a liar, a pig, and sh*tstain on America. The Woodward book tells us nothing new, except that his unelected aides are running the country and not Lord Dampnut.

Dave Miller said...

Lies, damned lies and even more lies. That's how this will understood by the Trump base, unwilling or unable to see anything critical of Pres Trump.

The fever runs deep with this crowd.

Except this time we Woodward has tapes of his conversations. I particularly like this exchange he had with President Trump when they spoke about an interview for the book... [as recounted in the WAPO and widely available in audio form online for those like Freethinke, who refuse to consider anything published by the "Enemedia"]

This was after Trump said no Senator had called him about a potential meeting.

Bob Woodward: Senator [Lindsey] Graham said he had talked to you about talking to me. Now, is that not true?

Trump: Senator Graham actually mentioned it quickly in one meeting.

BW: Yes. Well, see. And then nothing happened.

Trump: That is true. That is true. Well, that — no, but that is true.

So, by his own admission, President Trump received a request to speak with Woodward, but claimed he did not, until confronted with the reality. Kellyanne Conway as well tried to get him to talk to Woodward. Then trump claimed his Deputy Press Secretary does not have access to him.

Shaw, you can bet a little research into the archives of the extremist blogs our amigos wrote after the Woodward book on the Obama Admin will show that they believed what he wrote then. We should contrast their acceptance of Woodward as honest then with how he will now be portrayed by them.

Trump is an embarrassment and a danger in the White House. Aides hiding papers so he can't sign them? Cabinet Secretaries changing policies so as not to start WWIII?

Great choice folks... a seventh grader, at least according to Sec Mattis [again, Woodward has tapes] would be better than the 6th grade mentality of Trump as Commander in Chief.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Dave, they will never admit they made a colossal mistake in supporting the Idiot-in-Chief. Look at the graphic I put up just a moment ago from CNN. Those insults to Trump are not from Democrats, Liberals, etc., those are from people who work the closest to Trump and know intimately what he is.

The WYDers and the Mother Ship of Fools, FT, and AOWers don't know the real Donald Trump as do and did men like Kelly, Mattis, Tillerson, Dowd, Cohen. Those folks only know what FAUX NOOZ tell them about their idol: LIES, MORE LIES, AND LIES. And they eagerly believe them because they cannot admit to themselves that not only have they been had by a major charlatan, but they've betrayed America in sticking with the Horror-in-Chief.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Ray, Thankfully, Trump cultists are only 30% of the voting public and will soon be handed their stubborn arses on a platter.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Lee, Trump knows nothing about governing, the Constitution, or human decency. And his cultists know even less.

Anonymous said...

Releases from Bob Woodward's new book on the Trump presidency are not blockbuster revelations. They are confirmations of what we already know and refuse to acknowledge publicly. The book reveals, CNN's Stephen Collinson writes, "There is an 'unhinged' 'liar,' a 'fifth grade' intellect and an aggrieved and abusive 'Shakespearean king' raging in the Oval Office."

No shit!

Anonymous said...

Only 30%? He won with 46%.Where is your condemnation for stupid Americans? This is there fault. We get the leadership we vote for, and Trump being a lying, immoral, jackass was not a secret by election time.

Ducky's here said...

It will be dismissed as "fake news" by the base.

Unless there is a large blue wave this midterm he'll continue being a menace.

Shaw Kenawe said...

"Anonymous said...
Only 30%? He won with 46%."

SK: He lost much of the support he had in November 2016 once he took office and showed us what an ignorant jackass he is.


Anonymous: "Where is your condemnation for stupid Americans?"

SK: My condemnation is for the 30% who still support #45 after witnessing his incompetence and indecency over the past 1 1/2 years in office. The others who abandoned him can be forgiven for falling for a huckster and fraud, even if the rest of us have to suffer through this unimaginable nightmare. They believed his rhetoric was just that -- something to get him elected, and then he'd change. They were wrong, but they may be the ones who'll turn the House back over to the Democrats and even possibly the Senate.

Shaw Kenawe said...

"Ducky's here said...
It will be dismissed as "fake news" by the base.

Unless there is a large blue wave this midterm he'll continue being a menace."


If the Democrats win the House, they can tie Trump up with hearings and subpoenas.

And we've yet to hear from Mr. Mueller.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Oh my! President Porn Star Shagger is upset over the Woodward book! Awwwww!

WASHINGTON – Stung by the latest tell-all book to hit his White House, President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on author Bob Woodward by suggesting Wednesday that the government tighten libel laws – though the president's role in doing that is probably non-existent.

"Isn’t it a shame that someone can write an article or book, totally make up stories and form a picture of a person that is literally the exact opposite of the fact, and get away with it without retribution or cost," Trump tweeted. "Don’t know why Washington politicians don’t change libel laws?"

Trump also suggested changing the libel laws back during his presidential campaign – in response to news stories he didn't like – but has made no specific proposals in that area since moving into the White House in January of 2017.

There probably isn't anything Trump, or Congress, can do about libel laws in any event.

For one thing, there is no federal libel statute. States set their own libel statutes, and a series of court rulings have shaped them.

Dave Miller said...

"From a Senior White House Source" in today's NY Times.

"The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office."

Understand what this is saying...

There are ppl in the Administration who believe Pres Trump id damaging our "democratic institutions"

Have we ever seen this in US History? A split administration, one side working to undermine political norms and the other trying to save the democracy. For all of Obama's, Clinton's, Bush's and the faults of every other president we've ever had, save Nixon, we've never come to moment like this.

It's not because of the Deep State, but because of President Donald J Trump. Full Stop.

Dave Miller said...

A cabinet actually looking at a 25th Amendment removal of a President.

Simply unprecedented...

Anonymous said...

They will have to be the ones who turn him out of office, You don't have to convince me, or you. You can forgive them, but I'll repeat the second half of my previous last sentence, "and Trump being a lying, immoral, jackass was not a secret by election time."

Shaw Kenawe said...

Anonymous: "and Trump being a lying, immoral, jackass was not a secret by election time."

I can't argue with that. It's true.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Dave, I lived through the Nixon scandal. This is worse. Much worse. At least then, the Republicans put country above party. Now the GOP is reduced to spineless, suck-up traitors.

Jerry Critter said...

Don’t look for the repuBlicans to do the right thing. Those days are gone!

Les Carpenter said...

I lived through Watergate as well. Nixon, as bad as his COVER-UP was he was no tRump Dave. Nor was the GOP of the early 70's the party republican partu of today.

Things are MUCH worse today. 45 years ago republicans ultimately put country ahead of partisan politics. It is HIGHLY questionable today's party of R will.

Dave Miller said...

Shaw... me too and I agree with you. Is there a Howard Baker in the GOP? A person who will sacrifice his or her party for the good of America?

Maybe it's whoever wrote the Op-Ed... if it is, he's gonna have to out himself.

Anonymous said...

The Trumpanzees call this "brainwashing." We Americans call it "Democracy." The Trumpanzees hate it when Democrats and Liberals organize:

New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday asked a group of children for help to win her election and “kick out Trump.”

“I’m the Democratic nominee out here for Congress so I’m going to go to D.C., and we’re going to be fighting Trump,” Ocasio-Cortez told the children in Corona, Queens.

She was met with raucous applause from the young audience, and a man can be heard saying, “That’s crazy that the kids get so excited about that.”

“This is what we need to do: when you go back home, you talk to your mom, your dad, your aunt, grandma, sisters, anybody over the age of 18 that can vote — first you need to ask your parents to vote because if they don’t vote, then we can’t kick out Trump,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“Are you going to tell your parents to vote?” Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist, asked the young crowd.

She was met with an overwhelming “yes,” and one boy said bluntly, “I’m going to do it because I don’t like Trump.”

“Tell your parents to vote for Alexandria in November and Jumaane in September,” Ocasio-Cortez added.


God Bless Ocasiio-Cortez. May she and others continue to influence other voters to do the correct thing and GET RID OF THE REPPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS so we can hold the POTUS accountable for the destruction of America!