Here’s WTF is Going On…IMHO
Pompeo is in Italy with discredited Sebastion Gorka doing God-knows-what. Bill Barr has been jetting around the world and talking to international leaders. Rudy Giuliani has been engaged with the Ukrainians for months. Now we know Pompeo lied on national television on Sunday feigning ignorance of the Zelensky call when, in fact, he was ON THE GODDAM call with Trump.
WTF is going on with all this globe trotting and mysterious meetings with world leaders? Here’s what I think – Trump’s number one order from Putin was to get the international sanctions lifted from Russia that were imposed after it invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea in 2014. Trump floated lifting sanctions early on, after he infested the WH in 2017, but was slapped down pretty definitively. Since then, his pandering to Putin is well documented, including trying to tweet Russia back into the G7 to make it the G8 again. So far, that hasn’t worked either.
Trump’s goal, since dumping Jeff Sessions and gaining Bill Barr as his attorney general personal defender, has been to discredit the investigations that concluded Russia helped get him elected with their hacking and social media meddling. He’s so obsessed with this mission that he’s ignored the vast majority of his duties as president, focusing only on watching Fox Noise, tweeting insults at enemies in a continuous stream, and trying to help Russia. His primary effort has been to get Ukraine to dig dirt on Biden AND promoting the ridiculous theory that it wasn’t Russian meddling, but actually Ukraine doing the hacking of the DNC. It’s stupid, but Trump and Giuliani are pushing it hard, since they’ve got nothing else.
Trump sees the end coming, especially as his numbers for reelection have sunk even lower and the impeachment inquiry started heating up. Lord only knows what kompromat Putin has on Trump, but you know the list is long, including money laundering and financial fraud. Trump is clearly a Russian asset, and he’s desperately trying to get Russian sanctions lifted before he’s ousted, one way or the other. The only way he can do that (in his fevered mind) is to discredit the Mueller report and the conclusions of every major intelligence agency in the developed world. It’s simply not going to happen, but Trump in his addled state is trying to make that happen, and he doesn’t give a good Goddam who or what he burns down trying to accomplish this goal.
Call me crazy, call me conspiratorial, but nothing else, at least to me, explains this nuclear powered three ring circus Trump is orchestrating.
So where can we find a record of all those “moderates” and “liberals” who praised Barr’s appointment and framed him as an individual dedicaited to the rule of law.
1How about that they have to wear a big red b and every article etc with their name associated with their name must carry a disclaimer that this individual showed such absymal judgement as to consider barr to be an “honorable” person committed to the DoJ and the rule of law so hence their opinions, if considered at all, must be considered in light of this horrendous failure of judgement.
What this stable genius has not figured out is that Pence will pardon him, but he’s tossing Pence under the bus. Third in line is Pelosi – don’t think a pardon will come from that direction.
2“Call me crazy, call me conspiratorial, but nothing else, at least to me, explains this nuclear powered three ring circus Trump is orchestrating.”
what makes you think he’s aware enough to “orchestrate” anything?
3Well, perhaps he can get a nice gilded dacha on the Black Sea to live out the remainder of his days.
4He better start having Melania taste his food before he eats. Putin likes to poison.
5Why I use the word, monster. Not human but more like a creature.
In a new book excerpt published by the New York Times on Tuesday, reporters Michael Shear and Julie Davis reveal a dark and disturbing portrait of the fulminations behind President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, beginning in March 2019.
WE’RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT.
Edit:
Trump was infuriated at the state of immigration at the southern U.S. border, and he was furious with his leading officials, the excerpt revealed. He was intent on closing down the entire U.S.-Mexico border, as he made clear publicly at the time, despite officials warning him that this would only make the situation worse.
But as ludicrous as the “shut down the border” idea was, it was far from the worst of Trump’s ideas. The excerpt explained:
Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.
As horrible as Trump is in public when he discusses immigrants, these details somehow make it worse. He’s not just a demagogue feeding the base desires of his supporters — he has menacingly vicious and delusional ideas about how U.S. policy could be used to brutalize migrants. And he actually wants these ideas implemented.
In one meeting, getting pushback from officials on his policies, Trump reportedly exclaimed: “You are making me look like an idiot!”
In addition to the brutality the excerpt reveals about Trump, it also highlights his misogyny. Describing his interactions with former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the reporters recounted:
When Ms. Nielsen tried to get him to focus on something other than the border, the president grew impatient. During a briefing on the need for new legal authority to take down drones, Mr. Trump cut her off midsentence.
“Kirstjen, you didn’t hear me the first time, honey,” Mr. Trump said, according to two people familiar with the conversation. “Shoot ’em down. Sweetheart, just shoot ’em out of the sky, O.K.?”
https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/you-are-making-me-look-like-an-idiot-trump-reportedly-raged-at-officials-and-told-them-to-shoot-migrants-in-the-legs/
6If he can discredit the Mueller investigation and “prove” the Ukranians rigged the election for Hillary, he will try to justify see? no need to protect our elections from Russia, and he (he thinks) could finally arrest Hillary and have her jailed.
7nefer @ 4,
I’m sure Hillary is savvy enough that if she feels threatened she and Bill have enough friends overseas to shelter them, should it get to that point.
Megasoid @ 3,
Rump has caused a lot of bad blood between himself and the agencies. And so did John Kennedy. Enough said.
8The Ukraininan government is moving towards ratification of Russian control of Crimea. Trump just sold them out to Putin. This is Czechoslovakia 2.0!
9El Jefe:
10I think you’re right.
So if that’s true, consider what donald-fucking-trump is willing to do to make that happen.
Because I can’t think of anything he’d refrain from doing for any reason. But you already said that.
Putin’s got to have the pee tape!
11Boss,
You are not crazy.
12At this point, in this political farce, a pee tape seems pretty tame.
13I’m betting Trump is looking for a bolt hole and the only possible place he can run to avoid impeachment is Russia.
I rather doubt they have an extradition treaty with the US but, if Trump fled there, he’d be LUCKY if the only thing that happened to him was being sent back here to face trial.
If Trump shows up on Putin’s doorstep without having gotten the sanctions lifted and Russia back in the newly regenerated G-8 he will be persona non grata. Putin kills people who disappoint him and he has both a long memory and a long arm.
14I certainly hope that the State department IG is in a safe place and with a protective detail.
15With demented donnie ranting about civil war, coups and ranting about treason I fear that some alex jones nra addled whack job ( sanctions on lawyer enoch?) spring to the defense of their tin god.
Should be interesting to hear what required an “urgent” meeting with so many committees on such short notice.
Smart money is further information about Ukraine. Or greater details on how the Ukraine issue fits into a bigger picture.
Outside bet is some sub ros dicate resulting in more money going to his business’s and even greater emoluments violations then ever imagined.
Either way sounds like another exciting week.
Jay says #10: Have you given any thought to the possibility that the “Pee Tape” is actually a ‘Pedophile Tape’?
16Add to the mess, on the anniversary of the slaughter of Jamal Khashoggi, presidential stooge in law and plastic action figure Jared is scheduled to attend an economy meeting in Riyadh.
17My money is on Putin having funded and controlled the GOPsters for years through his asset, the NRA- I suspect that is why we have seen so many RETHUGS checking out and leaving…… their job was done and PUTIN told them to sit the F#ck down…….Mommar Trump is scrambling realizing the country is about to find out we, America, have been invaded, and are controlled by a Hostile Foreign Power, and when that happens, he will lose the company of Putin’s handler, Melania…..imho
18I am getting hunch that when it becomes evident Trump cannot get sanctions lifted, Putin will conclude he is no longer of use to him and put out whatever it is he has on him. Yes, I agree with the poster that speculated it is a pedophile tape.
19It sounds like they’re scouting for a country that won’t extradite. I recommend North Korea.
20“I recommend North Korea.”
I couldn’t agree more. how much do you suppose it would cost us, to get North Korea to take him? in constant dollars.
21Lest we forget they hacked the RNC at the same time as the DNC. Loads of Kompromat. When Putin doesn’t get his way I expect things to get very very heated in the repub party.
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