Me and CNN
Look, CNN is not fake news. I just occasionally, but not often, have a different interpretation of the facts than they do and this is one of those times.
President Donald Trump is concerned about whether his son Donald Trump Jr. might have exposure in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, leading to his increasingly frenzied public agitation over Robert Mueller, sources close to the White House tell CNN.
The article tends to go toward the feeling that Trump cares about his family.
Trump does not give a flip about anybody but Trump and you can paint that on the side of the barn.
The only reason Trump cares about Junior is that Junior knows all the dirt and can bury him.
I honestly believe that Trump would never do what Jared’s dad did and take the fall for his son. Trump would sacrifice them all as long as a room full of hillbillies will scream at reporters and clap for him. And Putin love him. He neeeeeds Putin’s love.
I’m sorry I have a crappy attitude on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, but the Astros don’t play until 3:00 so I’ve got time to cheer up!
He is aware that he taught them true drum of family values.
1The sort of values that demented Donnie had when he cut off health insurance for his head brothers family, with critically ill child, during inheritance dispute.
Look out for yourselves and devil takes the hindmost. That includes family.
Money and power are more important then anything else.
Family and children are only there to supply a captive Greek chorus to feed the ego and can be cut loose whenever they have become a liability.
He fears he has taught them too well.
You’re right. Donald initially didn’t want to name his son Donald Jr. because “What if he’s a loser?” It’s all about him. Everything.
2If Jr. Is in jeopardy, then isn’t everyone who attended that meeting?
Like his son in law???
Isn’t lying the epitome of fake news?
3Dotard Sr. is concerned as to what Dimwit Jr.’s silence may cost him. (for comparison what was the ballpark figure on Ivana’s post divorce suddenly sunny about face?) And, that is a doubtful *if* Dimwit Jr. can keep the pie hole in his pinhead shut. Or, just how much will Donnie’s Kremlin spigot finance to keep Jr. silent? All bets on Junior are off if the charges are in a court outside the range of a peeResidential pardon. 3 hots and a cot do not have a compensatory cash value to Dimwit Jr. Unless, like Manafort he fears the long arm of potential Putin polonium-210.
Stand back when this ships goes down to avoid the rush of fleeing rats.
4If Dump cared about his kids, he would not have sucked them into this quagmire, so rest assured Junior’s going down with the ship.
5*Sigh*.
Just imagine if all those ‘Q’s were rainbow hued, and instead of torches they were throwing glitter.
But then reality comes back, and the world grows ugly…
6Yours may not be a sunshine and lollypops and rainbows attitude, JJ, but it’s the correct one. Trump cares about Trump, first, last, and always. Everybody else is expendable.
7The only family member Benedict Donald cares about is Ivanka. And in a very creepy way.
8Why did they make Acosta look like Nixon?
9maryelle says:
… so rest assured Junior’s going down with the ship.
I agree, Junior along with a boatload of other people. My suggestion? If there’s enough of them, gut a bankrupt Trump Hotel or Casino, put in prison cells – – but leave the name outside the building – – and who’s gonna pay for it?
Trump!
10Lock them up!
100% right, JJ. Trump cares about nobody other than himself.
11Now don’t assume that because Trump is now realizing that his son is “special”, that he did not love him as a child …
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/trump-files-when-trump-called-donald-jr-a-loser/
O.K., but that was when Jr. was a ripe old 4 year old. No father would have treated him like a casual blow-by when Jr. was just an infant …
https://www.wonkette.com/donald-trump-jr-only-did-treason-because-his-daddy-doesnt-love-him-lololol-sad
OK, JJ. You win at this one. But look at the bright side: maybe Jr. will invite Dad on one of his big game hunts, and “accidentally” pull off a Dick Cheney.
For the rest of us here at your establishment, we’re still delightfully happy that one apple did not fall far from the tree, and that he has been (and we hope will continue to) roast the always porcine Alec Jones. Legally, of course. No one wants to stink up all of Austin by actually burning that toxic waste dump of a human. Well, maybe some of us do, but we try not to admit it too openly.
So cheer up no matter how the Astros play: you did well, and your son has given a lot of us some relief from the relentless bad news that constantly streams from Trump and his Trumpanzees.
12“OK, JJ. You win at this one. But look at the bright side: maybe Jr. will invite Dad on one of his big game hunts, and “accidentally” pull off a Dick Cheney.”
I have asked before but whom of the inner circle will fill the purported role that of Mrs. Harding in reference to her husbands death when the legal walls start to squeeze and hurt.
13Of course, “concerned” is sort of a 2-faced word. On the 1 hand, it may be “worried for the health/safety/condition of X”; on the other hand, it may be “worried about the effects X might have on one’s own health/safety/condition.”
I’m pretty sure that the Resident *is* “concerned” about his son’s exposure, because if the courts look under DJ’s cover, they’re going to see dear old dad.
14From djw “…look under DJ’s cover, they’re going to see dear old dad.”
15gee my suspicions were always if they looked under Ivanka’s cover they would have found dear old dad.
How about dna tests for Ivanka’s kids to see if daddy was daddy.
Wow, Wonkette is downright vicious on this one! C’mon, did they have to bring up the bedwetting again?
I do pity the Trump kids. Until their parents’ divorce, they grew up in a world ruled by a sociopathic tyrant. The fact that Jr. related what was really an abusive, traumatic incident as a “funny story” indicates just how skewed their view of “normal” is. Trump’s sexually charged comments about Ivanka, and everyone treating Eric as a dimwit afterthought – it’s all just perverse and incredibly damaging.
I think that, as they grew up and got away a bit, the 3 oldest Trump siblings realized at least in part that they had lived in severely aberrant conditions. Until Don Jr’s divorce, which appears to be reasonably amicable, they all managed marriages which are at least outwardly pretty stable, in contrast to the lurid spectacle of Trump Senior’s. They may even have experienced genuine love, instead of constant emotional extortion. It’s a miracle that, as far as we know, they’re not drunks or addicts.
But though they work hard, and have had some measure of success, they’re so broken that they’re all still in Daddy’s toxic thrall. He’d probably treat their working for anyone else as desertion and betrayal, and punish them accordingly. The only one who appears to have gotten away clean is Tiffany, presumably because Marla’s marriage didn’t last as long.
As the indictments and charges come down, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the kids end up testifying – for the prosecution. And they’ll all need a lifetime of therapy to even begin to hope to function as normal human beings. Except for possibly their mother, they never saw normal behavior modeled.
16It had been reported that Don Jr transferred a lot of his assets to his soon to be divorced wife.
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