The transcript of the call between Mr Morrison and Mr Trump was restricted within the White House to a small number of the president’s aides, reports said - contrary to normal protocol.
The same restrictions were reportedly placed on the Ukraine call, raising concerns that White House staff were attempting to conceal records of the president’s conversations with certain foreign leaders.
And from what I hear from my friends Down Under, Morrison’s cut from the same dreadful, cheaply-made, easily-soiled-but-hard-to-clean cloth as the current POTUS.
Is it just me, or is the far right always threatening civil war, pushing power grabs, killing people, and then blaming everyone else for making them threaten civil war:
Without alleging a crime?!?!?!
There are so. many. crimes.
Just because there is a recording of Nixon saying “If the president does it, it’s not a crime illegal” doesn’t make that statement fucking true!
Edit for poor memory on the quote.
The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants. But this time he had a solution. As White House advisers listened astonished, he ordered them to shut down the entire 2,000-mile border with Mexico — by noon the next day.
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.
He clearly still thinks he’s in Home Alone 2.
We knew he is a psychopath, but hearing the details like that is really disturbing.
As for Irin Carmon, she’s a dope. I don’t like the current POTUS for any fucking reason at all. And thinking that all folks are that base…IMNSHO, his appeal is based on representing the ignorant and making them feel as intelligent as, or even more so, than the POTUS, giving them a false sense of superiority.
I think you’re misreading the tweet.
I’m reading it as, “People who like Trump despite the fact that he bullies them, like him because he also bullies people they don’t like.”
I don’t think there’s any intended implication of “This is why I like Trump” or even “This is a good reason to like Trump.”
Um, yeah, so did I. It’s a dopey reason. See my edit.
Having read your edited post… I still don’t think we’re reading the same thing out of Carmon’s tweet.
Your post is about how you don’t like Trump and how “all folks” aren’t as base as Carmon is implying… but she isn’t talking about all folks, or about you in particular: she’s talking about those who do find appeal in him.
Republicans (and conservatives everywhere) employ fear-based rhetoric. That’s one of their main distinctions from more left-leaning groups. I can’t see how it is in any way controversial (or “dopey”) to say that part of the appeal that Trump has towards his supporters is that he attacks certain groups that they’ve been taught to be fearful of.
And I don’t know how exactly to explain how I do see it that way…it seems so craven, even for them, is the closest I can get.
Do they mean elipses, which would indicate something left out? Which isn’t surprising.
Yes. Ellipses are not used by the official transcriptionists. There’s a bunch of other odd things about the document they released that doesn’t square with official transcripts, either, like stamps. Also if you speak out the words, it’s only 10 minutes of material. Was supposed to be a 30 minute call.