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The More Media attention Trump gets?…The More he gets over…Open Thread for 5/27/18….

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Of course the media isn’t gonna STOP covering any American President….

But everyday as I read in to do posting here at the PDog?

I see stories on just about EVERY stupid assed comment Donald Trump makes….That….Instead of covering the serious issues and actions form Trump & Co.

The media , of course, is attarcted to any bright and shiny object and Trump fits the bill with his incessant lies and made up shit…..

The Washington Post asks that we should stop paying attention to the off the wall bull shit….

You may have noticed that today’s news is not dominated by the blockbuster revelations of what members of Congress learned yesterday when they met with Justice Department officials to review information about the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, specifically the bureau’s use of a confidential informant who contacted Trump campaign officials after learning of suspicious links involving Russia.

Why is it that the results of that highly unusual meeting (two meetings, actually) are not splashed across every front page and dominating every minute of cable news today? Because the whole thing was a farce, and it didn’t give Republicans what they were hoping for.

This reveals the absurd pattern we’ve fallen into. It goes like this: President Trump makes a ridiculous accusation that almost everyone immediately understands to be false. Then we in the media, because it’s the president, treat that accusation as though it’s something that has to be taken seriously. Then governmental resources are mustered to deal with the accusation. Then Republicans try to twist the mobilization of those resources to give them the answer they’re seeking. But because it’s all based on a lie, they fail once Democrats force some measure of truth to be revealed.

Worst of all, we’re going to end up doing it again.

Glenn Kessler and Meg Kelly run through some of the iterations of this maddening pattern. Barack Obama tapped my phones! The Obama administration illegally “unmasked” Americans caught up in surveillance of Russian targets! The Democrats colluded with Russia! The whole Russia investigation happened because of the Steele dossier!

No matter what ludicrous charge Trump makes, the entire political system reacts as though it might be true. If tomorrow the president said that “Robert Mueller” never existed and the person claiming to be him is actually Nancy Pelosi in elaborate makeup, we’d all find ourselves debating whether Mueller is a real person while House Republicans angrily demand that he produce a DNA sample…..

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  1. What you refer to as “ off the wall bullshit?”

    Republicans refer to as the “ truth.”

    And that is why they overwhelmingly support Donald Trump.

    Funny that you post this stuff then insist that they “ really” don’t.

    I’m sure the Republicans are going to listen to the Washington Post and stop paying attention to Trump.

  2. The recent discussion of a potential primary challenger to Trump brings to mind the recent past(fifty years).

    In 1964 Eugene McCarthy entered the New Hampshire Primary against Lyndon Johnson.McCarthy was urged to run by Allard Lowenstein(a future Congressman) an anti war activist who had unsuccessfully lobbied Bobby Kennedy to get in.McCarthy a lackadaisical campaigner, received 42% of the vote toJohnsons 49% (write ins as Johnson wasn’t on the ballot).Shortly thereafter Bobby entered the race and Johnson announced he wouldn’t run again.Johnson had already been ambivalent about running again and hadn’t really set up much of a re-election organization.In the end Johnson’s Vp and personal choice to succeed him ,Hubert Humphrey won the nomination.

    Richard Nixon had two challengers from both ends of the spectrum in 1972.John Ashbrook, an Ohio Congressman , who thought Nixon wasn’t conservative enough ,and Pete McCloskey, a California Congressman, who opposed Nixon’s war policy.Neither made any impact.

    A really serious bid came in 1976;however, Gerald Ford was not a real incumbent ,having never been elected to any national office .He barely survived a primary fight with Ronald Reagan.

    Then there was Teddy Kennedy’s challenge of Jimmy Carter in 1980 which Carter won fairly easily.

    Since then no incumbent has faced a serious challenge (I don’t consider Pat Buchanan’s challenge to George H Bush in 1992 as “serious).

    So we see that challenging an incumbent President for renomination hasn’t been successful in recent history.

    • The Reagan Challenge in 1976 and the Kennedy challenge in 1980 were both serious challenges in my book.

      My recollection of 1992 was that the Buchanan challenge was serious, but after looking at the data, I was wrong.

      I expect Trunp to get a well known opponent in the primary, but who knows whether it will be a quick TKO.

  3. Yes I agree that the Reagan challenge and the Kennedy challenge were serious.

    Ford though wasn’t really an incumbent, as I pointed out,had pardoned Nixon, and Reagan was considered the Leader of the Then burgeoning Conservative movement and almost won.

    Kennedy was thought to have a chance to topple Carter but never got sufficient traction and never had the magnetism of his brothers.

  4. I think that Ted Kennedy’s problem in challenging President Carter in 1980 was that he had no single issue, or small cluster of issues, upon which to attack Carter and where the two of them proposed sufficiently-different policies.

    Jimmy Carter’s first (and only) term (won in 1976 with just over a hair above 50.0% against Pres. Ford’s 48.00%) ended on a note of vague, general and widespread discontent, soon labelled “malaise”. Although he never actually used this word, President Carter himself gave it voice in a nationally-broadcast address near the end of his term. It also described the unfocussed discontent felt by the Democratic base, trade-unionists and unattached liberals, which in other circumstances could have provided a base for a serious Kennedy challenge.

    At the end of their first term, Carter & Mondale, although sharing the same party as majorities in both chambers of Congress, seemed unable to solve domestic problems that often had international roots, such as the continued detention of hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Teheran (seized in 1979), a failure to dislodge the Red Army from Afghanistan, high prices, energy shortages (following an Arab export boycott), and stagnating wages and employment. Many of these same problems, or similar ones, had helped Jimmy Carter unseat incumbent President Gerald Ford in 1976.

  5. The contested renominations of sitting Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush are often used to show that an incumbent party that suffers such a challenge will lose the general election, although I hardly think this conclusive. For example, two unelected Presidents won their first full terms after significant challenges within their own party: Harry Truman in 1948 (although Strom Thurmond and Henry A. Wallace ended up fighting outside the Democratic Party) and LBJ in 1964 (challenged by George C. Wallace).

    • I think a primary challenge is likely to hurt The Incumbent in the general election. Each race is different, and it is possible that exceptions could occur for various reasons, but in general, the losing candidate’s supporters will probably be less likely to like the winning candidate than if the primary did not take place. This is especially true if the primary was divisive. A second reason is that the primary can exhaust the candidate’s financial resources.

  6. Lebron James and Co. are going to the NBA Finals again…

    Boston tried
    But the Cleveland iconic star carried the night….

  7. NJ Senator Menendez got a challenger for his Senate nomination – Lisa McCormick. She appears to be a very weak opponent, but I will likely vote for her because Menendez is corrupt.

    • The Jersey Senator isn’t burning up the polls….

      The last one I posted had him up by only a few points…

      But the undecided was up to around 40% or so….

          • If anyone here is going to continually berate CG — and any fellow-GOPer who has the temerity and foolhardiness to venture over here — for ambivalence between some corrupt Republican over his or her Democratic opposition, then she or he should be equally ready to reject corrupt Democrats.

            The prosecution might not (at least so far) have had enough evidence to convince both a judge and a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the Senator deserved criminal conviction, but Sen. Menéndez certainly let himself be compromised by personal inducements to compromise his official duties.

            • There’s a lot of crooked politicians out there
              Yup..
              They come is all sizes, shapes and colors
              But none right now as BIG as DJT….

  8. For anyone interested in South Carolina politics…..

    The big race this year is for Governor(Neither Senate seat is up).

    There are five candidates in the Republican primary and three in the Democratic.

    The leading Republican candidate is Gov. Henry McMaster who,as Lt.Governor,succeeded Nikki Haley when she was appointed UN Ambassador (most politicos believe her appointment was a favor by Trump to McMaster who was the First state official in the country to endorse him).His two main challengers are Catherine Templeton ,an attorney and former Director of the Dept. Of Health and Environmental Control,and John Warren, a wealthy businessman.Most observers see McMaster leading but short of the 50% mark to avoid a runoff.All the candidates are rabid supporters of Trup ,of course, is with McMaster.

    The leading Democratic candidate is James Smith, a veteran State Legislator .

    The Democrats haven’t elected a Governor in twenty years so whomever wins the Republican primary will be the prohibitive favorite.

  9. Gas prices range from $2.99 to $3.19 a gallon around my way…..

    This is NOT a good thing for us consumers
    And the economy in general…

  10. What could Trump say that is more outrageous than something he hasn’t already said?

      • Well, maybe for starters (though it probably doesn’t equal his maximum acheivement):

        President Trump Pays Tribute at Arlington and Touts ‘Best Economy in Decades’ on Memorial Day

        By CATHERINE LUCEY / AP May 28, 2018
        (ARLINGTON, Va.) —

        …Before heading to the hallowed grounds across the Potomac River from the nation’s capital, Trump tweeted that “those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today.”

        In the tweet, the president veered from the somber to self-congratulatory, citing what he said was the “Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics EVER (& women in 18years), rebuilding our Military and so much more. Nice!”

        Donald J. Trump
        ✔
        @realDonaldTrump
        Happy Memorial Day! Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics EVER (& women in 18years), rebuilding our Military and so much more. Nice!

        8:58 AM – May 28, 2018
        104K
        81.9K people are talking about this

        He was criticized for his tone by a number of people, including the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Obama administration, former Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, who tweeted, “This day, of all days of the year, should not be about any one of us.” …

        http://time.com/5293225/trump-memorial-day/

        • Another piece on Donald Trump’s selling of bull shit that some eat up and belive in….

          “As a candidate, Donald Trump claimed that the United States government had known in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks. He hinted that Antonin Scalia, a Supreme Court justice who died in his sleep two years ago, had been murdered. And for years, Mr. Trump pushed the notion that President Barack Obama had been born in Kenya rather than Honolulu, making him ineligible for the presidency,” the New York Times reports.

          “None of that was true.”

          “Last week, President Trump promoted new, unconfirmed accusations to suit his political narrative: that a ‘criminal deep state’ element within Mr. Obama’s government planted a spy deep inside his presidential campaign to help his rival, Hillary Clinton, win — a scheme he branded “Spygate.” It was the latest indication that a president who has for decades trafficked in conspiracy theories has brought them from the fringes of public discourse to the Oval Office.”

          “Now that he is president, Mr. Trump’s baseless stories of secret plots by powerful interests appear to be having a distinct effect. Among critics, they have fanned fears that he is eroding public trust in institutions, undermining the idea of objective truth and sowing widespread suspicions about the government and news media that mirror his own.”

          Politicalwire….

          • 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

            11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

            12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

            — Ephesians, chapter 6, verses 10 to 12

            No doubt the President thinks that he wrestles not only with flesh-and-blood Democrats, but against all the satanic powers of Evil.

              • Then so do most Republicans and others who voted for and largely still support him.

                Hint:James your canned response about “alternate United verse” is getting old.

                • Yes
                  But it remains TRUE
                  And as long as Trump keeps talking bull shit?
                  I will repeat that he lives in that Alternate Universe
                  He welcomes your request to let him go on without a counter.,,.

                  • Yeah it’s a good thing you are offering a “counter” for the five people here who are and have been against Trump all along.

                    Then there’s your pathetic attempt to claim that I’m a Trump sympathizer…

                    Clownfoolery.

  11. Republican Virginia Congressman Tom Garrett announced that he won’t seek re-election. Garrett’s staffers had often complained that they were assigned to do Garrett’s personal chores. But he left for other reasons. And Congress will be better off for it.

    • Garret story…

      Rep. Thomas Garrett (R-Va.) announced Monday, four days after an unusual press conference in which he said he is “absolutely, positively running for reelection,” that he will be stepping down in January as he seeks to focus on recovering from alcoholism….

      The Hill….

      • The Stock Market is down over 300 points due to Trump saying he’d hit the Chinese with tariff’s again…

        This is simply Trump negotiating ….

        There will be more dancing

        • Roseanne Barr trashed for racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, post claiming George Soros is a Nazi

          Roseanne Barr continues to offend.
          The outspoken actress ripped former Barack Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett in a tweet many deemed racist and claimed billionaire investor George Soros is “a nazi” during a social media spiral that began overnight….

          More….

          • She’s been a nutjobs for years.

            Used to be a big left winger ,now is a big right winger with loads of dumbass comments trailing her.

            Never thought she was funny.

            • Five more networks drop ‘Roseanne’ reruns as the fallout from her latest racist nonsense continues

              ….After a racist tweet by Roseanne Barr that created an outcry online, reruns of the Roseanne revival scheduled to air on Viacom networks Paramount Network, TV Land and CMT will be pulled from their respective schedules.
              Hulu wasn’t far behind.

              Later on Tuesday a Hulu spokesperson also confirmed that the streaming platform would be dropping the show, writing, “We support ABC’s decision and are removing the show from Hulu.”
              Even smaller broadcasters don’t want anything to do with Barr anymore….

              More @ Daily Kos

  12. Rick Klein @ABCNews reports that Republican Senate candidates are sticking close to Trump in another indication of how the Republican Party is now his party.

    • Not unexpected
      But like Romney’s comments today
      He see’s Yrump as NO role model for his family….
      But SOME. Of his idea’s are good?

      If Trump is weakened by his own words or Mueller?
      They’d leave him like rats jumping from a sinking ship….

  13. Romney will support Trump ninety or more percent of the time in the Senate.

    Oh and that role model garbage?Who gives a damn about that?The Republicans knew what they were getting with this pos .Role Model?

    Good God.

    • “trump is no role model”?

      Wow! It is hard to imagine The fear that Trump must have with Romney talking so tough. In fact, it is hard to envision a trump second term with Romney talking this way. And who said the GOP has no moderates?

      • A judge ruled that Greitens would need to turn over documents relating to his campaign funding to the House committee that launched the impeachment investigation and within hours he quit.
        So not even related to tbe sex scandal.

  16. Breaking, breaking. Four bells ! Stop the Presses ! Hold the delivery trucks ! Keep the line open for paradigm-shattering bulletins:

    Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D, 2015- , Gen. Treas., 2011-14) announced today that she will seek re-election to her current job. (Not a gigantic surprise since half her staff seem to have been working on promoting her, while the former investment banker has been to cocktail hours and fund-raisers for herself all over the country.)

    Also today, former U.S. Sen., Gov. and presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee (GOP Sen. 1999-2006; Ind. Gov. 2011-14; Dem. pres. cand 2016) announced that he will NOT seek to regain his old seat in the U.S, Senate in this year’s Democratic primary or general election, instead endorsing the man who unseated him in 2006, former U.S. Atty & R.I. Atty-Gen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D).

    See (e.g.) http://turnto10.com

    Also: http://www.wpri.com, http://www.abc6.com and http://www.providencejournal.com

  17. I am kind of in shock as I just learned that a good friend of mine – who is much younger than me – passed away. I’m stunned.

      • McGreevey. Thanks James.

        From the Washington Post–
        “Greitens used Trump’s Playbook to try to beat Scandal–it didn’t Work”
        https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2018/05/30/eric-greitens-used-trumps-playbook-to-try-to-beat-scandal-it-didnt-work/#ampshare=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/05/30/eric-greitens-used-trumps-playbook-to-try-to-beat-scandal-it-didnt-work/

        Greitens simply couldn’t hold on to Republicans the way Trump has and eventually had to give up.
        If national Republicans stood up to Trump in the same manner the MO GOP did to Greitens this could all be over. But they haven’t. And I don’t trust them to. Which is why as many as possible must be defeated this fall.

        • I would just think that it is easier for politicians to “do the right thing” in a state or jurisdiction where the opposition party is basically an afterthought.

          • In discussing Greitens and his justified resignation, it is worth nothing that all the salacious talk that originally occurred, (including among us on here) about a supposed S&M photograph turned out to be unfounded.

            • The woman still alleges that Greitens hit her and coerced hee into sex. However without photographic evidence that case fell apart.

              Greitens quit because a judge ordered the shady group that funded his campaign to turn over their documents.

              • Is she as credible a witness though after admitting that the whole photo thing may have been a “dream?”

                These are always questions and determinations that prosecutors have to make of course.

                • The GOP impeachment committee found her to be a credible witness.

                  Personal aside:: The mistress is a hairdresser in St. Louis and one of my friends is a client. I don’t know her name and wouldn’t know her if I saw her on the street. Her name has been kept under wraps and hopefully she can continue to lead a private life now

                  • I haven’t followed the story as closely as some perhaps, but is there any actual evidence at this point that anything occurred between them that was not consensual?

                    I think he was right to quit simply because he had an affair.

                    • The story today is that Greitens attorneys approached Gardner–the St. Louis Circuut Attorney–and said hecwoukd resign if she dropped charges.

          • So now Republicans need a supermajority in Congress to “do the right thing” regarding Trump.
            Jesus–how many excuses can you make for them?

            • I am not making excuses, as I have been clear that I have found the attitudes toward Trump to be wrong. However, we can look at why people may be behaving as they are so it can at least be understood.

              In regards to Greitens, Missouri Republicans probably realized that whomever elevated him to the Republican nomination, his recent party switch aside, and who voted for him in November, are likely the same people who will always vote Republican. They are loyal to the party and thus Greitens was expendable. Same with Blagojevich in Illinois.

              With Trump, there is a big fear, and not unjustifiably so, that Trump brought so many new people into the primaries and so many voters in November who do not typically vote Republican, that he could turn on the party in a dime, and mobilize his supporters against other Republicans, as they are more loyal to him than the party.

    • Pelosi WILL be the new Speaker if the Dem’s get a majority…

      She will be the subject of all sortsb of BS from the right…

      • Chances of Democrats winning a majority in the midterms are approximately 55%.

        The chance of Nancy Pelosi being sworn in as Speaker in January is approximately 40%.

        Others may vary on their percent for the first component but sophisticated followers of politics understand the discrepancy with the second factor.

  20. Whomever has HBO should check out “John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls” which debuted this week.

    • CNN’s four-part, four-hour documentary on the year “1968” is also definitely worth watching, although emotionally draining for anyone who actually lived through, and followed public events in, 1968.

      Perhaps the writers drew things a little too simply, but you can see clear lines between today and what happened in 1968 (for example, Nixon’s campaign, the appeal of George C. Wallace, minority grievances, the alienation of the white working-class).

        • One thing from the series that was for certain, that I knew before, was how remarkably different Nixon’s 1968 convention speech and call for national unity was from the dark murky rhetoric spoken by Trump in his 2016 convention speech.

          Then it was interesting how they showed on Election Day, it looked like Nixon would win the popular vote and lose in the Electoral College to Humphrey. David Brinkley and others were all but saying the Electoral College might be done for after 1968.

          Wallace was being advised to campaign just in the southern states that might throw the election to the House but his ego was such that he spent one of the final days giving a big speech in New York City.

  22. Without studying this in detail, George Wallace could have denied an automatic Electoral College win to Richard Nixon — and thus thrown the choice to the House of Representatives for the first time since 1824 and the second time ever * — by swinging at least 32 electoral votes away from Nixon towards either Wallace or Humphrey. (Nixon won 301 electoral votes against 191 for Humphrey and 46 for Wallace. 269 is exactly half of all 538 electors and thus insufficient to win automatic election.)

    Wallace could have dropped Nixon’s overall majority to one (270 electoral votes) by coming in first instead of second in Tennessee and the Carolinas;
    11 Tenn. (Nixon margin over Wallace 3.83%)
    8 S. Carolina (Nixon margin over Wallace 5.79%)
    12 N. Carolina (Nixon margin over Wallace 8.25%)
    [one N.C. Nixon elector out of 13 in the actual election did defect to vote for Wallace]

    But that 32nd elector might have been rather harder to find, since Wallace came 3rd in every state except the 3 above (Tenn., S.C. & N.C.) and the 5 he won outright (Ark., La, Miss., Alab. & Ga).

    So giving a speech in New York City rather than Memphis, Raleigh or Charleston (S.C.) might well have satisfied George Wallace’s personal or policy aims (for example, by demonstrating support that crossed regional boundaries), but was not an efficient electoral tactic. Wallace only won 5.3% of the Empire State’s vote even after giving that speech.

    * Denying an Electoral College majority, and throwing the election into the House — as opposed to winning a majority of the College itself — has almost always been the classic Dixiecratic third–party strategy, most notably in 1860 and 1948, with the secondary aim of bargaining for promises or concessions from the major-party candidate who wins the South’s Congressional votes.)

  23. Democratic Sen. Mark Warner has made the same point I have here.

    Americans are going to tire of this Mueller investigation.It needs to wrap up and fairly quickly.

    Those who seemingly want this thing to go on interminably are making a mistake in my view.

    The general public wants the answer to a simple question ,Was Trump himself involved in anyway in collusion with Russia to sway the election?

    These indictments of secondary figures, while of significance, are not what really interests the average citizen.

    • Maybe from a political perspective, it is a mistake, but not from a policy perspective.

      So when Donald Jr. is lying about meeting with the Russians, then yes, it sure seems likely that Trump was involved in collusion.

        • Maybe it is just me, but I would not have expected Trump to pardon a corrupt Democrat who was unaffiliated with the Trump campaign.

          Reducing the penalty for corruption. So much for draining the swamp.

          • As Politicalwire pointed out Blago was on “The Apprentice”–as was Martha Stewart.

            • Also Trump wants to send a loud signal that he will pardon for corruption. And if you made previous pardons, it is easier politically to pardon again.

              • Quote of the Day

                “There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party. The Republican party is taking nap somewhere.”

                — Former Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), quoted by WDIV-TV.

                Politicalwire…

          • Blago was on Celebrity Apprentice (and Martha Stewart once hosted an Apprentice spinoff) and on that show, Trump told Blago that he was a great man and a great Governor who was unfairly railroaded. He still fired him though for not knowing how to send email on a task.

            I mentioned that Trump might do this for Blago in order to send a message and someone else on here laughed and said I was engaging in Republican fantasies.

    • Warner may have a point on the political side….

      But as a gut who got a law degree , but never practiced?

      He should know better….

      Mueller’s mandate isn’t to run a popularity contest….

      Other Presidential legal investigations lasted for YEARS…

      Sure those guy where’s masters at using the media for their bulls hit as Trump is….

      Nevertheless?

      80% of Democrats, 59% on Independents and almost ALL of the US Senate SUPPORT Mueller’s investigation’s….The majority on a whole support Mueller…Not Trump…

      Increasingly you seem to be pushing for Trump to walk away from this whole thing without being touched and available for a second tern….

      How interesting, and to me?

      Odd….

      • jack can speak for himself, but this concept that he is somehow defending Trump is just ludicrous.

        james has lectured jack in the past, and not totally inaccurately, that not everything is black and white and that “people can be more than one thing.” This time, the roles are most certainly reversed in terms of who needs the lecture.

        • I’m always willing to listen….

          And Jack certainly gives his view….

          We agree sometimes….

          And he has made it clear that his role here is put my views to the test….

          That’s fine with me….

          I mearly point to what I see is Jack’s seemingly view that Mueller needs to hurry along, which is NOT , in my view what Mueller’s job is about….

          Trump want’s the thing wraped up so he go free….

      • I don’t know why you find it”odd” James.

        Indeed , you yourself say,”Warner may have apoint on the political side.”

        Well,James that is MY point.It is the political side I am talking about.

        We all know of your difficulties with simple reading comprehension ;however, this tripe about me wanting Trump to “walk away” is nothing more that one of your many pathetic attempts to try to paint me as somehow sympathetic to Trump .Even more old adversary CG had to come to my defense on that absurdity.

        Trump may very well be guilty of crimes.That remains to be seen.However, Trump has already sold the majority of Republicans on the idea that he is being treated un fairly or even framed.Warner recognizes that this is as much political as it is legal.My comments are directed to the political side of this.

        Yes, the longer this goes on without a smoking gun on Trump and that’s what it is going to have to be.No inferences or even likely possibilities will do.Without incontrovertible evidence of illegality by Trump,nothing will happen.

        • Mueller is doing an investigation
          It should be complete
          As long as he need’s it to
          Screw Trump and his efforts to rush things and get off …..

          • “I think Donald Trump promised Melania that he would not win. She didn’t have to worry about ever living in the White House. That’s probably why she doesn’t look real happy every day. Well, maybe one reason.”

            — Former Speaker John Boehner, quoted by WDIV-TV.

            Politicalwire…

  24. Boehner is giving good soundbites now, if he has switched from cigarettes and Chardonay to weed.

    • Just wait, in a few days, we will see “Melania”, and it will look nothing like her, and Trump’s apologists won’t bat an eye.

      It’s like when they swapped out the step-mom on Diff’rent Strokes or Aunt Viv on the Fresh Prince.

      • Did he exchange her for the North Korean hostages? That was the last time she has been seen.

          • So where is Barron ?
            Being kept in a separate ICE facility (Kinderlager) ?
            Did his mother oh-so-naïvely and trustingly walk into a USCIS office just thinking to regularise her status by documenting her marriage to a U.S. Citizen, only to find she couldn’t return home (to Trump Tower or 1600 Pennsylvania) ?

            • If Baron wasn’t Trump’s son, he probably would refer to him as an anchor baby

      • Maybe the new Melania will be willing to hold Trump’s hand or even kiss him in public?

      • She didn’t sign up for the media attention…

        She got a rich guy…

        She got her family here….

        NOBODY THOUGHT HER HUSBAND WOULD ACTUALLY WIN!

        • Hillary Clinton (it’s been alleged) hadn’t prepared a concession speech (although two of her speechwriters said they worked on one the weekend before), while Donald Trump wasn’t ready with a victory speech.

    • He, he, he…..

      Boehner HAS too be a Happy Camper on SEVERAL different things!

      • No politician in my lifetime has benefited more from his relationship with the media than President Trump, and that is in part because keeping tabs on the extent of his scandals is a Herculean task.

        In MAGAland, the conceit that the media is biased against President Trump is the one creed that unites all factions. It is considered so self-evident that Trump supporters will dismiss my effort to present a counter argument as farcical trolling, not worthy of engagement. And a lot is riding on their unwillingness to listen. After all, if the first commandment of the Church of Trump is wrong, then what of the rest of its tenets?

        But the notion of a vast media conspiracy against Trump is only unobjectionable on the counter-plane of reality inhabited by Trump’s supporters and enablers—one where mendacity, cruelty, racism, corruption, and buffoonery needed to be treated one pole of a two-sided debate that must be respected. (Even Trump himself seems to grasp that he benefits from the way the political press covers him, because every now and again, in his most boastful moments, he brags about it.)…

        More…

  27. Daily Kos via twitter….

    UC Berkeley #CAgov top-two primary poll:
    Gavin Newsom (D): 33%
    John Cox (R): 20%
    Antonio Villaraigosa (D): 13%
    Travis Allen (R): 12%

    • I could have gone to work for John Cox about 15 years ago… Didn’t see any point in it though.

      Newsom will be strongly rooting for him to finish ahead of Villaragoisa. So are Republicans on Capitol Hill.

    • Via twitter
      Taegan Goddard

      UC Berkeley #CAgov top-two primary poll:
      Gavin Newsom (D): 33%
      John Cox (R): 20%
      Antonio Villaraigosa (D): 13%
      Travis Allen (R): 12%

  28. No Post for John Boehner’s Interview calling the Republican Party the Party of Trump…and the rest of the party has gone on vacation…

    You may not want to post it because it basically claims claims Trump is a Republican because the Republicans are Trump…this is the closest thing we have had to Strong Man in Government since Andrew Jackson (whom he has a very similar style to in many many ways and none good).

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