Bonus points for the *Seinfeld *reference.
I really do wonder what happens if they scratch the surface. Obviously AMI already confessed to burying stories harmful to Trump, but has he ever paid them to attack opponents? Have they planted fake stories at his request?
Bill Maher has said many times that he buys it and enjoys reading it. And he’s as far from a MAGA hat wearer as you’ll find (he actually got sued by Trump over an orangutan joke). But I take your point that he’s surely very atypical.
I suspect though that a lot of the people who read it are pretty apolitical, which (at least if they occasionally vote in presidential elections) is actually even more concerning.
We can only assume from all this that Senator Graham is not hung, which cannot be said about the Clydesdale he was rogered by.
Recently? Not sure. There’s the tale from Salma Hayek. She turned him down for a date, so he had the National Enquirer run a story about how he wouldn’t date her because she was too short. Then he comes back to her saying they need to prove it wrong by dating.
He’s kind of an asshat for other reasons so color me surprised.
Seriously, Bezos has the ability—by doing anything close to what you describe—to better the life of Americans in a massive and lasting fashion.
That doesn’t seem to have occurred to him, though.
Kind of? :dubious:
I’d say “full fledged, working on getting better at it.”
If he takes AMI down, that’d be a marked plus on its own.
I posted about one incident upthread, I think ( unless it was one of the other threads on the topic. )
The story involves MSNBC’s morning show hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
They have been hosting their show for a long time. They were both married to other people for most of that time. Joe divorced in 2013, Mika in 2016. They are now a couple and it’s sort of obvious that their relationship began while they were both married.
Up until the election, they were usually on friendly terms with Trump. Their show was always somewhat conservative, especially for MSNBC -Scarborough is a former Republican congressman. But after the election that changed and their coverage of Trump became harsh as they called him out for lying. Trump began to insult them via twitter and he threatened to expose their relationship ( it was sort of an open secret at that time, anyway).
And at around that time the National Enquirer began to investigate them for a story and sent reporters to follow and harass their families.
Then Scarborough got a call from someone that worked in the Trump Administration . Scarborough has never said exactly who the call was from. The caller told Joe that the Enquirer was working on a story but they could arrange to have it killed. And if Joe would call Trump and apologize for the tone of their coverage they would kill the story.
Scarborough refused. He and Mika went public with their relationship, which they were preparing to do anyway. The story ran, it was a small and relatively boring piece near the back of the issue - (2 relatively unknown single TV hosts are having a relationship, I’m surprised they ran it at all -they probably only did so at Trump’s behest)
On Twitter, Trump lied and claimed that Joe and called him and begged him to have the story killed and that he refused.
While J and M talked about this on their show when it happened, they stopped talking about it shortly after. I always hoped that they were working with prosecutors or taking other legal action.
So that’s one clear-cut case. And it directly involves the Trump Administration.
And I had always wondered about the “Ted Cruz has 5 mistresses” expose that ran late in the primary season. I have always wondered if that was the consequence of a refused blackmail attempt, (drop out of the race or we run this story).
God, I really suspect he’s done this to a fair number of Republicans. I hope that they come clean. It could rival #MeToo. I’m probably dreaming, but I hate those sleazeball techniques and I want them to be exposed. Let’s see what crawls out from under that rock,
True enough.
Anyone whose first thought was not “Lindsey Graham,” raise your hand.
As someone else- I don’t remember who- said on these boards once “That would be the least surprising kompromat in the history of kompromat”.
If anyone would be clutching his pearls, it’d be Lindsey Graham.
So Mick Mulvaney is holding the line on “the President is above the law” and “the President should not be investigated.”
Interestingly, he tried an ‘excluded middle’ argument on Chris Wallace, who was having none of it:
As was pointed out in the comments, Democrats have been expected to do their jobs while being investigated. If Trump isn’t up to it, maybe he should resign, eh?
I like the cut of your jib, young man!
Ted Lieu literally entered the text of the Constitution into the record after he asked Matthew Whitaker where in the Constitution it says that the President can’t be indicted while in office, and Whitaker refused to say it was Constitutional.
Good for Lieu.
I like Ted Lieu and despise Hot Tub Whitaker, but that line of questioning was much more boring, droning and pointless than suggested here. Whitaker did say it wasn’t in the Constitution, if you watch the video. He was just getting irritated; Lieu was going through a list of people saying “and does the Constitution say this (type of person) can’t be indicted?” and Whitaker was trying to move on.
i kind of agree…but Whitaker even tried to blow the whistle when a congressman’s 5 minutes expired, and the chairman wasn’t having it. The witness doesn’t get to decide when it’s “time to move on”.
Gee. Who knew being President was so hard?
Too bad; maybe he should work for a different boss. It is true, an unindictable President is not in the Constitution, just a tradition, but then so were approving or disapproving his appointments in a timely manner rather than letting them sit until his successor could make them instead.
Funny how the desire to keep traditions is resurgent among the Republicans now, isn’t it?