Of course CFSG condemns the report — by the Failed New York Times™ — as “fake news.”
What I find more troubling than the fact that he may have tried to put Berman in charge of the Cohen investigation (I’d actually be more surprised if he didn’t attempt to install a crony there) is that if Berman hadn’t suffered an attack of ethics and recused himself, CFSG may well have gotten his wish.
Aspenglow:
Personally, I think it’s big. If it happens, it changes the entire calculus in the Middle East – and not in any way to our benefit. Plus, it’s illegal. Not illegal that the Saudis want to build nuclear reactors for power generation – but the implementation that allows the Saudis to make their own power generation uranium and therefore puts them a small step away from enriching uranium for use in bombs. That’s what is illegal.
Can you think of anything that will get Iran to quickly and fully abandon the nuclear agreement spearheaded by Kerry in 2015 that we’ve now pulled out of and is hanging by a thread thanks to the EU, than a nuclearized Saudi Arabia? I can’t. So, you know, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and India all with nuclear capability in the Middle East… that should go well.
I think people are exhausted and numb to the number of violations this “administration” commits on a daily basis, so serious stuff like this slips through with hardly a notice. You’re wise to pay attention to it.
Rhetorical question: Is there anything that isn’t for sale to the detriment of our national interests by this criminal gang? I can see why Putin adores Trump.
I can’t wait for Sarah Sanders to spin this one - The President didn’t need to do this. He just wanted Armageddon to go much faster.
For many of the MAGA-capped Numpties, that’s a good thing.
The sooner the end of the world comes, the sooner The Rapture will follow, and You-Know-Who will be back. (Especially if we can persuade all the Jews to move to Israel. We’re workin’ on it.)
Why do they want Voldemort back?
The America-hating fuckstick makes him look like the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, anyway.
JohnT
February 20, 2019, 4:28pm
5772
Thereby making Trump the antichrist. I’ve seen the movie.
What does “CFSG” stand for?
jsc1953
February 20, 2019, 4:34pm
5774
Cheeto-Faced Shit-Gibbon. A Scottish epithet for Trump.
Elendil_s_Heir:
In the transcript of my life for tomorrow, after “Got out of bed,” I’m going to insert, “Won the Powerball, the Nobel Prize and a long, lingering kiss from Keira Knightley.” It’ll be just as real, and just as accurate.
Well, the Cheeto-in-Chief is making a try for one of those:
So who’s the bigger idiot? Trump for asking? Or Abe for doing? I’d say Abe, mostly because we know Trump’s a blithering idiot. I had assumed Abe was at least of average intelligence. Guess I was wrong.
Yeah, why would Abe do that? Is thump holding Abe’s family hostage at a thump property in Japan? But seriously, why?
Reciprocity. Now the US owes Japan a favour.
enipla
February 20, 2019, 5:44pm
5779
Maybe Abe is trolling Trump and us.
Ah, thanks. Google and Wiki failed me.
Morgyn
February 20, 2019, 6:00pm
5781
I’m betting he thinks, “If I do this, he’ll stop asking me to. The committee will not award it to him no matter who nominates him. The man has no honor.”
jsc1953
February 20, 2019, 6:16pm
5782
It gives me a great deal of comfort and delight knowing that Obama has something that Trump wants badly, and he can’t have one of his own, and can’t take Obama’s away. I’m sure it pisses him off tremendously.
jsc1953:
It gives me a great deal of comfort and delight knowing that Obama has something that Trump wants badly, and he can’t have one of his own, and can’t take Obama’s away. I’m sure it pisses him off tremendously.
Maybe a previous winner will gift it to Trump, he’ll have one even if he didn’t get it the regular way.
“And I said, 'Man, that’s like big stuff. I always wanted to get the Purple Heart,” Trump said. "This was much easier.”
FFS, Trump even lied about that Purple Heart:
“I said to him, 'Is that like the real one, or is that a copy?” the Republican nominee said moments after taking the stage at a local high school.
Trump recounted the exchange, remarking that the man, who he identified as retired Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman said, “That’s my real Purple Heart. I have such confidence in you.”
“And I said, 'Man, that’s like big stuff. I always wanted to get the Purple Heart,” Trump said. "This was much easier.”
:dubious:
Yeah; that’s what I thought.
I thought all of the Jews had to convert to Christianity and there be a major battle at Megiddo before the Rapture.
Somebody ought to give him a fake Purple Heart with “for bone spurs” engraved on it.