# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083 "2020-06-22T03:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 38
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/747 "2020-07-09T19:42:48Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Could you summarize that for those of us who aren’t on Twitter? Thanks in advance. You don’t have to be “on Twitter” to read a Twitter account. Just stick this into your browser, and you can read Trump’s Twitter feed: [https://twitter.com/potus?lang=en](https://twitter.com/potus?lang=en) ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/748 "2020-07-09T19:48:15Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > It’s worth noting that Clarence Thomas dissented from the ruling in this case, arguing that “Congress has no power to issue a legislative subpoena for private, nonofficial documents.” But he also argued that, if they had requested these documents as part of an impeachment process, it probably would have been OK. > > > [@](#): > > > > Congress may be able to obtain these documents as part of an investigation of the President, but to do so, it must proceed under the impeachment power. > > This suggests pretty strongly that the subpoenas were _ **not** _ issued as part of the impeachment process. Thanks for that detailed answer. Makes sense. But now I’m left with the unsettling idea that I actually agree with Clarence Thomas about something. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/749 "2020-07-09T19:48:33Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Just stick this into your browser, and you can read Trump’s Twitter feed… Shouldn’t there be a health warning , or at least a High Blood Pressure Advisory before clicking that link? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/750 "2020-07-09T19:49:24Z")
It’s worth it just to read the comments. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/751 "2020-07-09T20:13:30Z")
That link goes to the White House account, not Trump’s personal twit (but the WH did re-tweet the personal stuff.) To avoid having to click through, and to read bottom up, here’s what he said: PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT! The Supreme Court sends case back to Lower Court, arguments to continue. This is all a political prosecution. I won the Mueller Witch Hunt, and others, and now I have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt New York. Not fair to this Presidency or Administration! Courts in the past have given “broad deference”. BUT NOT ME! We have a totally corrupt previous Administration, including a President and Vice President who spied on my campaign, AND GOT CAUGHT…and nothing happens to them. This crime was taking place even before my election, everyone knows it, and yet all are frozen stiff with fear… …No Republican Senate Judiciary response, NO “JUSTICE”, NO FBI, NO NOTHING. Major horror show REPORTS on Comey & McCabe, guilty as hell, nothing happens. Catch Obama & Biden cold, nothing. A 3 year, $45,000,000 Mueller HOAX, failed - investigated everything… …Won all against the Federal Government and the Democrats send everything to politically corrupt New York, which is falling apart with everyone leaving, to give it a second, third and fourth try. Now the Supreme Court gives a delay ruling that they would never have given… …for another President. This is about PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT. We catch the other side SPYING on my campaign, the biggest political crime and scandal in U.S. history, and NOTHING HAPPENS. But despite this, I have done more than any President in history in first 3 1/2 years! POLITICAL WITCH HUNT! ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/752 "2020-07-09T20:16:33Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > That link goes to the White House account, not Trump’s personal twit Yeah, sorry, got the wrong one. Here’s his personal account: [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump) The personal one is better, because the White House account makes at least an effort to be within the bounds of sanity. The personal one is unadulterated crazypants. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/753 "2020-07-09T20:22:56Z")
Geoffrey Berman, ousted New York federal prosecutor, is testifying before the House this morning. He said Barr urged him repeatedly to resign in a 45 minute meeting, but he refused. “I told him that while I did not want to get fired, I would not resign,” Berman said. [Ousted NY prosecutor tells panel Barr 'urged' him to resign | AP News](https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/07/09/ousted-ny-prosecutor-tells-panel-barr-urged-him-to-resign/)? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/754 "2020-07-09T20:29:51Z")
Michael Cohen was caught at a restaurant in Manhattan and has now gone back to prison for violating his parole. > **[Michael Cohen sent back to jail following visit to Manhattan restaurant](https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-video/mmvo87294021636)** > > This is not ... what \[Cohen\] was expecting," Katy Tur reports. "He was expecting to sign some paperwork." ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/755 "2020-07-09T20:33:42Z")
I read something about one of the Individual 1 sycophants talking about how the Rona is getting better so kids should go back to school, and the reporter asked them did that mean that Cohen should be sent back to jail now that the danger of the virus is going down, and they couldn’t answer. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/756 "2020-07-09T20:36:45Z")
Nice! Thanks for the pick-me-up, Rick! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/757 "2020-07-09T20:46:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I read something about one of the Individual 1 sycophants talking about how the Rona is getting better so kids should go back to school, and the reporter asked them did that mean that Cohen should be sent back to jail now that the danger of the virus is going down, and they couldn’t answer. A minor detail, but… Actually, the reporter asked if **Manafort** should be sent back to jail since it was apparently safe to send kids to school, and that train wreck of a press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, didn’t answer. (Saw it live.) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/758 "2020-07-09T20:48:45Z")
“Mc-Inane-y”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/759 "2020-07-09T20:51:34Z")
Gawd, that’s perfect. Were anyone to look up the meaning of the word, ‘vacuous’ in the dictionary, they should expect to see her picture. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/760 "2020-07-09T22:52:51Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > “Mc-Inane-y”. 🙂 I call her “McEnemy”. Not very creative, I know, but I amuse myself. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/761 "2020-07-10T00:53:26Z")
[This is a non-paywalled link](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/tammy-duckworth-tucker-carlson.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfq4hkT1UbCibSRdkhrxqAwuTGxbktw3PjJyuKTixez6EJHoOD9l2IbqN5Y8A02XKbWNpFevcJdcBF89V-bQZrWhX65dyNgogEKCE47tq4U2k6gZ7EGO1n-zGvM2XmdKIunezg-k_baGi8W_GL0nUrLB134scwLSHc0nYDx6vPF-Vwy4M-ia9nXsYmMG9GMCqavPDoCgF8PsGFb3ze6wowXeJeXFLDjILWquJAIEgJVwWwHD4o6n086dheJNoSIK35Shcic8f7irkWYXd6HAff9RjJPzLHrAA73RZPRA) to a remarkably eloquent and stirring editorial by Tammy Duckworth from today’s NYT. As one commenter said, “This is what leadership looks like”. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/762 "2020-07-10T01:44:10Z")
After that response, Sen. Duckworth really ought to have Tucker’s balls hanging from the handle of her wheelchair. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/763 "2020-07-10T01:47:04Z")
Like the man said, Tucker Carlson is a millionaire funded by billionaires; he is the very definition of “lackey”. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/764 "2020-07-10T02:45:46Z")
I was sure Tucker was never in the military, didn’t know he barely got into college and tried to get into the CIA > **[Tucker Carlson tried to join the CIA](https://theweek.com/speedreads/689969/tucker-carlson-tried-join-cia)** ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/765 "2020-07-10T03:32:21Z")
Hell, I could’ve been in the CIA but they needed a someone with a driver’s license and I didn’t have one at the time. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/766 "2020-07-10T03:53:02Z")
Being reported on CNN: Esper and Milley both say they have no idea who ordered the protestors cleared so President Tinpot could have his photo-op. Police radio transmissions were not recorded. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=39)