Interesting to note that Epstein pleaded the fifth amendment when asked about his relationship with Trump with regard to underage girls:
Q: Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?
A. What do you mean by "personal relationship," sir?
Q. Have you socialized with him?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Yes?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?
A: Though I'd like to answer that question, at least today I'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.
Yeah, that sounds like they’re throwing a grab bag of nonsense over the fact that they’re pleading the fifth. They might as well have pleaded the second and third too.
Nothing like a little international turmoil to deflect domestic turmoil. Put those two men in the same room and you’ve got the perfect combination of evil and incompetent.
He’s there to bring appropriate Bond-Villain pomp and ceremony to the situation. A lot of things about Trump & Co are absurd, outrageous… but that he makes Kim, a guy who without him would look like an Evil Sidekick throwing tantrums while the Evil Overlord is away, look efficient by comparison? That’s scary.
June 13, 2018, Individual 1:
“Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!” https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1006837823469735936?
February 24, 2019, Jake Tapper, CNN, to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:
“Do you think North Korea remains a nuclear threat?”
Mike Pompeo:
“Yes”
Jake Tapper:
“But the President said he doesn’t.”
Mike Pompeo:
“That’s not what he said … I know precisely what he said.”
Apparently Trump hasn’t been able to get around to cocking this up, yet. I’ve never s said these words, before, I don’t think, but "God Bless the Civil Service. "
New depths have been dug with the top official of a proposed White House panel on climate change: William Happer, a com-plete-ly unhinged former Energy Department staffer under George H.W. Bush.
I was going to provide a quote, but nah, the whole thing becomes one, whole, laughable cauldron of a quote - too many to choose from. (Well, laughable, like - if zoofuckery like this really becomes the norm, we could be quite fucked.)
Wow what piece of work this fucker is, though.
(from a report by the paywalled WaPo)
I’m sure the world’s scientific community (and anyone else who can say the word “potato”) will be eager to lap up wisdom of this panel’s half-baked findings.