I know it’s not really about the administration, but it is about Trump and this just has ‘clusterfuck’ written all over it: Trump’s affair with 1998 Playboy Playmate of the year Karen McDougal:
Here’s the New Yorker story: Donald Trump, a Playboy Model, and a System for Concealing Infidelity.
Has Trump said even one word about the Olympics in general, or the US athletes in particular?
Only if Trump Steaks was a sponsor.
I can’t believe he cheated on Stormy.
anything he has to say would probably be inappropriate
#15 seems prescient.
I am so stealing that.
Whoa! Deja-fucking-vu!
Wow… just replace Chappaquiddick with Benghazi.
It seems we have yet another example of how the Orange Shit Stain only hires the very best, top men… to drain the swamp.
The inspector general of the Federal Communications Commission is investigating the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, for possibly having worked just a little to closely with far-right media conglomerate Sinclair Broadcasting in its attempt to purchase Tribune Media.
Last April, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, led the charge for his agency to approve rules allowing television broadcasters to greatly increase the number of stations they own. A few weeks later, Sinclair Broadcasting announced a blockbuster $3.9 billion deal to buy Tribune Media — a deal those new rules made possible.
By the end of the year, in a previously undisclosed move, the top internal watchdog for the F.C.C. opened an investigation into whether Mr. Pai and his aides had improperly pushed for the rule changes and whether they had timed them to benefit Sinclair, according to Representative Frank Pallone of New Jersey and two congressional aides.
Sinclair’s top lobbyist, a former F.C.C. official, also communicated frequently with former agency colleagues and pushed for the relaxation of media ownership rules. And language the lobbyist used about loosening rules has tracked closely to analysis and language used by Pai in speeches favoring such changes.
In addition to Pai’s communications with Sinclair, the Democrats asked the IG to look into communications between Pai and the White House, referencing “a report in March 2017 from The New York Post, in which Mr. Trump is said to have met with Sinclair’s executive chairman, David Smith, and discussed F.C.C. rules.”
The corruption never ends.
True. But it’s always nice to see it being caught (and, one can hope, punished).
(Encouraging that in the Trump era there still is such a thing as an independent Inspector General for a federal agency. Though I suppose that now, they’ll prioritize getting rid of such pesky holdovers from the Rule of Law era…)
Thump makes the supreme sacrifice.
Trump says he is skipping golf to honor the Florida shooting victims: report
What a guy!
Apparently thump hasn’t heard about the other shootings since Columbine/1999. Well, we know he doesn’t read.
Words fail me.
Get a load of this! Thumbs up! Big smile! Mass murder!
Picture this: Barack Obama is found to have cheated on his wife with two different women and then had them paid off. That would be cool, right? I’m sure the “conservatives” wouldn’t even mention it.
The only positive thing about dragging Trump’s sordid activities into the light is finally getting to put the whole “family values” nonsense to rest. Principles, morality, faith…it’s all been exposed as mealy-mouthed, hypocritical bullshit.
Yeah he went directly from “grieving” to attending a disco party at Mar a Lago.
Disco? I thought supporting the nazis was bad enough, but this!
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley:
"There are two groups that have created chaos more than the Russians and that’s the Democrats and the mainstream media.”
He’s a Huckabee/Santorum operative.
Intelligent people already knew it was hypocritical BS. But the faithful will still demonize the Democrats for the same behaviours they ignore in their own. It’s not put to rest. It is simply obvious hypocrisy and they don’t care.
Feel free, I stole the idea from Borowitz. One of his readers referred to the Playmate affair as just another of Trump’s mulligans.
King Tut: What the fuck is SNOW?"
