Chuck Todd is the embarrassing relative Sweeney won’t talk about.
There’s a lot less to Chuck Todd than meets the eye. He’s not the disaster for MTP that David Gregory was, but he too often lets his guests tell whoppers that go unchallenged. I think Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes are both ten times the interviewer that he is.
More breaking news on Kimba Wood- she was once (gasp) a Playboy bunny! How can this shameless hussy be fit to judge anyone associated with that noble paragon of virtue in the White House?
Fascinating development. Dotard finally tweeted about Stormy Daniels.
… Was it a repudiation of her claims?
… Was it an attack on her lawyer?
… Was it a claim for damages?
None of the above! Of all the things he could have said about SD, he says this:
“A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!” https://twitter.com/shennafoxmusic/status/986544764395900928
Now, if you haven’t been following the speculation re: the sketch, many people are saying he looks a lot like Trump’s head of security Michael Calimari:
https://twitter.com/BigAlDell/status/986360241016135682?s=19
As to why Trump would opine so furiously about such a nothing detail in a case which doesn’t even involve him (snicker), who knows?
Okay, that was my much-needed morning guffaw. Thank you.
Oh, right, the Barber of Severe…Probably rather be a lumberjack. That’s OK.
Wait, Trump’s head of security is named after a squid?
I think the writers are getting tired, but yes, this characters name is “Calamari”.
The writers have been tired for a while – remember the clown character who was actually named “Scaramucci”?
I think this whole sketch thing is ridiculous. Others have pointed out that the sketch bears a striking resemblance to one of Daniels’s ex-husbands. Sketches aren’t that great to begin with, the encounter was 7 years ago, etc., etc…
But.
That is kind of interesting.
Hmmmm…
When SD said she was threatened in Vegas by some mook, I assumed it was some nobody loser who had to cover a life of sins (and bad debts) by being paid $5g’s to be the heavy on some woman.
When the speculation about Calamari began, I didn’t believe it. Just too pat, and too stupid. I didn’t think the Trump of 7 years ago had degenerated to the point where he would make such a blunder, and I assumed this sketch would be a literal nothing-burger.
Then Dotard tweets about the sketch, literally claims the man doesn’t exist, and completely changes my thinking about this.
11 years ago I was sitting in Knoxville when my 5yo daughter sidles up to me and starts asking about Mom’s pretty vase. As soon as she mentioned it, I sure as shit knew that something happened to that vase. (Sophia put it in her closet as she thought it was very pretty and wanted to look at it that night.) She wasn’t talking about it apropos of nothing, she had a point she was trying to make, but didn’t want to directly say it.
Same thing with Dotard, above. Just less subtly.
Yeah, I was wondering what the point of the sketch was, since it’d be so hard to get any sort of match after all of these years, and Daniels’ lawyer had to realize that.
But now, of course, it makes perfect sense. You release the sketch to give Trump an opportunity to say something stupid. And he’s not the sort to pass up an opportunity.
As DWMarch said:
As far as if the sketch is indeed “Matty the Squid”, I have no idea. I certainly don’t discount the possibility. He graduated high school in 2011 and started working for the Trump organization in November 2011, according to his LinkedIn profile. In 2011, his father was the director of security for Trump. Send the kid on an errand to deliver a message to the woman threatening the boss. Have him earn his stripes. Sure, why not? Somebody said the Trump saga is like The Godfather, but everyone is Fredo. So, yeah, I can believe the guy was Calamari.
As an aside, I read a pretty good book about the DB Cooper hijacking a while back. The writer starts off investigating the case and ends up chronicling his own descent into paranoia and conspiracy theories. I’m starting to feel like that guy.
It’s moot now since we know the truth, but there is nothing that would stop Hannity from lying on TV and saying that Cohen isn’t his lawyer while maintaining in court that Cohen is his lawyer. Why do you believe otherwise?
Which is, of course, a really ridiculous thing to use to attempt to discredit Daniels and the sketch. Are we supposed to believe that she didn’t recognize her ex-husband when he told her to leave Trump alone and then threatened her children? Or are we supposed to believe that she made up the whole thing and for some reason kept thinking of her ex-husband while having the sketch made and then released it anyway?
Or is it, perhaps, a bit more likely that the subject of the sketch just kind of looks like her ex-husband, purely by chance?
I think it’s highly unlikely that Stormy and Avenatti didn’t go over photos of every person known to be in the Trump orbit well before there ever was a sketch.
Uh, I have to admit that I don’t understand the #basta thing. Is it slang for bastard? What’s the context here?
Given that I’ve seen lots of people joking that it also looks like Jon Bon Jovi, Ryan Seacrest, and Willem Dafoe, as well as Scaramucci, I think it’s just that it could look like a lot of people.
Spanish and Italian for ‘enough’ or ‘that’s enough.’
Ah, I see; thanks Johnny!
OMG. Trump is the rabbit in I Want My Hat Back. I knew he reminded me of somebody…