Chris Matthews picked up on something very interesting about Cheetolini's therapy session yesterday

[Native]

Matthews...discerned something revealing about Trump’s answer to reporters’ questions in the East Room of the White House. And Matthews put it into historical context.

Whenever answering (or dodging) inquiries about his campaign’s involvement with the Russians, Matthews said, Trump used phrases like “to the best of my knowledge” and “I don’t recall” to deflect questions without quite denying them.

Matthews compared Trump’s “weasel words” to those of Alger Hiss, an American who spied for the Soviet Union during the Red Scare of the Cold War.

“Those are ways to avoid perjury,” Matthews said of Trump’s word choices. “They’re not truth-telling, generally.”

Matthews also said the press conference was "manic" - like listening to a guy “on a couch explaining his problems to a shrink.”

http://observer.com/2017/02/jake-tapper-cnn-donald-trump-press-conference/

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Thanks for posting. Drumpf as they say has been "lawyered up."

A good reporter would asked Drump this question for the record: "If somebody said you were aware of your associates collaborating with Russia they would be lying ? "

[Cha]

2. Thank you, Native

[Native]

3. Cha, did you see Hollywood Reporter's rundown of the presser? It was spot on.

[Cha]

5. No.. but I've been enjoying the hell out of all

the other critiques I've seen.

Is it here?

[Native]

7. Don't know. But here's a link.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trumps-press-conference-echoes-death-throes-watergate-i-critics-notebook-976876

And this is how I truly felt watching the presser:

During his rantings and ravings, you expected white-uniformed figures to burst in with a straitjacket and a rubber net.

[Cha]

8. Whoa.. "It was a rambling, bellicose affair that will be studied by psychology students for decades

to come."

Weird he felt the need to say "..“To be honest.." right before he told one his stupid self-serving lies.

Wants to blame his stupid FUBAR on President Obama..

Link to tweet

"His arguments might have carried a bit more weight if they hadn’t been accompanied by a slew of lies, such as when Trump boasted about his Electoral College win. “We got 306!” he crowed. “It was the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan”… except, as several reporters pointed out minutes later, it wasn’t."

“There has never been a presidency that’s done so much in such a short period of time"

Never done so much harm in a short period of time.

trump is wasting the Country's time. he's so full of fucking bullshit.

Thank you for this, Native~

[world wide wally]

13. First, he deflected the lie by saying, "I was talking about Republicans"

You could cut the bullshit with a backhoe.

[Wounded Bear]

15. Well, he did get the most Electoral College votes...

since Obama.

[Charles Bukowski]

31. Which is still wrong - - HW Bush crushed Dump's EC total.

[world wide wally]

33. The rest of the world knows that... but somebody told Trump something

[Ms. Toad]

38. That exchange surprised me -

It was the closest I've seem him come to admitting lying.
It was too polished - he offered the Republicans line without a fraction of a second of hesitation, and similarly no hesitation when they called him out on his fallback lie.

Usually he just gets angry or bumbles around for a bit. I've never heard him say the equivalent of "Some people say" in apparent recognition that he'd been caught lying before. It is generally a preface to an affirmative lie.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. Nice appetizers there, Cha! I just may have to find a vid now.

A psychological study in Narcissistic melt down? Oh yeah, that's my cup of tea!

❤

[notdarkyet]

22. It was painful to watch. Rambling, incoherent, angry, nasty, insulting.

That's why he never talks, he tweets. Because if you watch him more than a few minutes it's apparent he has lost his marbles. 77 minutes or close to, and said nothing of substance just bragging on himself. I think we should petition all the cable media to quit showing this ullshit everyday because it is propaganda. Same shit different day.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

25. I wish we could get rid of all the puke propaganda mills---they're the reason this

Trainwreck was possible. Didn't happen overnight. They've been GROOMING the public much like a pedophile grooms his target. Start small, build up, test limits, and keep the big prize in mind.

[LiberalFighter]

49. How about they show his press conference but play the audio from Keystone Cops?

[Cha]

36. I've only watched it through Colbert, Trevor Noah, and reading this

report from the Hollywood Reporter.

I kinda eased into it.. But, you're right.. it is a case of crazy talk on steroids from the pathological Liar in MF chief.

Blanche~

[NastyRiffraff]

43. Here, in a nutshell captures that insane presser:

From the article:

It was a rambling, bellicose affair that will be studied by psychology students for decades to come.

Honestly, I couldn't sit through the entire trainwreck, but the almost universal verdict is that the man is barking mad. Dangerously mad.

[Cha]

44. Trying to blame his

shit on President Obama

Riff

[mcar]

32. I actually texted my son during the presser

"Jesus, someone get a net."

[Cha]

37. lol

[DK504]

20. Have made posters

for family members and other idiots in area dumb enough to vote for the Agent Orange.

[KittyWampus]

4. Have to say- Matthews own show is like HIS therapy session. He spouts off the whole time,

asks his guests a question and then interrupts them after they say three words to tell the world what he thinks the answer is.

[Native]

6. I know, I can't watch him any longer. Haven't for over a year.

[notdarkyet]

23. Same here.

[Bohunk68]

14. And he reminds everyone, each and every broadcast that is

Irish, Catholic, and worked for Tip O'Neill. I call him the Mandibular Masturbater. Haven't watched in a while now.

[manicraven]

28. Or he interrupts everyone to compare some comment or situation to a movie...

Stopped watching him a couple years ago.

[manicraven]

29. He spouts and sputters and then spittle goes flying...

Truly...

[Eyeball_Kid]

9. My hope: The enabling GOP will pay for their support of this mad man.

He's truly crazy. And he's got virtually unlimited power. And he's willing to use it for craziness that puts ALL of us in peril. The GOP applauds.

The GOP is itching to contest Roe v Wade, to outlaw BIRTH CONTROL, to use ICE as a 21st. Century Gestapo, and among other things, run the government as a board room for corporate operations and windfall profits. Trumpy's Fanboys are happy with all this.

[Enoki33]

12. If the Dems are smart enough to paint the GOP into

the corner where they have to publicly choose between Trump/Russia and country your hope will be realized. The prevailing Republican mentality says they will choose Trump. That will be a loosing hand.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. Seriously.I have images in my mind of puke ryan beaming with joy

Standing at little lord Fauntleroy'S side, and puke mcCONnell proclaiming he's very pleased with the dumpmeister's direction so far.


That comment from googlyeyes made me want to jump through the screen and puke down his short, flabby neck.

[angstlessk]

10. BIG DIFFERENCE...if you are on a couch in a shrinks office...

you know you have a problem. That will never happen with trump!

[wishstar]

11. Michelle Kosinski was 4th reporter to ask same question, and still didn't get a straight yes or no

She said on CNN this morning that it was apparent that DT dodged the repeated questions, changed the subject, and used qualifiers in answering whether his campaign was involved with Russia

[gordianot]

16. He uses the inhaling snort much the same way.

Donald would be a dream for a lie detector.

[thesquanderer]

17. You can't be accused of perjury if you weren't under oath.

There is still a PR benefit to not being caught in an out-and-out lie, though that never seems to have bothered Trump before.

[Blue Idaho]

18. Repeat after me...

"I have no clear recollection..."

It worked for the Nixon Administration... at least for a while...

[George II]

24. I've posted this several times since the fall debates, seems appropriate more time than I'd like:

"Now that I recall", "might have said something, might not"

[lark]

26. drumpf is lying and using weasle words to do it.

He knows he (and Flynn and others in his administration as well) colluded with Russia and is just using weasel words because he's afraid the CIA will truly out him and just wants to claim "memory issues". In reality, it's treachery and greed issues that are the YOOGE, YOOGEST EVER, problem.

[doc03]

27. I have noticed myself Trump and the others are using those two phrases

lately, "to the best of my knowledge" and "I don't recall." They were used a lot back in the Watergate hearings and
Iran Contra.

[BadgerMom]

30. K & R

[sarcasmo]

34. "I don't recall" was Ollie North's go to phrase.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

35. An the "I was given that information" he used when confronted on his lie

about his electoral victory, claiming it was bigger than it actually was. Much about is speech is weasley. Just like him.

[Submariner]

39. Trump needs to fly onto an aircraft carrier deck and then Tweety

will put on his best knee pads and glorify Dump just like he did Dumbya.

[TrekLuver]

40. Yup he's giving himself some wiggle room. Trump knows that he is fucked....THEY KNOW.

And so the takedown begins in earnest.

[elleng]

41. He lawyered up???

[Bernardo de La Paz]

42. More weasel: "I don't have loans in Russia"

He may have loans from Russia.

Or Russian oligarchs may have loaned him money offshore outside of Russia.

Release the tax returns.

[malthaussen]

45. Standard technique

Nixon's aides used it a lot after Watergate, too.

-- Mal

[tomp]

46. we need a new law:

all people seeking public office or serving in public office are automatically under oath whenever they speak in public or in any official capacity.

[Moosepoop]

47. He's following Spicer's lead

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1675127

[The Wizard]

48. It's the same language used

by the Watergate conspirators. How'd that work out?
Trump is a nut who doesn't read and gets his info from cable news. He's very limited, and not a deep thinker, more of a reactionary.
Whatever school granted him a degree owes him a full refund.
Bankrupting casinos and being a cheesy actor on a reality TV show is not the same as being the President of the United States.
Something really bad happened on November 8, 2016. It fells like we've stepped through the looking glass.