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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe person anonymously leaking racist attacks on the Mueller grand jury sounds a lot like Trump
The person anonymously leaking racist attacks on the Mueller grand jury sounds a lot like Trump
A tipster straight out of "central casting."
https://thinkprogress.org/anonymous-leak-racist-attacks-mueller-trump-da557b23e613/
Judd Legum
Jan 3, 2018, 12:32 pm
On Tuesday, the New York Post published an extraordinary leak about the grand jury impaneled by Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into the Trump campaigns potential collusion with Russia.
The piece written by Richard Johnson, a Page Six gossip columnist quoted a source discussing the nature of the jury, even though the composition and activities of the grand jury are supposed to be secret.
The grand jury room looks like a Bernie Sanders rally, my source said. Maybe they found these jurors in central casting, or at a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley [Calif.]
Of the 20 jurors, 11 are African-Americans and two were wearing peace T-shirts, the witness said. There was only one white male in the room, and he was a prosecutor. Mueller was not present.
The quote drips with racism suggesting that, unless there is a minimum number of white people in a jury room, the process is illegitimate.
And whoever leaked this tidbit to the New York Post sounds an awful lot like Donald Trump.
Central casting is a Trump signature
The most telling aspect of the anonymous quote provided to the New York Post is the sources use of the term central casting.
This term, which originated in the entertainment industry to describe someone whose appearance matches the stereotypes associated with an acting role, is a favorite phrase of Trumps.
[Pence] has been so wonderful to work with. Hes a real talent, a real guy. And he is central casting, do we agree? Central casting, Trump told the National Governors Association in February in reference to his vice president.
This is central casting. If I was doing a movie, I pick you, general, Trump said of his Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, last January.
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The person anonymously leaking racist attacks on the Mueller grand jury sounds a lot like Trump (Original Post)
riversedge
Jan 2018
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heaven05
(18,124 posts)1. this idiot POtuS
is really getting desperate. I so wish he goes down hard, face first.
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)2. It wasn't John Barron, was it?
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)7. Jim that doesn't go to Paris anymore.
"Bill, I was in Paris recently, and Paris doesn't look like Paris anymore,"
[link:https://www.salon.com/2015/09/09/paris_isnt_paris_anymore_donald_trump_employs_his_dangerous_anti_immigrant_rhetoric_on_syrian_refugee_crisis/|
Jim adored Paris, until very recently. ?I dont go there anymore, the presidents alleged friend said. Paris is no longer Paris.
[link:http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/despite-record-insults-trump-arrives-paris|]
[link:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/who-is-trumps-friend-jim|]
Take a look at whats happened in France. I have a friend, hes a very, very substantial guy, he loves the city of lights. He loves Paris. Hadnt seen him in a while, Trump told the audience.
And I said, Jim, let me ask you a question, hows Paris doing? Paris? I dont go there anymore. Paris is no longer Paris.
http://www.euronews.com/2017/02/25/paris-is-no-longer-paris-trump-takes-aim-at-french-capital
Oneironaut
(5,461 posts)3. That leak sounds like total bullshit.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)4. Thanks, riversedge
Central casting, the American voter, will have another swing at the plate in 2018.
I promise you, it will not be "pretty" for the bed wetter, change his own sheets in chief. (Lawrence O'Donnell went there last night with, "Does he have a problem with incontinence?" imo, he is leaking senility from all orifices.
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Eugene
(61,593 posts)6. Joy Reid discussed this on All In last night.
Minorities can't treat Trump fairly is another common Trump rant.