Pierce: Donald Trump's Televised Cabinet Meeting Was Another Nutty Episode
Donald Trump's Televised Cabinet Meeting Was Another Nutty Episode
On the war on terror: "I’m the one who did the capturing. I’m the one who knows more about it than you people or fake pundits.”
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
OCT 21, 2019
Does it even matter any more that, on Monday, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago had another televised nutty in the White House? Does it matter more that, in the course of his televised nutty, the president* expressed virulent contempt for the Constitution he swore to preserve, protect, and defend. I mean, I was sitting there when he did it. I had to sit through that awful Roger Corman film of an inaugural address. Did I do that for naught?
Anyway, on Monday, the president* unburdened himself of the following thought-like objects.
On the war on terror:
On the whistleblower:
And then, the piece de resistance, in which Alexander Hamilton and James Madison become operatives of The Deep State...
I know he burbled on about George Washington and Barack Obama and Netflix and how unprecedented it is that he's not taking a salary. (Herbert Hoover didn't, nor did JFK.) But I think I briefly went to another place when he said that thing about the Emoluments Clause. How about the Bill of Rights? How about the powers of Congress? How about the impeachment provisions? What other parts of the Constitution does he consider "phony"?
All of them, Katie.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29540402/donald-trump-cabinet-meeting-insane/
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I keep waiting for the wacky next door neighbor to show up! 
Sammy Davis knock at the White House door and, well, just watch:
and circled the relevant section!
Link to tweet
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Judy Chu
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@RepJudyChu
Ignorance of the Constitution is not an excuse for violating it, Mr. President. I keep plenty on hand in my office for constituents or other visitors. You're welcome to one.
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Josh Dawsey
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@jdawsey1
"You people with this phony Emoluments Clause," Trump tells assembled media questioning him about attempt to put G-7 at his own resort.
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12:57 PM - Oct 21, 2019
like, you expect him to READ?
Besides, why should he have to know what's in that phony thing called the Constipation, Constitution, whatever........
Always have to wave the Constitution at the GOP.
in the history of this national disgrace.
There will be a special place in HELL for IQ45 - and it can't happen soon enough.
And for that abused family, as well as others who have suffered because of his insanity, 
on the Constitution that could be taught by someone that had experience in that.
Let's see - who's not working now that might have some experience in such teaching and perhaps even some civic experience with it also.........
Statement Regarding Barack Obama
The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer."
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
source: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/media
