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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn King of CNN just said
he received a text from a Rep Senator who said during the presser that Trump should be discussing this w/ a therapist, not the press! Whoa!!
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)NotThisTime
(3,657 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Something has to be done to get this maniac under control.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)I think the next round of polls will put him about 35%.
DK504
(3,847 posts)all things tRump. Granted I live in Gulf Coast Mississippi, but wow.
Of course, I had to slow down rolled down my window and started yelling at them. Couldn't help myself...they are so damn dumb.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)His base is all he has and he hopes they'll keep him in power, so he does the dog whistle thing for them. He already knows no one else is going to support him anymore so he's hanging on to his base by the skin of his teeth.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)OMFG
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Massively insecure. Sad, tremendously sad, so sad.
calimary
(81,222 posts)Stuart G
(38,420 posts)If this Republican Senator really said this, it means that they (Republican Senators) are watching him..Evaluating him...How many? who knows? ..Most. I am guessing..and gradually deciding if he really is nuts., as most people are saying. To go nuts at a press conference, (I did not see it) as people are saying, on a Thursday..a month into the new administration, is extremely dangerous..
.If ten are thinking this, well...maybe this country does have a chance. It may be sooner than people think when they act..(they being the Republican Senators....) But, it will be fast..very fast..and, they are watching him....
Stuart G
(38,420 posts)Mitch McConnell said two days ago, that Trump should remain on topic, and if he did he would be 10 to 15 points higher in standing....Hit the link..see for yourself..Trump has been warned, for all to see, to get it together and stay focused.....
As I said earlier, he is being watched.......by his own people...
from the article above:
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) says President Trumps public remarks and tweets are complicating his ability to enact his agenda.
[Itd be] 10 to 15 points higher if he allowed himself to stay on message, McConnell told the Weekly Standard Wednesday, referencing Trumps approval rating. "What hes saying makes everything harder. [They make it] harder to achieve what you want to achieve.
McConnell said he had repeatedly urged Trump to tone down his rhetoric, especially on his Twitter account.
He doesnt always take my advice, he said, noting the president is the most criticized person in the world.
He said he does not object to Trumps tweets but what you say with the tweet instead. McConnell said Trump creates a theater aspect when he publicly tackles certain issues, creating fodder for the media on a daily basis.
The Kentucky senator insisted he has a really good relationship with Trump despite his remarks, citing an hour they spent together at the White House last week.
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and added point....paragraph 3...very important.....................................
McConnell said he had repeatedly urged Trump to tone down his rhetoric, especially on his Twitter account. "He doesnt always take my advice, he said, noting the president is the most criticized person in the world.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)When a Senator sends you a text of his own volition, he doesn't get to unilaterally decide it's off the record or that he doesn't have to reveal his identity. Is King just playing the same kind of cutesy-poo games that have eroded public confidence in the media, or was there a real Senator behind this text he said he got? It's really time to start getting people lined up for the good of the country. Put this Senator on the record, by name.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)a fan of the Trumpster, so my thought was perhaps Flake.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Reporters keep their mouths shut about their sources. Otherwise they might as well find another way of making a living
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I mean, as long as we're getting into journalistic ethics. There's no indication that King solicited the unnamed Senator's opinion. Why would the Senator have an expectation that his identity would be shielded?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)That's how they get the news. Leaks. That's one word they use. It means they aren't going to say who it is.
It's like the police having informants. They protect them by not telling on them.
It's a time honored practice.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But those are negotiated before someone starts talking to a reporter (or a cop) or says anything of substance. An unsolicited text message to a reporter doesn't carry an expectation of protection, or at least it shouldn't.
King should identify the Senator who sent him that text, or I call it nonsense, even if I would like it to be true.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Besides, he's a Washington pundit from way back. He used to be in the Presidential press pool for years and years. He's done his fair share of traveling with the Presidents during their campaigns and on their trips around the world. All he does is politics in Washington. He has to protect his sources if he wants to continue.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Either he got that text or he didn't. I'd like to think he did. The Senator who texted him voluntarily shouldn't have any a priori expectation that a member of the press is going to shield his identity. This is King showing off his insider-ness, nothing more. There's nothing in the text that's privileged or classified, it's not a whistle-blower exposing corruption. It's one Senator's opinion, freely offered to a member of the press (if it truly happened), and King is protecting the Senator's identity for no other reason than to show off his own clubby access.
This isn't a game, this isn't gotcha. This is some serious shit happening in our country, people are at risk of their lives, liberty and property because of the out-of-control maniac squatting in the White House. I don't care about King's "access" or "politics" or any of that. He has an obligation to the public to disclose who texted him. That's why the press gets special constitutional protection, so they can inform we the people.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)If the media gave up their sources, they would never work again.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)King doesn't owe confidentiality to a Senator who texts him out of the blue. As far as I'm concerned, King's announcement is nothing more than grandstanding for himself: Lookit the Kewl Kidz I run with! If this is just a private little tee-hee between a Senator and one of his pet reporters, King should have kept it to himself and not announced on the air.
I'd love for the text message to be 100% true, but by not identifying his source, King's blurb lacks credibility. I hated that Pumpkinhead Russert's default setting when he picked up the phone was "off the record." Time has not improved my attitude toward reporters who don't tell us who's telling them things. This isn't a matter of national security. There's nothing classified about a Senator's opinion. And an unsolicited text doesn't automatically carry a confidential stamp just because King doesn't want to put his good buddy on the spot. This ain't beanbag; people are suffering and dying because of that maniac in the White House. We need people to put their sacred honor on the line against him, not tell us years from now that they bravely sent an anonymous text message to some cable reporter.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)They just want to keep pushing papers in front of him to sign and are drooling at the upcoming tax cuts for their ruling class masters.
Peace
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Otherwise they may have to actually do something.
manicraven
(901 posts)once he becomes too toxic, which shouldn't be too much longer! Trump sure seems to be declining.
hurple
(1,306 posts)NAILED it this afternoon during that press conference sketch! It was almost like it was actually Trump up there.
What?
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)still_one
(92,187 posts)TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)Link to tweet
Joe Scarborough ✔ @JoeNBC
FWIW, Republicans on the Hill were panicked behind the scenes by Trump's performance today.
9:55 PM - 16 Feb 2017
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)can get some of their pet destructive policies enacted, they are scum, and just as bad as him. Maybe worse, because they know he's nuts. He thinks he's a fucking martyr/genius.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)The media will always follow the bright shiny object and they can unravel so many things that people need and depend upon with no one watching.