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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPierce: For starters, Trump went out of his way to talk about Russian hookers.
Bonus points for "Mustache of Righteousness."
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55525/comey-statement-trump-russia-hookers/
On the train to D.C., and it's already been an eventful Jim Comey Eve. On Wednesday afternoon, in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, and Mike Rogers, an admiral and the head of the National Security Agency, threw up an embarrassing stonewall and did so in costumeRogers as John Ehrlichman, and Coats as Bartleby the Scrivener. The latter got crossways with Senator Angus King, Independent of Maine, and the Mustache of Righteousness was having none of Coats's foolishness...
By the end of it, Coats looked as though he might accidentally confess to the Lindbergh kidnapping. For his part, Rogers pretty much told the committee to go whistle up an alley. King was right. There was no legal reason for Coats and Rogers to refuse to answer the committee's questions. Had they been a couple of hippie lawyers, they'd have been hauled away in irons and charged with contempt of Congress, which both of them displayed in abundance.
Then, later on Wednesday afternoon, the committee released the opening statement that Comey plans to deliver when he appears before the committee on Thursday in what already has become a media spectacle somewhere between the Bobby Riggs-Billie Jean King tennis match and the OJ trial. This was a particularly shrewd move by Comey, since none of us knew whether the president* would wake up early Thursday morning screaming "Executive privilege!" and demanding a polonium-tipped umbrella. The statement was pure Comey: straightforward with a touch of the dramatist to it, clear enough to show that the president* was asking everyone except Diamond and Silk to shut down the Russia investigation, and loaded with juicy details...
This is the President* of the United States explaining to the director of the FBI, unbidden, that he had not been involved with hookers in Russia. Thursday should be a show and a half. At the moment, Comey's statementand the earlier stonewallingis being spun as some sort of "vindication" for the White House, although it's hard to see why. When asked about the president*'s clear desire that the Russia investigation be 86'd, the president*'s defenders essentially argue that, what did we all expect? The guy never had been president before. I think that defense needs work. I also think it's not smart to bring up hookers with the director of the FBI if he hasn't asked about them.
YCHDT
(962 posts)YCHDT
(962 posts)mcar
(42,331 posts)He and "mother" (ugh) packing for a move?
YCHDT
(962 posts)... whole plan to get himself in congress
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)could get something on Trump.
dinq_92882
(14 posts)with the way i'm seeing how words are being used, i believe that the president believes he wasn't with hookers. now if the dossier had said "escorts"...
tanyev
(42,558 posts)Benza and Trump went back and forth over who stole whose girlfriend, then this curious exchange went down:
Trump: I assume A.J.s clean. I hope hes clean.
Benza: Meanwhile, he bangs Russian people
Stern: Russian people?
Trump: Who are you talking about, Russian people, A.J.? I dont know anything.
Benza: He used to call me when I was a columnist and say, I was just in Russia, the girls have no morals, you gotta get out there. [Trumps] out of his mind.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/314891/trump-russia-girls-howard-stern-2001-aj-benza/
dhol82
(9,353 posts)tanyev
(42,558 posts)If you're an extreme narcissist like Donald Trump, well of course the reason a bunch of beautiful women showed up at your hotel room is because they desperately want to have sex with you. Maybe the bigger shame for him was finding out someone paid them to show up.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)How has he been able to apparently lie his way through life for so long when he's so obvious about it? He lies like an 8 year old.
mcar
(42,331 posts)that he gets caught in all his lies. He's the king, dammit!
unblock
(52,227 posts)he makes a big order from a supplier, promises to pay, then refuses, eventually settling for one-third of what he owes.
of course that supplier never does business with him again but he doesn't care.
that's why the big name was always so valuable to his business, it's what lured fresh suppliers in, over whatever they may have heard about his actual reputation.
VOX
(22,976 posts)And the problems dissipated, if not disappeared.
He's not in the construction biz anymore, he can't "lawyer" or buy his way out of this one.
Gothmog
(145,242 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)I never even took a law class, but I can tell thats obstruction of justice
they should be charged with contempt of Congress if they don't answer the questions in a closed session.
blogslut
(38,000 posts)heehee
Persisted
(290 posts)Internet points, spendable anywhere if you know what I mean without looking that one up.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)one of the Repubican charlatans to Bartleby is a crime against literature of the worst sort.
blogslut
(38,000 posts)Coats just plain refused to do his job.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,120 posts)Perfect. Hadn't seen president* before now.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)"That was another republican 'family values' republican. I'm into pee sex. Next question."
- Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)-- Richard Milhous Nixon, November 17, 1973