Ari Melber is serving up a delicious, lip-smacking snack right now on MSNBC.

[Miles Archer]

"Someone needs to pull the President aside and say "Mr. President, welcome to the first day of your life.""

Now that he is being investigated on his conduct in office, there's no going back.

"This ain't the Apprentice."

So YES, the collusion and money laundering investigations continue, but there is enough to potentially take him down on OBSTRUCTION ALONE, and...he...won't...stop...TWEETING.

He's 145 days in, and Clinton and Nixon broke the 4 digit mark before they were dealing with something of the magnitude that Trump has in his lap RIGHT NOW.

YUM.

[Botany]

1. From the May 19 NY Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting.

“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Mr. Trump added, “I’m not under investigation.”

The conversation, during a May 10 meeting — the day after he fired Mr. Comey — reinforces the notion that the president dismissed him primarily because of the bureau’s investigation into possible collusion between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russian operatives. Mr. Trump said as much in one televised interview, but the White House has offered changing justifications for the firing.

The comments represented an extraordinary moment in the investigation, which centers in part on the administration’s contacts with Russian officials: A day after firing the man leading that inquiry, Mr. Trump disparaged him — to Russian officials.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html?_r=0

Obstruction and collusion all in one picture

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Funny how that show is going in a circle.

Just caught Hans trying a pro Trump remark and getting slapped down. Funny how these so called On Air Talent's profess some real Important knowledge of the Scripts Topic for on air discussion.

And they go to commercial. Best part of the show.

[unblock]

3. several factors work in benedict donald's favor:

first and foremost, he faces a republican congress. impeachment has never seriously been considered by a congress of the same party as the president (andrew johnson, nixon, and bill clinton all faced opposition parties in congress).

second, a powerful propaganda bubble continues to put a floor under his approval ratings. by all rights, he should be below 15%. in the absence of all this propaganda, his own supporters would be even more pissed at him than democrats, because he's been unable to deliver for them. republicans ought to be severely disappointed.

third, our hyper-partisan congress includes many people who respond only to die-hard trump supporters back home. the intense outrage of democrats is practically irrelevant to them; in fact, it's arguably a plus for them.


that said, you have to think republicans are praying for just about any exit that doesn't involve the formal impeachment process. they want a replacement, but they don't want their trump supporters to blame them for making it happen.

[orangecrush]

4. What you said

[Wednesdays]

5. He could conveniently "die"

while shortly thereafter, a mysterious bearded orange-skinned man is rumored to be lounging on Bahama's beaches, sipping iced tea and being waited on by bikini-clad babes.

I think only tRump's ego is preventing that scenario from playing out so far.

[unblock]

6. sometimes i think his plan has always been

to get republicans to pay him a billion dollars to go away.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

9. hmmm...

[Duppers]

7. It's their "powerful propaganda bubble"

That's at the root of all their excrement.

How do we battle that? We've no power over Faux Lies but all other outlets have to eventually tell the truths...or am I dreaming?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

10. CNN has the weirdest group of apologists.

Where do they wind up after we get 46?

[Duppers]

11. Good question.

Blitzer in particular is unwatchable.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

12. I don't consider him an apologist. it's the cast of rotating characters.

[Duppers]

13. Yep.

Yet, to me, he seems to host too many Rethugian guests who spin.

Most disappointing is msnbc hiring Greta Susteren; talk about unwatchable. Then there's Mrs. Greenspan.

I'm sure you have others I'm unaware of.

[tiptonic]

8. Deferment

Maybe he should ask for another deferment. Was it 4 or 5, i forget, to get out of Viet Nam?