Tero wrote:Trickledown from corporate tax cuts not increasing salaries
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/38480 ... om-tax-law

They'll point to the few that do give some benefits to their community as proof it works.

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Alan C wrote:

newolder wrote:After a half hour meltdown via phone on early morning tv, Michael Avenatti says that he would like to see Mr. Trump on Fox & Friends every day.

Just heard about that, the Faux News host desperately ended the call [before Trumpenführer could incriminate himself more clearly], usually they try to keep it going.

Here's the relevant section of the National Embarrassment's call to F&F:


Legendary Youtube commentator Pink Custard notes:

It somehow managed to be worse than I expected it to be

I'm confident he'll say this isn't him speaking in the days to come...

ETA Unedited full 1/2 hour is now available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lu_Hgw60Ns

I've got to 13 minutes so far and need to take a break.

On how bad Comey is, and how much he's achieved, Trump's just going over old ground in a familiarly detached-from-reality way.

But it's been a car crash from the start where he admits that it's Melania's birthday, but he hasn't got her anything and is going on Fox instead of being with her, then backtracks to say he managed a card and flowers (possibly after staff slipped him a note that they'd done that without him), but still saying he had no time to do better (it's not like he could think of something thoughtful and have his staff get it, right?) What a toad.

And blaming his lack of ability to hire on Democratic obstruction by running hard at confirmation hearings is just a massive lie, given that most unfilled positions don't even have a nominee.

Someone should write up an annotated transcript pointing out the lies, but it would take weeks, it's such a diarrhoeal Gish gallop.

Edit: got to the end. As well as some new lines of bullshit, it was just a greatest hits album of conspiracy theories past, ending up with his favourite that the Electoral College structurally favours the Democrats, even despite his own election disproving this.

Trump fixer is a teeny tiny part of his legal team. Some kind of junior fixer who only gets the women to deal with.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ri ... ?r=UK&IR=T

Von Clownstick really does think he should be able to take the wheel of the DoJ and run over his imagined enemies. How disturbingly despotic.

And he praises himself for not corruptly intervening in the DoJ, while also (a) suggesting he might start interfering any time now, and (b) having strongly criticised Sessions for similarly recusing himself.

Meanwhile, on a more serious note, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a plan to shield Robert Mueller from being fired by Trump.

The bipartisan Mueller-protection legislation, the product of lengthy negotiations among its initial backers — Graham, Tillis, and Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersely and Chris Coons of Delaware — would give any special counsel 10 days after a termination to challenge the move in court. Grassley agreed to call up the bill and worked with both parties to shape his own amendment to the plan.

Grassley acknowledged Thursday before the bill’s passage that “my constitutional concerns remain” about potential judicial review of a prospective executive-branch decision. Nonetheless, Grassley said, “I believe this bill should be considered by the full Senate.”

The revised version of Grassley’s amendment, adopted with broad Democratic support, would codify existing special counsel regulations, including reporting mandates for the DOJ to notify Congress about the establishment and closure of special counsel investigations. He initially proposed requiring that changes to the scope of Mueller’s probe be reported to Congress.

Though I suspect that the cited constitutional concerns emanating from Republicans on this matter, are more likely to be the result of reflecting how badly it would bite them on the arse in future, if they let Trump go full despot on this matter. Having set the requisite precedent, they'd set themselves up for some epic revenge by the Democrats at some point in the future.

In the meantime, it's crossed my mind that the Republicans swung behind Trump, the moment he nominated Pence as his VP partner. The game plan being for Trump to launch into his circus, and be allowed to reach a state where he blows an artery through apoplexy at some point, whereupon the Republicans get the serious, hardcore ideologue they wanted in the hot seat in the first place, but knew they'd never get via the direct (and honest) route. Part of their recent frustrations with Trump, are probably best summed up as "why won't the bastard hurry up and fucking die?"

ETA source:
https://imgur.com/gallery/lqG7XXd

What were those fox anchors thinking:

Guy on left: "idiot"
Woman in middle: "Poor Melania"
Guy on right: "we're all gonna die"

Had to laugh at them cutting him. It was like someone was shouting in their earpiece, "Get him the fuck off. NOW!"

This is what's known in the biz as Jumping the Shark.

Trump hasn't just jumped the shark, he's jumped every every fucking marine monster from Liopleurodon to Megalodon in one fucking huge bound ...

Hostages...

It seems Trumpenführer's on-air seppuku made it into a court filing 2 hours later to lend support to the idea that there is no client-attorney privilege on the seized documents. Add that to Cohen's other clients also throwing him under bus to save their own venal arses.

@Cali

As much as I would love for Trump to attempt to fire Mueller only to be told no by the Legislative Branch would be satisfying the problem comes down to the SCOTUS and I don’t think Congress has a leg.

The DOJ and all other cabinets can be dismissed tomorrow at the whim of the President too which no one can say anything against. Cabinets are not constitutionally protected jobs.

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Seems to not understand the point of the WH correspondents dinner. Or that fact that he is himself part of the elite.

I'm sure he knows perfectly well, it's just that he's a partisan hack who'll say anything that pushes his agenda.