Donald Fires FBI Director who's investigating Russian Election Hacking

[Red]

So Bob Woodward's book on the Trump administration may be revealing...

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/04/politics/bob-woodward-book-donald-trump-fear/index.html

"President Donald Trump's closest aides have taken extraordinary measures in the White House to try to stop what they saw as his most dangerous impulses, going so far as to swipe and hide papers from his desk so he wouldn't sign them, according to a new book from legendary journalist Bob Woodward.




Woodward's 448-page book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," provides an unprecedented inside-the-room look through the eyes of the President's inner circle. From the Oval Office to the Situation Room to the White House residence, Woodward uses confidential background interviews to illustrate how some of the President's top advisers view him as a danger to national security and have sought to circumvent the commander in chief."

 

[Stoked]

I find some of the quotes from Kelly and Mattis to be especially damning.

Smfh, just terrifying.

 

[Red]

I find some of the quotes from Kelly and Mattis to be especially damning.

Smfh, just terrifying.

Boy, I'll say. Sounds like this book will be jawdropping. And with Woodward as the author, the most credible look inside the West Wing to date. I hope this starts to really open more eyes to just who we have sitting in the Oval Office.

 

[fishonjazz]

some of the President's top advisers view him as a danger to national security and have sought to circumvent the commander in chief."

Lol
Thank god they are

 

[JazzGal]

This is one book about this whole mess that I plan to read. Seems more credible than the rest.

Every time I hear Trump speak or read a tweet, I cannot imagine the panic that is occurring at the White House.

 

[str8line]

So Bob Woodward's book on the Trump administration may be revealing...

Wow. Crazy to hear the way Trump is in casual conversation(bragging incessantly) and how casually he throws Kellyanne under the bus. Then she stands up for herself and casts blame on everyone else.

 

[Red]

So the President's tweets tonight are laughable and weak. He will lose the credibility contest for sure. I'll be reading this book soon as well, but already in the excerpts released, it seems clear the president's top aides and cabinet officials regard him as unfit for office. Denials from Mattis and Kelly, but that won't cut it. The emperor has no clothes.

 

[JazzGal]

He apparently thinks Washington politicians should enact stricter libel laws. It must be so frustrating to want to be a dictator and have our wretched laws get in his way.

 

[Red]

And the walls came tumbling down. I'm loving the sounds of silence from Trump apologists.

Meanwhile:

If you can read this New York Times opinion piece, it confirms the accuracy of Woodward's portrait.

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

 

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**** the GOP. They’re all pathetic enablers.

 

[Harambe]

And the walls came tumbling down. I'm loving the sounds of silence from Trump apologists.

Meanwhile:

If you can read this New York Times opinion piece, it confirms the accuracy of Woodward's portrait.

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

I'd like to share a response to this that's made it to reddit's best of section.

How dare you.

How ****ing dare you.

If the president is as insane as you claim he is, the only possible remedy is to come out with it, say it publicly, and let our democracy decide what to do. Anything less than that is a coup (if one with a slightly different flavor than the one being carried out by Russia). If the 25th amdendment needs to be invoked, it is by your silence that the American people have been denied the chance to demand it.

You're not part of "The Resistance".

What you're part of is the greater effort by the GOP to take advantage of Putin's money and Donald Trump's criminal rise to power, for your personal gain.

What you're doing (as I suspect you damn well know) is helping the GOP ram a cruel agenda through our system, and rob the American people of their wealth, their representation, and their basic dignity for generations to come, while trying to pin the blame for it on Trump.

You do not get to unilaterally decide that it's your responsibility to be Secret President on behalf of this monster.

You do not get to use your position to live out this weird spy thriller novel that you've written yourself into, and tell me that I should be grateful for it.

You do not get to risk our lives, our values, our electoral integrity, hell, our national sovereignty, just so you can try to rehabilitate your terminally corrupt party.

Resign. Confess.

And never work in politics again.

First 16 time gold post I remember having witnessed. It was only 15 on the train ride in, so it's possible there could be more.

I feel like it's a great post. But I don't think it underscores enough the idea that this "resistance" is likely just a shunt that allows disenfranchised republicans to keep their 'ideals' while jumping on that life raft. True "resistance" or not, they're still complicit. And I'd like to see them taking ownership.

 

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I'd like to share a response to this that's made it to reddit's best of section.



First 16 time gold post I remember having witnessed. It was only 15 on the train ride in, so it's possible there could be more.

I feel like it's a great post. But I don't think it underscores enough the idea that this "resistance" is likely just a shunt that allows disenfranchised republicans to keep their 'ideals' while jumping on that life raft. True "resistance" or not, they're still complicit. And I'd like to see them taking ownership.

I agree with you, and the sentiment expressed on Reddit. But, I am nonetheless feeling relief this morning, because I believe I can feel the end game here. Yeah, moments have come and gone, time and again, and Trump just keeps on ticking.

But, especially with Woodward's book I feel we will not be able to so easily let the truth slide into the archives of yesterday's news. I thought I detected turning points before, and they were not turning points. But all that has transpired in the last 48 hours, and Woodward's book #1 before it's even on the shelves, and even though as much attention has been focused on the "cowardness" of anonymity, as much or more so than what its content says about the dangerous man in the Oval Office, what's important to me is that the truth of the matter, that some of us have known or suspected was the case since the day Trump descended the escalator in Trump Tower, that truth will not be effectively denied or buried under Trump's avalanche of alternative facts. I'm feeling a kind of "at last, at long last" feeling of relief.