November 9, 2018: Trump Claims Elections Are Being Stolen - Says He Doesn't Know Matt Whitaker

 

Would you recognize this man? Trump says he doesn't.

11/9/18: President Trump heads for France to mark the 100th anniversary of the ending of World War I. 

 

“You ask a lot of stupid questions.” 

Foremost in his mind are the results of the recent midterms, which means he’s in a foul mood. Several close contests remain undecided. 

In case you missed it, the Washington Post sets the scene: 

As Trump walked out of the White House residence to board the Marine One helicopter on Friday morning [on the way to the airport for the flight to France], he paused to answer questions from the press corps and snapped when CNN correspondent Abby Phillip asked whether he wanted Whitaker to rein in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

 

“What a stupid question that is,” Trump said. “What a stupid question. But I watch you a lot. You ask a lot of stupid questions.”

 

This is the same man who recently revoked the press credentials of Jim Acosta, another CNN reporter, who he called a “terrible person” during a press conference, because Acosta was “rude.” 

CNN is challenging that move in court.

 

Even Jay Wallace, head of Fox News, backs Acosta. “Secret Service passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized,” Wallace says. 

Time also captures the president in a testy frame of mind. The midterms, he tells gathered reporters, were rigged: 

“There’s a lot of bad stuff going on in this country, and we’re finding out, and I’m getting to the bottom of it [emphasis added, unless otherwise indicated]. And I’ve done a hell of a job,” he said, offering no evidence for his assertions.

 

During the flight to Europe, Trump repeatedly tweeted baseless claims that the Florida vote counting was “election theft” and “potential corruption.” “How come they never find Republican votes?” he tweeted.

 

Trump offers “no evidence.” His claims are “baseless.” Does that mean the president will soon add Time to the list of purveyors of “Fake News?” Or should reasonable human beings stack up the work of hundreds of reporters and all their sources, on record and off, against one liar? 

Trump’s incendiary tweets (below) for just one day read: 

You mean they are just now finding votes in Florida and Georgia – but the Election was on Tuesday? Let’s blame the Russians and demand an immediate apology from President Putin!

 

As soon as Democrats sent their best Election stealing lawyer, Marc Elias, to Broward County they miraculously started finding Democrat votes. Don’t worry, Florida - I am sending much better lawyers to expose the FRAUD!

 

Rick Scott was up by 50,000+ votes on Election Day, now they “found” many votes and he is only up 15,000 votes. “The Broward Effect.” How come they never find Republican votes?

 

In the 2016 Election I was winning by so much in Florida that Broward County, which was very late with vote tabulation and probably getting ready to do a “number,” couldn’t do it because not enough people live in Broward for them to falsify a victory!

 

Just out — in Arizona, SIGNATURES DON’T MATCH. Electoral corruption - Call for a new Election? We must protect our Democracy! 

 

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THE FREE PRESS, doing what the free press does best, has had 48 hours to dig up dirt on Matt Whitaker, Trump’s pick for Acting Attorney General. 

And there’s dirt to be dug! 

 

Whitaker already knew everything he wanted. 

Reporters point out that by the summer of 2017 Whitaker already knew everything he wanted to know about the Russia probe. That is, he didn’t want to know anything. The investigation, he said, was “crazy.” There was no collusion. It might be possible, he said, for a new Attorney General (if Trump dumped Jeff Sessions) to starve the Mueller team by cutting off funding. 

Whitaker had his mind made up fourteen months ago. That was before Paul Manafort was convicted by a jury – before Michael Cohen decided to cop a plea and start cooperating – before Rick Gates did the same – all three, now-convicted felons, leading figures in the Trump campaign. 

The free press keeps shoveling.  Trump is soon caught in a flat-footed lie, saying he didn’t know Whitaker when he tapped him for the post. Who called our president a liar this time? It was the ghost of Donald Trump Past. In an October interview on Fox & Friends, Mr. Trump assured the three hosts: “I can tell you Matt Whitaker’s a great guy. I mean, I know Matt Whitaker.” 

Newsweek then reported that Trump was claiming he didn’t know Whitaker despite having met with him “more than a dozen times” according to one senior official within the Trump administration. 

Even better, in the “drain the swamp” world of Donald J. Trump and all his alligator pals, Whitaker once served on the board of, and touted the entrepreneurial virtues of, World Patent Marketing. The Miami company was eventually shut down and fined $26 million for scamming customers. 

 

POSTSCRIPT: In excerpts from her new book, Becoming, we learn that Michelle Obama says she will “never forgive” President Trump for his birther attacks on her husband. 

The former First Lady says he deliberately stirred up “the wing-nuts and kooks.” What, she said, would have happened if some “unstable” individual with a gun drove to Washington, looking to harm her husband or her daughters? “Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk,” she writes. “And for this I’d never forgive him.” 

Not to mention: Trump was lying.

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE:  What if “unstable” people drove to Washington – and stormed the Capitol Building, shouting, “Hang Mike Pence?” and howling, “Kill Nancy Pelosi!” 

Yeah, that happened. (1/6/21). 

And Trump deliberately stirred up those people, too.