10/12/18: President Trump never
apologizes for anything and never admits he’s wrong. Even when his own words prove
he’s wrong.
If anything good happens while he’s in charge, he hogs every
iota of credit. If anything bad happens it’s somebody else’s fault. This week
the stock market has taken a dive. Trump
insists you can’t blame him. If the market goes up, it’s because his
policies are magic. If the market tumbles, his policies are not to blame. The
problem now, he claims, is the Federal Reserve System. Trump calls it “loco,”
says the policies of the central bank are “ridiculous.” The board members are
“going wild.”
The market loses 1,300 points in two days – shaving two trillion dollars off the books –
and it’s not Trump’s fault in the slightest.
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TRUMP WASTES part of his afternoon meeting with Kanye West.
It might be the strangest interview ever conducted in the White House.
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DID WE MENTION that Trump criticized Obama for campaigning in
2012, while people were still recovering from Super Storm Sandy?
That is a rhetorical question.
Where is Trump this fine Friday evening? He is campaigning in
Lebanon, Ohio. (See: 10/11/18 and
10/13/18.) People in Florida and other states are still recovering from
Hurricane Michael.
10/6/19: It’s the weekend. President Trump is not
happy. Evidence that supports the decision to pursue an impeachment inquiry
accumulates. Even a few brave souls in the GOP are willing to admit it.
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“It
strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically
motivated.”
Sen. Mitt
Romney
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While most Republican
lawmakers chose to shelter in place last week, Sen. Mitt Romney made his
position plain, after the president called on China to investigate Joe Biden. “When the only
American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his
political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process,” Romney
said, “it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than
politically motivated.”
Of
course, that meant Trump had to go ballistic on Twitter. At 6: 47 a.m. on
Saturday, we had this:
Somebody please wake up Mitt Romney and tell him that my conversation
with the Ukrainian President was a congenial and very appropriate one, and my
statement on China pertained to corruption, not politics. If Mitt worked this
hard on Obama, he could have won. Sadly, he choked!
That was followed at 9:17 by this:
Mitt Romney…is a pompous
“ass” who has been fighting me from the beginning, except when he begged me for
my endorsement for his Senate run (I gave it to him), and when he begged me to
be Secretary of State (I didn’t give it to him). He is so bad for R’s!
Meanwhile, multiple sources told Axios the president
had spoken with GOP members of the House of Representatives. Trump told them that even though his July 25 call to Zelensky
was “perfect,” he wasn’t to blame for making it. Energy Secretary Rick Perry
made him punch the buttons!
If this was Trump’s attempt to throw Perry under the bus, Perry wasn’t ready to be mashed.
He told the Christian Broadcasting Network that, “as God is my witness,” when he
talked to Trump about a call to the president of Ukraine, “neither Joe or
Hunter Biden’s name ever came up.”
Also, he said he would soon be
resigning his post.
Trump’s defenses continued to
crack and crumble, including the claim the whistleblower had nothing but
second- and third-hand information. We learned there was a third whistleblower – and the second tooting warning regarding
Ukraine. This whistleblower had first-hand information that backed up the
first.
Democrats rushing to judgment.
What about the idea that
Democrats were rushing to judgment? Down that defense went too. We learned that
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wasn’t just “rushing” to judgment. He
had his mind made up.
In a video shot to solicit campaign donations, Mitch looked square into the
camera and intoned, “Nancy Pelosi’s in the clutches of a left wing
mob. They finally convinced her to impeach the president.”
“All of you know your Constitution,” he continued. “The way
that impeachment stops is a Senate majority with me as majority leader. But I
need your help. Please contribute before the deadline.”
Even a far-right plot to smear Sen. Elizabeth Warren goes
awry. The story explodes when a 24-year-old Marine, Kevin Ty Whelly, claims to
have been having an affair with the senator, a woman nearly three times his
age.
That tall tale is blown to bits when the Marine Corps reveals
that the young Lothario, who claimed to have seen combat in Afghanistan, had
never been to Afghanistan. As for the Purple Heart Whelly claimed he proudly wore, the Marines noted that Whelly
had never been wounded, either.
So, we can safely assume he never won Sen. Warren’s heart.
KTW EW
Finally, a ray of sunshine pierced the darkening clouds over
the White House. Rapper Kanye West once again defended his support for the man in the Oval Office. West
explained that he never based his decisions on skin-color – an admirable
position.
Alas, the singer seriously undermined his own logic, pointing
out that it was “the Republican Party that freed the slaves,” meaning he liked
Trump because Republicans ended slavery 154 years ago.
