October 29, 2018: The Three Stooges - Kellyanne Conway, Nikki Haley, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders Defend President Trump

 

10/29/18: Kellyanne Conway, whose salary taxpayers sadly foot, appears on Fox News. She is there to defend the president. Really, that is the only job this benighted woman performs. 

Did Trump’s daily dosage of hate in any way fuel the actions of any of this week’s haters? Oh, no, she explains. The true victims are people like herself, Conway says, people who are religious. What led the killers and would-be-killers to act? “The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue...making fun of people who express religion, the late-night comedians, the unfunny people who go on TV...It’s always anti-religious,” she tells the Fox News host. 

Yes, those comedians with their…humor…making people hate others and go buy automatic weapons and stockpile ammo. 

Conway cites Dylan Roof, an avowed white supremacist, who shot up a church in South Carolina in 2015. She fails to mention a white Kentucky man who murdered two African Americans in a Kroger store just days earlier – after yanking at the door of a nearby African American church and finding it closed. It wasn’t the white supremacist beliefs of both shooters that caused them to start blasting. It was all those comics and their punch lines. 

Finally, to wrap up one of the dumbest arguments ever put forward by any aide for any president, in any century, Conway opines, “this is no time to be driving God out of the public square.”

Comedians cause the problem!

 

Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley also comes to Trump’s defense and says this is no time for assigning blame. Nobody blamed Obama for the shooting in Charleston, she says. So why blame President Trump now? This seems odd because in 2016, during the campaign, Haley, then governor of South Carolina, specifically blamed Trump and his hateful diatribes for the Charleston shooting. “I know what that rhetoric can do. I saw it happen,” she said, at the time.

 

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SINCE WE’RE TALKING about stooges, let’s not skip over Press Secretary Pinocchio. Today Sarah Sanders claimed that her boss won the popular vote by an “overwhelming majority” in 2016. 

This was her first press briefing in weeks; but Pinocchio proved that even a long layoff had not reduced her ability to conjure untruths from thin air. She also said that Trump bore no responsibility for any of the violence in recent days. 

In fact, Sanders made the astonishing claim that the press was responsible for stirring up the people who sent pipe bombs to leading Democratic figures, both in and out of office, and for convincing the anti-Semite to shoot up the Pittsburgh synagogue. How did the press do it? By being mean to the president. 

“You guys have a huge responsibility to play in the divisive nature of this country, when 90 percent of the coverage of everything this president does is negative despite the fact that the country is going extremely well,” she grumbled, “despite the fact that this president is delivering on exactly what he said he was going to do if elected. And he was elected by the overwhelming majority of 63 million Americans who came out and supported him and wanted to see his policies enacted.”

November 11, 2019: Trump - "Like a Squirrel Caught in Traffic."

 

11/11/19: Happy Veterans’ Day. If you haven’t noticed, a tidal wave of negative testimony, in the form of sworn witness statements, pours out of the House Intelligence Committee. 

The president is reduced to defending himself in idiotic Twitter posts. For example, at 9:12 this morning:

  

Okay, first, is the president drinking? Is he spelling words like they sound when he slurs them?

“Investigared?” 

Secondly, just because the lawyer made it clear, when Trump was running for president, that he thought he was a bum, that doesn’t mean the “Whistleblower” loses all credibility. You’d have to be a nincompoop, or an avid fan of Sean Hannity’s show (that’s redundant) to miss all the ways the whistleblower’s complaint has been validated by witness testimony. 

 

ALL TESTIMONY NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE!!!!! 

 

Logic, however, does not compel the president to hesitate and consider what he’s posting. Eight minutes later, without a shred of evidence, Trump posts:

Shifty Adam Schiff will only release doctored transcripts. We haven’t even seen the documents and are restricted from (get this) having a lawyer. Republicans should put out their own transcripts! Schiff must testify as to why he MADE UP a statement from me, and read it to all!

 

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FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR Nikki Haley has a book coming out. President Trump thinks we should read it. Unfortunately, both author and president miss the chilling import of a story she relates.

 

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“They weren’t being insubordinate. They were trying to save the country.” 

Ambassador Nikki Haley

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According to Ambassador Haley, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly tried to “undermine the president.” In one passage she describes how they approached her for help. “Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country,” Haley writes. “Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president’s decisions was because, if he didn’t, people would die.” 

In Haley’s telling, the two men should have gone to Trump to urge him to reconsider any decisions they opposed. Instead, Haley saved America by not joining the plot! “It should’ve been ‘Go tell the president what your differences are, and quit if you don’t like what he’s doing,’” she told CBS News. “But to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing. And it goes against the Constitution, and it goes against what the American people want. And it was offensive.” 

The problem, of course, is that two top officials thought the President of the United States was a danger to the country. 

Tillerson has not commented publicly. 

General Kelly told the Washington Post that if giving Nixon (ha, ha, the blogger means “Trump”) “the best and most open, legal and ethical staffing advice from across the [government] so he could make an informed decision is ‘working against Trump,’ then guilty as charged.”

 

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APPARENTLY, TILLERSON AND KELLY aren’t the only people who worked with Trump and came away convinced the man was a loon. In another new book, Lt. Com. Guy Snodgrass, who served as Sec. of Defense James Mattis’s chief speech writer, paints an unflattering picture. 

Snodgrass flew an F/A-18 Hornet in combat over Iraq and later served as an instructor in the TOPGUN fighter pilot program. So, he’s not the kind of guy to fear the Twitter wrath of Trump. 

In one story, he describes the first meeting of Mattis with the new president. It’s a meeting for which Mattis has prepared at length. From the first, however, it proves impossible to keep the Leader of the Free World focused on problems round the world, which Mattis hoped to lay out. Trump veered from topic to topic – Syria – Mexico – a military parade he wanted, with tanks – a recent Washington Post story – like a “squirrel caught in traffic.” As Lt. Com. Snodgrass describes it, “The issues were complicated, yet all of the president’s answers were simplistic and ad hoc. He was shooting from the hip on issues of global importance [emphasis added].” 

He still is.