June 28, 2018: Trump Lies Come in Many Varieties, Including Gratuitous, and Moronic

 

6/28/18: I think President Trump had better hope he gets to appoint about a thousand federal judges, not just another ideologue from the right to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s place on the U.S. Supreme Court. 

He may need a sympathetic judge sooner than he thinks. 

I say this advisedly, as the legal problems of Paul Manafort continue to multiply and the clear logic behind the F.B.I.’s original interest in investigating the Trump campaign grows more pronounced. An application for a search warrant unsealed by the courts Wednesday reveals that the F.B.I. had evidence Manafort and his wife received a $10 million loan from a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin. 

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Lies of all sorts – even moronic lies.

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More ominously, from the point of view of Manafort and the president’s whole crew, Reuters explains: 

The search warrant application also confirmed that Mueller has been investigating Manafort’s role in a June 9, 2016, meeting that he attended at the Trump Tower in New York between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer and self-professed Kremlin informant who purportedly was carrying damaging information on Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president.

 

The FBI sought “communications, records, documents and other files involving any of the attendees of the June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump tower, as well as Aras and Amin Agalarov,” said the application, which misspelled the first name of Emin Agalarov.

 

Aras Agalarov is a Russian oligarch close to Putin who joined the elder Trump in staging the 2013 Miss Universe contest in Moscow. His son, Emin, is a popular singer.

 

Considering all the lies that surround this meeting, you wonder. Why have so many people involved lied and lied as often as they have? 

Of course, we all realize there are different kinds of lies the President of the United States employs to get through his day. There are political lies: He will repeal and replace Obamacare with ease. 

There are the lies that bolster his ego: I would have won the popular vote if all those illegal voters hadn’t stormed the polls. 

There are the lies he tells loved ones: I did not boink the porn star. I did not boink that Playboy Bunny. Nor did I boink the housekeeper. 

Then there are the lies involving the Russian investigation – that is, lies to save his orange hide.

 

Sometimes there are gratuitous lies and on slow days Trump may even bust out a moronic lie. Trump tells another today at a rally in Wisconsin. To the applause of his history-impaired fans, he revisits his great 2016 election victory. It’s the greatest ever! The crowd roars. He reminds everyone, Wisconsin “hadn’t been won by a Republican since Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1952.” 

Trump beams with that announcement. He’s contemplating his own greatness. The crowd cheers. 

Trump continues: “And I won Wisconsin. And I like Wisconsin a lot, but we won Wisconsin. And Ronald Reagan, remember, Wisconsin was the state that Ronald Reagan did not win.” 

This is a moronic lie, and one Trump could easily have avoided – except that he likes to make sh*t up as he goes. The one state Reagan did not win in 1984, for the sake of accuracy, was Minnesota.

  

So, Trump is wrong about Reagan and wrong about Minnesota. 

If we check the map for 1980, we see Trump is wrong again and Reagan won Wisconsin then too. You can throw in Eisenhower, winning Wisconsin in 1956. And you can see Trump reaches the “moron level” when you realize Richard Nixon won Wisconsin three times. He won Wisconsin in 1960, but lost the general election, then won again in 1968 and 1972. 

Politifact, which checks statements presidents and other politicians make, awards Trump a “Pants on Fire” rating. This rating is reserved for the biggest, boldest, most ridiculous lies our leaders tell. This marks the eightieth time Trump has been cited for a “Pants on Fire” lie since announcing he would run for office

Forrest Gump in the Oval Office

In case you missed this story, the conservative radio host, Erick Erickson, took a call from an angry Republican congressman this week. 

The lawmaker wanted to meet but didn’t want to be seen anywhere near Capitol Hill. They agreed to rendezvous at a D.C. Safeway store.

What Erickson’s source really wanted was to vent about President Trump, a man equal parts Richard Nixon, Warren G. Harding and....Forrest Gump?

With Trump you get the same simpleminded thinking as with Gump,
but without the strenuous exercise and kind heart.

Erickson relates the conversation this way, as the two men wander the supermarket aisles, squeezing the avocados and pondering which brand of toilet paper to buy:

“I read you writing about this, about wanting to say nice things when you can and criticize when you need to. He may be an idiot, but he’s still the President and leader of my party and he is capable of doing some things right,” the mysterious congressman began.

But dammit he’s taking us all down with him. We are well and truly f**ked in November. Kevin [McCarthy] is already circling like a green fly circling sh*t trying to take Paul’s [Ryan] job because nobody thinks he’s sticking around for Nancy [Pelosi]. She’s going to f**k up the cafeteria again too. It’s like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really f*cking stupid Forrest Gump. He can’t help himself. He’s just a f**king idiot who thinks he’s winning when people are b*tching about him. He really does see the world as ratings and attention. I hate Forrest Gump…Can you believe it beat the Shawshank Redemption? Judiciary [the House Judiciary Committee] is stacked with a bunch of people who can win re-election so long as they don’t piss off Trump voters in the primary. But if we get to summer and most of the primaries are over, they just might pull the trigger if the President fires Mueller. The sh*t will hit the fan if that happens and I’d vote to impeach him myself. Most of us would, I think. Hell, all the Democrats would and you only need a majority in the House. If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker. Take him out with us and let Mike [Pence] take over. At least then we could sleep well at night…You know having Mike as President would really piss off all the right people, too. They think they hate Trump. Mike is competent. I say a lot of shit on TV defending [Trump], even over this. But honestly, I wish the motherf*cker would just go away. We’re going to lose the House, lose the Senate, and lose a bunch of states because of him. All his supporters will blame us for what we have or have not done, but he hasn’t led. He wakes up in the morning, sh*ts all over Twitter, sh*ts all over us, sh*ts all over his staff, then hits golf balls. F*ck him. Of course, I can’t say that in public or I’d get run out of town.

Erickson sums it all up: 

The congressman’s base loves the President. And we’re done. He feels better having let it all out. It was a funny conversation with a few additional remarks about the President’s personal life I dare not print. And yes, I agree, it is bad form to say all this in private while publicly praising the President. Welcome to Donald Trump’s Washington.
 Everybody does this sh*t here.

Source: The Resurgent, April 11, 2018

Like Trump:
With Harding you got randy sexual behavior and the Teapot Dome Scandal.

Like Trump:
With Nixon you got hatred for the free press and a healthy dose of impeachment.