Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[The Mighty Mollusk]

More details on how he's been ******* around, but when do we get to the part where he finds out?

 

[Wheelimus]

Closer than ever before, longer than any of us want. Probably no charges until the stupid assed Special Master finishes their work. Probably several months until charges get filed. Hope it's sooner.

 

[NovaSaber]

Gen. John Kelly confirms Trump wanted IRS to audit his foes or have the DOJ investigate them

The New York Times is confirming that Gen. John Kelly confirmed that former President Donald Trump wanted the IRS to audit his foes. "While in office, President Donald J. Trump repeatedly told John F. Kelly, his second White House chief of staff, that he wanted a number of his perceived...

www.rawstory.com

"Trump’s demands were part of a broader pattern of him trying to use the Justice Department and his authority as president against people who had been critical of him, including seeking to revoke the security clearances of former top intelligence officials," the report said.

Trump had frequently complained about people like John Brennan, who he said shouldn't have any kind of security clearance while giving interviews on cable. Trump also wanted to go after Andrew McCabe, who Trump decided he hated because McCabe's wife was running for a local office in Virginia and was a Hillary Clinton supporter. Trump also tried to go after former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump raged about frequently on Twitter. Both McCabe and Comey experienced incredibly invasive audits in 2019, after Kelly was gone.

“The U.S. government, whether it’s the I.R.S. or the Justice Department, should never be weaponized or used to retaliate, and certainly not because someone criticizes you in the press or is your political opponent,” Kelly said when asked about it by the Times. “The average federal employee or F.B.I. agent or I.R.S. agent goes to work and executes the laws and regulations and shouldn’t be put in this position.”

 

[abates]

A little under 20 minutes until Trump does his announcement!

 

[abates]

As expected, he's announced he's running for president. Though not before a 20 minute rambling speech about how his presidency was a golden age and everything under Joe Biden has been terrible.

 

[Rhinox]

This is a pathetic attempt to stave off prosecution and the massive amounts of lawsuits he's facing. Given his age and health, this feels like Trump is trying to run out the clock on himself. Die in office a Caesar as opposed to an outcast living in exile in his private purgatory of Mar A Largo.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Let's not forget the best part.

Fox News and CNN cut off ‘low energy’ Trump mid-speech as he announces 2024 bid

‘This is one of the most low-energy, uninspiring speeches I’ve ever heard from Trump’ says former Trump press aide

www.independent.co.uk

Fox and CNN dropped coverage mid-speech because he was so bad at it. MSNBC didn't even bother.

Also, I love this line from the article:

Dan Pfeifer, a former senior adviser to Barack Obama, tweeted: “This speech is Trump’s message delivered with Jeb Bush’s energy and Ted Cruz’s charisma.”

 

[Rhinox]

Now that's a burn!

 

[Ironbite4]

.......BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ironbite-that's great.

 

[Pocket]

Unfortunately that just means they've already moved on to the "replace him with someone just as evil but actually competent" phase of the long-term plan.

 

[Paladin]

and New York makes it clear they're fed up with him too.

NY Post taunts Trump’s presidential bid with ‘Florida man makes announcement’ teaser at the very bottom of the front page

The brief news item about former President Donald Trump's new White House bid was buried on page 26, with no photo.

www.marketwatch.com

 

[Pale Rider]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/facebook-fact-check-donald-trump

 

[Ungnome]

Why in the world are campaign speeches exempt from fact checking..... Politicians should be fact checked harder than pretty much anyone else.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Cause fact checked politicians are unemployed politicians, and unemployed politicians don't push massive tax cuts for corporations.

 

[Rhinox]

Evangelicals are also turning their backs. Oh how fickle the faith in Cheeto Jesus.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Let him run. Maybe enough of the cult will still follow him to split the GOP vote and help a blue win. If nothing else, watching him and DeSantis lay into each other for the next two years could be pretty fun.

 

[Paladin]

Birds of a feather flock together.

Elon Musk allows Donald Trump back on Twitter

Twitter has become the first mainstream social media platform to reinstate the former president, who was banned from many sites after his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

www.npr.org

 

[abates]

And Trump's announced he's not interested in returning to Twitter since he has Truth Social now:

MSN

 

[Ungnome]

Musk: Leave your sinking ship to get on my ship.(While he's drilling new holes in his ship.)
Trump: No thank you, I'll stay on my seaworthy vessel.(While his crew is desperately bailing water over the side.)

 

[Dekafox]

I was kind of expecting that response. It'd be like if Musk had gotten banned from Facebook, and Zuckerberg offered to unban him right now. He's got too much ego wrapped up in his current posting place.

ALso I doubt Musk was doing it for any reason other than to try and counter-troll all the people who have been riffing on him for his horrible decisions the past couple weeks.