Trump 30: Donald Trump and the Deathly Comb-Over

[Destiny]

What a fucking shitshow. Sigh. 

Shallow end of the pool: can SOMEONE please get the man a tailor? I know he has a body that’s hard to fit, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but the ill fitting suits make me rage. Spend 100 on tailoring a good suit like the rest of us!

[GreyhoundFan]

6 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

There's custom clothing shops in the metro area that could create a wardrobe for him that fits properly.

*thinks a moment*

Oh wait, they'd expect to be paid for their labors, and he'd be a complete jackass when they needed to take his measurements or do fittings. 

Never mind....

This is a good article from Vanity Fair: "What Is Going on with Trump’s Pant Legs? One Humble Theory"

Spoiler

There’s a photo of Donald Trump from last weekend that I can’t stop thinking about. It’s from the Easter service in Palm Beach, where he’s standing between Tiffany and his wife, Melania, an odd sight for sure. I assume Melania is saying, “Do you two know each other?” But that’s not even the compelling part.

The really compelling part is that his pant legs are enormous. They’re each roughly the circumference of a healthy toddler’s head. They could fit comfortably around The Rock’s thighs—an image no one wanted to consider, but in the name of this investigation, we must. The angle of the photo makes it even more dramatic, with the grass hiding the president’s feet, shortening his overall frame and terminating his body at a wide point. Even so, those hems do not lie.

Per widely accepted lore, Trump buys expensive suits, but doesn’t have them tailored to fit his body. In 2004’s Trump: Think Like a Billionaire, “he” wrote, “I wear Brioni suits, which I buy off the rack.” Hope Hicks once confirmed that he bought Brioni suits and also wore Martin Greenfield Clothiers. Both are companies willing and able to set a man back many thousands of dollars, and yet the bagginess of it all gives the look a discount feel.

One may be able to distill an entire worldview from a self-professed billionaire’s choice to forego tailoring an expensive suit, but I’m wondering if there’s something far more nefarious afoot—something that, if proven, could impact the course of this American experiment forever: are the president’s pant legs getting wider?

Here are his relatively slim pant legs at inauguration:

... < series of pictures and captions >

Now it’s almost as if every time he knows there’s going to be a photo op, he pulls out the big boys.

But why? A couple theories. One is that he’s shrinking. It’s less a theory than an inevitable fact of being over 70. Bone density just isn’t what it used to be, and the pants are just meant for longer legs. So why wouldn’t he buy a new suit? He’s a rich man who likes nice things and is the president of the United States. It would be easy.

That leaves only one possibly: President Trump is signaling to the American people that he is Judging None and Choosing One. He’s subliminally provoking a JNCO mania in the hinterlands. The tool of this change agent? The slow widening his suit legs ever outward.

JNCO, the Los Angeles-based company that manufactures ludicrously large pants mostly in the United States, went out of business in the middle of February, after a failed attempt to revitalize its 90s heyday. Having made much of his efforts to save American jobs at air-conditioner manufacturing plants and coal, President Trump is now targeting a new, very specific area of the economy. He’s trying to raise the dead—and the dead in this case is the preferred pants of Limp Bizkit and Juggalos.

We know Trump is not in Limp Bizkit. But do we know whether or not Trump is a Juggalo? Has anyone confirmed a Juggalo is not in the highest office of the land? Has anyone actually checked the White House fridge for Faygo? Believe it or don’t believe it. But the truth is surely out there. Pull the stray threads on the enormous pant hems, and see how far this thing unravels.

The pictures are scary.

[Audrey2]

Hmmm…. and here I thought he wouldn't see a tailor because he's afraid the tailor might talk about his small package...

[Cartmann99]

47 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

This is a good article from Vanity Fair: "What Is Going on with Trump’s Pant Legs? One Humble Theory"

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There’s a photo of Donald Trump from last weekend that I can’t stop thinking about. It’s from the Easter service in Palm Beach, where he’s standing between Tiffany and his wife, Melania, an odd sight for sure. I assume Melania is saying, “Do you two know each other?” But that’s not even the compelling part.

The really compelling part is that his pant legs are enormous. They’re each roughly the circumference of a healthy toddler’s head. They could fit comfortably around The Rock’s thighs—an image no one wanted to consider, but in the name of this investigation, we must. The angle of the photo makes it even more dramatic, with the grass hiding the president’s feet, shortening his overall frame and terminating his body at a wide point. Even so, those hems do not lie.

Per widely accepted lore, Trump buys expensive suits, but doesn’t have them tailored to fit his body. In 2004’s Trump: Think Like a Billionaire, “he” wrote, “I wear Brioni suits, which I buy off the rack.” Hope Hicks once confirmed that he bought Brioni suits and also wore Martin Greenfield Clothiers. Both are companies willing and able to set a man back many thousands of dollars, and yet the bagginess of it all gives the look a discount feel.

One may be able to distill an entire worldview from a self-professed billionaire’s choice to forego tailoring an expensive suit, but I’m wondering if there’s something far more nefarious afoot—something that, if proven, could impact the course of this American experiment forever: are the president’s pant legs getting wider?

Here are his relatively slim pant legs at inauguration:

... < series of pictures and captions >

Now it’s almost as if every time he knows there’s going to be a photo op, he pulls out the big boys.

But why? A couple theories. One is that he’s shrinking. It’s less a theory than an inevitable fact of being over 70. Bone density just isn’t what it used to be, and the pants are just meant for longer legs. So why wouldn’t he buy a new suit? He’s a rich man who likes nice things and is the president of the United States. It would be easy.

That leaves only one possibly: President Trump is signaling to the American people that he is Judging None and Choosing One. He’s subliminally provoking a JNCO mania in the hinterlands. The tool of this change agent? The slow widening his suit legs ever outward.

JNCO, the Los Angeles-based company that manufactures ludicrously large pants mostly in the United States, went out of business in the middle of February, after a failed attempt to revitalize its 90s heyday. Having made much of his efforts to save American jobs at air-conditioner manufacturing plants and coal, President Trump is now targeting a new, very specific area of the economy. He’s trying to raise the dead—and the dead in this case is the preferred pants of Limp Bizkit and Juggalos.

We know Trump is not in Limp Bizkit. But do we know whether or not Trump is a Juggalo? Has anyone confirmed a Juggalo is not in the highest office of the land? Has anyone actually checked the White House fridge for Faygo? Believe it or don’t believe it. But the truth is surely out there. Pull the stray threads on the enormous pant hems, and see how far this thing unravels.

The pictures are scary.

Thank you! It drives me up the damn wall to look at his baggy-ass pants! 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[fraurosena]

Right on schedule, here come the rants...

 

[AmazonGrace]

Somebody thinks he's screwed.

He canceled his trip to Peru and Colombia and is sending Pence instead. Supposedly he wants to monitor the Syrian situation but maybe they took his passport  

[Cartmann99]

3 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Right on schedule, here come the rants...

 

Someone has confiscated his phone and is now tweeting for him:

 

[AnywhereButHere]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/tom-bossert-trump-s-homeland-security-adviser-resign-n864321

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President Donald Trump's homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, has resigned, the White House said Tuesday, making him the latest in a long line of senior officials to leave the administration.

On Monday night, Bossert was socializing with current and former U.S. Intelligence officials at a conference in Sea Island, Georgia, and a source close to him told NBC News that the adviser was unaware of any intention at the White House to seek his resignation, and that he had no plans to quit.

"New team," the source said, without further explanation.

Is it really a resignation if you had no plans to go anywhere and knew nothing about it? But hey - just life in Caligula's good old USA...

 

[Rachel333]

If this is a witch hunt then perhaps we need to consider that Trump might actually be a witch.

[fraurosena]

It looks like they're scrambling to quickly get another couple of conservative nominations in before the shit really hits the fan.

 

[formergothardite]

45 minutes ago, AnywhereButHere said:

Is it really a resignation if you had no plans to go anywhere and knew nothing about it? But hey - just life in Caligula's good old USA.

I wonder what he did that caused this sudden "resignation". At this point the rest of the people should just refuse to resign so Trump will be forced to fire them on Twitter. 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"President Trump has never been in more trouble than right now'

Spoiler

As you’ve heard, federal agents raided the office and home of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer. Yet despite how rare an action it is to pierce attorney-client privilege this way, the big-picture story here seems inevitable: Once a serious prosecutor with resources and authority began taking a good long look at Trump and his associates, a bunch of people were going to be in big trouble, with some winding up behind bars.

I checked in with Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney, to get context on the Cohen raid. She emphasized how rare it is for prosecutors to get a warrant for privileged material: Breaching attorney-client privilege in this way only happens when the attorney himself is directly implicated in possible crimes. She also stressed that, because it is such a radical step for prosecutors to take, a complex system of safeguards has been established to make sure it can’t be abused.

First, if the Cohen raid took special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into a new area of investigation, he would have had to get the permission of Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the inquiry. Then, to get this kind of warrant, according to Justice Department rules, Mueller needed to get the permission of the U.S. attorney — in this case, Geoffrey Berman of the Southern District of New York, who was appointed by Trump — and had to consult with the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, giving them detailed information on exactly what he was seeking and why. Then a judge would have to be persuaded to issue the warrant. (ABC News reported this morning that Berman has recused himself from the investigation, which means that others in his office are handling it.)

The upshot: The Cohen raid isn’t a “fishing expedition,” and didn’t happen because Mueller suspected he might find something interesting, despite how Trump himself and his defenders would like to characterize it as a case of a special prosecutor out of control.

“A judge has found probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime is housed in the office of Michael Cohen,” McQuade told me. “They may have a goal of flipping him, but there’s also evidence of a crime here.”

McQuade also stressed that Mueller didn’t raid Cohen’s office. Instead, it was conducted by the Southern District of New York. “They would have drafted the warrant, supervised the agent affidavit, presented it to the judge, and supervised the execution of it,” McQuade said. “So the idea that Mueller raided Cohen is wrong.”

The raid on Cohen’s office and home could produce all kinds of evidence — some related to his relationship with his client, and some not. They’ve got files, computers, cellphones, everything. Anyone who knows Cohen knows there is bound to be a whole lot of interesting stuff to be found.

The privileged information will then go to what’s sometimes referred to as a “taint team,” a group of Justice Department officials who will review it and decide whether it shows enough evidence of a crime that it falls outside attorney-client privilege. They will then pass that information on to a judge, who could then permit it to be used by Mueller, the U.S. Attorney’s office, the New York state attorney general, or the Manhattan district attorney. In other words, Cohen — and by extension, Trump — has to now worry about more than just Mueller.

Let’s take a step back. One remarkable thing about the 2016 election is the way Trump’s business career was given such a superficial examination by the media as a whole. Again and again, some crazy story or unusual aspect of his financial life would be the topic of one or two investigative stories, but those stories wouldn’t get picked up by other outlets.

Making this more problematic, Trump isn’t someone who played close to the line a time or two, or once did a shady deal. He may well be the single most corrupt major business figure in the United States of America. He ran scams like Trump University to con struggling people out of their money. He lent his name to pyramid schemes. He bankrupted casinos and still somehow made millions while others were left holding the bag. He refused to pay vendors. He exploited foreign workers. He used illegal labor. He discriminated against African American renters. He violated Federal Trade Commission rules on stock purchases. He did business with the mob and with Eastern European kleptocrats. His properties became the go-to vehicle for Russian oligarchs and mobsters to launder their money.

So it was no accident that when he ran for president, the people who joined him in his quest were also a collection of grifters, liars, and crooks — people such as Paul Manafort. Those were the kind of operators Trump has attracted all his life. Honest, upright people with a deep respect for the law don’t go to work for Donald Trump.

As for Cohen, he may be called “Trump’s personal attorney,” but Trump has plenty of lawyers. Cohen’s real job was to be a dealmaker and fixer. He’s the guy Trump would use when he wanted to do a shady deal with a Kazakh oligarch to build a tower in the Republic of Georgia. He’s the guy Trump would have used to negotiate a payment of hush money to a porn star. He’s up to his eyeballs in Trump’s business. I don’t know what they’re going to find when they start combing through Cohen’s computers and cellphone records, but I know it’s going to be pretty darn interesting.

One more thing. Yesterday, the president once again mused publicly about whether he should fire Mueller, but at least with regard to whatever turns up from the Cohen raid, it’s already too late.

“If Mueller gets fired,” McQuade told me, “this case will live, because it’s being handled by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.”

Things were bad for Trump before. But they just got a whole lot worse.

 

[Cartmann99]

 

[fraurosena]

41 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

 

Except what he believes, and what he legally has the power to do are two different things entirely. Thank Rufus!

The only power he has, is that he could potentially instruct Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller. Only Rosenstein has the true power to fire Mueller, and I don't think he will, given his statements to Congress. 

I have to wonder though, what the presidunce will do where Rosenstein to defy his instructions...

[GreyhoundFan]

Ironic, much? "Trump Hotel to Employees: Don’t Hire Relatives"

Spoiler

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has presented all kinds of headaches for his White House. Forget the multiple federal investigations into the Kushner family businesses; his manifold financial interests have presented scores of potential conflicts of interest, impairing both men’s reputations and damaging the public view of Kushner’s family brand.

This all would have been avoided if Trump had followed the rules governing his Las Vegas hotel, which largely bar giving top jobs to family members.

We know about those rules because Property of the People, an advocacy group specializing in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation, obtained the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas employee handbook as part of a FOIA request of the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB heard a case related to allegations of union-busting at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, and Property of the People FOIA’d the hearing transcripts as well as all the exhibits that were entered.

One of those exhibits—entered on Nov. 18, 2015—was the hotel’s Associate Handbook, which includes all the rules employees at the hotel had to follow. The handbook as it was entered in court is published in full below.

The handbook has strong words about hiring family members.

“While TIHLV [Trump International Hotel Las Vegas] does not wish to deprive itself of the services of potentially valuable Associates by establishing a policy excluding the employment of relatives, it must be acknowledged, that such employment can result in the appearance of a conflict of interest, collusion, favoritism, and other undesirable work environment conditions,” the handbook says. “Therefore, management reserves the right to limit the employment of relatives in situations within the company if a conflict of interest is deemed to exist.”

The handbook bars relatives from working “under the direct or indirect supervision of a relative.” It also bars relatives from working “in situations that create the possibility of conflicts of interest,” without the written approval of senior management officials.

This rule, however, clearly didn’t apply to the Trump family. The handbook includes photos of Trump himself, as well as his daughter Ivanka and his sons, Don Jr. and Eric. Don Jr. was hired by his father in 2001. Ivanka and Eric followed in 2005 and 2006, respectively.

“The Freedom of Information Act exists to hold government accountable,” said Gunita Singh, a staff attorney at Property of the People. “As his hotel manual demonstrates, Donald Trump doesn’t even hold himself accountable to his own standards.”

The White House directed The Daily Beast to the Trump Organization for comment on this story. Amanda Miller, a spokesperson for the Trump Organization, defended the handbook.

“The policies set forth in our employment manual are both lawful and standard in the hospitality industry,” she told The Daily Beast.

The handbook includes two provisions that employment attorneys said could run afoul of federal law. First, the handbook bars male employees from having visible tattoos, but with some exceptions for seasonal workers. Female employees, however, are totally barred from having visible tattoos—no exceptions.

“The tattoo rule appears to burden women seasonal workers more than male seasonal workers,” said Eve Hill, an attorney with Brown, Goldstein & Levy and a former official in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “So that seems to violate the sex discrimination rules on its face.”

Another issue: The handbook bans male employees (but not female employees) from having braided hair. Hill said this provision could raise concerns about racial discrimination.

“Braids and dreads for African-American men are very common and not generally considered disruptive or distracting or a poor grooming habit,” Hill said. “In fact, they can be beautiful. I think if this were applied to African-American men, you could easily get a race discrimination challenge on that basis, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would seem to recognize that as potential race discrimination.”

The manual also strictly prohibits harassment. It bars “epithets, slurs, quips, or negative stereotyping” related to people’s race, religion, gender, and other factors. And it bars “‘jokes,’ ‘pranks’ or other forms of ‘humor’ that are demeaning or hostile.”

It includes a section specifically regarding sexual harassment that bars a host of inappropriate activity. Prohibited activity includes “nwelcome or offensive sexual jokes, sexual language, sexual epithets, sexual gossip, sexual comments or sexual inquiries” and unwelcome flirting. It also bars “exually suggestive or obscene comments or gestures” as well as “[n]egative statements or disparaging remarks targeted at one sex (either men or women), even if the content of the verbal abuse is not sexual in nature.”

Trump’s notorious “grab ’em by the pussy” remark would have run afoul of this policy. By ABC News’ count, at least 16 women have accused the president of sexual harassment or misconduct. The allegations run the gamut: Multiple women allege the president reached his hands under women’s skirts between their legs, and one, Cathy Heller, alleges that he forcibly kissed her on the lips at his Mar-a-Lago club on Mother’s Day.

Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice who says Trump pushed his genitals against her without her consent, is suing the president for defamation because he called her a liar over that allegation.

During the campaign, Trump categorically denied all allegations of sexual misconduct and threatened to sue all the women who came forward. He has yet to follow through on his lawsuit threats.

The Trump hotel’s employee manual specifically bars “[c]oerced sexual acts,” as well as “[t]ouching or assaulting an individual’s body, or staring, in a sexual manner.”

“Beyond allowing his private corporations to unconstitutionally profit from taxpayer dollars, Donald Trump can’t even manage to follow his own company’s guidelines on sexual harassment,” Singh said. “In the White House sits a con artist and Womanizer in Chief.”

Hill noted the discrepancy between Trump’s personal behavior and his company’s requirements of its employees.

“It appears, as is often the case, that those rules are applied to the workers but not the leadership,” she said.

... < document attached in article >

 

[JenniferJuniper]

16 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

The only power he has, is that he could potentially instruct Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller. Only Rosenstein has the true power to fire Mueller, and I don't think he will, given his statements to Congress. 

I have to wonder though, what the presidunce will do where Rosenstein to defy his instructions...

It's been done before.  Rosenstein will quit and Trump will keep firing until he gets to someone who will fire Mueller for him.   Didn't work out for Nixon, but these are different times and my biggest fear is that he'll somehow get away with it all. 

[fraurosena]

 

4 minutes ago, JenniferJuniper said:

It's been done before.  Rosenstein will quit and Trump will keep firing until he gets to someone who will fire Mueller for him.   Didn't work out for Nixon, but these are different times and my biggest fear is that he'll somehow get away with it all. 

I do wonder though, if Rosenstein really will quit. I know they all quit during the Saturday Night Massacre, but these are different times. Just look at Sessions, who refuses to quit, even though the presidunce has repeatedly attacked him.

 

[onekidanddone]

"..he never met Will Rogers
I'd be willing to say
yeah it's safe to say
he never met Will Rogers"

For all I know -James McMurtry-

[Howl]

This could go in the Cohen raid thread but I'll just leave it here.  Rick Wilson does not disappoint.  My favorite lines: 

Cohen, should be understood as an almost perfect metaphor for the Trump era, the Trump White House, and everything else orbiting this president like the hot chunks of waste spinning around the central oscillator at a sewage-treatment plant. 

Suddenly, Michael Cohen, the bag-walking, dick-swinging swagger-monkey wannabe thug attorney and consigliere for Donald Trump’s far-flung penile enterprises is scared. If Cohen had a lump of coal in his ass the moment those search warrants arrived, he could have popped out a diamond. 

Read it and enjoy.  Keep scrolling; you might think the article is over but it's not. 

FBI Raid on Michael Cohen Is the Most Dangerous Day of Donald Trump’s Life

[onekidanddone]

5 minutes ago, Howl said:

This could go in the Cohen raid thread but I'll just leave it here.  Rick Wilson does not disappoint.  My favorite lines: 

Cohen, should be understood as an almost perfect metaphor for the Trump era, the Trump White House, and everything else orbiting this president like the hot chunks of waste spinning around the central oscillator at a sewage-treatment plant. 

Suddenly, Michael Cohen, the bag-walking, dick-swinging swagger-monkey wannabe thug attorney and consigliere for Donald Trump’s far-flung penile enterprises is scared. If Cohen had a lump of coal in his ass the moment those search warrants arrived, he could have popped out a diamond. 

Read it and enjoy.  Keep scrolling; you might think the article is over but it's not. 

FBI Raid on Michael Cohen Is the Most Dangerous Day of Donald Trump’s Life

One of my faves:

"It’s quite another when the most experienced and determined federal prosecutors are giving you an investigative colonoscopy".

[GreyhoundFan]

"Trump has performed a medical miracle on the Republican Party'

Spoiler

It came over the city during the night, hovering eerily over the Capitol. Some people saw a spooky cloud, while others saw a haze of sorts, appropriately tinged yellow. But as it moved over the Capitol dome, everyone heard the same thing — a terrifying crunching sound. One by one, congressional leaders were having their spines removed.

The first person to be filleted in this matter was Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), the speaker of the House. He was averse to Donald Trump, but he subordinated the larger agenda of opposing an anti-democratic president to a smaller agenda of tax cuts and regulatory reform. Ryan would make a splendid president of any chamber of commerce.

The other leaders have been similarly de-spined. They chortle among themselves as Trump says in the morning that he will veto this bill or that bill, and in the afternoon signs it. They say nothing about the rhetorical mugging of Mexico or his long-held and mysterious adulation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. They stay silent while being soaked in a rain of lies, dignity running off them and splashing into the Washington gutter.

So maybe it’s foolish to think they might speak up when the president uses his office to attack the free press. He calls stories he doesn’t like “fake news,” as he did with reports that he would fire national security adviser H.R. McMaster — just before doing so. The incessant barrage of bogus criticism from the White House, the constant attack on the impartiality and professionalism of the press, has taken a toll. A recent Monmouth University poll confirmed what we all know: The term “fake news” has been widely accepted. Republicans see fake news in stories that are critical of Trump; Democrats see it in those that are not.

This division is not entirely new. For years, major American cities had “Democratic” and “Republican” newspapers. In Chicago, the Tribune was unabashedly Republican. In New York, the Daily News was once Republican, and the Post once Democratic. Still, Democrats read Republican newspapers and the other way around. Now, though, a Fox News viewer is likely to watch only Fox News. Too bad. “Fox & Friends” has the ratings, but it is to journalism what pornography is to sex.

Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other GOP congressional leaders surely do not for a minute believe that CNN, the New York Times or The Washington Post invent stories critical of Trump. They not only know better, they rely on these organizations to stay informed. Moreover, they appreciate why freedom of the press is embedded in the Constitution — No. 1 among amendments.

These leaders can probably all cite John Adams on the subject and certainly Thomas Jefferson, who said that if he had to choose between “a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government,” he’d prefer “the latter.” Hannah Arendt, the philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, put it this way: “The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen.” And Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), having been freed after serving as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, first asked for a decent meal and then for newspapers. It was a deprivation he keenly felt. “Of all the privations and injustices suffered in undemocratic nations, lack of a free press is among the worst,” he later wrote in a preface to David Halberstam’s “The Best and the Brightest,” a journalist’s account of government deception in Vietnam.

Of course, Trump’s defenders would say he doesn’t want an unfree press, he just wants a fair one. Not so. What Trump actually wants is a servile press, one that offers praise, withholds criticism and refrains from reporting awkward truths. That’s probably the reason he has criticized Amazon, which was founded by Jeffrey P. Bezos, who also owns The Post. That might also be a reason the Justice Department is trying to block the merger of Time Warner and AT&T. Time Warner owns CNN, which Trump loathes.

Amazon can take its lumps. But the use of the bully pulpit to punish a corporation for a political reason would be yet another thing Trump has in common with Putin. It is, at its core, deeply un-American. This does not mean the press is above criticism. It is not. But that criticism must be fair and fact-based — not a lie.

If America emerges from the Trump years with a corrosive distrust of the press and a less vigorous democracy, then Republican congressional leaders will have to take some credit. Instead of protesting, they preferred to protect their political fortunes, play to the basest part of their base and remain meekly mute. They lack spine. Trump took them all.

 

[JenniferJuniper]

CNN now reporting Trump considering firing Rosenstein. 

[Destiny]

CNN now reporting Trump considering firing Rosenstein. 

Yikes. which means he will replace with someone who will fire Mueller.