General Trump Administration F**kery Thread

[ADevilYouKhow]

Johnson & Johnson to End Talc-Based Baby Powder Sales in North America

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Mortgage rates just hit another record low

 

[Blackfyre]

@Mediaite
Trump Threatens to Cut Off Funding to Michigan Based on False Claim They ‘Illegally’ Sent Out Absentee Ballots Trump Threatens Michigan Over False Absentee Ballot Claim

 

[Blackfyre]

@rebeccaballhaus
And NYT reports Pompeo answered written questions from investigators working for the inspector general—indicating he was not only aware of the investigation but of its specific lines of inquiry. Pompeo Declined Interview Request From Inspector General About Saudi Arms Sales …

Rebecca Ballhaus
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@rebeccaballhaus
Pompeo to WaPo: “It is not possible that [the recommendation to fire the IG] was based on any effort to retaliate for any investigation that was going on or is currently going on. Because I simply don’t know. I’m not briefed on it.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...a-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html?outputType=amp …

09:47 - 20 May 2020

 

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@NatashaBertrand
Wow. POMPEO: "In this case, I recommended to the president that [State Dept IG] Steve Linick should be terminated. Frankly, it should have been done a long time ago."
He says he won't discuss personnel matters when asked why he asked for Linick to be fired.
10:47 - 20 May 2020

 

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@jaketapper
Yet again the president uses the death of Lori Klausutis, 28, to attack Joe Scarborough. In 2001 she fainted, hitting her head. An autopsy revealed a heart condition. There’s no cold case. It’s a tragedy he cruelly exploits. Indecent.AP FACT CHECK: Scarborough staffer death not a "mystery" …

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
....Roger Stone has been treated very unfairly. How about that jury Forewoman, does anybody think that was fair. DISGRACEFUL! Stay tuned. @FoxNews And guys like Low Ratings Psycho Joe Scarborough are allowed to walk the streets? Open Cold Case!

09:12 - 20 May 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

@Mediaite
BREAKING: MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski to Meet With Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey About Removing Trump Tweets Mika Brzezinski Will Meet w Jack Dorsey on Trump Tweets

 

[choc_cardigan]

@Mediaite
BREAKING: MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski to Meet With Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey About Removing Trump Tweets Mika Brzezinski Will Meet w Jack Dorsey on Trump Tweets

This could be extremely interesting fukkery. White people

 

[nyknick]

House speaker Nancy Pelosi compared Trump’s tweeting to a child who tracks unwanted things into the family home.

“[Trump] comes in with doggie doo on his shoes and everyone who works with him has that on their shoes too,” Pelosi said during her weekly press conference.

Asked about calling Trump “morbidy obese” earlier this week, Pelosi said, “I gave him a dose of his own medicine.”

The speaker noted that the president’s annual physical indicates he is obese, although he is not severely obese. (Many health experts choose not to use the term “morbidly obese.”)

“I was only quoting what doctors have said about him, so I was being factual in a very sympathetic way,” Pelosi said.

The speaker concluded her press conference by saying she would return to the podium tomorrow. “We have some other things to share with you,” Pelosi mysteriously said.

 

[ltheghost]

This was the damn tweet he sent out today. Meanwhile Midland is underwater because the damn broke last night. He is a COMPLETE damn joke. The country won't last if he gets re-elected. Threatening funding while people in Michigan are literally going through a disaster...WTF!

 

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@kaitlancollins
The White House has repeatedly declined to say what it is the president thinks happening in Michigan that is illegal. Instead referred those questions to the campaign.
15:53 - 20 May 2020

 

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@mkraju
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Sen. Marco Rubio, the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he thinks John Ratcliffe could be confirmed as DNI by the Senate as soon as tomorrow.

“I think it makes all the sense in the world to get him in there earlier rather than later,” Rubio told me.

Manu Raju
@mkraju
To do that, Dems will need to consent and allow the vote to happen tomorrow. Otherwise it will be held over past the Memorial Day recess.

With Dems concerned over acting DNI Grenell, they may be more willing to let Ratcliffe vote happen tomorrow
16:17 - 20 May 2020

 

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@axios
JUST IN: Supreme Court temporarily blocks release of Mueller grand jury materialhttps://www.axios.com/supreme-court-mueller-grand-jury-eaeef1b4-20c5-45d9-b47d-fdfae189dd09.html

 

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@NatashaBertrand
Flynn's calls w/Kislyak, and subsequent transcripts, were an FBI product. So unmasking requests revealed by NSA recently at Grenell's request appear to have nothing to do w/those calls—on top of that, per WaPo, Flynn's name was not masked in FBI reports. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...4ee050-9a0b-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html …

 

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@NatashaBertrand
New: Senate Intel vice chair Mark Warner is asking Grenell to “declassify and make publicly available any intelligence report concerning conversations" between Flynn and Kislyak. Comes as calls intensify for release of Flynn-Kislyak transcripts. Warner asks intel chief to fork over underlying 'unmasking' intel on Michael Flynn …