Things Are Bad in Trumptown
So many headlines, so little time. Let’s take a walk through some the details of Trump’s life today.
First, and most obvious: He caved in to Nancy Pelosi on the wall.
He really had very little choice. Yesterday was all about ‘let them eat cake’ when discussing the plight of federal employees. It was tone deaf and proved that the president and his pals have no clue about daily life of the peasantry.
The heads of the FBI and the Coast Guard went public with their anger and frustration about employees not getting paid.
The icing on the cake, though, was the slowdown/shutdown of major airports. Air controllers called in sick at major East Coast hubs, causing a ripple effect nationwide. LaGuardia is a Delta hub. Newark is a United hub. Philly is an American hub…. You get the picture.
https://twitter.com/apalmerdc/status/1088870161929654273
Lord knows, the little people can be expected to endure a ‘little pain’ for the wall, but when you start asking CongressCritters to miss fundraising events, you’ve gone too far.
Now it’s Nancy (as Trump likes to call her) 2, Trump 0
Joan McCarter at Daily Kos:
You know what this is? It’s a win for Nancy Pelosi. Her second one in a week. Trump backed down on the State of the Union address, and now he’s reopening government without wall funding.
Oh, and about that SOTU Speaker Pelosi? No SOTU until there’s permanent funding. For everything.
"Our unity is our power, and that maybe is what the president underestimated," said Pelosi.
https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1088916851030179841
Whack-a-doodle and former campaign insider Roger Stone went down this morning, and it was delicious. For the record, the word “collusion” appeared nowhere in the multi-count indictment. The word perjury, did, however, a crime that’s a lot easier to prove in court.
After a four-decade career of ripping through democracies, including helping to found—along with Paul Manafort—the consulting firm so beloved of dictators that it would become known as “the torturer’s lobbyists,” watching Stone led away to cool his heels at least until he faces a federal judge on Friday morning was a hopeful sign. And, while expected, the indictment against Stone focuses on his connections with WikiLeaks, it also shows that Stone remained in close communication with the campaign throughout the election. He coordinated an exchange of information between Trump’s team and the organization that served as a distribution center for information stolen by Russia.
If you read the indictment closely, something much, much bigger leaps out.
Remember all the “Hillary is ill” crap pushed everywhere from Fox News to the National Enquirer? So does columnist Kurt Eichenwald.
This is BEFORE the second Wikileaks document dump.
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1088887955874295809
Person 1, aka Jerome Corsi, told Roger Stone is was time to bring up poor health, a lo and behold for days later conservative mouthpiece Drudge.com jumped in with a photo from Feb 27, 2016 where Hillary slipped on stairs and was steadied by a couple of aides...
Four days later Fox spews’ Sean Hannity joins the fray,“This looks like violent, out of control movements on her part.” He found a quack doctor to come on the air and diagnose Hillary with epilepsy on the basis of a goofy head movement.
Facebook and Twitter explode with more conspiracy theories.
And then, candidate Trump starts up with his “Hillary doesn’t have the stamina” bit at his rallies.
There’s more… but suffice it to say, we’ll have to wait for the other shoe to drop.
Lest we forget, there is Thursday’s scandal involving fudging security clearances for the president’s son-in-law and other people.
Jared Kushner’s top secret clearance was helped along by a Trump-installed administration official who overruled two career White House security specialists who rejected Kushner’s application, NBC News reports.
Kushner’s application was reportedly one of at least 30 cases overruled by that Trump’s pick to head the personnel security office of the Executive Office of the President.
In the three years prior, NBC News notes, only one application had been overruled by the director of the personnel security office.
https://twitter.com/QuancyClayborne/status/1088921081715380224
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