MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Zachary Cohen @ CNN.com, Jan. 31
[....] The President did not provide examples of the areas the intelligence chiefs said they were misquoted. Their testimony was televised, and their written assessment of global threats was made public.
Trump followed up those comments with a tweet insisting that Coats and Haspel told him their testimony was distorted by the press and that they are all on the same page. "Just concluded a great meeting with my Intel team in the Oval Office who told me that what they said on Tuesday at the Senate Hearing was mischaracterized by the media - and we are very much in agreement on Iran, ISIS, North Korea, etc. Their testimony was distorted press," [....]
The tweet included a photo of Trump, Haspel, Coats and national security adviser John Bolton all sitting in the Oval Office [....]
Comments
I see some very subtle pushback suggested at the end of the article, where Cohen reports that Several national security officials told CNN that while they don't like the President's latest attacks on the intelligence community, they're not paying much notice and that they found his attack the day before inauguration more demoralizing. Why? Because they've time to analyze him they got his number now: The national security officials said the President is more focused on making deals and using the intelligence for that, while his intelligence chiefs are looking at the same information to make threat assessments. Just trying to protect the country from bad hombres of all kinds, including narcissistic presidents.
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 10:30pm
Maggie Haberman & Peter Baker get an on-the-record Oval Office interview ranging allover the place (beneficaries of Sulzberger practicing "Art of the Deal"). There is a short audio of him on "the wall", he's talking fuggeabout Congress:
Edit to add Cliff Notes version: 5 Takeaways From The Times’s Interview With President Trump
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 12:11am
look at this, I skimmed past it in initial read, "what's more important than the New York Times? Ok, nothing, nothing":
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 12:45pm
Even Mitch McConnell can't take no more? The #1 story @ TheHill.com right now:
(Senate) GOP poised to rebuke Trump
By Alexander Bolton & Jordan Fabian, Jan. 31
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 12:15am
oh criminy (or as Jolly Roger says Precious Blood of Sweet Baby Jesus! ) our cartoon president has been such a big fail at his culture wars games & delivering to the base (i.e., where are the pesos?) he's planning a red herring switch:
Trump to throw spotlight on abortion in State of the Union
The president's Tuesday night address might also include a 'warm and fuzzy' gesture to his recent nemesis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to a White House aide.
@ Politico.com, Jan. 31
Even Tom DeLay wouldn't be this blatant! I pray no lefties fall for this trolling, last thing we need is the national discourse turning to abortion.
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 12:42am
The response should be that Democrats are concerned about the trauma associated with separating children from their mothers. They know that stolen children have been lost in the system under Trump administration policy. Make Trump and the Evangelicals address their atrocities.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 1:04pm