What happened to Trump to take him from his calls with foreign leaders being heavily populated to

[applegrove]

now?

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What's happening is that, as usual, he's making shit up

because his first explanation didn't help him. He claimed, first, that the described conversation couldn't have happened because he knows a lot of people are listening in, so he wouldn't have said anything improper. When that explanation didn't make the controversy go away he decided a "spy" (no doubt from the Deep State) must have been secretly eavesdropping. But because Trump is galactically stupid, by alleging unauthorized eavesdropping he tacitly admits he said something he shouldn't have said.

Note that he has not said, "I have never offered any kind of promise or quid pro quo, implicit or explicit, to a foreign government in exchange for any agreement to help me politically or personally." If he hadn't done that thing he would have said something like that but he hasn't.

[applegrove]

2. He also said the person who blew the whistle was partisan.....but that

doesn't work because Trump was being partisan and trying to get the government of Ukraine to be too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. He claimed he didn't know who the whistleblower was and in the same breath

claimed he was partisan. If he doesn't know who it was, how does he know they're partisan? Or is it just that anyone who does anything contrary to the interests of Orange Foolius has to be partisan?

[applegrove]

4. That was it.

[kacekwl]

6. I'm quite sure Barr has told him

who it is. That means his golf buddies also know.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. No doubt.

I hope the whistleblower has a bodyguard.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. This is NOT how a president of the US should ever work or be. Rump has ruined the office, ...

and ruined the GOP (along w/ the complacent GOP thugs) who are constantly breaking the law (legally or illegally) to retain all power illegally (or legally). As the financial crisis showed, a lot of the scumbags responsible for the 2008 events never were charged w/ crimes (because the things they did weren't crimes then). Today, there are numerous teapot dome laws in place that these gop thugs and rump are ignoring, thus continuing to break the law.