"I WANT THAT GODDAMN FUCKING STATEMENT":...

[babylonsister]

“I WANT THAT GODDAMN FUCKING STATEMENT”: Behind the Scenes of Trump’s Secret Birther Implosion
Just before his first debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump’s campaign decided it was time for him to revoke birtherism at long last. But, as Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng report in Sinking In the Swamp, Trump wasn’t so willing to let it go.
By Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng

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“I WANT THAT STATEMENT!!!! GET ME THAT FUCKING STATEMENT!!!!!!!” Trump roared into his phone—multiple recipients of his wrath recount—as his thundering voice crackled on the receiving ends. “I WANT THAT GODDAMN FUCKING STATEMENT RIGHT NOW!!!!! WHERE THE FUCK IS IT, WHY IS…JASON! JASON! GET THE HELL UP HERE NOW!”

Click.

By the time all the other participants on the call had hung up, Miller, Trump’s trusted senior communications adviser, was already hustling up to DJT’s 26th floor office in the tower. Behind closed doors, Miller—with a thick skin for verbal lashing and a calming voice—miraculously managed to walk Trump back off that ledge and strike a compromise: Miller would release a brief, innocuous statement in his own name, not Donald J. Trump’s, and the Republican presidential nominee would get to have his own say at the Trump hotel event in Washington, D.C. The secret, gargantuan Trump statement would be canned, never to see the light of day. When Miller emerged from Trump’s office, he assured fellow campaign officials that he’d put out that fire, at least for the time being.

In the moment, Trump was bitter and vexed, still itching to one day unleash his lengthy and unalloyed comment on his birther past and present. As in so many other political conundrums before and after that conference call, he was like a small child who’d just been informed by the minimum-wage theme park worker that he wasn’t tall enough to ride Space Mountain.

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/behind-the-scenes-of-trump-birther-implosion-sinking-in-the-swamp

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. Excitable chap, isn't he?

That's why Don Corleone was a Don, and why Don Trumpsky is an Asscarrot.

[Dukkha]

8. Why he will always be Fredo

I’M SMART!!

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. It is probably just me, but that is a confusing article. nt

[czarjak]

4. Still looking for "the statement", too?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

7. Nope.

[PatrickforO]

3. I continue to be appalled by Trump.

And equally appalled that so many people skill support him.

[maxsolomon]

5. The snips are confusing.

I couldn't get far into the article because my blood started to boil.

[sdfernando]

6. So it shouldn't be hard to get him

to lose his shit on National TV tonight. I would be a meltdown to end all meltdowns....and leave no doubt as to the mental state of his lardass!

[Skittles]

9. imagine if a woman or POC behaved like this

UGH

[NCLefty]

10. I always wondered how/why he gave that bizarre conference. He never admits he was wrong.

It was so tortured. And, of course, after admitting he slandered President Obama for years--and tens of millions of Americans will go to their graves believing this lie--he made no apology.

What a dick.