CBS: Trump to governors: "You have to dominate, if you don't dominate you're wasting your time."

[highplainsdem]

Tweets from Ed O'Keefe of CBS News just now, thread starting here, full text below:

Link to tweet

JUST IN: President Trump unloads on the nation's governors on a call, calls on them to step up enforcement: "You have to dominate, if you don’t dominate you’re wasting your time. They’re going to run over you, you’re going to look like a bunch of jerks. You have to dominate."


In audio obtained by @CBSNEws, Trump tells governors: "Washington was under very good control, but we’re going to have it under much more control. We’re going to pull in thousands of people." (more)


MORE: Trump tells governors: "You’ve got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you’ll never see this stuff again," per audio obtained by @CBSNews

Editing to add more tweets from O'Keefe in that thread:

One person listening in on the call describes the president's words and tone as "unhinged."


On the call, Trump references Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Milley and Attorney General Bill Barr. "We will activate Bill Barr and activate him very strongly," Trump says.

[Maeve]

1. Spoken like a true dictator!

Oy

[roamer65]

2. Are there any generals that still respect the Constitution?

Do your duty if you are there. Refuse to cooperate with this tin pot POS.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. and.....

In audio obtained by
@CBSNEws
, Trump tells governors: "Washington was under very good control, but we’re going to have it under much more control. We’re going to pull in thousands of people." (more)

Link to tweet

[SWBTATTReg]

12. So says someone who's cowering in his bunker underneath the WH. Dominate! Idiot, who's ...

never ever held office prior to his so called presidency, is calling out the governors based on his experiences and 'I, alone can fix it all?'.

What a joke.

And where's the house and/or senate republicans in all of this mess? All I see is cotton of AR posturing / threatening that fed. troops
be used to suppress protests.

[BigMin28]

4. Is hiding in his

Bunker and turning out the lights at the White House his idea of dominating? He's pathetic!

[nolabear]

5. Welp, there it is. In a nutshell.

[fishwax]

6. I don't think a 10 year sentence is long enough for the troublemakers who started this

They deserve more than ten years for the murder of George Floyd.

[The Magistrate]

7. Sexual Fantasies Are a Poor Guide To Public Policy, Sir

And that is all this drivel about 'domination' really is.

[spanone]

8. Dictator Don

[ibegurpard]

9. Like hiding in a bunker?

[musclecar6]

10. Spoken

Like the would be totalitarian sociopath. Aren’t we lucky to have such a gem in charge during a pandemic and legitimate angst at awful police behavior happening at the same time.

[kysrsoze]

11. ... says the coward hiding in a bunker.

[fleur-de-lisa]

13. Dumpus never progressed from being a Mafia Don.

He knows nothing about human interaction, other than domination and intimidation.

[RobinA]

14. I Hope They Can

withstand his bullying. It'll wind down unless there's more fuel to the fire. So to speak.

[milestogo]

15. Can you imagine being married to this asshole or having him for a parent?

Everyone in his family is seriously fucked up.

[dalton99a]

16. "Just grab them by the pussy, they'll let you do anything"

[Buns_of_Fire]

17. Watch out, BillyBarr. He's going to "activate" you "very strongly."

Sounds like it might be painful.

[Retrograde]

18. Was he hiding in his bunker when he said that?

Talk about wasting a number of opportunities to act (as if he were) presidential in recent days: he'll be remembered as the one who ran and hid when the going got a bit tough.