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Nevilledog

(51,154 posts)
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 12:16 PM Aug 2020

Trump Administration Insider: President Wanted to 'Maim' Migrants

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-administration-insider-president-wanted-to-maim-immigrants

You thought what happened on-screen during the first night of the Republican National Convention was crazy? It’s nothing compared to Trump behind the scenes.

Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, joined Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast on this episode of The New Abnormal to share the eye-watering tales of what Trump is really like when the cameras are switched off.

The national security official couldn’t get through a meeting “without him doing 20 tangents, becoming irascible, turning red in the face, demanding a diet Coke, spewing spit,” Taylor explained. “Literally out of goddamn nowhere, he'd be like, ‘You know, who’s just my favorite guy? The MyPillow guy. Do any of you have those pillows?’”

When it came to the border wall, Trump would dream up “sickening” medieval plots “to pierce the flesh” of migrants, rip all the families apart, “maim,” and gas them, Taylor claims. “This was a man with no humanity whatsoever,” Taylor says. “He says, we got to do this, this, this, and this, all of which are probably impossible, illegal unethical,” Taylor recalls, but he was writing them down as the president spoke. “And he looks over me and he goes, ‘you fucking taking notes?’”

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Trump Administration Insider: President Wanted to 'Maim' Migrants (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
Sick piece of shit awesomerwb1 Aug 2020 #1
"And he looks over me and he goes, 'you fucking taking notes?'" The Magistrate Aug 2020 #2
Gas Them? Me. Aug 2020 #3
This must be what he's going to talk to Chuck Todd about wryter2000 Aug 2020 #4
I think there are a fair amount of people who voted for him that have had enough... A HERETIC I AM Aug 2020 #14
The American Nero. dalton99a Aug 2020 #5
They remind me of those right-wing ghouls who try to out-do each other in the Aristus Aug 2020 #6
Herschel Walker? Anything to add? GusBob Aug 2020 #7
We could begin calling tRUMP The Marmalade Maimer, just in case we need a new epithet... abqtommy Aug 2020 #8
Evil incarnate. northoftheborder Aug 2020 #9
Doesn't surprise me in the least Docreed2003 Aug 2020 #10
Pretty weird for a mere second generation American.............. Grasswire2 Aug 2020 #11
trump is one sick fucker gopiscrap Aug 2020 #12
Sounds like more coked-up depravity Blue Owl Aug 2020 #13

The Magistrate

(95,248 posts)
2. "And he looks over me and he goes, 'you fucking taking notes?'"
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 12:19 PM
Aug 2020

Reminds me of Stringer Bell in 'The Wire'...

'N*****, is you takin' notes on a fucking criminal conspiracy?'

wryter2000

(46,074 posts)
4. This must be what he's going to talk to Chuck Todd about
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 12:20 PM
Aug 2020

I wonder if this would change a single vote. It would have his cult salivating. But are there a few folks who still believe he did great things for the economy who could be convinced they can't vote for him?

I saw a video interview with a nurse who said she disapproved of how he'd handled the virus but she'd still vote for him again. This might sway her. But how many people are there like her?

A HERETIC I AM

(24,372 posts)
14. I think there are a fair amount of people who voted for him that have had enough...
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 01:15 PM
Aug 2020

Of his depravity and cruelty.

But there can be no doubt that the bottom 30% or so of his base ABSOLUTELY LOVE this kind of thing.

Those folks voted for him for precisely this reason; he wants to hurt the people THEY want to hurt, hates the people THEY hate and is intentionally cruel to...well..even them at times, but they still love him anyway.

There are millions upon millions of people who have been waiting their entire lives for a president like Trumpy to come along.

But we outnumber them, by a LONG shot, and we can get rid of him and his cronies if the good and decent people who see this crap and are disgusted by it get out and vote.

Aristus

(66,431 posts)
6. They remind me of those right-wing ghouls who try to out-do each other in the
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 12:26 PM
Aug 2020

sickening punishments they would heap upon people who kneel during the anthem and so on.

Patriotism as expressed by bloodlust and sadism. The modern GOP in a nutshell...

Docreed2003

(16,869 posts)
10. Doesn't surprise me in the least
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 12:39 PM
Aug 2020

Remember when he was cowering in his bunker tweeting about unleashing the dogs on protestors in Lafayette Park

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
11. Pretty weird for a mere second generation American..............
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 12:43 PM
Aug 2020

.....and then we remember where his family came from. Germany under Bismarck.

I got nothing against Germany. Nothing. But it was a stew then and the Trump family didn't exactly adopt American values of egalitarianism.

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