"Want to give his name? We'll destroy his career." --Trump, today, to a TX sheriff

[bigtree]

Jennifer Bendery ‏@jbendery (Politics reporter for The Huffington Post)
"Want to give his name? We'll destroy his career." --Trump, today, to a TX sheriff who said an unnamed state senator is hampering his job 37m37 minutes ago

full exchange (via pool report):


twitter.com/jbendery/status/829004995009843200

[trotsky]

1. Reminds me of a snip I saw during the campaign.

Trump supporter: "I love Trump! He says what he means!"

Sane person: "What about this crazy thing he said?"

Trump supporter: "He didn't really mean that!"

[Beartracks]

21. Yep. This. n/t

[SamKnause]

2. Fucking EVIL DICTATOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They want to turn America into a police state Theocracy controlled by Wall Street.

Republicans are EVIL !!!!!!!!

[Hortensis]

23. "On asset forfeiture, weve got a state senator in

Texas that was talking about introducing legislation to require conviction before we could receive that forfeiture money,” Eavenson said.

“Can you believe that?” Trump interjected.

“And I told him that the cartel would build a monument to him in Mexico if he could get that legislation passed,” the Texas sheriff continued.

“Who is the state senator?” Trump replied. “Do you want to give his name? We’ll destroy his career.”

The forfeiture Trump defends, seizing property of people accused but not tried, is especially popular where law enforcement is allowed to pocket a share of the assets seized.

Evil, all right. Good news is a fair number of conservatives don't like this either. AND those are the more moderate, thoughtful ones we need.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

38. So, he supports legalized theft w/o due process and "destroying" public officials

Sounds like a mob boss. A highly disturbing exchange.

[Hortensis]

40. Yes, highly! Trump might have been sorta joking, but with

this leaping to his mind, and with all his many evidences of complete lack of moral and ethical standards, only a fool wouldn't believe he is very dangerous.

Bet a lot of conservative operators are looking nervously at some of the ultraconservative hacks they helped place in judgeships about now. Even more so for Democrats, of course.

[Eliot Rosewater]

51. Now you are catching on, I dont know how he has hid this

side of his life this long.

Do people think he only didnt pay vendors and contractors? Silly people

[tblue37]

39. Due process is hated by dictators and their black booted thugs. nt

[Hortensis]

48. Must be a shock to Trump when lower-level functionaries

stop him. The acting AG was fired for refusing orders, though, and now one who'll do what he wants is in. That's why my thoughts go right to all the bad judges the right has been packing our courts with... No doubt a lot of people will be in real danger if they cross not just Trump but state- and local level criminals in office.

[JHan]

53. And Sessions track record on this is in line with Trump's it would seem...

God help us.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

54. Prisons for profit. What could possibly go wrong.

Next up, every single school in America, sold to the most connected bidder.

[sarcasmo]

30. As the right screams, Sharia Law!

[Plucketeer]

34. Don't the Russians have....

the mortal remains of Hitler. Someone needs to check the skull to see if it's grinning.

[bluescribbler]

71. +1

[jpak]

3. Dictator!

yup

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. Scary.

[Boxerfan]

5. Why is this not screaming headlines....

He just threatened a US (State) Senator...

And may I point out-This is about assets forfeiture- a singularity of banality & evil amongst a sea of such injustice.

[PearliePoo2]

52. The Washington Post has it now!

The comment section is NOT being kind to him! But, WaPo is already on his "hit" list, so...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/07/well-destroy-his-career-trump-quips-about-a-texas-state-senator-at-odds-with-a-county-sheriff/?utm_term=.e8191f6fe277#comments

[Generic Other]

64. My favorite comment:

My neighbor doesn't think Russian hooker urine will remove Trump bumper stickers. Anybody got any other ideas for him?

[Dustlawyer]

78. Yep, giving cops a legal profit motive for policing is just a plain f**king stupid idea!

[gratuitous]

6. Anyone want to ask President Trump what he meant by that?

Is it really the president's job to "destroy" Texas state senators? And what, exactly, would that entail?

[elehhhhna]

49. Well let's go back to what he said last week, we have killers

[subterranean]

76. It would probably entail a late-night tweet

accusing the "so-called" Senator of preventing law enforcement from doing their jobs.

[BSdetect]

7. Not at all presidential

Just vulgar and nasty.

Should be removed from office based on this attack alone.

What a parody of a president.

He's simply a lunatic.

[2naSalit]

13. Lunatic THUG....nt

[raccoon]

58. I totally agree! I wonder if any politician will have the cojones to say anything against

the remark--worthy of a mobster.

Should be removed from office based on this attack alone.

[Jim Beard]

8. Tony Soprano

[NastyRiffraff]

19. Tony was actually a better person

He had a measure of humanity; Dump has none.

[tblue37]

41. At least Tony knew he needed psychiatric help. nt

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Tony Soprano, at least, kept his business out of bankruptcy.

[spanone]

9. the asshole-in-chief

don, blow it out of your ass.

[procon]

10. Dictators do this kind of stuff, so do warlords and tinpot tyrants

who impose their chaotic will on third world countries and rule murderous Banana Republics. If the President can threaten to destroy the career of someone who opposes him, maybe Trump was right in saying America was no different than a killer like Putin when he is only a few steps away from ordering extrajudicial murders himself.

[wordpix]

11. Trumputin has learned from his puppetmasters

including Hitler

[alfredo]

73. Roy Cohn was trump's mentor

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html?_r=0

"For Mr. Cohn, who died of AIDS in 1986, weeks after being disbarred for flagrant ethical violations, Mr. Trump was something of a final project. If Fred Trump got his son’s career started, bringing him into the family business of middle-class rentals in Brooklyn and Queens, Mr. Cohn ushered him across the river and into Manhattan, introducing him to the social and political elite while ferociously defending him against a growing list of enemies.

Decades later, Mr. Cohn’s influence on Mr. Trump is unmistakable. Mr. Trump’s wrecking ball of a presidential bid — the gleeful smearing of his opponents, the embracing of bluster as brand — has been a Roy Cohn number on a grand scale. Mr. Trump’s response to the Orlando massacre, with his ominous warnings of a terrorist attack that could wipe out the country and his conspiratorial suggestions of a Muslim fifth column in the United States, seemed to have been ripped straight out of the Cohn playbook."

[LuckyLib]

74. This is huge. Want to see Drumpf from the inside?

Check out Roy Cohn.

[alfredo]

75. True.

[YoungDemCA]

82. Yep. The same Roy Cohn who worked so closely with Joe McCarthy.

Of course, McCarthyism has also gotten a rehabilitation in recent years (Thanks, Glenn Beck and the "Tea Party!&quot . Trump becoming President is no coincidence in my mind.

[alfredo]

85. Nixon was part of that mess too.

[barbtries]

12. wow

so trump is totally on board with literal highway robbery by law enforcement. just something to file away

[BBG]

25. As if that might tarnish his rep...

As if.

[barbtries]

35. it's one way to get thieving law enforcement agencies

to follow him like good little germans.

[logosoco]

14. Well this seems like something the MSM should be reporting.

Is tRump even aware that people voted for this state senator and that it is up to the people in his district to decide what path his career will take.

I cannot believe the things this president gets away with. Especially in light of how the last president was treated. There has already been a huge list of "what if Obama or Michelle did this".

[bdamomma]

15. more evidence

to use against this POS.

He is a weak little bully.

[forgotmylogin]

16. Isn't that pretty much the very definition of "abuse of power"?

[barbtries]

36. yeah.

[tblue37]

42. Nixon was excoriated for his enemies list. nt

[SunSeeker]

17. K & R for exposure of fascist. nt

[Initech]

18. When do we rise up and destroy them?

[lark]

22. He's at it again, every day he wins the "worst person in the world, today" award.

The cloud must be overloaded with all his awards for infamy, hate, lies, and greed.

[world wide wally]

61. And every day, he is busted in an out and out lie too.

[mrgorth]

24. What will it take to bring him down?

I mean, does he actually need to get caught shooting someone?

[Ilsa]

33. He said during the campaign that he could do that in

Times Square and get away with it.

[raccoon]

59. I believe it. The former AG was one of the few who stood up to him.

The vast majority of those in power are too wimpy to do so.

[Rex]

26. That right there makes him unqualified to sit in the Oval Office.

Or it should. However, we don't live in the 'liberal democracy' supposed experts say we do. We live in a plutocracy that now has a true blue plutocrat in charge of the whole fucking show!

Buckle up.

[Achilleaze]

27. That is evil. Pure oozing evil.

Republicans should be ashamed of themselves for elevating Comrade Casino as their "family values" role model.

Trump is a dark, sick man. He needs help, not to be held up to the nation as a role model 'leader.'

[Rex]

32. Comrade Casino! Love it!

That one is going in the lexicon.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. Everything is personal to Trump

as to all dictators. All he knows how to do is focus on little tiny details, and hasn't any notion that there might be a larger picture worth looking at. Although perhaps we should be grateful that he can't see the big picture.

[onetexan]

29. was this exchange on twitter?

[spanone]

31. he was meeting with law enforcement folks in the white house....

said it right in front of the media

[malaise]

44. A lunatic thug

Seriously this is not a well person - he is unfit for office

[spanone]

45. guess that's why he's so enamored by putin

[avebury]

37. I gotta tell you, if I ever ended up on a jury trial that resulted from any situation

where Trump was involved in any way, I would dig my heels in and vote for the other side.

[workinclasszero]

43. Trump is a Banana Republic Dictator Thug

What a POS that sits in our white house.

[Doitnow]

46. When someone as evil as this should be impeached, why is it that we are commited to having Pense

take his place when Pense and everyone else tRump appointed would also get to stay in office? Doesn't make any sense. And all his EOs
ought to get bounced.

[Hekate]

56. Doitnow, recommend you read the Constitution. There's even a good paperback with ...

Last edited Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:21 PM - Edit history (1)

...modern translation and explanatory remarks.

Also recommend you google Spiro Agnew. Note timeline. Congress got rid of him before they got rid of Nixon -- it came out that Agnew was a petty crook and chronic lifelong bribe-taker, so they had legal cause.

Pence, afaik, is legally clean. Good luck trying to get rid of him, except in the next presidential election, 2020.

[Doitnow]

83. Thanks. I do remember the Agnew episode. Our activism is so important right now.

At least people have awakened---I hope enough. The rePugs in Congress are all so evil, hopefully they will start tearing at each other and destroy themselves. Our S0-Called pres. can hide away in one of his towers, but all of them can't.

[Hekate]

47. "Quipped"?! Oh that Donald, such a puckish sense of humor.

[Javaman]

50. he has as much finesse' as...

a monkey trying to masturbate while wearing boxing gloves.

[raccoon]

60. Good analogy! nt

[randr]

55. Does the Sheriff acknowledge that he was almost complicit in a crime?

[Sunlei]

57. there's the fucking domestic terrorist!

[LuckyLib]

62. And the men in attendance all responded with a "yuk, yuk, yuk"

and that good-ole-boy nod of satisfaction.

[adigal]

63. This is full on fascism...just stunning. And not on any news programs.

And that idiot Jake Tapper had Kellyanne Conway Goebbels on again today. She refused to answer questions about why Trump didn't not the Muslims killed by a right winger and why he lied about the crime rates being highest in 40 years. He didn't say to her, WTF??? when she went on and on about making peace with reporters and demanding they treat Trump with the respect of the Presidency. As in, Really, asshole?? Trump spouted birther nonsense for 8 years.

I honestly get sick to my stomach when I hear them interview her and allow her to run them right over.

[Rstrstx]

65. Look at what they can do in Oklahoma

https://thinkprogress.org/oklahoma-police-just-made-it-easier-than-ever-to-seize-someones-money-7b106e9605e1#.ni67hiwhj

I wonder if any other states have adopted such a "bright idea"

[bucolic_frolic]

66. A public threat in plain sight

and an offer to engage in conspiracy

[TygrBright]

67. Hey, it was just a "quip." Yanno, FUNNY! A JOKE, already...

...lighten up, and tell me you didn't laugh.

Hilarious, it was.

A genuine laugh riot.

Laugh, dammit!

"I didn't get a 'harumph' from that guy!"

Snigger, chuckle, chortle.

hahahahahahahahahahahah...

hah...

Oh, so funny!

Funny, funny, funny!!

Quip, joke, jocular remark. Not to be taken seriously.

Just literally.



We are so screwn...

apprehensively,
Bright

[Initech]

68. WTF is wrong with this guy?

[dchill]

80. Absolutely nothing, if you ask HIM.

[Cha]

69. Yeah, this fucker needs his fucking "career destroyed" NOW

[The Wielding Truth]

70. Abuse os power.Trump is very dangerous.

[sarcasmo]

72. Dictator.

[orangecrush]

77. Time to go, asshole

How much more?

[OldRedneck]

79. Is there any limit . . .

. . . to the evil of which Trump is capable?

[Percy Cholmondeley]

81. That legislator

If his name is revealed, I'd like to paypal him some money for his U.S. Senator campaign...

[hamsterjill]

84. Since we have so many dumbasses from Texas, allow me this one comment, please.

I'm actually surprised that the sheriff had the sense NOT to give the Senator's name. Maybe the sheriff even figured out what Trump was trying to do, and didn't want to go along with it.

The rest of us Texans can only hope...