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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 06:45 PM Mar 2017

Devin Nunes just chastised press for taking Trump literally w/Obama accusation




Devin Nunes just chastised press for taking Trump literally w/Obama accusation

Yes—he's POTUS. He accused fmr POTUS of committing a felony.

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What the actual fuck...its the press fault for what Trump said....
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Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
1. I not only took it literally, so did his deluded followers.
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 06:51 PM
Mar 2017

If it's not true, he should be impeached. The President's words mean something.

salin

(48,955 posts)
4. yesterday he was going to investigate.
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 06:57 PM
Mar 2017

today he tells the press not to take the president literally? huh?

superpatriotman

(6,252 posts)
5. Honorary member of the trump translation squad
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 06:57 PM
Mar 2017

Only they, with their special decoder rings, can translate the true meaning of Twitler's utterances.

subterranean

(3,427 posts)
8. Of course! Trump meant it figuratively. That's why he used quotation marks
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 07:07 PM
Mar 2017

around the words "wire tapping" in his tweets. Apparently "wire tapping" is a euphemism for something else.

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)
10. I believe ultra-mobster Anthony Scarimmuci (sp) was chiding Chris Hayes about the very
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 07:10 PM
Mar 2017

same thing last night? Or was it Carter Page last week? - this whole song and dance about taking these DFT pronouncements "literally" - "aw man, see, don't do that, don't take him 'literally', what he really means is ____________."

But please Nunes Scaramucci Page Conway Spicer, do take it "literally" when I tell you to

FUCK

OFF

spanone

(135,873 posts)
11. this 'he's not a politician horse shit has gone on long enough'
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 07:14 PM
Mar 2017

and if you can't take the president of the united states literally he should leave the job or be dismissed.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
12. Seems like everyone's always guessing wrong
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 07:16 PM
Mar 2017

When we take President Trump seriously, we're supposed to know he's just jerking off. When we think there's no way he could be serious, we find out he really is as batshit crazy as his utterance.

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