"Watch them start to choke like dogs" Trump says, talking about Clapper and Yates

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Michael Adams‏ @mla1396
"Watch them start to choke like dogs" Trump says
Talking about DNI Clapper and Fired Acting AG Sally Yates


excerpt from TIME exclusive, Donald Trump After Hours:

____ A clutch of aides follow him, including McMaster, Pence and press secretary Sean Spicer. The President raises a remote and flicks on the screen, sorting through old recordings of cable news shows, until he comes to what he is after: a clip from the Senate hearing earlier in the day, as broadcast on Fox News. The first clip he shows is of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham speaking to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Graham asks if Clapper stands by his statement that he knows of no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Trump waits quietly, until Clapper admits that nothing has changed. Trump pantomimes a sort of victory.

“Yes. He was choking on that,” the President chortles. “Is there any record at all of collusion? He was the head of the whole thing. He said no. That’s a big statement.” Trump leaves unmentioned the fact that there is an ongoing FBI counter­intelligence investigation into possible collusion, which has not yet reached any conclusions. Nor does he note that Clapper, out of government for nearly four months, could not possibly know everything the FBI has learned, and likely would have not known all even when he was in office. Trump also leaves unmentioned that he had a meeting that day with his new Deputy Attorney General about firing Comey, the director of that investigation...

The next clip starts to play, this time showing Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley asking Clapper and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates if they ever requested that the names of Trump, his associates or members of Congress be identified by name, or unmasked, in a legal intelligence intercept. “Watch them start to choke like dogs,” Trump says, having fun. “Watch what happens. They are desperate for breath.”

Clapper, on the screen, pauses several beats to search his memory. “Ah, he’s choking. Ah, look,” the President says. After a delay, Clapper finally answers, admitting that he had requested an unmasking, which would have been a routine occurrence in his former job. The running Trump commentary continues. “See the people in the back, people are gasping,” he says, though it’s unclear who he is referring to on the screen. He also mentions the sound of photographers’ cameras clicking on the television.


read more: http://time.com/donald-trump-after-hours/



...as unsurprising as this should be, I'm stunned by the open contempt he's displaying for these public officials, apart from everything else. This is an awful man.

[dhill926]

1. vile piece of shit....

[PsychoBabble]

2. You can take the hoodlum off the street but ...

.. you can't take the hoodlum out of the hoodlum .. no matter WHAT title you give them.

[Kittycow]

4. I self-deleted because

I don't know the rules about death wishes around here.

[bigtree]

7. it's hard to avoid feeling vindictive, it's understandable

...but we should be better than wishing harm on anyone because of our political differences.

[Kittycow]

12. I think the harm coming down the pike

to our citizens and our democracy goes well beyond "political differences ".

But I do agree that in this specific incident, wishing harm on him is unwarranted.

[bigtree]

18. I'd suggest

...we'd be prudent and wise to rely on the institutions and levers of our democracy to confront Trump, refraining from any suggestion of personal harm to our political opponents as a hedge against all instigations of harm.

[annabanana]

8. We don't DO them..

ever.

[LOL Lib]

10. I don't know either so I will not post about how often I hope he croaks!

[Cha]

17. I just want him to be humiliated in

the worst way possible. In kind how he tries to humiliate everyone else.

[lunatica]

29. I just always say I hope he gets all the karma he deserves.

And I do hope that.

[Kittycow]

34. That sounds reasonable!

[riversedge]

5. Trump is a crude, small-minded little man.

[PearliePoo2]

6. You're going DOWN Motherf*cker...

And so is the smirking, Dominionist piece of shit standing next to you.
Wait for it...

[Ilsa]

20. The celebrations will last for days, just in western Europe. nt

[Solly Mack]

9. What a sad little nothing of a man.

He's weak, knows it, can't stand it, and projects his weakness onto others to prop himself up.

[jberryhill]

11. "I'm stunned by the open contempt"

Yes, who could have imagined this from, say, his debate performances.

[bigtree]

13. I'm not naive about Trump

...I'm stunned at the level of contempt openly expressed by the President of the United States.

We should never take something like that for granted.

[Maeve]

14. He sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest

And, since there is no filter between his mouth and what-passes-for-a-brain, he cannot understand that some people actually hesitate to make sure they are answering correctly in the circumstances.

He lives and dies by the sound bite.

[world wide wally]

15. Careful, asshole... Dogs bite when they don't like someone

[Cha]

16. Who doesn't want trump to get the exact

karma that he deserves? The viciousness he spews on others to boomerang right back in his ugly ass face.

[Bettie]

19. I'm still trying to figure out how

we fell through into an alternate universe.

Because I still can not believe this is happening some days.

Wish I could wake up and find this all to be a bad dream.

[Boomerproud]

22. Heavy sigh. I can't tell you how many times I've used the phrase "alternate universe"

since January 20th. He really is as bad as we thought he would be. This country simply doesn't deserve him and I can't imagine the "carnage" (his word) he will leave behind.

[Cosmocat]

26. The country absolutely "deserves it"

The day before 45 got elected, this country had given Rs control of most state's and congress ...

Then, 1/3 of the country voted for him and 1/3 of the country decided to not vote or vote for Johnson or Stein.

We got what was coming to us.

[Cosmocat]

25. 30 years of conservative hate media skull fucking this country

has sucked the soul out of it ...

It burned me in the 90s in my young adulthood.

Drove me to get personally involved in politics in the mid 2000s, at the cost of providing a little better for our family.

Saw how it was building and building, calcifying the minds of "conservatives" and poisoning the minds of the "middle" with the bullshit they are both the same framing.

We have really just been fighting to slow the slide - that was what BHO's 8 years was ... Very small positive gains, just slowed it a BIT (they still were chewing up at the state and congressional level).

People have a hard time getting it, but had Hillary won, it would be an equally bad shit show in another way, the way republicans would be acting now ...

Someone was going to die if she had won and tried to seat a SCJ.

Honestly, this was the least bloody path ...

[anneboleyn]

21. Weak coward who needs Pence or Ivanka around him like a baby blanket. He never stands alone

Trump is such a weak coward (ironic given his emphasis on his "alpha" nature). He always stands with his loyal posse members "protecting" him -- Ivanka and Jared, Bannon, Pence, Ryan and the lame-ass Repubs who voted to kill healthcare, etc standing next to him all the time -- in such a cowardly bullying manner. It looks like Biff and his lame buddies in Back to the Future. His gestures are so lame and so obvious; he is trying to keep reporters, political figures, any person he finds scary, etc at a distance from the monarch's body (lmfao). There has never been a president that does this in every single photo taken of him (not to mention his blatant disrespect for all American institutions and Russiangate).

As with everything else egarding Trump, I am amazed at the ways in which our media allows him to get away with this behavior. Trump has been pure poison for our country. His horrific behavior, which has not been held in check, has shown our politicians and institutions to be weak and toothless. See Lavrov laughing and openly mocking the firing of Jim Comey yesterday. In what other decade of American history would a president have accepted such behavior from the Russians?!

[bigtree]

23. yet, he doesn't seem to have any close friends

...something very deeply troubled in the way he's estranged himself from his wife and son, spending his free time, instead, holding court at his country-club castles with sycophants paying to watch him gavotte like the petty king he imagines himself to be.

This is a hard lesson for many in our country who've shorthanded history to match their own indifference to what it's taken to preserve our democracy. This presidency is a reflection of much of the ignorance we experience and live with in our communities, workplaces, our everyday lives. All of this cavalcade of calamity we're seeing from this unbridled fool held back by something as mere as the comity of individual men who held that office before him.

But let's not lose sight of the agents of this tyranny: his republican hosts in the Capitol. The 'constitutional crisis' we're witnessing is made viral by the refusal of the republican Congress to confront Trump. The agents of his tyranny.

[lunatica]

30. You made me look up gavotte

LOL!

Your other points are quite on spot too. So many in this country are quite shallow and downright mediocre in their knowledge and manners. The lowest common denominator on all levels is the norm now. He's brought us down to this gutter level. A gilded gutter but still a gutter.

[Foamfollower]

24. He models his rhetoric after Putin's.

HE wants to be a dictator.

[C_U_L8R]

27. Ugly.

And totally stupid looking with that clownishly large tie and froggy McPout face.

[Warpy]

28. He's looking and sounding more like a caricature every day

and not of a tinpot dictator, more like a low level mobster working his way up.

[bigtree]

31. Putin's errand boy

...starting in the basement.

[lpbk2713]

32. Is it me or does that sound like a Russian expression?

It could be something he remembered from a conversation he had within the past day or so.

[LuckyLib]

33. Trump has been using the word "choke" for no doubt his entire life. He is fascinated by

it. It's one of the 53 words that form his core vocabulary.

[dalton99a]

35. The lump of feces standing next to the orange lump of feces is just as contemptible

[bigtree]

36. »

[Generic Brad]

37. Why would anybody be loyal to someone who would sell them out in a New York minute?

He's thrown so many people under the bus this week that there's no one left to implicate. It mystifies me as to why anyone remains loyal to someone who treats them as expendable.