Trump's Ship is Going Down

[sheshe2]

I don’t remember a time when someone on President Obama’s staff said something like this about their boss:


“Every day he looks more and more like a complete moron,” said one senior administration official who also worked on Trump’s campaign. “I can’t see Trump resigning or even being impeached, but at this point I wish he’d grow a brain and be the man that he sold himself as on the campaign.”

Or this:


“If Donald Trump gets impeached, he will have one person to blame: Donald Trump,” one of those administration officials said.

Trump spent the hours before leaving on his nine-day foreign adventure screwing every pooch in the Western Hemisphere. And he left his administration shell-shocked, distraught, and downright angry. He also made a pretty iron-tight case for removing him from office.


David C. Gomez, a former FBI assistant special agent in charge, said Trump’s comments demonstrated a profound inability to grasp the potential consequences of his words.

“In terms of potential criminal activity, it’s amateur night at the White House,” Gomez told The Daily Beast. “These guys—and Trump especially—don’t know how to not implicate themselves.

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There are not enough rafts on this ship...it is going down and few will survive. The morons are going around with a sign on their backs...It Was Me!

[NastyRiffraff]

1. We tried to tell them

Beginning with Hillary and then all of us Democrats, we tried to tell them. They wouldn't listen, and now we all suffer.

He'll go down and drag all of them with him.

[sheshe2]

6. We tried.

Praising his Presidency, Trump said today that "the track we're on is record-setting." He is so right - no President has had an independent counsel on his ass just four months in.- Andy Borowitz

Well NR... we get the life belt they get the anchor.

[brer cat]

17. Some of them are now saying

"No one could have seen this coming." BS! They didn't want to hear or see it. They are as ignorant as trump.

[sheshe2]

20. No shit.

Bull shit. They knew and aided and abetted and now play stupid.

[Eliot Rosewater]

51. Every hour they dont impeach him they prove that patriotism means nothing at all to them, nothing.

[Still In Wisconsin]

53. They're still waiting for him to "pivot" I think.

It didn't happen when he started his campaign, or when he became the nominee, or when he won the election, or when he took office... but I'm sure he will pivot any day now.

[Amaryllis]

57. We saw it all along, but I have to say his level of crazy has even eexceeded my expectations.

It seems to get worse by the day.

[Chemisse]

59. The signs were there - and well documented - every step of the way.

Anyone who says they didn't see this coming can be exposed as a liar and a fool with just a couple of video clips.

[liberal N proud]

2. Considering he looked like a complete moron before

He must really look stupid now.

[herding cats]

3. His ego made him believe he could bully his way out.

Once the entire world is looking at you through a microscope that doesn't work anymore.

He's going to get very nasty before he's neutralized, though.

[sheshe2]

21. Yup.

I see bombs in our near future.

[kentuck]

4. I fear that he will hang on until at least the mid-term elections...

...and longer, if Democrats do not win the House or the Senate.

[sheshe2]

8. I am afraid we will be in several wars by that time and...

the next bomb he drops will be nuclear. We don't have that much time, the clock is ticking.

[Tumbulu]

16. My thoughts precicely

I don't think that we will get rid of him soon enough....so hoping that I am wrong about this!

[Silver Gaia]

50. Same here. This is what terrifies me.

Most anything else he does, we can fix when he is gone. This is something we can't fix. We can't put things back the way they were after a nuclear bomb. That's a horror we can't fix.

(Our saving grace on environmental regs is that many states will ignore what comes out of DC in favor of maintaining what they have already been doing, like here in CA. As will the rest of the world. I don't mean to minimize what should be our vehement opposition to his policies on this, but just to express some hope regarding the overall effect. A nuke is worse, IMO.)

[erronis]

23. I don't understand. Wouldn't having this loser around the 'uglicans' necks be a death knell?

My fear is more that the 'uglicans will delay to anoint Pence shortly before the mid-terms. They'll make they're normal weaselly noises about moving forward with someone as pure as the white snowjob on Pence's head.

The populi will say that the critters have done as good a job as they could and continue to vote with their guts/gonads/gluttony-for-punishment. And, of course, the media will be even more bifurcated with THEM watching THEIR shows, and US commiserating with each other.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Some one once said,

"do not anger the FBI",can only imagine what the next couple of weeks are going to be for those in their cross hairs.

[sheshe2]

9. Agreed.

The FBI is on his ass. He f**ked with them...he made a powerful enemy.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Have a local Agent living down the street.

Heck of nice fellow,extremely principled. Kind of like a Joe Friday.

[murielm99]

18. We have a guy who just came back to our

community to work in a nearby law enforcement job. He is only in his fifties, but he is retired FBI. I have known him since he was in high school. He has always been very upright and principled. That community is lucky to get him to work for them. Our community is glad that he came back to live here.

I know he is a republican, but I would bet that he did not vote for trump. He is too honorable for that.

[Wellstone ruled]

35. Nice to know upstanding and honest Law Enforcement people.

Noticed the three Metro Cops that live in our village never hang with him.

[NastyRiffraff]

24. He made enemies of the FBI AND the entire intelligence community

How stupid is that? He wants THOSE people as his ENEMIES?

[Stonepounder]

14. I started saying even before the election,

Two groups you really don't want to piss-off:

1. Folks who buy their ink by the barrell
2. The intelligence community & guys who catch criminals for a living

He's managed to piss them both off - big time!

[Bleacher Creature]

7. Huh???

"I wish he’d grow a brain and be the man that he sold himself as on the campaign."

Did I miss something during the campaign? Because I never saw a version of Trump with a brain.

[sheshe2]

13. Lol

Nor did I.

[LuckyLib]

33. He was a moron then, and he's a beleaguered

paranoid pResident in the crosshairs now. Many of us are not surprised.

[jaysunb]

60. +1000 n/t

[Stuart G]

11. Yes....5th full paragraph down, says it all.............

" David C. Gomez, a former FBI assistant special agent in charge, said Trump’s comments demonstrated a profound inability to grasp the potential consequences of his words. "

This has been it almost from the beginning.....He says things, that he doesn't know the consequences of..
He says him anyway....Now, that may have worked when he ran a business that went bankrupt a few times..and he inherited a huge..............yes a huge amount of money to keep going............quite HUGE!!!!

AND MAY HAVE BORROWED MORE, FROM QUESTIONABLE SOURCES...HUGE AMOUNTS..!!!!!

but it will not work as ...President of the United States...nope that will not work..got to hide

[Wounded Bear]

22. That's because he's always been the biggest ego in any room...

He could always bully or buy his way out of trouble. Can't do that now.

[BigmanPigman]

29. Yes, he can. Or more importantly, he THINKS he can so he'll keep on trying. He never learns.

His "influential" daughter and son-in-law have no experience in politics and have been in Trumpland forever so they do not know differences between business and political worlds. They think they do and that's why Jared's idea of firing Comey went so well.

[Wounded Bear]

32. Understood...

But what they think and what reality is are never very close in these people's minds.

We have some strong people working to dig out the truth. Let's hope they succeed.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. K&R

[ProudProgressiveNow]

15. K&R nt

[VigilantG]

19. Drumpf has never been a successful businessman

He has always been a crook living under different rules.

His malignant narcissistic personality disorder put him exactly where he is today.

You careful what you wish for--is what keeps coming to mind....

[SharonAnn]

42. One investment advisor said he would've made a LOT more money putting inheritance into index funds.

[VigilantG]

49. Yes, I saw that too! He just can't play by the rules.

[C Moon]

25. I certainly hope they do prison time for being traitors. Otherwise...

the GOP will just try it again—having "learned from their mistakes."

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Glug! Glug! Glug!

"Where's my mirror? Am I the BEST or what?"

[NBachers]

27. I kind of snagged on this entry- I hope there's a way around it:

Within hours of Mueller’s appointment on Wednesday, the White House began reviewing the Code of Federal Regulations, which restricts newly hired government lawyers from investigating their prior law firm’s clients for one year after their hiring, the sources said.

Mueller’s former law firm, WilmerHale, represents Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who met with a Russian bank executive in December, and the president’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is a subject of a federal investigation.

Legal experts said the ethics rule can be waived by the Justice Department, which appointed Mueller. He did not represent Kushner or Manafort directly at his former law firm.

If the department did not grant a waiver, Mueller would be barred from investigating Kushner or Manafort, and this could greatly diminish the scope of the probe, experts said.

[sheshe2]

30. I heard there are over 1000 lawyers at that firm.

I read yesterday that there should not be an issue. Not sure...

[emulatorloo]

52. Funny that the White House is claiming Mueller will be soft on Kushner and Manafort.

and that's why they want him disqualified.

That bullshit is just like the bullshit that Comey was fired because he was mean to Hillary.

[Different Drummer]

28. Hopefully, none of them have life preservers. n/t

[GBizzle]

31. Republicans: ABANDON SHIP!!!

[lordsummerisle]

34. Impeachment will not happen at this time

When enough House Republicans feel that their re-election is in jeopardy then you maybe will see movement. Of course 2018 could change all that.

Also I read the other day, but don't have a link, that 85 (!) or so percent of Republicans still approve of Trump...

[L. Coyote]

36. THIS: These guysand Trump especiallydont know how to not implicate themselves." LOL

Trump also doesn't know how to not commit more impeachable offenses!

Trump's New Impeachable Offenses: Obstruction of Justice, Conspiracy, Abuse of Power

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

37. It was sad when that great (ok, not so great) ship went down!

[sellitman]

38. Impeachment starts in the House

Ain't going to happen. He is a Right Wing Messiah. The GOP will use him as long as he obeys. He is President for 8 years and we are going to have to wait him out.

[Lebam in LA]

41. He won't last for eight years

he can't take the negativity. He is fragile.

[sellitman]

54. He will just keep cleaning house

Everyone underestimated him. I won't again.

[smirkymonkey]

56. That can only go on for so long.

Sooner or later the buck is going to stop with Trump. And he will have to own this train wreck. He will have run out of people to blame.

[Corgigal]

43. Trump doesn't obey

Congress wants to fool themselves, kind of like their voters. They so want to believe they can use trump and kick him to the curb. Trump will turn on them, we just have to stroke his paranoia to make it happen sooner. It will happen either way.

Just pat him on the head, like a dog and tell him he's a good boy. It's worked for Putin for 10 years, what could go wrong?

[sellitman]

55. Don't kid yourself

The only reason why you still there because he is doing their bidding. He stops he will be toast. He knows that better than anybody.

[Corgigal]

62. Trump doesn't believe he works for anyone

including the Republican Party. He would have flipped parties on who ever funded him.

He will prove that point soon. He might work for the republicans, but I'm sure he works for a foreign enemy.

[Thinkingabout]

39. The corrupt petulant child is now serving as a corrupt petulant president. He can't change.

[SunSeeker]

40. There were remarkably few staff leaks during Obama's 8 years.

That is because his staff was loyal. And they were loyal because Obama was a GOOD MAN, unlike Trump.

[sheshe2]

45. This

Exactly right, SunSeeker.

[lindysalsagal]

44. "Everything that has happened up until now has been childs play compared to whats coming.

Let's hope this source is reliable, and that the cabal is removed in shame, taking the gop with them.

[oasis]

46. Manic panic on the Trumptanic

[sheshe2]

47. THIS!

Nailed it, oasis!

[Honeycombe8]

48. I won't be singing on the bough. I'm going to try to make it onto a lifeboat. nt

[sofa king]

58. One can hope, but....

... I wouldn't hope all that much. Remind yourselves that Trump is only saying what Republicans have privately thought for decades, and what he's trying to do is more or less exactly what they've been trying to do for decades.

Furthermore, the Republican Party muddled along with considerable electoral success for eight years under the worst, most incompetent President in history (until this President, if the trajectory continues on its path). They're not punished by hateful electorates who operate on belief-systems that allow them to think things are fine when they're fucked and vice-versa.

All Trump needs to put all of this chaos back in the box is "an incident" which will frighten the public and allow himself to present himself as a strong leader. And what do you know? In the last two weeks he's met with political leaders from Russia, Colombia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and soon Israel.

He'll get his Reichstag Fire, and the GOP will use it to take elections completely out of the hands of the people. I don't think anyone can stop them, now.

[Maynar]

61. We warned j00...

We did

[oberliner]

63. It's not

He won't be impeached.

Republicans control Congress.