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riversedge

(70,225 posts)
Sat May 20, 2017, 07:15 PM May 2017

Another pity trump article!

This is laughable! The man--trump is a crook!


Trump Is Too Trusting for Washington, Say Former Aides




http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/trumps-big-problem-is-that-he-doesnt-get-washington.--html
By Olivia Nuzzi


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So earnest. Photo: Andrew Harrer - Pool/Getty Images


“Let’s say, hypothetically, something like this was said,” former Trump aide Sam Nunberg told me. “In the context I know the president, he doesn’t realize the implications of what he was doing or what he was saying or how it could be interpreted.”

Nunberg was discussing the news that Donald Trump had possibly obstructed justice by asking FBI Director James Comey to stop his investigation into his national security adviser, Michael Flynn — just one of the many earth-shattering, axis-turning revelations about the administration to trickle out in the several days since Trump fired Comey.

An adviser to Trump in the years before he became president, Nunberg worked alongside him in his 26th-floor Trump Tower office to plan his hostile takeover of the American political system that few, at the time, thought was serious.

Now, observing the chaotic administration from the outside, he — like so many longtime Trump confidantes — sees a president he feels is being let down by his staff and misinterpreted by the world. To hear them tell it, Trump is just being himself, and the standards we’re holding him to no longer apply to the leader of the free world. And to make matters worse, Trump — someone comforted by familiar faces and surroundings — has lost his bearings in Washington.

Nunberg suggested that, if what Comey’s memo says is true, perhaps Trump had just misread their relationship. “I get the impression from the tone of this, from what Comey said in these memos, it sounded like he thought Comey was his friend,” he said. “And I don’t understand why he would think that.”

“I think you can hear his earnestness in the alleged quotations,” another former adviser to the president, who requested anonymity, said. “And you can hear in his voice that he’s just being himself. If he did this, and I don’t know that he did it, but if he did this, I’m certain it’s just he didn’t realize it. He wasn’t thinking like a lawyer, you know? And I think he probably didn’t realize he was doing anything wrong, if he did.”...............

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Another pity trump article! (Original Post) riversedge May 2017 OP
Call me Mr. T--"I pity the fool! " nt tblue37 May 2017 #1
Pure 100% unadulterated horse shit. COLGATE4 May 2017 #2
The stupidity defense? janterry May 2017 #3
 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
3. The stupidity defense?
Sat May 20, 2017, 07:50 PM
May 2017

Fine. Let's impeach him for not having the necessary intelligence to be president.

Either he's a crook and should be impeached or too stupid and should be impeached.


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