Advisers Stunned as Trump Keeps Making Up Facts

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/28/advisers-stunned-trump-makes-facts/


Advisers Stunned as Trump Keeps Making Up Facts
November 28, 2017 at 9:38 pm EST
By Taegan Goddard


New York Times: “As the issue of sexual harassment has swept through the news media, politics and entertainment industries, Mr. Trump has persisted in denying allegations that he, too, made unwanted advances on multiple women in past years. In recent days, he has continued to seed doubt about his appearance on the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape, stunning his advisers.”

“Mr. Trump’s falsehoods… are part of his lifelong habit of attempting to create and sell his own version of reality. Advisers say he continues to privately harbor a handful of conspiracy theories that have no grounding in fact.”

“Mr. Trump’s journeys into the realm of manufactured facts have been frequent enough that his own staff has sought to nudge friendly lawmakers to ask questions of Mr. Trump in meetings that will steer him toward safer terrain.”

[oberliner]

1. They should be beyond the "stunned" phase at this point

[marble falls]

21. "shell shocked"? "immoblized in waist-deep bullshit"?

[tblue37]

3. If it is "made up," it is NOT a fact! nt

[SCVDem]

19. Thank you! nt

[sadiegirl]

4. Seriously, is there any GOP out there who cares enough about the country to get this man out?

Are just waiting for him to sign the Tax Bill first and then begin impeachment?

[BigmanPigman]

17. That is a definite possibility. Keith Obermann's last show listed

7 possible ways the moron will leave office.

[JHB]

5. Video surfaces of these keen observers of the situation around them...

...engaging their full powers of situational awareness.

[zentrum]

8. All they care about is

...the tax cut. Which will eventually destroy Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare and the saftey net.

They want a complete oligarchy, with control over media and education and the internet.

What you are seeing now is what they have wanted since at least Reagan.

[JHB]

22. Since FDR. The current version of conservatives can be dated to...

...Taft's loss of the GOP presidential nomination to Eisenhower in 1952. The Taft faction was keen on finally undoing the New Deal, and regarded centrist and liberal Republicans (who backed Ike) as traitors for accepting the basics of it.

As usual, they also had a victim complex, since they'd thought they'd cleverly rigged the convention rules to make their man a shoe-in, only to have the Ike-backers use the parliamentary procedures to undo their rigging and win. Cheaters!

[zentrum]

28. Thanks for the history.

I'm going to read more on this.

[gademocrat7]

6. This is a travesty.

Chump and his cabal are destroying our country.

[Duppers]

7. Psychopathy? nt

[Ilsa]

11. Dementia, paranoia due to Flynn cooperating with Mueller. nt

[Duppers]

27. Dr. Dodes, Harvard psychiatrist, on Lawrence O'Donnell

Last edited Thu Nov 30, 2017, 02:21 AM - Edit history (1)

Just now said that TRump has again slipped into a psychotic episode because of stress.

My 92yo mother has dementia quite badly but has also slipped into psychotic episodes all her life when confront with unpleasant facts she cannot accept. It's difficult to tell the difference now since both maladies can exist at the same time.

Bottom line: Donald TRump is too mental afflicted to be president.


Edited to add that there's now a thread covering tonight's interview on Lawrence:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029902233

[Ilsa]

30. Makes sense. Thanks for the link.

I went to bed about five minutes into his show last night.

[Kleveland]

15. Great beer from Cincinatti...

Mad Tree brewing company.

If you like that sort of thing....

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

9. "Manufactured Facts"...

Why doesn't anyone call them LIES. That's what they are.

[Vinca]

10. Remember George Tenet's terror alert warnings - green, yellow and red?

We need a Trump bullshit warning. I imagine they'll save money on the green graphics.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Trump started his Presidency by lying before God with his hand on the Bible. "I do solemnly swear (

Trump started his Presidency by lying before God with his hand on the Bible.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Emoluments

[Orrex]

18. If ever there was a time ripe for a good smiting, that was it.

[Kleveland]

25. Well, he certainly "executed" the office of President.

Shot it right through the head with a shitgun.

[nolabels]

13. It is now buckled up to a human body.....

But asking myself forty years after the fact, an oil company called Mobil knew their product was contributing what is now known as global warming should I really be more concerned about the new fraud as compared to the old corporate frauds?

What does a person do to protect themselves and the posterity they see in front of them from fraud and falsehoods?

The mendacious orange man is a wake-up call, now what are going to do about it

[ironman25]

14. Kneeling

It just blows my mind that this deranged psychotic moron is allowed to be in control of the country and there are no questions or attempts to stop it. When football players kneel over the injustices of police acts targeting and abusing young black men, it is so awful. Then the rich morally bankrupt white rich man publicly demonstrates he is unfit and everyone just shakes their heads and remain silent, because he is so closely tied to the red, white and blue. He isn't a pie in the face of America, he is a shit pie in it's face. When the facts strongly suggested he won because of Russian ties, everything should have been put on hold. He is screwing over everyone who is not a millionaire or billionaire and flaunting his arrogant bullshit 24/7. We all need to kneel and do whatever else is required to bring about immediate change.

[spanone]

16. Bullshit. his advisers are enablers. nothing more/nothing less.

[ginnyinWI]

20. he's had a lifetime of little to no accountability.

No consequences (except positive ones) for outlandish lying. Plus a need to create his own version of the universe where he is the center. Enough to derange anyone.

[Pinchme]

23. The Emporer has no clothes

He represents the original meaning of the word entitled.
The GOP spin doctors would have you believe that people on government aid are the real entitled and that we should instead contribute to Corporate Welfare and throw out all rules and regulations that we and the environment benefited from.

Who's entitled?

[L. Coyote]

24. NO, he's making up LIES. FFS, don't call them facts.

[Gothmog]

26. Trump is delusional

[Solly Mack]

29. Sure they are. Not.

[Kimchijeon]

31. They're not stunned, they know damn well he's a fuckin' nutbag