How many people are authorized to pretend to be the president? Public has a right to know.

[L. Coyote]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/2/1720608/-How-many-people-are-authorized-to-pretend-to-be-the-president-Public-has-a-right-to-know
By Chris Reeves Dec 02, 2017 · 9:32 PM PST

In a story posted via The Washington Post, and followed up at The Hill, sources within the White House indicate that John Dowd, Trump’s attorney, took over Trump’s twitter feed and posted as Trump sending out a tweet that indicated he may have been involved in obstruction of justice, knowing of Flynn’s criminal acts:

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So let me get this straight, Trump admits to an impeachable offense on Twitter, so his attorney says, "No, that was me pretending."
Folks, American history just took a nose dive down the rabbit hole. Not Alice in Wonderland, this is Donald's Liarland. Truth no longer exists. There are no facts, just fake news. And whatever Donald imagines is real, and it can change when Donald changes his thinking. And Donald is not responsible for anything, doesn't have to answer to anyone, and is the center of the universe.

Welcome to Liarland, just another day in American history.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

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[uponit7771]

1. No on in their right damn mind believes Red Don's lawyer wrote that tweet !! This is some bullshit

[L. Coyote]

3. It probably took six $500-an-hour lawyers four billable hours each to come up with this lie.

Trump only hires the best .... liars.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Reads like pure panic.

Seems to be getting worse by the day, now.

This travesty is getting hard to watch.

[rockfordfile]

4. Americans know not to buy that bs

[uponit7771]

5. FAUX News wont even air anything related to this tweet

[MyOwnPeace]

22. "Americans know not to buy that bs"

That's what we thought before the last election.....................

You have FAR more faith in the electorate than I do (see "Alabama Senate race&quot .

[blogslut]

6. Good damned point.

I seriously can't imagine he just hands over his phone and lets rando staffers and lawyers post from his Twitter app.

Just how many people have the password to the personal social media account of the president of the United States? What sort of security clearances do they have? This is not the same as a press secretary or White House spokesperson representing the word of the Executive. We know who those people are and we know it is their job to convey the real sentiments of our POTUS. Never in any tweet from the account @realDonaldTrump have I seen words or hashtags that state someone other than him is doing the tweeting.

Yeah yeah, I know. I've heard the geeksplanation: When it's him, there's a snippet of text at the end of the tweet that indicates it's been sent from an Android phone. When it's someone else that's tweeted the bit reads it came from an iPhone. Well, that's just not fucking enough of a clarification. Exactly who is communicating to the American people as if they were the damned president? How secure are their phones? How secure is anyone's phone in that madhouse?

And while we're at it can we talk about @POTUS? Poor forgotten, innocuous @POTUS. Has that account ever been the star of the evening headlines? Isn't it ironic that everyone knows the tweets coming from that account aren't even him?

[L. Coyote]

10. Another important point, Trump's tweets are admissible evidence in the Muslim Ban cases.

Small wonder the attorneys want to make sure this one tweet isn't his.

Link to tweet

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[Deb]

7. Sounds like they all ride the same school bus home

[MyOwnPeace]

23. Good one!

[Solly Mack]

8. Damn. Fools.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. Counting John Barron and John Miller?

.

[nocalflea]

11. Any comment from Dowd ?

Muellar may well want to talk to him about this. Dumb move if he didn't write it. Dumb move if he did.

[NBachers]

12. Another big steaming turd has just been shat out onto the American Flag.

[world wide wally]

13. Wake up, America

Do we have any power whatsoever?

[NBachers]

14. So do the White House visitor logs indicate that John Dowd was in the WH when the tweets came out?

If not, did he electronically send that tweet to Trump at that time, or some time beforehand?

Did he write it on a piece of paper, for Trump to use as tweet material? If so, where is that paper?

[L. Coyote]

17. Indeed. Do the facts fit the post facto post story?

Not to mention, why would your lawyer who knows better self-confess for you?

Do they think we're dumber than bricks in Trump's wall, incapable of seeing deceptions? Make America Gullible Already.

[Kablooie]

15. His computer is open in the waiting room asking visitors to post things as him.

This is well known.

Trump is a very disciplined, serious person in real life.

Problem is there is no real life for him.

[BigmanPigman]

16. Malignant narcissism is what he has.

I read an article about it today. It is long but worth the read.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-madness-of-donald-trump-removal-25th-amendment-w504149

[mainer]

18. If Dowd lies about this, he can lose his license to practice law

Dowd has to tell the truth. Did he write the tweet or did his client?

[L. Coyote]

19. Could the word pled really reveal who wrote Trumps reaction to the Flynn news?

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/looking-for-the-linguistic-smoking-gun-in-a-trump-tweet/547361/
Looking for the Linguistic Smoking-Gun in a Trump Tweet
Ben Zimmer

President Donald Trump’s behavior on Twitter routinely drives entire news cycles. This weekend, he showed that a single word within a single presidential tweet can be explosive.

Trump raised alarm bells in his published response to the news that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

The tweet published to Trump’s account clearly implied that he already knew that Flynn had deceived the Feds when he fired him back in February: “I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!”

That unleashed a frenzy of speculation about whether Trump had just admitted to obstructing justice, since it seems he must have known that Flynn had committed a felony when he was pressuring then-FBI director James Comey to ease up on the Flynn case.

But then came word that maybe Trump didn’t write the tweet after all. The Washington Post reported that “Trump’s lawyer John Dowd drafted the president’s tweet, according to two people familiar with the twitter message.” The Associated Press also identified Dowd as the one who “crafted” the tweet, citing “one person familiar with the situation,” though Dowd himself declined to make a comment to the AP.

Attributing the tweet to Dowd set off a new round of incredulous chatter. .............

[L. Coyote]

20. John Dowd seems to contradict himself

Link to tweet

[OliverQ]

21. How do we go about reporting Dowd to the ABA?

What he did, or is claimed to do is legal malpractice and a violation of legal ethics. He should be disbarred.