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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Trump Crime Cartel / Well, This Seems Like Quite an Admission

Well, This Seems Like Quite an Admission

by John Cole|  May 30, 20198:08 am| 100 Comments

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At least now he is admitting to what we all know.

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  1. 1.

    PsiFighter37

    May 30, 2019 at 8:13 am

    Finally admitting Vlad wanted him in all along. Traitor.

  2. 2.

    Cheryl Rofer

    May 30, 2019 at 8:25 am

    He just said in a press availability that they didn’t. He got elected all by his magnificent self.

  3. 3.

    raven

    May 30, 2019 at 8:26 am

    He’ll fucking disavow and his moron posse won’t give a shit. Don’t mean nuthin.

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    May 30, 2019 at 8:31 am

    I’m glad Trump clarified, because as I’ve been saying, his ham-handed attempt to turn the tables and go after the investigators tees up the best possible case for impeachment. Not only did Trump obstruct an investigation into his own wrongdoing, he impeded and continues to stymie the investigation into an ongoing attack on the US election system by a hostile foreign autocrat.

    The entire world watched Trump kiss Putin’s ass in Helsinki. His own Homeland Security goons complained that they couldn’t bring up election security in his presence because the suggestion he didn’t win all by himself enrages the egotistical baby.

    Now he’s whining “Russia Russia Russia” like a demented and treasonous Jan Brady. This makes the case for bouncing his irresponsible ass that much more compelling because it’s not just about the past, and it’s not about one feckless clown — it’s about whether or not this country can elect its own leaders and govern its own foreign policy without outside interference.

  5. 5.

    kindness

    May 30, 2019 at 8:43 am

    Yea, Trump had nothing to do with Russia helping him get elected. So long as you don’t count Trump asking Russia to help him on national TV and all the meetings Trumps children had with Russians, nothing to do with it.

  6. 6.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    May 30, 2019 at 8:43 am

    I ORDERED THE CODE RED!

  7. 7.

    Quinerly

    May 30, 2019 at 8:43 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: and slamming Mueller.

  8. 8.

    Quinerly

    May 30, 2019 at 8:44 am

    @Betty Cracker: thanks for the Jan Brady reference. My morning laugh.

  9. 9.

    Quinerly

    May 30, 2019 at 8:46 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: he’s babbling about all the corruption he has exposed. He’s the hero in all of this.

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    May 30, 2019 at 8:46 am

    “The ruble stops here.”

  11. 11.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    May 30, 2019 at 8:50 am

    (((DeanObeidallah)))
    ‏Verified account @DeanObeidallah

    This is the moment in old time TV detective shows where the suspect accidentally admits he committed the crime: “I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected”
    5:17 AM – 30 May 2019

    16 replies 39 retweets 319 likes

  12. 12.

    FNWA

    May 30, 2019 at 8:50 am

    Something so big has to happen that public sentiment will not allow Mitch McConnell to obstruct an impeachment case in the senate. I don’t see this happening. As much as I’d love to see the mango Mussolini out of office, I think a failed impeachment will just make him stronger in 2020.

  13. 13.

    germy

    May 30, 2019 at 8:52 am

    “Presidential Harassment!” he squeals hysterically.

    Hey, at least no one’s demanding to see his birth certificate or his college transcripts. That would truly be presidential harassment, unprecedented.

  14. 14.

    satby

    May 30, 2019 at 8:53 am

    @FNWA: a failed impeachment would re-enrage a lot of people who expect wrongdoing to be punished.

  15. 15.

    rp

    May 30, 2019 at 9:10 am

    @satby: Is that a bad thing? I get the logic behind moving slowly in the hopes of lining up the votes in the Senate, but I think there’s potentially a lot of political value in having the Senate acquit him on a party line vote. The impeachment vote in the house would still do significant damage to Trump, and it would energize a lot of voters in Senate races.

  16. 16.

    germy

    May 30, 2019 at 9:13 am

    But is it really an admission or does trump simply not know how to construct an English sentence?

    When he says “I had nothing to do with Russia helping to get me elected” maybe he’s still trying to say the whole thing never happened. “A crime that didn’t exist” etc.

    Or maybe they’re just moving the goalposts again, out to the stadium parking lot.

  17. 17.

    Tazj

    May 30, 2019 at 9:17 am

    Trump-“Hillary Clinton was colluding with the media and with Russia.”
    Clinton colluding with the media will be news to the world’s most unlikeable woman.

  18. 18.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 9:17 am

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    He just said in a press availability that they didn’t. He got elected all by his magnificent self.

    And I’m that immortal present-bearing being known as Santa Claus.

    Wow. It feels good to let that secret out after keeping it for centuries. And stop with the cookies – creme-filled eclairs are way better.

  19. 19.

    tokyokie

    May 30, 2019 at 9:19 am

    @germy: Although I think he knows he only achieved the White House through Russian ratfucking, I agree with you that his tweet is more the result of his inability to express himself articulately in his native language than it is an admission of guilt.

  20. 20.

    Betty Cracker

    May 30, 2019 at 9:19 am

    According to CNN, the stable genius plans to drag US intelligence partners — including the UK and Australia — into his bogus “I’m the victim here!” probe and plans to raise the issue of the UK spying on his campaign when he meets with T May next week. What could possibly go wrong?

    I’ve been skeptical about the prospect that overseas intel partners might become so fed up with Trump’s antics that they decide to dump a bag of shit on his head. Seems to me intel organizations here and abroad are focused on the important task of protecting sources and methods to a fault, i.e., so intent on staying above the fray that they occasionally lose sight of the mission, which is to protect the country they serve.

    That said, Trump may well be dumb enough to goad them into action.

  21. 21.

    Chyron HR

    May 30, 2019 at 9:21 am

    @satby:

    a failed impeachment would re-enrage a lot of people who expect wrongdoing to be punished.

    Sure, in the sense that they’d all sit out the 2020 election on the grounds that, “impeachment failed because the shitlibs didn’t REALLY want it!”

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 9:21 am

    @Tazj: No Russia! No Russia! You’re the Russia! SAD!

  23. 23.

    tokyokie

    May 30, 2019 at 9:22 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Aren’t éclairs definitionally crème-filled? I’ve been setting some out for you for years and invariably, they become soggy when they’re not refrigerated.

  24. 24.

    rikyrah

    May 30, 2019 at 9:22 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Now he’s whining “Russia Russia Russia” like a demented and treasonous Jan Brady

    You have a way with words

  25. 25.

    MattF

    May 30, 2019 at 9:22 am

    Trump’s basic defence is “I won, so fuck off.” The only response that works is to lawyer up and not concede a millimeter.

  26. 26.

    germy

    May 30, 2019 at 9:23 am

    So strange to see a trump tweet that isn’t immediately replied to by Ed and Brian Krassenstein. They used to be all over his tweets. Shrewd way for them to build an audience. But apparently they took their roadshow a bit too far.

  27. 27.

    rikyrah

    May 30, 2019 at 9:24 am

    Ari never stops digging. Always trying to bring us the truth. Spread the word.??

    ??New docs show that architect of GOP gerrymandering was behind Trump’s push to add citizenship question to 2020 census, said it “would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats” & “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic
    Whites” https://t.co/eWImMPC9QM via @hansilowang pic.twitter.com/grtdl0o8Pc

    — Ari Berman (@AriBerman) May 30, 2019

  28. 28.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    May 30, 2019 at 9:24 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Mr DAW has a full, gray beard, and one time on a flight, a little girl kept peeking at him between the seats ahead of him. Finally, she turned to her mother and said, “Santa?” So I know for a fact, it’s not you.

  29. 29.

    rikyrah

    May 30, 2019 at 9:24 am

    Tell it to them ???

    Spell it out for the stupid section

    Conservatives do not want to compromise on abortion. They want to eradicate it.

    So Democrats should not compromise on abortion because a) you don’t compromise on human rights and b) they won’t compromise anyway.

    ~jazz hands~

    — Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) May 30, 2019

  30. 30.

    Jeffro

    May 30, 2019 at 9:25 am

    @FNWA: We can’t control ol’ Mitch, but we sure can make it as clear as day who’s crapping on our democracy, and make it painful as hell for GOP senators to fall in line with The Turtle. Who knows? We might even flip the Senate, and we’ll certainly make trumpov’s corruption and unfitness for office the ONLY thing the GOP gets to talk about from now ’til November 2020.

    What’s he going to do? Campaign on the need to stay out of jail, post-election? “Vote for me or I’ll have to face justice”? Good luck with that, Donnie

  31. 31.

    tobie

    May 30, 2019 at 9:28 am

    @rikyrah: I know the Supreme Court has already heard the Maryland gerrymandering case as well as the Census citizenship question case. Does anyone know what happens when/if new evidence surfaces that has bearing on cases?

  32. 32.

    rikyrah

    May 30, 2019 at 9:30 am

    @Quinerly:
    Morning to Poco and the tribe ??

  33. 33.

    MattF

    May 30, 2019 at 9:31 am

    @Betty Cracker: Bear in mind that the CIA now regards the stable genius as an adversary. Foreign intel agencies are faced with a choice— and if Trump looks demented and wobbly, it’ll be an easy one.

  34. 34.

    RandomMonster

    May 30, 2019 at 9:33 am

    Trump’s strategy is to say one thing and contradict himself later. That way all his bases are covered. This slip will be ignored.

  35. 35.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 9:34 am

    @tokyokie: Do you prefer old-fashioned dirty coal or clean coal? Also, I’m bringing you 5 new stockings.

  36. 36.

    tokyokie

    May 30, 2019 at 9:36 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Clean coal, of course, so I don’t have to wash it with my bright colors.

  37. 37.

    Skepticat

    May 30, 2019 at 9:39 am

    Former Senator William Cohen, a widely respected Republican and a family friend from Maine, has an Op-Ed in the Washington Post that slams the Rethuglicans for their “untenable position” on _______.

  38. 38.

    Jeffro

    May 30, 2019 at 9:42 am

    @rikyrah: Damn straight!

    I thought this was absolutely awesome in the Post a couple of days ago: I Had An Abortion. It’s None of Your Business Why

    …My social media feeds are filled with the stories of brave souls offering their traumas in sacrifice to the justification for abortion. For many, there is a profound emotional element in the decision to abort. They confess every reason for their decision as if begging for forgiveness. Rape victims. Incest victims. Abuse victims. Unviable fetuses. Potentially fatal complications for either mother or child.

    My heart aches for them, truly. I believe their motivations are noble. But their stories shift the focus from how this argument should really be framed.

    What about those of us who aren’t victims? What about those who simply happened to find ourselves pregnant? Abortion doesn’t have to be motivated by trauma.

    I had an abortion. I’m not going to tell you how old I was or what my circumstances were at the time. I won’t mention whether birth control was used or whether it wasn’t. I’m not going to tell you whether the guy is or is not still a part of my life, whether it was a one-night stand or a long-term relationship. I’m not going to discuss the health of either party involved in the consensual or nonconsensual sex, nor the viability of the embryo. None of those details are pertinent. I got pregnant. I didn’t want to be pregnant. I had a medical procedure to remedy the situation. Full stop…

    I won’t tell you whether I’ve gone on to marry and have kids years or decades later. Whether I have regrets or whether I’ve never given it a second thought. The details are for me and me alone. They are not relevant. Knowing them should have absolutely no impact on the validity of my choice. My choice. Mine.

    I am an adult of sound mind and body. My government has decreed me capable of voting, of operating motor vehicles, of purchasing firearms, of paying taxes. Why is this irrational line drawn at body autonomy?

    A rhetorical question, obviously. Not all body autonomy is created equal.

    For example, as a U.S. citizen, I have the right to refuse lifesaving medical treatment. Unless I give express permission, no one can remove an organ from my body — even to save the life of another person. Even after death, no one can perform research upon or remove parts of my body without prior consent.

    Why do my reproductive decisions fall outside of these other condoned health-care choices? Control and subjugation are stories as old as civilization. Exerting authority over what I do or do not house in my body is no less oppressive than restricting what religion I can practice or which consenting adult I can marry.

    I had an abortion, and I need no one’s forgiveness. Nor should I need your permission. In defending reproductive rights, we should refrain from framing the argument around the most extreme and saintly of cases in the hope of converting more supporters. When we pander to find circumstances under which abortion becomes palatable, we dilute the simple message that body autonomy should be a right regardless of gender.

  39. 39.

    Jeffro

    May 30, 2019 at 9:42 am

    Mod help up above plz?

  40. 40.

    Karen

    May 30, 2019 at 9:43 am

    @rikyrah: They want to outlaw sex without pro-creation. If they could Repugs would make female circumcision mandatory law. But they can’t (yet) so instead they inch closer to making all abortion illegal.

  41. 41.

    Chris Johnson

    May 30, 2019 at 9:43 am

    So “Russia if you’re listening” doesn’t count? Nice to hear you are so useless and ignored, Donald. It was pissing into the wind, I guess.

  42. 42.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 9:46 am

    @MattF:

    Trump’s basic defence is “I won, so fuck off.”

    I have 2+ years of evidence to the contrary. :)

    We are talking about the manbaby who suggested the biggest political conspiracy in history because he lost the popular vote but won the election on a “technicality” (electoral college). And it’s one whopper of a conspiracy in a country with decentralized elections.

  43. 43.

    rikyrah

    May 30, 2019 at 9:47 am

    Think that a FrontPager would be interested in this:

    Hard Drives Reveal Details on Citizenship Question
    May 30, 2019 at 8:59 am EDT

    Thomas Hofeller achieved near-mythic status in the Republican Party as the Michelangelo of gerrymandering, the architect of partisan political maps that cemented the party’s dominance across the country, the New York Times reports.

    But after he died last summer, his estranged daughter discovered hard drives in her father’s home that revealed something else: Mr. Hofeller had played a crucial role in the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

    Files on those drives showed that he wrote a study in 2015 concluding that adding a citizenship question to the census would allow Republicans to draft even more extreme gerrymandered maps to stymie Democrats… The disclosures represent the most explicit evidence to date that the Trump administration added the question to the 2020 census to advance Republican Party interests.

  44. 44.

    rikyrah

    May 30, 2019 at 9:48 am

    @tobie:
    I have no idea, but, I think this would be important.

  45. 45.

    Betty Cracker

    May 30, 2019 at 9:50 am

    @tobie: I don’t know, but the new evidence looks pretty damning. I just read the filing document, and they’ve got hard evidence that Republicans have been conspiring to cook the 2020 census since 2015 and that the DoJ witnesses in the census case mislead the court by claiming they wrote documents that were actually ghostwritten by a partisan hack and lied about the expected effect on non-white voter power.

  46. 46.

    plato

    May 30, 2019 at 9:52 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    LOL. Exactly.

    YOU NEED ME ON THAT WALL.

    What an contemptible asshole for president. Fuck the WWC racists for foisting this thug on the entire world.

  47. 47.

    germy

    May 30, 2019 at 9:52 am

    I’m just putting you all on notice, Libs.

    Fair Warning, as I did with Bill Clinton in 1997-8, I tonight announce that if you want to impeach this president on these facts you'll have to come through me.— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) May 30, 2019

  48. 48.

    plato

    May 30, 2019 at 9:53 am

    @NotMax: But who will stop the rube?

  49. 49.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 9:54 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Little secret – I have helpers around the world.

  50. 50.

    The Moar You Know

    May 30, 2019 at 9:56 am

    Something so big has to happen that public sentiment will not allow Mitch McConnell to obstruct an impeachment case in the senate. I don’t see this happening. As much as I’d love to see the mango Mussolini out of office, I think a failed impeachment will just make him stronger in 2020.

    @FNWA: Trump could nuke all of Western Europe and the entire West Coast of the United States tomorrow and McConnell wouldn’t lift a fucking finger.

    There is nothing he can do that will make Republicans hold him to account and Dems need to understand that.

  51. 51.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 9:59 am

    @Quinerly: I’ve exposed all the corruption I caused and participate in! “I am so good! I am so great!” -Bart Simpson

  52. 52.

    germy

    May 30, 2019 at 10:01 am

    Morning, as the nation now mulls over & debates what happened yesterday, don't lose sight of #SpecialCounsel Mueller's essential conclusion: yes, #Russia meddled in our election; & no, @realDonaldTrump did not conspire with Russia. Wasn't that what this was supposed to be about?— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) May 30, 2019

    Geraldo RiveraVerified account
    @GeraldoRivera
    loving husband and dad, loyal friend, fierce enemy, patriot, kick ass reporter, proud JewRican

  53. 53.

    Gin & Tonic

    May 30, 2019 at 10:01 am

    I’m going to go home and bitch to my wife about her witch hunt, because I had nothing to do with that last piece of chocolate cake being eaten.

  54. 54.

    germy

    May 30, 2019 at 10:02 am

    Enough is enough, Libs.

    The President has had it. And I don’t blame him. Every day he gets up taking incoming from these halfwits, stuck on stupid, telling him that he didn’t win fair and square. But the facts are incontrovertible. He won. #OpeningStatement pic.twitter.com/Ds0rsPXfcO— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) May 28, 2019

  55. 55.

    plato

    May 30, 2019 at 10:02 am

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a new cabinet in which, for the first time in the country’s history, half of all ministers are women.

    In another unexpected move, one of the women is from the opposition.

    He appointed veteran opposition politician Patricia de Lille, who had stood for the Good Party, as minister of infrastructure development.

    The African National Congress party won a general election on 8 May.

  56. 56.

    tobie

    May 30, 2019 at 10:02 am

    @Betty Cracker: Holy smokes. I’m going to read the court filing now. Sounds like the perps left an incredible paper trail.

  57. 57.

    germy

    May 30, 2019 at 10:04 am

    Mueller really overstepped his bounds:

    Not only did #Mueller assume that he has the authority to determine whether or not someone is guilty, but in the entire mess of a press conference, he buried the lede about the true purpose of his investigation. https://t.co/5xyYtkRVNm— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) May 30, 2019

  58. 58.

    Lyrebird

    May 30, 2019 at 10:05 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Not only did Trump obstruct an investigation into his own wrongdoing, he impeded and continues to stymie the investigation into an ongoing attack on the US election system by a hostile foreign autocrat.

    YES!

    I wonder if the second part is why Mueller is only using ultra cautious lawyer statements in public, not just him being (per Popehat) a relic who expects everyone to read the report.

  59. 59.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 10:06 am

    @Chris Johnson: Yes Chris. They just happened to start hacking hours after that “suggestion.” Complete coincidence.

    Also, breathing just happens to draw oxygen into your lungs.

  60. 60.

    rikyrah

    May 30, 2019 at 10:09 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Seems to me intel organizations here and abroad are focused on the important task of protecting sources and methods to a fault, i.e., so intent on staying above the fray that they occasionally lose sight of the mission, which is to protect the country they serve.

    I still contend that this Administration got sources killed in 2017, and the international IC has never forgotten that.

  61. 61.

    Ryan

    May 30, 2019 at 10:12 am

    They abandoned “insufficient evidence” already?

  62. 62.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 10:12 am

    @germy:

    you’ll have to come through me.— Geraldo Rivera

    Is vault boy goading 65.8 million people into punching him? I don’t understand.

  63. 63.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 10:18 am

    @tokyokie: Clean coal – hand wash separately.

  64. 64.

    hilts

    May 30, 2019 at 10:18 am

    @FNWA: @The Moar You Know:

    “If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell” – Christopher Browning
    h/t https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/5/17940610/trump-hitler-history-historian

    @germy:

    Geraldo Rivera is a goddamn horse’s ass.

  65. 65.

    NotMax

    May 30, 2019 at 10:19 am

    @mrmoshpotato

    Independent contractors?

    :)

  66. 66.

    Ruckus

    May 30, 2019 at 10:20 am

    @MattF:

    Trump’s basic defence is “I won, so fuck off.” The only response that works is to lawyer up and not concede a millimeter.

    This.
    Trump lies easier than he breaths. And as often. He has his entire life. He thinks he is god, not in a religious way but he does. He knows who he is and what he does. He doesn’t think it matters. Because for the most part he’s gotten away with it for his entire life. But now he lives under a microscope 24/7, a microscope he stole. He’s inept, he’s a lying sack of shit, he cheated his way, not in his mind of course – because that’s what he always does, to be king. And it isn’t working because trying to be king of a country that doesn’t have one really isn’t a good idea.

  67. 67.

    TomatoQueen

    May 30, 2019 at 10:24 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Heh, you beat me to it. I was going to say, we’d go through you because there is nothing there. Vault Boy. Titter.

  68. 68.

    Baud

    May 30, 2019 at 10:25 am

    @germy:

    you’ll have to come through me.

    Your terms are acceptable.

  69. 69.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 10:27 am

    @hilts:

    Geraldo Rivera is a goddamn horse’s ass.

    You’ll be hearing from the horses’ asses’ union’s lawyers!

  70. 70.

    germy

    May 30, 2019 at 10:28 am

    https://boingboing.net/2019/05/30/assange-too-ill-for-court.html

    Lawyers say he is so ill it is impossible to conduct a normal conversation with him.

  71. 71.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 30, 2019 at 10:28 am

    @NotMax: I would like to comment with “No comment.”

  72. 72.

    ...now I try to be amused

    May 30, 2019 at 10:30 am

    One benefit of Pelosi’s slow-cooking strategy is that Trump has plenty of opportunity to shoot himself in the foot with his mouth. I’m hoping for a full-on Captain Queeg moment before this is over.

  73. 73.

    gene108

    May 30, 2019 at 10:30 am

    @FNWA:

    Something so big has to happen that public sentiment will not allow Mitch McConnell to obstruct an impeachment case in the senate.

    Only thing that might influence him is if Kentucky voters start demanding impeachment and a Senate trial.

    Trump has a +16 approval rating in KY. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for those voters to demand impeachment

    https://morningconsult.com/tracking-trump/

  74. 74.

    Brachiator

    May 30, 2019 at 10:36 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    This is the moment in old time TV detective shows where the suspect accidentally admits he committed the crime: “I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected”

    Oh yeah. This would be a hell of a “Columbo” episode.

  75. 75.

    leeleeFL

    May 30, 2019 at 10:40 am

    @tokyokie: I thought his native language WAS CYA!! In that instance, he is more articulate than usual.
    Also enjoyed the Jan Brady reference. A chuckle if not an LOL

  76. 76.

    NotMax

    May 30, 2019 at 10:44 am

    @Ruckus
    “I am Lord Garth!”

    ;)

  77. 77.

    Brachiator

    May 30, 2019 at 10:53 am

    @Ruckus:

    Trump lies easier than he breaths. And as often. He has his entire life. He thinks he is god, not in a religious way but he does. He knows who he is and what he does. He doesn’t think it matters. Because for the most part he’s gotten away with it for his entire life.

    And he will continue to do so, as long as he is president. He is not a king, but he is the next best thing. He has hired staff and cabinet officials who disregard any oath to the Constitution in order to support him, and him alone. He is protected by the GOP leadership, which has willingly dispensed with all checks and balances in order to become un-indicted co-conspirators in his criminal regime. And he can dangle the promise of a kingly pardon to any underling who might happen to actually be swept up by honest Justice Department officers and convicted of easily provable crimes.

    Trump also has Fox News and the right wing media, which is eager to serve as his propaganda ministry.

    And Trump openly pals around with authoritarians and has sold out himself and his country to Putin in exchange for power and the shoring up of his fragile financial empire. In this, he is much like the English King Charles II, who would make noise about kicking Catholic ass in public, while in private he had signed a pact with the French by which he promised to support French policy in Europe in return for a French subsidy that would free him from financial dependence on Parliament.

    It’s good to be the king.

  78. 78.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 30, 2019 at 11:32 am

    @germy:

    https://boingboing.net/2019/05/30/assange-too-ill-for-court.html

    Lawyers say he is so ill it is impossible to conduct a normal conversation with him.

    To be clear, Assange’s lawyers are saying that, not anyone else, such as anyone who is not being paid to represent Assange.

  79. 79.

    artem1s

    May 30, 2019 at 11:41 am

    @Jeffro:

    They are not relevant. Knowing them should have absolutely no impact on the validity of my choice. My choice. Mine.

    same goes for contraception. doesn’t matter why a woman wants contraception. women should have unfettered access to any and all contraception methods available and they should be covered by insurance. Full stop. no one should ever have to present their cases as ‘valid’ or ‘unvalid’. Sandra Flake was magnificent in her testimony. But her ‘argument’ was inherently flawed. she shouldn’t have to justify to anyone whether she is using the pill for the ‘right’ reasons. It doesn’t matter why; if she’s married or unmarried; whether she’s a saint or a slut. If she wants to never have babies or plans on having dozens some day. It’s stupid to let the other side frame the argument as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ reasons for choosing to exercise your reproductive rights.

  80. 80.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    May 30, 2019 at 11:53 am

    @germy:

    But is it really an admission or does trump simply not know how to construct an English sentence?

    Trump has used the soft bigotry of low expectations to manipulate the media so successfully, that this will clearly be the MSM’s conventional wisdom take on this (latest) unforced admission of guilt from Trump.

  81. 81.

    hilts

    May 30, 2019 at 11:55 am

    Trump is getting more batshit crazy by the nanosecond:

    Bill O’Reilly said President Donald Trump called him the night of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s statement on his report to complain that Mueller doesn’t like him because Trump once refused to refund a country club membership deposit.

    O’Reilly called into Bernie and Sid in the Morning with Bernard McGuirk and Sid Rosenberg Thursday to relay the story of Trump calling him Wednesday night.

    “President Trump called me last night around 11 o’clock,” O’Reilly said, noting the call was also about research for his upcoming book on Trump.

    “He wouldn’t give him his deposit back for a country club membership that Trump owned and Mueller was moving,” O’Reilly said. “Mueller wanted $15,000 back and Trump said no.”

    O’Reilly also claimed that Trump told him that Mueller lobbied for the job of FBI director after James Comey was fired. “Trump says Mueller didn’t like him because he turned him down to be the head of the FBI after he fired Comey. The president says that Mueller lobbied for the job and Trump turned him down.”

    h/t https://www.mediaite.com/trump/bill-oreilly-trump-called-me-last-night-and-said-mueller-hates-him-because-he-refused-to-refund-muellers-15k-country-club-deposit/

  82. 82.

    Ella in New Mexico

    May 30, 2019 at 11:55 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    According to CNN, the stable genius plans to drag US intelligence partners — including the UK and Australia — into his bogus “I’m the victim here!” probe and plans to raise the issue of the UK spying on his campaign when he meets with T May next week. What could possibly go wrong?

    Which jackass advisor is goading him into doing that? Or, more likely, why are they letting the Mad King decide to do something so incredibly stupid? THEY KNOW EVERYTHING. THEY KNOW HOW HE GOT HERE. And they also realize that their dealing with a guy pulled off getting into the highest office in the land despite/because of being a foreign agent and all out criminal.

    Seriously, if I were part of the IC agencies in the UK or Australia, I’d be all “bring it on, Chuckles McDimwit. WE KNOW EVERYTHING.”

  83. 83.

    SRW1

    May 30, 2019 at 12:05 pm

    At least now he is admitting to what we all know.

    As that Caliendo dude once said about Bush II:

    There’s two kinds of words: Inside Words and Outside Words.
    Inside Words stay in, Outside Words come out – that time a Inside Word popped out!

  84. 84.

    MomSense

    May 30, 2019 at 12:05 pm

    So he acknowledges Russia interfered in our election but he is opposed to doing anything to prevent them from interfering again. Same for all the GOP members of Congress. How is this not impeachable for all of them?????

  85. 85.

    MomSense

    May 30, 2019 at 12:06 pm

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    FTW!!

  86. 86.

    The Moar You Know

    May 30, 2019 at 12:41 pm

    Lawyers say he is so ill it is impossible to conduct a normal conversation with him.

    @germy: Let’s do an autopsy and find out what was wrong with him.

  87. 87.

    The Moar You Know

    May 30, 2019 at 12:44 pm

    How is this not impeachable for all of them?????

    @MomSense: It is. Now posit to the commentariat the mechanism where these fine upstanding Americans are convicted of anything or pay any price whatsoever for their misdeeds. Or hell, where this ends in a result where they can’t say they were fully exonerated.

  88. 88.

    longhairedweirdo

    May 30, 2019 at 12:52 pm

    No one could have predicted that this scandal would go:
    Russia didn’t interfere.
    Okay, they did, but not for either candidate.
    Okay, they did, for Trump, but he didn’t *know*.
    Okay, he knew, but he didn’t *encour(loud meaty sound as heads explode before the word finishes).
    Look, so he knew it, encouraged it, and was seeking a bribe from Putin for 300 mill. What’s *wrong* with that?

  89. 89.

    Death Panel Truck

    May 30, 2019 at 12:57 pm

    This is the only honest thing Trump has ever said, and it’s coupled with a lie. Of course he was involved.

  90. 90.

    TenguPhule

    May 30, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    You’ll be hearing from the horses’ asses’ union’s lawyers!

    Steve in the ATL is freelancing?

  91. 91.

    TenguPhule

    May 30, 2019 at 1:36 pm

    @The Moar You Know:

    Now posit to the commentariat the mechanism where these fine upstanding Americans are convicted of anything or pay any price whatsoever for their misdeeds. Or hell, where this ends in a result where they can’t say they were fully exonerated.

    /whistles innocently

    I could say it, but i won’t.

  92. 92.

    The Moar You Know

    May 30, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    I could say it, but i won’t.

    @TenguPhule: lol. LEGAL methods, my man. We all are quite aware of your preferred solution, which even you must admit is a step that Americans will just never take. We’re too fucking fat and lazy.

    Fifty years down the line, when God Emperor Barron Trump is taking all the food from California to feed the Deep South, well, maybe some American citizens will get off the couch and implement “Plan TenguPhule”. Maybe.

  93. 93.

    MomSense

    May 30, 2019 at 4:20 pm

    @The Moar You Know:

    What comes after is exactly the problem. McConnell, GOP Senate Traitory Leader, has already said the Senate will quash impeachment if the House impeached trump. Obviously they would do the same with themselves.

    At this point I’m educating myself on the Mueller Report, and putting my faith in Nancy Smash. She’s the best we have and we have to support her.

    I’m thinking of starting a small Mueller Report study group – like a book club with snacks and beverages. Then maybe an impeachment study group. We could always try one here on B-J.

    I also wrote to my Senator to ask her if she’s read it and for comment. I doubt I’ll hear back for several months.

  94. 94.

    Debra schnelle

    May 30, 2019 at 4:41 pm

    I agree with the idea of a balloon juice mueller report book club! Great idea!

  95. 95.

    debbie

    May 30, 2019 at 5:27 pm

    Is this worse than Trump’s declaration that Mueller’s real motive in undermining Trump was because he didn’t get “that FBI job”? I don’t think so. My head is still exploded from hearing that clip while I was working. I may never recover.

  96. 96.

    debbie

    May 30, 2019 at 5:27 pm

    @MomSense:

    Sign me up! Beats yelling at the radio.

  97. 97.

    Ruckus

    May 30, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    @Brachiator:

    It’s good to be the king.

    Until they chop off your head. A lot of the old kings found this out the hard way.

  98. 98.

    Miss Bianca

    May 30, 2019 at 6:57 pm

    @Jeffro: Right.the fuck.On

  99. 99.

    debbie

    May 30, 2019 at 7:02 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    I think it’s time to redefine this as and isssue of religious freedom and let those assholes deal with that.

  100. 100.

    Miss Bianca

    May 30, 2019 at 7:05 pm

    @MomSense: BJ Mueller Report Book Club! I would sign up!

    @debbie: Ooh, I like the way you’re thinking…

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