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ICYMI Snark Break Open Thread: WH Press Secretary: Look, A Jackalope!

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“Lord, make my enemies ridiculous”…

Jon Chait at NYMag: Suuure, Jan…

… Then there are the notes. Trump loves promoting the narrative that President Obama left “a mess” for him to clean up, and engineered deep state conspiracies to undermine him starting in 2016. Trump has floated the most bizarre conspiracy theories about Obama sabotage, including the claim that Obama tapped his phones. Trump would be extremely happy to circulate photos of any such “you will fail” notes, and any aid who produced such a note would have instantly become Trump’s momentary favorite. Yet nobody has produced any evidence of these notes, even though they were supposedly left throughout the building…

Backlash, per the Washington Post:

… Grisham made the initial allegation during an interview with the John Fredericks radio show after the host asked her why the Trump White House had failed to fully staff the administration with loyalists from its earliest days.

Grisham responded by alleging that the administration faced an uphill battle from the very beginning, including open disdain from Obama aides who left behind hostile messages as they departed their offices…

In response to Obama aides pushing back on her allegations, Grisham issued a statement softening her initial claims and calling the controversy “silly.”

“I’m not sure where their offices were, and certainly wasn’t implying every office had that issue,” Grisham said. “I was talking specifically (and honestly) about our experience in the lower press office — nowhere else. I don’t know why everyone is so sensitive!”…

Can’t You People take a joke?

Even YAF alumni Jon Karl wasn’t falling for this particular okie-doke:

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26Comments

  1. 1.

    Origuy

    The “Obama books” were probably the detailed briefing books that the outgoing staffers made for their successors. Think they got thrown out unread?

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    Such a stupid lie. They would’ve called in the FBI and copies would’ve been all over the papers and on Fox to this day.

  3. 3.

    Jay

    So, basically, almost 3 years later, somebody in Dolt 45’s Administration, finally opened a book?

     

    Bullshite.

  4. 4.

    Chris T.

    On the “everything they say is projection” theme, this is probably what they’re planning to do on their way out.

  5. 5.

    Gretchen

    « Rooms full of Obama books ».  They think the only way people buy books is bulk-buys of crates of books to drive up their friend’s bestseller ratings, so they imagine boxes and boxes of Dreams from my Father.  Because none of them have bought a book, read it, and taken it home in case they wanted to read it again.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    “And this dumbass administration is so stupid that they forgot about all of it for almost 3 years! They were probably too busy sucking Russia’s ass as thanks for 2016 fuckery and then criming in Ukraine. Did I say that out loud? Oh, shit, I typed it in an email and hit Send! Backspace! Backspace! Backspace!”

    -Stephanie Grisham(allegedly)

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    Aleta

    Talk about lies, how about Sondland pretending he’s got to hurry back to the job he bought, the important ‘juggling phone calls from fill-in-the-blank European presidents’ in between disappearing on spontaneous trips without telling his staff. Applauded at the end for coming at all. How much are we paying for his fantasy of culture and servants? Asked what he believes, “I really can’t opine.”

  10. 10.

    Redshift

    @Origuy: Think they got thrown out unread?

    I think that’s pretty well established. The Trumpers cancelled transition briefing meetings and treated pretty much all information from their predecessors as if it were sabotage. (Projection much?)

     

    I recall reading in an article investigating this, the journalist said officials they talked to (Commerce Department, maybe) were so happy that someone was interested in their briefing materials.

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    Jay

    A teenage neo-Nazi has been convicted of planning terror attacks as part of what he believed was an upcoming "race war"The 16-year-old boy had plans to firebomb synagogues in Durham area and searched for targetsHe had also written his own manifesto https://t.co/uv8z3X3MT7— Lizzie Dearden (@lizziedearden) November 20, 2019

  12. 12.

    Jay

    The lives of at least 22 transgender or gender non-conforming people have been lost to violence this year. Many were women of color. On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, let's say their names and reaffirm our commitment to making the world safer for transgender people. pic.twitter.com/royBx1E2nl— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 20, 2019

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    TS (the original)

    @Martin: The next administration is probably going to employ large numbers of the Obama people, so it shouldn’t be a problem

  19. 19.

    Keith P

    Kind of like the time when Huckasanders quit the WH and left upper-deckers in several bathrooms out of spite.

  20. 20.

    p.a.

    There’s no evidence because the mean Lieberals wrote the notes in the margins of pornographic playing cards and sex ads.  Mike Pence had (someone else) destroy them all.

  21. 21.

    CliosFanboy

    For those outside the Virginia area, John Fredericks (the radio host)  is a BIG Trump supporter and has all the RW nutjobs from VA and DC on his radio show.  The blog Bluevirginia covers him a alot…

  22. 22.

    randy khan

    @Martin:

     

    We’re going to have to find a way to organize the Obama staffers to prep the next administration.

     

    This actually is something I think we may need to worry about.  It’s not hard to imagine the Trump people essentially abandoning ship when they know he’s on his way out.  Luckily there still will be career people in place at big agencies who can help fill the gaps (and a lot of the Trump people don’t really know anything anyway).

  23. 23.

    Chris Johnson

    So why didn’t he tweet about it? End of silly claim.

    It’s literally and completely impossible for any of that to be true: the very first thing that would have happened would be a Trump tweet decrying it.

  24. 24.

    tokyokie

    Remember how the Clinton people supposedly removed all the “w” keys from White House keyboards? Only it turned out they didn’t. Pretty much the same bullshit, different staff.

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