Wow, so many Fake News stories today. No matter what I do or say, they will not write or speak truth. The Fake News Media is out of control!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 4, 2017
NBC: Tillerson called Trump "moron," threatened to quit
PP/NY: Ivanka, Don Jr investigated for felony fraud
CNN: Russia FB ads target MI, WI https://t.co/uKjBhoH6wq— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) October 4, 2017
Professor Krugman, back in 2003:
Academic economists often cite Stein’s Law, a principle enunciated by the late Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Nixon administration. The law comes with various wordings; my favorite is: ‘‘Things that can’t go on forever, don’t.’‘…
Meanwhile, for entertainment purposes only:
An oral history of the Trump administration, as told by the greatest cowards of this era—anonymous Republicans: https://t.co/a3vTSXpL3D pic.twitter.com/Wq12OOVqL0
— New Republic (@NewRepublic) October 3, 2017
You could say the Trump era began with an anonymous quote. “It will take a miracle for us to win,” an unnamed senior campaign adviser told CNN on election night. Steve Bannon suspected the source was Kellyanne Conway, according to Joshua Green’s book Devil’s Bargain, and the tell was that CNN went out of its way to avoid using gendered pronouns, a giveaway because Conway was the only woman on Trump’s senior staff…
While politicos have long used the anonymous quote to air policy disagreements and leak sensitive information they believe voters should know, Donald Trump’s Washington opts for anonymity as a cheap and easy form of exoneration, a way to telegraph to the world: Yes, we know that our boss is crazy and dangerous. And yet they preen and simper in Trump’s presence. Worse still, they dutifully push his agenda forward.
They are identified here only by the title assigned to them by Beltway reporters. What emerges from this anonymous stew is an ongoing record of the Republican failure to speak up in public, while the president wreaks havoc both here and abroad. It is a story about a rotting GOP, as told by the greatest cowards of the Trump era…