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solarbirdI'd still just love to know what Donkeyballs Donald talked about with Putin last week.
Really, really really love to know.
Maybe someday we'll find out.
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Robert E Kelly
twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly
8 June 2020
https://twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1270240738702319616
[THREAD]
So their play for for two weeks of unprecedented upheaval, sympathy protests in other countries, and a wave of police brutality is...Antifa? That’s it? I thought Trump was some political genius. Nobody even knows what antifa is beyond some vagaries. Not even MAGA’s gonna buy that
[EMBEDDED TWEET]
The Hill
twitter.com/thehill
9 June 2020
Q: "The president is not sorry for the way things went?"
Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany: "No, the president is sorry about the fact that antifa wreaked havoc in our streets."
[EMBEDDED VIDEO]
[NEXT]
I’m surprised how many commenters think this will fly. Ok. Perhaps you’re right. MAGA is pretty cultish. But what does anyone know about antifa - just that some guy they knew once said some antifa guy punched a alt-rightie at a protest or something. To most people,it’s a phantom
[NEXT]
Alright. I stand corrected. Antifa is everywhere apparently: https://twitter.com/robert_e_kelly/status/1270348471849988096?s=21
This is vile. Really low
[QUOTED TWEET]
Robert E Kelly
twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly
9 June 2020
That old guy who got pushed by cops and fell? Is Antifa?
This is Pizza-gate-level delusion. And very cruel. For shame
[LINK TO:
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1270333484528214018
]
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Manu Raju
twitter.com/mkraju
9 June 2020
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1270467789925597184
Asked McConnell if it was appropriate for Trump to tweet baseless theory about the Buffalo protestor who was injured by police. "As I said, what we are discussing in the Senate Republican Conference is what response we think is appropriate to the events of the last two weeks."
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Barr contradicts Trump: 'The Secret Service recommended that the President go down to the bunker' for safety
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 9:08 PM ET, Mon June 8, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/bill-barr-donald-trump-white-house-bunker/index.html
Washington (CNN)Attorney General William Barr said Monday that the US Secret Service recommended moving President Donald Trump to the underground White House bunker during late May protests, contradicting the President's earlier assertion that his visit to the bunker was for "inspection."
Barr told Fox News that the June 1 action to expand the perimeter around the White House and Lafayette Square was a reaction "to three days of extremely violent demonstrations right across from the White House -- a lot of injuries to police officers, arson."
"Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended that the President go down to the bunker," Barr said, referencing protests on May 29. "We can't have that in our country. And so the decision was made. We had to move the perimeter one block. And that was what we were doing (on June 1)."
Last week, Trump sought to explain his time in the bunker during clashes outside the residence on May 29 as an "inspection," rather than a retreat for his own safety, telling Fox News Radio's Brian Kilmeade he was only in the safe room for a "tiny" amount of time.
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Trump Wanted to Fire Esper Over Troops Dispute
Defense secretary’s stand against using federal troops to quell protests over George Floyd’s killing prompted president’s plan to remove him
By Gordon Lubold
Updated June 9, 2020 6:34 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-wanted-to-fire-esper-over-troops-dispute-11591728235
WASHINGTON—President Trump last week was on the brink of firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper over their differing views of domestic use of active-duty military, before advisers and allies on Capitol Hill talked him out of it, according to several officials.
The officials said Mr. Trump was furious with Mr. Esper for not supporting his inclination to use active-duty troops to quell protests in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis and elsewhere following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.
Mr. Trump consulted several advisers to ask their opinion of the disagreement, intent that day on removing Mr. Esper, his fourth defense secretary since taking office in January 2017, according to the officials. After talks with the advisers, who cautioned against the move, Mr. Trump set aside the plans to immediately fire Mr. Esper.
At the same time, however, Mr. Esper, aware of Mr. Trump’s feelings, was making his own preparations to resign, partly in frustration over the differences regarding the role of the military, the officials said. He had begun to prepare a letter of resignation before he was persuaded not to do so by aides and other advisers, according to some of the officials.
As advisers scrambled to avert the upheaval, Mr. Trump’s June 1 threat to send military forces into American cities already had emerged as a flashpoint, provoking national debate and drawing condemnation from onetime Trump aides.
Approximately 1,600 federal troops brought to the Washington, D.C., area were poised for possible deployment in what was widely seen as a crossroads for the U.S.
Really, really really love to know.
Maybe someday we'll find out.
- Trump: Everything is evil Antifa, including the 75 year old the police knocked to the ground hard enough to crack his skull and then ignored.
- McConnell refuses to comment on Trump's Antifa conspiracy theories
- Barr contradicts Trump: 'The Secret Service recommended that the President go down to the bunker' for safety
- Trump Wanted to Fire Esper Over Troops Dispute
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Robert E Kelly
twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly
8 June 2020
https://twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1270240738702319616
[THREAD]
So their play for for two weeks of unprecedented upheaval, sympathy protests in other countries, and a wave of police brutality is...Antifa? That’s it? I thought Trump was some political genius. Nobody even knows what antifa is beyond some vagaries. Not even MAGA’s gonna buy that
[EMBEDDED TWEET]
The Hill
twitter.com/thehill
9 June 2020
Q: "The president is not sorry for the way things went?"
Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany: "No, the president is sorry about the fact that antifa wreaked havoc in our streets."
[EMBEDDED VIDEO]
[NEXT]
I’m surprised how many commenters think this will fly. Ok. Perhaps you’re right. MAGA is pretty cultish. But what does anyone know about antifa - just that some guy they knew once said some antifa guy punched a alt-rightie at a protest or something. To most people,it’s a phantom
[NEXT]
Alright. I stand corrected. Antifa is everywhere apparently: https://twitter.com/robert_e_kelly/status/1270348471849988096?s=21
This is vile. Really low
[QUOTED TWEET]
Robert E Kelly
twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly
9 June 2020
That old guy who got pushed by cops and fell? Is Antifa?
This is Pizza-gate-level delusion. And very cruel. For shame
[LINK TO:
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1270333484528214018
]
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Manu Raju
twitter.com/mkraju
9 June 2020
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1270467789925597184
Asked McConnell if it was appropriate for Trump to tweet baseless theory about the Buffalo protestor who was injured by police. "As I said, what we are discussing in the Senate Republican Conference is what response we think is appropriate to the events of the last two weeks."
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Barr contradicts Trump: 'The Secret Service recommended that the President go down to the bunker' for safety
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 9:08 PM ET, Mon June 8, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/bill-barr-donald-trump-white-house-bunker/index.html
Washington (CNN)Attorney General William Barr said Monday that the US Secret Service recommended moving President Donald Trump to the underground White House bunker during late May protests, contradicting the President's earlier assertion that his visit to the bunker was for "inspection."
Barr told Fox News that the June 1 action to expand the perimeter around the White House and Lafayette Square was a reaction "to three days of extremely violent demonstrations right across from the White House -- a lot of injuries to police officers, arson."
"Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended that the President go down to the bunker," Barr said, referencing protests on May 29. "We can't have that in our country. And so the decision was made. We had to move the perimeter one block. And that was what we were doing (on June 1)."
Last week, Trump sought to explain his time in the bunker during clashes outside the residence on May 29 as an "inspection," rather than a retreat for his own safety, telling Fox News Radio's Brian Kilmeade he was only in the safe room for a "tiny" amount of time.
----- 4 -----
Trump Wanted to Fire Esper Over Troops Dispute
Defense secretary’s stand against using federal troops to quell protests over George Floyd’s killing prompted president’s plan to remove him
By Gordon Lubold
Updated June 9, 2020 6:34 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-wanted-to-fire-esper-over-troops-dispute-11591728235
WASHINGTON—President Trump last week was on the brink of firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper over their differing views of domestic use of active-duty military, before advisers and allies on Capitol Hill talked him out of it, according to several officials.
The officials said Mr. Trump was furious with Mr. Esper for not supporting his inclination to use active-duty troops to quell protests in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis and elsewhere following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.
Mr. Trump consulted several advisers to ask their opinion of the disagreement, intent that day on removing Mr. Esper, his fourth defense secretary since taking office in January 2017, according to the officials. After talks with the advisers, who cautioned against the move, Mr. Trump set aside the plans to immediately fire Mr. Esper.
At the same time, however, Mr. Esper, aware of Mr. Trump’s feelings, was making his own preparations to resign, partly in frustration over the differences regarding the role of the military, the officials said. He had begun to prepare a letter of resignation before he was persuaded not to do so by aides and other advisers, according to some of the officials.
As advisers scrambled to avert the upheaval, Mr. Trump’s June 1 threat to send military forces into American cities already had emerged as a flashpoint, provoking national debate and drawing condemnation from onetime Trump aides.
Approximately 1,600 federal troops brought to the Washington, D.C., area were poised for possible deployment in what was widely seen as a crossroads for the U.S.
