Trump's Card

[Incandenza]

[URL]https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1197184057249062915[/URL]

[Incandenza]

[URL]https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1197200696044654593[/URL]

[anton pulisov]

Jesus, he even repeats himself when he writes.

[Lang Spoon]

Glenn Greenwald is a very strange fish. Still seems to be minimising the whole affair.

[San Bernardhinault]

It appears that a couple of usually very Trumpy sources are coming down on the side of this actually being pretty thoroughly corrupt.

Ken Starr: "There is now proof that the President (Trump) committed the crime of bribery...This has been one of those bombshell days."

Drudge: Ambassador followed Trump's orders; Giuliani pushed quid pro quo; Pence knew.

[Lang Spoon]

Greenwald is claiming the Starr quote is out of context.

[Lang Spoon]

In that he was surmising what Schiff would say.

[Lang Spoon]

No way of spinning the drudge quote but.

[tee rex]

Is spotting a hand-written note still a thing? Aren't they all meant to be picked up by the cameras now? That one looks like it is begging to be noticed, or Trump's latest physical missed out the eye chart.

[Ginger Yellow]

He rather famously needs but refuses to wear glasses.

[ursus arctos]

Indeed, and the text is very much in keeping with what we have seen of his limited hand-written output over the last several years.

[sw2borshch]

She's from about twenty miles away from me. I'm mildly tickled with the 'that's what a strong woman sounds like' stuff as she very much sounds like lasses I've worked with where I have almost felt sorry for the poor tax-evading saps on the other side.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1197900337690107904

[ad hoc]

We? Does he have that royal affectation?

[Nocturnal Submission]

He and some lawyers?

That's one brutal freedom fighting unit.

[Lang Spoon]

[URL="https://mobile.twitter.com/BenJamminAsh/status/1197396744876761088"]https://twitter.com/BenJamminAsh/status/1197396744876761088[/URL]

this is amazing, apologies if posted before.

[Lang Spoon]

Best twitter handle ever as well.

[Sean of the Shed]

Could this explain Nunes's bat-shit behaviour so far in the impeachment inquiry?

[ursus arctos]

I see it more as a symptom.

Nunes' nonsense goes back much further.

Remember the "midnight run" to the White House?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/26/trump-russia-investigation-house-intelligence-devin-nunes

[San Bernardhinault]

It's not a great look for Nunes or the Republicans. But given that they think of Jim Jordan as one of their star players, clearly they're not bothered by how they look.

It appears that the only time things are bad for Republicans is when they're in legal peril - the Roger Stone conviction appears to have bothered a few people who were previously dissembling to protect the President. And it's not clear that those recently caught trying to run shadow foreign policy for the benefit of Trump's election campaign - Nunes or Pompeo - are legally too much at risk.

[ursus arctos]

Their only criterion for performance is the reaction of the president, and he loves both of their asses, so they are fine.

Though Pompeo's rolling in the muck is going to mess with their "break glass, save Senate seat" strategy for Kansas.

[Incandenza]

[URL]https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1199060513528913922[/URL]

[ursus arctos]

[URL="https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/1199098572022730752?s=21"]https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/1199098572022730752[/URL]

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/MattSepara/status/1199139821756784641

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1199306943619313664