Tweety first tries cover story of meeting as a meeting for "adoption," then changes the story a few times.
Tweety's administration is a circular firing squad.
Tweety and his gang look at every debacle, every misstep as a marketing issue to be refined and fixed by telling lies. Sad for America.
says it is no big deal, so as always, he tries to defuse the maelstrom with foolish misdirection. "Anyone would do it?" No really, Mr. President.
More SITUATIONAL ETHICS.
Tweety's SITUATIONAL ETHICS, meaning doing what is right ,and legal is an option based on the situation, is bad for America. Tweety's inconsistency is bad for democracy and will lead people down the path to committing real crimes.
Tweety's followers will buy his crap that it is the media / press that is making a big deal out of nothing.
Fox says it is a "nothing burger," of course. State media outlets are required to follow the "party" line.
"Trevor Noah Roasts Fox News for 'Dumb as F-ck' Defense of Donald Trump Jr (Video)"
Television By TooFab Staff | July 13, 2017
"Trevor Noah dismantled Fox News' "dumb as f-ck" coverage of Donald Trump Jr.'s Russia email scandal on Wednesday night.
"Most people agree that it’s collusion, or at the very least that it’s very shady," the "Daily Show" host said. "But most people don’t work at Fox News, the billion-dollar fear and sexual harassment factory whose entire reason for being seems to be defending the Trump administration."
Noah described Fox News defense of Trump Jr. as "the moment they’ve all been training for.""
Fox and Hannity share their view:
"First up on the roster [Of Fox hosts to try to explain what D.T. Jr. confessed . . .] was Sean Hannity, who hosted Trump Jr. on his show the same day that he released his email exchange with a Russian probe on Twitter. Noah played a clip from the Hannity's interview, wherein Hannity presented the idea that the meeting was set up by "Democratic operatives" as a trap, saying, "you won't catch this on the other news channels."
"Yeah, you’re right,” Noah said. “You won’t. Because it’s dumb as f-ck."
"Really? The Democrats set up this meeting?" Noah said. "Tricked Don Jr. into colluding with the Russians and then never used it? That was the plan?""
Hannity makes a fool of himself again.
"But the winner of the "Doncathalon", according to Noah, was none other than Trump Jr. himself. Or as he put it, "The slick-haired man-sperm of Donald J. Trump."
Noah flipped to a clip of Trump Jr. telling Hannity that the meeting should be disregarded as it took place before America seemed to have "Russia fever."
"'Yeah, no one was talking about collusion before we did it!'" Noah said. "That's kind of how that works. First you do the thing and then the people start to talk about it.""
D.T. Jr. man-sperm is DUMB!
Words of the President are a stretch for sure, Tweety, a stretch, and Fox News trying to help you with your stretch is very sketchy.
Is nothing too much for Republicans as they support Tweety to hope he signs on to their particular agenda, betraying American supposed "good" values, and / or seek to uphold their constituent's interests?
Donald Trump Jr.s admits a crime* PUBLICLY. Lawyers no doubt need time, but he will be arrested, brought to court, arraigned, and set free on bail.
Tweety supporters probably believe it is fake news, but Jr.s said it himself so it is not fake news.
To me, this is similar to no Republican has spoken out against the fake Voter Fraud Investigation. The conservative view is to wait and see.
Wait and see? What is going on in America? Are we going to stay divided forever? Yes. When Hannity draws the same ratings and viewer numbers as Maddow, we ARE A DIVIDED COUNTRY and tribal as hell! See article:
"If You Want to See How Closely Divided America Is, Look at Hannity and Maddow’s Ratings"
By Josef Adalian, 12 July 2017
http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/cable-news-ratings-fox-and-msnbc-go-neck-and-neck.html
"But among all viewers, the flagship broadcasts of Fox News and MSNBC finished in a near-tie last night: Hannity: 2.885 million
Maddow: 2.855 million"
TRIBALISM is rampant in America, and will destroy America.
"'Lying is not a rookie mistake': Senators condemn Trump Jr.'s emails about meeting for dirt on Clinton"
Rebecca Harrington, Jul. 11, 2017, 3:02 PM
Too busy to comment on major crime against the American democracy by the son of he President on behalf of the President.
"Republicans largely have stayed quiet on the latest revelations, instead focusing on trying to postpone the August recess to pass their healthcare bill. No Republican senator had tweeted about the emails as of Wednesday morning, but Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham commented."
"Donald Trump Jr.’s ‘Denials’ of Russian Collusion Are Actually Confessions"
By Jonathan Chait, 9 July 2017
"Many figures in Donald Trump’s orbit have been caught denying contacts with Russia that have later surfaced. What’s unusual about the lies that Donald Trump Jr. tells is that they aren’t even exculpatory. His denials are closer to confessions.
After the New York Times reported Saturday that Donald Jr. had met with Russian officials during the campaign, contradicting his previous statement, he explained that the meeting concerned nothing more serious than the issue of adoptions. “It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.”
Of course, as the Times story explains, the adoption issue is hardly a nonpolitical question. One of the Russian government’s highest priorities is to repeal an American law, named after a murdered Russian dissident who exposed corruption at the hands of Vladimir Putin, which allows financial penalties for Russian human-rights violators. Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with the Trump campaign, is spearheading this effort. Russia retaliated for the hated law by suspending American adoptions of Russian children: A discussion of adoption inherently implies a discussion of favors to be granted to Putin’s regime.
By Sunday, even this explanation had collapsed, as the Times reported that the Russians had offered damaging information on the Clinton campaign. In a new statement to the Times, Donald Jr. says that the dangled information was merely a ruse:
“After pleasantries were exchanged,” he said, “the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton. Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.”
So the Trump campaign took a meeting with Russians who promised to supply them with damaging information on their opponent. This is the defense. Given that Trump is fervently denying that his campaign colluded with Russia to steal and disseminate Democratic emails, it is not a very strong one."
The fat lady has sung, it is over, and the guilty are revealed, or at least one guilty party has literally CONFESSED.
"Are Donald Trump, Jr.,’s E-mails About Meeting with a Russian Lawyer Evidence of a Crime?"
By Jeffrey Toobin, July 11, 2017
"At a minimum, this is deeply naïve on Kushner’s part; whether something more sinister was afoot is worthy of investigation. In total, the newly disclosed Trump, Jr., e-mails do not prove that any crimes were committed, but they make Mueller’s to-do list even longer."
"To Donald Trump, Jr., from Russia with Love"
By Jelani Cobb, 13 July 2017, 8:00 A.M.
"His blithe defense—that nothing about the meeting matters because it turned out that there was no intel to share—is only more damning."
Any way it comes out, Russia played Trump Jr.
