Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!
Well, so long first amendment. It was nice knowing you.
Fortunately, the Republicans are currently shy of the necessary 2/3 votes in both the House/Senate or 2/3 State Legislatures. 31/50 States have Republican Governors. 2 more and they could potentially amend the Constitution.
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Trump's lawyers want to move Trump's fraud trial because he'll be so busy transitioning.
They made their request before Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the jurist Trump harshly criticized during the campaign as biased because of his Mexican heritage.
Curiel expressed concern about the wisdom of a delay given that Trump will assume the presidency Jan. 20. Curiel said he will probably issue a ruling by Monday.
The hearing came just two days after Trump’s victory, reflecting the continuing legal challenges facing an incoming president whose businesses are the subject of multiple pending civil suits.
“We’re in uncharted territory,” Trump attorney Daniel Petrocelli told Curiel, noting that never before has a U.S. president or president-elect come to court under similar circumstances.
Trump seems to have gotten a debate question... in advance! Or at least the nature of a debate question.
Ms. Kelly writes that her problems started in August, the Monday before the first Republican presidential primary debate. She had just done a segment on her show, “The Kelly File,” that infuriated Mr. Trump. He refused to make his own scheduled appearance on her show unless she phoned him personally.
“I almost unleashed my beautiful Twitter account against you,” she says he told her, “and I still may.”
Then, the day before the first presidential debate, Mr. Trump was in a lather again, Ms. Kelly writes. He called Fox executives, saying he’d heard that her first question “was a very pointed question directed at him.” This disconcerted her, because it was true: It was about his history of using disparaging language about women.
She doesn’t speculate where the leak came from. (She reports. You decide.) But that’s another unambiguous takeaway from this book: Parts of Fox — or at the very least, Roger Ailes, the network’s chairman until July, when he was given the boot after several allegations of sexual harassment were made against him — seemed to be nakedly colluding with the Republican presidential nominee.
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As we all know, Mr. Trump did unleash his beautiful Twitter account on Ms. Kelly after that debate, and it threatened to upend her life. He called her “overrated,” “angry,” “crazy” and “a bimbo”; he went on CNN with Don Lemon opposite her show’s time slot and said there was blood coming out of Ms. Kelly’s eyes, “blood coming out of her … whatever.” (My favorite response to this: Katie Couric wrote Ms. Kelly a note asking: “Are you okay? Do you need some Tampax?”)
The hectoring went on for weeks. “Every time Trump acted up,” Ms. Kelly writes, “it was like he flipped a switch, instantly causing a flood of intense nastiness.” Kelly’s voice mail box filled with invective and obscenities. People phoned in with death threats. Ms. Kelly’s young daughter asked her what a bimbo was; a suspicious man showed up in the lobby of her apartment building; her family took an armed guard to Disney World.
It didn’t help that Mr. Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen retweeted this message from a Trump supporter: “#boycottmegynkelly @realDonaldTrump we can gut her.”
Part of Mr. Trump’s response seemed like that of a man betrayed: Months before announcing his candidacy, he had tried hard to curry Ms. Kelly’s favor. He sent her notes, including an attagirl scrawled across her picture in The New York Times Magazine . (When Vanity Fair reported this, Mr. Trump denied it; Ms. Kelly includes proof, a picture.) Ms. Kelly and her husband declined an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s fabled estate in Palm Beach, Fla. Then Mr. Trump tried, repeatedly and unsuccessfully, to persuade her to let him pick up the tab for the weekend she spent with two girlfriends at the Trump SoHo hotel.
“This is actually one of the untold stories of the 2016 campaign,” Ms. Kelly writes. “I was not the only journalist to whom Trump offered gifts clearly meant to shape coverage. Many reporters have told me that Trump worked hard to offer them something fabulous — from hotel rooms to rides on his 757.”
I'm going to need to stock up my reaction gifs to be able to last 4 years.
The ultra-biased CNN reporting that the anti-insider is loading up on insiders may be factually correct, but reporting it shows obvious bias!
Bah, what a mess. I hate to say it, because so many people will be suffering under this ludicrous administration, but Americans (apologies to the ones reading this that are shocked by his election) are getting what they deserve now.
They voted (or didn't bother to vote at all) for a con man and he's already conning them. Con man is going to con, as the kids say.
The anti-Trump, pro-Clinton bystanders did nothing but laugh and encourage the attackers. Reverse the roles and there would be riots and this would be investigated as a hate crime. Regardless, it shows the true colors of many.
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The anti-Trump, pro-Clinton bystanders did nothing but laugh and encourage the attackers. Reverse the roles and there would be riots and this would be investigated as a hate crime. Regardless, it shows the true colors of many.
The anti-Trump, pro-Clinton bystanders did nothing but laugh and encourage the attackers. Reverse the roles and there would be riots and this would be investigated as a hate crime. Regardless, it shows the true colors of many.
The roles have been reversed and there wasn't any riot or hate crime investigation.
Violence and bigotry exists everywhere at the best of times, let alone at a time when it's actively been fanned for 18 months.
To say it happens only because they're Clinton supporters or Trump supporters is stupid.
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The roles have been reversed and there wasn't any riot or hate crime investigation.
Violence and bigotry exists everywhere at the best of times, let alone at a time when it's actively been fanned for 18 months.
To say it happens only because they're Clinton supporters or Trump supporters is stupid.
Violence and stupidity will always exist. Politics fans the flames more than most other things--but people will fight over traffic disagreements, over relationship disagreements, over freaking NFL teams.
Lots of people are stupid and lots of people are violent. While this election has been far more dramatic and intense than others I've lived through, it's not like I haven't seen fights break out between strangers at other events.
There's always going to be a lowest common denominator. By the same token, there have been plenty of reports of Trump supporters scribbling vulgar and hateful vandalism, of people ripping off womens' hijabs, there was a video of middle school children in Michigan chanting "build the wall." This goes both ways, there are idiots on both sides.
There's always going to be a lowest common denominator. By the same token, there have been plenty of reports of Trump supporters scribbling vulgar and hateful vandalism, of people ripping off womens' hijabs, there was a video of middle school children in Michigan chanting "build the wall." This goes both ways, there are idiots on both sides.
A University of Louisiana Lafayette student who said she was physically attacked and robbed of her wallet and hijab made up the story, according to the Lafayette Police Department.
What the hell are you doing? Attention seeking? A few of instances like this and Trump's supporters will start to just casually dismiss the real deplorable behaviour out of hand.
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To some extent, Trump drawing from the swamp is some indication that this won't go completely off the rails. Surely it'll pull him back in line a bit and we'll just have a few cars of the train derail instead of a massive head-on trainwreck.
