Trump Goes on Wildly Flailing Crazed Early Morning Tweet Storm
Desperately Trying to Deflect from Donald Trump Jr.’s Stunning Admissions
President Donald Trump went wild on Twitter Monday morning, trying desperately to deflect the spotlight the media now has focused on his oldest son. After The New York Times late Sunday afternoon reported Donald Trump Jr. had met with an attorney linked to the Kremlin in an attempt to obtain damaging information on Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign, and brought Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort with him, President Trump lashed out.
Trump posted ten tweets in a matter of a few hours, including several Fox News clips. Clearly the President of the United States is not working for the American people, but watching cable TV and flailing about in an effort to protect his own endangered interests.
Trump first retweeted ultra-conservative actor James Woods. Many if not most would disagree with this claim.
Then he retweeted this inane “Fox & Friends” claim, also one many people would disagree with:
.@carriesheffield: The mainstream media is neglecting their duty to represent the public. They’ve failed to represent half of the country. pic.twitter.com/7NT3lf5ALV
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 10, 2017
Trump then accused James Comey of felonious leaking, which NCRM reported earlier Monday morning. That tweet was based on a questionable report at The Hill.
The president also posted a tweet threatening Congress on the health care bill.
And then, this. An insane tweet claiming his daughter sitting in for him at the G-20 was “very standard.” Worse, he sets German Chancellor Angela Merkel up as the de facto leader of the free world.
When I left Conference Room for short meetings with Japan and other countries, I asked Ivanka to hold seat. Very standard. Angela M agrees!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
So much for leadership.
Several notables disagreed with Trump’s claim Ivanka sitting in for him at the G-20 was “very standard.”
This editor at The LA Times says only the President, or a senior foreign policy aide, should have sat in that chair.
It’s not “very standard;” I’ve attended G20s off & on for 20 yrs. That seat is the president’s alone or, in his absence, a sr forpol aide https://t.co/SWodBrJmyx
— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) July 10, 2017
TIME White House correspondent:
Very standard would be a Secretary of State filling in https://t.co/u5FsZackpW
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) July 10, 2017
Vox reporter:
Very Standard: President has bladder control necessary to take entire meeting.
Standard: Tillerson fills in.
Not-so-standard: Call Ivanka.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 10, 2017
Then this, which is ludicrous:
If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother,as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
Trump also retweeted a Sean Hannity scandal-mongering tweet, and two more “Fox & Friends” video clips, including one attacking NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.
To be clear: Trump did not post a single tweet about the big news, The New York Times report. Trump’s son confirmed the report, and made it even more damning than originally reported: that senior members of the Trump campaign were open to colluding with people tied to the Russian government to get negative information on Hillary Clinton.Â
Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign senior strategist Stuart Stevens explained the gravity of this new development:
When Gore campaign was sent Bush debate brief book, they called FBI. If foreign interests offer you info on former SOS, you call the FBI.
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) July 10, 2017
This is a president so far in over his head he’s drowning and doesn’t even see it. He’s shooting any anything that moves, and missing at every turn. Â
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