LOSING IT
Donald Trump Woke Up This Morning and Melted Down – All Over Twitter
President Donald Trump woke up Tuesday morning and went berserk.
The American people are used to his almost-daily early morning tweet spasms, but this morning felt different. More manic. More paranoid.
Let’s look at the President’s day so far.
6:28 AM:
Trump, as usual, kicks off his day with a tweet attacking the Russia investigation.
Only recently has he started to name Special Counsel Robert Mueller, although he has yet to give him a nickname. (Expect that to happen at some point soon.)
Trump’s word choices seem stranger than usual.
“19,000 demanded Text messages”?
“now under protest!”?
Take a look:
Biggest outrage yet in the long, winding and highly conflicted Mueller Witch Hunt is the fact that 19,000 demanded Text messages between Peter Strzok and his FBI lover, Lisa Page, were purposely & illegally deleted. Would have explained whole Hoax, which is now under protest!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 18, 2018
In reality, those text messages were not “illegally deleted.” An FBI inspector general report cited “a technology failure by the FBI’s tool meant to sweep up text messages,” Politico reports. And they were recovered.
6:41 AM:
Trump wishes “good luck” to his former National Security Advisor and campaign trail BFF. Remember, Trump asked Jim Comey – before he fired him as FBI Director – to ignore Mike Flynn’s transgressions. Like, lying to the FBI, working for and being paid by a foreign government while working on the Trump campaign and in the White House.
That “tremendous pressure” conspiracy theory was blown to smithereens Monday night when, at the direction of the judge who will sentence Flynn today, Mueller released the transcript of the FBI’s interview of Mike Flynn, who clearly lied. A lot.
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Sure looks like someone is worried about “Russian Collusion.”
(Oh, and Hillary won the popular election by nearly 3 million votes.)
Good luck today in court to General Michael Flynn. Will be interesting to see what he has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him, about Russian Collusion in our great and, obviously, highly successful political campaign. There was no Collusion!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 18, 2018
7:13 AM:
Trump is all over the map.
First it’s the “Mueller Witch Hunt,” then it’s a “good luck” message to his BFF, and a “no Collusion” plug, and now, the Fed?
Here the President of the United States is taking the unprecedented step of trying to – publicly, no less – manipulate the markets by telling the Chairman of the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates.
The Fed is an independent agency that is not supposed to be told what to do by the President or anyone else. That’s how they stay independent.
“Feel the market, don’t just go by meaningless numbers,” Trump tells Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who Trump installed in February, after replacing Janet Yellen because he thought she was too short for the job, according to The Washington Post.
I hope the people over at the Fed will read today’s Wall Street Journal Editorial before they make yet another mistake. Also, don’t let the market become any more illiquid than it already is. Stop with the 50 B’s. Feel the market, don’t just go by meaningless numbers. Good luck!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 18, 2018
7:26 AM:
Trump is furious that he’s losing Twitter followers. Naturally, it’s not his fault. It’s not his crazy, maniacal tweets at all hours of the day and night. It’s not his anger, his nastiness, or anything else. It’s Twitter’s fault.
Facebook, Twitter and Google are so biased toward the Dems it is ridiculous! Twitter, in fact, has made it much more difficult for people to join @realDonaldTrump. They have removed many names & greatly slowed the level and speed of increase. They have acknowledged-done NOTHING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 18, 2018
This time, there’s an ounce of truth to his anger.
Most of Trump’s followers on Twitter are bots, or spam, or fake, or inactive accounts. 61%, to be precise.
That’s according to SparkToro, “a service that analyzes Twitter accounts to estimate what percent of their followers are bots, spam, propaganda, or inactive accounts.”
Twitter has been deleting bot and fake accounts.
(By the way, the same service found that President Obama, who has a lot more Twitter followers, has a lot less bots or fake followers.)
As for Trump’s claim that social media platforms are “so biased toward the Dems,” that’s totally false. In fact, the opposite is true:
What media outlet gets the most distribution on Facebook?
FOX NEWS
Facebook is also paying Fox News to produce 12 shows a week for Facebook Watchhttps://t.co/GYqOqJHXcG
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 18, 2018
7:55 AM:
Here we go. “Illegal immigration.”
Illegal immigration costs the United States more than 200 Billion Dollars a year. How was this allowed to happen?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 18, 2018
Trump’s claim is a lie. It was a lie when he said it was $113 billion a year. It is a lie now.
8:14 AM:
We’re back to the Steele Dossier!
Russia Dossier reporter now doubts dopey Christopher Steele’s claims! “When you get into the details of the Steele Dossier, the specific allegations, we have not seen the evidence to support them. There’s good grounds to think that some of the more sensational allegations…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 18, 2018
….WILL NEVER BE PROVEN AND ARE LIKELY FALSE.” Thank you to Michael Isikoff, Yahoo, for honesty. What this means is that the FISA WARRANTS and the whole Russian Witch Hunt is a Fraud and a Hoax which should be ended immediately. Also, it was paid for by Crooked Hillary & DNC!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 18, 2018
While the infamous “pee tape” has never been proven to exist, other parts of the dossier have been proven true.
The highly-respected Lawfare blog reported just this past Friday, “the Steele dossier, we believe, holds up well so far,” while noting there’s “a good deal in the dossier that has not been corroborated in the official record and perhaps never will be.”
As for Trump’s claim the “the FISA WARRANTS and the whole Russian Witch Hunt is a Fraud and a Hoax,” well, just ask the 33 people and 3 companies who have been indicted or pleaded guilty, so far, that we know of.
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