Trump Laughed When Aides Got Irate Over Proposed Joint Cyber Security Project With Putin, Incredibly Planned To Fire Jared, Ivanka

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Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Trump laughed as he proposed ways to immolate the national security infrastructure of the United States. This is one of many anecdotes which are coming out of Maggie Haberman’s new book, along with bombing Mexico and thinking that black staffers in the White House were domestic help. What else could they be, right? Washington Post:

The book shows Trump frequently praising Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, for his strength and even “laughing” when aides grew mad that he tweeted a proposal for a joint cyber unit with Russia that would have “effectively let the Russians into the U.S. investigations of hacking,” Haberman writes.

In another part of the book, Trump shows his lack of care about classified markings. Aides tried to stop Trump from tweeting a photo of an Iranian facility until they could remove classified details, Haberman writes. But he liked how the image looked and proceeded. “If you take out the classification, that’s the sexy part,” he told aides, she writes.

In 2019, Trump, seeming to not understand how the branches of government work, said he would simply “sue” Congress if they tried to impeach him.

You believe we had a sitting president so effing stupid as to ask that question? We did. Indeed we did.

And as Trump played down the coronavirus in early 2020, he privately acknowledged its severity and cast himself as the victim, according to Haberman’s book.

“Can you believe this happened to me?” he said, fearing the political impact on his presidency.

In detail, Haberman reports how Trump was fearful of dying and how his condition grew worse in the White House. “Deputy chief of staff of operations Tony Ornato warned the president that if he fell into a more dire situation, procedures to ensure the continuity of government would have to be set into motion,” Haberman writes.

There is no way that any other president in modern history would have been so careless and irresponsible as to let things get to that level. Every other president, of either party, had the decency and the character to know that the country must be protected first and foremost. Trump was worried about losing face and rating points.

And here’s a good tidbit. Even that crook Bill Barr was elevated into the stature of voice of reason. In the Trump White House, that makes perfect sense.

“People are tired of the f—ing drama,” Attorney General William P. Barr told him in 2020. Barr was one of a number of aides who urged Trump to dial back his frequent attacks on others.

The book also shows how Trump regularly pitted aides and even family members against one another in the White House. For example, Trump frequently told then-White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly that he wanted Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to depart the White House, according to the book.

“In meetings with Kelly and [White House Counsel Don] McGahn, Trump gave instructions to essentially fire the pair. Kelly and McGahn resisted, expressing their fear that he would not back them once his daughter and son-in-law pushed back. At one point, Trump was about to write on Twitter that his daughter and son-in-law were leaving the White House. Kelly stopped him, saying Trump had to talk to them directly before doing so. Trump agreed, then never followed up with the conversation,” the book says.

I wish he had fired them on Twitter like everybody else. What a howler that would have been.

I love what his spokesman had to say about the book.

Presented with a detailed accounting of the book’s reporting, a Trump spokesman did not directly respond. “While coastal elites obsess over boring books chock full of anonymously-sourced fairytales, America is a nation in decline. President Trump is focused on Saving America, and there’s nothing the Fake News can do about it,” said Taylor Budowich, the spokesman.

Yeah, right now Trump’s focused on rallying QAnon qrazies and evangelical wingnuts and starting a holy war. And we’re the ones living in a fairy tale? Righto.

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8 COMMENTS

  1. Maggie Haberman is a greedy liar that has TDS. She is a confirmed liar. Confirmed. You have to be retarded or too young to know any better to believe what she writes or says. All in the name of having a nice house and money. It’s all about the money. Would you write something that is not true? Would you write what she does for 1 million dollars? Just like all the other hit pieces she writes, most entries will be debunked in 3 months after it’s release. But hey, if you lie to me once, you’re a liar. Why do you people continue to believe people lying to you? Don’t you have any decency?

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    • Where is your decency red4751? It was people like you that got me interested in FACTS which you seem to lack. You usually do not post a single thing to back up your posts. You seem to think that if YOU SAY IT THAT IT MUST BE TRUE. Well yet again you play the fool beautifully.

  2. Former guy whining “can you believe this happened to me” should be the only line needed to describe his four years in the w.h. Truly nothing else describes that time better.

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  3. f haberman, if she knew this was going on then f her. I won’t read her book. f all the people around trump kelly, barr, meadows, kushner, etc. they did nothing to protect the United States and all the rest of us people with less power.

  4. Duh ms haberman…not really news since we all saw him suck off his master in Helsinki & threw the USA under the bus. Only the maggats missed it cuz they are a fucking cult, and cults don’t allow facts, truth or what they see & hear with their own eyes & ears influence their fear & insecurities.

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