Pee brain wakes up
Good morning to you too, Don.
James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
….untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
Such equanimity, such restraint, such reasoned argument.
The Post explains his casus belli:
Trump’s tirade came in response to news stories Thursday on leaked copies of “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,” a 304-page tell-all by Comey that describes Trump’s presidency as a “forest fire” and portrays the president as an ego-driven congenital liar.
Among the many revelations is that Trump fixated on unconfirmed allegations in a widely circulated intelligence dossier that Russians had filmed him interacting with prostitutes in Moscow in 2013.
In attempt to blunt the impact of the new book, the Republican National Committee is waging a widespread campaign to undercut Comey’s credibility, including a new website that dubs the former FBI chief as “Lyin’ Comey.”
So the restraint and thoughtful engagement of Trump spreads to the entire Republican operation.
The RNC effort was launched in advance of a media blitz by Comey that began Friday morning as ABC News aired segments of a longer interview scheduled for Sunday night. During the segment, Comey said he didn’t know whether to believe Trump’s denial that he had spent time with prostitutes in Moscow before he became president.
“I honestly thought these words would never come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the current president of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013. It’s possible, but I don’t know,” Comey told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
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The dossier included intelligence suggesting the Kremlin was engaged in an effort to assist Trump’s campaign for president. Comey said Trump was most fixated on the allegations about the prostitutes and said that Trump later asked him if he could investigate those claims.
“He said if there’s even a 1 percent chance my wife thinks that’s true, that’s terrible,” Comey recalled. “And I remember thinking, ‘How could your wife think there’s a 1 percent chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow?’ I’m a flawed human being, but there’s literally zero chance that my wife would think that was true.”
Picture poor Donald tucked up in bed watching the tv this morning as that conversation aired. Picture him lunging for his phone and with trembling thumbs carefully spelling out “slime ball”…
Some of the early news coverage of Comey’s memoir has made a mockery of Trump, including the cover of Friday’s Daily News in New York. Its lead headline is “PEE BRAIN!” — a reference to unconfirmed allegations in the dossier that Trump had watched prostitutes urinate on themselves in a Moscow hotel suite.
Daily News headlines tend to be rather conspicuous.
[goes to Google images] Ah yes. That’s gotta hurt.
It does seem kind of weird, doesn’t it, to ask Comey to investigate if he knows the tape can’t possibly exist.
“That tape totally doesn’t exist…… but just in case it does….”
“We don’t think it’s our face on the tape…”
Why the 16 minute gap between the two halves of that rant? Does that indicate that the second half was carefully crafted, that he sought help revising it, that he eventually reached the point where he considered it perfect? Maybe he wanted a period of breathless suspense before dropping the brilliant “slime ball” turn-of-phrase?
Or maybe he just saw something shiny.
I find myself bemused by the phrasing here, where Comey’s book “portrays the president as an ego-driven congenital liar.” The word “portrays” seems wildly out of place, because the word choice invites us by implication to remember that mere “portrayals” can be deceptive and misleading. In a way, I know that “portrays” is the proper word to use in context — but nevertheless, I can’t help but note that surely the word should be “reports” or “observes” in this case, rather than “portrays.” Every day in every way, Trump himself reveals to the whole world that he is beyond any shadow of a doubt an ego-driven congenital liar. This is just a plain matter of fact about Donald J. Trump, like his age or height or eye color.
No I think you’re right. “Portrays” would be ok but “portrays as” conveys subjectivity. It’s a nuance but it’s there.
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I suspect he spent that time screaming at anybody present about how unfair it all is, Comey is lying, I won with a record breaking margin, I had the biggest inauguration crowd, the Russia thing is all fake, investigate Hillary and so on.
Funny how the story shifts. Until now its always been about prostitutes pissing on the bed that Obama had used in that Moscow hotel. Just the kind of thing a ‘germophobic’ racist asshole would want to arrange.