Tweetizen Trump – 2016-12-14 "Hackity-Hacks, Don't Talk Back"

Yesterday was kind of slow on the POETUS' Twitter account — tweets about Victory Tour events, a picture of Bill Gats and Jim Brown.

But this morning, Donald is on a roll!

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► Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/809383989018497024]

Wow. The soon-to-be-Leader of the Free World, having a hissy fit about a magazine — and calling out its editor by name — that, presumably, said something mean to him.

Thin-skinned lack of impulse control? Or an effort to bully away journalistic dissent?

We know, at least, what GoodThinking magazines write about:

► Thank you to Time Magazine and Financial Times for naming me "Person of the Year" – a great honor!
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/809384826193276928]

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On the ongoing "conflict of interest" debate, just stop paying attention to the man behind the curtain!

► The media tries so hard to make my move to the White House, as it pertains to my business, so complex – when actually it isn't!
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/809389774066814976]

If you say so, Donald. Still waiting to hear how you will avoid looking like, when you make global or national policy choices, one of the factors isn't whether it affects your global and national business interests.

Unless the lack of complexity is "I'm President, so I can't legally have any conflicts of interest." That does sort of simplify things, right? It's good to be the king!

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► If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House waite so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/809392491514527744]

► If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/809403760099422208]

Those two identical tweets are an hour apart (and one has since been deleted). So … is Trump getting to be forgetful? Did someone fumble finger entering messages into some sort of timed release system and end up with dupes? Who's writing (or transcribing) this stuff, anyway?

As to the substance of the tweets, this is classic gaslighting. Because the White House did talk about Russian interference and information was released before the election about Russian hacking efforts. Really, truly, you can Google it.

As to the specific "The Russians were trying to throw this election for Trump" accusation — that information was presented to senor Congressional leadership to form a bipartisan stand against the matter; instead, Mitch McConnell, who now supports a Senate accusation, then called it political shenanigans and refused to go along with it.

And, knowing that making an announcement like this without bipartisan support, so close to the election, would in fact look like official interference in the election process — and, perhaps, being too confident that Clinton was going to win anyway — Obama didn't release what was known, except, again, in vague, non-partisan terms.

This is documented. Again, this can be Googled. Setting up an alternate reality where all this "hacking" stuff only came up after Clinton lost, is to basically lie about it (but set up a new narrative that, no doubt, we will hear from Trump supporters from now until doomsday).

And so it goes.

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