{"id":136152,"date":"2018-04-27T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136152"},"modified":"2018-04-27T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T04:46:08","slug":"trump-gets-to-ramble-on-fox-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/27\/trump-gets-to-ramble-on-fox-friends.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump gets to ramble on “Fox & Friends”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wherein the President of the United States:<\/p>\n

— Asserts that his terrific friend Emmanuel Macron has come around to his away of thinking about Iran (which Macron’s speech to Congress certainly doesn’t support).<\/p>\n

— Suggests Iran isn’t acting as beligerently toward America any more because otherwise he’ll wipe them out.<\/p>\n

— Asserts that “Admiral Ronny” Jackson is a fantastic guy, that all the accusations against him are fake, and that the Democrats are all obstructionists who won’t let people get appointed and Mitch McConnell could force that if he ran the Senate 7 days a week, but he won’t do that, but that’s okay because the Democratic Senator who said mean things about Jackson will doubtless be defeated the next time he runs for office and who cares about experience because nobody has experience of running something as large as the VA.<\/p>\n

— Accuses James Comey of being a lying leaker of oodles of classified material, and guilty of crimes, and a liar about how long Trump was in Moscow because Comey says that Trump said he didn’t stay overnight but obviously he did stay overnight, so Comey’s a liar, but that was all reported on CNN, who were the ones who gave Hillary Clinton the debate questions. But Comey would be in real trouble if the Justice Dept. was doing its job, but Trump has been keeping hands off of the Justice Dept., but that maybe is going to change.<\/p>\n

— Throws Michael Cohen under the bus as someone who does very, very little work for him (but is a great guy and did nothing wrong) and Trump;s not involved and he’s been told he’s not involved.<\/p>\n

— Admires Kanye West for admiring him, and notes that blacks only vote for Democrats because of “custom,” and nobody realizes that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, and he, Trump, got a lot of black votes and should have gotten much more.<\/p>\n

— Asserts that the media suppresses the Republican vote by making people think the Republicans are going to lose so they stay home, and nobody in the media is talking about the Republican special election winner yesterday.<\/p>\n

— Denies he’s given up anything to the North Koreans, even if the lying media says he has.<\/p>\n

— Lambastes those evil ingrates at NBC for saying mean things about him, even after he made them a fortune with “The Apprentice.”<\/p>\n

— Snipes that the Justice Dept. and the FBI are full of crooked people and they’re all corrupt and Democrats..<\/p>\n

— And, in-between all that, he trots out old canards about how Obama gave the Iranians crates of cash for the nuclear deal; how everybody admits that nobody has ever done as much as he did in his first year of the presidency; how he easily won the election (and would have won it even more if it were based on a popular vote), and how it’s a witch hunt, a witch hunt I tell you!<\/i><\/p>\n

I swear to God, sometimes the interview sounds like Capt. Queeg on the stand in The Caine Mutiny.<\/i><\/p>\n

The whole thing gets wrapped by Trump as follows (Fox folk interjections elided) …<\/p>\n

Look, I’m fighting a battle against a horrible group of deep-seated people \u2014 drained the swamp \u2014 that are coming up with all sorts of phony charges against me, and they’re not bringing up real charges against the other side. So we have a phony deal going on and it’s a cloud over my head. And I’ve been able to do \u2014 to really escape that cloud because the message now everyone knows \u2014 it’s a fix, okay. It’s a witch hunt, and they know that, and I’ve been able to message it. I would give myself an A+. Nobody has done what I’ve been able to do and I did it despite the fact that I have a phony cloud over my head that doesn\u2019t exist. It was what the Democrats used to try and make an excuse for their loss of an election \u2014 for their loss of the Electoral College that they should never lose because the Electoral College is set up perfectly for the Democrats and this was an absolute total beating in the Electoral College. They should never lose the Electoral College and they did and they got thwamped.<\/p>\n

The problem is that it’s such a \u2014 it’s such \u2014 if you take a look they’re so conflicted. The people that are doing the investigation \u2014 you have 13 people that are Democrats. You have Hillary Clinton people. You have people that worked on Hillary Clinton’s foundation. They’re all \u2014 I don\u2019t mean Democrats, I mean like the real deal. And then you look at the phony Lisa Page and Strzok and the memos back and forth, and the FBI. And by the way, you take a poll at the FBI. I love the FBI, the FBI loves me. But the top people in the FBI, headed by Comey, were crooked. You look at McCabe where he takes $700,000 from somebody supporting Hillary Clinton. He takes $700,000 for his wife’s campaign. And by the way, didn\u2019t even spend that money. They kept some of it because under that law you’re \u2014 he took seven. He took $700,000 from a group headed by Terry McAuliffe who was under investigation by McCabe and the FBI and that investigation disappeared. He took $700,000. And you look at the corruption at the top of the FBI. It’s a disgrace. And our Justice Department, which I try and stay away from, but at some point I won’t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ladies and Gentlemen, our President.<\/p>\n


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Wherein the President of the United States: — Asserts that his terrific friend Emmanuel Macron has come around to his away of thinking about Iran (which Macron’s speech to Congress certainly doesn’t support). — Suggests Iran isn’t acting as beligerently toward America any more because otherwise he’ll wipe them out. — Asserts that “Admiral Ronny” … Continue reading “Trump gets to ramble on “Fox & Friends””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12,1071],"tags":[1512,1077],"class_list":["post-136152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-trump","tag-captainqueeg","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-on-fox-friends.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137350,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/17\/donald-trump-man-of-science.html","url_meta":{"origin":136152,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump: Man of SCIENCE!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Oct-18 5:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"He has a natural instinct for it, you understand. 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