The Guy Trump Called 'Fat Jerry' Is Chairman Nadler Now

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-nadler-have-warred-for-years-but-the-stakes-have-never-been-higher?ref=home

The Guy Trump Called ‘Fat Jerry’ Is Chairman Nadler Now
The congressman who stood his ground against the developer in New York is up against the president in Washington now.
Michael Daly
03.05.19 4:55 AM ET


Long before there was Crooked Hillary and Lyin’ Ted there was Fat Jerry.

That 1995 bit of name-calling by Donald Trump was aimed at Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Democrat from New York who now serves as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

The insult may not make much sense to those who have begun taking notice of Nadler only now that he has sent out more than 80 letters to individuals and entities asking for a wide range of documents relating to their dealings with Trump.

But the present Nadler is a person transformed since he underwent stomach reduction surgery in 2001 and shed more than 100 pounds. He had been noshing himself toward a peak weight of 328 pounds back when he first roused Trump’s ire.

Their original object of contention was Television City, a metropolis within a metropolis that Trump proposed on a 52-acre tract he acquired on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1980s. The initial plan was for eight towers and 5,700 apartments, as well as television and movie studios.

Nadler met with Trump as the state assemblyman who then represented the area. Trump excitedly told him that the centerpiece would be a 150-story building, the tallest in the world. The lower floors were to be NBC’s new headquarters. Trump would of course occupy a palatial penthouse apartment at the very top.

Nadler was more of the opinion that New Yorkers wanted an affordable apartment. He opposed Trump’s project, viewing it as a neighborhood destroyer. Enough of the neighborhood agreed with him that he was elected to Congress after the incumbent, Rep. Ted Weiss, died the day before the primary in 1992.

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Nadler introduced and single-handedly marshaled legislation that ruled out any federal funding for the project beyond what had already been allocated for a feasibility study.

Trump responded with name-calling and spin.

“Fat Jerry Nadler is doing me a favor,” he said. “He’s too stupid to realize it. He’s making me a lot of money.”

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Nadler never responded to Trump's name-calling, but you can be sure he never forgot it.

And now, Fat Jerry has a new name whose ramifications Trump is only beginning to learn.

Chairman Nadler.

[Ohiogal]

1. Is anyone else totally sick and tired

of IQ45's "mobster" shtick? It's so embarrassing that we have a president that talks like this.

[babylonsister]

3. It's bully grade school shtick and yes,

beyond tired.

[riversedge]

5. I sure am.

[liberalmuse]

9. Agreed.

So unbecoming of the office. I’ve disliked Presidents before, but Trump is a whole other level that prior Presidents couldn’t even sink to if they tried. He is the embodiment of the lowest common denominator of human behavior that right wing media listeners have been striving to become for decades. He represents the worst of America and we need to prove we’re better than this. Will we? Are we?

[Soxfan58]

2. Look at trump now

Fat donnie

[DFW]

4. Trump probably hasn't even seen Jerry in ten years.

Jerry isn't very tall, and the weight he had before did look unseemly on him, but he looks perfectly normal now. What Trump should pay attention to is Jerry's intellect which is razor sharp and focused squarely on Trump and his band of not-very-merry men.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. He's calling someone else fat?

Go look in a mirror, Porko.

[George II]

7. Nadler and I went to high school together, at that time he was MUCH thinner, as was trump when he...

...was in his teens.

[NurseJackie]

21. But have you had dinner with him recently??

[George II]

22. No, I'm 5' 9" and only 145 pounds, I couldn't keep up with him.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. I am convinced Karma leans Democratic.

[greymattermom]

10. So Nadler should just recommend the surgery to Trump.

With a kind note stating that it helped him.

[DirtEdonE]

11. Chairman Nadler has a new nickname ready for trump

Federal Inmate #23756890

[lastlib]

17. GMTA!!

It will be a gleeful day when we can call that orange sh*tstain by his prison number!

[DirtEdonE]

19. My daily mantra

Is a phrase I read about an email from an intelligence official back at the early stages of this nightmare, "He will spend the rest of his life in prison" it read.

He will spend the rest of his life in prison
He will spend the rest of his life in prison
He will spend the rest of his life in prison
Oooooooommmmmmhhhhhh

[rsdsharp]

18. LOL. Years ago, when I first started practicing law, I was involved in something similar.

An elderly woman had defrauded our client, she was charged with that crime, and others. Frankly, she was nuts. She took to writing threatening letters to various people, including attorneys at our firm, and the president of the bank she had defrauded. The letters had no margins or punctuation, and every third word was "fucken." I went to the clerk's office to check on the date and time of her sentencing hearing. The first thing in the court file was a letter from the Defendant to the judge. whose name was Anthony Critelli. The letter began: "Dear Judge Critelli, you fat dago bastard!" It went downhill from there.

At the time of the hearing Judge Critelli sentenced her to two ten year sentences to run consecutively, and immediately remanded her to custody. The prosecutor had to remind the judge that the second charge had a maximum sentence of only five years. The judge had been pissed.

The oddest thing is that the courtroom was packed with her family. When the judge pronounced sentence, they stood and cheered.

[DirtEdonE]

20. OMG!

That's classic.

[wishstar]

12. Sounds good that Nadler knows vile Trump well and how to deal with him

Nadler understands that Trump has been corrupt his entire life pursuing money deals and self-aggrandizement.

[BlueIdaho]

13. Like that fat ass has room to talk... nt.

[ROB-ROX]

14. SO "FAT" JERRY IS GOING TO COOK LARD ASS!!!

This will be justice to send idiot boy to prison for his corrupt and criminal behavior where criminals can beat the shit out of his yellow turd body......

[malaise]

15. Delish

Thanks for this - still laughing here

[GoCubsGo]

16. Folks need to start calling his tweets "The Daily Projection."

Otherwise known as "Big, Giant Vat Meet 4-Cup Sauce Pan."