The latest from Rick Wilson:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

This week’s wounds are from Trump’s own quivering, liverish lips and the shit sandwich he stuffed between them on Wednesday. It’s not every day that your hubris and dumbfuckery leads you to do 18 on-the-record taped interviews with Bob Woodward confessing to, oh, 200,000 fucking cases of manslaughter because you lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied again to the American people about the impact of COVID. It’s not some vague J’Accuse from the resistance now; Trump admitted early on that he knew just how deadly and how dangerous the virus would be, and lied anyway. That’s some killer clown show.

...No, this was Donald Trump in an act of stupidity perhaps unparalleled in Washington media history. He tried to play Bob Fucking Woodward. Nothing about these interviews can be unspun or unrung. No matter how gamely his enablers and the comms shop grunt out excuses, his words are there, on tape. This wasn’t a president trying to calmly lead the nation through crisis; this was Trump simply not giving a fuck.

Even among his supporters, there’s a sense that these interviews weren’t exactly the smartest move. Like crabs in a bucket mutilating each other, Wednesday night’s episode of Tucker Carlson’s Fishsticks-n-Fascism Power Hour laid bare just how bad they know this was. Carlson lit up Lindsey Graham, Trump’s No. 1 shinebox boy, taking the parasitic senator to the woodshed for encouraging Trump to sit down with Woodward and even attending one of the conversations himself.

This is the part of the show where we enjoy a delicious glass of 2020 schadenfreude. It has a light crisp nose and a beautiful snappy finish.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fed-himself-this-shit-sandwich-and-trumpists-pecked-at-his-table-scraps

[SheltieLover]

1. Idiot man-child

probably does not know who Woodward is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. He knew exactly who Woodward is. He was flattered that Woodward wanted

to interview him because that's what Woodward does - he writes books about presidents. Getting interviewed by Woodward is a president thing and Trump wanted it. Woodward had written a previous book in 2018, Fear, but Trump refused to be interviewed for that one and it wasn't positive at all. So Trump decided he was going to charm Woodward into writing a more flattering book by agreeing to interviews and even initiating them by calling Woodward from the residence late at night. He's so stupid and narcissistic that he thought he could bullshit Bob Fucking Woodward, the reporter who brought down Nixon.

[SheltieLover]

3. Thanks for explaining!

My money would have been on chumputin, the illiterate, not knowing who Woodward is.

The facts you shared makes it all the more surreal! What a fool!

[onetexan]

7. Precisely. In his mind being interviewed by Woodward was the ultimate validation that he was finally

being accepted by the elite. Karmic

[Stuart G]

9. I got to add sentences from post #2 (above) This is an outstanding!. Thank You for posting.

..... "So Trump decided he was going to charm Woodward into writing a more flattering book by agreeing to interviews and even initiating them by calling Woodward from the residence late at night"........................................

.........." He's so stupid and narcissistic that he thought he could bullshit Bob Fucking Woodward, the reporter who brought down Nixon."

[tblue37]

11. Trump didn't refuse a "Fear" interview. His aides blocked Woodward from reaching

Trump, so Trump didn't know an interview had been requested. He wanted to be interviewed for "Rage," against his advisors' advice--probably, as you say, because he was sure he could BS Woodward.

Also, though, he can't help running his mouth, and he's always eager for a captive audience.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Lindsey Graham and Jared Kushner wanted him to do it,

which I find especially hilarious. Now Tucker Carlson is blaming Graham for the debacle.

[tblue37]

13. But others advised against it. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. He should have listened to them, but he really wanted to do it

to prove he could win over Bob Woodward.

[tblue37]

15. Precisely. nt

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

32. True. And seldom has a more craven man been more pathetically dependent upon a captive audience.

And thanks to his cult, he will never lack for one. However, even the fucking-moron-in-chief knows his fans are idiots and aspires to a higher quality captive audience.

Pissolini is despicable, but without his cult, he could do only a tiny fraction of the damage they've enabled him to do.

[certainot]

16. you're right

[Illumination]

17. Ouch! That boomerang effect must have hurt & did more brain damage! He's the GREATEST

American nincompoop president in history! He would probably be honored to have that award!...

[thesquanderer]

23. According to Trump (if you want to believe him)...

...he knew of Woodward, but not in any depth. It is not inconceivable to me that he did not know that he was one of the reporters who took down Nixon.

Anywaym here's what Trump said in yesterday's press conference:

Bob Woodward is somebody that I respect just from hearing the name for many, many years, not knowing too much about his work and not caring about his work, but I thought it would be interesting to talk to him for a period of calls, so we did that.

[LiberalLovinLug]

31. He probably heard that Woodward had "great ratings"

or was a best seller. Trump is only doing what he has always done, mix with the successful the powerful, those considered the best at what they do, thinking it elevates his own star. Some of that greatness will rub off on him too. That and he can brag how he's a good friend of ......... and gain even more admiration and envy.

He doesn't think through anything more than that.

[Grokenstein]

34. Remember how we used to laugh at Dubya for being "incurious"?

Isn't it strange how so many Republican presidents operate under the delusion that they were born the smartest guy in the room?

[brush]

4. What gets me are the ones here always claiming he's an evil genius...

who actually knows exactly what he's doing, then they chastise the rest of us for calling him an idiot and buffoon There was a thread just yesterday on this.

I responded as follows: He's an idiot at the same time he's an evil buffoon. He just thinks he's the smartest guy in the room (Dunning Kruger effect in effect), which is why he keeps getting caught in his evilness. He knows what he's doing all right, he just can't cheat and bully people anymore (except for his appointed sycophants) and sue them and outlast them in court with his father's big bucks, which he eventually blew.

And do not tell me a corrupt, lying president who gives 18 interviews to the one and only Bob Woodward in which he spills his guts and exposes his bungling stupidity, and evilness, in how he handled covid is not an idiot.

And do we have to get into the six bankruptcies running casinos? CASINOS? Please.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Evil, yes; genius, no.

His narcissism prevents him from making rational decisions; he's focused only on the immediate gratification of his ego. He's so convinced of his own charm and persuasiveness that he figured he could bullshit Woodward into writing a flattering book about him - a huge mistake, like so many others he'd made.

[smirkymonkey]

36. +1000

I have never seen anything like this narcissitic moron. None of us have. It just baffles me how someone with so few redeeming qualities can convince himself that he is an Ubermensch.

[Hassler]

5. Wilson is the first conservative I've found with a real sense

Of humor and a savage wit. In other news, Chump admits to being on drugs in interview with crazy Jenean Pirro. So we now know he's had a series of mini strokes and he's on drugs

[Stuart G]

8. Thanks For Posting...key sentences: "He tried to play Bob Fucking Woodard."

...Donald Trump thought he could "play" but got ."..totally played by Woodard."

...and also: "This wasn’t a president trying to calmly lead the nation through crisis; this was Trump simply not giving a fuck. "

[vlyons]

10. Yes this was the week where the hits just kept coming

My favorite disaster was Barr's efforts to dismiss Flynn's convictions were ridiculed by the judge's advisor. 8 more weeks of the Donald Trump shit show. And a mere 2 1/2 weeks until his butt show in the first debate.

Make a note to buy popcorn.

[BootinUp]

18. Not bad Mr. Wilson. Nt

[Enoki33]

19. Found it a bit amusing that someone in the media - not sure who -

said that one of the things the Reichdrumpf accomplished was to deliver his own October surprise a bit early.

[dchill]

21. That was Nicholas Confessore, NYT on MSNBC.

[Enoki33]

22. Thanks.

[Hekate]

20. "A delicious glass of 2020 Schadenfreude. ...a light crisp nose and a beautifully snappy finish"

[live love laugh]

24. It's as if he wants to lose. He probably never wanted two terms. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

26. That thought does surface once in awhile

It's as if this sad, hollow man has some inner nascent sense of guilt and shame, and really wants to put to bed the burden of being Trump and lying all the time to support it all. It must be extremely mentally fatiguing to carry out such self-deception all the time, like being on the run in a permanent East-West spy film. Jason Bourne for life.

[tavernier]

27. Nah.

He’d rather climb a tree to tell a lie than stand on the ground to tell the truth.

[LittleGirl]

29. I am starting to think that this is just a tip

of the iceberg. I’m pretty sure he has an escape route ready when he clicks his fingers.
He’s playing stupid enough to do just that.
Unless of course he’s truly losing his capacity to reason, and then I’d feel bad for mocking a mentally ill person.

[bucolic_frolic]

25. There's a tape of Miss Lindsey?

Oh, my. Wonder if we'll get to hear them, or more accurately if the voters of South Carolina will get to hear them before Election Day.

[Leith]

28. Another reason that chumpy wanted to talk to Woodward

He found out that Robert Redford played him in a movie called All the President's Men. He figured he would make Woodward one of "his" men.

[Nitram]

30. I have to agree. Only Dump's delusional over-confidence can explain why he would sit down with

the world's most famous investigative reporter, the one who got Nixon, and try to win him over with a charm offensive while confessing to his crimes against humanity.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

33. Let's take a moment, don't forget who and what Rick Wilson was and is...

He may "seem" reasonable and funny and "on our side" but he is Rick Wilson... keep your distance...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. We all know who he is. Right now he's useful; the enemy of my enemy and all that.

[Captaindad]

37. Send this to every Republican

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