Donald Trump's having an awful week -- and it's only Wednesday

[marmar]

Donald Trump's having an awful week — and it's only Wednesday
This week's Trump news seems to have shaken even the D.C. press corps' jaded attitude

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2, 2022 10:00AM




(Salon) Generally speaking, the Washington press corps and, in particular, the political reporters at the New York Times are not ones to engage in hyperbole when it comes to Donald Trump. If anything, the paper of record has been downplaying the ongoing saga of Trump's Big Lie and all the evidence that's been piling up about what happened in the lead-up to January 6th recently. But this week's Trump news seems to have shaken even their jaded attitude.

For instance, the Times' Peter Baker tweeted on Tuesday, "Even for Trump it's quite a week -- first dangling pardons for capitol attackers, then admitting his goal was to have 'overturned the election' and now calling on the House to investigate Pence for not throwing out votes of multiple states so a president who lost could keep power." Then the Times' Maggie Haberman, appearing on CNN on Tuesday night, said, "it's been a breathtaking couple of days." This NYT piece by Shane Goldmacher headlined "Trump's Words, and Deeds, Reveal Depths of His Drive to Retain Power" says it all.

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It couldn't have helped his agitated mood to see new details emerge about those crazy meetings in the White House after the election when he and his lawyers were trying to find ways to do exactly what he wanted Mike Pence to do on January 6th: overturn the election. I've been intrigued by the one that took place on December 18th ever since it was reported and I wrote about it just the other day. What we knew was already so nuts that it's hard to believe it could be any loonier --- but it is.

Recall that General Michael Flynn, Trump lawyer Sidney "Kraken" Powell and the former CEO of Overstock.com somehow got into the White House and proposed to Trump that he sign an Executive Order naming Powell as Special Counsel to investigate the alleged election fraud and order the military to seize the voting machines. What we didn't know until the NY Times and CNN reported it this week is that Trump had earlier tried to get former Attorney General William Barr to have the Justice Department seize machines and Barr told him he could not do it because it would require probable cause and there wasn't any. (Barr resigned not long after.) ...........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/02/02/donald-having-an-awful-week--and-its-only-wednesday/

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. TDFG's weeks are going to get WORSER from here on out.

Every time he opens his mouth, he incriminates himself. Did he think his words down in Texas would not get the notice of the January 6th Committee?

Come on, man!

[KS Toronado]

10. Everybody's saying he was "Just Joking", must be true he never lies.

[wnylib]

16. May the rest of his life

be as awful as this week, and worse.

[SouthernDem4ever]

26. or for at least four years

Karma owes him that much.

[wnylib]

27. Karma owes him much more than 4 years

after a lifetime of crime. He won't live long enough to pay back for all that he owes. So I hope that his payback time is very miserable.

[SouthernDem4ever]

28. ok, longer

[COL Mustard]

32. The imprecatory prayer

May his days be few. May another take his place.

See Mom, I pray for TFG!

[smb]

37. May His Days Be Many... BEHIND BARS nt

[COL Mustard]

33. I read that when FDR died

At least one military officer said “Thank God that man is dead”. I look forward to the day. That’s all I’ll say.

[smb]

36. He's Like A Trapped Animal nt

[ProudMNDemocrat]

38. Of course. He is becoming more DESPERATE.

Pay attention yo his message. He CRAVES attention as well.

[Peacetrain]

2. Good God you made my day

[Mr. Ected]

3. Question: Does the evidence and testimony for the J6 Committee go directly to DOJ?

Or is it something that Garland would have to publicly request from the Committee?

Asking for a terrified nation.

[Septua]

7. What the Committee can do

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/us/politics/capitol-riot-january-6.html

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is in the early stages of considering whether to make criminal referrals to the Justice Department that would urge prosecuting former President Donald J. Trump or his allies.

“If they find evidence of something that they think is a crime and they think the Department of Justice should consider prosecuting, it seems to me completely appropriate for them to call it to the attention of the Department of Justice,” Mr. Sklansky said.

If the committee does decide to make a referral, the case will reside in the hands of the Justice Department, where prosecutors will determine whether there is probable cause that a crime occurred and weigh their ability to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.

Mr. Garland testified before Congress in October that the department was not limiting its investigation to just low-level rioters as it examines the Jan. 6 attack. Even so, he said he could not comment further on what next steps the agency would take.

“I’m very limited as to what I can say,” Mr. Garland said. “The investigation is being conducted by the prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office and by the F.B.I. field office. We have not constrained them in any way.”

I don't doubt the Committee will eventually make a criminal referral. But Garland doesn't need a referral to indict somebody and is already investigating, so...

[L. Coyote]

8. No doubt DoJ is doing its own investigation.

[EnterwebsJohn]

13. AG Garland is now Mr Obvious. Why is

TFG still not arrested?

[Wednesdays]

18. Because he gets one shot

And he better not miss.

[yobrault1]

25. Exactly.

This seems to escape all the bobble heads on TV.

[Poiuyt]

9. Why was James Comey able to say that they were investigating Hillary Clinton, but Garland has to

keep quiet?

[L. Coyote]

14. I love rhetorical questions.

[FakeNoose]

23. Comey sent a private memo to Congressional members only

... that wasn't supposed to be leaked. But guess what? A Repuke leaked it anyway, just in time to save Chump from going down for the the "grab 'em by the pussy" video.

[sdfernando]

40. because comey went against department policy /nt

[Justice matters.]

30. The Committee will make criminal referrals with the evidence they gathered to the DOJ.

Right after the public hearings end.

However, the DOJ doesn't have to wait for the evidence: Prosecutors can gather it themselves by their own means (no leaks yet about them targeting the higher rings of the insurrection, only the lower levels so far, working their way up we heard), but two sources of evidence is always better than one (the Committee, plus the DOJ).

We shall see.

[pandr32]

4. Let's keep giving him rope

Watching him melt down can be a little scary when we realize how close he came to his ultimate goal, but it is so satisfying to watch him crack-up in real time. He continues to hang himself by (because he has no filters whatsoever) admissions of high crimes.

[underpants]

5. And his party shrugs.

And his party shrugs. Worse than that he is the front runner for the nomination in the next presidential election. If, for some reason, he is actually held to account for any of this -- or anything at all -- it won't be because the Republican Party lifted a finger to make it happen.

[Thunderbeast]

12. This is the most concerning part of the conspiracies

He has so brainwashed the MAGA base, that none of these accusations are believed or of concern. THEY JUST DON'T CARE!

The MAGA masses are driven by a toxic combination of white grievance and a naive longing to return to their simpler childhood. They conflate the "good old days" with their lived experiences during those times.

The 7x24 propaganda they find on FOX NEWS and talk radio serve to feed the grievance.

In any case, NOTHING presented by real journalists, historians, or law enforcement are considered valid. Their ignorance is their power. They will not willingly let go.

[MyOwnPeace]

17. It's not the MAGA base that has me MOST upset......

it is the RepubliQans in office that are still lined up to kiss the fat A$$ of IQ45 - and refuse to 'do the right thing!'

They should be charged too - failure to fulfill the duties of their office!

[monkeyman1]

6. may trump & the republican taliban never have a good week ever again !!

[msfiddlestix]

11. Bill Barr's reason into the illegality as to confiscating voting machines

is that action would have tied him directly to federal criminality.

He's an arrogant pig, as well as a craven fascists, but he isn't stupid enough to take on an action which he could easily be charged for under any normal Democratic Administration.

None the less, he did everything he could from his position of law enforcement power, to enable the psycho-minions to commit all manner of illegality with elections without dirtying his hands.

The phony and illegally conducted audits got started under his watch..

He blithely turned away from it all but not without first giving a wink and a nod.

This pig needs to be investigated.

[MyOwnPeace]

19. Shameful actions on his part, not the least of which is......

the pig's burial of the Mueller Report. He lied about it - refused to release it - and took NO actions regarding ANY of the findings in that report.

Investigate - and then

LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!

[calimary]

22. That explains why he skeedaddled the hell outta Dodge early.

Wanted to avoid getting anything “stuck” on him, I suspect.

[liberalla]

15. Ahhh... how nice! Things are looking up...

[calimary]

20. Sorry. He's not having an awful week.

He’s still walking around, a free man, not even in court about it yet. And I mean IN court. As a defendant. Sitting there, facing ACTUAL CHARGES, with his latest round of flunky lawyers before a judge. And make that SERIOUS charges. Felonies ALL. With actual unavoidable consequences like prison time you can’t plea-bargain your way out of.

He SHOULD BE having an awful week. Every doggone week from here onward should be awful, and worse, til the end of his miserable cheating lying detestable life.

[niyad]

29. Exactly.

[Justice matters.]

31. Yep. Now he's energizing the NEO-NAZI fringes, some of them beating up people in the streets!

Message to Merrick Garland: HHHHHHEEEEEELLLLLLPPPP!!!

[mucifer]

24. I still feel only liberals are paying attention. That's the part that scares me

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

34. Good. But he will never have as awful a week

as he deserves.

[krawhitham]

35. Donald Trump is always having an awful week after awful week, but he survives it all somehow

[Roc2020]

39. Trump is scared and starting to panic

and his slow roll destruction and meltdown is televised. oh my.