Hot Mic Catches Trump Lashing Out Over Failed Picks: 'I Can't Appoint Anybody!'

[Eugene]

Hot Mic Catches Trump Lashing Out Over Failed Picks: ‘I Can’t Appoint Anybody!’ (Mediaite)

President Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic lashing out over his inability to get his picks approved because of Senate rules, exclaiming, “I can’t appoint anybody!”

Interim appointments have become a huge problem for Trump, as handpicked interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan’s illegal appointment has scuttled Trump’s revenge cases, and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba has been forced to step down after being disqualified.

Trump was asked about Habba’s resignation during a roundtable on Monday, and riffed for a solid three minutes about how the Senate’s “Blue Slip” rule has kept him from getting the picks that he really wants.

After the president wrapped up the event by thanking the press, still-active mics caught him continuing to lash out over the issue — after he revealed that he saves meeting namecards as souvenirs:

https://news.yahoo.com/news/articles/hot-mic-catches-trump-lashing-193035659.html

[Probatim]

1. ...after he revealed that he saves meeting namecards as souvenirs

I guess it's true - all serial killers keep some sort of trophy.

[appmanga]

2. What's interesting about Trump's whining...

...is his party controls the Senate, but has not had a true recess since his election. An actual recess would allow Trump to make recess appointments which would last until the end of the Congress, which now would be a little more than a year away. His own party is worried about the quality of people he'd put into these positions, so they continue to have pro forma sessions during their "recesses".

[leftstreet]

5. +1

[J_William_Ryan]

3. Trump

wouldn’t have any trouble making appointments if he nominated qualified, impartial candidates – not incompetent blind partisan Trump Cult members willing to pursue Trump’s lawless campaign of revenge.

[jls4561]

4. It's tough to get out of a Senate hearing when you practically show up in a T-shirt that read

“I am an incompetent bootlicker.”

[Initech]

6. Or if he were a sane, logical, person who ruled with facts.

Instead of the irrational, batshit insane, out of control, completely removed from reality lunatic that he is.

[question everything]

7. Interesting because in his first term the turtle filled about 200 posts that he blocked during the Obama term

[USS_Dauntless]

8. Anything that makes Trump mad,

makes me GLAD!