On Friday, Donald Trump somehow managed to make the crazy sh*t he has done and said in the past week look sane. Trump apparently decided that he didn’t already look enough like a Russia stooge, so he unleashed one of his famous FAKE NEWS rants…but this time, he threatened a witness in a federal investigation.
The Fake Media is working overtime today!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
Oh, are you talking about how they have been quoting you admitting that you fired James Comey because of the Russia investigation? Trump then addressed the fact that his surrogates have been working overtime like the “Fake Media” to lie their asses off about Comey’s firing.
As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
Trump has a solution, though — no more press briefings at all. Just little pieces of paper detailing the message the White House wants to send without allowing for any questions or comments:
…Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future “press briefings” and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
You might think he would have stopped with “take my propaganda and shut up,” but Trump wasn’t done. Next, he decided to threaten James Comey if he leaks any information to the press. What information? Information about the totally not real Russia investigation, of course! “James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” the sitting President said, following the threat up with a repeat lie that James Clapper has said there “is no collusion.” Clapper has said no such thing — ever.
James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
When James Clapper himself, and virtually everyone else with knowledge of the witch hunt, says there is no collusion, when does it end?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
Naturally, Americans have a problem with Trump threatening the former FBI director, whom he fired shortly after Comey requested additional resources for that totally-fake-not-real investigation that both is and is not real:
@realDonaldTrump Leaking what btw???
— Mike Denison (@mikd33) May 12, 2017
@realDonaldTrump Since tapes is in quotations, it looks like you are admitting you wiretapped Comey. Can you elaborate?
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) May 12, 2017
@dnstreet @pnehlen @realDonaldTrump @POTUS Trump just threatened the former @fbi director & claimed he may have illegally taped a convo w/ him. & this guy is talking about Dems? LOL
— Dana Smith (@Brady5thOrBust) May 12, 2017
@realDonaldTrump But it would be more enjoyable if this was happening OUTSIDE the most important institution in our country.
— Nick Pappas (@NickAPappas) May 12, 2017
@realDonaldTrump I’m thinking that pissing off both the press and the FBI is really not a well thought out strategy,
— Rob Szczerba (@RJSzczerba) May 12, 2017
@realDonaldTrump I’m sorry, what? Did you just threaten to blackmail a potential witness?
— Ben Hooper (@BenHooperWrites) May 12, 2017
@realDonaldTrump Are you trying to get impeached? This is how you get impeached.
— Tony Webster (@webster) May 12, 2017
@realDonaldTrump And the psychotic break has officially begun.
— Douglas Keane (@douglaskeane) May 12, 2017
@realDonaldTrump Err…you know, taping didn’t work out so well for Nixon
— Emily Colucci (@emilycolucci) May 12, 2017
@realDonaldTrump You’ve been recording convos in the WH like Nixon? There are tapes of you speaking in private that can be subpoenaed? My god you are stupid.
— O’Coin (@OCOIN) May 12, 2017
@realDonaldTrump Dude, Comey will be called to testify soon. This is called witness intimidation.
— Tangela (@TangelaNichols5) May 12, 2017
@realDonaldTrump 1. This will soon be seen as witness intimidation.
2. You still don’t understand how quotation marks work.— elan gale (@theyearofelan) May 12, 2017
Things are getting bad for The Donald and pretty much everyone around him. We can expect more of these meltdowns in the coming weeks as the Trump administration goes up in smoke.
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