Curious George

Newsweek:
George Conway, attorney and husband to White House advisor Kellyanne Conway, shredded President Donald Trump’s attack on Rep. Justin Amash on Sunday with what could best be described as a “lie-by-lie” breakdown of the president’s tweets.
After Amash became on Saturday the first Republican lawmaker to publicly declare that Trump had engaged in an impeachable offense while in office, the president fired back Sunday morning at the congressman with a series of angry tweets, where he called Amash a “loser” and maintained his own innocence.
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Hours later, Conway attempted to tear Trump’s tweets apart by claiming the president lied on almost every point he made.
“You never stop lying, do you?,” the attorney tweeted, alongside a reshare of Trump’s attacks on Amash.
Conway flagged a series of quotes Trump’s tweets — that the Mueller report was “son NO COLLUSION,” that the special counsel had concluded there had been “ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION,” that one can’t obstruct “when there is no crime,” that the “crimes were committed by the other side” — as “LIES.”
The only statement Conway flagged as “TRUE” was Trump’s assertion that Amash had played “right into our opponents hands.” Conway’s reasoning? “[Y]ou seem to oppose justice and the rule of law, so, at least on this one, TRUE.”

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33 thoughts on “Curious George”

  1. politico photo & caption:

    George Conway

     

    George Conway on Thursday repeated his assertion that the moral bar of a president should be much higher than not being “provably a criminal.” | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

     

  2. seems George hasn’t changed his mind from what was reported back in april by politico :

    Conservative lawyer George Conway on Thursday called for President Donald Trump to be impeached, entrenching himself even deeper in opposition to his wife, senior counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

     

    In an op-ed in The Washington Post, George Conway, who has made his distaste for the president widely known, asserted that though Mueller cleared Trump on the issue of collusion and declined to recommend charges on obstruction of justice, the special counsel’s findings are nevertheless “damning” and make a convincing case for impeachment.

    While his wife on Thursday said that Mueller’s nearly two-year investigation was a “political proctocology exam and the president has been given a clean bill of health,” George Conway called Trump a “cancer on the presidency” that Congress must “excise … without delay.”

    [continues]

    it all gets curiouser and curiouser

  3. I keep wondering if Kellyanne and George have separate bedrooms.  It’s like that old magazine column:  Can This Marriage Be Saved?

  4. more breaks in the dam?  at least it’s seeping….
    here’s a sample from abc news story “Trump lashes out at Fox News over Buttigieg town hall”
    @brithume

     

    Say this for Buttigieg. He’s willing to be questioned by Chris Wallace, something you’ve barely done since you’ve been president. Oh, and covering candidates of both parties is part of the job of a news channel.

    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump

    Hard to believe that @FoxNews is wasting airtime on Mayor Pete, as Chris Wallace likes to call him. Fox is moving more and more to the losing (wrong) side in covering the Dems. They got dumped from the Democrats boring debates, and they just want in. They forgot the people…..

     

  5. and about that town hall, mayor pete’s best line as reported by stlouis postdispatch:

    Buttigieg, asked by Wallace about tweets like those from Trump, responded bluntly: “I don’t care.”

    “It is a very effective way to command the attention of the media. We need to make sure we are changing the channel,” Buttigieg said before admitting that he finds it hard to turn away from all that Trump does and says at times.

    “It is the nature of grotesque things that you can’t look away,” he said.

     

  7. Sometimes a little self-indulgence is tasty.  Breakfast of fried duck eggs, bacon, homemade bread, and perch roe wrapped in bacon.  Life is good.

     

    jamie – the same marriage arrangement is probable for Matalin and Carville.

  9. the guardian:

    Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, took the oath of office on Monday and immediately announced plans to dissolve parliament, setting up a clash between the country’s entrenched political class and its new leader.

     

    Zelenskiy, a comedian with no prior political experience, won a landslide victory in elections last month, amid anger over corruption and a grinding war with Russian-backed separatists in the country’s south-east.

     

    In a fiery inauguration speech on Monday, he called on government ministers to resign and urged officials not to idolise the president.

     

    “I don’t want my portraits to hang in your offices,” Zelenskiy said. “Because the president is not an icon or an idol. Hang pictures of your children there and look them in the eyes before every decision.”

     

    [continues]

     

    an inaugural line worthy of history books:

    “I don’t want my portraits to hang in your offices,” Zelenskiy said. “Because the president is not an icon or an idol. Hang pictures of your children there and look them in the eyes before every decision.”

  11. George is fake, remember Trump uses the reality TV/prowrestling model of governing. Remember stormy Daniel’s lawyer?

    Jack

  12. jack, it does seem odd that Kellyanne remains in her job given how incensed and vindictive trump has been in the past with others whose relatives have rubbed him the wrong way.

  15. Why would George take the role as a “fake.”   Makes no sense

  16. KGC, it is pro wrestling melodrama, of course it doesn’t make sense. As to George taking on the role? Why not? After all who was he before he became Mr Kelly Ann?  Think of all the attention and free meals he is getting.

    Jack

  18. Photo postcard of Gorgeous George, “the Human Orchid” and the “Toast of the Coast”, circa 1940

    kgc, maybe jack’s mixing him up with Gorgeous George the wrestler who, according to wiki

    transformed his ring entrance into a bona-fide spectacle that would often take up more time than his actual matches. He strolled nobly to the ring to the sounds of “Pomp and Circumstance“, followed by his valet and a purple spotlight. Wearing an elegant robe sporting an array of sequins, Gorgeous George was always escorted down a personal red carpet by his ring valet “Jeffries”, who would carry a silver mirror while spreading rose petals at his feet. While Wagner removed his robe, Jeffries would spray the ring with disinfectant, ostensibly Chanel No. 5 perfume, which Wagner referred to as “Chanel #10” (“Why be half-safe?” he was famous for saying) before he would start wrestling. Moreover, George required that his valets spray the referee’s hands before the official was allowed to check him for any illegal objects, which thus prompted his now-famous outcry “Get your filthy hands off me!” Once the match finally began, he would cheat in every way he could. Gorgeous George was the industry’s first true cowardly villain, and he would cheat at every opportunity, which infuriated the crowd. His credo was “Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat!” This flamboyant image and his showman’s ability to work a crowd were so successful in the early days of television that he became the most famous wrestler of his time, drawing furious heelheat wherever he appeared.

    now that George WAS trumpy

  20. Well, he was one of Paula Jones’s lawyers in the 90s. SFB considered him for Solicitor General. He’s got his bona fides.

  21. wapo:

    The White House on Monday blocked former counsel Donald McGahn from testifying to Congress, the latest act of defiance in the ongoing war between House Democrats and President Trump.

     

    McGahn, who Democrats hoped would become a star witness in their investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice, was subpoenaed to testify Tuesday morning. The former White House counsel was a key witness in several instances of potential obstruction detailed in special counsel Robert. S. Mueller III’s report.

     

    “The Department of Justice has provided a legal opinion stating that, based on long-standing, bipartisan, and constitutional precedent, the former counsel to the president cannot be forced to give such testimony, and Mr. McGahn has been directed to act accordingly,” said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders in a statement. “This action has been taken in order to ensure that future presidents can effectively execute the responsibilities of the office of the presidency.”

    In a summary from the Office of Legal Counsel, the Justice Department argued that the immunity of the president’s immediate advisers from compelled congressional testimony is long-standing and is based on the “fundamental working of the separation of powers.”

     

    The department said McGahn is “not legally required to appear and testify” about matters related to his past role as counsel to Trump.

    [continues]

     

  22. Have the sgt at arms detain mcgahn and see whether the fiction of ‘executive privilege’ is upheld by the federal courts. But, sequester mr mcgahn first, in a comfy cell below the House of Reps.

  23. I vaguely remember people bringing Gorgeous George into conversations, but I young and wasn’t a rasslin fan, so I didn’t get the context of the remarks. However, I remember all the older folks laughing at the mention of the man. It was obvious that he was a clown for the geriatric set, just as Bozo and JP Patches were for the tykes.

  24. Looks like the Conways, by covering both sides of the waterfront, will come up smelling fairly rosey either way the cookie crumbles.

  25. Top 5 Faves (as presidential candidates)

    1. Warren 2. Booker 3. Harris 4. Castro 5. Buttigieg

    Top 5 Faves (as coattail pullers)

    1. Harris 2. Klobuchar 3. Beto 4. Warren 5. Biden

    Top 5 Faves (as executives) 

    1. Booker 2. Klobuchar 3. Castro. 4. Buttigieg. 5. Harris

    Subject to dramatic change without notice !

  26. I care more about coattails than I care about the strength as the presidential candidate. A candidate who can reap all of the Electoral College votes isn’t worth much if he hasn’t got a friend in Congress. A candidate who can win by one Electoral College vote, but who can harvest the 34 Senate seats that are up in 2020, will be a really well set-up president.
    ps I think trump is even weaker than ghw bush was in ’92.

  27. Tide’s risin’ chi’ren.

    Another loss for SFB in fed court. Turn the frickin tax returns over, assholey.

    Republican says assholey obstructed justice, thinks about running as a Libertarian. Hope he does and draws more R votes than D.

    And George…sorry Jack, I ain’t buying what you’re selling.

    And XR, coattails? Damn skippy.

  28. jay sekulow declined the opportunity to say that he didn’t solicit perjury in his phone conversations w/michael cohen.

    Instead, sekulow attacked cohen’s credibility.

  29. The Federal Court that ordered trump’s bank records, has started a real domino effect. These docs will lead to more docs, and those doc will lead to more docs.

    I suspect that the pussypincher will strive to find a judge who will support him. In the end the law is black letter and unscathed over the last century plus. The Law abides.

  30. “The department said McGahn is “not legally required to appear and testify” about matters related to his past role as counsel to Trump.”

    So, just require mcgahn to answer questions about the dirty work he did for trump before and after he left the White House. While he’s at it he might want to answer some questions about his White House experience. And if he fails, hold him until he changes his mind.

  31. Eugenie Robinson has an interesting column at WaPo today. An excerpt:

     
    Justin Amash finally said out loudwhat many other Republicans know but will only whisper: “President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment.” Amash’s party may never forgive him. His nation ought to thank him.

    The Michigan congressman on Saturday became the first significant GOP official to acknowledge the clear implication of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. Every Republican member of Congress should be pressed for an on-the-record response. How does the president’s conduct not amount to obstruction of justice? Where does the Constitution give Congress the right not to act?

    Democrats should be asked these questions, too. I understand that many, apparently including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), think that starting impeachment proceedings would damage the party’s prospects in the 2020 election. But isn’t duty supposed to take precedence over political expediency? It clearly did for Amash, whose reward for his principled stance was a Twitter blast from Trump and a primary challenge for his seat.
    [continues]

    Interesting take on the Amash dust up.
     

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