33 thoughts on “Trump To Self: ‘Heckuva Job’”

  1. usatoday:
    The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, slammed President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he said his administration did a “fantastic job” in helping the U.S. territory Rico recover from last year’s devastating Hurricane Maria.
     

     
    Carmen YulĂ­n Cruz, who garnered global media attention last year in scolding the federal government’s response to the massive storm, said the administration “killed the Puerto Ricans with neglect.”
    “The Trump administration led us to believe they were helping when they weren’t up to par, and they didn’t allow other countries to help us,” Cruz told CNN. “Shame on President Trump. Shame on President Trump for not even once, not even yesterday, just saying, ‘Look, I grieve with the people of Puerto Rico.'”
    “This will be a stain on his presidency for as long as he lives,” she said. “Because rather than come here to support us, he came here to throw paper towels at us, and we will never forget and we will always remember.”
    Last October, on a visit to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, Trump tossed paper towels to Puerto Rican residents at a local relief center, angering storm victims and others who saw his actions as insensitive.
    […]
    Yulín Cruz, In an interview with the BBC, said Trump and his administration have a “ridiculous obsession” with making the federal government relief efforts “a good news story.”
    “This was not a good news story from the beginning,” she said.

  4. sooo, mr burglar, what was wrong with the wine and why did you slam the door?    hardly actions of your common perp or undercover fbi… but maybe perhaps a stupid banker trying to get rid of evidence???

     

    ny times:
    A burglar broke into a Manhattan penthouse early Tuesday and made off with a briefcase and an iPad belonging to a banker who once did work for President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, the police said.
    The homeowner, David Fallarino, 38, is a loan officer at Citizens Bank who handled loan paperwork for Mr. Manafort, who was convicted last week on federal financial fraud charges related to his overseas lobbying work.
    Mr. Fallarino, who was not implicated in wrongdoing, called the police around 3 a.m. on Tuesday after discovering the break-in at his apartment on West 58th Street near Central Park, the police said. He told investigators that he was awakened two hours earlier by the sound of his front door slamming, the police said.
    Mr. Fallarino told investigators he found a crowbar on his private terrace and discovered that the briefcase, the iPad and a pair of sneakers were missing from the living room, the police said. There were no signs of forced entry; Mr. Fallarino said he had left the terrace door open, the police said.

    The stolen items were worth about $2,050, the police said. A wine cabinet on the terrace was found open, the police said, and an unopened bottle was on the ground.
    There were no arrests on Tuesday, and the police were poring over security camera video from the building and from others nearby to identify a suspect.

    The nine-story building is a prewar co-op located one block south of Central Park; it has a 24-hour doorman, according to real estate listings.
    Mr. Fallarino did not respond to an email or phone call seeking comment.
    During Mr. Manafort’s trial in United States District Court in Alexandria, Va., federal prosecutors introduced correspondence with Mr. Fallarino as evidence to help prove Mr. Manafort committed bank fraud.
    Mr. Manafort was found guilty on eight of 18 counts, including charges that he lied to Citizens Bank between December 2015 and March 2016 to obtain a $3.4 million loan for a condominium in Manhattan’s trendy SoHo neighborhood. The jury was deadlocked on two other counts that accused Mr. Manafort of engaging in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud to obtain the loans from Citizens Bank.

    Mr. Fallarino appeared to be the point person who handled Mr. Manafort’s loan applications, but he was never called to testify, as were some other employees of Citizens Bank.
    […continues…]

     

     

  5. Do you suppose the burglary was an inside job?  Really inside, so he wouldn’t have to turn over his device to Mueller?   A crow bar, an alleged slamming door, but no sign of forced entry. Hmm.  KGB wouldn’t be that careless.

    Trump throwing rolls of paper towels to Puerto Ricans as part of the clean up effort speaks volumes.  He thinks of them as being as disposable as paper products.  President One-Ply should be ashamed of himself, but no…look! Him used the potty like a big boy.~ Yayyy~

    What an f-ing putz!

  6. “Him used the potty like a big boy.”

    BiD, yeah, but he keeps soiling the cage throwing his poop at people.

  7. wapo:
    President Trump on Wednesday escalated his criticism of a Justice Department official whose link to a controversial dossier of allegations about the Trump campaign has prompted scrutiny from the president and his allies in Congress, suggesting in a sharply worded tweet that the career civil servant should be fired.
     
    “How the hell is Bruce Ohr still employed at the Justice Department? Disgraceful! Witch Hunt!” Trump wrote to his 54 million Twitter followers Wednesday morning. He revisited the matter several hours later, posting two tweets around 10 p.m. that appeared to quote a Fox News analyst and call for an intervention by Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
     
    Ohr, who has spent more than 25 years at the Justice Department in relative anonymity, has in recent months drawn Trump’s ire because of his interactions with a longtime associate, Christopher Steele, a former MI6 operative whose probe of the alleged ties between Trump’s campaign and Russian officials has infuriated the president.
    [….]
    Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said Ohr told them he notified Justice Department and FBI peers at the time about the dossier’s reliance on hearsay and some witness bias against Trump, alerting Peter Strzok, then an FBI counterintelligence agent; Andrew McCabe, then the intelligence agency’s deputy director; and Andrew Weissmann, then chief of the Justice Department’s criminal fraud division.
     
    But other individuals familiar with the Tuesday interview said Ohr explained that Steele’s “bias” stemmed from his concern that Trump was compromised by the Russians.
     
    “Contrary to the allegations of several Republican members, Mr. Ohr’s testimony does not cast doubt on the credibility of the dossier,” the Democratic leaders of the Judiciary and Oversight committees, Reps. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.) and Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), said in a statement.
     
    “Like the four other interviews scheduled by the Republican Majority over the August break, yesterday’s interview seems to have been a complete waste of time in trying to prove what has already been thoroughly debunked,” the statement continues. “We learned little about Mr. Ohr that we did not already know. Mr. Ohr violated no law, regulation, or Department of Justice policy. Much of his career with the Department has focused on his work fighting Russian organized crime — which makes us wonder why House Republicans have now joined President Trump in focusing their energies on trying to fire Mr. Ohr without just cause.”
    Trump’s tweet targeting Ohr is a clear signal “that Ohr is someone the president would like to be rid of,” said Donald Kettl, a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. The attack seems linked to Ohr’s association with Steele and the dossier, an issue that causes Trump political embarrassment, Kettl said.
     
    “This is a very big deal,” he said, “not only because it suggests political retribution, but it casts a chill and a shadow over this principle of merit, which has been at the core of government for far more than a century.”
    [….continues..]

  8. repeated from above for emphasis:

    But other individuals familiar with the Tuesday interview said Ohr explained that Steele’s “bias” stemmed from his concern that Trump was compromised by the Russians.[…] …. “We learned little about Mr. Ohr that we did not already know. Mr. Ohr violated no law, regulation, or Department of Justice policy. Much of his career with the Department has focused on his work fighting Russian organized crime — which makes us wonder why House Republicans have now joined President Trump in focusing their energies on trying to fire Mr. Ohr without just cause.”

     

    again for emphatic emphasis, most noteworthy are the phrases:

    “….Trump was compromised by the Russians” and “Much of his career with the Department has focused on his work fighting Russian organized crime …”

  11. and so the violence begins against the free press in America thanks to the twit and his cult doing their masters bidding.

    news release 8/30/18 https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/california-man-charged-making-violent-threats-against-boston-globe-employees

    Department of Justice
    U.S. Attorney’s Office
    District of Massachusetts

    California Man Charged with Making Violent Threats Against Boston Globe Employees
    BOSTON – A California man was arrested today and charged with making violent threats against Boston Globe employees in retaliation for the newspaper’s editorial response to political attacks on the media.
     
    Robert D. Chain, 68, of Encino, California, is charged with one count of making threatening communications in interstate commerce. Chain will appear in federal court in Los Angeles this afternoon and be transferred to Boston at a later date.
     
    […statements…]

    On Aug. 10, 2018, the Boston Globe announced that it was requesting that other newspaper publications around the country publish a coordinated editorial response to political attacks on the media. The coordinated editorial response was to be published on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018.
     
    According to court documents, immediately following the announcement, Chain began making threatening calls to the Boston Globe’s newsroom. In the calls, Chain referred to the Globe as “the enemy of the people” and threatened to kill newspaper employees. In total, it is alleged that Chain made approximately 14 threatening phone calls to the Globe between August 10 and 22, 2018.
     
    It is further alleged that on Aug. 16, 2018, the day the coordinated editorial response was published in the Boston Globe, Chain called the Globe newsroom and threatened to shoot Globe employees in the head “later today, at 4 o’clock.” As a result of that call, local law enforcement responded to the Globe’s offices and maintained a presence outside the building to ensure the safety of the employees.
     
    The charge of making threatening communications in interstate commerce provides for a sentence of no greater than five years, one year of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
     
    U.S. Attorney Lelling and FBI SAC Shaw made the announcement today. Valuable assistance was provided by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Los Angeles Field Division; the Drug Enforcement Administration, Los Angeles Division; the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Los Angeles Division; the California Highway Patrol; and the Los Angeles Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney George P. Varghese of Lelling’s National Security Unit is prosecuting the case.
     
    The details contained in the charging documents are allegations. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

  12. the guardian: FBI arrests man who threatened to kill Boston Globe staff for criticizing Trump

     

    FBI says Robert Chain began a series of threatening calls after the newspaper announced it was coordinating a response to Trump’s attacks on the media

     

    […continues…]

  13. no wonder pecker started cooperationg when he heard: “Maybe he gets hit by a truck,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Pecker in a conversation with Mr. Cohen, musing about an unfortunate mishap befalling his good friend.

     

    ny times:  National Enquirer Had Decades of Trump Dirt. He Wanted to Buy It All.
    Federal investigators have provided ample evidence that President Trump was involved in deals to pay two women to keep them from speaking publicly before the 2016 election about affairs that they said they had with him.
    But it turns out that Mr. Trump wanted to go even further.
    He and his lawyer at the time, Michael D. Cohen, devised a plan to buy up all the dirt on Mr. Trump that the National Enquirer and its parent company had collected on him, dating back to the 1980s, according to several of Mr. Trump’s associates.
    The existence of the plan, which was never finalized, has not been reported before. But it was strongly hinted at in a recording that Mr. Cohen’s lawyer released last month of a conversation about payoffs that Mr. Cohen had with Mr. Trump.
    “It’s all the stuff — all the stuff, because you never know,” Mr. Cohen said on the recording.
    The move by Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen indicated just how concerned they were about all the information amassed by the company, American Media, and its chairman, David Pecker, a loyal Trump ally of two decades who has cooperated with investigators.

    […long article…]

    People with knowledge of American Media’s operations, who would speak only on condition of anonymity, described the files on Mr. Trump as mostly older National Enquirer stories about Mr. Trump’s marital woes and lawsuits; related story notes and lists of sensitive sources; some tips about alleged affairs; and minutia, like allegations of unscrupulous golfing.
    As the Associated Press reported last week, some of the information was kept in a safe devoted to particularly sensitive material.
    Many of the older National Enquirer stories are often not accessible through Google or databases like Nexis.
    Several former American Media staff members said that at the very least, the material the company had on Mr. Trump would have put its flagship, The Enquirer, in a prime position to dominate on coverage of Mr. Trump’s scandalous past.

  14. “…the material the company had on Mr. Trump would have put its flagship, The Enquirer, in a prime position to dominate on coverage of Mr. Trump’s scandalous past.”

    in other words, it meant a prime position to blackmail a president

  15. you know it’s true   he does cheat at golf –after all he cheats at everything

     

  17. I think John McCain had an excellent life.  He loved and was loved.  He had great passion for his work and family and he had a wonderful sense of humor.

    What more could you ask for?

  19. Craig – looks good.

    Watching the cavalcade taking McCain to the Phoenix airport.  Surprised that Air Force (not) One is sitting there.  It is the presidents plane and the call sign is Air Force One if a president is on board.  As it will not be this time it is not One.  Viewing the Phoenix landscape makes me wish to be back, at least for a visit.

    Home early.  Power went out and was not coming back on in the office.  Too hot and humid to go run and jump and roll in the grass outside.  Soon will be time to start charcoal for tonight’s cook it outside to not heat the inside.

  20. degenerate fool?  mirror-gazing again.

    bbc:
    On Wednesday, the president called Mr Bernstein a “sloppy” and “degenerate fool” who invented stories.
    Mr Bernstein fired back, tweeting that he spent his life “bringing the truth to light” and “no taunt” could diminish that commitment.
    His story reported Mr Trump knew about a 2016 meeting with Russians/
    On Twitter, the president said “CNN is being torn apart from within” over refusing to admit their mistakes, adding that Mr Bernstein “is being laughed at all over the country”.
    [..tweet..]

    CNN has stood by the story and Mr Bernstein, tweeting at the president: “Make no mistake, Mr President, CNN does not lie.”

    […tweet…]

    On Thursday, Mr Trump called for CNN president Jeff Zucker to be fired over the network’s “hatred and extreme bias” towards him

    […tweet…]

    The president continued to lambast US media on Twitter, saying “they only have their hatred and agenda”, adding that the media is also responsible for “fake books”.

    […continues..]

  21. Still fighting with computer.  Enjoy isn’t quite the word … maybe dismayed … Donald Trump tweeted his way through the funeral honors for Sen. McCain.  Sad seeing a pigmy trying to draw attention from the giant in the room.  I swear the current POTUS grows more pathetic and whiney by the day.  Never have we seen someone so totally unfit for the office he holds.

    On the related but interesting side, The Front Runner will debut at Telluride Film Festival and will go into general release on election day.  Gary Hart who may have brought on our modern age of the marriage of personal life and political life that has brought us to media and politics in such a way as to destroy government service.

    Side note:  Gary Hart was designated one of Senator McCain’s pallbearers.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-front-runner-trailer-gary-hart-hugh-jackman_us_5b883115e4b0cf7b003372c9

     

     

  23. Jamie, I have had a nagging suspicion that your browser did not want to make an insecure connection to remote web sites.

  24. Craig…  say Hi to Dale from Rick and I.

    Jamie…  let me echo everything you said about trump…  a pygmy and a pig…

  25. Im sure glad that t here are a l ot new dems on the scene…..they will st and up for us all against Trumpism……These old school republican lit dems make me tired to even think that they will do the r ight t hing.

    The Rs held up Obamas supreme court choice for a whole year or so……you would think that the Ds would do the same each and every time that they had a chance to….Shummer made a deal with t he Mitch to fast track a whole shit load of life long trump judges to the bench…..they have agreed to fast track them so they can get home….according to the  Huffing-ton post…

    Im going to talk up all of the true left progressives that i can………Pelosi plus shummer…..the demise of the dems is for sure…..all they care about is pleasing their big money corps….just like the Rs…..they made th is deal on tuesday so they can get home early. today……vote t hem out early……later

  26. To be clear:  These are judges that are against the right to chose….anti gay, etc etc…..giving trump a major major win……

  28. They won’t get another opportunity like they have now!

    As to this tread…now is the time to take advantage that Trump lied about Puerto Rico!…draft a bill to give them the ability to vote…..great arguement for this is that lost 3000 lives and no one cared.  With they are Americans…they deserve the same and equal rights!

    With what’s going on with all of pediphile fks in the Catholic Church….fight for the separation of church and state!

    Now is a good time to take over the family values arguement .  They separated little children….put them in cages…made 3 year olds stand in front of judges in actual courts…

    Take away the Patriot card from them…each and every thing that they have been using against the Dems….are up for grabs…….but they have to fight .For it to happen……now is the time no?….that’s just a few examples…..they are looking for smart sounding slogans……how about what these

     

     

  30. Whew, this work shit really Fs up my ability to F off and comment at my favorite blog and media outlets.

    Solar man,  when I saw the headline about fast track and judges, I wondered just WTF? I mean really, doesn’t Schumer understand the importance of slowing this goddamn process down? JHC.  What is he thinking?  I don’t give a good goddam about Congress going home. Piss on all of them.

  31. Pogo, I just can’t get over …I’m not mad or anything…..this selfishness…..nOw is the time to fight for it all…..

  32. Solar, you’re preaching to the choir. Beats shit out of me.

    We may back different candidates at times, but I get what you’re saying.

  33. Uno mas…..these same dems will pretend outrage….when some nut job judge makes some kind of ruling that they say their against…….Ommmmm, Ommmmm, time to shut it down. it takes a cpl of hrs to fall asleep sometimes…..later

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