I read a lot about Wolff when the book came out, and it sounded a lot like he had very low credibility. Of course he has more credibility than Trump, but who doesn’t.
At the same time I think his book caused me to get a lot of very credible information. Journalists usually know a lot more than they’ll say because they are responsible, want to remain credible, don’t want to burn sources. In the wake of the book, a lot of journalists with lots of inside access were saying the same thing: The book isn’t very credible, Wolff isn’t very credible, many of the facts are wrong, but the broad strokes of the book match everything I’m getting from all my sources. It put people in a position to talk about things they were keeping under their hats.
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Well, it does seem that he’s pretending he suddenly can’t hear, but that could go to his credibility, or to his refusal, for whatever reason, to speak to that issue. Maybe he’d refused to address it before the interview, and then got pissed off when they asked him anyway.
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I’m sure that Trump will take that calmly and with due respect for the judicial branch of the government.
Ha, no!
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My bet’s on NRA’s 'murica baiting to continue until November. They’ll do anything to get the cultists angry. Angry people vote.
These quests on CBS This Morning talked about how toxic the NRA brand has become these few weeks
Here’s an updated list of those who are sticking with the NRA
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Unfortunately the organizations to whom I’d really like to do this do not send postage-paid envelopes.
I’d also look for a unique identifier (or barcode etc.) on the envelope (usually on the back) – sometimes they’ll just have your name & address pre-printed on the upper left. I’m not sure they’d actually go to the trouble of following up with the authorities, but if you send back one of these envelopes, they’ll presumably know who did it. (You can always take an X-Acto blade to that part of the envelope.)
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To their credit, the Stoneman kids gave no fucks, and clapped back at the NRAniks and all the trollies that came with them. When hardcore wing nuts spread “crisis actor” stories claiming there was no massacre at all and people were just pretending there had been to make conservatives look bad — aided by Trump fan and NRA board member Ted Nugent — the kids smacked them around. When Trump blamed the FBI for investigating him instead pre-cogging the killer, they smacked him around too. And when Dinesh D’Souza made some typically stupid jokes about them, he got smacked so bad he actually issued an apology.
Interestingly, this show of courage, rare among Democratic constituent groups (which are usually instructed by their friends in the media to roll up in a ball and beg not to be kicked too hard), not only emboldened them but appeared to bring others to their side as well.
Mainstream conservatives, perhaps afraid of receiving similar treatment, suggested instead that it was rude of children who’d been stalked by an armed murderer to complain about it. When Stoneman Douglas’ Sarah Chadwick mocked Rubio in a viral tweet, for example, Trump loyalist Laura Ingraham sulked, “HOW TEENS SPEAK TO AND ABT ADULTS.” An exasperated Todd Starnes of Fox News asked, “Parents, what would you do if your child lectured and ridiculed a U.S. Senator on national television?” earning a series of hilarious answers. (“A majority of parents say they support their children being disrespectful and belligerent to adults,” moped a broken Starnes afterward.)
OH MAN, YOU CAN TELL THEY’RE GETTING SPOOKED.
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I love the smell of wingnut-desperation in the morning. Smells like . . . victory!
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Worth clicking through, as they link to all these references (and to give a great publication the clicks). Hell yeah, Village Voice
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Wouldn’t it be ironic if the last person trump ever sees is a 15 yr old high school student with an AR-15?
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He’s a lying sack of shit…
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If I had more time, I’d have a tumblr of all these armchair assholes called “It woulda gone down different If I’d been there…”
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So now the Republican party is just straight-up copping to extortion and exploitation in the name of their cause, even as it runs counter to their professed reverence for The Free Market, because party comes first. Always.
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Um.
Private businesses can most definitely decide who to give discounts to.
I think Delta knows quite well that any association with a group as toxic as the NRA hurts them a whole lot more than this dinglehopper’s threats.
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Yeahhhh … Ten dollars, yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket. Ten dollars. Yeah.
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Please, please Casey Cagle, kill some bullshit tax cuts for corporations to show your displeasure with them cutting ties with the NRA.
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Someone in the replies was actually helpful enough to point out the exact Georgia statute that he just violated, too:
(3) “Public officer” means a county officer, a municipal officer, and state officials as provided in Code Section 45-15-11.
(b) A public officer may be charged under this Code section for:
(1) Malpractice, misfeasance, or malfeasance in office;
(2) Using oppression or tyrannical partiality in the administration or under the color of his or her office;
…
(c ) A conviction for violating subsection (b) of this Code section shall be punished as for a misdemeanor and, upon conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction, the accused shall be removed from office.
It should, incidentally, come as no surprise that Cagle has an A+ rating from the NRA and was previously endorsed by them. However, I think he’s mostly just mad that he’s losing his discount, because of course he’s also a member.
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