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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 08:44 AM Jan 2019

He's awake tweeting, referring to himself in 3rd person, joking about working for the Kremlin.

Maybe Scarborough's right. Maybe he soiled himself when Pirro asked him on air if he worked for Russia.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski agreed President Donald Trump sounded panicked when he was asked by Fox News host Jeanine Pirro whether he had ever worked for Russia.

The “Morning Joe” hosts were stunned by this weekend’s reports that the FBI had opened a counterintelligence investigation to determine whether the president was acting as a Russian agent, and they said Trump had not really denied it.

“On Saturday the president was asked point blank, have you ever worked for Russia?” Brzezinski said. “Nowhere in his 354-word answer did he say the word no.”

Scarborough said the president’s frantic response to Pirro’s question betrayed his fear.

“You don’t have to be a pop psychiatrist to listen to Donald Trump’s voice on Fox News this weekend, and he was in a full-on panic,” Scarborough said. “Full-on panic, talking a hundred miles an hour. In that clip so he had to trash his own U.S. intel agencies — but, boy, he was in full panic mode.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/fox-news-sent-trump-full-panic-asking-russia-msnbcs-morning-joe-mika/
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PatSeg

(47,750 posts)
5. Apparently that is what works with Trump
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:54 AM
Jan 2019

Don't ask subtle indirect questions, just go straight to the point. This is what happened when Hillary accused Trump of being a Putin puppet, he became totally unhinged on national television. Perhaps this is what more journalists need to do, just pointblank ask him questions, instead of suggesting collusion or treason.

 

WeekiWater

(3,259 posts)
6. Do people here really think Trumps staff is so incompetent....
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:54 AM
Jan 2019

That they didn't know the question was going to be asked and that Trump wasn't prepped ahead of time.

Presidents go to people like Pirro because it is a full strings attached interview. They make people like Pirro their puppet.

If Trump didn't know that was going to be asked then this is a bigger.... Nevermind, it can't be any larger of a shit show.

malaise

(269,295 posts)
7. He said no to that question a few mintes ago
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:56 AM
Jan 2019

on his way to New Orleans in Tennessee.
Of course it is another lie

turbinetree

(24,745 posts)
9. Did any of the "reporters" ask him what he did to the questions and answers
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 11:10 AM
Jan 2019

from the linguist at the Helsinki meeting?

I never heard that question...................just some asinine question if he worked for the Russians, like he is going to say yes...................

I know that they have it on tape he said no..................but really...................he has lied over 6,400 times..................

Farmer-Rick

(10,240 posts)
12. She asked the question as if it were a joke, laughing, smiling, kidding around
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 11:25 AM
Jan 2019

He then proceeded to insult and accuse of stupidity everyone involved. He insulted everyone from the newspaper to the FBI. There at the end he starts wandering, saying how he won the election. I expected him to mention the huge crowds at his tiny inauguration. I've heard him sound worse. But his constant bragging about all his accomplishments and his constant insults and obvious threats to anyone who stands up to him.

But I never realized what a suck up Jean, or whatever her name is, could be and still she calls herself a journalist.

azureblue

(2,157 posts)
13. and snorting Adderall
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 11:32 AM
Jan 2019

His Adderall addiction has caught up with him. His brain is toasted. He's nothing more than a burned out tweaker hiding in the bedroom, scribbling crazy things on a note pad.

 

mastermind

(229 posts)
14. every tweet is a reason for the House to censure the idiot, they should do this ASAP, it will drive
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 11:32 AM
Jan 2019

him over the edge for sure!

peggysue2

(10,850 posts)
15. They were 'stunned' by the news?
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 11:38 AM
Jan 2019

Really? After everything we've watched in real time, these two were stunned, shocked, taken aback?

Trumpski indicts himself as soon as he opens his mouth. How any news group could be stunned as the evidence rolls out is beyond me. But then, the MSM gave Donald Trump a pass when he was an 'entertainment' commodity bringing in lots of $$$.

Are we amused yet? Or does watching the country being torn down and apart bring back a smidge of guilt? You know those days when Trumpski was able to 'phone it in' during the campaign and everyone laughed and chortled?

I'm looking at you, Morning Joe.

dalton99a

(81,707 posts)
16. They practically helped him broadcast his lies and insults during the presidential campaign for free
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 11:52 AM
Jan 2019

on a 24/7 basis, while relegating any substantive investigative reporting to page 10 - and putting her emails on page 1.

And their excuse was "Well, he said so much stuff!"

calimary

(81,605 posts)
17. Good point. How on earth could ANYBODY on top of the facts be stunned by this?
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 11:59 AM
Jan 2019

Isn’t it clear by now? HASN’T it BEEN clear for awhile now?

Isn’t it the logical conclusion we’re seeing play out now, that stems from all the lies, criminal behavior, deceit, and flouting the law that we’ve seen in the behavior leading up to now - and STILL in play as we go forward? (“Forward” merely in the march of time, not in illumination or principles, that is.)

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