If we’re talking about financial transactions that look a little sketchy & merit investigation, the sudden investment in an aluminum plant in Kentucky by Deripaska following relief from Russian sanctions supported by KY Senators would raise my eyebrows as a prosecutor. https://t.co/NRHguPzPXp
House Democrats began making good on their campaign promise to shore up the Affordable Care Act, passing a bill that would bar the Trump administration from granting states some waivers to the health-care law. https://t.co/2PJpEY6vi2
Victoria Toensing, who represents Erik Prince and advises Trump on legal matters, has met with Ukraine’s General Prosecutor about opening inquiries that could help Trump and will accompany Giuliani to Ukraine to dig up more "dirt" on Hunter Biden.#Maddowhttps://t.co/UFhsRydUXC
This is stunning. @ewarren leads off her talk on the opioid crisis here in Kermit, WV asking who knows someone who’s “been caught in the grips of addiction.” Dozens instantly raise their hands. pic.twitter.com/4y4ENA36vY
FYI… and HOW much stuff comes from China?? Oh yeah! Shit tons!!
Trump's tariffs are not paid by the Chinese government or companies located in China. They are paid by importers of Chinese goods — usually U.S. companies or the U.S.—registered units of foreign companies. https://t.co/6UNIdow44n
If a fetus is a person at 6 weeks pregnant, is that when the child support starts? Is that also when you can’t deport the mother because she’s carrying a US citizen? Can I insure a 6 week fetus and collect if I miscarry? Just figuring if we’re going here we should go all in.
Part One:
“Trump Ghostwriter Suggests ‘Art of the Deal’ be Recategorized as Fiction.”
Tony Schwartz responded to the NYT report that Trump lost $1.2 billion between 1985 and 1994:
(https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tony-schwartz-fiction_n_5cd35870e4b09f321bdb6983)
–Tony Schwartz said the same things 2 years ago about Trump as Charles Leerhsen, ghostwriter for ‘Surviving at the Top”, said last night
on ‘All In with Chris Hayes’.
Part Two:
TERRIFYING.
A TOTAL LIGHT BULB MOMENT FOR ALL.
Please read this interview between Trump’s 2nd guostwriter and Chris Hayes. (And forgive me for transcribing again. Imo so critical to
understand this about the real Trump.)
CHARLES LEERHSEN:
“This was the sequel to the ‘Art of the Deal’ and I was an outsider…a lot of people say Mark Burnett and the ‘The Apprentice’ created the fictional Trump that so many people voted for. Ironically (the constructed persona Trump) came from a book. Here’s a guy who has written more books than he’s read but his image was actually shaped by the book, the Art of the Deal. So I came to it thinking a golden boy, a young business genius, and boy..it was very hard…it took me 15 or 20 sessions to realize…I couldn’t believe it…he was the Trump that we know: The uninformed, the ignorant Trump that we know. But people were ready on board, propping him up…
Spending his time on fabric swatches: “This is the way he runs the country now. You know he sits in his office there with Nick Mulvaney and there’s a whole and there’s a whole lot of stuff happening all over, but he’s oblivious to it. You know he can’t even spell Kentucky, and he’s not even thinking about the whole rest of the United States, or the Department of Agriculture. He doesn’t know what goes on there and he doesn’t care. It’s the same thing with these businesses that he acquired, the Plaza Hotel and the Trump Shuttle, he would buy them and then there’d be a lot of hoopla. He was interested to that point, and then he had no interest in running them on a day to day basis and no knowledge of how to do it. So he’d focus on the fabric swatches, I think coz for one thing it played into his germophobia. You know he was always replacing the carpets, and the drapes (Chris is starting to crack up) and he was always talking about ‘deep cleaning’ the airline sinks, you know, and that’s what his life became. He would say “what do you think of this piece of valour here, and I’d feel it and you know I’d talk about it, and at the center of all this chaos was this man feeling the fabric.”
HAYES: Did you get any sense that he had any business acumen or any insight at all? If not what is your theory of how this man has managed to get through 40 years conning people?
LEERHSEN: “Well I think that the nuts and bolts of it in that period of his life – the banks were caught up in the whole Trump image thing – and they were believing the Art of the Deal over what they saw on his balance sheets, and what came out of his mouth. And he also for a while was successful in Atlantic City so he had this like cash cow that casinos were turning out money and they were covering his other mistakes. But then just for a few months (when) Atlantic City went south, and it’s like a guy who’s in over his head with his home mortgage and then he loses his job, he can’t pay the bill and he quickly cycles down. But in Trump’s case the difference was that the banks came to his rescue, because their reputations and their very solvency sometimes was dependent on them saving him and propping him up. So instead of foreclosing, they figured out some way to make it work.”
(Trump’s latest 6-month obsession is bringing fireworks back to Mt. Rushmore.)
HAYES: He’s found his fabric swatches, something he’s well equipped to handle.
Leehson: “There’s a little bit of a rainman thing going on there with him. He gets focused on something and fascinated with something and it’s hard to get it away from him.’
HAYES: What do you think about all of this having watched it unfold before?
“I’ve thought about how it was different and how it was the same. It was different in those days the stakes were a lot lower, He was a real estate guy and yes he was hurting people, contractors, and he wasn’t renting to minorities, and he was doing bad things…mostly he was inconsequential he didn’t have his finger on the button…
but now the Trump I see there in the White House and the Oval Office from what I can see is exactly the same guy. He just shows up every day and tries to kill the time in a way that is pleasant for him, until his next TV show comes on, or something like that. So now it’s watching television and hanging around, and then every once in a while he would rant when somebody would come in and tell him the Plaza hotel lost, you know, 250,000 dollars last week, and he’d get excited about that for a few minutes and then – but for him the difference was it didn’t matter – he was able to comparmentalize until that became public, until those failures became public then he felt really bad about it.”
Bridgeriverpass, I’m so glad that you do bring these transcriptions here. I stopped watching MSNBC pretty much in 2010, unless someone brings clips here or TPV. Plus, there are times when the MSNBC clips don’t play on my laptop.
sjterrid hi,
(Hey I just received some beautiful flowers from my daughter!)
There’s a very hard working crew in the evenings on that channel and I wouldn’t miss it. (Actually i watch it later.) I trust the hosts I watch, they’re telling the truth. And it gets Increasingly more interesting…stunning guests, lively presentations, interviews with the current players. Not trying to be an Advertisement. (Ads are my pet peeve, can you believe some of them – so sexist, often racist, inappropriate for children).
But literally apart from Sir Colbert, some basketball, other sports, Oscars, PBS – that’s it for me with the TV.
Why is the president's personal attorney seeking to persuade a foreign government to investigate his political rival? Be sure to review 18 U.S.C. § 201, the one ethics law that applies to the president, before you offer any quid pro quo for the Ukranian investigation. https://t.co/IBnCoGiKjV
From the guy who lost the equivalent of $2 Billion, the highest losses of any American at the time, while pretending to be “at his peak”.
Thanks to the clueless Fabric.Swatch.Would.Be.Emperor:
“Tariff Increase On $200B In Chinese Imports Takes Effect.” (CBC)
Americans will pay a lot more for all the junk. Meanwhile the grifter Trump family goes on ripping off poor workers around the world. Just heard that Melania has a shoe sweatshop going in in Ethiopia where she pays workers so badly they could never, in their lifetimes, afford a pair of her shoes.
-Meanwhile is there any chance that Americans could make the clothing and technology that is imported? Job creation?
-Could Universities please encourage local workers to sew their sports apparel?
.@staceyabrams on 2020: "The Senate was not the right place for me…I'm looking at executive level opportunities, and that means that I am going to look at the 2020 presidential election." [gasps in crowd] "Stop. Stop. I didn't announce anything." #CDIA2019pic.twitter.com/RGfx9M4fKR
A campaign to find the child who yelled "Wow!" after a symphony's Mozart rendition was a success. The 9-year-old New Hampshire boy whose exclamation had caused the audience to burst into laughter, then applause, has been found. https://t.co/8cdBDbB5Zn
I was touched when Melinda asked me to introduce her at her #MomentofLift book tour stop in Seattle tonight. I wanted to do right by her but wasn’t sure what the best approach was — so I turned to someone with some expertise in this area… pic.twitter.com/AYKp6MPC6E
Trump now being exposed as a lifelong TOTAL liar and fraud:
Here’s the link to the revelations by guostwriter Charles Leershen last night:
So intuitively we knew it all right?
But here’s the devastating truth about His Ignorance: The big layabout, hanging out, watching tv, debating fabrics and drapes, losing his inherited $billions, while Rome burns. Only now he has the keys to the planet.
–Don’t let him start a distraction war.
Stop talking and do it, @RepAdamSchiff. BTW, you need to scale the fine to match the extraordinary wealth of folk like @stevenmnuchin1 for whom $25K/day is a bottle of wine or two – no joke. Start at $250K/day and escalate at every 7th day they fail to comply.
JUST IN: #PartyCity says it plans to close about 45 of its locations this year, roughly 5 percent of its national footprint, amid a worldwide helium shortage multi-million first-quarter loss https://t.co/qBMC9ZF9c3
Humans are stupid. Helium is a vital element that is used in cryogenics, particularly to cool superconductor magnets, but we have very little helium on earth. So naturally, we pump it into balloons and let it float away to escape into space, lost forever.https://t.co/DMmrmFDtVi
Fort Lauderdale News Search Reviews (Former first Lady Michelle Obama surprises a group of high school girls at the Overtown Youth Center in Miami) Fort Lauderdale News – https://t.co/BJkASQvbZQpic.twitter.com/bR2eNIdtFN
Dear @Theresa_May, you should revoke the invitation to Putin's BFF.#Trumps obsequious alignment with Vlad is an assault on #RuleOfLaw; an insult to those Brits poisoned by Vlad; & acquiescence to Vlad's hybrid war against Britain & the EU, i.e., #Brexit.
Dear @chrislhayes, entertaining discussion with @CharlesLeerhsen. Suggest you invite him to return & along with @CraigUnger for a discussion of how Vlad's & the Russian mob's BFF managed to remain solvent as he evolved into the steward of Vlad's hybrid war against Democracy.
This Trump creep not only never stops lying but also never stops believing that arrogance is governance. He's the epitome of Imposter Syndrome. https://t.co/nd8ADFAqN5
All members of a white supremacist group who were charged for their roles in the 2017 Charlottesville violence have now pleaded guilty. The group, the Rise Above Movement, was the subject of reporting by FRONTLINE & @ProPublica: https://t.co/qNFkVFaMKp
Now Giuliani's not going to visit Ukraine. Think it's time to ask for competency psycho evals of Rudy, Barr, and trump – at the very least. Pence is just biding his time until the U S of A turns into Sodom and Gomorrah, and he can be king of all of us pillars of salt. Exhausting.
Just a breath of lovely to bring cheers. In case I don’t get the chance Sunday, happiest of Mother’s Day to all TODers. Whether you’re a Mom or not, the “nots” have Moms too! 😂 So, much luv to everyone’s Moms! 💞
Love when my daughters neighborhood friends come over for game night, arriving on their pretty skateboards. I’m going to miss these times when they go off to college. pic.twitter.com/cbtZ8VO8lp
Mine’s a little off on the cadence, but I’m sleepy. 🙂 Goodnight, TODville! Better days are coming, as my Mother used to say.
There once was a nutjob named Barr Whom trump picked off a nut tree from afar But then Burr's subpoena was infused And trump's thinking got confused He ponders, "Is it Barr or Burr who's my shining star?"
Good morning, TODville. Let’s start the weekend with some GORGEOUS.
Did last of my interviews w/ @MichelleObama for her #IAmBecoming book tour & it sure was fun. So much candor, wisdom & laughter. As she rounds the corner to the end of the tour, a round of applause for her vision to make her book come alive for readers around the world pic.twitter.com/i48fL3miA6
The Navajo Nation mourns the loss of Navajo Code Talker Fleming Begaye, Sr., who passed away today at the age of 97. We offer our heartfelt appreciation to the family for sharing his life with us. May the Creator bless you and your family with strength and comfort. Ahe’hee’ pic.twitter.com/J3gckFZyEU
— Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez (@NNPrezNez) May 11, 2019
That works for me. Russia owns Trump. The Russian Mafia first used Trump condos to launder money in 1984 and he owed them ever since. https://t.co/kEND9DWD5b
@michelleobama shook up the entire book publishing industry with her vision for making her memoir come alive. Look at that crowd Last night in Florida!!! The tour now heads to Atlanta @GayleKing – You got next pic.twitter.com/jATwQ2HHpr
It's time to accept that they are not dealing in good faith and have no plans to do so in the future. The world is speeding toward a crescendo of criminality. Take a minute to zoom out, step back, and bring it all into focus. They won't win, but they are determined to try.
“Trump Just Went Berserk And Blasted Twitter With 60 Retweets In 45 Minutes.” (Colarossi)
Just a thought experiment, what if we ignored his tweets?
…Meltdown City…
(apologies….it’s a lovely green, sunny day.)
There was a young man from New York
who sullied our ears with trash talk.
He rode on his lies
And ignored human cries
Until he got stuck with a fork.
The Obama Diary 
We must all fight to keep and extend the protection of the ACA.
… because it saves lives!
Happy Friday, Judith!
TGIF, Jacqueline!
Hello!!!!
Fighting for the ACA
These traitors should be disbarred
Friday belly laugh to go with a cocktail later 😂😂
Which drug is she on? I might need some of it later.
Sorry, not sorry, Sarah! Your goose is well done. Cooked w/ a sprinkling of magic shrooms! 👀😂
Sorry, not sorry, Sarah! Your goose is well done. Cooked. 👀😂
FYI… and HOW much stuff comes from China?? Oh yeah! Shit tons!!
SOON – Sen. Amy Klobuchar tours school in New York City – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
Part One:
“Trump Ghostwriter Suggests ‘Art of the Deal’ be Recategorized as Fiction.”
Tony Schwartz responded to the NYT report that Trump lost $1.2 billion between 1985 and 1994:
(https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tony-schwartz-fiction_n_5cd35870e4b09f321bdb6983)
–Tony Schwartz said the same things 2 years ago about Trump as Charles Leerhsen, ghostwriter for ‘Surviving at the Top”, said last night
on ‘All In with Chris Hayes’.
Part Two:
TERRIFYING.
A TOTAL LIGHT BULB MOMENT FOR ALL.
Please read this interview between Trump’s 2nd guostwriter and Chris Hayes. (And forgive me for transcribing again. Imo so critical to
understand this about the real Trump.)
CHARLES LEERHSEN:
“This was the sequel to the ‘Art of the Deal’ and I was an outsider…a lot of people say Mark Burnett and the ‘The Apprentice’ created the fictional Trump that so many people voted for. Ironically (the constructed persona Trump) came from a book. Here’s a guy who has written more books than he’s read but his image was actually shaped by the book, the Art of the Deal. So I came to it thinking a golden boy, a young business genius, and boy..it was very hard…it took me 15 or 20 sessions to realize…I couldn’t believe it…he was the Trump that we know: The uninformed, the ignorant Trump that we know. But people were ready on board, propping him up…
Spending his time on fabric swatches: “This is the way he runs the country now. You know he sits in his office there with Nick Mulvaney and there’s a whole and there’s a whole lot of stuff happening all over, but he’s oblivious to it. You know he can’t even spell Kentucky, and he’s not even thinking about the whole rest of the United States, or the Department of Agriculture. He doesn’t know what goes on there and he doesn’t care. It’s the same thing with these businesses that he acquired, the Plaza Hotel and the Trump Shuttle, he would buy them and then there’d be a lot of hoopla. He was interested to that point, and then he had no interest in running them on a day to day basis and no knowledge of how to do it. So he’d focus on the fabric swatches, I think coz for one thing it played into his germophobia. You know he was always replacing the carpets, and the drapes (Chris is starting to crack up) and he was always talking about ‘deep cleaning’ the airline sinks, you know, and that’s what his life became. He would say “what do you think of this piece of valour here, and I’d feel it and you know I’d talk about it, and at the center of all this chaos was this man feeling the fabric.”
HAYES: Did you get any sense that he had any business acumen or any insight at all? If not what is your theory of how this man has managed to get through 40 years conning people?
LEERHSEN: “Well I think that the nuts and bolts of it in that period of his life – the banks were caught up in the whole Trump image thing – and they were believing the Art of the Deal over what they saw on his balance sheets, and what came out of his mouth. And he also for a while was successful in Atlantic City so he had this like cash cow that casinos were turning out money and they were covering his other mistakes. But then just for a few months (when) Atlantic City went south, and it’s like a guy who’s in over his head with his home mortgage and then he loses his job, he can’t pay the bill and he quickly cycles down. But in Trump’s case the difference was that the banks came to his rescue, because their reputations and their very solvency sometimes was dependent on them saving him and propping him up. So instead of foreclosing, they figured out some way to make it work.”
(Trump’s latest 6-month obsession is bringing fireworks back to Mt. Rushmore.)
HAYES: He’s found his fabric swatches, something he’s well equipped to handle.
Leehson: “There’s a little bit of a rainman thing going on there with him. He gets focused on something and fascinated with something and it’s hard to get it away from him.’
HAYES: What do you think about all of this having watched it unfold before?
“I’ve thought about how it was different and how it was the same. It was different in those days the stakes were a lot lower, He was a real estate guy and yes he was hurting people, contractors, and he wasn’t renting to minorities, and he was doing bad things…mostly he was inconsequential he didn’t have his finger on the button…
but now the Trump I see there in the White House and the Oval Office from what I can see is exactly the same guy. He just shows up every day and tries to kill the time in a way that is pleasant for him, until his next TV show comes on, or something like that. So now it’s watching television and hanging around, and then every once in a while he would rant when somebody would come in and tell him the Plaza hotel lost, you know, 250,000 dollars last week, and he’d get excited about that for a few minutes and then – but for him the difference was it didn’t matter – he was able to comparmentalize until that became public, until those failures became public then he felt really bad about it.”
Bridgeriverpass, I’m so glad that you do bring these transcriptions here. I stopped watching MSNBC pretty much in 2010, unless someone brings clips here or TPV. Plus, there are times when the MSNBC clips don’t play on my laptop.
sjterrid hi,
(Hey I just received some beautiful flowers from my daughter!)
There’s a very hard working crew in the evenings on that channel and I wouldn’t miss it. (Actually i watch it later.) I trust the hosts I watch, they’re telling the truth. And it gets Increasingly more interesting…stunning guests, lively presentations, interviews with the current players. Not trying to be an Advertisement. (Ads are my pet peeve, can you believe some of them – so sexist, often racist, inappropriate for children).
But literally apart from Sir Colbert, some basketball, other sports, Oscars, PBS – that’s it for me with the TV.
C-Span o’ course.
How wonderful and sweet that you got flowers from your daughter.
From the guy who lost the equivalent of $2 Billion, the highest losses of any American at the time, while pretending to be “at his peak”.
Thanks to the clueless Fabric.Swatch.Would.Be.Emperor:
“Tariff Increase On $200B In Chinese Imports Takes Effect.” (CBC)
Americans will pay a lot more for all the junk. Meanwhile the grifter Trump family goes on ripping off poor workers around the world. Just heard that Melania has a shoe sweatshop going in in Ethiopia where she pays workers so badly they could never, in their lifetimes, afford a pair of her shoes.
-Meanwhile is there any chance that Americans could make the clothing and technology that is imported? Job creation?
-Could Universities please encourage local workers to sew their sports apparel?
Miss him everyday! [Sigh!]
❤❤❤
Love this mug. I’ll have to go fins where I can order one.
“Find” this mug.
It came in an Amazon box if that’s any help. 😊
Thank you. I was just coming back to say I found it on Amazon and just ordered it.
👍🏾
LIVE NOW: 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Warren holds rally in Ohio – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
Very odd
That’s so cool! 💞
LIVE NOW: 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke holds town hall in N. Hampshire – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
I could cry.
Me too! 😢😂
That is so nice. I love it.
I love it.
Trump now being exposed as a lifelong TOTAL liar and fraud:
Here’s the link to the revelations by guostwriter Charles Leershen last night:
So intuitively we knew it all right?
But here’s the devastating truth about His Ignorance: The big layabout, hanging out, watching tv, debating fabrics and drapes, losing his inherited $billions, while Rome burns. Only now he has the keys to the planet.
–Don’t let him start a distraction war.
Did I miss Ms. Sasha Obama’s high school graduation? Not that I am encouraging media to violate her privacy or anything …
Did I miss Ms. Sasha Obama’s high school graduation? Not that I am encouraging media to violate her privacy or anything …
Yup! Then jail’um! Seageant in Arms office are seriously under their quota. 😏👀😂
Soooo cool!
Wha…?
First I’ve heard about a helium shortage. Is that weird or doi just think it’s weird? 😳😏
First I heard if it too. Definitely weird.
Interesting thread
A treasure! 💞
UGH
As they say, God don’t like ugly.
Honestly cannot fathom being offended that someone is eating their meal at work and being so aggrieved as to make a complaint. GET A LIFE.
Very fine people, tho. UGH UGH UGH
Did I miss Ms. Sasha Obama’s high school graduation? Not that I am encouraging media to violate her privacy or anything ……
I wondered recently about that, too! Hope it’s quiet and we learn “later,” as you intimated!
Just a breath of lovely to bring cheers. In case I don’t get the chance Sunday, happiest of Mother’s Day to all TODers. Whether you’re a Mom or not, the “nots” have Moms too! 😂 So, much luv to everyone’s Moms! 💞
And another, just cos it was simply beautiful times. 😂💞
A little bit of normalcy in America to share …
Mine’s a little off on the cadence, but I’m sleepy. 🙂 Goodnight, TODville! Better days are coming, as my Mother used to say.
Goodnight TOD ….
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxTGecYAeHI/
EXACTLY the horrific mess we’re in.
Good morning, TODville. Let’s start the weekend with some GORGEOUS.
GM meta, Thank You.
GM!
Rest in Peace.
Morning everyone
GM jer44. Thank You.
Look at that crowd. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Atlanta tonight and then Tennessee.
Eyes open
Love Michelle Obama.
Steph Curry last night!
YES, WARRIORS!!!!
“Trump Just Went Berserk And Blasted Twitter With 60 Retweets In 45 Minutes.” (Colarossi)
Just a thought experiment, what if we ignored his tweets?
…Meltdown City…
(apologies….it’s a lovely green, sunny day.)
There was a young man from New York
who sullied our ears with trash talk.
He rode on his lies
And ignored human cries
Until he got stuck with a fork.
Progress.
NOW: 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Warren holds town hall in Ohio – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/05/11/hit-that-woah/