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Thursday, October 17, 2019

Another One of Those Days

Except it's getting worse.

So Trump held a meeting with Congressional leadership, ostensibly on the situation he's created in Syria. It didn't go well:

The President started the meeting with a lengthy bombastic monologue, according to a senior Democratic aide. He bragged about the "nasty" letter he sent to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the Turkish leader's decision to invade northern Syria, the aide said. . . .

"He was insulting, particularly to the speaker," Schumer told reporters later on Wednesday. "She kept her cool completely. But he called her a third-rate politician. He said that there are communists involved and you guys might like that. I mean, this was not a dialogue. It was sort of a diatribe — a nasty diatribe not focused on the facts, particularly the fact of how to curtail ISIS, a terrorist organization that aims to hurt the United States in our homeland."

Hoyer echoed those remarks, saying that the meeting "deteriorated into a diatribe" and that they were "deeply offended" by the way Trump treated Pelosi. He said that after serving in Congress over the course of six presidential administrations, he has "never" seen a president "treat so disrespectfully a co-equal branch of the government."

Via Joe.My.God., who found this:



This is the White House Press Office, whose job in this administration has been to lie to the American people. That's what they get paid for.

That's not all. Digby has a run-down of the insanity coming from Trump. Here's a sample:



He is completely delusional. The impeachment inquiry is really getting under his skin.

And she follows up with a litany of his foreign policy disasters.

And this is the most powerful man in the world -- for as long as it lasts.



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