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The White House argued in court that they cannot be forced to call on Acosta so it would be useless for him to attend press conferences and that he should just watch it on TV. Let's see if they will boycott and not call on him.

I don't think there's any way Trump doesn't at least monologue at Acosta.

11-16-2018 , 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by JonnyA

If he does hold a press conference, every reporter should cede their question to Acosta.

I like this idea, but reports haven’t really stuck together on this at all. I’d be nice to just see each reporter pick up where the last left off and try to hold Trump to actual answers.

11-16-2018 , 12:07 PM

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lol TRO judge is a Drumf appointee ... Drumf must be so confused right about now.

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11-16-2018 , 12:10 PM

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superleeds

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Originally Posted by Matty Lice

Even if they did that, I'm sure other journalists in the room would be happy to ask Acosta's questions for him. They tend to stick up for each other.

Er, no, not really. I hope I'm wrong but my cynical opinion is that journalists aren't much above politicians in the swamp they inhabit.

11-16-2018 , 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by simplicitus

Acknowledging the underappreciated contributions of Elvis, Babe Ruth, Scalia, and a current GOP donor. These are the worst people alive. They think they are fooling people. They are seen. If they had any shame they would not make so it obvious.

Don't forget Orrin Hatch!

11-16-2018 , 12:19 PM

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Acosta’s questions are pretty terrible, as a whole the press is awful at questioning trump, a marginally competent bunch would almost certainly get him to Colonel Jessop.

11-16-2018 , 12:24 PM

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A question for SHS at her next press briefing, "Has Trump ordered you not to call on Acosta?"

11-16-2018 , 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by superleeds

Er, no, not really. I hope I'm wrong but my cynical opinion is that journalists aren't much above politicians in the swamp they inhabit.

TV journalists tend to be incredibly self-important, so I won’t be surprised if they put on some grandstanding display of solidarity.

11-16-2018 , 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by dth123451

Acosta’s questions are pretty terrible, as a whole the press is awful at questioning trump, a marginally competent bunch would almost certainly get him to Colonel Jessop.

This is kinda hard to do. The problem is that Jessup had ambitions and had his **** together, while Trump is senile and only dimly aware of what people are asking him. He sort of informally indicts himself all the time, we've just become immune to it.

For instance, what in the **** is going on here you ask yourself. Except this is every Trump interview:

https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/14/t...ler-interview/

Quote:

THE DAILY CALLER: What about immigration, sir? Are you willing to shut down the government if you don’t get a certain set of policies?

POTUS: I may be. I may be. I’ll have to see how it plays out. But I may very well be willing to shut down the government.

I think it’s horrible what’s happening and, you know, building the wall, it’s in smaller stages, we can build it very quickly. I’m building the wall in smaller stages and we moved the military there, we put up barbed wire, we did all sorts of things. You have to have a barrier. You have to have a barrier.

Look, we have a chance of, they can do presidential harassment, put very simply, and I’ll be very good at handling that and I think I’ll be better than anybody in the history of this office. And in a certain way I look forward to it because I actually think it’s good for me politically, because everyone knows it’s pure harassment. Just like the witch hunt, the Mueller witch hunt. It’s pure harassment. It’s horrible. It’s horrible that they’re allowed to get away with it.

Again, not Senate confirmed but, you know. You have 17 people — half, many of them worked for Hillary Clinton, some on the Foundation. The Hillary Clinton Foundation. I mean, you think of it.

So, I think we’ll do very well if they want to play the presidential harassment game. If they play the presidential harassment game I don’t think anything’s going to be done ’cause why would I do that, okay? If they want to get things done I think it will be fantastic, I think we can get a lot done.

I think we can almost get more done because they’re gonna want to prove something, too. So if they wanna do health care, we can do health care. There a very good fixes to health care that could solve a lot of problems. We’ve really, you know, terminated a lot of the Obamacare, as it was referred to. But we could do a new health care bill that would be fantastic that could take everybody’s — that could incorporate good pieces of everybody’s good ideas.

So there’s a chance at that, there’s a great chance at comprehensive immigration reform. If they wanna do it, they wanna do it, they wanna do it right. And there’s a good chance at doing things that maybe you couldn’t do.

Don’t forget, I didn’t really have a majority. I had one senator. And I had a few Republicans in the House. You know, a very small number. Um, and now the pressure’s on them because they’ve gotta come to me with things.

Hey, the beauty is, and I’ve said this, you heard me at the news conference, I don’t know if you agree with me — let’s say I won with two Republicans or three. I’d have to make deals with Republicans. I’d have guys coming to me, you know, out of that group there’ll be people. Let’s not say they’re good or bad but they’re people: ‘well I don’t want to do this.’ Well, I’m gonna have three or more. I mean, literally, unless I had like a 25 majority, you know, something substantial, they would come to me and they would say, ‘well, I don’t like it.’ You wouldn’t even be able to get something through there. It would be too close.

Where I am now, when they have a small majority, I can sit back and say, ‘hey.’ And the beauty is when it gets passed, when we pass things, we’ll get it passed in the Senate, which now we can’t because we need 10 Democrat votes. Because we’ll have Democrats and I’ll be able to get enough Republicans to pass.

But the beauty is, the beauty is that we actually have something that can work much better than it worked before, because before it was politically very difficult for a lot of people.

This is complete insanity. You can't do to Trump what Kaffee did to Jessup because Trump's embarrasses himself without any traps laid at all, and also, because Trump doesn't have a ****ing clue what's going on, this is just his stream of conscious where when asked to give an open ended answer to a softball about immigration, he starts rambling about the elections, Crooked Hillary, the Mueller investigation, the makeup of Congress in some alternate universe.

I agree that the mainstream media is poor but like even if they were better, this wouldn't matter. I really do think the public has been informed as much as humanely possible that Trump is just a dottering imbecile, there is nothing more to mine here. It's on us. We elected a buffoon, it's transparent, there's no magic moment where this becomes obvious because every question given to him is informally a trap he never escapes from.

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11-16-2018 , 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by rockfsh

If trump had a brain this is what he would have done instead of taking away his press press.

11-16-2018 , 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by champstark

I wonder what happens if Trump just refuses to reinstate it.

Lol

11-16-2018 , 12:42 PM

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They won't boycott Acosta. They love the fight.

11-16-2018 , 12:55 PM

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adding this to the top 20 list of Trump quotes

11-16-2018 , 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

TV journalists tend to be incredibly self-important, so I won’t be surprised if they put on some grandstanding.

FYP

11-16-2018 , 01:08 PM

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11-16-2018 , 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by champstark

adding this to the top 20 list of Trump quotes

11-16-2018 , 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Namath12

I mean with that one he just got it confused with B-52s, which while obviously stupid is kind of whatever.

But thinking that airplanes exist that are literally invisible to the naked eye is just hilarious.

11-16-2018 , 01:21 PM

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Why would Norway be buying long range strategic bombers we haven't produced for at least 40 years?

11-16-2018 , 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by champstark

How do you know we don't have invisible planes? Keep in mind Trump has access to classified info.

11-16-2018 , 01:27 PM

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You guys are all glossing over the fact that Norway is just an imaginary country that only exists in a Skyrim mod.

11-16-2018 , 02:08 PM

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Every time the WH goes to court it is like a bad legal drama. One of the reasons the judge granted the TRO is the whitehouse could not say who made the decision to ban Acosta.

Lol. Everyone knows who made that decision. It is amazing that they won’t say it because it is an instant lose, yet they lose, for now, anyways.

11-16-2018 , 02:09 PM

#127423

ScreaminAsian

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Trump claims he personally wrote answers to the special counsel's questions but he's obviously lying because he's illiterate

11-16-2018 , 02:11 PM

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He claims he's answered their written questions but hadn't submitted them. Flashback to trump as a 10-year-old: "I wrote my book report I just didn't bring it because I have bad bone spurs"

11-16-2018 , 02:19 PM

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I haven't watched him recently so maybe that's why his responses seemed so impressively stupid. He was also a little more smug than I expected so maybe new AG is working out for him.

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