https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...24387773997056

The article itself explains why they will never read it.

What are they going to do, give it back to Russia?

what the ****

Im on Reinces side on this one, leak all you got buddy.

Can someone post a link to the full interview on CNN this morning with The Mooch if they find it? He sounds absolutely bonkers in that twitter video above.

Things people are rooting for this week:

• Reince Priebus
• Jeff Sessions
• Brain cancer

What a week.

Let me elaborate...

I can't explain why, but I'm almost certain Moochie's the only Trump team member who believes a big fat 0% of what he's saying. It's like he absorbed Trump's aura, but stripped away whatever little ideology it carried first.

I also believe he's the smartest in the bunch. Look at the themes coming out of the WH since he started. Look at how the story is changing to bigotry, Sessions and the base, or leak battles in the WH and the DOJ. Meanwhile Jared, Don & Manafort just walked away from a major Russia criminal conspiracy virtually unscathed by the public and Russia has barely been discussed in days.

This also speaks to questions earlier ITT about a person like Scaramucci's motivations to work as CommDir. Well, perhaps his scummy business attitude decided to exploit his close friendship with Trump because he saw the potential for a Trump-style authoritarian regime...without the same mistakes, including him being Riker.

Wait, but...I know it's just Alaska...but you are kidding, right? I mean, first NK can hit it and now this.

The irony that he probably saw the quote on Fox and Friends is tremendous.

Scaramucci wants to be Chief of Staff.

That CNN interview just now. Wow

I can't see Reince staying for more than 2-3 more weeks

A normal WH under investigation looks to keep innocent, uncompromised staff around and cleans house to avoid as much trouble as possible.

This WH is hiring MORE people with Russia links, and better liars, while trying to chase away the more innocent, unrelated people.

Take that FWIW.

I'll say it again: I cannot predict the future but Trump moving towards **** canning Sessions, Priebus and Bannon seems like lunacy to me. Not that I don't favor the chaos, and I have no affection for any of those *******s. But The pivot seems to be away from the GOP and deplorables or least their formal agents and to a bunch of his friends from New York. He must be REAL confident in his position to wage an effective civil war against his own party. This seems like in effect the sort of populist pivot people predicted during the campaign. Still plenty of authoritarianism and scape goating of minorities but discarding the party insiders.

How bout he's so incredibly panicked about Mueller being up in his family and finances that nothing else matters. Reports over the last 2 days have been that the biggest push to get rid of Jefferson is coming from all the Trumps.

You can tell this is something of a calculated political hit job because Hannity was back-patting Scaramucci like 5 minutes after he tweeted. And the evidence there was any leak at all is sort of dubious:

Sure, plausible. It could be that Priebus is standing in the way of Trump firing Sessions and that's what raised his ire. I can buy it. I think the long-form result of all the maneuvers (replace the Communications shop and the GOP insiders like Priebus with Scaramucci, then fire Sessions, which is going to make the GOP Senate pissy because of their informal fraternal order and their affection for their old friend JBS3) is going to be a civil war with his party nonetheless, even if the intent is simply to get rid of Mueller.

I guess I'd rather not see the chaos. The ineptitude in the executive branch is already at a scary level and the thought of more Trump nutballs like Scaramucci entering the White House only makes it worse. I'm sure Trump has now pissed off Mattis and probably McMaster as well. There's a way to change or implement policy and just a rogue tweet obviously isn't it. It's at the point where Trump needs an intervention, but soon there will be nobody left to do it.

I dunno. Scaramucci is probably more competent than Priebus though. What of Priebus's career speaks to a bunch of talent for managing things? The Trump WH is a comedy circus, so it's hard to say the chaos portends disorder. Things could hardly be more disorderly.

Note I may eat my words when Trump starts nuking ****.

The fact is there's probably no one who can run that White House with any sort of stability since the problems start at the top. There is surely some amount of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic here. But the movement of the chairs is instructive. Spicer, Priebus, Sessions and Bannon are the ideologues and party people. Scaramucci is just a ruthless opportunist. Conway is just a ruthless opportunist. Trump's kids are empty suits. Ross, Mnuchin, Cohn and Dina Powell (the 'New York Democrats') are apparently in Donald's good graces. Chris Liddell and Reed Cordish (Trump family friends and guys from the New York business scene) have been given new policy authorities and projects.

Obviously maybe all of this drama is overwrought but when your Communications Director is accusing your CoS of federal crimes, probably not.

So the net totality of changes in Trump's WH appears to be a very quick move away from the party guys and installing and preserving his friends from the New York business community.

lol

I think I heard that the Pentagon was really scared after the initial tweet that Trump was about to announce something crazy like a war with North Korea, so they were relieved it turned out to be just a transgender ban, which is something they could work with. But Trump did prove that he could pull some kind of commander-in-chief move with no input at all from the pros and that's really scary.

Scaramucci knows nothing about running a communications office and probably is not well-connected. He's another outsider who thinks he knows how things work. His loyalty to dear leader is creepy.

Interesting Trumpcast episode with the guy who wrote the recent book about Bannon. https://play.google.com/music/m/Ds6l...ates_Trumpcast

I find it a bit hard to understand Bannon's philosophy (ok, not that hard), but this guy raises some interesting stuff about Bannon being into quasi-occult right wing Catholicism and believing that the West is in some kind of cyclical historical decline due to excess rationalism. It's crazy, and basically movie villain type stuff, but those are the times in which we live.