Ding, ding, ding!!


If you spend several hours in front of the House Intelligence Committee and the very next day quit your job. It's related. Hard to sell "huge coincidence" on that one.

I believe it has come out that during that testimony she admitted to having often told white lies for Trump. But never about anything important.

Gotta love the contradiction there. If it wasn't ever about anything important... why do it?

That doesn't stop them from trying;

Quote:

Multiple White House aides said that Ms. Hicks’s departure was unrelated to her appearance before the committee. They said that she had told a small group of people in the days before the session that she had planned to leave her job.

Perhaps TheDonald was getting a bit too handsy and her boyfriend was no longer there to obstruct.

She knows where the bodies are buried. Probably helped bury a few of them herself. And after talks with her lawyer and then stonewalling badly in front of the HIC, she has finally realised she is in a bad, bad place and needs to get out while the going is good. Alternative theory: she may have realised she has less to lose by resigning. Expect her to travel to somewhere the USA can't extradite her from.

No, it isn't coincidental that the HIC appearance immediately preceded her resignation.

Ha. Days! I mean, who could possibly know days ahead of a testimony that what they're likely to say in that testimony would make it extremely difficult if not impossible to remain in their current job?

That small group of people probably consisted of nobody, a ghost, and a cat. And the cat refuses to back her up.

That's from other people. Her story is she had been contemplating it for months.

That's cats for ya... no real loyalty at all.

OMG... Trump is cat people! [emoji14]

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It's being reported that after her testimony in which she admitted telling "white lies", Trump upbraided her, that being perhaps the proverbial last straw.

Gee whiz!

When one of Trump's favorite lackeys gets the boot, then it clearly shows just what a total cluster "something censored" the White House has been since 12:00 PM EST 20 JAN 2017.

Yea but then she admitted to lying and he can not accept that.

You are quite right.

Hope Hicks should have used a more elaborate term like "alternative truths" instead.

Succint and accurate.

I bet he did - admitting you lied! That's a terrible sin in the church of Trump.

I can see wanting to surround yourself with people you can trust,and who have some loyalty, but for heaven's sake be sure they are competent to do the job you are hiring them for. Trump seems unable to do that.

I saw a news bit discussing some internal turmoil around him wanting to hire his private pilot to run the FAA. Here is the first article I found.

Up next, HR Mcmaster.... ? Looking that way.

Will the last adult in the room please turn the lights off on the way out ?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/01/whit...-nbc-news.html


White House preparing for exit of national security advisor HR McMaster: NBC News
The White House could replace national security advisor H.R. McMaster as early as next month, NBC News reports.
Ford executive Stephen Biegun is among McMaster's possible replacements, according to NBC.

He's still has lots of years ahead if him. Why would he throw it all away to work for a Russian Whore?

It still surprises me that some people are waking up to this only now (and that many have not, yet).

Reports that some of his economic advisors might well quit over his Tarifff decision,rather then be blamed for the economic train wreck that is coming....

Even more so: a truly clever leader includes in their inner circle at least a few people who are not only competent, but are also willing to actively disagree with them, to point out the possible negatives in any policy proposed, and to propose alternative ideas.

It is easier to surround yourself with ego-stroking yes-people, but very dangerous to make policy in a hall of mirrors where everyone is just trying to please the big boss.

Needless-to-say I am not expecting Trump to recognize the value of having advisors who will disagree with him.

Typical Trump administration tactic. Keep telling different lies until the media gets bored with debunking them.

Right.
It appears that for Trump, only yes-people will fit the bill for people he will trust, rendering "competent" and "trustworthy" mutually exclusive categories, as a general rule.

What you say here is pretty much standard in any Business Management 1A course:that surrounding yourself with Yes Men leads to disaster.
Another reason why people who claim Trump is a great businessman are ignorant .

Surrounds himself with sychophants who are afraid to disagree with him.
Increasingly Isolated from all but his his most boot licking sycophants.
Rejecting reality when it clashes with his ideological obssesions.
Finding "traitors" everywhere.
Turning on people who were once his allies.
Now who does that remind you of in his last days?

Does Trump have ideological obsessions (plural), or just himself as King S*** as his exclusive ideological obsession?

I think it is pretty clear his does have some ideological obssesions..immigrants are basically bad being one of them.

I kinda think he just fakes hatred of immigrants to pander to his bigot base.

Whoa

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/969317139919392768

You are confusing your alternative facts with hyperbolic truths. :D

You give the lot of them too much credit for maturity.

Speculating: Her boyfriend was canned. Probably led to some tension. Trump's pressures are mounting. He's been yelling at everyone, surely he shouted at Hicks. She's been grumbling not used to not being in a snowflake role. She gets back from the Mueller interrogation, it's leaked about the admission of white lies, Trump is his unable to control himself mood yells some more at poor little Hicks and she says, fine I quit.

Sessions and Rosenstein apparently made a conspicuous public appearance at a restaurant across from Trump's hotel. That suggests they are teaming up and taking advantage of the turmoil to let Trump no they aren't going anywhere and he can't fire them.

Doubtful. He's too angry right now. His widdle world is crashing down.

Maybe McMasters is drawing the line at corruption akin to treason.

Apparently it was news to McMaster that Kushner had all those meetings with foreigners just before they loaned Kushner millions.

At least that's what the article in the WA Po suggests: Kushner’s overseas contacts raise concerns as foreign officials seek leverage

He has, after all, married two of them. Hot Eastern European immigrants = good. Filthy Mexicans = bad.

Well that certainly adds another layer. :p

Looks like Kelly wants to be president.

That surprises me. I don't know much about Kelly but I'd have thought Mattis and McMaster were kindred spirits. They are both well known for being scholar generals. I wonder if this was a hostage rescue on the part of the CoS and SECDEF or he got on the outs with the two former four stars for advocating a "bloody nose" strike on North Korea. I don't believe either of them were in favor of that course of action.

I suspect that if all his indiscretions with undocumented pretty young house keepers were brought to term there'd be a global onesie shortage.

And people though that Hitler's rants against the Jews were just for political purposes.
I have come to think that if someone says bigoted things and acts like a bigot, it is safest to think he is a bigot.

More reports on CNN tonight that Trump's main economic advisor might well quit over the Tariff.
And the Wall Street Journal blasted Trump for his tariffs, calling it the worst policy decision of his presidency so far. In terms of damaging the economy, they well might be right.

And rumors that McMasters already has a job offer from the Hoover institute, a very highly though of and respected think tank with offices in DC and Stanford.

He's functionally indistinguishable from an ideologue type of bigot in terms of behavior, and really, anyone who's not part of his family or fan club is s*** as far as he's concerned, so it doesn't really matter.

A lot of big businesses like the cheap imports.

And to what end? Steel manufactures aren't coming back. The economy has moved on. These tariffs won't last into the next administration and what's left of the steel manufacturers know that. This is yet another unforced error. There was nothing driving him to a decision point here.

According to Politico, Hicks likely quit because she was hearing too much about the Russia investigation from Trump. Literally everything he says publicly or privately is a fact (not of its truth, but of Trump's mindset). Every minute she spends with him is more ammunition for the prosecutor.

..or about Jared's hair-brained schemes to pressure foreign governments into giving money to his company.

I cannot believe those guys are still hanging in there.

Especially Jeff.

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/s...56627144003585

Sessions really likes having that "Kick Me'' sign on his back...

I get the sense that Tillerson is on a mission to be the last man standing.

He might (or might not!) be pure evil, but he ain't stupid, and he ain't a wimp.

President Trumptard is now looking to give the boot to his hot daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...054041828.html

President Trump Asked Chief Of Staff To Remove Ivanka And Jared Kushner – Report

A New York Times column by Maggie Haberman and Mark Landler claims President Donald Trump asked his chief of staff John Kelly for help in ousting first daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner from their advisory roles at the White House.

...

It is unclear if the president is asking them to leave out of compassion or, as the Times hints, concerns about Kushner’s potential legal issues over various business dealings. The Times story also reports that President Trump has spoken to Kushner and Ivanka Trump and asked them to stay on at the White House but privately has claimed they “never should have come” to work there. Thus, he has asked Kelly to be the instigator of their departure.

...

This fits Trump's modus operandi. Reportedly, he hates firing people. He sort of freezes them out and then has a subordinate tell them they're not welcome anymore. It's bizarre, though, that he can't even have an honest conversation with his own daughter.

I'm not saying this rumor's true. McMaster and Cohn will be the next ones out.

Trump says the reporting on McMasters imminent departure are "fake news".
Given the record,he will be gone within a month.....