It’s not just that President Donald Trump loves Dobbs’ show and his on-air style. It’s not just that the president asks West Wing aides and confidants if they’ve seen specific, recent segments of Dobbs’ program, or that Trump calls the cable-news personality semi-regularly to gossip or solicit counsel, or that he’s boosted Dobbs on his Twitter account. It’s not just that the president has sat for a friendly interview with Dobbs or that he is on a first name basis with “Lou.”
Indeed, much of this can describe Trump’s relationships with various other television personalities. What sets Dobbs apart is the degree to which the president views him as a political and populism godfather, the #MAGA Socrates to Trump’s Plato.
As such, Dobbs doesn’t get to just interview and socialize with the president, he is involved in some of the administration’s more sensitive discussions. During the first year of the Trump era, the president has patched Dobbs in via speakerphone to multiple meetings in the Oval Office so that he could offer his two cents, according to three sources familiar with these conversations. Trump will ask Dobbs for his opinion before and after his senior aides or Cabinet members have spoken. Occasionally, he will cut off an official so the Fox Business host can jump in.
Dobbs, these sources all independently recounted, has been patched in to senior-level meetings on issues such as trade and tax policy—meetings that featured officials such as senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, former top economic adviser Gary Cohn, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, trade adviser Peter Navarro, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
I'm sorry, when did Lou Dobbs receive his security clearance again?
You would think that a reality show guy would know that just because somebody acts like a know it all on TV, that does NOT mean that they know it all.
Lou Dobbs is at least as dangerous as John Bolton, and now both of them, as well as those idiots on the Fox and Friends couch, are guiding this lunatic's decision making.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/preet-bharara-makes-tempting-offer-jeff-bezos-buy-twitter-change-pocket-shut-trumps-account/
ReplyDeleteThat is a interesting twitter tweet twist idea.
Just in case you are wondering Blogspot is being an asshole again and I cannot access comments to moderate them.
ReplyDeleteAs usual this is likely a temporary glitch, but I have no idea how long it will last.
I am actually building a different website on another server so that this will not happen, but it is not yet ready.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth
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I wonder if it is a secure phone line.
ReplyDeleteThat sound proof secret phone booth in EPA puritt expense sheet gets used daily by the criminal occupying our WHITE HOUSE, AKA THE PEOPLES HOUSE. After all the direct insults coming from the criminals it is clear that we must go back to 911. The Bush Family, another friend of putins welcomed the KGB agent to their homes. Like a fine oil driven machine that dined and wined together.
ReplyDeletePutin is behind many attacks involving USA citizens, military, airlines, ships, and USA soil. Putins shifty KGB eyes and lies are obvious, but the bush family, trump and stumps warm up to him? Why? Putin is trained to lie, cheat and steal. He is the ultimate con artist. He has no problem lying to America nor bombing twin towers, ships, airlines, military and creating chaos. A little man, bully, thug and huge complex wants to rule the world. The entire bush family, their cabinets and trump should be charged with treason. Better re play Fahrenheit 911 documentary on National TV over and over again? Wake up America!!
The clown car is full of dobbs, becks, limpballs, Boltons, orileys, palins, mercers, kushners, conways, epstiens, boris, carters, manfarts, scarmoochies, paparoaches, stones, Sinclairs, hucklebees, NRAS liars and bullies. @timesup #enoughisenough #BLM #metoo #impeachtrump
ReplyDeleteNugents, Hannitys, Coulters, Millers, Nazis, Talibangelicals.
DeleteThe list is just too extensive.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/thomas-friedman-says-time-impeach-trump-biggest-threat-democracy-sitting-oval-office/
ReplyDelete“code red”
"“I fEEl more strongly than ever in everything that’s happened in the last six weeks that the biggest threat to our democracy is sitting in the Oval Office,”
“We have a president who is a disturbed person. This kind of tweeting, this kind of throwing overboard all these cabinet secretaries at once, this is not normal behavior.”
"I'm sorry, when did Lou Dobbs receive his security clearance again?". Good question.
ReplyDeleteThe Orange Buffoon and his Republican butt-sniffers have pilloried Hillary for "being careless with confidential information" by having a private server. I'm beyond disgusted when I see that he shares confidential information with whomever he wishes, whenever he wants because he feels so above anyone else that the law, rules and regulations don't apply to him.
When he's ousted from power and when, after some time, the country as a whole and even his supporters finally discover and feel the extent of the damage that he and the republican policies have done to the country's institutions and standing in the world, everyone will look back in horror and wonder how they allowed this nightmare to happen.
Remember Ken Starr? 'Pay' attention:
ReplyDelete" “I think people are missing what could be a brilliant move here by Sessions,” Turley said. “What he did is he essentially combined the powers of the inspector general with the powers of a line prosecutor.”
Again, maybe Huber is Louis Brandeis and Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch (uh, the movie Atticus Finch, that is) all rolled into one. "
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-sessions-quietly-appointed-a-prosecutor-to-probe-potus-foes-that-could-be-an-unprecedented-disaster
OT?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/pruitt-epa/557123/?utm_source=atlfb
Sarah Greenwalt and Millan Hupp
"After the White House rejected their request, Pruitt’s team studied the particulars of the Safe Drinking Water provision, according to the source with direct knowledge of these events. By reappointing Greenwalt and Hupp under this authority, they learned, Pruitt could exercise total control over their contracts and grant the raises on his own.
Pruitt ordered it done. Though Hupp and Greenwalt’s duties did not change, the agency began processing them for raises of $28,130 and $56,765, respectively, compared with their 2017 salaries. Less than two weeks after Pruitt had approached the White House, according to time-stamped Human Resources documents shared with The Atlantic, the paperwork was finished."
"“This whole thing has completely gutted any MORALe I had left to put up with this place.”"“It’s already such a toxic work environment,” requesting anonymity to speak candidly.
“It’s hard to see how it could get any worse.”"
Dobbs is a fanatic with an avuncular style. A wise man he isn't. Typical Trump satellite.
ReplyDeleteWell, remember Reagan when he was asking an astrologist for advice? Trump of coarse, probably has the hoodoo woman stashed in the back and she gives him her best advice.
ReplyDeleteThat was Nancy that consulted the psychic,although she did run the WH and screened who could see Ronnie.
DeleteSo if Obama had had Rachel in on meetings, how soon would the GOP have begun impeachment hearings again? What the F*** is wrong with the GOP? This guy is a lunatic who wants to be dictator. As soon as he gives himself permission to start killing the opposition, he will do it.
ReplyDeleteI do believe he'll have Americans killed that he doesn't like. He's showing himself to be no different than Putin! Way past time for impeachment, United States Congress members! You might be one of those that is murdered.
Deletehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korea-defector-anti-aircraft-guns-execution-kim-jong-un-killed-sex-slaves-pyongyang-porn-film-a7959851.html
Delete10,000 forced to watch.
“They were lashed to the end of anti-aircraft guns. Their bodies were blown to bits, totally destroyed, blood and bits flying everywhere.
“And then after that military tanks moved in and they ran over the bits on the ground where the remains lay.”
This is an old story from last year with no proof.The "defector" is suspected to have been manipulated to tell this story.
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/thomas-friedman-says-time-impeach-trump-biggest-threat-democracy-sitting-oval-office/
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-sessions-quietly-appointed-a-prosecutor-to-probe-potus-foes-that-could-be-an-unprecedented-disaster
https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-rage-tweets-at-cnn-chief-little-jeff-zuker-and-cheatin-obama/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/pruitt-epa/557123/?utm_source=atlfb
Delete"“It’s already such a toxic work environment,” requesting anonymity to speak candidly.
“It’s hard to see how it could get any worse.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/fox-friends-freaks-roger-stone-getting-trump-trouble-boasting-assange-dinner/
ReplyDelete'“He gets himself in trouble,” Kilmeade fumed. “[He gets] the president in trouble!”'
the first thing that came to mind, was who in the hell gave him a security clearance or is he working for the russians also.
ReplyDeleteFirst thing the next president will have to do is change the codes on EVERYTHING, between big mouth, bragger trump and his stool pigeon Jared nothing is safe.
Didn't any of the morons in the meetings question this? or are they all too afraid of donnie?