{"id":37965,"date":"2018-05-21T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T22:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37965"},"modified":"2018-05-21T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T22:04:50","slug":"trumps-morning-tweetstorm-was-transcribed-verbatim-from-screwball-rant-on-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37965","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Morning Tweetstorm Was Transcribed Verbatim from Screwball Rant on Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rainy weekend in Washington, D.C. left Donald Trump with nothing to do but post tweets dripping with panic and desperation. So he assumed his <em>&#8220;Golden Throne&#8221;<\/em> and began tapping out nine messages regaling against the law enforcement agencies of his own administration that all have directors he appointed. He concluded with an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/998256454590193665\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">authoritarian <em>&#8220;demand&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> that the Justice Department investigate itself regarding its investigation of the 2016 presidential campaign. Which would, of course, be considered improper interference and obstruction of justice in a normal world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/trump-baby-tweets.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Baby\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32336\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2151026481578802\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday Trump must have determined that his weekend tantrum wasn&#8217;t sufficiently unhinged, so he resumed his raving with another series of tweets. In this volley of manic distress, Trump decided that it wasn&#8217;t necessary to unload his own psychoses. Instead he simply had some poor schnook serve as his stenographer and regurgitate what he just watched on Fox News:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cJohn Brennan is panicking. He has disgraced himself, he has disgraced the Country, he has disgraced the entire Intelligence Community. He is the one man who is largely responsible for the destruction of American\u2019s faith in the Intelligence Community and in some people at the&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/998532136578748425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.top of the FBI. Brennan started this entire debacle about President Trump. We now know that Brennan had detailed knowledge of the (phony) Dossier&#8230;he knows about the Dossier, he denies knowledge of the Dossier, he briefs the Gang of 8 on the Hill about the Dossier, which&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/998534123399663616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;they then used to start an investigation about Trump. It is that simple. This guy is the genesis of this whole Debacle. This was a Political hit job, this was not an Intelligence Investigation. Brennan has disgraced himself, he\u2019s worried about staying out of Jail.\u201d Dan Bongino<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/998537117180588033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>John Brennan is the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a frequent Trump critic. He <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnBrennan\/status\/998301133545312259\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a><\/strong> on Sunday that congressional leaders would bear the responsibility if they <em>&#8220;continue to enable Mr. Trump\u2019s self-serving actions.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s what set off Dan Bongino, a familiar face on Trump&#8217;s favorite TV show, Fox and Friends.<\/p>\n<p>Bongino&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertMaguire_\/status\/998544280615575554\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">diatribe<\/a><\/strong> was pure fury and bluster with no substance or facts whatsoever. In other words, ordinary Fox News histrionics. He even destroyed his own premise by noting that Brennan briefed everyone, including Trump and both sides of Congress, about the infamous Steele Dossier. Had this been a <em>&#8220;political hit job&#8221;<\/em> the only parties notified would have been Democrats and Trump opponents.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, it is Trump&#8217;s obsessive addiction to anything and everything that appears on Fox News that is troubling. He has the resources of the world&#8217;s largest and finest intelligence agencies, but he relies instead on rejects and has-beens whose only credentials are as talking heads on a shamelessly biased cable <em>&#8220;news&#8221;<\/em> network. And on the basis of what he sees on Fox he makes decisions that will impact the nation and the world.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, Trump&#8217;s decisions lately have been narrowed to whatever he sees as what&#8217;s in his best personal interest. The Russia collusion story is almost all he talks about. And in his twisted mind, the story is solely about the asinine <em>&#8220;Deep State&#8221;<\/em> conspiracy to destroy his presidency. On that front he is getting plenty of help from Fox News. For instance, on Monday morning Fox host Maria Bartiromo, who used to be a business analyst but is now competing for the Alex Jones Crackpot Award, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPMLiveWire\/status\/998582426854182913\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told her viewers<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;President Obama, it seems to me, was politicizing all of his agencies: the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, the CIA; they were all involved in trying to take down Donald Trump.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course. It was Obama all along. Never mind that Republicans regarded him as an affirmative action dunce who never earned his academic or political achievements. He was also an evil genius who masterminded the anti-Trump crusade that&#8217;s threatening the most powerful man on the planet. It&#8217;s these sort of delusional visions and insane conspiracies that fuel Trump&#8217;s crusade to demean all of the institutions of American government. If his survival is reliant on the destruction of the country, then that&#8217;s a price Trump is willing to pay. And Fox News will be right there to help him along.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rainy weekend in Washington, D.C. left Donald Trump with nothing to do but post tweets dripping with panic and desperation. So he assumed his &#8220;Golden Throne&#8221; and began tapping out nine messages regaling against the law enforcement agencies of his own administration that all have directors he appointed. He concluded with an authoritarian &#8220;demand&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[183,554,879,33,1112,1163],"class_list":["post-37965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-maria-bartiromo","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-baby-tweets.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9Sl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46377,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46377","url_meta":{"origin":37965,"position":0},"title":"WTF? 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