A pattern emerges whenever one of his cohorts is caught out:

-declare fake news

-deny that it happened, there's nothing there, a "nothing burger"

-justify it, back it up with a false equivalence

-blame the press of persecution

-(optional) put Kellyanne in front of the cameras to talk about Bill Clinton

-blame partisanism, say the Dems, Obama and Hillary are behind it

-begin the distancing process, e.g. "they didn't work for me"

-further distancing, e.g. "I hardly know him, I think I saw him once when he delivered coffee"

-complete distancing,  "who?"

 

I'm sure I missed a few moves.

For further reading on this do a web search on Roger Stone.

 

 

4 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

Usually I can not watch Trump or listen to him speak without breaking out in hives and needing a bucket to throw up in, but I decided to watch that Fox and Friends live interview with Trump anyway, and I was flabbergasted. I mean, this man, the president of the USA, the most powerful man on earth, could not formulate a coherent sentence to save his life, he was all over the place all the time, mostly ranting and raving, and also telling everyone how great he thinks he is. He was like a 12-year-old on speed, what a meltdown! And the thing is that Trump had no idea - probably still hasn't - that he made a complete spectacle of himself. Maybe his handlers should fit him with one of those shock collars they use to train dogs, so they have a way of shutting him up when he flies off the handle, or says something stupid.

 

I despise/hate swamp king maybe more than anyone. I want to see more - actually don't listen to him/watch him - of his antics. Make all his madness visible to the world. Little by little even his racists/bigoted/evangelicals will find it impossible to defend him. He is ALL THINGS undesirable in a person. He totally disgusts me. He and Republicans hurt America constantly. SHAME on all of them. Hopefully kharma will be soon for them 

10 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

Usually I can not watch Trump or listen to him speak without breaking out in hives and needing a bucket to throw up in, but I decided to watch that Fox and Friends live interview with Trump anyway, and I was flabbergasted. I mean, this man, the president of the USA, the most powerful man on earth, could not formulate a coherent sentence to save his life, he was all over the place all the time, mostly ranting and raving, and also telling everyone how great he thinks he is. He was like a 12-year-old on speed, what a meltdown! And the thing is that Trump had no idea - probably still hasn't - that he made a complete spectacle of himself. Maybe his handlers should fit him with one of those shock collars they use to train dogs, so they have a way of shutting him up when he flies off the handle, or says something stupid.

 

I honestly believe he is coming unhinged. He is so accustomed to having most of the people he associates with kiss his butt, that I just do not think he can wrap his mind around the degree of disloyalty on the part of his American subjects, and the media, who he drew first blood with. I think it is driving him to near insanity, and I believe his rational mind is just not something he has at his disposal anymore, if he ever had possession of it in the first place. 

 

He is no doubt his own worst enemy, and he absolutely refuses to accept counsel from more level headed people. Kelly has been an abject failure, but look at what he was working with. Defective goods. 

Judge puts Stormy Daniels' lawsuit against Trump lawyer on hold

Ms Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti said“While we certainly respect Judge Otero’s 90 day stay order based on Mr Cohen’s pleading of the 5th, we do not agree with it,” he wrote. “We will likely be filing an immediate appeal to the Ninth Circuit early next week. Justice delayed is justice denied.”

 

Hopefully the very liberal 9th Circuit court will up hold the District Court's decision

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stormy-daniels-lawsuit-delayed-on-hold-michael-cohen-plead-fifth-trump-a8326471.html

 

Kellyanne Conway says Trump is planning to call in often - in order to express himself on Fox and Friends.   GOOD!    Blab away, Stupidissimo.   It's great to see him digging his own muddy burial trench, deeper, and deeper, and.....

1 hour ago, riclag said:

Judge puts Stormy Daniels' lawsuit against Trump lawyer on hold

Ms Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti said“While we certainly respect Judge Otero’s 90 day stay order based on Mr Cohen’s pleading of the 5th, we do not agree with it,” he wrote. “We will likely be filing an immediate appeal to the Ninth Circuit early next week. Justice delayed is justice denied.”

Hopefully the very liberal 9th Circuit court will up hold the District Court's decision https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stormy-daniels-lawsuit-delayed-on-hold-michael-cohen-plead-fifth-trump-a8326471.html

It's like delaying getting surgery for spreading cancer.