Trump is getting spun up again and as a distraction from the Woodward book, it is now clear, that sources Gary Cohn and Rob Porter have given some of the most accurate accounts of Trumpian unhingery.
Trump’s Twitter “megaphone” is more of a cone of shame as this evening’s tweets try to keep the base interested in his paranoia.
The latest tweets are cribbing from Fox News and are rendered irrelevant by his inability to read items like Comey’s book, rather he parrots a snippy point made by Dershowitz without seeing it as irrelevant to the Mueller probe.
End of Woodward Chapter 32: “It could even be worse than before”
“If you just shut the fuck up and listen,” Cohn said to both Trump and Navarro, dropping deference for the moment, “you might learn something.”
Gary Cohn, in taking shots at Peter Navarro, is gone but the Woodward book provides the foundation for understanding the perilous state of current WH trade ‘policy’, demonstrating that Trump truly is clueless about governance.
Another administration official told CNBC that Cohn's resignation is "a huge victory for the nationalists."
"Peter Navarro won the trade battle and now Gary's given up," that administration official said. "It literally reestablishes the intellectual framework and the personnel who were originally envisioned after Trump won the election. We can let Trump be Trump."
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Apparently, when Trump cries, “Where’s my Peter” he really needs to be stroked by the sycophantic Navarro.
President Donald Trump made a sweeping decision in August 2017 that could have rocked the global economy: the U.S. would pull out of Nafta, the World Trade Organization, and its trade deal with South Korea.
Alarmed, Trump’s top staffers scrambled to stop him, according to Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear.” Bloomberg News obtained a copy of the book ahead of its release, which is scheduled for Tuesday.
Then-top economic adviser Gary Cohn and staff secretary Rob Porter pulled chief of staff John Kelly into the Oval Office to convince Trump to back down. Soon, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis were brought into the fold and painted a dire picture of the national security and economic consequences of such a move. The president acquiesced -- but only temporarily.
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A liar, a moron, and an idiot stumble into a presidency:
Trump, Oct. 25: The WTO, World Trade Organization, was set up for the benefit for everybody but us. They have taken advantage of this country like you wouldn’t believe.
And I say to my people, you tell them, like as an example, we lose the lawsuits, almost all of the lawsuits in the WTO — within the WTO. Because we have fewer judges than other countries. It’s set up as you can’t win. In other words, the panels are set up so that we don’t have majorities. It was set up for the benefit of taking advantage of the United States.
“President Trump is absolutely wrong. Period. Not only does the U.S. not lose almost all of its lawsuits, it in fact wins most of them as a complaining state.”
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