The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

[Flip Flopped]

I saw some students gave Gorka a hard time yesterday. Well, he's all bluster. I doubt he can survive WH intrigue for long.

I guess these were the students in question?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gorka-s ... -questions

Yes. Good on the GWU students.

Think Progress article, "White House adviser storms out of panel after he’s asked about ties to Nazi sympathizers."

Forward article, "Gorka Storms Out Of Georgetown Conference After Student Questions."

Tweeted image of Gorka's shady qualifications: image, archive.

Ankit Panda Twitter commentary on Gorka's laughable dissertation committee: thread, archive.

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I'd missed Adrian Weale's March 20th blog post, "Sebastian Gorka and the Vitézi Rend." Great ending:

Oddly enough, soon after I published my first blog on Gorka, I was contacted by a former schoolmate of Gorka’s from St Benedict’s in Ealing. He told me that Gorka hadn’t played ‘Number 8’ for the school rugby XV as he’d claimed in one interview. It does all seem to fit into a pattern.

Who lies about their position on their high school rugby team?

Forward is staying on top of Gorka: "Sebastian Gorka’s Ties To Nazi-Allied Group Stretch Back Decades."

Buzzfeed: "The Hungarian Rise And Fall Of Sebastian Gorka: Before Sebastian Gorka was an adviser to President Donald Trump, he was a man with a dream to rise to the top of Hungarian politics. It didn’t quite work out".

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Finally: "White House Weighs Kicking Out Sebastian Gorka: The president admires Sebastian Gorka for his fiery TV performances, but his ties to far-right organizations are making him more liability than asset, administration sources say."

[ericbarbour]

Meanwhile, the "cream of the journalistic crop" is blubbering about the call button on the presidential desk.

His Golden Glory pushes it and a butler brings him.....a glass of Coca-Cola.

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/ ... uzzer.html
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/stor ... ering-coke
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2 ... n-his-desk

[Flip Flopped]

Trump is setting up a cushy role for Gorka in a federal agency in order to get him out of the White House: "Sebastian Gorka to accept role outside White House." Disgraceful that he's being given another job.

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This tweet says Gorka cancelled a talk he was to give in Israel: https://twitter.com/bjimd/status/858874981169717248.

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I thought nobody could get information out of the UK Defense Ministry, but this article indicates otherwise: "UK Defence Ministry Casts Doubt On Trump Aide’s Military Service Claims: Sebastian Gorka, an aide to US president Donald Trump, has claimed roles relating to counterterror, Northern Ireland, and investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia — but the UK Ministry of Defence can't find evidence for any of it".

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In case you haven't heard: Two separate sources claim that there is a sealed indictment against Trump which is intended to be used as the basis of his impeachment rather than an arrest due to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.

Louise Mensch (blog post, archive) and Claude Taylor (tweet, archive) are jointly relaying the message of the two anonymous sources.

[ericbarbour]

People can create all the indictments they want--until Congress actually impeaches His Orangeness, they won't amount to anything. And it won't happen until a majority of Republicans get sick of him. Good luck with that!

Plus, Gizmodo is starting to turn into a political blog. It's supposed to be a tech blog--one of the survivors of the breakup of Gawker Media. I'd swear Gizmodo's editors are trying to turn it into Gawker. Favorite subject: the Trump gang.
http://gizmodo.com/guess-who-comes-up-w ... 1795200479
http://gizmodo.com/fcc-chairman-is-laug ... 1795193063

[Flip Flopped]

People can create all the indictments they want--until Congress actually impeaches His Orangeness, they won't amount to anything. And it won't happen until a majority of Republicans get sick of him. Good luck with that!

Plus, Gizmodo is starting to turn into a political blog. It's supposed to be a tech blog--one of the survivors of the breakup of Gawker Media. I'd swear Gizmodo's editors are trying to turn it into Gawker. Favorite subject: the Trump gang.
http://gizmodo.com/guess-who-comes-up-w ... 1795200479
http://gizmodo.com/fcc-chairman-is-laug ... 1795193063

Even if the House had enough votes to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, Ryan as Speaker of the House may not put it to a vote. I don't see a way around this.