Trump distracted from Kavanaugh battle by pesky meddling UN
Trump thinks Kavanaugh is doing a bad job of defending himself so he’s taking over.
President Donald Trump has grown increasingly dissatisfied with the way Brett Kavanaugh has defended himself in wake of sexual assault allegations that have threatened to derail his Supreme Court nomination, multiple sources tell CNN.
It has led the President to believe that he must personally take charge of defending his embattled nominee ahead of Thursday’s critical appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Trump made the decision to hold a news conference on the eve of the hearing, making it the fourth he has held as president.
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Trump is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, but is being kept up to date on the latest developments with Kavanaugh. An official traveling with him said he is still standing squarely behind Kavanaugh.
No wonder he looked so tired and bored and drunk when he gave his speech yesterday; he was impatient to get back to the real fun.
Trump, who watched the [Fox] interview, thought Kavanaugh appeared “wooden,” according to one person familiar with the President’s thinking, and told several other allies he should have been more aggressive in his defense.
“You’re also not seeing him on his footing,” Trump said after the interview aired. “This isn’t his footing. He’s never been here before. He’s never had any charges like this, I mean charges come up from 36 years ago that are totally unsubstantiated.”
While Trump is totally used to it because he’s been assaulting women his whole adult life.
Though Kavanaugh has been flabbergasted as the women have come forward, he has remained measured publicly, while Trump has become increasingly agitated and animated while discussing the allegations.
The drama has overshadowed what was supposed to be a week of diplomacy at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Ahead of the President’s arrival in New York last weekend, aides hoped an intensive schedule might deter him from further inflaming the precarious confirmation proceedings back home, which most Republicans concurred was best played out without Trump’s intervention.
But Trump has been fixated on the Supreme Court confirmation battle as he shuttles between meetings with world leaders and wields the gavel at Wednesday’s meeting of the United Nations Security Council. He made clear what was on his mind when the President turned to his Colombian counterpart, President Iván Duque, Tuesday and said: “You must say, ‘How is this possible?’ “
So typical of Trump. “You must be interested in what I’m interested in.”
Trump addressed the matter again Wednesday, minutes before he chaired the Security Council meeting, remarking he would have pushed Kavanaugh’s nomination through the Senate two weeks ago if he were responsible for the proceedings.
“They could have pushed it through two weeks ago and we wouldn’t be talking about this right now, which is what I would have preferred,” Trump said, describing Kavanaugh as a “gem” who had been unfairly maligned.
Oh yes we would, you pig. You can’t shut us up, not unless you stage a real coup.
Trump, who has been accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women and denied the allegations, has often said punching back is the most effective defense.
The President’s idea of a robust defense is causing heartburn during a tense week on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has conveyed to Trump that his comments are only complicating the confirmation process further and Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who will be a critical vote for Kavanaugh, said she was appalled by the President’s remarks, calling them “completely inappropriate and wrong.”
Hey, rapey guys have to defend each other.
Good. This needs to be further complicated. Actually, it should be simple. Rape women? No lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Go to the back of the line. Next!
Who would be a Founding Father, when this is what you get for all your effort?
Omar, they do have the advantage of not having lived to see it. Trump would have been their worst nightmare.
He was certainly something beyond their imagination when they wrote the rules that made him possible.
It speaks volumes of his utter disrespect for the U.N. that he couldn’t even be bothered to leave Trump Towers until he was due to speak, so arrived late forcing a re-scheduling of speakers.
The Guardian has a photograph of Eric and Ivanka backstage before Donnie’s first speech. I’ve never seen a picture of the princess (well, not as an adult) in which she looked so nervous. I think the confident mask slipped in public there, allowing herself to be photographed chewing on a fingernail and looking so apprehensive. For that brief moment she looked as worried as any of his advisors, wondering what he would do or say off-script this time.
Eric, of course, looked his usual, cluelessly arrogant self.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/25/trump-united-nations-general-assembly-speech-globalism-america
Practically every sentence of that article is MEMEable. I mean, can you imagine any sentence at all which would not be improved by adding:
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Then there’s this:
Personally, I reckon that the best defense is not being there in the first place, if you can possibly help it, then running away if you can do so, THEN punching. But people like Trump and Kavanaugh seem determined to make sure “there” is the same thing as “anywhere, absolutely any fucking where at all” and that running away or shouting for help is not possible.
I’m fairly sure that if any of Trump’s victims punched back he would have remembered that the most effective defense is really inheriting vast undeserved wealth and using it to sue people or pay them off under the condition of sinister threats.
One more:
Paste that across literally any picture of Trump, any sentence he’s ever used or photographs of crying children and you practically have an entire industry of memes in one go.
From Trump’s speech:
Wow. I’m glad to hear that. I had no idea there were rockets and missiles flying in every direction, but I, for one, am glad they have been stopped. If they continued any longer, people might have gotten hurt. Polar bears might have gotten hurt. Lemurs and otters might have gotten hurt. And that would be bad. All hail Trump and Kim…
God is he the worst president we could possibly have elected? I hope so, because if there is one worse, I imagine the Republicans will run them next time – and probably win.