*Bob Woodward
is coming out with a book about the Trump Presidency and administration. It’s
called “Fear: Trump in the White House”.
(I have already preordered the book.) The White House is already in full ‘fake
news’ rebuttal mode. The problem for President Trump and the White House is
that the book is written by Bob Woodard and Woodward has some excellent bona
fides. He also has hundreds of hours of recorded conversations as well as
documents President Trump in his recorded-with-permission conversation actually
tells Woodward, “You’ve always been fair.” (As it turns out President Trump
doesn’t believe the words that come out of his mouth either.)
*President
Trump supporters shouldn’t read this. It will only upset you and you’ll start
name calling and that really serves no purpose. Just consider me properly told
off already. I’ll have links to the President talking and lying in person and
he said that you shouldn’t believe what you see and what you read so you
shouldn’t believe him either. President Trump:
“Just remember what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s
happening.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL65d_O5ChI
I know that sounds confusing but there you are. His rules not mine. Technically
hearing wasn’t specifically mentioned so perhaps audio is okay. That’s a shame
really because we almost had the monkey image trifecta.
*Now I know
that I overuse parenthetical marks but I enjoy them. I could have used them
here but chose not to. I also end sentences with prepositions a lot to. It’s
just the way that I roll.
*Anyway, in a
call to Bob Woodward Trump claimed that he wasn’t asked to be interviewed for
the book. Now keep in mind that he didn’t call until the book was already
published. Why then? By his own admission in the recorded conversation he had
known about the proposed book for months and that Woodward wanted to talk with
him. So, why in the world would
President Trump call Woodward at this juncture AND give permission for the call
to be recorded?! Why would he even want to call Woodward and talk with him
since he considers the press, media and anyone that might disagree with him
enemies of the people? At this point I would qualify as an enemy of the people
in Trump world. It’s no wonder that his lawyers don’t want him to testify.
*You can
listen to the audio of his conversation with Woodward that was made with HIS (Trump’s)
permission. It is one bizarre conversation and classic Trump. I will suggest
listening to the entire conversation before you bother with reading what I have
to say. Remember we have a gray area when it comes to listening. I think that’s
stretching a point though because—you know…video news without the audio is kind
of pointless a lot of the time.
Somebody get
the popcorn.
*I have read
one of Donald Trump’s books. It is probably his most important work. He “wrote”
it in 1987 and it is titled “Trump: The Art of the Deal”. Tony Schwartz, who is
listed on the cover, claims that Trump didn’t write any of it. Trump has since
claimed that he did write it. The book is quintessential Trump. It’s really a
map for how he ran his campaign. I would like to say that he’s the same man now
that he was then except he has degraded some with age. Don’t we all?
*Here’s what I
mean by the above. This link is to probably one of my favorite interviews with
then just Donald Trump from May of 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-5KEt1Abg
No, I’m not being sarcastic. He was
very much at ease with the reporter from Ireland’s TV3. He does talk about
Ireland a lot but he also talks about the United States and some of his plans.
*(Note: The log information says May, 2014. The
reporter talks about President Obama being reelected in 2016. He was reelected
in 2012. Donald Trump says during the interview that he hadn’t decided yet to
run for office.)
*The reason
that I like this interview is that he’s comfortable, articulate and is having a
conversation where he talks in complete sentences. There’s none of the
bombastic staccato sing song speech pattern that he has now. No repetitive
jargon. He isn’t insulting people or name calling. He isn’t trying to overturn
the First Amendment. He isn’t trying to incite a riot or get anybody punched in
the mouth. Just well-delivered talking points. He uses the same grandiose
hyperbole, but keep in mind he is selling a business enterprise.
*In the
interview with Ireland’s TV3 he said without hesitation or equivocation that he
would release his tax returns if he was to run for President. Period. Obviously
that was a lie. Not only did he not release his tax returns but his lawyers are
fighting in court to keep his tax returns from being released. I consider this
as being the start of his campaign of lies but that is not new to his nature.
It is his nature.
*When
President Trump says that we shouldn’t believe what we’re seeing what does he really
mean? As one small example Trump was interviewed by Fox News on September 16,
2016. The interview wasn’t shown until November 24, 1916. During the interview Trump
was asked about the story of him hitting his music teacher. Trump claimed that
the story about him hitting his music teacher is not true and that he hates the
story. The story came from his book “Trump: The Art of the Deal”. He wrote it.
On page 71 he talked about giving his music teacher a black eye and why he did
it. The link is directly below.
https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20161125_020000_OBJECTified_Donald_Trump/start/180/end/240
(Click on the video at 6:03 pm. The text is below the video.)
* Did he read
his own book? Who should we believe? What should we believe? Should we believe
the younger Trump or today’s Trump? Why should we think that the chaos we see
every day doesn’t go on all the time?
Back to the
real world
*Now if you listen to the audio of his talk
with Bob Woodward he starts off with saying nobody talked to him about being
interviewed for the book. He then acknowledges later in the same interview, when
Woodward asks him directly, that Senator Graham did in fact talk with him about
Woodward wanting to talk with him.
*It was kind
of fun getting to hear Kellyanne Conway crawfish to the point where she throws
herself under the bus. I don’t think that she meant to. It just kind of
happened. A woman that has direct access to the President didn’t use her words
to tell the President of the United States that Pulitzer Prize winner Bob
Woodward wanted to interview him about a book that he was writing about the
President. Instead she said that she submitted a request. She also admits that
she told Woodward that she would get back with him. Classy.
*These people
are managing to make Omarosa Manigault Newman look credible and I would not
have thought that possible. In her comments she has highlighted a real problem
that exists in the Trump White House. She has recordings of conversations. Bob
Woodward has recordings of conversations. Both of them separately talked with
LOTs of people. All of these people know that recordings could have been made
of them having less than complementary conversations about the President or
others. That kind of complicates having plausible deniability of saying
something when there might be a for real recording of them having said it.
The White
House leaks like a sieve.
*When he was
campaigning for the office President Trump said a lot of things. A LOT. He said
that he was only going to appoint the best people. So far his turnover has been
the highest of any President in the history of not only the United States but
of the universe. That is kind of fun to do. I just made that up. Oops! I just
did some research and guess what? The turnover rate is the highest of any
administration but not the universe. So much for hiring the best people.
*What we do
have is the same story coming out over and over from people that have left the
administration and anonymously from those still working there. We have seen
resignations and indictments. We have seen guilty pleas. We will see more. That’s
the truth of his administration. He appointed these people. They are corrupt.
The corruption is systemic.
*It isn’t “hating”
to recognize the reality that we are living in when we not only recognize what
is taking place but openly acknowledge it as citizens. We have to acknowledge
that we have a President that in not obsessed with running the nation every day
but rather obsesses about himself. He holds rallies on a regular basis where he
complains about how he is being treated. He attacks the First Amendment on a
daily basis even though he swore an oath to uphold of our Constitution.
*At the recent
rally in Montana he claimed that he wasn’t stomping and screaming in the White
House like media would have us imagine. First of all I can’t imagine him stomping
and taking the risk of inflaming those bone spurs! (BTW I have bone spurs. You
get a shot of cortisone in the heel and you’re good to go. It didn’t keep me
out of the Army. I avoided the draft by enlisting for a 4 year hitch in 1966.)
*We have a
President with such an inflated ego that he has to announce several times a day
that he’s the greatest, not guilty and that anything bad that is said about him
is not true.
*Don’t believe
him.