And this is the same guy who stole our nuclear weapons secrets and left them laying around Mar a Lago.




Trump discussed nuclear weapon systems with Woodward

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Julia Mueller
Tue, October 25, 2022 at 8:13 AM·2 min read




Former President Trump openly discussed nuclear weapons with veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, according to newly released audio of their interviews.

“I have built a weapon system that nobody’s ever had in this country before. We have stuff that you haven’t even seen or heard about. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before,” Trump said in a tape aired on CNN’s “Tonight.”

Woodward reportedly looked into Trump’s claims about the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and a source expressed surprise that the former president had shared details about the weapons with the journalist.

“It’s true. Xi and Putin would not know about it. But why is Trump bragging about it?” Woodward said Monday in conversation with CNN’s Jake Tapper.



“I once said to Trump, because he was kind of asking, ‘what do you think the president’s job is?’ And I said, it is to ascertain the next stage of good for a majority of people in the country, not one party or a bunch of interest groups, and then develop a comprehensive plan and execute it. And he said: ‘Oh, that’s good. That’s great.’ Never did he do this,” Woodward said.

Woodward is promoting his new audiobook, “The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump.”

In some of the interviews, Trump can also be heard discussing the COVID-19 pandemic and what he described as his “good chemistry” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“He doesn’t understand democracy,” Woodward said of Trump in the CNN interview, during which he also knocked the former president for his inaction during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The United States was one of the rare countries formed on an idea. And that idea is democracy. He doesn’t understand that the Jan. 6 committee has proven that. He does not understand that he’s got to take care of the people. He’s got to give them advice, warning. And he didn’t do this.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-discussed-nuclear-weapon-systems-141331207.html

 

Really your concerned about some totally irrelevant documents and have no concern of a leader who shits himself and can not put a sentence together.

You really need to drain that Mellon of yours.

 

And another bad one. But this is the lowest and most disgusting form of fake patriotism there is. Trump loved using our military for political props and maybe even to back his coup. But only for his own political gain. All the other times especially the troops that made the ultimate sacrifice they were just suckers and loses who knew what they signed up for.



Officers had to struggle against all instincts to stop Trump from using military as a 'prop': new book

Matthew Chapman
November 02, 2022



Donald Trump with members of the U.S. military (Photo via AFP)


On MSNBC Wednesday, author David Rothkopf told anchor Nicolle Wallace about what was going on behind the scenes with military officials during Donald Trump's presidency as he sought to use the armed forces for political purposes — and when he suggested to people like Defense Secretary James Mattis that the military implement schemes like an alligator-filled moat at the southern border.

Many military officials had to fight against their own instincts to follow orders in order to talk the former president down from his craziest, most illegal ideas, said Rothkopf.

"It is so hard to glean this kind of insight as to what most senior military officials went through," said Wallace. "What you put together in your account about Mattis is staggering, stunning, and feels we still haven't emptied out of his military."

Absolutely true," said Rothkopf. "I think Trump tried to use the military as a prop, and he sought to do it in a way that ran counter to everything the military has been about since the beginning of the republic. He wanted to politicize it, and wanted to do incredibly irresponsible things with the most powerful force that exists on earth. These military officers had to overcome the natural tendency to say 'yes, sir' and go to a next level, where they're not allowed to follow illegal orders, and they can provide advice to steer the president away."

Oftentimes, Rothkopf added, it was simply a matter of stalling the former president until whatever thought he was demanding they act on left his mind.

"When Mattis and others would get these calls, you know, sometimes it would be in the middle of the night, the response would be, hmm, interesting idea, Mr. President, let's discuss that tomorrow over lunch. Sometimes it took a lot more than just delaying and deferring. It took cabinet secretaries and others working together to ensure that the law was followed, and the national interests were protected. It was a constant struggle from day one until the day he left office."

Watch below or at this link.


https://www.rawstory.com/trump-and-the-military/

 

etu Mike? When it comes to bad ones about Trump everyone has to get in on the act.

Mike Pence Slams Donald Trump’s Actions After The Election In New Bombshell Book: ‘A New Low’ That ‘Went Downhill From There’

Maria Pierides
Thu, November 3, 2022 at 3:30 AM



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It doesn’t look like Mike Pence and Donald Trump will ever get back to the way things were, as Pence has continued to slam the 76-year-old former president in his forthcoming memoir, So Help Me God, which is due to be released on November 15th.

“A new low”
The 63-year-old ex vice president appears to openly blame Trump for the events leading to the January 6th insurrection (which is now being investigated by the US justice department) whereby a pro-Trump mob attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election. According to the memoir, Trump was urged by Rudy Giuliani and other advisers in a post-election meeting in November 2020 to *not* accept his election defeat, which Pence said was “a new low” for a president “well acquainted with rough-and-tumble debates.” Yikes!









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So Help Me God excerpt
“In the end, that day the president made the fateful decision to put Giuliani and [attorney] Sidney Powell in charge of the legal strategy. The seeds were being sown for a tragic day in January,” Pence wrote, in reference to the deadly January 6th riots, as per an excerpt published by Axios on Monday, October 31st.

What began as a briefing that Thursday afternoon quickly turned into a contentious back-and-forth between the campaign lawyers and a growing group of outside attorneys led by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, an attorney who had represented Gen Mike Flynn [Trump’s first national security adviser, who was later fired for lying to the FBI.]


"After the campaign lawyers gave a sober and somewhat pessimistic report on the state of election challenges, the outside cast of characters went on the attack… Giuliani told the president over the speakerphone, 'Your lawyers are not telling you the truth, Mr President.'"



"Even in an office well acquainted with rough-and-tumble debates, it was a new low," Pence continued, adding that everything "went downhill from there."


2024 presidential run
Trump still denies any wrongdoing, and is expected to officially make a formal announcement for the 2024 presidential run imminently – most likely after the midterm elections next week. When asked whether Pence would vote for his 2016 running mate last month, he said, "Well, there might be somebody else I’d prefer more," alluding to the fact that he himself could run.

But even if Pence doesn’t run, Trump already confessed that he will not be choosing him as a running mate, telling The New York Times, "It would be totally inappropriate. Mike committed political suicide," in reference to Pence's refusal to overturn the results of the election won by Joe Biden in 2020. At the time, Trump took to Twitter to say that Pence "didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution."


https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mike-pence-slams-donald-trump-093058905.html

 

Morning Joe astonished by Trump's boasts about being able to 'genetically' understand viruses

Travis Gettys
November 04, 2022



Photo: Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock


MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was astonished by Donald Trump's boasts about understanding the coronavirus "genetically" because his uncle had been a scientist.

Journalist Bob Woodward appeared Friday on "Morning Joe," where he shared some of his voluminous recordings of Trump interviews, including one where the former president claimed to have special knowledge about the Covid-19 pandemic due to his relationship with John Trump, an electrical engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"That is something that you would slowly back away from, if they were talking to you that way on the street," Scarborough said. "That's somebody that is just so detached from reality."

Co-host Willie Geist agreed, saying the recordings were worrisome.

"Call the relatives, it's time to sit down with dad," Geist said.

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-uncle/

 

Time to sit down with dad?
Well say, is Hunter sober enough for that?

 

And the bad ones just keep coming. Which leaves us with only two possibilities. Either a score of journalists are conspiring together and writing books with nothing but lies about Trump. Or Trump is without doubt the most mentally ill, stupid and ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, deadly, and treasonous president in US history. And of course it is the latter as proven over and over and over again. And that means those who supported and continue to support him are treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican cult followers that hate the United States of America and every great thing it has ever stood for.

But this is also a very simple explanation. The reason those around Trump had to lie for him, lie to him, manipulate, and ignore him is because they were dealing with Trump's mental illness, his delusions, and detachment from reality.


This Is When Trump’s Staffers Realized He Was Out of Control

The Daily Beast
Tue, November 8, 2022 at 2:54 AM



Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters

Daily Beast columnist David Rothkopf interviewed more than 100 people involved with the Trump White House for his new book, American Resistance: The Inside Story of How The Deep State Saved the Nation, and according to his sources, it took almost no time for Trump’s staffers to realize what kind of boss he was.

“All of them said they realized this either during the transition or in the first few weeks of the administration, and they all found their way to work around it. Whether it was saying, ‘No, Mr. President, this is the law,’ or going to the Congress with oversight or using whistleblower provision,” Rothkopf tells New Abnormal podcast host Andy Levy on the latest episode.



“Donald Trump would call up the Secretary of Defense [James] Mattis at night and say, ‘We’ve gotta strike the North Koreans now,’ and Mattis’ response would be ‘Interesting idea, Mr. President, maybe we should talk about it tomorrow’ and other people had to do the same thing,” he says.



Rothkopf also completely skewers the argument that Republicans are better for the economy. They’re actually bad for it, says Rothkopf, who has a ton of evidence to back that claim up.

“The business community supports them because the Republicans cut taxes and cut regulation, which means that whether the pie is bigger or smaller, their slice of the pie is bigger,” he says.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-staffers-realized-control-095456762.html

 

Whatever it takes, eh?
Selling books, bringing down Trump, getting the trump perp walk.
It all takes the same thing.

 

Mike Pence breaks the silence on election fraud: Eastman 'didn’t even believe what he was telling' Trump

Sarah K. Burris
November 09, 2022



Donald Trump, Mike Pence (Photo via AFP)


Former Vice President Mike Pence published an excerpt from his upcoming book as a column in the Wall Street Journal, making it clear that John Eastman's quack theories about trying to overturn the election on Jan. 6 were known to be false even to him.

He recalled a conversation with Donald Trump in the days before the Capitol attack. They were discussing the lawsuit brought by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX).

"I don’t want to see ‘Pence Opposes Gohmert Suit’ as a headline this morning,” Trump raged, according to Pence.

The former VP recalled he told Trump he was against it.

IN OTHER NEWS: 'Trump is a loser': Conservative pundit erupts after 'profoundly disappointing' midterm results

“If it gives you the power,” he asked, “why would you oppose it?”

Pence claimed he didn't believe the power existed under the Constitution.

“You’re too honest,” he chided. “Hundreds of thousands are gonna hate your guts. . . . People are gonna think you’re stupid.”

Other reports cite Trump calling Pence a "p*ssy" and a slew of other things. At the same time, Pence wasn't innocently standing up for democracy on principle. He was searching for a way to make it happen too, even going so far as to call Dan Quayle to ask for advice on what his role would be on Jan. 6.

"On Jan. 4, the president’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, summoned me to the Oval Office for a meeting with a long list of attendees, including the legal scholar John Eastman," Pence recalled. "I listened respectfully as Mr. Eastman argued that I should modify the proceedings, which require that electoral votes be opened and counted in alphabetical order, by saving the five disputed states until the end. Mr. Eastman claimed I had the authority to return the votes to the states until each legislature certified which of the competing slate of electors for the state was correct. I had already confirmed that there were no competing electors."

READ: Trump is 'screaming at everyone' after watching his hand-picked candidates flop: CNN's Jim Acosta

Pence recalled Eastman trying to explain his legal theory, but it was the only one he had.

“Do you think I have the authority to reject or return votes?” he recalled asking Eastman.

“Well, it’s never been tested in the courts, so I think it is an open question," Eastman replied.

Pence then told Trump " Even your lawyer doesn’t think I have the authority to return electoral votes.”

He recalled Trump saying, “I like the other thing better,” presumably meaning that I could simply reject electoral votes.

Pence said he then made it clear to Trump that even Eastman didn't support his own ideas.

Those debates happened again the next day, and that's where some of the testimony from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Legal fights broke out in the Oval Office. Trump yelled at everyone and nothing was decided.

Pence went on to give a tic-tok that walked through what happened on the sixth, though it essentially matched all of the books that have come before him.

On Jan. 11, he remembered talking to Trump, confessing, “I was angry. You and I had our differences that day, Mr. President, and seeing those people tearing up the Capitol infuriated me.”

He went on to tell Trump to his face that what happened on Jan. 6 was horrific and wrong. That hasn't been the message that Republicans delivered in the past two years.

Pence said that he told Trump he was "praying for you."

“Don’t bother,” Trump said.

Read the full excerpt at the Wall Street Journal


https://www.rawstory.com/mike-pence-book-excerpt/

 

Pence to Muir: Trump's words on 1/6 'endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol'

Pence to Muir: Trump's words on 1/6 'endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol'
TAL AXELROD
Sun, November 13, 2022 at 4:01 PM



Former Vice President Mike Pence said in an exclusive interview with ABC's "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir that former President Donald Trump's rhetoric was "reckless" as a mob of his supporters ransacked the Capitol last year -- with Pence and others temporarily forced into hiding.

"I mean, the president's words were reckless. It was clear he decided to be part of the problem," Pence told Muir.

Pence said he was "angered" over a tweet from Trump as the insurrection unfolded, when the former president said he "didn't have the courage to do what should have been done" after he rebuffed pressure to not certify now-President Joe Biden's 2020 victory.





"I turned to my daughter, who was standing nearby, and I said, 'It doesn't take courage to break the law. It takes courage to uphold the law,'" Pence, who is releasing the memoir "So Help Me God" on Tuesday, told Muir in his first network TV interview since the insurrection.

In an exclusive interview at the former vice president's home in Indiana, Muir also pressed Pence on whether Trump should ever be in the White House again, whether Pence will run for president, whether Trump hurt Republicans in the midterms and what Pence makes of authorities saying classified documents were taken from the White House.


PHOTO: Former Vice President Mike Pence is interviewed by David Muir of ABC News. (ABC News)
Pence was overseeing Congress' certification of the 2020 Electoral College results on Jan. 6, 2021, when a large crowd urged on by Trump marched to the Capitol and then overran security and vandalized the building, sending Pence and congressional lawmakers into lockdown.

"The president's words were reckless and his actions were reckless," he told Muir this week. "The president's words that day at the rally [before the riot] endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building."

MORE: Trump's influence on GOP under question after Republicans' disappointing midterms

Trump ultimately told the rioters to leave but only after berating Pence for not blocking the certification -- which Pence noted he couldn't legally do -- and repeating baseless conspiracy theories about widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

Since leaving office, Pence has praised the policies of their administration while breaking with Trump over the latter's fixation on the last presidential race.


https://www.yahoo.com/gma/pence-muir-trumps-words-1-230100582.html

 

I am betting Bod Woodward is in the midst of writhing another Trump bad one right now.

Bob Woodward: Oath Keepers convictions puts new pressure on DOJ to indict Trump

Travis Gettys
December 01, 2022



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The convictions of two Oath Keepers leaders on seditious conspiracy charges puts new pressure on the Department of Justice to indict Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to veteran journalist Bob Woodward.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and his lieutenant Kelly Meggs were found guilty this week for their roles in the U.S. Capitol assault, and other militia members were convicted on other charges, and Woodward told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" those cases would weigh on attorney general Merrick Garland and newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith.

"It gives them a strong basis," Woodward said. "I think we are now at this point that the Justice Department, the new special counsel is going to have to indict Trump or explain why they are not indicting him. Now, that's certainly possible that they won't -- prosecutors have discretion, but the case of the violation -- I'm sorry, it's technical 18 U.S.C. 371 -- conspiring, working to subvert a lawful function of government is right there in plain sight."

Garland responded to the Oath Keepers convictions by pledging to hold others accountable for trying to overturn the 2020 election, and the House Select Committee will decide soon whether to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department against the former president.

READ MORE: Trump will 'burn down' the GOP and the party has only itself to blame: conservative

"In a way, they're interesting fodder for us to discuss," Woodward said, "but I really think if you get, you know, Garland is there talking about the dedication and efforts that people have made in doing this investigation. Dedication and effort is wonderful. What is most wonderful is evidence, and they have compelling evidence."

Watch the video below or at this link.



https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-oath-keepers-2658808902/

 

More proof the mental health experts were right. Due to his FORMS of mental illness Trump was literally the most dangerous man in the world.


Trump discussed using a nuclear weapon on North Korea in 2017 and blaming it on someone else, book says
Rebecca Shabad
Thu, January 12, 2023 at 6:30 AM MST


WASHINGTON — Behind closed doors in 2017, President Donald Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea and suggested he could blame a U.S. strike against the communist regime on another country, according to a new section of a book that details key events of his administration.

Trump's alleged comments, reported for the first time in a new afterword to a book by New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt, came as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un escalated, alarming then-White House chief of staff John Kelly.

The new section of "Donald Trump v. the United States," obtained by NBC News ahead of its publication in paperback Tuesday, offers an extensive examination of Kelly’s life and tenure as Trump's chief of staff from July 2017 to January 2019. Kelly previously was Trump's secretary of homeland security. For the account, Schmidt cites in part dozens of interviews on background with former Trump administration officials and others who worked with Kelly.

Eight days after Kelly arrived at the White House as chief of staff, Trump warned that North Korea would be "met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before." When Trump delivered his first speech to the U.N. General Assembly in September 2017, he threatened to "totally destroy North Korea" if Kim, whom he referred to as "Rocket Man," continued his military threats.


President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un stand on North Korean soil while walking to South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images file)
Later that month, Trump continued to goad North Korea through his tweets. But Kelly was more concerned about what Trump was saying privately, Schmidt reports.

"What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility," according to the new section of the book.

Kelly tried to use reason to explain to Trump why that would not work, Schmidt continues.

"It’d be tough to not have the finger pointed at us," Kelly told the president, according to the afterword.

Kelly brought the military’s top leaders to the White House to brief Trump about how war between the U.S. and North Korea could easily break out, as well as the enormous consequences of such a conflict. But the argument about how many people could be killed had "no impact on Trump," Schmidt writes.

Kelly then tried to point out that there would be economic repercussions, but the argument held Trump’s attention for only so long, according to the afterword.

Then, Trump "would turn back to the possibility of war, including at one point raising to Kelly the possibility of launching a preemptive military attack against North Korea," Schmidt said.

Kelly warned that Trump would need congressional approval for a pre-emptive strike, which "baffled and annoyed" Trump, according to the afterword.

Trump tweeted in early January 2018: "North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.' Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"

Schmidt also writes that it was well-known among senior U.S. officials for several decades that North Korea sought to spy on U.S. decision-makers. So White House aides were alarmed "that Trump would repeatedly talk on unclassified phones, with friends and confidants outside the government, about how he wanted to use military force against North Korea."

Schmidt writes that there is no indication North Korea had a source in the White House, but he said it "was well within the realm of American intelligence assessment" that it could have been listening to Trump’s calls.

"Kelly would have to remind Trump that he could not share classified information with his friends," Schmidt writes.

According to the new section, Kelly came up with a plan he believes ultimately prompted Trump to dial back the rhetoric in spring 2018: appealing directly to Trump’s "narcissism."

Kelly convinced the president he could prove he was the "greatest salesman in the world" by trying to strike a diplomatic relationship, Schmidt writes, thereby preventing a nuclear conflict that Kelly and other top military leaders saw as a more immediate threat than most realized at the time.

The situation with North Korea consumed Kelly almost immediately upon his taking the job at the White House, which he had not actually committed to do before Trump tweeted that the post was his, according to the new section.

“Holy s--- — oh, I gotta call Karen,” Kelly said, referring to his wife, according to the afterword.

"Three days later, on Monday morning, Kelly met with his aides in a large conference room at a Department of Homeland Security office building a few blocks from the White House. Kelly was solemn. 'This is a great job,' he said, referring to the cabinet position he was leaving. 'That’s not a great job. But the president has asked me to do it.'"

This article was originally published on NBCNews.com

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-discussed-using-nuclear-weapon-133040269.html

 

'Trump far dumber and immoral and ignorant and lazy' than staffers knew before they worked for him: report

Travis Gettys
January 12, 2023



Donald Trump addresses crowd in Sioux City, Iowa in 2016. (Shutterstock.com)


John Kelly didn't have high expectations about Donald Trump when he joined the White House as chief of staff, but he was still shocked by what he found after joining the administration.

The retired U.S. Marine Corps general joined the White House halfway through Trump's first year, and New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" about what Kelly learned about the former president and his abilities.

"So when Kelly came in as chief of staff, he thought that the problem around Trump was that he was not staffed properly and they needed to create a process around him, and that's what the chaos of the first six months of the administration was about," Schmidt said. "But when Kelly comes in as chief of staff, what he realizes is that the problem is not just the fact that there's not a process and that he's not being staffed as well as he could, but that Trump himself was the problem, that Trump was far dumber and immoral and ignorant and lazy than he ever thought he was."

RELATED: Trump ruled out Nikki Haley for top positions for shockingly 'shallow' reason: report

"Within a few days, he becomes terrified because here he is, the top staffer to the president of the United States, and he's realizing that the president of the United States is far more limited and potentially dangerous than he ever thought, and at that point, there was no one else to call," Schmidt added. "He was -- it was just him and Trump, and he basically spends the next 18 months trying to manage Trump as much as he could."

Watch the segment below or at this link.



https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-john-kelly/

 

Just another day at the adult daycare trying to keep Trump from blowing up the world.



John Kelly manipulated Trump to become friends with Kim Jong Un to prevent all-out war: book

Sarah K. Burris
January 12, 2023



Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump


New York Times correspondent Michael Schmidt is publishing a paper back copy of his book, Donald Trump v. The United States, that will feature a 12,000-word addition that includes new information he discovered after publication about the relationship the former president had with Gen. John Kelly.

Kelly, who served as Trump's second chief of staff, became increasingly concerned about the rhetoric that Trump was using publicly and in private to taunt North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Coming into the position, Kelly was shocked to learn that Trump was completely unmoved by the chance of thousands of people dying if Kim decided to bomb something.

"When Kelly said ‘this could destroy the economy’ he thought it was something that might appeal to Trump’s love of his own economy. Trump didn’t appreciate that," Schmidt told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. "It was only after Kelly suggested to Trump ‘why don’t you become his friend? No one in history has ever done that.’ He knew it would never lead to a denuclearized North Korea but it would ratchet back the public and private rhetoric that was spinning out of control."

It's exactly what Trump did and it's how America was saved from going to war with North Korea over the egos of the two leaders.

"It's the indifference to death that I've never seen so starkly," she said. "We knew that Trump had an indifference to suffering in the spiked wall he wanted at the southern border and the nukes he wanted to shoot into Mexico. But the indifference in your telling of Kelly's efforts to educate him on the horrors and the heinous nature of war feels like an inflection point for kelly."

Schmidt agreed, saying that no person understood the horrors of war more than Kelly, particularly when he lost his son in the post-9/11 wars.

"And he's trying to explain to Trump what this could look like, what a DMZ with North and South Korea firing on each other could look like. How this could all spin into ways that could lead to missiles flying all over the place," said Schmidt. "And it didn't work to connect to Trump. He couldn't connect to Trump that way. It was only through Kelly, saying to Trump, 'You can be the deal maker. Go all the way back to Eisenhower. No one has done this. You can do this.' And Trump goes along with it."

It explains the about-face that the public saw between Trump and Kim from taunting each other on Twitter to writing "love letters."

See the interview below or at the link here.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kim-jong-un-kelly/

 

More scenes from the adult daycare.

John Kelly was forced to deal with 'fights' between Melania and Ivanka Trump as they competed for influence, NYT journalist says

John Kelly was forced to deal with 'fights' between Melania and Ivanka Trump as they competed for influence, NYT journalist says
Alia Shoaib
Sun, January 15, 2023 at 5:46 AM MST



Then-President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump introduced by his daughter and White House senior adviser, Ivanka Trump, as he prepares to deliver his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

• John Kelly had to deal with conflicts between Melania and Ivanka Trump, NYT journalist Michael Schmidt said.
  
  
• Ivanka Trump wanted to be the first lady in a "ceremonial" sense, Schmidt said.
  
  
• Schmidt's book "Donald Trump v. The United States" includes details about Kelly's time as White House chief of staff.
  

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly was often forced to deal with conflicts between Melania and Ivanka Trump as they competed for influence, according to New York Times journalist Michael Schmidt.

Schmidt, who wrote the book "Donald Trump v. The United States," told MSNBC that Ivanka Trump wanted to be the first lady in a "ceremonial" sense.

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"John Kelly is probably as serious a national security figure as you can find, a four-star Marine general. He comes into the White House, he thinks that he needs to put in structure and better staffing for Trump and all of a sudden, he's confronting far more frivolous issues like fights between the first lady and Ivanka Trump, and Ivanka Trump trying to maneuver, what Kelly was told, to become the first lady in this ceremonial ways," he said.


White House chief of staff John Kelly listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a briefing with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House on October 5, 2017.Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images
The book's paperback edition, which is due to be published on Tuesday, includes a 12,000-word biography of Kelly and details about his time as Trump's chief of staff.

Schmidt said that during Kelly's time in the White House, he was often forced to focus on less important issues, including telling former White House aide Omarosa to stop having parties at the White House pool.

"Here's John Kelly, right, concerned that we could be on the brink of war with North Korea, trying to mitigate these issues that are not as serious but were front and center in the Trump White House where things were off the rails," he said.

In a new afterword for the book, due to be published on Tuesday, Schmidt also revealed that Kelly was concerned when former President Donald Trump suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on North Korea and blaming it on someone else in 2017.

Read the original article on Business Insider

https://www.yahoo.com/news/john-kelly-forced-deal-fights-124633089.html

 

The hypocrisy of treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans screaming about President Biden mishandling classified material just glares like the sun. They are like ants under a magnifying glass getting burned to a crisp just calling more attention to Trump every time they scream Biden.


Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly had to repeatedly remind the former president he could not share classified information with friends, NYT journalist says

Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly had to repeatedly remind the former president he could not share classified information with friends, NYT journalist says
Sarah Al-Arshani
Sun, January 15, 2023 at 12:35 PM MST



Former President Donald Trump.Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

• Trump's former chief of staff did not trust how he handled classified information, NYT journalist says.
  
  
• Michael Schmidt said John Kelly was concerned that Trump "could damage national security."
  
  
• "Kelly did not trust that Trump knew how to handle classified information,' Schmidt said.
  

John Kelly, Donald Trump's ex-chief of staff, had to repeatedly remind the former president that he couldn't share classified information with friends, New York Times journalist Michael Schmidt said.

Schmidt, the author of "Donald Trump v. The United States," told MSNBC on Saturday that Kelly was "terrified" about a lot that had to do with the former president.

"Kelly did not trust that Trump knew how to handle classified information,' Schmidt said.

This comes as the Justice Department is probing the former president for possibly mishandling classified information, In August of last year, the FBI raided Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago after a search warrant was issued to search for missing classified documents. The warrant was issued after requests from the National Archives to return the classified and sensitive information went unanswered.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has since assigned a special counsel in the Department of Justice to investigate Trump's handling of classified documents.




Schmidt told MSNBC that Trump would openly talk about confidential information and "Kelly would try to stop Trump from doing things that could damage national security."

Schmidt added: "Here's the chief of staff to the president of the united state concerned that the president of the united states could damage national security. Remember the president of the united states is in charge of protecting the country, but Trump behaved in such an abnormal, immoral way in Kelly's eye that he didn't trust what Trump would do."

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Another fun back stabbing bad one.

Mike Pompeo Accuses Nikki Haley, Ivanka And Jared Of Plotting To Replace Mike Pence

Mike Pompeo Accuses Nikki Haley, Ivanka And Jared Of Plotting To Replace Mike Pence
Lee Moran
Thu, January 19, 2023 at 7:35 AM MST


Mike Pompeo, a former secretary of state for Donald Trump, details in his upcoming memoir what he believed was a plot to oust Mike Pence as vice president.

Pompeo said Nikki Haley, while serving as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, convinced then-White House chief of staff John Kelly to organize an Oval Office meeting between her and the then-president.

But Haley showed up flanked by Trump’s senior advisers, his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

“As best Kelly could tell, they were presenting a possible ‘Haley for vice-president’ option,” Pompeo wrote in excerpts of “Never Give An Inch: Fighting For The America I Love” that were published by The Guardian on Thursday.

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“I can’t confirm this, but (Kelly) was certain he had been played, and he was not happy about it,” Pompeo added. “Clearly, this visit did not reflect a team effort but undermined our work for America.”


Mike Pompeo, left, accused Nikki Haley, center, of plotting to replace Mike Pence, right, as vice president.
Mike Pompeo, left, accused Nikki Haley, center, of plotting to replace Mike Pence, right, as vice president.

It’s unclear when the meeting took place. Haley and Kelly both were serving in Trump’s administration from July 2017 to December 2018.

Trump, amid mounting speculation in 2019, was forced to publicly rule out the idea of dumping Pence for Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, on the 2020 ticket.

Pence “is our man 100%,” he said at the time.

Pompeo, in his memoir set for release next week, also expressed his apparent disdain for Haley, saying her ambassador role was “a job that is far less important than people think.”

“She has described her role as going toe-to-toe with tyrants,” he wrote, per The Guardian’s excerpts. “If so, then why would she quit such an important job at such an important time?”

Haley left the role at the end of 2018.

Pompeo’s digs at Haley should come as no surprise. Both are possible 2024 Republican presidential contenders.

So far, Donald Trump is the only Republican to officially announce a candidacy.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-pompeo-accuses-nikki-haley-143539245.html

 

Pompeo says Trump told him to ‘shut the hell up’ about China
by Julia Shapero - 01/19/23 11:20 AM ET

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in his forthcoming memoir that former President Trump told him to “shut the hell up” about China in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, Semafor reported on Thursday.

“My Mike, that f—— guy hates you!” Trump reportedly said to Pompeo in March 2020 after a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The disagreement was detailed in Pompeo’s new memoir “Never Give an Inch,” which is set to be released next week, Semafor reported.


Xi had warned Trump on the call that his secretary of State was endangering the recently signed “phase one” trade deal, which sought to rein in the trade war between Washington and Beijing.

The call came one day after Pompeo created a stir at a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven, accusing China of engaging in a disinformation campaign on COVID-19 and calling for the virus to be named after the Chinese city of Wuhan where it was first detected.

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Several days later, Trump accused of Pompeo of “putting us all at risk” by angering Xi, telling him, “Stop, for God’s sake!”

Trump was reportedly also concerned about obtaining protective health equipment from China as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold around the world, according to Semafor.

Pompeo is currently considering a 2024 bid for president, putting him at odds with his former boss. While the former secretary of State is waiting to make an announcement on the subject until the spring, Trump launched his own campaign just one week after the midterm elections in November.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...ump-told-him-to-shut-the-hell-up-about-china/

 

Mike Pompeo says Trump had a 'nutty' plan for him to serve as both secretary of defense and secretary of state simultaneously: book
John L. Dorman
Sat, January 21, 2023 at 10:09 AM MST



Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference to announce the Trump administration's restoration of sanctions on Iran in Washington, DC, on September 21, 2020.AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

• Pompeo said Trump floated the idea of him serving as secretary of state and defense secretary, per his new memoir.
  
  
• In July 2020, Trump told Mark Meadows that he wanted his secretary of state to have a "dual hat," per Pompeo.
  
  
• Pompeo made the revelation as he explores a potential 2024 White House campaign against his ex-boss.
  
  
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in his forthcoming memoir, said former President Donald Trump wanted him to serve as both secretary of state and secretary of defense at the same time — an idea that the former congressman thought was "nutty."

Pompeo, who served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from January 2017 and April 2018 and then as secretary of state from April 2018 to the conclusion of Trump's term in January 2021, wrote in his book, "Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love," that he already had "plenty" to do in leading the State Department when the proposal was floated.

In July 2020 — in the middle of a summer that saw a racial reckoning across many US institutions in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd — Trump reportedly hinted to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper would not be in his role much longer.

According to Pompeo's book, Trump told Meadows that Esper was "not going to make it" for much longer while helming the Defense Department. (Esper would eventually serve until November 2020, when he was fired by Trump.)

That July, Trump told Meadows that he wanted his secretary of state to have a "dual hat" and "take on leading the department of defense as an additional duty," per Pompeo.

But Pompeo in the memoir said he told Meadows that the proposition was "a nutty idea," noting that he would be unable to "command defense at the same time."

Pompeo then remarked that Trump brought up the idea of him serving in two roles again, when the then-president noted that the well-known diplomat Henry Kissinger had been both secretary of state and national security advisor for an overlapping period during the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the 1970s.

"President Trump pitched the idea to me," Pompeo wrote in his memoir. "I think he was half-kidding."

Pompeo, who was long considered a strong ally of Trump, is now exploring a potential 2024 presidential campaign, which would put him up against his former boss.

Trump launched his third presidential campaign shortly after the November midterm elections, which saw Republicans underperform relative to most expectations that they would sweep the most competitive House races and potentially regain a Senate majority.

However, while Republicans won back control of the House of Representatives, they have a narrow 222-212 majority, which gives them little room for error. Democrats were able to retain control of the Senate — winning key contests in swing states like Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.

As Republicans head into 2024 — having lost the 2020 presidential election and faltered in many notable races in 2022 — some in the party are openly questioning Trump's influence. An array of Republican figures are seeking to reimagine the GOP with a new standard-bearer as the party ramps up its campaign against President Joe Biden, who is expected to run for reelection.

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