The Times Interview, Annotated - Josh Marshall

[DonViejo]

By JOSH MARSHALL Published JULY 20, 2017 11:24 AM

Entirely unsurprisingly, the new New York Times interview with President Trump shows he has learned nothing from the biggest mistakes of the first six months of his presidency. He has turned completely against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, one of his staunchest loyalists, who he now blames for essentially launching the Russia probe. He is also lashing out at Rod Rosenstein. Sessions and Rosenstein, were complicit, substantively if not legally, in firing FBI Director James Comey, what I believe is to date the greatest impeachable offense of his Presidency. He is setting out the terms upon which he will fire Robert Mueller. He inexplicably admitted to using his second conversation with Vladimir Putin to discuss the issues that had come up a year ago in that Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr.

You’ve heard about those. What I was almost more interested was the litany of bizarre and often inexplicable statements and claims that came before he even got to those issues. So I took a moment to annotate each of these passages …










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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-times-interview-annotated

[L. Coyote]

1. The dementia is strooooong in this one.

[salin]

2. I know 14 yr olds who can hold a more focused sustain discussion

than our president. That aside, Marshall's annotations are hilarious.

[Glimmer of Hope]

3. Wtf with the hand holding!?? I am dying!!

[n2doc]

4. He really has outdone Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman in the bizarre interview category

How the hell anyone doesn't break into gales of laughter interviewing him, I don't know.

[MiddleClass]

10. Obviously they are just trying to hold on and gather all the statements together

And then try to figure out what the hell he's talking about on each sentence or part thereof.

Without the footnotes, you would have a massive headache.

What did he just say, about who, by who, forget that, what now, oh my God,

this might be funny if I didn't have a headache and wasn't legitimately scared

[Scarsdale]

5. Tremendous reception in Poland,

after they bussed people in!! What a clown he is. A Russian, a gop politician, a lawyer and a Mafia member walked into a bar. Bartender "Oh, I suppose you guys are here to talk about adoption?"

[WhiteTara]

6. John McCain made more sense and he had a tumor

pushing against his brain. We elected a complete moron to run our country.

[SledDriver]

7. SERIOUS gaslighting

Dementia...? the orange FUCKING shitgibbon is a master liar...

Look at how he makes ridiculous claims almost daring you to refute them...

[spanone]

8. hes sooo full of himself and shit.

[MiddleClass]

9. Oh my God, cannot formulate a single thought in one statement, sometimes one sentence.

Talk about having a short attention span,

by the words, he can not hold his attention long enough to formulate a full thought, and jumps to the next thing he wants to Bullshit you on. This is scary, he talks in word salads

[Solly Mack]

11. Damn