Trump asked source to go on TV to call on him to fire Robert Mueller
Source: CBS News
That President Donald Trump has been running his own parallel communications shop inside the White House probably won't come as much of a surprise. A source told CBS News on Thursday that Mr. Trump called on Wednesday and asked the source to go on television -- to call for Mr. Trump to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
Meanwhile, on Thursday afternoon, the president tweeted a message that took a more subdued tone than that of his cable news spinning allies: "I have agreed with the historically cooperative, disciplined approach that we have engaged in with Robert Mueller (Unlike the Clintons!). I have full confidence in Ty Cobb, my Special Counsel, and have been fully advised throughout each phase of this process."
The president has been known to spend what's marked on his schedule as his "executive time" watching Fox News, tweeting, and calling friends and outsiders for advice, independent of his White House communications team and often against the advice of senior White House advisers.
Axios reported earlier in March that White House chief of staff John Kelly told reporters in an off the record briefing that Mr. Trump was likely leaking internal personnel drama to people outside of the White House, who in turn leak to reporters.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-asked-source-to-go-on-tv-to-call-on-him-to-fire-robert-mueller/
tblue37
(65,502 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)Trump is the main source of the White House leaks
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)calimary
(81,556 posts)and weighed in, too.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)Have a plant or plants in the media implore the President to do an action that the President wants to do but would look shady if he just did it. So this way they can go on air and claim, as Cheney did with his planted fake news, that 'many' are saying he should fire Mueller, but he has resisted because he's such a great guy and wanted to give the guy a chance, but he will finally relent to the many voices from prominent non-partisan sources, outside the WH, that think it would be best if he fired him.
ailsagirl
(22,901 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Trump probably called them to make sure they'd say that.
caballojm
(273 posts)turbinetree
(24,737 posts)that wants to dismantle the DOJ and the FBI, because his fucking attorney was paying out hush money to a porn star and other woman, and was caught on tape admitting to being a sexual predator, and the republican controlled congress has there fucking thumbs stuck up their collective asses, and his ass and doing nothing, but are watching him dismantle the "Rule of Law", but are thinking about trying to confirm a woman who's husband committed adultery to federal bench, because she is a racist when it comes to the Brown vs Board of Education, because she doesn't want to say anything because her possible future bosses, at the supreme court may not like what she thinks, to hell with the citizens, who needs them.
And the world is watching the United States of America turn into a banana republic that has nuclear missiles, subs and planes, and some asshole that wants to bomb Iran and North Korea, and send missiles into Syria and goes around and huffs and puffs like a golf swinging asshole at 3 million a pop at his fucking resort on the taxpayers dime, because after all he can, because this same Congress keeps forgetting that they are the only ones that can send legislation to the executive branch declaring an act of war, and I didn't even mention the paranoid asshole(s) sitting in Interior and the EPA, just outright fucking the public and the tax dollars without any open hearings to hold anyone accountable, because of some five minute rule.
And a malignant narcissistic psychopath just pardoned person that "outed" a CIA operative, so if you "out" CIA operatives all systems are go fuck the operative and their contacts, because national security, heh, who needs national security, so that he can watch on his "scheduled executive time" playing with himself and watching reruns of Max Headroom....................
This is a week in review..................and its Friday the 13th ...................
The Art of Noise with Max Headroom - Paranoimia (Official Video)
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Axios reported earlier in March that White House chief of staff John Kelly told reporters in an off the record briefing that Mr. Trump was likely leaking internal personnel drama to people outside of the White House, who in turn leak to reporters."