WH shuts down press availability and says Trump won't leave WH after tweet admits collusion
Source: RawStory
White House shuts down press availability and says Trump wont leave White House after tweet admits collusion
DAVID EDWARDS
06 AUG 2018 AT 11:25 ET
The White House announced on Monday that President Donald Trump would not be leaving the White House and would not take any questions after he admitted on Twitter that his son may have colluded with Russians during the 2016 campaign.
In a tweet over the weekend, Trump reversed course on his explanation of 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer in Trump Tower. The president had originally claimed that the meeting had been about adoptions. But in his Sunday tweet, Trump admitted that the purpose of the meeting had been to get damaging information about Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee.
On Monday, NBCs Peter Alexander reported that the White House had issued a lid on presidential travel and questions from the press.
Link to tweet
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders also had not scheduled a Monday briefing by the time of publication.
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/white-house-shuts-press-availability-says-trump-wont-leave-white-house-tweet-admits-collusion/
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)and, Rudy G confessed that Don Sr knew in advance of the meeting, so he was also a party to the conspiracy.
Jack from Charlotte
(2,367 posts)from The Ruskies had been obtained illegally. Info the Trump/Republic Partiers were trying to obtain they knew had been stolen from hacked email accounts.
It wasn't just collusion it was trying to make a deal for stolen property.
Cha
(297,151 posts)irisblue
(32,967 posts)Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) Tweeted:
JUST IN: White House announces a travel/photo lid, which means no public appearances by Trump today as new questions swirl around that 2016 Trump Tower meeting to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Link to tweet
brush
(53,764 posts)collusiion (really to treason).
They're dealing with the dumbest president ever. He recently said Don Lemon makes LeBron James look smart.
Well, trump makes W look smart.
Cosmocat
(14,563 posts)One of my favorite quips the last year plus has been that 45 is the best thing that could have happened for 43 ...
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,393 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Wonder how long before he's back on the links?
Didn't Trump promise to play more golf than Obama?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/politics/donald-trump-golfing-presidency/
"I'm going to be working for you, I'm not going to have time to go play golf," Trump said at the time.
docgee
(870 posts)"I'm NOT going to be working for you, I'm AM going to have time to go play golf."
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)He would be on a "working vacation" at Bedminister the next 2 weeks.
I know Congress is gone until September (the Senate started the 3-day pro-forma gavel-in/absence of a quorom sessions this past Friday and will have another tomorrow).
zanana1
(6,110 posts)Bad president! Bad, bad president!
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,393 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)so even septuagenarian sociopathic pathological liars are taking the day off from riding around on a cart pretending to golf.
xeodtech
(79 posts)At his golf course.. Please whoever posted get it right..
ffr
(22,669 posts)Go F yourself tЯump!
IMPEACH and IMPRISON.
global1
(25,241 posts)golf course. I hear he even cheats at golf and lies about his score.
PJMcK
(22,031 posts)He cheats in business.
He cheats in marriage.
He cheats all the time.
A fundamental tenet of golf is that honesty is the core value of the game. Trump has no business golfing.
2naSalit
(86,536 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)Texin
(2,594 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,527 posts)The President has handcuffed himself to the Oval Office desk...
magicarpet
(14,144 posts).... Sorry the Presi-dunce has gone away on his summer holiday vacation. He is currently unavailable.
What is that noise - sounds like it is coming from up in the attic?
forgotmylogin
(7,527 posts)"My fellow Americans, we--"
--creekledy creekledy creekledy-- "WRONG!"!
"Oh, Season's Greetings, to you too Mr. Trump!" {claps for aides with tranq darts to subdue him and re-nail the ceiling trap shut}
"I'm sorry. Old Mr. Trump can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh...cuz he likes to rub the phone all over his crotch. We just let him use that block of wood we painted shiny like an iPhone and tossed up there!"
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)But seriously this is alarming.
ffr
(22,669 posts)Then paste away.
tЯump
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klook
(12,154 posts)Posted the extra info for the obsessives.
Cadfael
(1,296 posts)Спасибо
(I took one year of russian back in freshman year of high school in the 70s....I remember this and how to say thank god today is friday..lol)
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)All the elements of conspiracy....including republican senators and congress people who shutdown actual investigations and hearings,
Glorious to watch unfold
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)REPENT. CONFESS. RESIGN.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)high enough for that orange lump of blubber to hide under.
PunksMom
(440 posts)in a cave!
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Coming, and he is freaking out. These will probably be a lot closer to home.
orangecrush
(19,537 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,755 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,527 posts)3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)...the best one.
underpants
(182,769 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,393 posts)I know, you're talking about the Kleenex box Howard Hughes, but as long as I'm on a roll....
Loudoun County is home to both the Howard Hughes Institute, which engages in medical research, and the Trump National Golf Resort, which tried to throw recreational boaters off the Potomac River whenever Trump was there. The woman who gave him the finger as his motorcade went by lost her job.
I'd say Howard Hughes was a far more decent person than any manifestation by which history will recall Donald Trump..
Anyone who gave us the Constellation is A-okay in my book. Straight guys will throw Jane Russell into the list of "great things Howard Hughes brought us," but I wouldn't know.
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)the Trump mob has gone to the mattresses. They're not coming out because they know those dangerous, blood thirsty reporters are out there, waiting for him.
Once again, Trump displays what a gutless baby he is. There's not a crowd of hand-picked, paid supporters outside, waiting for him. So he hides. What a chuckle-head.
Doodley
(9,088 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)he's got Hope Hicks down there with him.
KPN
(15,642 posts)Botany
(70,490 posts)circle the wagons
phrase of circle
1.
NORTH AMERICANinformal
(of a group) unite in defense of a common interest.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)His storm troopers will be so disappointed
gordianot
(15,237 posts)How many denials has Trump reversed?
iluvtennis
(19,849 posts)foot in his mouth cause all he wants to do is talk and talk and talk. Mueller will have a field day with him
matt819
(10,749 posts)But even I know that the best thing you can do when you're suspected of a crime is to SHUT THE FUCK UP.
That's all he and his lawyers had to do. It might now have changed how Mueller conducted his investigations, but it sure would have made things more challenging.
But noooo. . . . these buffoons - and now I use the word collectively for the entire regime - thought they could outsmart the best federal prosecutors and investigators in the US.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)If there's anything that real attorneys hate, it's clients that lie to them and clients that don't follow their advice, which almost always starts with "shut up".
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)steaming his pants.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)brush
(53,764 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,971 posts)Or is he hunkered down with his attorneys saying Tell me again how to keep us all out of jail. Dont use big words.
Trump has been even more outrageous in the last few weeks (since Helsinki?), telling lie after lie. Maybe someone finally took away his Twitter machine and he had a stroke over it. And, is he even in the WH? I thought he headed to New Jersey last week for a couple of weeks of R&R. Easy to say he wont be leaving the WH if hes not even there.
woodsprite
(11,911 posts)Stuart G
(38,416 posts)So, Trump said tweeted something very stupid and self incriminating.. What else would we expect?
.Now he will shut up but it is too late....that tweet is out there for the world to see. Everyone can see the truth. ...Too late Mr Donald Trump..too late..
Now is the time for you to stand in the corner with your crowd of crooks....I recall a long time ago, in a world that was different, a fellow said, "I am not a crook." But that fellow was indeed a crook. And so is Donald Trump and his crowd of crooks.
And the proof?...on Sunday August 5, he told the world that he was/ and is a crook
.....When you think you have seen it all, there is more to see.............
blaze
(6,359 posts)Stuart G
(38,416 posts)Now I suspect he has a tweet policeman there to check on the legality of the tweets...
OH MY SAY IT AIN'T SO...................................................................................
As many of us have said, Mr Trump is not the brightest bulb in collection...more like a 10 watt bulb, not even a 25 or 40 watt bulb
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)quoting Faux snooze about "collusion and Hillary" and tweeting an endorsement of the chief generator of election fraud - Kobach.
Just when I think he couldn't possibly be any dumber, he exceeds all my realistic expectations. "Oh, what I just Tweeted looks pretty stupid, I'd better try again, just to be sure that I am a total moron."
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,783 posts)And one of them has Jr.'s name on it.
Trump has every reason to be hiding. Shutting out the Press is walking the tightrope to TYRANNY.
Hekate
(90,645 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,783 posts)Hekate
(90,645 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Girard442
(6,070 posts)Be sure to tell that to everyone you talk to.
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)global1
(25,241 posts)dameatball
(7,396 posts)RockRaven
(14,958 posts)and refuse to leave the house. All completely normal.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)..............................treason is fucking treason, and aiding and abetting with a foreign power..............is fucking treason..............................I really hope that your town halls that some of you have come and tell you that your party is fucked...............................especially Nunes and his fucking leader Ryan (even after you leave asshole).....................
Botany
(70,490 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)the way he tries to gas light everything .........................not this time.................
It's like he walked into a bank and robbed it and it was totally legal........................because I had my money in there ...................................
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)"just mention what it was about, so no one can say it was about something else. That will stop the speculation....yeah, go with that".
" and tell them it was legal. I'm a lawyer, I know what legal is."
"Oh, and be sure to tell them you had nothing to do with it. You are the president, they have to believe you".
"there ya go, all better. Hit *send*"
hibbing
(10,096 posts)Meadowoak
(5,545 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Stuart G
(38,416 posts)................... ..and that is saying a whole lot... .........
........................................................................... ........
honest.abe
(8,677 posts)I would say there is more to the story here... much more.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)nightwing1240
(1,996 posts)As well as anyone named tRump and his enabling cronies. Traitors all!
Just wow!
Javaman
(62,517 posts)more over, did anyone take away his phone?
is this the hitler moment were he refuses to leave the bunker(WH)?
is the end of this charade of an administration closer to being over than we realize?
so many questions.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)bully, but we all know who he is and what he is. Their are specific psychiatric terms to label him and his behavior, but as lay people, we dont really need to know them to recognize a bully who is a sniveling little coward inside. He cannot and will not face the scrutiny and legitimate inquiry by the press after he admitted what went on at tRump Tower in June 2016 and his part in trying to cover it up. So he just hides away and sulks in self imposed isolation except for his beloved mouth piece, Twitter. His deluded wish is that if he ducks and lays low for a few days, it will all blow over and that story will be in his past. FAT CHANCE. But that really is how he thinks.
Please Press Corps, do not let this slip off into the ether without hounding him relentlessly about what he knows about that meeting. Show him no mercy just like he has shown no mercy to people he perceived as enemies. With any luck he will get so mad and full of rage by your persistence, he will keel over on live TV, giving all of us the relief weve been hoping wed get from this hideous monster posing as a human.
llmart
(15,536 posts)Now, THAT's a Trump reality show I would watch for sure!!! Get the popcorn.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)But it really would break all the records for people viewing a show. He likes to think people want to see him speak or do his act. But he is wrong. A lot more of us would be inclined to watch him Implode on live TV. But only if we knew wed never, ever have to see his ugly mug again.
procon
(15,805 posts)BHDem53
(1,061 posts)paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)If the staff are starting to take a firmer hand toward reining in their own president, I take that as a good sign that they may become willing to invoke the 25th amendment.
cstanleytech
(26,281 posts)they are terrified of being charged with conspiracy not to mention if they broke the Logan Act they could be looking at some jail time.
Question is though how far up in the Repugant party does this really go? I mean we had Mitch and Ryan as well as other Repugant leaders stonewalling anything to do with informing the public about what the Russians were doing as well as trying to stonewall and kill the Mueller investigation so that makes me wonder if they were involved as well.
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)That's what landlords do.
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)tavernier
(12,377 posts)Have a little too much wine on a weekend night and start texting stuff you regret the next day, Hahahaha!
Only difference is, his poison is a different drug, whatever it is that makes him so sniffly and snuffly, and the whole world is looking at what he wrote. Bad hangover!
Paladin
(28,252 posts)0rganism
(23,943 posts)yes, yes, go ahead, laugh at our national disgrace. someone has to, and it's getting damn hard for the residents to find it funny anymore.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)The headline, "White House shuts down press availability and says Trump wont leave White House after tweet admits collusion" is fairly loaded (Trump in hiding after confessing to a crime) way of reporting that Trump will not be available to the press today.
janx
(24,128 posts)There was no info whatsoever about not leaving the White House. Just no press availability.
Zoonart
(11,849 posts)in more ways than one.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Headline on the door reads: "Do Not Disturb!"
LOL.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Fun to take a little detour to your site. The Cubist parrot the most.
Zoonart
(11,849 posts)Thanks for taking the time to look me up.
Nitram
(22,791 posts)You know what that means!
jmbar2
(4,874 posts)Hope Hicks told him to STFU and lay low while they come up with something else really big to distract attention from his admission of conspiracy. Maybe like another tax cut, or a war with Iran. Just a hunch...
Nitram
(22,791 posts)They hate Trump because he's all mouth and no brains. They like people who get stuff done.
jmbar2
(4,874 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)I tought I taw a Putin-cat. I did, I did see a Putin-cat!
EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)Donny Two Fruits has gone to the mattresses.
Botany
(70,490 posts):https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/story-of-the-scene-the-godfather-1972-870492.html
About 50 minutes into The Godfather, just after the "sleeps with the fishes" scene, Mafia henchmen Clemenza and Rocco get into a car with Paulie. They intend to kill him.
Clemenza, played by the Bronx-born actor Richard S Castellano, claims that they are going to look for "mattresses" (safe houses) and directs Paulie to drive to "309 West 43rd Street". The remarks about cannoli (pastries) that begin and end the scene have become as famous as anything in The Godfather.
The scene where Paulie gets popped begins with Clemenza leaving his house and his wife shouting: "Don't forget the cannoli" a last-minute dialogue addition from director Francis Ford Coppola. There follows a montage of stock footage of period New York, and then a shot of the car driving in the countryside beyond New York. Clemenza asks to pull over to take "a leak". In the distance pokes the Statue of Liberty.
Three shots are fired by Rocco into Paulie's head. As Rocco gets out the car, Clemenza says: "Leave the gun take the cannoli." He takes the food as Paulie lies slumped against the steering wheel. Coppola gave all credit to the actor in later years: "Richie improvised the line," he said.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)I cant help but imagine him being humored and managed while all the fluffers run around like mad trying to figure out the spin and how to, I dont know, implant something in him for the next time he has to actually face journalists?
Raven123
(4,828 posts)PaulX2
(2,032 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)Attempting to control the narrative. So that by the time Mueller brings down the hammer they have all their fake ducks in a row for their poor dumb base to latch onto.
MontanaMama
(23,307 posts)an extra Happy Meal to keep him busy today. Did anybody hide his remote?
woodsprite
(11,911 posts)That should keep him busy for a day or so.
MontanaMama
(23,307 posts)Love the visual.
Texin
(2,594 posts)I mean, what next? After that tweet and now this, are they just hiding out and waiting for the NEXT?? move on someone's part?
0rganism
(23,943 posts)which is part of the problem.
metaphorically, Democrats show up for the game with this nice expensive chessboard, but the Republicans are here to play football, so they just break the board in half, ignore it completely, and run up the score while we wonder what happened.
(Democrat points at pile of pieces lying on ground, some of which are stomped into the turf) "wait, you can't make that move! it leaves your king in check!"
(Republican at 20 yard line) "TOUCHDOWN motherfuckers, yeah don't bother measuring"
(Media) "6 points for Slytherin"
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)Jr. must have know that daddy would throw him under the bus. He didn't know that senior would be too stupid to let go.
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)msongs
(67,395 posts)honest.abe
(8,677 posts)I think its legit.
janx
(24,128 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)stonecutter357
(12,695 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)You are not a FUCKING DICTATOR, you orange piece of buzzard offal.
potone
(1,701 posts)It may be a good sign.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Just like his hero Hitler.
Pretty nice of him to admit hes guilty as hell of treason before the Senate trial, thanks Trump!
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Afromania
(2,768 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)'splained to him like he's a four year old the damage that he did to himself & Jr. with that tweet. They're laying low, so they don't get questions about the tweet & the chance that someone will make it worse. They are regrouping and will come out with some lie to explain the tweet away (they hope).
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Kinda like his attempt to get out of his Helsinki embarrassment by claiming he meant "wouldn't" when he said "would."
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)DFW
(54,348 posts)Didn't anyone tell him that the routine of holing up somewhere in an office and shouting, "Verräter, Verräter!" was already used in Berlin in late April, 1945?
Gothmog
(145,129 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)I know it's hard to tell when someone who does no productive work goes on vacation.
I keep thinking, "He's in panic mode!"
And then he just trundles on in his journey of destruction.
avebury
(10,952 posts)long they can keep him there. He will not be happy if he misses tee time at one of his properties.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)with more lies.
0rganism
(23,943 posts)seriously, if you gotta go all Smoky Mountain BBQ on the KFC just to keep people in line you done fucked up