trump (the former guy, defamer, insurrectionist, and rapist - $83M)

[Slim Cognito]

I'm waiting for the two pros to come forward and admit they were beaten by the OSG.

[RTH10260]

Aide tried to stop Trump praising Hitler – by telling him Mussolini was ‘great guy’
Ex-president’s second chief of staff tried to convince him fascist dictator was ‘great guy in comparison’, John Kelly tells Jim Sciutto

Martin Pengelly in Washington
Tue 12 Mar 2024 15.42 CET

Donald Trump’s second White House chief of staff tried to stop him praising Adolf Hitler in part by trying to convince the then president Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, was “a great guy in comparison”.

“He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things,’” the retired marines general John Kelly told Jim Sciutto of CNN in an interview for a new book.

“I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world. And I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing. I mean, Mussolini was a great guy in comparison.”

Kelly, a retired US Marine Corps general, was homeland security secretary in the Trump administration before becoming Trump’s second chief of staff. Resigning at the end of 2018, he eventually became a public opponent of his former boss.

Sciutto is a CNN anchor and national security analyst. His new book, The Return of Great Powers, will be published on Tuesday. CNN published a preview on Monday.

Kelly told Sciutto it was “pretty hard to believe” Trump “missed the Holocaust” in his assessment of Hitler, “and pretty hard to understand how he missed the 400,000 American GIs that were killed in the European theatre” of the second world war.

“But I think it’s more … the tough guy thing.”

Trump’s liking for authoritarian leaders, in particular Vladimir Putin of Russia, is well known. His remarks to Kelly about Hitler – like his former practice of keeping a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bed – have been reported before.

But Sciutto’s recounting of his conversation with Kelly comes amid resurgent fears over Trump’s authoritarian leanings, with Trump the presumptive Republican presidential nominee despite facing 91 criminal charges and multimillion-dollar civil defeats, and having seen off attempts to disqualify him for office.

Kelly’s remarks to Sciutto were published shortly after Trump welcomed to his Florida home Viktor Orbán, the strongman leader of Hungary.



https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/ ... iutto-book

[AndyinPA]

I've heard people say that in a lot of respects, tfg is more like Mussolini than Hitler. I don't think that should be taken as a compliment.

[Dr. Ken]

[p0rtia]

[bill_g]

I guess we need to check W's sock drawer too now. Damnit.

[Slim Cognito]

He's making dementia clips faster than the late night talk hosts can piece them together.

[Suranis]

Apparently, he has mispronounced Lord Putin's name a few times now.

[Flatpoint High]

Apparently, he has mispronounced Lord Putin's name a few times now.

Well, if he pronounces it correctly, he'll be vaporized

[Ben-Prime]

Apparently, he has mispronounced Lord Putin's name a few times now.

Well, if he pronounces it correctly, he'll be vaporized

I mean, maybe he's just referring to him as 'Puddin'' like Harley Quinn does to The Joker.

[RTH10260]

Please, can we move on to real Canadian poutine

[raison de arizona]

LONG thread of doctors opining at link.
https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/17 ... 32739?s=20

1/20 Over 400 licensed medical and mental health professionals have agreed Trump shows clear signs of "probable dementia." But even more persuasive than their signatures on our petition are what they had to say. Only in this long Tweet can you read their words verbatim.
Please hear their voices! (RT)

An example:

► Show Spoiler

https://x.com/duty2warn/status/1768567658826358810?s=20

“The evidence for dementia in Donald Trump has become overwhelming. Unlike normal aging, which is characterized by forgetting names or words, Trump repeatedly shows something very different: confusion about reality. For example, he might have confused Obama with Biden once, but his repeated error indicates inability to keep track of the facts. Similarly, he recently said that he won all 50 states in the 2020 election. That is not normal aging, it’s loss of ability to think, reason, and know reality. Further, a normally aging person recognizes the mistake and corrects it. For example, Biden recently saw he’d misspoken and joked it was a “Freudian slip”. Trump doesn’t realize he is making errors because he is too demented to see them. Other obvious examples have been Trump saying that the name of the state of Pennsylvania will be changed, or that the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln would be deleted from buildings. That is not loss of word recall, it’s dementia. Trump has always lied, but these are examples that aren’t even part of his delusional grandiosity (like saying he had the largest crowd in history for his inauguration). These are loss of normal cognitive ability seen with dementia.
If he were to become President he would have to be immediately removed from office via the 25th amendment as dangerously unable to fulfill the responsibilities of office.
---Lance Dodes, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

[raison de arizona]

In this episode, tfg appears to advocate forcing the sale of Facebook.

Trump: If you are going to do it to tiktok, do it to Facebook. And what can you do is let them sell TikTok. Let them sell it in the market. Take it away from China control. But I think China controls Facebook, also. Because they have tremendous power in that company.

[raison de arizona]

NEW: Donald Trump told Andrew Napolitano that he didn’t release the JFK assassination records because “if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn't have released it either.”

Napolitano said the comments came one week before Trump left office in 2021.

“I said, ‘you promised you would release the records of the JFK assassination.’”

“He said to me, ‘Judge, if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn't have released it either.’”

“And I said, ‘who's they? And what did they show you?’”

“‘And then he said, ‘Judge, someday when we're on the phone.’ And then he raised his voice, ‘And there aren't 15 people listening to the phone call,’ back to a normal voice. ‘I'll tell you.’”

Video:
@upholdreality

[Dave from down under]

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow is always a day away.

[Suranis]

And that just shows that the Turnip isn't the only one that lies about conversations with famous people.

[raison de arizona]

He wasn’t exactly Maverick back in the day. Goose either.

[RTH10260]

In this episode, tfg appears to advocate forcing the sale of Facebook.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1768761 ... 53167?s=20

Trump: If you are going to do it to tiktok, do it to Facebook. And what can you do is let them sell TikTok. Let them sell it in the market. Take it away from China control. But I think China controls Facebook, also. Because they have tremendous power in that company.

Dementia seems to get to him. How would he have his BFF Xi get control of Zuckerberg? Would that not make the former guy look like a failure? Apart that he doe not realize that TikTok is a minority in the US when taken at world scale.

[Slim Cognito]

Any platform that is allowed to post mean things about trump (and only trump) should be shut down. Have I got that right?

[AndyinPA]

You've got that right. I don't understand why the news outlets who are not raving fans of tfg don't realize they have absolutely no safe space if tfg wins. That includes WaPo and The New York Times. Neither of them are being realistic or tough on him.

[noblepa]

I'm waiting for the two pros to come forward and admit they were beaten by the OSG.

The pros from Dover

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r ... &FORM=VIRE

[RTH10260]

I expect from Soros that he will let Foggy now in time to prepare a clandestine TFB v3.0 when our anti-maga voices reach the wrong ears

[raison de arizona]

That would be spelled fanny you jackass.

Trump on Fani Willis: It's spelled like your ass.

[Kendra]

tfg was in Ohio today stumping for his chosen Senate candidate, Bernie Moreno. Saw a couple of short clips on CNN this afternoon. BORDER BORDER BORDER . Also, tfg really went off on Fani Willis in an incredibly insulting way making fun of her name and how it's pronounced and how HE interprets it. Insulting as hell. Guess the folks at F&F in the morning will think it's funny

[RTH10260]

MTN Ben Meiselas covers the nasty sides of the Ohio appearance