Another conservative grifter slinks away

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Iowa Starting Line @IAStartingLine 57m57 minutes ago
Another conservative grifter from Iowa's weird ride in DC is at an end

Talking Points Memo @TPM
Reports: Matt Whitaker has left the Justice Department http://bit.ly/2Tp3gJb

twitter.com/TPM/status/1102605180070256641

[barbtries]

1. that was fast.

was it even an entire scaramucci (not counting his "acting" time)?

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2. that's a good question

...

"was it even an entire scaramucci"

Seriously.

[lagomorph777]

11. How many nanoseconds in a Scaramucci?

(about 86 trillion)

[Brother Buzz]

5. He was an interim attorney general, a lame duck

and his departure was scheduled.

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7. he was meant to be a fixer

...but appeared to have developed cold feet.

[Brother Buzz]

8. One could make the argument it was a case of self-preservation

[barbtries]

10. i had not heard that,

what i heard was he was staying on. oh well.

[rsdsharp]

22. Scaramucci only lasted 11 days.

Whitaker lasted 17 days as senior counselor of the associate attorney general -- a position that has been vacant for more than a year since Rachel Brand resigned. In other words he spent 17 days as senior counselor to no one. His job was what it had always been: Trumps eyes and ears at DOJ. I can't prove it, but I think Barr told him to get out.

[barbtries]

23. if you are correct,

that would be encouraging.

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. Whitaker is one of those characters we really need to keep track of...for me anyway...

Where is he???? Some earlier reports he was going to stay on as the eyes and ears of the pos in the WH...yes, a grifter..isn't he being investigated?? Oh dear - I'm sure he will pop up somewhere he shouldn't be....

[bigtree]

6. you know, Whitaker came in all cocky, I think ready to upend the Mueller probe for Trump

...for whatever reason, the brakes seemed to come on the minute he hit the door at Justice.

He was never as subdued in his life as he was after he was sworn in. My guess is that he saw the devastating nature of the evidence, against whoever, and backed the hell off, either out of self-preservation or some other misgiving.

Trump eventually sensed his reluctance and went ahead with Barr, who I also suspect will be just as circumspect in handling his end of the probe when he gets a glance at the case Mueller's amassed. Well see.

[lagomorph777]

12. When these guys see Mueller's solid case against anybody who's obstructing justice,

they realize that they really don't want to end up on that list.

They also realize that Mueller is very skilled at protecting his work. They have no idea how many other investigations they might pop up in if they mess around.

[cstanleytech]

14. My bets on self preservation.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. He can team up with Rick Santorum on CNN or possibly get a pundit gig at MSNBC.

[magicarpet]

9. Co-host with Ari Melber...

[Perseus]

16. MSNBC and Whitaker ???? and someone added Ari Melber?

Not sure how those fit in...can you please explain? I just want to understand, sure I am missing something. Thank you

[magicarpet]

20. It was kind of a snide remark,...

MSNBC or Ari Melber keep bringing on Right Wing nut jobs and some people are getting fed up with the frequency of them being on The Beat - Ari Member's show.I

It would be like The Beat bringing on Kelkyanne Conway or Huckabee a few time a week to pontificate their points of view for Ari's audience. Why, what is the point, no body wants to hear their King Orange's prevaricating lying or Fascist propaganda.

Ari has the likes of Jerome Corsi, then allows him to ramble and ramble on.

CNN let Jack Kingston go as a pundit because he chirps and chirps the trDump line of propaganda and defends trUmp no matter if he is dead wrong. A few days after CNN let Kingston go Ari Melber had Kingston on as a pundit blindly defending trUmp high and low, Ari let Kingston ramble on and on.

A few days later Melber has Matt Schlep on. He is the CREEP who is the director of CPAC who blindly defends trUmp no matter how invalid his defense may be. (Look at the CPAC event that just transpired with the 2 1/2hr trDump speech that Schlep gave to put trDump on solid footing for his 2020 re-election run.)

MSNBC, The Beat viewers, and people that follow Ari Melber do not want to see a regular parade of Right Wing pundit nut jobs pontificating trDump propaganda day in and day out, it legitimizes the bent viewpoints and outrageous propaganda they spew and sputter.

[WhiteTara]

17. You think Butterbean could keep up

the rap patter with Ari? I'm imagining his bald head glistening as it bobs to the beat. eww. I didn't want to see that.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. He better wear a hazmat suit then,

[TeamPooka]

15. The Koch Brothers will throw him a job.

[DirtEdonE]

19. Oh for fuck's sake

This cluster fuck has more contestants than an episode of the apprentice.

And even I know that having never watched a single episode of the apprentice.

the apprentice: White House edition.

We're all going to be fired by the time this disaster is over. Vesuvius didn't cover Pompeii in as much ash as the entire USA is being covered in total bullshit.

[Blue Owl]

21. Back to the terlit business