'All lies!' Trump melts down over Comey testimony in Twitter freak out

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



TOM BOGGIONI
09 DEC 2018 AT 09:02 ET

President Donald Trump finally got around to attacking former FBI Director James Comey — again — this time after he testified before Congressional investigators on Friday in closed door session.

Taking to Twitter to start off his morning, Trump called the Comey a liar.

“On 245 occasions, former FBI Director James Comey told House investigators he didn’t know, didn’t recall, or couldn’t remember things when asked. Opened investigations on 4 Americans (not 2) – didn’t know who signed off and didn’t know Christopher Steele. All lies!” Trump tweeted.

You can see the tweets below.

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[Vinnie From Indy]

1. He is getting buggy

Donnie Rotten whines more than anyone in America.

[Harker]

19. Buggier. n/t

[HuskyOffset]

39. Individual #1

is getting a bit twitchy, I'd say.

[Hekate]

52. I loved it when Malcolm Nance said that, explaining how gradually surrounding the target works...

Outer associates to inner assocciates...closer, closer... "And the target gets buggy."

I've been waiting for that ever since. Or in Trump's case, buggier.

[EarthFirst]

2. The structure of his Tweets are so completely odd...

He capitalizes unnecessary items mid sentence fairly regularly.

[marylandblue]

9. I am pretty sure it's intentional

Average Tweets often have bad grammar since the medium is informal and unfiltered. So he has an cultivated an informal unfiltered style in tweet and speech.

[brush]

28. Hmmmm? Still doesn't, in my book, excuse his frequent grammatical errors.

Surely we should hold the president to a higher standard than has been exhibited countless times by the orange imposter.

And he may have intentional styling quirks, the grammatical errors are not intentional. I want a president who is literate in the only language he has used all his life.

That is not asking a lot.

[marylandblue]

33. It's not meant to excuse him, but to avoid underestimating him

Of course we should hold him to a higher standard. That's normal, I want a leader who can do a better job than I can. But his base wants one of their own in the White House. He makes grammar errors just like they do. He is crude just like they are. He is the same as they are, only with a bigger bank account. But it's an act.

Look at these tweets from 2012
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/trumps-notable-tweets-in-2012-085606

Proper grammar, correct capitalization, bigger words. He changed his style. The current style is not because he can't do better, it's because his base doesn't want to see better.

[brush]

38. Maybe, or maybe it's just mental deterioration.

The same voice is there in the 2012 tweets but the errors aren't.

You really think someone who considers himself a stable genius would intentionally dumb down his tweets for years, thereby setting himself up for push back ridicule in the twitterverse?

[marylandblue]

44. Yes, I would, it's exactly what a malignant narcissist would do, to fool his rubes.

I used to work with a narcissist. It was very strange. He didn't like work, so he was very smart about playing dumb. It was totally absurd, everyone could see it, and it didn't matter because it achieved his goal of avoiding work.

Trump's goal is to hold on to his base. He doesn't care how much ridicule he gets as long as his base sticks with him. And they will stick with him because he will make whatever changes he needs to keep them.

[brush]

45. I don't know. Some of those tweets don't just border on madness...

they cross over into full blown cray-cray.

[kurtcagle]

56. No - Trump is not really that smart

First, one of the BIG hallmarks about narcissists is their lack of impulse control. The SMART thing for him to do at this stage is to stop tweeting. It is no doubt the advice that his attorneys have given him, his staff has given him, I suspect even his family has given him. To me, Trump's tweeting, assuming that he IS doing it (and I think he is), is an addiction. I suspect that his base does not really follow him on Twitter, because a significant percentage of them are older and not even remotely tech savvy (or if they are, they're on Facebook or LinkedIn).

That means that what you're seeing at 3am is unfiltered Donald Trump. The behavior you see is a man alone with his electronic diary, jonesing for likes, without any real thought about the implications of what he is writing.

I also suspect strongly that he does sleep alone at night, probably for the first time since he was a child, and that he both desperately needs to get laid, and that the women he did sleep with generally also provided a modicum of stability - pillow talk - for an otherwise unstable personality. Without that influence, he lacks even an external filter (he has no internal one) for doing what are essentially stupid things.

[Ligyron]

46. Agree for sure.

Donald Trump is just not that clever.

[dalton99a]

3. Says the chronic pathological liar

[PAMod]

36. He'd lie about the weather if it suited him...eom

[PJMcK]

54. He did lie about the weather!

He claimed that the sun came out during his inaugural speech. It didn't.

What an idiot.

[ChiTownDenny]

55. HA!

"Critics pile on after Trump cancels visit to U.S. military cemetery outside Paris, citing weather"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/trump-and-macron-meet-whats-left-to-talk-about/2018/11/10/680a014c-e1ec-11e8-ba30-a7ded04d8fac_story.html?utm_term=.4ec6a122cd05

[chowder66]

4. Hoo boy! That's one unstable man. nt

[LakeSuperiorView]

5. Just wait until it is your turn on the hot seat, Donny/

And by the hot seat, I don't mean what you do to a toilet seat while tweeting...

[Stuart G]

6. He's nuts !

[SCVDem]

7. Inauguration day 2021

I would like to see the masses in the streets singing a combined....

Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead!

Rescue from tyranny and stupidity must be celebrated!

[MyOwnPeace]

20. "Rescue from tyranny and stupidity must be celebrated!"

You got THAT right!

[louis c]

8. Comey's letter about Hillary 12 days before the election...

...cost her the election. Comey broke protocol even in the announcement of Hillary's case. The Justice Department is not supposed to go into detail while dropping a case. They both failed to even acknowledge that there was an investigation into Trump's ties to Russia prior to election day.

Comey won Trump the election in 2016. If the FBI and Justice wanted Hillary to win, they had a real fucking strange way of doing it.

[rgbecker]

10. This: +1

[dalton99a]

14. +1. History will not judge him kindly

and he knows it

[keithbvadu2]

29. Trump or Comey? --- Both!

[Dave Starsky]

42. There you go with that common sense again.

You should know by now that doesn't apply in Trumpworld.

[Grasswire2]

57. Tell the rest of it.

Comey was manipulated into that act by the rogue agents of the New York Field Office who were in communication with Giuliani. Comey's action was driven by those rogue agents (who are yet to be named).

[BigmanPigman]

58. You are correct.

There is plenty of blame to go around in that particular office as well as Comey.

[louis c]

60. The point is, how the hell was Comey et al fixing the election for Hillary?

I know the New York field office story, but still, Comey could have kept the letter to himself and let the anonymous leak come out of New York through Rudy. It would have had less credibility and, in fact, the whole story was bull shit.

[Grasswire2]

61. that may be so.

I guess it was just a lapse in judgment that has been weaponized in REVERSE meaning. Trump claims it hurt him.

[duforsure]

11. trump has to attack and accuse Comey

With what he is, a liar , corrupt, and being a criminal to use to incite and misdirect his followers with. Its his typical ploy to use against anyone who won't bow down to serve only him before all else.

[RAB910]

12. Seeing how Comey isn't a politician

He should legally be allowed to sue Donald Trump for slander

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. That's what I was thinking n/t

[Hamlette]

32. it isn't politician, it's public figure

[SFnomad]

13. tRump melts down in epic Twitterstorm ...

In other news, the Sun still rises from the East.

[skamaria]

15. All Lies..

still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest! Didn't know the Velveeta Vulgarian was a S&G fan!

[Croney]

37. All lies and jests.

And when he's outed in a lie, he says it was a jest.

I'd love to see him go half a round with a real boxer.

[smirkymonkey]

16. Ugh! Can't he ever just give it a rest?

Just for one day?

[colsohlibgal]

17. He Is Crazy And Getting Crazier

He is demented and the pressure is making him more nuts daily.

[maddiemom]

26. Now he's hearing the crowds in France...

yelling "We want Trump!" How much further can the "tipping point" be?

[The Liberal Lion]

21. "YAWN" Donnie you're now a complete bore

Get ready for jail

[gademocrat7]

22. Delusional despicable Donald.

[duforsure]

23. LOL! Coming from a serial liar

Who refuses to go before Mueller under oath. He's so scared to testify under oath because if he lies he will be committing perjury, and if he tells the truth it'll implicate himself in criminal acts. Its funny how he's always critical of others testimony, but refuses to testify under oath himself. Only GUILTY people do that.

[JohnnyRingo]

24. If it's true Comey set a record for lying to Congress...

...and to the republicans in Congress no less, all Trump has to do is tell the AG to lock him up. That's it, it's over and no Tweet is necessary.

I have a feeling nothing like that will happen. Hillary's Deep State must have taken over the GOP as well.

[yardwork]

25. He couldn't look any guiltier.

[mr_lebowski]

27. How much you wanna bet this 245 number is utter bullshit?

This kinda twisting of reality, both from Trump and from Issa on Friday ... are EXACTLY why Comey went to court to demand that these hearings be conducted in public from the start, so the GOP couldn't make up bullshit about what happened.

Of course the TRUMP JUDGE said 'No', so Comey did what honest, good people do ... and showed up for this partisan shit-show of a 'hearing'.

And now EXACTLY what he said was going to happen ... IS.

Trump and the GOP have absolutely no shame, no couth, no tact, no class, and NO REGARD FOR FACTS, most importantly.

[Hamlette]

34. it would be more frightening if someone else "counted" those "lies" because you know Trump didn't.

which means whoever did the counting and fed him the number is just as nuts as Trump.

[rlegro]

30. Interesting just how much Stump knows,

and how fast he knew it, even though a separate, independent branch of government held a closed-door hearing. Yes, Comey extracted a GOP pledge that a transcript would be released in 24 hours, but Harumph doesn't read. I'm guessing the GOP members present made sure Dump staff got their own, express-delivered transcript, or else Clump just made up those numbers. Doesn't matter in the least.

[Hamlette]

31. The question is: who counted those lies or did he just make up the number?

it is frightening to think that someone (Miller? Gowdy?) went through the transcript and "identified" 245 lies because you know Trump didn't read it. So did he pick the number out of thin air or is someone else as delusional as he is?

[SunSeeker]

43. Of course he didn't read it. That number, indeed this whole tweet, was fed to him.

There's no typos and it does not sound like him. He would have said "245 times," not "245 occasions." The GOP questioned Comey so they could come up with these pathetic talking points for Shitler.

[mountain grammy]

35. He's a fucking lunatic...madman.

[SunSeeker]

40. I think one of his GOP sycophants wrote that.

There's no typos and it does not sound like him. He would have said 245 times, not 245 occasions. The GOP questioned Comey so they could come up with these pathetic talking points for Shitler.

[Elwood P Dowd]

41. The appropriate music for today's Trump tweets......

[pandr32]

49. Fits him to a T

[Blue Owl]

47. Once again, all together now:

"SHUT THE FUCK UP, DONNIE!"

[pandr32]

48. In any job he would be fired

...even the corner grocery would fire his ass.

He is obviously deranged.

So why do the Republicans keep looking the other way? How can they expect anyone in the world to respect us with this lunatic as POTUS?

[janx]

50. I read that transcript (skimming parts of it),

and the usual suspects asked Comey questions he didn't have the answers to. They were attacking, grandstanding, etc., just as they did before. It was a huge waste of time.

Here is what Comey had to say when he came out:

[SWBTATTReg]

51. And what gets me about this whole mess is that the repugs had, who knows, dozens ...

of meetings that witnesses testified in, and were unable to come up w/ a single indictment. Mueller, with his team, has come up w/ literally dozens (33 on one factoid I looked up), and the repug controlled congress, zero?

Talk about conspiracy, eh?

[AndJusticeForSome]

53. Someone needs to slap him upside his head

Can't one of his people just walk up and slap the shit out of him and tell him to grow the fuck up?

[keithbvadu2]

59. 'All lies!' --- The Donald who cried 'wolf'.

'All lies!' --- The Donald who cried 'wolf'.