Trump Was Up Early Raging About The Russia Probe And NFL In Tweetstorm

US President Donald Trump speaks following a meeting from a North Korean delegation on the South Lawn of the White House on June 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. - US President Donald Trump said Friday his summit with Nort... US President Donald Trump speaks following a meeting from a North Korean delegation on the South Lawn of the White House on June 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. - US President Donald Trump said Friday his summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is back on for next month, after extraordinary Oval Office talks with a top envoy from Pyongyang. Trump emerged after a more than hour-long Oval Office meeting with Kim Yong Chol -- a general facing US sanctions who is Kim's right-hand man -- saying that the summit will go ahead in Singapore on June 12 as originally planned. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump was awake before 7 a.m. on Tuesday and apparently triggered by a large swath of topics ranging from the Russia probe to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Taking to his favorite medium, Trump launched an unhinged tweetstorm by raging about the apparent “delays” in the release of the Justice Department’s inspector general report on “Crooked Hillary and Slippery James Comey,” referencing the IG probe into the DOJ’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. A draft version of the report was given to the FBI and DOJ in May to review for potential classified information and the Senate hearings on its release were pushed back a week.

The inspector general already released its findings on former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and alleged that McCabe misled FBI investigators about his role in leaks about the Clinton email probe. In the next report, the inspector general is expected to address former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Clinton email investigation and whether McCabe should have recused himself from that probe.

Minutes later, Trump moved on to praise the economy — claiming it “may be the best economy in the history of our country” — and announced vague plans in lieu of an event honoring the Philadelphia Eagles. Trump on Monday night abruptly cancelled the Eagles’ visit because “only a small number of players decided to come.” He also suggested members of that team stayed in the locker room during the National Anthem, a made-up claim.

The President then turned to his “beleaguered” Attorney General Jeff Sessions, an increasingly routine target for the President’s vexation with the “Russian Witch Hunt Hoax.” In recent days Trump has become more comfortable publicly admitting he regrets picking one of his earliest supporters as his attorney general. On Tuesday, he claimed Sessions somehow “knew better than most that there was No Collusion!”

Trump then blamed Democrats for his own administration’s policy of separating families at the border and waxed optimistic about his meeting with North Korea.

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  1. Not triggered, not triggered, you are triggered!

  2. Avatar for ghost ghost says:

    You would think the White House has the budget to keep the day care fully staffed, but no. Sad!

    Oh, and Donny, the Astros may have visited, but Correa and Beltran refused to come anywhere near you.

  3. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    More Mush From The Wimp.

  4. And still we pay attention to this drivel. (And I call it drivel with apologies to drivel everywhere.)

  5. Keep wrapping yourself in the bloody flag - someone else’s blood that is.
    BTW Jackass, not a single Philadelphia Eagle “took a knee” last season.

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