Responding to reports that the President’s legal team is trying to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the Russia probe, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said the move falls in line with President Donald Trump’s “brash and forthcoming” style.
“I listened to your guest from ‘The Washington Post,’ I thought she put it perfectly,” Cassidy said on CNN Friday. “She goes, ‘Yes this is what Bill Clinton did, this is standard operating procedure,’ but then she said, ‘What is at issue here is his style.’ One thing we have to acknowledge, President Trump has his own style. And she said ‘it’s brash, it’s more forthcoming.’ Hey, has anybody looked at Trump for the last 70 years? He is brash and forthcoming. So I’m not sure the strategy is at issue, rather style. I cut the guy slack on style.”
When asked how he would respond if the President fired Mueller, Cassidy wouldn’t answer, because he said the CNN host was being “hypothetical.” But Cassidy defended Trump, saying he doesn’t always do the things he talks about doing.
“So, again, you have a sense that the President, when he thinks a thought, it is quickly on his lips. Now, any of us in such a situation would ponder ‘what if, what if, what if, what if,’ but we may choose not to say,” he said. “The President almost always chooses to say and sometimes a tweet.”
“Brash and forthcoming”?
The only thing “coming forth” from Trump is vomitous trash and nauseating absurdity.
Oh, yes, Trump, please, stop with all the transparency. /s
Okay kids, time for another round of of my favorite new game: “Hyper-Partisan Hack or Kompromat?*”
And as to Cassidy, I’m going with “kompromat.”
*And no, “both” is not an acceptable answer. The question isn’t whether the Republican in question is motivated by blind partisanship or is being blackmailed by the Russians. The question isn’t whether the Republican in question is motivated by blind partisanship and is being blackmailed by the Russians. More specifically, we’re trying to guess whether the hyper-partisan hack in question is sticking his head through a loop of the Trumpian anchor-rope as it flies off the deck because he’s being blackmailed by the FSB or just because he’s that fucking stupid.
Don’t be shy. Anyone can play.
That is like saying; “Well, Hitler just had a different STYLE from FDR. You know; “Brash and Forthcoming.””
please…
"Brash and “forthcoming”, eh?
Let’s see:
Merriam defines “brash” as " a) heedless of the consequences" and b) “done in haste without regard for consequences” or alternatively “lacking restraint and discernment” and “aggressively self-assertive.”
Well, that certainly fits: Drumpfie shoots off his mouth both in haste and heedless of the consequences, often resulting in an own goal. He also is incredibly tone-deaf in many instances (Mme Macron springs to mind) and “aggressively sel-assertive” definitely fits.
And Merriam defines “forthcoming” as “characterized by openness, candidness, and forthrightness.”
Naahh, not gonna accept this one 100%. “Candid” , “open” and “forthright” just don’t fit. Except, of course, when he opens his mouth to spill the beans on himself (i.e., own goal).
I deduct points for “forthcoming”…