The news of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement on top of a few Trump-friendly Supreme Court decisions sent a delighted President Donald Trump into an all-out insult spree, as he gleefully railed against some of his favorite Democratic targets.
Never one to shy away from kicking someone while he’s down, Trump took aim at the recently-dethroned Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) Wednesday night at a rally in Fargo.
“One of my biggest critics, a slovenly man named Joe Crowley, got his ass kicked,” he said.
Crowley lost the Democratic primary Tuesday night to young neophyte candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Sticking with his penchant to mock his political opponents’ physical appearances, Trump then turned to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who this week urged people to keep protesting Trump administration staffers in public spaces.
“Maxine, she’s a beauty,” Trump said at the rally. “She practically was telling people the other day to assault. Can you imagine if I said the things she said?”
Waters has disputed this line, saying that she encouraged peaceful protest, not physical violence. Also, Trump is on tape encouraging and bragging about assaulting women.
Finally, Trump slimed Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), someone he once called a “good woman” and has repeatedly tried to poach from the Democrats to join the Republican Party.
Calling the moderate lawmaker a “liberal Democrat,” he accused her of becoming “Chuck and Nancy’s” stooge when she got to Washington.
“You need a senator who doesn’t just talk like they’re from North Dakota but votes like they’re from North Dakota,” he roared to the audience’s wild applause, as he brought up Heitkamp’s challenger who has promised complete fealty to the President.
What a circus.
There is no bottom – we just keep sinking.
ETA: OT but symtomatic of the jackboot mentality coming out of this (mal)administration) . To all of those folks who feel uncomfortable about references to 1930s Germany, think about this one a while.
From HuffPo: A former ICE spokeman was doing an interview with CBS about discomfort with Sessions’ lying about the immigration policy.
[quote]During the taping of Schwab’s interview with CBS, two men who identified themselves as agents of the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General’s Office knocked on his front door.
“They just said they wanted to talk to me about the leak with the Oakland mayor. … I’ve never met her before. I’ve never contacted her,” Schwab told CBS News. He said the agents’ surprise visit was an attempt to intimidate him. [/quote]
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Fortunately for those of us with poor imaginations it’s well documented.
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Those sounds you hear are the fabric of American society being not just torn but shredded.
Mueller can fix a lot of things, but he can’t fix this.
Piggy Pig!
And Kennedy just couldn’t wait one more year, could he? Until after these all-important midterms … thanks Anthony. In the past week, you’ve revealed your true colors: you don’t give a damn about the country or its children.