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Conservative Rick Wilson: Trump Is "Sweaty and Terrified" After Story Claiming He Mocked Dead Troops

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Via: jbb • 5 years ago • 116 comments

By: Darragh Roche (POLITICUSUSA)

Conservative Rick Wilson: Trump Is "Sweaty and Terrified" After Story Claiming He Mocked Dead Troops

Advertisements Conservative Rick Wilson suggested on Friday that the Trump White House is in a panic following a story claiming the President mocked dead U.S. soldiers and refused to visit a military cemetery. Wilson, a former Republican political strategist opposed to Trump, shared a tweet from the President defending himself against a charge that he … Continue reading "Conservative Rick Wilson: Trump Is "Sweaty and Terrified" After Story Claiming He Mocked Dead Troops"

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Conservative Rick Wilson suggested on Friday that the Trump White House is in a panic following a story claiming the President mocked dead U.S. soldiers and refused to visit a military cemetery.

Wilson, a former Republican political strategist opposed to Trump, shared a tweet from the President defending himself against a charge that he didn't want to grant the late Senator John McCain a state funeral.

"This, in Trump-speak, is a full confession of guilt. He's sweaty and terrified right now," Wilson wrote.

This, in Trump-speak, is a full confession of guilt. He's sweaty and terrified right now. https://t.co/zPZvTtsP10
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 4, 2020

According to a blockbuster report in The Atlantic, Trump didn't want to honor McCain, a veteran and Republican grandee, saying "We're not going to support that loser's funeral."

When Trump saw flags flying at half-mast for McCain, he reportedly said: "What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser."

Wilson also seemed to address the overnight scramble from pro-Trump figures and media to deny the report, though it has been partly corroborated by other outlets.

"Gosh, it's almost like the White House and Trump campaign spent late last night losing their shit and getting all his media bootlicks engaged in a furious pushback this morning," Wilson said.

"Because they MAD."

"This shit is all hands on deck for the WH/Trump campaign right now. Blood is in the water," he said.

Darragh Roche is a journalist covering U.S. politics and media

Trump blew up when he saw flags at half-staff for John McCain’s funeral — and called him a ‘loser’: report

Published 21 hours ago on September 3, 2020 By Matthew Chapman

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Donald Trump (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

On Thursday, The Atlantic reported that President Donald Trump lost his temper when he noticed that flags had been lowered to half-mast out of respect for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) as he was being laid to rest — and demanded to know why the government was honoring a “f*cking loser. ”

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Oops, there it is! Some Trump enablers need to stop lying for this lying, cheating, stealing president!

JBB , my friend, we need to see pieces of significance you post in order for it to be impactful. Some simply won't click on links in a timely manner. Good hand off!

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1.2.4 Split Personality replied to Greg Jones @1.2 5 years ago

No one believed Nixon was a "potty mouth" until the tapes were released...

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5 Old Hermit 5 years ago

Another example of this Presidents contempt for the Military, a free press, the Consultation, Oh hell, even a properly functioning Democracy.

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The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason

Even for those of us who are all too wearily familiar with President Donald Trump’s disdain for journalists, his administration’s latest attack on the free press is a bit of a jaw-dropper.
In a heretofore unpublicized recent memo, the Pentagon delivered an order to shutter Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that has been a lifeline and a voice for American troops since the Civil War. The memo orders the publisher of the news organization (which now publishes online as well as in print) to present a plan that “dissolves the Stars and Stripes” by Sept. 15 including "specific timeline for vacating government owned/leased space worldwide.”

“The last newspaper publication (in all forms) will be September 30, 2020,” writes Col. Paul Haverstick Jr., the memo’s author.

Stars and Stripes' long history

The first Stars and Stripes rolled off presses Nov. 9, 1861 in Bloomfield, Missouri when forces headed by Ulysses Grant overran the tiny town on the way to Cape Girardeau . A group of Grant’s troops who had been pressmen before the war set up shop at a local newspaper office abandoned by its Confederate sympathizer publisher. Since then Stars and Stripes has launched the careers of famous journalists such as cartoonist Bill Mauldin and TV commentator Andy Rooney . And its independence from the Pentagon brass has been guaranteed by such distinguished military leaders at Gens. John G. Pershing, George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower once reprimanded Gen. George Patton for trying to censor Mauldin cartoons he didn’t like.

Today Stars and Stripes is printed at sites around the world and delivered daily to troops — even those on the front lines, where the internet is spotty or inaccessible. As the “local paper” for the military, it provides intensive and critical coverage of issues that are important to members of the nation’s armed services and “cuts through political and military brass BS talking points,” Rep. Ruben Gallego , D-Ariz., a Marine veteran, told Military.com .

It’s also arguably one of the most powerful weapons our soldiers have carried into battle with them. As a publication that’s underwritten by the military but not answerable to the brass, Stars and Stripes embodies that most American of values: the right to speak truth to power.

As if an attack on the free press were not enough, the Trump administration’s rush to shutter Stars and Stripes also raises constitutional questions.

The memo ordering the publication’s dissolution claims the administration has the authority to make this move under the president’s fiscal year 2021 defense department budget request. It zeroed out the $15.5 million annual subsidy for Stars and Stripes. But Congress, which under the Constitution has the power to make decisions about how the public’s money is spent, has not yet approved the president’s request.

In fact, the version the House approved earlier this summer explicitly overruled the decision to pull the plug on Stars and Stripes, restoring funding for the paper.

Pushing back to keep Stars and Stripes

So far, the Senate hasn’t acted. But in a letter released earlier this week, 15 members of the chamber, including combat veteran Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and four Republicans, called on Defense Secretary Mark Esper to “take steps to preserve the funding prerogatives of Congress before allowing any such disruption to take place.”

In a separate letter, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and Trump ally, makes a similar request. “As a veteran who has served overseas, I know the value Stars and Stripes brings to its readers,” he wrote, telling Esper that shutting down the paper before the Senate acts would be “premature.”

It also seems unusual. Normally, when Congress has failed to approve a budget for an agency at the end of a fiscal year (an all-too-common occurrence), a “continuing resolution,” maintains funding at the past year’s levels until the lawmakers act. But the Pentagon memo to Stars and Stripes demands a plan for dissolution anyway and says “the last date of the paper will be determined” once the continuing resolution expires.

The eagerness to kill Stars and Stripes is hard to fathom. As the senators note in their letter to Esper, the $15.5 million saved by eliminating the newspaper’s subsidy would have a “negligible impact” on the Pentagon’s $700 billion budget.

But it would have an enormously negative impact on the paper’s more than 1.3 million readers. It would eliminate a symbol of the U.S. commitment to press freedom, flout the judgment of generations of military leaders and usurp the authority that the Constitution gives Congress to make decisions about how the government spends money.

The Stars and Stripes was born in the midst of a war to decide what America stood for. Now it looks like another such battle will decide its fate.

Kathy Kiely is the Lee Hills Chair for Free Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism. Follow her on Twitter: @kathykiely

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Senators to Esper: Reverse Your Decision to Kill Stars and Stripes

Defense Secretary Mark Esper testifies to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the budget, Wednesday, March 4, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

2 Sep 2020

Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk

A group of senators wants to reinstate funding for Stars and Stripes, the military's newspaper for service members, as the organization faces being totally defunded before the year is out.

The bipartisan group, led by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), on Wednesday sent a letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper to preserve the "historically significant publication," which only requires "a tiny fraction" of the Defense Department's annual budget, according to the lawmakers.

"Stars and Stripes is an essential part of our nation's freedom of the press that serves the very population charged with defending that freedom," the 15 senators said in the letter. "Therefore, we respectfully request that you rescind your decision to discontinue support for Stars and Stripes and that you reinstate the funding necessary for it to continue operations."

Professor Principal

5.1 Ender replied to Old Hermit @5 5 years ago

What the hell?

Professor Quiet

7 bbl-1 5 years ago

Trump has many reasons to be afraid and sweaty.

1. He wears a girdle.

2. His financials will reveal he is 'broke arse' and has been on the float for over two decades---mainly propped by foreign money whose sources are questionable.

3. When losing the 'protections' of his office and position, himself personally and his businesses will be greeted by an avalanche of lawsuits, subpoenas and external threats.

4. The man will truly be naked. His life will become the most transparent in history.

I personally wish him luck in these adverse conditions although he deserves nothing and will receive even less. The friends he believes he has will vanish as they seek their own legal and personal protections.

Professor Principal

7.1 Gsquared replied to bbl-1 @7 5 years ago

I don't wish him luck. I'm not that magnanimous, especially for someone who has caused as much damage as he has. My wish is that he faces justice as appropriate and that history accurately records his many transgressions.

Professor Quiet

7.1.1 Paula Bartholomew replied to Gsquared @7.1 5 years ago

Me either. He does not deserve it.

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7.1.2 bbl-1 replied to Gsquared @7.1 5 years ago

Luck has many angles. Many of them not angelic.

Professor Quiet

7.2 Paula Bartholomew replied to bbl-1 @7 5 years ago

The man will truly be naked

I so do not need that visual. Pass the eye bleach please.

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7.2.1 Bob Nelson replied to Paula Bartholomew @7.2 5 years ago

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7.2.2 Paula Bartholomew replied to Bob Nelson @7.2.1 5 years ago

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7.2.3 bbl-1 replied to Paula Bartholomew @7.2 5 years ago

"Don't need the visual?" Why? Afraid to see the MAGA Man in his 'perfect glory'?

Wonder how Melania and Ivanka handles it?

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7.2.4 Paula Bartholomew replied to bbl-1 @7.2.3 5 years ago

She sleeps with Prince Valium. (Beetlejuice).

Professor Quiet

7.2.5 Paula Bartholomew replied to bbl-1 @7.2.3 5 years ago

A fat sweaty fat man with moobs is not my idea of perfection. But that's me.

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7.2.6 Raven Wing replied to Paula Bartholomew @7.2.5 5 years ago

I doubt it's Melania's either, but, she loves the money and supreme fame she has being married to him. But, that may all go away one he leaves the WH, and so will she.