Trump tweets that Fox & Friends has exonerated him:

[Kingofalldems]

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Just call the whole thing off and then arrest Mueller and the entire FBI.

[Girard442]

1. It's official: Alex Jones is now president.

[CentralMass]

2. If Fox is defending him he must be guilty.

[Siwsan]

3. I suspect entire chapters of future psychiatric text books will be focused on trump*

I realize that all narcissists are delusional, but he seems to be taking it to a whole new, albeit extraordinarily childish, level.

[RKP5637]

9. Definitely will result in numerous case studies. Also, on how a population could elect an individual

like Trump to the presidency. I still think there should be psychiatric evaluations for presidential candidates. We live in a far too fast environment now. Stupid actions can now have potentially lethal results to millions of people in a split second.

[Siwsan]

11. I think they need to strengthen the qualifications to run for the office

Definitely the candidate should have to submit to a psychiatric screening and they should also have to pass a test to prove they have an actual grasp on how government works. The way things are now, anybody who can meet the age and residency requirements can run. There isn't even a restriction against felons!!

Additionally, a full financial disclosure and disclosure of pending and in process litigations should be mandatory.

The 'weeding out' process should start before the campaign takes off.

Actually, I think that passing a civics/citizenship exam should be mandatory before someone can file to run for any legislative office. And maybe a requirement that anyone nominated to a cabinet post or judicial seat have proven expertise in the area where they are being nominated. Or am I being too picky?

[RKP5637]

15. I seriously doubt Trump could even pass a US citizenship exam. No, you are not picky at all.

Way back in the beginning these basic requirements worked, but we have gone so far beyond that. It's absurd that an individual like Trump could win, and I would say that regardless of his party affiliation.

[Dirty Socialist]

4. Fux & Fiends

If I would truly express my opinion of Fux & Fiends, I would be banned permanently from this board for profanity.

[Hugin]

21. Faux & Frauds

Same here... It would be a peal of profanity which would echo through the high mountain passes for decades.

[shraby]

5. When does he start seeing "things", like ghosts?

[underpants]

6. Oh well if Fox & Friends said it...

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Trump consistently bets on the wrong horse.

"We'll be winning so much that you'll get bored with all that winning."

[SHRED]

8. He is so disgusting

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. I wish HRC would sue the shit out of him.

Trump has gone way over the top with his vendetta.

[GoCubsGo]

12. I guess Oleg Deripaska must have shown him the peepee tape on Saturday.

I understand he paid the Dotard a visit at his dump in Miami this past weekend.

[PragmaticDem]

13. Fox and Friends rots your brains.

Trump is a perfect example.

[SHRED]

14. What's a "frlends"

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[hexola]

16. Its how the impostor account flies under the radar...

Common tactic - a lot of people - like Trump, might not notice its an "L" and not an "I"

[left-of-center2012]

17. Like Hermann Goring exonerated Hitler?

[C_U_L8R]

18. Why is Trump following and retweeting a bogus account?

Did John Baron create it?

[Gothmog]

19. Denial is not just a river in Africa

[Grammy23]

20. With tRump you never know if he really believes all of the things he spews or

If that is just his latest gaslighting technique to keep his fans happy. He just routinely says UP is DOWN and GREEN is PURPLE. You can buh-leave him. He doesn’t worry about his lies contradicting themselves because his fans just take whatever he says at the time as gospel.

I think he also says those things to self comfort himself, so I guess maybe that is the definition of delusional. The truth is so far out of his comfort zone, he has to rely on his fabrications to make himself feel better. He can live in La La Land and push all those scary thoughts out of his punkin head. Like prison time, loss of his fan base, humiliation and exposure as a fraud and a cheat. When you look at it that way, it is easy to see why he lies so much. La La Land is a much happier place to be, compared to reality.

[Vinca]

22. I bet he thinks Fox WOULDN'T run the pee tape.

[L. Coyote]

23. The Trump bots are working overtime on Twitter to suppress these THREADS:

My OP from:
THREAD regarding: FBI used the Steele dossier to get FISAs

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3. (It's worth noting in that previous article that Steele apparently believed that there was a cabal in the FBI *preventing* the dossier from reaching the top, and it also suggests that he contacted @DavidCornDC about its contents. But I'll let reporters sort out those details.)

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6. The DOJ lawyers who help prepare the FISA applications take this VERY seriously. Like, even if you had a common-knowledge assertion, like "Country X is a state-sponsor of terrorism," they make you include a cite (preferably two) supporting it. They want every fact airtight.

7. The Steele dossier is "raw intelligence." It contains reporting from third party sources -- meaning it is basically hearsay. So the FBI can't just staple the dossier to a cover sheet that says "GIVE ME A FISA" and be done with it.

8. To use any or all of the dossier, the FBI would have to provide independent verification and corroboration of each fact that would be included in the application. This could mean first-hand witness statements, actual recordings from electronic surveillance, etc.

9. In other words, if the FBI *did* use the contents of the dossier to obtain a FISA, then by definition those contents are true, corroborated, and independently verifiable. Remember that the application is presented to an Article III judge -- a judicial check -- before granted.

10. This does not seem like the road Trump supporters want to be going down...and yet they are. It's so bizarre. And to underscore: To claim that this was a huge conspiracy is ALSO directly implicating members of the judiciary (who could be Republican appointees) without basis.

P.S. In tweet #2 *he* refers to Steele -- I was cutting down this sentence to fit and omitted him as the original referent

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