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brooklynite

(93,873 posts)
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 04:24 PM Jun 2020

Bolton claims Trump called for 'scumbag' journalists to be 'executed'

Source: The Hill

Former White House national security adviser John Bolton reportedly claims in his forthcoming memoir that President Trump called for “scumbag” journalists to be executed.

Bolton said that Trump made the comments during a meeting last summer in New Jersey, according to a copy of Bolton's book obtained by The Washington Post.

During the meeting, Trump said that journalists should be jailed so they would have to expose their sources, Bolton wrote.

“These people should be executed. They are scumbags,” Trump said, according to Bolton's account chronicled in the memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/503244-bolton-claims-trump-called-for-scumbag-journalists-to-be-executed

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Bolton claims Trump called for 'scumbag' journalists to be 'executed' (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2020 OP
This can't be a surprise to anyone paying attention...the Pig's cult members agree. Thomas Hurt Jun 2020 #1
As a foreigner looking in on the USA in horror... sheepfarm Jun 2020 #2
LOL! fleur-de-lisa Jun 2020 #3
Cancer of the AIDS of the eye theaocp Jun 2020 #5
The only thing that could make that better, in my personal view... SKKY Jun 2020 #25
He won't. maxsolomon Jun 2020 #11
Lol! "The cleaning bill at his grave won't be sustainable." JudyM Jun 2020 #14
You have a keen sense of justice! ZZenith Jun 2020 #23
I like your style! Mopar151 Jun 2020 #29
Like Jamal Khashoggi? sop Jun 2020 #4
Oops...Oops..again and again...If Donald Trump said that, he has caused himself a lot of grief.. Stuart G Jun 2020 #6
So Bolton witnessed this but wouldn't testify, then masquerades as a patriot. mpcamb Jun 2020 #7
Bolton has always been a self-serving piece of shit.... comradebillyboy Jun 2020 #16
This! eom BlueMTexpat Jun 2020 #18
Amen mpcamb Jun 2020 #21
Preach it, my brother! Nt Mopar151 Jun 2020 #30
It's surprising that Trump wants scumbags to be executed - n/t Jim__ Jun 2020 #8
That's his code word for opponents and enemies. He buddys-up to the real ones. mpcamb Jun 2020 #22
No doubt he said it. nt doc03 Jun 2020 #9
Proof orangeanus wants to turn the US in a copy of... Lock him up. Jun 2020 #10
Strange Strange times when I find myself on John Bolton's Side of things.... jimlup Jun 2020 #12
Hard for me to believe. UncleTomsEvilBrother Jun 2020 #13
He could have testified in the House impeachment hearings. comradebillyboy Jun 2020 #17
Dump should be executed for treason. roamer65 Jun 2020 #15
Execute the scumbags? Grins Jun 2020 #19
We have no trouble believing he said such things, PatSeg Jun 2020 #20
He only wants what Putin has and if we don't get rid of him we will turn into Russia kimbutgar Jun 2020 #24
Kick Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 #26
A scumbag, telling us a scumbag.. Hip2bSquare Jun 2020 #27
I'd be out to call him tinymontgomery Jun 2020 #28

sheepfarm

(38 posts)
2. As a foreigner looking in on the USA in horror...
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 04:30 PM
Jun 2020

...I sincerely hope that Donald J. Trump ends his life in a pathetic mess in his solitary cell at ADX Florence from a massive heart attack while diagnosed with incurable rectal cancer. It's what any fascist deserves.

SKKY

(11,772 posts)
25. The only thing that could make that better, in my personal view...
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 07:51 PM
Jun 2020

...is if he infects Lindsey Graham and takes him down with him.

maxsolomon

(32,992 posts)
11. He won't.
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:03 PM
Jun 2020

He'll end his life tweeting on a gold toilet, forever nursing his resentments.

He'll be a pox on American discourse until that day, and for years after.

He should be cremated, because the cleaning bill at his grave won't be sustainable.

Stuart G

(38,365 posts)
6. Oops...Oops..again and again...If Donald Trump said that, he has caused himself a lot of grief..
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 04:44 PM
Jun 2020

Oops...Oops...and Oops.. K and R..and.....................very important!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.............. Thank YOU for posting this!!!!!!!


No wonder Trump did not want this out there....."...journalsts to be executed"...Oops, Oops, & Oops.

mpcamb

(2,855 posts)
22. That's his code word for opponents and enemies. He buddys-up to the real ones.
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:59 PM
Jun 2020

Never met a scumbag he didn't like.

Lock him up.

(6,874 posts)
10. Proof orangeanus wants to turn the US in a copy of...
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 04:52 PM
Jun 2020

... R____a.

High hotel rooms with balcony all over the country...

Lock him up.

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
12. Strange Strange times when I find myself on John Bolton's Side of things....
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:04 PM
Jun 2020

Trump is completely unhinged but we have to push really hard starting right now.

The defeat of the tRump monster is not assured.

13. Hard for me to believe.
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:13 PM
Jun 2020

Not because, of course, Trump has probably said something even more hateful, but because Bolton couldn't say any of this under oath.

Grins

(7,134 posts)
19. Execute the scumbags?
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:45 PM
Jun 2020

Well, I’m all-in on that!

But where do we start...?

National Review? Townhall? Washington Examiner? The New York Post? The Daily Wire? American Thinker? The Federalist...?

My list is down to three:
- Fox News,
- Breitbart,
- OANN.

PatSeg

(46,804 posts)
20. We have no trouble believing he said such things,
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:48 PM
Jun 2020

but we also know that Trump cannot survive without media attention. It is like oxygen to him.

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
24. He only wants what Putin has and if we don't get rid of him we will turn into Russia
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 07:07 PM
Jun 2020

I can just see the week after if he gets re elected Putin makes his state visit.

And we have to do everything in our power to make that doesn’t happen.

Hip2bSquare

(291 posts)
27. A scumbag, telling us a scumbag..
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 08:37 PM
Jun 2020

called journalists scumbags. Dear God, there must be a way we can wipe these 3+ years from our memories!

tinymontgomery

(2,584 posts)
28. I'd be out to call him
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 08:48 PM
Jun 2020

If I was a one those “scumbag” journalists to be executed" I would not go easy on him anymore. Call him out on every lie to his face. Stop attending the stupid briefs were there is no real or true information put out. Take away his adulation and he will slowly go crazy in the White House.

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