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The_Counsel

(1,660 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 11:50 AM Aug 2018

I'm Tellin' Y'all...This Omarosa Thing Is a Trojan Horse...

This Trump/Omarosa breakup is funny and all, but I'm telling you: This is a Trojan horse.

The news media seems all too happy to take interviews from her and play those "tapes" because it appears to make Trump look bad.

Meanwhile, Omarosa is quietly laying the seeds of doubt that he's out of touch, and therefore couldn't possibly be guilty of collusion.

She's Oliver North, y'all...

#StayWoke
#NoOkeyDoke

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I'm Tellin' Y'all...This Omarosa Thing Is a Trojan Horse... (Original Post) The_Counsel Aug 2018 OP
Yeah, right. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #1
One pathological liar vs. another pathological liar. A big fat nothingburger. Trust Buster Aug 2018 #2
+1 berksdem Aug 2018 #3
What specifically leads you to believe this is a ruse? LanternWaste Aug 2018 #4
It's Like I Said... The_Counsel Aug 2018 #13
Don't know if they are planning this but I believe their fighting to distract the MSM. rogue emissary Aug 2018 #5
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2018 #9
Yep. The_Counsel Aug 2018 #15
That's a pretty weak defense htuttle Aug 2018 #6
Trump Never Had a "Strong" Defense... The_Counsel Aug 2018 #16
Noted! Anon-C Aug 2018 #7
K&R, She reminds me of Cersei Lannister from Game Of Thrones, Don't trust her at all uponit7771 Aug 2018 #8
He's Little Finger mainstreetonce Aug 2018 #29
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2018 #30
Mueller doesn't care. fleur-de-lisa Aug 2018 #10
Grifters, both of them Raine Aug 2018 #11
I love the way she puts a fact out there - the people involved lie and say it never happened womanofthehills Aug 2018 #12
That is pretty funny. lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #26
She is out to sell books. Understood, but I think the distraction is on the Trump team end JDC Aug 2018 #14
Clearly This Is a Trump Distraction... The_Counsel Aug 2018 #17
Agreed JDC Aug 2018 #18
This whole mess is meaningless. LonePirate Aug 2018 #19
Nope. GoCubsGo Aug 2018 #20
Things just are sometimes things. Sit back and enjoy the ride. boston bean Aug 2018 #21
The Russian Collusion Scam Was, In Itself, a "Far Out Conspiriacy..." The_Counsel Aug 2018 #22
Umm no. The russian trump conspiracy is a factual provable conspiracy. boston bean Aug 2018 #23
Name One Post-Nixon Campaign/Administration.... The_Counsel Aug 2018 #34
Trashing-lazy conspiracy theory brooklynite Aug 2018 #24
She's just saying he's the idiot we've always known he was. Even idiots can be guilty. n/t pnwmom Aug 2018 #25
you're overthinking it BannonsLiver Aug 2018 #27
Bullshit. They're both garden variety, two-bit con artists. Dave Starsky Aug 2018 #28
I find nothing funny about it. Not one goddamn thing. It and he are disgusting. spanone Aug 2018 #31
I don't trust anyone who'd work for Trump C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #32
Thanks for your billh58 Aug 2018 #33
The whole executive branch has broken and is actively breaking the law superpatriotman Aug 2018 #35

The_Counsel

(1,660 posts)
13. It's Like I Said...
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 01:02 PM
Aug 2018

The point of all this is that John Kelly fired Omarosa and Trump knew nothing about it.

The same way the Russians tampered with the election to help Trump---and yet Trump knew nothing about it. Thus, "no collusion."

The same way Reagan knew nothing about the Iran-Contra affair.

Better to look like an idiot and keep your job than to look like a strong leader and be impeached.

Let's just say I hope I'm wrong....

...I just don't think I am.

rogue emissary

(3,148 posts)
5. Don't know if they are planning this but I believe their fighting to distract the MSM.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:02 PM
Aug 2018

It is reality TV basics. Start a late summer feud between two BFF.

Same reason I don't totally trust that Michael Cohen is flipping on Donny. Trump has been telegraphing that Obama was tapping him. Of course, the two people who were actually taping him happen to be two of his closest friends.

The_Counsel

(1,660 posts)
15. Yep.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 01:07 PM
Aug 2018

I know this Omarosa thing smelled fishy from the word "go."

First the conflict as to whether she was fired (yet was able to serve a full year and collect a pension), then a year later here comes the "tell-all" book that could actually end up insulating Trump from Mueller?

The more I think about it, the less I like it...

htuttle

(23,738 posts)
6. That's a pretty weak defense
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:16 PM
Aug 2018

"Omarosa is quietly laying the seeds of doubt that he's out of touch, and therefore couldn't possibly be guilty of collusion. "

So he'd still be impeachable. Really highly doubt that this would be an effective legal defense, too. If it didn't work for The Chin, it won't work for Trump, and he'd never go along with it anyway.

The_Counsel

(1,660 posts)
16. Trump Never Had a "Strong" Defense...
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 01:10 PM
Aug 2018

...and yet here we are.

RUDY GUILLIANI is the guy's attorney now. You listen to him and wonder who's knob did he slob in order to pass the Bar.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts)
10. Mueller doesn't care.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:45 PM
Aug 2018

For most people, this shit show is entertaining, but SC Mueller and his team are hard at work trying to nail this criminal.

womanofthehills

(8,709 posts)
12. I love the way she puts a fact out there - the people involved lie and say it never happened
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:55 PM
Aug 2018

and then she releases her tape.

JDC

(10,127 posts)
14. She is out to sell books. Understood, but I think the distraction is on the Trump team end
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 01:05 PM
Aug 2018

We all have a hard time handling the non-stop BS coming from this admin, but this admin has to spend all of its time spinning that F Donnie's constant incompetence, corruption, lies, cheats, cruelty, mistakes, etc etc etc. Not feeling sorry for them, but I think they are in constant reaction mode. Another one of the 1000s of reasons that they are unfit to serve.

Mueller in the meantime is not distracted and still chipping away at the evidence.

LonePirate

(13,424 posts)
19. This whole mess is meaningless.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 01:27 PM
Aug 2018

Everybody knows he is a liar and a racist. Her stories and tapes will not change a single mind. There are more important news stories that deserve our attention than this White House soap opera nonsense.

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
20. Nope.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 01:29 PM
Aug 2018

It's just another example of the saying, "There is no honor among thieves." All we're seeing is more reality show bullshit. These assholes deserve each other.

The_Counsel

(1,660 posts)
22. The Russian Collusion Scam Was, In Itself, a "Far Out Conspiriacy..."
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 03:27 PM
Aug 2018

...and yet here we are.

I'm just sayin'.

boston bean

(36,221 posts)
23. Umm no. The russian trump conspiracy is a factual provable conspiracy.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 03:33 PM
Aug 2018

It is not some conspiracy theory.

The_Counsel

(1,660 posts)
34. Name One Post-Nixon Campaign/Administration....
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 04:48 PM
Aug 2018

...dumb enough to even CONSIDER trying something like this?

Most of their argument is that they did not know it was illegal (not a defense) and that any politician would have tried it in the name of opposition research (lie). Who else would do something like this? That's what I mean by "far out conspiracy."

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
28. Bullshit. They're both garden variety, two-bit con artists.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 03:49 PM
Aug 2018

Anyone who thinks there's any kind of X-dimensional chess involved in all of this is crazy. These are two bench league scamsters, one of whom, through the help of Russian oligarchs, got elected President of the United States. Now they are fighting with each other.

superpatriotman

(6,249 posts)
35. The whole executive branch has broken and is actively breaking the law
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 05:08 PM
Aug 2018

But you'll have to buy the book to find out about it.

What time is my next interview?

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