President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Words similar to this are common in this thread, but this truly is a whale of a Twitter thread.

 

I do appreciate that Trump has a sense of humor about himself, judging from the final two lines.

 

He'd be a natural for the Big Dick Society.

 

He had so much potential as a heel on Twitter and he wasted it on trying to run the country. We should’ve just let him run the Buffalo Bills into the ground and make catty, racially-coded missives on Twitter about Obama and random celebrities. Or just turned over an entire night of NBC programming to him. If the Apprentice had just remained popular, a lot would be different.

 

No way Trump can hit a 5 iron 181 into a wind, even if his lofts are jacked.

 

Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/trump-white-house-logs/


"Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump’s phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the period when the building was being violently assaulted, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News.


The lack of an official White House notation of any calls placed to or by Trump for 457 minutes on Jan. 6, 2021 – from 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m. – means the committee has no record of his phone conversations as his supporters descended on the Capitol, battled overwhelmed police and forcibly entered the building, prompting lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to flee for safety.

The 11 pages of records, which consist of the president’s official daily diary and the White House switchboard call logs, were turned over by the National Archives earlier this year to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

The records show that Trump was active on the phone for part of the day, documenting conversations that he had with at least eight people in the morning and 11 people that evening. The seven-hour gap also stands in stark contrast to the extensive public reporting about phone conversations he had with allies during the attack, such as a call Trump made to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) — seeking to talk to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) — and a phone conversation he had with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

The House panel is now investigating whether Trump communicated that day through backchannels, phones of aides or personal disposable phones, known as “burner phones,” according to two people with knowledge of the probe, who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information. The committee is also scrutinizing whether it received the full logs from that day.

One lawmaker on the panel said the committee is investigating a “possible coverup” of the official White House record from that day. Another person close to the committee said the large gap in the records is of “intense interest” to some lawmakers on the committee, many of whom have reviewed copies of the documents. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal committee deliberations."


Nixon caught hell over an 18 1/2 minute gap in the Nixon tapes.