"...senior officials talked about inviting Rudy Giuliani and a group of Trump’s New York real-estate friends including Tom Barrack, Richard LeFrak, and Howard Lorber to the White House to stage an “intervention” last week.
“Trump is nuts,” said one former West Wing official. “This time really feels different.” Deputy Chief of Staff Bill Shine has privately expressed concern, a source said, telling a friend that Trump’s emotional state is “very tender.”
"It almost seems childish, you know. It's...instead of engaging about, okay, what is the thing that I'm reporting that is bothering you. Why do you think what we're doing is somehow wrong."
I wish the Fairies would have let him finish. When they come back to Rosenberg it is not to this same place, the camera angle is different, and Rosenberg says,
"But Trump refused to take the meeting, sources said. “You know Trump—he hates being lectured to,” the source added.
That means "talked sense to."
Oh. That is different.
"Even Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are unsettled that Trump is so gleefully acting on his most self-destructive impulses as his legal peril grows.
...Cohen’s plea,...Manafort’s conviction...followed by...Allen Weisselberg and...David Pecker...cooperating with federal prosecutors, have rattled Trump like few other turns in the investigation have, sources said.
"...Trump seemed “bummed” and “down and out,” a person briefed on his mood told me. “He was acting like, ‘I know the news is bad, but I don’t know what to do about it,’” the source said.
Hold on there, Fairies, that is bullshit reporting. You don't get to quote "a person briefed on his mood"! You can quote someone who saw his fucking mood but not someone who was "briefed" on his mood by someone who saw. I CALL HORSESHIT ON THE FAIRIES!
"...Trump seemed “bummed” and “down and out,” a person briefed on his mood told me. “He was acting like, ‘I know the news is bad, but I don’t know what to do about it,’” the source said.
Hold on there, Fairies, that is bullshit reporting. You don't get to quote "a person briefed on his mood"! You can quote someone who saw his fucking mood but not someone who was "briefed" on his mood by someone who saw. I CALL HORSESHIT ON THE FAIRIES!
Trump Is Nuts
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We interrupt this excerpting of the Fairies to bring you a video by the Fairies with an interview with Ex-Quasi's executive editor Dean Baquet, among others. For example:
"The way you would cover a president before Donald Trump is you would cover everything the president said...If they said something, you covered it."
Well, I think they still do too much of that. The Times and everybody else.
There are not just leaks from the Trump regime, there are leaks from people who work for Trump who make Trump look very bad. This is from Matthew Rosenberg, national security reporter at the Times:
"...even when people are leaking, they are leaking on behalf of their bosses."
Baquet:
"One of the challenges for us is to cover him...as a president who publicly says things that are false."
"In the beginning we covered all of 'em [Trump's tweets]...because he was the president."
Sho enuf did.
This is a powerful moment. Matthew Rosenberg's body language, I think you can see, is controlled-emotional, he is upset, pained. That's consistent with his tone of voice and content. There is about a one-second pause between the time Rosenberg comes onscreen there and the time he speaks. He is thinking. That's a good man there, Matthew Rosenberg. He cares and he feels deeply.
I wish the Fairies would have let him finish. When they come back to Rosenberg it is not to this same place, the camera angle is different, and Rosenberg says,
"Fake news just shuts it down. [the engaging between press and POTUS] So, if we don't want to have a discussion, you're not real."
Yes. YES! That is what it is. It's not just "we disagree" or "that was unfair," it's "YOU'RE NOT REAL"
"To assume that we're cynically out there just trying to make things up because it'll get somebody paid...That, that's that hurts, that's hard to [he pauses] hard to [inaudible] hear.
Unfortunately, this is Baquet admitting that Trump is good for business:
"We went through a period where we sort of lost our mojo a little bit. We were losing audience. We couldn't figure out what the right economic model was. We're starting to figure that out. The best news organizations like the Times and the Post have suddenly gained audience."
Question for Dean Baquet: Does not the Times then have an economic stake in Trump continuing to be president?
http://video.vanityfair.com/watch/why-reporting-on-trump-is-so-difficult
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Back to VF's article:
"By the weekend, though, his anger had returned. “He spent the weekend calling people and screaming,” one former White House official said. According to sources, the president feels cornered with no clear way out.
Okay, that's enough. A "former White House official" saying what Trump did this past weekend is another bullshit source.
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Back to VF's article:
"By the weekend, though, his anger had returned. “He spent the weekend calling people and screaming,” one former White House official said. According to sources, the president feels cornered with no clear way out.
Okay, that's enough. A "former White House official" saying what Trump did this past weekend is another bullshit source.
