Tucker Carlson: Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent

[Blackwolf]

@Zander

Will you admit that by itself made this especially inappropriate, and dumb, for the president? This phone call was a day after Mueller’s testimony, I believe. You can say Obama was brazen, but that takes some balls , man. Some serious, serious, balls.

Dunno if it’s serious balls so much as complete idiocy.

Although yes, the two are often kissing cousins. Hold mah beer!

[Zander]

@Blackwolf

@Zander

Will you admit that by itself made this especially inappropriate, and dumb, for the president? This phone call was a day after Mueller’s testimony, I believe. You can say Obama was brazen, but that takes some balls , man. Some serious, serious, balls.

Dunno if it’s serious balls so much as complete idiocy.

Although yes, the two are often kissing cousins. Hold mah beer!

And I’m not even trying to hate on balls. In some situations, I want the president to have some balls. This was just way too much balls, and the wrong balls, especially when there’s $400 millions dollars in military aid to a desperate Ukraine just floating in the wind. Stinks to high hell.

[Blackwolf]

@Zander

And I’m not even trying to hate on balls. In some situations, I want the president to have some balls. This was just way too much balls, and the wrong balls, especially when there’s $400 millions dollars in military aid to a desperate Ukraine just floating in the wind. Stinks to high hell.

Too much, and the wrong kind. I like it.

[Bodecea]

BETRAYAL!!! Time for another Night of the Long Knives for all those FOX and Republicans who are backstabbing trump!

[Eclipze]

@Blackwolf

@Zander

Will you admit that by itself made this especially inappropriate, and dumb, for the president? This phone call was a day after Mueller’s testimony, I believe. You can say Obama was brazen, but that takes some balls , man. Some serious, serious, balls.

Dunno if it’s serious balls so much as complete idiocy.

Although yes, the two are often kissing cousins. Hold mah beer!

He would have to be cognizant of the ramifications to apply the “cojones” trope to his actions. I don’t think he has that level of awareness.

[mobiusptc]

When you almost lose the white nationalist tv anchor that might be a sign…

[Munimula1]

@DOLOOP

@TommyLucchese

@BlueTex

That pretty much sums up their argument… pathetic…

Carlson always makes me chuckle with his man of the people schtick because he’s a scion of the old school Beltway WASP elite. The kind of family that presidents put on short lists for Treasury Secretary. I mean, come on, his name is Tucker, he wears bow ties with plaid and tweeds, has a 1980s blow dry razor haircut and without even looking I guarantee he has some kind of goofy WASP nickname like Tip that his friends and family call him.

I always imagined him as a “Chort.”

Or a 'Squee"

[JayJay]

@BlueTex

At least we are past the “didn’t do anything wrong” phase and are now to the is it impeachable… Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel just published an OpEd at the Daily Caller arguing that what Trump did is wrong but not impeachable.

Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden. Some Republicans are trying, but there’s no way to spin this as a good idea. Like a lot of things Trump does, it was pretty over-the-top. Our leaders’ official actions should not be about politics. Those two things need to remain separate. Once those in control of our government use it to advance their political goals, we become just another of the world’s many corrupt countries. America is better than that. That’s also why it’s good that there are finally investigations looking into the extent to which the Obama FBI may have used our government — and even foreign governments — to try to crush Trump in the last election.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/03/tucker-and-patel-truth-about-impeachment/

So Tucker is saying that if Obama did all the things Trump supporters claim he did and it could have been proved in time, then Tucker would have written an article saying what Obama did was wrong but not impeachable?

Too bad we can’t go back in time and test THAT hypothesis…

[LucyLou]

Oh, Tuckles, you’re showing us how you’re setting your bar way down there for Liddle’Donnie, and you want us to pretty please, do the same?

Piss off.

[hindsight]

Uh oh, Tucker is showing some cracks here.

[Guilds]

Reminds me of the interview with Rutger Bregman that never got aired 'cause he lost it.

It was still leaked though.

Worth the watch.

[freemind]

Yeah, I saw that. Tucker couldn’t even put out a reasonable response. He could only sputter insults.

[Blackwolf]

@LucyLou

Oh, Tuckles, you’re showing us how you’re setting your bar way down there for Liddle’Donnie, and you want us to pretty please, do the same?

Piss off.

Shots fired!

[BlueTex]

@Blackwolf

Stages of Trumpism

1. It never happened (Denial)
2. Admit to having done it but assert it was neither illegal nor wrong (Defend)
3. Blame the other side for doing the same thing or worse (Projection)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1180551689818050562?s=20

4. Divert to other issues (Deflection)
5. Admit it was wrong but there’s nothing that can be done (So what?)

Repeated pattern since the 2016 election cycle.

[tnt]

@DougBH

I agree that certainly Trumps actions can be the discussion of whether they were appropriate or if the same investigative result couldn’t have been had by a different process. There is lots of room for discussion there.
However, after three years of investigating the Trump campaign for collusion and coming up with “no significant evidence” of cooperation, then to make this incident the subject of an impeachment enquiry is ridiculous. As if though no one ever had investigations that might affect their political opponents before.
But then, possibly Democrats are holding this inquiry “for personal political gain”?

this inquiry builds on the Mueller investigation.

From the investigation we know trump willingly took help from russia. We know he publicly sought and received their help. And we know there were 10 instances of obstruction of justice that he would have been charged for had he not been president.

And now we are watching him repeat these actions.

Without the mueller report, this phone call could be a one off. With it, it is a pattern to significant to ignore.

(and don’t forget teh mueller report found many, many crimes and prosecuted them. Manafort alone was worth the effort.

[Weedhopper]

Based of the peace treaty Trump had an obligation to ask about Bidens confession to bribing Ukraine with American tax dollars.

Just to remind you, all the evidence Rudy has he gathered for his cliant during the Muller hoax investigation. Biden wasn’t a political candidate then.

[hwyflier]

@BlueTex

“Like a lot of things Trump does, it was pretty over-the-top.”-tuck

Trump being Trump!

[hwyflier]

@freemind

Swanson

Anyone who ever ate a frozen salisbury steak is to blame for Tucker Carlson.

[hwyflier]

I’m not saying it’s my theory that Peter Thiel funded Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker for releasing the sex tape with Bubba The Love Sponge’s wife in part to suppress the parts that involved Tucker Carlson.

I’m just saying it’s a theory.

[DougBH]

Actually, the Mueller report did no such thing. If Mueller had any way to get him, he would have done so. This builds as just one more failed attempt to get Trump.

If what Mueller thought was obstruction was really obstruction, then Schiff and Pelosi are currently attempting to obstruct the probe into the origins of the Mueller investigation as well as corruption with foreign organizations.