Unhinged man calls into ‘Fox & Friends’ and starts screaming about witchhunts
April 26, 2018
Every single day this week, my Twitter has been a mess. If it’s not royalty, it’s tennis, and if it’s not tennis, it’s politics. Well, in case you haven’t been on Twitter this morning, everyone in the political world is currently going crazy about Donald Trump’s call-in interview with Fox News’ morning show. Apparently he was just full-on unhinged. Here are some highlighted comments, some of which are “breaking news.”
Trump on Ronny Jackson, the candidate for VA Secretary who is apparently a messy drunk and pill-popper: “These are false accusations. These are false— They’re trying to destroy a man.” Trump blames Jon Tester for bringing out the allegations against Jackson, says Tester should have “a big price to pay.” Trump repeats his argument that “nobody has experience” to run an organization as giant as the VA so it doesn’t matter that Ronny Jackson had basically no experience.
On the fact that he now admits he stayed overnight in Russia: Trump tells Fox & Friends that he stayed overnight in Moscow, contradicting the claim in Comey’s memo: “I went to Russia for a day or so… of course I stayed there.” Trump, very agitated, says he never told Comey he didn’t stay overnight on that Russia trip. “I went to Russia for a day or so. A day or two…Of course I stayed there. I stayed there a very short period of time, but of course I stayed…I never said I left immediately.”
Trump on James Comey: “I did a great thing for the American people by firing him.”
On Michael Cohen: Trump confirms that Michael Cohen represented him on Stormy Daniels: “Michael would represent me, and represent me on some things. He represents me— like with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal, he represented me.” Trump says Cohen represented him in a “tiny” amount of legal issues.
Trump on the DOJ: “Our Justice Department, which I try to stay away from, but at some point I won’t.”
On Republicans and African-Americans: If you go back to the Civil War, “it was the Republicans that really did the thing.”
On Melania’s birthday (which is today): Trump tells Fox and Friends that he decided to do an interview with them because it’s Melania’s birthday. Asked what he got her, he pauses and says, “Maybe I didn’t get her so much. I got her a beautiful card.” Trump explains that he got Melania flowers but not another gift because he’s very busy being president.
[Via @KyleGriffin1 and @DDale8, and some of my comments too]
Apparently, Trump was full-on screaming towards the end of the interview about how he was so persecuted and how everything is a “witchhunt” and he doesn’t even want to work with DOJ anymore. My bae Michael Avenatti was on MSNBC concurrently and he was super-interested in Trump’s admission that he knew that Cohen was representing him in the Stormy Daniels matter. Avenatti thanked Fox & Friends for their exclusive. Also: apparently, Fox & Friends shut down the interview!!! They were the ones cutting Trump off because even they know he is completely f–king bonkers and he can’t open his mouth without incriminating himself.
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