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By Joe Scarborough January 4 at 7:19 PM
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Mika Brzezinski and I had a tense meeting with Trump following what I considered to be a bumbling debate performance in September 2015. I asked the candidate a blunt question.
Can you read?
Awkward silence.
Im serious, Donald. Do you read? I continued. If someone wrote you a one-page paper on a policy, could you read it?
Taken aback, Trump quietly responded that he could while holding up a Bible given to him by his mother. He then joked that he read it all the time.
I am apparently not the only one who has questioned the presidents ability to focus on the written word. Trump didnt read, Wolff writes. He didnt really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate. Others concluded that he didnt read because he didnt have to .?.?. He was postliterate total television. But Fire and Fury reveals that White House staff and Cabinet members believed Trumps intellectual challenges went well beyond having a limited reading list: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called him an idiot, Cohn dismissed him as dumb, national security adviser H.R. McMaster considered him a dope, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson infamously concluded that the commander in chief was a moron.
We are a nation that spent the past 100 years inventing the modern age, winning World War I, defeating Hitler and winning World War II, and liberating half of Europe by beating the Soviets in the Cold War. But today we find ourselves dangerously adrift at home and disconnected from the allies abroad that made so many of those triumphs possible. The world wonders how the United States will survive Donald Trump. And I ask, what will finally move Republicans to deliver a non-negotiable ultimatum to this unstable president? Will they dare place their countrys interests above their own political fears? Or will they move to end this American tragedy only when there is nothing left to lose?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/can-you-read/2018/01/04/46d967a2-f18c-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,031 posts)Republicans don't dare piss off Putin!
Irish_Dem
(47,189 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)has to have his fucking name sprinkled liberally throughout to hold his attention at all! Fucking moron is right. We are SO screwed. Hurry Bob Mueller...PLEASE HURRY!
bdamomma
(63,913 posts)is a very thorough man and his team also. This investigation may take a long time, but so far he has convicted what four people??? And tRump hasn't been in a year yet.....a year too long. He needs to go before he causes more damage to our country, the world and the environment.