Donald Trump believes that the New York Times has “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” (The Trumpers cannot even come up with their own memes for god sake, we all remember eight years of “Obama Derangement Syndrome” and now they think they’re so clever.)

Why does Trump think the Times has “TDS?” Because he and Kayleigh believe they have a “Gotcha!” moment and Trump wants you to see it. The New York Times reported that Trump had been “briefed” on the intelligence that Russia was paying the Taliban bounties for American lives. This would be a rather important development in a real administration. A real president would have sanctions already issued, assets frozen, carrier groups churning seas, and combat planes patrolling up to the line in Russian airspace. But this administration brazenly asserts that the detail was only the written PDB, and because no one in the intelligence community sat Trump up straight and said directly into Trump’s face: “They are killing American soldiers for rubles!” it doesn’t count as “being briefed.” Presidents are not expected to do the reading before class, apparently.

Therefore, the New York Times’ report that the president had been briefed is a  “lie” to the Trump administration  – see how it goes?

Oh, and it only gets worse, given Kayleigh’s mendacity in the press conference, but we’ll get to that after the tweet:

The @nytimes is a very corrupt and dishonest media outlet that suffers TDS at a level rarely seen. They will lose any remaining credibility on the evening of November 3rd. https://t.co/SuwZAIem2u

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2020

The media loves it when she lectures them like they’re her third-grade class, by the way. Anyway, Kayleigh says “there is no consensus in the intelligence community” as to the Russians paying bounties, as if that relieves them of any duty to address the matter.

Forget for just a second that any reasonable person would scream “So what deadline has Trump given the I.C. to reach a “consensus” and find out if this is true!” Forget that for a moment. Notice the excuse, “there is no consensus …” because the excuse is how they’ll handle this matter through the election. You see, if just one Trump flunkie somewhere in the intelligence community says “I dunno …” there is “no consensus” on the issue – e viola! Something abhorrent seen as a fact around the world just suddenly became a “theory” to the United States government.

This is disgusting. It is criminal dereliction of duty. A president believes he is relieved of all responsibility because no one shouted it at him, and the fact that he’s too fcking lazy to read the PDB is “understandable” even when our troops’ lives are on the line.

Just remember, when Trump uses the military as a prop – like last night’s flyover, the helicopters, uniformed men and women saying hello in clips, or just mentioning them in a speech, that when it gets right down to it, Trump will sell out our troops’ lives in a minute before he’ll confront Putin. They die, so he can rule in comfort.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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