Trump Reignites Rosie Feud On Twitter After Old Tweet Gets Posted To Reddit, And Other Trump News From Thursday
Thursday, May 11th. Day 112.
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Trump Rehashes Rosy Feud: President Trump quoted a months-old tweet of Rosie O'Donnell's today, joking that they finally agree. The old tweet read "FIRE COMEY" and came a month after the election — seemingly referencing her belief that Comey's announcement that he was re-opening the Clinton email investigation lost Clinton the election.
BuzzFeed reporter Brandon Wall did some digging and found that the old tweet was posted on Reddit's r/TheDonald 20 minutes before Trump sent it out.
Trump Hires Transition Employee To Be Leading Corruption Attorney: President Trump has chosen Jessie Liu, a former DOJ transition employee, to be DC's US Attorney, typically a post that leads corruption and national security investigations.
Trump Favors Russian Photographers In Lavrov Meeting: During yesterday's meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, US photographers were barred from entering the Oval Office, but a Russian photographer for Russia's state news organization was allowed in. Now, former intelligence officials are saying that the access was a security risk, as the camera could have contained a listening device.
Acting FBI Director Testifies To Senate: James Comey's temporary replacement Andrew McCabe testified in front of the Senate today. He directly contradicted the White House statements yesterday, saying "I can tell you also that Director Comey enjoyed broad support within the FBI and still does…The vast majority of employees enjoyed a deep, positive connection to Director Comey," and "It has been the greatest honor and privilege of my life to work with [Comey]. He has broad support from across the FBI."
Highlights From President Trump's Time Interview:
On Relinquishing Authorizing Military Power
They had some people in a certain country, Yemen, where they had them [surveilled] and they needed the go ahead to kill, to kill them…The lieutenants, the captains, their majors, their colonels, they're professionals. They love doing it, they know every inch of the territory, right. I say why am I telling them? So I authorized the generals to do the fighting. You know.
On The Airstrike In Syria
I think we have to be a strong nation. I think we were being laughed at by the world. They're not laughing anymore. When I saw that, I thought it was incredible.
On ISIS And The Internet
We have to humiliate the enemy. And if we don't humiliate them, we're going to have our kids continuing to go and fight for ISIS. We have kids leaving this country because they're so damned good at the internet, ISIS, they're better at the internet than Google.
Here's what happened Wednesday.
