CT Blue

I’m beginning to be a little more sanguine about the survival of the Republic, partly because of the level of resistance shown by today’s demonstrations, and partly because of the level of cluelessness displayed by the person who lost the popular vote.

In case you missed it, Trump blatantly lied to a group of CIA personnel. He told two whoppers; the first being that it was the media, not he, that had said derogatory things about the CIA. The second: that the media had lied about the size of the crowds at his pathetic inauguration.

Our Hitler wannabe is simply not as capable as the original. Trump actually believes that he can treat an audience of CIA people, who are paid to analyze facts, the same as an audience of rubes who have had their brains rotted out by a steady diet of Fox News. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think there’s much percentage in insulting the intelligence of an audience like that, particularly when its members are probably wary already of a guy who is playing footsie with a country they are practically genetically engineered to distrust. These are people who can cause him real harm, should they have a mind to do so, and I suspect that they do.

I once was involved in litigation with a guy who was an inveterate con-man. He didn’t see himself that way, but everyone else who got to know him over a reasonable period of time saw him for what he was. One judge pretty much called him that from the bench. He’s still at it, but I doubt that he’s any more self aware than he was. One side effect of that lack of self awareness is that he, like Trump, didn’t know when to stop. Trump may be able to fool some of the people all of the time, but it’s unlikely many of them work for the CIA.

UPDATE: No surprise here, but I can’t resist pointing out that I called this one:

Donald Trump’s impromptu visit and speech to the CIA Saturday had the adverse effect on the intelligence community as US sources tell CBS his sppearance, “made relations with the intelligence community worse” and described the visit as “uncomfortable.”

CBS News is reporting that these sources also said the CIA workforce did not cheer the president while he was speaking, but that the first three rows in attendance were filled with loyal Trump supports.
Are you surprised by this?

And another Kellyanne Conway lie was knocked down too.

On ABC’s THIS WEEK, Conway said, “The president went to the intelligence community yesterday to establish good relationships with them, and we had over 1,000 requests to attend? We could — we can only accommodate a few hundred.”

The CBS report refutes her version of events and says, “There were about 400 members of the workforce who RSVP’d for the event out of thousands who received an invitation in their email late last week. Officials dismiss White House claims that there were people waiting to get into the event.

via Crooks and Liars