What is to be done?

Leaks? – they’re criminal. Oh wait ... Wikileaks is ‘great’!

By mid-February, not a month into the so-called presidency, the intelligence community is beseiging Trump. He earlier roundly trashed them – payback time. Leaks have now put Flynn under a microscope, leading to his ejection from the administration (Trump thinks that's “so unfair ...”)

What could – however – bring down the so-called presidency are the revelations in the leaks, that the “Trump campaign was in constant contact with the Rusians during the election.” When the Russians were assiduously at upending Clinton with their hacking.

That could be treason. In the video here: Trump in his love-hate relationship with leaks. Thanks indeed to HuffPost for the compilation.

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“The leaks coming out of the Trump White House cast the president as a clueless child”

The Washington Post, Jan 26 2017 – permalink:hhttp://wpo.st/49AX2

“In his first major TV interview as president, Trump is obsessed with his popularity”

The Washington Post, Jan 26 2017 – permalink:http://wpo.st/pOEX2

“Trump just gave a remarkable new interview. Here’s a tally of all his lies.”

The Washington Post, Jan 26 2017 – permalink:http://wpo.st/nREX2

Trump becoming a laughing stock ...?

Newspaper headlines are beginning almost to mock the Trump pathology. Where does this go ...?

A further Washingtom Post opinion piece even worries that “the president of the United States is barking mad.” With disturbing evidence.

“Trump ‘may not be able to tell fact from fiction.' ” The piece speculates that “... he can’t ‘separate what he wants to believe and what exists.’ ”

... it seems so.

Here is the video from the interview, the middle headline above. Annotated by WaPo with what can only be described as, at times, excruciating, revealing commentary ...

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And for good measure? Here is the White House on the dire threat to our national security posed by a five year old ...

The extended text, reporting the ‘threat,’ removes any doubt just which five year old the press themselves have in mind, to menace our national wellbeing.

And here is Sam Waterson, in the WaPo, discussing directly Trump's constant lying.

“With False Claims, Trump Attacks Media on Turnout and Intelligence Rift”

“President Trump used his first full day in office ...falsely accusing journalists of both inventing a rift between him and intelligence agencies and deliberately understating the size of his inauguration crowd.
“In a visit to the Central Intelligence Agency intended to showcase his support for the intelligence community, Mr. Trump ignored his own repeated public statements criticizing the intelligence community, a group he compared to Nazis just over a week ago.

“He also called journalists ‘among the most dishonest human beings on earth,’ and he said that up to 1.5 million people had attended his inauguration, a claim that photographs disproved.”

NY Times, Jan 22 2017 – permalink: https://nyti.ms/2kdmHiy

Trump, the new president: "False"
– The New York Times

The New York Times calls the new president, on his first full day in office, “false” – in more direct words, a liar. Twice. In a headline. Above the fold, the front page.

Or, here is a Jan 24 NY Times story with "Trump ... lie" in its headline.

We are in new territory. And the Fourth Estate finally gets down to doing its job.

The Women's March ‘trumps’

Just one day into his term as president, Trump has gone on the attack against the press – a fight he is destined to lose. In this case, the NY Times, among others and as above, bluntly caught him out in his lie trying to puff up attendance at his inauguration.

Here we have the Women's March driving home the point with most dramatically greater participation in their protest against Trump, just the day after the inauguration. In fact, with marches all over the country, pretty clearly millions, if not several millions, showed up to protest Trump – that is many, many times the number who showed up the day before.

As footnote, the press en masse took on Trump. The final straw seemed to be Trump's press secretary daring to suppose he would shut them down, himself lying egregiously in the process.

Linked here is a rundown just how fearsome was that widespread presss blowback on Trump. And here is a review and litany of the numerous verifiable Trump administration lies the first weekend.

“Crowd Scientists Say Women’s March in Washington Had 3 Times as Many People as Trump’s Inauguration”

NY Times, Jan 22 2017 – permalink: https://nyti.ms/2keGn5N

credited: Composite image by Joe Ward based on video from Urdu Voice of America

— pre-inauguration —