Confirming reports in the NYT and LAT, Bloomberg has obtained video from a private meeting between President Trump and about 50 American diplomats where a freewheeling, free-speaking President Trump cracked jokes about Adam Schiff and Joe Biden, and declared that whoever leaked the information about the Ukraine call to the whistleblower is “close to a spy.”
In his typically off-the-cuff style, Trump vented to his audience about the whistleblower and the scandal they’ve unleashed, at one point accusing them of being “highly partisan” and declaring “we’re at war,” before adding that “these people are sick. they’re sick.”
Trump reminded his audience that the whistleblower “never saw the call, never saw the report” before accusing whoever gave them the information of being “basically a spy.”
“I want to know who’s the person, who’s the person who gave the whistleblower the information? Because that’s close to a spy…and you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right? The spies and treason – we used to handle it a little differently than we do now.”
"That's close to a spy."
WATCH: Trump demands to know who gave information to the whistle-blower in the #UkraineTranscript that has spurred the #Impeach45 drive. More @business: https://t.co/lmgTALLGsi pic.twitter.com/WTFeEX7K96
— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) September 27, 2019
Bloomberg described this last line as a “thinly-veiled threat” against the whistleblower, whose identity has yet to be revealed, and whoever assisted them.
The freewheeling address to about 50 diplomats gathered at the UN – a group that included UN Ambassador Kelly Craft – included comments about the 2016 election, “Sleepy” Joe Biden, and “Little” Adam Schiff, whom Trump accused of having a small neck: “He’s got a neck about this big,” Trump said while pressing his index finger to his thumb, indicating a very narrow circumference. “He’s got shirts that are too big because you can’t buy shirts that are that small. He was never a coal miner, let’s put it that way.”
Venturing into hyperbole, as he often does during private events, Trump boasted that Abraham Lincoln was his only predecessor to appear more presidential than Trump.
“I’m the most presidential except for possibly Abe Lincoln when he wore the hat. That was tough to beat,” Trump said. But he added: “I have better hair than him.”
Of course, Trump’s freewheeling speech wouldn’t have been complete without a shot at the Bidens: Trump accused Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s troubled son, who has struggled with substance abuse issues for most of his adult life, of improperly securing millions of dollars in business from Ukraine and China – claims that have been at the center of the Ukraine controversy. Trump didn’t spare “Sleepy Joe” Biden, at one point calling him “dumb as a rock.”
"Sleepy Joe Biden who's dumb as a rock."
Trump tells his side of the #UkraineTranscript in exclusive video obtained by @business pic.twitter.com/ygjSciTMZr
— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) September 27, 2019
In one of his most entertaining admissions from the speech, which – again – was never intended to be made public, Trump told his audience that the only reason he talks about disregarding presidential term limits is because it drives liberals “crazy.”
Finally, Trump directed some harsh words toward CNN and the rest of the news media. “You know these animals in the press. They’re animals. Some of the worst human beings you’ll ever meet,” Trump said. “They’re scum. Many of them are scum.”
Trump soon ended his remarks, but not before praising coal miners and UN Ambassador Craft.
While the media will likely fixate on Trump’s “close to a spy remarks” for some of Friday’s news cycle, the leak of the video basically demonstrates that Trump’s private speaking style isn’t much different from how he comports himself in public.
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For whatever reason looks like “both sides” of the deep state are out to topple Trump in earnest now.
Maybe it’s Biden, maybe something more, but they’re out to get him. Hold on tight. Spicy times ahead.
Yeah…. if they cant have a war with Iran under Trump, let’s try President Pence….
I stopped reading before I finished the title.
Kabuki Theater is not war.
This is pathetic.
“They” are trying to take out Trump in order to demoralize the people who are his base. They want them to think there is nochance that their fighting for American principles.
Another leaked video? Like it’s a secret that he spoke to 50 people? Like he’s not smart enough to know whatever is said will stay a secret although it was never a secret? Sheesh, the TDS is strong these days.
The office of President will never be the same after Trump.
He has clearly exposed the FACT that the real power of the US is the un elected bureaucracy, that has had the same agenda for at least the last 50 years, (JFK) or perhaps since the end of WWII.
It is a purely figurehead office, and Trump still has not figured this out, this will not end well for him, these bastards will crash the economy, and start a war, just to prove they have the power, and not El Presidente.
At this point, I kinda feel sorry for the guy, he clearly has not caught on, this is a graft/corruption based enterprise, not a functioning republic.
now I will put my head back into the sand, and continue to earn my daily bread, for one more day before the weekend, when I will erase the entire week, via copious amounts of home brewed cider, for it is that time of the year friends.
Close enough, except Trump is smarter than he comes across. Remember, it’s a club, and he is a member in good standing. Everyone plays their part well or they do not play.
The leftist keep on trying to destroy our system and in the end, having weapons is what it will all come down to.
In the midst of the Motown era, I thought music had reached its peak, there was nowhere to go from there. Trump may have out done every chief executive since the dawn of time. However, it might only be a watershed moment, a time that will be remembered as the start of a new type of presidency, the showtime era.
The period of time when America found its (Teddy Roosevelt) balls and told the world who’s boss. Poor Teddy promised he wouldn’t run again, a promise he regretted the rest of his life. Trump talks of flouting the 22nd amendment and running again and again like FDR.
So? Trump gets that people have infiltrated and are trying to damage his office and the country.
so trump is talking to 50 people?
the person recording him is stationary off to his left?
if this was not a planned event,they already know who it is that recorded him & released the recording–
did you notice the play 4 empathy for hunter biden,who has struggled w/substance abuse?
every drunk in the world wishes they could use that one–
Trump was warned