Latest Phone Conversation
on Speakerphone and Recorded
(In another open public restaurant)
More Trump dirty pool
revealed in another “secret phone” call that was recorded by a bystander while Trump was on speakerphone and he didn’t even know it (also in a public restaurant).
This
story from Huff Post – quite revealing
about Trump as if we didn’t already know with this headline:
“Trump Maneuvers to Protect Robert E. Lee’s Name in
Secretly Recorded Phone Call”
Trump was recorded talking to Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
about keeping Lee’s name at military sites and The NY Times got the tape.
Trump dismissed the “bullshit” of the effects of cancel
culture as he negotiated with a senator to preserve the name of Confederate
Gen. Robert
E. Lee at military installations, according to a recording of a phone
conversation given to The New York Times.
Sen. James Inhofe
(R-Okla.) put Trump on speakerphone at an Italian restaurant in Washington, DC
as the two talked politics Wednesday (July 29) night. The conversation was
overheard and recorded by someone in the room (The NY Times reported).
Trump said: “All right, my
friend. Are you doing good? We’re going to keep the name of Robert E.
Lee?”
Inhofe responded: “Just trust
me. I’ll make it happen.”
Trump piped up: “I had about
95,000 positive retweets on that. That’s a lot.”
(Note: Trump seemed to be referring to his tweet last week wherein Inhofe promised he wouldn’t change the names of “Military Bases and Forts” and that he was “not a believer in the Cancel Culture.”)
(Note: Trump seemed to be referring to his tweet last week wherein Inhofe promised he wouldn’t change the names of “Military Bases and Forts” and that he was “not a believer in the Cancel Culture.”)
More of this story: Trump earlier threatened to veto the Senate’s Defense Authorization
Act (DPA) that overwhelmingly passed and it would change military base
names that honor Confederates. The vote was 86-14 – a margin that could easily
override a Trump veto.
Trump’s conversation with
Inhofe appeared to be a push to protect a veto, but then Trump seemingly veered
into another complaint about the so-called cancel culture. That is in which
support for a person is withdrawn over offensive actions or statements. Trump said:
“A lot of people want to be able to go back to life — not this bullshit.”
In the call, Trump also
discussed Inhofe’s sudden cancellation of a confirmation hearing for retired
Gen. Anthony Tata (Trump’s pick for a top Pentagon policy post). That followed
deepening concerns from both Democrats and Republicans about Tata’s history
of inflammatory tweets in which he called former President Obama a terrorist leader and attacked Islam. Early in the
conversation, Inhofe, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee had referred
to holding up Tata’s confirmation.
Inhofe had said in a
statement that Democrats and Republicans don’t yet know enough about Tata and hadn’t received required
documentation.
On the recorded portion of
the phone call, the two mentioned the possibility of someone resigning and given another appointment.
Inhofe has not commented on the recording.
My 2 cents: Wow – what a story. This as bad as when Trump was also “secretly”
recorded asking Ukraine’s president for a “favor” to dig up dirt on Joe and
Hunter Biden (that
reminder is here from USA Today).
That case and the above both recorded and overhead in public restaurants
… that alone is amazing and shows how lax Trump is on the phone.
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