Posted on 07/01/2018 11:42:42 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The White House has launched an internal investigation into how a comedian's prank call earlier this week was connected to President Trump.
ABC News reported on Saturday that the Trump administration confirmed the claim that comedian John Melendez was connected to the president. The White House said it is now reviewing how the call occurred.
Melendez said last week that he tricked Trump into believing he was New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D). In audio uploaded to “The Stuttering John Podcast,” Melendez converses with Trump, bringing up immigration concerns and Trump's executive order to stop separating migrant families at the southern border.
Melendez and Trump can also be heard discussing the Supreme Court vacancy that will be left by Justice Anthony Kennedy upon his retirement next month. Melendez, impersonating Menendez, tells the president he would support Trump's pick if the justice were not "too conservative."
"Yeah. Well, we will talk to you about it. We're going to probably make a decision, Bob, over the next two weeks," Trump responded.
ABC notes that the office of legislative affairs contacted Menendez after the White House switchboard was notified of the call. Menendez's chief of staff then told the White House that Menendez had made no request to speak with Trump.
But the call went through anyway, according to the report.
Melendez said on his podcast that Trump adviser Jared Kushner connected him to the president.
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Kusher and Ivank also recommended Manafort.
Start there folks.
[Stuttering John]
Is this the guy who did the song “I’ll talk my way out of it”?
‘Stuttering John’ says he was visited by Secret Service after Trump prank call
He won’t think it’s so funny when he has to sell his toys and comic books to pay his legal bills.
Works for me.
Apparently a different guy, according to IMDB.
That was funny. Somebody really messed up. POTUS handled it well
How do we distinguish calls from clowns, comedians and the unbalanced from those of actual leftists?
Maxine,Hillary,Pelosi,Chelsea Clinton and Wasserman-Schultz make it hard to tell.
Anyone could get fooled.
Manafort got the job done, very well. I don’t have problems with that hire, and it was good that they dumped him right after the convention. what Mueller is doing is going to deter anyone from helping Trump in future campaigns, unless Manafort emerges unscathed, and the SC is the one that ends up damaged.
Keep on snarkin’
“He won’t think it’s so funny when he has to sell his toys and comic books to pay his legal bills.”
What law did he break?
After all, it was the White House who placed the call to the comedian.
“What law did he break?”
Is it legal to record a private phone call with the POTUS without his consent?
Depends if it is a one party or two part consent state.
“What law did he break?”
I don’t know. Wonder if there’s a law against impersonating a senator, or impersonating/misrepresenting a person of standing in order to discuss policy with the president?
“After all, it was the White House who placed the call to the comedian.”
The story reads as if the comedian called the White House switchboard and Kushner allowed the call through to President Trump.
According to Fox News:
“He reached several White House operators before being told the president would call him back. According to the comedian, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner returned the call, connecting him to Trump.”
The law he broke is impersonation of a Federal officer, or member of the House or Senate.
How’s that for starters snowflake
Yup, that’s a felony: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/912
It does not appear to meet the standards of violating 18 U.S.C. § 912.
DC is a one party state, so yes. What’s not legal is to impersonate a Congressman. That is in fact a felony: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/912
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