Donald Trump has deranged late night meltdown after release of latest Omarosa tape

| 9:45 pm EDT August 16, 2018
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Omarosa released yet another damaging secret recording today, and this time it could send a member of the Trump family to prison. Suffice it to say that Donald Trump didn’t take the news well, and that he either felt compelled to try to immediately shift the narrative, or he simply short circuited. Either way, he’s launched into one of his most deranged and surreal late night meltdowns yet.

Donald Trump’s rampage actually began this afternoon, when he attacked the nation of Turkey for holding someone prisoner. Trump ended the tweet by saying “we are cutting back on Turkey” and it’s unclear if he was trying to make a lame joke, or if he didn’t realize that he had just unwittingly announced he was going to start eating less turkey. From there, things got much stupider.

Trump quoted some conspiratorial nonsense about former FBI agent Peter Strzok, without even saying where the quote had come from. He then began making false claims about former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, while quoting disgraced Fox News clown Lou Dobbs. Then he took things even further down the rabbit hole by questioning the intellect of widely respected former CIA Director James Brennan. Then, for no apparent reason, Trump decided to begin attacking Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, calling him a “Loser!” in the process.

The real upshot here isn’t so much the latest slop pile of false claims and deranged insults being spewed by Donald Trump tonight. Instead, it’s a sign that he’s really worried about the impact of this new Omarosa tape. The secret recording contains elements of bribery and federal election law violations, and it could end up sending Eric Trump’s wife Lara Trump to prison. It could also prompt Robert Mueller to investigate Trump’s sketchy “reelection” fundraising from criminal violations.