I am not a lawyer, but this sounds pretty obstruction of justice-y to me:
..This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018
And then there’s this tweet, one of a flurry the angry retiree sent out this morning while loafing in front of Fox News:
Russian Collusion with the Trump Campaign, one of the most successful in history, is a TOTAL HOAX. The Democrats paid for the phony and discredited Dossier which was, along with Comey, McCabe, Strzok and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, used to begin the Witch Hunt. Disgraceful!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018
Until I got to the “TOTAL HOAX” part, I thought Trump was giving Putin his due: “Russian Collusion with the Trump Campaign” definitely is “one of the most successful in history,” if we’re talking about intelligence operations designed to undermine a foe. Russia succeeded beyond its wildest dreams. But Trump didn’t mean it that way, of course. He’s just incapable of identifying the subject of a complex sentence, one of his countless deficiencies, and thus this is a gaffe in the purest sense: a liar accidentally telling the truth.
Also, it’s weird that a degenerate who’s notorious for shagging multiple women while married to someone else (and then paying them off) plays the “lover” card so often in a flagrantly hypocritical attempt to shame other people who had an extramarital affair (and didn’t have to fork over hundreds of thousands in hush money). It’s a minor thing, but it’s creepy.
This is just a small sample of the shitgibbon’s Twitter output from the Golden Throne-Fox News Media Center of the White House before he deigned to start “work” just before noon today. He was probably tuckered out from leading that bizarre hate-fest in Tampa last night, which attracted deranged conspiracy theorists and garden-variety cultists from all over the state. I know I live among these whack-jobs, but it’s disturbing to see them on my TV in familiar environs.
Some days, I am tempted to tune it all out. It’s just too goddamned much. But the stakes are too high and the outcome too uncertain. So, 96 days to go. I’ll keep plugging away as best I can. You all hang in there too.
Open thread.
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