The President on Saturday let flow his impression of the so-called Nunes memo, which he declassified the previous day and which has been used by Republicans to claim anti-Trump bias at the FBI and Department of Justice.
In reality, the memo does not support those claims.
Trump also bragged about his rising approval rating in one poll, from Rasmussen, which has consistently scored Americans’ attitudes of him higher than other polls.
Rasmussen just announced that my approval rating jumped to 49%, a far better number than I had in winning the Election, and higher than certain “sacred cows.” Other Trump polls are way up also. So why does the media refuse to write this? Oh well, someday!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2018
This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2018
It wasn’t immediately clear who the President meant to refer to as “sacred cows.” On Friday night, Fox News host Laura Ingraham used the term to refer to the intelligence community, or “the deep state,” as she said.
Totally vindicates him. The logic was perfectly geometric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlV3oQ3pLA0The thing is three and a half pages long. You didn’t expect him to read the whole thing, did you? He did read like two pages of the Bible during the campaign and never got over it.
Trump’s tweet this morning, after the Nunes memo fell flat, supports the argument below.
I now actually think there is a very strong probability that this memo was initiated and its release orchestrated by the White House, just as was the first attempt by Nunes to undercut the investigation. I anticipate that solid evidence may be found to support this possibility and I can see such findings igniting a crowning backfire that helps burn up Trump and his ilk. To wit, it will strengthen the legal case for obstruction against Trump and others, provoke public outcry, and then support impeachment.
Of course, we still await the next actions of Trump. It seems to me his hand for firing Rosenstein and deflecting Mueller has been seriously weakened by the release of the flimsy memo. If he does so now, I doubt he will survive the outcry.
My main hope today is that the responsible media not fall into the trap of giving the Republicans more air time on their memo now. Repetition will simply feed their meme and help make the false seem true by permitting them to use what they have learned from Joseph Goebbles, their primary intellectual inspiration. Evil acts deserve harsh condemnation.
Purge is a word that
suggests Russians even more
in control than we thought
We had better rise up against Trump Forever while we still can
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Trump is increasingly desperate to create a false narrative which he feels will provide him justification to terminate all areas of the Russian scandal investigation and have everyone associated with the Mueller probe be summarily fired.