President Donald Trump on Saturday and Sunday tweeted support for his favorite cable news network and criticism of Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones, the opponent of Republican candidate Roy Moore, who numerous women have accused of sexual misconduct and assault.
Trump on Saturday claimed that Fox News “is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN” and claimed “CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly.”
His criticism came after the Department of Justice filed a complaint to block a merger between AT&T and Time Warner, CNN’s parent company.
.@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2017
He also doubled down on his support for Moore in the form of criticism of Jones, who he called “WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES (sic) TAXES TO THE SKY.”
The last thing we need in Alabama and the U.S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES TAXES TO THE SKY. Jones would be a disaster!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2017
I endorsed Luther Strange in the Alabama Primary. He shot way up in the polls but it wasn’t enough. Can’t let Schumer/Pelosi win this race. Liberal Jones would be BAD!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2017
Numerous women have accused Moore of sexual misconduct. Moore has denied the accusations.
And the GOP remains silent as the current President defecates on our Country and Democracy.
The man is pure vinegar + water.
He is utterly irrelevant at this point. No one - I suspect even his vaunted base - pays any attention to his inane tweets. Sure, his “policies” are still doing plenty of damage … but who’d ever think we’d see the day when the POTUS is considered so moronic that no one pays attention to his words.
If you’re going to violate the Hatch Act might as well go all the way I guess.
But of course, that is the real point of Trump isn’t it? Laws, like taxes, are only for the little people.
Errata: as @litho points out, the chief executive may be exempt from this act, but I’ve been thinking of moral collapse – democratic norms in particular – and Justice Louis Brandeis’ dissenting opinion in Olmstead quite a bit recently viz Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; ….
This, as much as anything, defines the poison that is Trumpism: It is not just what he does, it is what he allows; what his example encourages.
Anytime now, Mr. Mueller, any time…