After months of villainizing the “witch hunt” and his perception that members of the “deep state” started the Russia probe, President Donald Trump is expected to declassify documents that he believes will prove his theories, as early as this week, Axios reported.
According to allies of Trump who spoke to Axios, the documents are related to the government’s surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the actions Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr took at the start of the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Republicans on the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees have been pushing for the declassification of these documents for months. They believe the records will show that Ohr acted improperly as a middleman between the DOJ, Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, where his wife worked during the 2016 election. Republicans also reportedly think the documents will reveal the Obama administration’s true motive for monitoring Page: to attack Trump.
Right. It’s not like we don’t know what Trump’s about. If those Docs were exculpatory in nature they’d have been out a year ago. The release will be selective and incomplete. It will prove nothing and Trump will say that’s enough to prove there was nothing.
There’s someone new in town. Trump’s handling things in a much different style than just a few months ago. The Stormy Daniels stunt and now this.
Oh noes ! ! !
Poor Bob Mueller has yet to recover from that devastating “Nunes Memo” released earlier this year !
Eventually Trump will have to go full Erdoğan and fire 500,000 civil servants, jail a few hundred journalists and dismiss a few hundred thousand academics, teachers and other intellectuals from their jobs. You know, since they’re all together in a criminal conspiracy to delegitimize and topple his regime.
Timed release of a nothing to keep their base motivated for the election.
Shorter Trump: All the documents that incriminate my administration have been/will be destroyed.