President Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed his own intelligence community inspector general on Wednesday for the House impeachment inquiry into Trump’s Ukraine dealings.
The President retweeted his son Donald Trump Jr.’s link to an Axios story, which reported that ICIG Michael Atkinson had told lawmakers the whistleblower behind the explosive complaint about Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president had “some type of professional relationship” with a 2020 Democratic candidate.
“Why doesn’t the ICIG do something about this Scam?” Trump tweeted. “He should have never let it start, a Dem Hoax!”
Why doesn’t the ICIG do something about this Scam? He should have never let it start, a Dem Hoax! https://t.co/UCbObppWbA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2019
According to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel written opinion about the complaint, Atkinson had noted in his review that he had found “some indicia of an arguable political bias” from the whistleblower “in favor of a rival political candidate” but still found the complaint to be credible.
Additionally, Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire told Congress that he believed both Atkinson and the whistleblower “acted in good faith.”
Deny, Deflect, Distract, Discredit…anyone who tells the truth, who can tell the truth and has the authority to tell the truth!
Forewarned is forearmed re: Trump’s Pernicious Propaganda Techniques:
And how to fight Trump’s Lies/Mythomania:
the abomination continued - ‘doesn’t the IG remember he swore to me he’d place my interests above those of the country and the constitution. it’s a requirement for my appointees, and he knows it. treasonous!!!’
The whistleblower’s information has been backed up by all of the information coming out so far, so destroying them won’t change anything…the facts of their Ukrainian conspiracy are clear. This is just a shallow attempt to get people to see a conspiracy where there isn’t one; combined with the total blockage of any data coming out they hope that they can cast enough doubt to make people think it’s just the same thing and lose interest. This is just more panic on their part, they are trying to scare everyone they can to control the narrative, and panicking because it’s not working this time.
The problem for them is that more information will come out, the courts (and possibly administration people who cooperate despite Trump’s wishes) will see to that, and once that happens Trump and the Republicans will be toast.
Here’s one tim tRUMP told us the truth. Back in 2016 he whined that we voted for Hillary then we’d have nonstop investigations.
Many of us did and apparently we will.
Go figure.
Honestly, tactical or not, currently Trump is on one, long scream fest. Yes, he is pulling the news cycle to him. But this is getting so outrageous it is no longer an advantage.