You may also remember that not even a week ago, Trump and his allies were hootin' and hollerin' about the importance of "due process" and "presumption of innocence" when it came to the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. But that doesn't excuse the brash lawlessness of the move, especially because Trump almost immediately admitted the initial reason given was a sham. It had all the markings of obstruction of justice, particularly after the president told NBC's Lester Holt on national television he fired Comey over "the Russia thing," and it emerged he'd echoed that to two Russian ambassadors he invited to the Oval Office the next morning.ĭemocrats were incensed at Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, which Trump tried to play on when he initially justified the move with a recommendation letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Rod Rosenstein that cited that handling. The issue was that Trump fired the FBI director overseeing an investigation into his own associates and campaign. The first point to make here is that, contrary to Trump's claims-and the moronic, "Funny how that works!" from Steve Doocy-the problem Democrats had with the James Comey firing was not that he was fired, or that Trump did it. That, of course, was his "personal Vietnam."īut there was one moment that truly stood out for its gobsmacking hypocrisy and complete disdain for reality: Surely, people who have actually served the nation in combat will appreciate that, just as they must have when Trump said he deserved the same award for avoiding sexually transmitted diseases in 1970s New York. And he suggested Devin Nunes, his obvious lackey on the House Intelligence Committee and someone with some problems of his own, should receive the Medal of Honor for the hack-job Memo he put together on supposed bias in the FBI. The president once again threw out preposterous claims about how Actually, It Was Hillary Who Colluded With the Russians. In reality, his total approval with that group is 13 percent. He used his upcoming meeting with Kanye West to suggest the rapper's endorsement spiked his approval rating among African-Americans by 25 percent. doing long-winded interviews on Fox News. Nothing matters, including that Trump has now spent a huge chunk of the time since a viciously powerful hurricane hit the U.S. Trump defended his decision to hold a rally in Pennsylvania last night as Hurricane Michael slammed into Florida- something he'd criticized President Obama for in the past-on the basis it would've been "unfair to the people" not to go ahead with it. Before the world's most powerful man was hustled off the phone by the Three Geniuses, however, he certainly got a word in.
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