7/22/18: Sunday turns into a whine-fest when the president starts tweeting about how unfairly he’s being treated by pretty much everyone in the Department of Justice. He even puts the word “Justice” in quotes.
In this case, Trump is tweet-moaning about the FISA courts and how the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. and the Brownies are all out to get him. But first, they must get Carter Page to get to him.
Let’s go to the tweets. The president’s Twitter Day begins at 5:28 a.m.:
Congratulations to
@JudicialWatch and @TomFitton on being successful in getting the Carter Page
FISA documents. As usual they are ridiculously heavily redacted but confirm
with little doubt that the Department of “Justice” and FBI misled the courts.
Witch Hunt Rigged, a Scam!
A series of Twitter howls punctuates the president’s morning. According to Trump, the FISA courts are rigged. So is the Mueller investigation, and the Steele dossier is fake, and Carter Page should never have been under surveillance.
Then for good measure, he tweets: “I had a GREAT meeting with Putin and the Fake News used every bit of their energy to try and disparage it. So bad for our country!”
Now let’s go to the evidence and see how Trump’s tweets hold up. First, the president’s loyal fans should understand that Carter Page was being surveilled under a FISA warrant in 2014.
That would be before Trump ran for office.
Second, the president keeps calling the Mueller investigation a “witch hunt.” Apparently, he never listens to F.B.I. Director Wray, who insisted a few days ago that the investigation was not a witch hunt. (See: 7/18/18.)
Third, Trump keeps insisting that the F.B.I. and Department of Justice were working to help Hillary Clinton win the election. Even a babbling idiot should be able to figure this out. By the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. was worried because several members of the Trump campaign had had questionable contacts with Russians. Trump’s worst “enemy” in the F.B.I., Peter Strzok, knew an investigation had been launched. Still, no one in the “Justice” Department leaked that story which might have destroyed Trump’s pussy-grabbing campaign for good.
Fourth, we might note that Trump likes to talk about the “13
angry Democrats” who work for the Mueller team. (Sometimes he goes with “13
very angry Democrats” just to mix it up.) Here a sensible observer might note
that the president does not mention the FISA judges’ political backgrounds. All
four involved in granting warrants to surveil Page were Republican
appointees. Mueller is a Republican. So is Rod Rosenstein, the man
in charge of the “witch hunt,” which F.B.I. Director Wray, another
Republican, says is a witch hunt only in Trump’s imagination.
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TRUMP’S BUSY DAY ends before 11 p.m. He dons his bunny slippers (Playboy themed), hunkers down in bed and decides to tweet.
Hey, why not threaten some other nation with war! No. Not Canada! Not another one of our allies. Trump shows rare restraint. Iran! Yes, Iran! His base will love his bellicose bedtime blather.
He tap-taps:
To Iranian President Rouhani:
NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES
THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO
LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE &
DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
With visions of Hiroshima-type mass destruction and “fire and
fury” dancing in his head, the President of the United States flicks off the TV
and the bedside lamp and drifts off to a contented sleep.
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When Trump thinks about war, there are no dead in his story. So we get bluster. |
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