7/23/18: Trump wakes early, satisfied in the knowledge he has threatened war with Iran. Naturally, he turns to tweeting.
At 5:13 a.m., the president issues a call to fans to warm up their TVs: “Tom Fitton on @foxandfriends at 6:15 A.M. NOW! Judicial Watch.”
The Department of Justice has just released a 400-page document explaining why four FISA warrants were issued in 2016 and 2017, allowing intelligence agencies to surveil one Mr. Carter W. Page. Trump and his allies know the book-length document undercuts every claim that the Russian investigation is a witch hunt. The president also knows none of his fans are going to plow through it or try to get to the truth.
At 5:30 a.m. we get this:
So we now find out that it was indeed the
unverified and Fake Dirty Dossier, that was paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton
and the DNC, that was knowingly & falsely submitted to FISA and which was
responsible for starting the totally conflicted and discredited Mueller Witch
Hunt!
At
5:52, 6:01 and 6:09 a.m. Trump starts quoting from Fox News. For the sake of
brevity, let’s just say his tweets sound like this: “Blah, blah, WITCH HUNT,
blah, blah, blah.”
For variety, Trump tweets out a fresh attack on the media, because, to put it bluntly, the only news he thinks should be allowed is Fox News, not “Fake News.” “Fake News” is any news Trump doesn’t like.
This time, we have a series of four posts over the course of seventy minutes 7:25 to 8:35 a.m.). This does leave a sensible human being wondering what the hell the president does with most of his time. Highlights of those tweets include, “Corrupt media,” “Japan is happy, all of Asia is happy.” “The Amazon Washington Post has gone crazy,” and the paper “loses a fortune.”
He finishes with a flourish, threatening to use the Department of Justice to bring an antitrust suit against one of his harshest critics. He’s sick of the media using “anonymous sources – which don’t exist.” But he says “many feel” an antitrust suit should be brought. Who are these “many” people?
No one knows.
It’s a game Trump loves to play. Criticize the media for using anonymous sources. Pray the base is too dumb to notice. Use anonymous sources (or perhaps non-existent sources) and tweet.
Take this typical post from July 18, after virtually the entire world mocked his performance in his press conference with Putin:
So many people at the higher ends of intelligence loved my press
conference performance in Helsinki. Putin and I discussed many important
subjects at our earlier meeting. We got along well which truly bothered many
haters who wanted to see a boxing match. Big results will come!
Who
were those people who
loved his performance? Couldn’t Trump name them in a follow-up tweet? Something
tells me one was Inspector Gadget. The second was J. Edgar Hoover. Agent 99 was
third.
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TRUMP
WRAPS UP another busy day by announcing that he’s going to revoke the
top-secret security clearances of several former leaders of the U.S.
intelligence community.
My god, have they been leaking secrets…to the Russians!!!! Those bastards! How low will they go?
Oh. They’re critical of the president.
As usual, Trump’s half-baked plans are so dumb he threatens to revoke the top secret clearances of two critics (James Comey and Andrew McCabe) who…don’t have top secret clearances.
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“Well, you know, getting inside Donald Trump’s head is not only an unpleasant voyage, but a very difficult one…”
John McLaughlin, former Acting Director of the C.I.A.
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John
McLaughlin, former Acting Director of Central Intelligence under George W.
Bush, is asked during an interview to comment. Can he explain Trump’s thinking
regarding the Russians and the Mueller investigation? “Well, you know, getting
inside Donald Trump’s head is not only an unpleasant voyage, but a very
difficult one…” he admits. Wistfully, McLaughlin trails off.
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