Philip Bump at the Post points out that Trump’s “witch hunt” is being carried out by Republicans.
“It’s a disgrace,” Trump said Monday night, talking about the FBI’s searches earlier in the day of the home and office of his longtime attorney Michael Cohen. “It’s, frankly, a real disgrace. It’s an attack on our country, in a true sense. It’s an attack on what we all stand for.” He went on to criticize Attorney General Jeff Sessions and to call Mueller’s investigators “the most biased group of people,” people who “have the biggest conflicts of interest I’ve ever seen.”
The problem, though, is that the people leading the investigation — and the people behind the search of Cohen’s properties — were all Republicans, Trump donors or Trump appointees.
Like Rosenstein and Mueller for instance.
On the other hand a lot of the lawyers working for Mueller donated to the Clinton campaign.
This is the “conflict of interest” to which Trump is referring. There is no evidence that these lawyers are actually exhibiting any bias, mind you. Most are career professionals who, between them, have decades of experience working for Democratic and Republican presidents at the Justice Department.
But also…”Republican” and “Democratic” aren’t the only relevant categories here. There are also the categories of competent v incompetent, ethical v unethical, lawyer v real estate huckster, adult v child. There were compelling reasons to prefer Clinton that had little or nothing to do with party.
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5 responses to “All we stand for”
It is not an attack on what I stand for. So I assume by “we all”, he means Trump supporters?
iknklast, I suspect that Trump was employing the ‘royal’ we.
Trump is America.
He is the Flag.
His Greatest Deal is In the Bag
He is the Pledge (the Allegiance one, not the Lemony Cleaner)
He is all that is Good and True and Right.
He is the All Beef Weiner
He is the Greatest and the Brightest and the Best.
He’s Yuge, Bigly, Biggest,
He’s Bigger than the rest
He is the Constitution, or at least the bits up to the Second.
He is a Stable Genius
(or so He says He’s reckoned)
He is the Shining, Orange-gilded Leader on the Hill.
He Alone will Drain the Swamp
Perhaps Someday He Will.
He is a Man’s Man and the Manliest man among Men,
He is Apple Pie with Two Scoops of Ice Cream.
And Chocolate Cake, with Two Scoops yet again.
He’s the American Dream, from which we Dare not Wake
He’s the Ultimate Purveyor of Wine and Ties and Steak.
He is the Golden Bowl from which All Showers forth
He is the Judge of Good People on Both Sides. South and North
He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End
He Tells it Like it Is
He is Everybody’s Friend
He is the Draw for the Biggest Crowds of All,
But when Mr. Mueller finally puts Mr. Trump to the Test
He’ll be the Biggest STAR with the Highest Ratings EVER.
:D
Paul Waldman had a great article about Trump, and the complicity of the media in allowing him to happen: