Trump pretends to know what “disgraceful” means
Trump is attempting to convince us all that he gets to fire Mueller and pardon Flynn and go on his way rejoicing.
President Trump said Friday there is tremendous anger over what he called the FBI’s “disgraceful’’ behavior, taking aim at the bureau just before he appeared at its training facility to praise the nation’s police officers.
“It’s a shame what’s happened with the FBI,’’ the president told reporters as he prepared to depart the White House for a ceremony at the FBI’s National Academy in Quantico, Va., where more than 200 law enforcement officers graduated from a program that imparts FBI expertise and standards.
“We’re going to rebuild the FBI, it’ll be bigger and better than ever, but it is very sad when you look at those documents, and how they’ve done that is really, really disgraceful, and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it,’’ Trump said.
Nah. Far more people think Trump is disgraceful.
Mind you, the FBI has plenty of disgrace in its history. But what Trump is talking about? Nah.
Trump appeared on a stage there alongside FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whointroduced the president by calling him “our nation’s highest law enforcement official.’’ That title carries possible implications for the ongoing criminal probe into whether Trump attempted to obstruct justice leading up to the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey in May.
The president’s defenders say that, as the nation’s top law enforcement official, he cannot obstruct justice by firing the head of the FBI. However, in past administrations that phrase has been used to describe the attorney general, not the president.
Plus lawyers have been lining up to say no that claim is ludicrous and wrong.
Just another routine day in Trump.
Telling, that even with such a calamitous precedent, there’s still wiggle room for a Dictator in the executive branch to try such stunts.
‘Disgraceful’ is the logical antonym of ‘graceful’. And “graceful’ is the last word I would choose to describe D. Trump.
Which, on the face of it, leaves only one other possibility for the first word.