It was you, Donnie
Trump and his thugs are pretending to think the anonymous “hero” is a security threat.
“We’ll find out if there was criminal activity involved,” vice-president Mike Pence told Fox News Sunday. “I think the president’s concern is that this individual may have responsibilities in the area of national security.”
Don’t be schewpid, of course it’s not. Trump’s concern is Trump.
Pence was echoed by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, speaking on CNN’s State of the Union as the hunt for the author continued.
“There could be a national security risk at hand,” she warned. “It depends on what else has been divulged by this individual … Anybody who would do this, you don’t know what else they’re saying.”
Please. The threat is Trump. The calls are coming from inside the house.
On Friday, Trump called on his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to lead an investigation to identify the author. But Conway acknowledged that the opinion piece per se did not constitute criminal activity.
“I think this person is going to suss himself or herself out,” Conway said. “Cowards are like criminals, eventually they tell the wrong person.”
That’s not what “suss” means.
It’s funny that while they’re dealing with this memo they’re confirming the gist of it by not going along Trump’s call for an investigation. Instead they speak soothing words to let him know they feel his frustration and encourage him to believe the person will out themselves.
I mostly tongue-in-cheek’d when I suggested John Barron as the author (or, rather, the dictator) of the anonymous memo…but, in their own cartoonish, buffoonish way, they’re laying the groundwork to make this a sort of Reichstag Fire. If they were savvier, they could use it to justify a wide-ranging purge and ensure only loyalists remained.
Cheyney must be shitting himself at their luck, and their incompetence.