Happy annivs Don
Trump watches his morning Fox, flips out, composes wrathful tweet.
President Trump marked the first anniversary of the special counsel’s Russia investigation Thursday by repeating accusations that the FBI had a confidential informant inside his 2016 campaign and by calling the probe “disgusting, illegal and unwarranted.”
Trump tweeted: “Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI ‘SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.’ Andrew McCarthy says, ‘There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.’ If so, this is bigger than Watergate!”
I’m not sure Watergate is the analogy he’s looking for.
Giuliani told The Washington Post and other news organizations Wednesday that the special counsel’s team informed the president’s attorneys recently that prosecutors do not believe they can charge a sitting president with a crime under Justice Department guidelines, signaling they would leave it to Congress to address any possible findings of wrongdoing by Trump.
Giuliani is working for Trump. He’s not an impartial legal expert, he’s a Trump stooge. What he says about the investigation can’t be taken as expert information.
The top-secret intelligence source has been the subject of a showdown between key Trump allies in Congress and the Justice Department.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has sought classified documents from the Justice Department, saying he needs to review the records as part of his congressional oversight duties.
But, as The Post reported earlier this month, senior FBI and national intelligence officials notified Nunes that doing so could endanger a top-secret intelligence source and risk lives.
But of course Nunes couldn’t care less about that. His one purpose is to Protect the Boss.
I wouldn’t be a Republican in Congress saying much about having oversight duties under this administration. Voters being reminded they’re supposed to do such a thing may wonder why the oversight is so particular in its direction.
Well, Giuliani is claiming to pass on information from the ‘special council’s team,’ not proposing his ‘expert opinion’ of the week. Still, in the real world of grownups nobody would put his face up to announce anything they expected to be believed.
As for a Great Reckoning against all the Vichy Republicans? Don’t hold your breath. These thugs have an actual constituency which, with enough vote-suppression, Assange-Stein-Greenwald fueled hipster apathy, and Putin manipulation, can probably survive the backlash.