{"id":39183,"date":"2018-09-18T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39183"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:40:01","slug":"total-transparency-what-trump-really-means-when-he-lies-about-exposing-the-phony-witch-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39183","title":{"rendered":"Total Transparency? What Trump Really Means When He Lies About Exposing the Phony Witch Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has never been a president who has expressed more animosity toward the intelligence community he is supposedly leading than Donald Trump, His open disdain for the Department of Justice, the FBI, and all of the other intelligence agencies throughout the federal government and the military, is well documented. He even prefers the word of Russia’s Vladimir Putin<\/a><\/strong> to his own intel resources.<\/p>\n

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On Monday evening it was revealed that Trump ordered the declassification<\/a><\/strong> of a select group of documents involving the the investigation of his nefarious connections to Russia. It’s a conspicuously cherry-picked set of docs that were previously requested by the smarmy and ultra-biased Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes. Needless to say, these items were chosen to deceitfully advance Trump’s paranoid “witch hunt”<\/em> narrative. However, they actually pose a significant risk to intelligence sources and methods, while also adding to Trump’s expanding portfolio of obstruction of justice charges.<\/p>\n

So naturally Trump made a statement on Tuesday morning to try to shore up his crumbling arguments against the work of special counsel Robert Mueller (video below). Trump unironically told the press that “I want total transparency.”<\/em> Sure he does. He continued saying that:<\/p>\n

“This is a witch hunt. Republicans are seeing it. The Democrats know it’s a witch hunt, too, but they don’t want to admit it because that’s not good politics for them. But it’s a terrible witch hunt and it’s hurt our country. And the things that have been found over the past couple of weeks about text messages back and forth are a disgrace to our nation. And I want transparency, and so does everybody else. As you know, congressional committees came to me and they wanted this, and I did it based on their request. But I think it’s a good thing because we should open it up for people to see.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s funny how Trump thinks he knows what Democrats want and are secretly thinking. Particularly since he doesn’t even know what is in the documents that he just declassified at the request of partisan hacks in Congress. But it’s his claim to wanting transparency that really tests the limits of believability. If Trump is really committed to transparency, here are a few other matters that he might want to consider being transparent about:<\/p>\n