{"id":41412,"date":"2019-05-05T12:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T19:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41412"},"modified":"2019-07-21T09:42:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T16:42:04","slug":"trumps-fear-of-muellers-testimony-is-exposed-in-frantic-lie-riddled-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41412","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Fear of Mueller&#8217;s Testimony is Exposed in Frantic, Lie-Riddled Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing more pitiful than a criminal who is caught red-handed in the commission of his crimes and tries impotently to convince everyone that he&#8217;s innocent. That&#8217;s the sorry state in which Donald Trump has found himself as he unleashed his regularly scheduled Sunday Morning Tweetstorm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/mueller-trump.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Robert Mueller\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36017\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2709630389051739\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flurry of panic-stricken whining from Trump included a some embarrassing missives aimed at a variety of trivial targets, mostly intended to act as distractions. They included a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190505143648\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1125026404482146305\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">swipe at the Kentuky<\/a><\/strong> (sic) Derby wherein the President, who famously cheated in order to win, came to the defense of a horse that cheated and was subsequently disqualified. He also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1125051346456121346\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a><\/strong> his nomination of Mark Morgan to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Trump had fired Morgan in the first few days of his administration because he was an Obama appointee. But now he&#8217;s been rehired after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoAngelo\/status\/1125074644279668737\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sucking up to Trump<\/a><\/strong> at least forty-nine times on Fox News. And Trump also made the painfully idiotic claim (again) that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1125069835044573186\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">China was paying<\/a><\/strong> the United States for tariffs. Any first-year economics student knows that tariffs are paid by the importer (the U.S. company) and passed on to American consumers.<\/p>\n<p>But without question the dumbest outburst of his morning rant was a pair of tweets attacking special counsel Robert Mueller:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.to testify. Are they looking for a redo because they hated seeing the strong NO COLLUSION conclusion? There was no crime, except on the other side (incredibly not covered in the Report), and NO OBSTRUCTION. Bob Mueller should not testify. No redos for the Dems!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1125098705533767680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s examine the Olympic-grade derp in these remarks one at a time:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The $35,000,000 spent was less than most other independent counsel investigations. And it was more than paid for by the asset forfeitures of Paul Manafort alone. He is the Trump campaign chairman who was convicted for crimes charged by the Mueller team.<\/li>\n<li>Trump keeps wandering around the allegation that 18, or 17, or 13 <em>&#8220;Trump Hating Angry Democrats&#8221;<\/em> were persecuting him. Never mind that Mueller is a life-long Republican who was appointed by Republican Rod Rosenstein, who was appointed by Trump while serving under Trump&#8217;s Attorney General Jeff Sessions. And for the record, there are more like 65,000,000 angry Democrats.<\/li>\n<li>The 400 page report by Mueller never said that there was <em>&#8220;NO COLLUSION.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Democrats want Mueller to testify because Trump&#8217;s sycophantic Attorney General, William Barr, has refused to release the full report. and that&#8217;s after issuing a deliberately misleading <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40957\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">four page summary<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41237\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lying to Congress<\/a><\/strong> about the contents of the report and his conversations with Mueller.<\/li>\n<li>Democrats are not looking for a redo. They are trying to get the facts about the first \t<em>&#8220;do,&#8221;<\/em> which both Barr and Trump are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41186\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">actively trying to suppress<\/a><\/strong>. And <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40646\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">so is Fox News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>There is no evidence whatsoever of any crimes by what Trump calls <em>&#8220;the other side&#8221;<\/em> (i.e. Hillary Clinton, the FBI) But there is ample evidence of Trump&#8217;s crimes. Even Fox News&#8217; senior legal analyst, Andrew Napolitano, has said that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41004\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">evidence exists of collusion<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Mueller report was clear that there were at least ten instances of Trump obstructing justice. And the Fox News analyst agreed saying that Trump&#8217;s conduct was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41323\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Unlawful, Defenseless and Condemnable.&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Trump concluded by pleading that Mueller shouldn&#8217;t testify before Congress. That, of course, is not Trump&#8217;s call. In fact, it&#8217;s another instance of attempting to obstruct justice. But it&#8217;s also an indication of a severe mental infirmity since <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41117\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump keeps insisting<\/a><\/strong> that Mueller&#8217;s report was a <em>&#8220;total exoneration&#8221;<\/em> of him. He even said that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40977\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mueller &#8220;acted honorably.&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> If that&#8217;s true, shouldn&#8217;t Trump want Mueller to testify publicly and clear his name?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason that Trump is so frightened by the prospect of Mueller testifying. Trump knows exactly what he did. He knows that he&#8217;s guilty. And he knows that the more public disclosure and transparency there is, the worse it is for him and his desperate efforts to avoid accountability.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump tries to pretend that he&#8217;s been cooperative throughout the investigation. But that&#8217;s a lie that is easily refuted. After all, Trump refused to be interviewed by Mueller. He&#8217;s working hard to keep others from being interviewed, including his former White House counsel, Don McGahn. And now he&#8217;s trying to intimidate those interested in finding the truth with these ludicrous demands to prevent Mueller&#8217;s testimony. This isn&#8217;t the behavior of an innocent man. It&#8217;s the desperation of a coward caught in the web of his own crimes and lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing more pitiful than a criminal who is caught red-handed in the commission of his crimes and tries impotently to convince everyone that he&#8217;s innocent. That&#8217;s the sorry state in which Donald Trump has found himself as he unleashed his regularly scheduled Sunday Morning Tweetstorm. The flurry of panic-stricken whining from Trump included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,8,16],"tags":[735,554,33,1258,1247,1364],"class_list":["post-41412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-andrew-napolitano","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-paul-manafort","tag-robert-mueller","tag-william-barr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/mueller-trump.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aLW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32075,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32075","url_meta":{"origin":41412,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump Horribly Botched His VP Announcment &#8211; And Wants To Do The Same To America","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/16\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump's pathetic rollout for his vice-president nominee, Mike Pence, could not have gone worse. 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