{"id":41640,"date":"2019-05-30T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41640"},"modified":"2019-05-30T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:17:19","slug":"dazed-and-confused-trump-cant-keep-his-mueller-stories-or-anything-else-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41640","title":{"rendered":"Dazed and Confused: Trump Can’t Keep His Mueller Stories – or Anything Else – Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Donald Trump ordered the White House Press Office to stop doing daily press briefings nearly three months ago, the only media access to the President has been his impromptu harangues on the White House lawn in front of the whirring blades of his helicopter. And there has been a noticeable deterioration of his mental faculties in each one of these reality TV style spiels. The latest on Thursday morning is a real display of his paranoid dementia.<\/p>\n

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Trump addressed several subjects including his insistence that Russia didn’t help him get elected. In his typically narcissistic fashion he told the assembled press “You know who got me elected? I got me elected.”<\/em> He also briefly touched on the matter of his potential impeachment. In doing so he demonstrated that he has no idea how it works. He doesn’t know what “high crimes and misdemeanors”<\/em> means. And he he wonders how the courts could allow it. Of course every high school civics student knows that impeachment is entirely within the jurisdiction of Congress and the courts have nothing to with it.<\/p>\n

However, perhaps the most ludicrous exchanges occurred when Trump was lashing out at special counsel Robert Mueller. The recent public statement by Mueller affirmed that his investigation had found evidence of criminal activities and obstruction of justice by Trump (even Fox News said so<\/a><\/strong>), but that no indictments were filed due to an old and questionable policy memo at the Department of Justice. This predictably triggered Trump’s worst instincts to attack Mueller and his work (video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“He was conflicted. Look, Robert Mueller should have never been chosen because he wanted the FBI job and he didn’t get it, and the next day he was picked as special counsel. So you tell somebody ‘I’m sorry, you can’t have the job.’ and then after you say that he’s gonna make a ruling on you? It doesn’t work that way. Plus we had a business dispute. Plus his relationship with Comey was extraordinary.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

None of this is new in the armory of Trump’s assault rhetoric. It has all been used before by Trump so many times that he seems to be stuck in an endless and tedious tape loop. But he is also contradicting himself with regards to his opinion of Mueller. It was just two months ago<\/a><\/strong> that Trump told reporters that he believed that Mueller had “acted honorably”<\/em> following the completion of the probe. He even gloated that “The Mueller report was great. It could not have been better.\u201d<\/em> That moment of confidence, however, was short lived.<\/p>\n

Now Trump is back to maligning Mueller<\/a><\/strong> as “conflicted”<\/em> for reasons that totally reside in his warped imagination. Mueller was not seeking to return to the FBI. He met with Trump only as a courtesy and to provide consultation. Mueller also did not have a “business dispute”<\/em> with Trump. Although there was a minor incident when Mueller resigned his membership at Trump\u2019s National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, because he no longer lived in the area and wasn\u2019t using it. And Mueller has never been a close friend of James Comey. In fact, they were not even casual friends. Comey testified before Congress that he had dinner once with Mueller, but had never been to his home, didn\u2019t have his phone number, and didn\u2019t know the names of his kids.<\/p>\n

But Trump wasn’t through. He still needed to repeat the same lies a few more times to make sure his gaslighting would take hold among his cult disciples.<\/p>\n

“I think he is a totally conflicted person. I think Mueller is a true never-Trumper. He’s somebody who dislikes Donald Trump. He’s somebody that didn’t get a job that he requested that eh wanted very badly. And then he was appointed. And despite that, and despite $40 million dollars, eighteen Trump haters, including people who worked for Hillary clinton, and some of the worst human beings on Earth, they got nothing. It’s pretty amazing.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s “pretty amazing”<\/em> is that Trump thinks that the career law enforcement professionals that Mueller recruited from the FBI and the Justice Department are “some of the worst human beings on Earth.”<\/em> That puts them in the same league – in Trump’s mind – as child molesters, drug traffickers, and terrorists. And despite the obvious insanity of these remarks, Trump’s supporters in his administration, in Congress, and in the general public, still don’t think he’s nuts. Which leads once again to the perennial question: WTF is gonna take?<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n