{"id":42647,"date":"2019-09-03T15:03:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T22:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42647"},"modified":"2019-09-03T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T22:27:14","slug":"trump-interrupts-his-empty-schedule-to-whine-about-the-mueller-report-witch-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42647","title":{"rendered":"Trump Interrupts His Empty Schedule to Whine About the Mueller Report, Witch Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Hurricane Dorian closing in on the Atlantic coast, and mass shooting victims still recovering in Texas, and an economy that&#8217;s teetering on the brink of recession, any other president would be exceedingly busy on this post-Labor Day Tuesday. But Donald Trump is apparently so idle that he&#8217;s spending his day hate-tweeting the mayor of London and threatening to escalate the trade war with China.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-witch-hunt.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Witch Hunt\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38418\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2940645005950275\" 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>Having already played several rounds of golf while pretending to be <em>&#8220;monitoring&#8221;<\/em> the hurricane, Trump has little else to do but watch Fox News and post incoherent tweets. It&#8217;s not like he&#8217;d actually do any presidential work. And among the Twitter tantrums he posted Tuesday was one that seems foolishly unnecessary from his perspective:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Based on the IG Report, the whole Witch Hunt against me and my administration was a giant and illegal SCAM. The House of Representatives should now get back to work on drug prices, healthcare, infrastructure and all else. The Mueller Report showed No Collusion, No Obstruction!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1168893583283425280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Why would Trump want to reignite an issue that has been dormant in the news cycle for several weeks? What he robotically refers to as a <em>&#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221;<\/em> has caused significant damage to his polling status. Even his favorite pollster, the ultra-biased Rasmussen, recently put him <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42521\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">near his lows for the year<\/a><\/strong>. That&#8217;s primarily because very few other Americans think that it&#8217;s a Witch Hunt. In fact, most polls show that voters favor an impeachment inquiry and hold special counsel Robert Mueller in high esteem. Mueller&#8217;s congressional testimony confirmed that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42279\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump had <em>&#8220;welcomed and encouraged&#8221;<\/em> Russian help<\/a><\/strong> during his campaign, and that he committed numerous acts of obstruction of justice to cover that up. Even the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41323\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Senior Legal Analyst at Fox News said so<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, Trump is now tweeting about the Mueller Report and a witch Hunt that might otherwise have not been at the forefront of the public&#8217;s mind. But for the reminder of his <em>&#8220;No Collusion, No Obstruction&#8221;<\/em> mantra, some folks might have forgotten. But now, thanks to Trump it&#8217;s top of the news again.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s tweet appears to have been triggered by the Justice Department&#8217;s Inspector General&#8217;s report about former FBI Director James Comey. However, Trump has been flagrantly lying about that for weeks. Not only did it not reveal <em>&#8220;a giant and illegal SCAM,&#8221;<\/em> it actually found that there was no violation of any law whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also used this tweet to the beseech the House of Representatives to <em>&#8220;get back to work on drug prices, healthcare, [and] infrastructure.&#8221;<\/em> Which is funny because the Democratically-controlled House has already passed bills on those matters (and many others, 200+ in all), but the Republican-controlled Senate has failed to act on a single one. So it&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s pal Mitch McConnell who needs the kick in the pants.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Trump has managed to get everything wrong in this tweet, but still performed a public service. Because while there are always issues competing for the attention of the American mind, the matter of Trump&#8217;s unsavory association with Vladimir Putin, and the assault on our democratic election, should never be swept under the rug with all of the other Trump atrocities. That rug is already too lumpy to walk on. And thanks to Trump&#8217;s boredom and his inability to keep his mouth shut for two minutes, this important issue is once again in the headlines.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Hurricane Dorian closing in on the Atlantic coast, and mass shooting victims still recovering in Texas, and an economy that&#8217;s teetering on the brink of recession, any other president would be exceedingly busy on this post-Labor Day Tuesday. But Donald Trump is apparently so idle that he&#8217;s spending his day hate-tweeting the mayor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,1179,923,1247],"class_list":["post-42647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-comey","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-robert-mueller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-witch-hunt.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-b5R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39157,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39157","url_meta":{"origin":42647,"position":0},"title":"Protecting Trump? 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