{"id":42930,"date":"2019-10-05T13:34:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T20:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42930"},"modified":"2019-10-14T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:22:51","slug":"hypocrite-trump-whines-about-intellectual-property-theft-even-while-hes-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42930","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Desperation Shows as He Tries to Shank Schiff But Shafts Himself Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calling out Donald Trump for hypocrisy may seem like a needlessly redundant exercise, but occasionally there are episodes of sanctimony that are so pernicious they simply can’t be ignored. And one of those episodes is playing out now on Trump’s Twitter feed as he feebly lashes out at one of his congressional critics that he fears most.<\/p>\n

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Several days ago the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, was awarded four “Pinocchios”<\/a><\/strong> by the Washington Post fact checker, Glenn Kessler. It was a controversial call that may be holding Schiff to an overly strict standard.<\/p>\n

The issue concerned Schiff’s answer to a question from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on whether he or his staff had “contact”<\/em> with the Trump whistleblower prior to the filing of a complaint. Schiff said that there was no contact but, in fact, the whistleblower did speak with a Committee staffer, who merely advised him to file his complaint with the Intelligence community Inspector General. No details of the complaint were disclosed, and there was no other coordination of any kind. So is it really considered “contact”<\/em> if all they did was to tell someone the proper channels to go through?<\/p>\n

Despite these facts, Trump and his surrogates in right-wing media immediately seized on this issue to falsely accuse Schiff of some sort of deviancy. Trump even accused Schiff of treason<\/a><\/strong> and impotently demanded that he resign. Of course all that shows is that Trump is an ignoramus who is completely clueless about both treason and the limits of presidential authority. However, in his excitement to express his hostility in that infantile manner he is known for, Trump posted a tweet with a doctored version of the song “I Got No Strings”<\/em> from Walt Disney’s animated classic “Pinocchio.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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LYIN\u2019 SHIFTY SCHIFF! pic.twitter.com\/vSZgFz9fIS<\/a><\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n