{"id":43465,"date":"2019-12-11T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43465"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:52:38","slug":"triggered-trumps-twitter-tirade-shows-how-scared-he-is-of-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43465","title":{"rendered":"TRIGGERED: Trump’s Twitter Tirade Shows How Scared He is of Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump likes to pretend he’s a pillar of strength. But his idea of a strong man is one who swats at his foes with infantile insults, bellows arrogantly, and constantly praises himself for being so awesome. He is, in fact, a typical bully who is frightened by his own shadow. Every opportunity he’s had to demonstrate any courage, he has quickly retreated in abject cowardice.<\/p>\n

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One of the best indicators of Trump’s seething fear is his Twitter account. He predictably reacts to challenging situations with obvious and searing anxiety. And Wednesday morning was an ideal example of this. In a flurry of furious twittering, Trump posted 61 tweets, all before 11:00 am. The vast majority of the posts were retweets of bootlicking GOP members of Congress, Fox News and other right-wing media, and sycophantic Trump stuffers …er… staffers. And the topics were almost exclusively his impeachment and the report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, which Trump surely couldn’t understand.<\/a><\/strong>. This is not behavior that reflects confidence or bravery. To the contrary, it is indicative of panic and insecurity.<\/p>\n

So what was going on while Trump was tweeting so frantically? The Senate Judiciary Committee was hearing testimony from Horowitz. His report on the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe concluded that the FBI had acted properly, with justification and free of partisan political bias. After weeks of hopeful anticipation that this report would prove Trump’s relentless assaults on the FBI were valid, the report actually sucked all the air out his anti-FBI hysteria. Naturally, this would stir Trump’s ire, and not even his Attorney Genuflect, bill Barr, could mollify him<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Much of the morning session of this hearing was devoted to a side show that was barely relevant to the subject matter. The Republican chairman of the committee, Lindsey Graham spent 7 1\/2 minutes<\/a><\/strong> reading salacious emails between the FBI’s Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. These were emails that were critical of Trump and were made public months ago. Graham’s point in this redundant, soap opera theatrics was to assert that, because they held these critical views, they were unfit to have any role in the FBI investigation. Never mind that they, in fact, didn’t have decision-making roles, and that the IG also found that there were FBI agents who were pro-Trump<\/a><\/strong>. So the Bureau did not lean one way the other. Trump and company have been lying about all of this for months.<\/p>\n

If Graham’s point was that anyone who held negative views of Trump should be prohibited from sitting in judgment of him, he may have fallen off the edge of his already feeble argument. During the 2016 primary campaign, Graham himself said<\/a><\/strong> that Trump was a kook, crazy, and unfit to be president. So by Graham’s own standard he should be disqualified from chairing these hearings.<\/p>\n

Trump’s slanderous commentaries on Strzok and Page may be coming back to haunt him. Page just announced that she is filing a lawsuit<\/a><\/strong> against the DOJ and the FBI. As of this date, Trump is not named in the suit, but his antics could surely be fodder for litigation. He has slandered Page as \u201cincompetent,\u201d \u201ccorrupt,\u201d \u201cpathetic,\u201d \u201cstupid,\u201d \u201ca dirty cop,\u201d<\/em> and more. A few weeks ago Trump staged what can only be described as a mock orgasm<\/a><\/strong>. And just this week Trump unloaded this blatant falsehood:<\/p>\n

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This is a lie. Nothing like this ever happened.<\/p>\n

I wish we had a president who knew how to act like one. SAD!https:\/\/t.co\/7YQaQRxWzu<\/a><\/p>\n

— Lisa Page (@NatSecLisa) December 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n