Trump is floundering disastrously on multiple fronts. Stop pretending he's in control.
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
April 5 at 10:33 AM
Because so many of us got it so wrong in 2016, theres a tendency among many commentators to reflexively assume President Trump possesses some kind of hidden, magical sway over the political environment that were all missing. But if theres anything that should shatter this illusion, its the events of this particular moment.
When Trump brashly proclaimed total exoneration based on his attorney generals four-page summary of the special counsels findings, it was widely proclaimed that Trump and Republicans were now turning the tables and going on offense against the media and Democrats for supposedly blowing the Russia scandal. Some in the media flagellated themselves upon Trumps demand, and others absurdly overstated the scale of Trumps new command of the political narrative.
Yet now new reports have badly damaged that story line by revealing that some of Robert S. Mueller IIIs investigators say Attorney General William P. Barrs letter underplayed just how damaging their findings really are for Trump and that they prepared summaries of their findings, expressly for public release, that Barr did not divulge.
Barr is now facing sharp criticism by some in the legal community for his handling of this affair. And Democrats are now demanding these summaries, as well as communications with the special counsel about Barrs decision-making. Whether or not these are forthcoming, its clear Democrats have new openings to pressure Barr for much greater disclosure than before.
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(58 posts)but no matter what the Orange Asshole does he just gets away with it. I believe he said he could shoot someone and get away with it. Sadly I don't doubt it. I mean he's raping at least 350 million people and getting away with that. A sad state of affairs indeed!
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(57,099 posts)in some ways I hope its at the polls because that means the GOP loses the Senate, too.