Remember how all Trump wanted the new President of Ukraine to do was *announce* investigations?

[Sogo]

Now put the many current lawsuits filed and dropped in various states in that context....

His MO is to insinuate and let everyone's imaginations run wild with it.

[soothsayer]

1. Yeah, that was what DOJ getting involved was supposed to do i think

Did that already fizzle?

[Shermann]

2. Yep he wanted the proverbial grainy photo

That's more useful to propagandists than a clear photo.

I'm not sure it works as well in the context of a "contested" election, however.

[unblock]

3. our saving grace is that he's so incompetent, even at this whole cheating thing.

but we'll be in trouble when the next republican leader is marginally more competent....

[Mike 03]

4. This is a good point. Maybe this explains that William Barr memo.

Trump puts pressure on Barr and he has to come up with something, so he releases that memo. Now Trump can bark about how the DOJ has "opened investigations" even though it hasn't (yet).

[kentuck]

5. Very similar.

I would agree.

[dchill]

6. Actual investigations would prove him wrong.

So, right.

[wiggs]

7. Never understood why russia and Ukraine didn't come up more in the election, for both WH and

congress. Knowing Trump as well as we do, does anyone REALLY think he didn't cheat with those two countries and more?