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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPierce: While You Were Sleeping, Trump Pushed A Wiretap Conspiracy Theory Into The Red Zone
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53602/trump-wiretap-accusations/The president* had another episode.
At some point, I guess, you just have to walk away. Not forever, and not for long. But, sooner or later, you have to arrange one morning where you wake up and deliberately decide not to find out how the country has lost its mind overnight. I'm getting to that point, I have to tell you.
Around 5:30in the freaking A.M. morning! the president*, or someone like him, got on the official Donald Trump electric Twitter account and threw the ongoing controversy over Russian influence on his campaign and on the 2016 presidential election deep into the red zone. In short, he is now accusing his predecessor of using the powers of the intelligence community and of the national law-enforcement apparatus to spy on his campaign. Kudos to The Washington Post for the "citing no evidence" disclaimer....
I think the whole thing started percolating to draw attention away from Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III's unfortunate collision with his own confirmation testimony this week. But I think the real match tossed into the powder magazine was an interview that Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware, gave to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Friday afternoon.
In that interview, Coons as much as said that he believes that transcripts of conversations between Trump campaign officials and Russian officials exist. In my opinion, if those transcripts exist, and the Trump people know it, and know what's in them, it is in the interest of the administration to flip the script pre-emptively to how the transcripts were obtained as opposed to what they might contain. If administration officials are in contact with the Breitbart peoplewhich isn't exactly a leap in the darkthen they slip the possibility of wiretaps to those people and then the president* reacts to news that some of his own people may have planted. (Think Dick Cheney, Judy Miller, and the aluminum tubes.) In any case, the stakes in this matter just became mortal.
Around 5:30in the freaking A.M. morning! the president*, or someone like him, got on the official Donald Trump electric Twitter account and threw the ongoing controversy over Russian influence on his campaign and on the 2016 presidential election deep into the red zone. In short, he is now accusing his predecessor of using the powers of the intelligence community and of the national law-enforcement apparatus to spy on his campaign. Kudos to The Washington Post for the "citing no evidence" disclaimer....
I think the whole thing started percolating to draw attention away from Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III's unfortunate collision with his own confirmation testimony this week. But I think the real match tossed into the powder magazine was an interview that Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware, gave to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Friday afternoon.
In that interview, Coons as much as said that he believes that transcripts of conversations between Trump campaign officials and Russian officials exist. In my opinion, if those transcripts exist, and the Trump people know it, and know what's in them, it is in the interest of the administration to flip the script pre-emptively to how the transcripts were obtained as opposed to what they might contain. If administration officials are in contact with the Breitbart peoplewhich isn't exactly a leap in the darkthen they slip the possibility of wiretaps to those people and then the president* reacts to news that some of his own people may have planted. (Think Dick Cheney, Judy Miller, and the aluminum tubes.) In any case, the stakes in this matter just became mortal.
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Pierce: While You Were Sleeping, Trump Pushed A Wiretap Conspiracy Theory Into The Red Zone (Original Post)
mcar
Mar 2017
OP
Good and common sense speculation on Pierce's part. Again, watch what Trumpy DOES, not what he says.
Eyeball_Kid
Mar 2017
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Amaryllis
(9,526 posts)1. What you said about Breitbart - here:
mcar
(42,439 posts)4. A feedback loop
Thanks!
Eyeball_Kid
(7,440 posts)2. Good and common sense speculation on Pierce's part. Again, watch what Trumpy DOES, not what he says.
Nitram
(22,945 posts)3. This: "In any case, the stakes in this matter just became mortal."
It's both fascinating and horrifying.
Cha
(297,935 posts)6. "In that interview, Coons as much as said that he believes that transcripts of conversations
betweenTrump campaign officials and Russian officials exist. In my opinion, if those transcripts exist, and the Trump people know it, and know what's in them, it is in the interest of the administration to flip the script pre-emptively to how the transcripts were obtained as opposed to what they might contain"
The plot gets thicker and thicker, mcar!
Thank you for Charlie Pierce's take on this!
The plot gets thicker and thicker, mcar!
Thank you for Charlie Pierce's take on this!
mcar
(42,439 posts)7. I can't keep up, Cha
SO and I have been following it all day and we're both
Cha
(297,935 posts)9. I certainly can't keep up so far.. maybe I'll
catch up tonight with some more reading.. but events are happening so Fast!
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)8. When you're coked out, the party is in mid swing @ 5:30 AM.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)10. The whores have barely begun pissing!
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)13. Maybe 6 AM is golden showers time?
Hekate
(90,978 posts)11. Love Chaz Pierce. Kick
mcar
(42,439 posts)12. He usually gets is just right
Thanks.