Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Team Trump




From earlier today:
Trump is now defending himself not just by claiming he wasn’t briefed on that intelligence, or just by contesting the significance of that intelligence. Instead, he’s declaring that the entire story simply doesn’t exist — that is, he’s suggesting no intelligence ever actually indicated anything like this.
Yet this defense is itself deeply self-incriminating. It only underscores what critics are saying — that at minimum, Trump should be taking this intelligence seriously and trying to get to the bottom of what it actually does indicate, even if the worst interpretation proves wrong.  (our emphasis)
The damning tweet:


  

It should go without saying, but --
“A real president would have said, ‘These reports are highly disturbing, and we’re doing everything we can to get to the bottom of them,'” Ned Price, a former National Security Council and CIA official, told me. “That is not what we’ve heard.”

So, briefly, the ones denying the well- sourced Russian- bounties- for- American- lives scandal are Trump, Putin and the Taliban.  In other words, Team Trump.

1 comment:

donnah said...


And right on cue, the Trump playbook is opened up. Instead of demanding investigations by the White House into the exchange between Russia and Trump, they are going after the leakers. Barr will put together a team to find out who leaked and when instead of how Trump colluded with Putin over bounties on soldiers in Afghanistan.

Same old, same old.