They say a drowning man will grab for anything in order to save his own life. In the case of Donald Trump, his latest lifebuoy is in the form of the old Hillary Clinton emails.
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Granted, many believe Donald Trump is as dumb as a box of rocks. However, the truth is that he’s at least smart enough to recognize that deflection is a very powerful weapon when used in a street fight. And, with the impeachment battle ramping up into high gear this week, Donald Trump is indeed in a street fight.
The Ukrainian phone call transcript, the whistleblower report, the attempt to cover up the scandal by moving the transcripts to a secret server, combined with the idiotic on-air admissions of guilt from Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Trump himself have all created a scenario that Trump knows has placed him in deep doo-doo.
So, what’s ‘The Donald’ to do? Revisit an old and reliable friend and rehash the old Hillary Clinton emails story, that’s what!
According to The Washington Post, Donald Trump has directed the State Department to revisit a probe into the Hillary Clinton emails from 2016. Fortunately, even a blind man can see that this is a political ploy concocted by Trump to deflect attention away from his own political troubles in a lame attempt to shift public opinion.
The Post is reporting that a former senior US official admitted that the email investigation is a way for Republicans “to keep the Clinton email issue alive” and serve as “a way to tarnish a whole bunch of Democratic foreign policy people” and discourage them from returning to government service.
As a “Plan B” deflection, Trump announced on Monday that he wants House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) arrested for treason. His flimsy scheme is proof positive that when the heat gets hot, Trump predictably stoops to flipping guilt away from himself and onto his prosecutors.
Rep. Adam Schiff illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people. It bore NO relationship to what I said on the call. Arrest for Treason?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019
Needless to say, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to recognize that Trump has been sitting on this desperate move for a long time and for this very type of moment. However, let’s face facts. If Donald Trump were truly concerned that the Clinton emails probe was not thorough enough from 2016, he could have easily relaunched an investigation in 2017 soon after he took office. Instead, he waited to bring it up now that Congress is about to be knee-deep into investigating him. So, Trump is re-accusing Hillary Clinton of the very thing that has him in an impeachment inquiry, while pushing the narrative that the man charged with conducting the House indictment against him is the one who’s actually guilty of treason.
Do you see what’s really going on here?
DJ, your entire post is spot on. Trump is a desperate man who is willing to do anything to save his own sorry hide. Anything. No matter how despicable or destructive to others. And he certainly cares nothing about Our country. So he returns time and again to what is most familiar to him and uses the tactics that are 2nd nature to him, That of a street fighter. It’s always worked for him in his private life so he figures those tactics should work for him as president. I think Donald is in for a rude awakening this time. As president of the United States (the highest ranking PUBLIC servant in the land) his power and abuses of power will NOT go Unchecked. This time he’s in a very different kind of fight, in a very different kind of environment, with a very different set of rules (the U.S.… Read more »