A regular Wednesday feature that takes a summary look at hot news issues surrounding Trump during the past week
This week will seem like a more limited version of the Trump Scorecard but that’s only because Washington and the Press has been focused on one thing: the destruction of Trump. I dedicated a post to this earlier this week. The hype is so loud that even the revelation that a Democrat staffer was responsible for sending DNC emails to Wiki-leaks and than most assuredly snuffed, by the Clinton ‘mafia’; even that news is muffled. So yes, analysis like this is relegated to crazy land but I stand by it. This is why I think we’re in deep s— as a nation, when the Hillary machine can put out a hit on someone and yet Trump is going to have his adjectives parsed to the point of criminality. Be careful what world you wish for.
Where Trump’s initiatives should succeed:
‘Intelligence leak’ | The flying monkey left was quick to exploit the alleged disclosure of classified information to a Russian delegation. While the exact intelligence, its source, and its ramifications may indicate some questionable judgment in its disclosure, particularly as it related to safeguarding ongoing operations, quieter analysis, even from those blaring alarmist headlines, indicates that the use of intelligence in this manner by a President is not unlawful. Lets put it this way: 99% of news consumers have no ideal what classification rules are and how information is treated under those rules. Intelligence is not an abstraction. It has an end audience for officials to use as needed and the Presidency qualifies as a pretty high level end user. Classified information is not more involatile than the office of the President or any official authorized to share it with allies, friends, or whomever we’re trying to leverage at the moment.
Impeachment buzz | Firing Comey, Russians, Flynn, classified information; the drums beat louder and louder. There’s just ‘one leadle thing’ (queue Russian accent) missing: any evidence that Trump broke laws or abused power. Sure there are grey circumstances involving interpretation of law, or others more closely implicated by the same (Flynn), but after 6-8 months of scrutiny, all the resources of the FBI, CIA, NSA, the dedicated hatred of an entire party, the Democrats, and a huge majority of big media and all their investigative power, we have what??????? Sure, Comey would find it because he was certain to be investigating this until either he or Trump left office, even be it eight years forward? Sure. Sure thing. Its like this: maybe they’ll eventually find some unrelated felony, but it ain’t here, it ain’t now and it won’t involve any Russians. And btw, Trump ain’t no Nixon. He’s got plenty of flaws but not the Nixon variety. As a spectator watching this, its like watching the dirtiest soccer match in the world. The opposing team is doing every dirty trick in the book and even though I didn’t come liking any team, I basically want to see this opposing team’s ass kicked because dammit, they have it coming to them. I suspect there are a lot of other Americans out there like me.
At a certain point, when you have North Korean nukes possibly pointed at you with only ten minutes for the Commander in Chief to call on WWIII, is this really how you want to treat that office?
Where we should take a wait and see approach to Trump’s initiatives before we get the pitchforks:
Let it go, let it go…| Trumps supposed request of Comey to let the Flynn probe go appears to be a case of he said-she said. The immediate conclusion is that ‘she’ in this case is always right. Comey is the like the crazy ex. He is capable of damning with a deluge of words and accusations that can never be substantiated. Claims of ‘notes’ do not convince me. Context will decide.
Tapes | Trump uttered a phrase suggesting that tapes of conversations were kept at the White house. The ghosts of Watergate are summoned. The irony here is that Trump was ready to use the hypothetical tapes to prove his version of the Comey he-said-she-said. I don’t know the legal ramification of taping conversations. Back in Nixon days, I don’t recall any question about their legitimacy, only about their content.
Where Trump’s initiatives should be reversed:
Nothing specific to this week
The flying monkey left
Commentary by Lee Jones