The day after the testimony of ousted FBI Director James Comey, Donald Trump pretty much denied everything the man said—with the exception that Comey admitted he really had told Trump he was not the target of an FBI investigation.
Absolute and total vindication on that point, baby!
(Hey, guys, let's call for the 2020 election right now!)
Not that it matters much. Comey was talking about the past. Trump is almost certainly a target now, in the matter of obstruction of justice.
(Okay, scrap the early election, boys.)
Trump also denied asking Comey for his loyalty. Trump said he hardly knew the guy, so it didn't make sense to demand loyalty.
"Who would do that?" Trump asked the reporters.
Well, he would, apparently.
In a television interview a week or so ago, he was asked about the loyalty thing. He denied asking for loyalty, but immediately suggested he thought it was a very good thing. Maybe he should've asked the guy for loyalty.
Anyway, that's what he said, in front of cameras, a week or so ago. Can Trump really not remember that far back?
On Friday he was asked about Oval Office tapes of his conversation with Comey. Trump played the coy card, again. You'll find out very soon, he said.
Then he told the reporters they'd all be disappointed.
Since he knows the press hates him, his comment can only mean the tapes will again vindicate the President.
Okay, so why not whip those suckers out?
Do his technicians need more time to fabricate them? Or, should they already exist, to edit out the stuff he denies saying?
Very perplexing.
Trump is mad at Attorney General Jeff Sessions for giving the watered-down version of the Travel Ban to the Supreme Court.
What I don't get: The ban is supposed to last three months. This time is apparently necessary for ICE to come up with Extreme Vetting, so bad Muslims won't ever be able to get into this country.
But a lot more than three months has gone by since the presidential campaign, when Trump first mentioned Extreme Vetting. Why haven't those guys got 'er done? Are they having trouble coming up with something that can pass the legal smell test?
If so, that's scary, because the Supreme Court could take a year to decide on the Travel Ban alone. And you know Trump will spend the whole time blaming everybody in sight for making the country unsafe. (Some appeal judges are starting to see it that way already.)
But if we're really in danger, why wait for SCOTUS? Why not implement new procedures right now?
(They could at least take a shot at it, right? Maybe the courts will give them a break. And they can always tweak the details later.)
For two reasons, I think.
First, Trump can't stand to lose. He'll have his effing Travel Ban if it harelips everybody on Bear Mountain.
(Besides, the plan was: Ban first, then Extreme Vetting. You can't just change the plan in the middle of the game, right? That's madness!)
Second, his boys may have examined the current, painstaking vetting process and found they can't improve on it.
And Trump knows that slapping the exalted label Extreme Vetting on the old system of vetting—Barack Obama's system of vetting, for God's sake—is bound to fill the air with more damn #FakeNews as the press points out the lack of significant change.
So unfair!
On another note, Trump recently pulled the US out of the Paris Accords for Climate Change. It's a matter of jobs, he said.
Here's a thought: Hire a couple million folks to stick their heads in the ocean and drink their fill—thus reducing the rise of sea level expected from Global Warming.
It's a win-win, boys and girls: Job creation along-side environment protection.
Plus, it's a Day at the Beach!
Followed by a week of vomiting and eventual death, opening up those job slots for the next million eager folk. Rinse and repeat, and we're on our way to a depopulated America. No more crowded roads and malls!
Gotta be better than Black Lung Disease, right?
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