Former President Trump went on Mark Levin’s show on Sunday to promote his new picture book, a MAGA holiday essential you can get your hands on for a mere $74.99 (or $229.99 if you want one autographed by the “author” himself). The provides a glossy overview of Trump’s four years in office, which might not have been possible, Trump told Levin, if he hadn’t fired James Comey as FBI director in May 2017.
“If I didn’t fire Comey, they were looking to take down the president of the United States, Trump said after griping about the Deep State. “Some people said ‘he made a mistake when he fired Comey.’ Now those same people say it’s one of the most incredible, instinctual moves they’ve ever seen. … I don’t think I could have survived if I didn’t fire him. It was like a hornet’s nest.”
Trump, as is often the case, did not specify who exactly the “some people” are who lavished him with praise.
Trump: If I didn’t fire Comey, they were looking to take down the President of the United States… I don’t think could’ve survived if I didn’t fire him pic.twitter.com/AHxYyPBZA6 — Acyn (@Acyn) December 6, 2021
Trump is pretty clearly saying here that he fired Comey because the FBI was investigating his administration’s ties to Russia. This is obstruction of justice, regardless of whether Trump believes the investigation was being carried out by a “hornet’s nest” of crooked Deep State actors.
The people around Trump knew it would be a problem to cite the investigation as the reason he relieved Comey of his duties. The White House initially said Trump fired him only after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recommended he do so, citing how Comey handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. Trump said the same thing in his letter announcing Comey’s firing.
Trump couldn’t help but take the credit, though. “I was going to fire Comey — my decision,” Trump told NBC’s Lester Holt in the days following the firing. “I was going to fire regardless of recommendation.”
“And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story,'” the new president added. “It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.”
Trump’s public admission that he fired Comey because of the Russia investigation was big news at the time, given, again, that he essentially broadcast that he obstructed justice. The media coverage of the admission even led Trump to tweet that he hadn’t said what everyone heard him say. “Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia!” he wrote on May 31. “The Corrupt Mainstream Media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know it is not true!”
The primary reason the Corrupt Mainstream Media thought it was true — other than how obvious it was that it was true — was that Trump said it himself. He all but confirmed it on Sunday, over four years later, and barely anyone noticed.
Trump was right about one thing, then: It didn’t matter.
sonofabutch on December 6th, 2021 at 19:52 UTC »
This is a recurring pattern:
Media reports Trump is doing something bad. Conservatives scream that's not true. Media backs off. Conservatives blast media for reporting fake news. Months later, Trump adviser admits Trump did that bad thing. Conservatives shrug and say "this was reported months ago."The_Lonely_Satirist on December 6th, 2021 at 19:10 UTC »
I mean, how often does this idiot implicate himself? Almost every other week this narcissist comes out with some incredibly dense and self-incriminating commentary. Never mind the fact that it's usually the obvious, or at the very least obvious to those with some semblance of cognizance. The worst part is, his Republican supporters either don't care, welcome it, or are just as mindless in not comprehending the implications. Hell, it's not even implicit anymore, was it ever?
Either way, throughout Trump's term he's obstructed justice in one form or another, many times over. Whether it was Comey, the Mueller investigation, matters related to his impeachments, various other miscellaneous investigations related to Trump's sexual misconduct, his taxes, his shady business dealings and underhanded schemes, so on and so forth. For fucks sake, this half-witted shitpolyp attempted to obstruct an election! He's a straight up criminal.
Yet his glorifiers and sycophants cultivate this image of him as some sort of unsullied hero, it's just staggeringly ignorant, delusional and unsettling. It's also mind boggling to say the least, that this fool was President of the United States, that he still garners so much blind loyalty and support, that he continues to be granted his fucking soapbox, that he still continues to inflame an incessant right wing culture war, and moreover that he still has the power to run again.
And to add to these circumstances, just prior to the Mueller probe, when Trump had heard about the investigation for the first time, it was reported that he immediately exclaimed, "This is the end of my presidency, I'm fucked"... Holy shit, these are not the words of an innocent man. Mind you, Mueller even attempted to outline potential obstruction of justice charges against Trump, but thanks to a DOJ beholden to him at the time, and William Barr's unhinged theories on executive authority, no matter the charges or implications, Trump and his lackeys made sure that a "sitting president" was safeguarded against justice altogether.
And side tangent, this uninspired and rehashed sentiment of "rent free" is so unconsciously insincere. Forget about the fact that Trump is still very much relevant, while his actions, his rhetoric and behavior over the course of his presidency and hereafter has generated ripples in not just American politics, but throughout our socio-cultural atmosphere, which continues to have its ubiquitous impacts, but ignoring all of that, this notion of "rent free" is coming from a party of fetishists who have cultivated their entire ideology, their persona, their fucking identity through one man... If Trump's filling the head space of anyone, it's his blind loyalists and lionizers whose entire partisan, political and cultural outlooks and identities have been comprehensively manufactured, shaped and reinforced by Donald fucking Trump, lol, what mindless projection, give me a break.
OpenImagination9 on December 6th, 2021 at 19:09 UTC »
For the love of mercy Garland … he built the damn case for you!