Added former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “Look at what the DOJ did last night to President Trump, while it slow-rolls and looks the other way on Hunter Biden.”.
The Trump orbit didn’t invent this sort of misdirection but it did hone it in significant ways.
To this day, Putin deploys his own variations to argue his country’s conduct is on the level with Washington’s.
Rhetorically, it’s tough to arrive at an honest answer because the whataboutism redirects that conversation away from substance and toward flair.
If he did abscond with classified material in his last days in the White House, that’s pretty clearly against the law.
And, even though he’s all but ready to launch a 2024 comeback, he still is not above the law.
That’s why Republicans’ fealty to his line of victimhood and claims of persecution is as ill-considered as it is inconsistent. »