Monday, December 4, 2017

Trump, Bringing Trump Down

TODAY PRESIDNET TRUMP said, tweetingly, that he fired Michael Flynn for lying to the Vice President, and for lying to the FBI. At the time of the firing, in February, Trump only mentioned the lie to the V.P. as the reason for Flynn's firing. Flynn was a major member of Trump's presidential campaign team, then became his national security advisor after Trump was sworn in, before being fired only a few weeks later. By giving out this new version, Trump has, presumably accidently, without thinking, incriminated himself, badly. At the time of Flynn's firing, the FBI had not yet fully investigated Flynn, and did not yet know that he had lied to them. How did Trump know? He knew because he knew what Flynn had said to the FBI, and knew that it was a lie. That's the only way he could have known. Flynn told the FBI a lie about his contact with the Russians, and Trump must have known the truth about it. This means that Trump knew all about his campaign's involvement with the Russians all along, which is the question being investigated by former FBI chief Robert Muller. Not long after Flynn's firing, Trump tried to get FBI director to relent in his investigation of Flynn and the rest of the campaign, evidently knowing that Flynn had lied to the FBI. This is obstruction of justice, for one thing. Immediately after today's disastrous Trump tweet, Trump's lawyer came out and said that in fact Trump did not write the tweet, but that he, the lawyer, wrote it. The only problem with this story is that Trump tweets bright and early every morning, and each tweet has his name on it, and the POTUS logo, and all that, and millions of people read each tweet. this is now becoming big news, and as the day goes only will become ever bigger, a major scandal. You can't blame trump's lawyer for trying in desperation to save his client, but, unfortunately, the attempt is lame, and anyone can see through it, see that is is a itself a lie, intending to cover for the president. So, we have another presidential scandal which makes Watergate look mild by comparison. It should be enough to bring down Trump. He will now have to either seriously consider resigning, or drag the nation through the agony of another impeachment proceeding. When all the investigations are finished, and the facts are out in the open, they will easily be enough to remove Trump from office, and place him in prison, sadly.

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