Well you knew it was coming, an opinion article of our presidential clown:
Trump actually wants us to believe that he just uncovered the biggest scandal since Watergate, but that it had such a deep effect on him that an hour later he felt compelled to tweet about Arnold Schwarzenegger's TV ratings. A short time later Trump's press office said that Trump, who was again staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend, "might hit a few golf balls" later that day. Does anyone know if Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein went to the golf driving range after connecting the dots on the Watergate conspiracy?
If this had all ended with some crazy tweets, we could chalk this story up to just another Trump lie or an effort to distract us from the growing scandal with his administration's ties to Russia. But now that Trump, through Spicer, is demanding a taxpayer-funded congressional investigation into a claim made against his opposition without one single shred of evidence, we are in new and alarming territory.
Add just as alarming, on Sunday, Trump's spokesperson made it clear that like a dictator, Trump and his administration refuse to answer any questions from the media seeking such evidence: "Neither the White House nor the President will comment further until such oversight is conducted."
It's time for the Republican leaders in Congress to let us know if they will simply be a doormat for Trump's diabolical agenda -- or will they be patriotic Americans who stand up to this dictator in the making? My hope is that they choose the latter and remain focused on Russia's interference in our elections and possible collusion between the Trump administration and Russian officials.
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Trump actually wants us to believe that he just uncovered the biggest scandal since Watergate, but that it had such a deep effect on him that an hour later he felt compelled to tweet about Arnold Schwarzenegger's TV ratings. A short time later Trump's press office said that Trump, who was again staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend, "might hit a few golf balls" later that day. Does anyone know if Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein went to the golf driving range after connecting the dots on the Watergate conspiracy?
If this had all ended with some crazy tweets, we could chalk this story up to just another Trump lie or an effort to distract us from the growing scandal with his administration's ties to Russia. But now that Trump, through Spicer, is demanding a taxpayer-funded congressional investigation into a claim made against his opposition without one single shred of evidence, we are in new and alarming territory.
Add just as alarming, on Sunday, Trump's spokesperson made it clear that like a dictator, Trump and his administration refuse to answer any questions from the media seeking such evidence: "Neither the White House nor the President will comment further until such oversight is conducted."
It's time for the Republican leaders in Congress to let us know if they will simply be a doormat for Trump's diabolical agenda -- or will they be patriotic Americans who stand up to this dictator in the making? My hope is that they choose the latter and remain focused on Russia's interference in our elections and possible collusion between the Trump administration and Russian officials.
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