I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
Leah McElrath quickly noted:
Trump appears to be setting up his own Attorney General (Sessions) and Deputy Attorney General (Rosenstein) to be forced to refuse a presidential order.
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) May 20, 2018
Which he might then use as justification for firing them.
Now THIS? This feels like a Rudy Giuliani inspired move.
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Which is absolutely spot-on. I further observed:
As @leahmcelrath says, this feels like a Giuliani move. I'm still so angry that the political press has almost unanimously bought the narrative that Giuliani is hurting Trump. As I've said repeatedly, he was tasked with chaos and distraction, and he's been 100% successful.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) May 20, 2018
Meanwhile, Giuliani is helping Trump orchestrate an authoritarian attack behind the scenes. Maybe if the institutional media powerbrokers had a memory longer than 10 seconds, or basic research skills, they'd recall how Giuliani operated as mayor.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) May 20, 2018
The narrative that Trump and everyone around him is "stupid" and incapable of long-term planning cannot die quickly enough. That narrative abets them. They thrive in the perilous wrongness of that profoundly foolish underestimation.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) May 20, 2018
When are people going to get this? You don't get control of the United States government by accident. You don't stumble into it ass over teakettle. Wake up.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) May 20, 2018
I don't know what's going to happen next — how or when Trump will follow through on his threat. But I do this with absolute certainty: It isn't going to happen randomly.
Donald Trump, so goes the narrative, provides precious little evidence of long-term strategy. That narrative is totally wrong. I cannot state this more urgently.
Trump has been toying with a presidential run for decades, and he became the acolyte of Roy Cohn to learn politics. A very specific kind of dirty, unethical, scorched-earth politics. As a developer in NYC, he cultivated relationships with both Democratic and Republican politicians for decades — but, when it came time to run, there was no question at all for which party he was going to run as a candidate. There was only party whose base was going to buy what he was selling, which itself was shaped to appeal to very particular people in a very particular way at this particular time.
He now sits in the Oval Office, one of the most powerful men on the planet.
That was the plan. He didn't achieve it by accident.
Trump might not be sitting in the Oval Office without intervention from the Russians, but that is not an argument that he had no long-term plan on which he was executing. To the contrary, it's an argument that collusion became part of the plan.
The sooner this notion that the authoritarian Trump is just "winging it" dies a deserved death, the better.
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