True to form, President Donald J. Trump marked the oneyear anniversary of the special counsel’s investigation with a tweet.
“Congratulations America,” he wrote, “we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt in American History ... and there is still No Collusion and No Obstruction. The only Collusion was that done by Democrats who were unable to win an Election despite the spending of far more money!”
The conservative commentator Bill Kristol had a different take.
“America actually does deserve a measure of congratulation,” he tweeted. “Our legal system and political and civic institutions have stood up reasonably well under the assault of a demagogue, aided by his uninformed supporters and his sophisticated enablers.”
Kristol added a note from the narrator.
“How much of it rises to the level of criminality or impeachable offenses is unclear,” he wrote, “but there was collusion and there was obstruction.”
Those tweets came on the heels of a New York Times report revealing details of the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president, of course, sees the investigators as the bad guys.
“Wow,” he tweeted, “word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI ‘SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.’ Andrew McCarthy says, ‘There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.’ If so, this is bigger than Watergate!”
By the way, did you hear that the president filed an ethics disclosure acknowledging that he repaid more than $100,000 to his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen? According to the report, the president made the payment last year.
Could that have been what Rudy Giuliani was talking about when he revealed that the president had reimbursed Cohen for that $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels?
Surely not. After all, the president told us as recently as last month that he didn’t know anything about the payment to Daniels and didn’t know where his attorney had come up with the money. He wouldn’t lie about a thing like that, would he?
The good news for the president’s supporters is that he’s hard at work pushing forward a slight twist on one of his campaign promises. Instead of “America first,” it’ll be “China first.”
“President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way toget back into business, fast,” the president tweeted.
“Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!”
Agence France-Presse reported that three days before the president’s tweet the Chinese government and Chinese banks had agreed to lend up to a billion dollars for a Trump-branded resort project in Indonesia. Surely, that was just a coincidence, right?
The good news, according to Giuliani, is that the president can’t be indicted.
“It’s as clear as can be that they don’t have the right to indict under the Justice Department rules,” Giuliani told NBC News. “And I know they’re not going to indict.”
You have to almost feel sorry for the president, what with the horrible treatment he gets from the evil news media, the Democrats and even some misguided conservatives such as Kristol, not to mention the crooked FBI.
“Can you believe that with all of the made up, unsourced stories I get from the Fake News Media, together with the $10,000,000 Russian Witch Hunt (there is no Collusion), I now have my best Poll Numbers in a year,” the president tweeted. “Much of the Media may be corrupt, but the People truly get it!”
Oh, we get it all right.