by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
(Note: This is a Trump outrage that occurred last Tuesday evening. Trump has been flinging feces so fast and furiously this week that it has taken me awhile to get to it. Apologies.)
Hershey, Pennsylvania, used to be famous for one thing - it was the home of some of the world's finest chocolate. Now it has one more claim to fame. Hershey, Pennsylvania, is the place where Donald John Trump finally tipped over the edge of reality and went absolutely, totally insane. Sooner or later it had to happen someplace, and last Tuesday night Hershey won the honor of being the place where Trump officially lost the battle with his demons.
When the Mueller investigation was announced a couple of years ago, Donald Trump told close associates and friends, in colorful language, that the investigation would be the end of his presidency. But as it dragged on over months and then years, Trump became more and more emboldened in trying to paint the investigation into Russian meddling into the 2016 election as a "witch hunt" and loudly flapping his jowls while proclaiming his total ignorance and innocence regarding the attempt by a foreign power to rig a U.S. election.
Trump was extraordinarily pissed at his attorney general at the time - Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III - for allowing the investigation to proceed in the first place. After two years of trying to goad Sessions into resigning, he finally fired him. Trump replaced Sessions with William Barr, a partisan toadie who made a valiant and fairly successful to interpret the results of the investigation and control news about the findings.
Things were looking good - but Trump wanted more. He wanted to promote the notion that the Mueller investigation had been an intentional effort by the "deep state" to discredit him, and that the FBI had been complicit in some sort of plot against him that extended back into the 2016 election - sort of a "we didn't cheat, but they damned sure did!" Trump had Barr investigate the actions of the FBI through its own Inspector General.
Last week the IG completed that investigation, and while both Barr and Trump anticipated good news, instead the IG found that the FBI acted properly in regard to any involvement that they might have had in investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 elections. There was nothing to substantiate Trump's bizarre notion that the FBI had been trying to defeat him in 2016
That wasn't what Attorney General Barr wanted to hear.
And that damned sure wasn't what Donald Trump wanted to hear!
So this past Tuesday evening in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Trump went on a rant regarding the FBI. He roared to the crowd that there were "great people" in the FBI, but that the agency did not have good people in leadership positions. (The current head of the FBI is Christopher Wray who was appointed to that spot by Trump in 2017.) Trump went on to refer to the FBI as "scum."
Dumbfounded, I thought of how much the world had changed since the 1960's. Back then the wild, unwashed masses would say things like that about the FBI, but now here was the President of the United States calling the nation's premier law enforcement agency "scum."
And he was doing it loudly - at a public rally - in Hershey, Pennsylvania!
Even Richard Nixon did not sink to that level of insanity!
Citizen Journalist
(Note: This is a Trump outrage that occurred last Tuesday evening. Trump has been flinging feces so fast and furiously this week that it has taken me awhile to get to it. Apologies.)
Hershey, Pennsylvania, used to be famous for one thing - it was the home of some of the world's finest chocolate. Now it has one more claim to fame. Hershey, Pennsylvania, is the place where Donald John Trump finally tipped over the edge of reality and went absolutely, totally insane. Sooner or later it had to happen someplace, and last Tuesday night Hershey won the honor of being the place where Trump officially lost the battle with his demons.
When the Mueller investigation was announced a couple of years ago, Donald Trump told close associates and friends, in colorful language, that the investigation would be the end of his presidency. But as it dragged on over months and then years, Trump became more and more emboldened in trying to paint the investigation into Russian meddling into the 2016 election as a "witch hunt" and loudly flapping his jowls while proclaiming his total ignorance and innocence regarding the attempt by a foreign power to rig a U.S. election.
Trump was extraordinarily pissed at his attorney general at the time - Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III - for allowing the investigation to proceed in the first place. After two years of trying to goad Sessions into resigning, he finally fired him. Trump replaced Sessions with William Barr, a partisan toadie who made a valiant and fairly successful to interpret the results of the investigation and control news about the findings.
Things were looking good - but Trump wanted more. He wanted to promote the notion that the Mueller investigation had been an intentional effort by the "deep state" to discredit him, and that the FBI had been complicit in some sort of plot against him that extended back into the 2016 election - sort of a "we didn't cheat, but they damned sure did!" Trump had Barr investigate the actions of the FBI through its own Inspector General.
Last week the IG completed that investigation, and while both Barr and Trump anticipated good news, instead the IG found that the FBI acted properly in regard to any involvement that they might have had in investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 elections. There was nothing to substantiate Trump's bizarre notion that the FBI had been trying to defeat him in 2016
That wasn't what Attorney General Barr wanted to hear.
And that damned sure wasn't what Donald Trump wanted to hear!
So this past Tuesday evening in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Trump went on a rant regarding the FBI. He roared to the crowd that there were "great people" in the FBI, but that the agency did not have good people in leadership positions. (The current head of the FBI is Christopher Wray who was appointed to that spot by Trump in 2017.) Trump went on to refer to the FBI as "scum."
Dumbfounded, I thought of how much the world had changed since the 1960's. Back then the wild, unwashed masses would say things like that about the FBI, but now here was the President of the United States calling the nation's premier law enforcement agency "scum."
And he was doing it loudly - at a public rally - in Hershey, Pennsylvania!
Even Richard Nixon did not sink to that level of insanity!
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