Donald Trump’s unreadiness to be president was dramatically highlighted this morning when he went off on a tweetstorm accusing President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower.
Not only was the point driven painfully home that the president does not have this authority, but that he does not have this authority precisely because of people like Trump.
What makes it worse is that Trump alone probably does not realize what these revelations reveal to the world about his character, or rather, his lack of it.
What Trump is aware of is that the net is closing around him. As former Vermont Governor and DNC Chair Howard Dean tweeted, and as surely Trump knows by now or he would not have embarked on this morning’s rampage,
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This means a judge found probable cause that Trump was engaging in criminal activity and issued a warrant for a wire tap https://t.co/cj85vrd7hp
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) March 4, 2017
In fact, the wiretaps were no secret and even granting Trump’s resistance to learning, it stretches credulity that he just learned of them:
1/ The wiretaps that Donald Trump "just found out" about have been reported for weeks. I'm going to summarize here some of the discussion.
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) March 4, 2017
2/ @LouiseMensch broke the news for @heatstreet that a FISA warrant was granted to explore Donald's Russia Ties https://t.co/1q8cR58YO9 pic.twitter.com/ixedz3TuTx
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) March 4, 2017
If Donald Trump was ignorant of these things until this morning, it was a willful ignorance and by ranting like a lunatic about it did himself no favors.
What is obvious is that whether the revelation came later or sooner, Donald Trump is in real trouble. As Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said in a tweet this morning,
Either @realDonaldTrump is paranoid like Nixon, or judge found probable cause of crime for #wiretap. Either way our President is in trouble.
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 4, 2017
It is ironic that the man Donald Trump is blaming for all his troubles, Barack Obama, was awarded the “Profile in Courage” award by the The John F Kennedy Library foundation, which cited his “grace under pressure” – precisely that virtue Donald Trump so profoundly proved this morning that he lacked.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
