Donald Trump already knows the answer to what he is demanding Congress now investigate. As MSNBC’s Ari Melber tweeted Donald Trump left FBI intel sources to respond publicly to his claims. As we have already seen, Director Comey was left no choice but to call the president a liar:
To state the obvious:
A POTUS who rails against leaks has launched accusations that compel intel and DOJ sources to respond in public.
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) March 6, 2017
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Melber appeared also on NBC’s Today show this morning, where asked by co-host Lester Holt if a FISA warrant means “someone smelled smoke” he responded, “Absolutely.”
Watch courtesy of NBC’s Today show:
“You don’t need to ask a separate branch of government, the Congress, to go find out what the executive branch obviously knows.†–@AriMelber pic.twitter.com/KGNk5bYt0H
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) March 6, 2017
“There’s only two reasons you would have that special foreign court issue a lawful warrant. One is someone in the U.S. talking to a foreign power, an agent of a foreign power, espionage, right? Or, Two would be the idea that some U.S. crime was committed. Either way that would be bad for the person under surveillance…You don’t need to ask a separate branch of government, the Congress, to go find out what the executive branch obviously knows.â€
Melber pointed out that “The timeline does not help the White House”:
“This has nothing to do with whether one is sympathetic to the White House’s goals or not…the timeline is there were reports that there may have been some sort of wiretap months ago…And yet here we are months later getting these kind of attacks for the first time from the president, the current president.”
Obviously, you can fool some of the people some of the time and apparently, Trump’s supporters all of the time. Trump supporters are quick to take up the cry of anything Trump says and they are instantly convinced of Obama’s guilt, but as Melber explains, there are certain facts that are immutable and which cannot be ignored.
The timeline doesn’t match up to Trump’s claims. Trump is acting surprised, timing his announcement and accusations to coincide with growing calls for an investigation into his Russia ties, as Democratic Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) said earlier this morning, as a distraction from those calls.
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.
