Trump Lashes Out With Grade-School Insults And Conspiracy Theories As Russia Story Rages On

Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning to prove once again that instead of being president, he’d much rather be watching TV and hurling childish insults at those who shed light on his corruption.

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In his tweets, Trump went directly after NBC News’s Chuck Todd, called the Russia scandal “phony,” and doubled down on his bogus conspiracy theory that President Obama personally surveilled him during the campaign.

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While it’s not clear why Trump thinks that stomping his feet on social media will do anything to make the Russia controversy go away or help his historically low approval ratings, it is obvious that the new president is increasingly unstable and doesn’t have – as Hillary Clinton so appropriately said during the campaign – the temperament to be commander-in-chief.

Meanwhile, just two days before Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum, it was reported that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who left the administration in disgrace due to his own ties to Russia, made a stunning request to the House and Senate Intelligence committees that he will testify if granted immunity.

As Flynn told Chuck Todd– of course – during last year’s campaign, “When you are given immunity, that means you have probably committed a crime.”

Even Trump echoed this line last year, saying this: “If you’re not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?”

So what crime has Trump’s former right-hand man committed? And in what way was the president himself involved?

Ultimately, Flynn’s request was reportedly denied, but the fact that he felt he needed to ask for it raises more questions about this scandal, not less, and it means that this explosive, historic scandal isn’t going away anytime soon – with or without the president’s unhinged, grade-school tweets.

Sean Colarossi

Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.