[Helicondelta]

“it might have been much smarter to spend 48 hours consulting with the Department of Justice”

Who says he hasn’t done that? The 5AM tweets sent the press hounds knocking on the doors of all involved first thing in the morning.

They woke up in the middle of the sh1tstorm and are scrambling to respond. Hopefully their are all under surveillance. So far nobody has denied anything.

[nathanbedford]

We are not even clear what Trump is alleging, we do not have any idea about the source of his information, we have no way of judging whether the activity is criminal or not.

These tweets have simply created more questions than they have answered and they are the kinds of questions that are so basic they should have been made public with the allegations.

All of this reflects a half-cocked reaction rather than a cold-blooded counterattack using the full power of the federal government.

The argument that he does not have the full power of the federal government at his disposal is simply not true. He has to worry about sniping from leakers of course but that does not mean that Trump does not have the investigatory and prosecutorial power and the virtually infinite money of the United States at his disposal to pursue justice.