As I said on the very morning when he came out with these tweets at 5 AM, the style of the tweets was extremely ill advised. He has been drubbed unmercifully in the leftist media because his tweet was so ineptly styled. I said then and I say now, he should have consulted with competent attorneys, he should have mobilized the Attorney General, he should have presented his allegations to the public with the full panoply of his office and supported with at least some facts. He left himself open to criticisms for misusing the word "wiretap," for claiming that it occurred in the Trump Tower, and for alleging involvement by Barack Obama himself, without any support then or since then. The tweets were half cocked and the vindication has long since passed the attention span of the public.
That is a pity because it was so easily avoided.
The approval ratings are unanimous and across-the-board. I remind you, Trump lost the popular vote.
I also remind you that shortly after these tweets were released the Obama administration had to make a climbdown announcement that it would not be speaking more on the subject until the conclusion of congressional investigations. The optics of that climbdown suggested that they did not have the goods. More of the pattern of impulsive mismanagement which was not necessary. The same effects of changing the subject could have been obtained with more judicious announcements.
There was no danger of leaks if he managed the matter properly. Nor did he have to wait extended periods of time. Presumably he had some evidence which instigated Trump to tweet, surely some of that could have been alluded to. Lawyers, experienced in matters of proof, might well have told him whether or not they had the goods on Obama himself. They might have told him not to use the word "wiretap." They might have told him to allude to some bit of evidence for credibility. Anyone might have told him to consider a more formal announcement coupled with an announcement of initiation of an investigation. All of these things have been done for generations by savvy presidents working with their advisors. Trump should have availed himself of some of these and he would not have been the object of ridicule across the establishment media for weeks. Yes, of course they will criticize him but perhaps they might not be calling his sanity into question as they have been doing.
As I said, the pity is it was so easily avoided. The same results, turning the question around, could have been achieved without the downside at least in the conservative media although it is pretty clear that the establishment media was not going to cover his allegations seriously and have only begrudgingly started to do so with the revelations about Susan Rice.
