You have your chronology backwards. Russian meddling in our election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign dominated the news and was the sole subject of the Congressional investigations.
Trump’s 5am tweet changed the narrative and added the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign and the transition team including unmasking of Flynn. Without the tweet the MSM would not have been forced to address it.
The MSM is trying to mute the coverage of the Rice connection. CNN is telling its viewers to ignore the story. Eli Lake and the NYT sat on the story similar to what happened with the Lewinsky scandal that was broken by Drudge.
You were not a Trump supporter during the primary and have been quick to criticize at every opportunity. The Trump train keeps on rolling. He has accomplished a lot in 73 days. Chill.
No I do not. See my early post to LS and you will see that I agree with everything in your first two paragraphs. My only point is that it could have been done more effectively had Trump not tweeted impetuously at 5 AM. These were my criticisms of the tweet made contemporaneously that morning. I stand by them even while acknowledging their good effect but say the charge could have been made to better effect.
Of coarse a charge by the president of the United States against his predecessor in office that his predecessor had committed crimes was bound to have a massive effect. The point is it could have been done without leaving Trump open to the charges which I have gone through several times on this thread. The pity is all of this downside could have been avoided and only upside effected.
Yes, I agree Trump has accomplished a lot in 73 days. Now am I still a Trump hater? Or do I have say a longer catechism or maybe even a mea culpa in order to prove that I have utterly abandoned my own powers of discernment and given myself utterly to the cult of Donald Trump? Is there a finite number of policies with which one has to agree in order to escape being a Trump hater?
As I just said in a very recent reply:
It becomes tedious to be forced constantly to respond to false allegations that I am a Trump hater. Nothing could be further from the truth. The difference between you and me is that I judge a politician on his policies, you base the policies on whether you like the politician. I think you have it backwards.
Therefore, when Trump is right as he is, for example, about immigration (except Daca) I support him but when he is wrong as he is for example about Rino care and about reneging on his promise to pursue Hillary Clinton for her crimes, I oppose him. It is not a question of liking or disliking Trump.
It is policy not personal.
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