Pretty good opinion piece. If Trump would stick to writing things like this (even if actually written by others) instead of constantly launching snide insults almost always aimed at other Republicans on his Twitter site, he might win a few of his supporters back.
But, on the Russiagate thing, Trump really deserves a lot of the blame for Mueller being appointed, himself, by way of his Sessions appointment to AG. I’m sorry if that makes people mad, but for those who don’t remember, Sessions famously recused himself, leaving another Trump appointee, Rod Rosenstein, in place to appoint Mueller.
It came out later in testimony that Trump never even asked Sessions whether he would recuse himself, before appointing him, even though the sprouts of the Russiagate investigation were already evident. He should have made absolutely sure WHOEVER he was appointing as AG, was going to be his wingman on such issues.
Even worse, according to reports, Sessions offered his resignation to Trump, immediately after he recused himself. Even turned in the resignation letter, which Trump took to review, but then told Sessions he wasn’t accepting it. Obviously, he should have, as it was years later before Mueller was ever reigned in.
I get it that Trump was probably overwhelmed at the time, and had already just canned his National Security Advisor Flynn, and didn’t want to fire his new Attorney General almost immediately afterward, but the selection of Sessions as AG, had as much to do with the Russiagate investigation getting out of control than anything.
A lot of you will also be mad that you think I’m nitpicking on Trump, when I should only be mad at the FBI. Well, to that I say, I was mad at the FBI on here for years, while Trump was President, and a lot of good that did. Basically nothing’s changed. So I’m just mad at the whole situation now. I want some new blood in DC. ANYONE who was in a position of power there the last 5 years needs to go.
GFY!!