Show business

Published May 18, 2017

by Carter Wrenn, Talking About Politics, May 16, 2017.

CNN said Roger told Donald he ought to fire Comey and Donald Tweeted “Fake news. Have not spoken to Roger in a long time.” Then Roger told ABC he’d spoken to Donald “very recently.” It was an odd sort of disagreement between two old friends that left ‘Trumpistas’ angry, liberals outraged and the media in a tizzy, so in a nano-second a wave of ‘Roger said, Donald said’ stories flew across the internet.

Now here’s the question: Did it matter when Donald talked to Roger? Or was it all just  show business? Like a tiff on a reality show that earned Roger and Donald a mountain of publicity?

https://www.talkingaboutpolitics.com/show-business/#.WR2WKjOZNo4

May 18, 2017 at 10:57 am
James Laurie says:

When you preface a factual statement with a lie, it does matter. And this will only get worse. This is not a negotiation, it is a criminal investigation. Obstruction is the easy trap that everyone falls into when they fail to utilize their counsel, and its leverage or fall back for prosecutors when they cannot make their case otherwise. Its clear that the tweeting is not being run through Don McGahn and is sent on impulse. Trump cannot use surrogates or twitter under oath for his inevitable interview with Mueller, which will probably occur in 2018. I feel sorry for Trump, who will inevitably use Twitter and surrogates (shovel) to dig the hole himself for his interview with Mueller. If there truly is nothing here, the bear trap once an investigation has begun is obstruction.