Now we know why Donald Trump tried so desperately to distract us today
First came the idiotic tweets this morning at the crack of dawn, which were frantic even by his cartoonish standards. Then came his surreal decision to withdraw from the Iran peace deal, even as Iran and the rest of the world agreed to keep the deal in place without him. It was abundantly clear that Donald Trump was trying to change the narrative before something ugly dropped – but even he didn’t know quite how ugly it was going to be for him.
Shortly after Trump announced that he was ripping up the Iran deal, the narrative changed entirely when Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti published evidence that everyone from a Kremlin oligarch to AT&T has been shoving large amounts of money into the pockets of Donald Trump’s fixer Micheal Cohen. AT&T then admitted it had paid the “consulting” fee to Cohen in hope of gaining influence over Trump. Then things got even worse.
The question, of course, was how Donald Trump could have known that he needed to create a distraction ahead of this bombshell. Newspapers often tip Trump off in advance of their bombshell stories, when they ask his White House if he wants to comment for the story. But this didn’t come from the media; it came directly from Avenatti and his sources. By the evening, we learned that Trump had spent the day trying to distract from something entirely different.
The Senate Intelligence Committee published a bipartisan report this evening which confirmed that Russian hackers did in fact penetrate the voter registration databases in multiple states, and were in position to alter or delete voter registration records. If Russia did delete registration records from targeted demographics, and those people were turned away when they showed up to vote, it would mean that Russia did in fact rig the vote. Trump had to have known this Senate report was coming. That’s why he spent the day lighting himself on fire.
