Donald Trump goes on demented late night rant about Robert Mueller
Donald Trump began Friday before the sun came up by tweeting a new nickname for former FBI Director James Comey, promptly misspelling that nickname in the process. Trump then went on to rant about someone he invented named “Wendy” before deleting it. Now, as midnight approaches, Trump is back to ranting about Comey, in as illiterate of a fashion as ever – and now his rant has extended to Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Here’s what Trump tweeted very late on Friday night: “James Comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a Special Council? Therefore, the Special Council was established based on an illegal act? Really, does everybody know what that means?” First of all, Trump is lying; whatever you think of Comey, he did not leak classified information. Second, someone ought to tell Trump that he should learn how to properly spell “Special Counsel” before going on a rant about it. But what is Trump getting at here?
We know he’s basing his false claim about Comey leaking classified information on the newly revealed fact that some U.S. intel agency went back and classified certain pieces of information after Comey made them public. That means Comey didn’t come within a million miles of violating the law, no matter how loudly Trump might claim otherwise. Moreover, Trump’s tweet is not an accurate depiction of how Special Counsel Robert Mueller came to be appointed. Yet he’s pushing this narrative anyway.
Donald Trump has consistently shown that he lacks the political muscle to even try to fire Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Instead, he appears to be trying to convince his remaining base that the investigation into him is somehow illegal. Trump is being swept up in a series of criminal scandals, and he’s still trying to legislate them on Twitter, in illiterate fashion, in the middle of the night.
