Now we know why Donald Trump spent the weekend panicking
Donald Trump spent the weekend engaged in arguably his most infamous marathon Twitter bender to date. He posted eighteen inappropriate tweets about Puerto Rico in one day. He tried to ignite controversy regarding everything from football to hockey to Alabama. His tweets were overtly racist, sexist, all the low notes. Last night we wrote that he was rather clearly trying to distract from a major Russia bombshell that he knew was about to land. Now we know what it is.
Whenever a major news outlet asks Trump’s White House for comment just before it drops a major story, he goes into maniacal panic mode. He strategically sets out to create a distraction by saying something controversial on Twitter, and then because he can’t help himself, he takes it too far for his own good. It’s what we saw playing out all weekend. It turns out Trump’s meltdown appears to have been a result of Facebook’s decision to turn over the infamous Russian election ads to Congress later today.
Facebook will be forking over thousands of ads that Russia bought and ran on the social network during the election, according to a Washington Post report (link). These ads will spell out, once and for all, that Russia did indeed rig the election in Trump’s favor. Perhaps more importantly, the specificity of the ads will likely reveal an expert nuanced understanding of American political and social issues, one that the Russians couldn’t have come up with on their own. In other words, everyone involved will be able to see that the Trump campaign rather obviously colluded with Russia on these ads – which is a criminal violation of the law.
Someone on these congressional committees will find a way to leak the most damning ads to the media rather quickly, so that the general public can begin to grasp just how ugly the Trump-Russia scandal truly is. It’s why Donald Trump has spent all weekend setting his hair on fire to try to create competing headlines about his own self-chosen controversies.
