Now that the Nunes memo has been released, it appears that Republican talkers have switched from
The memo will vindicate Trump by proving that those investigating him are of Satan
to
The hysteria of the Democrats and the FBI over the release of this dud is unfathomable.
They might be on to something with the new talking point, but shouldn't they still be worried? The president must know what Mueller could discover, and he is very obviously desperate to derail, shut down, discredit--anything!--the investigation. A shoddy memo written by his stooge that unintentionally confirms that the investigation into him is vital--well, any port in a storm!
It's impossible to avoid the conclusion that Trump thinks it would be very bad for him if the truth came out. Given what was known about this Carter Page character back in 2013 and 2014, the FBI would have been criminally negligent not to want to find out as much as possible about him. And Team Trump hired him as a foreign policy advisor! If I worked for the FBI, and had a mistress, I'd be texting her about what a moron he is, too.
On the local scene, many Republicans are cheered at the news that TPaw is evidently eying his old desk in the governor's mansion. I've always thought that he was a poor governor and, as a candidate, something of a paper tiger. His presidential campaign in the Romney year was woeful, and, while it's true that he was twice elected Governor of Minnesota, he never won as much as 47 percent of the statewide vote. In 2002, he got about four of every nine votes, but won by eight points because the Democratic vote was split between the endorsed candidate, Roger Moe, and former DFL congressman Tim Penny, who, running as an Independent, picked up more than 15% of the vote. In his 2006 re-election, Pawlenty defeated DFLer Mike Hatch by 46.69 to 45.73 percent. I doubt that his subsequent work as a Washington lobbyist has made him more formidable, and he is anti-Trump, which also puts him in a bad place since in Minnesota, as elsewhere, the Republican rank-and-file is drunk on Trump. TPaw might reasonably hope that the president will stand revealed as a criminal before he would face Republican voters in the primary, but in that case it will likely be even harder for any Republican to win a statewide general election in Minnesota.
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