This is Trump’s counterpunch to Mueller: His opponents did the real crimes.
President Trump at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 22 at 4:18 PM President Trump seizes on political slogans with the casual ease of a college bro trying on shirts before hitting a nightclub on the Jersey Shore. He tries them on, sees how they work and leaves a number of them in a pile on the floor.
This is a surprisingly difficult question to answer. It has the feel of something approximating a political argument, but any assessment of it as a serious argument falls apart quickly. It hinges significantly on a robust understanding of the parallel line of argument that has run through conservative media over the past two years, in which phrases such as “insurance policy” are loaded with a weight that allows whole swaths of sketchy argumentation to be summarized and quickly moved past.
So let’s pick it apart. Levin says that senior FBI officials should face criminal charges for having “interfered in our election.” There’s no question that a senior FBI official did affect the election — then-FBI Director James B. Comey, whose last-minute statement about the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server shifted the focus of the final days of the 2016 campaign.
Trump’s recent interest in declaring the Democrats as the Real Criminals™ appears to match up with Nunes’s latest effort to muddy the water. As ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Nunes has pledged to send eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department with the hope that eight people will face criminal charges for their actions.“So there’s five direct referrals based on lying, obstruction, congressional investigation and leaking,” Nunes said in an interview on Fox News.
There have been other, public criminal referrals. Early last year, Sens. Charles E. Grassley and Lindsey O. Graham referred Steele, the dossier author, to the Justice Department for allegedly lying to Congress. House Republicans similarly referred Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen for the same alleged infraction.
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