Let's break down the four phases of Team Trump's nonsensical response to the Mar-a-Lago search. (via MaddowBlog)
Those who enjoy whodunit novels invariably pick up on obvious pattern: Suspects who repeatedly change their stories and struggle to keep straight basic details tend to look guilty.
At the heart of the controversy is some straightforward questions: What materials did Trump did take? Why did he take them? What exactly did the former president intend to do with the secrets he wasn’t supposed to keep anywhere, let alone at his unsecured golf club? But as the story has become more serious, Team Trump has avoided each of these lines of inquiry, instead pushing an avalanche of nonsense.
Indeed, it’s been fascinating to watch the talking points unfold over the last week in a series of phases, without regard for accuracy, consistency or common sense.In the immediate aftermath of the FBI executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, Republicans largely stuck to wild claims about government overreach.
As this first phase of the GOP pushback came to an end, the general idea was that Trump must be above the law, which was an unsustainable position, and which gave way to...Feeling desperate and unable to come up with good arguments, Trump and some of his more ridiculous allies thought it’d be a good idea to accuse FBI agents of possibly “
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