Commentary: On Saturday morning, the president goes on the attack against his predecessor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Under pressure? Or the most wronged president in history?
When you’re on the back foot, thrust your fingers forward and tweet to distraction.
That seems to be President Donald Trump’s policy on many occasions.
This week, his administration has been mired in reports that its members Jared Kushner and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn met with the Russian ambassador in Trump Tower. Flynn had already resigned after being accused of misleading the vice president about such meetings.
Moreover, Attorney General Jeff Sessions agreed to recuse himself from investigations into Russian contacts by Trump campaign associates after it was revealed he had two meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and may not have been quite candid with Congress about such get-togethers.
This comes after intelligence services investigated whether the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee with the goal of swinging the election toward Trump. Indeed, in January the intelligence services released a declassified version of a report ( PDF ) in which they concluded Vladimir Putin actively attempted to influence the election and that Russia had «a clear preference for President-elect Trump. »
On Saturday morning, the president stretched his digits and offered a tweetstorm of counterpoint to this ever-unfolding narrative.
«Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory,» tweeted Trump. «Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! »
Surely he didn’t mean Melissa McCarthyism.
Trump continued: » Is it legal for a sitting President to be ‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier.
