Day -16: Donald Trump is Peeing in His Pants
With the intelligence agencies’ reports and briefings about Russian hacking imminent, Trump is panicking
Ask a child who has done something wrong, “What happened here?” You’ll get rambling, friend-blaming, long-winded explanations, multiple iterations of the same story and anything else to delay the inevitable punishment verdict.
Donald Trump is that nervous, squirming child.
CIA Director John Brennan is finalizing his report on Russians hacking the U.S. election. The report is to be delivered to President Obama this week.
A U.S. official confirmed that the heads of the NSA, CIA and FBI, as well as the director of national intelligence have planned to meet with Trump on Friday and brief him accordingly.
Last night, Trump tweeted:
The “delayed” and “Very strange!” portions of the tweet attempt to preemptively undercut the briefing’s findings. It’s intended to induce conspiracy theorists to cast off the findings of the intelligence agencies before we even know what they say.
Yes, Donald Trump is attempting to undermine the world’s premier intelligence agencies. The very agencies that he will cite for justification on major decisions, foreign and domestic, beginning in just 16 days.
This morning, Trump quoted Wikileaks co-founder and election meddler Julian Assange’s opinions that a teenage could have hacked the DNC. Trump then tweeted, “Also [Assange] said Russians did not give him the info!”
In other words, Trump is saying ‘You heard it from Assange himself: he didn’t get it from the Russians. Don’t believe what you hear from the NSA, CIA and FBI. Remember, they needed more time to “build a case.”’
Trump retweeted a FoxNews tweet citing Assange’s comments to Sean Hannity and supplemented an addenda blasting the media.
(Sean Hannity has previously accused Assange of “waging war against the U.S.” by publishing secret diplomatic cables. Hannity said that Assange angered America lives and should be “arrested.” Now, when he says things that seem to help Trump, Hannity (and others on the right), prop him up and give him credibility.)
Nine minutes after the FoxNews retweet, Trump was thanking Ford for keeping manufacturing jobs in the U.S. instead of moving them to Mexico.
Eight minutes later were two tweets asking why the DNC didn’t do more to prevent hacking.
Twenty four minutes following those missives were three tweets howling about Obamacare, rate increases and Chuck Schumer.
Trump is extremely concerned about what the intelligence agencies’ reports say, and he’s doing everything he can to cast doubt about them and their motivations by overwhelming the narrative, undercutting the media, and propping up an election interloper/enemy of the state.
Like a child, Trump is looking for a way out of an unknown punishment before its even been meted out.
The only seemingly logical conclusion to all of this: Trump knows something that he hopes the intelligence agencies do not.
-16 days in, 1477 to go
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